The Official Status Thread
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
. Combination of kitty little box and full carpet is bad, I think it got a permanent spot of kitty litter embedded in itself now. Put a kitty litter carpet in front of the box, should hopefully catch most of it.
Those astroturf-like mats work great, I also thought this thing did an excellent job:
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: You all know the feeling.
https://i.imgur.com/szbwH8A.pngYes, we all know the feeling of spending entire weekend doing fuck all and then sitting down in the evening, catching up with
corporatecollege mail, and seeing a reminder from your professor that there's an important assignment you haven't spent a single minute working on that's due in 2 days.
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@Gąska Something like that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe I should get out of the habit of running things off of network drives...
Yes. Network drives have lots of bonus !!fun!! failure modes that you don't want, at least for programs. Large data files (but not databases) can be on network drives, provided you can tolerate the slow access speeds.
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Status: Found a really old Patriot SSD (32 GB). Was thinking it would be better than the old HDD (300 GB) in it, which is slow as balls.
Nope, old SSD is slow as balls too ( )
Well, whatever. Here, have a Linux or something, poor thing...
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Status: Wondering if the sudden, strange and almost eerie silence on WTDWTF might be because all @boomzilla alts have accidentally banned
each otherthemselves.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
the sudden, strange and almost eerie silence on WTDWTF
It indeed has been quiet, at least from a non-garage perspective....
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@Tsaukpaetra
Same in the garage. As if everyone suddenly has found something better to do than argue on the internets.You're the only one still posting stuff. What say you're going to be my next best friend?
I shall upboat your posts, you upboat mine, we're gonna get along just fine.
...Oh, you already do that. Carry on then...
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Status: Monday morning routine. Get to office, read email, [try to] login to TDWTF, Firefox crashes immediately.
I'm pretty convinced that if I were to write a ticket to IT, the reply would be "ah yeah, we installed an update". Because 1) the NFS seems to work amazingly well (normally you can just replace open executables on Linux without them crashing) and 2) warning users of that would be .
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Status: Turns out the 1809 update's kernel doesn't boot on this machine (1803 does). Whelp, guess it's a Linux world for this guy then....
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@Applied-Mediocrity Three possibilities: it's Sunday night, it's daylight savings time screwing with everyone, or the people who instigate the normal chaos have been tied up with front page things.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering if the sudden, strange and almost eerie silence on WTDWTF might be because all @boomzilla alts have accidentally banned
each otherthemselves.Do binned alts count?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Three possibilities: it's Sunday night,
it's daylight savings timethe people who instigate the normal chaos have been screwing with everyone, or tied up with front page things.Or they've been press-ganged by Papa Alex into producing those spiffy promised TDWTF mugs in some shady pottery sweatshop while also fixing BuildMaster localization bugs (and the rest of the zoo) on the side.
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Do binned alts count?
Depends on whether it's early or late-binning.
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So it's daylight savings in the USA now is it? That must be why I see a category 52 article an hour earlier than usual.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
see a category 52 article
What the fuck is that? There aren't that many categories...?
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@Tsaukpaetra open in a new tab
I'm just preventing "we have a front page" and the following FrontPage jokes
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Status: Amused that the International Reference Alphabet calls it 'right/left curly bracket'. Poor old curly bracket, I was expecting it to have a fancy official name, right-stroke gets 'solidus'...favouritism, obviously.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
open in a new tab
I have four words....
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@Gąska I now have an ear worm from looking at the onebox embed.
Thanks a lot!
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Status: 67 comments (averaging 600+ characters) written in about 3 hours. That's less than expected, for which I'm grateful.
Now to actually take a shower and get dressed, as well as make chicken stock. And goof off. We had the day off to write the comments, so I don't really have anything else to do.
Oh, and this week I only have 2.5 working days, and most of those the kids are just taking tests and quizzes. Should be an easy week...and then 10 days off for Spring Break.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Found a really old Patriot SSD (32 GB). Was thinking it would be better than the old HDD (300 GB) in it, which is slow as balls.
Nope, old SSD is slow as balls too ( )
Well, whatever. Here, have a Linux or something, poor thing...
See if you can homebrew up some kind of hybrid caching system where you use both drives to be twice as slow as balls?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Same in the garage. As if everyone suddenly has found something better to do than argue on the internets.
It's the DST weekend, everyone was looking for their lost hour
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: 67 comments (averaging 600+ characters) written in about 3 hours. That's less than expected, for which I'm grateful.
Now to actually take a shower and get dressed, as well as make chicken stock. And goof off. We had the day off to write the comments, so I don't really have anything else to do.
Oh, and this week I only have 2.5 working days, and most of those the kids are just taking tests and quizzes. Should be an easy week...and then 10 days off for Spring Break.
Are you getting paid for all that goofing off?
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@Gąska
He's a teacher, he gets paid daily in the loving admiration of the next generation
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@Gąska the wonders of a salaried position. I get paid 24 equal paychecks whether school is in session or not.
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@Benjamin-Hall in that case - damn, that's awesome.
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Status:
Start Restore job from media
Weekly-BTD-Volume5
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is offline, Restore job cancelled
BringWeekly-BTD-Volume5
online
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is already online
Re-inventoryWeekly-BTD-Volume5
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Great! OK, re-run Restore job
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is offline, Restore job cancelledEdit: I restarted the server and the job immediately succeeded...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall in that case - damn, that's awesome.
