The Official Status Thread
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
If you don't have a BOM, but you expect mostly English text, you can still use heuristics by going through the first N codepoints and look how many of them land in the ASCII plane in each encoding.
Yeah, this is supposed to be a CSV file, being spit out by a somewhat stupid program in which columns and rows are transposed. It outputs UTF16LE, but I'm pretty sure if someone opens it in notepad or Excel and re-saves it it will be spadooddled into UTF8 automagically, so I need to handle both situations transparently.
For now I'm just hodgpodging it, we'll see how long that bit of code sticks.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
That really only helps if you already know the encoding the source file is in.
In general, if you don't know that then you're fucked anyway. It's not at all easy to guess, and it requires knowledge of what the documents should say. If you're very “lucky”, you have different encodings for different parts of the data. (BTDT. And the data was fucked all the way back to the database too…)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
That really only helps if you already know the encoding the source file is in.
In general, if you don't know that then you're fucked anyway. It's not at all easy to guess, and it requires knowledge of what the documents should say. If you're very “lucky”, you have different encodings for different parts of the data. (BTDT. And the data was fucked all the way back to the database too…)
Yeah. At the moment the current "validation" is "Does the first line start with the word "Type"?
Stuff and nonsense...
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Status: Experimenting with autodeployment of documentation builds. Which is easy… provided you ignore about 90% of the documentation out there on the grounds that it is incomplete, misleading or even outright lies. Still, now that I've navigated the bullshit that is the descriptions of how to do it, it's actually a piece of cake and will work trivially well going forward.
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Status: I hate battery-powered stuff in which all functions are controlled electronically instead of with real, physical switches. In my car, when the battery voltage drops too low for the electronics to function, it turns everything on — headlights, horn, radio, everything — thus ensuring that the battery will be completely fucked.
Related status: Working from home, I am not driving enough to keep my car battery charged.
Further status: I now need to buy a new car battery.
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Other Status: I just ordered some more furniture from IKEA. Earliest estimated delivery: 6 weeks. For stuff that is in stock in the local store 15 minutes away — except, of course, that I can't go to the local store to get it, because somebody 12000 km away ate an undercooked bat.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I am not driving enough to keep my car battery charged.
Sounds like you need a battery charger.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I am not driving enough to keep my car battery charged.
My dealer actually send an email mentioning "Hey, make sure you go for a long (10+mi) drive at least once a week!"
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@dkf I have one. It is attempting to charge my battery at this moment. It has been charging for ~3 hours; in the last hour, it has gone from "70%" to "78%" charged, however it measures that. If I turn off the charger briefly, it says the battery is 13.6V dropping to ~12.7V (or probably lower if I continued waiting) in a couple of minutes. (While charging, it only displays nominal 12V, alternating with the % complete.)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
That'd be a per-visitor-in-the-history-of-the-building per-toilet license, even if they never use any of the toilets?
And they'd probably also claim any holes in the paper were just empty paper.
"During the true-up we noticed that your toilets had been flushed. Flushing was made an enterprise feature in Toilet 12e. We'll be charging you for Toilet Enterprise licenses retroactively to that point, plus assessing a penalty fee of the cost of a Toilet Enterprise license from that point to when you first had toilets from any vendor."
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I set the Windows scale to 125% for a few days just to see if all programs worked properly. Now I set it back to 100% and everything looks so fucking tiny.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I set the Windows scale to 125% for a few days just to see if all programs worked properly. Now I set it back to 100% and everything looks so fucking tiny.
Filed under: @Tsaukpaetra world problems.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I am not driving enough to keep my car battery charged.
My dealer actually send an email mentioning "Hey, make sure you go for a long (10+mi) drive at least once a week!"
Can't have the customers realizing they don't need to be customers.
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FFXII remaster has a feature every JRPG should have: fast-forward
Combined with gambit AI, I can grind at 4x speed, making it... counts on fingers... three times faster.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
when the battery voltage drops too low for the electronics to function, it turns everything on — headlights, horn, radio
That's the "battery voltage too low" visual-and-anditory alarm feature
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Further status: I now need to buy a new car battery.
