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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska They will discover it on their own and you will lose the ability to guide them.
I could just not give them unsupervised access to anything that can open YouTube. As long as my efforts aren't sabotaged by uncles/aunts/cousins/grandmas, I should be fine.
I take it you don't like using your phone. Or your tablet. Or your computer.
Because if Mommy and Daddy are doing something, IT IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD AND I MUST GET IN ON THIS!!!!
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
workplace
We're on some sort of fiber connection here.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wishing we still used JIRA at Inedo
I'd like to use that brunette JIRA.
...
nevermind
Filed under: Release day
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
you can't even afford a real alphabet!
Nonsense. They have all the letters we have, plus a lot more dots, squiggles, slashes, and other silly nonsense.
Actually, Polish alphabet doesn't have any dots. Except for "i", of course.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates when I become a parent, I'll only play them traditional kids TV channels, and only show YouTube when they're old enough to be weirded out by it.
And where would you find these "traditional kids TV channels"?
On TV?
VS: "I can pirate every Sesame Street episode that's ever been aired".
This doesn't require YouTube.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska They will discover it on their own and you will lose the ability to guide them.
I could just not give them unsupervised access to anything that can open YouTube. As long as my efforts aren't sabotaged by uncles/aunts/cousins/grandmas, I should be fine.
I take it you don't like using your phone. Or your tablet. Or your computer.
Because if Mommy and Daddy are doing something, IT IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD AND I MUST GET IN ON THIS!!!!
When I was a child myself, my parents also used knives, kitchen stove, hairdryers, lighters, voltmeters, and many other dangerous things. Somehow they managed to keep me and my brother away from those things long enough that we didn't kill ourselves.
They also used hair shampoos. They didn't keep such a good watch on them, which resulted in me once drinking down an entire bottle. Thankfully it didn't react violently with my digestive system.
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@gąska Haha, saw that unclosed tag. :P
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@tsaukpaetra it wasn't my unclosed tag. *stares angrily at @Lorne-Kates*
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Because if Mommy and Daddy are doing something, IT IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD AND I MUST GET IN ON THIS!!!!
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
On TV?
Q: "How do you know if someone doesn't own a TV / doesn't have cable"
A: "Don't worry, they'll tell you."Even if I did, do they even have multiple 24/7 kids channels?
This doesn't require YouTube.
YouTube Kids is an app with a simpler interface and a (allegedly) curated subset of YouTube videos.
I could, in theory, download a fuckton of videos, dump them on the iPad, and let her go wild. But guess what? An iPad's video interface is absolute horsepoop. There isn't even a way to set a playlist of videos. (Not without some janky and oft-failing gymnastics).
When I was a child myself, my parents also used knives, kitchen stove, hairdryers, lighters, voltmeters, and many other dangerous things. Somehow they managed to keep me and my brother away from those things long enough that we didn't kill ourselves.
Do you relax on the couch with your knives and shampoo bottles?
Overall: sure, you COULD try to segregate your kids from the Internet. But that is-- not to be offensive-- a shit-tardedly dumbfuck thing to do. Might as well also let them never ride in a car, keep them away from any food that isn't spelt & water, and also teach them the Outside World is a Bad Place and they should never wander past The Door.
Or, y'know, introduce something that is an ingrained facet of everyday life in the modern age-- supervise them, teach them how to use it, impart the knowledge to use it appropriately and safely, and eventually trust them to be a responsible person who has proven they can handle things like this.
For the record, I've got plenty of tiny knives, of various sharpness, ready for when Molly is ready to help in the kitchen. (Yes, kitchen, let's go with that).
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Because if Mommy and Daddy are doing something, IT IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD AND I MUST GET IN ON THIS!!!!
Hey, better to teach them early than to deal with the aftermath of "exploration" later on when it actually matters...
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
impart the knowledge to use it appropriately and safely
Ah yes, high-level concepts they'll certain to understand at a young age...
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Even if I did, do they even have multiple 24/7 kids channels?
You don't need 24/7. You just need 6AM through 8PM. It's actually worse to have 24/7, because it makes it several times harder to put children to sleep.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
YouTube Kids is an app with a simpler interface and a (allegedly) curated subset of YouTube videos.