Oddly, the "12-month" employees (admin staff, maintenance, etc) don't get nearly as much off. They get Thanksgiving week off and a couple days for Christmas, plus the regular PTO they can take.
Teaching faculty get
- Summer break (from the end of May until the first week or so of August)
- Thanksgiving week
- Winter break (2 weeks around Christmas)
- Spring Break (starting on a Friday and going through a full week and the following Monday, so 2 three-day weekends + a full week)
- a bunch of other small holidays
And we're paid for everything. I don't even clock in. On the other hand...I'm there from 7 AM to 4:30 PM or 5:00 PM, often with only about 30 minutes away from the kids. Pay isn't tremendous (~$55k), but the benefits are great, including a 5% 401k match and 100% paid insurance (which is pretty darn good insurance at that).
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Found a really old Patriot SSD (32 GB). Was thinking it would be better than the old HDD (300 GB) in it, which is slow as balls.
Nope, old SSD is slow as balls too ( )
Well, whatever. Here, have a Linux or something, poor thing...
See if you can homebrew up some kind of hybrid caching system where you use both drives to be twice as slow as balls?
Whatever must be done from keeping them from going blue!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
As if everyone suddenly has found something better to do than argue on the internets.
That seems unlikely.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
As if everyone suddenly has found something better to do than argue on the internets.
We don't work on weekends
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Status: Why is Windows Shell Experience Host using so much CPU that it's making my Windows experience slow and laggy?
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@HardwareGeek
Evidently, it's hosting lots of experience at the moment.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Why is Windows Shell Experience Host using so much CPU that it's making my Windows experience slow and laggy?
Because that’s the Windows experience!
Come on, someone had to say it.
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Status: Looking at this helpful diagram
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@hungrier Pod or Node Thread is
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
But, Unreal Engine is shitty and broken, and non-deterministically updates the location eventually to where it ought to have been all along.
Normally, this impulse is applied every tick, because in theory the Hand.Rel position is correct on the next tick, but apparently it is not, and so the calculations are wrong and insanity ensues.
Sigh.
So I added more debugging logs. Witness the insanity!
What seems to be happening:
- Velocity is zero for a while, because of the mentioned "Apply impulse only once every 20 ticks" code, so we're not moving anywhere
- Impulse comes along. Wants to get 0.45 cm closer to the target.
- Impulse gets applied.
- Character notice it has moved as a result of the impulse.
- Climbing component says "I don't want to move anymore for now"
- Velocity remains zero, as it should be.
- WAIT A MINUTE, WE NEED VELOCITY HOLY SHIT MOVE MOVE MOVE!!!
- Oh that's fine, we don't need to move again
- Character does not notice it was moved.
I just can't even right now.
Fucking hell, why does it move twice when I impulse once!!!?!?!
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Status: Will attempt to wire OneSignal push notifications into Flutter. From what I gleaned, this is a non-trivial endeavour. First of all, there's Apple being Apple - for push notifications beyond: "Notification for FooApp!" (i.e. with actual text) you need to add a special extension. Then override the main entry point. Then add special certificates. Unlock all kinds of stuff. Then there's Google messing around with the Podfiles (which is kind of like Apple's version of npm only with more scripting) so you just can't simply reference the OneSignal SDK pod in there. And finally we have OneSignal which have a manual for their Flutter SDK which breaks down at the third step, which they admitted to on Github but which they kind of neglect to reference in said manual.
But they have a workaround. Which is only posted in a Github thread.
In contrast, the Android side of things was: Add service reference file. Add those lines to the entry point. Done.
But rolling your own push notifications is definitely out of the question - definitely non-trivial - our German tech magazine c't tried to implement this by themselves. The diagram had like 25 arrows going to and fro between app server, client and push server.
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@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.
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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.
I used an application in the dim-and-distant-past that sped up, during lengthy processing, if you waggled the mouse as fast as possible. I guess the answer probably involved
WM_MOUSEMOVE
and a software crime in the message loop.
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@Rhywden Well, that was ... interesting. I wasn't able to make it work because I was always getting some errors after another.
However, the root cause was that, upon creation of the project, I had decided to include Swift and Kotlin support in case I needed some native code. However, the mismatch between how Google handles the Podfiles and Swift handles the same Podfiles created a lot of havoc and werre.
Solution: Rip out said support. Turns out that I don't need it anyway. Push notifications are now working. Hooray!
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Status: Somewhat amazed. I ordered a case of @boomzilla standards">ammo earlier today. 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.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking hell, why does it move twice when I impulse once!!!?!?!
Answer: because the server and client weren't in sync with what speed the client should move, so the server was correcting the client's folly and the client retaliated.
Fixed by removing a pre-optimization if-statement. Which, somehow, wasn't causing any issues before...
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@Benjamin-Hall similar happened to me yesterday. Ordered a case for a hard drive, expected Monday or Tuesday at earliest. Arrived next day.
Thanks, Amazon?
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Status: I love how changing a header to remove an unused function can result in a bagillion linker errors... against functions that weren't touched.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I love how changing a header to remove an unused function can result in a bagillion linker errors... against functions that weren't touched.
I had similar earlier, the IDE suddenly had a nervous breakdown with a sea of red. I'd missed a semicolon on a prototype in a header file incuded by damn near every source file.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
a sea of red.
Yeah, in my case, something died but thought it finished correctly. Touching the header again let it go through this time...
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