The Official Status Thread
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Selected the slowest shipping. I just received an email from UPS that it's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. The facility must be a whole lot closer than I thought.
Bullets are supposed to travel fast, aren't they?
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Status: Not enough sleep. I went to parents yesterday to replace their network card with one that actually could communicate with the AP. The decided to make sure their computer is up to date.
- First: Drivers for the Wifi + BT? 1.5GB download.
- Second: Computer had not got 1809 yet. It now has 1809.
- Third: Disk cleanup got stuck on the Windows Update cleaning step. Even though it was done, Canclling and rerunning it it showed it was all done. Quality engineering there...
Also, either my parents house is haunted or the crazy old lady was at it again. Heard the door to their part of the corridor close, but saw nobody out there. Mom went out to check, saw nobody either. But I could tell someone was doing stuff in the corridor, because I heard noises. And the cats were looking intently at the door too. Vexing...
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Status: My bloody registrar has decided to start speculatively registering domains without asking me:
Thanks LCN, it's a good thing for you there aren't any competitors I can migrate to...OH WAIT.
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@Zerosquare
I'd be careful if they mention anything such as "delivery window".
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@Applied-Mediocrity What, risk of defenestration?
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Status: resisting the temptation of answering "are we ready to update our softwear" with "sure, I'm all for wearing comfier clothes".
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Why is Windows Shell Experience Host using so much CPU that it's making my Windows experience slow and laggy?
Probably ensuring that it is flashing the cursor at the right rate.
Is it written in Electron?
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: resisting the temptation of answering "are we ready to update our softwear" with "sure, I'm all for wearing comfier clothes".
Go for it.
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status dammit.
I have a cordless lawn mower - the battery is dying (it's 4 yrs old, so expected). I look up where I got it - Home Depot, ok - login to reorder, "Not available". Google Amazon has it. Not available. Looks like they must not be made anymore... fucking obsolescence. Maybe I'll just go back to a gas mower. Screw the environment.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
"are we ready to update our softwear"
nah, let's wait until Friday afternoon
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe I'll just go back to a gas mower. Screw the environment.
I have a 1950's Atco mower, makes lovely stripes and covers everything in a thick blue haze as it's a 2-stroke. Started by winding a cord around the flywheel and yanking hard...as god intended:
Mine has worse paint but that's the model
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@Cursorkeys
So what you're saying is, it takes a big jerk to start your mower?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys
So what you're saying is, it takes a big jerk to start your mower?Oh yeah, until you get warmed up, you're tugging for hours
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Screw the environment.
What is worse for the environment: some carbon emission from burning gas, or the whole lawnmower going to the landfill every 4 years?
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@TimeBandit
But think of all the economic justice you could be providing to people to make a new lawn mower for you every 4 years
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
economic justice
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Status: Due to a mistake in communication, I was like 30 minutes late to cover for another teacher. Oops.
The strangest part?
All the kids were there, they had read the sub plans left on the desk, and were working on them independently.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
All the kids were there, they had read the sub plans left on the desk, and were working on them independently.
Sorcery
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
All the kids were there, they had read the sub plans left on the desk, and were working on them independently.
Sorcery
Or conspiracy, not sure what. Oh, and these are seniors in their last semester. The week before Spring Break when there's only 2.5 days of school.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Heard the door to their part of the corridor close, but saw nobody out there. Mom went out to check, saw nobody either. But I could tell someone was doing stuff in the corridor, because I heard noises. And the cats were looking intently at the door too.
The bugs in Windows 10 are really getting out of hand...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I have a cordless lawn mower - the battery is dying (it's 4 yrs old, so expected). I look up where I got it - Home Depot, ok - login to reorder, "Not available". Google Amazon has it. Not available. Looks like they must not be made anymore... fucking obsolescence. Maybe I'll just go back to a gas mower. Screw the environment.
I don't know where you live, but there are companies that have replacement batteries for lots of things, and some of them can even build custom ones (provided the battery isn't something too exotic). It might be worth a check.
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Or conspiracy, not sure what.
Students working when no teacher is around? They're definitely up to something.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Students working when no teacher is around? They're definitely up to something.
My 8th grade English teacher inspired us to similar heights. We got written up super hard (and with consequences that were sufficiently embarrassing to be a deterrent to even the most hard-assed of males) for messing with the substitute at all. Even crap that the teacher would normally take from us was a capital offense if we did it to the sub.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Due to a mistake in communication, I was like 30 minutes late to cover for another teacher. Oops.
The strangest part?
All the kids were there, they had read the sub plans left on the desk, and were working on them independently.Are you sure you're not working in Chinese cyborg factory? Doing classwork when not told to is the last thing I'd expect any schoolkid to do.
Here at Polish Tech U, there's a rule (not entirely sure whether official or just customary) that when the professor is 15 minutes late for class (we have 90-minute classes), the students make a list with their names and stick it to the classroom door, after which they're free to go - everyone on the list is counted as present during class.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Due to a mistake in communication, I was like 30 minutes late to cover for another teacher. Oops.
The strangest part?
All the kids were there, they had read the sub plans left on the desk, and were working on them independently.Are you sure you're not working in Chinese cyborg factory? Doing classwork when not told to is the last thing I'd expect any schoolkid to do.
Here at Polish Tech U, there's a rule (not entirely sure whether official or just customary) that when the professor is 15 minutes late for class (we have 90-minute classes), the students make a list with their names and stick it to the classroom door, after which they're free to go - everyone on the list is counted as present during class.
At the college level, the (joking) standard was:
15 minutes for a full professor
10 minutes for an associate professor or other PhD
5 minutes for a grad studentThen again, most university-level classes I was in did not take attendance.
