The Official Status Thread
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@onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate networking.
That is all.
You could come visit my network lab then. I've spent the week dismantling it and making an inventory of the equipment, so there's a lack of actual networking happening there right now. Also plenty of Cisco routers that are old enough to have AUI Ethernet connectors.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden Personally I'd say the selling point is to be able to write notes and things to do. Like I wanted to do the other day in my work computer but couldn't.
But hey, there's a simple and good solution for everyone: you know how apps with ads or in-game purchases have a little warning about that right below the download button? Do the same. "This product requires registration with Microsoft to use" (with a link to show more details).
Of course OneNote is bundled with Windows 10 so it would still bypass that. The solution would be to not bundle it with Windows 10.
Did you have to pay for those apps? No? Then why are you whining.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Did you have to pay for those apps? No? Then why are you whining.
Gonna quote that next time someone complains about Git
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Status: Queued for Path of Exile's Incursion League... 2 hours to go, 2.5k before me in the queue :D
Anyone who's interested at all, crazy time travel shenanigans are about to begin, so this would be a good day to start. The game is beating WoW on twitch with the server down :D
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Status: Steam thinks I'm GR33T.
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Status: On holiday.
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Status: safely arrived in Atlanta after nearly 8 hours. Other than a stop for gas and lunch, the big factor was traffic. A crash (involving a semi whose cab was completely gone due to fire) near Gainesville and a series of crashes (and the subsequent redirects from Google) in Atlanta made me irritated.
But that's stage 1 down. From here on out, I have no specific plans, no hotel reservations, no one waiting for me. Just a list of cities to visit and graves to find.
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Status: Wanna open
.text
with a text editor? Here's some New apps that say they can!
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@potatoengineer an engineer who decorates? You're TRWTF. My wife is officially in charge of any and all decorating in my house...
My wife gets final say, but I do, indeed, have some of my own decorations in my house (including a couple of properly-framed posters of dragons). At work, of course, I am lord and master of decorations.... but my wife keeps giving me posters and cube toys to decorate with, so I'd say about a third of the work decorations are my wife's.
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@potatoengineer I was going to say that I haven't contributed anything whatsoever to my home's decor, but then I remembered that's not completely true anymore since I went to a painting class with her a few weeks ago and we both ended up with a canvas to bring home. She decided where to hang them, though.
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@sockpuppet7 Don't worry, being alive is only a temporary nuisance and will soon pass.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
graves to find.
I'm real forgetful--sometimes I have to go and check to make sure the people I buried are still where I left them.
Really, I'm taking a roadtrip up through the ancestral areas of my family, looking for anything I can find about them. One main goal is to find out about my grandpa's real father--he was the result of a fling (not adulterous because each person was a widow(er)). He didn't know until he was an adult--he was told otherwise and the birth certificate shows her husband, who was dead 2 years at the time my grandpa was born.
I have a name, and a tiny tiny little town in Kansas (on the Missouri border).
I have a bunch of others (further back, mainly mid 1800s) we know a bit more about, but I'm trying to find and photograph graves and any other information I can find.
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@tsaukpaetra don't you back yourself up? I guess you're still done when there isn't anyone to restore it or in the thermal death of the universe.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra don't you back yourself up? I guess you're still done when there isn't anyone to restore it or in the thermal death of the universe.
It's not the same though, no.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra don't you back yourself up? I guess you're still done when there isn't anyone to restore it or in the thermal death of the universe.
It's not the same though, no.
You ever read We Are Legion We Are Bob?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra don't you back yourself up? I guess you're still done when there isn't anyone to restore it or in the thermal death of the universe.
It's not the same though, no.
You ever read We Are Legion We Are Bob?
Never heard of it.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
One main goal is to find out about my grandpa's real father
Cool. My great grandfather is a bit of a mystery, too. I have lots of details on the family both before and after him, but he's my "missing link." I might have to take trips to Iowa and Ohio someday. What I'd really like to do, though, is go to England and find out where my family came from originally, but I have no idea where to start looking; as far as I know, my earliest paternal ancestor spontaneously generated as a full-grown adult in America in the 1600's.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
One main goal is to find out about my grandpa's real father
Cool. My great grandfather is a bit of a mystery, too. I have lots of details on the family both before and after him, but he's my "missing link." I might have to take trips to Iowa and Ohio someday. What I'd really like to do, though, is go to England and find out where my family came from originally, but I have no idea where to start looking; as far as I know, my earliest paternal ancestor spontaneously generated as a full-grown adult in America in the 1600's.
We have family history (probably false, but
) on one line back to the Norman conquest. Only way that happened was it ran into a noble line. Even then, the genealogies were often based more on power relationships than actual genetics.
Mine are mostly in the US until about the Revolution. Some came over later--my paternal grandfather's mother (the same one whose paramour I need to find) came over about 1900 from Leipzig; her parents, we believe, were Czech. But most of the ones we know of are Scottish, Irish, or English. With a few Continental types, but those are few and far between.
I hadn't known until recently that most of mine were from the South--I'd thought we had come in more recently and gone through New England. Most of mine, it turns out, came via Virginia or Georgia to Missouri/Texas (post civil war/early 1900s) and then west. Except for the few who came west around the time of the Mormon Pioneers.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Never heard of it before today.
FTFY
Heard is past tense and accurate until the time of writing at the point of inquiry.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra don't you back yourself up? I guess you're still done when there isn't anyone to restore it or in the thermal death of the universe.
It's not the same though, no.
You ever read We Are Legion We Are Bob?
Never heard of it.
