The Official Status Thread
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Calling for suggestions for magic 8 ball messages.
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"CLOSED_WONTFIX
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"The answer is right where you left it."
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"TDEMSYR"
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"500 OK
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"Why don't you ask your shoulder aliens?"
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I fucking hate UV maps
Can't you just draw quads on the faces? Without having given it much thought, that sounds easier.
(Well, kind of irrelevant since you've already finished it.)
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Status: Laptop just decided to power off. Again.
Apparently these Thinkpads have been doing this to others too. No bluescreen. No warning. Just sudden power cut.
F**k Windows 10.
And I was just typing a post to the Status thread too, which I now have to type all over again...
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And I was just typing a post to the Status thread too, which I now have to type all over again...
So, apparently the system crashes so hard the auto-save stops working?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And I was just typing a post to the Status thread too, which I now have to type all over again...
So, apparently the system crashes so hard the auto-save stops working?
Looks to me like it just loses power. but I still have 30% battery, so that shouldn't be possible. And Firefox saves once per some minutes, not every keystroke.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And Firefox saves once per some minutes, not every keystroke.
Ah. In my Chrome it seems NodeBB saves it after getting the preview back, but I'm not in the code so I can't verify.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And Firefox saves once per some minutes, not every keystroke.
Ah. In my Chrome it seems NodeBB saves it after getting the preview back, but I'm not in the code so I can't verify.
Oh, you meant offline storage. Seems like it wasn't backed up. Maybe Firefox just keeps that in RAM if I've set it to purge on close. Which I have.
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@Zerosquare
"Go watch some porn"
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And I was just typing a post to the Status thread too, which I now have to type all over again...
So, apparently the system crashes so hard the auto-save stops working?
Looks to me like it just loses power. but I still have 30% battery, so that shouldn't be possible. And Firefox saves once per some minutes, not every keystroke.
The battery might be too weak and falls below safe operating output so the hardware instantly shuts down to protect itself.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
No bluescreen. No warning. Just sudden power cut.
Sound like an Apple slogan.
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Status: Seriously tempted to try and make a cosplay costume (if not sets in), although if going to show it off at DH I only got 150 days to make it. Found a nice, cuddly character that resembles me.
I just need big horns and ears, then make a massive armor, a big cape and a tiny crown. And a massive trident.
But he's just a big silly and cuddly cutie really~
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And I was just typing a post to the Status thread too, which I now have to type all over again...
So, apparently the system crashes so hard the auto-save stops working?
Looks to me like it just loses power. but I still have 30% battery, so that shouldn't be possible. And Firefox saves once per some minutes, not every keystroke.
The battery might be too weak and falls below safe operating output so the hardware instantly shuts down to protect itself.
Except:
- This has happened to others in the office. (I think I stated this.)
- The first time it happened, a month ago, the laptop was plugged in.
- I can compile just fine. ( -j6, gcc, on 4-core i5)
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Laptop just decided to power off. Again.
Apparently these Thinkpads have been doing this to others too. No bluescreen. No warning. Just sudden power cut.
F**k Windows 10.
Erm, that's very likely not the fault of Win10.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Laptop just decided to power off. Again.
Apparently these Thinkpads have been doing this to others too. No bluescreen. No warning. Just sudden power cut.
F**k Windows 10.
Erm, that's very likely not the fault of Win10.
It's the only common factor. Although all laptops in the company are Thinkpads, there's several models affected. And I never had this problem before I updated from Win7 to Win10.
Well, yes, Lenovo may have released a driver update that borked the BIOS.
But since Win10, I can't know what gets updated and when. So I can still blame Win10.
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@acrow There's another common factor: "Thinkpad".
After all, I've yet to experience such a power down on one of the devices at my school. And we have a plethora of devices on Win10.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And I was just typing a post to the Status thread too, which I now have to type all over again...
So, apparently the system crashes so hard the auto-save stops working?
Looks to me like it just loses power. but I still have 30% battery, so that shouldn't be possible. And Firefox saves once per some minutes, not every keystroke.
The battery might be too weak and falls below safe operating output so the hardware instantly shuts down to protect itself.
Except:
- This has happened to others in the office. (I think I stated this.)
- The first time it happened, a month ago, the laptop was plugged in.
- I can compile just fine. ( -j6, gcc, on 4-core i5)
Battery problems happen to laptops even when plugged in, and at one place I worked there was this particular problem with a batch of bad batteries that would cause the system todo a hard emergency shutdown. If you ran the laptop without the battery, it worked fine. With a bad battery it would randomly go poof. With a good battery, it wouldn't.
It's entirely possible it's a driver fucking things up as well.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow There's another common factor: "Thinkpad".
After all, I've yet to experience such a power down on one of the devices at my school. And we have a plethora of devices on Win10.
Technically true. But it would be a lot easier to blame Lenovo if I got to see the driver update on the list, like Windows 7 used to have, before the machine starts to misbehave.
Hell, I'm not sure whether my laptop went to sleep as a version 1903(?) and woke up as version 1909. Because it apparently doesn't bother to say it.
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And I was just typing a post to the Status thread too, which I now have to type all over again...
So, apparently the system crashes so hard the auto-save stops working?
Looks to me like it just loses power. but I still have 30% battery, so that shouldn't be possible. And Firefox saves once per some minutes, not every keystroke.
The battery might be too weak and falls below safe operating output so the hardware instantly shuts down to protect itself.
Except:
- This has happened to others in the office. (I think I stated this.)
- The first time it happened, a month ago, the laptop was plugged in.
