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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
But when I complain about it that it’s wrong, as these two things are not the same (one time span vs several smaller spans), people don’t understand the difference and tell me I’m an idiot.
Those people are idiots.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently people can neither write correct statements/instructions, nor even understand the difference.
The traffic sign says the local highway is closed Feb. 7th to Feb 10th, from 10pm to 5am. I think it’s weird to not do it all in one go, but they’ve done weirder things before, so whatever, who am I to question them. Of course, what they actually mean is that it’s blocked from Feb 7th 10 pm to Feb 10th 5am, continuously. That is, however, not what the sign says. For comparison, when the signs say you need parking tickets Mo-Fr from 8am to 6pm that also means you don’t need one Wed 8pm, because the times are for each day, not for the first/last respectively.But when I complain about it that it’s wrong, as these two things are not the same (one time span vs several smaller spans), people don’t understand the difference and tell me I’m an idiot.
Seems obvious to me. And it's common enough here to do highway maintenance in several nightly closures but keep the road open during rush hour.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
several nightly closures but keep the road open during rush hour.
This. Yes, it's very common. Minimize disruption by closing the road when relatively few people are using it, and open it during the day when lots of people use it. The road maintenance takes longer and costs more, but fewer people people want to bludgeon the Department of Transportation (or whatever you guys call it) administration with tire irons.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
fewer people people want to bludgeon the Department of Transportation (or whatever you guys call it) administration with tire irons.
Initially read that as "with fire irons" and thought "oh, has @Polygeekery released an exclusive line of car repair gear?"
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Vixen needs hugs and cuddles...... but watch the massive bruise on her back from slipping on the ice and landing on it with a BANG......
:-(
And I had plans for today that required not having a massive bruise and sore back.... so I need consolations hugs and cuddles.... but you know.... carefully....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Playing Blu-ray movies is rather hit and miss on PC anyway due to DRM...
I havent met a blueray that MakeMKV couldn't rip. and then once it's ripped i've yet to meet a MKV that vlc couldn't play. :-D
or alternatively use handbreak to encode into a more efficient codec and shove it into Plex. :-D
/me puts on a pirate hat and eyepatch
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
My car and driveway are buried under 27634578923647 metres of snow
185 AU, roughly the radius of the Kuiper Belt. That's an ... impressive amount of snow.
Edit: I don't know how big your driveway is, but if I assume, say, 3x5 m, that's 4E+14 m³ of snow. Assuming it's freshly fallen snow at a density of 200 kg/m³ (packed snow is around 300, and the bottom layers would certainly be packed, to say the least, but I'm estimating conservatively), so 8E+16 kg; not as much as I thought it would turn out to be, but I don't think your car's suspension is happy.
OTOH, the surface of the snow is moving at relativistic speed, about .75 c, which will increase the mass by a factor to calculate. I also suspect there are going to be some serious structural problems holding that column of snow together at that speed.
At that point it wouldn't be snow anymore because it'd be subject to gravitational collapse (though the resulting fusion processes would likely stave off creating an actual black hole).
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
Vixen needs hugs and cuddles
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
Vixen needs hugs and cuddles...... but watch the massive bruise on her back from slipping on the ice and landing on it with a BANG......
:-(
And I had plans for today that required not having a massive bruise and sore back.... so I need consolations hugs and cuddles.... but you know.... carefully....
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Status: Any tips on how to clean out that "old computer with tiny fans" smell?
It smells nothing like vagina and I'm getting tired of the puff of odor that occurs whenever this laptop I'm refurbishing decide's it's a little too hot...
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Status: Had a brain-fart black out. Forgot my phone's lock code that I've entered a million times the last 4.5 years. But it's all in muscle memory, and once I started thinking about it it was gone. Absolutely no idea how this could happen.
And for some reason, it's not in my password manager where I have everything else (probably because I save things I don't remember and don't use often, and I use this one all the time). Searched everything where I should've written it down on paper, but I've only written down the 4 digit PIN I used on the previous phone. I know this one starts the same, I only need two more digits and I've basically narrowed it down to just a few possibilities. But before I could go through them I got locked out completely. I'm almost certain it's one of two options I had left.
