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@Tsaukpaetra <serious> The mechanism that forgets our dreams is intentional. The brain has to disable memory and movement during them, otherwise you'd be full of false memories and also hurt yourself pretty badly every night. It's the biological equivalent of having a build system that produces 50 GB of output every day, and just adding a last step that deletes the entire folder.
What we don't know is why all that stuff is generated in the first place...
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
What we don't know is why all that stuff is generated in the first place...
My bet is on "legacy code and useless log messages".
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
just adding a last step that deletes the entire folder.
Sure, but it's nice to read the logs sometimes.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
What we don't know is why all that stuff is generated in the first place...
My bet is on "legacy code and useless log messages".
No no no, that's not hip. It's "artificial intelligence" now. Inconceivable, indecipherable, incomprehensible data that "works".
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra <serious> The mechanism that forgets our dreams is intentional. The brain has to disable memory and movement during them, otherwise you'd be full of false memories and also hurt yourself pretty badly every night. It's the biological equivalent of having a build system that produces 50 GB of output every day, and just adding a last step that deletes the entire folder.
What we don't know is why all that stuff is generated in the first place...
</>My wild-ass guess is sleep is for committing from short-term to non-volatile memory, and dreaming is to exercise the brain on more or less random input. Maybe not even random but more like a GAN.
A bit like when I’m in the shower and having these arguments in my head about scenarios that will never happen.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
local variables on the heap
This reads like you’re confused about the stack vs the heap.
Filed under: but then your whole post was intentionally confusing.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
local variables on the heap
This reads like you’re confused about the stack vs the heap.
Filed under: but then your whole post was intentionally confusing.
No, references to local variables pushed into the stack space from the wrong end.
This is the kind of thing that happens when you use the extra two bits that are technically unused in a byte for that flag set that probably isn't being checked or validated.
Filed under: Windows PIDs
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
What we don't know is why all that stuff is generated in the first place...
It seems to be intimately related to memory and learning.
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Status: Hey IT, could you stop screwing around with the network during working hours so our integration tests (which we can't put in the Cloud because they integrate with some special local hardware) can actually check the code out reliably? Thanks in advance!
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W3C: "these cascading style sheets will allow users and browsers to apply a default style for all pages, and then pages only overwrite the important parts, so it looks good while allowing customization!"
Web devs: "I don't like how the default font is 0.5 pixels wider in Firefox than in Chrome. I'll just use this file that overwrites all properties of all elements to prevent any inconsistencies"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
just adding a last step that deletes the entire folder.
Sure, but it's nice to read the logs sometimes.
I've always wondered if people who write really good books can remember their dreams better than the average person...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Hey IT, could you stop screwing around with the network during working hours so our integration tests (which we can't put in the Cloud because they integrate with some special local hardware) can actually check the code out reliably? Thanks in advance!
It's a holiday here. It should be a holiday everywhere!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a Kei-car.
Nah it's too big. it's just a shit car.
edit:
It's a K-car where the K stands for kuso
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Web
devsdesigners: "I don't like how the default font is 0.5 pixels wider in Firefox than in Chrome.FTFY
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Status must be serious about finding a new job and moving. Just bought a suit, and I strongly dislike suits.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
WebDiscourse devs: "I don't like how the default font isn't 0.5 pixels widerin FirefoxFTFD
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status on the cusp of madness.
I've decided on a two month holiday instead of a new job. After a brief illness I've started to crawl the walls. I'm two weeks in. Anyone think there is a market for unlimited email addresses on their own domain that will forward them to their current email address. My current pet project that will probably appear on GitHub soon.
*Edit this idea was inspired by my friend who wanted fuck-you@name.asdf as an address but didn't want to pay for the privilege nor want to deal with another inbox.
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Status: My retarded (former) ISP still hasn't sent me a letter about termination of service, but did cut my connection. So I'm without internet now. I'm wondering if I should just give their branded router to recycling now. It's their property, but I'm not sending it back if they aren't capable of sending me mail.
Also, as luck has it, the provider I want to switch to is currently upgrading the last mile and claims to be able to provide much better service (50 or 100 Mbps instead of 16) next month. So now my options are:
- get the basic 16m connection for the next two years,
- wait for the 50m connection to be available,
- get the 16m connection now and ask the ISP to upgrade next month.
