The Official Status Thread
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Status: Streaming. Because it's not Halloween.
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@benjamin-hall 5e. It was my first game so I just kinda riffed off of the one that came with the starter set. I should probably plan out the boss fight for next weekend...
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall 5e. It was my first game so I just kinda riffed off of the one that came with the starter set. I should probably plan out the boss fight for next weekend...
If that's lost mines of phandelver, that's actually one of the better modules. Congrats!
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@tsaukpaetra Oh, damn. I meant to catch this but underestimated the amount of cleaning I needed to do in the kitchen. Maybe next time.
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Status: I think that my D&D players are repressed drug addicts. I introduced some fantasy drugs and their first reaction was "must take all of them and pawn everything to get more". One wants to become a drug cartel owner, the other one wants tentacles growing out of his back. Dude has a thing for tentacles (no, not in the sense).
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Status: I made a terrible mistake. There are a lot of threads that I have no intention of reading. Most of them I just ignore, but some keep floating to the top of the Unread list, so I was marking some of them to be ignored by :nod:. One in particular I was going to mark, but it is sometimes quite entertaining, and I made the mistake of starting to read it, instead. Many hours and about 1500 posts later (and several hundred still unread), I have been entertained by ridiculing idiotic SJWs, but I am also very depressed 1) by the waste of my time, and 2) that so many so-called humans could be so, so, so stupid.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I think that my D&D players are repressed drug addicts. I introduced some fantasy drugs and their first reaction was "must take all of them and pawn everything to get more". One wants to become a drug cartel owner, the other one wants tentacles growing out of his back. Dude has a thing for tentacles (no, not in the sense).
No need for drugs, just put a weird animal part on your back:
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Status: Discovered that our code goes to some lengths to calculate a property that it never uses. Not even for tests. Trying to figure out if it is supposed to not use it or if the uses of it were merely inadvertently removed…
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Just had an agile planning meeting, where we filled in sprints for the rest of the year.
We basically took waterfall and cut the timeline into "chunks" called sprints. It's agile development, Microsoft style.
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@cartman82 “DevOps DevOps
GangnamMicrosoft Style!”
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Discovered that our code goes to some lengths to calculate a property that it never uses. Not even for tests. Trying to figure out if it is supposed to not use it or if the uses of it were merely inadvertently removed…
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@anotherusername No, in this case it's not a loop; it is a flag that says whether to loop infinitely (which is occasionally useful and which isn't expensive to compute as it is being done up front rather than deep inside some inner loop). The odd thing is that it is computed fine, but is simply never used. We suspect that the use was accidentally removed (as downstream code that would have used the capability has just been reported broken ;)) but we're not sure yet due to the complex series of refactorings that have been inflicted upon the system in question.
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@dkf no, but you said "goes to some lengths to calculate", which I took to mean that it wasn't necessarily a simple (quick) calculation.
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@anotherusername I think it would be simple enough, except that someone was wearing Complicator's Gloves and did it the intricate way. :( But the real problem is that the value is then not used. It's probably not used at all too; I've done a full search of our codebase and can't find where it might be read. It'd be a minor problem except it is all Python and so it's hard to tell what is truly being used and what isn't because of the kinds of fun and games that can be played.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
IntelliJ Maven is far better than Eclipse Maven.
Actually, IntelliJ anything Java-related is far better than Eclipse anything Java-related.Can confirm. m2e just does evil things sometimes.
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Status: 0735 Monday: Start a load of laundry, because I have no clean underwear to wear to work today.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: 0735 Monday: Start a load of laundry, because I have no clean underwear to wear to work today.
Could be worse.
Status: 0254 Monday: Get dressed and drive to work, because some dipshit found an unlocked cabinet with some switches inside and flipped one of them just because. TRWTF was the unlocked cabinet.
On the plus side, I'm unofficially on flex time that started at 0254, so I'm getting pretty close to ready to go home and play video games for however long my eyes stay open.
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Status: Rebooted my computer.
Magic disappearing virtual Ethernet card awaaaayyy!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Magic disappearing virtual Ethernet card awaaaayyy!
The is Hyper-V.
