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@cartman82 Sounds like an excellent larvae.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
when it was time to save the task to flash drive, turns out his super-vegan linux isn't configured to handle USB properly, so we had to rsync the stuff out (rsync also wasn't installed)
How does he type. Aren't most laptop keyboard/trackpads internal USB at this point, or did he have an antique that used PS/2 still?
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
has a black tape over camera on his laptop
That one's not a big deal, IMO. The other stuff is straight out of that "Gentoo is for ricers" site.
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Status: I think the microwave directions were wrong. I just blistered the roof of my mouth with a really hot wiener.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat I don't recall that. Then again, I was like 13 and deep in the leetspeek phase, so brain damaged.
Tribes 2 became a decently solid game after like... 18 months of patches. But it took a long time before shit worked. And even after all those patches, the in-game art still showed the tank as having wheels, which always kind of made me laugh.
To this day I still say they should have taken Tribes 1, installed the Shifter V1 mod, and updated the models and textures, and just released that as Tribes 2. It would have taken a lot less time for them, and been a much better experience for their players. (Because the Tribes 1 engine fucking worked.)
Geek trivia: the Tribes 2 engine was called Torque. You might recognize it as the indie game engine that made a go at competing with Unity for about 6 months until it was apparent to everybody that Torque was kind of shit actually.
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@lorne-kates Ctrl+B
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
How does he type. Aren't most laptop keyboard/trackpads internal USB at this point, or did he have an antique that used PS/2 still?
His usb controller works, one of the ports managed to recognize the flash drive. But it got mounted in read only mode (I think), so he couldn't copy over any of the files.
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Status: Spent all day tracing down a false negative in an automated test.
Auxillary status: Still disliking shell scripts.
Plan for tomorrow: Fixing the actual bug that wasn't popping up in the test.
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Status: Final oral exams are next friday and four of them are in physics. As I'm the only (proper) physics teacher at my school, I'll be the main examiner. Another (maths) teacher will be the minute taker (he has passing knowledge of physics) and another will be the supervisor.
However, besides providing the question sheet, I also have to provide a "horizon of expectations" which is a rough outline of the expected answers to my questions.
As both other teachers are not physicists I find myself providing way too many explanations and images in this horizon - because I not only have to explain this to the pupils, but also to them. Thus a simple: "Dual slit has [foo] properties while optical lattice has [bar] properties" becomes a half-page essay.
Gah.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Thus a simple: "Dual slit has [foo] properties while optical lattice has [bar] properties" becomes a half-page essay.
I mean, that could easily be misinterpreted for a sex scene setup, so...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Thus a simple: "Dual slit has [foo] properties while optical lattice has [bar] properties" becomes a half-page essay.
I mean, that could easily be misinterpreted for a sex scene setup, so...
I'm not sure what's so sexy about an optical lattice but, hey, whatever floats your boat.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Thus a simple: "Dual slit has [foo] properties while optical lattice has [bar] properties" becomes a half-page essay.
I mean, that could easily be misinterpreted for a sex scene setup, so...
oral exams
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Notificatinception!
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Thus a simple: "Dual slit has [foo] properties while optical lattice has [bar] properties" becomes a half-page essay.
I mean, that could easily be misinterpreted for a sex scene setup, so...
I'm not sure what's so sexy about an optical lattice but, hey, whatever floats your boat.
If you don't know what it is, it could easily be a new type of fishnet.
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Status: I just saw a guy on a naked Ducati with a katana strapped to his back. Good luck fighting the vampires intrepid warrior.
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@polygeekery for extra fun, try moving the word "naked" around.
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I think I should try to learn to communicate in english. Is there any voice channel were you hang out?
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I should try to learn to communicate in english. Is there any voice channel were you hang out?
Is there a voice channel? Yes, there's a discord. Now how many hang out in it...
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@tsaukpaetra I'm considering calling random people and pretending to be trying to sell vacuum cleaners
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@sockpuppet7 why, what do you speak normally?
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@anotherusername You could just not give a shit about fake internetpointzzz.
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@sockpuppet7 Hit me up on the DailyWTF discord and I'll chat.
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@blakeyrat cool, do you have the link for that?
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Status: I follow a guy on Twitter who's "drinking around the world at Epcot Center" all day today and I'm unbelievably jealous.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername You could just not give a shit about fake internetpointzzz.
Or NodeBB could not clear unread notifications until I actually got around to looking at them.
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Status: Tornado warning and heavy rain. I look like I fell into a lake while fully-clothed. At least my day is over, getting wet at the start of the day would have sucked.
EDIT: According to the weather station, there is currently a 55% chance of rain. But looking out my apartment windows is just like being in those underwater tubes at the Baltimore Aquarium.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
For some reason, I have been logged out of TDWTF on my phone, and it refuses to log me in again,
"Some reason" was apparently my own carelessness and/or stupidity. I was messing about with cookie and local storage settings, and I somehow managed to unintentionally (I think) block all cookies on all sites. I think I already had an exception for TDWTF, but I didn't, or I accidentally disabled it, or something.
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: oh wait they fixed @Lorne-Kates bug.
No, he still seems rather buggy to me.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: oh wait they fixed @Lorne-Kates bug.
No, he still seems rather buggy to me.
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Status: Wondering why @fatbull 's avatar is an E...
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I'm considering calling random people and pretending to be trying to sell vacuum cleaners
do you sell industrial ones because i need some for my duct cleaning business
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering why @fatbull 's avatar is an E...
I'd make an "F with a dick" joke, but the
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Status: Either I stay up late and get a few more loot boxes before Overwatch Anniversary ends, or I wake up early tomorrow and catch the Nintendo E3 stream. Decisions, decisions...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Either I stay up late and get a few more loot boxes before Overwatch Anniversary ends, or I wake up early tomorrow and catch the Nintendo E3 stream. Decisions, decisions...
A few cans of monster, do not sleep at all and do both of these things, make up for lost sleep the next day?
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@stillwater Would that I could, but I have no Monster, I've run out of caffeine gum, and I don't want to fuck up my sleep schedule by falling asleep in the afternoon. I like the way you think though.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 why, what do you speak normally?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering why @fatbull 's avatar is an E...
Based on the URL format, it was uploaded in the Discourse epoch.
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@stillwater Hate coffee and sometimes need caffeine and the caffeine chocolate bars, while good, aren't the best for someone who doesn't get a ton of exercise.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
uploaded
which indicates the letter choice was intentional, since the CDN letters don't get transferred (right?)...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater Hate coffee and sometimes need caffeine and the caffeine chocolate bars, while good, aren't the best for someone who doesn't get a ton of exercise.
Don't y'all do Redbull anymore? Redbull was my goto for emergencies that require caffeine until it became a need-to-have-one-after-lunch-everyday kinda deal.
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@stillwater Chock full of sugars too. Same problem as the chocolate, basically. The gum is to the point, and I would be using caffeine pills instead if they sold them in the student store.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
caffeine pills
Ugh. Unpleasant memories. It wasn't the caffeine pills that caused the unpleasantness, but I can't think of caffeine pills without thinking of Solid-State Physics lab reports, ~3 hours of sleep in 4 days and 3 nights (IIRC; it was over 30 years ago), and the resulting hallucinations. Not a good combination. (I never did find out what the instructor thought of the reports I wrote while hallucinating. I wound up retaking the class.)
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@dkf Yes, thank you. Earl Grey, hot. Sugar, no milk. Do you have any scones?
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@dkf Bleargh.