Sounds like it. Unless there's an abnormal drain, the battery should hold charge for at least a couple of months.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
so fucking tiny.
I've read that makes the experience much more enjoyable!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
FFXII remaster has a feature every JRPG should have: fast-forward
If your game needs a fast-forward, maybe you should rethink your design.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Further status: I now need to buy a new car battery.
Sounds like it. Unless there's an abnormal drain, the battery should hold charge for at least a couple of months.
Looking through my records, such as I can find, suggests that I probably bought the battery in Feb or Mar 2013, so I'm due for a new one. Seven years is longer than "normal" lifetime for a car battery, so I can't complain.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
That'd be a per-visitor-in-the-history-of-the-building per-toilet license, even if they never use any of the toilets?
And they'd probably also claim any holes in the paper were just empty paper.
"During the true-up we noticed that your toilets had been flushed. Flushing was made an enterprise feature in Toilet 12e. We'll be charging you for Toilet Enterprise licenses retroactively to that point, plus assessing a penalty fee of the cost of a Toilet Enterprise license from that point to when you first had toilets from any vendor."
Sounds like the fine print at the bottom of our most recent water bill.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
If you don't have a BOM, but you expect mostly English text, you can still use heuristics by going through the first N codepoints and look how many of them land in the ASCII plane in each encoding.
Yeah, this is supposed to be a CSV file, being spit out by a somewhat stupid program in which columns and rows are transposed. It outputs UTF16LE, but I'm pretty sure if someone opens it in notepad or Excel and re-saves it it will be spadooddled into UTF8 automagically, so I need to handle both situations transparently.
For now I'm just hodgpodging it, we'll see how long that bit of code sticks.
Good luck. I had the same problem trying to automate running SQL scripts from the Hindus. They'd go into TFS as one encoding and somebody would touch them with a different encoding and my program's logs would be filled with weird characters because quotes or spaces differed between the two and SQL Server choked.
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Status: I'm pretty sure that jello was hosting mold...
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Status: I should stop torturing myself trying to make a template engine designed to work with HTML spit out a kinda-CSV file.
Well, unless someone can tell me how to get
TinyButStrong
's "parallel" mode working well enough to generate a horizontal table like so:MyDataName,data1_name,data2_name,data3_name... MyDataValue,data1_value,data2_value,data3_value...
This as opposed to the more common (if not logical) formatting of:
MyDataName,MyDataValue data1_name,data1_value data2_name,data2_value data3_name,data3_value ...
I can get the second, the first is darn near impossible, though I think that's because I'm not activating the parallel thing correctly.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I should stop torturing myself
Well, considering many of your posts, it sounds like very good advice...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I should stop torturing myself
Well, considering many of your posts, it sounds like very good advice...
How will I know I'm alive though?
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@Tsaukpaetra Run your platform-specific equivalent of
sfc /scannow
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Run your platform-specific equivalent of
sfc /scannow
That tool is not designed for the purpose of detecting life, any more than a social security number is a person's unique identifier....
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@Tsaukpaetra Alright, let me backpedal a bit there...
How will I know I'm alive though?
How do you know whether you are now?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Alright, let me backpedal a bit there...
How will I know I'm alive though?
How do you know whether you are now?
I DON'T!!!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I should stop torturing myself
Well, considering many of your posts, it sounds like very good advice...
How will I know I'm alive though?
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@topspin Pain is overrated and boring.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin Pain is overrated and boring.
If you listen to it, it’s not about being fun (that’d be the lifestyle thread) but “to see if I still feel”. That’s why I thought it fit your sentiment.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin Pain is overrated and boring.
If you listen to it, it’s not about being fun (that’d be the lifestyle thread) but “to see if I still feel”. That’s why I thought it fit your sentiment.
