The Official Status Thread
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@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
Defender is well-known for being a resource hog
It is? I've never noticed it, and to me it had the reputation of being pretty lightweight (unlike Norton and others). Or maybe MS "improved" it in latest versions of Win10?
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I passed the test. I now have a license to
kill
drive? 
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@error: there's no actual difference if you drive badly
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
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: Here's some curated news, trends, rundowns and runups or something.
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USC has been doing that to me. Sure, I graduated from there. Never gave them my email. They found it (probably LinkedIn). Every email I get, unsubscribe. Doesn't work very well - unless they have 500 different email lists. Or (evil laugh) every email sent is a new list, so technically they're ok!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
USC has been doing that to me. Sure, I graduated from there.
I didn't; no connection with the university. I still get occasional emails from their alumni association.
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Status: I wonder what will happen if I add a check to the assumption this configuration is valid, rather than just falling back to empty string like they told me to many years ago.
Other people write bad code whenever you give them a shot at getting away with it and I didn't have the clout at the time.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I wonder what will happen if I add a check to the assumption this configuration is valid, rather than just falling back to empty string like they told me to many years ago.
Famous last words.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error: there's no actual difference if you drive badly
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@error If we let the magic smoke out of everything, do the unicorns and fairies come back?
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@dcon you can try!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon you can try!
Nah. But they're doing a fine job in MN!
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@remi said in The Official Status Thread:
Defender is well-known for being a resource hog
It is? I've never noticed it, and to me it had the reputation of being pretty lightweight (unlike Norton and others). Or maybe MS "improved" it in latest versions of Win10?
Microsoft/Windows Defender has been more lightweight than other antivirus programs for me, but I have seen the occasional report like @Tsaukpaetra's where something goes wrong.
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Status: This SSD is balls-slow...
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You know, you really should stop buying your computer hardware on Wish.com (unless you actually enjoy the pain...).
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
I have seen the occasional report like @Tsaukpaetra's
Today it has been relatively nice.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
You know, you really should stop buying your computer hardware on Wish.com (unless you actually enjoy the pain...).
I have actually never bought anything on Wish.com. Never even visited the site actually, imma check it out...
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...I walked right into this one, didn't I?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wish.com
Damn, apparently needs an account to even view listings. Wonderbar.
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Status: Why is a language pack under the "Security updates" category?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wish.com
Damn, apparently needs an account to even view listings. Wonderbar.
Fine, have my online name. Whatever.
Looked at the daily deals (or whatever).
NSFW results included
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What makes it think I want a dildo as a new customer?!?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I want
Man, if I had a 10 kAH battery in the palm of my hand I would disconnect from the grid!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What makes it think I want a dildo as a new customer?!?
The Internet knows you better than you think
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I want
Man, if I had a 10 kAH battery in the palm of my hand I would disconnect from the grid!
"hot" as in "it will burn straight through your hand and into the earth's core"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I want
Man, if I had a 10 kAH battery in the palm of my hand I would
disconnect from the grid!explode
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I want
Man, if I had a 10 kAH battery in the palm of my hand I would disconnect from the grid!
Files this in the same bucket as 16TB USB sticks
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I want
Man, if I had a 10 kAH battery in the palm of my hand I would disconnect from the grid!
Let me do the math for you: 10kAh at 3.7v is equivalent to 31.84 kilograms of TNT.
I'd leave it on a table very carefully then call the bomb disposal unit.
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Local supermarket keeps pestering me to make a loyalty card. So I checked to see what advantages it gets you. As far as I can tell, the main benefits are:
- You get points when you purchase stuff, then you get discounts with those points. Doing the math, the final discount amounts to 1€ for every 400€ spent. MONEY!
- If you've spent more than 200€ a month for the last 6 months, you become a gold member. Gold members get a birthday gift. No mention of what that birthday gift is, but extrapolating from the other discount I assume it's a 3€ coupon.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Local supermarket keeps pestering me to make a loyalty card. So I checked to see what advantages it gets you. As far as I can tell, the main benefits are:
- You get points when you purchase stuff, then you get discounts with those points. Doing the math, the final discount amounts to 1€ for every 400€ spent. MONEY!
