The Official Status Thread
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status: guess what I rediscovered!
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Don't those boxes belong to @Zenith?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
When I worked at a gas station forever ago the lottery scratch cards had little letters in between the game elements that told us at a glance if it was a winner or not.
Now that sounds like an invitation for store owners to pre-sort the scratch cards.
The letters were underneath the scratch-off stuff, so it'd be pretty obvious someone was messing with the cards.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: guess what I rediscovered!
Anyone want some RAM?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
I re-invested 100% of all my lifetime winnings in scratchers.
Me too.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
In some of the cities around here (San Jose), the homeowner is even responsible for fixing cracks in the sidewalk.
Can verify. I used to live in San José. If a city-owned tree planted on city-owned property (the strip between the sidewalk and the street) cracks the city-owned sidewalk, the homeowner is financially liable for the repair (by a company contracted to the city; no DIY). And the homeowner can't remove, trim, or otherwise prevent the tree from damaging the sidewalk; he/she/they would have to pay for replacement if the tree was killed or very seriously damaged (although, at least when I last lived there, there was a reasonable chance the city would replace it with a species with less invasive roots, to reduce the likelihood of future sidewalk damage), and probably a fine.
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Drove to Oklahoma for a booty call. Worth it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
I re-invested 100% of all my lifetime winnings in scratchers.
Me too.
Again, 0/0 is indeterminate; not zero, not 100%.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: guess what I rediscovered!
Anyone want some RAM?
No, thanks. I'm good without random crashes for unknown reasons even after I remove that die.
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Status: hey everyone, I defeated the final boss
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: one of the gifts I received was a scratcher. I don't play those games because I'm not that retarded, but just so I'm feeling good about my conclusion, this card is completely useless, right?
No idea, I've got three scratchers in various white elephant gift exchanges around the office (seems popular) and I've just thrown them out. Thing is, my state's lottery doesn't allow claiming prizes anonymously. Would it be worth winning if you were subject to harassment for the rest of your life?
Is there anything in the US that doesn’t subject you to exposing all your data publicly and being spam called 24/7?
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@kazitor happy new year. May it not bring us the zombie apocalypse.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: one of the gifts I received was a scratcher. I don't play those games because I'm not that retarded, but just so I'm feeling good about my conclusion, this card is completely useless, right?
No idea, I've got three scratchers in various white elephant gift exchanges around the office (seems popular) and I've just thrown them out. Thing is, my state's lottery doesn't allow claiming prizes anonymously. Would it be worth winning if you were subject to harassment for the rest of your life?
Here in CA, it has to be above some dollar amount (can't remember what) before they collect info. Otherwise you just exchange the ticket for cash at the place that sells them - no questions asked.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor happy new year. May it not bring us the zombie apocalypse.
I'll only believe that on 2021-12-31. As far as our county/state are concerned, 2021 is the new 2020.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
As far as our county/state are concerned
My sympathy. California would be a nice place to live, if it weren't for the people and politicians.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
California would be a nice place to live
if it wasn't for everything giving you cancer
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: hey everyone, I defeated the final boss
BTW, how are koalas doing?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Is there anything in the US that doesn’t subject you to exposing all your data publicly and being spam called 24/7?
No. The general justification is "We publicize your win so other people know they can win too!"
I do stand corrected though-- apparently a law was passed in the past year that prizes over a certain (huge) dollar amount can be claimed anonymously.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: one of the gifts I received was a scratcher. I don't play those games because I'm not that retarded, but just so I'm feeling good about my conclusion, this card is completely useless, right?
No idea, I've got three scratchers in various white elephant gift exchanges around the office (seems popular) and I've just thrown them out. Thing is, my state's lottery doesn't allow claiming prizes anonymously. Would it be worth winning if you were subject to harassment for the rest of your life?
Is there anything in the US that doesn’t subject you to exposing all your data publicly and being spam called 24/7?
Voting. You can do that completely anonymously
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Is there anything in the US that doesn’t subject you to exposing all your data publicly and being spam called 24/7?
No. The general justification is "We publicize your win so other people know they can win too!"
In Poland, they only announce which dealership the winning ticket was bought at.
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Status: GTFO, 2020
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@izzion You're in the US, right? 2020 still has a few more hours to smash your mailbox and do donuts on your lawn
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: one of the gifts I received was a scratcher. I don't play those games because I'm not that retarded, but just so I'm feeling good about my conclusion, this card is completely useless, right?
No idea, I've got three scratchers in various white elephant gift exchanges around the office (seems popular) and I've just thrown them out. Thing is, my state's lottery doesn't allow claiming prizes anonymously. Would it be worth winning if you were subject to harassment for the rest of your life?
Is there anything in the US that doesn’t subject you to exposing all your data publicly and being spam called 24/7?
Voting. You can do that completely anonymously
No, that that’s apparently not anonymous was in part what I was referring to. (The previous complaints about “hey you voted for <either party> before so we thought we’d
ankochtetannoy the fuck out of you”)
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@topspin that's voter registration. Another thing that doesn't make a lick of sense to a European. Everyone knows everything about everyone, except the government.
