@Tsaukpaetra hey, this is the Help thread, not a TD Code Challenge! For what it's worth, I spent a bit of time digging into the source code of grpc and there really doesn't seem to be any way to get this information, even from the server. The relevant variable is max_receive_message_size. It is stored within the Server class and there is a neat accessor max_receive_message_size() which is... private! So one more possible hack would be to define my own derived Server object just to get to look at the private parts of its parent () (in the ServerInterface where this function is first defined, it's protected, so the reimplementation could easily cast its way around the private-ness). But it's obviously ugly. Also, there are both a maximum receive and a maximum send size, the latter follows a different path and as far as I can see isn't really used anywhere, apart from being stored in the ChannelArguments. So I'm starting to think that maybe I'm supposed to be querying that (with some generic function that takes the macro name GRPC_ARG_MAX_SEND_MESSAGE_LENGTH?) and hoping that it is the same as the receive size?  Wait, actually that last parenthesis might be the way to go? Maybe I'm supposed to get the ChannelArguments (not sure how but I haven't looked, this is becoming a stream of consciousness post...) and query them for this or that weird enum string (well, not that weird, they're pretty well documented). Hmmm, let me check all that...

Atomic Nucleus Excited with Laser: A Breakthrough after Decades The "thorium transition", which physicists have been looking for for decades, has now been excited for the first time with lasers. This paves the way for revolutionary high precision technologies, including nuclear clocks. Exciting news! Your accusations that I only posted this for the pun are completely founded.

@Parody said in Stardock, Star Control, I'm in space?: @PotatoEngineer said in Stardock, Star Control, I'm in space?: I've backed it at the "I just want the game" level, because, well, I just want the game. And this is one of the few games that I'm willing to pay the full preorder price for. I've backed it as well. I'd like a Yehat pin (my favorite ship in the first game) but it's a pretty big jump from "I just want the game". Looks like they hate shipping physical things (and I don't blame them for it), so the first physical thing starts at $60+. (The option to have physical add-ons.) I suppose that's not too terrible, but still over twice the price of "just the game." And for the record, my favorite ship was the Precursor Flagship with gobs of upgrades, but that's practically cheating. The Thraddash Torch was my most fun ship (wheeeee!), but I usually was better at the Utwig Jugger or the Chmmr Avatar. My brother, on the other hand, loved sheer annoyance as his strategy, with the Arilou Skiff or the Spathi Eluder. (The Spathi is a great ship, it just takes forever to win with!)

@Bulb quoted in Programming Memes Thread: Serverless: Pretending servers don't exist until the bill comes That one got me!

@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: I remember reading a story in which one of the major plot points was that people could make backups. If anything happened to the physical body, they could clone it and restore the most recent backup of the consciousness. The 6th Day (2000) ⭐ 5.9 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi 2h 3m | PG-13

@Bulb said in Error'd Bites: @Tsaukpaetra Or Acamai's DDoS protection is acting up, or your mother is currently sharing an IP with someone infected with a virus participating in a DDoS. Actually, that's not outside the realm of possibility, there are young adults in the house...

@loopback0 said in The Belt Onion club: @topspin said in The Belt Onion club: @loopback0 view raw. Also,

@remi said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: @LaoC out of curiosity, is it possible to get other fake colours? I don't know much about human perception so I have no idea which other pairs of colours might work, maybe red/cyan instead of cyan/red (but it's not even obvious that simply reversing colours would work!)? With a purple background you can make it look a bit greenish but the effect is quite weak, probably because it contradicts experience. I think it should work with any color as long as the background has enough things that you know roughly how they should look so the brain can use them to calibrate its color correction.

@Mason_Wheeler the game you describe is actually closer to a wargame than an RPG (but then so is D&D for many groups), but if you like fake footballrugby, it is very fun and quite accurately reproduces the actual thing (minus the actual concussions & physical violence (inb4: where's the fun then?)): Crash Tackle Rugby Game You break down the blind side and tear through the defence. You're out in the clear. Almost. The only thing standing between you and international rugby glory is 120kg's of bone crunching muscle. You've got the pace, but have you got the guts?

@error said in The Cat Status Thread: “Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.” ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

Apr 26 Florida Man Arrested While 'Dressed as a Woman In Attempt to Disguise Himself' In Wig and Dress: Sheriff In addition to Joshua Kolotka's mugshot, the Glades County Sheriff's Office also released a photo of the man as he was arrested -- showing his failed attempt at going incognito.

@Watson said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @PleegWat said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @loopback0 What do you mean Monday tomorrow. It can't be Monday tomorrow. I've been shopping today, and I never go shopping Sundays. Ergo it cannot be Monday tomorrow. So you won't be prepared for Monday tomorrow. QED. Quite. It's much too nice weather out to be dealing work.

