The Official Status Thread
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pleasantly surprised bulleted lists work in signatures.
Are tables a pleasant or unpleasant surprise?
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@clatter said in The Official Status Thread:
Are tables a pleasant or unpleasant surprise?
Indifferent.
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@clatter
If the table has a box of bullets on it, and the box is missing a few rounds, that would be an unpleasant surprise.
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Status: My first time being on the other end of a work meeting conference call didn't go as poorly as I expected it to, but the audio quality was still pretty bad.
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Status: The Cox caper has struck again!
Ugh, I still hate how easy it is to get someone's service suspended from a DMCA claim.
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Status:
A colleague had an image attached to one of his Remedy tickets. To get this image into an email, he:
- Opened it in the Office picture viewer
- Hit Print Screen, capturing a screenshot spanning both displays
- Pasted the whole screenshot into an email
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
But they were kind and found me a free slot. Tomorrow. At 0630. Also: It'll be -7 °C outside.
Gah.
Wuss. You can complain when it's more like -17°C outside...
(inb4 @Lorne-Kates comes to tell us how he shovels snow in his knickers when it's -27°C outside...)
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
But they were kind and found me a free slot. Tomorrow. At 0630. Also: It'll be -7 °C outside.
Gah.
Wuss. You can complain when it's more like -17°C outside...
(inb4 @Lorne-Kates comes to tell us how he shovels snow in his knickers when it's -27°C outside...)
I've been to Oulu at -26 °C. :)
Doesn't mean I have to like it ;)
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@clatter said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pleasantly surprised bulleted lists work in signatures.
Are tables a pleasant or unpleasant surprise?
Depends. Are they wooden ones?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
But they were kind and found me a free slot. Tomorrow. At 0630. Also: It'll be -7 °C outside.
Gah.
Wuss. You can complain when it's more like -17°C outside...
(inb4 @Lorne-Kates comes to tell us how he shovels snow in his knickers when it's -27°C outside...)
It's -15°C here now. A few more degrees and the trees will start to tick. ...and a few more days like this and we will have much fewer tics next summer...
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
A few more degrees and the trees will start to tick.
I have no idea what that means, so I'm just imagining them going underground for the winter.
a few more days like this and we will have much fewer tics next summer...
Those vile little blood-sucking critters? Those are ticks.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Also: It'll be -7 °C outside
Don't forget to put sunscreen
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
A few more degrees and the trees will start to tick.
I have no idea what that means, so I'm just imagining them going underground for the winter.
Popping and cracking are perhaps more apt
a few more days like this and we will have much fewer tics next summer...
Those vile little blood-sucking critters? Those are ticks.
Fairy Nuff. Off by a k. Story of my life.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Popping and cracking are perhaps more apt
I figured, but that seemed more boring than the thing my imagination supplied. So I went with the thing my imagination supplied.
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Status: Highly distracted by the fact that the Mafia PIES script doesn't change its ending text block based on whether or not there were, in fact, players found to have committed sins against the holy dessert. My brain might be wishing this was another holiday weekend Friday...
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Status: I nod off at my desk entirely too often for me to ever be able to work for someone else in an office type environment.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
nod off at my desk
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
nod off at my desk
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
1993-09-290
So 1993-09--15, if I'm overflowing that right?
Dates computed using https://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/
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Status: Store page is up! Just need to finish a few things and then we can release!
Reactive Drop Team is listed here on the right: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=795842186
Also, Valve leaked our release date:
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@ben_lubar it says "early 2017"
I read it as "as soon as Ben is done uploading it through his crappy internet connection"
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar it says "early 2017"
I read it as "as soon as Ben is done uploading it through his crappy internet connection"Our release date is set to
2017-02-09T09:00:00-08:00
right now.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
that's close, but no cigar.
I thought the cigar would be for you
E_EXPIRED - TTL exceeded on Bill Clinton joke
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
inb4 @Lorne-Kates comes to tell us how he shovels snow in his knickers
This is a thing I most emphatically do not want to see.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
-08:00
You're not in -08:00 territory. Based on another dev's local time, or Valve's?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
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You're not in -08:00 territory. Based on another dev's local time, or Valve's?
Given that the dev that put that in lives in Ukraine, I'm guessing it's the company that's located in Bellevue, Washington's time zone.
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Status: Attempting to channel Blakeyrat
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@Tsaukpaetra Not enough WHARRGARBL
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Not enough WHARRGARBL
I'll add that to my next commit.
Edit: Credit where credit is due.
edit Edit: Fscking hell replace selected text FFS...
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Status: Just observed something I've never seen before. Usually, if there is more than one copy of an animated emoji on screen, the animations are all synchronized. Was just looking at a post with multiple in it. One, and only one, of the faces was out of sync with the others. Eventually, it caught up with the others (or vice versa), and they continued in sync from then on (at least as long as I continued looking at that post, which wasn't all that long).
