The Official Status Thread
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Only 10 days until I get my cast off.
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I bought one thing almost a year ago. They still want me!
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Status:
Saw a poll on some forum, clicked on "View Results", got: You do not have permission to vote.
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Status: I am fucking amazed how well Fedora was upgraded this time! It was smooth. All I did was
fedup --network 24took some whiskey and went for a walk, came back and logged in a brand new shiny Cinnamon Feodra ! Viola. I wonder if this is the same old Open Source community project!!!
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@dse After all these years, they finally managed to replicate Debian's upgrade experience ?
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@TimeBandit Close. Except their software is about 5 years newer.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dse After all these years, they finally managed to replicate Debian's upgrade experience ?
It is much more impressive to upgrade to kernel 4.9.10 and fresh cut of master packages, than stale months-old (or years?) packages that are passed their expiration date
I like Debian for stable production machines, but for myself I much prefer Fedora Workstation's freshness.
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@dse
on the
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STATUS:
Power failures suck.UPSes are good investments.
Hard drive failures are highly annoying.
These
34 facts are related.
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TFW your torrent client doesn't have the option to shut down computer after download is completed, but it has option to run arbitrary command, so you always used
shutdown -sf, but now you notice that in some recent update they added shutting down as proper feature with nice, intuitive menu that even lets you to choose between sleep, hibernation and full shutdown (and for some reason, reboot).
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Status: Setting up Lotus Notes because
.I've gotten to the part where I have to delete all the settings and try again.
I have also gotten to the point in the setup process where all dialogues and windows disappear and I have to force quit the application.
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@Tsaukpaetra a shaving company? Send them to the middle East and it would solve terrorism
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra a shaving company?
best name ever for a company that provides tanned and shaved goat and donkey hides to traditional drum manufacturers: Ass-so-bare
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From https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/12/01/visual-studio-tools-for-azure-functions/
Azure Functions provide event-based serverless computing
Status: Wondering where these Azure functions run if they're not running on the Azure servers because they're serverless.
Edit:
The first time we run the function, we’ll be prompted to install the Azure Functions CLI (command line) tools.
You mean the 126MB tools download doesn't include all the tools?
Editit: Having now read the full article... I'll stick to WebJobs, thanks.
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@RaceProUK
But WebJobs aren't serverless!
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
I like Debian for stable production machines, but for myself I much prefer Fedora Workstation's freshness.
You can use this on your desktop
or, if you really want the latest packages
FileUnder: Yum : stay away from my machine
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Status: So I've had this VirtualRoot server running for quite a bit now, to the point where newer offers (for the same price, mind) are quite a bit beyond what my current config is (1 core vs 4, 1 GB RAM vs 8, 25 GB HD vs 250 GB SSD) and thus I asked my provider if I could trade up.
Certainly. I just have to fill out this form. Which is a PDF. Which is obviously a Word document printed as PDF - thus no input fields. But they do ask me to send it by email. I could, of course, print it, fill it out with a pen and then send them a photo of the form on a wooden table...
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Status: Eh... To be honest, far from the worst suggestion.
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@aliceif but what about Circle Simulator 1994?
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Only 9 days until I get my cast off.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
From https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/12/01/visual-studio-tools-for-azure-functions/
Azure Functions provide event-based serverless computing
Status: Wondering where these Azure functions run if they're not running on the Azure servers because they're serverless.
Edit:
The first time we run the function, we’ll be prompted to install the Azure Functions CLI (command line) tools.
You mean the 126MB tools download doesn't include all the tools?
Editit: Having now read the full article... I'll stick to WebJobs, thanks.
Yeah, we tried setting up Amazon Lambda. It couldn't do what we wanted (receive error reports from Unreal and put them in a bucket). FFS it's just a fracking file!
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing Touhou Youyoumu - Perfect Cherry Blossom on Easy Mode.
And getting my ass handed to me every time
I once beat it on Easy. My strategy was to practice on Lunatic.
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh and ...
... look forward to having lots of fun with the Prismriver sisters.I've been
warnedtold Youmu's the one to fear.Can be. Note that the Prismrivers change patterns depending on the character you play as: I find them easiest as Marisa.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Note that the Prismrivers change patterns depending on the character you play as: I find them easiest as Marisa.
I haven't tried Marisa or Sakuya, only Reimu.
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@JazzyJosh I wish that was actually as good as the second DS one, but it went the way of Mario Maker...
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@RaceProUK Reimu's focus is really good damagewise, probably even better than Marisa's slightly wider pattern, whereas Sakuya's homes in. Apart from the Prismrivers, Sakuya is probably the easiest.