- I can compile just fine. ( -j6, gcc, on 4-core i5)
Battery problems happen to laptops even when plugged in, and at one place I worked there was this particular problem with a batch of bad batteries that would cause the system todo a hard emergency shutdown. If you ran the laptop without the battery, it worked fine. With a bad battery it would randomly go poof. With a good battery, it wouldn't.
This is also possible. And should cause a big honking banner on the screen on next reboot. But the number of quality computer suppliers is still zero, so we don't get that. We don't even get a system log entry. So this is all guesswork.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I fucking hate UV maps
Also:
That's a D12 not a D20........ ;-P
(seriously though. looking fine!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And I was just typing a post to the Status thread too, which I now have to type all over again...
So, apparently the system crashes so hard the auto-save stops working?
The auto-save here has been extremely Discoursistent IME. Sometimes it'll save whatever and popup right away in the next session; other times it won't, but it'll popup randomly a few weeks later.
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Status: My dad has found a use case that his old Surface RT would be perfect for. Unfortunately, the battery seems to be completely shot and replacement batteries for that device are surprisingly expensive.
I might try to take it apart whenever I have time and jiggle the internal connectors, maybe that'll help.
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:comedy_mask: No more face-to-face meetings on Mondays, so I can work from home.
:drama_mask: I commuted to the office before I noticed that.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
:comedy_mask: :drama_mask:
.... TO THE EMOJI TESTING THREAD! AWAY!!!!!!!
/me curls up in a sunbeam and has a nap instead
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
:comedy_mask: :drama_mask:
.... TO THE EMOJI TESTING THREAD! AWAY!!!!!!!
/me curls up in a sunbeam and has a nap instead
/me sets up the popcorn machine
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
:comedy_mask: :drama_mask:
.... TO THE EMOJI TESTING THREAD! AWAY!!!!!!!
/me curls up in a sunbeam and has a nap instead
/me sets up the popcorn machine
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Status: WinSCP dinged and put a notification that the remote server unexpectedly terminated connection, but by the time I looked at the window it automatically reconnected and resumed the upload. I guess the notification was just "FYI, dealt with a networking situation"
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A what now?
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Google says that hex code is the video scheduler thing again. So I think this new Nvidia driver I installed is not stable.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Because it apparently doesn't bother to say it.
What, your 'View update history" doesn't work?
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@error
:you_dont_say.gif:
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Status: Launched the UE4 editor. Well, I think I have. It's been running for ten minutes and I don't see a window yet...
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BOTH my grants went ahead to the next stage.
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
BOTH my grants went ahead to the next stage.
*starts baking cupcakes...*
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
BOTH my grants went ahead to the next stage.
*starts baking cupcakes...*
What do I have to do to get some of those?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
BOTH my grants went ahead to the next stage.
*starts baking cupcakes...*
What do I have to do to get some of those?
Fuck and give me money?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
What do I have to do to get some of those?
Reboot @Tsaukpaetra while holding the "joystick"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
BOTH my grants went ahead to the next stage.
*starts baking cupcakes...*
What do I have to do to get some of those?
Fuck and give me money?
If you can handle the ride...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
BOTH my grants went ahead to the next stage.
*starts baking cupcakes...*
What do I have to do to get some of those?
Fuck and give me money?
If you can handle the ride...
I never said it would be me.
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@Tsaukpaetra whatβs the significance of that flag?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra whatβs the significance of that flag?
It's a that got autocorrected somehow....
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@Tsaukpaetra
:tangerine:
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Dealing with lots of fuckery getting OpenGL bindings working on Node for Windows.
Considering WTF options:
- delegating rendering to headless Chrome
- running the bot in a container, but not sure if it would be able to access my physical GPU
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Headless GL sort-of works but it doesn't support WebGL2 and - more importantly - doesn't seem to support anisotropic filtering.
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If I do use headless Chrome for the render, I'll be sure to export the image as a screenshot of a canvas element on an HTML page with a wooden table background image.
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@Tsaukpaetra No, I've already got a scene backdrop. This will be to emphasize the WTFness of having to spawn a browser and screenshot it to get a render.
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Oh, and I have to produce a browserized bundle and spawn a local web server for this...
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And BSoD.
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@dcon Oh. I didn't know they'd kept the log. Let's see...
"2019-12 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1803 for ...". Not a lot of information for these. Clicking on the link tells me ... that the update may compress my files to make space for the update. Not a word for what's in the update itself.I guess this means this machine is on 1803, though. Nice to know.
Ahh... "Driver Updates".
...And it has a "Lenovo - System - 7/24/2019 ..." line.So, I might be able to blame Lenovo. Except I still don't know what changed, or why, and I can't roll it back to test.
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Status: Helped a colleague fix an off-by-one error yesterday that I still don't really understand. I do know that we had checked that the data sender and receiver were correct, so that the problem had to be between, but why changing that particular 1 to 2 (in a packet reassembly module bridging two very different networks) fixed a random data corruption bug that injected pure garbage in the stream (to the point where the receiver's implementation of the comms protocol crashed) is mysterious. But my colleague was pretty happy to find whatever it was.
So yay, I guess...
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra No, I've already got a scene backdrop. This will be to emphasize the WTFness of having to spawn a browser and screenshot it to get a render.
E_INSUFFICIENT_
You should have a printer spit out the result on an actual wooden table, then (using Excel macros) have a webcam take a picture, insert it into a PowerPoint document and upload the result to a FTP server running the 1999 version of Microsoft IIS.
You could then tell people it's a modern piece of art about the futility of life, or something.