The Official Status Thread
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Status: Finally got far enough through the most recent Honorverse book that it had started to pick up steam and I got through the end of it. On a related note, it's been a while since I've had a reading session like that, and my spine isn't quite as used to the postures I read in any more. Ow ow ow ow ow.
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Status: spent time constructing my Christmas present.
Total Assembly time: two hours.
Thanks mom!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: watching TASBot play Color a Dinosaur.
Tasbot does Tasblock - Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 - Part 170 – 1:33:17
— Games Done QuickIf you have a free hour, Watch a Video.
If you're not sure if you want to watch it,
They reprogram Super Mario Bros 3 and Mega Man 1 and Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past to run Super Mario 64, Portal 1, and then Skype using only controller inputs.
Gameplays start at
30:00 - Galaga
31:39 - Gradius
46:49 - Super Mario Brothers 3
49:15 - Mega Man 1
52:15 - Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
55:55 - Super Mario 64
1:01:10 - Portal
1:10:56 - Skype
1:15:24 - How they set up stuff to get Skype to work
1:21:47 - Color a dinosaur
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Status: Yes, that information is copied directly from the game. No, they didn't make any typos. Wildcat's family simply died 2 years after the game about the elite marine unit she transferred into after her family's death takes place.
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STATUS:
Back from vacation.
Playing the game "who did this shit!??" all morning.It's lunchtime, and I already need a new vacation.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
It's lunchtime, and I already need a new vacation.
QFT
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Status: Awwww crap. We've got two independently-developed Python libraries to do virtually the same thing. One is Python as written by smartass dickheads who never saw a complicated technique that they didn't want to (ab)use. The other is Python as written by Java programmers. We really don't want to have to maintain both.
I'm not sure I want to maintain eitherโฆ
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Awwww crap. We've got two independently-developed Python libraries to do virtually the same thing. One is Python as written by smartass dickheads who never saw a complicated technique that they didn't want to (ab)use. The other is Python as written by Java programmers. We really don't want to have to maintain both.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
They reprogram Super Mario Bros 3 and Mega Man 1 and Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past to run Super Mario 64, Portal 1, and then Skype using only controller inputs.
I literally have no idea what this sentence is supposed to mean. Some games are somehow playing other games? Did they put AI in Super Mario Brothers 3? Who are they talking to on Skype? If they're using controller ports, does that mean the games that are running the other games are putputting data through the controller ports?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Awwww crap. We've got two independently-developed Python libraries to do virtually the same thing. One is Python as written by smartass dickheads who never saw a complicated technique that they didn't want to (ab)use. The other is Python as written by Java programmers. We really don't want to have to maintain both.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
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STATUS I think I might take up drinking at my desk on Mondays. This is usually a Friday activity but I think I need a Monday pick me up these days... also the coffee machine is broken. I may be just dehydrated.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
They reprogram Super Mario Bros 3 and Mega Man 1 and Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past to run Super Mario 64, Portal 1, and then Skype using only controller inputs.
I literally have no idea what this sentence is supposed to mean. Some games are somehow playing other games? Did they put AI in Super Mario Brothers 3? Who are they talking to on Skype? If they're using controller ports, does that mean the games that are running the other games are putputting data through the controller ports?
His description was faulty.
They managed to
- exploit super mario bros. 3 and zelda to run arbitrary code that can be sent over the controller inputs
- use that to load an audio player into the NES' RAM and a video player into the SNES' RAM
- these programs read audio / video data from the controller inputs which is sent in a specially-coded format from TASBot, which receives its commands from the laptop of the guy on the right of the couch
- that laptop is where the Super Mario 64 and Portal runs are played (might be video, might be running on an emulator)
- Skype also runs on this laptop
- The people they Skype with are from the speedrunning(?) community
- Yes, twitch chat shenanigans are also done by this laptop, not the consoles.
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@aliceif that makes a lot more sense, thanks. So the Mario 64, Portal and Skype stuff is completely unrelated to what they're doing with Mario and Zelda?
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STATUS:
Doing code review for a contractor's code.
For every critique, add 10 minutes of arguing what he was told, whether he was given enough time, whether this is a "bug" or I merely don't like how he factored it...
