The Official Status Thread
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B*****m cupcake pictures. Now I'm hungry, and it's still 1 ½ hours until lunch.
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Status: A cow-orker is listening to music on headphones. And singing along. Aloud. Badly.
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Status: A cow-orker is listening to music on headphones. And singing along. Aloud. Badly.
The only appropriate response is a rabbit punch. Put them out of their misery.
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The solution is to switch to DiscoLunch, so you can eat anywhere between 9AM and 9PM, give or take a few hours.
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hey! i have that cakepan!
it's great for making sheet cakes.
not so much for casseroles (it's air filled so the heating profile is different. better for cakes worse for casseroles)
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it's air filled so the heating profile is different. better for cakes worse for casseroles
Damn it, like you people don't depress me enough by being vastly superior programmers to me, you have to know how to cook as well!
Me, well, if I attempt to use anything other than a microwave it tends to burst into flames. Not even the microwave is safe at times.
Edit: Also, I'm so tired and annoyed I'm using double negations. I think I should stop posting for the day.
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i like to feed people.
I've been told that this habit makes me like a jewish grandmother (apparently they like to feed people too.... hey, i'm just reporting what i've been told) but as far as i can tell from my family tree ain't none of us been jewish since at least 1400
1400 is when some branches of the family start falling off into undocumented areas. My grandmothers had way too much time on their hands and a fascination with geneology....
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@Onyx - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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Old bug, still unfixed:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-cards-with-hr-s-cause-wrong-descriptions/23538/13
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Ah. First time I saw it. Move along, only Discourse to see here...
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Oh I thought that was fixed? Last time I checked, it seemed fixed...
Oh well, I'm off to put the <hr> back in my usercard description...
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as far as i can tell from my family tree ain't none of us been jewish since at least 1400
1400 is when some branches of the family start falling off into undocumented areas. My grandmothers had way too much time on their hands and a fascination with geneology.
I'm impressed. 1400 is about the earliest ancestor I have been able to find. (One collateral branch can allegedly be traced back to the 11th century, but I don't actually have all of the information.) My maternal grandmother's family can be found in the church records of a particular town in Bavaria back to the 1400's; some other branches I can't even get as far back as 1800.
My ex-wife's family came from the Deep South. She had a grandmother, or great-aunt, or some such, who was very enthusiastic about genealogy and actively researching her family, until one day she suddenly refused to discuss the matter any more. Speculation was that she found some ancestor that didn't fit her racial biases — black, Jewish or Native American.
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Status: Flooding contained. 2 water heaters (1 failed, 1 identical unit of the same age) removed. 2 replacements procured and placed. Doing the plumbing and electrical now.
Good thing I'm demolishing the 70s era basement finishing (was literally tearing out a wall yesterday) . Everything left of it is ruined now.
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Status: Apparently the
Date
header is considered "unsafe" for cross-origin requests.
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Speculation was that she found some ancestor that didn't fit her racial biases
That's got to wound the pride: discovering you are at least partially of the same stock as those "inferior" people you've been feeling all smug about...
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Thanks for the spoiler :3 I haven't watched it yet because DAC did the stupid TI4 thing and ended their finals on a Monday.
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Status: the fortune cookie knows about my assassination attempt!
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Status: I dug down to the caverns and suddenly a mushroom.
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Status: Plumbing done, waiting for it all to heat up so i can take a shower and go to the bar.
Also discovered the well pressure tank was installed in early 1984. I hadn't yet been installed in 1984. I should probably replace that.
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Status: wondering why a relatively simple C project fails to compile with the error "stdint.h: No such file or directory" when other projects including stdint.h compile just fine on the same system. Also, the issue only occurs on 32-bit Linux systems of various distributions, but not 64-bit.
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Ever had a day when computers just don't want to work? Well I am having that day.
Windows 8.1 completely, absolutely 100% clean install giving me weird Windows Update error codes . Ubuntu LiveCD giving me a kernel panic on boot (I've never seen that before). Other Linux distro refusing to connect to the wifi. Tried 2 years old Lubuntu image, repositories don't work anymore because who'd want to keep a Linux install for more than 2 years right?
The same Windows install USB that I installed from now refuses to boot too ( ^2). And I told Windows to format a 16GB flash drive 30 goddamn minutes ago and it's still at 65% ( ).
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Solved. Ugh. Configure script was copied from a 64-bit version of the project and is invalid for 32-bit systems, and the stdint.h error was C/C++'s normal error messages that have nothing to do with what's actually wrong.
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Sounds like a hardware problem. Tried taking that ubuntu CD and running memtest?
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I think the Ubuntu boot problems might have been caused by mixing UUI and UNetbootin to create bootable USBs. It's possible that UNetbootin didn't replace the MBR or the initramfs or something from the previous image and it got in an inconsistent state. A contrieved explanation maybe, but the most likely IMO, because when I used dd from another Linux to write the raw image on the disk it worked fine.
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Could well be. Was thrown off because your windows images were giving trouble too. Though I seem to remember I once zeroed the first meg of a disk in order to get a good clean install.
