The Official Status Thread
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Status: just got out of the psychology test. I went into it with 15 extra credit points. The test had 75 single-point questions and was graded out of 60. A third of the questions could be solved just with experience interacting with people, and another third by simply knowing what certain words mean. I wonder if I passed.
Secondary status: Have they turned the sensitivity on the sidebar up? Because I managed to open either the chats menu or the sidebar at least twenty times trying to tap the scroll to bottom button, and eventually gave up and enabled the mouse pointer. And spacebar dragging was invaluable while writing this.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Secondary status: Have they turned the sensitivity on the sidebar up? Because I managed to open either the chats menu or the sidebar at least twenty times trying to tap the scroll to bottom button, and eventually gave up and enabled the mouse pointer. And spacebar dragging was invaluable while writing this.
I did notice that.
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@tsaukpaetra NodeBB: Where you can tap the sidebar to open the chats and vice versa. What the fuck happened to only being able to swipe from the edge? Makes me feel bad for the people using mobile browsers that don't have mouse pointers.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
A third of the questions could be solved just with experience interacting with people
IOW, a third of the answers was "IDIOT" ?
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@pie_flavor And then on Windows Phone, where swiping like that changes your tab, it was TERRIBLE. I haven't tried using this monstrosity from my phone in months, because it was awful.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat God. Wheatley was so fucking annoying. About on the level of Jar Jar Binks. Even the other personality cores were nice, but Wheatley ruined the experience.
Cave Johnson saved it, though. I played custom levels just so I could hear more of his ridiculousness at the beginning of them. Chariots!
I'm in Space! Space. Spaaaaaaaaace!
Hey!
Hey. Hey!
space
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
where swiping like that changes your tab
what?!? I understand swiping the addressbar while not selected doing that, but anywhere along the side of the screen? Isn't that supposed to bring up Charms or something?
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@tsaukpaetra What are you talking about? The Charms bar was never in Windows Phone. What I'm saying is that Edge on Windows 10 Mobile uses swiping right to go back, and left to change tabs.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat Likely because it grabs the lower-quality file to start playback immediately while it buffers the higher-quality one, and then it's either over or it forgets to make the switch.
It plays the sound through the headphones or else it gets the hose again.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
The Charms bar was never in Windows Phone.
Isn't that one of these establishments that sells breakfast cereals?
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra What are you talking about? The Charms bar was never in Windows Phone. What I'm saying is that Edge on Windows 10 Mobile uses swiping right to go back, and left to change tabs.
Oh, sorry, I assumed the Convergence would have made the difference between Phone, Tablet, Laptop, and Desktop virtually seamless.
I really can't imagine how useful that gesture set would be TBH, and would probably disable that if at all possible as soon as I discovered it...
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@tsaukpaetra They were just finishing off converging the platform when they had to cancel Windows 10 Mobile.
8 was never cross-compatible, only mostly, where the actual XAML UI could not be shared.
With 10, they completed app convergence, but stil recommended that you do a different UI for different platforms, being sure to make the usability fit the form factor. They did a great job of it, honestly: Windows 10 Mobile is still great to use.
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Status: Remembering why I prefer to not work from home; I've just worked 14 hours straight (except for meals) and significantly improved the measured code quality of one of our larger code modules. (What possessed my colleagues to make Python classes with single methods a thousand lines long?! And not just one either.) What remains is enough of a mess that I really don't want to touch it β it's enough of a tangle that all the obvious refactoring strategies make it worse β and the code as a whole is still being actively written in that area so it's probably best left alone for now.
And I'm tired and still on a focus-high at the same time. Blerk.
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STATUS I have hazy memories of a game I used to play. All I remember is that it's an isometric RPG from ~1994(?) where you are questing through an underground labyrinth to defeat an evil warmonger. Along the way you pick up an intelligent, evil sword that feeds on souls and is both the most powerful weapon and the actual instigator of all the evil.
I'd remember the game box if I saw it, but I can't remember anything about the name. It's been bugging me...I do remember the phrase "over 100 hours of play" on the box though...
