The Official Status Thread
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
my galileo thermometer
My dad always named our thermometers "Arthur".
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I love the Kardashians!
Almost as great as our love for Rodman!
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Later I realized it was probably in
weird degreesnormal degrees, notnormal degreesweird degreesFTFPATMU
Celcius is better for science, no question. Everything's nicely decimal with sane limits. Really you should use Kelvin for that, though.
Fahrenheit is better for every-day life, however. The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly). That's -17.7 (repeating) C to 37.7 (repeating) C. Those are awkward limits. And one degree C (at about 2 F) is a large change, so the difference between 70 F (cool for a house) and 72 F (normal) is just about 1 C. You end up using non-integer degrees because the step-size is too big.
Yes, it's so nice to see at a glance if I have to worry about ice on the streets in the morning. Wait, weren't we talking about every-day-life?
And since your upper limit seems to be based on body temperature, that's a very rough boundary. And too high to boot.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly). That's -17.7 (repeating) C to 37.7 (repeating) C.
The coldest you want is -17.7° Celcius ?
Then you should never cross the border into Canada.
Last December was horrible
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Later I realized it was probably in
weird degreesnormal degrees, notnormal degreesweird degreesFTFPATMU
Celcius is better for science, no question. Everything's nicely decimal with sane limits. Really you should use Kelvin for that, though.
Fahrenheit is better for every-day life, however. The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly). That's -17.7 (repeating) C to 37.7 (repeating) C. Those are awkward limits. And one degree C (at about 2 F) is a large change, so the difference between 70 F (cool for a house) and 72 F (normal) is just about 1 C. You end up using non-integer degrees because the step-size is too big.
Yes, it's so nice to see at a glance if I have to worry about ice on the streets in the morning. Wait, weren't we talking about every-day-life?
And since your upper limit seems to be based on body temperature, that's a very rough boundary. And too high to boot.
No, it's based on experience. In dryer climates (like where I grew up), 90 F is annoying, 100 F is ugh. 100+ is "going outside is crazy talk." Here in Florida, 85 is annoying, 90 is ugh, and 95+ is painful. In very dry climates, 110 is doable in the shade. Those are all within about 10 degrees of my "rough estimate."
And in my experience, you don't get persistent ice on the streets until the temperature stays well south of 0 C for a while. Point estimates do very little. But 32 F is chill, 20 F is bad, 0 F is "probably don't want to go outside unless you have to", -10 F or below is Nope weather.
I've been out in -20 C (-4 F) at ~100% relative humidity--that was the worst weather-related experience of my life. My apartment in that city had this giant crack under the window (and above the radiator) and averaged about 15 C that winter.
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@timebandit Yes, we know Canada is a frozen wasteland inhabited only by White Walkers. And Tim Horton stores. No real humans live there
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly).
I'd rather have 100 F than 0 F, so I moved to Texas.
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@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly).
I'd rather have 100 F than 0 F, so I moved to Texas.
Yeah, having lived in Florida for a while my body's recalibrated. When I went to my sister's wedding a couple years ago in Idaho during the "spring" (April) it was 40-45 F with 15 mph winds. Reminded me why I don't live there anymore.
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@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly).
I'd rather have 100 F than 0 F, so I moved to Texas.
We unfortunately get everything in the Midwest. 105 F with 100% humidity in summers, -5 F with -20 windchill in winters. It's the worst of all worlds, in terms of weather.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly).
I'd rather have 100 F than 0 F, so I moved to Texas.
We unfortunately get everything in the Midwest. 105 F with 100% humidity in summers, -5 F with -20 windchill in winters. It's the worst of all worlds, in terms of weather.
Yup. So I moved to Silly Valley. Too many people (who can't drive!) or that weather... still not sure which is better...
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@mott555
Probably Placebius.
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@dcon
At least you don't have to deal with the shitty drivers in that weather?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon
At least you don't have to deal with the shitty drivers in that weather?Yes I do. And then when it does rain*, it's better to just stay home.
* The definition of rain out here means we got 0.01" of moisture in the day. Seriously.
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@dcon that sounds like Tampa. Bad drivers, getting worse in the rain (which never happens in Florida </sarc>).
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@dcon
Psh. Rain. Call me back at 5-9" of snow between 0400 and 0600.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon
Psh. Rain. Call me back at 5-9" of snow between 0400 and 0600.One snowflake would paralyze Tampa for the day. That's only a small exaggeration.
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status TIL. Visual Studio works differently in Chinese.
