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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
waiting on a luser (or worse manglement)
Good thing you're not waiting on better manglement.
Filed under: very long wait
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't wait to leave Florida. Because I'm allergic to everything in this overgrown state.
You could move to Australia, where if you're not allergic to it, it's lethal.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't wait to leave Florida. Because I'm allergic to everything in this overgrown state.
You could move to Australia, where if you're not allergic to it, it's lethal.
And a bunch of things you are allergic to as well.
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Status: It's very late in the day to be drinking caffeine, but I have 2 hours left before I go home, and I can't keep my eyes open.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
on better manglement.
our top isn't that bad. One generally keeps his nose out of daily activities and one you can talk normal to and who seems to mostly remember previous conversations. The level below is more of a crap shoot.
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Status: Fucking Javascript!
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I enjoy haggling. Especially when the other party comes out with something much cheaper than my initial piss taking offer was going to be, then I try to go even lower because I don't want to seem like a pushover taking the first offer
Reminds me of what happened to my mother recently. She was at a car boot sale and saw a random semi-antique trinket she liked (some kind of ornate fake-silver cutlery item from the 30's, IIRC). She thought to herself "that's probably worth... EUR 5 or so", so she prepares herself to haggle by taking two trinkets and asking the price of both. "Oh, these things? ... is EUR 2 for both OK?" Well, no haggling that day, then.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
This book was originally published in 1910, but it has been continually updated since, and it is still in print. Mine is from the 1960s. I haven't really ran into hard-to-obtain ingredients, though I have had to substitute because some ingredients are preserved differently nowadays, and some naming has changed over time.
I've got a similar (French) cookbook, with the same effects (also seeing the ingredients that are never used is a good way to find out what now commonplace stuff wasn't so 50 years ago!). One of the funniest thing to me is all the recipes that say "cooking time X, or if you have this weird newfangled contraption called 'pressure cooker', cooking time Y".
The other funny thing is the introduction about how to manage your kitchen, plan your menus and so on. It's so caricaturally dated it has crossed over from
to
, with gems (barely reformulated) like "if something fails in the kitchen, don't come whining to your husband who's relaxing in the living room: he probably had a hard day at work and doesn't need you to burden him with petty household problems, nor should you keep him waiting for his meal. Also, it's better if you can find time to change into some nice dress rather than serving food with your apron on".
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Status: as the previous two posts attest, I've gone through my "status thread" backlog. Now to stop procrastinating! (inb4:
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Also, why does VS randomly red-squigglise a variable named
interface
in a C++ file? No, this is definitely not C#!
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@remi I don't recall those recommendations specifically, but I may have skipped that part. I do recall a sentiment of "There's nothing wrong with using pre-made ingredients and herbs. As long as the diners don't find out."
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
There are definitely a fair amount of studies that indicate that it's possible to price yourself out of a market by pricing too low, especially in skilled trades. @Polygeekery could probably attest to his experiences in IT consulting
Yep. When I first started I looked at my costs, put in a reasonable chunk for profit and such and arrived at a figure. I think it was $75-80/hour. I ended up hitting a wall on sales so I went to talk to a friend and advisor. His advice was to raise my prices. Once I did I started selling again, pretty much immediately.
People wouldn't buy at $75/hour because they wondered what I wasn't providing since I was priced so much lower than competitors. But that same market segment would accept $125/hour without batting an eye. Same service, same people behind it. The only difference was a near doubling in price.
My dad was a leather worker and encountered the same thing. He'd make a really nice leather handbag, several days of effort. The price of the leather, dyes and his time meant it had to be above the price you'd pay for a crappy mass produced knock-off from the market, but he wasn't really interested in money and didn't want them to only be affordable to super rich snobs so priced them well below similar hand made bags. Hardly sold any.
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Status: Wondering if I should raise my ebook prices...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi I don't recall those recommendations specifically, but I may have skipped that part. I do recall a sentiment of "There's nothing wrong with using pre-made ingredients and herbs. As long as the diners don't find out."