There's no simpler interface than "push a button and it plays." And on curation front, YT will never beat fixed schedule that has to comply with laws for public broadcast of E-rated TV.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I could, in theory, download a fuckton of videos, dump them on the iPad, and let her go wild. But guess what? An iPad's video interface is absolute horsepoop. There isn't even a way to set a playlist of videos. (Not without some janky and oft-failing gymnastics).
Oooooor you could set up TV. You know, that big screen you connect PlayStation to.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you relax on the couch with your knives and shampoo bottles?
What's your point?
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Overall: sure, you COULD try to segregate your kids from the Internet. But that is-- not to be offensive-- a shit-tardedly dumbfuck thing to do. Might as well also let them never ride in a car, keep them away from any food that isn't spelt & water, and also teach them the Outside World is a Bad Place and they should never wander past The Door.
I was talking about kids up to 4 years old (inclusive). After that, they have enough sense not to terrorize family with terrible child songs played on repeat. And child songs on old-style TV channels are much less mind-screwing than YouTube's autogenerated content targeted at 2-3 year olds.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
impart the knowledge to use it appropriately and safely
Ah yes, high-level concepts they'll certain to understand at a young age...
High-level concepts begin with basic introductions. You don't go from being an Amish monkey tied up in a cave for 16 years to suddenly taking a driver's test. You do things like, y'know, ride in cars. Play with toy cars. Watch people drive. Learn what wheels are. Understand red/yellow/green. Etc.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
You don't need 24/7. You just need 6AM through 8PM. It's actually worse to have 24/7, because it makes it several times harder to put children to sleep.
So there's multiple kids-only TV channels that run from 6am to 8pm?
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
There's no simpler interface than "push a button and it plays."
You've never seen a kid with a remote control, have you?@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
And on curation front, YT will never beat fixed schedule that has to comply with laws for public broadcast of E-rated TV.
On a curation front, nothing will me.
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Oooooor you could set up TV. You know, that big screen you connect PlayStation to.
What do you think I use to watch the videos I've downloaded? A PlayStation + a TV. The TV is there. There's rabbit ears attached to it so I can watch the Olympics every two years (though that's now been replaced with amazing online streaming from CBC)-- the Oscars once a year (though they might eventually enter the 20th century and realize there's an Internet), and the New Years balldrop once a year (though I used to watch the local celebrations until fucking CTV fucked everything up).
Why should I spend $100+ a month for a cable package I won't use, so Molly can watch 1/2 hour of what is effectively background noise for her once a day? Or she can use the iPad, I occasionally skip a video, she learns what a computer interface is, and she can still run around like a little nut-monkey instead of sitting still on the couch.
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:Do you relax on the couch with your knives and shampoo bottles?
What's your point?
My point is that you're going to sit and relax on the couch with your phone. And the child will come along and want to join, or see what you're doing, or hear a song on it because that's what they see everyone else with phones doing. Unless you ban them from the couch and common spaces. This isn't a kitchen where you are using a knife only when you are cutting things, and it goes away safely afterwards. You are not going to keep a curious child insulated from devices.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Overall: sure, you COULD try to segregate your kids from the Internet. But that is-- not to be offensive-- a shit-tardedly dumbfuck thing to do. Might as well also let them never ride in a car, keep them away from any food that isn't spelt & water, and also teach them the Outside World is a Bad Place and they should never wander past The Door.
I was talking about kids up to 4 years old (inclusive). After that, they have enough sense not to terrorize family with terrible child songs played on repeat. And child songs on old-style TV channels are much less mind-screwing than YouTube's autogenerated content targeted at 2-3 year olds.
Molly isn't 2 yet. You lose.
And how are songs "mind-screwing"? If anything, it's increased her vocabulary. She learned, on her own, to ask for "baby shark" without ever having been taught "shark", because of the Baby Shark song. And can say "No more monkies". She isn't sitting there 24/7 unsupervised on autoplay. What do you think I am, an American?
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: at last, my internet finally works!
Holy fuck your country has internet ten times better than mine and you can't even afford a real alphabet!
Should I mention I pay roughly $15/month (tax included)?
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status Lovin' Visual Studio 2017. (15.6)
We still use 2015 - I opened the sln and told it don't-upgrade-anything. Compiled. "Hey, if you install the 'Test Adapter for Google Test', your unit tests will work in Test Explorer!" (or something like that). Installed. Restarted VS. OMG. I love you.
Now I just want integrated Catch (C++11 header only unittest) support.
