The Official Status Thread
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra But I can't turn off the alert that I most want to!
Did the "Get help" button help you any?
It begs the question of why they would put a permanently disabled option on the front-end anyways. To appease someone that, yes, there's some arcane way to turn the option off?
How else would you know that your phone can receive that type of alert and no, you can't turn them off?
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@anotherusername A reminder alert sent out regularly, letting you know that the president is OK.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
No, it was on a Discord server, I don't think he actually made a thread... Searching....
Edit: No, it wasn't here. Sorry.
Edit edit: And I can't link to Discord chat history (because why would you want to go to the past?), so no go on that either.IF PEOPLE WANTED CHAT THEY SHOULD USE A CHAT SERVER AND NOT A FORUM! THERE IS LITERALLY NO BENEFIT TO USING A FORUM!
Sure would be good if our chat server had kept a log of the chat-- perhaps in some sort of forum-like structure...
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Game is procedurally generated
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Major progression is metroid-style, where new abilities are unlocked and can be used on old areas of the game to unlock additional content
These two are going to be extremely difficult to combine in one game
You'd have to code the procedural generation to:
a) include ares locked by "some_attribute"
b) check generation to make sure level still has an exit path without "some_attribute"
c) marks those attributes as used, so that future levels that include "give player an unlock" can pick from a pool of already used attributes
d) persist all of the above, so that players can return to generated levels without regenerating them
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: "I think I'm going to work from home today. Really focus. No context switching. It'll be great."
[one hour later]
: "Fuck you, bitch!" *goes out*
: "Oh. Okay. Well... rude.""The whole area is out. Power company says ETA is two hours."
: "Ugh..." *drives to office*
[20 minutes later]
: "Oh, uh. I forgot my badge. Well, fuck me.": "Someone from <area> says power is back on."
: *turns around* "I'm not wasting gas, I'm uh... breaking in my new car. Yeah, that's it."It's been an annoying and unproductive morning.
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Status: So I'm starting two child processes. The first of them generates a bunch of output. The second is a shell script which consumes that output. Starting them in a pipeline via the shell works as expected. But if I start them both separately and connect them via an anonymous pipe myself (directly, no copy in my process) then the trailing part of the data vanishes.
I'm stumped.
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@pleegwat Sounds like you're being buffered. The trailing part of the data disappears because the buffer disappears with the first process.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Game is procedurally generated
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Major progression is metroid-style, where new abilities are unlocked and can be used on old areas of the game to unlock additional content
These two are going to be extremely difficult to combine in one game
The idea I had is that the Metroid-style power-ups are chosen from a predefined list that has some sort of dependency tree.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So I'm starting two child processes. The first of them generates a bunch of output. The second is a shell script which consumes that output. Starting them in a pipeline via the shell works as expected. But if I start them both separately and connect them via an anonymous pipe myself (directly, no copy in my process) then the trailing part of the data vanishes.
I'm stumped.
Sounds like you need a
fflush
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
No, it was on a Discord server, I don't think he actually made a thread... Searching....
Edit: No, it wasn't here. Sorry.
Edit edit: And I can't link to Discord chat history (because why would you want to go to the past?), so no go on that either.IF PEOPLE WANTED CHAT THEY SHOULD USE A CHAT SERVER AND NOT A FORUM! THERE IS LITERALLY NO BENEFIT TO USING A FORUM!
Sure would be good if our chat server had kept a log of the chat-- perhaps in some sort of forum-like structure...Oh, it keeps a log sure enough. And you can search somewhat reliably. You just can't provide a link like "click here to to to this message in the chat two months ago".
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So I'm starting two child processes. The first of them generates a bunch of output. The second is a shell script which consumes that output. Starting them in a pipeline via the shell works as expected. But if I start them both separately and connect them via an anonymous pipe myself (directly, no copy in my process) then the trailing part of the data vanishes.
I'm stumped.
Sounds like you need a
fflush
Except I'm dealing with pipes, so I'm not using stdio, nor am I reading or writing to that thing myself at all.
UI worked around it by writing the data to file and then passing a read handle for the file to the stdin of the script, which also doesn't show the problem. But I don't like not knowing why it didn't work.
I might have to dig into the actual script. There's some timing sensitivities, and it might be the script is starting some other command on the background which reads from that descriptor; that'd steal data if the descriptor is a pipe but not if it's a file. I think.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Game is procedurally generated
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Major progression is metroid-style, where new abilities are unlocked and can be used on old areas of the game to unlock additional content
These two are going to be extremely difficult to combine in one game
The idea I had is that the Metroid-style power-ups are chosen from a predefined list that has some sort of dependency tree.
