The Official Status Thread
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@Applied-Mediocrity Well, I know it's definitely not that, because I've run the CPU and GPU ragged at the same time before. This is a relatively new development.
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@pie_flavor Ok, so how can it be? Firmware update that introduced a bug? I'll once again mention Dell that seemingly does it bi-weekly, but update brainworm is almost universal these days. GPU driver bug? Also, not all loads are alike. AVX loads, for example, can really push it. It even has a separate, lower multiplier. Although I doubt any game uses AVX very much.
Also also, which Ass Creed is it? I have only bothered with Odyssey (because Kassandra). And yes, that one (and a fair few other modern vidya - especially UE-based) does have problems. For 7700K sync-all-cores turbo I don't feel CPU load so much, but GPU side is still crap. SpecialK explains that basically console peasantry is to blame. Too low resource pools that do not account for hardware that isn't anemic on memory that in turn cause lots of driver overhead loading stuff from disk all the time. Also, the guy did a number of fixes. Unfortunately it caused the game to CTD sooner or later unpredictably, which is not really better.
IOW, vidya have terrible problems like all software made by crunch-monkeys fed with cheap pizza and energy drinks, but hardware should not be doing that switching bullshit regardless.
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@Applied-Mediocrity well, I'll try limiting the CPU to 99% and see what happens. And it's Origins.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
And it's
OriginsOrangesDifferent setting, same engine, same gameplay, same problems. For a while, before updates inevitably broke everything, it almost worked with Odyssey's fix.
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@pie_flavor My anecdotal experience with Ass Creed Origins is that it works well enough on my (old) system. Not on high settings or anything, but I was half expecting it to just laugh at me instead of showing the splash screen
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Slightly related status: Going to upgrade the ram in my old system, and as a bonus maybe clean and cable manage it. Maybe
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@aitap said in The Official Status Thread:
Nothing a competent sysadmin wouldn't be able to fix, but we can't be having that, so off to Google we go.
And therein lies the problem...
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@hungrier Update: RAM upgraded, dust cleaned somewhat, cables still unmanaged
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status: awoke to find no less that four people texting or DMing me with urgent matters such as "please give me a quick call or point is in the right direction in regards to "creating a key logger script"" and "I made a change on a document and it didn't immediately appear live on the website!"
Le sigh.
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Go back to sleep. It was just a nightmare.
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Status: Now I know this is a damned bot!
<- Sunday
Anyway...
Spent the day moving thousands of dollars in inventory from one basement to another as part of Operation Find Where The Fuck That Stuff Went. It turns my stomach just to think about it. If I didn't think it'd trigger an audit, I'd hire @Polygeekery's accident services to disappear it.
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Status: I despite pay-to-win games. I hate games where even paying doesn't let you win.
What is the point of a limit-time exclusive one-time-only event that is impossible to complete?
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@Tsaukpaetra Sounds a lot like real-life, that
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Sounds a lot like real-life, that
RIP
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I just got invited to this month's lifestyle party. I hope our threesome partner is there. I want to get to know her better and ask her on a proper date, but I'm scared she's not interested in anything deeper.
Just polyamory/social anxiety things.
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Status: The 10k x 10k pixel raytracer job is complete!
Not that I actually needed an image that large. I just want 2k and to zoom in at a certain position, and it was "easier" () to render everything at huge resolution than to render one normal image and one zoomed image. File size: 70MB.
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@topspin I wonder if an ultra-hi-res image downscaled is better quality than an image rendered at the desired resolution. I would expect it to be similar to antialiasing.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
interested in anything deeper
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I despite pay-to-win games. I hate games where even paying doesn't let you win.
What is the point of a limit-time exclusive one-time-only event that is impossible to complete?
Every freemium game has at its core some fundamental form of irritation. The idea generally is that you will pay for some temporary alleviation of same. It seems paradoxical, but generally the irritant is actually what brings the player back.
Filed under: Digital stockholm syndrome
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin I wonder if an ultra-hi-res image downscaled is better quality than an image rendered at the desired resolution. I would expect it to be similar to antialiasing.
I'd consider it a form of super-sampling anti-aliasing. I've even used it for that kind of purpose (but only 2x -> 1x, not 5x) before, but I guess if that results in "better quality" depends on what you prefer and how the image was generated.
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Status: I shouldn't have bought wasabi chips.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I despite pay-to-win games. I hate games where even paying doesn't let you win.
What is the point of a limit-time exclusive one-time-only event that is impossible to complete?
Every freemium game has at its core some fundamental form of irritation. The idea generally is that you will pay for some temporary alleviation of same. It seems paradoxical, but generally the irritant is actually what brings the player back.
Filed under: Digital stockholm syndrome
The problem is, I literally can't pay to alleviate the pain. And this is apparently intentional, based on the responses from Customer Support:
"I have no idea how to handle the game developer's stupidity. I'll ask them..."
