The Official Status Thread
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Status:
ben@australium:~/go/src/github.com/BenLubar/df2014/cmv2y4m$ !go go run cmvlength.go < ~/df_linux/data/movies/df-ai-1419016807.cmv 1228760 frames ( 6h49m35.2s )
I wonder how long this will get before the AI loses the game...
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@Intercourse said:
Like they made shit pretty before they made it work.
s/pretty/ugly/Although Unity's HUD actually looks like a really good idea; I'd like to see that adopted other places. It reminds me a bit of the Windows Vista/7 start menu, or 8/8.1 start screen, search, in that it seems like a really nice cross between a half CLI-ish, half GUI-ish interface. But Unity could resurrect Jesus and it would still wouldn't make up for how awful it is in other respects.
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some union people can manage months-long vacations-before-retiring
I sat next to a guy on a flight once who got 8 weeks of vacation every year (30+ years in a union paper mill) and took it all at once spending two months in Thailand. He said that their collective agreement guaranteed their vacation and that people who didn't use it could take years while still being paid.
(He then opened his complimentary paper - a major customer of his mill - to a story about them downsizing circulation and wondered if he would have a job when he got back. But when I pointed out how these two things might be related, he couldn't see it.)
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Status: Space Engineers is pretty fun.
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@Intercourse said:
I noticed this morning that the temperature in the house was a bit nippy. 62F in the house.
I wish my house were that warm. Not-good insulation (if any) + inefficient electric wall heaters = too expensive to keep comfortably warm.
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Status: In a "clean, comfortable room with the light left on for me" in Eugene, OR, a little more than half-way (I think) to see my kids. I got off to a much later start than I planned, and it took me something like two hours just to get to Tacoma. :( Now going to bed, because I drove all that way on something like four hours of sleep last night.
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(I may be TRWTF for running Ubuntu 14 on an old dual-core Atom desktop.)
@Intercourse said:
No, TRWTF is stock Ubuntu. Kubuntu or UbuntuGnome is where it is at.
My son is running Kubuntu 14.04 on my old 1.6GHz dual core laptop (no clue what actual chip is in there). Runs quite well for his needs. Mostly Minecraft and flash games.
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not if you live in the US. "Use it or Lose it" is the rule here, not the exception.
I've never worked at a place like that. I mean, there are maximum caps, but they're typically several years worth of leave.
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I've never worked at a place like that. I mean, there are maximum caps, but they're typically several years worth of leave.
... lucky bastard.
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this indicated that you were outside the US
Having cutoff dates where your amount of saved-up vacation days vanishes is not all that uncommon in .de, .at and .ch.
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I've never worked at a place like that. I mean, there are maximum caps, but they're typically several years worth of leave.
Where I work, you can only roll over one week.
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Continuing the discussion from Units are hard (giggity):
Unfortunately, the AI left the game paused for several hours last night, so instead of trying to fix that in post, I'm just going to start it over with some extra code to stop pausing from working.
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Excessive multiposting....
seriously. crosspost next time! ;-)
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What's the difference?
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yeah, there is. crossposting keeps the same messageID so i only see the message as unread on one newsgroup, not as unread in all of them.
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yeah
That's a nice answer for a "what" question.
crossposting keeps the same messageID so i only see the message as unread on one newsgroup, not as unread in all of them.
Is there a discoversion of that?
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That's a nice answer for a "what" question.
well, yeah, but i did better answer in the next sentance.
Is there a discoversion of that?
AFAIK, no. i was attempting to conflate Usenet and Discourse for funzies (and because @OffByOne was working on an NNTP gateway for discourse.)
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Still am. There is a showstopping bug in my code to handle post hierarchies when posts are deleted, but once I fix that, the NNTP frontend to Discourse should be acceptably functional.
Real life interfeared, but I have vacation now and I'm planning on getting something acceptable out soon.
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Bizarre local holiday tradition: Local volunteer fire department does a 'lets go practice driving around all the really tight cul de sacs and dead end neighborhoods!' thing. They pull out all the trucks, ambulances, etc, throw a dude in a Santa Claus suit on the back of a truck and drive around with lights and sirens on to amuse the childrens while they practice backing and turning in confined spaces and get everyone familiar with neighborhood layouts.
