The Official Status Thread
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Update: Looks like it's going smoothly so far...
I have to wonder if there's anything I can do to make it go faster though...
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Status: Oooh, this looks very interesting… though I'm going to have to let some of my colleagues study it to extract the full sense.
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@pie_flavor Another thing easily observable when watching many long videos at quadruple speed is that YouTube definitely has a memory leak, or at least a something leak. After about four hours of video, it'll give the 'oh snap something went wrong' page, and if you reload it'll be back at normal speed and about five minutes behind, and if you fullscreen again there'll be a big white bar at the bottom.
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Finished Nightflyer.
Started somewhat interesting (I did not read the novella) and then came to a completely unsatisfactory conclusion.
For example, this thing with Rowan. He obviously has a complete breakdown (hell, they all even state as much!) but what do they do? Nothing. He's not confined to quarters, he doesn't get a guard, nothing. As a result, he's free to play axe murderer à la Shining (they even allude to that movie in several places) and even waltzes onto the bridge. In a spaceship where mutiny is punishable by death and where they have weapons lockers. Where there has already been an incident of someone with a weapon entering the bridge!
But sure, let any and all people just stroll onto the bridge as if that wasn't the most important part of the ship.
By the way, he doesn't get shot or thrown out the airlock after that. No, he simply gets confined to quarters and anyone is able to let him out. No guards, again.Then there's the ending - the Nightflyer just goes dark and for Karl we get a mixture of 2001 and Solaris.
In fact, that's what this most reminded me of: A melange of Solaris and 2001, with a dash of Event Horizon thrown in. The latter of which falls flat on its face because they never really touch any of the major characters until the end. And the one they do touch is already spoilered in the first minutes of the first episode. The former falls flat because it neither has this epic result (as in 2001) nor is the homecoming part built well enough to (as in Soderbergh's Solaris where it was a major part of the movie. Here's it's a recurring theme, yes, but not a huge one).
Also, did I already mention that I hate those moronic: "Oh, the ship is about to explode in five minutes and you have to inevitably sacrifice yourself to prevent it. Let's whaffle about the ethical ramifications of your choices (which you don't have) and beg you not to do it!" Bleargh.
Oh, and let's not forget that they all state, time and again: This will be solution for all of Earth's troubles. In reality, we now have a ship gone dark and a scientist who's returned to his dream home in an alternate reality. Yeah, that was really worth it all!
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
The Start menu no longer opens.
When an app can break a basic OS feature, blame the shitty OS, not the app
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
What kind of videos does one watch at quadruple speed for such a long time? Timelapses? I'm perplexed.
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@TimeBandit
'Fraid it isn't a feature anymore. They've cleverly rescinded that responsibility away from them - Start menu (along with Settings, etc.) is considered an app. And apps are... well, allowed to break. We're sorry for the inconvenience. The matter is under consideration.
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@Zerosquare Let's Plays, mostly. Especially Minecraft modpacks.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: YouTube algorithms are getting screwier by the day. I watch Episode 1 and Episode 2 of a series (that I was searching for weeks ago and couldn't find but was recorded months ago - I haven't changed the search terms since then. WTF?). You would think that Episode 3 is the Up Next video, but no, something else from a different series that I have explicitly avoided from a different channel is in that spot. And Episode 3 is absolutely nowhere on the related videos list at all. Christ.
I've gotten the impression suggesting the next episode works better if the creator has made a playlist for the series.
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status I'm giving up on Sunday. I can't figure out how to turn the radiator off and it has now given me an electric shock.
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Status: Hey, Discourse updated their mobile UI again. Notifications are now a slide-in like in NodeBB except unlike NodeBB it actually slides instead of staggering in like a drunken walrus. Also I can actually slide it from the screen edge without every single tap trying to slide it. It's sad how much this website makes me take unusable broken shit for granted.
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@pie_flavor Gone are the days of WOMM, I guess?
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Status: Clearing out the security camera footage from last year (since, if it wasn't relevant then, it's definitely not relevant anymore, right?).
Dafuq?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Dafuq?
Oh, apparently it didn't reconnect to the Active Directory after rebooting. That's apparently my user ID on that system.
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Status: I had my first derailment in Train Sim since I bought it after Christmas. (Unlike many people, I don't generally try to derail trains.) I drove off the edge of the map at 65–70 mph. The physics was ... interesting. The lead locomotive stopped instantly, and the rest of the train pivoted vertically into the air behind it before crashing down.
Edit: I did it again, viewing the incident from a different angle so I could see more of what was happening. Different train, and I was only able to accelerate to <50 mph before I got to the edge of the map. Most of the train jumped vertically, maybe 20–30 m into the air; the only cars that pivoted were the ones between the locomotive, which stayed on the ground and on the track, and the airborne ones. They crashed down in a jumble; the rest came down more-or-less neatly stretched out behind the front end — on their sides or upside-down, and clipping through (or floating above) fences and buildings beside the track, but not accordioned, which is what a real train would do.
Edit 2: If I Alt-Tab away and come back, the train flings itself about again, starting from its previously derailed position. However, all the cars remain connected; they never uncouple from the adjacent cars.
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Woo, I know it's not a lot but it's still 40k 😁
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Ever since complaining about using three full stops instead of a proper ellipsis, I find myself typing alt+0 1 3 3 a lot more…
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Ever since complaining about using three full stops instead of a proper ellipsis, I find myself typing alt+0 1 3 3 a lot more…
… Does that not work for you?
