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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a general Java (or at least Java stdlib) convention. A lot of things function like that. First inclusive, last exclusive. It's a pretty well-defined pattern.
Like the fabled standard-standard I'd like a standard-convention...
What?
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, format your code right, silly. Those braces are ugly.
Allman style is the one true style
I don't know what that means, but same-line is incorrect in C# just like next-line is incorrect in Java.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
incorrect
Too strong a word. It's a style violation, not a semantic issue.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Allman style is the one true style
All hail the great Allman! May his wisdom spread through the whole earth, and may his praises be declared in every language on earth!
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't know what that means, but same-line is incorrect in C# just like next-line is incorrect in Java.
Never heard someone say 'one true brace style'? http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/indent-style.html.
I'd say that's just opinion, even if the language developers suggest one. That's why you specify the company style for code and all devs follow it.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
All hail the great Allman! May his wisdom spread through the whole earth, and may his praises be declared in every language on earth!
Heretic.
Just sayin'…
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a general Java (or at least Java stdlib) convention. A lot of things function like that. First inclusive, last exclusive. It's a pretty well-defined pattern.
And certainly something that will bite you if you expect things to work the same if you switch to C#, because in C#-land, it's more commonly a startindex and a count.
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, format your code right, silly. Those braces are ugly.
Yeah, seeing Java formatted like C# will just confuse people.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Lisp style just looks like people were being charged by the line or something.
More commonly, LISP stacks all the endparens, so it seems more the opposite to me.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Lisp style just looks like people were being charged by the line or something.
More commonly, LISP stacks all the endparens, so it seems more the opposite to me.
I'll have to admit here to never seeing any LISP code in the wild, only the style examples which don't do that.
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, seeing Java formatted like C# will just confuse people.
I'll consider it, I just find K&R harder to read. As I'm the only dev on this Android project I just choose the style I like.
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UGHHHHH. *head explodes*
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I'll have to admit here to never seeing any LISP code in the wild, only the style examples which don't do that.
Dunno where you've been looking, but most I see looks like this:
EDIT: Oh look, a transparent background on an image of black text. Nope, can't see any downsides with doing that!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Fly the SR 99 tunnel – from the Space Needle to the stadiums – 02:40— wsdot
Most expensive YouTube video ever? $2.1 billion for the tunnel ($3.1 billion for the whole project), not counting overruns.
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@hardwaregeek Yes. The tunnel was constructed specifically to create that video. Now that the video is on YouTube, the entire thing will be sealed up forever.
You. Dumb. Shit.
Actually what got me thinking about the project is the big earthquake drill we did yesterday, and how I have confidence that everything in Seattle is pretty-damned-earthquake-ready except that horrible Highway 99 viaduct. So I wanted to see how far its replacement had come along. Looks like good progress. Of course they should have broke ground a full decade before they actually did, but it's almost done now.
Also that glass building with the yellow "chimneys" (actually air outlets for the tunnel ventilation system), I didn't know what that building was until now. Pretty cool.
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Status: I am loving the hell out of Instacart since my local Wegmans started using it. I just placed a huge order to replace a bunch of the stuff I had to toss when the old fridge died and scheduled it to be delivered in the hour right after I get home. I won't have to waste an hour or two wandering the aisles looking for things, I won't have to divert myself on the way home to go do the shopping...I spent a little bit of downtime adding items in my order history to my cart, scheduled it, and bam. I will have a fridge restock later today.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
UGHHHHH. *head explodes*
There's something wrong with
pushl $0 pushl %eax call <function> popl %eax addl $4, %esp /* I want to discard this argument */
But I haven't figured out what it is yet. One argument is fine, two makes the world go boom.
It's been too long since I've written anything in assembly.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Is that the tunnel project that's like 5 years behind schedule or something?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: FFS stupid wall switch! I pressed you off so fricken stay off! Don't turn off and then forget a second later and turn back on! WTF!
Malfunctioning Kosher switch?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
what's my death count? 1500? 2000?
Having beaten three bosses and a run and gun, probably 8. I know it will go way up soon.
Most of my deaths were to the final form of the frogs.
Funny, that's how much I've beaten too.
Dean Takahashi, is that you?
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Fly the SR 99 tunnel – from the Space Needle to the stadiums – 02:40— wsdot
Most expensive YouTube video ever? $2.1 billion for the tunnel ($3.1 billion for the whole project), not counting overruns.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
pushl $0 pushl %eax call <function> popl %eax addl $4, %esp /* I want to discard this argument */
I ended up switching the arguments of the function and doing
pushl %eax pushl $0 call <function> popl %eax popl %eax
Which is hacky, but it worked for the four seconds I needed to pass an additional debug argument. I suspect alignment had something to do with why subtracting four bytes from %esp wasn't equivalent to the second pop, but I can't be bothered to look in the manual to see.
