The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck you!
Your robots are crap, or that's just what you tell everyone...
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Morning stand up. Basically told boss I don't have anything to do today and the response was "OK, fine".
Expect plenty of shitposting from me today
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Expect plenty of shitposting from me today
You mean on other days, you weren't shitposting? :P
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@RaceProUK I usually try to keep it down slightly.
I was reading some old posts recently, probably after an @obeselymorbid necrolike, and was reminded that I used to call you a wanker at every opportunity. Do you remember why?
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I was reading some old posts recently, probably after an @obeselymorbid necrolike, and was reminded that I used to call you a wanker at every opportunity. Do you remember why?
I believe it was triggered by this old avatar:
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@RaceProUK oh yeah, I remember. It is quite the wanky expression
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Trying to get a WCF client working with certificate authentication over HTTPS.
Or, to put it another way:
Update: It's working! :D
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Status: I must be feeling British this morning. Tried to type "accourding" in two different ticket updates.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Tried to type "accourding" in two different ticket updates.
That's not British, that's just plain incorrect :P
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@RaceProUK
Linguistic facts jokes.
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Status: Meta dot discourse.
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I run in to this far too often. Goddamn it people. This issue has been solved a long time ago.
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Good news: My savings account earned interest last month.
Bad news: The annualized interest rate is 0.012%. Why bother?
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Status: Added some unit tests to this server code to see what happens when someone pitches in duff data in the requests. He he heโฆ
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
IIRC, Windows has a fairly small amount of total space to use for transferring information from a parent process to its child (as opposed to Linux and OSX, which use something like up to 256kB). That space is for all command line arguments, environment variables, and other random stuff (that's usually constant in size). Maybe you're close to that limit? The reasons it fails for some users and not others might be down to different lengths of user names, different other packages, etc., all of which might be best described as โrandom, beyond your controlโ. The fix is to not pass so much on the command line, and instead put everything in a file and pass just the name of that over; some Java tools (e.g., javadoc) do this because otherwise they'd be entirely unusable on Windows.
It seems like that would happen with cmd.exe spawning the child as much as it would happen with a .NET exe using Process.Start(), though, unless .NET adds a bunch more environment variables and such (not totally unlikely?).
If you're using Process.Start() anyway, though, @Tsaukpaetra, I would redirect standard input and then just pass the information over that. The command line is relatively insecure, and using temporary parameter files makes the baby Jesus cry.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Bad news: The annualized interest rate is 0.012%. Why bother?
Wow. I get about that on my checking account, and > 4x that on my savings account. You need a new bank, son.
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@Polygeekery just upgrade from IE5.5 already
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That seems unlikely.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
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Based on that support list, they may as well just remove the damn check. Do they really need to deal with the three people who use Firefox 1.0? Or the one die-hard on IE5.5?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
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Based on that support list, they may as well just remove the damn check. Do they really need to deal with the three people who use Firefox 1.0? Or the one die-hard on IE5.5?
Have you met @Lorne-Kates?
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Have you met @Lorne-Kates?
Yeah, but Firefox 22 is at least semi-modern ;)
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@RaceProUK I bet it's a hardcoded list of UA strings, and anything that doesn't match one of them is assumed unsupported.
Either that or it's like the live chat that was on the website of an electric company I used to be with. They wanted no later than FF1.5, IE6 or some version of Netscape. On Windows 7, I literally couldn't get a browser that worked (and I did try with spoofed UAs, it was actually broken), without finding a site specifically for old versions of software, getting Firefox and disabling updates
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I bet it's a hardcoded list of UA strings
I almost puked imagining that.
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
They wanted no later than FF1.5, IE6 or some version of Netflix.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
They wanted no later than FF1.5, IE6 or some version of Netflix.
I am guessing you are on mobile?
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@Polygeekery no, just coming to the end of a long week..
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Bad news: The annualized interest rate is 0.012%. Why bother?
Wow. I get about that on my checking account, and > 4x that on my savings account. You need a new bank, son.
Unfortunately, my cash reserve is low enough that I don't have anything to keep in that account...
edit: it was earning 0.90% a while ago, though. Apparently it's improved.
edit edit: actually, I guess I could move a bit of cash into it for a few weeks. Worth it, I guess, for the 5 minutes that it takes plus remembering to move it back so my credit card payment won't be overdrawn.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery no, just coming to the end of a long week..
I feel ya.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
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Good news: My savings account earned interest last month.