We have a file with a string
const LPCTSTR x = _T("¶");
in it (yeah, bad idea). On an English system, it compiled fine. On Chinese, VS complained about the file encoding.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon
Psh. Rain. Call me back at 5-9" of snow between 0400 and 0600.I remember driving in the midwest when we had 4" of rain in one hour. Some of that rain was horizontal. I don't miss those storms.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
you don't get persistent ice on the streets until the temperature stays well south of 0 C for a while
Risk of slippery spots is largest between +5°C and -5°C. The colder things get, the more solidly they freeze, and at some point the pressure of the car's weight is insufficient to melt the ice.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
you don't get persistent ice on the streets until the temperature stays well south of 0 C for a while
Risk of slippery spots is largest between +5°C and -5°C. The colder things get, the more solidly they freeze, and at some point the pressure of the car's weight is insufficient to melt the ice.
Makes sense. Worst ice is ice with a little water on top. But to bring that around, that's a 18 F temperature range (23 to 41). 41 is cold, but not heavy parka weather, 23 is medium parka and gloves (depending on humidity). 0 F is heavy parka, gloves, and hat. And scarf. And get someone else to go outside for you. (I jest. A little.)
I've been out in -40 F, but it was so dry it didn't feel so bad. Still really cold, though.
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Edit:
Yeah, perhaps not. @ben_lubar / @julianlam , why is forking 37 posts to a separate topic so difficult?
Thread unlocked again.
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Status: It's working!
Anyway, so my actual status:
Bleach 2 is much easier now that I'm older. Challenges are still brutally hard at times (you ever tried to catch 80 butterflies in 30 seconds?) but my skill is far higher than it was when I was younger.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly).
I'd rather have 100 F than 0 F, so I moved to Texas.
We unfortunately get everything in the Midwest. 105 F with 100% humidity in summers, -5 F with -20 windchill in winters. It's the worst of all worlds, in terms of weather.
And my ex-wife is planning to move there. She'll love it. She has such a narrow comfort range that I'd swear she can be too hot and too cold at the same time.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It's working!
No, it really isn't. It's getting as far as creating somewhere to put them. Then dies.
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Rrgh. So, I got three(!) mail addresses at my company, although I only use one. atazhaia@branch.company.se (the one I use) atazhaia@company.se (which I've never used) and atazhaia@parentcompany.se (which I've poked at once). First is handled by Gmail and the other two by Outlook. The three also use different credentials, and ofc a mail was sent to the second, which I don't have the password for because it's probably the temp password I threw away after setting up the stuff I actually use. Everyone else here has linked it to the branch address, but I never was informed of the fact I had more than one. The third I figured by deduction, after I was told we had a central Microsoft account for stuff, and I actually could log into it when I tried.
So, yeah, now I need to get a new password for the second account because... Well... Why doesn't it use the same login as the SSO solution by Microsoft that we got for the planning tool anyway? Although the Google account uses a different password and... Blargh! Fuck it, I'm going home.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Rrgh. So, I got three(!) mail addresses at my company, although I only use one. atazhaia@branch.company.se (the one I use) atazhaia@company.se (which I've never used) and atazhaia@parentcompany.se (which I've poked at once). First is handled by Gmail and the other two by Outlook. The three also use different
I think you some words.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
bolded text****
this really isn't hard.
Since you're a certified Dump Berson, I'll illustrate.
- Open up Word
- Type some words.
- Press CTRL-B
- Type some more words. They are bold.
- Press CTRL-B
- Type some more words. They are not bold.
That is how word processors and WYSIWYG editors work.
but this iz a website and that's diff--
Shut the fuck up and go to https://www.tinymce.com/docs/demo/basic-example/ and do the same steps. It works.
So until such time as this fucking editor behaves correctly, I will continue to enter the correct keystrokes, and let the resultant error be a constant reminder of it's shame.
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Filed under: red boob
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uhh
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@greybeard said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Literally the only people using it will be developers, and we can handle
For a longtime member of this forum, you sure have a lot of confidence in developers.
I said developers, not Paula.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: In Canada for a few days on business. Minor list of WTFs:
Minour.
- Got interrogated by four different customs officers who asked a million questions about my trip and asked me to elaborate every time I mentioned something they didn't understand regarding my employer and the purpose of the trip. Sorry, but it's an absolute waste of everyone's time to explain AFDX to customs officers.
You can thank your asshole government for that. Ain't used to be no grilling and shit at the border, but then your paranoid asses all went "OMG TRRISTS MAKE B ORDERS HARRDD!!!". Then our asshole government complied.
- My cell phone does not work here. I hope nobody needs me for anything.
I'd say get a pay-as-you-go SIM card, but literally every monthly no-contract plan is shit. The reception is shit, the amount of data you get is shit, and the price is astronomical. Just use WIFI and everyone who wants to reach you can fuck off. Or call the hotel.
