The Official Status Thread
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Status: I overthink way too fucking much.
The last 14 lines took 3 and a half hours to write. And still I don't know if I did good enough. I am, sadly, trying to top a feat I did some time back and I don't know if I can do it better than I did it the first time.
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Finally making progress on my project. New libraries forced changing almost every file in the project. After spending days screwing around with this, wound up just throwing away pretty much the whole thing and replacing it with automatically generated code (with the blessing and active encouragement of the project lead and my manager).
It worked (after working around a bunch of bugs in the code generation process), but this made a mess of our VCS. Got that mostly straightened out today; there's still cruft from the old version that needs to be cleaned out, but I need to figure out what's actually cruft, and what is stuff that needs to be stitched back into the new framework. At least everything is checked-in, and passes tests in a new working copy.
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The great thing about open source is that we can complain about how broken it is and someone will either fix it or tell us we're Doing It Wrong.
Mind you, my sample size is 1 open source and 1 closed source forum.
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I think I've filed all of the bug reports... Also commented or resolved the items @sam commented on, or known Discourse patches.
Paging @sam, @eviltrout
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Status: recorded like 3 let's plays, all of which turned out shit (except for the game Dreaming Sarah, which appears to be utterly impossible to record somehow? So it didn't turn out at all.) Then did a stream with had no viewers. Then send some IMs and got no responses. SO BASICALLY SUCK.
It's not even midnight and I'm going to bed.
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handegg for you snarky Euros
Hey that is not fare ... you robbed us of a way to make fun of you!
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Hey that is not fare ... you robbed us of a way to make fun of you!
He was saving you the embarrassment of admitting to not knowing what an egg looks like.
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@ben_lubar, @FrostCat; thank you for the QA session. I do indeed need to resolve the case of a 1 sided dice.
I'm glad to see that the negative numbers were properly filltered out by the regex.
but why did it pickup on @FrostCat's
1.5e+23d1
?that shouldn't match its regex
/\b(\d+)d(\d+)\b/gi
/me wanders off to look up exactly what \b matches in javascript
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status: knee deep in reference material about RegularExpressions in JavaScript
someone shoot me now before the last shreds of my sanity escape...
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Liar, you had at least two viewers.
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Status: when i woke up about an hour ago i was thinking about how my bot has been very stable for the last month or two, and then just now it crashed.
Thankfully when reviewing the logs, it looks like it was because the twitch server died or was restarted. (The current prod version of the bot doesn't automatically switch servers, but the new version already has that set up and works just fine)
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Maybe, one thing Hitbox.tv is actually worse at than Twitch is giving feedback about how many viewers you have. The counter in XSplit's title bar seems to be wrong at least 50% of the time, and unless they're logged-in to chat they don't seem to show a count anywhere on the page at all.
It just occurs to me that since you like the chat in the video player, and I don't, that should actually be a site feature. Not something the streamer has to set up by making a new layer in XSplit and going through annoyances, but something you could just checkbox in your Twitch or Hitbox.tv settings.
If it didn't cost like $5 million to set up the infrastructure for a game streaming site, there's your competitive advantage right there.
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A site feature would be fine, but it would severely limit a broadcasters ability to place the chat to fit in with their overlay (if they have one, which most do) unless they allowed it to be just as customizable as the pop out chat.
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A site feature would be fine, but it would severely limit a broadcasters ability to place the chat to fit in with their overlay (if they have one, which most do) unless they allowed it to be just as customizable as the pop out chat.
I give no shits for that. I hate scarecams, I hate those stupid "roll the dice to determine which character I'll pick next!" bullshit things. No shits.
It's annoying and unnecessary, and scarecams just lead to people fucking pantomiming like they're trying to get kicked off a 1924 silent movie set by refusing to "take it down a notch". Nobody's that fucking scared of a computer game, idiot. You're not an actor. Stop mugging like Robin Williams mid-cocaine binge. (Too soon?)
EDIT: I'll make an exception for e-sports commentators, as long as they follow the TV example and only occasionally show their studio during downtime in the gameplay.
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Did you reply to the wrong topic? Wtf are you talking about?
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Here, look at an actual example
_ http://www.twitch.tv/cobaltstreak/c/5179133
Force breaking oneboxing. That's stupid.
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I know what you're talking about, I'm saying I hate that shit.
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And I like it, as do thousands of others who watch those streams. So no, you're still not right to try and limit that.
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I'm not trying to limit anything, WTF? I'm saying it would be better as a site feature so users could turn it off. You know, like the SAME DAMNED OVERLAY FEATURE ON YOUTUBE can be turned off.
Goddamned. "BLAKEYRAT MUST BE A NAZI! LET'S ASSUME EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS DICTATING TO PEOPLE WHAT TO DO! NAZIS DO THAT!!!" Freakin' relax.
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TIL if you get cancer, Serbian health system (theoretically) helps you out with chemotherapy and medicine until you're in remission.
But only once.
