The Official Status Thread
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Status: tech-illiterate people are tag-teaming me trying to get their computer connected back to the network. I suspect that whoever was there to wire in a new jack saw that one of the ports was not lit and assumed it wasn't being used, and unplugged it in favor of the new jack they were installing. But how to explain that to tech-blondes?
Edit: Evidence:
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I want a third option on my incoming phone call screen that is "Locate the operator of the robocaller network and give him a lava enema."
The best third option would be "Send SIT"
Then your phone number would be marked as not valid
TIL. It's an in-band signal and Wikipedia has recordings of them. I'm going to download one, queue it up, and play it through my headphones next to the phone pickup the next time one calls (which at today's rate should be in another 5 - 10 minutes).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
But how to explain that to tech-blondes?
The computer wants to take it in both holes.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
But how to explain that to tech-blondes?
The computer wants to take it in both holes.
Both? But the computer has three!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently for some packages, it takes a whole week to cross from one state to another...
Sometimes it takes an entire year for an envelope to be delivered within a state. (True story, I know the sender and receiver)
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@thegoryone Looks like they scratched the door too.
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Status: This code is totally screwed. Things like error checking are in little bits spread over the whole bloody program. It's like fighting with soggy bread.
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@Cursorkeys hey, at least your program isn't completely lying about what variables are set to!
With almost everything else I've been working with, you can dynamically set collision parameters on an Actor. Not so with procedurally-generated-meshes. You seemingly need to be damned sure your settings are correct before creating it, and if you try to set of later, good luck! It won't be respected by any currently connected clients!
This wasn't an issue and wasn't broken, but now it is without warning. Yay!
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Status: I have ignored nearly all the status updates so far.
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@Tsaukpaetra That sounds like fun. I take it client/server consistency is mostly a black box you can't even debug too?
I've just found this:
if (error == 99) { if (real_error < 10) { failsafe = 0; } }
WTF does any of this mean, none of these variables are in this file and there are no comments.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf yep. It's basically a case of, "this isn't Java. Don't try to do the compiler's job. It's better at it than you are."
Even Java does that and has for ages.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have ignored nearly all the status updates so far.
You're not really updated on the status then I guess
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have ignored nearly all the status updates so far.
We should implement Windows Status Updates™ then you'll have no choice.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra That sounds like fun. I take it client/server consistency is mostly a black box you can't even debug too?
Yeah. It's especially fun because newly-joining clients will receive the correct settings. It's just not being replicated or whatever on currently-connected clients. It's definitely fun when everyone who joined the server after you can fuck your shit up but you can't....
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@topspin at the point where you're doing something that ***even Java *** figured out a way to make you not have to do, you're definitely doing diverging wrong.
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@Magus Some people have brains wired so that they find it clearer to do stuff the slightly wrong way. I don't usually correct this one though: it's far better than the reverse, where they do
string + string
in a loop…
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I want a third option on my incoming phone call screen that is "Locate the operator of the robocaller network and give him a lava enema."
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
The best third option would be "Send SIT"
Special information tone - Wikipedia
Then your phone number would be marked as not validThis seems like a perfect "Why not both?" situation.
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Status: Fifteen hours of sleep later, I am well and truly ready to start the
daynight.
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Status: I guess the threat of the vacuum made my mouse wheel behave; I haven't had any problems for a while now (I'd lied about trying yesterday – I meant Saturday but for whatever reason I thought that was "tomorrow" at the time).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yay.
Status: Starting to ponder the likelihood of a disgruntled-employee scenario, banned a person after noticing... interesting ... access patterns.
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Status: Wondering if life would be easier with a stupid mind instead of a stupid body.
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@topspin
Gotta be that blackhole spottin' kaboodle, bunch of no-good high-falutin' university pansies screwin' around with them radio waves is why I's got them aches in my knuckles actin' up again.Filed under: Call 1-800-
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@Applied-Mediocrity when did you start @gribnit-posting?
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Today in Amazon's stupid recommendations
My recent activity included buying a set of floor mats for my car, which Amazon knows the year, make, model and trim level, and presumably that it isn't a truck or SUV. Or that I wouldn't need another set of floor mats after buying a brand new one.
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@topspin
I decided to momentarily let go of the last remains of my sanity in a bid to get rid of illnesses flaring up all the time (and other annoying stuff the stupid body does without an express approval of the mind). Although I don't suggest trying it at home. Doesn't seem to work very well.Filed under: There's aaalways somethin'
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The good thing about learning low level Linux and gcc stuff is that when you find an article from 2007, you know it's still up to date.
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@anonymous234 if you ignore UWP, it works for low-level Windows too.
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Yeah, it's not as if Linux people refused to have a stable driver model, for example.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, it's not as if Linux people refused to have a stable driver model, for example.
