The Official Status Thread
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Probably because it always results in gibberish almost entirely unrelated to the original video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lws0_6d9E_M
True love is in the news that a master trail no PSU!
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Status: Three, a mobile network in the UK, is planning something… fuzzy:
…and that's as much as I know about it
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It'll be a new advert with some kind of animal singing or dancing.
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Probably; doesn't stop them having a countdown on their website like it's some major event or something
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Maybe it'll be like those French fruit juice ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck14LKBI9GM
I wonder if the actors who did their mo-cap knew what it was going to be used for...
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…and that's as much as I know about it
Furries, Big Brother...are you sure there are not any hidden cameras in your home?
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My life's not interesting enough
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The only thing I know about Big Brother is this:
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Status: Went from "I really don't feel like doing this shit" to "Ooooh, this is a cool problem! I think I have a solution, too, I just need to implement... fuck, no time for that!"
Sigh... lame workaround time, putting this on my TODO list. Might get to it in a few years...
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(A picture from Raumpatrouille)
Status: Watched the first 4 (out of 7 total) episodes.
Surprisingly fun to watch.
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Status: Just spent 10 minutes "fixing" a "broken"
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statement before realizing that the problem is I'm checking the array key instead of the value...On Sunday? I think you need a weekend.
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Oh man I thought this was right up my "making fun of shitty sci-fi" alley and I watched the first episode and it's surprisingly good. Although the ending is kind of a deus ex machina. "Oh look the aliens set up a forcefield that saved our lives because the writers couldn't figure out how to get us off the planet."
Except that dance in the seabase bar, that was fucking hilarious.
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Status: This bug is driving me up the wall, across the ceiling, down the other wall, across the floor, then back up the first wall
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Status: Just spent the last 2¼ hours working from home, doing something that is someone else's job because they won't.
I'll be lucky if I can salvage what's left of my weekend to not be miserable come Monday.
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Status: had a family member playtest my game, they found two bugs. Went to the humane society for the weekly volunteering stuff. Came back home, tried to reproduce bugs, but I can't.
The aliens were attacking explosive barrels (which are immune to CRUSH-type damage which is what melee uses) but I tried to reproduce it and the aliens don't even see the barrels when I have a debugger attached.
The other bug was a marine bot running through a fire and then dying in the middle of a big enemy encounter. I can't even figure out why the marine bot would try to path there - my initial thought was that they tried to get through a door that is just there as scenery, but there are no node graph connections from one side of the door to the other.
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Status: Apparently it's my problem that our PM decided to wait until Sunday afternoon to test updates that I was not at all involved with (only the junior dev was) and which broke (not as much a surprise to me, to be honest).
Too fucking bad for him, I'm not at home and won't be for at least an hour and a half, and he can fucking deal with it.
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Apparently it's my problem that our PM decided to wait until Sunday afternoon to test updates that I was not at all involved with (only the junior dev was) and which broke (not as much a surprise to me, to be honest).
Unless he is a fucktard, the problem is his for now and doesn't start to become yours until tomorrow morning when you get to the office.
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Unless he is a fucktard
Given the context, expecting this condition to be false may be unrealistic.
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Should be, but he got the junior dev to remote in and fix his code, so I "needed to" deploy it, so I did. It's overtime pay, I guess, not that it means much to me.
The emails, though... profanity, threatening his job and his pay... I BCC'd my boss when I sent along my only email (to say I deployed, kept the email chain intact) and I very well may forward on the worse email with a tidbit that the piece he was wanting to test was checked in 10 calendar days ago.
As for your comment about him specifically, I've mentioned him before in status updates, so it should be easy to figure that answer.
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It's overtime pay, I guess, not that it means much to me.
Money means fuck-all if you are not happy. Part of being happy is having time to fuck off without work worries.
he emails, though... profanity, threatening his job and his pay...
There is just never any cause for that. Those who resort to that (on a regular basis, we all have shitty days and screw up), are shitty leaders.
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Status: I just rebooted and all my mapped drives are gone. That's...great...
Edit: And my DVD burner stopped working.
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Status: installing Alien Swarm Dedicated Server on a headless Linux machine. Wine was spitting out a bunch of errors about not being able to find the sound card, presumably because it wanted to play a beeping noise over SSH.
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Other fun things about installing the Alien Swarm dedicated server:
- Alien Swarm and its dedicated server share exactly 100% of their files. Meaning the server needs to have all the textures and sounds on its hard drive.
- The list of dedicated servers downloadable without a Steam account does not include Alien Swarm, even though Alien Swarm is free. It does include three separate Left 4 Dead 2 servers, two of which are incompatible with the game you can buy on Steam, however.
- A Steam account can only be logged into from one computer at a time. This means that updating your dedicated server will log you out of Steam on your computer. Additionally, the Alien Swarm dedicated server automatically hooks into Steam when you start it, so you can't play Alien Swarm on the same account that is running the server unless you close the Steam client before you start the server.
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You basically live to play shitty games, don't you?
