The Official Status Thread
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status Decided to let the High Sierra update happen. The button now is a weird dark disable "Downloaded" button. Ok? No upgrade-now or reboot-now notifications. Just "No Updates Available". What, is this now like xcode - it'll update sometime in the next few hours/days when it feels like it?
edit: Oh, I see. Click on 'Featured' tab, then back to the 'Updates' tab. Now it says 'Free Upgrade'. Ok.
Click. It's downloading again. All 5+GB. Fuck, even Windows doesn't do that (except for those poor suckers whose updates keep failing)edit2: Jesus Christ. Started upgrade. "An error occurred" within seconds. Again. Refresh the updates page. It fucking starts to download again. FUCK YOU APPLE. I'm sticking with Sierra. (should probably mention this is a "Mid 2012" MacBook Pro. And googling seems to imply there's some firmware issue.)
edit3: And now I have 2 High Sierra Upgrade icons in Launchpad and in the apps folder. Looks like I have a lot of googling to do to figure out how to clean this shit up. (Dragged apps to trash, emptied, rebooted, now only one launchpad icon left - which does nothing, of course - ah, figured that out - Opt key to expose 'x' and gone)
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Status: Currently capturing lots of USB packets into text logs which I then run through my self-written parser in order to be able to make sense of the communication between my USB measuring devices and the software (which has been written for engineers by engineers and not for use by pupils.)
While the singular packets themselves can be found in the documentation (which in itself can be somewhat ... confusing), there's no documentation as to the flow of communication, i.e. which packet elicits which response and should be followed by what packet?
In short, some kind of flowchart.
The problem is compounded by the fact that some of the devices measure either indirectly (i.e. the distance travelled is measured through wheel spokes passing a light barrier - and I don't yet know what "dark => bright => dark" means as a distance) or with an unknown conversion factor.
Fun.
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
than it was about the fact that Microsoft's marketing dept. didn't anticipate people making exactly that connection with regards to something that is a direct competitor of their products.
Linux isn't a direct competitor to any of Microsoft's products. Microsoft doesn't make a "shitty OS with crappy UI that is full of bugs and requires tons of tinkering all the time" product.
They discontinued Windows ME.
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Status: D'aww-ing over @anonymous234 's avatar...
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Taking a week or so break from the forum. Traveling for work, and the only devices available will be ones I take to work, and since I'm still determined not to log into TDWTF from work or any device that is available at work, I won't have access to the forum. Have a great week, everybody.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Linux isn't a direct competitor to any of Microsoft's products. Microsoft doesn't make a "shitty OS with crappy UI that is full of bugs and requires tons of tinkering all the time" product.
So... Windows 10 isn't made by Microsoft?
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
While the singular packets themselves can be found in the documentation (which in itself can be somewhat ... confusing), there's no documentation as to the flow of communication, i.e. which packet elicits which response and should be followed by what packet?
That's almost always missing in modern documentation. Why would you want to understand the system overall when you can get bombarded with enormous quantities of detail on the specifics of thousands of methods you don't give a about?
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Status: procrastinating by doing an online learning module on time management
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: D'aww-ing over @anonymous234 's avatar...
I assume you're not familiar with that character... I should probably tell you that he, er, tends to appear in adult only comics.
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Status: Everything you want to do with Exchange Recovery Storage Groups can be done via the Database Recovery Management GUI. Except for unloading and deleting the RSG after you're done with it, you have to drop into the Exchange Shell and start Googling the commands if you want to do that. Why do you make every tool half-baked Microsoft? Why not just make one or the other and do it properly.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: procrastinating by doing an online learning module on time management
I did a IRL set of classes on time management, I managed to cock-up my calendar and didn't turn up for the last session. I guess it didn't take.
Edit: That does feature quite high on the list of 'most embarrassing things I've managed to do'.
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@mott555 The second attempt turned out the same way although I caught it within minutes of failing this time, instead of many hours later, so it isn't as crazy looking. For whatever reason, this model is unprintable for me.
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Status: will shave my head today. Keeping the beard though. Doing it in solidarity with my brother, who shaves his head. Curse of the familial bald spot.
If I feel right, I'll post pics in the Lounge, before and after.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
will shave my head today. Keeping the beard though
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@jaloopa The beard is rather fuller than that--it's got the sides and everything. Just not the neck, that itches.
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@benjamin-hall Sorry, the correct answer was:
You're goddamned right
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: D'aww-ing over @anonymous234 's avatar...
I assume you're not familiar with that character... I should probably tell you that he, er, tends to appear in adult only comics.
So?
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Status: hell is other people at a fabric store cutting counter.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I think I follow you on the
((uint32)0xFF << (uint8)GateDirection)
part, but what's!
do? If it's a logical not operation, then I'd expect it to take the nonzero (true) argument you're giving it and return false (zero), which is what you're seeing.Does removing the
(!
and the corresponding)
produce the expected output?I'm no longer at the office to try, but I bet it will do almost as I want, except all the bits will be inverted from what I want. Essentially I want to keep only the parts that aren't in the shifted range.
