The Official Status Thread
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Someone brought along some delicious home-brew imperial russian stout.
Sounds like a good friend. That stuff takes about a year of aging to reach its full potential.
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@maciejasjmj Yeah. It's the second island that normally really gets people. I watched a bunch of people play through the game, so I had at least an onlooker's understanding of boss attacks and their tells, so I can't claim to be really good or anything, but it's been really fun so far.
Next run and gun, I'll pick up the charge shot, and then everything should be more fun.
May also test out how pacifist wins work, though I'm not about to play the whole game that way. It's just interesting.
With the frog's final form, the one that killed me was the bouncing balls usually. The jets and plain platforms didn't cause too much trouble.
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@jaloopa "New" maybe, but calling Git "flashy"? It can't even draw a circle.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Twitch does not fulfil the "on demand" part. I don't have enough bandwidth to throw it away uploading the stream when nobody is watching.
Ben your solution is to move to an area with decent internet.
I could keep a stream going 24/7/365 easily, and I have Comcast. Comcast!
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@blakeyrat Is Comcast not decent internet? It's not a couple hundred megabytes per second, but it's not a couple hundred kilobytes either.
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@pie_flavor Comcast!
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@blakeyrat Yes, thank you, I am fully aware of their branding.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat Yes, thank you, I am fully aware of their branding.
Xfinity?
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Status: Amused. And yes, this went up on the r/FloridaMan within minutes of being posted to YouTube.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
after he was done with me
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice.
I said nothing of th... uh, never mind, I was never here.
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Status: Finished island 2 in cuphead, with 53 deaths. 10 to the dragon, 8 to the clown. MUCH harder than the first island.
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Status: Working with 2 Gb files over 72mbps wifi suuuuccckksss...
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa "New" maybe, but calling Git "flashy"? It can't even draw a circle.
It's not even that new.
The justification they gave in the talk was that it's "basically an industry standard now". No analysis of whether we have needs that TFS isn't meeting, or whether Git improves matters, just that other people are using it.
At least with the big data circlejerk they actually said that we have amounts of data that SQL Server can't analyse quickly enough.
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Status: Parts for the 3D printer arrived. On to assembly!
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Parts for the 3D printer arrived. On to assembly!
What will you print?
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
What will you print?
Another 3D printer
And then the Brazilian Empire attacked.
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@rhywden Okay, first lession: If you've ordered a printer with parts made of acrylic be very careful with the amount of torque you exert on some of the screws.
Because you might just shatter it.
Nothing that can't be fixed by the proper kind of glue, though.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The conference I'm at has started. It'd be hard to be geekier than this crowd of software developers.
I am reminded of the old joke:
How do you tell the difference between an introverted software dev and an extroverted one?
An extroverted software dev stares at your shoes when they talk to you.
I've gotten better! I'm up to shoulders now! And sometimes momentary glances at the face when possible!
Pro-tip: if you look at the bridge of the other person's nose, they can't tell that you're not making eye contact.
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@rhywden Second lesson: Assembling the parts is not the most time-consuming process with this variant.
It's removing the damn cover foil of the acrylic parts!
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STATUS: The project was a success! I spent the afternoon watching the proceedings along with some others here and we did manage all parts of it. Some minor technical mishaps, but otherwise good. My contribution was helping out picking up supplies and transporting them! Woo!
Although, due to the aforementioned mess in preparing for it, I have a high risk of having a greater involvement in future such projects due to my extra effort in helping out despite not being part of it compared to the lack of effort from some involved in the project.
I may also help out doing said lazy bum's work tomorrow inbetween meetings. As there are plenty broken lamps around the office, and he has not done his work replacing them. Colleague counted at least 40(!) broken ones in need of replacement. Which is what, 2 minutes of work/lamp? Apparently he has a very busy schedule and don't have time sorting everything. I'm trying to figure what part of his job description says "watch videos on YouTube" and "play Civilization".
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The conference I'm at has started. It'd be hard to be geekier than this crowd of software developers.
I am reminded of the old joke:
How do you tell the difference between an introverted software dev and an extroverted one?
An extroverted software dev stares at your shoes when they talk to you.
I've gotten better! I'm up to shoulders now! And sometimes momentary glances at the face when possible!
Pro-tip: if you look at the bridge of the other person's nose, they can't tell that you're not making eye contact.
I don't like looking at faces in general. Well, ones I know are equally capable of looking at mine...
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Status: Oh, ain't university WiFi grand. Shitposting in six different threads, and the "WiFi disconnected" toast (and accompanying burst of lag) appears four times during that. While sitting AT MY DESK. FFS.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Oh, ain't university WiFi grand. Shitposting in six different threads, and the "WiFi disconnected" toast (and accompanying burst of lag) appears four times during that. While sitting AT MY DESK. FFS.
IMHO I thought it was the forums myself.
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Status: The fact that Samsung's HMD Odyssey is going to have AMOLED screen hardware was reported as a good thing, but research does not seem to show this to be true. Sounds like they degrade fast and have burn-in problems, and are just used in phones because they use less power. Though the better contrast seems nice...
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The fact that Samsung's HMD Odyssey is going to have AMOLED screen hardware was reported as a good thing, but research does not seem to show this to be true. Sounds like they degrade fast and have burn-in problems, and are just used in phones because they use less power. Though the better contrast seems nice...
