The Official Status Thread
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Status: Played the beginning of Superhot VR this weekend. It was great!
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Played the beginning of Superhot VR this weekend. It was great!
Room-scale or standing?
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@tsaukpaetra Room-scale. On the Samsung HMD Odyssey.
I was visiting family, and my brother did far better at it than I did. I was just really impressed.
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Status: It vomited all over its stack and died.
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@jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
res = alpha - beta if(res > 180) res = beta - alpha
This was the formula I ended up using in code (function called for each of the angles):
float a = FMath::Fmod(TargetPosition - CurrentPosition + 180,360); return CurrentPosition + ((a < 0 ? 360 : 0) + a) / Slowness;
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Status: Had a bit of a cold which also left me without a voice over the weekend. It's almost gone now, save for the occasional bout of coughing.
Need to restock my tea reserves - chamomile, fennel and sage are running a bit low.
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Status: Visual Studio is constantly crashing whenever I do simple things like clicking the editor window. Beautiful.
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Status: @%$^&%^$#$ING HEISENBUGS!
Last week we were losing data. People fixed stuff. This morning, some of my tests were failing sometimes.
I added additional, more complicated tests, and tried filling up our dataset.
Now all my tests are PASSING!
Nothing changed but my tests, as far as I know, and so all we can do is look at the logs and hope for something useful.
I hate service fabric.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Visual Studio is constantly crashing whenever I do simple things like clicking the editor window. Beautiful.
My VS2015 constantly crashed when closing it. And so helpfully reopened it. Until I turned off IntelliSense. Now it acts better...
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Status: FFS Epic...
If you're not going to document more than a re-wording of the method name, don't document at all!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Visual Studio is constantly crashing whenever I do simple things like clicking the editor window. Beautiful.
My VS2015 constantly crashed when closing it. And so helpfully reopened it. Until I turned off IntelliSense. Now it acts better...
VS without Intellisense is about as useful as a bicycle without wheels. Or a seat. Or a frame.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Visual Studio is constantly crashing whenever I do simple things like clicking the editor window. Beautiful.
My VS2015 constantly crashed when closing it. And so helpfully reopened it. Until I turned off IntelliSense. Now it acts better...
VS without Intellisense is about as useful as a bicycle without wheels. Or a seat. Or a frame.
I know. I'm getting seriously tempted just to grit my teeth and watch it crash. Or at least manually close/restart it every hour...
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Status: MS Newsletter woohoo...
So yet another thing Cortana can "do" that will literally do nothing for me.
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Status: Flipping virtual tables.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Visual Studio is constantly crashing whenever I do simple things like clicking the editor window. Beautiful.
My VS2015 constantly crashed when closing it. And so helpfully reopened it. Until I turned off IntelliSense. Now it acts better...
VS2017 pretty consistently crashes if I run it as administrator and click "OK" on the "do you want to modify Web.config to allow debugging" dialog. And then it restarts and pretends it didn't crash.
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Status: Discovered why my compiler had been neatly deleting all my code: I'd flipped the sense of a type check in generated code (that was supposed to then be optimised out) converting everything into a defined exception throw. Oh well.
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@tsaukpaetra I read the comic before reading comments. My first thought was "where's the magic glow?" Thankfully
I've grown out of arguing about pony logicI don't have Google+.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It vomited all over its stack and died.
There was a configuration change. The code using the configuration is 7k lines of black magic. Which decides whether or not the data involved goes into 40k lines of further processing.
This isn't getting me much further.
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Status: Java really needs type inference like C#'s
var
keyword. It would still be 100% statically-typed but would just make everything far, far neater.I'm also now using, and have reformatted the codebase to, K&R style, @pie_flavor won. I still don't like it but if that's the convention then fine.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Java really needs type inference like C#'s var keyword.
Or like C++'s
auto
keyword?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Java really needs type inference like C#'s var keyword.
Or like C++'s
auto
keyword?I haven't had the pleasure of C++0x yet but, yep, looks like it does the same thing at a quick glance.
Still writing lots of C89 though...C 4 lyfe
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Still writing lots of C89 though...C 4 lyfe
I'm mostly up to C99 now. No
auto
there, but it's not pressing for C code as the types aren't nearly as ugly in practice as in C++.