Update: And so far, it hasn't crashed from Intellisense! (The real reason for the love)
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
You don't need 24/7. You just need 6AM through 8PM. It's actually worse to have 24/7, because it makes it several times harder to put children to sleep.
So there's multiple kids-only TV channels that run from 6am to 8pm?
You don't need multiple ones. But yes, there are.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
You've never seen a kid with a remote control, have you?
It didn't appear in their hands on its own. Also, unless shown how, a kid will have great difficulty figuring out how it works.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
On a curation front, nothing will me.
But that's work. I thought the goal is not to waste time on watching what the child's watching?
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Why should I spend $100+ a month for a cable package I won't use, so Molly can watch 1/2 hour of what is effectively background noise for her once a day?
Fuck, I forgot how horribly expensive utilities are in US. Over here it's equivalent of $8, and I'm pretty sure you can find something online for free.
and she can still run around like a little nut-monkey instead of sitting still on the couch.
My
monkeysister showed me you don't have to sit still at all.My point is that you're going to sit and relax on the couch with your phone. And the child will come along and want to join, or see what you're doing, or hear a song on it because that's what they see everyone else with phones doing. Unless you ban them from the couch and common spaces. This isn't a kitchen where you are using a knife only when you are cutting things, and it goes away safely afterwards. You are not going to keep a curious child insulated from devices.
Yeah, you have a point there.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
And how are songs "mind-screwing"?
To you.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
impart the knowledge to use it appropriately and safely
Ah yes, high-level concepts they'll certain to understand at a young age...
High-level concepts begin with basic introductions. You don't go from being an Amish monkey tied up in a cave for 16 years to suddenly taking a driver's test. You do things like, y'know, ride in cars. Play with toy cars. Watch people drive. Learn what wheels are. Understand red/yellow/green. Etc.
Exactly! That's why you stick them in front of The Internet, right?
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Whole team just went out and watched Black Panther. What an amazing film. I would like it on Blu-Ray right the hell now. What do you mean there's not even a release date for that yet. :(
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Status: Boy do I love managing NTFS permissions.
Somehow, one of the permissions for the WindowsApps folder had gotten corrupted, and now none of the apps will launch. Set myself as the owner, removed the broken entry, and now I have to click through this for every single goddamn resource file on every single goddamn app.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Boy do I love managing NTFS permissions.
Somehow, one of the permissions for the WindowsApps folder had gotten corrupted, and now none of the apps will launch. Set myself as the owner, removed the broken entry, and now I have to click through this for every single goddamn resource file on every single goddamn app.
IIRC they're encrypted or something too. It's just somehow tied in to the permissions dialog.
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Status: No dude, it is NOT a good idea to piss off the HR director and imply you can DDoS him...
WTF what an idiot... Waiting on his side of the story, but geeze, how stupid can you be???!!?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
how stupid can you be???!!?
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
how stupid can you be???!!?
Yeah. I had to back down the HR guy from "taking legal action". Seriously, what in the world did he say?!?
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
You don't need multiple ones. But yes, there are.
You don't need multiple ones. The attention span and finicky-nature of a 1 year old might, if you're relying on this being the primary viewing experience.
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
It didn't appear in their hands on its own. Also, unless shown how, a kid will have great difficulty figuring out how it works.
For all intents and purposes, things appear in kids hands on their own. It's an "indistinguishable from magic" scenario. "HOW DID YOU GET THAT?!?!" is a common question ask-claimed towards children.
And "knowing how" it works is much different than "mashing buttons at random until the tv's on an input you didn't know you had, permanent 30 minute sleep timer, and everything is tinted green".
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Over here it's equivalent of $8, and I'm pretty sure you can find something online for free.
Here in the corrupt shithole known as "North America", we have telecom monopolies that own the government regulators. So channels are only sold in packages, an are scientifically generated to ensure you need at least two of them to get the channels you want. And they're fucking expensive. I have zero regret not having cable. And... wait, wait, wait
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty sure you can find something online for free.
YOUR ENTIRE ARGUEMENT HAS BEEN THAT YOU DO NOT NEED ONLINE YOU CAN JUST TURN ON THE REGULAR TV!!!!
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
To you.
Okay, yeah.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Exactly! That's why you stick them in front of The Internet, right?
If she watches enough Russian dashcam footage, she'll know:
a) what not to do while driving
b) how to swear in Russian
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Exactly! That's why you stick them in front of The Internet, right?
