The Official Status Thread
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
had my monitor set on 24 Hz
That's... Huh, didn't know you could still do that. Usually that's buried behind an "Advanced Settings" dialog box....
I mean, it is. Still did it. I believe it was necessary in order to get PowerDVD to stop spazzing out on Blu-Rays.
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On another note, found out something new about a toy I have. It's a USB dongle that allows me to connect to non-sensitive workstations at my work site, has a smart card reader built into it and appears as a CD-ROM drive to the operating system with all the software loaded up to read the smart card, make the connection to the destination "burnt" into it, etc. Basically gives me a Remote Desktop connection. A bit annoying that it doesn't trust the smart card readers already built into my machine for authentication, but that is what it is. At least as of the most recent model/firmware I received it acts as a smart card reader as well so I can be logged in to VDI to one site, and then connected via the dongle to another site. It also warns if there's any software running (e.g. TeamViewer) that could compromise the connection.
I didn't realize until I restarted my machine recently, with it still connected, that it will emulate a CD-ROM to the BIOS as well, a different CD-ROM drive, and it gives you a whole operating system to boot from, I guess in case you don't trust the local platform. That's fucking cool. I guess with the software warnings it's really oriented towards that use case. (I mean, obviously I do trust my home machine and it's more convenient to boot into it and be able to multitask, but still). It's rare that you see such "winners" in their respective tech spheres these days.
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@tsaukpaetra here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself an Xbox One
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself an Xbox One
If I could buy an XBone with a nickel, I'd probably spend it cryptomining instead.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
On another note, found out something new about a toy I have. It's a USB dongle that allows me to connect to non-sensitive workstations at my work site, has a smart card reader built into it and appears as a CD-ROM drive to the operating system with all the software loaded up to read the smart card, make the connection to the destination "burnt" into it, etc. Basically gives me a Remote Desktop connection. A bit annoying that it doesn't trust the smart card readers already built into my machine for authentication, but that is what it is. At least as of the most recent model/firmware I received it acts as a smart card reader as well so I can be logged in to VDI to one site, and then connected via the dongle to another site. It also warns if there's any software running (e.g. TeamViewer) that could compromise the connection.
I didn't realize until I restarted my machine recently, with it still connected, that it will emulate a CD-ROM to the BIOS as well, a different CD-ROM drive, and it gives you a whole operating system to boot from, I guess in case you don't trust the local platform. That's fucking cool. I guess with the software warnings it's really oriented towards that use case. (I mean, obviously I do trust my home machine and it's more convenient to boot into it and be able to multitask, but still). It's rare that you see such "winners" in their respective tech spheres these days.
So what is it?
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
On another note, found out something new about a toy I have. It's a USB dongle that allows me to connect to non-sensitive workstations at my work site, has a smart card reader built into it and appears as a CD-ROM drive to the operating system with all the software loaded up to read the smart card, make the connection to the destination "burnt" into it, etc. Basically gives me a Remote Desktop connection. A bit annoying that it doesn't trust the smart card readers already built into my machine for authentication, but that is what it is. At least as of the most recent model/firmware I received it acts as a smart card reader as well so I can be logged in to VDI to one site, and then connected via the dongle to another site. It also warns if there's any software running (e.g. TeamViewer) that could compromise the connection.
I didn't realize until I restarted my machine recently, with it still connected, that it will emulate a CD-ROM to the BIOS as well, a different CD-ROM drive, and it gives you a whole operating system to boot from, I guess in case you don't trust the local platform. That's fucking cool. I guess with the software warnings it's really oriented towards that use case. (I mean, obviously I do trust my home machine and it's more convenient to boot into it and be able to multitask, but still). It's rare that you see such "winners" in their respective tech spheres these days.
So what is it?
It's a USB dongle that's a Smart Card reader with a built-in flash drive that contains a CD emulator with a pre-loaded set of images.
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Status: Fucking HTML-table-based web layouts.
