The Official Status Thread
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Also, I have no idea what a Bruges is.
A place where nobody wants to go, least of all a couple of hitmen
I can't remember whether I've ever posted here about my experience in Bruges/Brugge. I think so, but CRS is a thing. In either case, this is not the time to post it, because — theoretically, at least — I should be getting ready to go to work.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My 2FA app for work says "Identity Deleted" and I have no idea why.
That's what you get for calling yourself error. Are your middle and last names Test Null?
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Status: I had two meetings today. Both were cancelled.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Both were cancelled.
The only good kind of meeting
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@HardwareGeek
So now you have time to tell your story about this mythical place called bruges?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek
So now you have time to tell your story about this mythical place called bruges?Are you denying my lived experience???
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Status: Low 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione level detected: Critical. Significant neurophysiological functional impairment. Begin 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione supplementation ASAP.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Both were cancelled.
The only good kind of meeting
Unless the cancellation part happens after the meeting. Which in certain places happens more often than the statement's apparent impossibility would lead you to believe.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione
Here's an ideal delivery device for you:
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Both were cancelled.
The only good kind of meeting
Unless the cancellation part happens after the meeting. Which in certain places happens more often than the statement's apparent impossibility would lead you to believe.
Your right to talk: Not under any circumstance
Number of things at all relevant to you being discussed: Zero.
Your presence: Very highly recommended.
Luckily, it isn't usually actually my presence. It's usually my manager, who is better at ignoring that stuff. And there tend to be recordings (US daytime is even worse on India than it is on us). Some people enjoy watching that stuff, and are willing to tell me if there's anything I actually need to check.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione
Here's an ideal delivery device for you:
ITYM
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Both were cancelled.
The only good kind of meeting
Except, sometimes, meetings with food. In any case, they're less bad than the same meeting without food. (Except that nowadays I have to be so careful about what I eat that I probably can't eat whatever food they might serve, so sitting in a meeting with food but being unable to eat it is worse than no food. )
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione
Here's an ideal delivery device for you:
Eww, no.
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@HardwareGeek Guys, guys, guys.
Amateurs.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Are you denying my lived experience???
Lived is entirely subjective...
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione
Here's an ideal delivery device for you:
ITYM
BYRM
Edit: On account of proper material supplied by @Rhywden
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
BYRM
But I supplied the delivery mechanism, that's important too! (The others did as well, though with the wrong filler materials)
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@Rhywden I get heart palpitations just looking at that picture.
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How does debugging work if it does?
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@Nagesh said in The Official Status Thread:
How does debugging work if it does?
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@Nagesh said in The Official Status Thread:
How does debugging work if it does?
It does until it doesn't need to. But that usually doesn't occur.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione
Here's an ideal delivery device for you:
ITYM
BYRM
Edit: On account of proper material supplied by @Rhywden
That's uh... That has nothing to do with the butt. Unless you're putting the infusion site in your buttocks but ugh no thanks.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione
Here's an ideal delivery device for you:
My personal favorite is Diet Dew, but your choice is pretty good. Almost anything's better than the typical hot beverages.
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Status: I must be an alien life form. Caffeine does nothing for me, except leave a bitter after taste. No thanks.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I must be an alien life form.
I uh, sorta figured from your avatar, yeah.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I must be an alien life form.
I uh, sorta figured from your avatar, yeah.
Hey, froghemoths are cute and I won't listen to anyone who says otherwise!
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione
Here's an ideal delivery device for you:
ITYM
BYRM
Edit: On account of proper material supplied by @Rhywden
That's uh... That has nothing to do with the butt. Unless you're putting the infusion site in your buttocks but ugh no thanks.
No, it was more of an ass-pull TBH.
Edit: or maybe a neck pull...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Caffeine does nothing for me, except leave a bitter after taste. No thanks.
AsWe can be aliens together!Edit: autocorrect is helpful, as usual...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Are you denying my lived experience???
No I'm claiming to come from a mythical land
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I won't listen to anyone who says otherwise!
otherwise
Am I blocked now?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Are you denying my lived experience???
No I'm claiming to come from a mythical land
Atlantis? Hades? Hmm, Hades, B*****m; same thing.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Hades, B*****m; same thing.
Yes, it's both full of French speaking dudes
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Hades, B*****m; same thing.
Yes, it's both full of French speaking dudes
Holly: Jean-Paul Sartre said Hell was being locked forever in a room with your friends.
Lister: Holly, all his mates were French!
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Status: Well, we have this Office365 subscription which our pupils can get access to if they apply for it. My predecessor then entered their credentials by hand. This obviously resulted in a huge mess because he forgot to include the class they were in which made it a problem to easily see who was still at school and who was not. A colleague then proposed simply adding the class to the username.
But we still had to enter everything manually.
Then I discovered mass import through CSV. Which, however, sent me the generated passwords as a HTML table inside an email (there was no password field when importing). Suboptimal.
Yesterday I looked at it again and saw that it now exports a CSV back with the generated passwords! Hooray! But we still have to type in everything into that CSV - which means reading the forms the pupils give us. Which are often borderline readable.
So I thought: Well, we already have all their credentials in our on-premise LDAP! Why can't I use that one? Yeah, that's possible in principle but even Microsoft states that using the Azure AD Connector to wire Azure to an on-premise LDAP is a daunting task.
