The Official Status Thread
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Doing some storage management. Uninstalled Skullgirls and suddenly most of my installed games have an update queued.
e: Zero-sized updates, too.Huh, you missed it, last week Steam did a thing and cleared out the extra redistributables(or something).
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Total; about 250 quid in destroyed parts...that could have been beer
Yeah, but you got to watch cool fireworks!
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Total; about 250 quid in destroyed parts...that could have been beer
Yeah, but you got to watch cool fireworks!
True, but this is my side enterprise (with employer written approval). It's amazing how economical you become with troubleshooting when it's coming out your own pocket.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Discovered a new type of infinity: the amount of snow on my driveway
Did you just move to Canada?
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Status:
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@mott555 If only computers had some sort of file history feature.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@jinpa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@GÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
for example you can't put some things in the public domain a la CC0 in Germany, from what I've been told
Which is interesting because CC0 was specifically created to allow public domain-like sharing in countries that don't have public domain.
Yeah. I was trying to make that comparison, but failed. You can't simply "give away" your rights in those countries, you have to license it CC0 (or an equivalent valid license), which is similar, but not identical, to public domain. It is still under copyright, rather than being truly ownerless like public domain, for one.
It would seem, though, like it was effectively ownerless, even if not legally so. If the rights still belong to the original author, and he decided to sue the user, couldn't the defendant argue in court (in whatever country) that the original author had explicitly given his rights away? The burden would be on the original author (in any country), and it seems like he would fail.
From what I understand, some countries' law establishes that you cannot give away those rights, no matter what. So in those countries, that argument would fail because the license was null and void from the start. I personally find that to be a bit , but the law is a notorious source of s already.
Unrelated Status: I really should learn to stop arguing with people on the internet, even if they're horribly wrong. <Cue xkcd here.>
The fix for that (in those countries) is to just give away the economic rights while retaining the moral rights, which are mainly the right to be identified as the author. This isn't a problem in the USA, but that's because the only rights in this area that the courts recognise as things you can sue over in the first place are the economic rights. Many of the OSS licenses are really just about stating that the authors aren't interested in (exclusive) economic rights at all provided the (non-monetary) moral rights are respected.
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Status: Internet restored.
Finished Axiom Verge in the meantime. It's a good Metroid clone that could have used a bit more sanding off of its rough edges. Don't ask me about the story, though, as I stopped paying attention early on. Overall worth the $0 I paid for it.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Unrelated Status: I really should learn to stop arguing with people on the internet, even if they're horribly wrong. <Cue xkcd here.>
I'm flattered that you chose to give your "unrelated" status in response to my post.
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@jinpa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Unrelated Status: I really should learn to stop arguing with people on the internet, even if they're horribly wrong. <Cue xkcd here.>
I'm flattered that you chose to give your "unrelated" status in response to my post.
I added the "unrelated" tag to try to make it clear that it wasn't part of my response to you, just something else that I was too lazy to make a separate post about.
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Status: Ok, whichever nerve I pinched in my sleep can just unpinch itself now, TYVM.
Tingles down the mouse arm all day is not the most conducive to productivity...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
the mouse arm
Ah, best replace the whole damn cable at that point, you deserve an upgrade!
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: VS2019 makes git almost palatable. And that's it's least interesting new feature.
Since I don't tend to play around with preview versions of the compiler, does it look like 19 is going to be nice? (As in nicer than 2017?)
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I really should learn to stop arguing with people on the internet, even if they're horribly wrong.
You have us for that...
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Status: posting this here without explaining it so people suffer mental anguish regardless of whether they decide to find out what it's about
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@ben_lubar Since it's on Mastodon I assume it's some kind of furry thing
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Status: This stupid vpn
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@hungrier You're getting it more often than I am. I get a reconnect every 30 seconds for a few seconds which plays havoc on doing anything in the terminal.
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@PleegWat For me it just spams a bunch of disconnect/reconnect notifications when I initially connect, resulting in that queue. The actual connection is fine after that, but if I don't go to the notification panel and dismiss them, it'll ding all of them at me, one by one.
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@hungrier Mine keeps doing it.
On a positive note, I only have to deal with it if I need to access production, which isn't that often. The normal work-from-home VPN doesn't have the problem.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 If only computers had some sort of file history feature.
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Status: Writing some driver code to configure DMA on a device.
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@dcon Well the compiler changes will include the ability to turn off null as a valid thing in C#, or at least set it to explicit nullability only for everything. Haven't played around too much with the other compiler changes.
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The "S" in Windows S definitely stands for Stupid.
status: Our Centennial app crashes on startup on WinS.
Edit: Ah-ha. Looks in the Event Viewer.
Applications and Services Logs / Microsoft / Windows / CodeIntegrity /What do you know.
syswow64/vccorlib140.dll
is blocked. Guess we can't support WinS...
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@Magus That's the language, not the editor. I get the same feature in current Rider.
