The Official Status Thread
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@Polygeekery why the fuck are you using AMD chips in the year 2016?
And why the fuck are you using MicroATX? It's absolutely vital that your computer have five cubic feet of empty space inside!
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@Polygeekery Just get an intel board, I gave up with AMD after Core 2 duo.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery why the fuck are you using AMD chips in the year 2016?
And why the fuck are you using MicroATX? It's absolutely vital that your computer have five cubic feet of empty space inside!
Truly. Where do you think you're gonna put the graphics card? Those take at least 4 cu.ft. each.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
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Uh, what? Sounds like something that would break on my computer.
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@Dreikin I'm making a troubleshooting tool for a mod I work on. It checks some stuff, including if the base game has Large Address Aware applied. Because Steam's config files are the spawn of ̜̦͞Z͏̩A̞̤͓̰L̪̘͙̯G̘̭̕O̡̹͖̤̯!͙͎̠̝̙̲̖ himself, I'm just gonna use the default and let you add it manually if the game is in a different location. I don't like doing it, but nothing about those config files are even remotely easy to figure out and I don't trust them not breaking at some point in the future because I missed some random gotcha or something idiotic.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin I'm making a troubleshooting tool for a mod I work on. It checks some stuff, including if the base game has Large Address Aware applied. Because Steam's config files are the spawn of ̜̦͞Z͏̩A̞̤͓̰L̪̘͙̯G̘̭̕O̡̹͖̤̯!͙͎̠̝̙̲̖ himself, I'm just gonna use the default and let you add it manually if the game is in a different location. I don't like doing it, but nothing about those config files are even remotely easy to figure out and I don't trust them not breaking at some point in the future because I missed some random gotcha or something idiotic.
Ah, okay.
Huh, that looks interesting. I like Sins, but never really played Halo.
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Where do you think you're gonna the graphics card?
I think you may have accidentally a word :P
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Where do you think you're gonna the graphics card?
I think you may have accidentally a word :P
Did not. Shame on you, editing that quote to make me look bad!
Fixed
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin I'm making a troubleshooting tool for a mod I work on. It checks some stuff, including if the base game has Large Address Aware applied. Because Steam's config files are the spawn of ̜̦͞Z͏̩A̞̤͓̰L̪̘͙̯G̘̭̕O̡̹͖̤̯!͙͎̠̝̙̲̖ himself, I'm just gonna use the default and let you add it manually if the game is in a different location. I don't like doing it, but nothing about those config files are even remotely easy to figure out and I don't trust them not breaking at some point in the future because I missed some random gotcha or something idiotic.
Ah, okay.
Huh, that looks interesting. I like Sins, but never really played Halo.
Yeah. I'd like to say it's a pretty good mod :)
Combat mechanics are pretty crazy different from default though. DPS is insanely high (since it's giant railguns on glass cannons vs high-tech evil aliens with shields and plasma) so battles go disturbingly quickly. It's pretty fun, but sometimes a little terrifying too (HOLYSHIT WHERE DID MY FLEET GO?????)
Also. Flood are a thing. Flood are terrifying. And evil. And they take over your fleet. All of it.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin I'm making a troubleshooting tool for a mod I work on. It checks some stuff, including if the base game has Large Address Aware applied. Because Steam's config files are the spawn of ̜̦͞Z͏̩A̞̤͓̰L̪̘͙̯G̘̭̕O̡̹͖̤̯!͙͎̠̝̙̲̖ himself, I'm just gonna use the default and let you add it manually if the game is in a different location. I don't like doing it, but nothing about those config files are even remotely easy to figure out and I don't trust them not breaking at some point in the future because I missed some random gotcha or something idiotic.
Ah, okay.
Huh, that looks interesting. I like Sins, but never really played Halo.
Yeah. I'd like to say it's a pretty good mod :)
Combat mechanics are pretty crazy different from default though. DPS is insanely high (since it's giant railguns on glass cannons vs high-tech evil aliens with shields and plasma) so battles go disturbingly quickly. It's pretty fun, but sometimes a little terrifying too (HOLYSHIT WHERE DID MY FLEET GO?????)
Also. Flood are a thing. Flood are terrifying. And evil. And they take over your fleet. All of it.
Combat changes, and not just reskinning? Now I'm even more interested.
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@Dreikin Oh yes. You know how Sins is pretty much even, balance wise, between the factions?
Not so with SotP.
