The Official Status Thread
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a bad feeling
Oh no...
Oh No....
OH NO!
Welp, apparently leaving something turned off can sometimes make it stop working for no apparent reason...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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status I had a dream that I had posted something not only moronic but in the civilized category and was desperately trying to edit it out but the mobile composer was throwing all sorts of errors.
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STATUS: I am questioning more and more my decision to buy another set of lunch coupons for the work cafeteria. Today I was planning to use one, but I had second thoughts upon being told they were serving frozen(!) chicken. Dunno if better or worse than the undercooked chicken from wednesday. (Which I did eat, although methinks I at least missed out on the undercooked bits.)
At least they're cheap (costing like 1/3rd of normal eating out price), but I'd prefer if the quality of the food would actually match that price too.
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Status: been getting into Old School Runescape.
In retrospect, "Ultimate Iron Man mode" may not have been the right choice for a casual first time player...
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Status: Got my new phone, but it's going to take a while to set it up right.
Does anyone have any recommendations on launchers? The one the phone shipped with by default sucks but appears to be replaceable, and I've never had to pick one of those before. (The one by Microsoft appears to be among the better ones…)
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@dkf I think you can get the Google Now launcher in the store, which is the standard launcher you'd get with most minimally customised phones/
I've used Action Launcher in the past. Slightly different in the way it does some things, mostly in a good way.
Any other launchers I've used are probably completely different to what they used to be like, as I've stuck with default launchers since about KitKat
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@jaloopa The main manufacturer customisation seems to be of the launcher, and they would have had problems coming up with ways of making it suck more if they tried. Apparently, it's bandwidth hungry, battery hungry (with stupid “cute” animations all over the place) and keen on consuming screen space as well. It's utterly doomed.
But now I know what the default one is, I'll have a fiddle with them over the weekend. Thanks!
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@dkf I've been using Nova Launcher for a few years now and I like it.
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WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Well, at least it warns you. :D
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
At least they're cheap (costing like 1/3rd of normal eating out price), but I'd prefer if the quality of the food would actually match that price too.
I would say it already matches the price - that is the quality is 1/3 of that of normal restaurants.
Or would you rate the undercooked chicken at 1/6?
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Well, at least it warns you. :D
INB4 Blakey: If you are using the CLI as the API, you're
Filed Under: TBF, he'd be right.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
status I had a dream that I had posted something not only moronic but in the civilized category and was desperately trying to edit it out but the mobile composer was throwing all sorts of errors.
There's a I-might-be-spending-too-much-time-here thread around there somewhere...
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@scholrlea A thought occurs:
If creating a CLI application that you know people are going to script, wouldn't it be possible to require a
-v1
option, then add a-v2
when you want to change default behaviour of other switches? That way, legacy scripts under-v1
could continue to work while newer scripts could switch to-v2
and take advantage of an updated set of switches, default options etc. All for the small cost of one extra argument when calling the application
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@jaloopa You can, but then you're stuck with supporting both versions of the API. Just as if you were maintaining any other kind of library component or service. (Not sure I'd use “
-v1
” to indicate the API version, but that's a quibble.)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
then you're stuck with supporting both versions of the API. Just as if you were maintaining any other kind of library component or service
If people are going to insist on using it as an API then you might not have much choice. At least it stops users of version 5 needing to specify
shittyApp --option-that-really-should-be-default --option-that-is-seriously-dangerous-not-to-specify --option-without-which-the-application-barely-works
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Not sure I'd use “-v1” to indicate the API version, but that's a quibble
Yeah, that was just off the top of my head. Not like I've thought this through particularly
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
If people are going to insist on using it as an API then you might not have much choice.
Just make your application produce its output using curses to format it all. With scrolling. While it is technically possible to use such things as an API (protip: use Expect if you must do this sort of thing) you really really don't want to; I've seen it used for handling connections to old mainframe greenscreen systems where there was literally no other option available, and it's just nuts.
And if you do this, give someone a nice real API they can use instead. Please.
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@dkf please stop telling people that kind of thing.
Almost every integration I do these days is a command line wrapper.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf please stop telling people that kind of thing.
