The Official Status Thread
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Microsoft products never cease to amaze me.
- Install Visual Studio 2010 for the compilers
- Fix all the file types that it stole from Visual Studio 2015
- Go to Windows Update to install the service pack
- "We will reboot your computer to install updates. Right now, 03:15 tomorrow looks good."
- Remember that it said "03:30 tomorrow" a few days ago
- Reboot
- Open Windows Update
- "There are three updates available"
- Install
- "One update failed to install. There are five updates available."
- Eventually get updates installed
- Reboot
- Compile project
- Project has hundreds of errors
- Edit project by hand to not use C++0x features so it works with Microsoft's C++0x compiler
- Push thousands of changes
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I turned slightly blue while reading that first sentence. But yeah, fling some poo at them too.
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Status: picked up the kids from choir practice. They have been practicing a song in english:
This is a little mine
I'm gonna make it shine
Don't know whether to post this in the cultural appropriation thread or just page @ben_lubar.
Filed under: No quaffing in the back seat!
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Our CTO sincerely apologized to me once for the permission named "CarrierAdministator".
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Administator
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How the f*** do you manage to make a chair that uncomfortable?
How the f*** do you work in the same office for 18 years? Was that a typo?
I mean even if you work in the same company for 18 years, that seems impossible.
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My "favorite" was a project by a couple of girls. One of them had an uncle who worked on an aircraft carrier, hooking up aircraft to the catapult.
Ok...
Which supposedly inspired their project to test the effect of the length of the catapult arm on how far the catapult would throw an object.
Sounds perfectly reasonable...
Yes...they built a medieval style catapult.
And that's bad because...? It's not mechanical engineering? Or...?
Neither I nor the other two judges in the category broke the news to them...
What news didn't you break?
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I've swapped office four times, and city once. Same university, though, and I am not going to let go of my comfy chair or my red stapler ever again.
Filed under: Proudly Doing Nothing since 1994
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They were launching a beanie baby. Even the worst popsicle stick bridge would have survived.
New idea; build a glueless popsicle stick bridge that could withstand impacts from beanie babies without exploding like a gigantic popsicle stick grenade.
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My work has about half a dozen red staplers. I am not one of the ones who has one. :'(
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Well that's what you get for trying to compile C++ on Windows.
Windows is only for Visual C++. Which as I understand is a completely different (but rather similar) language.
Incidentally, after 5 minutes trying to read the code of a sample WinAPI Visual C++ program, I swore to never get anywhere near those things again for as long as I can avoid it.
Oh, also I had to reinstall PTVS to get them to work. So overall I'd rank Visual Studio as "better than other IDEs but still grossly overengineered".
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I've swapped office four times,
Ok; so the answer is you lied. You've had the same chair for 18 years but not the same office.
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Still is an office chair, so you lose.
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Status: going insane.
So, LG has two versions of their WebOS system: v1 (2014) and v2 (2015 and on). It seems v1 shipped with a compatibility mode for legacy apps (good) and they kind of removed it from v2 (not so great) and only breaks certain stuff, like switching audios during a stream.
Is this documented somewhere? No
Is this legacy mode documented? No
Is PlayReady supported? Kind of, but no:LGE does not recommend you to use Smooth Streaming in your application. (Both on webOS TV and NetCast)
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How the f*** do you manage to make a chair that uncomfortable?
You buy it from a "designer" for an exorbitant price.
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Status: picked up the kids from choir practice. They have been practicing a song in english:
This is a little mine
I'm gonna make it shine
Don't know whether to post this in the cultural appropriation thread or just page @ben_lubar.
Filed under: No quaffing in the back seat!
It's actually "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine". I don't know more than that though.
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Yes but my youngest daughter have only just mastered irregular verbs in swedish, so you've got to cut them some slack when it comes to english...
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Well that's what you get for trying to compile C++ on
WindowsVisual Studio.WindowsVisual Studio is only for Visual C++. Which as I understand is a completely different (but rather similar) language.
You can compile C++ in windows, you just need a C++ compiler to do it. Gcc has a pretty good Windows port, mingw-w64. Lets you write modern c++ in Windows. I usually pair it with Netbeans for the ide, mostly because I've gotten used to how netbeans handles project properties.
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- Install Visual Studio 2010 for the compilers
- Fix all the file types that it stole from Visual Studio 2015
Um.. Duh? He who installs last gets the file extensions they register.
- Edit project by hand to not use C++0x features so it works with Microsoft's C++0x compiler
You do realize that VS2010 does not support all of c++0x? It targeted only 6 core language features. (Why downgrade from vs2015 to vs2010?)