Also, I wish it was an opt-in error - it's only an opt-in warning.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Writing some driver code to configure DMA on a device.
BSODs are annoying, but far from the worse thing that could happen. You could silently corrupt data in RAM, including critical system structures. And if you're having a really bad day, the data belongs to a filesystem driver, which will then happily trash your disk on the next write.
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@Zerosquare Oh yes, I've been there, done that. A few years back, I found out the hard way that the hardware manual for one of our devices wasn't quite correct. I was feeding its DMA controller some 64-bit host addresses, but it silently ignored the upper 32 bits and was quite happy to destructively overwrite some seemingly-random section of RAM below the 4 GB line, which occasionally belonged to really important kernel structures. Sometimes nothing would happen, sometimes you'd get a BSOD, sometimes a random application would crash, and sometimes the system would just hard-lock and refuse to boot into Windows again.
In this case, I'm pretty sure the BSODs are because I'm accidentally hitting some addresses that belong to nothing at all. OS says "Hey, there's a read/write request for completely unclaimed address space, better halt and catch fire!" I already fixed a few right-shifts that should have been left-shifts, and I'm sure I'm confusing byte lengths with DWORD lengths somewhere. I bet there's an off-by-one error, a missing semicolon, and a
=
that should be==
hidden in there, too.
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Status: Huh...
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status: been watching Louis Rossman too much lately.
My Lattepanda Alpha board (it's the SBC with the heart of a MacBook!) died with no power and I legit thought, "well damn, I better check PP3-BUS-G3-HOT!"
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Status: Some random guy sat next to me in tram and started talking about how his block had water outage for several days now and that he has to go earlier to work to get a shower. He even showed me a bag of cosmetics, and told me a very graphic hypothetical story of a baby shitting all over herself and a poor mother having to clean her all up without running water. What a great way to start a day.
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@GÄ…ska Sir, I understand you need to vent, but I really did not need to know this.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
you need to vent
most likely because he sat next to a smelly dude and baby during his tram ride to work
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@GÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
What a great way to start a day.
At least, you can feel glad you're not in his shoes.
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@Zerosquare good point. Who knows what kinds of microbes live there.
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@hungrier
It’s an interaction between AnyConnect and some W10 update from around a year ago. Never got me pissed off enough to actually open a TAC case or try more than basics to try to fix it, but basically AC takes 3 connections over about 15 seconds to actually connect now and thus the notification spam.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
In this case, I'm pretty sure the BSODs are because I'm accidentally hitting some addresses that belong to nothing at all. OS says "Hey, there's a read/write request for completely unclaimed address space, better halt and catch fire!" I already fixed a few right-shifts that should have been left-shifts, and I'm sure I'm confusing byte lengths with DWORD lengths somewhere. I bet there's an off-by-one error, a missing semicolon, and a = that should be == hidden in there, too.
I had the register values for host-to-device and device-to-host backwards. Basically setting a bit to 1 when it should be 0, and 0 when it should be 1. So whenever I meant to write to the device, I was copying junk from the device into host RAM instead. The BSOD was because the device's configuration was never actually transferred to it, so it released nasal demons instead.
Status: No more BSODs.
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Status: Crashing our on-embedded-chip OS by sending lots of traffic through and past it. Damn.
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Wow, I knew some products "cheated" on benchmarks, but I didn't know they were so open about it.
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TIL Github deletes SSH keys when they haven't been used for a long time. I learned it in the least pleasant way.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Damn.
Double damn. Can't access the debugging info the OS core produces when it goes into RTE, because providing access to that is one of the main functions of the OS core. And the whole system is in production, so we can't attach anything to the JTAG interface, not without unplugging a heck of a lot of cables first…
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@GÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL Github deletes SSH keys when they haven't been used for a long time. I learned it in the least pleasant way.
Huh. Well I'll be damned.
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Status: do you ever see a random image and think "this has to be my next WTDWTF avatar"?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: do you ever see a random image and think "this has to be my next WTDWTF avatar"?
Never. ;)
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus That's the language, not the editor. I get the same feature in current Rider.
Also, I wish it was an opt-in error - it's only an opt-in warning.You can treat warnings as errors. I think visual studio even lets you set specific warnings as errors
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Status: Whelp, it has happened. I am now the sole employee of the company.
Maybe I should start a Patreon now?
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Status: Tried Samsung's hypnosis thing so I could forget the plot of The Magicians. It ended by saying that the next time I get a good night of sleep, one of my dreams would cause the memory loss. What followed was possibly the worst night of sleep I've ever had, of a recognizable variety that I usually call 'my brain is fucked and has forgotten what sleep means and how to do it'. Maybe there was a reason that the disclaimer checkbox included 'mentally healthy'.
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Status: went over my keyboard with a vacuum cleaner, which probably contributed about half of the dustbag's capacity. If it were disconnected I might have been more thorough.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I am now the sole employee of the company.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I am now the sole employee of the company.
Well nobody else is getting paid...