I understood. I'm past that now, you see.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf I have one. It is attempting to charge my battery at this moment. It has been charging for ~3 hours; in the last hour, it has gone from "70%" to "78%" charged, however it measures that. If I turn off the charger briefly, it says the battery is 13.6V dropping to ~12.7V (or probably lower if I continued waiting) in a couple of minutes. (While charging, it only displays nominal 12V, alternating with the % complete.)
That it drops when you remove the charger is normal and expected. 12.7 for an unloaded battery is fine. When it starts going down much lower for a fully charged battery it's probably broken. Let the charger do it's work for a day or two and then disconnect and let the battery sit for a day before measuring to see what it stabilises at, it should still be at 12.7 or above.
It just also be damaged in a way that makes it go toys up under load, that can be tested by measuring the volt between the connections while starting the engine. I don't remember any good numbers to go for here though.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Further status: I now need to buy a new car battery.
Sounds like it. Unless there's an abnormal drain, the battery should hold charge for at least a couple of months.
Yeah, I need to replace the one in my trailer. After camping (hooked up, so charging), then getting home in the evening, the low battery noise is beeping by morning. Luckily everywhere I was camping has power, so I keep procrastinating on the purchase...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The least surprising thing I've seen all day:
Shout out to all the people who hate me posting Polish inside jokes!
Ah yes, the great show Jeopardl, hosted by Alex Trlblck.
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@e4tmyl33t "jprdl" roughly means "fckthssht".
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@Gąska I don't think Alex Trlblck would condone such language.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I need to replace the one in my trailer.
I recommend getting golf-cart batteries and serializing them (if memory serves they're batched in 6V packs). They seem to do a little better than the marine-class ones we used before...
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska I don't think Alex Trlblck would condone such language.
Polish? No one should condone that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I recommend getting golf-cart batteries and serializing them
To JSON?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I recommend getting golf-cart batteries and serializing them
To JSON?
To XmL yOu H̵͇̉͘̚͠e̸̳͈̫͂͐̾Ȃ̸͍t̴͓̍H̸͉͇̦̀̇̾ͅâ̴͇Ṉ̸͆!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
FFXII remaster has a feature every JRPG should have: fast-forward
If your game needs a fast-forward, maybe you should rethink your design.
Like I said: every JRPG (Sqeenix games in particular) needs this.
The more egregious design flaw in this game (and others in the series): the side quests are significantly harder than the main quest. This is not bad in itself... except that if you do the side quests, the regular bosses are complete jokes. I literally one-shotted an end-game boss with a single melee strike from my mage in FFX.
It really undermines the dramatic tension.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
FFXII remaster has a feature every JRPG should have: fast-forward
If your game needs a fast-forward, maybe you should rethink your design.
Like I said: every JRPG (Sqeenix games in particular) needs this.
The more egregious design flaw in this game (and others in the series): the side quests are significantly harder than the main quest. This is not bad in itself... except that if you do the side quests, the regular bosses are complete jokes. I literally one-shotted an end-game boss with a single melee strike from my mage in FFX.
It really undermines the dramatic tension.In such games it's then especially funny if you just one-shotted the boss who then - in a cutscence - proceeds to completely fuck you over. Soooo believable!
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
FFXII remaster has a feature every JRPG should have: fast-forward
If your game needs a fast-forward, maybe you should rethink your design.
Like I said: every JRPG (Sqeenix games in particular) needs this.
The more egregious design flaw in this game (and others in the series): the side quests are significantly harder than the main quest. This is not bad in itself... except that if you do the side quests, the regular bosses are complete jokes. I literally one-shotted an end-game boss with a single melee strike from my mage in FFX.
It really undermines the dramatic tension.In such games it's then especially funny if you just one-shotted the boss who then - in a cutscence - proceeds to completely fuck you over. Soooo believable!
In (at least) one of the Lunar games, the bosses are proportionally stronger based on your level. I fucked myself over by being overlevelled.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
FFXII remaster has a feature every JRPG should have: fast-forward
If your game needs a fast-forward, maybe you should rethink your design.
Like I said: every JRPG (Sqeenix games in particular) needs this.
