The Official Status Thread
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@benjamin-hall that's "put it back in your duffle-bag and take it away" territory
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Wow, Swampy's on a roll today. He's posted more this morning than he does in a typical month.
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Status: Pondering the merits of this comment in the Random function I copy-pasta'd yesterday:
static FORCEINLINE int64 RandHelper(int64 A) { // Note that on some platforms RAND_MAX is a large number so we cannot do ((rand()/(RAND_MAX+1)) * A) // or else we may include the upper bound results, which should be excluded. return A > 0 ? Min(_mm_cvtt_ss2si(_mm_set_ss(FRand() * A)), A - 1) : 0; }
Wondering if (since I'm using a 64-bit int anyways) it would be better to use the original equation?
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@anonymous234
Two normal sized >>>>>>> one big ass one.In the monitor department, at least. I can't speak as to hooker preferences.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't speak as to hooker preferences.
But you did
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
one big ass one.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: headache detected. Variant: 4. Severity: 2. Major services are not impacted.
Also, encountered a cockroach in the kitchen sink.
So, a swirly into the garbage disposal?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: headache detected. Variant: 4. Severity: 2. Major services are not impacted.
Also, encountered a cockroach in the kitchen sink.
So, a swirly into the garbage disposal?
It skittered out and under the cabinets too quickly for me to catch it.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: thinking...
Careful.
I am dutifully monitoring my usage to not exceed 1.6 volts.
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status On my way to a sugar coma. Co-worker brought in homemade baklava. It's the best baklava I've ever had.
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Status: apparently I have a new nook?
Edit: Not according to my 5-year-old account.
Really should update the password on that site. Maybe. It's literally my
don't-use-this-password
password from 2010.
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You know how people wear earplugs to concerts because they're so unnecessarily loud that they cause ear damage and you can still hear it all perfectly through the plugs anyway?
I just realized, the same applies to taking care of children. So there's some life advice for you.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Does culture on that side of the pond frown on being "on-time" to parties?
That really depends on how far ahead you get on the drinking.
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STATUS
After 2 hours, a junior candidate is "very close" to completing the ledger mettle. I don't expect much.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Two normal sized >>>>>>> one big ass one.
Multiple big ones is better still.
Also true for monitors.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I just realized, the same applies to taking care of children. So there's some life advice for you.
You know how when a radio starts having static, you smack it a bit, and it shuts up? Also applies on children.
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@cartman82
RADIO ABUSE!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status On my way to a sugar coma. Co-worker brought in homemade baklava. It's the best baklava I've ever had.
Ugh, it's usually too sweet for me.
More walnuts, less sugar is the key.
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Status: Got a problem. Was going to have my brother and his family up for the weekend for a pre-Christmas do (involving taking them to see Santa on a steam train and rather a lot of good food and drink over a few days, to say nothing of a few presents) but my nieces have all come down with some sort of vomiting sickness today so the visit is off.
The problem? With that much food, we are having problems freezing it all and there's way more than we can eat. (Wine and beer keep better.)
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@cartman82 a) shouldn't baklava use honey, not sugar? b) walnuts are evil.
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@benjamin-hall maybe, dunno. Then it needs more water.
This entire family of Turkish sweets is way too sweet in general.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
With that much food, we are having problems freezing it all
The Canadian solution:
http://msue.anr.msu.edu/uploads/news/_in_article/snow_storm_picture.jpg
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
The Canadian solution:
Alas, not practical. While it is cooler here than it was the last couple of years at this time, it's not really cold enough for preserving food. Also, some items freeze better than others; anything very high in fat really (like a nice paté or good cheese) isn't done any favours by that sort of storage technique.
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@timebandit
The proposed solution's natural consequence:
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@izzion
http://orig06.deviantart.net/b521/f/2011/056/1/c/y_is_for_yogi_bear_by_americanninjax-d3adt1x.gif
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@izzion #BearLivesMatter
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I just realized, the same applies to taking care of children. So there's some life advice for you.
You know how when a radio starts having static, you smack it a bit, and it shuts up? Also applies on children.
Huh. Never did that to the radio... Now the TV, that's a different story!
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status On my way to a sugar coma. Co-worker brought in homemade baklava. It's the best baklava I've ever had.
Ugh, it's usually too sweet for me.
More walnuts, less sugar is the key.