Almost every integration I do these days is a command line wrapper.
The "My Job Sucks And Makes Me Want To Die" thread is... wait, we don't have one of those? Why TF not?
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@scholrlea I mean, I have a personal one.
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Status: Staring at this so long I think MS is trying to hypnotize me...
It's literally been twenty minutes since I tried to open the solution....
Edit: Or maybe my drive is just dying?
Copying a 13 GB file over the network, usually it's much faster than this...
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Status: Apparently Windows took a dump in a place I don't (normally) have access to.
Of course, this isn't a nice thing to do on a limited-space SSD.
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Data scientist on my team hasn't ever used SQL and hadn't even heard of Tableau.
Whee.
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Apparently the latest version of Word lets you embed and rotate 3D models, which is way more fun than typing project reports.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently the latest version of Word lets you embed and rotate 3D models, which is way more fun than typing project reports.
wait, seriously?
Holy crap, that's useful for reasons!
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I will probably check in my first code at the new job this morning. If I can figure out the version control system. It's basically SVN, but wrapped in scripts that add a bunch of complexity in the name of efficiency. But the system doesn't seem to work as documented. (One's working copy is supposed to consist only of symlinks to a cache, and only when one checks a file out does the symlink get replaced by a real, mutable file. However, my entire working copy seems to consist of nothing but mutable files. There are also wonky things about updating one's working copy with other people's changes; some directories don't get updated, or something; there was a massive failure to communicate between my technical lead and I when I asked about this.)
I did eventually get it checked in, but only after completely borking my working copy, making a new one, and copying my files into it. Somehow, I apparently managed to update the first one in a way that I had inconsistent, incompatible versions of ... something. I couldn't manage to get it back into a consistent state, so I punted to a fresh copy.
I also found out what's with the weirdness with the symlinks and scripts. It turns out that only the parts of the working copy that are shared with other projects are symlinks; code that is specific to my project are always real files. The scripts replace the links with the files/directories they point to if I need to edit them, or vice versa after I check in (I think), and update the links when new versions are released; for anything that is already a real file, I interact directly with SVN.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf please stop telling people that kind of thing.
Almost every integration I do these days is a command line wrapper.
Simple command line wrappers can work fine enough (apart from the fact that so many languages have miserable libraries for launching and controlling subprocesses, which is a story for another day) provided the wrapped tool is relatively static. A lot of the time that's actually true. But when some ass decides that the only way to expose their code is with a full UI (whether in a GUI or via some curses-driven text mode stuff) then wrapping it is really horrible.
The equivalent difference in web services is between talking JSON to REST (or, frankly, XML to SOAP) and scraping the SPA's HTML.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently the latest version of Word lets you embed and rotate 3D models, which is way more fun than typing project reports.
How long until someone "accidentally" 3D-prints a dildo as part of the company financial reports?
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@adynathos I suppose they are competing against one of the Subways in town, which does take full price for their undercooked chicken and crappy vegetables, so I shouldn't complain too much...
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STATUS: Lack of sleep is bad. Hoped to rest up today, but no luck so I'm feeling quite zombie-like, as well as having to do work I'm lagging behind with.
Also, can't quite shake the feeling that a bunch of regulars suddenly disappeared from the forums, as there's a few names I haven't seen for a few days. Did the (shoulder) aliens finally get them?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently the latest version of Word lets you embed and rotate 3D models, which is way more fun than typing project reports.
How long until someone "accidentally" 3D-prints a dildo as part of the company financial reports?
Probably the moment 3d printing financial documents becomes a thing.
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@atazhaia it's not just you! Though to be fair I haven't checked out the garage in forever. Someone wanna don a hazmat suit and check?
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@tsaukpaetra Loads of people ignore the garage. But I think there was a nazi thing going on outside the garage a few weeks back?
In more mundane reasons, summer is over and that may be forcing people to re-evaluate how they spend their spare time (or limit amount of slacking they get away with at the office).
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
If people are going to insist on using it as an API then you might not have much choice.
Just make your application produce its output using curses to format it all.
Hmmh. How would you go about that and what level of commitment to the cause is needed?
