The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Not just the arm they sampled from, but both of them.
What the hell, did they draw a few pints or something?
From the bar. And he had to drink it all at once. At least that's usually the cause when I feel like that.
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@bb36e
Quick! Before it falls again!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Wasabi is different but most "wasabi" is not actually wasabi and is just horseradish.
Morimoto's restaurant at the MGM in Las Vegas has the real thing.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Windows needs more space"?
Between that, the constant nagging for attention, and the privacy concerns, Windows 10 sounds like a jealous girlfriend/boyfriend that cheats on you.
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@Zerosquare also, is obsessed with Candy Crush.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Windows needs more space"?
Between that, the constant nagging for attention, and the privacy concerns, Windows 10 sounds like a jealous girlfriend/boyfriend that cheats on you.Well, I'm intentionally upgrading, this dialog supposedly let's me stuff the restoration files on a secondary drive, but it's not working the second retry.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
:D
"If you're receiving this e-mail, you're willing to let me be a greedy fuck and use your art in exchange for 'exposure'. As long as you remain that credulous, I'll be happy to continue using you."
"Oh, and here are your fellow stupid people, feel free to commiserate together."
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status: weirdest fucking blister ever. Why is on the soft tissue? How did this happen?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
How did this happen?
With all the fucking around you did with Win10 recently, don't act like you're surprised by this
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@Tsaukpaetra recalling past self-descriptions, chafing in folds?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra recalling past self-descriptions, chafing in folds?
Actually no, I'm blistered along the left edge of my left foot's rear callus.
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@Tsaukpaetra Well, sometimes they just happen for no reason at all. Got one on my stomach a while ago without any source. Pretty sure the scar's permanent too.
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@Luhmann you're right, I should buy more before it falls in value!
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Late status (I blame PTSD.): So, yesterday I was emptying the dishwasher at work. I picked up a glass, moved it towards the shelf and on the way up lightly banged it against the cupboard door. There was a light bang as the glass hit the door and then I was no longer holding a glass. I looked at my now empty hand going and then looked down at the countertop on which the glass was now spread all over, having made an attempt to return to its original form as sand. The entire countertop having plenty sandgrain sized glass shards, as well as some larger shards where the largest were thoroughly cracked. The cleanup process took some time as we had to make sure to get all the tiny shards of glass.
But yeah, that's the most spectacular way I have ever had a glass break on me I think.
Tempered glass is awesome stuff.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Well, sometimes they just happen for no reason at all. Got one on my stomach a while ago without any source. Pretty sure the scar's permanent too.
Oh, no, I got it while walking last night, that's not in question. It's just the oddity of the placement is all.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I got it while walking
:welltheresyourproblem.jpg.artifacted:
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Status: Revisiting the Android Studio because the Visual Studio avenue of debugging Android ended up being a total dud.
Suddenly an ERROR!
Ok, sure, what does
gradle.properties
look like?So, I'm going to add
<em>org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1024m</em>
to this file, annndddd.... Nope, same error.Why is this happening all the sudden? I didn't change it from yesterday....
Meanwhile the UE4 automation tool's run of the supposedly-same command went off without a hitch, apparently:
Good jorb...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Oh yeah, that's my favorite part. Giving magic meaning to capitalization of all things. What the fuck is wrong with keywords?
What do you mean,
whitespacecorrect indentation is significant? throws hissy fit
Right, let’s interpret the spelling of your variable names instead.I don't mind the use of capitalisation to determine visibility… as long as it is a default that I can override, so it is just a way to encourage the following of the language's best practices.
Having already been convinced().that(Capitalization.matters(), aLot) I have no resistance to offer to exporting via capitalization. Sure whatever.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
I have no resistance to offer to exporting via capitalization.
Here, take this one
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@Tsaukpaetra: I don't understand why BlakeyRat doesn't like Java. Having to set the amount of available memory manually is straight from classic MacOS.
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@Zerosquare but you don't have to, the jvm "ergonomics" provide vaguely useful defaults.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Good jorb...
I am now at the point of scratching head, wondering how constants are no longer constant, booleans are not booleans, and I have no idea what the compiler is doing anymore.