It was actually the perfect sweetness. I can't eat heavily sugared things - they just don't taste good anymore. This was ... heaven.
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
shouldn't baklava use honey,
Yeah, shouldn't have said sugar-coma really... But it conveyed the right feeling!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, shouldn't have said sugar-coma really...
Well, invert-sugar-coma would have done… or perhaps honey-coma…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, shouldn't have said sugar-coma really...
Well, invert-sugar-coma would have done… or perhaps honey-coma…
"More!!!" works too...
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Status: Kek
It almost reached 32 but I was lazy.
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@dkf TDWTF meetup UK?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: apparently I have a new nook?
Edit: Not according to my 5-year-old account.
Really should update the password on that site. Maybe. It's literally my
don't-use-this-password
password from 2010.Follow up: they're idiots.
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We took a look
We saw a Nook.
And we wondered
what was the hook?
In this hook
there was a book
and this book
was from a souk.We went to sit
our head we shook
and we thought
that some crook did a rook.But the Nook wasn't real
so the Nook wasn't took.
SO . . .
what good to a crook
is a book Nook hook?(with apologies to Theodor Geisel.)
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Status:
Dec 15 19:51:45 storagesrv nmbd[25203]: [2017/12/15 19:51:45.330159, 0] ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:109(query_name_response) Dec 15 19:51:45 storagesrv nmbd[25203]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 192.168.1.77 for name HOME<1d>. Dec 15 19:51:45 storagesrv nmbd[25203]: This response was from IP 192.168.1.67, reporting an IP address of 192.168.1.67. Dec 15 21:02:53 storagesrv sshd[40314]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 31: can't verify hostname: getaddrinfo(189.115.92.121.static.gvt.net.br, AF_INET) failed
Huh?
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@tsaukpaetra Two boxes claiming to be the Domain Master Browser, followed by an SSH probe from Brazil?
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@greybeard said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Two boxes claiming to be the Domain Master Browser, followed by an SSH probe from Brazil?
Oh, yeah I know the SSH one, accidental extra line.
But, there should only be one domain master as far as I know, I'm not sure why the NAS is responding to itself doing something it shouldn't...
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Status: Apparently Cox has a data cap of 1 Tb.
Apparently it's a bad idea to symlink your Security DVR folder into one of the cloud backup folders.
Cue 900 GB of video being encrypted and uploaded into the Cloud™!
Whoops.
Cox charges $10 for each additional 50 Gb, so already we're at an extra $30.
Luckily there's a nifty upgrade to add 500 Gb for... $30.
WTF why not just do that?
So I chat up a sales rep, she assures me if I add the plan it will apply for this billing cycle. The billing cycle that ends in two days.
Here's to hoping...
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Status: Can anyone explain the difference between these two batch files:
set filter=[0:m:title:Microphone]loudnorm=i=-10,aformat=sample_fmts=fltp:sample_rates=48000:channel_layouts=stereo,asplit=2[sc][mic];[0:m:title:Game]volume=4[gamegain];[gamegain][sc]sidechaincompress=level_in=0.25:level_sc=4:ratio=7.5:attack=400:release=1200[game];[mic][game]amerge=inputs=2,pan=stereo^|c0^<c0+c2^|c1^<c1+c3 bash -exc "ffmpeg -i '"%~n1".mkv' -map 0:V -c:v copy -filter_complex '%filter%' -b:a 192k -movflags +faststart -y '"%~n1".mp4'" || pause
and
set filter_a=[0:m:title:Microphone]loudnorm=i=-10,aformat=sample_fmts=fltp:sample_rates=48000:channel_layouts=stereo set filter_b=[1:a]asplit=2[sc][mic];[0:m:title:Game]volume=4[gamegain];[gamegain][sc]sidechaincompress=level_in=0.25:level_sc=4:ratio=7.5:attack=400:release=1200[game];[mic][game]amerge=inputs=2,pan=stereo^|c0^<c0+c2^|c1^<c1+c3 bash -exc "ffmpeg -i '"%~n1".mkv' -vn -filter_complex '%filter_a%' -c:a aac -b:a 192k -y -f matroska '"%~n1".audiotmp' && ffmpeg -i '"%~n1".mkv' -f matroska -i '"%~n1".audiotmp' -map 0:V -c:v copy -filter_complex '%filter_b%' -b:a 192k -movflags +faststart -y '"%~n1".mp4' && rm -f '"%~n1".audiotmp'" || pause
Clearly, the second one calls
ffmpeg
twice instead of putting the entire filter chain into one invocation, but the second command terminates while the first does not.For some reason, it just gets stuck right before the end of the video if the whole filter chain is done in one go.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Can anyone explain the difference between these two batch files:
I'm sorry, the resultant command is too dissimilar to compare.