Not a contradiction.
“Shit is going to change wildly between patch releases” was valid in 2007 and still is.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
that I wouldn't need another set of floor mats after buying a brand new one.
Obviously if you bought something you're much more likely to buy the similar thing!
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Status: Newest episode of ST Discovery consists of at least 300% whining.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin
I decided to momentarily let go of the last remains of my sanity in a bid to get rid of illnesses flaring up all the time (and other annoying stuff the stupid body does without an express approval of the mind). Although I don't suggest trying it at home. Doesn't seem to work very well.Filed under: There's aaalways somethin'
Where better than home to try this, though.
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Status: apparently the latest Windows 10 Cumulative Update does not like the shitty
eBus packet filter driver
. Network is completely fucked, no amount of resetting is working, not System Restore, or even Windows Update.Wow.
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Status: Not a good idea to spill food when you're taking it out of the oven. Especially if it's really spicy...
I basically pepper sprayed myself, and the house is full of spicy smoke now.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
that I wouldn't need another set of floor mats after buying a brand new one.
Obviously if you bought something you're much more likely to buy the similar thing!
After all, out of millions of products in their offer, it's one of those you're buying most often!
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Status: Astralis lost 3 matches in a row today - ending their 140 day long streak of not losing a single match in any tournament. I haven't done the math yet, but it was most likely the longest no lose streak of any pro team in CSGO history.
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Status: Finally submitted my app to the iOS App Store. Of course I had to answer a number of questions which were phrased in the most obscure legalese possible.
Namely if, due to export rules in the US, my app fulfills some exceptions listed under ... blah ...
What?
Turns out that the US still seems to regard encryption as a weapon or something so if your app uses HTTPS or another encryption scheme you have to provide a yearly report to some department in the US or other.
Right.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Finally submitted my app to the iOS App Store. Of course I had to answer a number of questions which were phrased in the most obscure legalese possible.
Namely if, due to export rules in the US, my app fulfills some exceptions listed under ... blah ...
What?
Turns out that the US still seems to regard encryption as a weapon or something so if your app uses HTTPS or another encryption scheme you have to provide a yearly report to some department in the US or other.
Right.
IIRC, there are specific encryption schemes that aren't allowed to be "exported" outside of the US, due to some stupid 1990s era law. IIRC they're all outdated and should never be used anyways. Then again IANAL and don't remember exactly how that stuff works, I've just run into it before.
EDIT: Or it's just super complex and this is why making laws about crypto is bad. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wow.
Race to reinstall Windows and the software stack!
Windows reset: about 15 minutes.
Core software: 10 minutes and a reboot for good luck.
Ensuring the damn cumulative update gets installed before the fucking packet filter: 17 minutes.
Getting all the rest of the supporting software verified: 20 minutes.Except... Apparently the update also broke connectivity to a license server. Well, fuck me.
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Yeah. I'll plan on ignoring that - from what I read no one really cares about this anyway.
Update status Next was the Google Play store. Since I didn't have a Google Play Developer Account yet, I tried to sign up for one. Okay, 25$ onetime fee. Credit card only.
Alright, the info is already there (from previous purchases on the Play Store) - what, "declined"?
Alright, let's take the second one (which I'm using for Apple Pay). Here the form tells me that I "have to correct the card information".
Seriously.
And since Google is so big on customer service, of course there's no way to contact anyone.This is the code for the "Help" link at the bottom:
<a class="gwt-Anchor" href="javascript:">Help</a>
Good job, guys.
Of course, this might also be related:
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
This is the code for the "Help" link at the bottom:
<a class="gwt-Anchor" href="javascript:">Help</a>
That's not necessarily significant; if they plan for it to only ever do javascript stuff then it's better for javascript to attach an event handler rather than make it explicit in HTML.
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A good indicator of how coding has gone for me today:
// Apparent postcondition: Heap is corrupted
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Status: Lol, got myself banned by opening a "File Manager" page that linked hundreds of thumbs. Trololo....
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@Tsaukpaetra you're talking about Hypatia?
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@Gąska
Someone must!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra you're talking about Hypatia?
No. But there is indeed a page like that in the administration area...
It doesn't use thumbs though, so it's technically worse...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I basically pepper sprayed myself, and the house is full of spicy smoke now.
I thought you liked that sort of thing.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Turns out that the US still seems to regard encryption as a weapon or something so if your app uses HTTPS or another encryption scheme you have to provide a yearly report to some department in the US or other.
I can't say I'm surprised. When buying transistors from a US company, I had to certify I was not going to use them to build nuclear weapons or something like that. (They weren't even anything special like radiation-hardened or just military-grade parts, just plain old transistors.)