The Official Status Thread
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
Stat: One of chirp the smoke detectors in our house has a dead battery chirp so it's beeping every thirty chirp seconds or so. It's 3:30 in the chirping morning, so I'm not inclined to chirp hunt it down. (Yes, they're also wired chirp into mains power, the 9V batteries are for backup.)
Just start a fire. The small every-30-seconds chirp will go away.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS:
Today I actually read through Donald Trump 's twitter for the 1st time. All else put aside, he sounds like a retard. Or like he's speaking to retards
I'd do the meme, but we know how much he hates Mexican imports.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Top ten!
Okay, I'm behind the times. What the hell is this thing, and why are you so invested in it?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Top ten!
Okay, I'm behind the times. What the hell is this thing, and why are you so invested in it?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
the 9V batteries are for backup
Save yourself the trouble in the future, always give it a new battery every Christmas. A small gift that you too will appreciate.
The local fire department always puts up "Reminder: Change your fucking battery you gob" signs around daylight savings time. "Change your clock, change your battery"
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Top ten!
Okay, I'm behind the times. What the hell is this thing, and why are you so invested in it?
I'm confused at the lack of context around the screenshot of this video game. Can you explain more?
{posts a contextless link}
I don't know why I expected any different.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Top ten!
Okay, I'm behind the times. What the hell is this thing, and why are you so invested in it?
I'm confused at the lack of context around the screenshot of this video game. Can you explain more?
{posts a contextless link}
I don't know why I expected any different.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Top ten!
Okay, I'm behind the times. What the hell is this thing, and why are you so invested in it?
I'm confused at the lack of context around the screenshot of this video game. Can you explain more?
{posts a contextless link}
I don't know why I expected any different.you could have said that as context in the first place....
actually it would be preferable if you did.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Top ten!
Okay, I'm behind the times. What the hell is this thing, and why are you so invested in it?
I'm confused at the lack of context around the screenshot of this video game. Can you explain more?
{posts a contextless link}
I don't know why I expected any different.you could have said that as context in the first place....
actually it would be preferable if you did.
He had an Alien Swarm screenshot phase on here before.
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@accalia around the time when he stopped posting DF screenshots he started posting Reactive drop screenshots.
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia around the time when he stopped posting DF screenshots he started posting Reactive drop screenshots.
Actually, mostly Guild Wars 2 screenshots, but there were probably some Reactive Drop ones in there as well.
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia around the time when he stopped posting DF screenshots he started posting Reactive drop screenshots.
He stopped posting DF screenshots?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia around the time when he stopped posting DF screenshots he started posting Reactive drop screenshots.
He stopped posting DF screenshots?
He also stopped posting videos of the dfai.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
He had an Alien Swarm screenshot phase on here before.
and that changes my point that contextless links and images are less than useful and have caused me in the past to call him, quite justifiably, Jeff Jr.?
I know he knows how to type words and it literally takes thirty seconds extra to type:
I maked this
linkas opposed to just copy/pasting:
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Thanks to changes in the political environment over the past few decades, it is now impossible for me to search the Internet and find posters/flags for the 1970's heavy metal band Rainbow.
Like these?
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
Jeff Jr.
whoah, that was harsh
yet entirely justified.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Change your clock
My clock changes itself. Thanks NTP !
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I wish I had been alive for that. Must have been a hell of a show!
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
My clock changes itself. Thanks NTP !
Oh, so how many times have hackers turned on your microwave?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
the 9V batteries are for backup
Save yourself the trouble in the future, always give it a new battery every Christmas. A small gift that you too will appreciate.
The local fire department always puts up "Reminder: Change your fucking battery you gob" signs around daylight savings time. "Change your clock, change your battery"
Here they use first of Advent for this, which is when most people start trying to set their houses on fire.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
My clock changes itself. Thanks NTP !
Oh, so how many times have hackers turned on your microwave?
Hackers have killed all the trans-hookers I've ever brought home.
THANKS A LOT IOT!
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Here they use first of Advent for this, which is when most people start trying to set their houses on fire.
They should use July 4th.
LET'S DRINK BEER AND SHOOT ROCKETS OUT THE WINDOW FROM THE LIVING ROOM!
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
LET'S DRINK BEER AND SHOOT ROCKETS OUT THE WINDOW FROM THE LIVING ROOM!
Are you sure you're Canadian? You think real good!
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, so how many times have hackers turned on your microwave?
My Microwave doesn't run Windows
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
and that changes my point that contextless links and images are less than useful and have caused me in the past to call him, quite justifiably, Jeff Jr.?
