The Official Status Thread
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
that Nintendo thing
you are no fun
I tried to make a joke. Sorry.
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I've recently made a weird discovery about myself: I love digging for and reading through government regulations. Maybe I could have been a lawyer.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I've recently made a weird discovery about myself: I love digging for and reading through government regulations. Maybe I could have been a lawyer.
Cool! Maybe you can help me convince the uppers that we're not collecting personal information about our users (much less selling it to third parties) and so should stop worrying about how we're going to present cookie warnings and a birthday age check gate in the game.
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Status: I naively expected to get any work done on the day after the quarterly maintenance weekend.
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Status: Having run the numbers, I think I can pay off my car loan tomorrow about 10 months early. I plan on driving it into the ground (2010 Honda Civic with about 75k miles on it) with the saved payments going into savings for a future car/emergencies.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I plan on driving it into the ground (2010 Honda Civic with about 75k miles on it)
You're good for another 10 years, at least
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I plan on driving it into the ground (2010 Honda Civic with about 75k miles on it)
You're good for another 10 years, at least
Or until I get married and need a minivan. Or until it suffers massive, unexpected failures.
Pessimist? Me? No. I'm a realist.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Or until I get married and need a minivan.
I know that the average American size isn't slim, but this is getting ridiculous
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@TimeBandit
Presumably the only way @Benjamin-Hall is getting married is at the end of a shotgun
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit
Presumably the only way @Benjamin-Hall is getting married is at the end of a shotgunIt's up for debate which end that would be.
Okay, that was evil and I officially apologize.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit
Presumably the only way @Benjamin-Hall is getting married is at the end of a shotgunSo? I'm sure there are shotguns that can fit in a Honda Civic
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@boomzilla said in Hmmmmmmm - part 391 VS Code suspicious amounts of memory:
@topspin said in Hmmmmmmm - part 391 VS Code suspicious amounts of memory:
@boomzilla said in Hmmmmmmm - part 391 VS Code suspicious amounts of memory:
And I'm gonna drink unregulated ginger beer while I do it.
You better be sharing some of that.
I am a gracious winner.
@boomzilla cheers.
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@Tsaukpaetra I can try, but I don't think I can do a better job explaining the GDPR than the tens of thousands of people that have done so before .
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla said in Hmmmmmmm - part 391 VS Code suspicious amounts of memory:
@topspin said in Hmmmmmmm - part 391 VS Code suspicious amounts of memory:
@boomzilla said in Hmmmmmmm - part 391 VS Code suspicious amounts of memory:
And I'm gonna drink unregulated ginger beer while I do it.
You better be sharing some of that.
I am a gracious winner.
@boomzilla cheers.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I naively expected to get any work done on the day after the quarterly maintenance weekend.
Ours was finished last Monday and today I wrote a ticket that shit hasn't been working for a week.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
walking Murphy's Law Field generator
I'm going to steal that line...
Pessimist? Me? No. I'm a realist.
I've already been using that one for a long time.
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Status: It's not even Halloween yet, why are there adverts playing Christmas music on TV?!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It's not even Halloween yet, why are there adverts playing Christmas music on TV?!
My local grocery store already took down a large chunk of the Halloween supplies and started putting up Christmas stuff. Mainly because lots of people do Trick-or-Treating on the weekend before or something
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
walking Murphy's Law Field generator
I'm going to steal that line...
Pessimist? Me? No. I'm a realist.
I've already been using that one for a long time.
Go right ahead
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status Time to meet our new CEO. I didn't know we had one until an email about an hour ago...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Time to meet our new CEO. I didn't know we had one until an email about an hour ago...
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It's not even Halloween yet, why are there adverts playing Christmas music on TV?!
Who knows. Someone already drew a Santa in Hypatia.
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@Tsaukpaetra you have USERS?
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@Weng
In house beta testers are people too, you know
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@Nagesh said in The Official Status Thread:
does anyone here play chess?
also do you play chess without a chess engine giving you instructions?Yes, and we even have a topic for it:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15887/chess-patzers-of-wtf
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra you have USERS?
About 5.
The database claims we have about 4k, but most didn't spend more than five minutes in game.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
These balloon people is what I miss the most about USA now that I'm back in Europe. That, and insanely cheap fast food.
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@Gąska
Insanely cheap fast food often results in different type of balloon people
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
That, and insanely cheap fast food.
On the upside, more expensive fast-food and cheaper non-fast food makes it easier to have a diet that doesn't consist 90% of chicken nuggets and Reese's peanut butter cups.
Gosh, how I miss the peanut butter cups.