- The cops wear body armor but are unarmed...
Almost any peace officer in Canada wears body armour. Probably since the mid-90s? As for them being unarmed, are you sure you didn't see a parking enforcer or a transit officer? Alberta is the reddest of provinces. You can bet there's heat packed.
- Calgary is a complete ghost town. There's no traffic and no people anywhere. I'm slightly worried our plane was hijacked and sent to a North Korean set town in order to steal information about open avionics protocols from us.
That's because you're in Calgary in the middle of winter. It's probably minus seven hundred degrees. The roads get so cold that salt stops working. People stop driving.
As for pedestrian traffic, you're the only idiot dumb enough to be outside. Everyone who lives in the city who needs to get around is in the +15. Look up. See those walkways? Yeah, those connect pretty much every building in the city. They're indoors, heated, and that's where the people are.
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Anyways, enjoy your stay. I'd normally have places to recommend, but my whole stay in Calgary was spent at the Stampede in the summer, so I didn't see much of the city.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: it sounds like fuckin' voodoo, but I read that stainless steel will chemically neutralize raw onion smell on your hands. Soo, since I'd just finished dicing a pungent couple of onions, and the smell was so powerful I could taste it, I decided to give it a shot.
It true. It also works for garlic. The molecules that make the stink-chemicals in garlic and onions bond to stainless steel.
"You could get the same results from a stainless steel ladle, a pair of tongs, heck, this board scraper will do the same job and might I add it will do a lot more." - Alton Brown
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
bolded text****
this really isn't hard.
Since you're a certified Dump Berson, I'll illustrate.
- Open up Word
- Type some words.
- Press CTRL-B
- Type some more words. They are bold.
- Press CTRL-B
- Type some more words. They are not bold.
That is how word processors and WYSIWYG editors work.
but this iz a website and that's diff--
Shut the fuck up and go to https://www.tinymce.com/docs/demo/basic-example/ and do the same steps. It works.
So until such time as this fucking editor behaves correctly, I will continue to enter the correct keystrokes, and let the resultant error be a constant reminder of it's shame.
If you typed it as you described, you would've ended up with this:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
status
Yes! Firefox Mobile still supports image.animation_mode
In other words, fuck you, @tufty****
not this:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
statusbolded text****
Yes! Firefox Mobile still supports image.animation_mode
In other words, fuck you, @tufty
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@swayde What? The OP has a downvote. Justly earned, I think.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: it sounds like fuckin' voodoo, but I read that stainless steel will chemically neutralize raw onion smell on your hands. Soo, since I'd just finished dicing a pungent couple of onions, and the smell was so powerful I could taste it, I decided to give it a shot.
It true. It also works for garlic. The molecules that make the stink-chemicals in garlic and onions bond to stainless steel.
"You could get the same results from a stainless steel ladle, a pair of tongs, heck, this board scraper will do the same job and might I add it will do a lot more." - Alton Brown
I didn't buy anything. I just rubbed my hands on the closest stainless steel to the kitchen sink. ... which just so happened to be the kitchen sink.
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@benjamin-hall If you can't remember a few numbers then all the fiddling with scales in the world won't help you anyway.
My point is: Your system is cumbersome for anyone not intellectually challenged.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
If you typed it as you described, you would've ended up with this:
Type some words type some more wordsbolded text****
Okay, so I mentally automatically press END because my cursor isn't at the end of the line.
My point is it should add that extra
bolded text****
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@lorne-kates But END makes me go to the bottom of the page...
(fuck cursor navigation on macs)
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
If you typed it as you described, you would've ended up with this:
Type some words type some more wordsbolded text****
Okay, so I mentally automatically press END because my cursor isn't at the end of the line.
My point is it should add that extra
bolded text****
Right. And when I push Ctrl B here, I type the bolded text and then automatically press 'end' because the cursor isn't at the end of the line. ****
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Status: Apparently not...
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@tsaukpaetra They are ALL critical
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
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How fucking hard is it to not put extra
*
in your posts?
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
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How fucking hard is it to not put extra
*
in your posts?Good! So we're in agreement.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
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How fucking hard is it to not put extra
*
in your posts?Good! So we're in agreement.
You're the idiot who put
****
in hisbolded text**** post. I never put extra stars in my post. NodeBB does. Idiot.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
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How fucking hard is it to not put extra
*
in your posts?Good! So we're in agreement.
You're the idiot who put
****
in hisbolded text**** post. I never put extra stars in my post. NodeBB does. Idiot.Whatever.****
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Mods: please change link to goats
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@ben_lubar Hey now, @boomzilla is an okay guy!
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Hey now, @boomzilla is an okay guy!
But, is he 502 OK?