The Official Status Thread
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@HardwareGeek
shutdown -a
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
Nowadays the stuff I ordered from CBS would probably get me on a “watch list”, or two, or three...
Among the supplies:
- Now restricted reagents (like rhubidium chloride, used extensively in molecular biology)
- various bacterial cultures (see first bullet)
- fetal pigs, rabbits, frogs
- clean room negative pressure boxes with integral gloves and filtration, P2 spec
- top of the line binoc microscope
- gel electrophoresis equipment
- a top of the line dissecting kit, with all the stuff they roll out in front of the hero saying “now you talk”...
- and more...
Hmmmmm.... maybe I am on a list....
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It is time.
Well golly.
Sadly, Oculus has decided Hypatia is not worthy of the Quest's store, so I won't be bugging you to try it on your shiny headset.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
screaming "I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GOD DAMN THING!"
Pulp Fiction?
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Pulp Fiction?
Quite. (Though I suppose it'd be funnier if it were apropos of nothing.)
Dramatic brows and eye makeup make lines like that and the Ezekiel 25:17 speech much more effective and entertaining.
(You may now be imagining Samuel L. Jackson in drag. If so, you're welcome.)
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status; I let my pupils each write a biography about famous physicists and the discoveries they're most renowned for.
The girl who handed in the piece about Heisenberg... I'm not sure if she took inspiration from Breaking Bad: Either she was on drugs or the whole essay was written by a Markov Chain generator (said generator wasn't too keen on proper spelling either).
Roughly translated excerpt:
[...] The electrons flow through both slits. it seems as throws, as if each particles overlaps the slits at the same time and each other. The world function is mathematically not physical particles and not a wave, simply said it's a physical description of the proton.
You can either know what she scored or what she meant
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Status: Apparently, in order to
clean
I need tobuild
first. I don't even...
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Status: Umm... thanks?
Ah, well fuck.......
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Status: opened a presentation in PowerPoint and got a message about "reference to external pictures have been blocked". OK, fine, maybe I fucked up when copying some pictures, that happens and actually it's nice to know. Any chance you could tell me which pictures? It doesn't seem so...
(fake update: found a VB macro to list hyperlinks, and it did not find any... so not only the message is almost totally useless without details, but now I don't have the slightest clue as to what causes it. Thanks, Microsoft!)
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@remi Seems to be a known problem, and someone has a solution.
(I'm guessing that you'd also be able to sort it by unzipping the pptx, searching for the external images in the XML, and patching them by hand.)
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@dkf Thanks! I did find the faulty pictures with that method.
Once I found them, I noticed that if you look at the "alt text" of those pictures, it is not empty, or the title of the original picture file, but instead it's some kind of ID (
cid:...
), so I guess if a macro was looking for those it could identify them this way.Now one thing I still don't understand is how it manages to display everything correctly even when disabling external links. I guess that's maybe because the link is only in the alt text, which is basically never used?
And also, I'm still annoyed that the message does not provide any way to get to this information, and that the "edit links" dialog is so cryptic (I mean, it could at least tell you on which slide which link is!).
(edit: even better (worse?), you can "break link" from that dialog, which I guess means removing the link, but it fails because "check that the linked file is in the expected location"! So it cannot remove the link unless it actually can find the link???)
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status Offer extended, offer accepted!
This will be a bit different... I've been working on Windows since 1992. The new job is on unix (using QT).
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Status: Arranged some weekend maintenance this Saturday so I could pop out early today for the FF14 Letter From The Producer LIVE! with the new job information & such for the expansion that's coming out next month.
So far they're 15 minutes late and still having audio/technical difficulties getting their demo gameplay to be hearable on stream. I could have just worked normal hours
(That said, the maintenance needed done either way. Mostly just :haha: at someone else suffering technical problems)
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@izzion Yeah, I tried to watch that and turned it off with the audio problems.
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The Oculus Quest is fun. Or it would be. If Alisha would let me have a turn with it.
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Status: pondering for some time how to consume these mentos without ants later attacking them.
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@kazitor How is that a problem? Doesn't it come in rolls over there?