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TIL:
When person X gets fired, and then someone asks me, "Hey where is X?", I am not supposed to say "X got fired". I am supposed to say "X is no longer working with us". Because saying someone got fired "sounds ugly".
Okay.
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STATUS: Pretending to be upbeat and happy. Intermittent, random-onset depressive bouts can go die in a fire.
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@cartman82 At least that's not used here. My boss pretty much said "x has been fired, effective immediately" when the previous guy on my current position got kicked out. He did use the nicer form of saying it in swedish I think, but without going as far as saying "no longer working here". Hm. Come to think about it, maybe I should make a post about it in the lounge later on...
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL:
When person X gets fired, and then someone asks me, "Hey where is X?", I am not supposed to say "X got fired". I am supposed to say "X is no longer working with us". Because saying someone got fired "sounds ugly".
Okay.
i always thought it wasn't because it sounds ugly but because if X had evidence that we said we fired them they could file a defamation lawsuit against us due to the negative connotations that firing has.
I thought that was also why if i am contacted to confirm the employment of someone at our company the only two responses i'm allowed to give are:
- X worked with our company from [DATE1] to [DATE2].
or - X started working with our company on [DATE1] and is still employed by us.
any deviation from these set responses will result in a stern talking to from HR, and then from Legal. Disciplinary measures, up to and including termination of employment, may be assessed by the company for such infractions at the companies sole discretion.
Filed under: Not sure if hyperbole or...
- X worked with our company from [DATE1] to [DATE2].
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
i always thought it wasn't because it sounds ugly but because if X had evidence that we said we fired them they could file a defamation lawsuit against us due to the negative connotations that firing has.
I thought that was also why if i am contacted to confirm the employment of someone at our company the only two responses i'm allowed to give are:X worked with our company from [DATE1] to [DATE2].
or
X started working with our company on [DATE1] and is still employed by us.any deviation from these set responses will result in a stern talking to from HR, and then from Legal. Disciplinary measures, up to and including termination of employment, may be assessed by the company for such infractions at the companies sole discretion.
Differences between our situations:
Large company VS tiny startup
Working legal system in a society where lawsuits are the norm VS not so much
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL:
When person X gets fired, and then someone asks me, "Hey where is X?", I am not supposed to say "X got fired". I am supposed to say "X is no longer working with us". Because saying someone got fired "sounds ugly".
Okay.
We can say it internally but for anything customer-facing the euphemism is that they've "moved on from the company".
My favorite euphemism was on an empty aquarium tank: "This tank is temporarily empty as our octopus has completed its life-cycle". I want 'has completed his life-cycle' on my headstone.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Working legal system in a society where lawsuits are the norm
that's a bit of a contradiction is it not? would not a working legal system mean that lawsuits, especially frivolous ones, are not the norm as the system does not encourage engaging in lawsuit behavior unnecessarily?
A working legal system should say "X was fired for watching porno at work. This is documented. Therefore saying that X was fired is not lawsuit material because X was watching Porno at work."?
like okay i'm not going to say that X was schlicking to the latest hits on pornhub at work, and yeah i can see how X would get upset at that (although X did start it by putting their hands in their own pants in a busy cube farm) but simply saying "X's employment was terminated" should not be cause for a lawsuit.
this is of course my own personal opinion, you are welcome to your own, though should you wish to engage in vigorous, firey debate about it i do suggest you open a new thread in the so as to avoid forcing @boomzilla to do work. :-)
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
err...... sorry...... have an apology steak?
..... that is not a steak...... -drool-
ummmmm what?
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
X was fired for watching porno at work.
That happened while I was at a previous company. The computer was then recycled without being wiped fully, there were some very interesting files left on the root of C:
I hope the original keyboard was burned, hadn't though of that until this second. Urgh.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
that's a bit of a contradiction is it not? would not a working legal system mean that lawsuits, especially frivolous ones, are not the norm as the system does not encourage engaging in lawsuit behavior unnecessarily?
A working legal system should say "X was fired for watching porno at work. This is documented. Therefore saying that X was fired is not lawsuit material because X was watching Porno at work."?My understanding is that, in those circumstances, US company should prevail, legally.