The overall game is still balanced, but we based the mod's balance off of the Fall of Reach book, where the UNSC needs about a 3:1 advantage over the Covenant to win. So basically, the UNSC can spam ships, but they're horribly weak compared to the Covenant counterparts. But the UNSC has strong defense and better tech, so they can eventually get the advantage, if they're not steamrolled before they get a chance to. It definitely changes your playstyle and it's pretty fun.
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@Adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
language L
Funnily enough, I know of a language whose name is “L”, the letter. It's because of massive ego-stoking by a particular asshole…
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin Oh yes. You know how Sins is pretty much even, balance wise, between the factions?
Not so with SotP.
The overall game is still balanced, but we based the mod's balance off of the Fall of Reach book, where the UNSC needs about a 3:1 advantage over the Covenant to win. So basically, the UNSC can spam ships, but they're horribly weak compared to the Covenant counterparts. But the UNSC has strong defense and better tech, so they can eventually get the advantage, if they're not steamrolled before they get a chance to. It definitely changes your playstyle and it's pretty fun.
So how close is it to stable?
(And it has no pirates, right? I hate pirates...)
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
So how close is it to stable?
Very stable. We try to make sure each release is as stable as vanilla. And professional (or as professional as you can get with a team of like 10 people who live across the world) quality, with all our art assets and stuff well-polished.
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
(And it has no pirates, right? I hate pirates...)
Uh. Yeaaaaah. About that. We definitely don't have pirates.
Suffice to say, turning off pirate raids is absolutely essential unless you want to play ZOMBIE SURVIVAL MODE
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
language L
Funnily enough, I know of a language whose name is “L”, the letter. It's because of massive ego-stoking by a particular asshole…
Oh, ew.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
So how close is it to stable?
Very stable. We try to make sure each release is as stable as vanilla. And professional (or as professional as you can get with a team of like 10 people who live across the world) quality, with all our art assets and stuff well-polished.
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
(And it has no pirates, right? I hate pirates...)
Uh. Yeaaaaah. About that. We definitely don't have pirates.
Suffice to say, turning off pirate raids is absolutely essential unless you want to play ZOMBIE SURVIVAL MODE
Yeah, pirate mode is going off.
That's some nice voice work there. Did y'all do it, or did you hire someone(s)?
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Did y'all do it,
All done in house, by our glorious, awesome audio team.
They also did the entire soundtrack too.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Did y'all do it,
All done in house, by our glorious, awesome audio team.
They also did the entire soundtrack too.
Very cool. I look forward to playing it. :D
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@Dreikin Awesome!
You may want to check the page in a couple days, cause we may be about to release a new version just in time for MotY :)
With a new, totally overhauled UI. Among other awesome things.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, ew.
He's worse in person. :(
I'm surprised that BitKeeper is still around. The only use I've ever heard for it was the Linux kernel, and I don't imagine that breakup engendered a fond view of it in too many developer's minds.
Commercial users are also required not to produce any competing tools: in October 2005, McVoy contacted a customer using commercially licensed BitKeeper demanding that an employee of the customer stop contributing to the Mercurial project, a GPL source management tool. Bryan O'Sullivan, the employee, responded, "To avoid any possible perception of conflict, I have volunteered to Larry that as long as I continue to use the commercial version of BitKeeper, I will not contribute to the development of Mercurial."
I mean, I get the concept behind that kind of shit, but it still rankles.
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
The only use I've ever heard for it was the Linux kernel
I'm guessing they got some pretty big corporate users somewhere. OTOH, my spies (i.e., an employee) indicate that he mostly just hangs out on his ranch and does whatever he likes as he made a lot of money from something in the .com boom. As long as he stays away from me, I'm happy; he's up there with on the list of people I never want to talk to despite them being nominally in the same industry as me.
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Status: Just remembered that I have to hand in some kind of budget plan for the physics department.
This plan is usually done by several physics teachers and then voted upon. As I am head of the physics department (which consists of me, me and, uh, me) I have to propose a plan and then vote on it. I suspect I'll get a unanimous vote unless there's an unforeseen mutiny.
Seriously, though: I have no idea what numbers I'm supposed to put in there. I mean, I know what amount of money I would like to spend on stuff but I also think that putting in that kind of numbers will earn it a: "Hahahaha... ha. No." feedback. It doesn't help that no one else has too much of an idea of what to put in there either; my chemistry and biology colleagues don't know either and subjects like Languages don't really have to buy eight frequency generators either.
I think I'll opt for "slightly ludicrous" and then tone it down, based on feedback.
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Went out on my bike earlier on today, got a flat (must have been slow). This type of tyre is an absolute cunt to change as it is designed to hold onto the rim even when at low pressure. I hate riding a 29er sometimes.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I'll opt for "slightly ludicrous" and then tone it down, based on feedback.
