The Official Status Thread
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
, I'm leaving a review for each of these.
Oh dammit, apparently I had to purchase the app before I could rate it. Despite it being shoved onto my computer without my consent.
Well, now he has Get Office on his account. Yay.
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status guessed wrong which of two towns would have better options. Didn't realize my mistake until I'd checked in to a hotel. Makes it worse that this is supposed to be my home base until Monday (because my real target towns are too small for hotels).
And my Surface pro doesn't like the hotel WiFi--refused to bring up the captive portal, insisting that's it's not connected.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
refused to bring up the captive portal, insisting that's it's not connected.
Can you connect with another device, find out the captive portals IP and then connect to that directly?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
refused to bring up the captive portal, insisting that's it's not connected.
Can you connect with another device, find out the captive portals IP and then connect to that directly?
Tried with my phone. No dice.
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@benjamin-hall Currently tethering my phone (whose wifi works) to the computer via USB. Working quite well.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall Currently tethering my phone (whose wifi works) to the computer via USB. Working quite well.
So long as it's not secretly using your data plan behind your back. :D
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Status: You call that a potato chip? This is a potato chip.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall Currently tethering my phone (whose wifi works) to the computer via USB. Working quite well.
So long as it's not secretly using your data plan behind your back. :D
According to the company's data meter, (which agrees with the phone's own meter), it's fine so far.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
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.
Got everything sorted out. What a lovely framework I have now. ^^
Edit: Also, God I wish I could downvote @sockpuppet7 when he does that.
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Every movie and game with jump scares should have a big warning at the beginning. I'm playing a comedy puzzle game, not a horror!
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@gąska There's even some on this forum!
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
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?
Something in there needs to be a pointer, as you need an inter-object link that does not assert ownership at all.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Every movie and game with jump scares should have a big warning at the beginning. I'm playing a comedy puzzle game, not a horror!
I remember long time ago when games were sold in boxes in shops and had paper manuals, the manual always had an "epilepsy warning".
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@adynathos well, every game has epilepsy warning, so it doesn't tell me anything about content.
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This legit blew my mind! Holy shit!
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Finished my workout two and a half hours ago and my muscles are still tremoring a bit. That's how you know you had a good workout. :P
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Status: Wiktionary article on "teeny-tiny" says that the comparative form is "more teeny-tiny". I'm a bit weirded out by the fact they have this information there.
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A powerline short-circuited here in the street I am. I should have charged my phone earlier.
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@sockpuppet7 a laptop can do as an emergency power bank.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 a laptop can do as an emergency power bank.
He forgot to plug it in last night.
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@stillwater Erm, do you have a gist or something pointing towards the most interesting points of the video?
Because 55 minutes is a bit on the long side.
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Status: puppy stole my spot!
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Status: Is the site feeling a little poorly this evening?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@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?!?!???
The better question is: Why don't you disable that misfeature the first thing you do after installing Windows?
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@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?!?!???
The better question is: Why don't you disable that misfeature the first thing you do after installing Windows?
While I was asleep and unable to prevent it? It's enforced by group policy, but apparently not. I wasn't at my computer when it decided enough was enough, so what else do you want from me?
I'm not as well-connected as I'd like...
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Status: turns out it was my computer's fault it wouldn't connect to the hotel wifi. Ended up doing a whole network reset, that fixed it fine.
Man there are lots of hills here. I'd forgotten what those are like--sharp blind corners, bumps where you come over a rise and almost fly...fun times. And poor cell signal.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
bumps where you come over a rise and almost fly.
Ah, yeah... My trip up to Oregon triggered me to rapidly adjust certain driving habits....
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
bumps where you come over a rise and almost fly.
Ah, yeah... My trip up to Oregon triggered me to rapidly adjust certain driving habits....
I'm getting used to it. Didn't help that I was on tiny country roads (technically 2 lanes, but...) with absolutely zero shoulders (steep drops on either side for a few feet).
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Is the site feeling a little poorly this evening?
I was seeing problems earlier, including here, but they manifested as about a 15% packet drop rate to a wide range of services (but not all). No idea what that says about the health of the network right now…
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
(steep drops on either side for a few feet)
That's similarly fun to having big stone walls (instead of ditches, etc), the usual thing with the country lanes round here.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
(steep drops on either side for a few feet)
That's similarly fun to having big stone walls (instead of ditches, etc), the usual thing with the country lanes round here.
Yeah. No room to dodge. And sharp corners mean that you either go into the other "lane" or you get dangerously close to the edge...
