The Official Status Thread
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d by @FrostCat and myself
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d by @FrostCat and myself
How could it be a when I quoted you and @FrostCat? I posted that to clarify @FrostCat's "IIRC."
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or, occasionally mansion block (in British English)
So they're to blame for the fact that Japan uses manshon as often as apaato. I think they mean different things there, but as usual, it's because of the British.
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I posted that to clarify @FrostCat's "IIRC."
I did some additional quick googling and it seems like everyone has their own definition in the US of what "flat" means but I did some looking at the issue last year and like I said, it seemed like people were differentiating between flat-style apartments and non-flat-style apartments, where, as I said, one tended to have a hall and the other didn't, but I don't remember which is which.
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Status: Brake line ruptured on the way home from work. I made it to the Chevy dealership 1/2 mile away from home to drop it off, and they gave me a 2015 Silverado as a loaner. This thing has more Blinkenlights and computer screens than a Star Trek set!
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And more seat belts!
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Marginally, yes. My Silverado is a 5-seater, this one's a 6-seater.
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Status: My lunch container seemed to have a bit of dish soap mixed into my food. I'm not picky so I ate it anyway, but now my breath smells like dish soap. I hope I don't start belching up soap suds.
It has been 7 hours since lunch and I'm still belching dishsoap flavors...
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I think this is getting into TMI territory.
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Status: Today I had 4 hours to talk business with a CEO I really respect and admire. To make it in to a programming metaphor, it would be like spending 4 hours talking about programming and drinking scotch with Raymond Chen.
Good day.
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This post is deleted!
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I hate Discourse.
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Status: in the subtitles to Justice League on Netflix, when someone's firing a laser gun, the subtitle actually reads "pew pew pew"
Edit: also "vroom" for cars, "whoosh" for Superman flying... it's pretty amazing.
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Status: The site logo randomly switching to the circle-only version on
/latest
irritates me a little.
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a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor
That would be a maisonette here
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Forgot about those ... I used to work with these big plug-in isa or PCI carts that had a 468 on it
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@HardwareGeek said:
a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor
That would be a maisonette here
I live in a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyneside_flat]Tyneside flat[/url], and it's definitely not called a maisonette.
Of course, that's in a terrace composed entirely of upstairs-downstairs pairs, each flat having its own front door and number (as opposed to 34a and 34b), so arguably it's one big block of many flats. But front and back yards are one per pair, so I'd say each 'house' in the terrace has two flats.
Edit: well I sould read what I link more carefully:
After World War II, the maisonette developed as a similar form of housing, as flats above each other but with no shared entrance. Many legal definitions of these later maisonettes also encompass the Tyneside flat.
But no-one ever calls them that.
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But no-one ever calls them that.
Must be a regional thing. I've never heard of tyneside flat. Of course, I've never been to Tyneside, so that might explain it
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I've never seen the twin front doors before. The maisonettes I'm familiar with are semi-detached and have a regular front door on the front for the downstairs, and brick staircase on the side leading up to the front door of the upstairs. These 2 dwellings each have their own house number.
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Status:
Extremely tempted to link to servercooties.com and/or discopædia.net ...
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Status: Trying to figure out how to disable Avast so I can read the thread about a false-positive with Avast.....
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Status: Just had the minutes from this morning's management meeting (which I don't attend).
This week $NAME came from America. $NAME has fixed bugs in the Software whilst he has been here.
Who? What software? What bugs?
Also, you all need to know:
we will be looking for a 5 minute window at 1pm on Friday 5th June to take the Internet down.
So consider yourselves warned. I think we need to give the new minute taker a bit more training.
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Status: Trying to figure out how to disable Avast so I can read the thread about a false-positive with Avast.....
WONTFIX_ASDESIGNED
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I need a mixin semantic in my node.js code. I don't have it. All I can do in my object model is pure inheritance.
I can invent it, but at this late stage, it's too much effort for too little gain.
It's copy-pasta time!
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*looks around*
At home, in my apartment in Merkun where else would I be?I thought you lived around Manchester*?
I can't find Merkun in google maps....
Status: to trying to re-fold google maps to fit back in the glovebox.
*Actually, haven't been nosey/creepy/ stalker-y enough to remember more closely than UK
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Status: I am done for today. My brain is mush. No more work.
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Status: Just had the world's biggest bowl of rice pudding for dessert. This afternoon is going to be tough.
Rice pudding
[poll]
- Jam in first
- Jam in last
- ERR_JAM_NOT_FOUND
[/poll]
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Noodle
[poll]
- Jam in first
- Jam in last
- ERR_JAM_NOT_FOUND
[/poll]
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Group sex
[poll]
- Jam in first
- Jam in last
- ERR_JAM_NOT_FOUND
[/poll]
Filed under: You were asking for it
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Around here, a flat is a single-level domicile, typically 5-10 per level along a gallery with a large central staircase, often including an elevator.
An apartment is also single-level, but usually in smaller groupings with only 2-4 per level, directly adjacent to the staircase.
A maisonette is multiple-level, often occurring at the top level of an apartment building with the second level under the roof.
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when someone's firing a laser gun, the subtitle actually reads "pew pew pew"
Personally, I prefer a soft "screeee" on the sending end and a sizzling sound on the receiving end when it comes to laser weapon sound effects, but that's just me. (I suppose it's better for the look on the recipient's face if all they see is a colored dot accompanying them getting cooked alive, for that matter. ;) )
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Where's the "bug eye pudding is disgusting" option?
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I moved 10 donuts and 5 doughnuts to a new topic: Cop Talk
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I moved 4 posts to an existing topic: Cop Talk
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Personally, I prefer a soft "screeee" on the sending end and a sizzling sound on the receiving end when it comes to laser weapon sound effects, but that's just me.
Would that be an X-ray laser (with the red dot just for targeting)? Those things are awesome! (Keep them away from me though…)
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a few bitcoin cents or whatever they are called?
Now you have me wondering... What's the correct abbreviation for 1000 of those? Is that a kibitcoin cent or kilobitcoin cent?
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How dare you. You take that back.
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Status: So close to weekend! And nothing to do, really.
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Status: Cyberparts ONLINE!!!
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more than half an hour for sure. Also:
Status: In project Spartan, you can't see your own message when you reply from a phone!
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Status: I want to go hoooome ....
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WTB real life jellypotato?
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Status: I want to go hoooome ....
Trade you? I want to go to work. Looking for a job is boring. (Working often is, too, but it pays a lot better.)
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Trade you? I want to go to work. Looking for a job is boring. (Working often is, too, but it pays a lot bette
Qft.
I'm going to have to go job hunting in 1+ 1/2 month. I absolutely hate it.
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Status:
Error: [object Object]
Sigh... JavaScript stuff everywhere and it all fails in the same way...
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Status: counting down the minutes to quitting time (possibly literally, depending how my interview goes on Monday)