The Official Status Thread
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Status: Dead pixel detected. And it's an actual dead pixel, and not a bug that crawled into the screen...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Just saw the new Tarantino movie. Keeping it true to himself, what the actual fuck was that?!
It was superb. It was a film that was willing to take its time over things where that made sense, with little bits and pieces of setup here and there and all building to the denouement (which was just some guys talking at a gate). It was a film that was a poem about the movies of the 1960s, and about the whole time and place and culture.
Tarantino has never just been about the violence, but has always been about the love of cinema.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I always mess them up. Thought it's the other way around.
Protip: When computer says no, use the other one.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Just saw the new Tarantino movie. Keeping it true to himself, what the actual fuck was that?!
It was superb. It was a film that was willing to take its time over things where that made sense,
Well, yeah, he intentionally drags things on for-fucking-ever. To quote the part in Kill Bill where he makes that plainly obvious:
The Bride: How long does this shit take to go into effect?
Bill: About two minutes. Just long enough for me to finish my point.
with little bits and pieces of setup here and there and all building to the denouement (which was just some guys talking at a gate). It was a film that was a poem about the movies of the 1960s, and about the whole time and place and culture.
Tarantino has never just been about the violence, but has always been about the love of cinema.
That's the part I mentioned about being retro, full of references, and meta wankery.
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@Gąska More like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_Ty_72Qds
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Status: Intentionally fork-bombing my workstation. Sort of.
Last time I posted about this stupid server application, I was at the stage where I assumed there's a race condition somewhere but I couldn't reproduce any problems on my machine. I've advanced now to having two simpler server and client applications with a ton of logging, and put huge load on it to make it misbehave. Starting thousands of processes simultaneously isn't just stressing the OS, now this thing falling apart, badly. I've fixed problems on both server and client side, but every time I fix or patch something, more problems creep up.
Some in our own code that I've dealt with, some where I don't know if it's using third party libraries wrong or if there's a bug in them.
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Status: I am tired in my soul.
Yesterday, I was recruited to help my family move some final pieces of furniture out of my brother's former "apartment". It's really just the 2nd floor of a house that's physically separate from the 1st floor and accessible only by some external stairs. It was ~90F outside. We need to move a bedframe (which had been disassembled), two dressers, and a bookshelf.
This is important for two reasons: One, I am a fat, lazy computer geek who spends 90% of his time in a chair, and two, largely tied to one, I do not handle heat well.
So we take some of the lighter pieces down (the bedframe pieces and the dresser drawers). We then take the mirror off the larger dresser and start to take that beast down. Now, this furniture is not your cheap IKEA-type that's made out of particle board and wishes, this is old, real-wood stuff that used to be my grandfather's. We get the dresser down the stairs via sliding, then have to carry it over to my father's pickup. Once we put it down there, I had to immediately stop what I was doing because my vision went wonky and my hearing went all tinny and faded for a good minute and a half. I then went back inside and started splashing water on myself to try and cool down while my father and sister debated the best way to load the stuff in the truck, since it was now evident that the dressers were larger than originally estimated (and of course, nobody brought a fucking measuring tape for anything). I couldn't do much more than move drawers around once we went to unload because I was basically ready to fall over at any moment.
After I went home, I fed the cat, drank some gatorade, slept for a couple hours, got up and talked to a friend for a while, then went to bed early. I woke up this morning and I'm still bone-tired. I'm tired of this existence shit.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
2nd floor of a house that's physically separate from the 1st floor
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
2nd floor of a house that's physically separate from the 1st floor
That's what I'd call a maisonette
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@Gąska Basically, way back when, it used to actually be that the 1st floor of the building was a pub and the 2nd floor was the living space, but at some point the pub closed and the 1st floor was converted into a separate living space.
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@Jaloopa oh, okay. I thought it's the flying saucer kind of house. I guess there are several degrees of physical separation.
When you think about it, all second floors are physically separated from first floors.
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Status: Dell sale. 11" Inspiron 3000 with the AMD A9-9420e processor and 128 GB eMMC for ~$250. Should be a good replacement for my old Linux Mint Mini-ITX desktop that is held together by bailing wire and duct tape and has an old dual-core Celeron with basic Intel graphics and freezes/reboots if you bump the chassis just right.
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@Gąska there's usually an interior staircase between them though. This is different in that you need to go outside to get between upstairs and downstairs
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Linux
held together by bailing wire and duct tape
You repeat yourself.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
old dual-core Celeron with basic Intel graphics and freezes/reboots if you bump the chassis just right.
I've received a laptop that matches this description. Label on it reads: designed for XP , Vista capable.
I should note that it's running Windows 10 RTM and just upgraded to 1703 as the "latest version".
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Status: wondering if all payment processor API documentation is written by space aliens or I'm the one that's from outer space
Related: landing page for Facebook Marketplace has lots of words and pictures but astoundingly little information on how it actually works for buyers or sellers
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: wondering if all payment processor API documentation is written by space aliens or I'm the one that's from outer space
It's not just you!
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Linux
held together by bailing wire and duct tape
You repeat yourself.
The case was made by a company that seemingly no longer exists, with a proprietary power supply that failed, of which I cannot find a replacement. I "fixed" it by setting a standard ATX power supply next to it and snaking power cables in, but the PSU is larger than the PC itself.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
The case was made by a company that seemingly no longer exists, with a proprietary power supply that failed, of which I cannot find a replacement. I "fixed" it by setting a standard ATX power supply next to it and snaking power cables in, but the PSU is larger than the PC itself.
