The Official Status Thread
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Same thing happened to me in Xcom: Enemy Unknown.
I love XCOM: EU/EW and XCOM 2.
That said, their RNG can suck a whole giant bag of dicks. There's a reason I've never attempted an Ironman run, because I have to savescum the HELL out of it whenever I play it because the RNG, especially the RNG around shot hit/miss percentages, left its brain back at base and is working off of a pixie stick or something.
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@e4tmyl33t I would have been ok with the new troops appearing on a single mission (although it was still a dick move). I was not ok with the camera never showing me the big glowing red line from the mech suit thing that indicates "you 'bout to die bitch". I would have dodged it if I had seen it.
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@blakeyrat Oh, yeah, the Sectopod death laser thing?
I try and avoid letting that ability ever go off by freaking the hell out whenever a Sectopod shows up and just throwing every single heavy-hitter ability I have at it until it either dies or I hack it into shooting its buddies for lulz.
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I almost exclusively play Long War.
It makes the RNG matter a lot less (not because it's any less impactful on your immediate success, but because you can better absorb temporary setbacks), and perversely, I seem to think more tactically and do much better at containing issues that crop up on mission.
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Status: Trying to figure out why this code:
BitConverter.GetBytes((int)IntVal)
When being passed with a positive integer (i.e. 6) is getting deserialized as a negative integer (i.e. 32759).
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@weng My favorite war game, which unfortunately is probably impossible to translate to computer, was always Diplomacy. Mostly because it had zero dice rolls. (And despite that, combat rules were pretty simple.)
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@tsaukpaetra Are you casting an unsigned to a signed?
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I almost exclusively play Long War.
It makes the RNG matter a lot less (not because it's any less impactful on your immediate success, but because you can better absorb temporary setbacks), and perversely, I seem to think more tactically and do much better at containing issues that crop up on mission.
With the original, I definitely enjoyed Long War a lot more.
I started a Long War 2 campaign and lost. I think I tend to run a lot more defensive-minded than LW2's expecting, since I try to push for armor/weapon upgrades to make sure my teams have the best chance possible, and I just got hosed by the Avatar project.
Then War of the Chosen came out and I had to deactivate LW2 to play that...
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Are you casting an unsigned to a signed?
No, it's signed all the way down.
Int32
technically, and everywhere else this has no issues, but this specific case it's barfing.
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@e4tmyl33t I haven't started in on XCOM 2 (kinda short on time these days).
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@tsaukpaetra Endianness and word size issues?
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Personally, I quite like getting notifications for old posts and be reminded of conversations from years ago.
You're welcome.
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Endianness and word size issues?
No. Looked through five layers of indirection and it turns out, the fricking thing isn't even using this value, it's instead relying on the passed metadata (which for raisins has its' own copy of this value, which natch doesn't match because it's autogenerated elsewhere in the case of a default initialization).
So yeah, duplication of data is the issue. Woohoo....
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows asks, "Are you sure you want to do that? Edge is soooo much better."
I just love how looking something up on MSDN always triggers a this-is-better-in-edge banner. Fuck off.
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@dcon Fucking off is better in Edge.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows asks, "Are you sure you want to do that? Edge is soooo much better."
I just love how looking something up on MSDN always triggers a this-is-better-in-edge banner. Fuck off.
I never get that banner anymore. Have you tried dismissing it instead of just ignoring it?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows asks, "Are you sure you want to do that? Edge is soooo much better."
I just love how looking something up on MSDN always triggers a this-is-better-in-edge banner. Fuck off.
I never get that banner anymore. Have you tried dismissing it instead of just ignoring it?
I do. It'll stay off a couple days. But comes back.
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@sockpuppet7 21 days? You can do better than that, fbnecromac
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Status: Preheating the oven to make some Shake N Bake porkchops and some chicken-flavored rice.
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So what you're saying is, you don't know my computer anymore. Because that's what you should have said instead of whatever jargon that was that should have been shoved behind a "More Details" error code throbber....
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@tsaukpaetra another example for the annals of nerdview. To the designers, that make perfect sense. To the users, not so much. Turns out it's easy to forget that the average user doesn't have a clue what most of the jargon we use means, so the extra precision is wasted and counterproductive.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
throbber
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
throbber
I do what I can to keep the energy flowing.