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@Tsaukpaetra Those are unnecessary keystrokes and mess up the raw. It is how I typically do it in actual HTML pages though, because I have this weird idea that those entity references must exist for a reason, even if the page is UTF-8.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Chrome sure does some strange fucking things sometimes. Was watching a video at quadruple speed and tabbed out of it. Except it didn't tab, and instead just started playing every other frame both video and audio. Now alt tabbing doesn't work at all - the menu doesn't even come up, nor does Chrome unfocus. Pressing the Windows button doesn't do anything either, and pressing that button was another thing I tried when the video started hitching - I don't think that's a coincidence. It's not an active-window thing, since minimizing Chrome doesn't fix it. Hmm.
e: Quitting Chrome doesn't fix it either. Reboot time, I guess.
e.2: The Start menu no longer opens. Yeehaw.
e.3: If I right-click on the Start button, my mouse moves northeast a little bit, the menu appears and immediately vanishes, and Discord pops up.
e.4: If I right-click on the Start button extremely fast, the superuser menu does in fact appear.
e.5: If I move Discord leftwards on the taskbar, it opens up the Twitch launcher instead. Right clicking the Start button seems to only be opening the rightmost open window on the taskbar.That sounds suspiciously like maybe a key on the keyboard was sticking. Or like something -- the keyboard driver, or Windows -- thought it was, at least.
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Status: Sometimes, I fucking hate Windows...
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Status: Found one of the mods' old projects.
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Status: I remember some time ago someone mentioning SuperMicro had an update for the IPMI device that enabled HTML5 console instead of Java.
At the time I found the update for the system at work and .
Now I'm finally maintenance-ing my home system and... Nope, the latest version still don't support it.
Well, whatever...
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
40k
How did you guess my weekly average?
To the fitness-peen thread!
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Status: replacing all the drives in my NAS (they're about 9 years old now) because running out of space and experiencing odd slowdowns. No data integrity errors, but I'm playing it safe since they're definitely out of warranty.
Seems it takes about 18 hours to transfer 5.72 Tb of shit. Fuck knows why.
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
Woo, I know it's not a lot but it's still 40k 😁
That's a slow car...
What is this, bike?
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@topspin
Do you measure your cars usage in calories?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin
Do you measure your cars usage in calories?Also, what do I know which weird units the metric-deficient people are using for this.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
metric-deficient people
Touché ... I googled that distance to see if it actually went somewhere or if was mainly static cycling
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Seems it takes about 18 hours to transfer 5.72 Tb of shit. Fuck knows why.
18 hours seems normal. However, I suggest increasing fiber intake. In extraordinary cases Senokot should... oh.
Filed under: Shitposting
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@anotherusername That's what I thought, so I pressed every modifier key, and then every non-modifier key just for good measure. Nada.
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Status: The topics page is full of pink and purple blocks. @Tsaukpaetra, mind dusting up that "avatar gifting thread" again?
I figure @kazitor is good at drawing, too?
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@topspin For readers from the Future:
(Gravatars don't render for me, probably due to some privacy addon)@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I figure @kazitor is good at drawing, too?
I was doing something WTDWTF-related yesterday. I have high hopes but it wasn't looking too good, and now the weekend's over (for now).
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Ouch. Here's how the code should have been:
if(!do_the_thing){ Log("Skipping do_thing") } else{ do_thing(); }
Here's what I wrote
if(do_the_thing){ Log("Skipping do_thing") } do_thing();
Given that do_the_thing is true 99% of the time, somehow I got two things wrong and made a right .
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Those are unnecessary keystrokes and mess up the raw. It is how I typically do it in actual HTML pages though, because I have this weird idea that those entity references must exist for a reason, even if the page is UTF-8.
I use Compose, ., . for …
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@PleegWat I use Alt+;…
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The topics page is full of pink and purple blocks. @Tsaukpaetra, mind dusting up that "avatar gifting thread" again?
I figure @kazitor is good at drawing, too?I already suggested one for them (it's a yellow butterfly).
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Status: Left the work laptop update to 1809.
Who knows what tomorrow may bring
Ta-dam tam ta-da-da-dam...
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Status: I'm convinced WebRoot SecureAnywhere is a virus. Change my mind.
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@Tsaukpaetra I never heard of it, but with a name like that it couldn't be anything else.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I never heard of it, but with a name like that it couldn't be anything else.
It's apparently the anti-malware of choice by the people a friend doctor employs to do their office security.
Today it identified the mmc console as a threat (and won't tell me what threat) and deleted it from both the system32 and protected system store (whatever its called).
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STATUS bemused. Why is the web slowly migrating to a single page application? Even the architects here are catching that ear worm and they've being here since this place was an application.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Why is the web slowly migrating to a single page application?
Because before SPAs took everything over, the web was becoming too fast and reliable.
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@mott555
I'd generally agree with the sentiment, but after static HTML pages did it ever come near enough again to be described by those words in particular, I'm not sufficiently sure. Was Marcell Thaddeus perhaps visiting Earth-73 during that time?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ouch. Here's how the code should have been:
if(!do_the_thing){ Log("Skipping do_thing") } else{ do_thing(); }
Here's what I wrote
if(do_the_thing){ Log("Skipping do_thing") } do_thing();
Given that do_the_thing is true 99% of the time, somehow I got two things wrong and made a right .
I have a code review tomorrow if you want to join in?
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@DogsB Because things should either run in the server or in the client. Having half and half is just messy. And running in the client doesn't cost server money.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB Because things should either run in the server or in the client. Having half and half is just messy. And running in the client doesn't cost server money.
I've actually offered ideas based around that thinking before so I probably should be the first against the wall. No comment shall be made about the state of the backend and the obvious difference in ability between the backend and frontend developers at the time. One of the few times I'm not talking about myself and I'm guilty of a lot of bonehead decisions.
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