The Official Status Thread
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Ah, you need to make your chromebook think it's moved places, like shopping centers and whatnot. Not sure if it detects spoofed locations though, so ymmv...
It definitely knows which restaurants I have used the WiFi at.
So your location history is full-up of them? https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
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Status: Feeling like a pleb.
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@tsaukpaetra I call that "standard operation mode"
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I call that "standard operation mode"
Status: Re-evaluating my internal definition of "pleb"...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Re-evaluating my internal definition of "pleb"...
Nice save. :P
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Things I never want to hear in a conference call again: "You're setting yourself up for a lawsuit, you know that?" Thankfully not directed at my team. Mostly.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Feeling like a pleb.
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@tsaukpaetra I was wondering why my notification count had dropped like a stone… you were away.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I was wondering why my notification count had dropped like a stone… you were away.
I figured people would appreciate the reprieve as much as I would.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Listening to a Russian Orthodox vigil (as background noise while I work on school stuff). Getting distracted by the fact that they pronounce the
г
as "g" in words likeего
where modern Russian pronounces that as av
. In general, their pronunciation is odd, but that's probably due to it being Old Church Slavonic, not modern RussianAll Night Vigil, Valaam Monastery – 1:57:46
— Katerina22839I've always liked Rachmaninov's version.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Towing company
Was understandably late because on the way up he encountered a car on fire. He tried to help put it out (the guy had a burner phone that didn't have signal so no fire department, and from there it took half an hour for them to arrive and by then it was just a pile of metal).
Anyways, they arrived home, safe and sound. Tow guy said he wished he'd brought the bigger truck, he overheated his own brakes going downhill and going uphill went no faster than 15mph.pics for the interested
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
car on fire
burner phone
Phone was apparently serviced by Criket. Or something.
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@tsaukpaetra I'm guessing it must've been a Samsung phone.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra I'm guessing it must've been a Samsung phone.
Maybe?
According to the tow guy, who got the story from the burned-car guy, he was driving up the hill when suddenly the smoke came out, and so he pulled over and by the time he popped the hood to check it out it was on fire, and then RIP.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
popped the hood
why did he put his hood off if his phone was on fire?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
According to the tow guy, who got the story from the burned-car guy, he was driving up the hill when suddenly the smoke came out, and so he pulled over and by the time he popped the hood to check it out it was on fire, and then RIP.
Seriously, that's why one should always have a fire extinguisher along in the car, kept somewhere where you can get at it in a hurry (but otherwise out of the way). Engines do sometimes catch fire — it's most likely to happen shortly after maintenance if a small mistake was made — and gasoline is rather flammable.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
why one should always have a fire extinguisher along in the car
Is that a common thing? I don't think I've ever had one in any vehicle I've been in, except for large vehicles...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Is that a common thing? I don't think I've ever had one in any vehicle I've been in
It's not as common as it should be, which is why most people lose the car if it does catch fire.
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Status: What the hell? I had 12 unread notifications according to the bell icon. I visit the Funny stuff thread to clear those (and mark it unread because yes), and now I have 19.
Am I missing something here? :/
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not as common as it should be,
Pretty sure it's a requirement around here
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@pleegwat you really need to go out of your way to get this bug. I doubt Windows programmer did such stupid mistake. Although they did make an O(2N) update algorithm...
Not really - just have a callback that the UI assigns when it's ready that gets called by the loader thread when it's done.
In other words, design your system in complete disregard of basic rules of concurrent programming.
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Status: Android...
Why? Just give it a new name, maybe one that suggests why the new method was needed. This just looks crap.
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Pretty sure it's a requirement around here
No idea if it is a requirement here, but having had a fire happen in an engine bay of a car I was in and been very lucky to have a passing van driver have an extinguisher, it's a definite part of my standard kit whatever the law says. The replacement parts for the hoses and electrics made that car work better than it had probably ever done before, though it continued to slightly smell of burnt rubber for a few years (until we sold it). BL made truly shit cars.
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@cursorkeys The Android API is filled with nuggets like this.
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@tsaukpaetra Ye gods, $700 is getting off easy for that kind of tow. That's an easy $1k.
There's a reason RV dealers and clubs push specialized roadside assistance plans so hard. Medium duty tows like that like to clock in around $1k. If there isn't a medium duty around (or the guy decides he wants the bigger truck for all the trailer weight), heavy tows clock at about $1000 an hour driving and onsite.
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@dkf Eh. A large percentage of car fires are "This engine is no longer operable" induced anyway, and replacing engines is rarely economical.
Also, using a fire extinguisher in an engine bay basically fucking totals everything in the engine bay anyway. I've cleaned that shit up. It's NFG.
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, using a fire extinguisher in an engine bay basically fucking totals everything in the engine bay anyway. I've cleaned that shit up. It's NFG.
I had to use a dry powder in my house. It got inside closed cupboards, inside a closed box of cereal and on and on. That stuff is completely terrible, even if it did put the fire out.
I carry a halon extinguisher in my car, no residue and it will put out a big fire with a small extinguisher. Some of those little car extinguishers are so small they aren't going to putting anything out.
