How I got locked out of my appartment
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@gurth I honestly didn't know there was a difference. Dutch 2nd floor in my case though.
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@thame90 In the USA, the ground floor is floor 1. In England, the ground floor is floor 0, and floor 1 is the first story up from ground level.
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@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Dutch 2nd floor
I thought you said it was level
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@hungrier I also said in later comments that part was translated wrong on my part. I used the term in the wrong context.
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@hungrier said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
A quote from that page:
Dutch refers to a bastardisation of the word "Deutsch", the German word for "German". It is not related to the Dutch people or language.
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@masonwheeler said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@thame90 In the USA, the ground floor is floor 1. In England, the ground floor is floor 0, and floor 1 is the first story up from ground level.
It's fun living in a European-style numbered building in the USA. The main entrance and lobby is "G", and the floor above that is "1". My guess is that it's because Floor 1 is street level; the driveway goes downhill to the lobby entrance.
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@dragnslcr Yes, hills make for odd numbering.
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@dragnslcr said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@masonwheeler said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@thame90 In the USA, the ground floor is floor 1. In England, the ground floor is floor 0, and floor 1 is the first story up from ground level.
It's fun living in a European-style numbered building in the USA. The main entrance and lobby is "G", and the floor above that is "1". My guess is that it's because Floor 1 is street level; the driveway goes downhill to the lobby entrance.
So, what, the highest floor is "T" for "top "?
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@pleegwat said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@gurth Surely programmers think zero-based everywhere?
So youβre saying: English 2nd floor.
@timebandit said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Not VB programmers
AppleScript, you mean:
set myVar to item 1 of {"foo", "bar"}
returns"foo"
.@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@gurth I honestly didn't know there was a difference. Dutch 2nd floor in my case though.
Verdieping or etage, in that case? :P (One is equivalent to American floor numbering, the other to British, even if just about everybody seems to confuse the two these days.)
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@timebandit said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@pleegwat Not VB programmers
Arguably, VB programmers don't think
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@gurth Though in Dutch they mean the exact same thing.
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@jaloopa said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
VB programmers don't think
they just spaghetti along
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@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@gurth Though in Dutch they mean the exact same thing.
Technically, verdieping No. 1 is the one above the ground floor, while etage No. 1 is the ground floor β even if, like I said, this distinction is hardly ever made anymore.
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@gurth I've always known them to be synonyms of eachother. Not meaning something different. With verdieping being around from the 1500's meaning any space located between a floor & a ceiling.
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@hungrier said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
or...good lord, so much crap.
So I tried to read the linked website on my phone. I got about a sentence in, then a malicious ad popped up an alert to tell me that I should claim my prize. Upon dismissing it, I got redirected to a page pretending to be Facebook. The page then proceeded to said out loud, using the Android voice synthesiser, "Congratulations." Oh, and to top it all off, it rewrote the history so I could not go back.
And this is why I will never feel bad about using
AdBlockuBlock Origin on my PC.
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@deadfast said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@hungrier said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
or...good lord, so much crap.
So I tried to read the linked website on my phone. I got about a sentence in, then a malicious ad popped up an alert to tell me that I should claim my prize. Upon dismissing it, I got redirected to a page pretending to be Facebook. The page then proceeded to said out loud, using the Android voice synthesiser, "Congratulations." Oh, and to top it all off, it rewrote the history so I could not go back.
And this is why I will never feel bad about using
AdBlockuBlock Origin on my PC.Ugh yeah. I used to read cracked.com articles on my phone when I got bored, but recently they seem to run ads that just redirect my phone browser to whatever kind of scam site (and rewrite the history ofc so I can't go back). I stopped reading cracked articles now.
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@tsaukpaetra said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@dragnslcr said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@masonwheeler said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@thame90 In the USA, the ground floor is floor 1. In England, the ground floor is floor 0, and floor 1 is the first story up from ground level.
It's fun living in a European-style numbered building in the USA. The main entrance and lobby is "G", and the floor above that is "1". My guess is that it's because Floor 1 is street level; the driveway goes downhill to the lobby entrance.
So, what, the highest floor is "T" for "top "?
nope.
P
, forPenthouse
.Hugh Hefner spends a lot of time on the top floor of various buildings because of that.
Or so I assume.... I would be shocked and impressed if at 91 he's still interested in the ladies that also occupy the penthouses he visits the way @Perverted_Vixen is interested in just about anything that moves and is above the age of consent.
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@masonwheeler said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
In the USA, the ground floor is floor 1. In England, the ground floor is floor 0, and floor 1 is the first story up from ground level.
So when Mick Jagger says "I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block", is that the hundredth story in the US because he said "block", or has he already done to the conversion because he says "apartment" instead of "flat"?
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@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
nope. P, for Penthouse.
I thought
P
was forParking
?
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@deadfast said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
nope. P, for Penthouse.
I thought
P
was forParking
?when it's on the bottom floors, yes. when it's on the top floor, no.
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@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@deadfast said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
nope. P, for Penthouse.
I thought
P
was forParking
?when it's on the bottom floors, yes. when it's on the top floor, no.
But what about the top floor of a parking garage?
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@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@deadfast said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
nope. P, for Penthouse.
I thought
P
was forParking
?when it's on the bottom floors, yes. when it's on the top floor, no.
Yes, I suppose that kind of parking would have to be
H
forHeliport
. Still, what if a building has both a car park and a penthouse?