If she watches enough
RussianBrittish dashcam footage, she'll know:a)
what not to dohow to piss everyone off while driving
b) how toswearsay "fuckin' cunt" inRussianthe Queen's English.FTFY.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden that sounds like a wonderful idea! I wonder if they added a reinsert command to it though. Most devices cache the FAT and therefore don't recognize modifications to the card unless you eject and replace the card...
It's probably a proper SMB protocol device when you access it over wi-fi.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden that sounds like a wonderful idea! I wonder if they added a reinsert command to it though. Most devices cache the FAT and therefore don't recognize modifications to the card unless you eject and replace the card...
It's probably a proper SMB protocol device when you access it over wi-fi.
He must have a newer version than mine. Mine was a (really simple) HTTP service.
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Status: Come into work.
Hey, the game isn't loading in Oculus anymore
Weird, lemme check...Dafuq? Why isn't the Engine built? What is it using?!?!
Hold on , I'm disabling builds for a bit while the Engine gets compiled. Something weird happened I guess, so we'll see if that fixes it...I further assume this might also be a problem:
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
You don't need multiple ones. But yes, there are.
You don't need multiple ones. The attention span and finicky-nature of a 1 year old might, if you're relying on this being the primary viewing experience.
Most kids have only a couple favorite shows, half dozen at most. If they have a way to pick a specific movie or a specific episode of a show, there's a good chance this will be the only thing you'll hear for years to come (until the next phase with new favorites). During my sister's first 8 years of life, she watched Barbie as Rapunzel and Piglet's Big Movie about a thousand times each. No, that's not an exaggeration - just a simple estimate based on number of days in a year. I have a cousin who'll be 11 this week, and he's had similar craze with Cars and Minecraft.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
It didn't appear in their hands on its own. Also, unless shown how, a kid will have great difficulty figuring out how it works.
For all intents and purposes, things appear in kids hands on their own. It's an "indistinguishable from magic" scenario. "HOW DID YOU GET THAT?!?!" is a common question ask-claimed towards children.
And "knowing how" it works is much different than "mashing buttons at random until the tv's on an input you didn't know you had, permanent 30 minute sleep timer, and everything is tinted green".
OK, fair enough.
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty sure you can find something online for free.
YOUR ENTIRE ARGUEMENT HAS BEEN THAT YOU DO NOT NEED ONLINE YOU CAN JUST TURN ON THE REGULAR TV!!!!
Actually, I was arguing against YouTube specifically, not internet as a whole.
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@tsaukpaetra Now we know on what game you're working
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden that sounds like a wonderful idea! I wonder if they added a reinsert command to it though. Most devices cache the FAT and therefore don't recognize modifications to the card unless you eject and replace the card...
It's probably a proper SMB protocol device when you access it over wi-fi.
He must have a newer version than mine. Mine was a (really simple) HTTP service.
Even if it's HTTP, it should refresh just fine without any sort of "reinsert" command. The main thing is that your computer doesn't have to know or care that the data is stored on a FAT device.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Now we know on what game you're working
I've mentioned it before in various places...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden that sounds like a wonderful idea! I wonder if they added a reinsert command to it though. Most devices cache the FAT and therefore don't recognize modifications to the card unless you eject and replace the card...
It's probably a proper SMB protocol device when you access it over wi-fi.
He must have a newer version than mine. Mine was a (really simple) HTTP service.
Even if it's HTTP, it should refresh just fine without any sort of "reinsert" command. The main thing is that your computer doesn't have to know or care that the data is stored on a FAT device.
I was speaking more from the perspective of the device it's plugged into (a 3d printer). Typically speaking, most devices don't expect their drives to be modified live underneath them.
When this happens it's... not pretty. BTDT.
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@tsaukpaetra man your company's bootlegged VRChat has bad reviews. And it doesn't say it works for WMR (Though it probably does).
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden that sounds like a wonderful idea! I wonder if they added a reinsert command to it though. Most devices cache the FAT and therefore don't recognize modifications to the card unless you eject and replace the card...
It's probably a proper SMB protocol device when you access it over wi-fi.
He must have a newer version than mine. Mine was a (really simple) HTTP service.
Even if it's HTTP, it should refresh just fine without any sort of "reinsert" command. The main thing is that your computer doesn't have to know or care that the data is stored on a FAT device.
