The Official Status Thread
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@loopback0 when? i got it last week or so. maybe i'm behind in the updates
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@Jarry My bad, it's 12 hours. Think it's been at least a couple of months.
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@loopback0 It's been that since the Anniversary Update
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jarry My bad, it's 12 hours. Think it's been at least a couple of months.
FFS who would EVER set it to the equivalent of "I only work for one hour". Who do they think they're kidding?
Oh wait, they already assume that...
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@Tsaukpaetra What should the minimum be? 6? 8? Someone's just going to complain that whatever Microsoft use as the minimum is stupid.
Besides, this is more the equivalent of "this is the only hour of the day when I don't want you to restart without me knowing".
It's still going to check if you're using the computer before doing so at any other time.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got my soldering station (WES51). For now will find a place to set it up in a tiny room, BUT there will be work room in the new place :--) now I need a cheap Oscilloscope.
Why did you go with the Weller over the Hakko for the same price?
Familiarity in the previous jobs (current job is pure software). Plus I have seen that figure in so many places, I did not think about other brands as much.
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Status: Headache. C++. One file with about 150000 lines. Obviously machine generated, with multiple statements crammed on a single line. Low-level HW stuff, so it's full of stuff like
const unsigned char foo000001[] { lots of seemingly arbitrary magic numbers };. // Of course there are lots more foo####### memcpy(seemingly_arbitrary_magic_address, foo000001, sizeof(foo000001)); do_hardware_thing(seemingly_arbitrary_magic_address); wait_for_done(SYMBOLIC_ADDRESS, magic_number_status_code); unsigned int result = get_result(lots, of, magic, numbers); if (result == yet_another_magic_number) { print ("Yay!") } else { multiple; statements; on; one; line; }
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@HardwareGeek Almost certainly machine generated. FPGA?
Why do you care about the code?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jarry That got changed, it's like 18 hours or something now.
Must be in the update it's forcing him to install now.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
Why do you care about the code?
Because it doesn't work, of course. Sometimes
result
gets the wrong value.Not FPGA. Maybe too doxxy to say just what it is, but hw is supposed to munch some data and produce a known answer. It's probably not a hardware error; more likely the SW isn't reinitializing things right for multiple iterations of the test, but all that initialization is buried in that 150000 lines of stuff I don't have any idea what it does.
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@HardwareGeek MATLAB realtime toolbox then :--)
The point is, you should never look at machine-generated code unless you want to fix the actual translation. It is like Assembly language, you do not fix the generated machine code, you fix your C++ code and compile again. Only compiler writers should care about defects in the assembly, and hopefully it should not happen
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@dse Fortunately, it's not my job to fix it. I just found it and reported it to the guy who does need to fix it (if that's even reasonably possible; I have no idea how that code is actually generated, and it's legacy, so it may not even be possible to regenerate).
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, if you are in a minority, your vote counts for more than it would in a lynch-mob pure democracy. I'm talking about a tyranny-of-the-majority minority here.
I am actually in favor of the electoral votes system, it is a weighted average to make the democracy fairer for people who live in shittier places. You do not want all peasants to move to the cities, and leave the drudgery task of milking the cows unattended.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
What should the minimum be?
-1, indicating "I'm never not using my computer, don't ever
try toforcible restart ever!"
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Status: Wondering what I fucked up that every conceivable DNS resolution results in the address of my domain server...
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@Tsaukpaetra You set the domain wildcard to 192.168.1.170?
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@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra You set the domain wildcard to 192.168.1.170?
Probably. I think this line in the dnsmasq config is to blame:
address=/home.tsaukpaetra.com/192.168.1.170
Status: I have one of these! Runs Windows 8.1 from a VHD file IIRC, I just don't use it because the hinge is busted and the screen doesn't stay up (INB4 limp ).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra You set the domain wildcard to 192.168.1.170?
Probably. I think this line in the dnsmasq config is to blame:
address=/home.tsaukpaetra.com/192.168.1.170
Yup. the behaviour is also mentioned in here at the third paragraph of "Long instructions".
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@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra You set the domain wildcard to 192.168.1.170?
Probably. I think this line in the dnsmasq config is to blame:
address=/home.tsaukpaetra.com/192.168.1.170
Yup. the behaviour is also mentioned in here at the third paragraph of "Long instructions".
Clearly I was expecting something different when I wrote that line....
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Status: LLVM's great and all, but why can't the silly thing tell me what data has the bug so I can fix it?!