Bad news: The annualized interest rate is 0.012%. Why bother?Last year I earned enough interest I have to tell the IRS! The year before? Not so much.
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status The cheap Bluetooth speakers I got for my desktop sound fine when playing stuff. But SUCK as computer speakers. I suspect it's because they're Bluetooth. The first couple hundred milliseconds of a sound are lost. They were only $28 (OontZ Angle 3). Do I bother with returning them (amazon) or just keep them... hmmm decisions...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status The cheap Bluetooth speakers I got for my desktop sound fine when playing stuff. But SUCK as computer speakers. I suspect it's because they're Bluetooth. The first couple hundred milliseconds of a sound are lost. They were only $28 (OontZ Angle 3). Do I bother with returning them (amazon) or just keep them... hmmm decisions...
That's been my experience with every bluetooth audio device I've ever used.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
That's been my experience with every bluetooth audio device I've ever used.
That's what I suspected. Went back to my wired speakers...
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@TimeBandit Wireless is wank.
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@Lorne-Kates I have some cheap bluetooth headphones that work pretty well.
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Status: very sick took two caffeine pills because there was some stuff I HAD to do today, and some coughing medication that you're not supposed to take if you're also taking SSRIs but I did anyway because the cough was killing me, and now I'm feeling dizzy so I'm just going to lay in bed and sleep for 72 hours.
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@anonymous234 Take a Red Pill. Contact Morpheous he will sort you out.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
IIRC, Windows has a fairly small amount of total space to use for transferring information from a parent process to its child (as opposed to Linux and OSX, which use something like up to 256kB). That space is for all command line arguments, environment variables, and other random stuff (that's usually constant in size). Maybe you're close to that limit? The reasons it fails for some users and not others might be down to different lengths of user names, different other packages, etc., all of which might be best described as โrandom, beyond your controlโ. The fix is to not pass so much on the command line, and instead put everything in a file and pass just the name of that over; some Java tools (e.g., javadoc) do this because otherwise they'd be entirely unusable on Windows.
It seems like that would happen with cmd.exe spawning the child as much as it would happen with a .NET exe using Process.Start(), though, unless .NET adds a bunch more environment variables and such (not totally unlikely?).
If you're using Process.Start() anyway, though, @Tsaukpaetra, I would redirect standard input and then just pass the information over that. The command line is relatively insecure, and using temporary parameter files makes the baby Jesus cry.
Well, technically it's no "us" that's doing it. It's a "workflow interop" program that's called by the angular-based launcher.
Also, follow up: Apparently it was an issue with the Unreal shim that checks prerequisites (apparently) before actually launching the process. We scoured through the (actually quite small) code for that program, and it doesn't seem like it should be cutting up the string, but it apparently does.
Calling the application directly worked fine. For now.
We really would like to pass the token directly, but getting yet another interop dll into the mix isn't high on our desirables at the moment. ;)
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Status: Got a
FAULT_HARDWARE_CORRUPTED_PAGE
BSOD. Some things are definitely a bit broken now, like the Recent Files list in Explorer. I wonder if that's also why Visual Studio 2015 can't seem to start profiling for shit...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Some things are definitely a bit broken now, like the Recent Files list in Explorer. I wonder if that's also why Visual Studio 2015 can't seem to start profiling for shit...
time for a good round of MEMTEST86 before a reinstall i think.
lucky it's friday.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Some things are definitely a bit broken now, like the Recent Files list in Explorer. I wonder if that's also why Visual Studio 2015 can't seem to start profiling for shit...
time for a good round of MEMTEST86 before a reinstall i think.
lucky it's friday.
Yeah, looking for a thumb drive now...
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The awkwardness of having to talk around things you know are going to go down but you can't really discuss with the client:
Me: "Well, we do need to set up the apparatus for someone to support me; I won't be on this program forever, you know!"
PMO guy: "Haha, you're not going anywhere, man!"
Me: "... but really though, from a bus factor perspective at least."
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
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I run in to this far too often. Goddamn it people. This issue has been solved a long time ago.
... Netscape 7, or Netscape 9 and above
Was Netscape 8 really that bad?
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@julmu said in The Official Status Thread:
Was Netscape
8really that bad?FTFY
And the answer is Yes
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Status: Being silly :D
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Status: Somehow my $4500 bonus turned into $2800
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@hungrier
But don't worry, the government has so many good uses for that cashThis post has been deleted for leaking content.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Being sill
yier :D