The Official Status Thread
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Both @FrostCat and @blakeyrat have been in contact with me through video games.
They are the same person, aren't they?
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@fbmac I thought we were all Boomzilla?
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@RaceProUK We just learned that Trump is a @boomzilla alt in one of the flame threads
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@fbmac Is he also Hillary?
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@RaceProUK when the fuck did you come back? What else have I been missing out on due to my busy schedule?
BTW, I thought of you the other day. I was at the store picking up baking supplies, thought of how I still had not tried @accalia's pizza dough recipe, and then remembered the time you knew where it was almost instantly.
I spend too much fucking time here.
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Status: I moved the turkey from freezer to fridge on Saturday night and it is still frozen rock solid. Looks like I get to defrost it in the sink tomorrow. Fucking boo.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I moved the turkey from freezer to fridge on Saturday night and it is still frozen rock solid. Looks like I get to defrost it in the sink tomorrow. Fucking boo.
Turkey in a 5 gal bucket (from Dome Depot), submerged with a weight, under gently running water, in a bathtub.
24 hours. Done.
Or just dump it in an icy brine, in a cooler, and let it sit for 48 hours. It'll thaw after 24-- and even if it creeps above 4 deg, ain't fucking nothing cultivating in a brine.
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status: major wreck coming home 🔥 and everything!
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@Lorne-Kates that was essentially my plan. Tomorrow morning I will put it in the sink with cold water, change it out every few hours and that should defrost it. If it doesn't, tomorrow around 8PM it will go in the brine in a 5 gallon bucket (brand new, of course) with some ice and then dried, oiled and in to the oven on Thursday morning.
You will also be proud of me. I have frozen turkey stock from last year to make my gravy with.
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Status: So, right after I upgraded (?) to Windows 10, I disabled automatic updates because, fuck you I will decide when I want to reboot, you cocksuckers. Tonight I figure it is time to do a monthly update. Why can Linux figure out needs updated on a brand new install in under a minute, but routine Windows updates take for fucking ever to decide what needs installed?
I bet there are just tons and tons of hard coded arrays in If statements, with no loops. Like, if you turned a 1st year CS student loose on implementing Windows Update. That is what I am imagining. FFS, it has been "Checking for updates" for an hour now.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: So, right after I upgraded (?) to Windows 10, I disabled automatic updates because, fuck you I will decide when I want to reboot, you cocksuckers. Tonight I figure it is time to do a monthly update. Why can Linux figure out needs updated on a brand new install in under a minute, but routine Windows updates take for fucking ever to decide what needs installed?
I bet there are just tons and tons of hard coded arrays in If statements, with no loops. Like, if you turned a 1st year CS student loose on implementing Windows Update. That is what I am imagining. FFS, it has been "Checking for updates" for an hour now.
Well, based on my experience with WSUS, a lot of it may be just waiting on Microsoft's servers. I know my pitiful server freaks the trick out whenever one of the machines in my network decides to check for updates.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates that was essentially my plan. Tomorrow morning I will put it in the sink with cold water, change it out every few hours and that should defrost it. If it doesn't, tomorrow around 8PM it will go in the brine in a 5 gallon bucket (brand new, of course) with some ice and then dried, oiled and in to the oven on Thursday morning.
You will also be proud of me. I have frozen turkey stock from last year to make my gravy with.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I upgraded (?) to Windows 10
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, this is wired (supposedly) so a single bulb burning out shorts that bulb in the strand, which raises the current going through the strand as a whole
Yes.
but isn't too important for this problem,
No. That little bit of extra current causes the remaining bulbs to burn just a little bit hotter, which means they fail just a little bit sooner. By the time the first one fails, the others are probably approaching the end of their lives, too, so just a little bit sooner is probably not far away. When the next one fails, the current goes up a little more, and the failure rate goes up a little more, too. Once you've lost a few, the rest go almost immediately.
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Status: It's been 6 minutes so far.
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And the "me too", sociopathic cargo-cult marketing has begun.
Hint: learn what the "black" means, and why you are a fucking idiot for doing the "Canada = red" thing.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
And the "me too", sociopathic cargo-cult marketing has begun.
Hint: learn what the "black" means, and why you are a fucking idiot for doing the "Canada = red" thing.
Obviously RED THURSDAY is when they run over everyone with the tires. BLACK FRIDAY happens after they've washed off all the blood.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, this is wired (supposedly) so a single bulb burning out shorts that bulb in the strand, which raises the current going through the strand as a whole
Yes.
but isn't too important for this problem,
No. That little bit of extra current causes the remaining bulbs to burn just a little bit hotter, which means they fail just a little bit sooner. By the time the first one fails, the others are probably approaching the end of their lives, too, so just a little bit sooner is probably not far away. When the next one fails, the current goes up a little more, and the failure rate goes up a little more, too. Once you've lost a few, the rest go almost immediately.
But not while in storage unplugged unused. At the time of packing, they were all working.
So unless magic....
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Status: Apparently, when under the influence of WSUS, you can disable the choice for users to opt out of installing updates.
