The Official Status Thread
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
land is so cheap I'm not even sure a 1$ bill-sized chunk costs 1$.
That works out at about 100$/sq.m (or 9$/sq.ft), that's about 3x what I paid, so yes, land is that cheap around here.
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@hungrier You'd think that, but I've come across many mobile games on Android that only store your game data locally, or require you to go through a specific process to back that data up if you're transferring devices. If your phone suddenly breaks, your progress is pretty much fucked.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Um...hi?
There needs to be a punishment for people who use "say hi", or "meet", or "introducing" for a product release notice.
I suggest getting flayed by a ball of used fishhooks.
It might serve as sufficient warning to movie trailer people who use "you're invited"
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@Lorne-Kates Say hi to meeting us introducing this great new product.
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@Lorne-Kates Would an AI that says hi back be exempt from this?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Would an AI that says hi back be exempt from this?
As long as the AI doesn't work in marketing.
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@Lorne-Kates Just remember whenever you see the word "celebrate" in advertising what it means is "signed a cross-promotional deal with".
So, like, McDonalds "celebrates" Pixar's newest movie = McDonalds and Pixar signed a cross-promotional deal.
Also:
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Status: Last week I was supposed to make a spreadsheet with some data we were collecting. We all discussed numerous times that part of the data was not collected and had no backend data structure defined, so I was leaving it out, and whoever added it could finish off the export. This was discussed for like a week straight. I took friday off, and that's the day they picked to do the thing I was missing. From a different list than the required-by-law set defined in the document I was given to work off of. And my task was marked blocked, so they could validate it once the UI was updated to collect the data. Lo and behold, no one hooked it up, and the data set is completely unrelated.
Yay.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
OK, so my phone could still boot into fastboot mode, but nothing else (no recovery or normal boot). I thought I'd try to see if I could communicate with it via the Android SDK tools, but it wasn't detecting it.
I installed the Motorola tools just in case it needed drivers there. I connected it again... and it just booted directly into the normal OS like nothing ever happened .
Let's see how long it lasts now...
edit: approximately 10 seconds after disconnecting
If you ever get stuck in fastboot mode, you should be able to upload a recovery image to memory and boot off that in emergencies.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
All I have left to do it wait for Gameloft support to help me restore my $3.6k game file and I'm mostly good.
If that's in-app purchases, wouldn't it be tied to your account rather than (or in addition to) some file on your device? It should be as simple as verifying "yes, this account has access to the Really Shiny Horse Armor and 65 million dino tokens" without any need to involve customer support.
Nope, it's indeed "backed up" to the cloud, but your devices installation ID (or whatever) is used as the primary identifier and encryption key. When I upgraded to a new ROM, this was regenerated, and so couldn't be restored. Luckily I started a ticket in advance, and got them to restore their latest cloud save (from three days ago, in the middle of a one-time community event 😱) and now most of my stuff is back.
Also, FYI I had Shining Armor for years now, and 27 million bits (that are basically useless). Good guesses though.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
If that's in-app purchases, wouldn't it be tied to your account rather than (or in addition to) some file on your device?
Maybe GameLoft is run by Nintendo, motto: we hate our customers and we want to steal all their money all the time!
You're not wrong.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier You'd think that, but I've come across many mobile games on Android that only store your game data locally, or require you to go through a specific process to back that data up if you're transferring devices. If your phone suddenly breaks, your progress is pretty much fucked.
There used to be a internal "device transfer" function that let you use two devices on one account. Apparently that broke top many things and cheaters abound, so they killed it. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered Support.
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@Tsaukpaetra I have a game with a "device transfer" function that requires an ID from the old device before it'll restore the game data down to the new device. Obviously it's copying the data SOMEWHERE, so why doesn't it just store it in my damn account and not require the hoops in case my phone breaks?
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: the hallway/staircase is officially the worst room of the house to redecorate.