Insufficient system resource to create an Ethernet port
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Status: This is always the busy time of year. People burning annual budget money before the new year. A client sends over a request this morning for replacing two servers (very basic machines) and pulling some cable to revamp some space in the building to add on more workers. Nothing too major. I have a number in my head, ~$15K. Maybe as much as $20K. I ask the client if they have a budget number in mind, or a number to keep it all under.
"If we could keep it under $50K that would be great. Under that and I don't have to go to the board for approval."
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
"If we could keep it under $50K that would be great. Under that and I don't have to go to the board for approval."
(also why is that an emoji)
(actually scratch that.... that's an amazing emoji! )
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I would still like to throttle whoever decided to limit the amount that Youtube would buffer. I've been watching a 1080p video in 1-2 minute increments because the asshats at Google couldn't bother to implement a buffering solution that actually accounted for network speed, and would rather I watch through a potato than have an enjoyable experience on their site.
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
because the asshats at Google couldn't bother to implement a buffering solution that actually accounted for network speed
They should test the solution on a Milwaukee PC's connection
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
because the asshats at Google couldn't bother to implement a buffering solution that actually accounted for network speed
They should test the solution on a Milwaukee PC's connection
I uploaded an 8 minute video and it only took 4 hours!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I uploaded an 8 minute video and it only took 4 hours!
On Milwaukee PC's Internet, by the time you can finish streaming a pre-season hockey game, somebody already won the Stanley cup
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
Pretty... Pretty... Shiny... Shiny... Yah?
heats self by fire Always nice after getting back home from a 1.5 hour walk in slightly below freezing temperatures~
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Status: Oh god what horrible hell have I gotten myself into where I need to file a bug report against valgrind?
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Status 1: Have given up on the Android Emulator. Will now use my Pixel on 8.0 and my Shield tablet on 7.0 to debug Android apps.
Status 2: The issues with our IT environment (which I have detailed before) have finally reached the ear of our principal. He has invited the persons responsible to a meeting where they shall be given an ultimatum. And since we already have knowledge of a competing product which in my experience is superior, that ultimatum shall have clout.
Also, since our principal is retiring at the end of the year he's most likely in a "No Fucks Given" mood concerning the sensitivities of external companies.
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Status: Fricking... This distro uses
%R
for the time format in the tray.
It also doesn't include the man pages forman 3 strftime
as the damn dialog mentions you should run to find out what the format codes are.
WTF.I feel like channeling someone, but can't feel who...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Fricking... This distro uses
%R
for the time format in the tray.
It also doesn't include the man pages forman 3 strftime
as the damn dialog mentions you should run to find out what the format codes are.
WTF.I feel like channeling someone, but can't feel who...
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@tsaukpaetra Here you go if you want easy construction of a date:
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
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I would still like to throttle whoever decided to limit the amount that Youtube would buffer. I've been watching a 1080p video in 1-2 minute increments because the asshats at Google couldn't bother to implement a buffering solution that actually accounted for network speed, and would rather I watch through a potato than have an enjoyable experience on their site.
That's what the fuck has been happening?? Goddamn them. You find out who it is and we can go halfsies on a homicide.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
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I would still like to throttle whoever decided to limit the amount that Youtube would buffer. I've been watching a 1080p video in 1-2 minute increments because the asshats at Google couldn't bother to implement a buffering solution that actually accounted for network speed, and would rather I watch through a potato than have an enjoyable experience on their site.
That's what the fuck has been happening?? Goddamn them. You find out who it is and we can go halfsies on a homicide.
Maybe that's Comcast? (users at work are reporting there's widespread Comcast outages today - affecting vpn/slack/etc)
edit: Please note, I'm not trying to dissuade you on the homicide assuming it is Comcast...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
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I would still like to throttle whoever decided to limit the amount that Youtube would buffer. I've been watching a 1080p video in 1-2 minute increments because the asshats at Google couldn't bother to implement a buffering solution that actually accounted for network speed, and would rather I watch through a potato than have an enjoyable experience on their site.
That's what the fuck has been happening?? Goddamn them. You find out who it is and we can go halfsies on a homicide.
Maybe that's Comcast? (users at work are reporting there's widespread Comcast outages today - affecting vpn/slack/etc)
I have been noticing it for at least a week. Frequent quality downgrades and no intermediate options. 1080 or potato vision. No in between.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
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I would still like to throttle whoever decided to limit the amount that Youtube would buffer. I've been watching a 1080p video in 1-2 minute increments because the asshats at Google couldn't bother to implement a buffering solution that actually accounted for network speed, and would rather I watch through a potato than have an enjoyable experience on their site.