Can I therefore complain that OSX's current clang (with c++11) still doesn't support "for each" but VS does? (I just had to modify a bunch of code because of that)
Yeah, cross-compiler support of advanced C++ features is ... painful.
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Yes but my youngest daughter have only just mastered irregular verbs in swedish, so you've got to cut them some slack when it comes to english...
I must have misunderstood. I thought you were wondering what it was supposed to be since it's in a different language.
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(Why downgrade from vs2015 to vs2010?)
I can't compile code on a compiler with a different ABI and expect it to work.
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It's actually "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine". I don't know more than that though.
Did you know that it's actually a Christian song? Cf. Matthew 5:15 and Luke 11:33.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
Yes but my youngest daughter have only just mastered irregular verbs in swedish, so you've got to cut them some slack when it comes to english...
I must have misunderstood. I thought you were wondering what it was supposed to be since it's in a different language.
Np. Incidentally, the swedish version also uses the swedish translation of a bushel. I have no clue why you would want to hide a candle under 8 gallons of something (undefined what), but at least you consistently do so in at least two languages.
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I have no clue why you would want to hide a candle under 8 gallons of something (undefined what)
A container with a capacity of 8 gallons: a bushel basket. And the point is that nobody is silly enough to do that.
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That certainly sounds like a fire hazard. There's bound to be some dust left in it. Why not " don't put it under the haystack lest you your neighbours ignite"?
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That certainly sounds like a fire hazard. There's bound to be some dust left in it.
The point is about hiding the light where it does no one any good vs. using it to illuminate the house. Whether the thing you wouldn't hide it under is a fire hazard or not is orthogonal.
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I can't compile code on a compiler with a different ABI and expect it to work.
Different ABI to what? What are you linking with that you can't recompile?
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And that's bad because...? It's not mechanical engineering? Or...?
I guess you're as familiar with aircraft carriers as they are.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
That certainly sounds like a fire hazard. There's bound to be some dust left in it.
The point is about hiding the light where it does no one any good vs. using it to illuminate the house. Whether the thing you wouldn't hide it under is a fire hazard or not is orthogonal.
Well sure, but that does not fit so well with the music.
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I guess you're as familiar with aircraft carriers as they are.
It's not the kind of catapult used to launch planes from an aircraft carrier, but why is it not a valid science project in its own right, independent of the inspiration for the project?
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I guess you're as familiar with aircraft carriers as they are.
Um, you said that already...
Edit: And now the duplicate post is gone... What sort of discononsense is going on here?
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@boomzilla said:
I guess you're as familiar with aircraft carriers as they are.
Um, you said that already...
And now it's gone... Discobug or Boombug?
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@boomzilla said:
I guess you're as familiar with aircraft carriers as they are.
It's not the kind of catapult used to launch planes from an aircraft carrier, but why is it not a valid science project in its own right, independent of the inspiration for the project?
I guess it wasn't obvious enough for you pendants that they didn't realize that their catapult wasn't at all what carriers use.
Edit: And now the duplicate post is gone... What sort of discononsense is going on here?
502 OKs followed by a delete.
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they didn't realize that their catapult wasn't at all what carriers use.
Ah, that's information we didn't have.
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But does that invalidate the science of what they did build?
Or did "daddy dearest" really build it?
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But does that invalidate the science of what they did build?
When they say that the application is that we could launch aircraft better?
But no, it didn't invalidate the result, though they were totally wrong about why a longer arm threw stuff farther. And it was a pretty trivial result that should have been obvious.
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Dwarf Fortress. The source code of Dwarf Fortress is only accessible to one person in the entire world, and that's Tarn Adams. Hopefully he'll eventually start compiling it on a newer MSVC and get support for 64 bit and all that good stuff. But for now, we're stuck on 2010 compilers.
We have a hack for it to work with GCC > 4.8, but no such luck with MSVC.
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OK, I just typed a "[" in a post I was composing here and this appeared:
[♣
How the hell I do this?! (no, it's not on my clipboard).
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Did you hit alt+5?
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Status: Well, it doesn't crash at startup, so that's nice, I guess.
Let's see how far this AI can go.
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Best AI
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Status: While stage one of our performance project was being completed, they were considering whether they actually wanted to scale that far on one deployment. Now they've been attacked, they decided they don't want to put all their eggs in one basket, and it looks like the next stage is off the cards for now.
On the one hand, I'm fine with this. I hadn't started yet anyway, and I've got plenty of other interesting things to do.
On the other hand, it means I don't get to bikeshed the low-level analysis architecture.
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The source code of Dwarf Fortress is only accessible to one person in the entire world
One person too many IMO.
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I guess you're as familiar with aircraft carriers as they are.
I don't understand why being inspired by an aircraft carrier catapult disqualifies you from making a medieval-style catapult.
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Ok.