The Official Status Thread
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Thanks, YouTube, I mean Google, I mean Alphabet.
I'm not sure what that means, but now I want a sandwich.I don't know either, and I'm hungry as well now. But apparently all of YouTube is borked. I blame cookie shenanigans.
Cookies? Do you not see it telling you that PB&J's are at fault? Save the cookies for dessert, FFS.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Thanks, YouTube, I mean Google, I mean Alphabet.
I'm not sure what that means, but now I want a sandwich.I don't know either, and I'm hungry as well now. But apparently all of YouTube is borked. I blame cookie shenanigans.
Cookies? Do you not see it telling you that PB&J's are at fault? Save the cookies for dessert, FFS.
It's 11pm self-local. Perfect time for dessert.
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STATUS: Came into work at 06:50 today when the normal start time is 08:00 (and as it's wednesday I could even flex and come in at 10-11 if I'd want). This because I helped moving a car to work so they could transport people and equipment to a different location for a project that I'm not even involved in.
Not only is this giving me a nice amount of bonus points with my boss, as he is aware of and apologized for not giving me the option to sleep in today, he also mentioned that I may get a bonus on my next salary for doing it. Even though I, thanks to those flexible work hours, could just go home a couple hours earlier today (which I'll probably do anyway). Although the bonus may also be related to the fact I think he is kinda annoyed with some people, who are not doing their work, and whose tardiness has put the project at risk.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Thanks, YouTube, I mean Google, I mean Alphabet.
I'm not sure what that means, but now I want a sandwich.I don't know either, and I'm hungry as well now. But apparently all of YouTube is borked. I blame cookie shenanigans.
Cookies? Do you not see it telling you that PB&J's are at fault? Save the cookies for dessert, FFS.
It's 11pm self-local. Perfect time for dessert.
And then there's me, not having eaten dinner yet. :p
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Status: I got 5 consecutive identical Nationwide ads that didn't even fill up the entire viewport during this commercial break.
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IT team update: included in the upcoming plans is this little nugget:
POC move from TFS to Git
Time to start looking for a new job then
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I think my cat's autistic.
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@anonymous234
Aren't they all?
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@luhmann The universal property of cats is sadistic.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's
11pm${ARBITRARY_TIME}
self-local. Perfect time for dessert.FTFY
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@izzion Remember, it's beer o'clock somewhere in the world right now.
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@dkf
That somewhere is also known as @Polygeekery's current location.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf
That somewhere is also known as @Polygeekery's current location.On the correct side of the pond we refer to it as "beer thirty".
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Status: The conference I'm at has started. It'd be hard to be geekier than this crowd of software developers.
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@jaloopa Why would you need to prove that concept? It's been done a million times before.
That said, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT
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@weng I'm in the middle of writing an email to the head of development, basically putting nice sounding words around WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.
There seems to be a lot of momentum behind replacing perfectly good solutions with new flashy tech, even if it doesn’t fill the needs as well. The POC for moving from TFS to Git is a perfect example of this.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@weng I'm in the middle of writing an email to the head of development, basically putting nice sounding words around WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.
There seems to be a lot of momentum behind replacing perfectly good solutions with new flashy tech, even if it doesn’t fill the needs as well. The POC for moving from TFS to Git is a perfect example of this.
Ooh, you say it!
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@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.
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@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!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm up to shoulders now
I'm just a bit lower, when speaking to the other sex
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@tsaukpaetra I'm the one frequently staring off into the middle distance. Or approximately a foot to the left and a foot behind where your face would be if I were talking to you so I can gauge your reaction in my peripheral vision without having to risk eye contact.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm up to shoulders now
I'm just a bit lower, when speaking to the other sex
Yeah... Never really had that compulsion...
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Now I feel the odd man out because I always look people in the eyes when I'm talking to them. :P Guess it's experience as a consultant or even earlier experience in customer service doing that. I suppose it makes the more eye-avoidant people uncomfortable, though they seem to get used to it and even comfortable with it in time. I don't like talking to people who are staring elsewhere like they're watching some other movie in their mind.
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I speak to people through crude text-based interfaces. Really simplifies things.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't like talking to people who are staring elsewhere like they're watching some other movie in their mind.
I'm usually thinking about the topic of the conversation and trying to visualize what we're talking about, rather than the person I'm talking to. Or else I'm waiting for the conversation to end so I can go back to what I was doing. Take your pick.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
AMOLED,
Why did I read that as AMOLEST? I mean, it's not like I don't know what AMOLED is (well, in general terms at any rate, I never really studied display tech in depth).
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Status: Wondering two things:
- Is there a way I can stream the desktop of this machine publicly on demand (like what Steam does for games)
- Would anyone anywhere in the world even care if I did it?
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- Twitch.
- No.
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
- Twitch.
- No.
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.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm usually thinking about the topic of the conversation and trying to visualize what we're talking about, rather than the person I'm talking to. Or else I'm waiting for the conversation to end so I can go back to what I was doing. Take your pick.
Even if you're really doing the former, it may look like you're doing the latter which doesn't engender a feeling of respect, really.
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Status: Watching all those cuphead videos paid off. I reached the second island in 16 deaths! Now the dying should begin!