Daily Duotrigordle #788 Guesses: 37/37 Time: 05:41.78 1️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 0️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ Daily Duotrigordle #789 Guesses: 36/37 Time: 11:37.39 3️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣

@HardwareGeek said in Nope, you eat it: @cheong said in Nope, you eat it: Clitoria Looks pretty o'keeffey, too. @Zerosquare TIL

@error said in The Official Status Thread: OLED Steam Deck Honestly, best purchase I've made in a while. Would recommend.

@Tsaukpaetra That's what growing up is like. And then you sort of hit a tipping point where the field where the fucks are grown, she is barren and life turns into a game where you rub people the wrong way, because it's all fucked anyways.

@Arantor And being less than 2 years old, he won't get a seat, instead has to sit on his parents' lap...

@Arantor said in UI Bites: It's also moving the entire fucking sidebar up and down +/- 5 pixels. Obviously a bug. It should be

@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day: @izzion said in Random thought of the day: I now want to see a charity Mavis Beacon Teaches Tuping competitive event. The event could be titled “Give Cancer the Finger” The spelling event can be a follow-up

@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites: @ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites: So yeah, given that second step in this sequence, maybe Windows just decided to decline my request to turn off fast startup. OTOH, all the shenanigans happens before any WIndows screen is shown so I was thinking that this is all done by the EFI firmware. Most likely the latter, probably due to their implementation of Secure Boot. That being said, WTF, are you using a Server/Workstation motherboard? Holy shit, even my crap doesn't take two minutes on cold boot to even start loading the OS bootloader! I don't think it's two minutes, but my machine does take a bit to get to the spinning circle thanks to all the drives I have hooked up. The BIOS UEFI's gotta check each and every one to see if it's bootable, especially those external USB hard drives that don't spin up until requested.

@boomzilla Placing bets that it's not compilable by a modern dev environment.

@Arantor yeah...was just reading this bit, which hits those points: Rust is the type of language where wanting to do a new type of upgrade might lead you down a path of refactoring all of the systems, and many would even say "that's great, now my code is much better and can accommodate so many more things!!!". It sounds like a very convincing argument, one that I've heard many times, and one that has also caused me to waste a lot of time chasing down solutions to the wrong problems. A more flexible language would allow the game developer to immediately implement the new feature in a hacky way, and then play the game, test it and see if the feature is actually fun, and potentially do a bunch of these iterations in a short amount of time. By the time the Rust developer is finished with their refactoring, the C++/C#/Java/JavaScript developer has implemented many different gameplay features, played the game a bunch and tried them all out, and has a better understanding of which direction should their game be taking. And I can definitely see his point. I often do that sort of thing, even in not-game-development. Then throw some things away and maybe start over if it was actually too ugly and the Final Solution actually sparks some ideas about how to do it better.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-job-interviews-target-developers-with-new-python-backdoor/

"Keep it up and next time we have disemboweled matriarch pie."

Alternatively could have been a candidate for 'things that remind you of WDTWTF members'.

Yesterday was a good day to be somewhere other than Nebraska and Iowa: This tornado outbreak in the Midwest on Friday is legit like nothing we've ever seen This is an unfortunately all-too-familiar news report in the U.S. during the spring and summer:

Boomzilla, the Alleged Army-of-One, Eaten by a Grue: An Internet Tragedy - Wibble News In an unexpected and hilarious twist, Boomzilla, the forum admin accused of controlling multiple user accounts, has reportedly been eaten by a grue. The incident has shocked, amused, and divided the online community.

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TIL Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia Edit: partially, anyway. I'm not reading all that.

@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...: they're really more involved in Twitter than their profile suggests. Is that supposed to be in indication of legitimacy or a red flag? Filed under: Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQCxkwoRvMg

DeAngelo Marquise Vaxter  /  Apr 24 Video released: Assault on Embark bus driver leads to crash into Oklahoma City business Video has been released from inside of the bus that crashed over the weekend in Oklahoma City, causing damages to a business and injuries.On Saturday, police ar

@BernieTheBernie said in Azure bites: @Bulb Interesting idea, I might try it somewhen. Depends on 's preferences. But I see a catch: my home IP address is dynamic, and I get a fresh address every night from the vast range of t-online ip addresses. That would mean that I'd have to open the firewall for every address or do a lot of rules. Since it's “serverless”, you are sharing the server with a lot of people that access it from all over the place, so protection against DDoS is Microsoft's problem, and they already have some in place, so is addressing the server vulnerabilities, and you are only concerned with someone guessing your credentials. The last point I'd address by using the Entra authentication. In Azure, you create a security group, set it as admin and disable non-entra login. In the .нет library you replace the credentials with Authentication=Active Directory Default[1] in the connection string and it will pick the login from anywhere it can—environment, managed identity, visual studio or az, so it basically just works. And the management studio supports the interactive login, so that works too. Only if you also need the sqlcmd tool, you need magic incantation: token_file=$(mktemp) az account get-access-token --resource https://database.windows.net --query accessToken --output tsv | tr -d '\r\n' | iconv -f ascii -t utf-16le > "$token_file" sqlcmd -G -P "$token_file" …# the other options… (for Linux shell or Git Bash; I don't know powershell well enough to remember how to get the token in UTF-16 off the top of my head) And then I wouldn't worry about just setting the firewall to the whole range or even just leaving it open altogether.