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It's not as common as it should be,
Pretty sure it's a requirement around here
Seem to recall that as well (about BE). It's not mandatory in NL, and it's also not mandatory when you take an NL car into BE, but it's still on the I'm-going-on-vacation checklists here because BE police officers tend to not know that and it's easier to avoid the argument. Similar with France and ethanol testers.
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
Similar with France and ethanol testers
and yellow jackets.
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@luhmann Not sure if those go in that category.
You see, there are two legal routes which amount to the same thing but are subtly different:
- Things you are required to have in your car.
- Things you are required to use under certain circumstances.
In case your car breaks down, everyone in the car must put on a safety jacket. They are not required to be in the car at any time. I'd hazard this puts the 'it's not a French car' argument out of play.
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Stati:
- Woo, Maplestory 2 closed beta that I actually got into starts tomorrow! I'll be able to find out if it's any good! It might not be, but it looks like there could be fun to be had. I once saw a video of someone playing it, who walked past a golden-armored Pepe, because the game has purchasable skinnable armors, so that was mildly amusing.
- A sphere of size 405x405x405 has too many blocks to work as a blueprint in Space Engineers. So I'll probably generate one in a world file. I just have to make an array with all 6 million or so cubes, and then find all the ones that match x*x + y*y + z*z < 202.5 + sqrt(3) && x*x + y*y + z*z > 202.5 - sqrt(3), if my calculations are correct. Since X, Y, and Z are integers, though, I may have to be careful about this. Either way, given 1x1x1 blocks, it should do the trick, no?
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Status: AC is out of commission at home, and this week currently seems like the "best" time for it to happen if it had to happen during the summer.
Current Forecast
As always, is subject to change:
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@chaostheeternal Lucky. Yesterday was a hundred. In Portland. Miserable.
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@chaostheeternal I hope that forecast stays true. I've got an all-day outdoor IDPA match over in Iowa this weekend. Normally it's like 102 degrees/100% humidity there in July and I'm baked and worthless by noon. High-80's will be quite pleasant if the humidity stays that low.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
And all this for a bigger screen. It's still an ancient machine with barely enough grunt to do the job, but it's better than the ancient macbook pro and its tiny screen
does the ancient macbook not have DVI out? Or display port or whatever they were using when it came out?
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
And all this for a bigger screen. It's still an ancient machine with barely enough grunt to do the job, but it's better than the ancient macbook pro and its tiny screen
does the ancient macbook not have DVI out? Or display port or whatever they were using when it came out?
The ancient macbooks were also going out of service, so they're being replaced (for everyone). By Macbook Airs, which can't be upgraded to have enough memory to make Xcode be even as awful as normal. Plus having a tiny tiny screen and no good keyboard.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Yesterday was a hundred. In Portland. Miserable.
I have a friend who lives out in that area, and that's pretty much what she's been saying about the heat there for awhile now.
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Status And I thought Windows major updates took a while. Doing a minor update on my other new mac (a macbook air) is now at 1 hour and says "35 minutes remaining". Part of that was downloading, but that last part is all in the boot screen. And it's already been in that state for a while.
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Status: Could no longer connect to the OpenVPN server on my home EdgeRouter. Been busy regenerating certificates, creating a new CA and DH parameters, etc. Got nowhere.
Finally did a "show interfaces openvpn" command. The site-to-site VPNs still exist. The OpenVPN server, though, is gone. Completely gone and I have no idea how that could have happened.
At least I can just copy some config from one of the other EdgeRouters I have access to via site-to-site VPN.
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@mott555 Fixed and working again. The OpenVPN server works much better when it's installed and configured.
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status: ahhh... Full shower, how I've missed thee!
Alter-status: um, 'son.... Do you have anything to declare?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Feeling like a pleb.
I'm down to 25 now... slowly catching up...
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status And I thought Windows major updates took a while. Doing a minor update on my other new mac (a macbook air) is now at 1 hour and says "35 minutes remaining". Part of that was downloading, but that last part is all in the boot screen. And it's already been in that state for a while.
Hahaha. And then there's the 'yeah update all'
Apple: Yeah. I'll start that when I feel like it. Fuck off now.
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status Setting up a new work machine. (It's been 3 yrs, I was due for an upgrade). El sigho. Of course the spring refresh wasn't installed...
And the joy of moving all my programs... and settings. And git.
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Status: Desperately need more caffeine...
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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:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Which one's that?
Go try to make a Firefox plugin.
No, which programming language is actively hostile to users?
Rust.
And how's that?
Can't tell if dense or intentionally dense
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, using a fire extinguisher in an engine bay basically fucking totals everything in the engine bay anyway. I've cleaned that shit up. It's NFG.
It depends on what type of extinguisher you've got (dry powder is better for those types of fire than water), but I can report that it definitely saved one car I was in. The electrics were a goner and so were the fuel lines, but they were shit before and much better afterwards (because the third party parts were improvements over the originals). I'd guess it would be more of a problem with a modern engine, with its (hugely!) more complex electrical systems, but I drive a diesel these days and they're less flammable in the first place.
I'd rather have the ability to put the fire out than having no option other than to get out and let the whole thing burn. That'd just seem wrong.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I'd rather have the ability to put the fire out than having no option other than to get out and let the whole thing burn.
Add another option