The more egregious design flaw in this game (and others in the series): the side quests are significantly harder than the main quest. This is not bad in itself... except that if you do the side quests, the regular bosses are complete jokes. I literally one-shotted an end-game boss with a single melee strike from my mage in FFX.
It really undermines the dramatic tension.In such games it's then especially funny if you just one-shotted the boss who then - in a cutscence - proceeds to completely fuck you over. Soooo believable!
In (at least) one of the Lunar games, the bosses are proportionally stronger based on your level. I fucked myself over by being overlevelled.
I don't like those systems either - they kind of eliminate one of the reasons for having levels in the first place. I think Assassin's Creed Odyssey did it right - while they did autolevel your opponents, they only did to a certain (choosable) degree.
So, you're in an area supposed to be level 30 - that's what the enemies start at. So if you're only level 3 you're gonna have a hard time. But if you're level 50 your enemies in that area will be either 50, 48 (level - 2) or 45 (level - 5). So, if you wanted to you could outlevel your opponents but not to a degree where they're complete pushovers.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
FFXII remaster has a feature every JRPG should have: fast-forward
If your game needs a fast-forward, maybe you should rethink your design.
Like I said: every JRPG (Sqeenix games in particular) needs this.
The more egregious design flaw in this game (and others in the series): the side quests are significantly harder than the main quest. This is not bad in itself... except that if you do the side quests, the regular bosses are complete jokes. I literally one-shotted an end-game boss with a single melee strike from my mage in FFX.
It really undermines the dramatic tension.In such games it's then especially funny if you just one-shotted the boss who then - in a cutscence - proceeds to completely fuck you over. Soooo believable!
In (at least) one of the Lunar games, the bosses are proportionally stronger based on your level. I fucked myself over by being overlevelled.
I don't like those systems either - they kind of eliminate one of the reasons for having levels in the first place. I think Assassin's Creed Odyssey did it right - while they did autolevel your opponents, they only did to a certain (choosable) degree.
So, you're in an area supposed to be level 30 - that's what the enemies start at. So if you're only level 3 you're gonna have a hard time. But if you're level 50 your enemies in that area will be either 50, 48 (level - 2) or 45 (level - 5). So, if you wanted to you could outlevel your opponents but not to a degree where they're complete pushovers.
I like the Dark Souls approach: you get stronger but if you let your guard down, even a weak mob can get the upper hand on you.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
FFXII remaster has a feature every JRPG should have: fast-forward
If your game needs a fast-forward, maybe you should rethink your design.
Like I said: every JRPG (Sqeenix games in particular) needs this.
The more egregious design flaw in this game (and others in the series): the side quests are significantly harder than the main quest. This is not bad in itself... except that if you do the side quests, the regular bosses are complete jokes. I literally one-shotted an end-game boss with a single melee strike from my mage in FFX.
It really undermines the dramatic tension.FFX turned really silly when you got Yuna's relic weapon and specced her as a black mage (strongest magical power in the group). Combine dual-casting Ultima with 1 MP costs...is it dead yet? No? Here!
But one constant about Sqeenix games (FF in particular) is that the story isn't supposed to be the hard part. It's those optional things that are the real challenges. Original FF7 had the Weapons; FFXIV has "normal" dungeons (required for the story progression that unlocks everything) which are facerolls, but EX/Savage raids that are much more of a challenge. Plus Ultimate Coils of Bahamut, which is still killer even when everyone's 10+ levels higher and way outgears it. Even unsync (dungeons normally sync you down to the max level/gear level for that, but you can toggle that off if you don't want XP or normal rewards), UCOB requires a full raid and people who know what they're doing.
And FFX had the monster stadium which was the real "endgame".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I need to replace the one in my trailer.
I recommend getting golf-cart batteries and serializing them (if memory serves they're batched in 6V packs). They seem to do a little better than the marine-class ones we used before...
I would, except I have to fit into the existing container (Group 24). Which is mounted on the trailer tongue.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska I don't think Alex Trlblck would condone such language.
I'll take "Rejected names for this gameshow" for $200 please, Alex.