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@deadfast said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@deadfast said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
nope. P, for Penthouse.
I thought
P
was forParking
?when it's on the bottom floors, yes. when it's on the top floor, no.
Yes, I suppose that kind of parking would have to be
H
forHeliport
. Still, what if a building has both a car park and a penthouse?well..... i don't see many of those buildings, but most of the ones i do see tend to have the parking underground so the floors would probably go:
B4 B3 B2 B LL L 2 3 4 5 6 ... 101 102 103 P H
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@accalia Most of the buildings around my place are 10 floors, max. Excluding an optional parking level below. I guess the flatness of Holland reflects upon us in more ways than only the landscape.
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@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia Most of the buildings around my place are 10 floors, max. Excluding an optional parking level below. I guess the flatness of Holland reflects upon us in more ways than only the landscape.
to be fair buildings with a hundred plus floors is pretty rare over here too.
in fact where i am i'm pretty sure is closer to me right now than a building that's taller than even 40 stories.
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@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia Most of the buildings around my place are 10 floors, max. Excluding an optional parking level below. I guess the flatness of Holland reflects upon us in more ways than only the landscape.
Is there a floor labeled
W
forWindmill
?
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@deadfast Not in my building, but apparently there is a hidden key-combo on the elevator which makes C for Cheese (well that would be K for Kaas).
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@masonwheeler said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@thame90 In the USA, the ground floor is floor 1. In England, the ground floor is floor 0, and floor 1 is the first story up from ground level.
And in Russia, floor 0 is below ground, but not low enough to be a basement level.
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@raceprouk HG?
Uh.. wait, that said UG.
Well it works either way.
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@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@accalia Most of the buildings around my place are 10 floors, max. Excluding an optional parking level below. I guess the flatness of Holland reflects upon us in more ways than only the landscape.
to be fair buildings with a hundred plus floors is pretty rare over here too.
in fact where i am i'm pretty sure space is closer to me right now than a building that's taller than even 40 stories.
i got curious.....
if it's in the darker blue circle it's closer to me than .... GODDESS DAMNIT TIM! STOP THAT!
if it's in the darker blue circle it's closer to me than space. But that's just to the KΓ‘rmΓ‘n Line What about at an altitude in space that we actually put stuff?
well that's where the lighter circle comes into place. that's the ISS altitude. Everything in it is closer to me than the ISS when the ISS is directly overhead
so.... yeah nothing over 40 stories betwwen me and the edge of space but.... lets see..... Montreal has a building that's 51 stories. Quebec city only has 33 stories as its top and boston has.....oh. interesting Boston has one that is 60 stories. that's taller than i expected. If i go out a biiiit farther i do encompass NYC which has a building that's 104 stories tall...... so..... yeah. fascinating
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@raceprouk Does it come with a manual? Man, as a programmer I really appreciate the Czech floor numbering system:
- -2
- -1
- 0 (Ground floor)
- 1
- 2
- 3
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@deadfast said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@raceprouk Does it come with a manual? Man, as a programmer I really appreciate the
CzechAustralian floor numbering system:- -2
- -1
- 0 (Ground floor)
- 1
- 2
- 3
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@deadfast I'm assuming that's low-to-high
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@raceprouk said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@deadfast I'm assuming that's low-to-high
Well I have since moved to Australia.
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You put an emojicon inside an emojicon inside of atitle
?I checked raw and it turns out turned
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into:confused[:/]:
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@hungrier That's... special
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@raceprouk Does that even work if it's entered that way? :confused[:/]: apparently so.
:fa_pencil_square_o[Edit]: Nobody cares but I've updated my emojicon script to incorporate this new development.
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:magnets_having_sex[It's the old, old story; magnet meets magnet, magnet becomes chameleon, magnet loses chameleon, chameleon turns into blob, magnet gets blob back again, blob meets blob, blob goes off with blob and magnet loses blob, chameleon and magnet. How many times have we seen that story?]:
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@dragoon said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
should of
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@deadfast said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
And this is why I will never feel bad about using AdBlock/uBlock Origin on my PC.
You can use uBlock on Android in Firefox.
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It seems skynet will be much dumper than portrayed in movies. Now I wish there was a realistic terminator-like franchise with much dumber and buggier AIs
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@raceprouk I once got totally lost in a building that had ground level as floor 3. It was under renovation to add a big basement (library), and the elevators hadn't been updated with the notation showing which is the floor with the exit. Spent quite a bit of time trying to get out. The construction and resulting detours didn't help.
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@benjamin-hall At my old university, the buildings were 1-based, starting from the basement level. Most of the buildings therefore had 2 as their ground floor, but one building had ground-floor exits on 1, 2, and 3, due to geography.
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@hungrier Yeah, this was a university library. I think most of them were like that, but it was usually clear what was the exit floor. This one was super confusing. Didn't help that I wasn't a student there at the time (just killing time waiting for my mom to finish up at a conference on campus).
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@deadfast said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I got about a sentence in, then a malicious ad popped up an alert to tell me that I should claim my prize.
I've been hitting that on a lot of links recently. Pisses me off - there's no way to read the article - I'm certainly not going to click anything on there and back closes the page.
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@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
when it's on the bottom floors, yes. when it's on the top floor, no.
<pretend link to elevator image with the buttons in weird non-sorted sort because I can't be bothered to search>
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