The Official Status Thread
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
a fancy case where I can't get to the real faceplate of the drive so easily.
I have grown to hate those. Sure it looks chic, but the moment you need to do any amount of maintenance....
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@Tsaukpaetra Bonus points because it uses an elongated power supply that's probably difficult to find.
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@Zenith Well I got the drawer out. Belt looks fine. Motor just seems to be dead.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Well I got the drawer out. Belt looks fine. Motor just seems to be dead.
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@Tsaukpaetra As soon as I push the drawer back in (empty, mind you), the light starts (and keeps) blinking like it's trying to read a disc that's not there. Weird.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra As soon as I push the drawer back in (empty, mind you), the light starts blinking like it's trying to read a disc that's not there. Weird.
IOW the switch that senses whether the drawer is closed is in fact still operational.
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Status: I did something useful with PowerShell. It might be helpful after all. Who knew?
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I did something useful with PowerShell. It might be helpful after all. Who knew?
I'm working on a scanner thing that will hopefully allow me to determine if a remote computer has serial ports attached to virtual printers, and what the port configuration is.
This is apparently nontrivial except through some kind of bridge conversion to legacy interfaces.
So far I've gotten a "yep, there is a serial port there! And it has settings! The settings? Oh it's a text string called settings!".
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Status Had about 3/4 of the work done on a new map for my next D&D campaign. Of course, being an idiot, I hadn't actually saved. It surely autosaves, right? Right? No. It crashed and I lost all the work.
Thanks. There goes any motivation. Now I'm just going to sit here and stare at a wall, thank you very much.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It surely autosaves, right? Right?
Never trust an untested backup!
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So I decided to look thru the large staples of CDs and DVDs laying around.
Discovered my backups from ... last decade! 2008, 2007 and even older. Yeah!
Many "important" installation CDs, e.g. for SuSe Linux 9.3, and similar.
Staples of not-yet used raw CDs/DVDs...
Did not find anything useful.
The crap went to the waste bin.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Staples of not-yet used raw CDs/DVDs...
Did not find anything useful.
The crap went to the waste bin.
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@BernieTheBernie Were there by chance any Windows 7 or Office 2000? I know someone who's looking for those
Gah! 'd by @Zerosquare
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Status: Got another "Why is there a cost for doing ticket?!?" email.
Because fuck you, that's why.
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Status: Removed Intelligence as a base attribute in my RPG system, due to me finding no point with it. My DM agreed that Intelligence is stupid as a base attribute and endorsed my decision.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Because fuck you, that's why.
Come on, admit it. This is totally something you'd do if you could.
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$ make $thing ... collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’ ...
Uh, OK. That sounds bad? I'd like to be able to link stuff, please.
(A pile of debugging builds later, it turns out one of the build configs added a
-fuse-ld=gold
to the linker flags. Probably left overs from when testing LTO a long time ago. Surprising it didn't break earlier...)
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status: how hard can it fucking be to produce a computer capable of displaying static images that cycle on a schedule?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: how hard can it fucking be to produce a computer capable of displaying static images that cycle on a schedule?
Trying to put smilies full-screen on your home theater system like @TwelveBaud cautioned you shouldn't?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: how hard can it fucking be to produce a computer capable of displaying static images that cycle on a schedule?
Trying to put smilies full-screen on your home theater system like @TwelveBaud cautioned you shouldn't?
More like, trying to avoid the frowny faces that happen because HP's firmware updater always shits bricks and the PCs get stuck at "Press Any Key To Continue" on a keyboardless screen.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: how hard can it fucking be to produce a computer capable of displaying static images that cycle on a schedule?
Trying to put smilies full-screen on your home theater system like @TwelveBaud cautioned you shouldn't?
More like, trying to avoid the frowny faces that happen because HP's firmware updater always shits bricks and the PCs get stuck at "Press Any Key To Continue" on a keyboardless screen.
You could have my Epson printer that always says it has a Firmware Update pending. (Last Firmware update: 2018.)