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i might, if i remember.
(i'm not likely to remember)
Even if you do remember it won't help. I don't mind Dallas heat.
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I've been told that this habit makes me like a jewish grandmother (apparently they like to feed people too.... hey, i'm just reporting what i've been told)
Jewish grandmother is more stereotypical, but in some Korean cultures they have no expression that means, "Welcome to my home." Their expression translates literally as, "Are you hungry?", or, "Would you like some food."
I have always found that quaint.
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If that ends up as short as 5h19, I'll be very startled…
Especially if it involves the lane addition work near Gateshead/Newcastle - it's currently a 2-lanes-each-way-contraflow (2 one direction, 1 t'other on one of the carriageways) at 30mph.
That looks like an admin-only power.
Nope - mods as well. http://what.thedailywtf.com/users/USER/preferences
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Also discovered the well pressure tank was installed in early 1984. I hadn't yet been installed in 1984. I should probably replace that.
Additional +1 for another cynical way to refer to my birthdays (I was installed exactly XX years ago...).
Where were you a few days ago, I ran out so I had to reuse old ones to reply to over-enthusiastic... people... who congratulated... my linguistic center is done for the night, I think.
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Status: Bioshock Infinite has almost zero replay value. But if you've played it, it has these beautiful goddamned moments you'll never forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx8GowKaRpM
(The full hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4Crth_Hb8 )
Anyway it just kind of shoved itself into my head and now it won't go away.
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Status: it's Silly Season. All PhD students need to review their individual study plans at an annual meeting including their examiner, their supervisor, their co-supervisor, and an external person. I've got two such meetings booked today.
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STATUS: Yay ember 1.10! HTMLBars!
Wait, what's that? Issue after issue after issue about regressions that were somehow missed during beta period?
ABORT! ABORT! ABORT!
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I know at least one person who will argue with you, and in the event that they actually get you to agree with them, will begin arguing the other side of the argument - i.e. what you thought in the first place, just so that they can keep telling you how wrong you are.
There is nothing more frustrating, short of people who'll bully you to tears and then tell you what a terrible person you are for making them feel bad about bullying you by crying. Which that same person has also been known to do.
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Status: Enjoying a bit of schadenfreude. To explain: a senior dev replaced a bit of edge-case handling I'd added in favour of a better solution. Which broke not just the feature he was trying to fix, but also another feature that happened to reuse some of the code
Needless to say, my edge-case handling is back in placeAnd yes Firefox, I did mean schadenfreude, not Scheherazade.
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Nope - mods as well. http://what.thedailywtf.com/users/USER/preferences
Ah...I guess I've never gone to that for another user. Interestingly, it's not on the user admin screen, which was where I looked.
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Status: Woke up to a water leak from my kitchen ceiling. @Weng, did you install your old water heater in my attic?!?!
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```c
internal_log("SAX parse error: %s", format);the format string should give enough information about the problem, right? Well, I now have this in my logs:
SAX parse error: %s
Which means `libxml2` is Doing It Right. Passing a non-literal string as format parameter is asking for trouble. Imagine the format parameter containing `%<whatever>` and how that would blow up. Using a single `%s` as format parameter and passing the (possibly non-literal) string as parameter makes it robust against printf-injection.
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Imagine the format parameter containing %<whatever> and how that would blow up.
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well pressure tank
If that well has killed that many water heaters, you might think about testing the water.
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Status: the fortune cookie knows about my assassination attempt!
<img src="/uploads/default/14612/d2f2bfb18d6eef30.jpg" width="387" height="172">
Psst, everybody.... he knows.
We'll wait another week.
Pass it on.What? No, I wasn't saying anything.
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Which means
libxml2
is Doing It Right. Passing a non-literal string as format parameter is asking for trouble. Imagine the format parameter containing%<whatever>
and how that would blow up.I see your point, but why bother with a format string then? The
libxml2
API could have defined its error callback as taking a simple message string. I was expecting it would use the format string to return detailed errors, for instancesax_handler->error(context, "Invalid tag at line %d", line);
but so far it seems to always use it like this:
sax_handler->error(context, "%s", "Invalid tag");
which makes no sense IMHO.
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I see your point, but why bother with a format string then? The
libxml2
API could have defined its error callback as taking a simple message string. I was expecting it would use the format string to return detailed errors, for instancesax_handler->error(context, "Invalid tag at line %d", line);
but so far it seems to always use it like this:
sax_handler->error(context, "%s", "Invalid tag");
which makes no sense IMHO.
Emboldened and embiggened the relevant words. ICBA to browse the
libxml2
source, but probably there are some format strings that return a detailed message in the way you described?Filed under: Cool, "emboldened" is a word according to the firefox spill chucker
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Status: Just watched a cow-orker define a variable called
analCodes
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Status: Been working on a bug for a couple of days, just started testing my fix and realised I'd solved precisely the wrong problem. This is why I shouldn't start a task on Friday afternoon after going to the pub
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