The Official Status Thread
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@perverted_vixen Oh, hi! I didn't see you there! I was just about to make dinner. Is it customary to treat you to dinner first as per normal procedure, or is that an optional step?
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Status: RIP my sandals :(
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/me wonders how @atazhaia could miss a gorgeous naked vixen just standing there
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@raceprouk I was distracted by the SFW kind of pussy. Although it makes for a more pleasant surprise when you discover that the NSFW kind has suddenly appeared behind you!
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Learned I could make a rotor or hand-crank control various things in medieval engineers, and successfully built one of those train-wheel-bar things.
There are no gears, but now I want to learn how to make things with pretty much nothing but axels, with some ability to restrict movements.
Research taught me how to build a Geneva Drive, but that's it so far.
This probably isn't applicable but I don't want to pass up an opportunity to post this video again:
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@hungrier That's COMPLETELY relevant! I could probably build a basic version of that, though I don't have access to actual gears, so I might have to do the spoke-based method, unless there's a way I can do it with straight pieces and axles. Because again, I can make a construct like train wheels - I just don't know much about techniques to take advantage of that type of mechanism, since everyone uses gears for the stuff i'd be doing.
I think I'll need to learn to build some sliding joints to connect the arms of axles to...
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@magus What I have is basically:
- A crank, pullable by hand in either direction, with minimal rotational force, increased by having multiple people drive it.
- Pieces of wood of varying lengths
- 4 types of catches, depending on the length of the inner bit, whether its two-soded, or has a lock.
- Rope (it goes through all solid objects, but the length is always based on how long it was when you placed it)
- A basic spring
- Weights
- Things to attach rope to
- A drum that can wind or unwind rope, though the previous statement on rope-length holds
- For some reason an automatic rotor, which is finicky to hook on to things
And a rather confused, but somewhat reasonable physics engine, which can handle the fact that all of this is sitting on a spherical planet.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier That's COMPLETELY relevant! I could probably build a basic version of that, though I don't have access to actual gears, so I might have to do the spoke-based method, unless there's a way I can do it with straight pieces and axles. Because again, I can make a construct like train wheels - I just don't know much about techniques to take advantage of that type of mechanism, since everyone uses gears for the stuff i'd be doing.
I think I'll need to learn to build some sliding joints to connect the arms of axles to...
Proper gears versus naked spokes is, strictly speaking, only for maximizing contact surface for efficient low wear power transmission. Since wear isn't likely modeled in space engineers, they're functionally identical.
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@weng I mean, it is modeled in Space Engineers, but less so in Medieval Engineers - so far the only way I've managed to get things to explode is to pull them apart with ropes.
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Status: Bored and all my tasks are blocked.
So I installed the windows subsystem for linux, VcXsrv, and successfully ran the site we're building on it, in Firefox. Because why not?
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Status: OMFG don't use my towel to wipe your filthy mouth on!
FFS do I have to hide that too?
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Status: Did some JNDI + JMS stuff purely with .properties files, some classpath bashing, some configuration dialogs and got stuff working in under an hour. Do I qualify as an honorary HPC now?
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STATUS:
Me to friends: Sorry, can't come to the party, I am going to visit my parents over the weekend.
Me to parents: Sorry, can't come over, I have something scheduled with friends over the weekends.
Me to video games: Why, I am not doing anything over the weekend. Wanna hang out?
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Status: The Unsubscribe link in a Western Digital email takes me to a Sandisk page (that feels like it's being hosted on a dialup connection. 52 seconds to load a page with a static image and a short webform!).
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@perverted_vixen Oh, hi! I didn't see you there! I was just about to make dinner. Is it customary to treat you to dinner first as per normal procedure, or is that an optional step?
OOH a proper gentleperson, making me dinner first. You i like. Yes, let us enjoy a meal, and maybe a bit more, together.
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Status: Microsoft really wants people to use Unity with the Mixed Reality APIs they're so big on lately, to the point where about all I can find out that doesn't use it is a Microsoft page saying, essentially, "Yeah, you can use SharpDX, Have fun doing whatever." - It would really be great if they'd actually make a sample!
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@magus SharpDX has always been woefully underdocumented.
Last time I messed with it I ended up using straight C++ DirectX guides and translating it myself.
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@weng And last time I tried THAT, they wanted me to go through 8 guides and learn to write pixel shaders to even draw a line.
Which is why a basic example project would be nice.
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until takeoff! Time to head home (early) to finish packing and then head to the airport...
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@magus yep.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I suppose the best course of action is to remain productive while waiting.
Status: Ok, room cleaning seems to be a pretty good accomplishment! I discovered that my desk sagged under the weight of the HP LaserJet unit, gaming computer, and several laptops that were residing there for the last few years.
Additionally, Ikea furniture isn't very sturdy....
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Status: I just cleared unread this morning and now there are 64 topics; what is wrong with you people? Also, whenever I'm at conventions I forget to eat. Must buy more protein bars in the morning.
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@heterodox
Coincidentally, I just remembered that I didn't eat since the free pizza at my convention this afternoon. Probably too late to get much of substance now, guess I'm eating breakfast in the morning....
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Status: Whelp, my laptop is busted. That's what I get for telling it to install updates and restart, I guess. The installation part seemed pretty normal... but now it's dead...
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@createdtodislikethis said in The Official Status Thread:
Status - why is there no Two Posts category?
Zero, one, many.