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@PleegWat I can't trust them not to find a way through the end. Ants can get through the most minuscule gaps when determined enough. And we are discussing a very high-sugar product here.
Though it has been some time since I last spotted one wandering around…
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Get a pet lizard?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpldq3myV0
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@Zerosquare I have an uncle who's crazy about lizards, "beardies" especially. Maybe I'll borrow a few…
I certainly wouldn't mind a pet lepidosaur, as I've more-or-less said here before.
Also considered complaining about the lack of "push-ups" in that video, but here's one that contains ample quantities, as well as some sort of swimming-like interpretative dance.
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Status: Not sure what to do with myself. Showed up for an end-of-the-year meeting that ostensibly was at 9AM. Turns out it was only for non-teaching faculty. I've already done everything else (which was booked for 10-noon), so my next meeting is lunch at noon and then a grades/comments meeting at 12:30.
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@Benjamin-Hall
You appear to be looking for something to do. Have you tried starting a new flamewar in the garage?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall
You appear to be looking for something to do. Have you tried starting a new flamewar in the garage?Right now I don't have enough care to even do that. Kinda sad.
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Status: I love getting into work and immediately getting asked questions to which my answer is "Clearly you don't bother reading the emails I send out, because I emailed the answer to that two days ago".
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status: pissed. Fedex package required indirect signature. They provide a form you can leave on your door. Asshole delivery person sticks a blank form on top of the one I put on the door and leaves.
Fucker!
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Also, additional wisdom found regarding 802.1x bullshit...
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I now understand why 802.1x isn't commonly adopted in corporate networks.
tl;dr: When 802.1x is enabled, Cisco switches start doing some extra tracking of what IP addresses it's seen on which ports, and sends a Gratuitous ARP shortly after a port comes live to assist with that. I don't know who's operating out of RFC spec, but the combination of the way that Cisco sends that ARP and the way Windows does IP Address conflict detection means that Windows thinks there's an IP address conflict every time the Ethernet port link comes back up and tells the DHCP server "uh hey this address no esta bueno", leading to lots and lots of this:
sigh
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Let me guess. You're gonna do that "ARE YOU THERE?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" thing to the audience, right?
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Status: Day one of a second-stage interview complete, I think it went extremely well, I successfully identified the issue in a code-base that they had kept as an abandoned pit-of-despair for victims to try and fix (silicon errata).
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
an abandoned pit-of-despair for victims to try and fix
Ah yes. The fun kind of system, where an ability to think on several levels at once can really help.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
an abandoned pit-of-despair for victims to try and fix
Ah yes. The fun kind of system, where an ability to think on several levels at once can really help.
Yep, under the debugger the program counter was stuck when the issue occurred. With no traps or diagnostic registers set, this got my spider-sense tingling, it had to be something truly fundamental. So, I got the errata and saw a suspicious item that could apply for this config, once the triggering condition was removed then the issue resolved.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
silicon errata
Urrr! I might resemble that remark. In fact, I think I might use that as a username somewhere, someday.
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@Cursorkeys Next thing you’ll realize there is no job opening, they were just looking for a free expert to fix their bugs.
Filed under: there is no spoon.
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Status: All of the sudden, this is wrong:
class FPendingPurchaseOculus { public: FPendingPurchaseOculus( FOnlineSubsystemOculus* InSubsystem, const FPurchaseCheckoutRequest& InCheckoutRequest, const FUniqueNetId& InUserId, const EPurchaseTransactionState InPendingTransactionState = EPurchaseTransactionState::NotStarted, const FOnPurchaseCheckoutComplete& InCheckoutCompleteDelegate = FOnPurchaseCheckoutComplete() ) : Subsystem(InSubsystem) , CheckoutRequest(InCheckoutRequest) , UserId(InUserId) , CheckoutCompleteDelegate(InCheckoutCompleteDelegate) { PendingPurchaseInfo.TransactionState = InPendingTransactionState; Receipt = MakeShareable(new FPurchaseReceipt()); } ... }
With the error message:
OnlinePurchaseOculus.h(26): error C5038: data member 'FPendingPurchaseOculus::Subsystem' will be initialized after data member 'FPendingPurchaseOculus::CheckoutRequest'
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I may be reading it wrong, but isn't the CheckoutRequest pointer thing after the Subsystem pointer thing?
