The Official Status Thread
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Status: I need to download more RAM. Running out of memory for VMs is something I never thought would happen, but today it apparently caused a weird kernel panic (or whatever the equivalent is for FreeBSD) because (apparently) a jail's memory cannot exceed available free memory, despite being told that the total memory available is the same as the non-jailed portion, or something.
TL;DR: Don't actually try to start 4 VMs with 4 GB of RAM each on a system with only 16 GB of RAM. The Paging apparently doesn't exist for VMs in any meaningful manner to the Host.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
locked myself out of the car. Fun!
An excellent time to learn how to use a coathanger to open it!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
a new XP-sp3 vm [...]. [...]. WILL IT NEVER END???
No. That's your punishment for using XP.
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Status: Vacationing at my brother's place. Traffic on the way here was intermittently brutal (I blame stupid idiots for the inexplicable 20 minute snarl ups) but the new car coped ever so well.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
how to use a coathanger to open it!
Unfortunately, the awesome guys at Toyota engineered that to be a no-go solution, especially after my mods to the door itself...
(I've actually used the coat-hanger method on an older vehicle, but in this case I would have needed a wedge and a much stronger object capable of being twisted with an L at the end).In any case, walked down to my mother's house (about half a mile down the road at the time), entered her house (because her keys were with is, as was herself), acquired her spare keys to the car (since, her house keys are attached to the car key's ring too), drove back to my place, used the spare key to my house to retrieve the spare key to my truck, drive all the way back to it, and finally unlock everything.
At one point I think I had three different sets of spare keys, in addition to the two normal sets.
Quite jingly!
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
No. That's your punishment for using XP.
I use Win10! It's crap on XP I have to support.
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Status: I kind of need to pee but I don't really want to get up.
Also it's only 2:30 and this office is emptying out at an amazing rate. Sunny weather in Seattle, who'da thunk it.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I kind of need to pee but I don't really want to get up.
Also it's only 2:30 and this office is emptying out at an amazing rate. Sunny weather in Seattle, who'da thunk it.
We got your rain. Of course my rain jacket is at home and I have to walk to the train...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I have to walk to the train...
Well at least you're not an idiot for trying to run through the rain, or (shudders) dance in it.
Unless of course the entire goal was to get as wet as possible, then those would only merely be dangerous and unnecessarily energy inefficient (respectively)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
unnecessarily energy inefficient
Unless you were trying to cool off @mott555's OCed computer.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well at least you're not an idiot for trying to run through the rain, or (shudders) dance in it.
Don't dance in trains, fuck those improv everywhere guys.
Either you misread dcon or you're making a joke I didn't get. Either way I'm posting this.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Either you misread dcon or you're making a joke I didn't get.
Wasn't making a joke, but someone out there probably thinks it would be humorous.
Nope, being literal, he said it's raining, and that (by some unknown necessity) he needs to travel to (a train) via walking.
I made the assumption that since he didn't explicitely say he had to run to the train, that he meant it when he said:@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I have to walk
Which indicates that's the preferred mode of travel to that destination.
Hence my statement:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
you're not an idiot for trying to run through the rain, or (shudders) dance in it.
Because it has been made known to me that certain other individuals have been known to do both, which I mentioned would
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
be dangerous and unnecessarily energy inefficient
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So, no joke there, sorry. But, um, thanks?
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Status: WTF recap for the day
WTF 1: Just modified a C program to call the Linux shell to call a Python script which calls the Linux shell to get some info then pull out interesting bits with regexes, then pass the interesting bits back to the C program (C doesn't have regexes and parsing shell output is way easier in Python), which then takes the interesting bits and sends them on a UDP port to a C DLL running on another computer that is accessed by a C# application via P/Invoke.
WTF 2: Boost's UDP library does not work unless the computer has a default gateway configured. This particular system is in an isolated lab in a secured facility with no Internet access that requires background checks to enter the building, therefore no default gateway, but we had to configure a bad gateway in the network's DHCP configuration just to make Boost work.
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Status: Oh boy.
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@Tsaukpaetra You know it's gonna be good when they didn't even change the default Visual Studio name of "Button2".