My book has a fairly large introduction section about everything-but-cooking, so it has a lot of opportunity for this kind of things. It's actually a very good part of the book (if you ignore the sexist bits), in that it's talking at length about e.g. how to manage your stocks of food. Except that since it assumes grocery items and other foodstuff as they were 70 years ago or so (my edition is slightly more recent, but that part probably wasn't updated), it's useless now, except as a historical document.
Though it's not quite to the level of another (slightly older) cookbook that my brother has, and that contains a lengthy section on how to preserve eggs so that you can have some all year long...
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@mott555 TBH, when I see e-book prices that are super low (less than a dollar or so), I tend to assume that the content is one or more of
- poorly edited
- poorly written
- short-story length
$3-$5 is my sweet spot for books, personally.
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@Benjamin-Hall I list at $2.99 which is basically the minimum allowed by Amazon (you can go lower, but they change the royalty rates to something barely above 0 if you do).
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall I list at $2.99 which is basically the minimum allowed by Amazon (you can go lower, but they change the royalty rates to something barely above 0 if you do).
Yeah, that's at the border of my sketchy-meter going off. I've had bad results from "real cheap" books before. But then again, I don't buy many books except from authors I know and trust. So I'm biased.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
authors I know
Hey, you know @mott555!
and trust
Oh, that could be a problem.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
authors I know
Hey, you know @mott555!
and trust
Oh, that could be a problem.
=)
More "know that their work is good (because I've read previous ones) and trust (that their new work will be to my taste)." But sure.
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Status: I've had a low migraine for three days continuous now. I wonder if something is wrong?
Edit: also, the smell of burning is getting really annoying....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've had a low migraine for three days continuous now. I wonder if something is wrong?
Edit: also, the smell of burning is getting really annoying....
I heard a comic the other day saying that apparently some people getting a heart attack smell burnt bread or something like it. He used it as the setup of a joke where someone trolls someone who had an attack before by burning bread so that the other is confused about whether they're getting another attack.
I have no idea how true that story was, nor whether it has any relation to your condition.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: also, the smell of burning is getting really annoying....
Did you piss off @Polygeekery?
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@HardwareGeek not yet. I actually kind of like @Tsaukpaetra, either in spite of or because of how freaking weird he is. I can't decide which.
Plus he and I both suffer from CRS, so that helps.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek not yet. I actually kind of like @Tsaukpaetra, either in spite of or because of how freaking weird he is. I can't decide which.
Plus he and I both suffer from CRS, so that helps.
Carriage Return Syndrome?
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@pie_flavor are you being facetious or have you really been around this long and don't know what it means?
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@Polygeekery Maybe he can't remember shit.
edit: Toby Fair, I had to brave NodeBB search to remind myself
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Status: Google Drive is having a bad case of bit-rot. My Powerpoint presentations have managed to vanish the pictures. Sometimes. But only when presented, not in the editing view. I've also had lots of PDFs become corrupted--they're not zero-byte (so they've been downloaded), but no program I've found could open them. Generally if I don't touch it every few months, it has some large chance of going kerplewy. But only binary files.
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@Benjamin-Hall Destruction of Powerpoint presentations sounds like a feature
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Destruction of Powerpoint presentations sounds like a feature
I'd normally agree. But those are my lecture slides. My students would much rather have that than have to write everything down and understand my (horrible, although better on the white-board than on paper) handwriting. Especially since I tend to write pretty small.
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
I have no idea how true that story was, nor whether it has any relation to your condition.
Heart status is nominal. I am somewhat dehydrated though.
The rate of mental deterioration however...@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: also, the smell of burning is getting really annoying....
Did you piss off @Polygeekery?
Nah.
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@Benjamin-Hall Having to take your own class notes is said to help a lot in remembering the material.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Google Drive is having a bad case of bit-rot.
You have no idea how much of an uphill battle it is with clients and potential clients to get them to backup the shit that they keep "in the cloud".
"But Google backs up that stuff for us, right?"
