The Official Status Thread
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Will y'all quit trying to get a rise out of each other? It makes for some sour dough.
What, do we need more culture? A starter for a new conversation?
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@Atazhaia C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
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@loopback0 #bringbackki
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Status: Why does marking your LinkedIn profile "no longer open to opportunities" have to wipe out your preferences?
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Status: it saddens me that I am too tired to fully appreciate, and partake in the spot of bun puns.
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@Carnage It's okay to feel kneaded. It happens to all of us.
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This might have been the longest chain-o-puns in the recent WTDWTF history
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@Applied-Mediocrity Brot-ly speaking, that was pain-ful.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity Brot-ly speaking, that was pain-ful.
You like pretending it's punful, but it's clear you're pun of us
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Everything you know is wrong.
Black is white, up is down and short is long.
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My car is struggling to find something nice to say about my driving.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My car is struggling to find something nice to say about my driving.
Mine just goes "holy crap you got 28.1 MPG this run! Oh too bad, your actual estimated tank efficiency is only 24 MPG though... And also that number is off by 11 percent."
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@Carnage
Sometimes real life just toasts your buns.
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Status: While I'm actually not that worried about the virus, on the off chance that everyone is told to stay inside and stop going to restaurants and such, I think I should buy a nice bag of rice.
I used to have some on hand all the time a few years back, but I've been lazy. Maybe I'll be less lazy.
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@Luhmann well I have to go shopping this week, and I'll be making it a big trip to stock up for the league start anyway, so I should grab some more tasty things.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
I should grab some more tasty things.
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
a nice bag of rice.
..... My sense of taste clearly needs updating...
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@Tsaukpaetra okay, I may be a rare case for a white person, but plain white rice is one of my favorite foods. And its easy to store!
But I'm also thinking about toppings: it's easy enough to whip up a peanut sauce or something to make it much more incredible.
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Status: Got my old passport back. What am I supposed to do with that?
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: While I'm actually not that worried about the virus, on the off chance that everyone is told to stay inside and stop going to restaurants and such, I think I should buy a nice bag of rice.
Eh, if restaurants (and delivery) closes, no bag of rice is gonna help me:
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Status: At home, waiting for the chimney sweep. Who doesn't actually sweep chimneys, since we're in $current_year, but just inspects the gas heater.
Had to take two hours off for this, but at least it's not the usual "some time between 8am and 6pm (March 10th to September 1st)".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Got my old passport back. What am I supposed to do with that?
It can be insanely useful if it has the stamps of a visa (or other long-term admittance permission) for some country in it. Being able to prove that you have passed the checks required rather than relying on some random bureaucracy not losing your records, that's a clear ace in the hole.
If you've not got any of those things, it's not very useful.
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status Around here we have this 'electronic document' website that is used by several companies to dump digital versions of documents you would otherwise receive by letter. I years and a few companies back I was slightly forced to use it because it was the place to consult your digital pay stats on. You can link it, through authenticating with your eID, with the digital mailbox(s) the government uses. So that instead of keeping track of your online settings with MinFin (IRS) and RSZ (Social Security) you get all documents in one place. Great idea! But as such things Governmental go it goes sideways somewhere along the line ...
(from the digital platform thingy) There is a new document from MinFin in your document store! Logon to our website or open our app to read it.
: Great! They handled my taxes, let's see how much I get returned. Logon to the website and click on the new document it proposes.
This is a high sensitive document and you should authenticate with your eID.
Alright then I guess my tax return is sensitive information. But it's not like it's more secret then the pay slips that are right below, is it? Luckily I activated this app that acts as a 2factor for the eID authentication so I don't actually need to go and get my ID, put it in the reader and do this silly dance with Chrome, the government software and those certificates. So I authenticate and open the document.
: This is a message from MinFin to inform you that we have calculated your taxes, to view the result follow this link.
Ok I'll follow your damn link.
: Welcome to MyMinFin! Choose your language to continue:
: le sigh
: please login with your eID to continue!
: for the love of ... authenticates using the app
: Welcome ! You have a new message in your MyMinFin box!
: Yes, yes I would like to read the message by now. Clicks on link.
Hi, We have calculated your taxes. To view the result follow this link.
