The Official Status Thread
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@lucas1 Our train personell seems to have developed a healthy sense of humor. Yes. In Germany. I know, it's shocking.
Here are some things you were able to hear last week:
Dear passengers, this is not a kidnapping. We just have a tiny problem regarding the door motor circuits.
Bad news: We are 11 minutes late. Good news: Your connections are even later.
The train is breaking hard several times A conductor goes to the front: "Maybe I should take the whisky bottle away from him."
We are five minutes early. So, in order to restore your confidence in the Deutsche Bundesbahn, I'm offering to keep the doors closed for another ten minutes.
Those become even funnier when you consider that they were perfectly serious remarks rather than intentionally humorous statements... ;)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: huh, Wikipedia is doing their "if everyone gave a dollar" campaign again...
I got a Personal Email from Larry to {first_name}.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Our train personell seems to have developed a healthy sense of humor. Yes. In Germany. I know, it's shocking.
Maybe they just got back from a vacation where they were on Southwest Airlines...
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@Rhywden We continue having political / environmental / budgetary fights over getting something like that. If it happens in my lifetime, I'll die of surprise.
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@heterodox I'd use a different statistic then... X^2 is a good test, but you're clearly counting the wrong things.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
stupid again ate something he was not supposed to
Good luck!
s are really good at that... My boy's been in to the vet twice after finding joints at hotels we've stayed at. (No, it was not funny. It was scary as hell.) And once after eating a long strand of fleece. Thankfully, that's not nearly as bad as a friend's dog - they seem to average 1 or 2 major incidents a year. Including an entire bottle of Rimadyl.
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For complicated reasons β some of which have to do with rural poverty, some of which have to do with the basic physics of supporting infrastructure in low-density regions β a disproportionate amount of per capita federal spending and benefits now flow down to the low-density states. According to a study by the Tax Foundation conducted several years ago, for every dollar New Jersey pays in federal taxes, it receives 61 cents in benefits and other federal spending. For the same dollar of taxes Wyoming spends, it gets $1.11 back.
Put those two trends together and you have a grievance worthy of the original Tea Party: more taxation with less representation. The urban states are subsidizing the rural states, and yet somehow in return, the rural states get more power at the voting booth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/why-blue-states-are-the-real-tea-party.html
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
It has probably been over a year, at least, that any of my personal machines have run spinning rust. It feels like my mouse is malfunctioning. The cursor randomly stops moving. Programs feel like they are hung. The lag is super annoying.
How did we deal with this all the time?"did"?
My desktop - ie, my main computer - doesn't even support OS drives over 2 TB because BIOS. So I have a 3 TB HDD OS drive that I can't see a third of without a special driver. :(
And yeah, it does all of that - occasionally. If it's happening frequently, on a new machine you just built, I'd be worried and start checking stuff (like plugging the mouse in a different port and trying a different mouse).My new laptop with a 1TB NVMe SSD, however:
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@Dreikin well, it is not a huge issue as of right now. Plus, it was doing that while copying everything over from the SSD. So I was likely saturating a few things on the hardware level. Now that I have everything copied over, it is running reasonably well.
A compile earlier seemed to take a lot longer. Some of that was likely placebo effect of some sort. I switched to my laptop for now, just because the little lags here and there were getting annoying.
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
My desktop - ie, my main computer - doesn't even support OS drives over 2 TB because BIOS. So I have a 3 TB HDD OS drive that I can't see a third of without a special driver.
How old is that machine?
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
My desktop - ie, my main computer - doesn't even support OS drives over 2 TB because BIOS. So I have a 3 TB HDD OS drive that I can't see a third of without a special driver.
How old is that machine?
Receipt says... 2011-12-01
Dell XPS 8300 (I was lazy and didn't take the time to build my own. I have paid for it.)
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Dell XPS 8300
Nifty. I used to have a few of those. One of them was my dedicated Linux development rig for a while until I replaced it a few months ago.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Dell XPS 8300
Nifty. I used to have a few of those. One of them was my dedicated Linux development rig for a while until I replaced it a few months ago.
It's served me pretty well so far. The "I have paid for it" part refers to little things where I've pushed it's boundaries in inconvenient ways. Can't have larger than 2 TB OS drive. Can't have more than 32 GB RAM. Only two USB 3.0 ports. Very limited amount of internal HDD space/ports. Noisy AF because I really need to dust it and probably replace a fan or two.
Most of these are all really only problems because I've had common (for me but not in general) cases where I need to deal with a lot of data quickly, or hold a lot of stuff in memory (mostly digital media stuff like large photo composites or transcoding large batches of music or video).
I think the only actual hardware problem I've had so far is a drive dying after a good amount of use (that's how I came to have an unsupportedly large drive for my OS), and it will probably become a server of some sort after I build a new one.
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Ugh there is still not a single decent driver for the Wiimote on Windows.
Looks like I'm either buying an Xbox controller or learning how to develop XInput if I want to play Nintendo 64 games.
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@anonymous234 You can buy a USB controller that mimics the N64's. It works pretty well.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ugh there is still not a single decent driver for the Wiimote on Windows.
Linux to the rescue:
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@anonymous234 Just port libogc duh. /s
Also TIL The Homebrew Channel has been open sourced!
Edit: Apparently the wiiuse library in libogc is compatible with at least Vista.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Xbox controller
Yuck.
Sony's Dualshock 3 and 4 are also compatible with PC.
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@aliceif I prefer the XBox 360 and XBone pads, mostly because they fit my big hands easier. The DualShocks I think fit better in smaller hands.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif I prefer the XBox 360 and XBone pads, mostly because they fit my big hands easier.
