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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is this suggesting that there a platform where Steam is optimised?
Wait, so Steam on Mac is not a 64-bit app yet? Despite Apple going on for ages about how they would be dropping 32-bit support soon? Oh, wait, it's Steam, that's not surprising at all.
It is not. It even updated and still isn't.
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Status: A colleague remarked about getting an email from someone named <firstname> <lastname> III. That was not something I'd seen in real life before.
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@Luhmann PowerBI also has a desktop app that can do the fancy reporting and analysis and graph bits with offline data, like Excel sheets or local tables.
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@anonymous234 Your post is mostly squares to me.
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@PleegWat
I think it's... a song?
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
PowerBI also has a desktop app
the bit I called Designer yes. It's official name is PowerBI Desktop. In true MS tradition this name makes it almost indistinguishable from the other PowerBI app you can have on your desktop that is nothing more then a website-in-an-app. It probably uses Electron too.
But without the online bits PowerBI Desktop's only feature is that the reports a bit fancier than excel. The data import features are exactly the same as in excel.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
The data import features are exactly the same as in excel.
Except they don't choke when you start hitting ~100k rows like Excel does, and don't take umpteen billion years to do things with like Excel does.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A colleague remarked about getting an email from someone named <firstname> <lastname> III. That was not something I'd seen in real life before.
I used to work with a III and now occasionally run into the IV.
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Power Query, the import engine, is exactly the same between PowerBI and Excel 2016 or Excel 201x with the Power Query plug-in. Since I started switching to Power Query in Excel for imports the stability and speed of those imports improved dramatically. Excel itself remains a different pile of
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Excel itself remains a different pile of
Excel is better word processor than Word...
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
even though the game I'm playing hasn't had an update in years
Why not just make a shortcut directly to the game executable, then? It'll either be able to start up without Steam or start Steam by itself, or break immediately, but at least you'll know.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Just to be clear, Steam is verifying its own installation in a white-background dialogue, right?
It's not the black-background "game files were corrupted" dialogue?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A colleague remarked about getting an email from someone named <firstname> <lastname> III. That was not something I'd seen in real life before.
I used to work with a III and now occasionally run into the IV.
Child abuser!
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Status: Fixed my data corruption bug. It was the asynchronous API occasionally doing things asynchronously, making appending to a list the wrong way to collect the results in an order-really-matters way. Who knew?! On the plus side, the same bug was also in the original version of the code (which I'm very much not the original author of) but that was Python and so incredibly slow that the reordering virtually never happened. Two PRs now submitted to squelch this issue in both the old (production) code and the new (in development, much faster) code.
[EDIT] I'm now on holiday for a week too. Better and better!
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
But yes. This is an online cloud solution that requires a subscription. The Designer is free but without license it's just a fancy excel. And that is a sub-optimal solution.
Well great, yet another thing I get to add to the monthly bill of materials. Who knew analyzing 20 mb of data would cost literally thousands of dollars each month?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A colleague remarked about getting an email from someone named <firstname> <lastname> III. That was not something I'd seen in real life before.
III as in "the Third", or as in "there are two other people with the same name in the organization"?
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@GΔ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A colleague remarked about getting an email from someone named <firstname> <lastname> III. That was not something I'd seen in real life before.
III as in "the Third", or as in "there are two other people with the same name in the organization"?
My high school had like 3 different username templates while I was there, and the last one was five characters from surname, three characters from given name, and then three digits that get incremented for each duplicate.
So I got
lubarben000
because my name is perfect.I don't remember what they did for people with surnames that aren't 5+ letters long.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't remember what they did for people with surnames that aren't 5+ letters long.
Probably forced them to change it.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't remember what they did for people with surnames that aren't 5+ letters long.
Same thing as user names? "Your user name should be <first initial><last name>"
: Ok, <types it in>
:E_ILLEGAL_USER_NAME: Must be at least 8 characters
: Yeah, fuck you too.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't remember what they did for people with surnames that aren't 5+ letters long.
Same thing as user names? "Your user name should be <first initial><last name>"
: Ok, <types it in>
:E_ILLEGAL_USER_NAME: Must be at least 8 characters
: Yeah, fuck you too.The previous formats included blubar and lubarb, which must have been great for people with generic surnames because obviously there are only 26 people with each possible surname and they all have different first initials.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Who knew analyzing 20 mb of data would cost literally thousands of dollars each month?
Get on the Cloud they said, you're gonna save money !
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@GΔ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A colleague remarked about getting an email from someone named <firstname> <lastname> III. That was not something I'd seen in real life before.
III as in "the Third", or as in "there are two other people with the same name in the organization"?
Probably a Third, as I'm pretty sure my colleague was referring to the display name. In email addy's, duplicate names tend to grow middle initials. Account names are all over the place.
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@PleegWat
"We" stick numbers on the end of both, e.g.Doe, Jane jane.doe@internets.wtf
Doe 02, Jane jane.doe2@internets.wtfExcept sometimes it gets out of sync for reasons e.g.
Smith 02, John john.smith@internets.wtf
Smith 06, John john.smith3@internets.wtf
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Except sometimes it gets out of sync for reasons e.g.