Fits the definition of Linux hardware
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status: the old bitch is snoring and its kinda adorable....
pic to show it did happen...
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@Tsaukpaetra no snoring in the picture.
Proof denied
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra no snoring in the picture.
Proof denied
Nnnnoooooooo!,! ,!
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Dell sale
I was looking at that over the weekend. Some of the laptops were 46% off. On upper end machines, that's a big chunk-o-change!
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra no snoring in the picture.
Proof denied
Better?
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sigh
Fine.
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Status: Just spent two hours recording screencaps of how to use Word for specific scenarios, using a headset. Uploaded everything to YouTube, embedded the videos in the instruction tasks my pupils are to do.
Only after having done all that I actually ran the YT videos.
No sound.
I then spent five minutes troubleshooting why there was no sound before I remembered that all sound output was still routed through the headset.
Which I wasn't wearing at the moment.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Which I wasn't wearing at the moment.
Further proof that today is Monday. (Why yes, that's been how my day is progressing too...)
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Status: I iz idgit.
I forgot to complete a refactor properly. The highlighted code is looking for the
AAvatarCharacter
. Since the function is now inside theAAvatarCharacter
, I don't need to look for it, now do I?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I iz idgit.
I forgot to complete a refactor properly. The highlighted code is looking for the
AAvatarCharacter
. Since the function is now inside theAAvatarCharacter
, I don't need to look for it, now do I?Yeah, that's what the Firenation thought as well.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I iz idgit.
I forgot to complete a refactor properly. The highlighted code is looking for the
AAvatarCharacter
. Since the function is now inside theAAvatarCharacter
, I don't need to look for it, now do I?Yeah, that's what the Firenation thought as well.
You're right, I better check that
this
exists just to be safe...
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Status: FFS!
You got it right literally everywhere else!!!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
// Sorry for the jank
Liar.
I truly am. The system works by passing in a magic number across servers as part of the character's name, then waiting for the character to load, de-pickify-ing the number, spawning the hat, and then emplacing it on the character's head.
It really should be part of the server-authoritative travel ticket data (you know, so potentially-hacked clients can't just put whatever on their heads), but too much refactoring friction exists at the moment to move my ass...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Which I wasn't wearing at the moment.
Further proof that today is Monday. (Why yes, that's been how my day is progressing too...)
I’m declaring today as an official Derp Day all around.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Liar.
Remember, he's the only developer working on the codebase. He's apologizing to his future self.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
You know how when you declare anonymous function in JavaScript...
Fortunately, no, I don't know that, and I'm quite happy to remain ignorant of the "finer" points of JS, thank you.
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@HardwareGeek it's like non-virtual method overriding in C++. It sounds like an obscure piece of trivia that's useless for when you actually want to make something, but actually you have to keep it in mind all the time or else nothing will work.
Of course there's an option to never code any JavaScript at all, and you very definitely should pick this one if at all possible.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Of course there's an option to never code any JavaScript at all, and you very definitely should pick this one if at all possible.
My JS experience consists of copying a basic slide show script from the net 20+ years ago, and adding some controls for rate, pause, manual advance, etc. That's quite enough experience.
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Status: Fixed the cable boxes in the house. As always, the procedure is mysterious and cannot be understood by mortals: unplug the new one, plug it back in, wait for a while, unplug it again, swap it with a working one, plug them back in, wait for a while, observe both ceasing to function, threaten them with calling support, do so and have the automated voice system reboot them, wait for a while, press 0 until you get put on hold to talk to a "real" "person", wait for a while with annoying hold music and messages that don't apply to your situation, and then they decide to show something other than a black screen. 15 minutes of "Messing With Your Head, Please Wait..." later and there's something approximating entertainment.
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@Parody Once the guy on the other end forgot to push 'hold' and I clearly heard 'this fucking idiot'. After a bit of wrangling it was agreed that we wouldn't have a cable bill that month.
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Status: Watching the IT guy reinstall their homebrew backup software.
Fucking seriously?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fucking seriously?
He's now apparently in a state of indecision or shock.
Do it... Do it... Do it... Do it... DO IT!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
DO IT!
Oh, he chickened out. Apparently trying to reinstall TeamViewer now...
WTF man, you do know that TeamViewer has its own updater, right? You don't need to re-download it manually....
And you're already connected using it, what is your goal here?Anyways, we've now reached the part of the story where we attempt to reboot.
And promptly get stuck waiting on a broken wizard that won't close normally.
We waited long enough that Windows auto-cancelled the shutdown (why doesn't it do that for Updates?) and he's trying again, probably scratching his head wondering what the "Restart anyway" button is for....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
probably scratching his head wondering
And now the software he attempted to reinstall is completely nonfunctional. Either that, or it doesn't like concurrently running--- oh yep. He signed out of the personal user account which was presumably running the UI, and now it will load.
Now he's trying to sign in, and apparently typing his username incorrectly.
Why are they paying this guy? I have all the confusion...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
all the confusion...
He apparently doesn't know how to run the backup software. I have no words.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I have no words.
And now he's installing Angry IP Scanner.... For.... reasons????!? What the literal fuck?!
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@Tsaukpaetra
Are you sure he’s not just a support scammer? How many bitcon have you wired him so far?