The Official Status Thread
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Status: Did my first moderator action, woo! Which was nixing obvious spam in the post queue. But it's always something!
Other than that, waiting for Adobe updates so I can use their programs. And I need to try and do some surgery on this mouse that has been cat attacked. The tail has been damaged meaning it will work erratically, disconnect/reconnect or not work as a mouse and just as a desk lamp. I need something hard to stabilize the damage methinks, and tape to use as a bandage.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Um, what?
Oh, yes, some of the sentences are pretty weird.
Apparently, being a wizard is very important in Finnish.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I believe there IS a free-to-play section (The EDZ and Nessus, to be precise, and maybe the Cosmodrome but not 100% on that one), but to access Europa (where most of this current expansion lives) you'd need the Beyond Light expansion. Additionally, you'd need the Forsaken expansion if you want the Tangled Shore and Dreaming City areas, and Shadowkeep if you want The Moon.
I don't know if PS is doing the same bundle, but Steam has a "Legendary Edition" that's normally $80 but is currently on sale for $67.99 that contains all 3 expansions. (They've had this bundle several times in the past, and it always contained base game + all expansions up through the current one, as there were several Year 1 expansions that are now defunct, etc.)
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe I can get to raiding level by the time they do?
Depends on how hard you grind. This expansion's first raid just opened this weekend and the world-firsters were already done with it by the time it had been out for 12 hours. Current starting light level (gear level) is 1050, raid-ready is a minimum of 1230. You'll jump to 1200 pretty easily throughout Beyond Light's story content, after that it becomes the usual "complete challenges to occasionally earn one piece of gear one or two levels above your current set" farm.
I'm at 1259 power level so far. Anyone playing on PSN should hit me up.
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@error I'm still only about 1220ish because I got waylaid by other games again...primarily:
- Per Aspera
- Elite Dangerous
- Hardspace Shipbreaker
- Occasionally going back to Rimworld
- Cyberpunk 2077
Need more time in the day for games...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe they could manipulate Neo's body because he was still hardwired into the Matrix, but not when he jacked in through other channels. But if they had total control over him then, they should have been able to easily prevent his escape.
Manipulation of Neo's perception of his body being an impossible thing in your book?
Not impossible. Not something I'd considered. Still, it implies the agents have a very powerful ability they should have been abusing for the rest of the movie.
Filed under: Too bad they never made any sequels.
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@error Maybe it's something similar to exits being tied to landline phones - e.g. something special about the interrogation room, or something like that, that allows them to do that
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: anyone do ASL? Brother sent this to me so I'm doing the needful.
Edit: motherfucking mobile...
Having watched that I'm pretty sure it's subtitled.
Having no access it's not like I can try it. I already suggested checking that but assumed since the point was they lost the translator it wouldn't be.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
anyone do ASL? Brother sent this to me so I'm doing the needful.
I showed it to my son. He could pick out a few signs, but it was too fast and/or possibly used some unfamiliar signs, so he couldn't actually interpret it. He seemed uninterested in watching it again to try to pick up more of it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
anyone do ASL? Brother sent this to me so I'm doing the needful.
I showed it to my son. He could pick out a few signs, but it was too fast and/or possibly used some unfamiliar signs, so he couldn't actually interpret it. He seemed uninterested in watching it again to try to pick up more of it.
LMAO too boring to be watched twice? 😂
I figured it was something about being sorry for someone and something together? But since I haven't watched that show at all myself I have no context.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
LMAO too boring to be watched twice?
Less interesting than whatever game has occupied his every waking moment for the last few days, anyway, I guess.
Edit: He says it's not that he didn't want to watch it again; he just knew that he wouldn't be able to interpret it even if he did watch it again, because he just isn't competent enough with ASL. (I'm really tempted to leave off that last phrase, but I'll be nice.) He took it for two years in high school, but by his own admission isn't very good at it. The first year was a beginning class, of course, and he didn't learn much the second year because the teacher was deaf and, according to him, didn't know how to effectively teach hearing students.
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Curmudgeonly Status: Y'know, I strongly dislike it when recruiters won't return emails or phone calls. I can take rejection professionally... but recruiters who aren't professional enough to tell me the bad news, don't deserve a goddamn bit of respect.
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status: so I guess the signal to receive a little spoon is walk denial.
I can stay in bed for that...
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Status: Seen this comment on YouTube:
The world is moving way too fast for me. I feel so old.
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@Gąska okay zoomer.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
The world is moving way too fast for me. I feel so old.
I'm still at the point where I feel like I could slow it down if I could just get a grip but I can't because it's just too wide like the revolving door at the airport.