: really? follows link. PDF opens with the exact document like it used to be mailed.
: Hi, If you like you can setup your contact details under settings so we can inform you directly when a new message arrives.
:So the actual document couldn't be in the document store thing like other companies do, could it dear ? No, you send me a document to reference your website where you have a message that references the document. And nobody things this is a bit too much?
ps: if you are on the MyMinFin website and don't go to the message but click on the giant button 'MyTax' it gives you the status of your most recent tax and a link to the damn document.pps: it's not the only government department that does this. Social Security bozo's are even worse. Last time I had to retrieve a message from them I had to jump to even more hoops just to confirm it was the same document I already received by .
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Who doesn't actually sweep chimneys, since we're in $current_year, but just inspects the gas heater.
We have a real chimney sweep as well as a gas installation inspection, done by different workmen. The wonders of having both a coal fire and gas central heating.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
a coal fire
wouldn't it be safer to just put the fire out instead of letting it rage?
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Status: Wow, a stock that I have paid a 1 cent dividend this morning.
I don't think my track record is too terrible but I clearly made a bad call expecting steel stocks to rebound when the Dow fucking tripled.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra okay, I may be a rare case for a white person, but plain white rice is one of my favorite foods. And its easy to store!
But I'm also thinking about toppings: it's easy enough to whip up a peanut sauce or something to make it much more incredible.
I'm not a fan of plain white rice, but it's pretty good when other stuff (meat, fish, sauces, etc) is added
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
wouldn't it be safer to just put the fire out instead of letting it rage?
Safer, but missing the point (being to provide heating).
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not a fan of plain white rice, but it's pretty good when other stuff (meat, fish, sauces, etc) is added
Basmati rice is quite a lot tastier, almost to the point where it needs no flavouring. Ordinary long grain rice is dull.
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@dkf ordinary long grain rice is awful. Medium at most. Long grain rice is only any good for curry.
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status: no....
Nnnnoooooooooo!!!!!!
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Status:
05:30 SOME_ENV <job> is timing out
08:20 arrived in the office, laptop started up
08:40 That looks like a database problem.
09:00 You can't just call everything a database problem.
15:10 Congratulations everyone, we found the source of the database problem and everything is OK again.It's not that I have a problem with being wrong. It's that I so rarely am.
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Status: yeah, I need a new battery...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
05:30 SOME_ENV <job> is timing out
08:20 arrived in the office, laptop started up
08:40 That looks like a database problem.
09:00 You can't just call everything a database problem.
15:10 Congratulations everyone, we found the source of the database problem and everything is OK again.It's not that I have a problem with being wrong. It's that I so rarely am.
Granted, we knew it definitely was a database problem well before noon, and I was hardly the only person spending most of his day on the problem.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
a coal fire
wouldn't it be safer to just put the fire out instead of letting it rage?
They can't. (that fire is almost as old as I am!)
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I just saw a job ad for a "programist".
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I just saw a job ad for a "programist".
That's someone who plays programs.
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@PleegWat The last job where I was a DBA, the Indians used to fall back on "something is wrong with the database" all the time. They were half right. Yes, stuffing the database full of lousy procedural logic is a problem. No, there's no patch we can install or magic setting we can tweak to fix it.
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@Zenith
For some reason, the coders never like the answer "yes, your code" to the SIWWTD diagnosis
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Status: Trying to convince front line support to escalate my ticket to network operations and/or their peering partner, rather than scheduling a service call.
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...but why
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I just got a call from the dealership that the vehicle I inquired about was sold and is no longer available.
I know. I'm the one who bought it.
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@anonymous234 people like cringe. Maybe it's like asmr (the real kind)
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Status: Are there any car blogs/vlogs that aren't lies? I've tried everything to get this stupid metal clip out of my rearview mirror. I'm ready to just glue it back on as-is and duct tape it in place while the glue dries.
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Status: Just started the pre-meeting call, and (thankfully not recorded) we're talking about triple-Ds and spinal injuries.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Nnnnoooooooooo!!!!!!
Ffuuuccccccckkk, it's working on me!
But for $5/mo I get effectively $20 equivalent in rewards, so....
argggh! Brain! Stop it!