The Official Status Thread
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Neither did I, until I started having RSI issues in my right wrist.
When I started getting that sort of thing, I tried a few things and the one that worked (for me) was stopping using a mouse. A good trackpad is much better for my wrist; I don't get those sorts of issues any more and being without wrist pain is a good plan...
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@polygeekery I was thinking about today, didn't you just broke your arm? Or am I reading something very old?
No. I had the hatchet thing.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
A good trackpad is much better for my wrist
Maybe, but I do a lot of stuff (graphics and gaming) where I'm trying to move the cursor very precisely, and I don't find a trackpad to work as well for that. Also, I find trying to drag with a trackpad awkward, usually requiring two hands, a finger of one hand to hold the "button" down while finger from the other hand moves.
Edit: Also, I've learned to relax my mouse hand and rely more on zooming in than
preciousprecise movements that cause hand and arm tension. Well, for graphics, anyway. Aiming a weapon in games, you get the view that you get.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@polygeekery I was thinking about today, didn't you just broke your arm? Or am I reading something very old?
Today was about three hours door to door. I was in a room within 5 minutes of walking through the door and getting x-rays within 30 minutes.
Does that answer your question?
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek I'm left-handed and I still use a right-handed mouse. I'm not sure I know anyone who uses a left-handed mouse, even though I know plenty of left-handed people.
I use a symmetrical mouse because, although I'm left-handed, I'm pretty ambidextrous, and I switch back and forth to minimize RSI. Actually, I use my crappy work mouse, which is not remotely ergonomic, mostly left-handed, and my kinda sorta ergonomic home mouse almost exclusively right-handed because using it left-handed doesn't really work very well with WASD-based game controls, so that's how I have my computer space set up, and it's not worth switching the whole environment around. Hmm, since at the moment I only use it right-handed, maybe I should get an ergonomic right-handed one; I need to replace it anyway, because the button switches are wearing out and bouncing very annoyingly.
I'm also ambidextrous. I prefer these Microsoft mice, they're comfortable and work with either hand, albeit somewhat difficult to find now since it's an old model. I default to using a mouse right-handed, although my setup at work means I sometimes have a mouse for one computer in one hand and a mouse for another computer in the other hand when I'm doing some rapid task-switching.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I broke the nightly. How? By leaving a Windows Explorer window open to the folder that the nightly build expects to delete.
Been there, done that. And sometimes Symantec
AntiVirus decides to scan that folder right when the build process tries to delete it, causing the build to fail.
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Status: Friend told me some game called PUBG was on sale and I should buy it and join him. Steam Store autocompletes it...and then redirects me to a "No Search Results" page. Hmm. Tried a few other games, same result.
Oh well. That would have been my one Steam purchase for this year, but the Steam Store was broken. Sorry, Valve. Maybe I'll try again next year.
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@polygeekery I was hoping I was just lost in translation.
@polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Does that answer your question?
Yes.
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@sockpuppet7 I have a recurring persistent ankle-injury thing. Last time I called the doctor about it since it was refusing to heal 6 months after a re-injury, they had me in the very next morning and X-rayed by 7:30 AM. And this was for something that is pretty mild on the pain scale and doesn't really affect my ability to live my life (although running and jumping are out of the question now).
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Too lazy to find the Kickstarter thread.
Someone post this there:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1749849235/battbump-an-app-to-share-and-receive-phone-battery
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
That means you just waited for the x-ray results for 2:30?
0:02 vitals taken
0:05 get taken to room
0:10 doctor comes to see me
0:12 get pain meds and water
0:30 taken for x-rays
0:50 done with x-rays
1:00 admissions person comes and gets insurance information and such
2:00 finally get x-ray results, consult with doctor
2:30 brace put on, discharge process started
3:00 out the doorAll times are very approximate.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh well. That would have been my one Steam purchase for this year, but the Steam Store was broken. Sorry, Valve. Maybe I'll try again next year.
You lucked out. Your library does not need more brown generic unreal assets sparsely placed over a large, empty area.