Somehow, it seems I'm opening a file that claims to be
-1
bytes, even though it's very clearly 3671599077 bytes.Ugh.
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@Tsaukpaetra is your file size some sort of integer? maybe -1 means "too damn big"
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra is your file size some sort of integer? maybe -1 means "too damn big"
It's an
int64
. It is set (apparently) by seeking the end and returning the position.But, since it's just a zip file I suppose I can potentially reduce the size by just deleting shit inside it. Hmmm....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra is your file size some sort of integer? maybe -1 means "too damn big"
It's an
int64
. It is set (apparently) by seeking the end and returning the position.But, since it's just a zip file I suppose I can potentially reduce the size by just deleting shit inside it. Hmmm....
As this solution appears unrelated to the problem and will likely cause problems it is probably the way to go.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra is your file size some sort of integer? maybe -1 means "too damn big"
It's an
int64
. It is set (apparently) by seeking the end and returning the position.But, since it's just a zip file I suppose I can potentially reduce the size by just deleting shit inside it. Hmmm....
As this solution appears unrelated to the problem and will likely cause problems it is probably the way to go.
Exactly!
Edit: Though, to be fair, Google Play mandates that your
obb
file must not exceed 2 Gb, so maybe it's failing elsewhere somehow?I was under the impression that 64 bit integer could definitely hold the position of a 3 Gb file though...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Though, to be fair, Google Play mandates that your
obb
file must not exceed 2 Gb, so maybe it's failing elsewhere somehow?Goddammit, reducing the file size let it load. Hoe Li Shit!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Goddammit, reducing the file size let it load. Hoe Li Shit!
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Goddammit, reducing the file size let it load. Hoe Li Shit!
Windows claims 3.41 GB. Still, should be less than 9223372036854775807...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
:D
"If you're receiving this e-mail, you're willing to let me be a greedy fuck and use your art in exchange for 'exposure'. As long as you remain that credulous, I'll be happy to continue using you."
"Oh, and here are your fellow stupid people, feel free to commiserate together."
It's fine, I'm not that stupid. He was asking for pictures to keep an intro unique, and I had no issue with spending some time to provide one. I don't care if I'm not being paid or compensated in any way for this.
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You know how people always say don't push a release on a Friday? Well, we're planning one on Friday. And then the company goes into holiday shutdown until after New Years! (Oops, I left my computer at work)
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Status: Reached the limits of my test gear, that doesn't happen often. I need an active oscilloscope probe to reduce the loading on this circuit, a quick Google shows a new very low-cost option is on the market! Great, I'll just buy one for tomor....
Well, fuck. That's not low-cost to normal people. Guess I'll have to make one instead.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Reached the limits of my test gear, that doesn't happen often. I need an active oscilloscope probe to reduce the loading on this circuit, a quick Google shows a new very low-cost option is on the market! Great, I'll just buy one for tomor....
Well, fuck. That's not low-cost to normal people. Guess I'll have to make one instead.
Isn't it amazing how expensive a few pieces of wire and plastic can be?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Isn't it amazing how expensive a few pieces of wire and plastic can be?
To be fair, there's a precision buffer amplifier in there too (not a particularly complicated one). I was expecting 'low-cost' to be an order of magnitude less than that though.
I think I can make a little discrete JFET buffer that will perform acceptably for my needs, but not today as its part midnight already. Time flies when you're
having funswearing at your circuit because it keeps exploding except when you measure it.
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@Cursorkeys What's the hardware equivalent of a heisenbug?
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys What's the hardware equivalent of a heisenbug?
Going with "heisenbug".
A flake wire is a pretty good physical example, I guess - as in, it's inaccurate in every particular but conveys the idea. Alpha-particle bit flips would be a more accurate but worse example.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys What's the hardware equivalent of a heisenbug?
Quite a lot of the time if incredibly weird things are happening in hardware and you can't catch it doing it then (changing) capacitance is involved somehow.
There's a story about a 'magic' switch that sounds to me like capacitance was the root cause:
Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab's hardware hackers (no one knows who).