I was speaking more from the perspective of the device it's plugged into (a 3d printer). Typically speaking, most devices don't expect their drives to be modified live underneath them.
When this happens it's... not pretty. BTDT.
Oh. Yeah, that would probably be a big no-go. The wi-fi side should probably just not allow any modifications to the files themselves.
However, you could read the card's contents just fine. And most of the time, the device will have a built-in function to delete files off the memory card that is plugged in -- that should work just fine, too.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Uh, I think you just doxxed yourself there, you 4th century Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Most kids have only a couple favorite shows, half dozen at most. If they have a way to pick a specific movie or a specific episode of a show, there's a good chance this will be the only thing you'll hear for years to come (until the next phase with new favorites).
"Most kids, like this one sister I knew" :/
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Actually, I was arguing against YouTube specifically, not internet as a whole.
again?!?!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Due to Oculus embedding a expired security cert in one of their DLLs?
That might have expanded the problem, sure. But the missing DLL itself would also cause the game to totally not recognize Oculus at all. On the machine that has a (kinda) working Oculus, it just shows a black screen.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
On the machine that has a (kinda) working Oculus, it just shows a black screen.
Maybe it's Peril-Sensitive.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra man your company's bootlegged VRChat has bad reviews. And it doesn't say it works for WMR (Though it probably does).
Yeah, the top one mentioning other titles is from a disgruntled employee, and others do have merits.
We don't actually have a WMR device to try it on (because apparently HoloLens doesn't count, though the missing controls would probably hurt the experience anyways). I'm willing to bet that at least one of the two buttons we use won't work though.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Most kids have only a couple favorite shows, half dozen at most. If they have a way to pick a specific movie or a specific episode of a show, there's a good chance this will be the only thing you'll hear for years to come (until the next phase with new favorites).
"Most kids, like this one sister I knew" :/
And my cousin, and (according to my mom) myself. That's 3/3 direct experience, plus countless stories I've read on the internet.
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Actually, I was arguing against YouTube specifically, not internet as a whole.
again?!?!
If anyone's , it's sure as hell not me. From the very first post it was YT vs. fixed schedule by professional kids TV schedulers.
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@tsaukpaetra SteamVR is weird and binds things in inconvenient ways for WMR controllers.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra SteamVR is weird and binds things in inconvenient ways for WMR controllers.
Yeah, hence my statement. :P
I fully expect grabbing things to be the usage trigger, and pushing the joystick backward will open the context menu...
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@tsaukpaetra It weirds me out that they don't bind the clickpads at all.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra It weirds me out that they don't bind the clickpads at all.
... Oh dear. I'll put a note on the Jira ticket that we might need another "special keybinds" section on the playercontroller class setup routine...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I've mentioned it before in various places...
I don't compile UE so I don't have enough free time to follow you around
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Status: ASP.Net MVC Razor is being really dumb to me right now.
I have a model I'm supposed to be editing. Fine.
I have a property it's supposed to edit namedID
. Fine.
I tell the form to include it with@Html.HiddenFor(model => model.ID)
. Not fine.See, the Controller's
ID
is not the model'sID
, but somehow magically when that last line executes it doesn't take theID
from the model but from the controller (Or, at least I assume. The number matches anyways).WTFBBQTDEMSYR Why?!?!? Why is it doing this and how can I make it stop?!? WHARGagGAbARlARlarblbaghablafa!
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Status: Pissed.
Working from home because of the threat of weather. The weather itself hasn't been too bad, however...
About 2 hours ago one of the side-trunks of a small tree outside decided it wasn't having any more of this "life" shit and split off. It's still somewhat connected, but is mostly laying on the fence. It's not big enough to hurt the house, really, but the only thing I have is a hand-held reciprocating saw which isn't quite enough to get through the part still connected.
However, when I went to my basement to see if there happened to be an axe or something left from my parents, I also discovered that apparently my sewer line has decided to start backing up into the basement. This has happened before because apparently the actual outflow pipe that goes through the foundation is super-small. Last time it was because I used thick toilet paper (I think it was Charmin Ultra or something that was like 4-ply). That was a couple years ago.
Oh, and someone can't come look at THAT until 8:30 tomorrow morning, meaning I can't do dishes, or really use the bathroom, or shower, until after they (hopefully) resolve that.