Restoring after factory reset now, let's hope the backup works.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Restoring after factory reset now, let's hope the backup works.
Backup worked. Woohoo!
Pictures are all there, not sure if I lost anything but probably nothing important. All the music is gone, obviously, so I'll have to transfer that again.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
But it's all in muscle memory, and once I started thinking about it it was gone. Absolutely no idea how this could happen.
Hate it when that happens!
For the record, my current swipe-pattern is 14589.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
For the record, my current swipe-pattern is 14589.
Filed under: The code for my luggage
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Filed under: The code for my luggage
Status: In unrelated news...
Apparently someone was trying out my account creds.
I forgot I even had a Blizzard account. Wonder what I even have on it...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It smells nothing like vagina
You know, most people would consider that a good thing...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It smells nothing like vagina
You know, most people would consider that a good thing...
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Ah. For a moment, I thought you were even weirder than you usually are.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Ah. For a moment, I thought you were even weirder than you usually are.
I strive to keep an even level.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Any tips on how to clean out that "old computer with tiny fans" smell?
Replace the fans? (The smell is probably from dust clogging them up.)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Any tips on how to clean out that "old computer with tiny fans" smell?
Replace the fans? (The smell is probably from dust clogging them up.)
Sigh. I don't really want to disassemble this laptop, though if memory serves this manufacturer does make is somewhat easy to get to the parts I need, but replacements are more difficult to come by...
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Status: One of the SSDs in a raid1 I'm not using just decided to not enumerate after I rebooted the computer.
Whatever...
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Status: I don't know why, but I like the appearance of the screen on the left more than the right.
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@Tsaukpaetra Better font?
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
My car and driveway are buried under 27634578923647 metres of snow
185 AU, roughly the radius of the Kuiper Belt. That's an ... impressive amount of snow.
Edit: I don't know how big your driveway is, but if I assume, say, 3x5 m, that's 4E+14 m³ of snow. Assuming it's freshly fallen snow at a density of 200 kg/m³ (packed snow is around 300, and the bottom layers would certainly be packed, to say the least, but I'm estimating conservatively), so 8E+16 kg; not as much as I thought it would turn out to be, but I don't think your car's suspension is happy.
OTOH, the surface of the snow is moving at relativistic speed, about .75 c, which will increase the mass by a factor to calculate. I also suspect there are going to be some serious structural problems holding that column of snow together at that speed.
At that point it wouldn't be snow anymore because it'd be subject to gravitational collapse (though the resulting fusion processes would likely stave off creating an actual black hole).
I don't think so. According to my conservative estimate, the (rest) mass is only 8E+16 kg. The mass of the earth is somethingE+24 kg. A non-conservative estimate, assuming the snow has compacted into solid ice, would increase the mass by a factor of about 5, so 4E+17 kg, still only a tiny fraction of the mass of Earth and not nearly enough to cause fusion, much less a black hole.
Go one step further and assume the entirety of is covered with that much ice (not a bad assumption, obviously), Google tells me the area of is 9.985E+12 m², which I'll round to 1E+13. That's a mass of 2.8E+29 kg — 46000 times the mass of Earth, 150 times the mass of Jupiter, or 14% of the mass of the Sun. Ok, that's enough to collapse and fuse.
Relativistic mass isn't very significant. Using the speed at the midpoint of the original column of ice at latitude 45° (and most of is further north than that, so the rotational speed will be less), .375 c, the mass increases from .14 solar masses to .15. Even using the maximum speed at the far end of the column, it's only .21 solar masses, nowhere near enough to form a black hole.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
My car and driveway are buried under 27634578923647 metres of snow
185 AU, roughly the radius of the Kuiper Belt. That's an ... impressive amount of snow.
Edit: I don't know how big your driveway is, but if I assume, say, 3x5 m, that's 4E+14 m³ of snow. Assuming it's freshly fallen snow at a density of 200 kg/m³ (packed snow is around 300, and the bottom layers would certainly be packed, to say the least, but I'm estimating conservatively), so 8E+16 kg; not as much as I thought it would turn out to be, but I don't think your car's suspension is happy.