Watch the skies for Satisfactory. Or here. I'll probably post here when it comes out.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Watch the skies for Satisfactory. Or here. I'll probably post here when it comes out.
I wants it so baaaaad......Really hoping I get an alpha/beta invite. I've been itching for a new builder game and haven't been arsed enough to figure out Factorio mods.
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@blakeyrat I like the top comment... ending with
The transmitter function is far more complex, so it isn't included in phones due to cost, size, and weight concerns. Oh, and it would just be silly.
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@e4tmyl33t On the bright side, Factorio 1.0 might be out soon. They were thinking that if they get the UI done, 0.17 may be good enough to call 1.0.
Doubt they have any new secret features, but it still might be worth another playthrough by then.
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Aaaand, there go all the MSDN links (again).
we redirected over 7700 MSDN pages for
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t On the bright side, Factorio 1.0 might be out soon. They were thinking that if they get the UI done, 0.17 may be good enough to call 1.0.
Doubt they have any new secret features, but it still might be worth another playthrough by then.
While true, I've since been spoiled by Subnautica, Raft, and other 3-D survival/builder games. I'll miss muh light effects and shaders!
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Status back in Manchester
to tidy up a house I let out (moved there as student 20 years ago, moved away 10 years ago and kept it on afterwards...)
it all seems depressing familiar. The same person served me in Tesco as did 15 years ago - we used to have conversations but she didn't recognise me now. Saw the friend I knew who did the local community garden with me. That looked to have fallen apart so was a bit pissed off with her, but then saw her out the window - strange grey haired stooped person watering things ineffectually - something's clearly gone wrong, but she'd gone back indoors by the time I got outside to try to talk.
Weird neighbour who chants Christian mantra in ?arabic endlessly and claps + alleluias a lot is still there. Other schizoid neighbour who thought his landlord was spying on him and poisoning his food has gone. New occupant appears to be family ruled by a tantrum throwing child. (in a terraced house it's hard not to know what goes on next door if people live life at 200 Db).
There are even more cars.
Manchester more or less does two types of weather humid and dank (raining for days on end) and humid but parched. Is in hot mode at the moment. Everything looks dead.
Got someone round to mend my roof - apropos of nothing he asked me if I was Chinese (volunteering that he was Egyptian). Was embarrassed to admit that I was merely English (can't even say European with all the brexit shit).
Probably should do an fbmac shortly after posting this.
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@dcon I liked the video where:
- The stock footage of the finger touching the phone doesn't even slightly match their UI even remotely
- They did a shitty job of bluescreening the screen on so it vibrates when the click art guy bumps the phone
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon I liked the video where:
- The stock footage of the finger touching the phone doesn't even slightly match their UI even remotely
- They did a shitty job of bluescreening the screen on so it vibrates when the click art guy bumps the phone
Missed (1), but caught (2). My thought was "ah, total vapor still. Check. Status normal."
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Status: I have watched many people play Detroit: Become Human, and one thing bothers me every time: To move to the next page of a news story in a news paper, you slide your finger DOWN.
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@magus I watched one playthrough of it (where the player seemed to manage to get one of the good endings completely by instinct/accident rather than intentionally going for it) and the major thing that threw me was how useless the button prompt text is for conversation/reaction responses.
Loved the story. Can't play that game.
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@japonicus said in The Official Status Thread:
Probably should do an fbmac shortly after posting this.
Should probably get fbmac's consent before doing that...
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have watched many people play Detroit: Become Human, and one thing bothers me every time: To move to the next page of a news story in a news paper, you slide your finger DOWN.
Much of their control scheme seems to be primarily to fulfill the gimmick of the controller and not actually do anything natural...
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@e4tmyl33t They are one.
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@magus I'm assuming that's a reference, and if so that's not the ending he got.
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@tsaukpaetra No, it's not even that, the character in the game slides their finger down on a tablet, and the page changes. It doesn't scroll, and you can't transition with a tap, and you aren't lifting the page up to get to the one under it.