That's the usual approach. If you get it approved immediately, you know you weren't outlandish enough and should ask for more money for
blackjack and hookers“interesting” lab equipment next year.
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@dkf I wonder if I could get the Chemistry department to cooperate and get a GCMS?
I have no idea what we could use it for but still...
When I was still doing youth retreats we also voted on the budget and what to spend it for. We had three categories:
Category A: Essential Stuff
Category B: Nonessential Stuff
Category C: Useless Stuff Which Will Be Bought Immediately RegardlessThat's how we wound up with a medium-sized toy train and tracks - because breakfast at retreats was so exhausting, you had to hand the butter down the table or the Nutella was just out of reach and the coffee was always somewhere else. With the train, we simply put it all on the train trailers and thus only had to wait until the train drove by.
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@Rhywden Germany must have a very different train system. Because the only thing the English have pass on in the train is disdain and hatred for their fellow man.
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@lucas1 Our train personell seems to have developed a healthy sense of humor. Yes. In Germany. I know, it's shocking.
Here are some things you were able to hear last week:
Dear passengers, this is not a kidnapping. We just have a tiny problem regarding the door motor circuits.
Bad news: We are 11 minutes late. Good news: Your connections are even later.
The train is breaking hard several times A conductor goes to the front: "Maybe I should take the whisky bottle away from him."
We are five minutes early. So, in order to restore your confidence in the Deutsche Bundesbahn, I'm offering to keep the doors closed for another ten minutes.
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@Rhywden i thought it was a joke about model trains or something and thought I totally mis-read it.
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@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden i thought it was a joke about model trains or something and thought I totally mis-read it.
Yes. We had a full-size ICE driving through our tent camp in the morning to deliver coffee.
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@Rhywden Dunno what an ICE is.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery why the fuck are you using AMD chips in the year 2016?
Baseball has Cubs fans. CPUs have people like me.
Seriously though, my work lends itself to more cores being better than more single threaded performance. I run VMWare Workstation on my primary Windows machine to run my Debian development environment and also test VMs and other stuff. It is not entirely uncommon for me to max out all 8 cores on the FX-8370 that I am running right now.
Plus, AMD is awesome in the bang for the buck department. If Intel wants to release an 8-core chip that is not >$1,000, I might bite. But right now you can pick up FX-8370's for $190. If you look back two years ago (roughly when I built this machine), the bang for the buck was squarely in AMDs court. Now, Intel has quad cores that perform nearly as well multi-threaded as AMD chips.
I can't speak for current bleeding edge chips, but when I built this machine the i7 chips were choking on my workload when I would max them out. This AMD chip will comfortably allow me to give 4 cores to a Debian VM and still have 4 cores left for my Windows install to run. I can simultaneously compile on Windows and Linux on the same hardware, and still browse the web and have a YouTube video playing.
Here is to hoping that the new Zen platform allows me to run 8-cores at a reasonable price, while bringing M.2 to the AMD Micro-ATX platform. Preferably a few slots of it.
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
And why the fuck are you using MicroATX? It's absolutely vital that your computer have five cubic feet of empty space inside!
Ha! Up until I ordered this motherboard I thought the same thing.
"I will get ATX, so that if I want I can add expansion cards or another graphics card, etc."
The last time I used an expansion slot other than for a graphics card was probably a decade ago when I ran wireless cards in my desktop. I decided to downsize so I could run a cube case with water cooling because AMD chips run hot. So I picked up a Thermaltake Core V21 case and Corsair H100i V2 water cooler.
The bad thing about the AMD chips is that they run hot. I remember the reason I went with the FX-8370 is that it had a 125w TDP and the next step up the ladder was 220w TDP. When I do max out all the cores, it gets hot enough that the fans kick up to maximum and make it really noisy. The water cooler was to help alleviate that.
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@Rhywden So a German express train then
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@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden Dunno what an ICE is.
you never heard of an Inter City Express train?
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@Arantor not the Initialism no.
They don't really exist where I live. Not living near a city ever, I pay very little attention.
To give you an idea how outside of the cities I live, this is a regular hold up on the way to town.
Local school
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I spaces it and ordered a conventional BIOS motherboard, my Windows 10 install is on UEFI. I was really hoping to be able to just swap the SSD and get back to work after some driver updates.
So how do I fix that? Will startup repair solve it? Or will I need a full reinstall?No. Startup repair will not even touch it.
Looks like a trip to Fry's is on order for tomorrow. Pick up a new SSD, install to it, move all my shit over, etc.
