The Official Status Thread
-
status They're doing some utility work in front of my house. So there are BIG holes in the road. Since it's still "nighttime" (before 7a, it's dark, they haven't checked in yet today), those holes - um, trench - are covered with those big metal plates. Even with a speed limit of 25, those suckers are still loud. THU-THUMP! Please let them finish work soon! (thankfully, there's not much traffic at night, so they didn't keep me up)
-
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
are covered with those big metal plates. Even with a speed limit of 25, those suckers are still loud. THU-THUMP!
If you're tired of hearing THU-THUMP, just use a crow-bar and push the plate in the trench.
You should hear BANG instead
-
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS Slightly disconcerted by gmail's auto complete.
My work email has that crap now. I'm just waiting for fireworks when I accidentally click the "No, I won't do that" autosuggestion in response to orders from my boss.
That's being around for a while. What I'm talking about is in the text box when you type it will suggest words to complete the sentence.
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Attempting to install a MQTT client (because, no such thing as portable) to see if maybe it's the MQTT server that's not working.
This is going to be fun...
Edit: Assholes apparently want you to read a linux-endian text file on windows...
Bumping your old post because I have to use Mosquitto in a project too. This will be fun!
-
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS Slightly disconcerted by gmail's auto complete.
My work email has that crap now. I'm just waiting for fireworks when I accidentally click the "No, I won't do that" autosuggestion in response to orders from my boss.
That's being around for a while. What I'm talking about is in the text box when you type it will suggest words to complete the sentence.
I haven't seen that yet. And I hope not to.
-
Status: Waiting for lunch to arrive at the office, then I get to spend my afternoon setting up and transferring files from our old iMac to a new iMac.
The old iMac can't update to the new version of Mac OS and eventually that'll kill it from being able to do iOS development (though the most recent Xcode update makes it crawl when running the simulator anyways).
-
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Attempting to install a MQTT client (because, no such thing as portable) to see if maybe it's the MQTT server that's not working.
This is going to be fun...
Edit: Assholes apparently want you to read a linux-endian text file on windows...
Bumping your old post because I have to use Mosquitto in a project too. This will be fun!
Did your server process start eating 100 percent of a core? Mine does!
-
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS Slightly disconcerted by gmail's auto complete.
My work email has that crap now. I'm just waiting for fireworks when I accidentally click the "No, I won't do that" autosuggestion in response to orders from my boss.
That's being around for a while. What I'm talking about is in the text box when you type it will suggest words to complete the sentence.
I haven't seen that yet. And I hope not to.
been available for a while. It's.... Mostly useless.
-
I had to code a script in PHP yesterday (a language I hadn't touched in a decade) and it was quite an educative experience.
First I was like "hey, PHP is not that bad. I mean it's inconvenient not knowing what class you have, or that false translates to an empty string, but the rest is fine".
Then I had to spend 30 minutes debugging it, eventually discovering I had just typed a variable name differently in a conditional, and in PHP that simply evaluates to false without any error. And that's how I learned to dislike PHP again.
-
Status: apparently mobile Gmail is unable to display the presence of embedded iCal files in any meaningful manner. I hope that meeting invite wasn't today...
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
. I hope that meeting invite wasn't today...
Update: it was, but it was cancelled.
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
but it was cancelled.
That's the best kind of meeting
-
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
but it was cancelled.
That's the best kind of meeting
I'm not sure about that. I had a meeting canceled that I didn't find out about until I had already arrived (a 15 minute drive). It was my fault...I didn't read the text message fully.
Side note: Please don't start messages canceling a meeting with irrelevant (to me) reasons why!
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not sure about that. I had a meeting canceled that I didn't find out about until I had already arrived (a 15 minute drive).
The positive side is that you didn't have to attend the meeting
-
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not sure about that. I had a meeting canceled that I didn't find out about until I had already arrived (a 15 minute drive).
The positive side is that you didn't have to attend the meeting
True, but I wasted lots of gas (and had to put up with traffic). That particular weekly meeting is a bit aggravating because people don't know how to be efficient. Turns about 10 minutes of content into 1.5 hours of blathering.
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
a bit aggravating because people don't know how to be efficient
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Turns about 10 minutes of content into 1.5 hours of blathering.
Sounds like most meetings.
-
@loopback0 true enough.
-
@Benjamin-Hall 10 minutes of actual content? You're really lucky, then!
-
@Rhywden
I mean, once you count the pre-meeting small talk that leads to the meeting starting 10 minutes late, it's easy to clear that threshold
-
@izzion Don't forget to include getting a coffee/tea. Or the rare meeting snack. That's premium content right there.
