The Official Status Thread
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But. Stay off the lawn.
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@heterodox upvoted because RWBY
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status: so our Steam and Oculus integration seem to work perfectly, at least into the main menu and character creator (before you actually go online and connect to a server).
The moment you attempt to actually go online however, it's broken. No connect, can't create port, bs after bs after B freakin S!
We don't want Steam Matchmaking! We don't want epic fail! Just use our shit as if there was no onlinesubsystem activated!
FFS!
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
Security is a landmine, so many details to do it wrong
Agreed. That sort of "intuitive" approach you have to the practicality of attacks is why the mathematicians win every time. If you've got to do it right because you're protecting an actual high-value target, you've got to hire someone. The people with the right skills are literally one in a hundred thousand.
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox upvoted because RWBY
There should be a WTDWTF RWBY group.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: After having been hard stuck on my 5K times between 42:20 and 43:00 for 4 weeks worth of 5Ks (over 6 weeks of time, boo weather and work), my last three times have been 41:50, 40:00, and 40:00. #newstratsop
And a WTDWTF fitness group (actually of those two, this would be the most awesome to see, I think).
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Status: The cow orkers are posting "this is fine" memes into the main chat.
Apparently the disks froze up again.
In other news: Anyone recommend good disk stress test tools that will force lots of head activity?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
lots of head activity
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
good disk stress test tools
Tools for doing it explicitly, I dunno, but databases and Windows Update seem to be pretty good at doing it in practice…
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
so he's never travelled at relativistic speeds or been a black hole? Good to know
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
good disk stress test tools
Tools for doing it explicitly, I dunno, but databases and Windows Update seem to be pretty good at doing it in practice…
Hmm... I don't think I can generate a 6 TB database very quickly, and Windows Update only runs so many times.... :(
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows Update only runs so many times
Fuck with the permissions the service has and it will try to download and install updates every time you restart
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows Update only runs so many times
Fuck with the permissions the service has and it will try to download and install updates every time you restart
Ah, but that would waste bandwidth and doesn't necessarily smash the disk consistently (plus it needs restarting).
I found this, which seems promising:
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status Not going there ...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
doesn't necessarily smash the disk consistently
I was just suggesting it for its ability to peg the HDD I/O on most systems for multiple minutes straight (which is a large part of why WU seems to take ages and renders the rest of the machine unusable).
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Status: doing code reviews
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone recommend good disk stress test tools that will force lots of head activity?
The first that comes to mind :
http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3
Now, if your HD is not a WD, shame on you
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Status XML data type columns for relational data are
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
so he's never travelled at relativistic speeds or been a black hole? Good to know
Although the latter is debatable.
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Status: I found a compiler bug!
src/random.c: In function 'poisson_dist_variate_exp_minus_lambda': src/random.c:324:7: internal compiler error: in gimplify_expr, at gimplify.c:8862 p *= ulrbits(uni_rng(seed_arg));
So it seems that gcc (in the version we're using) can't always change
p *= thing
top = p * thing
, even though it has no good reason for refusing to do so. (This is partially caught up in its handling of fixed-point arithmetic, but I still wouldn't expect this sort of thing to go wrong like this…)What do I win? The need to fix this in my code before my tests pass!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
So it seems that gcc (in the version we're using) can't always change
p *= thing
top = p * thing
, even though it has no good reason for refusing to do so.I always thought compilers just turned the former into the latter before actually compiling it.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
I always thought compilers just turned the former into the latter before actually compiling it.
So did I. So did I. Apparently, gcc does something else. Because shits and giggles I guess.
(I wish I could switch to clang, but that's not as good at other parts of fixed-point handling and this codebase depends on support for
stdfix.h
…)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng Do those circuit breakers say O/0FF?
They also say I/ON too.
Yes. You're both right. They do say O/0FF, and they also say I/ON too.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
doesn't necessarily smash the disk consistently
I was just suggesting it for its ability to peg the HDD I/O on most systems for multiple minutes straight (which is a large part of why WU seems to take ages and renders the rest of the machine unusable).
Yeah, I'd like to pet it for about 38 hours straight, that seems to be the mtbf before I have to power cycle the drives.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone recommend good disk stress test tools that will force lots of head activity?
The first that comes to mind :
http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3
Now, if your HD is not a WD, shame on you
It is! Which is why I'm so confused at the poor performance from a 300 dollar drive.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone recommend good disk stress test tools that will force lots of head activity?
The first that comes to mind :
http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3
Now, if your HD is not a WD, shame on you
What's funny about that software is that all of does is tell the drive to do a SMART test. POS.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What's funny about that software is that all of does is tell the drive to do a SMART test.
You missed an option:
EXTENDED TEST - performs a Full Media Scan to detect bad sectors. Test may take several hours to complete depending on the size of the drive.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What's funny about that software is that all of does is tell the drive to do a SMART test.
You missed an option:
EXTENDED TEST - performs a Full Media Scan to detect bad sectors. Test may take several hours to complete depending on the size of the drive.
Aka SMART Long Test.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, I'd like to pet it for about 38 hours straight
Well then, just copy your whole porn collection on it, twice should do
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, I'd like to pet it for about 38 hours straight
Well then, just copy your whole porn collection on it, twice should do
The problem is, sustained sequential writes work fine for days. It's the heavily random accesses that glitch it out.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the heavily random accesses that glitch it out.
Looks like you'll have to watch random porn for 38 hours straight !!!
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the heavily random accesses that glitch it out.
Looks like you'll have to watch random porn for 38 hours straight !!!
Better use SSDS actually, I hear it has a function for that...
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
He glad it didn't say "on today"?
Um…
dates are hard...
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@dkf perhaps we need to create a FigTime class that can be ported to every major language that is a universal 'doing it right' version.
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Status: Thus far, the disk seems fine.
This is not looking good for my case...
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Status: Just farted.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just farted.
Status: someone on the internet just shared too much information with me.
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Status: 9 days of vacation is just too much. I am ready to be home.
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Status: Oh, Internet, never stop being you...
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Status: Tagged appropriately. Shenanigans.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Tagged appropriately. Shenanigans.
Wow, how did you get pen in there twice?
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@Tsaukpaetra I have pen, I have apple, ungh, I have apple pen...
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While letting the dogs out for their final piss before bedtime, noticed some movement around my food waste bin. Literally hundreds of maggots all around it and crawling out of a small hole in the lid.
So I did what any sensible person would. Soaked the fuckers in bleach, drain cleaner, oven cleaning we and every other nasty chemical I could find. Any that are still moving in the morning will get a repeat dose
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
bleach, drain cleaner, oven cleaning we and every other nasty chemical I could find.
You need to check the chemicals you used. If the bleach is normal sodium hypochlorite and the drain cleaner is acidic, your waste bin is full of toxic chlorine gas now. Or you could be creating other poisons, or soon be burning your house down, or a bunch of other not-so-sensible consequences.