I'm... not sure how to feel about this.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Reactive Drop is #9 on Greenlight (out of 2063), but we have about three quarters of the average unique visitor count of a game in the top 50 even though we have more favorites (both current and total unique), more followers, more votes on the question "would you play this game if it were on Steam" (less "no" votes, though)...
Here's a graph of cumulative "yes" votes per day for the first 30 days of being on Greenlight:
Status: We've hit #6, but it's unlikely we'll go higher.
Status: 5000 people can't be wrong!
[insert any election result from the last thousand years here]
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
[insert any election result from the last thousand years here]
Shirley we could find an example from this year?
(because a tram is just a trolleybus that couldn't)
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
[insert any election result from the last thousand years here]
Shirley we could find an example from this year?
(because a tram is just a trolleybus that couldn't)
This year is in the top 1000 years that happened so far, at least numerically.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I think my keyboard's glitchy
Yes, it seems to be inserting superfluous apostrophes occasionally.
This post was just to make you feel welcome and remind you of where you are.
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Status: Vast: The Crystal Caverns is doing their second print run! With miniatures! And a new character!
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I think my keyboard's glitchy
Yes, it seems to be inserting superfluous apostrophes occasionally.
This post was just to make you feel welcome and remind you of where you are.
At least they aren't wriggling!
Filed under: Thank you for closing your tags
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently, when under the influence of WSUS, you can disable the choice for users to opt out of installing updates.
I'm... not sure how to feel about this.
Are the greyed-out updates required because they're prerequisites for other updates that are selected? Try unchecking some of the updates that aren't greyed out, and see if some of the greyed ones become optional again...
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@Mikael_Svahnberg
mate, that's a perfectly cromulent apostrophe. Since it's, you know, abbreviating "keyboard is". You're a bit glitchy this morning, m'thinks.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg
mate, that's a perfectly cromulent apostrophe. Since it's, you know, abbreviating "keyboard is". You're a bit glitchy this morning, m'thinks.Morning?
You are right, I just would not have contracted those two words.
And, as usual
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@Mikael_Svahnberg
Well (a), your post was made during your morning time. And (b), everyone knows that the only time that matters is 'merkin time.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg
Well (a), your post was made during your morning time. And (b), everyone knows that the only time that matters is 'merkin time.It's dawn somewhere...
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Status: We're reinventing time synchronization.
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@ben_lubar I installed that when it came out. Today it told me there was an update.
Oops.
Downloaded the installer again - hey, it recognizes there's an update. (Fail to find file. File to find... Fail. fail. fail.). Well, fuuuccckkkk. Uninstall, reinstall. Now we're good...
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@Polygeekery Windows Update had this problem in Windows XP that there were so many updates it would take days at 100% CPU usage to process the list, since somewhere in the process they had an O(n2) algorithm. They had to "fix" it server-side by bundling updates together.
And... it happened again on Windows 7. Proving they didn't care a bit about fixing their horrible code. And it's almost certainly the same code they run in Windows 10.
There's an update to fix it (KB3102810), but of course, it's downloaded via Windows update so it's not very useful in a new install . For some reason Windows Update's self-updating mechanism that's supposed to handle these things doesn't.
So yes, it's a mess.
Bonus: last time I tried, the Microsoft website where you download stuff didn't work at all in IE7, so I had to download Firefox so I could update Windows.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I had to download Firefox so I could update Windows.
You just made @Lorne-Kates day.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
the only time that matters is merkin time.
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Status: Wondering what they were smoking to come up with that category list
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Wondering what they were smoking to come up with that category list
Did they legalise weed in Washington yet?
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Finished hunting a very hard to find bug that was corrupting memory.
It happened because some code was built with the assumption that in (pointer to struct) + x, x would be a number of bytes. But that's not how the compiler thinks, x is a number of instances of the struct, and it incremented the pointer sizeof(struct)*X bytes.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Did they legalise weed in Washington yet?
I think Blakey once confirmed that
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@TimeBandit So now we know what was being smoked when the category list was being created. ∎
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
I think Blakey once confirmed that
Maybe the reason we don't see him anymore is that he installed this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thekushguide.app
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: We're reinventing time synchronization.
They wanted me to emulate this site:
It's built in Ruby (apparently).
Yeah no.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
They wanted me to emulate this site:
Emulate? No! Just set up an nginx forward and let the idiotic breakage pile up even higher…
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
They wanted me to
More specifically, output this as the time format:
For some reason. I mean, they want UTC time, but why not just use the default time format for such? :/
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@Tsaukpaetra The only reason to use a datetime format other than ISO is to make it more user friendly for people who live in countries with weird-ass date formats
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra The only reason to use a datetime format other than ISO is to make it more user friendly for people who live in countries with weird-ass date formats
Yeah.. considering this isn't even being shown to users. This is supposed to be setting the initial position of a playlist for game-generated radio, so that users will hear the same "station" at the same time.
I think it's REALLY janky, but that conversation was not won when I brought it up.
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Subject of an email I just received:
Be one of the first to try 3D in Windows 10.
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