Meanwhile, service fabric is making my angry.
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@ben_lubar Oh, I forgot about your crappy ISP, yeah, that's a problem. I can't think of anything like what you seem to want, no.
If I understand you, you want something that does a kind of multicast, where the 'server' would prepare the cast as if it were streaming, but only actually send it when there are connections active. It would have some sort of daemon listening at some port for a stream request, then start broadcasting once one came in and stop once all the connections closed or timed out. I get a sense that it might be something that would make more sense to do less as client-server and more as peer-to-peer, or perhaps be set up to work in either mode even if it is mostly client-server.
I'll see if there is anything like this already. There probably is, but the field is so damn inconsistent you never know.
If not, this might be worth investing some time to work on. I doubt I am the one to do it, but... hell, I might as well think about it, it's a need that could be filled after all. Even for people with real broadband (as opposed to whatever you would call Milwaukee PC's crap service), this would be pretty useful, I imagine.
You should probably ask someone else to do it (or do it yourself) if you want it to actually get done, though. I'm not exactly known for seeing projects through to release (even in my professional work - hell, I've never seen a software project that didn't end up in limbo somewhere half-way through, sometimes because of anything I did, but more often due to some MGT brainfart unrelated to the project itself).
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't like talking to people who are staring elsewhere like they're watching some other movie in their mind.
Two words: Google Glass.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering two things:
- Is there a way I can stream the desktop of this machine publicly on demand (like what Steam does for games)
- Would anyone anywhere in the world even care if I did it?
Hmm... If your streaming provider allows programmatic access to the viewer count (even when not streaming) I don't see why you couldn't write a monitoring program that waits until the count is zero, starts the stream, and when the viewer count is zero for some time it stops it.
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@tsaukpaetra Fuck it, I'll just stream at 10 FPS:
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@ben_lubar, it's Dwarf Fortress. IIUC, you could stream it at 10 frames per minute and still capture all of the action.
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar, it's Dwarf Fortress. IIUC, you could stream it at 10 frames per minute and still capture all of the action.
10 fpa might also work.
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@ben_lubar This might be a place to look: Wikipedia: Peercasting. Also, Wikipedia: Peer-to-Peer Assisted Streaming Solution.
In particular, ActLab Alluvium and Tribler sound like what you need (though Tribler seems mainly aimed at cypto-streaming). It looks like there was a lot of interest in this type of thing 1-15 years ago but that it died out as the broadband market penetration increased (which sort of leaves those who don't have real broadband options out of luck, sadly). You would need to dig into the docs for both to see if they really fulfill your constraints, though.
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@rhywden True. And hey, you could probably manage that with a 300 baud acoustically-coupled modem! Win!
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden True. And hey, you could probably manage that with a 300 baud acoustically-coupled modem! Win!
There's also the packet loss to consider.
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@rhywden True, true. Say, @ben_lubar, are there a lot of hawks and/or feral cats in your area? If not, this could be a solution for you.
Also, just out of curiosity, does Milwaukee PC still advertise support for WordPerfect (in ALL CAPS)? One would hope that they'd updated that by now, but... well, that was only five years ago last time you mentioned it IRT them.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I speak to people through crude text-based interfaces
Like Discourse?
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@jaloopa In fact, now get I think about it, TFS fucking supports Git.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Trying to figure out why Tomcat is taking 40 seconds to serve a 470 byte GIF file... Java Flight Recording not much help.
It has to build the worker process to load the factory to make the server response object to build the file access factory to create the filesystem access object to read the file to pack into the response to return along the pipeline by invoking the factory that deconstructs the response into a response?
You forgot the ask-a-lawyer-if-patent-has-expired check.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
But apparently all of YouTube is borked. I blame cookie shenanigans.
Chrome had some cookie shenanigans on my system a while ago. No MSDN link would open. At all. "Request is too long" (or some close). Only way to fix it was to clear the cookies. (and login to 50bajillion sites again)
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
IT team update: included in the upcoming plans is this little nugget:
POC move from TFS to Git
Time to start looking for a new job then
Since it's a POC, make sure it fails!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't like talking to people who are staring elsewhere like they're watching some other movie in their mind.
Two words: Google Glass.
Well, that explains my doctor...
(seriously, she does use them - but also makes sure that I know that)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
IT team update: included in the upcoming plans is this little nugget:
POC move from TFS to Git
Time to start looking for a new job then
Since it's a POC, make sure it fails!
To fail, it would need some thought out conditions for success
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
IT team update: included in the upcoming plans is this little nugget:
POC move from TFS to Git
Time to start looking for a new job then
Since it's a POC, make sure it fails!
To fail, it would need some thought out conditions for success
Ya got me there...
Git, bosses, lemmings, yeah, you're screwed.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Most of my deaths were to the final form of the frogs.
I kept trying that one until I managed to not roll that pattern where it throws regular flat drums at you, but with the rhythm breaking about halfway through the pattern. That was seriously annoying.
Overall coming straight from Shovel Knight the game isn't very hard (either), but it is unforgiving - three hitpoints and no checkpoints or health pickups mean you can't really afford to make mistakes at all. Guess the challenge will pick up later though.