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Nothing to do with here: I'm having a lot of fun. It's about somewhere else.
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Status: Minor car repair done. (Actually, this morning, but forgot to post.) I'd have thought that when I spent hundreds of dollars in (probably unnecessary) repairs to pass my smog check a couple of years ago, they'd have replaced the obviously broken part that was almost certainly the cause of the problem, but apparently not (or else it broke again, which is certainly possible; it drove fine of a couple of years).
Went to auto parts store down the street. Guy tapped keys on his computer for a minute, then mumbled, "Sorry, dealer item." Yeah, heard that before. Last time I tried to get parts through the dealer, they never arrived, and I wound up getting them online.
Pulled up website of online store I ordered from last time. Found the part I needed. Oh, I probably ought to replace part B, too, and it's only like $4. Paid extra for shipping so they'd get here by today.
Part A came Wednesday, and part B arrived yesterday. Brake light also burned out, and I had a spare from last time I had to replace one. So take care of both repairs before I go to work this morning.
The necessary repair is the easiest possible repair you could ever need to do on this engine. Pull one end to disconnect; pull other end to disconnect; throw broken part in trash. Pick up new part A; push one end into hole; push other end over connector. Done. It took me longer to find the package of disposable gloves I had to avoid getting my hands greasy than it did to make the repair. Actually, it took a little longer than that, because I couldn't quite figure out what to with part B, which should have attached to part A; turns out I didn't need it because it was included as part of the part A assembly. But for $4, I'm not going to complain too much about buying a part I didn't need.
Now I can accelerate without the engine knocking, and stop at a red light without shifting into neutral to keep the engine from stalling. :) And I can drive 100 miles to have "Christmas" breakfast with my daughter tomorrow morning. (She spent actual Christmas with her boyfriend's family, and due to her work schedule didn't have a chance to get together until New Year's Day, but my car was acting up, and I didn't think it was ok to try to drive it that far.) If only the cheapo OBDII reader I bought actually worked, so that I could reset the check engine light, I'd be all set.
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WPF doesn't have any time controls, just a date one
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
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WPF doesn't have any time controls, just a date one
And I hear it's the ultimate replacement for Windows Forms....
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Status: Yep, Youtube comments are still broken. Can't even handle 3 comments...
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@Tsaukpaetra Was anything of value lost?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Was anything of value lost?
No idea (not my channel), but probably not.
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Status: Just starting to look at the next chunk of our codebase. The new bit is a thousand lines of Python to run a simple TCP server and that's not including any of the interesting parts (the actual valuable algorithms) in other classes. OK, that measure includes quite a few comments, but even so, it's many hundreds of lines longer than it needs to be, despite not handling a whole array of edge cases (and who knows if it is thread-safe or not?)
What's worse is that the serialisation it expresses over the wire is dumb as hell. Having to pass JSON documents containing, among other things, a literal
kwargs
element is just idiotic, and the response returning code also likes to intersperse notifications in the mix so clients have to do a complicated demux… the whole thing makes my teeth itch. I'm guessing I'm going to be ranting about it a lot more over the coming months. :(
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
simple
For some reason that reminds me: Among the things I did this week, I extended a helper class in C++ to make multipart form-data http POST requests.
This so we don't have to encode files in Base64 and insert it into JSON and then decrappify it on the other side.
Reduced several sections of specialized calling code to a few lines of "provide the byte array of a file, or a string value of a parameter, and we'll take care of the rest for you".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Reduced several sections of specialized calling code to a few lines of "provide the byte array of a file, or a string value of a parameter, and we'll take care of the rest for you".
It's always nice when you can do that.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
If only the cheapo OBDII reader I bought actually worked, so that I could reset the check engine light, I'd be all set.
Disconnect the battery for 15 minutes, you'll have the same result.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Disconnect the battery for 15 minutes, you'll have the same result.
True, although if I haven't fixed all the problems, I'd kinda like to be able to find out what issues are left, so I'd still like it to work.
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Status: Watching @Karla live on Twitch
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Please tell me "$4777.74" is not the amount of money this guy earned playing a game with a stupid hat on.
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@Maciejasjmj It looks to me like it might be a figure for the event as a whole.
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@Maciejasjmj Seems that way... two of them playing, each with different numbers...
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@Maciejasjmj
Yeah, it's been aggregate donations this week so far, with the donation incentives to do harder parts of the various games as they play through the series.And Seven (the guy in my screenshot) has had a couple mini-donation wars over keeping the rolling total a palindrome.
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@lolwhat
Well, i mean, we're watching someone else play video games on Twitch. I figured "nerds" was self-explanatory...
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Status: Drinking milk from a wine glass because fcuk convention :D