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Status: My screen just went black. Then, an outline of a window appeared with the Windows XP theme, then various components appeared and resolved themselves, and then everything went back to normal. And then the device connection sound played.
Wat? Restarting computer for tinfoil hat purposes.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My screen just went black. Then, an outline of a window appeared with the Windows XP theme, then various components appeared and resolved themselves, and then everything went back to normal. And then the device connection sound played.
Wat? Restarting computer for tinfoil hat purposes.Signs of a graphics driver reload?
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STATUS: I buy used teeth for CASH!
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@greybeard said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS: I buy used teeth for CASH!
I'm not sure I have any spares available.
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@greybeard Do they have to leave my mouth, or is it a real estate sort of thing? Can I lease them?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@greybeard Do they have to leave my mouth, or is it a real estate sort of thing? Can I lease them?
Is there a real estate agent equivalent of the tooth fairy?
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
that's a bit late isn't it? the high street shops started pushing xmas back in september.
My "favorite" is when Halloween and Christmas overlap in the stores.
Do you have Halloween music? Or is it just random screams and ghost noises?
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The company is providing a Christmas lunch today at 12. There's also a Christmas dinner at 6. I appear to be the only person signed up to both
Relevant:
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Three things I want to get on with. Each of which I need to speak to a different person to get any further with. All three people are away from their desks or busy. Also we're supposed to be having a team meeting now that's actually useful and even mildly interesting, but the guy we need to run it is one of the busy people.
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One or two junior mettles tomorrow, but probably won't be live. Since I am super busy, I'll just have them work offline and submit after 2 hours. Then write a post-mortem, if there's something to talk about.
We are also hiring a UX designer, but my Boss will "take care" of those tests. Oh boy.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Then write a post-mortem, if there's something to talk about.
i shall prepare my quill, to use to ink more verses of the epic saga of @cartman82
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Status: Waiting since this morning (it's early afternoon now) for my sandbox to finish recompiling. I've (hopefully) fixed at least two bugs in the meantime, but I can't even check that the code compiles because, well, it's still recompiling.
Oh well, at least I've got time to catch up on my unread here. sigh :face_with_cold_sweat:
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Status: Moved onto linting the next module up our stack. Which is more than twice as bad as the previous oneβ¦
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@tsaukpaetra ...but those aren't Fruit Loops...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: just got out of the psychology test. I went into it with 15 extra credit points. The test had 75 single-point questions and was graded out of 60. A third of the questions could be solved just with experience interacting with people, and another third by simply knowing what certain words mean. I wonder if I passed.
Secondary status: Have they turned the sensitivity on the sidebar up? Because I managed to open either the chats menu or the sidebar at least twenty times trying to tap the scroll to bottom button, and eventually gave up and enabled the mouse pointer. And spacebar dragging was invaluable while writing this.
I feel like there's a subtle bug hiding somewhere that makes it think disconnected touches are actually swipes. Like it's remembering a previous touch as the beginning of a swipe event and then any subsequent touch is interpreted as a continuation of the swipe.
It's relatively easy to avoid pulling the sidebar out (as long as you don't try to... oh, I don't know, scroll horizontally, or select text...). But then it just pops out randomly for no apparent reason when you barely touched the screen and definitely didn't swipe.
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@dkf Working from home has its advantages, depending on what's going on. If you're able to just work on a coding task, where you don't need to communicate and you know what to do, the lack of distractions can be a wonderful thing.
Alternatively, it can make it easier to slack off and harder to communicate, so I usually prefer to work in the office, personally.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Working from home has its advantages, depending on what's going on. If you're able to just work on a coding task, where you don't need to communicate and you know what to do, the lack of distractions can be a wonderful thing.
Alternatively, it can make it easier to slack off and harder to communicate, so I usually prefer to work in the office, personally.The same here.
I think this has something to do with having a clear separation between "work place" and "home place" in your head. If you only work from home, then you get used to this one place serving both for business and leisure.