That probably makes almost as much sense as if I had tried to describe what I think Energon probably tastes like. Does anybody smell burnt toast?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
if I had tried to describe what I think Energon probably tastes like. Does anybody smell burnt toast?
From the perspective of an organic, it tastes like slimy blueberries, depending on how it's processed.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Seen this comment on YouTube:
The world is moving way too fast for me. I feel so old.
Just wait till you actually have your .
(actually, it's easier - I just ignore all those stupid terms.)
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Status: This BAT file nonsense is reminding me why I rewrote half the .NET framework.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I rewrote half the .NET framework.
You work for Microsoft?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I rewrote half the .NET framework.
You work for Microsoft?
Nope, wrong nationality/ethnicity. Anyway, more specifically, I don't like the logic around building file paths. I don't like the backslash for starters (and F U Office for deciding to stop supporting forward slashes in 2010). I also don't like the confusion surrounding trailing slashes. To me, a folder name should include the trailing slash. That way you can just add them together simply and it's obvious whether you're talking about a file or folder. It would also make getting parent folders easier. BAT files, among others, think "C:/wtf/" and "C:/wtf" have different parents ("C:/wtf" and "C:" respectively).
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
BAT files
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Status: Peripheral Environment Tracking Subsystem claims I saw a meteor!
Sadly, wasn't recorded (because).
But hey, I saw it!
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
BAT files, among others, think "C:/wtf/" and "C:/wtf" have different parents ("C:/wtf" and "C:" respectively).
They're different strings aren't they?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't like the logic around building file paths
That's because it is horrible. But it could be so much worse. Back in macOS 9, the path separator was
:
and it was relative paths that had to start with an extra:
whereas absolute paths did not. By comparison, the worst pain with\
is that it is annoying to use literals in various programming languages (and Windows still has drive letters, though you can pretend they mostly don't exist).
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Status: Push fan of the CPU cooler sure picked a nice time to stop working
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
But it could be so much worse.
And it is:
This nonsense with trailing slashes is just the easy end that is inexplicably stupid.
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status: I have decided that lubricants tend to lose effectiveness when dried out. Also, that merely adding more lubricant without clearing away the old
Patriciamaterial is not as effective.Edit: No idea how that word stuck itself in there...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
the old Patricia material
Never mind; I don't want to know.
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status so are the default gnupg keyservers down for anyone else? That's keys.gnupg.net.
Rather hard to test anything when the database package can't be installed. Best part: it was working this morning. Until it stopped.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status so are the default gnupg keyservers down for anyone else? That's keys.gnupg.net.
Rather hard to test anything when the database package can't be installed. Best part: it was working this morning. Until it stopped.
Doesn't look good...
>ping keys.gnupg.net Pinging hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net [209.244.105.201] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 209.244.105.201: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
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Status: Just made a variable named
realFun
, and let me tell you, churning out this code is no fun at all.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status so are the default gnupg keyservers down for anyone else? That's keys.gnupg.net.
Rather hard to test anything when the database package can't be installed. Best part: it was working this morning. Until it stopped.
Doesn't look good...
>ping keys.gnupg.net Pinging hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net [209.244.105.201] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 209.244.105.201: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Oddly I was just able to do it from my macbook, let's see if the sandboxes figure it out. Glad to know that it's broader than just me, however. There is comfort in shared suffering. And knowing that this time, by all that's holy, IT WASN'T MY FAULT.
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@HardwareGeek I love my keyboard. I love how I've gotten so used to it shoving stuff in places that I don't even notice it's there anymore.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Oddly I was just able to do it from my macbook, let's see if the sandboxes figure it out. Glad to know that it's broader than just me, however. There is comfort in shared suffering. And knowing that this time, by all that's holy, IT WASN'T MY FAULT.
Plus, there's https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
this time, by all that's holy, IT WASN'T MY FAULT.
The
ladyman doth protest too much, methinks.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
this time, by all that's holy, IT WASN'T MY FAULT.
The
ladyman doth protest too much, methinks.Last week was killer. Both in workload and in my own confidence, since lots of the issues stemmed from me slipping and not testing things exactly thoroughly enough. Except that some of them only manifested in particular conditions for particular things. Sigh.
Oh, and I've got all sorts of baggage about blaming myself as a first resort. No, it's not psychologically healthy. Why do you ask?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
it's not psychologically healthy.
If you were, you wouldn't be here
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
it's not psychologically healthy.
If you were, you wouldn't be here
Or if you did somehow wind up here while psychologically healthy, you wouldn't remain long.
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status bad at Nier:Automata.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status bad at Nier:Automata.
I just enable the auto chips and let her do the fighting for me.
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Status: I exported my Chrome passwords out of curiosity.
I like using my name as a password...