You have REALLY big hands.
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Waching MILO getting his hair done on facebook. Why am I watching this?
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@Tsaukpaetra If they had a dollar for every time someone gave a dollar...
Wait
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
My desktop - ie, my main computer - doesn't even support OS drives over 2 TB because BIOS
Goddamn it, man, stop using such an old OS.
SAID LORNE KATES TO YOU
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@RaceProUK The d-pad sucks on xbox controllers so for older games that use the dpad a lot it doesn't work to well.
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just had long meeting today that is normally on Thursdays so now it's late and I feel tomorrow should be Friday but it isn't there's the rest of the goddamn week and my vacation is still not here yet.
fuuuuuuu
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Apparently the wiiuse library in libogc is compatible with at least Vista.
Reading the wiimote is not the problem. The problem is feeding those button events back to the program you want. In particular, the Mupen64 emulator, which seems to use SDL as its input library. Ideally, you'd just expose a Xinput controller, which seems to be the standard API on Windows, and have a GUI to map buttons somewhere, and it would Just Workβ’.
Actually Mupen64 does see a controller, but it doesn't do anything
I just tried Xubuntu. The wiimote connects natively and the d-pad maps to the keyboard arrow keys. But the rest of the buttons don't do anything, and what I really want is the analog stick.
According to the package manager there's no wiimote library installed whatsoever, and the bluetooth manager doesn't seem to acknowledge it either, so who is even doing the key mapping here? The bluetooth daemon, the GUI program, a kernel module, the Xorg input driver? Who knows!
That's the problem with Linux systems - there's no "global plan", so it's never clear which part is supposed to handle which jobs. They just kinda hand the job to whoever wants to take it.
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@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox I'd use a different statistic then... X^2 is a good test, but you're clearly counting the wrong things.
Jesus, man. If you're replying to a post 2000 back, you really should quote that shit
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
They just kinda hand the job to whoever wants to take it.
You could volunteer
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Have not been programming for about a month.
Got a second baby son.
Now I have Irish twins.
Now I'm a stay-at-home dad because my wife is American and for my wife to invite me to the U.S., she needs to make 125% of the Federal Poverty Guideline.Now I'm wiping two poopy arses everyday.
She's working at a bakery making peanuts(especially when converted from KRW to USD) since this is South Korea.
Meanwhile her best friend who is a Mexican American and works at McDonald's is wiling to sign on the affidavit of support although he's income is not enough to meet the required amount.
What else did I miss to write?
P.S. My French friend got to invite his Korean wife without any requirements. He was astonished at the barbaric idea of even requiring money to allow a citizen's spouse.
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Volunteer to be a Linux component? I'm not sure if I'll be fast enough. Maybe leave the job to computers for now.
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Status: searching for static analysis tools for our JS stack,
a Wild @Yamikuronue blog appeared!
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@Jarry It's Super Effective!
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aaaah...... shit....
there goes my plans for that week....
also, really? $25 as a "witness fee and mileage"?! my time is worth WAY more than that, and i'm being called as a witness for the plantif not the defendant! </grump>
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: searching for static analysis tools for our JS stack,
a Wild @Yamikuronue blog appeared!
let me know what you find, because i'm always looking for new tools and you might find a solution i havent heard of.
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Status: an unknown potential physical trouble detected in front right wheel Assembly.
Is it normal for the steering wheel to forcibly wobble randomly?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Is it normal for the steering wheel to forcibly wobble randomly?
Nope. With luck, it's just a wheel weight's fallen off, otherwise you may be looking at a sizeable repair bill.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Is it normal for the steering wheel to forcibly wobble randomly?
Nope. With luck, it's just a wheel weight's fallen off
Or some other weight stuck to it, like snow or ice
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Is it normal for the steering wheel to forcibly wobble randomly?
Nope. With luck, it's just a wheel weight's fallen off, otherwise you may be looking at a sizeable repair bill.
No, it's definitely not a wheel weight. I can sorta influence whether it's wobbly by how I make turns, which is what clued me in on the problem.
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@accalia You've been summoned to Florida?
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@Tsaukpaetra Sounds suspensiony. I'd get it checked ASAP.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia You've been summoned to Florida?
nah, West Bath actually, but i didn't feel like photoshopping after i spent only 2 seconds googling for some clipart.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Sounds suspensiony. I'd get it checked ASAP.
Now to allocate time for that...
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
My desktop - ie, my main computer - doesn't even support OS drives over 2 TB because BIOS
Goddamn it, man, stop using such an old OS.
SAID LORNE KATES TO YOU
Hardware/BIOS limitation, not OS. Windows can see it's there, it just can't do anything with it without a special driver that allows the computer to pretend it's another device.
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@accalia It's ok. It'll balance out when you owe $200 for court costs when you get a ticket with a $10 fine.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia It's ok. It'll balance out when you owe $200 for court costs when you get a ticket with a $10 fine.
then why would i have gotten a witness fee?
nah mate, this is a summons for "State Farm v. XXXXXX X XXXXXX" in the matter of XXXXXX being deemed at fault and uninsured for a crash that totaled my Taurus (also XXXXXX's Audi A8) six years ago
i'm just a witness for the prosecution. I expect the day to be boring indeed.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Xbox controller
Yuck.
Sony's Dualshock 3 and 4 are also compatible with PC.I have both a 360 controller and a DS4, and 360 feels somewhat more sturdy and heavier. To me it's a plus.
The triggers are also far superior, and the left stick position is more natural for twin-stick games (but very annoying for D-pad and face buttons retro controls). Other than that, they seem rather comparable.
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@accalia I meant sometime vaguely in the future