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Status: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
He fucked it up. Now how am I supposed to read Cube Drone.
I like how the solution for the comics being too wide for
was to make the comic vertical now.I guess I'll remove it from my RSS feeds now.
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Status: So, I figured since the weather seems to be turning nicer in a more permanent way, I should get off my duff and do some exercise. And set a little goal for myself for the local 5K run/walk that gets held near Father's Day. But, of course, I've been super sedentary over the winter, so when I started walking this week to start building up for it, my ankles are all like...
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
He fucked it up. Now how am I supposed to read Cube Drone.
I like how the solution for the comics being too wide for
was to make the comic vertical now.I guess I'll remove it from my RSS feeds now.
"How do I get access to this secret comics archive" you might ask - the answer is, you have to earn Trust Level 2, "Member" status1 on this forum that we're currently on. So create an account and get to interactin', ya hear!
It's too late. They drank the Kool-Aid.
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Status: My Go port of a C random number generator can generate 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64-bit integers before the cycle repeats. Is this enough?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My Go port of a C random number generator can generate 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64-bit integers before the cycle repeats. Is this enough?
given that that is not 2^64.... i'm going with "no"
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@accalia why would anyone want a random number generator to generate all the numbers between 0 and 264-1 exactly once, then go on to repeat the same numbers in the same order?
I mean, I suppose it could be useful to have a random number generator that's guaranteed to give every possible number once before repeating any of them, but there's no specific reason why it should then repeat the whole exact cycle. And you're putting a constraint on its randomness, so it's not returning good random numbers for most purposes.
That's a bit like
return 3; // determined by roll of a fair die...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia why would anyone want a random number generator to generate all the numbers between 0 and 264-1 exactly once, then go on to repeat the same numbers in the same order?
bleepity bleep if i know, i'm durnk from too much
.:-P
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a bit like
return 3; // determined by roll of a fair die...What's a fair die ?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a bit like
return 3; // determined by roll of a fair die...What's a fair die ?
oh, that's when you lose a duel where the other guy didn't cheat. (you can cheat and lose and it's still a fair die.)
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a bit like
return 3; // determined by roll of a fair die...What's a fair die ?
A hardware random number generator device, typically in the form of a solid polyhedron of uniform density and shape, with 4 or more flat polygonal faces and some number or other identifier printed or marked upon each of those faces, which can be given a random velocity vector and which then settles by the actions of gravity and friction to display a single identifier marked upon a specific face relative to its position at rest (typically either the top or the bottom face), usually a number within the range [1, n] where n is the number of sides it has (often in the form of a fixed pattern of dots, the number of dots in the pattern on each face being the number represented by that pattern), although sometimes colors, letters, or shapes are used to identify the individual faces instead of numbers.
Fair enough?
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@anotherusername You mean, like a dice ?
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@TimeBandit
dieis the correct singular ofdice
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit
dieis the correct singular ofdiceNo,
dieis a correct singular ofdice.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
You mean, like a dice ?
Two or more of them would be dice. [Edit: doubly
d]@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
3 or more flat polygonal faces
I suppose technically >= 3 is a weaker statement than>= 4 and therefore not precisely untrue...
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@CarrieVS
Though, if you need to roll a d% for your dungeon crawler, you're rolling two polyhedral objects that, collectively, make up a single unit of randomness. So percentage dice would be a singular usage of dice...
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername You mean, like a dice ?
No, that's when you chop something (typically some type of food) into approximately cube-shaped pieces.
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I just moved a <100KB file between two folders (in the same drive) and it took literally 10 seconds.
And it's a SSD!
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@izzion But I don't cut paper with a scissors, or draw a circle with a compasses.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit
dieis the correct singular ofdiceTIL. Always saw it written as "dice".
Die: to pass from physical life
OR "various tools or devices for imparting a desired shape, form, or finish to a material or for impressing an object or material"
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@TimeBandit
:P
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
4 or more
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
flat
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
if you need to roll a d% [...] you're rolling two polyhedral objects
Status: Only about 3 hours on the clock so far this week and I've already lost half my day to support emails that the person I'm providing info to can't apparently keep straight and failing to perform a database migration in our test environment because our copy of the environment seems to have domain controller issues. All while also juggling two other projects officially, and probably two more that will require my input ongoing. Friday can't come soon enough.
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@ChaosTheEternal That's not a die, that's a golf ball in a shell :P
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@RaceProUK Thanks but, the Google, I know how it works