I'm sure that these kids weren't 100% productive, but they did do something useful.
To be quite honest, the kids here are great. At worst I get the minor self-control/laziness issues attendant to them being teenagers. Beyond that? The kids are the best part of my day. I'd take teaching class 100x over going to meetings. Double if they're parent meetings.
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Status: grammar.reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like they must not be made anymore...
Why can't you replace the battery? There's only so many different types...
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The network HPCs are on site today.
So, of course, the connectivity to the server network that's been flaky and resulting in dodgy RDP connections is working flawlessly this afternoon.
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Status : I asked a question to a (software) architect, and got a simple, direct answer.
Have I transported to @pie_flavor Earth or is this some brave new world?
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@Mingan said in The Official Status Thread:
Have I transported to @pie_flavor Earth or is this some brave new world?
Just try Windows Update and see if it works flawlessly
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Screw the environment.
What is worse for the environment: some carbon emission from burning gas, or the whole lawnmower going to the landfill every 4 years?
Exactly!
(technically, the mower is older - 4yrs ago is when I replaced the battery the first time)
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@Mingan said in The Official Status Thread:
Status : I asked a question to a (software) architect, and got a simple, direct answer.
First things first. Are you sure you asked the right person?
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@Zerosquare There's nobody else to ask besides Herr Google, so.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like they must not be made anymore...
Why can't you replace the battery? There's only so many different types...
Home Depot:
Amazon:
That red section on top? That's part of the mower exterior. Because, of course, it's special.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Because, of course, it's special.
There is places that you can bring the battery pack, they open it and replace the batteries inside.
Also usually cheaper than the original battery pack.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Because, of course, it's special.
There is places that you can bring the battery pack, they open it and replace the batteries inside.
Also usually cheaper than the original battery pack.This. Google suggests it's simply two 12V batteries (natch),
Unless the casing is hermetically sealed for some reason, a quick trip to ye local battry store and a screwdriver should be all you need to remedy this problem...
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
battry
Urban dictionary to the resue
There are two batteries inside that case after all...
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mingan said in The Official Status Thread:
Have I transported to @pie_flavor Earth or is this some brave new world?
Just try Windows Update and see if it works flawlessly
I never had much trouble with Windows Update, it's just really slow and dumb
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@Mingan said in The Official Status Thread:
I never had much trouble with Windows Update, it's just really slow and dumb
You must be half-way to Earth-73
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@TimeBandit Earth-36.5 ? Dang, I did not expect decimals there.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
The network HPCs are on site today.
So, of course, the connectivity to the server network that's been flaky and resulting in dodgy RDP connections is working flawlessly this afternoon.
I've seen hardware that only ever worked when the service engineer was on site. The moment he left the building, that Sun workstation would fall over. Eventually we tracked it down to a bad motherboard that would become unhappy whenever it warmed up; when it was switched off waiting for the service guy, it'd cool down and become able to work again, and would demonstrate that it was absolutely fine while he tried to replace everything else. Eventually, we figured it had to be the mobo or the case itself, as those were the only two things left: by a process of elimination, we tracked the problem down (because a bad case was just nuts) and thermal issues causing an issue (dunno what; a cracked bus line or something?) is about the only explanation I've thought of that makes sense.
In your case, you should think of listening to the network promiscuously to see what sort of traffic is really going on. It's possible that the issue is with someone doing something that they shouldn't and they stop when those HPCs are there, perhaps because they're acting as chaperone or because they're worried about getting caught. I'd guess option #1 first; it doesn't require anyone to be at all intelligent, and so fits best with human nature…
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@Mingan said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit Earth-36.5 ? Dang, I did not expect decimals there.
Don't get me started on what happened when they started using imaginary numbers...
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@Mingan said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit Earth-36.5 ? Dang, I did not expect decimals there.
You're halfway between Earth-47 and Earth-73, so that's Earth-60.
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@kazitor Now would be as good a time as any to plug the Long Earth series, which is a damn good read.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
if-statement.
Status: Fixed the issue where picking up a 3d-procedural-mesh broke collision detection for everyone on the server, but only partially, and only somewhat.
Turns out, if you set an object's collision profile (i.e. what things can interact with, touch, penetrate, etc. ) to
""
(akaNone
), it breaks the world for everyone in strange and wonderful ways when you turn collision on for that object.This despite it (in theory) therefore being not collidable by anything. Instead, it made a bunch of other stuff not collidable, including doors, death zones, and other non-essential things like that.
I'm going to blame UE4 on this, but otherwise, why was this written (our code) that way? Surely it does a dumb, but there should be failsafes in the engine that merely point out the logic error at runtime.
Ugh...
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Status: Because I'm paying ahead as much as possible on my loans to reduce interest due to reduced principal, odd things can happen in the payment schedule my servicer wants me to follow.
For example, they want me to pay $25/mo for three years, in order that they might get an extra $300 from what is currently a $500 loan...
Granted, it's not nearly as much as they wanted, but they're still greedy, eh?
Fuckers. I'm going to bring the balance to $1 and pay $0.01 for ten years. They can service that!
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Status: I'm fucking offended!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska I now have an ear worm from looking at the onebox embed.
Thanks a lot!Once I literally had nothing to do, so this happened:
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"developers" doesn't look like a word any more. And it turns out getting some of those curves compact with a word that long is a bit of effort.
Remembered earlier today to fetch this off the computer it was residing on and only just now remembered to post it.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mingan said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit Earth-36.5 ? Dang, I did not expect decimals there.
You're halfway between Earth-47 and Earth-73, so that's Earth-60.
Earth-47 is also known as Earth-Silver.
Earth-73 is also known as Earth-Tantalum.
Earth-60 is also known as Earth-Neodymium.