I think you'll find that bitwise complementation is the
~
operator, and logical (boolean) inversion is!
. So I'm pretty sure~
would do what you want.Looks like that was the trick! Thanks!
Now to figure out why Master Server isn't storing delayed knocks properly...
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: hell is other people at a fabric store cutting counter.
What were you doing at a fabric store cutting counter?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: hell is other people at a fabric store cutting counter.
What were you doing at a fabric store cutting counter?
Presumably he was counting cuts.
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@anotherusername
The Ghost of Christmas Future stopped by and took him on a preview of his upcoming afterlife
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: hell is other people at a fabric store cutting counter.
What were you doing at a fabric store cutting counter?
Buying a small piece of foam (0.5 yards at about 2 feet wide) for an organizational task. Took way too long.
- The lady who wanted small cuts from a bajillion different types of fabric (darn quilters).
- The store worker who wandered off, leaving the one helping the lady above as the only worker.
- The indecisive people.
- Those who don't come when they're called.
- Etc.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Those who don't come when they're called.
I can come when called...
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sT@ thataht TILLI@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Those who don't come when they're called.
I can come when called...
TIL that some phone sex companies are getting really proactive about customer satisfaction.
Filed Under: That's one way to ensure repeat business, I suppose.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
sT@ thataht TILLI
Hey! Are you using my phone???!!
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
sT@ thataht TILLI
Idea for an OMGWTF competition: create a forum (for some simplified definition of forum) with no user-visible bugs, but horrible, unmaintainable, terribly optimized code.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
sT@ thataht TILLI
Hey! Are you using my phone???!!
He accidentally laugh as yep.
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@anonymous234 We have a NSFW thread for exactly that reason. And it's only natural that Mr. Can-Come-When-Called started it.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY PRIOR KNOWLEDGE LEVEL?!
Technically, he assumed your knowledge level afterwards. If you'd known beforehand, the likelihood of that becoming a not-knowing afterwards is pretty low (and would likely require a medical event such as a stroke while you were reading it, realistically speaking).
what a marvelous example of try.
where's the button to nominate a post for a badge?
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@jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
where's the button to nominate a post for a badge?
It's entitled ο Logout and you get there by clicking this image:
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@jarry I'm always keen on appropriate levels of accuracy in linguistic statements.
Also in programming; that does make life easier.
Status: Spent altogether too much time undoing the wreckage imposed by my IDE when it decided that just changing the method name
run
in the current class was too easy for it, and promptly went off and modified every open project across my whole workspace, finding every use ofrun
including in unrelated comments and strings. Which would have been OK to undo, except I didn't notice until 15 minutes later when I looked a class in a project other than the one I was refactoring (i.e., after a commit but not a push, thankfully). Fucking hell, PyDev, that's the total opposite of intuitive and expectableβ¦Oh well, at least that code now just uses threads instead of inheriting from them.
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Ordered the CD version of TurboTax because it was $10 cheaper than the download version. It arrived today.
My kid asks "what's that?"
"Software I ordered."
"How does that work?"
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Same question, but re:
@greybeard said in The Official Status Thread:
it was $10 cheaper than the download version
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@hungrier Itβs Amazon. Go check it out yourself.
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Status: Investigating websockets, using https://github.com/sta/websocket-sharp as the socket server.
So far so good, no authentication of any kind yet but it seems somewhat fast enough at this point...
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@tsaukpaetra I'm pretty sure ASP.NET Core includes WebSocket support from Microsoft.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
ASP.NET Core
Not using Asp.Net here.
You can write the websocket part as ASP.NET even if the rest of your site is static.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
ASP.NET Core
Not using Asp.Net here.
You can write the websocket part as ASP.NET even if the rest of your site is static.
It's not a website, it's a WPF application pretending to provide some ajax endpoints.
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Status: Oh hey, that didn't take too long.
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Status: Just noticed that requests to upload.youtube.com from the YouTube upload page have 100MB payloads. There goes my idea of throttling YouTube uploads by delaying requests. Ugh.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
There goes my idea of throttling YouTube uploads by delaying requests. Ugh.
Opening dev tools and setting it to "2g connection"?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
There goes my idea of throttling YouTube uploads by delaying requests. Ugh.
Opening dev tools and setting it to "2g connection"?
Something weird happens on the YouTube upload page. I think Chrome isn't using the regular network pipeline for the actual upload:
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
There goes my idea of throttling YouTube uploads by delaying requests. Ugh.
Opening dev tools and setting it to "2g connection"?
Something weird happens on the YouTube upload page. I think Chrome isn't using the regular network pipeline for the actual upload:
They would know how to bypass their own browser's restrictions, wouldn't they?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
They would know how to bypass their own browser's restrictions, wouldn't they?
I assume it's not specific to YouTube and it happens for any gigantic upload initiated in that way.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
upload initiated in that way.
In what way? Ajax form POST?