@izzion said in Commuting WTF Thread: @Zerosquare said in Commuting WTF Thread: @Atazhaia said in Commuting WTF Thread: got off on his own accord. Wait. If he owned a car, why did he want to take the bus? What, you're not going to ask about his fetish for relieving himself in public on his car? Bonk! Go to Honda Jail.

Traditional wisdom didn't include LIES it took the written word to do that! @sockpuppet7 Give 'em shit Swampie... I'll make sure to post videos elsewhere even youtube again... I hope I don't have to Do A Dance... I found 1 reddit post that got through... https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/x7e7lj/the_best_starter_program_ever/ With the best from this thread and swampie stuff our AISwampies will be all right... ***i just asked this question... Which do you trust Traditional healers & helpers teachings or the Written word? ***and got this answer As an AI language model, I don't have personal beliefs or preferences. However, I can provide you with information to help you make an informed decision. The trustworthiness of traditional healers and the written word depends on various factors, including cultural context, personal beliefs, and the specific situation at hand. Here are some points to consider: Traditional Healers & Helpers: Cultural Significance: Traditional healers and helpers often hold significant roles within their communities, and their knowledge is based on centuries of cultural practices and beliefs. Holistic Approach: Traditional healers may offer holistic approaches to healing that encompass physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of well-being. Local Knowledge: They may have deep knowledge of local plants, herbs, and remedies that have been passed down through generations. Written Word: Scientific Basis: The written word, especially in the form of scientific literature, is often based on rigorous research, evidence, and peer review processes. Access to Information: Written sources provide access to a vast amount of information, including medical research, historical records, and diverse perspectives. Critical Analysis: Written sources allow for critical evaluation, fact-checking, and verification of information. It's important to note that both traditional healers and written sources can have their limitations. Traditional practices may not always align with scientifically validated methods, and written sources can contain inaccuracies or be influenced by biases. Ultimately, the trust you place in either traditional healers or the written word may depend on your personal beliefs, the specific situation, and the availability of credible information. It is advisable to seek a balanced approach by considering various perspectives, consulting experts, and making informed decisions based on the best available evidence.

@Zerosquare should there be some magenta though?

This is THE WORST PRINTER I've EVER seen | Soviet SM6337.02 – 11:44— Chornobyl Family 🇺🇦 Today, we will take a look at the SM6337.02 – a vintage Soviet dot matrix printer made in Russia in the late 1980s. In my life, I've seen a lot of computers and devices manufactured in the USSR, but this one features an unbelievably low quality level. Technically, it is an Epson-compatible peripheral device with RS-232 and Centronics interfaces, and it comes with a few built-in fonts. However, from what I see, it is unlikely that it was functional even when it just came out of the factory. Even more bizarre it becomes when we take a short look at its military/KGB counterpart.

@HardwareGeek It's a very small place with only one notable feature: the ferry port.

Microsoft seemingly admits "ads" on Windows 11 Start menu are in the works Microsoft may finally be coming clean. With a new hidden change, the tech giant seems to acknowledge that "ads" on the Windows 11 Start menu are real, though it could also mean more ads are coming.

How Google Search was "killed". A very long article, but nice to read. Enjoy! Apr 23 The Man Who Killed Google Search Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The...

@Gurth is that a picture of the notepaper that one writes Lotus Notes on?

@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF: Mark Harris Texas High School Baseball Game Takes 2 Days To Play, Ends After 23 Innings A high school baseball game in Texas took two days to complete and finally ended after 23 innings with a final score of just 4-3. The 23-inning slugfest that took place over 25 and a half hours set a record for the longest game in Texas high school sports history, but somehow fell two innings shy of the American high school record for the longest game of all time Nothing about 7 runs in 23 innings says, "slugfest." Maybe the author is a Chicago White Sox fan who dreams of 2 runs in 23 innings

@HardwareGeek Did you searching on PornHub? They got some great statistical data.

@error ✅

@Atazhaia said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @Watson said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @LaoC said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : Nah, just kidding, it's over 7100 pages, ...which Microsoft Word doesn't fully comply with, giving us Wait... Microsoft doesn't follow their own standard? Well, Microsoft's first submission to ISO had a lot of Windows-specific stuff (for supporting all their different versions of Word), and ISO naturally said that such stuff wasn't appropriate for a vendor-neutral industrial standard. Microsoft went away and split their backward compatibility out those 600 pages of "Legacy" @LaoC referred to, and resubmitted the "Strict" part as the standard, with the optional "Legacy" extension. ISO accepted this on the condition that all new OOXML documents adhere to the "Strict" part, with the extension only used as required for backward compatibility. Microsoft said "Okay, sure" with its fingers crossed behind its back.