"It's by design. We stupidly made an impossible task just to fuck with you."
Yeah, I'll let you know when something that won't happen (a one-time event) doesn't happen. Makes sense!
And no, to anyone who doesn't know, that "literal years" comment is not a joke. I've dumped a calculated $4.5k into this shit game and get no respect.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I've dumped a calculated $4.5k into this
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@Applied-Mediocrity I've probably reached around there in path of exile, but I actually did find a Mirror of Kalandra, something I never expected to see.
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Status:
Context: I'm moving to USA soon(ish). I'll need to buy a lot of dollars. The more they fall, the more I can buy.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I've dumped a calculated $4.5k into this shit game
Into virtual ponies?! What?
Can't you get, like, countless virtual ponies for free from your community?Also, out of curiosity, why did you censor your name when you usually don't?
(I mean, obviously I'd do that, too, but I always do)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I've dumped a calculated $4.5k into this shit game and get no respect.
You want respect? After dumping $4.5k into a shit game?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
why did you censor your name when you usually don't?
Alternate account with a More True Name.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I've dumped a calculated $4.5k into this shit game and get no respect.
You want respect? After dumping $4.5k into a shit game?
I'd at least like a blowjob. Can't even get that, it seems.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
#MeRightNow
Apparently I missed a single line of code that caused a nullptr dereference, but only in Steam, which apparently doesn't happen in Dev mode because you (I guess) don't necessarily do Entitlement checks in dev?
Whoops.
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Status: We may detest PHP. But I hate Java more.
Of course, to a seasoned java application it may be completely obvious that an 'environment variable' is something you pass to the java executable with a
-D
flag.
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@PleegWat Well, no, a system property is (via
System.getProperty
). Or it's set by the program. An environment variable is just a regular ol' environment variable (viaSystem.getenv
). But hey, I'm sure it's the JVM's fault that you assumed thingThatSoundsNothingLikeEnvironmentVariable() was actually just an environment variable.
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Dilbert now has strips in more than 31 calendar years. This is a problem because my method of reading strips assigned one year to each day of the month.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat Well, no, a system property is (via
System.getProperty
). Or it's set by the program. An environment variable is just a regular ol' environment variable (viaSystem.getenv
). But hey, I'm sure it's the JVM's fault that you assumed thingThatSoundsNothingLikeEnvironmentVariable() was actually just an environment variable.It was documented as an environment variable. The java program is not our department, we just supply a shim that invokes it. Regardless, I blame oracle.
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@PleegWat Blame the idiot documenters. A system property is in no way the same thing as an environment variable.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
A system property is in no way the same thing as an environment variable.
IIRC, environment variables are mapped into the space of system properties, though as (effectively) a subtree so that users can't cause much mischief with it.
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Status: after rudely interrupting me with an update restart, Windows has now interrupted me again for my convenience, to install an OS upgrade. But on the plus side, it's a
client
machine that will hopefully remove the need to set up a Rube Goldberg contraption in order to continue my work on the project (see wtf bites for more detail)
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@dkf I'm pretty sure they aren't.
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Status: being driven up a wall by SQL nulls and a triple negative.
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@Captain
That ain't not no reason to post on WTDWTF
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@izzion It's reasonably sensible code (given that they're doing "one" query and filling in a bunch of data values based on it in one 4000 line method...)
The issue I'm facing now is that I have to filter out (in SQL) addresses that match a specific address. But there are a bunch of fields, and the filtering is currently being done in Java. So I have to translate it to SQL. And it's a struggle to turn
if (p.NBR != null && p.NBR != c.NBR) { addressSame = false; } else if (p.NME != null && p.NME != c.NME) { addressSame = false; } ... } else if (p.AE != null && p.AE != c.AE) { addressSame = false; }
into a SQL filter, because you have to go through a bunch of rounds of DeMorgan's laws to turn it into a positive predicate in conjunctive normal form.
Come to think of it, that must be why there are
' '
values in some of the fields, instead of actual nulls.
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Status: Dammit, forgot to pull master before I branched off of it this morning...
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@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
through a bunch of rounds of DeMorgan's laws to turn it into a positive predicate in conjunctive normal form.
You could um, convert it nearly intact into a number of
case when ... then
expressions, but sure, use your endofactors.
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@error Or I could do it the right way...
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@Captain Alright, use Captain Morgan's conjunctivitis. I don't care.
It just seems like you could preserve the semantics with minimal fuss.
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@error You sure are whining about what I do a lot for someone who doesn't care.
Do you know what conjunctive normal form is? You really should. It's really basic CS. You know, your job.
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@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you know what conjunctive normal form is?
Isn’t that when you rub your eyes too much while practicing good posture?
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@Captain Sure, you just skolemize the statement.
No, really. That's a real thing Wikipedia says to do.