Representative quote: "I was told there are bugs. These are not bugs. It's just bad code".
The conclusion is, isolate his shit like a tumor into its own service and use it like that until we can refactor.
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@Jaloopa
It's TASbot. By definition, everything they're doing is completely unrelated to what they said they were going to do, and also completely unrelated to any time limits theoretically imposed on them by the mere mortals that are running the schedule for the convention they're at.(I suppose they're a fairly popular block, or they wouldn't keep getting Saturday early afternoon at GDQs. But I'm super tired of their schtick because it's always the same damn joke, overdone in 4 or 6 games when it could have been done in just one 10 minute demonstration, plus the aforementioned problems they have with adhering to their schedule. So put me in camp #terminateTASbot)
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Status: Five hours.
Five name-of-that-Austrian-town-everyone-steals-the-sign-for hours.
All because a NuGet package didn't bother including a dependency.
I want to find the person responsible, and shoot them with a thousand of these simultaneously:
Then force them to include the dependency.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
So put me in camp #terminateTASbot
If you want, you can have the Nerf guns from this post when I'm done with them ;)
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@RaceProUK
[RIP 0nyxheart][Sponsored by Sega] HOW 2 DRAW SANIC HEGEHOG [[sonic frontiers hidden character!!!]] – 02:17
— Viddi O games
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa
It's TASbot. By definition, everything they're doing is completely unrelated to what they said they were going to do, and also completely unrelated to any time limits theoretically imposed on them by the mere mortals that are running the schedule for the convention they're at.(I suppose they're a fairly popular block, or they wouldn't keep getting Saturday early afternoon at GDQs. But I'm super tired of their schtick because it's always the same damn joke, overdone in 4 or 6 games when it could have been done in just one 10 minute demonstration, plus the aforementioned problems they have with adhering to their schedule. So put me in camp #terminateTASbot)
You do realise that makes no sense if you don't already know about TASbot, right?
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@Jaloopa
Well, given that they tailor their segments to people who are already all about their product, they don't really appear to care much about the poor outsiders either.A Tool Assisted Speedrun (TAS) is a term used to refer to using a set of scripts or other programming methodology to execute a video game as quickly as physically possible, usually by exploiting "bugs" that are only accessible by inputting specific command sequences faster than humanly possible (basically Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right A B Start Select, but on steroids). TASbot is a group of people who have gained notoriety in the speedrunning community for taking the concept to another level and finding ways to hack (mostly older) games into doing something completely different, such as this year's exhibition where they turned a couple popular old games into audio and video players. Previous exploits include "Pokemon plays Twitch" (loading and executing a very basic IRC client in the memory space of a Pokemon Red/Blue cartridge), "Super Mario World Maker" (basically getting Super Mario Maker type functionality on a Super Mario World cartridge, which was probably the least memey thing they've done in the past 2 years), and a host of other things.
My usual complaint is that, rather than restricting them to their one big memey ACE exploit, the GDQ staff also let them sign up for like 4 or 5 other "games", some of which they do occasionally complete quickly - and then only allocate them an hour, when they always take at least two. And the TASbot staff (deliberately, I suspect) always put the big memey exploit last, so they've never gotten the hook for running severely over.
Edit: I suppose you could say they've found an Arbitrary Schedule Execution exploit in the GDQ staff
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
You do realise that makes no sense if you don't already know about TASbot, right?
It makes more sense than the original post about them did. Though that's not saying much.
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Just for shits and giggles I pulled out the kitchen scale.
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus - 153 grams
ZeroLemon battery case - 219 grams
Combined weight - 372 gramsThink about all the calories in a lithium battery!
Way more than you would think. Also, more than the Manhattan Project thought:
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
BTW, I have not had coffee today. Take all of these numbers with a big lump of salt.
Still didn't ran out of Vodka and Jack Daniel
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Still didn't ran out of Vodka and Jack Daniel
Said who? :P
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@dkf Create the perfect library by randomly picking methods from each.
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statusFromThePastus
On Friday, did the tech interview for a junior position; front-end designer. She'd already passed tests for design skills, seemed a good fit for the team. I wanted to ensure she had at least fundamentals of using the tools, so she could do the job instead of being taught how to use tools.
