The Official Status Thread
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Status: I need to find out what I want to do with VR, or else I'll end up just playing insane amounts of minecraft.
I quit yesterday when I heard the groaning of a zombie in the distance, because I did NOT want to encounter one when I'm alone in a dark cave with no weapons, and it's bigger than I am.
Way more unsettling than that sound normally is.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Google still hasn't sent me a single survey.
They did, it's stuck somewhere in Milwaukee PC's network
I'm sure that the system operators will put it into their punchcard reader eventually...
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Status: I have been tasked with breaking our product in every conceivable way. My first test broke the system so badly that we can't use the user I was testing with for anything, and I was just testing a completely normal usage scenario we have* to support.
I can't even test more scenarios, because doing something normal killed it so thoroughly.
* Look Ma, no GUID!
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
it's bigger than I am.
Just get a stool to sit on instead of a normal chair.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
it's bigger than I am.
When it reaches that point it's probably a good idea to layoff the Throbb..... unless you.... well even then it's probably still a good idea.....
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I made a little drone thing in UE4! In Blueprints! Holy crap this is ugly, I can't wait until I put it into a normal C++ class...
I made it even uglier!
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Status: Wondering what the max FPS I can run Dwarf Fortress at is, limited only by the laws of thermodynamics.
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@ben_lubar Probably 3
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Cars don't run over people, people run over people.
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navigator.sendBeacon
This method addresses the needs of analytics and diagnostics code ...Thanks for the warning. To disable this misfeature, set in about:config:
beacon.enabled = false
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@adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
Thanks for the warning. To disable this misfeature, set in about:config:
beacon.enabled = falseYet another reason my secret sauce is superior.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Yet another reason my secret sauce is superior.
Yes, but we can hope it will break in a new release :)
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@adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
beacon.enabled = false
I first read that as "bacon.enabled = false". ERROR: bacon.enabled must always be true!
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Status: Apparently "SourceForge Deals" looks like "Hair" to Intuit.
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@tsaukpaetra You gave $51.96 to source forge?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra You gave $51.96 to source forge?
No, not SourceForge. SourceForge Deals. I bought one of those Bluetooth tracker fobs (set of three) for my sister who loses her stuff literally constantly.
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Status: Holy crap, I just discovered you can screen record on (my) Android pressing Power+VolumeUp (in contrast with Power+VolumeDn, which takes a screenshot).
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
No, not SourceForge. SourceForge Deals.
I'm still judging you.
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Status: I don't have this feature. It just turned my volume all the way up and popped up the power menu simultaneously.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I don't have this feature. It just turned my volume all the way up and popped up the power menu simultaneously.
+1 for custom ROMs then..
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Status: Omelettes, bacon and cheese omelettes with 2-year-old imported cheddar.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
iwas planning on using salt water, a supersaturated solution at that.
Cup noodles is pretty salty.
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Status: saw a Waymo car inching its way across a railroad crossing. Heh.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
No, not SourceForge. SourceForge Deals.
I'm still judging you.
So far I haven't been disappointed.
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STATUS: This hotel room has poorer wireless reception than I assume the nuclear attack protected bunker nearby would have. 1 bar of 3G. Forum loads like Iโm on Milwaukee PC. You ask why Iโm not connected to the hotel wifi that got an access point like 10m down the hall from my room? Well, I did and my iPad considers the signal strength to be so poor it wont even try to connect to it anymore. Earlier it kept connecting and disconnecting. So, yeah...
Also, thereโs some fun weather tonight! -7C outside and fog. All trees are covered in a layer of frost. Quite pretty! (No snow yet, though.)
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@atazhaia Well, obviously, how else do you expect them to get their usage statistics? Making HTTP requests is hard.
Actually, maybe they use it to set a cookie so that they'll know when you come back to the website.Maybe it's checking that the version you just installed was the latest version.
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Status: Sad. I transferred a test build I made that had my drone into it onto my PC at home.
Apparently it didn't cook something or another.
Apparently missing asset variables is a fatal error.
Could you imagine if the whole damn website broke and wouldn't load just because someone left out the
size
attribute on animg
tag?WTF.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I don't have this feature. It just turned my volume all the way up and popped up the power menu simultaneously.
That's what happens 80% of the time I take a screenshot
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Leila and I are in a hotel room at the motel 6 near Burlington VT.