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Status: mass applying for job. Due to that, I see shitton of extremely badly designed forms. For example:
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@tsaukpaetra
Well, more technically, what it's saying is, your computer failed to communicate with AD properly the last time that its password expired, so it updated its password but AD didn't get the memo, and now you need a sys admin to intervene.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra
Well, more technically, what it's saying is, your computer failed to communicate with AD properly the last time that its password expired, so it updated its password but AD didn't get the memo, and now you need a sys admin to intervene.No, it technically meant what it said. The accounts database indeed didn't have this computer on its list (because it was pending rename, but for raisins it didn't know that).
Rebooting of course fixed that.
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Status: Wondering why it takes so long for FreeBSD to clean the laundry...
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Status: Just got out of my psych midterm, which required us to use Respondus LockDown Browser. I feel dirty for allowing an educational program this level of control over my computer. FFS, it removes access to the start menu, and access to task manager from ctrl alt delete. Luckily my professor did not enable the requirement that it record me through the camera, but I know such functionality exists.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just got out of my psych midterm, which required us to use Respondus LockDown Browser. I feel dirty for allowing an educational program this level of control over my computer. FFS, it removes access to the start menu, and access to task manager from ctrl alt delete. Luckily my professor did not enable the requirement that it record me through the camera, but I know such functionality exists.
VM.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just got out of my psych midterm, which required us to use Respondus LockDown Browser. I feel dirty for allowing an educational program this level of control over my computer. FFS, it removes access to the start menu, and access to task manager from ctrl alt delete. Luckily my professor did not enable the requirement that it record me through the camera, but I know such functionality exists.
VM.
(a) Never done one of those before (I know, 'why are you here you noob'), and I was taking it in class
(b) I'm pretty sure they detect VMs.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty sure they detect VMs.
FFS.
What's the point of VMs if you can figure out that you're a VM?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
However, just closing the site and deleting all data rather than giving up and adding ads (or selling it to someone who would) was very stupid.
dunno, I feel like if every site did this then we (as common internet people) would never see ads. of course, link rot would be exacerbated. I guess it's a tradeoff
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just got out of my psych midterm, which required us to use Respondus LockDown Browser. I feel dirty for allowing an educational program this level of control over my computer. FFS, it removes access to the start menu, and access to task manager from ctrl alt delete. Luckily my professor did not enable the requirement that it record me through the camera, but I know such functionality exists.
VM.
(a) Never done one of those before (I know, 'why are you here you noob'), and I was taking it in class
(b) I'm pretty sure they detect VMs.Then have a separate computer exclusively for classes. Or dual boot. Or get used to swapping disks around.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty sure they detect VMs.
FFS.
What's the point of VMs if you can figure out that you're a VM?
VMs aren't as much about pretending as they are about isolating.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Then have a separate computer exclusively for classes.
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STATUS: Well, it definitely is the day before salary payout. Colleague goes "Would have been nice buying a can of soda, but I only have €6 left on my account so I shouldn't buy anything."
I, as usual, do my internal face and question his monthly budget if he only has that little left at the end of month. I know he has wife and kids and everything, but still... I was worried at the start of month about moving a bit much to my house-purchase account upfront (in anticipation of actually buying a house this month) and I still got over 100 times more left on the account connected to my card without even trying. (Eating out a bit too much still, due to lazy.)
Actually, now that I think about it, the fact that I have this much left after all monthly expenses have been dealt with lessens my anxiety about purchasing a house. Still anxiety about the changes to my life they would mean in the form of moving and needing to save up for house maintenance myself instead of having someone else deal with that, but it shows me I should definitely be able to afford owning and saving up towards renovating the house, while still being able to save up for technology upgrades and other fun stuff.
Just need tomorrow to arrive so I have the extra money I'm getting this month actually present on my account, and that should hopefully satisfy my bank to approve of my loan request this time.
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Wow, empathizing for once with whinges about Windows reboots, though I'll acknowledge it's entirely my fault for being in the fast ring for updates (since I was testing some Docker on Windows stuff for a developer). System seems to restart every couple days without warning since I did that, and this time I lost a large Notepad full of notes on an hour-long presentation that are going to be a pain in the ass to write up again (presenter is... not engaging to say the least). And this is on a day I'm supporting a demo for C-level executives; I don't have that much time to backtrack on "extracurricular" academic work.
Fucking shit.
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- For taking notes, use a note-taking app. They auto-save.
