The Official Status Thread
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Status: Apparently, EFI in VirtualBox (not sure if any other) has a directly limit of 30 entries. I guess. Magic.
Addemdum: What the fuck.
They're the same file.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
fuck.
Fuck it. Switching to hacking away using the Ubuntu install CD. We'll see if it still loads the kernel/initramdisk/etc....
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Already starting to feel sick.
I'd ask if they were sugar free, but AIUI you'd have been sick long before finishing the bag if they were.
Definitely not. 87% carbs (63% sugar) at 175g, making it about 650 kcal.
Filed under: diabetes, here I come!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
We'll see if it still loads the kernel/initramdisk/etc....
Surprisingly? Pretty much. Only problem is, networking is still preconfigured according to the source VM, and testing on another instance basically doesn't work. .
Status: Looking for how Ubuntu generates the
netplan.io
yaml files or if it's possible to set it in a "Just reset it next boot" configuration...Edit: oh, booting the image on the same VM the networking is still broken. I blame.... Missing / removed kernel modules?
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Status: Is there an ASCII art style emoticon for
:rolleyes:
? Lenny face?
Because I need one right now for this commit message.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Is there an ASCII art style emoticon for
:rolleyes:
? Lenny face?
Because I need one right now for this commit message.(◔_◔)
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@Tsaukpaetra And committed.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra And committed.
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Status: autonomous routine auto-embedden (triggered by bedtime.event) faulted in stage 8 (waste-empty) in step 18 on Unexpected unhandled scenario state interacting with iDynamic(toilet paper): unable to determine terminus endpoint on ribbon yet roll not empty.
Root cause found: the roll was installed reversed. Backup strats inserted into routine.
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Status: Done a release. And fixed all the bugs that the release caused…
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Status: My attention span is literally z... Oh look, a squirrel.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Addemdum: What the fuck.
They're the same file.
I don't know anything about EFI other than it exists, but maybe there's missing executable permission or something?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
We have rented for eight years now and it can only be described as
pissing away money.the cost of living.That phrase exists for a reason. It's not as if home ownership is intrinsically all that much better from a financial perspective. Real estate is not a good investment. In fact, it's easy to make a case for it being the worst possible investment imaginable:
Imagine over a cup or coffee or a glass of wine we get to talking about investments. Then maybe one of us, let’s say you, says:
“Hey I’ve got an idea. We’re always talking about good investments. What if we came up with the worst possible investment we can construct? What might that look like?”
Well, let’s see now (pulling out our lined yellow pad), let’s make a list. To be really terrible:
- It should be not just an initial, but if we do it right, a relentlessly ongoing drain on the cash reserves of the owner.
- It should be illiquid. We’ll make it something that takes weeks, no – wait – even better, months of time and effort to buy or sell.
- It should be expensive to buy and sell. We’ll add very high transaction costs. Let’s say 5% commissions on the deal, coming and going.
- It should be complex to buy or sell. That way we can ladle on lots of extra fees and reports and documents we can charge for.
- It should generate low returns. Certainly no more than the inflation rate. Maybe a bit less.
- It should be leveraged! Oh, oh this one is great! This is how we’ll get people to swallow those low returns! If the price goes up a little bit, leverage will magnify this and people will convince themselves it’s actually a good investment! Nah, don’t worry about it. Most will never even consider that leverage is also very high risk and could just as easily wipe them out.
- It should be mortgaged! Another beauty of leverage. We can charge interest on the loans. Yep, and with just a little more effort we should easily be able to persuade people who buy this thing to borrow money against it more than once.
- It should be unproductive. While we’re talking about interest, let’s be sure this investment we are creating never pays any. No dividends either, of course.
- It should be immobile. If we can fix it to one geographical spot we can be sure at any given time only a tiny group of potential buyers for it will exist. Sometimes and in some places, none at all!