If you usually go to office, though, your mind decides that is where work happens. So when you then try to work from home, it rebels, like "WTF dude, it's couch time".
From several conversations I've had with people who have switched from remote to office work, this checks out. Once they get used to working in the office, their productivity at home plummets.
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@cartman82 If you work from home, you need a home office, not just sitting on the couch with your laptop
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@cartman82 When working from home, I have a specific place set out for just working, to keep that separation in my mind. If one can do that, it can work well, but it isn't easy.
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Status: I just made a YouTube comment. In Japanese. It still feels bad to have left a YouTube comment.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra ...but those aren't Fruit Loops...
Exactly!
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 If you work from home, you need a home office, not just sitting on the couch with your laptop
/is ducks head
but that's my primary home compute station.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 When working from home, I have a specific place set out for just working, to keep that separation in my mind. If one can do that, it can work well, but it isn't easy.
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 If you work from home, you need a home office, not just sitting on the couch with your laptop
I have a separate room, it doesn't help. I'd probably need a whole different place, like with a little bit of outside world between couch and desk. When I went into a coworking space a few times, I could work there, no problem.
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STATUS:
Too much Firefox (fun), not enough VM & Chrome (work).
I blame you.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Working from home has its advantages, ...
Alternatively, it can make it easier to slack off and harder to communicate, so I usually prefer to work in the office, personally.
My boss (client) would be perfectly happy with me working from home. Everybody I work with is hundreds of miles away, so it doesn't really make any difference to communication. However, the first half of the last sentence is why I pushed for a cubicle in their local office.
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@cartman82 The key is to just pretend you're working when at work, then when you work from home you don't have to do anything at all.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 The key is to just pretend you're working when at work, then when you work from home you don't have to do anything at all.
Ah, get the employer used to disappointment, gotcha. Pro tip from the master.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 The key is to just pretend you're working when at work, then when you work from home you don't have to do anything at all.
The key to true prosperity is to figure out how to be celebrated for your productivity and contribution
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 The key is to just pretend you're working when at work, then when you work from home you don't have to do anything at all.
Ah, get the employer used to disappointment, gotcha. Pro tip from the master.
@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 The key is to just pretend you're working when at work, then when you work from home you don't have to do anything at all.
The key to true prosperity is to figure out how to be celebrated for your productivity and contribution
Listen to Scotty – 00:44
— Wayne Lee
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
no, it's intended to communicate disgust that you would advocate that anyone commit suicide.
Nobody can create something with worse usability than SVN, so he wasn't really advocating suicide for anyone real.
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
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@sockpuppet7 I believe that GIF is intended to indicate "I'm out! [of this meeting, this conversation, whatever]"
But in either case, let's not start all this up again.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I believe that GIF is intended to indicate "I'm out! [of this meeting, this conversation, whatever]"
I prefer to think it was done on purpose to confuse, it looks funnier that way
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Status: Taking a 30-minute hack attempt to see if UE4 really doesn't support
int64
in blueprints, or if it's just joshing everyone.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 The key is to just pretend you're working when at work, then when you work from home you don't have to do anything at all.
Ah, get the employer used to disappointment, gotcha. Pro tip from the master.
@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 The key is to just pretend you're working when at work, then when you work from home you don't have to do anything at all.
The key to true prosperity is to figure out how to be celebrated for your productivity and contribution
Listen to Scotty – 00:44
— Wayne LeeHe does way too much work
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status working on a bug
ο: Record how long it takes to do XXX, from when the user clicks the button until server is done.
: Um, we do that locally and then sync to the server later...
ο: Oh. Um. We'll get back to you.status: looking for different bug to work on.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
30-minute hack attempt
So far, I managed to get the editor to recognize that it is a real UPROPERTY that objects can have, and seems to be treating it as an int32 (probably because I basically just copied places I found the
UIntProperty
and just duplicated it forUInt64Property
).So now I'm digging a bit further to see if I can introduce a BigInteger type into the Editor. We'll see if I did it once it compiles 600 classes that were affected by the header file modification...