It could still be kind of complicated. Obvious ones like "missile doors need missiles" are easy, but for things like wall climbing, high/double jumps, etc, you pretty much have to design the layout of the whole area and every area afterwards based on what you need to restrict, and make sure that the restriction doesn't affect earlier parts of the sequence.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Game is procedurally generated
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Major progression is metroid-style, where new abilities are unlocked and can be used on old areas of the game to unlock additional content
These two are going to be extremely difficult to combine in one game
The idea I had is that the Metroid-style power-ups are chosen from a predefined list that has some sort of dependency tree.
It could still be kind of complicated. Obvious ones like "missile doors need missiles" are easy, but for things like wall climbing, high/double jumps, etc, you pretty much have to design the layout of the whole area and every area afterwards based on what you need to restrict, and make sure that the restriction doesn't affect earlier parts of the sequence.
You could have mostly-prebuilt map chunks that slot into a grid and then mark specific exits as "you need this upgrade to get out of this exit" for when you're extending the map from there.
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Status: enjoying @boomzilla very much!
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@tsaukpaetra I like to know which @Tsaukpaetra posts I've read and which I haven't.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I like to know which @Tsaukpaetra posts I've read and which I haven't.
Awww that's so adorable!
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
A reminder alert sent out regularly, letting you know that the president is OK.
You just described
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Status: Wat.
The parameter conversion from type 'System.String' to type 'Timefire.Models.CHAR_PartsStyles' failed because no type converter can convert between these types.
Apparently MVC is trying to interpret a single form value as the whole form data? When it didn't do this before? What?!?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What?!?
Ah, because the function signature included a variable that was the name of one of the members in the form, so it helpfully decided that was what I wanted.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
what I wanted.
Also, dammit why?!?
The entity or complex type 'Timefire_dbModel.CHAR_PartsStyles' cannot be constructed in a LINQ to Entities query.
Ok, I think I know why. But that's the only way I can UNION between the table itself and a default-based list of that type.
So... Anonymous types it is!!!!!
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Or MSIX?
That doesn't exist yet.
edit: Check back next week when MS hopefully fills in some details.
Or (intelligently) guess: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2018/4/30/msix-conjectures/
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently there's another tool that can "tear apart" the .msi archive
Orca and InstEdit.
InstEdit is better.
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@dcon But they just opensourced it. I'm fairly sure that the proper release will indeed happen during Build, but the code is available already.
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@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Replying here as my complaint is not "funny stuff™". Am I the only one who was and has not been amused at all by the "robot" discourse surrounding Zuckerberg's testimony? I mean, I was seeing "news" outlets making fun of the guy.
Here's your news flash: A lot of the people who work with technology, including myself, are neurologically and/or socially atypical. And? I don't have an explanation for this (I'm not a scientist) and it's not that I want there to be some sort of special status reflecting this. I just don't see the purpose in pointing it out. Is it at all relevant to his testimony? Does it devalue any of his accomplishments?
I just don't get it. It makes me fucking cringe.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Am I the only one who was and has not been amused at all by the "robot" discourse surrounding Zuckerberg's testimony?
I'm not amused at the "robot" discourse surrounding Zuckerberg's testimony.
Actually, I'm slightly insulted, but I can't blame them for their oversimplification of how robots act and behave.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Replying here as my complaint is not "funny stuff™". Am I the only one who was and has not been amused at all by the "robot" discourse surrounding Zuckerberg's testimony? I mean, I was seeing "news" outlets making fun of the guy.
Here's your news flash: A lot of the people who work with technology, including myself, are neurologically and/or socially atypical. And? I don't have an explanation for this (I'm not a scientist) and it's not that I want there to be some sort of special status reflecting this. I just don't see the purpose in pointing it out. Is it at all relevant to his testimony? Does it devalue any of his accomplishments?
I just don't get it. It makes me fucking cringe.I get called a robot all the time because I come off as emotionally atypical. It doesn't bother me a bit.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Actually, I'm slightly insulted, but I can't blame them for their oversimplification of how robots act and behave.
Yes, very cute.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I get called a robot all the time
I'm almost never called a robot.
I suppose I should be happy.
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Status: Encountering weird possibly-threading-related issue.
Two queries are requested somewhat simultaneously. They get executed sequentially. Somehow the first's delegate callback is still attached and attempts to get sent the wrong data.
Literally between two stack frames, the apparent destination changes for no apparent reason.