That's what the fuck has been happening?? Goddamn them. You find out who it is and we can go halfsies on a homicide.
Maybe that's Comcast? (users at work are reporting there's widespread Comcast outages today - affecting vpn/slack/etc)
I have been noticing it for at least a week. Frequent quality downgrades and no intermediate options. 1080 or potato vision. No in between.
You've only been noticing that for a week?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You've only been noticing that for a week?
Maybe longer? Remember, I drink a lot. Time is occasionally a fuzzy concept.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Remember, I drink a lot.
That could explain the potato vision
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
You've only been noticing that for a week?
Maybe longer? Remember, I drink a lot. Time is occasionally a fuzzy concept.
Lunchtime doubly so. And what I'm saying is that I can't remember a time when the service hasn't been like that.
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Did the code freeze, ran the cybersecurity gauntlet, and then developers just found a pretty serious regression about a week before go-live.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... hahaha... ha...
*sob*
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Status: Heh, got a really low PID.
That's pretty cool.
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@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
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I would still like to throttle whoever decided to limit the amount that Youtube would buffer. I've been watching a 1080p video in 1-2 minute increments because the asshats at Google couldn't bother to implement a buffering solution that actually accounted for network speed, and would rather I watch through a potato than have an enjoyable experience on their site.
That's what the fuck has been happening?? Goddamn them. You find out who it is and we can go halfsies on a homicide.
Well, if you've got the problem I've got, YouTube works like this:
Step 1: Set really small in-memory buffer size. Like maybe a minute or two of 1080p.
Step 2: Try streaming video.
Step 3: Progressively downgrade video quality until it can be streamed without interruption.
Step 4: Pretend to listen when the user tells you "no, I really want 1080p quality".
Step 5: Goto Step 2 until done or user quits in frustration.In my case, I've got a plugin that used to both force full buffering and force the quality to your desired setting, but which now is only capable of the latter. So I don't get the constant fight to enforce quality (thought I still have to do it occasionally even so), but I'm stuck with the shitty static buffer size.
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
I would still like to throttle whoever decided to limit the amount that Youtube would buffer. I've been watching a 1080p video in 1-2 minute increments because the asshats at Google couldn't bother to implement a buffering solution that actually accounted for network speed, and would rather I watch through a potato than have an enjoyable experience on their site.
Buffer the whole video, to a file, with your choice of quality:
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Streaming. Because it's not Halloween.
Play results (warning: image dump)
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Heh, got a really low PID.
That's pretty cool.
All of my Docker containers run with PID
01.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Heh, got a really low PID.
That's pretty cool.
All of my Docker containers run with PID 0.
Sounds like an API error.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Heh, got a really low PID.
That's pretty cool.
All of my Docker containers run with PID
01.Sounds like an API error.
Nope, Docker containers each have their own PID space, so the process that your container runs is the
init
process.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
The is Hyper-V.
If I am not mistaken, it is Windows' virtualization hypervisor. If you are familiar with Linux, I expect that it is like Xen, I suppose, or perhaps more like QEMU with KVM support, I'm not sure. Possibly both, as I believe that name covers the replacement for Virtual PC, but... well, I am not sure if I am getting this entirely right, since I haven't used it personally.
Comments and corrections welcome, as I would like to know more myself.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Heh, got a really low PID.
That's pretty cool.
All of my Docker containers run with PID
01.Sounds like an API error.
Nope, Docker containers each have their own PID space, so the process that your container runs is the
init
process.Huh. TIL. So, when you process exits, the container panics because you tried to kill init? :/
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@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
The is Hyper-V.
Windows' virtualization hypervisor. If you are familiar with Linux, think Xen, or perhaps more like QEMU with KVM support, I'm not sure. Possibly both, as I believe that name covers the replacement for Virtual PC, but... well, I am not sure if I am getting this entirely right, since I haven't used it personally. Comments and corrections welcome.
I don't really think that was a question asking for clarification on what Hyper-V is.
But yes, it's a hypervisor. It... works. Mostly.