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Status: Upgraded the computer today. Filled in the other two RAM slots and added a SATA SSD and bigger HDD. The HDD is the first Shingled one I've owned. It's going to store media files and such, so it should be OK. (Write Once, Read Many strikes again!) I also finally routed the cord for my new mouse (that I've been using for a month or so) to the back of the machine.
So what's left? I could get the highest-end processor this board supports, going from an AMD 5600X to 5950X and a better heatsink+fan setup than the one that comes with the 5600X. Not sure if it'd be worth it in the long run as I don't do much that's multithread intensive, but given how long I kept my previous machine maxing it out might end up being worthwhile.
I'd like to get a better video card, but that'll have to wait another year. Hopefully prices will come down farther.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
You could have my Epson printer
Ewww. Even @Tsaukpaetra has some standards, you know.
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Status: been trying to write a shader for pretty, realistic, and pretty realistic skies (with considerable help from other sources, of course…)
After mostly-blindly hacking away and giving it a shot, I was met with, well, blackness:
As this is a shader, I can’t quite just throw a debugger at it or print some values of note from a mess of ray-marching. So I left it for a few days, occasionally poking around and double-checking bits of code for anything egregious but mostly unenlightened.
Tonight I was ready to try a stack/frame recording thingo to try and glean some insight. Unfortunately, that didn’t want to work, but – hang on, that image isn’t actually blank Depending on your viewing angle and screen calibration and viewing conditions maybe you already picked up on that, but I certainly hadn’t.
So uh, well, let’s just try multiplying everything by 10.0?
Might still need some fine-tuning, and strictly-speaking this is just a LUT for the actual sky, but it ‘s certainly a fair few steps in the right direction!
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What does it say about Visual Studio that being able to quickly add new files and folders is an exciting feature?
And I am actually excited about this. :no-giggity:
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
What does it say about Visual Studio that being able to quickly add new files and folders is an exciting feature?
And I am actually excited about this. :no-giggity:
It says that all the stick in the muds who use it are so averse to changing their workflow that Microsoft can only nibble around the edges
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
What does it say about Visual Studio that being able to quickly add new files and folders is an exciting feature?
Folder/We-finally-fixed-everything.jpg
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
The fastest way to add new files in Visual Studio
$ touch path/to/source/file.cpp
$ premake5 vs2022Click yes when VS asks you if you want to reload the project/solution.
I haven't used the VS native way in ages. Does anybody do that still? Even in the age of cmake () and co?
On a related note... why is unzipping a source archive with a few 100 files magnitudes slower in Windows than in Linux?
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
The fastest way to add new files in Visual Studio
$ touch path/to/source/file.cpp
$ premake5 vs2022Click yes when VS asks you if you want to reload the project/solution.
I haven't used the VS native way in ages. Does anybody do that still? Even in the age of cmake () and co?
On a related note... why is unzipping a source archive with a few 100 files magnitudes slower in Windows than in Linux?
Windows has to ask each file individually for consent to be touched. While Linux just unzips and
fscksgoes.
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@cvi Unzip support for Windows was written by a single Canuck in ~1998-1999 and basically hasn't been touched since. Unzip support for Linux varies wildly but most distributions collect a this-decade version of 7-Zip (an open source project with dozens of contributors, updated frequently) for that.
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$ unzip -v
UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP. Maintained by C. Spieler. Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for details.OK, that's still a bit newer than 1999, but it's not that modern.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
What does it say about Visual Studio that being able to quickly add new files and folders is an exciting feature?
(video)
Escape should Cancel the dialog. Nobody respects the long standing keyboard shortcuts nowadays.
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
I haven't used the VS native way in ages. Does anybody do that still? Even in the age of cmake () and co?
I do, but I'm not typically adding a zillion classes or whatever at once.
@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
On a related note... why is unzipping a source archive with a few 100 files magnitudes slower in Windows than in Linux?
Which archive program do you use? I use 7-Zip currently, and yes I did pay for WinZip once upon a time. In between I used a program called PowerArchiver. I don't recommend the built-in archive support.