It looks like a fairly simple job: strip out old wallpaper, slap a coat of render (which means I don't even care about the walls being perfectly smooth) and paint the doors.
But the hallway combines all the fucking annoying things you can imagine. Awkward barely accessible corners, check. High ceilings, above stairs to make it hard to put a ladder, check. Lots of doors (*), each one taking ages to properly sand and paint due to small details, check. In the middle of the house so you can't really leave stuff for too long, check. Tons of fiddly little details like light switches, light points, windows... that each take 10x longer than they should, check.
(*) holy shit, do I really have twelve fucking doors in the hallway?!!1?? well apparently I do...
I'm currently looking into using liquid wallpaper for similar reasons. It's a bit more expensive but you don't have to putz about so much with alignment / cutting / cursing about window sills and the like.
Just paint it onto the walls like you would with regular paint. Also, if you manage to scratch it you simply put some water on the spot and smooth it out again.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
There needs to be a punishment for people who use "say hi", or "meet", or "introducing" for a product release notice.
There needs to be a punishment for people who say "hi" on IM and wait for a response before typing the actual message. Just type the darn message. If I happen to be AFK, I'll see your message when I get back; you don't need to wait for me to say "hi." That just delays both sides of the conversation.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
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I wonder how many tries it took to write "hello" that neatly with an effing mouse. I can't even write legibly with a pen and tablet.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I have a game with a "device transfer" function that requires an ID from the old device before it'll restore the game data down to the new device. Obviously it's copying the data SOMEWHERE, so why doesn't it just store it in my damn account and not require the hoops in case my phone breaks?
Because they're
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Status: speaking of ponies, apparently babysitting happened and my Twilight Sparkle plushie was.... Borrowed.
Supposedly the little twerp was "riding" it around the house. No video, so I can't override my upset with cute.
Sigh....
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
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I wonder how many tries it took to write "hello" that neatly with an effing mouse. I can't even write legibly with a pen and tablet.
Many.
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@blakeyrat So that band, they had made a deal with that show?
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@HardwareGeek I'd tell you what I think about this but I am not sure whether you're here right now.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how many tries it took to write "hello" that neatly with an effing mouse. I can't even write legibly with a pen and tablet.
I'm sure it was scripted
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek I'd tell you what I think about this but I am not sure whether you're here right now.
hi
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@Tsaukpaetra hey you seen @HardwareGeek ?
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra hey you seen @HardwareGeek ?
As far as I know, he was last online about 1 hours ago, having posted a Quotes out of Context contexted quote response post.
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@Tsaukpaetra no worries, I think I forgot whatever my actual response would have been already. it might be a good idea to chop some time right out of his day with a meaningless and unnecessary conversation just to not be weird, still, though - say hi.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra no worries, I think I forgot whatever my actual response would have been already. it might be a good idea to chop some time right out of his day with a meaningless and unnecessary conversation just to not be weird, still, though - say hi.
Don't worry, you're not
weird
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@Tsaukpaetra This is good traffic to have around so you can see it, get a concerned look, and say
that's weird
in the correct tone of ingenuous doomage to get somebody to maybe shit themself. Then you can point at the username and say "see,weird
" and hope you remembered to be bigger than the person you did this to.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
There needs to be a punishment for people who use "say hi", or "meet", or "introducing" for a product release notice.
There needs to be a punishment for people who say "hi" on IM and wait for a response before typing the actual message. Just type the darn message. If I happen to be AFK, I'll see your message when I get back; you don't need to wait for me to say "hi." That just delays both sides of the conversation.
My least favourite is “Can I ask you a question?” as an opener. I'm always tempted to respond “You just did exactly that, you wazzock.”
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@dkf wazzock isn't used often enough
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
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I wonder how many tries it took to write "hello" that neatly with an effing mouse. I can't even write legibly with a pen and tablet.
Zero.
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Status: Realized I don't collect anything really as far as general merchandise for things I like, but have the sudden urge to go find and buy some Digimon related things, because a character in the game I was playing had a cool 20th anniversary shirt on.
