The Official Status Thread
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek Why are you working on a holiday?
The only people who get Veterans Day off are government workers and banks.
A 2011 survey (.pptx) by the SHRM found that 21% of employers indicated that their offices would be closed on Veterans Day. Of the surveyed companies, 7% were government sector, and 8% were financial services.
It's not exclusively government workers and banks, but you're correct that it's not a widely observed holiday.
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Status: Got my headlight bulbs replaced, no longer at risk of being pulled over. Fuggin car making it difficult to do that myself. (Driver's side, the air filter box is literally like an inch behind the rear of the headlight assembly which makes it hard as fuck to get your hand in there to pop out the old one, and of course that's the one that went out)
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Status: I always joked that 3D printing with ABS smells like a tire fire. Then I found that the "B" in ABS stands for butadiene, and that tires are made of polybutadiene, so my joke was essentially correct.
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status: Earbuds survived a wash cycle. The sound has a slight imbalance and I'm fairly certain the quality has degraded, but they still work. Good old chinesium.
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Status: Making huge progress toward getting my wings before the league ends in PoE. Doing better than I ever have been with any character.
3 hours until they announce the next major PoE content.
Kripparian is playing some PoE again.
I get my pokemon game on Friday, assuming Amazon is okay with actually giving me things I buy this time.
:)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_A_9I3rmfs:(
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got my headlight bulbs replaced, no longer at risk of being pulled over. Fuggin car making it difficult to do that myself. (Driver's side, the air filter box is literally like an inch behind the rear of the headlight assembly which makes it hard as fuck to get your hand in there to pop out the old one, and of course that's the one that went out)
For one of my lights, I used to have to remove the battery to replace it. Don't know about this one yet... Haven't had to replace them. And now I've cursed myself...
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Status: Forgot my mouse in my room. Hell. Now I have to type an essay with the touchpad active.
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@pie_flavor Or learn how the tab key works.
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Status: The tram I'm in right now has just power cycled.
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@Magus wat?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The tram I'm in right now has just power cycled.
And it's dead. In search of alternative connection right now.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Forgot my mouse in my room. Hell. Now I have to type an essay with the touchpad active.
Does a mouse even work with vim?
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@mott555 Yes.
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@pie_flavor You know you can control your computer entirely without a mouse, right?
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Status: I was watching some Path of Exile streams yesterday, and one guy was complaining that some joker in the hardcore league went and named their character Stan Lee, and just kept dying so everyone would get notified about it.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor You know you can control your computer entirely without a mouse, right?
He has a functional mouse. That's the problem.
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I have to type an essay with the touchpad active.
He wants the touchpad disabled. Presumably so that it doesn't interfere with his typing. And apparently the only way he knows to do that is by plugging in a mouse.
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@anotherusername No, the way to do that is to press Fn+F1. The way to make the computer usable even without a touchpad is to plug in another mouse.
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@pie_flavor Then what's the problem? Disable it while you're typing. Enable it when you need it.
I'll grant that it's slightly less convenient to navigate using the keyboard, but it can be done. And if you really need the touchpad it's just two keystrokes away.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor You know you can control your computer entirely without a mouse, right?
Mouse keys are cheating.
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@Gąska Agreed... shouldn't need those on Windows, except for badly made apps.
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@anotherusername Even so. For example, I generally use MS Word zoomed out enough to fit three pages on the screen, and the touchpad is really hard to move precisely enough to select exactly what I want when I'm trying to select anything.
It's not preventing me from typing, but it does seriously impede efficiency.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Yes.
Well.... technically
gvim
, notvim
(on windows).
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@dcon there are at least three ways in which your post is wrong.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor You know you can control your computer entirely without a mouse, right?
Well, mostly. Some apps go out of their way to be inaccessible to keyboarders.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Yes.
Well.... technically
gvim
, notvim
(on windows).After setting
set mouse=a
, I get mouse both in vim from git bash and in bash on ubuntu on windows. Powershell and cmd.exe don't have vim in the path on my environment.
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Geez, I make a joke that was supposed to be absurd, about writing essays using vim (which I hope nobody anywhere has ever done), and you guys miss that and go off on vim vs gvim and powershell and bash...
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Welcome to TDWTF!
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@mott555
Welcome to the forums!