- It should be subject to the fortunes of one country, one state, one city, one town…No! One neighborhood! Imagine if our investment could somehow tie its owner to the fate of one narrow location. The risk could be enormous! A plant closes. A street gang moves in. A government goes crazy with taxes. An environmental disaster happens nearby. We could have an investment that not only crushes it’s owner’s net worth, but does so even as they are losing their job and income!
- It should be something that locks its owner in one geographical area. That’ll limit their options and keep ’em docile for their employers!
- It should be expensive. Ideally we’ll make it so expensive that it will represent a disproportionate percentage of a person’s net worth. Nothing like squeezing out diversification to increase risk!
- It should be expensive to own, too! Let’s make sure this investment requires an endless parade of repairs and maintenance without which it will crumble into dust.
- It should be fragile and easily damaged by weather, fire, vandalism and the like! Now we can add-on expensive insurance to cover these risks. Making sure, of course, that the bad things that are most likely to happen aren’t actually covered. Don’t worry, we’ll bury that in the fine print or maybe just charge extra for it.
- It should be heavily taxed, too! Let’s get the Feds in on this. If it should go up in value, we’ll go ahead and tax that gain. If it goes down in value should we offer a balancing tax deduction on the loss like with other investments? Nah.
- It should be taxed even more! Let’s not forget our state and local governments. Why wait till this investment is sold? Unlike other investments, let’s tax it each and every year. Oh, and let’s raise those taxes anytime it goes up in value. Lower them when it goes down? Don’t be silly.
- It should be something you can never really own. Since we are going to give the government the power to tax this investment every year, “owning” it will be just like sharecropping. We’ll let them work it, maintain it, pay all the cost associated with it and, as long as they pay their annual rent (oops, I mean taxes) we’ll let ’em stay in it. Unless we decide we want it.
- For that, we’ll make it subject to eminent domain. You know, in case we decide that instead of getting our rent (damn! I mean taxes) we’d rather just take it away from them.
There are plenty of good reasons to own a home, but the key word there is "home". Owning housing as an investment property is a horrible idea, and anyone who does it, especially right now with as bubbly as the market is looking again, (or, better put, still, since the last bubble never did fully pop and clear out the underlying systemic instability,) is an idiot.
And even after the current housing market bubble pops, it's likely to remain a bad idea for decades. We're never getting the early 2000s back, for basic supply-and-demand reasons: with the Baby Boom generation retiring, aging and dying off, they're not likely to do much more home-buying, and no generation after them is as disproportionately big as they are, which means a glut of oversupply and weak demand for the entirety of the foreseeable future.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Is there an ASCII art style emoticon for
:rolleyes:
? Lenny face?
Because I need one right now for this commit message.Just use Win+. and put 🙄
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Status Thread:
a glut of oversupply and weak demand for the entirety of the foreseeable future.
YMMV, but where I am we have the opposite problem. Between a large influx of refugees taking the low-end of the housing market, and foreign investors buying up high-end property, it's rare to see a house stay on the market for longer than a week.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Status Thread:
Owning housing as an investment property is a horrible idea
It's been the #1 investment method in the UK for decades!!! This country is so screwed…
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@hungrier Yeah, I was referring to the USA specifically. Local conditions may differ in other regions. However, historically speaking,
foreign investors buying up high-end property
is strongly correlated with a market top that's right about to go south in a hurry.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Status Thread:
right about to go south in a hurry
I would go south in a hurry too
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This whole week I'm assigned to write documentation in Confluence of legacy code I inherited.
It sucks and I hate it*.
Filed under: * This statement applies to Confluence, the act of writing documentation, and the shitty code I'm documenting.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Just use Win+.
TIL.
is with the UI?
It overflows horizontally, has a bunch of useless negative space, and can't scroll or be dragged or resized? So it's limited to the seven and a half visible options.
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Status: Wondering why pie_flavor gets to live on the Earth where things work that don't work for anyone else, while I live on the Earth where things don't work that work for everyone else.
Filed under: Even in the future nothing works.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
while I live on the Earth where things don't work that work for everyone else.
Say hi to @Tsaukpaetra when you see him. Nice fellow.