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
No room to dodge.
Better hope you don't meet a farmer with a large tractor coming the other way (seriously, some of the attachments on those look like medieval torture devices writ large). Or a mining/quarry truck or milk tanker.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
No room to dodge.
Better hope you don't meet a farmer with a large tractor coming the other way (seriously, some of the attachments on those look like medieval torture devices writ large). Or a mining/quarry truck or milk tanker.
Amen. Heck, even big pickup trucks (the ones with dual rear axles) are scary enough on those roads.
And the lack of LoS means you can very suddenly run across one of those scary vehicles, moving very slowly. Or in the other direction.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
bumps where you come over a rise and almost fly.
Ah, yeah... My trip up to Oregon triggered me to rapidly adjust certain driving habits....
I'm getting used to it. Didn't help that I was on tiny country roads (technically 2 lanes, but...) with absolutely zero shoulders (steep drops on either side for a few feet).
That’s normal roads up in northern Minnesota. You normally drive them @ 55mph and hope your mirrors survive passing the Ford F450 doing the same speed in the opposite direction.
Plus some of the roads are basically uncovered “tunnels” blasted in huge rock formations, the others, yep, nice 10-15’ drops on the sides.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater Erm, do you have a gist or something pointing towards the most interesting points of the video?
Because 55 minutes is a bit on the long side.
I think you should check out stuff after the 30 minute mark. It has so many interesting things built around AI based Intellisense, context based autocomplete suggestions, unit testing running while you edit the code, editor configs that dictate coding style, stepping into code via breakpoints but in the reverse direction!
The VS team seems like they really care about the shit they do and some of the features are not just bells and whistles but extremely useful in the daily coding-debugging-testing cycle.
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Status: The Arduino IDE is kinda shitty. Why can't I open the "Library" files so I can inspect what functions are available? Why is there no such thing as Autocomplete? Poor and broken seems to be the name of the game...
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Status: Found an oddly-named batch file on the desktop:
What the hell? Which machine got hacked????
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's enforced by group policy, but apparently not.
So group policy has disabled automatic suggested app install, but it installs apps automatically anyway?
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's enforced by group policy, but apparently not.
So group policy has disabled automatic suggested app install, but it installs apps automatically anyway?
So it appears. It also appears that somehow whether or not wlan autoconfig is enabled is also "set by group policy", but I've never set that...
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Abolitionists are so annoying. We get it, you don't like slavery, but you don't have to be so self-righteous about it, learn to respect other people's lifestyle choices. I had to stop hanging out with non slave owning friends because they got just so damn preachy about it.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Found an oddly-named batch file on the desktop:
What the hell? Which machine got hacked????
Reading through that script, it:
- profiles the workstation (system version, CPU type, domain, etc.)
- checks whether it's running as admin
- detects installed web browsers (and versions)
- checks web history for presence of various sites (banking, shopping, and dating)
- copies the results to the clipboard
- deletes itself
Looks to me sort of like IT was checking up on you and forgot to cover its tracks...
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Just got a letter: "Hey, we just (?!) looked at your 2015 state taxes and it looks like you made a mistake. A mistake common enough that we have a form letter for it. Anyway, you owe us $700 now; HTH HAND."
Great.
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The things users put up with that are absolutely unacceptable.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater Erm, do you have a gist or something pointing towards the most interesting points of the video?
Because 55 minutes is a bit on the long side.
I think you should check out stuff after the 30 minute mark. It has so many interesting things built around AI based Intellisense, context based autocomplete suggestions, unit testing running while you edit the code, editor configs that dictate coding style, stepping into code via breakpoints but in the reverse direction!
The VS team seems like they really care about the shit they do and some of the features are not just bells and whistles but extremely useful in the daily coding-debugging-testing cycle.
Too bad that I suspect that most of those features (the unit test stuff definitely!) are locked behind the Enterprise paywall.
I could somewhat justify paying for the Professional variant. But Enterprise is definitely way too expensive for me.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Too bad that I suspect that most of those features (the unit test stuff definitely!) are locked behind the Enterprise paywall.
Yeah, that is definitely the case, but it's also been that way for months now. It isn't a new feature. But maybe they'll come to their senses eventually.
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@heterodox He was probably just being polite.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks to me sort of like IT was checking up on you and forgot to cover its tracks...
This is one of my house PCs....I am the IT...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This is one of my house PCs....I am the IT...
So, you forgot to cover your tracks