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Status: IT LIVES!
Okay, have to do some work with the offset - that should be in the center of the plate. This strange outer circle is probably the fault of the slicer. I also had some beginner's troubles getting the filament properly into the extruder.
But the PLA does let itself detach easily from the hot plate once that's cooled down, while being properly fixed to it while the plate is hot. So no problems on that end.
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Status: Costco sells an advent calendar made for me and people like me.
Day 25 should be a 750ml of liquor to make dealing with in-laws easier.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Day 25 should be a 750ml of liquor to make dealing with in-laws easier.
Day 25 is sold seperately
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: FFS stupid wall switch! I pressed you off so fricken stay off! Don't turn off and then forget a second later and turn back on! WTF!
Malfunctioning Kosher switch?
When you slide the on/off button, you’re moving an isolated piece of plastic. It is purely mechanical, and is not attached to anything electrical (electro-mechanically isolated). This is done at a time when you see a green Status Light, which provides 100% assurance that the relevant components within the switch are inactive.
So... seeing an active component indicates the component is inactive... FFS.
No, this wasn't exactly that, but is a standard PIR motion detector that apparently has only three states (on/off) instead of the normal (on/auto/off).
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@rhywden The outer circle is called a skirt, and it's designed to ensure your extruder is working properly and is fully primed. It's also for helping you detect problems before your actual part starts printing, such as this one: the curlicues mean that your nozzle is slightly too far away from the bed or isn't outputting the right thickness of plastic for its height.
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Ahhh, academia. The first test of any new class is where you find out, if you correct the professor on something (e.g. you actually need to put a call in two places in the Linux kernel to log all system calls, for both the sysenter and int 0x80 variants), whether you will either get extra credit for pointing that out or a 0 for not following the assignment as written. Exciting.
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Also every single time I open any game distributed through Steam I have to download and install a Steam update.
My observation is that there's been a Steam update in every single day of October. Can anyone disprove?
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Also every single time I open any game distributed through Steam I have to download and install a Steam update.
My observation is that there's been a Steam update in every single day of October. Can anyone disprove?
You sure that it's installing updates? I know that I always get a window saying it's checking for updates.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Also every single time I open any game distributed through Steam I have to download and install a Steam update.
My observation is that there's been a Steam update in every single day of October. Can anyone disprove?
I have a similar thing, but I think it's because the shortcut I use runs the updater first (but checking posting/playing)
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Is that the tunnel project that's like 5 years behind schedule or something?
I don't remember just how many years, but yeah, something like that.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You sure that it's installing updates? I know that I always get a window saying it's checking for updates.
Is there a log file that can tell one way or the other? All I know is when I want to open my games I have to wait to wait at least five minutes for...
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You sure that it's installing updates? I know that I always get a window saying it's checking for updates.
Is there a log file that can tell one way or the other? All I know is when I want to open my games I have to wait to wait at least five minutes for...
I have no idea. What does the window say it's doing?
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Status: I've finished Cuphead's third island, with only the last two bosses to go. 92 deaths.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've finished Cuphead's third island, with only the last two bosses to go. 92 deaths.
Status: I still haven't gotten past those GODDAMN FROGS.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Ahhh, academia. The first test of any new class is where you find out, if you correct the professor on something (e.g. you actually need to put a call in two places in the Linux kernel to log all system calls, for both the sysenter and int 0x80 variants), whether you will either get extra credit for pointing that out or a 0 for not following the assignment as written. Exciting.
Security researcher: Here are some XSS vulnerabilities in your website and how to fix them
Large company: YOU ARE BEING SUED FOR HACKING OUR WEBSITE
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@pie_flavor They were the hardest boss on the first island I'm pretty sure. Things pick up when you get the charge gun.
The second island is the hardest one I'd say. Beppi the Clown and the dragon will crush your soul, most likely.
The third island is weird. Some bosses are really hard, like the scientist, but I beat the actress on my first try (I was shocked).
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@ben_lubar Ah, yes. That happened here a few years back.
Student: Hey, principal. I found this security hole in the school site that allows me to view and edit data about any student including grades. You should really patch that up.
Principal: You're suspended for hacking! Also, we're taking you to court and suing you for $five_digit_value!
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Day 25 should be a 750ml of liquor to make dealing with in-laws easier.
I was told the other day about an advent calendar where every day was a small bottle of whiskey, all different. Apparently, some of the days were very indifferent and others were glorious.
