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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Someone cue up a "This is Sparta!" joke, quick!
Yeah, I wouldn't last 10 minutes in Sparta. They'd kill me real darn fast as unfit for their society. I'm fat, I'm physically out of shape (and have never been in shape), don't particularly care about physical activities, and am a pretty big wuss when it comes to pain.
But since I live most of my life in front of a computer or in front of a stove, I don't particularly need much furniture. I bought a coffee table (the cheapest Ikea one I could), but that's not going with me. The dining-room table is only there because I had a group of D&D players meeting at my old apartment for a while (that moved elsewhere). So if that doesn't fit, it (and the chairs) aren't going with me.
Helps that I end up helping other people move a lot (religious hazard), and every time I do, I have the urge to go home and throw stuff away.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
helping other people move a lot (religious hazard)
President Stake's words echo: "the church is not a moving service!"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
helping other people move a lot (religious hazard)
President Stake's words echo: "the church is not a moving service!"
True. But I do actually enjoy helping out in that way, and it's one of the few physical assistance opportunities I can do. I can't help out outside (mowing lawns, cleaning up after hurricanes, etc) because of horrible allergies. I don't have time on most days to help out at the Bishop's Storehouse due to school. So helping people move every few months is a great opportunity to help. Unless they have pianos or large gun safes. Those are on my "someone else can do that" list due to bad experiences in the past.
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status: old enough to drink Coronaโข virus
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
status: old enough to drink Corona virus
More importantly, are you old enough to die from Corona virus?
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Status: Eureka! It looks like I've found the bug!
Or at least a bug, need further testing to verify it is actually the one I'm after. And it was mostly my own fault, after all.
Some details, while keeping it intentionally vague: The bug actually was in the ~3 lines of governing equations for the physical forces that I added by myself. Which quite definitely isn't my area of expertise, so maybe I shouldn't have done that, but it was basically just "integrating" a call to more complex code that I didn't code all by myself, and that underwent stricter testing. Also, to my defense, I had our physicist look over and approve these 3 lines, and we set up something to verify it produces expected output.
Think, I originally had something like
f = gravity(x) + collisions(x) + electricity(x);and I replaced that with
f = gravity(x) + collisions(x) + electricity(x) + magnets(x);.
Can't do much wrong there, can I?
But there was a bug in there, even though we both overlooked it. There's two different coordinate systems involved, and I forgot the transformation. And, as luck might have it, another completely unrelated bug in producing the expected outcome basically canceled out this one, so for the tests it looked like it was correct (within margin of error). Dang!Oh, by the way, did I mention that it's after midnight on Easter Sunday and I'm working? Well... bored, I guess.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
did I mention that it's after midnight on Easter Sunday and I'm working?
... Sunday? Holy shit!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
did I mention that it's after midnight on Easter Sunday and I'm working?
... Sunday? Holy shit!
The night from Sunday to Monday. Should I have called that Monday when it's after midnight already? I usually consider it Sunday until I go to sleep.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
did I mention that it's after midnight on Easter Sunday and I'm working?
... Sunday? Holy shit!
The night from Sunday to Monday. Should I have called that Monday when it's after midnight already? I usually consider it Sunday until I go to sleep.
The problem with considering day/night cycle in day determination while in competition with the actual clock roll-over.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall I don't think XBox Live gamertags were randomly generated. At least as far back as the launch of the Xbox 360 you could pick them, but they were indeed (mostly) permanent. Google Play did let me pick, although I don't recall if it's restricted to their suggestions, or a completely free choice. I just went with one of the [adjective][animal][numbers] suggestions for mine.
I ended up with an original XBox Live (technically Games for Windows Live at that point) tag of AvengingArdvark (with some numbers). No, I didn't actually choose that. It may have been me just blindly hitting "OK", however (which I then later remembered as being random).
Edit--I remembered wrong. It was AvengingTick, not aardvark.
My GFWLTag is one of the common IDs I use online, so it must have let you pick at some point. My Google Play Games...whatever is also one of my common ones; it may have had something to do with the stuff I had in Google+ when that was a thing.
Both of these I had to go look up since I haven't touched their respective apps for a while. Guess I never 100%ed Arkham Asylum back before Steam.
ObStatus: Survived Easter with the family. I've missed the little ones.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, by the way, did I mention that it's after midnight on Easter Sunday and I'm working?
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Apparently being cooped up with nothing better to do is doing wonders for my productivity.
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...which sort of indicates to me that my
is mostly attention-deficit related.
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@Zenith
Stage 0: find paperwork
Stage 1: enter invoices
Stage 2: enter inventory
Stage 3: enter sales
Stage 4: figure out WTF is wrong with data from stages 1-3
Stage 5: five minutes clicking through Turbo TaxAs an aside, alright, I see why I backslid, hard, financially last year. I was doing great for the first half of the year but then I went a little crazy on clearance pickups going into fall. I haven't done the sales part yet but I know sales were very weak outside of my show in September. Of the other three, at two I didn't even make my table money back.