You just need to pick up more context from other threads.
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
and that changes my point that contextless links and images are less than useful and have caused me in the past to call him, quite justifiably, Jeff Jr.?
You just need to pick up more context from other threads.
no, no i don't.
I am not going to read each and every post on this site for context to a link.
I will not act happy when someone posts a context less link and expects me to just get it because "it's obvious".
If someone does not respect my time to actually answer my questions without assuming that i have all the context they have then i shall return the favor when i inform them that they have been less than helpful.
And if you want to get pissy about it when i do it to you then my all means do so. But do not be surprised when I do not accept the same from you when you get pissy because I ask for an extra thirty seconds of effort to provide a modicum of context from someone who already had to spend at least that much time to acquire the image meme, image and/or link that they are using to answer a question I asked. Because I find it incredibly rude to simply post a context link, image, or meme and just expect me to understand.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
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yeah. i don't know what you're trying to say, but given what you're replying to and given the lack of words i am assuming that it is intended to be rude.
Good day to you too.
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At our sprint planning today it turned out that we aren't able or allowed to start on most of our highest priority work. Instead we've got something that won't provide any business benefit for two years, something we've already pretty much got a minimum viable product for but can add some more bells and whistles to, and the cool shiny new project. Which is officially 'paused' for reasons of pure and idiotic bureaucracy but we're finding excuses to keep working on it because pausing it is stupid. We also have some technical debt.
The thing that we have two years to do is to be done in Informatica ETL, about which I don't even know enough to open the existing code and look at it because I've got no idea what kind of files Informatica development produces or how to work the PowerCenter tools.
The minimum viable product is quite new and interesting and I was working on that last sprint and just getting the hang of it. There's a thing I'd not quite finished which I'd love to keep working on.
The cool shiny new project is cool and new and shiny and I'm all tooled up to work on it, because I was working on it before last sprint. The senior dev who's pretty much coordinating it said at planning that he'd like any resource we could spare this sprint.
Being as I couldn't help with the two-years-in-advance thing, I dared to hope I'd be allowed back into the land of shiny newness. Or failing that to keep working on the same as last sprint. Or if they didn't need me for either of those that I could at least work on some technical debt within my skillset.
Hah. No, I'm to spend this sprint learning Informatica. I mean, it is true we need more resource with that skillset, but that doesn't make the prospect any more pleasant. At the moment I'm just trying - and largely failing, hence this post - to concentrate on reading the Getting Started guide (which doesn't seem great but none of the tutorials Google could supply me with were any good at all).
I'm supposed to shadow one of the people who knows the tool but one of them I know is really averse to anything resembling pair programming and the other I've hardly spoken to half a dozen times since she joined the team and she doesn't say anything to me. I don't know enough to know what questions to ask, I need her to volunteer stuff. I already tried to approach her but got told she's not doing anything she can show me at the moment; I don't want to keep bugging her as she's got a heavy workload this sprint but at the moment I have no idea at all whether she's expecting me to keep asking whenever I want to see anything or she'll come to me when she's able to show me stuff.
Not that I'm exactly looking forward to it. It'll go one of two ways: either I'll be say behind her squinting to see her screen without sitting close enough to get in her way and trying to read and understand code I've never seen anything remotely like before at the pace of someone who works with it every day, or she'll have to slow down or stop her work, when she has a heavy workload this sprint, to give me a beginner's course. Either way, we're going to have to be at her desk and I'm not going to be able actually do anything. I'm not good at spending extended periods of time listening to explanation without tuning out and daydreaming, and even less good at processing and understanding how-to explanations without being able to pause and actually do the things as I go along.
And right now I'm having an anxiety attack about how painful the next 9 workdays are going to be and how little I'm going to achieve, and as a result I'm having one of the sensory-overload episodes I get, worse than I have in quite a long time, and everything is uncomfortable, almost at the point of intolerable.
Status: feeling sorry for myself.
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@accalia to be honest I don't know what that picture means either, but your rant was too good not to follow it up with a random image of a disgrunted frog in rain just to tease you.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
and that changes my point that contextless links and images are less than useful and have caused me in the past to call him, quite justifiably, Jeff Jr.?
You just need to pick up more context from other threads.
no, no i don't.
I am not going to read each and every post on this site for context to a link.
I will not act happy when someone posts a context less link and expects me to just get it because "it's obvious".
If someone does not respect my time to actually answer my questions without assuming that i have all the context they have then i shall return the favor when i inform them that they have been less than helpful.
