The Official Status Thread
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status: some advertiser didn't set their targeted languages correctly...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: some advertiser didn't set their targeted languages correctly...
Or enough users haven't that the advertiser changed it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait, what? WTF is going on here?
Switched back to jpg and took a bunch of frames. Here, have a gif:
Seems related to the actors in the scene somehow, but I'm not really sure...
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@Cursorkeys Hardware makers never fix anything ever. It's like one of their unspoken rules.
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Status: Am I stupid or something, or does this loop seem to be doing things the hard way for no real reason?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
for no real reason?
Oh wait, fuck, the R and B variables are swapped, because of course they are. Fucking Unreal...
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Status: It smells like someone
burnedincineratedcremated some toast in the break room. I could smell it all the way upstairs.
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Status: don't know what specifically changed, but I can see gravatars now. @Tsaukpaetra is no longer a transparent square.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Hardware makers never fix anything ever. It's like one of their unspoken rules.
It's a spoken rule. It would cost money to fix it, lots of money, so if it can't be fixed by a firmware update then it never gets fixed.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra is no longer a transparent square.
Do you see my true colors?
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@Tsaukpaetra I used to see right through you, but now you're more opaque.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking Unreal...
And of course, the actual reason it broke was that the default changed.
Except, not really?
But it did?
Fucking hell, I have two blueprints, both claiming that the capture format thing is at default but clearly using different values.
Overriding the "default" with the "default" worked.
Now I can get back to making custom dolls!
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Status: Watched a short clip on progress with a robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESC9gu0NAak
YouTube decided to show this as suggestions:
WAT.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Overriding the "default" with the "default" worked.
The story of our lives…
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Status: parents got little bro a pair of wireless headphones from China. The accent and translated pronunciation is darling!
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If you care about semantic vs non-semantic elements you're a wanker.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The accent and translated pronunciation is darling!
Engrish!
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Status: They've been adding things while I haven't been looking again. Having fun with the
ExpandoObject
. This is certainly cleaner than nested dictionaries.
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Status: Watching professional CS:GO tournament. As always, there's shittons of technical difficulties. It was 0:3, then the server crashed. Normally, in such cases, the game is resumed from round-end backup, but they must've lost the backups, because players are now manually reconstructing the game. They buy weapons, go to the middle of the map, and then kill each other in the right order.
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Status: Wanted to play with Jupyter notebooks some more.
Despite my usual 'ness, I'm going with the full stack of leaning-tower-of-JS- by using it in combination with Atom and their apm version of npm. Have been waiting for ten minutes for this fancy animated install button which shows no sign of progress:Such productivity, much wow.
Let's see if it's installed when I'm coming back Monday.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng Out of curiosity I downloaded their online nutritional data and looked at the energy content (in KJ because SI units are always better)
- "Cheeseburger" - 585 KJ. Let's call this 1 unit.
- "Gluten free cheeseburger": 4 units (no idea why it's so big)
- Chicken burger: 2 units
- Whopper: ~3 units
- Whopper with large menu: 7 units!
Conclusion: fries and drinks have a lot more calories (or Joules) than I expected.
Where's that? Burger King in the U.S. doesn't even have gluten free cheeseburgers, I don't think. Everything I've found basically just says "order without the bun and expect cross-contamination", i.e. health trenders should be just fine but anyone who actually has celiac disease should give it a hard pass.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
streams and lamas
No, that's a llama; this is a lama:
Saw that coming; have this pre-prepared counterpendant
I don't think you can pluralize a genus name, though. It already refers to a group.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
windows is not just office
Of course not.
It's also Notepad, the calculator and Candy Crush Saga
You forgot some real classics... Minesweeper and Paint.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Something fucking screwey with saving pixels to pictures.
Weird color banding:
Attempting to save a similar image as png:
Wait, what? WTF is going on here? It's not empty data, but apparently it's 100% transparent?
Interestingly, deleting the alpha channel from that PNG results in this:
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@Tsaukpaetra Better than what I got:
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Wanted to play with Jupyter notebooks some more.
We've been setting them up so that we can make our specialized hardware available to outside users for interactive-ish use. That's pretty neat since we can tie the whole thing transparently to our allocation and machine control system, and keep the real system behind a strong firewall. The main awkward bit has been getting the login working, because of course we need to support two complicated special systems at once for that… but it looks like we got that working today.
Which is useful. We're going to be using it for a hands-on tutorial at a conference next week.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Better than what I got:
I'm not so certain...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Hardware makers never fix anything ever. It's like one of their unspoken rules.