Do you need to actually loot a pharaoh's tomb or does a visit from the friendly neighbourhood gypsy suffice?
If the former how do you then deal with the occasional mummy?
Or is it simple and you are only required to swear a lot while compiling?
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@tsaukpaetra Although there is also an oddity with profiles I found, where at least a couple of the missing regulars has made over 4000 pages of no posts.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Although there is also an oddity with profiles I found, where at least a couple of the missing regulars has made over 4000 pages of no posts.
Ah, those must be in categories you're not privy to. Because when you have no posts returned for that "page", it erroneously reports that nothing has been posted period.
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@tsaukpaetra Ah, right, NodeBB feature. I guess it's because I haven't dared asking for access to the legendary lounge yet.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Ah, right, NodeBB feature. I guess it's because I haven't dared asking for access to the legendary lounge yet.
It's not hard! And very likely to be approved quite easily (if not quickly, because, natch, t's meat driven).
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@tsaukpaetra
Except then he will invoke the wrath of @boomzilla, by causing WORK... DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra
Except then he will invoke the wrath of @boomzilla, by causing WORK... DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNAh, but since he's a @boomzilla alt, he would only be invoking his own wrath upon himself! Mwahahahahaa!
Foiled under: Stop hitting yourself!
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windows rebooted itself (probably for an update) and now my desktop's wifi doesn't work (can't connect to gateway). even bought a new adapter and shit's still broke.
I guess i'll tether to my phone's wireless for now.
maybe i'll install linux next and stick to windows+phone for gaming
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
now my desktop's wifi doesn't work (can't connect to gateway).
Ah, have you tried removing the device from Device Manager? Then resetting winsock? Then the rest of the network stack?
All of this, of course, after trying the Network troubleshooter?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
All of this, of course, after trying the Network troubleshooter?
It told me that it fixed not being able to connect to the default gateway but I still couldn't connect to it, so
I really don't have the patience to do any of that right now, and my phone-usb-desktop solution seems to be working for now so fuck it
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
All of this, of course, after trying the Network troubleshooter?
It told me that it fixed not being able to connect to the default gateway but I still couldn't connect to it, so
I really don't have the patience to do any of that right now, and my phone-usb-desktop solution seems to be working for now so fuck it
Did you try rebooting a second time?
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So on Runescape, you can kill Imps and they'll sometimes drop a bead. Beads can be white, yellow, red or black. You need one of each color to get an amulet. The wiki says the drop rate is the same for all colors, i.e. 25% probability of each.
I've been killing Imps all fucking day. Collected at least 25 beads and not ONE single black one.
Either I hit that 0.075% probability or I'm doing something wrong.
Edit: and of course, as I was seconds away from submitting that post, I find one .
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Status: Tried watching the new Star Trek. Fucking awful.
Tried watching Seth MacFarlane's new show The Orville. It is now officially known in my circles as "The new Star Trek".
It'll be interesting to see whether Fox's "kill all good sci fi" policy trumps their "fellate Seth MacFarlane" policy.
I get the feeling from comparing the ads to the show that he sold them a comedy, which he is assuredly not making.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I get the feeling from comparing the ads to the show that he sold them a comedy, which he is assuredly not making.
Sort of the opposite of Rod Stirling's 'disguise social commentary as fantasy' ploy, then? My, how times have changed.
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I get the feeling from comparing the ads to the show that he sold them a comedy, which he is assuredly not making.
Sort of the opposite of Rod Stirling's 'disguise social commentary as fantasy' ploy, then? My, how times have changed.
It also does that. Much in the vein of Roddenberry-Trek.
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Just ran through approximating my taxes for next year so I could decide how much to save for a big tax bill. First estimate said I was expecting thousands above my withholding. then I realized I forgot to remove the money paid into my 401k from my taxes. Turns out I'm within epsilon of no payment/no refund.
A tense couple of moments there.
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Status: Had a day of holiday booked so I could do my moonlight job but the client has cancelled over health and safety concerns.
Guess it's a day of working on hardware projects for friends. Fighting the urge to go just back to bed though.Being home on a weekday seems to have confused the cats.