The Official Status Thread
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Huh. So I told my boss about a week ago that the 14th is my last day. Today (4th) the company sends an email "pack up your desks - it's time for our random shuffle of desks this friday!" (fine, paraphrased). Guess what? Yup, no desk. And I'm in an area that's going to be demolished so staying put is not an option. Sigh.
Maybe I'm just supposed to take vacation that last week... Hey, that works for me!
I had a similar thing when laid off from my first development job. A couple of weeks before my last day, the whole team structure was reorganised and we got an email detailing which of the new teams everyone was now on. My name was suspiciously absent
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity
Sounds like you need to banish your phone to the garage.
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@dcon and the buttons are still displaying! That's a heck of bend resistance!
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Status: Lies.
No engineers are deployed.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5c58913cdfa1e75008701259-750-375.jpgOn the plus side, I've identified an issue that causes Master Server to try controlling (i.e. starting/stopping, etc) VMs it physically cannot control.
Which is awesome, because manually starting up a VM on the alternate cloud (that it should have been doing instead) will result in it being shot down because it thinks the other ones it's not supposed to be able to control are already taking up the slack (they're not, because above).
Wonderful...
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STATUS succumbed to the siren's song. I'm now talking to recruiters. I feel like I've crashed into rocks.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
No engineers are deployed.
How do you know they're not driving the trains over to your location right now?
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Sounds about right. And that's filtering out DTD, JSP, WSDL, XML, XML Schema, and XSL errors.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
No engineers are deployed.
How do you know they're not driving the trains over to your location right now?
Sounds helpful. The server was overwhelmed because it didn't have enough engines to haul all the bits.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Sounds about right.
And there I am, trying to make our code/builds have zero warnings!
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Status: Um... Windows? Are you feeling okay?
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@Tsaukpaetra That's just SHODAN establishing control. Don't worry, it'll be over soon.
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status Just had my exit interview. You know, the one where they ask "why are you leaving", "how was your boss", "what do you think of the culture", etc. No, I don't burn bridges! But I did express my frustration at our penchant for liking to rewrite things from scratch every year or 2 (javascript!).
Another 1.5w until my actual last day...
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Status: have a really good coder challenge, but its mathematical and getting that ideal solution requires some mathematical knowledge.
I suppose it could be reworded to get the maths part out, but therein lies the actual challenge.
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Status: surprised I got away by sending a company wide mail on the 16th last month claiming a planned outage on 20/5/2018.
I'll just send a new mail to inform of an outage on 12/6/2017 and see if that gets responses.
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@Luhmann It's rolling outages, going back in time!
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@Tsaukpaetra
Statistically our availability this year is through the roof
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: surprised I got away by sending a company wide mail on the 16th last month claiming a planned outage on 20/5/2018.
I have to confess, it took me about 20 seconds to figure out the problem (I was focused on the d/m/yyyy conversion, which looked right, so that stumped me for a moment).
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: have a really good coder challenge, but its mathematical and getting that ideal solution requires some mathematical knowledge.
I suppose it could be reworded to get the maths part out, but therein lies the actual challenge.
It's not like Blakey is around to yell at you for it, so just post it.
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Status: Cleaned a bathroom. Productivity quota reached for the day.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: surprised I got away by sending a company wide mail on the 16th last month claiming a planned outage on 20/5/2018.
Status: Misread that as "planned outrage". Had a laugh.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
planned outrage
that usually comes after a planned outage
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Status: Attempting to make a thing in EF with the Repository and Unit Of Work patterns. Should be quite nifty.
I have a lot of object graphs to store that differ slightly between each other. Trying to decide if I should keep them separate or try to make some kind of universal thing with a property-list like concept.
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Status: In another example of things where something from a decade ago is better than whatever new version, I've changed the default handler for png from the Windows Photo app to Irfanview
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
something from a decade ago is better than whatever new version
Sadly, this is a really good description for almost all of IT in the year 2019.
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@mott555 Example:
Weather app on my phone just updated not long ago. There is no longer an hourly forecast for the next several days, which was very useful as a motorcycle rider (I'll ride on rainy days if it'll be clear during the short windows of time that I'm on the road). Now, hourly is only for today, and I get a very useless summary for tomorrow that just says high/low/chance of precipitation with no breakdown.
Also, the app now loads very slowly, renders at about 0.8 frames per second while scrolling, and has autoplaying video ads you have to scroll past. One such ad involves graphic depictions of tapeworm infections for some reason...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
something from a decade ago is better than whatever new version
Sadly, this is a really good description for almost all of IT in the year 2019.
That's because Windows 7 is from 2009.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: In another example of things where something from a decade ago is better than whatever new version, I've changed the default handler for png from the Windows Photo app to Irfanview
I still prefer Xnview. I also still run winamp 2.95.
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Sadly, this is a really good description for almost all of IT in the year 2019.
One team in our company is learning that something written two years ago is better than the crap they shat out recently.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Example:
Weather app on my phone just updated not long ago. There is no longer an hourly forecast for the next several days, which was very useful as a motorcycle rider (I'll ride on rainy days if it'll be clear during the short windows of time that I'm on the road). Now, hourly is only for today, and I get a very useless summary for tomorrow that just says high/low/chance of precipitation with no breakdown.
