The Official Status Thread
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@topspin the best part really was Jennifer Lawrence’s character’s frustration:
Watch out for him. He’ll charge you for free shit.
I’ve gone over it again and again and again and I still can’t make any sense of it. [Audience thinks she’s talking about the public’s lack of reaction to the comet]
He’s a 3 star general, he works in the pentagon, why would he charge us for free snacks?That’s so relatable. In all of this madness of people shrugging of the (avertible) apocalypse, I feel that this petty shit would’ve frustrated me for weeks, too.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
As long as you have IE installed, the WebBrowser control Just Works
But then you have IE installed. Eeeewwww!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It raises a question, though. I've seen other people using iPads for sheet music, and I've wondered how the page turns are triggered. (The people I see using them in person, who I could ask, have to swipe, just like paper sheet music.) Is there a foot switch or something we can't see in the video? Is there a human page turner, just like performing from paper sheet music, but able to be not on stage/camera? Or is the software analyzing audio from the microphone to determine when the performer reaches the end of the page?
I wonder if the iPad/software is using its video camera to watch the position of the performer's head? A common thing in concert with a human page turner is for the performer to nod their head when the page should be turned; being able to mimic that would seem an obvious approach and I believe that systems are able to do that sort of tracking now. Don't know if it's how it is done though; it's just the method that I'd expect (given that pianists and organists often have busy feet when playing).
I'm familiar with a head nod to indicate a page turn. I once, a long time ago, back in university, turned pages for our church organist during a concert. Since I hadn't done it before, he made his nods very obvious. (I was, of course, reading along as he played, so I was prepared to turn the page immediately when he nodded.)
I've watched the organist and not noticed him nodding his head. If the software is tracking his head movements, it's doing a better job than I am.
This question came up in the chat for one of his "live" streams yesterday. Apparently, he posted a video about it some time in the past, which I never saw.
Yes, it does use the iPad's camera and software I've forgotten the name of (and to look through 6 hours of chat from yesterday's video). It doesn't look for a nod of his head, but according to the chat, there's a particular way he twitches his mouth to turn the page. I'll have to take the chat's word for that (or go find that old video), because the twitch isn't noticeable from the camera angles (usually looking over his shoulder) the viewers can see while he's streaming.
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Status: Disassembled an old external hard drive that'd failed (repeated disconnects, wouldn't stay connected via USB) and found a perfectly normal SATA spinny disk inside, with a converter/controller to turn it into USB. Not even really USB-c--it was the micro usb 3 weirdness. Of course it was MBR, so only 2 TB of the 3 TB nominal capacity was useable without shenanigans. Or reformatting as GPT, since the data had been written off a long time ago. If it actually finishes formatting, I'll probably try to repurpose it for my upcoming server (assuming that has a slot for such a thing) to complement the 500 GB SSD that it already has. If it doesn't, well, it was dead to me anyway.
But formatting a 3TB spinny disk (probably not the fastest drive either, since it was a commodity external drive) is going to take a good chunk of time.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
If it actually finishes formatting
..... .... ... Oh, you're long formatting. If it's that old that doing such is considered a logical thing to do, maybe it's just tossable anyways.
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@Benjamin-Hall: careful. You're starting to sound like @Tsaukpaetra...
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Status: Having trouble decoding this QR code...
Not sure what I'm doing wrong...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
maybe it's just tossable
Words I would not expect from our resident user of obsolete and inadequate hardware.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
maybe it's just tossable
Words I would not expect from our resident user of obsolete and inadequate hardware.
I do have limits!
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status: what if this stress sweat is actually what Covid smells like?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Having trouble decoding this QR code...
Not sure what I'm doing wrong...
Without putting any effort into decoding it, I'm just going to assume it's a rickroll.
Edit: unless it's loss.
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@Tsaukpaetra doesn't show anything for me on the phone. (Or maybe it's just not a URL so the phone ignores it?)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Having trouble decoding this QR code...
Not sure what I'm doing wrong...
Maybe you just need to give me up.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Having trouble decoding this QR code...
Not sure what I'm doing wrong...
Isn't there supposed to be an additional (smaller) alignment mark in the bottom right corner? Or is that omitted below a certain code size? The other alignment marks I know of are present. It could also be of course that the error correction data intentionally conflicts with the payload.
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No you grow up.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Or is that omitted below a certain code size?
Yes. There is also a variant that just has the one alignment target.
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@Boner said in The Official Status Thread:
No you grow up.
I will never grow tired of posting the same old ...
username checks out
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Having trouble decoding this QR code...
Not sure what I'm doing wrong...
My qrcode scanner shows that it's a TEXT type qrcode with metadata "H"
e: As opposed to a QRCode that says "metadata H" which looks like this and has metadata "M":
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Status: I think I'm going to strangle someone. And that someone will absolutely be myself.
Consider the following expression:
request.adminResponse ? request.adminResponse : AdminAction.Pending
where
adminResponse
is a nullable TS enum type (AdminAction
|null
). One of the valid values of which enum type is 0. And note thatAdminAction.Pending == 1
.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I think I'm going to strangle someone. And that someone will absolutely be myself.
Consider the following expression:
request.adminResponse ? request.adminResponse : AdminAction.Pending
where
adminResponse
is a nullable TS enum type (AdminAction
|null
). One of the valid values of which enum type is 0. And note thatAdminAction.Pending == 1
.And this is why friends don't let friends use
falsey assertionsJavaScript
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@Tsaukpaetra It appears to be a perfectly valid version 1 QR code, whose sole data block is empty.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra It appears to be a perfectly valid version 1 QR code, whose sole data block is empty.