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This isn't a two-man project like Dwarf Fortress. This is a shitty game made by the company that effectively runs PC gaming.
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Money means fuck-all if you are not happy
Which I've more or less said to my boss. When I took the job, I accepted below my level pay because I'd been unemployed for about 7 months at that point and I was hoping it'd be a job I liked. In the beginning, it was.
I'm still underpaid (I'm now making what I should've been making when I started, or at least a few months after), and the PM and the IT guys harp on about overtime being the way to go (though the head IT guy makes at least twice what I do and the other guy probably is the same pay as I am), but I prefer having my evenings and weekends instead of more money.
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Status:
Updating '.': svn: E235000: In file '/build/buildd/subversion-1.8.8/subversion/libsvn_wc/update_editor.c' line 1550: assertion failed (action == svn_wc_conflict_action_delete) Aborted (core dumped)
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Money means fuck-all if you are not happy. Part of being happy is having time to fuck off without work worries.
QFFT
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is that? tell me it doesn't came from alien swarm server...
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It comes from subversion, which I'm using to download the current version of my Alien Swarm mod and another Alien Swarm mod. Apparently the working copy got fucked during the checkout and now it crashes svn. So I deleted it and it's running again and hopefully it'll behave this time.
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svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/themarvelousdrop/code/trunk/reactivedrop svn co https://github.com/BenLubar/SwarmDirector2/trunk/swarmdirector2
With mine, the DLLs and addons aren't part of the repository, so they have to be downloaded separately.
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Why do you self-censor yourself?
Because it would be pretty hard for him to self-belgium anyone else.
Or for anyone else to self-censor him, pendants.
ORLY? -aliceif
*Bites @aliceif's ankles*
Not self-censoring, is it?
You're banned from the cute things thread now, for rabies.
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Status: Found this on one of our external portals.
To request access to $PORTAL please "click" on register to complete the registration form.
I have no idea why click is in quotes. Clicking it is exactly what you do.
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They make [fanfic] out of everything. Honestly, the only fanfiction I'll give my time is Warhammer High.
Discworld fanfic is pretty good. For a given value of good. Obviously there's a metric Belgium-ton of dross in there, but there's some damned good stuff by damned good writers and a surprisingly low proportion of Mary-Sue drivel (besides parodies of Mary-Sue drivel which are usually pretty funny).
It's not as though original fiction doesn't have a lot of rubbish in it too, it's just that until the self-publishing revolution happened (and/or if you avoid self-published books unless you know the author's good or it was recommended by a friend), you never saw the Sturgeon proportion.
I may have perpetrated a few fanfics myself.
I may have recently started planning some more, in a different fandom.
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The difference would be
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a surprisingly low proportion of Mary-Sue drivel (besides parodies of Mary-Sue drivel which are usually pretty funny).
I suppose there's less of a problem with killing off characters, as that just just gives a chance to put in a cameo by Death?
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Status: It was 5.9℃ when I left home this morning. In June.
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I suppose there's less of a problem with killing off characters, as that just just gives a chance to put in a cameo by Death?
Well, I never realised there was a problem with killing characters in any fanfic, but yes, Death scenes are reasonably popular. Although there's plenty of fics about Death in their own right, frequently when he's off-duty. Including at least one slashfic, IIRC, though I don't recall the other participant and I'm not minded to find out.
Not the most disturbing Discworld slashfic I came across when I was looking through the archives though.
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The latest snippet of wisdom from one off the more senior developers here:
@me said:
I need to know what table this is referencing so I can get all my foreign keys set up
@other dev said:
Oh no, you don't want to be messing around with that
@me said:
with what? Referential integrity?
@other dev said:
Yeah. It's all very well in theory but once you've been in the real world for a while you'll realise it doesn't actually work. Run it without foreign keys for a few years and add them once you're sure the base logic works
@me said:
and deal with the years' worth of data that has snuck in violating the key because the constraint wasn't there in the first place? No, I think I'll use the keys from the start
I think I need to start seriously looking for a new job before the rot here starts infecting me
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I think I need to start seriously looking for a new job before the rot here starts infecting me
I can see where that dev is coming from; properly working out all the relationships between things is potentially a non-trivial piece of effort. OTOH, getting at least some check on the integrity of the data is also a very worthwhile thing, and you might already have most of the information you really need anyway.
Cascading changes are something else.
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Could anyone other than you and Tl4+ tell the difference?
It's visible in edit history, if anyone bothered clicking it.
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Yeah. It's all very well in theory but once you've been in the real world for a while you'll realise it doesn't actually work. Run it without foreign keys for a few years and add them once you're sure the base logic works
Qué?
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The trouble with this place is there's a lot of SQL involved, but they've hired a load of pure C# developers many of whom hate SQL. You can see the attempts to make stored procedures look as much like C# as possible, and it makes baby Jesus crry
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Urgh. Hate it or not, if it's less effort to do something properly now than it is to do it later and also have to fix some other bits... seems the choice is obvious.