That is all.
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
So what is it?
Well, I suppose if I'm talking it up there's no reason not to name names, and enough people have them that it's not overly doxxy (though it pins me to my industry, which I've avoided half-heartedly before).
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
So what is it?
I've never seen one before - no one has - but I'm guessing it's a white hole
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status: my facial hair has reached the point where it's itchy and irritating.
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@tsaukpaetra That's the point where my wife tells me to trim it.
Oh, you meant itchy and irritating to yourself?
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra That's the point where my wife tells me to trim it.
Oh, you meant itchy and irritating to yourself?
Yes. This experiment is posing some mild challenges unexpectedly.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: In fact don't have a mobile website at all, they should all be banned for being universally terrible.
Case in point:
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: In fact don't have a mobile website at all, they should all be banned for being universally terrible.
Funny thing is, back when mobile Internet was a novelty, there were a lot of resources poured into making regular desktop sites look well on mobile. The J2ME version of Opera Mini handled most of what was thrown at it perfectly fine - no Javascript I think, but you didn't need Javascript for just reading websites, and the fallbacks worked.
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@maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
The J2ME version of Opera Mini handled most of what was thrown at it perfectly fine - no Javascript I think, but you didn't need Javascript for just reading websites, and the fallbacks worked.
Man, I remember Opera Mini. I think they were the first ones to try out "We'll give you a proxy for highly compressed requests and try to save you some data". Worked nicely. :D
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@dreikin Quite a few years ago, an online artist who went by Zarla made a couple sketches of what she thought female versions of the Left 4 Dead "Special Infected" zombies would look like. Then she started doing sketches and comics about their life pre-infection. I kind of latched onto Lady!Hunter and she's been my mental avatar ever since.
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Status: Office is freezing, feet are freezing. Finally decided to trek out out to my car to see if there were any socks in my engineering pelicase.
Found some nice wool hiking socks. Now my knees and shins are cold :/
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@cursorkeys
Spoiler alert: if the cold moves higher, it's not acceptable to ask the ladies in your office to help warm things up.
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@izzion
Unless you are in Hollywood. Then all bets are off.
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Status: got an interesting solicitation.
Which is curious timing because I just blocked an unknown device with fingbox:
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Office is freezing, feet are freezing. Finally decided to trek out out to my car to see if there were any socks in my engineering pelicase.
Found some nice wool hiking socks. Now my knees and shins are cold :/
you know it's cold outside when Accalia stops absentmindedly going around the office in her socks (she can't stand wearing shoes all day while sitting and forgets her slippers if it's not cold)
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys
Spoiler alert: if the cold moves higher, it's not acceptable to ask the ladies in your office to help warm things up.he could ask me. I'm good at warming things up!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: saw a Waymo car inching its way across a railroad crossing. Heh.
:waymo: status: I see an object. STOP!
: GET OUT OF MY WAY !!!
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
This hotel room has poorer wireless reception than I assume the nuclear attack protected bunker nearby would have. 1 bar of 3G.
Sounds better than my house...
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Status: We live in interesting times. I am not yet sure if that's a good thing.
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@pleegwat There is good reason that the Chinese (allegedly) used that as a curse. (I am not sure whether that is a genuine ancient Chinese curse or a bit of cultural misattribution, and I'm to
lazybusy to research it at the moment.)
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat There is good reason that the Chinese (allegedly) used that as a curse. (I am not sure whether that is a genuine ancient Chinese curse or a bit of cultural misattribution, and I'm to
lazybusy to research it at the moment.)It's a myth. Total myth. Just like 90+% of all "ancient sayings"
Never believe what you read on the internet.
--Abraham Lincoln
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Windows keeps repositioning the Task Manager window so that it obscures the clock gadget parked at the top right corner of my screen. I'm not quite sure what triggers the repositioning, either sleeping or playing a game, I think.