EDIT: also the Application.DoEvents() in a while loop in the UI thread, which is wrong in so many ways. It's like... 2 lines of code to set up a WorkerThread in WinForms, but nope-- too lazy.
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Status: Getting more enamoured with npm by the minute.
I was bashing my head against the wall on a particular issue where the model changed to a new value, the corresponding events were all firing but the view the model was bound to didn't update. Only a re-render of the component showed the new value, a simple update of the component didn't do anything.
So I stomped off to the GitHub page of the creator of that model-view-binding and asked for help because I was sure it was a bug.
The reply:
Which version are you on? This was fixed in 0.12.0
Okay, I had run
npm update
not 10 minutes prior, but let's check by doingnpm list
... are you kidding me?package_name: 0.9.14
I had to manually bump the version of the package in
package.json
because npm insisted that there were no updates available - and yet, after this slight change, it installed five of them...
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
too lazy.
Probably ignorance, not laziness--or maybe both. Application.DoEvents (and whatever the pre-.Net version was) are the sloppy paint over not knowing how to do background work. (Which, admittedly, was harder in pre-.Net VB.)
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
whatever the pre-.Net version was
Just DoEvents in classic VB.
Status: Annoyed by a seemingly "tried to autoplay" video on mobile while I get ready to head home for the weekend:
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
Just DoEvents in classic VB.
I figured as much, but if I got it wrong, @blakeyrat would think he scored some kind of forumpointzzzz, and we can't have that.
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@Tsaukpaetra would breaking it's window work? I think I would rather do it
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I kind of need to pee but I don't really want to get up.
Also it's only 2:30 and this office is emptying out at an amazing rate. Sunny weather in Seattle, who'da thunk it.
Is this level of freedom common at the usa? I would love to feel free to take days off and leave early any day I wanted. I would probably work around 10h a week if it was my choice.
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@blakeyrat bad programmers do less damage with doevents than when they mess with threads, in the codes I observed so far.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
would breaking it's window work? I think I would rather do it
No, not worth it. A few hundred to replace the window and even higher insurance rates, or an hour of my time borrowing someone else's car.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this level of freedom common at the usa?
For white collar jobs? I'd say so. Blue collar? No.
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Status: So...this happened tonight:
Back story: I setup whole house audio through our house a while back, which I frequently listen to while making dinner, working in the garage, etc. Also, my wife and I are not jealous people, so we make jokes about having a "Hall Pass List" of people we can hook up with if given the chance. I added people like Scarlet Johansson, etc. Once, as a joke, at our last house I tried to add the sorority house that lived across the street from us. Etc. Etc.
Tonight while making dinner I start a music video by Goldfish and turn on Autoplay. It plays pretty good stuff for a while. Goldfish, Teddybears, etc. Finally autoplay ends up on a string of Kesha songs, and I am just far enough in to the Jack Daniels that it is entertaining to me.
I make some joke about adding Kesha to the Hall Pass List. My wife stops in her tracks, thinks for a moment and says, "I veto that one. We are in LA frequently enough, she is skanky enough, and probably enough of a gold digger that you could pull it off. Nope. No dice."
Apparently I aim for the stars, that is the first one she has ever even chimed in on. (except for the sorority house...)
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this level of freedom common at the usa? I would love to feel free to take days off and leave early any day I wanted.
As @blakeyrat said, for white collar jobs it is very common. My wife and nearly everyone she works with can basically set their own schedule. Lots of freedom, but if you abuse it you can find yourself on a shitlist.
The people who work for me have absolutely zero schedule besides "Get X done by Y date and I don't really give a shit how, when or where you do it from".
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
I would probably work around 10h a week if it was my choice.
That, on the other hand, wouldn't fly for long. You would skip the shitlist and just go to getting canned.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
It's like... 2 lines of code to set up a WorkerThread in WinForms
It should be 0 lines. Just change your function call to have a keyword before it. Like "proceed" or "move".
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Boost's UDP library does not work unless the computer has a default gateway configured.
Virtually all networking doesn't work unless you have a default gateway. It's just the identity of the service that things hop to first when the other endpoint isn't on the βsame networkβ (in some relevant sense) and is usually a router or firewall machine. It doesn't change what user-level code does at all. If the lack of a default gateway is causing problems, you're probably dealing with a misconfigured network that is describing things that are supposed to be local as non-local (triggering sending via a gateway instead of direct).