If cancer comes back, you're cut off 100% and expected to basically curl up and die. Or pay thousands for the medicine yourself.
Filed under: Before someone asks, no, I don't have cancer
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Even if you have your first cancer when you're 11? Like my sister-in-law? There has to be an age cutoff right???
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No idea. This is my mother's colleague, she's had a recent recurrence. Has no right on any support from the health system. Is able to get a little here and there because she's a doctor, but basically, seems to be circling the drain financially and medically.
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No idea. This is my mother's colleague, she's had a recent recurrence. Has no right on any support from the health system. Is able to get a little here and there because she's a doctor, but basically, seems to be circling the drain financially and medically.
Nasty, especially as once you get cancer a second time, it's much more likely to happen a third even if you survive (and things are even worse if it is the first cancer recurring). That seems to be the way the genetics of these things works: a mixture of susceptibility to certain types of DNA damage and perhaps weaker suppression by the immune system.
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Caveat: you get dumped only if the same cancer returns. If you get a new cancer, I think the counter resets or something.
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Caveat: you get dumped only if the same cancer returns. If you get a new cancer, I think the counter resets or something.
Ah, so you get the shaft if the thing metastasises? I can understand why they would, as the treatments at that stage get much more expensive, but it's still tough. But if the cancer is metastasising, the prognosis truly isn't good.
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TIL:
Move to serbia if you have cancer, but only the first time.
Then move to Canada?
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TIL:
Move to serbia if you have cancer, but only the first time.
Then move to Canada?
Hah, what an idiot! She should have thought of that.
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Goddamned. "BLAKEYRAT MUST BE A NAZI! LET'S ASSUME EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS DICTATING TO PEOPLE WHAT TO DO! NAZIS DO THAT!!!" Freakin' relax.
Wherever could people have gotten that idea?
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status: eating pizza. and not happy about it. i should have made my own rather than making Frozen.
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I had tasty pizza today.
Status:
I should probably
.goto bed; bed: sleep(19000);
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sleep in miliseconds: you sleep for 19 seconds
sleep in seconds: you sleep for 5.2777777...you get the idea hours...seconds i hope?
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Yup.
Still less than I should.
Filed under: [Now all I want to do is sleep ...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbP8sNhskRE)
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there are days that i would murder a fluffy animal for that much sleep...
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Pulling an all nighter. It might seem weird, but it keeps me sane. It's like an extra 8 hours of freedom. Then you feel like crap the next day, but whatever.
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Waiting for vim to finish loading a log file so I can look at what's going on, because raising the logging verbosity enough to see the one line I want (medium) causes some library to spit out hundreds of lines for each operation. Oh, my. The log file is 45 million lines. Maybe trying to look at it in an editor is not such a great idea. :(
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Looking up an object by name. The language supports associative arrays as a native data type; don't even need to import a container library. O(1) access. Does this code use one for this, you might ask. If it did, would I be writing about it here?
The objects are stored in ordinary (dynamically-sized), integer-indexed array. At least it's sorted, so you can do a binary search and get O(log n) access, right? Of course not. Linear scan of the array.
The icing on the cake? At medium verbosity, it logs every single attempt to match the name of an object with the one being sought. For almost 1000 objects in the array. And every object is accessed multiple times.
I was going to blame this all on my offshore cow-orkers, but at least part of the blame may belong to a vendor. It looks like their code is creating the array, and the offshore group is just using it. However, the overly verbose logging is entirely their fault.
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Does the language's name start with P?
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No, it's a domain-specific language for modeling and testing hardware designs.
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Status: I should be sleeping, but
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Status: Downloading MS corefonts to a local webserver so
ttf-mscorefonts-installer
can install them without trying to download them from Sourceforge through the HTTP proxy (which fails miserably for some reason).
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Status: No SharePoint today. Let's do some InfoPath!
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Oh, my. The log file is 45 million lines. Maybe trying to look at it in an editor is not such a great idea.
I use
less
for that.
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Status: Found a way to accelerate my code between 2.5–10 times. Very very nice.
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status: According to my FitBit i got 4.2 hours of sleep last night... this promises to be an interesting day, and by interesting i mean painful and long.
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/me gives @accalia a
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(thanks!)
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Status: First time in a long while I needed a tooth out and yet again despite my best efforts, couldn't relax my gag reflex enough to let the dentist do it, so back to the special dentistry hospital for sedation.
Being this nervous sucks.
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Being this nervous sucks.
yep. it does.
not only is it no fun at all but general anesthetic is like 100x as expensive!
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Actually not here. When I get the appointment to the specialist dental surgery, it will cost about as much as the regular extraction would have done.
It's not quite full general anaesthetic but 'conscious sedation' meaning that I'm technically awake during it but will have little or no actual memory of it and will be largely zombified for the remainder of the day. It's not fun but my nerves cope with that so much better than the alternative.
What continues to amaze is how 'not so nervous' everyone here seems to think I am.