I tried putting it to sleep in order to test one of these hypotheses. That was not supposed to trigger updates and multiple reboots. :(
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a myth.
Nevertheless, the thought expressed by it is valid, even if it did (apparently) originate in 19th-Century England instead of ancient China.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a myth.
Nevertheless, the thought expressed by it is valid, even if it did (apparently) originate in 19th-Century England instead of ancient China.
As are many fake quotes. That's why they persist--good memes have kernels of truth in them (as do successful lies).
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status: No, Windows. Stop lying to me.
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@perverted_vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys
Spoiler alert: if the cold moves higher, it's not acceptable to ask the ladies in your office to help warm things up.he could ask me. I'm good at warming things up!
That is too kind, but lack of concentration was the problem!
I'm home now so I've wrapped myself in a rug and managed to entice a cat onto my lap. Feeling warmer-ish.
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Status:
~40°F weather. Perfect light shirt and shorts weather!
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Status: Set up some Google Analytics-based telemetry to tell me what parts of my plan editing app people are using the most. Let's check it out!
Woo! It's working correctly!
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Status: Indeed.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Indeed.
Chrome doesn't like esoteric email formats. Plus, that is an invalid email address because spaces need to be quoted (although Chrome doesn't like quotes either).
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status
did I just do? Did I really lay a piece of paper on a wooden desk and snap a picture of it? What was I thinking?
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
status
did I just do? Did I really lay a piece of paper on a wooden desk and snap a picture of it? What was I thinking?You're getting old @Luhmann, you're getting old.
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res = alpha - beta if(res > 180) res = beta - alpha
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@onyx said in The Official Status Thread:
you're getting old.
I'm in denial
How's the water? Hope it's not flood season. Does everyone walk funny? Or is this joke falling flat?
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@jarry He's working with Blueprints, not text code, so it'd be something more like this:
https://answers.unrealengine.com/storage/attachments/6508-anglebetweenvectors.jpg
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@luhmann
Do the s grow well in the climate down there?
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Status: My colleagues have just spent all morning arguing over wether their workflow system should use lists of operations with occasional monkeying to reorder the list, or sets of operations with occasional sequence specifications to resolve ordering that it's too hard to specify directly. Neither of the two people arguing most seemed keen on the idea that we might just use (a) a sequence and stop trying to reorder the silly thing, or (b) describe the dependencies correctly so that the computer can completely work out the ordering for us. That's what we all want, a fight over a mongrel system that is insanely difficult for us to use (let alone for those few users who want to shove their fingers in at all) to the point of generating bugs that consistently don't get detected until full integration testing. :(
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
the climate down there
hot and steamy! the climate below the
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@twelvebaud huh, got lost in the "angles" thing. your version is the good one, if you have vectors then dot product is the way to go.
is it necessary to normalize? i seem to recall that it wasn't, but, it's been a while so i may be wrong
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Once again my work laptop will forcibly reboot itself today in yet another attempt to install an update that I already know will silently fail due to lack of permission. The only hint that it will have failed will be the attempt to install it again next week. Yay.
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@jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
is is necessary to normalize?
It depends on what you're trying to measure. If really you want the angle between two vectors, yes, you need to normalise first (because the dot product actually gives you the area of the parallelogram where the vectors describe the two presumably non-parallel sides). If you just want to know if the vectors are collinear, no, you don't need to normalise (which is great, since it saves two square roots and a trig operation).
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@jarry He's working with Blueprints, not text code, so it'd be something more like this:
https://answers.unrealengine.com/storage/attachments/6508-anglebetweenvectors.jpg
Huh, that looks a bit simpler than what I'm doing, I'm using a formula more akin to @jarry though (splitting the vector and rubbing the extents together). See below, it's the area with all the green (near the bottom of the blueprint):
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Ah, dang, that blueprint view doesn't show the parts in question. It's actually this piece:
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Status: Hey FlightHub, I already bought the f'in ticket, you don't have to keep sending me fare alerts.