Assertion failed: (isTemporary() && "Expected temporary node"), function replaceAllUsesWith, file …, line ….
I can attach a debugger, and it really doesn't help at all; the structures I'm dealing with are difficult to deal with because of how they internally intern everything I might use as a handle and use memory management shenanigans to store their internal structure. :(
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it may not even be possible to regenerate
This makes me glad that our VCS has a policy that actively rejects files over 10MB, on the basis "It must be generated; check in the generator and regenerate on build".
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
The point is, you should never look at machine-generated code unless you want to fix the actual translation. It is like Assembly language, you do not fix the generated machine code, you fix your C++ code and compile again.
Also, debugging at the machine instruction level is a thing. At a previous job, I not only had to debut at the machine instruction level, I sometimes had to observe how an instruction progressed through the fetch-decode-execute pipeline to figure out just which instruction was loading bad data, in order to determine where the bad data was coming from, so that I could then debug the hw that was generating the bad data.
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Status: Car ded. I sad.
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Status: I happy.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Car
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
happy
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Car ded. I sad.
Just wait a few years, then you'll be happy when you get carded.
Oh. There's a space there.
Nevermind.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
happy
I'm having a hard time figuring out which body part I'm looking at...
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Day 4 of vacation...... ooooooh yeah........ :-)
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm having a hard time figuring out which body part I'm looking at...
HTH
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
happy
That one has a nice neck....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
FFS who would EVER set it to the equivalent of "I only work for one hour"
Toby Fair, of the 8 hours I spend in the office each day, I only work for one hour...
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
It's still going to check if you're using the computer before doing so at any other time.
So that it can point and snicker when it interrupts you?
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
It's still going to check if you're using the computer before doing so at any other time.
So that it can point and snicker when it interrupts you?
I heard it pops up Clippy who says "Lovely spreadsheet you have open there... be a shame if someone closed it without saving".
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@loopback0 "I have corrupted your spreadsheet. Pray I do not corrupt it further."
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Molly, look, one of the seven wonders of the world.
UnimpressedYou just need to turn your head slightly to look at it.
#meh #princess.
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Ugh. When I have to maintain API and "normal" sets of endpoints for things...
They duplicate the other's functionality. For some reason.
Filed under: Todo: Pull this stuff into one controller
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
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Molly, look, one of the seven wonders of the world.
UnimpressedYou just need to turn your head slightly to look at it.
#meh #princess.E_WONDER_NOT_FOUND
On Error Resume Next
E_WONDER_NOT_FOUND
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@Tsaukpaetra Ah, MVC and Web API in the same project? Yeah, that is a ballache. They've fixed that in ASP.NET MVC 6, but that's built on ASP.NET Core (or whatever they're calling it now), so switching to it is a bit awkward.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Ah, MVC and Web API in the same project? Yeah, that is a ballache. They've fixed that in ASP.NET MVC 6, but that's built on ASP.NET Core (or whatever they're calling it now), so switching to it is a bit awkward.
Yeah, apparently a lot of things were updated in MVC 6, including things like Bower.
I'm... not enthusiastic for recreating this site in MVC 6 though for the sake of enjoying... things...
Nope, not keeping that train of thought, too busy, need to get ready for an Alpha in February!
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Status: explaining webpack to a friend who is learning react. so far the resemblance with that article about learning javascript is unsettling
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Status: All reality checks are currently passing!
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: explaining webpack to a friend who is learning react. so far the resemblance with that article about learning javascript is unsettling
Which article is that?
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
i remember it was discussed somewhere here
Ooooh, right. That one. My favorite part of it all:
-Yeah, but apparently in the web we love making things complicated and then going back to the basics. We do that every year or so, just wait for it, we are going to do assembly in the web in a year or two.
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
we are going to do assembly in the web in a year or two.
Already done last year.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
we are going to do assembly in the web in a year or two.
Already done last year.
Not quite:
WebAssembly has reached the Browser Preview milestone
And that's exactly why I find it so funny. It is totally reasonable for someone to think that the author's taking the piss with that one, but they're completely serious. And it's something I look forward to because it has the potential to make things better, despite the superficial of it.
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Status: I wrote a shell command and now I will start running it and go to bed.
It all fits on one line!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I wrote a shell command and now I will start running it and go to bed.
It all fits on one line!
Ya know more than half of that would be gone if you'd have
cd
'd into the directory, right? :/Or, failing that, setting a nice small environment variable...