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@TimeBandit Perhaps I should refer you to my other thread.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Perhaps I should refer you to my other thread.
One day, I will get there.
Probably
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Status: I have ADD that only seems to manifest when I'm assigned tedious work, like documentation.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
documentation
Real programmers don't do documentation. It was hard to write, it should be hard to read
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Addemdum: What the fuck.
They're the same file.
I don't know anything about EFI other than it exists, but maybe there's missing executable permission or something?
I blame
mkisofs
. It worked using a different tool.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Nice fellow.
Seems a bit depr
aived to me.FTFY
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
It was hard to write, it should be hard to read
It was easy to write, it should be hard to read so it looks like it was hard to write.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: autonomous routine auto-embedden (triggered by bedtime.event) faulted in stage 8 (waste-empty) in step 18 on Unexpected unhandled scenario state interacting with iDynamic(toilet paper): unable to determine terminus endpoint on ribbon yet roll not empty.
Root cause found: the roll was installed reversed. Backup strats inserted into routine.
Status: autonomous routine auto-embedden (triggered by bedtime.event) faulted in unexpected (waste-empty) event. Exit status: POSTERIOR_DISCOMFORT
Root cause (suspected but unverified): Beef, cheese and jalapeño enchiladas.
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Status: Tell us what you really named it....
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Open Sicilian, accelerated dragon... Chess players have the best jargon.
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Status: second day this week that somebody comes to my desk to give me a Krispy Kreme donuts
And it's only Tuesday
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Status: First workday after my about 7 weeks of summer vacation. Is met by a kitchenpiece sitting in the stairwell. Get to the office, the kitchen corner has been ripped out. Apparently, during summer one of the caretakers from property management had removed a fuse causing an extended power loss to the fridge which in that time had sprung a leak necessitating emergency repairs, so the entire mini-kitchen was ripped out. Sad times.
Now we have 5 days of planning and education to start out, then a couple days of kickoff. Then on monday the week after next week it's business as usual going forward. I also got a new laptop, already looking at throwing out Windows and installing Linux on it instead. Took longer for Windows to set up a new user account than it took me to upgrade Linux Mint to 19.2 on my old laptop, although that may be because of the new and improved onboarding process for company PCs. Still get overly small harddrives with only 250GB, but at least they are proper NVMe M.2 drives instead of the cheap SATA M.2 drive in my old laptop. Time to go find a larger USB drive for Mint, as it's too big for the small one I got.
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I hate everything about Community Server.
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@error everything? Even signature guy?
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Alas, we have no Signature Guy at WTFCorp.
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Change control meeting. Twenty people in the room and five on speakerphone. An hour of trying to out-uninform Windows Update. "This patches a vulnerability that allows attackers to execute remote code" or "a security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system." Over and over and over. Any questions? "I'll check and get back you (haha)."
Status: depressed about what would await me in a "development" job were I ever to find another
Really, the amount of effort poured into managing changes that aren't even thought out or tested or documented (in any useful way) is staggering.
Edit: followed by a call from yet another recruiter trying to fill positions at a previous employer that I would sooner live in a refrigerator box than work for again
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Status: I guess it's that time of year, when the sun reflects consistently off car windows outside straight into the side of my eye. But the curtains are over there...
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Status: Deleted a thousand lines of useless code. Feels good!
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Status: I was wondering how a job instantly failed while starting, but then realized that the "Started" message doesn't assume the job status might change and use an "indeterminate" color...
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Status: Accidentally pressed +M and discovered... I have icons on my desktop! And also my background is not black! :myeyes.png:
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Alas, we have no Signature Guy at WTFCorp.
Sounds like you have a job to do.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I guess it's that time of year, when the sun reflects consistently off car windows outside straight into the side of my eye. But the curtains are over there...
Back in the day when @boomzilla was commanding ships instead of TDWTFers...
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Status: Little things please little minds...
ntpq> ass ind assid status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt =========================================================== 1 39456 35ca yes yes none sys.peer sys_peer 13 2 39242 308b yes yes none reject sys_peer 4