Set up a css/js/html test. Gave her a page on the site, added a custom .css and custom .js file. Tasks were:
- Hide some shit behind a hamburger menu
- position some shit to the right
- Add a lightbox popup on click
- Do something css-only responsive design, but test did not include words "responsive design" or "media query".
She immediately started by opening Chrome dev tools and exploring the page. For me, the fact that she even knew to press F12 instantly passed the test. There have been some-- ah-- unfortunate hires in the past who, well, I'll leave it at that.
So she knew how to F12, how to use console.log for debugging (as opposed to alert)-- also knew to debug css by changing background color (which doesn't effect flow in any way), and good resources on the Internet to look how "how to do something". Also knew what "responsive design" and "media query" was without being told.
Passed with flying colors.
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Status: Wondering where the is in @Lorne-Kates's post
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@RaceProUK the WTF is that apparently Canadian job market is so bad that knowing what dev tools are is enough to pass @Lorne-Kates' test.
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@Maciejasjmj OMG! I just hacked into wtdwtf!! I can see all the code... Where should I report this bug?!!?
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@RaceProUK hasn't he said somewhere that we should assume he is always trolling, unless otherwise specified...
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@Mikael_Svahnberg There are people here that don't troll?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering where the is in @Lorne-Kates's post
I've highlighted it for you.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK the WTF is that apparently Canadian job market is so bad that knowing what dev tools are is enough to pass @Lorne-Kates' test.
The is that if I hadn't piped in that "we should do a technical test"-- and whipped one up less that 24 hours before the interview-- that technical test would have been done entirely in photoshop.
If a front-end designer's only technical experience is Photoshop, and they don't understand how css works or what is possible in HTML, I don't want them giving designs to my developers.
So it's a that was averted by hiring someone competent. I know, I know-- it feels weird.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
@Maciejasjmj Where should I report this bug?!!?
I always found that one amusing because if there were something that Chrome exploited to be able to see all the codez, then they certainly should not put rules against using it for dev work and testing. There should be rules that explicitly say that is the one to use.
But nah, some people are like ostriches.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
might be video
I'm pretty sure the Portal one was a video:
Portal TAS in 5:13 – 07:28
— SourceRunsThere were no loading screens, so it's unlikely that it was inputs sent to the game or a game state recording (Source engine calls that a demo).
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Status : landscape scrolling works.
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status: I think I upset Google. Tried a search, and...
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Status: Not expecting this at the bottom of an article about the Switch:
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Status: The problem with driving a car with low bumpers is that a routine fender bender is gonna bend a hell of a lot more than just your fender. Next car I get is gonna have higher bumpers
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status WTF is this - home remodeling season? I've gotten at least 6 calls in the last 2 days from contractors/etc.
Hi, I'm from Home Remod...
Sorry, not interested. Take me off your list. <click/>
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Status: Watching a streamer play Tattletail.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Not expecting this at the bottom of an article about the Switch
Seems some advertise company thinks you are in the market for some toys
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Status: My task for this milestone is to create AI. Practically.
Essentially, we're going to be sending audio streams up to a certain website that does intelligent speech recognition to get text back, determine if it's something the game can handle or otherwise hand it back to the website for processing, then have it speak the response back, and pass that back to the user.
Only complicated part will be decoding opus-encoded packets into 16 bit signed 16 khz mono raw wave data, stream it to an HTTP endpoint, do magic, and then the reverse (OMG I just realized I have to invoke Black Magic now!!!).
Think I can do this in a week?
We'll see!!!!!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
16 khz mono raw wave data, stream it to an HTTP endpoint,
There's quite a bit of research and tools for SpokenWeb that may be of
hinderancehelp to you...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status WTF is this - home remodeling season? I've gotten at least 6 calls in the last 2 days from contractors/etc.
Hi, I'm from Home Remod...
Sorry, not interested. Take me off your list. <click/>Boring. Have some fun. Play along for a bit, then start dropping hints that your home really needs a remodel. It's a bit unusual but you've been getting bored with all the yellow paint and the metal. Your canvas is getting some holes in it so you could do with a new one. Yes, I do live in a skip. Do you think you can help me?
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