Filed under: Fucking hell!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Filed under: Fucking hell!
Fixed it by moving the
Subsystem(InSubsystem)
to the end. Because that makes sense...Now to find out where
OculusHMD_Splash.cpp.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "protected: static class FThreadSafeCounter OculusHMD::FSplash::SplashLayerIndex" (?SplashLayerIndex@FSplash@OculusHMD@@1VFThreadSafeCounter@@A)
is...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
In fact, I think I might use that as a username somewhere, someday.
You want to be considered annoying by all embedded developers? A bit strange, but whatever floats your boat...
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Status: Misread something. Bah.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Misread something. Bah.
I unread something else.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I may be reading it wrong, but isn't the CheckoutRequest pointer thing after the Subsystem pointer thing?
It's not the order of arguments, it's the order of initialisers (which IIRC has to match the order of declaration of the fields in the class). Or something like that.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
the order of arguments,
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
the order of initialisers
Yes, the line
) : Subsystem(InSubsystem)
Appears to come before
, CheckoutRequest(InCheckoutRequest)
Changing it around so
Subsystem(InSubsystem)
was last in the list fixed it. Somehow.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Changing it around so
Subsystem(InSubsystem)
was last in the list fixed it. Somehow.I never wrapped my head around the rules for when it matters either. Initialisers post-date when I learnt C++…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Changing it around so
Subsystem(InSubsystem)
was last in the list fixed it. Somehow.I never wrapped my head around the rules for when it matters either. Initialisers post-date when I learnt C++…
Yeah. Apparently it hasn't mattered for years until just now as I updated Visual Studio to 2017.
Thankfully that appears to be literally the only time this was (apparently) wrong.
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Status: At the vet with one of my dogs. We won't be bringing her home with us.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: At the vet with one of my dogs. We won't be bringing her home with us.
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@HardwareGeek She's gone.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek She's gone.
The act may not take long, but the impact... quite a bit longer. Safe travels.
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@HardwareGeek I had a meeting after work, and I went straight there without stopping at home. After the meeting, on my way home, my son called me. When he got home from work, he let the dogs out of their crates. She had pooped and peed in her crate and didn't really respond when he let her out. Her breathing was labored, and she had great difficulty standing up and walking. She did eventually go outside and pooped and peed (I think) again, then came unsteadily inside. She fell over, but lifted her head to drink some water while lying down.
We put her in her crate, took her crate to the car, and headed to the 24-hour emergency vet. On the way, my son called them and found out they're no longer open 24 hours, but there is a real 24-hour vet a couple blocks further in the same direction.
The vet examined her, then did an ultrasound. There was a large mass in her abdomen that looked like it was part of the spleen, with fluid around it, which meant it was probably bleeding. Her lungs weren't moving normally past her lungs as she breathed, which meant there was probably also a mass in her lungs.
Diagnosis: Probably cancer of the spleen that had spread to her lungs. If it hadn't spread to her lungs, they could have removed her spleen and given her another 3–6 months, but in her lungs, there was nothing they could do. It's probably just as well, I couldn't have afforded the surgery.
My son called my daughter and face-timed with her the rest of the time. We spent a bunch of time sitting quietly with her, giving her lots of head scritches and tummy rubs, and taking pictures and video. Then the vet gave her a sedative. More face-time, head scritches and tummy rubs as the became drowsy and may or may not have actually fallen asleep. The vet shaved a small patch of one of her back legs, but had trouble finding a vein because her blood pressure was so low, but finally the last two injections, a strong sedative and the euthanasia. A few more minutes of petting that she didn't feel, then home without her. Lots of tears throughout.
It's 01:30, I haven't had any dinner, it's too late to eat, and I need to go to bed, but I'm going to have trouble sleeping.
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Status: I was reminded of @pie_flavor ...
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