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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
IYTM
I you think mean?
Oops.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
IYTM
I you think mean?
Oops.
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Thread.sleep(value_from_config)
This is not going to end well.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Immediately after RDPing to a server, I get a popup saying I was logged out because someone's got in with the same login.
This made me worried, because that was my personal login. No one else should be using it, or even know its password!
Took me a second to see the popup was in the RDP session; from when I RDP to that server into another.
I remember stuff like that when I worked at VMware... 2 physical machines, 3 monitors, 2 keyboards, and innumerable VMs going down multiple sessions going back/forth/inside the 2 machines.
More than once I got lost and just closed everything and started over.
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@frillunflop said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Sometimes bad is better than consistently bad.
Unless "sometimes bad" means "The game will occasionally run at 2 frames per second."
I'll take "occasionally runs at 2 frames per second but otherwise it's stable 60FPS" over "never goes below 15 but never goes above 30".
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Unrelated: my primary PC is a laptop/tablet 2-in-1
Oh, so not a real PC. Gotcha.
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@Dragoon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Unrelated: my primary PC is a laptop/tablet 2-in-1
Oh, so not a real PC. Gotcha.
My primary
PCcomputer is a MacBook Air.(Not counting the 40 core, 128GB terminal server at work)
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@Dragoon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Unrelated: my primary PC is a laptop/tablet 2-in-1
Oh, so not a real PC. Gotcha.
Just a workstation more powerful than 90% of non-gamer consumer PCs.
Filed under: No true PC.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Just a workstation more powerful than 90% of non-gamer consumer PCs.
I don't know if anyone else is still using an ancient, midrange gaming PC, but I'm pretty sure each of my work laptops, including a 2-in-1 tablet, would beat the pants off of it, especially if you don't include GPU-intensive loads (and maybe even if you do)
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I'd write a picross puzzle module for the bot if I had a good source of ultra-low-res line art.
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@error Pictopix on Steam has user created content, and it forces you to make it unambiguously solvable, but it may be difficult/impossible to use those puzzles.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
it may be difficult/impossible to use those puzzles.
Looks like Unity. I could probably get the data out. That would probably be a DMCA violation.
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@error I don't think you'd need to do anything with Unity to get the user content from Steam Workshop, but I also don't know either the legal or technical issues with using that as a third-party
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I don't think you'd need to do anything with Unity to get the user content from Steam Workshop, but I also don't know either the legal or technical issues with using that as a third-party
Oh, I just downloaded the game off Itch.io and saw a bunch of Unity bundles.
In addition to the legal problems, I also have ethical problems with ripping off an indie dev's work.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
it forces you to make it unambiguously solvable,
I think I would make it not give you any feedback until you get it right or ask for help (like crossword), but accept any solution that satisfies all constraints.
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Maybe I could pick a random emoji, and do edge detection?
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We use a program called SecretServer at work to manage passwords. I always call it Secret Squirrel and have made many references to Morocco Mole, I just found out that nobody knows what I am talking about.
/sigh
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Just a workstation more powerful than 90% of non-gamer consumer PCs.
I don't know if anyone else is still using an ancient, midrange gaming PC, but I'm pretty sure each of my work laptops, including a 2-in-1 tablet, would beat the pants off of it, especially if you don't include GPU-intensive loads (and maybe even if you do)
My desktop has an i7-2600K, 16 GB of RAM, and a GTX 1060 (6 GB). The video card's an upgrade from a GTX 570 and I've put in a larger SSD as the boot drive, but otherwise the system hasn't changed much since it was put together. It's not the fastest any more, but runs fine and plays games OK.
I haven't had the urge to build a mostly new system, but should before too long. I hear AMD's competitive again nowadays. :)
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Status: So it turns out that if you don't actually give the full connection string to a database connector...it doesn't like itself.
Oh, and a t3.nano instance doesn't have 400G of memory for a buffer pool.
And I don't have the constitution for 8 hours of straight code monkeying, especially in arcane matters (including docker-ception + jenkins + code spread across 3 different branches...).
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
the 40 core, 128GB terminal server at work
Is that memory? You can probably open tens of Chrome tabs!
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Status1: Slowness has returned. I thought I had slain it by turning off the double ad blocker (Brave and uBlock Origin). That worked for a couple of days buit now it's back to acting stupid.
Status2: Pain. Trying to squeeze in some lawn mowing before dark so the township doesn't fine me again. Assholes levied a $200 fine plus $100 in mysterious fees. I don't even live in an HOA. There goes three weeks of extra hours at the store. Well anyway some sort of bug bit me twice and those spots hurt enough that it's difficult for me to ignore. Hopefully that calms down by tomorrow.
Status3: Made some progress on the monster query. Now I'm sort of stuck at figuring out what to do with some of the legacy calculations. Two different issues come up with fixed costs.
- Secondary costs were originally divided even by item count. So shipping and handling for twelve items got divided by twelve and added to each item's base cost for break even. Now, originally, this was because the only secondary costs I tracked were basically fixed. Later I added stuff that should've been applied proportionally by dollar amount but I was lazy ().