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@Parody This was with the built-in tool. (I normally just use cygwin + unzip as on Linux, but apparently hadn't installed it on that machine.)
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Unzip support for Linux varies wildly but most distributions collect a this-decade version of 7-Zip (an open source project with dozens of contributors, updated frequently) for that.
Debian's unzip is nine days old. Should migrate into Testing tomorrow.
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status: requested PTO for the upcoming convention. Due to earlier mandatory Covid this means I'll have negative 18 hours banked if approved.
Let's see how much they love me...
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
What does it say about Visual Studio that being able to quickly add new files and folders is an exciting feature?
(video)
Escape should Cancel the dialog. Nobody respects the long standing keyboard shortcuts nowadays.
FWIW: If you hit Escape when the box is empty, it'll close the dialog. If you have any of the other controls focused it...doesn't do anything? Regardless, you already have Delete and Backspace (with Ctrl-A if needed) to clear the dialog box; why do you need a third key for it?
I reported it as a bug.
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@Parody Why even need some key to clear the dialog box?
If the text is already selected and focused by default, just start typing over it.
Actually, why even have initial text in there at all? If they want to show an example of what can be written, don't they have controls with a placeholder attribute?
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
The fastest way to add new files in Visual Studio
$ touch path/to/source/file.cpp
$ premake5 vs2022Click yes when VS asks you if you want to reload the project/solution.
I haven't used the VS native way in ages. Does anybody do that still? Even in the age of cmake () and co?
On a related note... why is unzipping a source archive with a few 100 files magnitudes slower in Windows than in Linux?
The inbuilt one is horseshit and barely works. 3rd party ones are usually clobbered by windows defender and mcafee too if you work corporate.
I disabled defender on my old surface and suddenly it was usable again.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Why even need some key to clear the dialog box?
If the text is already selected and focused by default, just start typing over it.
Actually, why even have initial text in there at all? If they want to show an example of what can be written, don't they have controls with a placeholder attribute?
It guesses the type of file you want based on what's selected in the Solution Explorer and starts with only the example file name selected, leaving the period and extension. I think that makes sense for this type of dialog. You'd clear it if you want some other file type/extension.
If you do a lot of adding one file type I could see it being useful. If you don't add files that often then the second or two it may save you won't add up to much. If items you add usually span multiple files then I doubt it's that helpful. Visi remembers if you switch back to the Template version, but I didn't test to see if that is an app-wide setting or in the project/solution.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
mandatory Covid
Did they forcibly infect you, or did they simply require you to become infected through a contact of your choosing?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
mandatory Covid
Did they forcibly infect you, or did they simply require you to become infected through a contact of your choosing?
As though anyone here has a contact of their choosing close enough to infect them with COVID
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
mandatory Covid
Did they forcibly infect you, or did they simply require you to become infected through a contact of your choosing?
As though anyone here has a contact of their choosing close enough to infect them with COVID
(part of it, anyway)
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My espresso machine is on strike until I run a descaling cycle. Which means I need to order descaling solution and wait for it to arrive.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My espresso machine is on strike until I run a descaling cycle. Which means I need to order descaling solution and wait for it to arrive.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: requested PTO for the upcoming convention. Due to earlier mandatory Covid this means I'll have negative 18 hours banked if approved.
Let's see how much they love me...
I've worked at companies that allowed that - and others that said .
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Why even need some key to clear the dialog box?
If the text is already selected and focused by default, just start typing over it.
Because hipsters don't understand things like this. It requires a .
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
If you don't add files that often
I almost always create a template version of my new file in cmd:
copy existing.cpp new.cpp vim new.cpp <go into VS and add-existing-file>
Yeah, I'm weird...
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My espresso machine is on strike until I run a descaling cycle
My coffee machine tries to pull that shit. And considering the only way I've ever found to clear that annoying red light is power cycling - well, I haven't descaled in years... (I also always use filtered water, so no descaling required)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
mandatory Covid
Did they forcibly infect you, or did they simply require you to become infected through a contact of your choosing?
No, they simply required me to not work until a week after testing positive or half a week after testing negative.