Also, the app now loads very slowly, renders at about 0.8 frames per second while scrolling, and has autoplaying video ads you have to scroll past...
DarkSky is your friend.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Xnview
Never heard of it before. Maybe I'll try it out later.
winamp 2.95
I haven't found any compelling reason to use an earlier version than the latest (5.6?) but even that one is ancient.
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Probably some regional thing since I live in the desperate third-world nation of Candinavia. Guess I'll have to keep using the web interface like some kind of caveman.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Example:
Weather app on my phone just updated not long ago. There is no longer an hourly forecast for the next several days, which was very useful as a motorcycle rider (I'll ride on rainy days if it'll be clear during the short windows of time that I'm on the road). Now, hourly is only for today, and I get a very useless summary for tomorrow that just says high/low/chance of precipitation with no breakdown.
Also, the app now loads very slowly, renders at about 0.8 frames per second while scrolling, and has autoplaying video ads you have to scroll past...
DarkSky is your friend.
Well that wasn't a good start. I installed it and its geolocate feature puts me in New York City, which is about 1,300 miles away.
Filed Under: Hyperlocal indeed
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Weather app on my phone
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
planned outrage
that usually comes after a planned outage
When that's PG&E, that's true. Because they don't bother notifying customers before the fact.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
something from a decade ago is better than whatever new version
If there is a new version. In a meeting yesterday:
That script is older than I am.
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Beans might be useful.
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Status: The smoke/CO alarm in my apartment picked this morning to announce that it has reached the end of its life and needs to be replaced. (Not dead battery; that is a single beep repeated at one-minute intervals. Five beeps at one-minute intervals means "planned obsolescence has been achieved; replace me.") And by "this morning," I mean 04:00, of course. Why would it notify me at a time I could do anything about the problem?
Today is not a caffeine-free day.
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status: I'm surprised at how responsive this site is on 4kbps.
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@Tsaukpaetra Apparently, data transfer rate isn't the limiting factor in performance.
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Confession: Today I suggested to my colleague the following PHP snippet:
if ( ( ( ( count( $foo ) > 0 ) + ( count( $bar ) > 0 ) + ( count( $baz ) > 0 ) ) > 1 )
In my defence, what he initially had there was worse.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Confession: Today I suggested to my colleague the following PHP snippet:
if ( ( ( ( count( $foo ) > 0 ) + ( count( $bar ) > 0 ) + ( count( $baz ) > 0 ) ) > 1 )
In my defence, what he initially had there was worse.
That looks very similar to something in my codebase....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: I'm surprised at how responsive this site is on 4kbps.
Don’t open the funny stuff thread. You’ll be jelly-potatoing until judgement day.
Filed under: August 29, 1997Edit: apparently html tags and markdown down play well together.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: I'm surprised at how responsive this site is on 4kbps.
Don’t open the funny stuff thread. You’ll be jelly-potatoing until judgement day.
Filed under: August 29, 1997
Cha--llen-...ng--....acc-cep-cep-t-t-t-t-ed....
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@PleegWat I don’t know if any of the parentheses are superfluous but I’m sure some of the spaces are.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat I don’t know if any of the parentheses are superfluous but I’m sure some of the spaces are.
Either the parentheses around the comparisons or the those around the addition are redundant. I'm not 100% sure which, but I think it's the ones around the addition.
All spaces are redundant in this snippet.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Cha--llen-...ng--....acc-cep-cep-t-t-t-t-ed....
It went about as expected.
Oh, the WiFi seems to have sped up for the moment...
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@e4tmyl33t I'm a bit dubious on the actual validity of their claims. Rough prognostics (i.e. "There's a 50% chance of rain in the next 3 hours") okay. But down to the minute? Naw. The weather data collection grid is much too coarse for that type of granularity.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t I'm a bit dubious on the actual validity of their claims. Rough prognostics (i.e. "There's a 50% chance of rain in the next 3 hours") okay. But down to the minute? Naw. The weather data collection grid is much too coarse for that type of granularity.
I believe they use both the conventional weather grid as well as reported data from users to help improve that. I know the app on my phone has an option to allow it to use the phone's pressure sensor to report back barometric readings, and there's an area where you can report that it's raining/hailing/whatnot where you are GPS-located, so presumably they can use that to track cloud movement to better predict where things are going and how fast.
Edit: Per https://darksky.net/about, they apparently also use some form of AI prediction that is, quote, "scarily accurate".
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Example:
Weather app on my phone just updated not long ago. There is no longer an hourly forecast for the next several days, which was very useful as a motorcycle rider (I'll ride on rainy days if it'll be clear during the short windows of time that I'm on the road). Now, hourly is only for today, and I get a very useless summary for tomorrow that just says high/low/chance of precipitation with no breakdown.
Also, the app now loads very slowly, renders at about 0.8 frames per second while scrolling, and has autoplaying video ads you have to scroll past...
DarkSky is your friend.
Well that wasn't a good start. I installed it and its geolocate feature puts me in New York City, which is about 1,300 miles away.
Filed Under: Hyperlocal indeed
Swipe to the side. For some reason, there's two tabs, one that shows my geolocated data, and one that shows data for some random spot in NYC (and always the same spot, so I'm assuming it's a big weather station or something)