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At that point, you should wear a T-shirt saying "please hack me".
Who knows, you may even meet interesting people that way.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status so are the default gnupg keyservers down for anyone else? That's keys.gnupg.net.
Rather hard to test anything when the database package can't be installed. Best part: it was working this morning. Until it stopped.
Doesn't look good...
>ping keys.gnupg.net Pinging hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net [209.244.105.201] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 209.244.105.201: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Oddly I was just able to do it from my macbook, let's see if the sandboxes figure it out. Glad to know that it's broader than just me, however. There is comfort in shared suffering. And knowing that this time, by all that's holy, IT WASN'T MY FAULT.
You know, others not getting responses from a server doesn't mean you aren't at fault.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
this time, by all that's holy, IT WASN'T MY FAULT.
The
ladyman doth protest too much, methinks.Last week was killer. Both in workload and in my own confidence, since lots of the issues stemmed from me slipping and not testing things exactly thoroughly enough. Except that some of them only manifested in particular conditions for particular things. Sigh.
Oh, and I've got all sorts of baggage about blaming myself as a first resort. No, it's not psychologically healthy. Why do you ask?
Eh, we all do that. It's like a business common practice to cause a slew of bugs with a simple quick fix every once in a while.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
At that point, you should wear a T-shirt saying "please hack me".
Who knows, you may even meet interesting people that way.What use is it messing with strong passwords (or annoying wish-it-was-2FA schemes) for throwaway accounts that don't contain valuable information?
Filed under: my WTDWTF password is tsaukpaetra, too
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Status: battle of the BAT rages on...
I had enough places in this script where I was working with paths that I thought I'd port over some of my path library from C#. And it turns out functions are really fucking stupid in ways that shouldn't be possible. It's easy to make a "function" that prints something out. Passing a value back, though, is harder. Passing a value in and back out is even worse. You basically have to pass a name in one parameter (
~1
) and the original value in another (~2
) and callSET ~1=%~2%
as the last line.The problem is, then, that you can't stack these functions if they share variable names because any
SET
will overwrite those variables. I was stacking...:Directory SET T=%~2 SET T=%T%/ SET ~1=%T% GOTO :EOF :Parent SET T=%~2 CALL :Directory T "%T%" REM do some stuff to figure out parent CALL :Directory T "%T%" SET ~1=%T% GOTO :EOF
...and losing steps of the process somewhere. So then I had to name all of these variables like
FU_Directory_T
andFU_Parent_T
to keep them from fucking each other up. And no,SETLOCAL
andENDLOCAL
are basically useless because they prevent any result from leaving the functions.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: battle of the BAT rages on...
I had enough places in this script where I was working with paths that I thought I'd port over some of my path library from C#. And it turns out functions are really fucking stupid in ways that shouldn't be possible. It's easy to make a "function" that prints something out. Passing a value back, though, is harder. Passing a value in and back out is even worse. You basically have to pass a name in one parameter (
~1
) and the original value in another (~2
) and callSET ~1=%~2%
as the last line.The problem is, then, that you can't stack these functions if they share variable names because any
SET
will overwrite those variables. I was stacking...:Directory SET T=%~2 SET T=%T%/ SET ~1=%T% GOTO :EOF :Parent SET T=%~2 CALL :Directory T "%T%" REM do some stuff to figure out parent CALL :Directory T "%T%" SET ~1=%T% GOTO :EOF
...and losing steps of the process somewhere. So then I had to name all of these variables like
FU_Directory_T
andFU_Parent_T
to keep them from fucking each other up. And no,SETLOCAL
andENDLOCAL
are basically useless because they prevent any result from leaving the functions.What exactly is forcing you to do stuff in BATs?
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
What exactly is forcing you to do stuff in BATs?
Usually a lack of tools. In this case, I want to zip a copy of my source code on every build (excluding junk e-mail/uploaders think is malicious). So all I have is Visual Studio's post-build command line and the 7zip command line.
Edit: I have 14 tests it needs to pass and 11 do so far...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
What exactly is forcing you to do stuff in BATs?
Usually a lack of tools. In this case, I want to zip a copy of my source code on every build (excluding junk e-mail/uploaders think is malicious). So all I have is Visual Studio's post-build command line and the 7zip command line.
Edit: I have 14 tests it needs to pass and 11 do so far...
And you need to port a path library for this?!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
At that point, you should wear a T-shirt saying "please hack me".
Who knows, you may even meet interesting people that way.What use is it messing with strong passwords (or annoying wish-it-was-2FA schemes) for throwaway accounts that don't contain valuable information?
Filed under: my WTDWTF password is tsaukpaetra, too
At one time, WTDWTF probably contained more of value than my bank account.