- You could SAVE SHIT yourself. Who just leaves a window of important information there on the screen for hours without saving it?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
For taking notes, use a note-taking app.
An app named "Notepad" must be for taking notes
Who just leaves a window of important information there on the screen for hours without saving it?
Someone who doesn't expect a computer to reboot without the user's consent
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Someone who doesn't expect a computer to reboot without the user's consent
And who doesn't expect a power cut, someone to accidentally knock the power cable out, a buggy piece of hardware to crash the entire computer...
If you have an important document, save it or run it in something that autosaves. If you don't you're open to all sorts of data loss events
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
An app named "Notepad" must be for taking notes
The Mac Classic app named "Notepad" was. It also auto-saved.
The Windows app just has a stupid name. It's the equivalent to SimpleText in the MacClassic world: a simple text editor, not a note-taking app.
That threw me too when I switched from Mac to Windows originally.
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Someone who doesn't expect a computer to reboot without the user's consent
You've NEVER had a brown-out or a black-out? You don't have a pet that knocks the power cord off? You've never had a power strip or UPS fail in the middle of the night? You've never run out of laptop battery suddenly?
There's a hundred reasons the computer might have rebooted. Updates is just one of them.
In any case, using a note-taking app is a no-brainer if you're taking notes. This is the dumbest argument ever.
"It's so hard to watch this MP4 video in Excel!" "Well, why don't you use the Movies app which does that?" "I figured Excel was short for 'Excellent Player of MP4 Videos!"
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Doesn't Windows include "OneNote" by default?
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
And who doesn't expect a power cut,
My PC is on a UPS, and electricity is reliable here.
someone to accidentally knock the power cable out,
They would have to crawl under my desk to do it.
a buggy piece of hardware to crash the entire computer...
My desktop uptime is currently 228 days. I think my hardware is stable.
If you have an important document, save it or run it in something that autosaves.
I agree you're better off saving regularly.
If you don't you're open to all sorts of data loss events
Yes, but nothing you said justify the dumb "Fuck you, I need to reboot" part
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
nothing you said justify the dumb "Fuck you, I need to reboot" part
I was responding to your dumb "the only time you need to worry about losing data is random reboots" statement
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Then have a separate computer exclusively for classes.
Shirley you could just add that to your student loan expenses? My $200~ unit was barely a drop in the ocean compared to the rest of my $100k loans...
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty sure they detect VMs.
FFS.
What's the point of VMs if you can figure out that you're a VM?
VMs aren't as much about pretending as they are about isolating.
And trying something - oh fuck - and rolling back like it never happened.
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Status: just finished a call with recruitment middleman. Apparently, listing skills in resume without backing them with professional experience is a big no-no. I still prefer it to a blank page.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
and question his monthly budget if he only has that little left at the end of month
Maybe his wife controls the and he's run out of his allowance. (I know a few couples like that)
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
- For taking notes, use a note-taking app. They auto-save.
- You could SAVE SHIT yourself. Who just leaves a window of important information there on the screen for hours without saving it?
Especially on a fast-ring insider machine !!!
You're practically guaranteed a complete upgrade at least once a week!
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: just finished a call with recruitment middleman. Apparently, listing skills in resume without backing them with professional experience is a big no-no. I still prefer it to a blank page.
He's full of shit.
You need experience, not professional experience.
Look, this is a skill:
- Can write C# code
This is also a skill:
- Is a professional (or, rather: can behave like a professional 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week)
There's no relation between the two things. A lot of professionals have no ability to write C# code. (In fact, 100% of them between 1500 and 2001.) A lot of people with experience writing C# code have no experience as professionals. Look at all those losers writing shitty Unity games and not releasing or calling Gabe Newell an asshole when they depend on his company.
To demonstrate you can write C# code, you only need experience writing C# code, whether or not it was in a professional context writing super-business-y business code or you were just writing a quick and dirty app to keep track of how many times you fart less than 2 minutes after picking your nose.
Demonstrating you're a professional is a bit more difficult, but honestly you can do that without work experience... did you ever take command of 10 Boy Scouts at a week-long summer camp? Congratulations, assuming none of them died or were bitten by poisonous insects, that's professional experience.
You should record these calls. I wager either:
- You were really doubtful of your own abilities and he picked up on that, or
- You're misinterpreting what he said, or
- He's just a gigantic asshole nobody should do business with ever.