Smith2 is no longer welcome here.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat
"We" stick numbers on the end of both, e.g.Doe, Jane jane.doe@internets.wtf
Doe 02, Jane jane.doe2@internets.wtfExcept sometimes it gets out of sync for reasons e.g.
Smith 02, John john.smith@internets.wtf
Smith 06, John john.smith3@internets.wtfI'd have to double check (but it's Friday evening and I'll have forgotten by Monday) but I'm 99.9% sure we set our own display names on emails we send. Places like the online organization chart are a mess, especially in east Asian parts of the organization, with the earlier mentioned extra middle initials as well as being inconsistent in which first name is in the system.
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@anonymous234 Only half of that made sense.
You didn't do all of those yourself though??
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A colleague remarked about getting an email from someone named <firstname> <lastname> III. That was not something I'd seen in real life before.
I used to work with a III and now occasionally run into the IV.
Did you remind them that "names are free"?
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Status: Took a small-ish (only ~500 lines) Python program that ran for a whopping 50 minutes, rewrote the inner function of only 5 lines in C++ and now it runs in 2.5 minutes. Everything else can stay in Python.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Took a small-ish (only ~500 lines) Python program that ran for a whopping 50 minutes, rewrote the inner function of only 5 lines in C++ and now it runs in 2.5 minutes. Everything else can stay in Python.
Quick, add a Speedup-Loop for insurance
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@topspin Like everything good I post here, I stole it from reddit.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Took a small-ish (only ~500 lines) Python program that ran for a whopping 50 minutes, rewrote the inner function of only 5 lines in C++ and now it runs in 2.5 minutes. Everything else can stay in Python.
Reminds me of one I had in bash a few months ago, where it took me ages to make clear to people that a loop running 50k times which required starting external processes was the performance problem.
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@anonymous234 Hah, I get it.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
even though the game I'm playing hasn't had an update in years
Why not just make a shortcut directly to the game executable, then? It'll either be able to start up without Steam or start Steam by itself, or break immediately, but at least you'll know.
steam_api.dll makes sure Steam is up and running, IIRC.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Reminds me of one I had in bash a few months ago, where it took me ages to make clear to people that a loop running 50k times which required starting external processes was the performance problem.
Technically, that's only true if the runtime of the external processes was quite small.
But yeah, you're right.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: A colleague remarked about getting an email from someone named <firstname> <lastname> III. That was not something I'd seen in real life before.
I used to work with a III and now occasionally run into the IV.
Far back in my family history, there were 6 consecutive generations of men all named John My_last_name. Maybe more, since the first of those is my earliest known My_last_name ancestor; his father may have been named John, too, for all I know.
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@GΔ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
I saw... something. I don't know how to categorize it, so I'm putting it here.
Alternate-universe Spyro the Dragon.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
even though the game I'm playing hasn't had an update in years
Why not just make a shortcut directly to the game executable, then? It'll either be able to start up without Steam or start Steam by itself, or break immediately, but at least you'll know.
steam_api.dll makes sure Steam is up and running, IIRC.
It has a function that does that, but the game might not even use the Steamworks API, and the game might work fine if that function returns false.
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@ben_lubar Of course it uses the API. Checking against Steam is an easy form of DRM - does this person actually own this game, or have they simply downloaded the binaries from someone who did?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Of course it uses the API. Checking against Steam is an easy form of DRM - does this person actually own this game, or have they simply downloaded the binaries from someone who did?
Not all games on Steam care about that.
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@ben_lubar Got any that don't (that aren't free-to-play)?
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status: listening two people whose first language sounds to be Spanish attempt to communicate in English.
Halfway there to saying, "Pueden llamar en espaΓ±ol, no preocupes."
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Status: I really, really, really hate CS lab. Because I get to helplessly watch as my lab partner struggles through understanding what a recursive formula is and how to apply it to things like file tree listing, when she doesn't really understand methods, or classes, or what
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does, or what the difference betweenif
andfor
is. I swear they're making the class overly fast on purpose to weed out as many potential major applicants as possible.It doesn't help that she took Intro to Programming seven years ago and is only taking Intro to Data Structures because her math major requires it. She's going to fail the class, hard, and there's not a damned thing I can do about it.
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@pie_flavor The language barrier is also fun.
You remember how to create an array, right?
Okay. So you'd push bracket.
"
That's a quote. Push bracket.
(
That's a parenthesis. Push bracket.
^And so on and so forth.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Got any that don't (that aren't free-to-play)?
I don't need to name any examples. My point is that it's entirely possible a game on Steam doesn't integrate with any of Steam's features, or that one does but also functions without access to them.
This is one of those things that would take many hours longer to research than to just test.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Got any that don't (that aren't free-to-play)?
I don't need to name any examples. My point is that it's entirely possible a game on Steam doesn't integrate with any of Steam's features, or that one does but also functions without access to them.
This is one of those things that would take many hours longer to research than to just test.
Hypatia is perfectly capable of launching without Steam or Oculus (though it will do it's hardest to try depending on which platform you downloaded it from). Except, since we don't (publicly) expose a login method that's not automated through Steam or Oculus, you won't get very far...