You would probably enjoy it.
edit: wtf why are audible noneboxes in canadianese?
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@benjamin-hall And doing some snooping with what I knew gave me a draft card, a census record (with the name misspelled), and a grave site. Isn't the internet wonderful!
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
why are audible noneboxes in canadianese
.ca
But the link is to
.com
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
her parents, we believe, were Czech. But most of the ones we know of are Scottish, Irish, or English. With a few Continental types, but those are few and far between.
My mom always said her family was Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French and German, but the only actual evidence I've found is for Welsh and German. (The German line can be traced in the church records of a little town in Bavaria back to the 1400's.) The only Irish I've found is on my dad's side, and they were Northern Irish Protestants with an English surname. There's German on my dad's side, too. There's a family Bible that names the town they allegedly came from; the only trouble is, there is no such town, at least not in modern-day Germany. And the alleged name of the town happens to be a very common human name, which makes it very difficult to find relevant information.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
a census record (with the name misspelled),
Gotta love the spelling variants. My aforementioned earliest paternal ancestor has his name spelled three different ways on a single page of the town records of the town in which he sprang into existence. (Edit: Each of the variants has a different Soundex, too.)
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status: wow, Windows decided to force itself on me for the first time in months. My uptime is ruined again!
Edit: WTF happened to the task view button???
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: wow, Windows decided to force itself on me for the first time in months. My uptime is ruined again!
Edit: WTF happened to the task view button???
timeline. You can scroll it now.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: wow, Windows decided to force itself on me for the first time in months. My uptime is ruined again!
Edit: WTF happened to the task view button???
timeline. You can scroll it now.
I can scroll it, but nothing about what I'm seeing indicates it's a timeline...
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@tsaukpaetra You have to be using apps that support it. e.g. I get it with Office documents and the one page I've ever visited in Edge. Basically, windows you've closed can be reopened.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just used Task Manager to kill an unresponsive Task Manager. I have a feeling it's going to be one of those days.
Edit: It's taken all of a minute to confirm that suspicion. Jesus. Powershell refused to launch, every task manager window ended up unresponsive when I tried to close it. Eventually I just rebooted it, at which point it told me that some window was preventing shutdown, and then froze on that screen preventing me from clicking shut down anyway, and then made several 'boop' noises and the screen went black and it didn't shut down.Happened again, word for word. Goddamn. I've got my suspicions about what's causing it.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You have to be using apps that support it.
Oh, so basically nothing then. GG.
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status: one of my favorite Bolo Fics just updated. 28 chapters, each about 3-4k words each!
I predict much sleep loss for the next few days...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You have to be using apps that support it.
Oh, so basically nothing then. GG.
Visual Studio supports it.
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I bought cheap shaving cream. Unfortunately the can didn't state that it has menthol. Menthol produces a "cold effect", that some people might like but I find so extremely unpleasing it's borderline painful. Fuck this.
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OOifying this C++ code-- look how pretty it is!
Oh. Dependency loop.
Uh, hm.
*wanders off to do anything other than figuring that out*
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You have to be using apps that support it.
Oh, so basically nothing then. GG.
Visual Studio supports it.
We'll see. I am trying to program a utility to disable background Wi-Fi scanning (it doesn't seem to work).
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
OOifying this C++ code-- look how pretty it is!
Oh. Dependency loop.
Uh, hm.
*wanders off to do anything other than figuring that out*
Took a walk and got caught in the rain a few miles later. On the way, thought of some ways to redesign that would have worked until I realized I had additional requirements.
So, people who are better at C++ than me: How do you have a "parent" class return a "child" class that maintains a reference to its parent? I know I've done this before, I just don't remember how and I'm getting a header loop right now.
Edit: Note that parent and child do not refer to type hierarchy.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
How do you have a "parent" class return a "child" class that maintains a reference to its parent?
My first thought is to have the child provide a constructor that takes the parent type as an argument. Don't include the parent class in the child class's header, just the CPP side IIIRC.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I get it with Office
Oh, right, speaking of...
goddammit why?!?!? I specifically uninstalled these last time, why are you bringing them back?!?!???
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
My first thought is to have the child provide a constructor that takes the parent type as an argument. Don't include the parent class in the child class's header, just the CPP side IIIRC.
I did that and that's what got me into the mess. :(
A forward declaration without header wouldn't compile (maybe because I have the parent as a member variable and it wants to check and see if there's a default constructor).
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
A forward declaration without header wouldn't compile (maybe because I have the parent as a member variable and it wants to check and see if there's a default constructor).
Hmm...
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@tsaukpaetra It occurs to me it shouldn't care if the member variable is an incomplete type as long as the membership is by reference and not by value. I could have sworn I was using a reference, but I'll have to check when I get back to my computer.
Edit: I think I know what I was doing. I'm pretty sure I was using a reference but when I was trying to actually use the member variable in my source file and it didn't work, I tried to add CParent.h to the child header file. Need to add it to the child source file. See, long walks solve all problems, eventually.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
why are you bringing them back?!?!???
That's it, I'm leaving a review for each of these.
Huh, looks like my 5-year-old bro is doing the rating. Rip.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Huh, looks like my 5-year-old bro is doing the rating. Rip.
Why does your 5-year-old bro have a Microsoft account? He shouldn't. :X
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Huh, looks like my 5-year-old bro is doing the rating. Rip.
Why does your 5-year-old bro have a Microsoft account? He shouldn't. :X
Child account because XBone requires it now.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Child account because XBone requires it now.
Oh right, I forgot those exist and are COPPA-mitigated.