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@topspin I don't know where you've got this misconception that expensive fast-food automatically makes non-fast-food cheaper. Here Poland, fast food is very expensive (~1.5h of net median salary for a single meal), and non-fast-food is usually even more expensive. The end result is that people eat even healthier - because they simply can't afford not cooking at home. So I wouldn't count it as a plus - no more than a plus of owning an old car is that you're going to learn car mechanics very well, by necessity.
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@Gąska I didn't say it makes it cheaper automatically.
Just that by comparison fast-food in the US was a lot cheaper than in Germany, while groceries seemed more expensive. Certainly depends on where you're at (it's a huge place after all) and what items you're comparing, but some things I'm used to like cheese (and beer ) were definitely more expensive than in the markets here.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska I didn't say it makes it cheaper automatically.
Just that by comparison fast-food in the US was a lot cheaper than in Germany, while groceries seemed more expensive. Certainly depends on where you're at (it's a huge place after all) and what items you're comparing, but some things I'm used to like cheese (and beer ) were definitely more expensive than in the markets here.@Gąska In my (limited, not-all-that-recent) experience, the price of food depended on exactly what you were looking for.
Staples (bread, sausage, vegetables, etc) were cheaper in the Baltics (relative to earnings), especially if you went to the market instead of a normal store. Beer was in this category--it was often cheaper to buy 2L of (cheap) beer than 2L of (cheap) bottled water!
Processed or Imported foods were much more expensive (and generally smaller quantities). Fresh fruits especially were expensive.
Fast food basically didn't exist and where it did, it was exorbitant. There were a few McDonalds in the bigger cities, and they were mid-scale restaurants. I saw business lunches there.
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@Benjamin-Hall it really depends on which Baltic country in particular you have in mind, and which year in particular you have in mind. 2010 Poland is completely different from 2018 Poland regarding food prices, and 2018 Poland is completely different from 2018 Lithuania. If McDonald's wasn't ubiquitous in every city larger than a football pitch, chances are your knowledge is at least 10 years out of date.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall it really depends on which Baltic country in particular you have in mind, and which year in particular you have in mind. 2010 Poland is completely different from 2018 Poland regarding food prices, and 2018 Poland is completely different from 2018 Lithuania. If McDonald's wasn't ubiquitous in every city larger than a football pitch, chances are your knowledge is at least 10 years out of date.
It is (mostly). I returned in 2003. But when I went back a couple years ago, Riga still wasn't full of fast food and the (relative) prices seemed the way I remembered them. The little town I visited still didn't have a McDonalds either.
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@Benjamin-Hall I know nothing about Latvia, so I'm willing to believe that. As I said, Baltic countries are very different from each other - so much that I don't think it's ever useful to group them together with a single term.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall I know nothing about Latvia, so I'm willing to believe that. As I said, Baltic countries are very different from each other - so much that I don't think it's ever useful to group them together with a single term.
I didn't spend much time in Lithuania, but while there were differences between Estonia and Latvia (beyond the obvious ones) such as Estonia's dairy was light-years better than Latvia's, the relative prices were pretty consistent. Imports were a bit cheaper in Estonia, that was all.
Edit: and when I say "Baltic" I really only mean the 3 there at the eastern edge (the ones that were actually USSR instead of satellite states like Poland or independent like Denmark).
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Status: You only need 70MB or RAM to do what I need you to to! Stop being stupid!
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@Tsaukpaetra If you shutdown Windows you'll have enough memory for VSCode.
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Status: I fixed the build. Yes, it broke integrating 15 of my pull requests. But it shouldn't have let them all through, since the merge ought to have been invalidated. Whatever, its fixed, and I deleted the stupid second "AnyCPU" section that was renamed to a duplicate "x64" section in the csproj.
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Status: Cash poor. Car is payed off though. Supposedly they'll mail me the title within 15 days.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Supposedly they'll mail me the title within 15 days.
<title>Benjamin Hall's car</title>
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Status: handling a Upvote-Denial-of-Service attack:
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@Zerosquare now you're just for upvotes
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@Zerosquare Ah, you seem to have multiple WTDWTF tabs open. Don't do that.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng
In house beta testers are people too, you know?
Our customers are our beta testers. In house people run on the nightlies.
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Status: 1 object. Just over 100 datapoints, no more complex than strings.
Upload, ask for it back: 6 seconds.
Sometimes, 1 in a large number is lost. Testing requires many hours.
6 seconds.
6 seconds.
Would be milliseconds on a local machine. Would be under a second with a SQL database behind a web app.
But we're distributed. Fast.
6 seconds.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Our customers are our beta testers.
You work for Microsoft?