OTOH, the surface of the snow is moving at relativistic speed, about .75 c, which will increase the mass by a factor to calculate. I also suspect there are going to be some serious structural problems holding that column of snow together at that speed.
At that point it wouldn't be snow anymore because it'd be subject to gravitational collapse (though the resulting fusion processes would likely stave off creating an actual black hole).
I don't think so. According to my conservative estimate, the (rest) mass is only 8E+16 kg. The mass of the earth is somethingE+24 kg. A non-conservative estimate, assuming the snow has compacted into solid ice, would increase the mass by a factor of about 5, so 4E+17 kg, still only a tiny fraction of the mass of Earth and not nearly enough to cause fusion, much less a black hole.
Go one step further and assume the entirety of is covered with that much ice (not a bad assumption, obviously), Google tells me the area of is 9.985E+12 m², which I'll round to 1E+13. That's a mass of 2.8E+29 kg — 46000 times the mass of Earth, 150 times the mass of Jupiter, or 14% of the mass of the Sun. Ok, that's enough to collapse and fuse.
Relativistic mass isn't very significant. Using the speed at the midpoint of the original column of ice at latitude 45° (and most of is further north than that, so the rotational speed will be less), .375 c, the mass increases from .14 solar masses to .15. Even using the maximum speed at the far end of the column, it's only .21 solar masses, nowhere near enough to form a black hole.
Not insignificant difference: Does the snow form a column (staying 3x5m all the way out), or a wedge which comes to a point at the centre of the earth?
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So I was connected from computer A to computer B through TeamViewer.
Since I had to leave for a few minutes, I "slept" computer A (is that a verb?) using the dedicated keyboard key. Now when I try to reestablish connection to B after "waking" computer A, it tells me that B is not connected to the internet.
So the most likely explanation is... TeamViewer dutifully transmitted the "sleep" key to computer B and as a result computer B is now offline
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
My car and driveway are buried under 27634578923647 metres of snow
185 AU, roughly the radius of the Kuiper Belt. That's an ... impressive amount of snow.
Edit: I don't know how big your driveway is, but if I assume, say, 3x5 m, that's 4E+14 m³ of snow. Assuming it's freshly fallen snow at a density of 200 kg/m³ (packed snow is around 300, and the bottom layers would certainly be packed, to say the least, but I'm estimating conservatively), so 8E+16 kg; not as much as I thought it would turn out to be, but I don't think your car's suspension is happy.
OTOH, the surface of the snow is moving at relativistic speed, about .75 c, which will increase the mass by a factor to calculate. I also suspect there are going to be some serious structural problems holding that column of snow together at that speed.
At that point it wouldn't be snow anymore because it'd be subject to gravitational collapse (though the resulting fusion processes would likely stave off creating an actual black hole).
I don't think so. According to my conservative estimate, the (rest) mass is only 8E+16 kg. The mass of the earth is somethingE+24 kg. A non-conservative estimate, assuming the snow has compacted into solid ice, would increase the mass by a factor of about 5, so 4E+17 kg, still only a tiny fraction of the mass of Earth and not nearly enough to cause fusion, much less a black hole.
Go one step further and assume the entirety of is covered with that much ice (not a bad assumption, obviously), Google tells me the area of is 9.985E+12 m², which I'll round to 1E+13. That's a mass of 2.8E+29 kg — 46000 times the mass of Earth, 150 times the mass of Jupiter, or 14% of the mass of the Sun. Ok, that's enough to collapse and fuse.
Relativistic mass isn't very significant. Using the speed at the midpoint of the original column of ice at latitude 45° (and most of is further north than that, so the rotational speed will be less), .375 c, the mass increases from .14 solar masses to .15. Even using the maximum speed at the far end of the column, it's only .21 solar masses, nowhere near enough to form a black hole.
Not insignificant difference: Does the snow form a column (staying 3x5m all the way out), or a wedge which comes to a point at the centre of the earth?
Yes.
Hmm, good question. I was assuming a column of constant area, and I'm not going to redo all the calculations for a wedge, so there's your answer. As much of one as you're going to get from me, anyway.