The only exception to this is if you're using multicasting. Which is much deeper voodoo.
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Status: Preparing a Vensmile windows box unit to be my Car PC replacement (the current one suffered some kind of partial hardware failure in the graphics card, and now the display on the LCD and VGA out is fscked). Almost everything should be pretty much good to go, except the damn thing has no "Restore power after AC loss" function found in most non-neutered BIOSes.
So that's great, I'll have to rely on the idea that the battery won't outright die when I'm not driving, because the only way to trigger a wake is in Sleep (which of course isn't exactly S5 and will still draw power).
The problem: Apparently Windows will immediately go back to sleep the first time wakeup is triggered if no "user input" is detected (i.e. mouse or keyboard activity). Since this is essentially going to be the head unit in a car, such input is of course highly unlikely, and if you don't respond within literally two seconds, it's back to sleep for you!
Fortunately it only does this one per intentional sleep (i.e. it will do it again one time when I ask it to sleep via button push or Start-Power-Sleep), so I think I can get away with it due to the ignition sequence pulsing the accessory power for a half second (turning it on the first time) then turning it off when the key is in ignition position, and finally turning it on again once the key is in the normal operating position, but FFS, that's a lot of dependence on correct delay sequences!
Anyone have any idea on how to stop this behavior? When I sleep the PC, I want it to sleep. When I trigger a wake (via power state change), I want it to stay awake. I've already found a tweak for "System unattended sleep timeout", but that only seems to apply to scheduled wake events, and not those caused by the user....
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@Tsaukpaetra Addendum Status: Huh, apparently my UnplugStandby program that I saved to GitHub wasn't complete. Must not have pushed a Commit or something?
It doesn't actually do anything....
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Status: Just heard a commentator for the WEC 6h of Spa use the phrase
Sometimes you're the windscreen, sometimes you're the fly
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Status:
: ο Singing in Japanese ο
: I know that tune....
: ο Singing in Japanese ο
: Where do i know that tune from?
: ο Singing in Japanese ο
: Is she covering a tune that was in English originally?
: ο Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. ο
: -_- Well played. Well played indeed.
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Status: Contemplating with wife over what is a reasonable/acceptable pay difference between the Bay Area (high risk high reward) and Blakey Area (stability). Both being really really interesting jobs.
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First BBQ of the year.
Gin Tonic: check
Wine: check
Meat: Check
Marshmallows: check
Guacamole: check
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Status: Spiced pot-roast beef has been both cooked and consumed. Effort contribution on my part? The gentle champing of jaws. Plan: successful!
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Emptied the camera's sd card. Delete blurry / dupes. organized the rest.
The "Molly" folder is 3.6 gigs. She's 10 days old.
I'm gonna need a bigger hard drive.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm gonna need a bigger hard drive.
Understatement of the year ;)
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@Lorne-Kates Why not use a shittier camera.
Added bonus: you wouldn't see the snotty ugly kid as clearly.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
<img src="https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/profile/650-profileimg.png" title=":accala:" width="23" height="23">:
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Status: Apparently the Groove Music player continues to "play" in Standby. This is not a good thing for what will replace my CarPC.
Anyone have good recommendations for a touch-friendly music manager that doesn't assume I want to pretend my music files are a radio station?
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe that cat needs a mechanical keyboard
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Why not use a shittier camera.
My Palm Zire 72 has a camera...
Added bonus: you wouldn't see the snotty ugly kid as clearly.
E_UGLYKID_NOTFOUND
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently the Groove Music player continues to "play" in Standby. This is not a good thing for what will replace my CarPC.
Anyone have good recommendations for a touch-friendly music manager that doesn't assume I want to pretend my music files are a radio station?
Neutron Music Player?
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@Tsaukpaetra itunes
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Status: There's a quest in Elder Scrolls Online where you simultanously find a lost cat both literally and figuratively and it's seriously amazing.
I had to stop playing for a bit because of dust in my eyes.
If only writing like this had gone into one of the real Elder Scrolls games instead of this dumb MMO nobody wanted...