Goddamn it.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder if I could get the Chemistry department to cooperate and get a GCMS?
I have no idea what we could use it for but still...Those things are awesome but not trivial to operate. Even discussing how they work —
HULKELECTRON GUN SMASH MOLECULE! AND THROW INTO THESUNMAGNETIC FIELD!— and how people figure out what the results mean is a good way to show how physics and chemistry really aren't all that separated after all, but rather looking at two aspects of the same overall thing. That's a really good lesson for people to learn as they get to the end of their schooling, as it stops them from thinking that the little compartments that everyone likes to stuff things into are immutable and necessarily correct.If you get one, please also mention the LCMS and the use of travel time through gases as another analysis factor, as those let different sorts of things be found out. In particular, gas chromatography is mostly for small volatile molecules, whereas LC is for larger molecules, and the gas column things (whose name I can't remember right now) let one figure out the cross-sectional area of the ions instead of (well, as well as, as you push the results through the mass spec) the charge-mass ratio. Though this is not kit that you'll expect to find in a school. Or outside a very well-equipped analytical chemistry department. :)
Except for the gas column things. Those are used to detect drugs and explosives in airport scanners, and they really do work.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
I suspect I'll get a unanimous vote unless there's an unforeseen mutiny.
Trust us, it's not fun.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I spaces it and ordered a conventional BIOS motherboard, my Windows 10 install is on UEFI. I was really hoping to be able to just swap the SSD and get back to work after some driver updates.
So how do I fix that? Will startup repair solve it? Or will I need a full reinstall?No. Startup repair will not even touch it.
Looks like a trip to Fry's is on order for tomorrow. Pick up a new SSD, install to it, move all my shit over, etc.
Goddamn it.
Wait, what? Why can't you use bcdboot to add in the boot manager back in BIOS mode?
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Status: stupid again ate something he was not supposed to! A magnet fell of the fridge. In the hospital now trying to get it out before it goes to intestines. If they cannot, just hope it will not cause another blockage. This is tiring! more reason never to have babies. It is horrible to constantly think about how they decide to get off the gene pool, and try to prevent it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait, what? Why can't you use bcdboot to add in the boot manager back in BIOS mode?
Attempted and failed. I decided it was just easier to reinstall.
New chassis is dead quiet. I only know it is booting due to the blue LED on the power switch. For a person who enjoys a quiet office, this is nirvana. Now, let's see what the idle and load temperatures are.
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Status: Apparently it takes me 4 days to place navigation nodes in 2 Alien Swarm missions.
Now I just have 9 more missions left in my queue to fix up.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I spaces it and ordered a conventional BIOS motherboard, my Windows 10 install is on UEFI. I was really hoping to be able to just swap the SSD and get back to work after some driver updates.
So how do I fix that? Will startup repair solve it? Or will I need a full reinstall?No. Startup repair will not even touch it.
Looks like a trip to Fry's is on order for tomorrow. Pick up a new SSD, install to it, move all my shit over, etc.
Goddamn it.
I ended up installing to a new 2TB HDD that I had lying around. The thought was, I would install to it, backup everything from the SSD (just in case my normal backup procedures missed anything) and then migrate back to the SSD. It would also give me a chance to sort through everything and clean things up a bit. Leave behind all the crap that I do not need.
Now I am running off a HDD for the day...goddamn this is annoying.
It has probably been over a year, at least, that any of my personal machines have run spinning rust. It feels like my mouse is malfunctioning. The cursor randomly stops moving. Programs feel like they are hung. The lag is super annoying.
How did we deal with this all the time?
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
It feels like my mouse is malfunctioning. The cursor randomly stops moving. Programs feel like they are hung. The lag is super annoying.
How did we deal with this all the time?
Your OS is broken.
Oh, you're on Windows.... nevermind.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Except for the gas column things. Those are used to detect drugs and explosives in airport scanners, and they really do work.
When I had to do a presentation on the inner workings of diverse variants of mass spectrometers, I stumbled across one which forced the ionized molecules into a corkscrew trajectory (rather than the usual quarter-circle) in order to reduce the required length - I think, they built that thing about 30 cm long.
They wanted to use it for the army's reconnaissance vehicles to detect explosives in the field and thus needed a more compact version.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
It feels like my mouse is malfunctioning. The cursor randomly stops moving. Programs feel like they are hung. The lag is super annoying.
If your cursor is freezing, you have more problems than a spinning disk. That shit's a system interrupt FFS!
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
corkscrew trajectory
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Status: huh, Wikipedia is doing their "if everyone gave a dollar" campaign again...