I haven't done any numbers at all for this year yet (aside from gathering receipts into a box) but it looks like corona is going to help me with cutting back on purchases. Hopefully it helps me again with pent up demand in the second half of the year (because it sure hasn't done anything for online sales in the first half,).
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Policy: at the end of each sprint, teams are scored on percentage of user stories completed versus assigned
Intended effect: teams take care to only assign work in manageable chunks that makes timelines more predictable
Actual effect: stories don't get assigned to the sprint until they are basically complete
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Basically every performance metric we measure has been gamed or subverted somehow.
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Fuck; I have no specific hours where I'm working or not working any more.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck; I have no specific hours where I'm working or not working any more.
Oh, wait, that's not in the context of someone on salary, is it?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck; I have no specific hours where I'm working or not working any more.
Oh, wait, that's not in the context of someone on salary, is it?
I am salaried, yes. Heretofore that has worked out in my favor, though.
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You know how most games have things like missions or quests?
Apparently Destiny 2 has missions, quests, adventures, patrols, events, strikes and raids.
Edit: also bounties, triumphs, challenges, milestones and trophies
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Basically every performance metric we measure has been gamed or subverted somehow.
And they always will be.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Basically every performance metric we measure has been gamed or subverted somehow.
And they always will be.
It's only really a problem when the metric is tied to the reward. As long as the metric is kept separate from people's pay, it only has a minor impact.
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@error Today I found out I've been scheduled through the end of the month but I figured what I was scheduled for should've been over tomorrow if not today. Of course, now that I look at the EOD progress, it's looking worse. Seems some fool bought laptops without built-in network jacks. They need a dongle that loses connection three times during the imaging process (because reasons) and fail if said dongle isn't immediately pulled out and plugged back in. So basically they have to be babysat and thus fewer can run at a time.
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Status: Apparently this little foot-bath thing is damaged or otherwise not properly wired, because I just formed an electrical circuit from the tub to my in-ear headphones through my computer's ground.
Fun!
Edit: Oh, nevermind, the water seems to have spilled onto the extension cord and that's what did it.
I should stop now....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gฤ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
it might be wisdom teeth growing.
This late? Huh, who'da thunk it...
My father had his wisdom teeth growing (and hurting, and having to have them removed) when he was more than 40 years old. I don't remember his exact age, but I remember that it happened (it was one of the rare times where my parents were visibly sick, and not just with something like a cold, which was very weird to child-me!).
I remember "we" choose (my mother, really, but she involved us in the choice) a jigsaw puzzle to give him as a get-well gift: it was one with lots of cheese, because the tooth fairy here is a "little mouse" (which obviously likes cheese, duh).
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Status: @Tsaukpaetra needs maintenance, I posted two consecutive posts in a thread and only the second one got an upvote.
That, or he really hated that post...
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra needs maintenance,
My mental facilities and response times seem to have been adversely affected by ttt
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Status: Checked up on a fax I thought I sent a few days ago.
It didn't. Apparently
Phone Line Unavailableis not an error condition to warn the user about. Also, I guess fax jobs don't get a timestamp until actually transmitted.
At least it appears to have sent OK, even though I'm pretty sure Google Voice is not technically optimized for fax transmission by any means...
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Status: Pondering if I should start introducing callbacks to my Arduino project. My modular design is breaking down because some modules necessarily depend on others to function...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra needs maintenance,
My mental facilities and response times seem to have been adversely affected by ttt
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
adversely affected by ttt
Trouble in Terrorist Town | Garry's Mod Wiki | Fandom
Trouble in Terrorist Town (abbreviated to TTT) is a psychological action game mode in Garry's Mod. It is built in to the game. The game first starts with all players in one area. There is a 00:30...
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Status: so you probably don't remember that a few months ago I posted a tiny rant about managing to buy airplane tickets for the whole family to go to the other side of the world. No surprise, we had to cancel everything. Yeah, that was time well spent.
So now I'm waiting for the agent to reimburse me (the airline cancelled the flights, not me). Got an email from the site where I bought the tickets saying that I can rebook for another date or get a refund but that not all companies are paying a full refund (I'm pretty sure that's illegal under the local law but whatever, the airline we were due to fly with has said they'll reimburse fully).
To get my refund there is a handy form that starts with:
I agree to proceed with cancellation of my entire booking regardless the refundable amount or any other solution provided by the airline.
LOL nope.
That's just the most visible of their scare tactics. Their email is sprinkled with hints that I should be happy if I get pocket change from them. Well, that's like the plane themselves, that ain't gonna fly...
We'll see how it goes though... I'm not entirely hopeful, it's not out of the possible that the whole company behind the website will go down and my money with it, hopefully it won't get to that...
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@remi It's called "If we reimburse in money everything we're normally supposed to reimburse in money we're instantly bankrupt". This argument has been quite effective for most of the travel industry.