-
@loopback0 A meeting is an event in which the minutes are kept, and the hours are lost
-
@TimeBandit My favorite meeting was the one-hour whole-office meeting among all the engineers to decide what kind of coffee maker to get, since our old one died. After wasting all those man-hours, the final decision was to purchase a $30 coffee pot from Wal-Mart, to "save money".
-
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
since our old one died
How can you have a 1 hour meeting without coffee
edit: fixed syntax
-
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
the one-hour whole-office meeting among all the engineers to decide what kind of coffee maker to get, since our old one died. After wasting all those man-hours
This does not sound like wasted time.
-
@loopback0 But in the end, I think only two people regularly use it, because we couldn't agree on what flavor/type of coffee to get.
-
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 A meeting is an event in which the minutes are kept, and the hours are lost
That one I have to tell my fellow teachers who teach English. They'll love it!
-
Status: We've had our big system launch event. It was a fun do, with lectures, a big live demo, then wine, canapes, smaller demos and hobnobbing. It all worked too; we didn't have to fake any of it.
-
@dkf No "Weird, it did work five minutes ago?" events?
What is the world coming to!
-
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
No "Weird, it did work five minutes ago?" events?
No. We had recordings of everything just in case (it makes sense to be prepared, including rehearsing the BS to wheel out when switching over) but they weren't needed; our stuff genuinely worked. I imagine a video or few will appear on youtube in due course; there were several people doing filming in various ways.
-
@anonymous234 Since @Tsaukpaetra made his response, Windows has updated and Notepad now correctly renders
\n
.
-
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 Since @Tsaukpaetra made his response, Windows has updated and Notepad now correctly renders
\n
.Isn't that change only in 1809, though?
-
@Rhywden Yes.
-
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 Since @Tsaukpaetra made his response, Windows has updated and Notepad now correctly renders
\n
.Isn't that change only in 1809, though?
Did they even have electricity back then?!
-
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 Since @Tsaukpaetra made his response, Windows has updated and Notepad now correctly renders
\n
.Isn't that change only in 1809, though?
Did they even have electricity back then?!
-
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Did they even have electricity back then?!
At least they had windows
-
Status: Attempting to compile Hypatia for HTML5.
Turns out, AudioKinetic's WWise engine does not have a "Emscripten" platform.
So I'm going to attempt to fudge it by copying the.... Linux one. Yeah. Let's try that.
Apparently, Oculus OVR platform similarly is missing this platform. I'll probably do the same there...
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not sure about that. I had a meeting canceled that I didn't find out about until I had already arrived (a 15 minute drive).
The positive side is that you didn't have to attend the meeting
True, but I wasted lots of gas (and had to put up with traffic). That particular weekly meeting is a bit aggravating because people don't know how to be efficient. Turns about 10 minutes of content into 1.5 hours of blathering.
Get them to let you teleconference it.
-
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 But in the end, I think only two people regularly use it, because we couldn't agree on what flavor/type of coffee to get.
There are types of coffee? The only type of coffee that matters is the type that has caffeine. The other kind isn't really coffee.
-
-
@anotherusername
Obligatory Dilbert:
http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-06-07
-
@izzion Or just people showing up 20 minutes late. And with only 4 of us, starting without them isn't an option.
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
So I'm going to attempt to fudge it by copying the.... Linux one. Yeah. Let's try that.
Such horrible things am I doing...
Now it's not outright complaining about that specifically, but it turns out the Steam and Oculus plugins don't like HTML5 either. RIP!
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Attempting to compile Hypatia for HTML5.
Just so we're clear, this is a 3D VR game, yeah?
-
Today's xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2067
I hate how he put two unrelated values on a single axis. This makes the whole map useless for any practical purpose (and the extremely small font when fully zoomed out makes it useless for decorative purposes, too.)
-
@Gąska Eh, Importance+Chance of Success for a challenger kinda vaguely equals a politics-nerdy kind of "Excitement quotient"
-
Just got mail from my health insurance company - they'll have to raise the rates beginning next year.
And rise they do indeed: By -0.23€.
-
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Attempting to compile Hypatia for HTML5.
Just so we're clear, this is a 3D VR game, yeah?
Yep.
-
Status: Was attending GameOn Live concert this evening. Video game music performed live by orchestra & choir + a few surprises.
...
This is art. I feel mentally invigorated.
-
@Gąska It's an extremely boring map, but I found the easter egg by the temporal aliasing it creates when zooming.
-