The last option seems to be the obvious one, problem is the retarded pricing structure (which all ISPs employ, not just this one) means that for advertising reasons the first 6 months of the contract are half the price than the remaining months 7-24. So when I ask them to upgrade after one month they'll quite certainly tell me "sure, we can do that", but then I'll have to pay the normal base price instead of the advertised one. And then there's all the other "bonuses" that are included in the advertising that then wouldn't apply. So I'd lose quite a bit of money.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone think there is a market for unlimited email addresses on their own domain that will forward them to their current email address.
A catch-all email service? Sure - it's already offered by some domain sellers.
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Status: Holiday; woke up late, late enough to eat a combined breakfast and lunch (of course I know that's called brunch, but "brunch" sometimes has connotations of fanciness that definitely don't apply today), so I decided to have two meals worth of food:
3 egg omelette — mushrooms, Black Forest ham, Monterey jack, extra-sharp cheddar, parmesan
Bacon
Sausage
Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar
My tummy is satisfied. My taste buds are happy. My arteries, not so much.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status must be serious about finding a new job and moving. Just bought a suit, and I strongly dislike suits.
Last time I bought a suit was when I was in college (or maybe just after). I graduated in 1985. That's one very nice thing about being a developer in the bay area... (I interview in a button-down shirt and jeans.)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
is currently upgrading the last mile and claims to be able to provide much better service (50 or 100 Mbps instead of 16)
AT&T is doing that around us. I'm on the wrong side of the park. No fiber for you!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone think there is a market for unlimited email addresses on their own domain that will forward them to their current email address.
A catch-all email service? Sure - it's already offered by some domain sellers.
I know Yahoo did when I was parked there. Don't know if my current hosting does. (It was all spam, so I disabled it while there. I do have aliases for the common things.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Holiday; woke up late
Yup. That would be 6:45am for me... The dogs did wake me at 5:30, but I convinced them it wasn't time yet.
On a shitty note, I had to go help a friend mid-morning. Her young dog ran out into the street at exactly the wrong time. (The leash she thought was around her wrist, wasn't.) The driver did stop and take her to the emergency vet (and covered all the emergency costs) - I met her there.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone think there is a market for unlimited email addresses on their own domain that will forward them to their current email address.
A catch-all email service? Sure - it's already offered by some domain sellers.
Send me a link!
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Status: BitBucket is removing Mercurial support
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@Gąska it's 2019
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@pie_flavor and Git is somehow still alive! What's wrong with this world!?
inb4 everything
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor and
GitBitcoin is somehow still alive! What's wrong with this world!?inb4
everythingblockchainsFTFY
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Status: Living in a house I do need to expand my tools occasionally. Today I learnt that I will need what is commonly(?) called a "pig dick" as that will help me with broken screws. Problem is I need a small one to start with, will have to go look for a set after work.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
what is commonly(?) called a "pig dick"
Googling that went as well as expected.
You mean a screw extractor?
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Status: The problem with technical debt and historical bad architectural decisions is that there's generally no business case in fixing it. Because it's worked for years, hasn't it?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Googling that went as well as expected.
pig dick
Well this isn't what I wanted. Let me try something else.pig dick screw
Oh no
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@hungrier
(newest first)
I knew what he meant so it was mostly to see if it would return something relating to the screw extractor and not just pig dicks.
Spoiler alert: it does not.
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@loopback0 Did you turn safe search on before conducting this test?
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Status: apparently VoIP is down for Cox in my area.
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Status: Pondering if there's an actual reason why we're keeping a flag that effectively means "Functions associated with this object have been bound". Does the
IsBound()
check really incur that much performance issue that we need to manually manipulate a tracker flag?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
what is commonly(?) called a "pig dick"
Googling that went as well as expected.
You mean a screw extractor?
Never heard it called a "pig dick". I do have an extractor set... Yes, I've used it (but only once or twice).
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Status: Working from home while my sister practices playing clarinet.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
my sister practices playing clarinet.
Is that a euphemism?
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@loopback0 no. She literally plays clarinet in the adjacent room. While I'm trying to work.
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Seriously. It sucks. Can't get focused at all.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Working from home while my sister practices playing clarinet.
Was her playing squeaky or extra squeaky?
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@Parody pretty good actually. And pretty loud.