If we are never heard from again, we froze to death because the god-damned heater doesn't work and the temperature is single digits
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
motel 6 near Burlington VT
I'll add that to my list of places not to go for a romantic getaway.
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@hardwaregeek Actually it'd be a great place for that. Just pick a hotel that isn't shit.
There's a Hampton Inn down the street.
And if this were a romantic getaway, two bodies under one set of covers would be plenty to keep it warm.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Celsius or Fahrenheit?
What number base?
Side note: can you have a number base that's irrational? I'd love to have base e
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@benjamin-hall I don't see why not? But I doubt non-integer bases have any non-esoteric use.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall I don't see why not? But I doubt non-integer bases have any non-esoteric use.
You do know what mathematicians call useful math, right? Engineering.
Status: trying online dating again. Wishing I could have someone else write my profile.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Celsius or Fahrenheit?
What number base?
Side note: can you have a number base that's irrational? I'd love to have base e
Yes. But don't ask me how, I still don't know. It actually came up in the semester's end exam for "Mathematics for Chemists" I had to take during my lectures.
Due to the fact that I already had taken such courses for my physics studies (and the topics covered therein were quite a bit more advanced than in that course) I had previously taken a look at the syllabus and decided that actually visiting the lectures would be a waste of my time and only taking the final exam would be sufficient.
Turns out that yes, my decision was correct. The exam consisted of very simple questions: Use this formula to get that result, do some derivations, build a simple integral, convert base-10 into base-2.
I got everything right, except for: "Convert the number 8 from base-10 into base-e". Never had done something like that, hadn't even considered it.
And, not surprisingly, never ran across this task again. I'm still not even sure what the use-case would be?
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@rhywden abusing google a bit, I get bored at https://www.google.nl/search?q=e^2%2Be^-1%2Be^-2%2B2e^-3, which tells me 100.112e=7.99210
edit: Wolfram alpha to the rescue. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=8+in+base+e says 100.1120101111
Since e is transcendental, I doubt that expansion terminates or repeats at any point.
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My cat is enumerating all corners of the room in order to sit in them and stare at the wall for a while.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Side note: can you have a number base that's irrational? I'd love to have base e
Yes! However, most people are likely to find base โ2 to be less brain-bending as that's merely irrational and not transcendental.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: feeling somewhat nostalgic...I just re-stumbled upon the almost-comic thing that has the character my mental avatar got their looks from.
And what's that?
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Today is Sunday. Betcha that won't be happening.
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@dreikin Could be. There are a number of "last-mile" carriers that deliver on Sunday. Don't know if USPS uses them though.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin Could be. There are a number of "last-mile" carriers that deliver on Sunday. Don't know if USPS uses them though.
USPS now delivers on Sunday. They u turned from talking about discontinuing Saturday to Amazon literally paying for them to operate parcel delivery on Sunday
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Status: Watching the fam play Minecraft on Xbox 360. The framerate is atrocious...
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Status: If I'm on mobile and I'm spoofing a desktop user-agent don't keep showing me your craptacular mobile website, for the love of god.
I assume it's sniffing the screen size or something. I know what the designers were sniffing, glue. It's impossible to navigate, the parametric table that should be showing 700 product lines is showing 90% of the screen as a filter list and then one visible product per swipe down. Arrrggh.
Edit: In fact don't have a mobile website at all, they should all be banned for being universally terrible. Maybe make a App if you're feeling fruity, but don't inflict shambling zombies of your proper site on customers. If anyone complains just tell them it's their fault for not buying a phablet.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Watching the fam play Minecraft on Xbox 360. The framerate is atrocious...
I was trying to track down some lag spikes on Sky Factory the other day, pulled up F3 and noticed my FPS wasn't going above 25-30... that seemed really atrocious. Installed OptiFine, checked out the meter, noted a lot of the lag was GC, tweaked memory, lag spikes seemed to get better (may have been autosave interval as well) but FPS didn't increase.
An embarrassingly long time later I realized I still had my monitor set on 24 Hz from when I was watching a Blu-Ray. Set it to 60 Hz and my FPS shot right up to match. What a STUPID and obvious red herring.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
had my monitor set on 24 Hz
That's... Huh, didn't know you could still do that. Usually that's buried behind an "Advanced Settings" dialog box....
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Status: Played with my drone I've been talking about.