So I've been trolled, got it😒...
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status: neat!
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status I keep meaning to read infinite jest but then I read a quote from the book and think: he's almost as illiterate as I am. It's often mentioned in the same breath as ulysses, a lesson in tedium to be honest and that's coming from a fellow countryman. maybe I should learn my lesson and move on.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
maybe it's just tossable
Words I would not expect from our resident user of obsolete and inadequate hardware.
I just figured the sentence was truncated:
into the mail, addressed to me.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
maybe it's just tossable
Words I would not expect from our resident user of obsolete and inadequate hardware.
I just figured the sentence was truncated:
into the mail, addressed to me.
I recycled some 20 drives after scrapping them.
Magnets are fun.
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Status: Hacked a web application to let me search for someone else's records by removing the
readonly
attribute from an input element (which contains the user ID, automatically filled to the currently-logged-on user).It totally worked!
But then trying to access the returned records returned a "That don't belong to you, GTFO!" error.
So close!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Hacked a web application to let me search for someone else's records by removing the
readonly
attribute from an input element (which contains the user ID, automatically filled to the currently-logged-on user).It totally worked!
But then trying to access the returned records returned a "That don't belong to you, GTFO!" error.
So close!
Did you look at the returned raw data for the list of records? Sometimes people area but silly and return the full data there. Even if they then later send another request for the data.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status I keep meaning to read infinite jest but then I read a quote from the book and think: he's almost as illiterate as I am. It's often mentioned in the same breath as ulysses, a lesson in tedium to be honest and that's coming from a fellow countryman. maybe I should learn my lesson and move on.
Your description makes it sound like the Book of Amazing Jests from the Discworld. Considering that it's something published by the Fool's Guild it only seems fitting.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Hacked a web application to let me search for someone else's records by removing the
readonly
attribute from an input element (which contains the user ID, automatically filled to the currently-logged-on user).It totally worked!
But then trying to access the returned records returned a "That don't belong to you, GTFO!" error.
So close!
Did you look at the returned raw data for the list of records? Sometimes people area but silly and return the full data there. Even if they then later send another request for the data.
Yes, and no, the data is indeed scrubbed to empty strings.
Not like it would have helped, the data doesn't actually include the thing I was looking for.
No, what I was looking for is actually in with the "Help" links.
Yes, Shirley, the most logical place to look for the device tracking screen is mixed in with the help and tutorial documentation!
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status: plugged in my Nuvi 200 Garmin GPS for shits and giggles.
Apparently it was navigating somewhere last time. What a trooper!
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@Rhywden iirc that was the Monster Fun Grimoire.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I think I'm going to strangle someone. And that someone will absolutely be myself.
Consider the following expression:
request.adminResponse ? request.adminResponse : AdminAction.Pending
where
adminResponse
is a nullable TS enum type (AdminAction
|null
). One of the valid values of which enum type is 0. And note thatAdminAction.Pending == 1
.You want
??
.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden iirc that was the Monster Fun Grimoire.
That's the problem with translating back names half-remembered.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden iirc that was the Monster Fun Grimoire.
That's the problem with translating back names half-remembered.
I have approximate knowledge of many things...
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Comment found in my codebase, written by me:
//if it's never been set, initialize it to the start of the unix epoch. Which should be far enough in the past to trigger re-calculation.
Sometimes I crack myself up.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Consider the following expression:
request.adminResponse ? request.adminResponse : AdminAction.Pending
where adminResponse is a
... non-idempotent pseudo-property? I.e. calling it twice may produce two totally different values, plus some side effects?
:kevin: is greeting you.
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@BernieTheBernie no, it’s that 0 is a legal value it can have and should be able to return but it will end up not returning 0 when it should.
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Status: Go home Replicon, you're daft...
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie no, it’s that 0 is a legal value it can have and should be able to return but it will end up not returning 0 when it should.
Yeah. It's actually one of the parameters to a db insert in the full, snipped context.
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status My work machine is finally updating from 1909 to 20H2. Hope it finishes before I need to boot back into Ubuntu for my 2p meeting...
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Yup, I'd never heard of it. But it's been around for a while now...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status My work machine is finally updating from 1909 to 20H2. Hope it finishes before I need to boot back into Ubuntu for my 2p meeting...
11 minutes until meeting.
status: Still installing.Guess I'll see how Zoom launched from Outlook-web is on Windows. Should be "fun" since I'm pretty sure I haven't done that on this machine yet. Always fun right before a meeting...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Always fun right before a meeting...
Even better when you're the host/presenter.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status My work machine is finally updating from 1909 to 20H2. Hope it finishes before I need to boot back into Ubuntu for my 2p meeting...
11 minutes until meeting.
status: Still installing.Guess I'll see how Zoom launched from Outlook-web is on Windows. Should be "fun" since I'm pretty sure I haven't done that on this machine yet. Always fun right before a meeting...
Connected on Windows. One minute later:
: Ok, I'm done installing, let's reboot now!
(at least it had a snooze)edit: Presenter is breaking up badly. Oh good, it's not me. It's them! (others are complaining)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
others are complaining
It's a meeting. What else is there to do?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
edit: Presenter is breaking up badly. Oh good, it's not me. It's them! (others are complaining)
Maybe they're downloading Windows 20H2 at the same time.
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status Looks like my old company has some morons in it. (HR, but I repeat myself.) 3 years after leaving, today I received Visa debit cards for the WEX benefit system.
edit: Oh, and of course they're a "modern" company now. So there's no phone or email address on the Contact Us page. Fine. Snail mail it is.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
others are complaining
It's a meeting. What else is there to do?