I mean, if you're staring at the same wall forever you'll have worse problems than burn-in...
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@tsaukpaetra Fair, and the ones I have cause eye strain after 45 minutes or so, so it's not like it'd even be on for anywhere near as much as a phone for now. Plus, it's VR: your view is bound to move; there are no static UI elements.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden Okay, first lession: If you've ordered a printer with parts made of acrylic be very careful with the amount of torque you exert on some of the screws.
Because you might just shatter it.
Nothing that can't be fixed by the proper kind of glue, though.
Your glue only has to hold long enough to print a replacement
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Status: Admitting defeat for getting this feature working with W10. Here's hoping it still works with W7...
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Sounds like they degrade fast and have burn-in problems, and are just used in phones because they use less power. Though the better contrast seems nice...
I wouldn't worry too much about longevity or burn-in with OLED, especially since the trade-off is that you get approximately 9817585791872982795875983793 times visual improvement
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@hungrier Fair. May end up buying that silly thing, then.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Admitting defeat for getting this feature working with W10. Here's hoping it still works with W7...
Which feature? Sanity with updates?
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@pie_flavor
Managing DTS packages (from SQL 2000) on a SQL 2008 R2 box.Mostly because I'm trying to rewrite them so we can upgrade the box to SQL 2016. But still have to do the dirty to begin with.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor
Managing DTS packages (from SQL 2000) on a SQL 2008 R2 box.Mostly because I'm trying to rewrite them so we can upgrade the box to SQL 2016. But still have to do the dirty to begin with.
Yeah, Wikipedia immediately tells me that such things do not work and you should be using SIS.
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Looking good so far:
I'll connect the wires tomorrow and see what that brings.
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Status: I has a fridge again!
Old fridge taken away, new fridge installed, water line installed so I can use the icemaker...
Of course, I had to deal with that on top of all the work stuff blowing up today. Working from home today probably insulated me from some of it but holy crap did today go wrong for them in every way possible.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor
Managing DTS packages (from SQL 2000) on a SQL 2008 R2 box.Mostly because I'm trying to rewrite them so we can upgrade the box to SQL 2016. But still have to do the dirty to begin with.
Oh dear. Here's to hoping your packages aren't doing anything crazy like the ones I had to translate...
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God dammit, Skittles are the most addictive thing I have tried in years.
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@twelvebaud Backwards Hexic HD?
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@blakeyrat Zachtronics remade his old Flash game "The Codex of Alchemical Engineering" as a... whatever game engine he uses now... game. The friends I've got built very precise, controlled machines with three or four single-arm systems, and they cost more and take more time, while I farted this "inelegant!" thing out no problem.
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@twelvebaud Hexic HD is better.
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Status: Done a public demo of the compiler I've been working on with my friend for the past few years. It merrily demonstrated a better-than ten times acceleration of some code that I wrote live during the demo at audience suggestion. That's the sort of thing that is really hard to fake. Then we've managed to get the compiler (still in a rather pre-alpha state TBH) working on someone else's computer, and he's excited as heck that he'll be able to experiment with rolling the result into his production services (under the total understanding that it is definitely not the finished product yet).
Which is nice.
I totally forgot to talk to the guy about his (much discussed here) Discourse deployment. ;)
Also, there are some really fucking weird default deployments of LLVM out there.
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Status: It's raining! Not nearly enough the put out the fires, but it it'll sure help the firefighters finish getting them contained.
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**Staus:**draind
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Status: *!#ing Java!
Were all the libraries written by people on drugs?
Arrays.copyOfRange(array, from index, to index)
Now you want the first 3 bytes in an array, seems easy:byte[] source = new byte[] { (byte)0x01, (byte)0x02, (byte)0x03, (byte)0x04 }; byte[] threeLittleBytes = Arrays.copyOfRange(source, 0, 2);
What do you get?
byte[2] [ 0x01, 0x02 ]
The end index is NON inclusive,
How about an int to an array?private byte[] convertUnsignedIntToFourBytes(int source) { return ByteBuffer.allocate(4).putInt(source).array(); }
Works fine, four bytes!
private byte[] convertUnsignedIntToThreeBytes(int source) { return ByteBuffer.allocate(3).putInt(source).array(); }
Gives you four bytes...In fact allocate won't do less than 4 bytes, you don't get an IllegalArguementException or anything like that though
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
The end index is NON inclusive,
That's a general Java (or at least Java stdlib) convention. A lot of things function like that. First inclusive, last exclusive. It's a pretty well-defined pattern.
Also, format your code right, silly. Those braces are ugly.
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Status: 3D printer fully assembled. Upon switching it on, nothing has blown up or emitted magic smoke. Control over all three axis can also be had over the built-in controls, so that part went alright I guess.
Things to do now:
- Make one change to the firmware because x-axis is turned around (no, the cabling / motor position is alright, there's nothing I can even do wrong there)
- Proper calibration of the bottom plate
- Proper alignment of the z-axis
- After all that: Test print with actual filament.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a general Java (or at least Java stdlib) convention. A lot of things function like that. First inclusive, last exclusive. It's a pretty well-defined pattern.
Like the fabled standard-standard I'd like a standard-convention...
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, format your code right, silly. Those braces are ugly.
Allman style is the one true style
Edit: Lisp style just looks like people were being charged by the line or something.