Zero post? Where's that category?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@createdtodislikethis said in The Official Status Thread:
Status - why is there no Two Posts category?
Zero, one, many.
Zero post? Where's that category?
I'd make it but I have a feeling an admin would break the rules.
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Status: I'm turning into my father... spent the morning packing up before I went over to the convention hall, since it will be late and I won't want to do much beyond flop into bed after the runs tonight...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Whelp, my laptop is busted. That's what I get for telling it to install updates and restart, I guess. The installation part seemed pretty normal... but now it's dead...
It lives!!
So it was really dead; the power light and keyboard backlight turned on, and I could hear a fan somewhere and the optical drive powering on, but none of the USB ports were powered up and the screen was totally blank -- no BIOS messages, nothing. I tried the usual stuff; unplugging it and removing the battery for a while didn't help; reseating the memory chips didn't either.
Uh... far as I can tell, something in the process of unplugging it (though, as I said, just unplugging it, and removing the battery, hadn't worked), removing the hard drive, turning it on while unplugged, with the hard drive removed (but with the battery in it -- I wanted to see if it'd perform a hardware check and do something different to indicate that it couldn't find a hard drive), shutting it back off, and then putting the hard drive from my wife's old computer in and turning it on -- all of a sudden that brought up the "Windows did not shut down correctly, what do you want to do" screen. Shut it off again (actually told it to start just to see what'd happen; it promptly BSOD'd and the screen went black again, then I turned it off), put its original hard drive back in, and it works... although the update did some funky stuff with the startup, and there's a new "Homegroup" icon on the desktop that wasn't there before:
...which is now gone? Either I deleted it and I'm having a senior moment and completely forgot that I deleted it, or it disappeared all by itself...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
after the runs tonight...
TMI. :p
(Nah, actually curious what this means.)
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@izzion Oh, right. Makes sense.
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Status: Apparently Chrome gives update infos in the DevTools window now.
Things I found interesting:
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You can now take screenshots of the page!
I can finally get rid of SiteShoter, which relies on IE7 rendering! -
Block requests
Web Devs can easily test how their page breaks when adblocked/noscripted/corporate-proxied!
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering once again who thought that doing G20 in a major metropolis was a great idea.
Particularly when you know that Hamburg has a tradition of riots by the radical left.I'm just glad it's not Seattle this time.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
one of those train-wheel-bar things
???
You mean a coupling rod?
EDIT: oh wait, maybe you mean a handcar?
What is a "train wheel bar thing" it's driving me nuts!
EDIT: wait, did you make a bar car?
That'd be pretty badass.
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STATUS:
First production build of my electron.js based Steam client.
Yes, it starts 3 processes for some reason. What's up with that? I was expecting two.
First screenshot is during idle time, second is during video playback. I don't think RAM will ever go beneath 100MB, but at least CPU seems to be entirely in my hands (no hidden crap running).
Startup time is 2-3 seconds. The app feels snappy enough.
HDD space is 3-4 MB for my minimized code and assets, + whatever electron dist requires (100-ish megabytes probably).
All in all, about what I expected.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
I won't want to do much beyond flop into bed after the runs tonight...
Just make sure you're close enough you can get to the toilet when the runs strike again.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
flop into bed after the runs tonight...
One word: Immodium.
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STATUS: Cleaned my table at the computer club, putting all my hardware in drawers instead of keeping it in a big pile. Also was given a "new" computer. Meaning I was told there was a computer down in the server room I could go get and add to my collection. So now I have a Pentium 4 with RDRAM memory and an AGP Pro slot! Just need to wipe it and reinstall it as the login has become lost, but the sticker with the license key is still on the case if I want the authentic Windows 2000 Professional experience. I may even have memory upgrades for it, if any of my RDRAM modules happen to be larger than the ones in the computer.
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@blakeyrat The first one, the coupling bar; but the other two are just as possible.
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*Status:" quite satisfying watching the battery percentage rise from 26 percent to 75 percent in fifteen minutes.
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@tsaukpaetra did you put your fingers in the socket again?
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I always wake up early on my "travel home from vacation" days. But I think this is the first time I woke up so early that my breakfast stop wasn't open yet.
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@izzion I have a flight at 7 am tomorrow to come back from my con. What in God's name was I thinking. I'm going to be so tired. -_-
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@heterodox Mine is at 14:30 :p
But with a short connection.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
although the update did some funky stuff with the startup, and there's a new "Homegroup" icon on the desktop that wasn't there before:
...which is now gone? Either I deleted it and I'm having a senior moment and completely forgot that I deleted it, or it disappeared all by itself...
Yeah that shows up after some restarts for me. Refreshing the desktop makes it go away.
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STATUS:
On Windows, electron will use
%APPDATA%
to store everything, including large caches.The issue was opened on electron's github repo years ago, but was marked "wontfix". They concluded the benefit wasn't worth the disruption it would cause.
So I have to remap it manually
%LOCALAPPDATA%
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
They concluded the benefit wasn't worth the disruption it would cause.
TIL typing
LOCAL
is one of the hardest tasks there is to do.
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@raceprouk said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL typing LOCAL is one of the hardest tasks there is to do.
Everyone would have to migrate the existing data from roaming to local, or get stuck on an old version of electron.
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@cartman82 I'm sure Electron could do that automatically
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra did you put your fingers in the socket again?
Mmmm I do love the tingle though!