http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7162&msg_id=7162 Happy birthday, idkfa! I think this makes you 14 years old. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Sat, 03 Sep 2016 15:00:29 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7162&msg_id=7162 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7121&msg_id=7121 Happy Birthday, idkfa! I think this makes you 13 years old. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:36:49 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7121&msg_id=7121 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7117 [...] kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:52:36 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7117 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7116 I figured it was related to the server implosion. kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) idkfa Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:49:58 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7116 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7115 (sigh) Yeah. Something about the server upgrade back in mid-July torched that particular piece. Either some default date formats drifted, or it just failed too many times and the Cel.ly thing gave up on it. Glad to hear it's back up now. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:26:49 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7115 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7114 I got a notification for this one, but not previous ones. kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) idkfa Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:17:26 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7114 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7113 Testing, testing... trying to see if the feeds for this thing are still working... kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 10 Aug 2015 02:26:58 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7113&msg_id=7113 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7096&msg_id=7098 So far, the glaring stuff is taken care of. If you see anything else amiss, let me know. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 16 Jul 2015 02:57:10 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7096&msg_id=7098 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7096&msg_id=7097 [...] kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) idkfa Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:35:43 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7096&msg_id=7097 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7096&msg_id=7096 All: idkfa server was emergency-migrated overnight, which ended up breaking a whole bunch of stuff. Might be a few days before I can fix it. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:32:50 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=7096&msg_id=7096 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6988 Bahaha. Good work. Reminds me a little of zip bombs, just unintentional. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:32:07 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6988 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6987 In one of our modeling programs, we found some sort of overflow bug that probably hasn't been reported before. We sent trouble tickets in to Autodesk and they said that was brand new for them. For whatever reason, because our file size was so large, when booting the program it would hang up. It filled the ~80gb open on my hard drive in about 10 minutes. Fun times. kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) idkfa Mon, 06 Apr 2015 12:02:01 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6987 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6986 So, I implemented this around December 15th of last year. This meant that as part of the idkfa database, I was storing the images that would be captured using this proxy mechanism. This meant that the idkfa database would grow along with the number and size of the images used. Cut to a few months later. First, I run out of files on my backup server (you would think 45 million would be enough). I fix this, only to find that it was masking another problem: I was running out of space almost every week. I know I wasn't adding *that* much more information to the applications I was backing up, but *something* was killing my storage over time. Turns out, it was this. Storing 89MB of information each day (GIFs aren't the most efficient format), this slowly ate through my 60GB backup partition. I've now changed my backup routine to only store a week's worth of idkfa backups. Still, though. Small changes, vast consequences. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:00:27 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6986 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6868 A cause for celebration! Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:58:39 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6868 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6867 its the little things that make living worth it MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) idkfa Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:20:43 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6867 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6865 So, taking down another long-standing complaint. Two things were happening: Images would get taken down from imgur on occasion, and forever be broken images. When trying to view a large thread (like the pinned thread), image loading would repeatedly reflow the page, causing the comment box to jump repeatedly. This made viewing the entire thread difficult unless either you waited for all of the images to load, or you viewed the thread's contents one-by-one. I've now got a sort of image proxy going on idkfa. It will rewrite the img tag in your post, and rewrite it so that it goes through a slapped together proxying service. The image's width and height with be recorded, and will be used to hard-code the width and height of images prior to loading, stopping the browser from reflowing each time a new image would load. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:28:56 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6865&msg_id=6865 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6859&msg_id=6859 idkfa's hosts are being weirdly draconian about what they consider "spammy" posts. My post about RAID arrays was apparently too much for it. It was irritating enough that I did something about it. I've implemented a sort of weird workaround. It more or less just encodes/decodes data before it passes things along, and the process *should* be invisible. Except for the back button. The back button kinda doesn't work. And you'll see a flicker of the data as it is encoded. But otherwise, business as usual while I figure out how to fix this more permanently. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 15 Dec 2014 04:17:41 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6859&msg_id=6859 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6697&msg_id=6697 Happy Birthday, idkfa. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:30:15 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6697&msg_id=6697 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6682&msg_id=6683 Sorry for the brief interruption. For the record, I paid my bills. They just forgot. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:42:13 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6682&msg_id=6683 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6682&msg_id=6682 [...] kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) idkfa Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:40:34 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6682&msg_id=6682 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6264 Looooooooooool Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:36:36 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6264 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6263 I'M HELPING kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) idkfa Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:21:22 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6263 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6262 Thank you. We're done here. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:10:05 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6262 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6259 Agreed. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:54:50 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6259 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6258 Lol. SPAMGUARD FAIL. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:53:24 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6258 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6254 Warning: the idkfa server hosts have implemented an incredibly annoying security feature.Essentially: any content being sent to the server (posts, etc.) are scanned in a similar way that one scans email for spam. Depending on the content of your message, certain words or combinations of words may put you over the threshold of what my hosts consider suspicious content. If so, you will recieve a "403 Forbidden" message, with no indication as to why.Unfortunately, there isn't much I can do about this at the moment. I will try to research and see if there's a way I can be exempt from this. For the time being: try to sound less like spam. Thanks. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:51:45 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6254&msg_id=6254 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5241 Apparently scatology does not curry the gods' favor. kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) idkfa Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:38:54 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5241 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5240 I'll give it to you, if you want. NOOOOO RETREAT TO THE WEST kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) idkfa Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:22:38 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5240 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5239 [...] kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:09:23 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5239 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5238 Was it pooping?? Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:09:06 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5238 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5237 BAHAHA. I saw that. kitacek@idkfa.com (kitacek) idkfa Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:02:32 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5237 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5231 Also, clicking on the "1st," "2nd," "3rd" status counter hyperlink next to the status text will bring you to a search list of statuses for a given item. Hopefully to make it easy to see all current and past statuses, and times between them. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:06:31 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5231 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5223 Also, the "auto updating" feature for this now works. So you can sit. And watch. And wait. For statuses. (shrugs) kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:39:58 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5223 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5217 Nope. pr0n name and lead actor. And penis length and/or cirCUMference. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Tue, 09 Jul 2013 02:05:18 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5217 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5215 Expect a deluge of updates about my pr0n? Oh, no wait. Where I am. That'll be a little more helpful, won't it? conrad@idkfa.com (conrad) idkfa Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:55:58 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5215 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5214 SPDCA: Status As I think I mentioned, I'm not super happy with the direction Google is taking their chat/IM/Hangouts thing. Nor do I really care for the timelines from Facebook, or the arbitrary limitations of Twitter. But really, it's Gchat/Hangouts that's bugging me the most. It's nice that they have video, voice, and SMS chat. And "offline delivery." And integrate seamlessly into the rest of the Google ecosystem. But they fucking with something I didn't realize I missed until it was gone: Status Indicators. ... Why? I don't really know. Maybe it's because I spent my formative years logged in to an IM service. Maybe I don't care to see a feed, or a stream, or a timeline. Maybe I just want a list of the latest updates from people. At a glance. Maybe I'm just angry that even the old Gmail chat client only stored the history of your last three (or five?) custom statuses. Anyhow. idkfa now has a sort of status mechanism (also accessible via the "Statuses" link in the top navigation). Use this however you see fit. If you want to post random movie quotes or song lyrics, great. If you want to post which album you're listening to currently, also great. If you want to tell us where in the world you happen to be because otherwise we would have no idea, that would also be swell (you know who you are). I've set up the item called "State Machine." Status posts are not included in the "latest post" window, but will appear in searches and also appear "unread" if you haven't read them yet. If you want to exclude the "State Machine" item, you can remove it from the results with "-item:17" kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:49:23 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5214&msg_id=5214 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5047 SCROLL TO IT JOSH. Well, that's sort of a fun thing: I am. At least, I do the best job that I can, given the random content I'm displaying. There are two display mechanisms on idkfa: "Classic" mode, the "1995-style bullshit" that displays one post at a time according to user selection, as well as that post's relative position in the thread. "Full" mode, where all replies in a thread are rendered in full. For classic mode, browser scrolling isn't an issue: you're only every displaying 1 thing, and that thing is at the top. For full mode, this becomes a problem, as the contents of a post can change the geometry of the thread after a page has loaded. For instance: a thread full of dozens of hilarious, hand-picked GIFs that load slowly even over a broadband connection. Even though I can tell the browser "Go to this inline bookmark called thread_NNNN," the browser can only do so accurately at the time that I ask it (meaning, I can tell it to focus anywhere on the page, but that point can change according to user action, dynamic changes to page elements, or late-loading page elements changing the geometry of the page). So, I do scroll for you, but it only works well when there are relatively few page geometry changes after the initial page load. If you look at the thread display page's HTML source, you'll see the following code (with actual commentary): // Little hackish... but so is everything else. Event.observe( document, 'dom:loaded', function() { if( window.location.href.indexOf( '#thd_' ) == -1 ) { window.location = window.location + '#thd_5043'; } } ); This script binds an event handler that triggers when the programmatic underpinnings of the rendered page are available for manipulation (the kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:15:29 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5047 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5046 Which is some 1995-style bullshit, right? Where's my Web 5.0?! conrad@idkfa.com (conrad) idkfa Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:23:46 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5046 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5045 Crockett is correct. He wins. I ask this because I will click on what i hope is a hilarious GIF, and then other items load and make it move down the page so I have to scroll to it. SCROLL TO IT JOSH. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:51:12 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5045 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5044 Methinks he probably means this thread. All the pinned images (that aren't special announcements, ala Sammich and Kitty), which appear in oldest-first order. Where's my prize?! I translated Erik-thought into English first this time! conrad@idkfa.com (conrad) idkfa Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:22:11 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5044 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5043 What do you mean by "when viewed together?" kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:12:30 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5043 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5042 Why are the images you post to the front page, when viewed together, in oldest first sorting order? Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:06:28 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=5042&msg_id=5042 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4606 I keep coming back to this thread. I generated these numbers/graphs because I found an interesting way to generate them. Now, unfortunately, my brain is drawing uncomfortable conclusions that are hard to ignore. First: I apparently have a fairly consistent productivity/burn out cycle. I work feverishly on a project, and then tend to not return for months, if at all. The new idkfa rendering system, the game projects, and the novel writing tool projects, all seem to follow about the same cycle, and towards the end I burn myself out, and afterwards either do nothing, or find another project to focus on. I understand why certain projects are exciting to me. I don't understand why I pursue them when they are interesting/relevant to so few people (and usually, only to me). I'm excited about them as I'm working on them. But it's rare, if ever, that I'm happy about the time I spent doing them afterwards, much like how a painter is never happy with their work, and never feels they are finished. My sense of satisfaction, while greater than zero, rarely matches the time investment. It's hard to justify a hobby that takes 4-5 hours a day (or more), particularly as the graphs show that they take weeks or months before I eventually burn out. I maintain a functional routine: I pay my bills, clean my house, mow my yard... but more often than not, I'm merely meeting the bare minimum of what's required, and never feel like I'm getting ahead of things. The goals and routines I try to adhere to (exercise routines, reading, family and social commitments, etc.) limp along while I apologize for them and go on nattering about seen/unseen posts on idkfa. Recently, I thought back on my telecommunications simulation game, which got me thinking about interesting possibilities for the game again. What if part of your "mini-game" was pointing cell phone towers in real-time to capture the most customers at any one time? What if you kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:56:30 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4606 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4583 I try to be only a little evil in my various projects, despite the evil bits being so very interesting. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:50:02 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4583 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4582 That's a lot less evil than I was expecting. conrad@idkfa.com (conrad) idkfa Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:37:59 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4582 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4581 Just a poor man's "dynamic DNS." Cron job on servers at home, webpage to listen and record source IP, and a page to display history and hostnames of anyone using the service. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:10:40 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4581 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4580 I'm not sure I want to know the answer, but....IP tracking tool? conrad@idkfa.com (conrad) idkfa Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:15:08 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4580 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4579 Probably only interesting for the programmer/statistician types out there, but I got it in my head I needed graphs for this, and here they are. Lines of Code, One line per project, linear scale: Lines of Code, One line per project, logarithmic scale (so v3 doesn't take up quite as much space): My thought was to visualize the rate at which I code on my personal projects. I figured out how to pull this sort of data from my archives, but alas, I can only count changes for the time during which I was collecting my archive versions. June 15th, 2011 is my earliest date, through the present, and some of the smaller, simpler projects that haven't changed much reflect this. One should also note that "lines of code" is a notoriously poor metric for the size or complexity of a project. In some cases (v3 being one), I have tons of legacy code that I simply leave in place because I'm loathe to find out what subtle things might break if I remove them. There are also testing scripts, mock-ups, prototypes, etc., that find themselves in the codebase which I keep around in case I need them again. Much of these are simply "copy-pasted," with slight modifications made. That said, as it is, I have almost 30,000 lines of code I'm developing against or maintaining over the last few years. v3, going from ~7000 to ~12000 lines of code has probably seen the most work, while some of my other projects (some I've exposed, some I have not) come in close second. My adventure game framework attempts share maybe 50% of the same codebase, but vary wildly after that. My collaborative, distributed wiki/novel-writing system consists of almost entirely new code, using only a few utility methods from some of my other projects. Finally, there are other projects outside the codebases listed here, the exercise bike/video integration project, an AlaskaUSA statement export parsing program, a secure password kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:45:52 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4579&msg_id=4579 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4559&msg_id=4560 My hero! Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:46:18 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4559&msg_id=4560 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4559&msg_id=4559 I was informed of a "delay" when it comes to editing posts. I believe I now have this fixed. Let me know if it is not the case. EDIT: 63ms of lag... unacceptable. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:22:37 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=4559&msg_id=4559