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Status: Cautiously optimistic that the fact that the reseed process is taking three times longer after the update than it did before the update means that the update fixed my problem. ETA until disappointment: 15 minutes.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
After setting
set mouse=a
,Does it come before or after
LH C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.COM
inAUTOEXEC.BAT
?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
After setting
set mouse=a
,Does it come before or after
LH C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.COM
inAUTOEXEC.BAT
?It goes in
config.sys
. Duh.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
After setting
set mouse=a
,Does it come before or after
LH C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.COM
inAUTOEXEC.BAT
?It goes in
config.sys
. Duh.I was going to say...
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Status: Ordered a new 13" MacBook Pro (2018) to replace my aging 13" MacBook Air (2011). My poor old MBA had several issues: Broken keyboard. Too little RAM and harddrive. And the CPU is a bit weak nowadays and the GPU is lacking Metal support and by extension support for macOS Mojave. So yeah.
Ordering was interesting, because if I wanted it delivered before my work trip I would either have to get the base version (a bit too weak) or a specific build-to-order which was in stock at the local warehouse, otherwise it would be 3 weeks delivery and it would arrive after my work trip (or during it). So...
i7-2677M -> i7-8559U
2x1.8GHz -> 4x2.7GHz
4GB RAM -> 16GB RAM
256GB SSD -> 1TB SSD
HD 3000 -> Iris Plus 655So all in all, quite a bit better. Should be able to do a bit heavier work on it than my old one too! Maxed out on everything except storage, but the 2TB SSD I deemed not really worth it for an added $1000. Although my biggest point of uncertainity was if I should have got the CPU upgrade as I don't think the performance gap is that big, but if I wanted it in a timely manner I had to. Oh, well...
The Apple checkout process was fun too. I got an error for my address too because:
Address not found. Did you mean this similar address?
AtazhaiaAtazhaia
Street 47Street 47
12345 Town123 45 TownYes, Apple did not like the missing space in the postal code, which is pure as nobody cares if the space is there or not. They also did not do any sort of verification for my education discount, just a checkbox where I said that I am indeed eligible for the discount and nothing else. At least Adobe bothered to ask about my place of employment to do some sort of discount eligibility verification.
Estimated time of delivery is friday, and they do free home delivery so that's nice.
Edit: And for some added , the order confirmation email:
Nice work on the layout, Apple! Also, the address listed in the order confirmation email includes my parish, which is a completely useless thing to stick in an address. Why it is there I do not know...
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Nice work on the layout, Apple!
Yeah, some of the words are unintelligible
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Geez, I make a joke that was supposed to be absurd, about writing essays using vim (which I hope nobody anywhere has ever done), and you guys miss that and go off on vim vs gvim and powershell and bash...
I used to write mine in LaTeX. If I was a little short page-wise I could fudge the line and inter-word spacing to compensate. Never got caught out 😇
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Geez, I make a joke that was supposed to be absurd, about writing essays using vim (which I hope nobody anywhere has ever done), and you guys miss that and go off on vim vs gvim and powershell and bash...
I used to write mine in LaTeX. If I was a little short page-wise I could fudge the line and inter-word spacing to compensate. Never got caught out 😇
I write most of my quizzes, tests, and worksheets in LaTeX[1]
[1] well really in a home-brew markup language[2] that compiles (via Python script) to a particular flavor of LaTeX. It's ugly and most of the detailed stuff like tables has to be inserted in raw LaTeX.
[2] really it just marks groups of questions, answers to multiple choice questions, and questions that shouldn't be in random orders, but...it's still ugly.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My mouse has now lost a second of its rubber feet, and I can't find replacements. So it's new mouse time, and this time I'm trying a different brand - switching from the Logitech M570 to the Elecom M-XT3DRBK.
Boy, this feels weird. There's an extra mouse button which I keep clicking because I'm not used to not being able to put pressure there, the scroll wheel is very raised so moving my fingers onto it is a conscious action, and it's wide enough that my index and middle fingers feel slightly stretched across it. Also, I'm starting to wish I'd sprung for the M-XPT1MRXBK, because while there is a DPI switch it's not something you can press in a gaming context, e.g. as a sniper button, due to its location. Might end up using the third mouse button for that. And then there's the bearings, which clearly need some breaking in, so I've put the M570 ball in it until that happens. On the whole, though, I really like the feel of it.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Geez, I make a joke that was supposed to be absurd, about writing essays using vim (which I hope nobody anywhere has ever done), and you guys miss that and go off on vim vs gvim and powershell and bash...