It's a spoken rule. It would cost money to fix it, lots of money, so if it can't be fixed by a firmware update then it never gets fixed.
It'll probably get fixed if they ever have to make a new version of the chip for some other reason (bug that can't be fixed/worked around in software/firmware, cost reduction (make the chip smaller), next generation). Maybe, depending on how risky the fix is — we know this bug and can work around it in firmware; how likely is the fix to introduce a new bug we can't work around?
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Status: Having far too much fun with the Google Bach AI Harmonizer.
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@brie said in The Official Status Thread:
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
streams and lamas
No, that's a llama; this is a lama:
Saw that coming; have this pre-prepared counterpendant
I don't think you can pluralize a genus name, though. It already refers to a group.
Sure you can. A genus name is often used to denote either species or individual specimens belonging to the genus. "Euphorbias range from tiny annual plants to large and long-lived trees.[4] The genus has over[3] or about 2,000 members,[5] making it one of the largest genera of flowering plants.[6][7]" "I have about a dozen Cymbidiums growing on my deck."
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
it looks like we got that working today... We're going to be using it for a hands-on tutorial at a conference next week.
At which time you will learn that it only looked like you got it working. :murphy:
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Having far too much fun with the Google Bach AI Harmonizer.
Yeah, results are a bit unpredictable, but pretty fun.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It'll probably get fixed if they ever have to make a new version of the chip for some other reason (bug that can't be fixed/worked around in software/firmware, cost reduction (make the chip smaller), next generation). Maybe, depending on how risky the fix is — we know this bug and can work around it in firmware; how likely is the fix to introduce a new bug we can't work around?
True, fixing hardware is tricky and expensive. But too many semiconductors companies seem to have a "don't tell customers about the bugs" unofficial policy. I've seen them deny the existence of bugs even when basic things didn't work, or claim "no other customer is experiencing issues" when multiple people have reported the problem. I've even seen one delete topics about bugs on its official forums. And another one who broke a previously-working major feature in one of its mature products (probably because of a die shrink), and still released it as-is, potentially breaking customers' productions.
Knowingly working with broken hardware is annoying, but part of the job. Unknowingly working with broken hardware can seriously screw things up.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Google Bach AI Harmonizer.
It's nice for really short diddles.
Here's a full-screen version if your browser is making it tiny:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
really short diddles
There's a in there, but I really don't want to go there.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@brie said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
streams and lamas
No, that's a llama; this is a lama:
Saw that coming; have this pre-prepared counterpendant
I don't think you can pluralize a genus name, though. It already refers to a group.
Sure you can. A genus name is often used to denote either species or individual specimens belonging to the genus. "Euphorbias range from tiny annual plants to large and long-lived trees.[4] The genus has over[3] or about 2,000 members,[5] making it one of the largest genera of flowering plants.[6][7]" "I have about a dozen Cymbidiums growing on my deck."
But it's Latin, right? The plural should be formed by changing the ending to -us or -i: Euphorbius, Euphorbii.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, results are a bit unpredictable, but pretty fun.
That's an indictment of current AI systems, that even feeding in the whole corpus of Bach's works doesn't produce anything like a well-trained system. We've just gotta be doing something fundamentally wrong there; yes, there are hints that it is close to what the solution is, but there's a critical bit missing.
Meanwhile I'm just having fun anyway.
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@dkf Also, be sure to turn on expert mode and rock mode. They're not the most obvious buttons on the screen, but they let you achieve a much nicer result (given that Bach didn't write for the piano, but did write for harpsichord and organ which the rock sound is closer to).
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Status: the dongle for my mouse protrudes a little bit from the side of my computer (obviously, since it's removable). Yesterday it broke off completely, I've still no idea why. You end up with a nice circuit board view, and the interesting bit is that the circuit board broke too - there's a strip of circuit board still in the part that broke off - and despite this, the mouse still works perfectly, albeit a little choppily. Oh well, not taking any chances. Thank goodness for one day deliveries.
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Status: anyone know anything about fixing sticking mouse buttons? My right mouse button is starting to be...unreliable. Sometimes it won't fire, other times it will release/click when it isn't supposed to, with the button still down. I like the mouse, it'd be a shame to have to replace it.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Bach didn't write for the piano
In fact, he rather disliked the piano — at least the primitive pianos of his day; there's no telling what he'd think of a modern concert grand. It annoys me to hear his music played on piano.