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@Magus You should definitely do this.
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Status: What fuck the?
Why do you need a Code Analysis dll to run a tranform script? :/
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@Tsaukpaetra I imagine T4 runs inside that library now, since that library is the general purpose version of T4.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I imagine T4 runs inside that library now, since that library is the general purpose version of T4.
Then I guess the better question: Where did it go that Visual Studio suddenly couldn't find it anymore?
Restarting Visual Studio made it work again, but geeze....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Where did it go that Visual Studio suddenly couldn't find it anymore?
Soft update deleted the old one and put a new one in place with a different GUID and the binding cache wasn't purged (because nobody's thought about the case, or they assumed that “restart VS” was an acceptable solution)?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Where did it go that Visual Studio suddenly couldn't find it anymore?
Soft update deleted the old one and put a new one in place with a different GUID and the binding cache wasn't purged (because nobody's thought about the case, or they assumed that “restart VS” was an acceptable solution)?
No, that's impossibru, Software can't update itself while it's being used on Windows!
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Status: Pondering if I should add a backwards index for this many-to-many join table. I.e. for the following keyed table:
Make an index for ModActionsID including ComplaintID.
I'm thinking "No", but I'm not sure...
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@Tsaukpaetra you won't use that frequently unless you want to show mod history a lot
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra you won't use that frequently unless you want to show mod history a lot
That's literally what I'm going to be doing. And why I'm considering adding that index.
Continuing my evaluation of this, this means that the Computed column of
Resolved AS CASE WHEN ModActionsID is NULL then 0 else 1 END
will no longer work.Considering if I should attempt a UDF and making the column PERSISTED (I don't think that will work very well) or rewriting all the scripts that need to know (73 percent of them) to
OUTER APPLY
the new table (which I think will be equally inefficient) to the output...
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
(*) holy shit, do I really have twelve fucking doors in the hallway?!!1?? well apparently I do...
Must be nice to be so fucking rich. I don't even have a hallway!!! Well I kind of do in the entry but it's maybe 8' long.
"Oh bitch whine all the yachts take so long to polish! So many fine details and high ceilings!"
Well, I don't have a hallway, but the equavilent area of my house does have 8 doors. And it's 2 bedroom 1 bathroom house, by american counting. Entrance, cellar door, bathroom, kitchen, living room on the ground floor, and then bedroom, bedroom and balcony on the upper floor. I am both looking forward to and not looking forward to renovating it.
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Status: Expect angry rant tomorrow. I would do it now, but getting sleep is more important right now. Let's just say a certain Redmond-based corporation has gone a bit too far...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pondering if I should add a backwards index for this many-to-many join table. I.e. for the following keyed table:
Make an index for ModActionsID including ComplaintID.
I'm thinking "No", but I'm not sure...
My metric for adding indexes is basically “Does the query planner suggest it?” in any WORM situation.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pondering if I should add a backwards index for this many-to-many join table. I.e. for the following keyed table:
Make an index for ModActionsID including ComplaintID.
I'm thinking "No", but I'm not sure...
My metric for adding indexes is basically “Does the query planner suggest it?” in any WORM situation.
It seems to no longer do it. I'm not sure what changed in SSMS to make it so.
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@Tsaukpaetra metrics on the table changed. Continue to monitor your query plans.
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@Tsaukpaetra (I run all my SQL commands through a library I wrote that captures the query plan output and parses it for suggested indexes, warnings, etc. and tosses it to telemetry datastores)
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra metrics on the table changed. Continue to monitor your query plans.
Ah, so, generate random data so it can "get a feel for" the table. Gotcha.
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@Atazhaia Perhaps I could suggest the anger management techniques in Daniel Tiger:
When you feel so mad
That you want to roar,
Take a deep breath
And kill a trans ...Oh, wait, that's @Lorne-Kates!