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@greybeard said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf TDWTF meetup UK?
Speaking as a @boomzilla alt, that feels like work to organise…
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Can anyone explain the difference between these two batch files:
The filters look identical (once concatenated) apart from the
[1:a]
at the start offilter_b
, which might be a simple ignorable artefact (I don't comprehend the filter syntax). I don't think I can begin to compare theffmpeg
invocations themselves; they have some similar bits I guess?
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Status: So, my landlord decided to switch cable providers at the beginning of next year which, of course, has caused the old cable provider to cancel my internet access because it runs over said cable.
Thus I went forth with the date of the change over in mind and signed a new contract for internet access (in this case: vDSL - 100/32). The technician was here yesterday, did some tests and said I was good to go.
Sidenote: I'm seriously impressed by the fact that you can get a stable 100/32 connection through two(2) unshielded wires of considerable length. When I remarked on that he said that they're currently testing 200/64 in some areas. Longterm plan is fiber, though.
Anyway, after the technician had gone I found a letter in my postbox: "Dear resident, the switch over for the cable provider will be on December, 28th."
That's a bit different from what they told me which was originally January, 2nd. Which coincidentally is the date I signed up for with my new ISP.
So I called my new ISP to see if they could move the date forward because six days without internet is a bit long.
What happened then was a classic case of failure to communicate.
Me: "I'd like to move the date of my connection forward."
Agent: "Everything is fine on your end."
Me: "Yes, I know, the technician was just here. But I'd like for my connection to be activated earlier!"
Agent: "Umm, everything is fine?"
Me: "I'd like to move activation forward!"
Agent: "But you just said the technician already checked your connection! Everything is fine!"Which was when it dawned on me that the technician had already activated the connection without telling me. Turns out that this is their MO (without telling you about it explicitly) while my contract officially really just begins in the new year.
Now I just have to move the socket sometime because the current position is ... sub-optimal (the appartment, while renovated, was built in the sixties):
Yes, no power socket nearby.
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@rhywden Nice parquet flooring. One of my old places had a really crappy carpet in the hall, eventually discovered that under it was a beautiful herringbone parquet. Bit of a clean and polish and it was fine.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Can anyone explain the difference between these two batch files:
The filters look identical (once concatenated) apart from the
[1:a]
at the start offilter_b
, which might be a simple ignorable artefact (I don't comprehend the filter syntax). I don't think I can begin to compare theffmpeg
invocations themselves; they have some similar bits I guess?1:a
means "take the first audio channel of the second (1, zero-indexed) input", which is theaudiotmp
file the previous invocation made.0:V
is "the first video channel of the first input", and0:m:title:[some word]
means "take the channel with this title in its metadata from the first input".Commands with
[foo]
before them takefoo
as input, putting[bar]
after a command saves the output inbar
, and using a comma instead of a semicolon means the output goes directly into the next command.The commands being used are:
- loudnorm - normalize the (in this case, microphone) audio volume levels
- aformat - a hint for the previous command to know what type of audio should be emitted
- asplit - copy an audio stream to multiple identical audio streams
- volume - pretty self-explanatory. it changes the volume of an audio sample by some multiple
- sidechannelcompress - here's where the ducking magic happens
- amerge - combine multiple audio streams into a single stream with multiple channels
- pan - merge the audio channels from an effectively meaningless 4.0 configuration to stereo
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@ben_lubar Well, from my perspective it looked less intelligible than the average sendmail.cf or perl script. But I could still do string subrange matching. ;)
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Status: Steam has been trying to download for 3 hours.
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@dkf
Speaking as a @boomzilla alt who has successfully organized one of those, it's worth the work to organize.Even the warthog would agree
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status: I'm convinced that the stuttering lights in haunted houses is primarily caused by decayed or faulted wiring, possibly caused by rodents.
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Status: Nintendo really ran out of Pokemon game names.
https://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/ultra/assets/img/home/Pokemon_UltraSun_Pokemon_UltraMoon.jpg