And if you want to get pissy about it when i do it to you then my all means do so. But do not be surprised when I do not accept the same from you when you get pissy because I ask for an extra thirty seconds of effort to provide a modicum of context from someone who already had to spend at least that much time to acquire the image meme, image and/or link that they are using to answer a question I asked. Because I find it incredibly rude to simply post a context link, image, or meme and just expect me to understand.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
and that changes my point that contextless links and images are less than useful and have caused me in the past to call him, quite justifiably, Jeff Jr.?
You just need to pick up more context from other threads.
no, no i don't.
I am not going to read each and every post on this site for context to a link.
I will not act happy when someone posts a context less link and expects me to just get it because "it's obvious".
If someone does not respect my time to actually answer my questions without assuming that i have all the context they have then i shall return the favor when i inform them that they have been less than helpful.
And if you want to get pissy about it when i do it to you then my all means do so. But do not be surprised when I do not accept the same from you when you get pissy because I ask for an extra thirty seconds of effort to provide a modicum of context from someone who already had to spend at least that much time to acquire the image meme, image and/or link that they are using to answer a question I asked. Because I find it incredibly rude to simply post a context link, image, or meme and just expect me to understand.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
LET'S DRINK BEER AND SHOOT ROCKETS OUT THE WINDOW FROM THE LIVING ROOM!
Are you sure you're Canadian? You think real good!
A friend's husband does photography for the Fire Marshal. Post-fire documentation.
His busiest days are the day after any firework-friendly holiday.
It never fails. Someone living in an apartment will think it's a great idea to shoot fireworks from their balcony. And then will either:
- Hold the firework backwards, launch into the apartment, and burn the place down
- Get lazy, sit on the couch and aim out the window-- miss, ricochet back into the apartment, and burn the place down.
Turns out + makes anyone stupid, regardless of nation.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, so how many times have hackers turned on your microwave?
My Microwave doesn't run Windows
My Microwave only as Doors.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Packing for my move this week, and I KEEP FINDING COMPUTERS! At last count I am up to 10 desktops and laptops, two tablets, and five Raspberry Pis. It might be time for an intervention.
Nah. It's just a good start. I still have my Win95 laptop that can only do 640x480. It works. (well, for various definitions of win95 and working...) I turn it on every couple of years - "huh, still runs..."
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I just received another email that the same RMA had been processed again and will be delivered tomorrow and that they no longer had that model in stock so they upgraded to a newer model.
Infinite upgrades. I'm jealous...
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Save yourself the trouble in the future, always give it a new battery every Christmas. A small gift that you too will appreciate.
Crap, that's what I forgot to do... No chirps yet...
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, so how many times have hackers turned on your microwave?
My Microwave doesn't run Windows
I think mine must run tizen. Changing the clock time means it resets to 0:00 first.
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Boss is out of town at an event for work. He emailed me today to check in, made a joke, i pretended not to get the joke and interpreted it as serious, he apologized for being less funny on the west coast..... so i replied with this:
ahe he he he he he he he he he he......
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
and that changes my point that contextless links and images are less than useful and have caused me in the past to call him, quite justifiably, Jeff Jr.?
You just need to pick up more context from other threads.
@lucas1 alt detected!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
and that changes my point that contextless links and images are less than useful and have caused me in the past to call him, quite justifiably, Jeff Jr.?
You just need to pick up more context from other threads.
@lucas1 alt detected!
E_TOO_FEW_DRUNK_SPELLARS
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
and that changes my point that contextless links and images are less than useful and have caused me in the past to call him, quite justifiably, Jeff Jr.?
You just need to pick up more context from other threads.
@lucas1 alt detected!
E_TOO_FEW_DRUNK_SPELLARS
Nah, just the Jekyl side.
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Status: Just handled a cold call from some guy wanting to handle our custom software development. Even after telling him that I do the custom software development for the company, he tried digging into what we have and what our plans are.
Dude, when you are asking to handle custom software development and you find out the guy you are talking to is an in-house developer, you probably don't have a chance. They are only going to hire out if they need to at that point. A cold call isn't going to work.
Although, maybe I should have strung him along for a free lunch β¦
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status: I'm gonna be a star! Or whatever...
Just finished filming for a promotional thing about our experiences in porting our Win32 app into Centennial.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status: I'm gonna be a star! Or whatever...
Just finished filming for a promotional thing about our experiences in porting our Win32 app into Centennial.
Linky plz! I was going to do this myself (porting Task Manager to the Hololens, don't think I'll be successful)!