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden The outer circle is called a skirt, and it's designed to ensure your extruder is working properly and is fully primed. It's also for helping you detect problems before your actual part starts printing, such as this one: the curlicues mean that your nozzle is slightly too far away from the bed or isn't outputting the right thickness of plastic for its height.
Thanks. It was the z-axis calibration which was part of the problem. That one is solved now (though I may want to install a proper autolevel - probably capacitive - at some point), it's just the y-axis which has a juttering problem moving in the negative direction. Positive flows continuously, negative has minor jutters which of course throws the whole thing a bit off course when printing.
I think the belt drive for the y-axis is a bit loose. Will tighten that up.I now have to wait for new PLA filament anyway - someone at Amazon dropped the ball and packaged my order thus that the delivery service did a "return to sender due to improper packaging".
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've finished Cuphead's third island, with only the last two bosses to go. 92 deaths.
Status: I still haven't gotten past those GODDAMN FROGS.
Frogs aren't easy, but the first two patterns have pretty much no random elements, so the idea is to try until you've memorized them perfectly.
Also remap your controls if you haven't already, the default scheme is downright awful.
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status: went to my first gun show. No loopholes in sight. Spent a bunch of cash.
Plot twist: none of what I bought goes bang. Bought a holster and a bunch of edged items.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Also every single time I open any game distributed through Steam I have to download and install a Steam update.
My observation is that there's been a Steam update in every single day of October. Can anyone disprove?Sounds like your copy of Steam is corrupted. They usually put out an update every 2 weeks or so at most.
Steam has a consistency check, so what it's calling "updates" are probably more like "we think you have the wrong hash of this file so we're reinstalling it".
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Also every single time I open any game distributed through Steam I have to download and install a Steam update.
My observation is that there's been a Steam update in every single day of October. Can anyone disprove?
Are you on the Steam beta? If you don't want daily updates, turn that off in the first page of settings.
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A long time ago my son cracked the screen on his laptop, and what was left slowly deteriorated until it was completely useless without being connected to an external monitor. Recently, something happened and it is stuck in a boot loop before in can send video to the external display port, so we have no idea why it's stuck in the loop.
Anyway, it's old, so we bought a new (refurbished) Dell from Newegg that seemed like a pretty good value for the price. At the same time, I ordered some RAM to max out my desktop, double-checking the part number this time to make sure I got the right thing. Newegg had exactly two sticks from some 3rd-party seller.
Newegg wound up automatically canceling the RAM from my order because the dickweed 3rd-party seller didn't ship it within 72 hours of the order. :( Newegg probably has more RAM of some other brand, but that means have to search and double-, triple-, quadruple- and quintuple-check the specs to get the right thing, instead of just ordering by part number; I didn't do such a great job of reading last time.
The laptop arrived yesterday (after spending >24 hours sitting in a FedEx warehouse 10 minutes from here because it "wasn't due for delivery" yet). Started setting it up this morning. Trying to activate Windows. We have no wired network connection available, and we could not get WiFi to turn on. Click the "switch" on the Control Panel to enable it; it turns off again. It's not in airplane mode. Why don't I see any wireless adapter in Device Manager? After fighting with it for far too long, finally noticed that it's a model that has a mechanical slide switch to disable wireless, and it shipped in the off position. Yay, WiFi works.
Open Edge. Log into the captive WiFi portal. Download Chrome installer. Edge tells me I don't really want to do that, because it's better than Chrome. Close Edge and run installer. "What program do you want to use to open this?" What? It's an exe; just run it. When Edge saved it, it named the file _exe, not .exe. Rename it; run it. Of course, it's not actually Chrome; it has to download the real Chrome executable. Windows reports the estimated download time as varying between 8 minutes and 11 hours!!!, before settling on 2 hours. In the meantime, finally persuade Windows it really can connect to the activation server now that WiFi is working. Sometime much less than 2 hours later, I notice out of the corner of my eye that the download window has been replaced by one telling me how to make Chrome the default browser. Windows asks, "Are you sure you want to do that? Edge is soooo much better." Chrome is now the default browser.
The rest of the setup can wait until my son gets home from work.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows asks, "Are you sure you want to do that? Edge is soooo much better."
You should see what its like trying to use Google products without Chrome! Or with it not as the default browser!
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@magus I know; BDTD, too.
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Status: Got a new Lenovo ideapad 520. Fucking internal speakers are apparently not hooked up. Much wow.
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Status: Also:
Anyone know what kind of information I can glean off of "Retry" ?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
internal speakers are apparently not hooked up
Yup. Opened it up, connector was just left dangling there. Good Quality Control...
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@tsaukpaetra If only someone on this forum could have told you that Lenovo's are shit.
I should revisit that thread and also add that now the fingerprint reader, the one good feature of that shit laptop, has stopped working.