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@PleegWat Yes, I know. But while I can get some sympathy for the airlines doing that, because I understand that they have real costs that don't go away if they don't have business, I have little sympathy for the travel agent doing that, because their costs are much more limited. And I have even less sympathy when they are trying to pull it off with language that basically amounts to "we'll reimburse whatever we feel like reimbursing."
Also, I'm not a lawyer but I suspect that the clause in the T&C where they say they're just acting as intermediaries and thus are not responsible if the airline doesn't want to reimburse is just bullshit.
The transaction I made was with them, at no point in any of the emails I got was any reference to the airlines (and I mean that, even the travel references and itinerary doesn't mention it! Although out of the 4 tickets I bought, I got different email templates for 2 of them and these do mention the airline, but just as information about my flights, nothing more), and more importantly the payment was done to the travel agent, not the airline. So of course they're not the ones who were going to transport us, but I'm pretty sure that as far as the law is concerned, the contract I entered into was with them, not with a specific airline, and simply saying otherwise in the small print isn't going to change the law. But of course all that is
if they go down and can't repay anyone.We'll see. They say they're swamped with inquiries at the moment (and even say "due to the lock down in India" so I guess I know where their call centres are!
) and to wait until 1 week before departure before contacting them (i.e. in about 2 weeks time for me), I can understand that. It's at odds with the other email I got from them saying to contact them within 24 hours (and blindly accept their conditions...), but I'm not too worried about that, as long as I have proof that the airline cancelled my flight (which I do!) even if I were to claim after my departure date I'm pretty sure they can't refuse to refund me.In a sense it's money that I already spent, for a service that was purely leisure (holidays) so it's not like I'm going to go bust if they don't repay me. But then obviously I'm going to be pretty pissed if they simply walk away with several thousands bucks we gave them.
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@remi Here they've set up a system of coupons (guaranteed by the same guarantee fund as normal travels against bankruptcies in the industry). I am slightly concerned that will just lead to them going bankrupt next year instead when those coupons are all cashed in, but in a sense it's not my problem - I tend to vacation by car anyway.
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@PleegWat The agent is also offering to book again at another date, and the airline we were to travel with also has a system of keeping the value of the tickets as air miles redeemable later. I'm indeed not sure whether that will truly help them in the long term, but obviously they're grasping at whatever they can.
But I'm not interested in that, that trip was only possible due to a combination of circumstances that's unlikely to hold true next year, or ever again (in part because my mother isn't getting any younger and while she was still game to travel this year, and I very much hope she still would next year, I've also got to be realistic about it...). So for me it's refund, nothing else. But as I said, it's not like I depend on that money, and realistically if the airline were to offer me, say, a 75% refund, I might accept it, maybe. But I'm not signing a deal before knowing how much they're giving me back.
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Status: cooked a big pot of homemade chili. I thought it could last a few days. At this rate, I'll be lucky if any of it makes it to the refrigerator.
Fuck me, that's good stuff.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck me, that's good stuff.
Your thread is elsewhere, but the way. ๐
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My new most dreaded conference call phrase: "could you take that action?"
Basically: my boss is delegating
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: cooked a big pot of homemade chili. I thought it could last a few days. At this rate, I'll be lucky if any of it makes it to the refrigerator.
Fuck me, that's good stuff.
Status: I am an unbelievable glutton
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Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous
tiesclothes?FTFF
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Status: Little brother is on a Zoom call. For some reason the audio buffer is broken (it happens in Hypatia for probably similar reasons) and so half of the samples are missing when played, such that the audio is technically understandable but sounds like everyone is standing behind a fan.
Fucking annoying as shit!
Edit: Imagine with me, if you will, a class of children all talking through fans.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
For some reason the audio buffer is broken
Either the problem is a networking issue, or it is something in the sound handling on your device. If the problem gets better when he turns off his camera, it's the network getting overloaded (particularly the local router getting overwhelmed with outbound video traffic and playing silly buffers with inbound audio traffic as a result). Otherwise, it's your audio hardware fucking up and if that's so, changing the software (above the driver/firmware level) won't do jack shit to help nor will replacing network equipment.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
it is something in the sound handling on your device.
This.
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
If the problem gets better when he turns off his camera,
Not this.
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Otherwise, it's your audio hardware fucking up and if that's so, changing the software
No, reconnecting will probably work, I just am to
to go and do it. Since I don't know the meeting password anyways.Edit: Nope, the person who assisted in setting up the laptop (wasn't me) epicly failed to plug it in, so it was in Battery Saver mode, which, for some reason, fucked with audio decoding of all things.
I blame Zoom not handling Windows slowing down HPET when on battery properly.
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Status: Reclear night killed the servers.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Reclear night killed the servers.
Saw that. I logged right in time, after bailing on a horrible Orbonne Alliance Roulette (because no way do I have energy to do Savage or EX content). Like seriously. Don't point the tankbuster cleave at the raid. Do DPS. Vulnerability stacks aren't Pokemon, you don't need to catch them all. Etc.
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@anonymous234 And these ludicrous penny loafers. Triple pleated khakis? Preposterous! Nobody here has an eye for fashion!
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