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Status: my phone has a "screen stabilization" feature that wobbles the apparent display in accordance to the phone's sensors.
Unfortunately the poll rate isn't fast (apparently) and the effect is lagged behind any positional changes such that I think i understand people who get Nautilus in VR...
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion You're in the US, right? 2020 still has a few more hours to smash your mailbox and do donuts on your lawn
I fully expect the war to begin once the sun goes down.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Is there anything in the US that doesn’t subject you to exposing all your data publicly and being spam called 24/7?
No. The general justification is "We publicize your win so other people know they can win too!"
In Poland, they only announce which dealership the winning ticket was bought at.
Reseller, probably?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
ankochtet
Fuck you, autocorrect. I’m not drunk enough (because this NYE isn’t worth it) to write that.
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Status: Happy New Year 2021 from the future, or the past, or whatever depending on if you’re in the Americas, Australia, or anywhere in between.
Let’s hope this year will be better, with the incredibly low bar the last year has set, but don’t get too excited too early.
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Status: broke the motherfucking power switch on the UPS that was powering the security cameras.
The switch is a single-pole double-throw, which means that since the switch is now floating, the unit is in a constant error state and thus always beeping.
Repairs on the original switch have failed spectacularly.
Now attempting magic.
I hate attempting micro electronics surgery with my fat meat sausages....
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Nappy Yew Hear!
2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
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Get fucked, 2020.
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Status: I answered a Facebook ad posted by a lady a bit ago, selling something that I've been... doing without, for quite some time. I made a special request of her, which was a bit more pricey than I thought it would be, and got rather more than I expected... and now I'm in a bit of a moral quandary.
So what I'm saying is, I found someone selling baklava for what I thought was "a bit pricey, but it's been so long and I'm just so tempted." And I paid a bit extra to deliver a bit further outside her usual radius. It turns out that I was ordering 24 pieces of baklava, and I'm supposedly on some sort of diet, so it wasn't the best move I ever made.
(Other Status: still pining for a family friend's baklava, two states away. She made very nutty baklava, which I like more than the stuff I just bought.)
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Status: Working on NYE. Fun times. But I did wound, if not slay, the sendmail dragon. And realized that the interaction between Jenkins and git is even more than I'd thought and that a big chunk of what we'd done relied on developers not working on the same repository at the same time (or at least building right after they push, with no intervening pushes). Implemented a total hack workaround.
Pondering: am I :doing_wrong: if I wrote a javascript hack script to create a bunch of horribly-duplicated json objects and write them to a file using Node? Probably.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Pondering: am I :doing_wrong: if I wrote
If you have to ask...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Working on NYE.
#MeToo I have about 22 minutes left until I'm off the clock for the year. But at least I'm not in NYC. That would be awful.
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2020 is 100% complete! Thank you for following, and have a nice 2021!
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2021 is 0% complete.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
a javascript hack script to create a bunch of horribly-duplicated json objects and write them to a file using Node
If you really want to do something you'll regret tomorrow, stop that nonsense and go get drunk like normal people!
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
a javascript hack script to create a bunch of horribly-duplicated json objects and write them to a file using Node
If you really want to do something you'll regret tomorrow, stop that nonsense and go get drunk like normal people!
Sounds like he got drunk and then thought of that...
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
a javascript hack script to create a bunch of horribly-duplicated json objects and write them to a file using Node
If you really want to do something you'll regret tomorrow, stop that nonsense and go get drunk like normal people!
Sounds like he got drunk and then thought of that...
Not drunk drunk, just metaphorically punch-drunk.
The other options were mucking around in python, bash, or writing the set via copy paste. All roughly 100 of them (30+ sets of 3, each only changing a few things). And it's a node.js project anyway, so all the tools were there and JSON's pretty easy to manipulate in JS.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Repairs on the original switch have failed spectacularly.
Now attempting magic.
I hate attempting micro electronics surgery with my fat meat sausages....Repairs completed using donor switch. However the error beeping persists.
Apparently the power supply part logic board has failed.
Whelp!
And the clincher for why I'm trying to repair instead of replace is, the power cord to this unit plugs into a currently inaccessible wall outlet (due to a multitude of Christmas decorations being in front of it). So unless I want to move and put away all that, and then move the chest in front, and then the actual shelving unit, it's just not going to be done.
Guess I'll just have to leave one camera unplugged...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I think i understand people who get Nautilus in VR...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
he clincher for why I'm trying to repair instead of replace is, the power cord to this unit plugs into a currently inaccessible wall outlet
Wait. You mean you didn't unplug that thing from the mains before trying to replace the power switch?!
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I think i understand people who get Nautilus in VR...
nauseous. I do not know how to spell it...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
he clincher for why I'm trying to repair instead of replace is, the power cord to this unit plugs into a currently inaccessible wall outlet
Wait. You mean you didn't unplug that thing from the mains before trying to replace the power switch?!
the power switch is apparently more a suggestion than an actual disconnect. The actual power switch is (apparently) controlled by a relay.
But it's an easy way to determine if it's still working! I had to focus harder after touching.... 😊
But that's besides the point.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Get fucked
True fact: that was objective 6 for this year. I almost came close, but the pieces just did not come together.
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