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Status: Storm Ciara is making me really glad that I'm not outside today. Plenty of both rain and wind; the rain is battering against my window, the wind is really blowing the treetops around, and the sky is almost dark due to the thickness of the clouds. But at least it isn't snowing…
(It's apparently supposed to snow sometime over the next week or so.)
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@dkf Snow? What’s that? Haven’t seen that in a year.
Status: Considering leaving the house to get . Hope I won’t get Mary Poppins away.
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@HardwareGeek The area all the way out would be (3 * 15)/6315000 * (27634578923647+6315000)=1.969 * 10⁸ m²
The volume would then be 1/3 * 27634578923647 * 1.969*10⁸ = 1.814 * 10²¹ m³
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Snow? What’s that? Haven’t seen that in a year.
That's too bad. We've gotten 8 inches of snow so far today and there might be more later.
Status: Waiting to see if we get a good hotel room for Gen Con. It's hard to win the lottery. :(
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
1.814 * 10²¹ m³
Or about 1.8E+24 kg or 1/3 the mass of the Earth. @hungrier has a lot of shoveling to do.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Snow? What’s that? Haven’t seen that in a year.
Heh. Same here. (Flooding has closed local rail lines; I might need to work from home tomorrow…)
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Status: Leaving for a vacation in Japan tomorrow, so I may not post much or at all during the next two weeks. I think I'll miss @Tsaukpaetra's upvotes a little.
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@Zerosquare here, have mine. Don't use it up all at once.
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Status: it's a lovely blustery day. Sun is shining, air is cool, perfect park weather.
I'm going back to bed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: it's a lovely blustery day. Sun is shining, air is cool, perfect park weather.
I'm going back to bed.
Meanwhile, I've rescued the pizza from the wind and safely got it home and into my stomach.
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Fuck how long do wisdom teeth take?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck how long do wisdom teeth take?
Okay, Google....
When a wisdom tooth is growing pragnarant?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck how long do wisdom teeth take?
Some people never achieve wisdom. That can have quite an impact on their lives.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck how long do wisdom teeth take?
Some people never achieve wisdom. That can have quite an impact their lives.
It's having an impact on my mouth and jaw and... ears for some reason.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Had a brain-fart black out. Forgot my phone's lock code that I've entered a million times the last 4.5 years. But it's all in muscle memory, and once I started thinking about it it was gone. Absolutely no idea how this could happen.
I've had this a couple of times not with my phone but with my debit card (which has had the same PIN for like 5/6 years) and my corporate card (which has had the same PIN for like 8 years).
I just chalk it up to one of those things and trying again later has worked as normal.
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Status: Just filed my 2019 tax return. I guess my tax situation is really vanilla (despite itemizing taxes due to a mortgage, property taxes and >10% charitable contributions), because I decided to do it manually on the 1040 (using the free e-file form-based method at www.freefilefillableforms.com) and it was pretty darn simple. Not sure why people think it's such a hard thing to do...maybe if you have a mix of income sources (self-employed + W2 + investment income) and a complicated family situation.
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Status: Someone on my local Kijiji has an i7-4790k for sale. It's the best processor that'll fit my (old ass) socket, and has almost twice the CPU Mark score of my current CPU. But do I really need it?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
But do I really need it?
Only if you constantly find yourself maxing out.
If you're not maxing out, your CPU isn't being used fully, so in theory you won't see any difference.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
But do I really need it?
Only if you constantly find yourself maxing out.If you're not maxing out, your CPU isn't being used fully, so in theory you won't see any difference.Yes.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
But do I really need it?
Only if you constantly find yourself maxing out.If you're not maxing out, your CPU isn't being used fully, so in theory you won't see any difference.Yes.
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Status: Approaching but not yet bedtime. There are no unread posts on TDWTF (at least not in threads that I want to read; undoubtedly, there are many in threads I'm ignoring). Therefore, I shall read Pratchett instead.
Why would I have been reading TDWTF in the first place, when there was unread Pratchett within arm's-reach? Another among many objectively terrible decisions I have made in my life.