No, not really. Also, Google has lost data before. On one notable incident it was due to lightning literally striking
twicefour times:"We don't need to backup our data in OneDrive. Microsoft maintains those backups for us."
Sort of. They only maintain back 30 or 45 days, and they make absolutely zero guarantee that those backups will be available."
"But really, how often does stuff like this occur? They have top engineers working on things like this."
Often enough that we have run in to issues multiple times and we don't even manage that many people in the grand scheme of things. On one notable occasion, due to the unique way in which a user was dealing with files in Google Drive (saving a local copy to her desktop, manipulating the spreadsheet that she needed to, saving it back to Google Drive, no fucking clue why she did this other than incompetence) and what appeared to be another bug we had a client get an entire department of 8 people get basically shut down for a week and a half because the crucial files ended up in some orphaned status that required an obscure search incantation in order to find them and it took Google over a week to figure it out.
These days I make a best effort to sell them on the backup and if they don't bite I know that sometime in the future there will be a 50-100 hour ticket that will cost an order of magnitude more than the proposed backup would have cost in the first place.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery Maybe he can't remember shit.
edit: Toby Fair, I had to brave NodeBB search to remind myself
Those of us with it don't need to google it. That's the one thing we can remember!
edit: damn closing tags...
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
They have top engineers working on things like this."
As a top engineer,
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Having to take your own class notes is said to help a lot in remembering the material.
Yes. I do an intermediate--I don't give all the notes filled in. I'll give the basic structure and some of the (less important) verbiage, and blanks they can fill in. Because otherwise they try to take verbatim notes and don't think about what I'm saying. I do lots of writing, but in a framework that they have.
And when I want to show them a picture...it helps if it shows up. Or gets exported to the PDF. Especially if I want them to do something with it.
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TIL: Those small single serve packages of chips? Well Fritos Corn Chips (2 oz) says that's 2 servings in a package.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Those small single serve packages of chips?
You mean "those bags of chips that are half the size a decent cheap bag should be"?
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Those small single serve packages of chips?
You mean "those bags of chips that are half the size a decent cheap bag should be"?
and cost twice as much. (well technically they're free since they're part of our snack area at work)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Those small single serve packages of chips?
You mean "those bags of chips that are half the size a decent cheap bag should be"?
and cost twice as much. (well technically they're free since they're part of our snack area at work)
Fuckers. Those things cost me $1.25 out of the vending machines here.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
TIL: Those small single serve packages of chips? Well Fritos Corn Chips (2 oz) says that's 2 servings in a package.
My can of Rockstar has twice the sodium it normally does? Wait, no, it's just the sugar-free version, so they have no incentive to misreport the serving size.
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Status: after yesterday was just bullshit work (powerpoint, flyers, etc.), today I was on a seminar on team/project leading. Tomorrow too. Good lord, I hate stuff like that. I don't even like the project leading itself, much less a seminar about it. Toby Faire, I did sign up for it myself, but mostly for appearance's sake.
After being mentally exhausted, I compensated with going to the swimming pool. At least I beat my personal time.Also Status: Yesterday the boss mentioned we should be prepared to do home office (i.e. have teleconferencing software installed on our laptops, PKI access etc.) in case the authorities resort to drastic measures. Today, the stupid Corona virus arrived in my city. Sigh.
I wonder what would have happened if this thing didn't have a name. Nobody would care about "have you heard about these guys that came back from holiday and infected someone with the flu?"
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@tsaukpaetra: You can't tell me you read that in 10 seconds!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra: You can't tell me you read that in 10 seconds!
Yes
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Status: wondering who will arrive first if I mention both @candlejack and @candlejack1 . I'm keep you guys pos-
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Status: I did a dumb and told a remote system to reboot.
This would be fine, except I forgot that the VM management service does not properly respond to reboot requests!
So it's currently (presumably) hung up, waiting for the VM to shutdown, of which it will do so indefinitely (I assume I misconfigured something).
RIP server until I can go and poke it...
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Status: looked up "Langschwanzflugsaurier" and all I got was 15 minutes of BANDitry. ★☆☆☆☆.
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