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Status: three lucid dreams in three months. Nice.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: anyone know anything about fixing sticking mouse buttons? My right mouse button is starting to be...unreliable. Sometimes it won't fire, other times it will release/click when it isn't supposed to, with the button still down. I like the mouse, it'd be a shame to have to replace it.
I wish I did. I have one mouse that exhibits the "it will release/click when it isn't supposed to, with the button still down" behavior on both buttons. The not-inexpensive ergonomic mouse I bought to replace it won't click at all (for the left and right buttons; the wheel, middle and other buttons are fine). I suspect a mechanical problem with the switches, at least for the intermittent one; if I move my hand so that my fingertips press on the very ends of the buttons, it's noticeably more reliable, though still far from 100%.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
fixing sticking mouse buttons?
Easiest (if you can obtain it) would be to replace the switch (desolder, etc). Barring that, it somewhat depends on what's causing interference. If it's gummed up with stuff you might get away with exercise and solvent. But if it's physically worn down, there's not much you can do...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
fixing sticking mouse buttons?
Easiest (if you can obtain it) would be to replace the switch (desolder, etc). Barring that, it somewhat depends on what's causing interference. If it's gummed up with stuff you might get away with exercise and solvent. But if it's physically worn down, there's not much you can do...
So...I guess I'm replacing the mouse then. No physical access to the switches without total disassembly, and with my skill in hardware, that's going to not go well. Sigh.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
True, fixing hardware is tricky and expensive. But too many semiconductors companies seem to have a "don't tell customers about the bugs" unofficial policy. I've seen them deny the existence of bugs even when basic things didn't work, or claim "no other customer is experiencing issues" when multiple people have reported the problem. I've even seen one delete topics about bugs on its official forums. And another one who broke a previously-working major feature in one of its mature products (probably because of a die shrink), and still released it as-is, potentially breaking customers' productions.
Knowingly working with broken hardware is annoying, but part of the job. Unknowingly working with broken hardware can seriously screw things up.Microchip had a serious issue with the I2C bus on some PIC24 parts. I'd noticed production test failures and found that poking it with a 1x scope probe at startup was enough to get it going. We added a cap to another I/O pin and used that to give it an impulse get it going.
The only bus that ever needed to be jump-startedI reported this to them, in depth, but it didn't appear in the errata until they bought out the next silicon revision which fixed the issue...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: anyone know anything about fixing sticking mouse buttons? My right mouse button is starting to be...unreliable. Sometimes it won't fire, other times it will release/click when it isn't supposed to, with the button still down. I like the mouse, it'd be a shame to have to replace it.
I love this stuff, used it to repair my brother's mechanical keyboard after he filled it with milk:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
So...I guess I'm replacing the mouse then. No physical access to the switches without total disassembly, and with my skill in hardware, that's going to not go well. Sigh.
Nothing to lose then! Might as well hone some skills if nothing else.
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@pie_flavor: most likely, your dongle uses a track on the circuit board as an antenna. If a small bit is broken, it still works as an antenna but with poorer characteristics, which means poorer radio reception. It would explain why it works choppily.
@Benjamin-Hall, @HardwareGeek: they are typical symptoms of worn-out microswitches. It seems to be a regular problem on some Logitech series, in particular. Contact cleaner may help, but the fix may not last.
Fortunately, finding replacement switches is easy, and most of them are compatible with each other, even across manufacturers. Replacing them isn't hard either, most mouses are pretty easy to take apart. If the alternative is buying a new mouse, it's worth a try.
(No, I don't have a weird mouse fetish or anything like that. One of my clients is a mouse manufacturer.)
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Microchip had a serious issue with the I2C bus on some PIC24 parts.
One of the reasons I avoid using their microcontrollers is this: their hardware is really buggy. Even the simplest modules, stuff that hasn't changed much in 20 years, are still not bug-free.
Two "fun" bugs I remember:
- one of their cores randomly skipped instructions below a certain temperature. The lower the temperature, the buggier it got.
- another one would execute memory reads/writes twice under certain circumstances. Pretty harmless for normal RAM. But a headache for memory-mapped I/O where reads/writes have side effects (think bytes being randomly swallowed on input, and randomly sent twice on output) ; you could get mad looking for a race condition in your code before suspecting the hardware.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: anyone know anything about fixing sticking mouse buttons? My right mouse button is starting to be...unreliable. Sometimes it won't fire, other times it will release/click when it isn't supposed to, with the button still down. I like the mouse, it'd be a shame to have to replace it.
That doesn't sound like sticking - that sounds like wobbling. No cure for that AFAIK; time to get a new one.