Did some more research and what we'll do is the following:
a) I'll create a simple website where the user authenticates against our LDAP. Thus I get the first and last name of the user. We do not have an email server for our pupils, though, which leads to
b) The user then has to provide an email address
c) The website then sends a confirmation email to the user with a link
d) the user confirms that the email is valid by clicking the link
e) The website then adds the user to an internal list
f) My colleague or me look at that list in regular intervals and approve the user (they still have to fill out the consent form, so that step is necessary).
g) Upon approval the website will use the Microsoft Graph API to create the user and apply the appropriate license.This will also give me the capability to list all the users who requested a license but don't actually use it.
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@Rhywden I read an article claiming that in at least one German state, Office 365 was forbidden in schools because the students can't consent to having their data out there (or something privacy related anyway, I'm fuzzy on the details). That's not your side of things, is it?
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@Benjamin-Hall I'm in Hamburg - we're indirectly impacted by this and we may have to drop Office365 summer next year. Then again, if MS reacts to this then maybe we don't.
It's still one year away and we have enough of a turnover to make this a worthwhile endeavour.
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Status: maintaining code last meaningfully touched a year ago. Sadly, I don't need
git blame
to know which moron wrote this code.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I must be an alien life form. Caffeine does nothing for me, except leave a bitter after taste. No thanks.
I thought you weren't allowed to have caffeine
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I must be an alien life form. Caffeine does nothing for me, except leave a bitter after taste. No thanks.
I thought you weren't allowed to have caffeine
That's a common misconception. Caffeine is not one of the Big 4 (+1) forbidden substances. It's part of the "choose for yourself" section. Many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints choose not to use it. Others do.
The Big 4 (+1) are:
- Coffee
- Tea (as in actual tea plant tea, not herb or fruit teas)
- Alcoholic beverages (non-topical/medicinal use)
- Tobacco
- (+1) recreational drugs, especially-but-not-limited-to illegal ones. This encompases anything used non-medically for an altered mental state. Roughly. Not going to do weasel wording here.
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@Benjamin-Hall
Though, given that caffeine is the only item of value in coffee, one could reasonably infer that the spirit of the coffee ban includes alternative caffeine delivery mechanisms.
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@Benjamin-Hall I see (although if not for the caffeine, why coffee or tea?).
One of my friends in university was Mormon, and his explanation was that caffeine itself was one of the mind-altering drugs, and therefore he didn't drink tea, coffee, cola or other caffeine containing drinks.
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Status: Trying to use OpenBLAS on Windows (some low-level linear algebra library a variant of which is required by pretty much any higher level linear algebra library). Website say they have precompiled libraries for it, links to the download page that only has source packages. You can find binaries for years-old versions strewn about the net (e.g. on nuget.org), with vague 1-2 words description of what options etc. they used.
I guess I'll give it a pass and stick with not using it.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall I see (although if not for the caffeine, why coffee or tea?).
One of my friends in university was Mormon, and his explanation was that caffeine itself was one of the mind-altering drugs, and therefore he didn't drink tea, coffee, cola or other caffeine containing drinks.
That's an acceptable, but not required stance.
The official doctrine, and the parts that are considered to make one "not worthy" for particular responsibilities (ie the hard NO) lines are the Big 4+1. There's no specific explanation given of reasons. Other reasons for those two might involve tannins in tea and similar compounds in coffee.
One key doctrinal interpretation principle is the idea that you shouldn't "look beyond the mark"--read a doctrinal statement or commandment and extract what you think is "the spirit of the law" and then use that as an excuse to
- ignore the letter of the law through clever wording
- add additional restrictions and enforce those on others through any means including social sanction (ie you can choose to be more restricted than the law requires, but you shouldn't demand others do so based on your personal interpretations).
The first cautions against such things as "if caffeine is the reason for no coffee, then I can drink decaf because it doesn't have caffeine!". The second cautions against promoting personal interpretations as law for other people.
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@Benjamin-Hall Sounds a lot more fun than Judaism, with their calling-an-elevator-is-starting-a-fire thing.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
caffeine itself was one of the mind-altering drugs
Caffeine: Brain functions
No caffeine: Brain deadConclusion: Caffeine alters function
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
"if caffeine is the reason for no coffee, then I can drink decaf because it doesn't have caffeine!".
What about "if I drink something that is not called coffee but, say, bun, and shares some of the attributes of coffee but not all (for example it has no caffeine, or it could have been prepared in a slightly different way etc.), then I can drink it"?
I mean, if the prohibition is on "coffee" (without more precision), then it's naturally going to be open to rule-lawyering about what the word itself means, and you can't just say "oh well everyone knows what it means". If there is a more precise definition (such as "any product derived from plants of the Coffea genus"), then there is less semantic wiggle room, but anything that manages to fall outside of that definition is 100% valid. If the definition does not give a reason for the prohibition (which apparently is the case?), then I can't really see how you can judge that a wording that avoids the letter of the law is "clever wording" (i.e. a trick), since the letter of the law is literally the only thing that exists...
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm confused by how you can have such prohibition without explanation, and not expect people to work around it.
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@hungrier caffeine is definitely the most commonly used drug on the planet.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
caffeine is definitely the most commonly used drug on the planet.
It's a life-saving drug.
Without coffee, I would kill everyone