I used to write mine in LaTeX. If I was a little short page-wise I could fudge the line and inter-word spacing to compensate. Never got caught out 😇
I write most of my quizzes, tests, and worksheets in LaTeX[1]
[1] well really in a home-brew markup language[2] that compiles (via Python script) to a particular flavor of LaTeX. It's ugly and most of the detailed stuff like tables has to be inserted in raw LaTeX.
[2] really it just marks groups of questions, answers to multiple choice questions, and questions that shouldn't be in random orders, but...it's still ugly.
Just curious, did/have you given
a spin? Maybe it’s not usefull to you, but who knows...
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Geez, I make a joke that was supposed to be absurd, about writing essays using vim (which I hope nobody anywhere has ever done), and you guys miss that and go off on vim vs gvim and powershell and bash...
I used to write mine in LaTeX. If I was a little short page-wise I could fudge the line and inter-word spacing to compensate. Never got caught out 😇
I write most of my quizzes, tests, and worksheets in LaTeX[1]
[1] well really in a home-brew markup language[2] that compiles (via Python script) to a particular flavor of LaTeX. It's ugly and most of the detailed stuff like tables has to be inserted in raw LaTeX.
[2] really it just marks groups of questions, answers to multiple choice questions, and questions that shouldn't be in random orders, but...it's still ugly.
Just curious, did/have you given
a spin? Maybe it’s not usefull to you, but who knows...
These are hard-copy quizzes, so I use the
exam
class. The script does randomization both within questions (randomizing order of answers) and between questions, consolidation (pick one of a bunch of variants), and inserts the necessary formatting commands and outputs a LaTeX file that then gets run to turn it into a PDF.
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@Benjamin-Hall Couldn't you do the same thing with VBA and Word?
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@pie_flavor probably, but then I'd have both VBA and Word (the API side) on me. not to mention I do about 80% of this on Mac, so it has to work there as well.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Geez, I make a joke that was supposed to be absurd, about writing essays using vim (which I hope nobody anywhere has ever done), and you guys miss that and go off on vim vs gvim and powershell and bash...
I used to write mine in LaTeX. If I was a little short page-wise I could fudge the line and inter-word spacing to compensate. Never got caught out 😇
I write most of my quizzes, tests, and worksheets in LaTeX[1]
[1] well really in a home-brew markup language[2] that compiles (via Python script) to a particular flavor of LaTeX. It's ugly and most of the detailed stuff like tables has to be inserted in raw LaTeX.
[2] really it just marks groups of questions, answers to multiple choice questions, and questions that shouldn't be in random orders, but...it's still ugly.
Just curious, did/have you given
a spin? Maybe it’s not usefull to you, but who knows...
These are hard-copy quizzes, so I use the
exam
class. The script does randomization both within questions (randomizing order of answers) and between questions, consolidation (pick one of a bunch of variants), and inserts the necessary formatting commands and outputs a LaTeX file that then gets run to turn it into a PDF.My brother and sister in law use
exam
, for math and biology respectively...I get a fair number of LaTeX questions from them at any rate.
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Excerpt from a graded essay revision:
My essay was fairly strong for the most part, which either means ‘very good’ or ‘not easy to change’, and which one it was is left as an exercise for the reader.
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@pie_flavor Holy shit my wrist hurts. Nope nope nope nope nope. Refund.
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@pie_flavor Aaaand refunded. Ow.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I write most of my (...) tests (...) in LaTeX
Is the first sentence "fix the syntax errors until the exam compiles, then answer the following questions"?
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status Applying the Tues rollup to my various computers thru the day. Every laptop has reset its screen brightness to 50%. GODDAMNIT MICROSOFT! (The good news is the desktop didn't.)
Edit: I lied. The last one stayed at 98%. So 1 out of 4 did the right thing.
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status Trying cauliflower tater tots. They're ... not bad... Taste pretty good. But the texture is ... not right - the insides are creamy. I think if they left some chunks of cauliflower, they'd be better. (they were on sale at 2x the price of regular tater tots - so I'll only do them again when a) on sale, b) feel the need for veggies over starch.)