They log it as training time.
I live at the end of a road. Their ambulance driver just dropped a wheel into the muddy spot next to my driveway and is now stuck. Hard.
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Whatever bug was going around the office last week that had me not quite feeling sick but not quite feeling well just kicked into second gear. Fever and headache. Ugh.
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@Intercourse said:
Looking good so far...I am cautiously optimistic...
Everything is looking good. I am going to give it a few more days and a few more tests, still need to bring a new client online to test for certain (full-file vs incremental), but we are looking good.
In the interest of full disclosure, there was a lot of low-hanging fruit. <Yes, that means part of the code was worthy of being posted here>
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Minor WTF: Space Engineers finally introduced a "Windowed Fullscreen" video mode. Except it still captures the mouse, and so you still have to Alt-Tab to use other software, and is thus virtually identical to normal Fullscreen.
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Not cool, something in an update wiped out my ownership. I can't use any of my ships
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Isn't that what WoW does? The advantage in my mind is you don't have to do a mode switch, so the alt-tab is quite a bit faster.
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Never played WoW, so I don't know. The best example I can think of is PlanetSide 2, I press alt and it releases the cursor from the crosshair and I can do whatever I want with the mouse on any application or any monitor (I have 3 screens).
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I've never tried WoW on multimonitor, so I don't know how it behaves.
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Status: just realized I still have PlaneShift installed. Rectifying.
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Windowed fullscreen and borderless windowed are the same thing, and they're also the best thing. You get fast alt-tabbing and no weird screen resizing-related bugs and the skyrim executable modification that adds it removes the bugs with the wrong number of mouse cursors showing up.
At the same time, you get all the benefits of fullscreen mode - which is one benefit: the game covers your entire screen.
This stuff has been supported since quake. I'm amazed how many games don't have support for it now.
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why does my mouse have the icon of a keyboard?
Well at least your keyboard isn't a toaster.
Where I work, you can only roll over one week.
IIRC 4 days here, and even that has to be with agreement with your line manager. UK in general if you have 28 days leave, you may only carry over 8 of them.
And since our use-it-or-lose-it date is December 31st, those who want time off around the Christmas period for family reasons are off at the same time as those who aren't particularly bothered about when they have time off, but have to use it.
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IIRC 4 days here, and even that has to be with agreement with your line manager. UK in general if you have 28 days leave, you may only carry over 8 of them.
I would imagine it's different, like so many things are, both from country to country, but also company to company.
Our policy is spelled out in the company handbook. You don't have to ask or to do anything: up to 5 days of unused time automatically rolls over. I think it's actually a setting on whatever software we use for payroll.
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Current status: watching handegg and typing up my letter of resignation.
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that..... that is never good....
It can be. I'll be handing it in some time after handing in the signed offer letter from another company.
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It can be. I'll be handing it in some time after handing in the signed offer letter from another company.
oh. well then... this should be interesting.
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Status:
Why does the AI have 68 idle dwarves and 1 working in a workshop?
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Status: bought Skyrim for myself. Like I needed more ways to waste time. Oh god what have I done.
Maybe I'll be lucky and it won't work on my laptop.
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Status: Eating these pancakes:
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Khajiit.
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Status: wienerschnitzel
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Status: At work. Trying to manage my queue so that I do an appropriate amount of work between now and Dec 24.
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Status: about to go see Christmas lights with puppies and peppermint schnapps.
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appropriate amount of work between now and Dec 24.
Would that be "no work whatsoever"?
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Status: lying in bed, posting to the status thread.
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Would that be "no work whatsoever"?
Yes, that's entirely appropriate. It needs to look a bit busier than that though...
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Status: Now coming down with a cold (hopefully) after visiting my folks.
Tomorrow will not be a very fun day, whether I feel better or worse after tonight.
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SP2 CDs wouldn't take license keys for plain ol' XP
Wasn't that because the original XP licence algorithm was cracked wide open by that point?
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