Now I have to do hard calculations to provide both options. My current attempt is joining on a Rules table with one row per year.
- Orders sometimes shipped in multiple boxes. If it was one order split into multiple shipments with weeks/months between them, I basically treated each shipment as a separate order. If it was just something that shipped separate boxes at the same time, I didn't. The problem started with I started tracking some aspects of shipping that required those orders to be split up too.
Now, for the items that were already split, changes to secondary cost calculations don't really matter. Having Order 1A and 1B is logically the same as having Order 1 and 2. But for the newer splits, it messes up the secondary costs to be split. So take the following records:
Order 1 - first item - $10 shipping
Order "2" - second item from order 1 (delayed) - $5 shipping
Order 3 - box 1 and box 2 - $20 shippingNow that turns into:
Order 1A - first item - $10 shipping
Order 1B - second item from order 1 (delayed) - $5 shipping
Order 2A - box 1 - $12 shipping
Order 2B - box 2 - $8 shippingItems in Order 3 were all compared against $20. Now as Order 2, some are compared against $12 and others against $8. Lumping both parts of Order 2 together fixes Order 2 but in the process fucks up Order 1.
I had put a flag in to switch between modes when I started this redesign but it makes some of the break even calculations significantly more confusing, and slow, and possibly error prone (if you don't set the same flag on both parts of the order).
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@Dragoon said in The Official Status Thread:
SecretServer
I often get more lost in the damn thing then actually finding what I'm looking for.
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status sigh. I'm going to have to enter the BitLocker recovery key (again) when I boot into Windows next time. The linux side just pushed a bios update to the machine.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe I could pick a random emoji, and do edge detection?
Well, step 1 of the Canny edge detector algorithm is a Gaussian blur... So, I've got that part done.
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@error FWIW, the default emoji set is 32x32 and most if not all have a 1px dead-zone on each edge, so the actual graphics will fit nicely into 30x30. FA, being font based, can be rendered any size, and our custom emotes are all over the place.
30x30 is somewhat large for a Picross puzzle (the upper limit of Pictopix, IIRC), but I've seen bigger ones elsewhere, and for a forum game that size shouldn't be much of a problem. So if the edge detection method works well this could turn out pretty good, aside from no guarantee of unique solutions.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
aside from no guarantee of unique solutions.
It's a feature. Let the users make a meta-game out of finding unintended solutions.
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@error Sounds perfect for WTDWTF
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Status: trying to decipher shit like
into a computer algorithm.
Maybe Wikipedia is not the best reference for this.
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Status: Factorio is actually more engaging than I thought it should be.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Factorio is actually more engaging than I thought it should be.
You'll probably uninstall it in three days because its preventing you do anything else.
status meetings all day so nothing done again. Managed to get an appointment at a different driving license centre so I'm going to be able to start practice in a month or so.
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I haven't played Factorio for a while, but I'm glad to see the this mod is still being updated:
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Status: Almost all the bits of my new rack-mount guitar amplification system have arrived. Evening will consist of plugging things into things. Who doesn't like that?
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status: thinking it's time to finally get rid of this VM. Apparently it can't into encryption no more.
Surprisingly enough, Windows can't update itself out of that.
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Status: IT'S ALIVE!!!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Surprisingly enough, Windows can't update itself out of that.
And surprising nobody, it can't fix itself either.
Whelp!
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Status: Mowed another third of the lawn. It's taking forever because what I assumed was the grass stopping growing was it leaning over and forming a sea of green waves. Most times a riding mower would be overkill but I wish I had one now. I'm also fairly sure what stung me was some sort of bee that lives in tall/thick grass. So far I've managed to avoid a repeat of getting stung. Yesterday's still hurt but only if pressure is applied (not just sitting still....that was annoying).
I also sent a thank you note to the first half of the first interview from yesterday. I probably shouldn't have but I mentioned my surprise at how short and abrupt the second half was compared to the first. I was hoping they might pass along some feedback or suggestions that might have come out of that. Of course I do not really expect to hear anything as I expect my impression of the developers' interest level was correct (oh, you're not on AWS right this second, well, no further questions, thanks for your time).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: thinking it's time to finally get rid of this VM.
It's Windows 7 so.... yeah.
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Yes, but no.
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Nailed it.
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Oh, God, what have I done?
Kill... meee....
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This may have been a huge waste of time.
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I don't think I can convert these images to 1-bit and keep them readable.
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Anybody feel like doodling a bunch of 15x15x1 - 30x30x1 images? (x = y, divisible by 5)
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This may have been a huge waste of time.
May?
Well, insofar as it seems to be a dead end conceptually, not counting the opinion that all error-bot modules are a huge waste of time.
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On the grand scale, all of human history has been a huge waste of time, as it will someday be annihilated when the planet is swallowed by the sun and the eventual heat death of the universe.
Status: existential dread
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@error I'm not sure what other processing goes down but maybe starting with blur is a mistake?
seems like it should get reasonable results if you go down to black/white with fewer pixels.