Whaaaattt?
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
My half-hour presentation to do on Thursday is currently at 22-23 minutes, which seems all right when I want to accommodate lively Q&A. Might add a couple minutes. Am I going to wait until the last minute though to finish up the conclusion and recommendations section of the accompanying report and sort out the bibliography and citations? I don't want to, but all signs point to yes... :/
Actually finished up with 24 hours to spare, which is not last minute for me.
I suppose on Friday I'll start my ten-page report due Monday.
In other news, found in my Spam folder a (legit) invitation to an awards dinner (why would intra-university e-mail go to the Spam folder?). Is it impolite not to go if you're going to be the recipient of one of the rewards? (I'm guessing probably.) After my final exam next Thursday, last thing I'm going to want to do is set foot on campus again, but I suppose it wouldn't do to be ungracious. :x
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Status: Weighing the benefits of getting a wireless HDMI broadcaster setup for my Oculus.
In theory it's useful outside of VR, but that's still a hefty pill to swallow...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I get called a robot all the time because I come off as emotionally atypical.
I have no problem with this sort of thing.
BEHUMA~1.EXE
is successful!
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STATUS:
Apparently this is a thing
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Status: Feeding random test streams into my decoding pipeline to see how it manages. No sound but this stream is currently interviewing someone described as simply 'Dog Expert'.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So I'm starting two child processes. The first of them generates a bunch of output. The second is a shell script which consumes that output. Starting them in a pipeline via the shell works as expected. But if I start them both separately and connect them via an anonymous pipe myself (directly, no copy in my process) then the trailing part of the data vanishes.
I'm stumped.
Sounds like you need a
fflush
Except I'm dealing with pipes, so I'm not using stdio, nor am I reading or writing to that thing myself at all.
UI worked around it by writing the data to file and then passing a read handle for the file to the stdin of the script, which also doesn't show the problem. But I don't like not knowing why it didn't work.
I might have to dig into the actual script. There's some timing sensitivities, and it might be the script is starting some other command on the background which reads from that descriptor; that'd steal data if the descriptor is a pipe but not if it's a file. I think.
Found it. Through a twist of my backing code, the read end of the pipe was left in nonblocking mode. And apparently that is preserved over exec.
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@pleegwat I've seen that sort of thing before. Caused whole loads of my unit tests to fail as the programs concerned were mostly not designed to handle non-blocking I/O on their stderr channel…
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STATUS
Trying to get my company stock cashout / "exit bonus" approved by the bank.
I am using the "ignorant yokel" method. "Hi bank teller, here's my situation. You figure out what needs to happen now."
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I get called a robot all the time because I come off as emotionally atypical. It doesn't bother me a bit.
Of course, since robots don't have emotions
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Status: Ok, so this database is for a third party vendor product and it's self contained, so we can just leave it behind since the vendor doesn't support the new version of SQL... Oh, wait, why is this unrelated view in this other database that we moved broken now... it's retreiving data from where?!?!
sigh
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STATUS:
Damn, the new coworker is getting on my nerves a bit... He's too much in awe of me for some reason and too much of a complainer. Also, if he were to be given a mettle, I wouldn't hold my hopes up.
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status Officially PISSED
Quicken, you are officially a complete piece of shit. Evidently, I just hit end-of-life for Quicken2015. I can no longer download data from my bank (ok, I knew that was coming - but I thought it was still a ways off). To top it off, I can't even import data that I download from the bank's website! (This I did not expect) Of course, I can pay them a ransom and upgrade... Fuck them.
It's time to stop procrastinating and convert to a different program. This should be fun - I have data going back to 1991...
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Status: Listening to an international webcast about how they're shuffling around the top of our company. They've now said to the whole business that we're going to use SAFe, and use 90-day sprints. Someone is also going to be like... Head of Agile or something.
I can't even.
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@magus 90-day sprints? That has to be a record. The sprint is an entire quarter! Even waterfall shops iterate faster than that.
That also means the sprint planning is going to take like 2 solid weeks, that'll be fun.
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@blakeyrat My palms and face were connected for a significant portion of the meeting.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
90-day sprints
They should call it a Jules Verne instead of a sprint.
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Status: I feel like if I should have so many brokers, that maybe I should be getting something in return?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
90-day sprints? That has to be a record.
It's the ultramarathon of sprints…
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Status: On holiday for a few days. Going to my brother's place tomorrow for an extended holiday weekend…
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
90-day sprints
They may as well call them verizons instead of sprints, if they take that long.
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@pie_flavor Dammit you stole my joke