You don't touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it does, because you might crash the computer. The switch was labeled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words ‘magic' and ‘more magic'. The switch was in the ‘more magic' position.
I called another hacker over to look at it. He had never seen the switch before either. Closer examination revealed that the switch had only one wire running to it! The other end of the wire did disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it's a basic fact of electricity that a switch can't do anything unless there are two wires connected to it. This switch had a wire connected on one side and no wire on its other side.
It was clear that this switch was someone's idea of a silly joke. Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped it. The computer instantly crashed.
Imagine our utter astonishment. We wrote it off as coincidence, but nevertheless restored the switch to the ‘more magic’ position before reviving the computer.
A year later, I told this story to yet another hacker, David Moon as I recall. He clearly doubted my sanity, or suspected me of a supernatural belief in the power of this switch, or perhaps thought I was fooling him with a bogus saga. To prove it to him, I showed him the very switch, still glued to the cabinet frame with only one wire connected to it, still in the ‘more magic’ position. We scrutinized the switch and its lone connection, and found that the other end of the wire, though connected to the computer wiring, was connected to a ground pin. That clearly made the switch doubly useless: not only was it electrically nonoperative, but it was connected to a place that couldn't affect anything anyway. So we flipped the switch.
The computer promptly crashed.
This time we ran for Richard Greenblatt, a long-time MIT hacker, who was close at hand. He had never noticed the switch before, either. He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters and diked it out. We then revived the computer and it has run fine ever since.
We still don't know how the switch crashed the machine. There is a theory that some circuit near the ground pin was marginal, and flipping the switch changed the electrical capacitance enough to upset the circuit as millionth-of-a-second pulses went through it. But we'll never know for sure; all we can really say is that the switch was magic.
I still have that switch in my basement. Maybe I'm silly, but I usually keep it set on ‘more magic’.
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Status: Pissed off.
I bought a new bed frame and foundation from IKEA. Assembled everything (with much pain and irritation). Except when I got to the last part of the foundation (which comes in two pieces), they'd shorted me a whole bag of screws. And they're not normal screws either--they're some weird long things.
And this was after I had disassembled my old frame (lack of space means it had to be built in place). So now I'm sleeping on the floor tonight and praying that they actually have spare parts at the store instead of having to have them mailed (which may take several days). To make matters worse, I'm donating some old furniture and the Salvation Army truck is coming sometime tomorrow. No particular window. Which leaves me in quite a bind.
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@Cursorkeys That's my favorite story. Thanks.
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Status: Found a magic incantation (
r.SkeletalMesh.StripMinLodDataDuringCooking=1
) that (in theory) will tell the cooker to not shove unused data into the build.Apparently this phrase does not exist at all anywhere in the source.
I don't have hopes that this setting actually exists or does anything.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
praying that they actually have spare parts at the store
Oh, they will. If they claim they don't, just remove some screws from the display furniture while they aren't looking. (Bonus points for getting someone else blamed when the whole thing collapses.)
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Status: Dafuq? Why did my computer reboot?
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@Zerosquare I'm assuming one has to go to IKEA fully equipped to pull this off?
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status: YouTube commenters? Stupid? No.
I would love to of seen it work
"would" and "of" weren't even adjacent
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@kazitor oh, that's a typo for "have".
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@Gribnit true, my "o" and "hav" keys are very close to each havther.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows claims 3.41 GB.
Properly, that'd be 3.41 GiB, but “gibibyte” sounds stupid…
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Alpha-particle bit flips would be a more accurate but worse example.
α-particle flips are why you should use ECC memory. One bit of correction per fetch line is probably enough; the flips are random, but low rate (outside of areas with deadly levels of radioactive contamination) and only basically hit one bit at a time.
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@dkf Wait. So can I get my computer to act as a Geiger counter? I don't care if an OS is running. I thought it was only caused by emissions from the chip packaging.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
praying that they actually have spare parts at the store
When I've had that problem in the past, the store did indeed have the parts. Fortunately in that case I found out early enough in the day that I could just drive back, get the missing bits, and finish the build before nightfall.
So now I'm sleeping on the floor tonight
That can be OK… if the mattress is thick enough.