The problem is that it's cheaper to pay off the worker to go away, then to go to trial, even if you win. And once you have that going, the calculus then becomes to optimize for the lawsuit to never ever happen in the first place.
In Serbia, there are just not that many lawsuits. Be it corruption or inefficiency or whatever, the calculus just works out so that people (generally) avoid courts like the plague.
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@cartman82 Right. The companies usually win, but the cost is in the trial itself.
It's often called "the process is the punishment" or "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride" (you may get acquitted, but you still were dragged out of work in handcuffs and spent time in jail, had to hire an attorney, missed work, got your face in the news from your perp walk, etc).
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
A working legal system should say "X was fired for watching porno at work. This is documented. Therefore saying that X was fired is not lawsuit material because X was watching Porno at work."?
Well, HR and Legal wouldn't be too unhappy if the reason had been found correct in a court of law and was so part of the court record.
Management and marketing would be livid though.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
A working legal system should say "X was fired for watching porno at work. This is documented. Therefore saying that X was fired is not lawsuit material because X was watching Porno at work."?
Well, HR and Legal wouldn't be too unhappy if the reason had been found correct in a court of law and was so part of the court record.
Management and marketing would be livid though.
well, the whole pornhub thing isn't possible on our network anymore.... the rest of it is though.... too many websites to get the stuff from to block all of them and there is teh fact we allow usb mass storage (for legit business reasons so can't take that away) and......
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@accalia
It was a translation error. He meant “working lawyer” system.
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Status: I missed the screenshot of it, but Cortana just offered "Got a package on the way? I can help you track when your packages will be delivered." Which was inordinately funny to me because I was logging back in to get back to the grindstone of developing SSIS packages in BIDS.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I missed the screenshot of it, but Cortana just offered "Got a package on the way? I can help you track when your packages will be delivered." Which was inordinately funny to me because I was logging back in to get back to the grindstone of developing SSIS packages in BIDS.
Now that might actually be useful! I'm almost tempted to sign into Feedback to suggest that....
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I missed the screenshot of it, but Cortana just offered "Got a package on the way? I can help you track when your packages will be delivered." Which was inordinately funny to me because I was logging back in to get back to the grindstone of developing SSIS packages in BIDS.
Oh, I just got that too! I do sort of find it moderately creepy, but not quite as much as Google Now doing it automatically without me even knowing it's possible.
Edit: I did get the screenshot.
https://i.imgur.com/wU7F0Vn.png
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I missed the screenshot of it, but Cortana just offered "Got a package on the way? I can help you track when your packages will be delivered." Which was inordinately funny to me because I was logging back in to get back to the grindstone of developing SSIS packages in BIDS.
Oh, I just got that too! I do sort of find it moderately creepy, but not quite as much as Google Now doing it automatically without me even knowing it's possible.
I'm torn between Microsoft's "please fuck me I'm so lonely" versus Google's "I'm a badass, bitch! Here Lemme show you how fucked you are" attitudes...
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@pie_flavor How's it do that without knowing which packages are yours?
Until I confirmed my address in the postnl app (using a snailmailed confirmation code) I only got package notifications after entering the track&trace codes.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor How's it do that without knowing which packages are yours?
Until I confirmed my address in the postnl app (using a snailmailed confirmation code) I only got package notifications after entering the track&trace codes.
Because my email also goes through Google apps.
Let that sink in.
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@pleegwat I know Google Assistant's works off of tracking numbers that are emailed to you. Cortana probably works similarly.
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Status: Apparently ReVive works for Windows Mixed Reality, and SteamVR works for it now too. I guess this means I made the right purchase :D
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Status: Our competitors have a nice website that seems to do everything we want ours to do, presented better than ours, with full-on lie-videos of AR things. Our stuff barely touches the web, and the things we do that use web things hardly work. This one in particular doesn't work, because even after a week of people trying to find and solve the problem that causes us to lose data, we still lose it sometimes. Just less consistently.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
This one in particular doesn't work, because even after a week of people trying to find and solve the problem that causes us to lose data, we still lose it sometimes.
Have you tried looking behind the back of the virtual sofa?
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@dkf We can't even find that. We don't know which cloud we left it on.
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Status: Apparently Jenkins can't handle parsing a 35 Mb log file...