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@e4tmyl33t It was a response to your response to @fbmac.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Loved the story. Can't play that game.
I'm working on 100%ing it. Crazy how it's possible to miss whole arcs if you only do one or two playthroughs (I'm thinking of about a chapter's worth of content in particular you can only get if you fuck something up).
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Much of their control scheme seems to be primarily to fulfill the gimmick of the controller and not actually do anything natural...
Meh. If you don't play on Experienced you don't get motion controls, at least.
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@magus last time I checked I hadn't yet been assimilated into either fbmac or boomzilla. Am still me.
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@japonicus Oh weird, that happened right after an @fbmac so I misread what the reply was to :D
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@heterodox Yeah, I saw that one or two of the "threads" seemed to be 2-3x longer on the "fuckup" route than the "I dun good" route in the between-chapter breakdown things.
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@e4tmyl33t If you haven't seen Bryan Dechart's playthrough, you should. It's really neat to see one of the actors playing it because
a.) When the game is entirely mo-capped, the actors have only played on cardboard sets with the vague resemblances of e.g. interactable objects. Watching them be blown away by the visuals and how the scene they acted has come to life is really something special;
b.) He only obviously had 1/3 of the script so it's near blind when it comes to the other characters;
c.) He plays it with his fiancé, who was in the game with a minor part so it's pretty much all blind to her; and
d.) He was so close to having a near-perfect ending (with the help of chat, of course)… that's all I'll say. :)
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Status: First day of summer travel #1 completed. Found two exciting new places: Spraxkya where I wondered if I had made a wrong turn and ended up on planet Zorbikor V because of how alien the name sounded. The other exciting place name was Blindtarmsvägen (Appendix Road) where I wonder how the fuck it ended up with that name.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Friend told me some game called PUBG was on sale and I should buy it and join him. Steam Store autocompletes it...and then redirects me to a "No Search Results" page. Hmm. Tried a few other games, same result.
Oh well. That would have been my one Steam purchase for this year, but the Steam Store was broken. Sorry, Valve. Maybe I'll try again next year.
PUBG is very obviously a mod, and a badly written one at that. I wouldn't play it if it were free. Fortnite, on the other hand, offers a very similar experience and is polished and is free (and isn't pay to win at all).
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Status: My eyes refuse to stay open. I have three hours left in my workday. It seems unlikely that those hours will be productive.
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Status:
__that was nullptr
. That is all.
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Got a letter today. My Canadian account is converting from a bankbook to electronic statements.
Will wonders never cease?
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STATUS Moving house is balls but I have learned that French women give off pheromones that I like. This is the third time in four moves that I moved into a house with one.
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Status: Wishing people would test that their code actually compiles before checking it into the trunk and releasing it to customers.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wishing people would test that their code actually compiles before checking it into the trunk and releasing it to customers.
Yeah the very first item on wishful thinking in IT 101. I ve had people make changes, save and directly deploy to production without running it and testing it. Oh you say it at least compliled. Umm no, it was in python. This gentleman just did step 1 and n in the code run test code run test code run test deploy pipeline. The horror!
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Status: :
xxxSWITCH09 - Infra Dist (Fibre LACP). Not responding, no console. Exploded, removed from equip reg
38°C in that equipment closet. Poor switches
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
Umm no, it was in python
This is C. Someone very clearly never even clicked "Build".
Hmm, I am the Subversion administrator here. I'm tempted to lock all the trunks and force everyone else to use branches. No merge unless they give me a 100-page document proving their code compiles and is correct and passes unit tests on all platforms...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Hmm, I am the Subversion administrator here.
You can literally make these people s lives a living hell and I think you need to do it. Edge case errors are human, checking in without compiling basically says "yeah mott555's time is less valuable than mine. Nope not building the code today"
Fuck. That. Guy.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
checking in without compiling basically
I could understand if it was something small, like a one-line change. But these appear to be sweeping architectural changes, for reasons unknown, so there is no quick fix to pacify the customer who ended up receiving this. It makes me want to drink at work.