- If you've spent more than 200€ a month for the last 6 months, you become a gold member. Gold members get a birthday gift. No mention of what that birthday gift is, but extrapolating from the other discount I assume it's a 3€ coupon.
Around here, the loyalty cards are pretty much mandatory. For many items, there are substantial discounts if you use your store card. Since the majority of shoppers have these cards, it's more like a substantial fee for the privilege of not carrying their card around with you than a reward for having a card.
Since not all items have these penalties, I've never figured out the total percentage, but it is commonly at least several dollars extra I would have to pay for a shopping cart full of groceries for not having a card.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Local supermarket keeps pestering me to make a loyalty card. So I checked to see what advantages it gets you. As far as I can tell, the main benefits are:
- You get points when you purchase stuff, then you get discounts with those points. Doing the math, the final discount amounts to 1€ for every 400€ spent. MONEY!
- If you've spent more than 200€ a month for the last 6 months, you become a gold member. Gold members get a birthday gift. No mention of what that birthday gift is, but extrapolating from the other discount I assume it's a 3€ coupon.
I refuse to get any of these cards whatsoever (singular exception is that local guy who sells me Döner, it's just stamps on a paper card and you get a free one at 10 stamps, no sign up).
There was a time (apparently starting in the 50s) where discount stores popped up that gave you the discount up-front (i.e. everything is cheaper, no non-loyalty-card-penalty), which was a massive success because you got the cheap prices without the loyalty cards, coupons, and all that other hassle. Then at some point these new and improved loyalty cards came up with complete tracking of everything and for some stupid reason they caught on. In the end everybody pays as much as before, except for the people like my who don't take part in this discount garbage.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I wonder what will happen if I add a check to the assumption this configuration is valid, rather than just falling back to empty string like they told me to many years ago.
Other people write bad code whenever you give them a shot at getting away with it and I didn't have the clout at the time.
Status: Identified 6 bugs and 1 general exception rule based on my initial sniff test. There may be more; the full test run won't be completed before end-of-day today.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Local supermarket keeps pestering me to make a loyalty card. So I checked to see what advantages it gets you. As far as I can tell, the main benefits are:
- You get points when you purchase stuff, then you get discounts with those points. Doing the math, the final discount amounts to 1€ for every 400€ spent. MONEY!
- If you've spent more than 200€ a month for the last 6 months, you become a gold member. Gold members get a birthday gift. No mention of what that birthday gift is, but extrapolating from the other discount I assume it's a 3€ coupon.
YMMV, but I've had pretty good experience with one of my local drugstores' loyalty program and buying items from their electronics section with the points paying for the majority of the price
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Status: My phone is apparently going to be updated to Android 10. Hopefully it won't be a total crap fest
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Status: I am a nerd. My shipping container arrived today. I had previously measured all of my furniture, rounding to the 1/2" (1 cm, roughly) range. I verified the stated internal measurements of the container.
I then proceeded to make an optimal packing spreadsheet, using excel at a 1 grid-square : 4"x4" scale, rounding the number of available squares down and the number of required squares down. Height was handled by checks on stacking, not directly. This way, I have a confirmed fit, with a fair amount of space left over. And can print out that plot for packing purposes tomorrow.
In doing so, I validated my gut decision to sell off one particular piece of furniture that would have been slightly too large to fit.
It's playing Tetris, with furniture. Actually a bit of fun. Now if I also had to make sure I was balancing weights, that'd take more work. It's roughly balanced, because all the stuff is about the same density. No appliances or large safes.
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status Dammit. I forgot again. Never close the lid on my Ubuntu laptop to put it to sleep. The 2nd monitor will never turn back on until I reboot.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My phone is apparently going to be updated to Android 10. Hopefully it won't be a total crap fest
Still on 8. Old phone. AT&T. Yup, I'll never get 10.
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@dcon Mine is on 9 currently. It's in the Android One program, which I had thought (incorrectly, as I found out) would get OS updates at the same time as Pixel/AOSP, but after reading more carefully it's actually only security updates that work that way. But this morning I got a notification that there was a new update ready, and that it's Android 10. I'll apply it later and see what's up
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Identified 6 bugs and 1 general exception rule based on my initial sniff test.
The debugging-dog technique
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
The 2nd monitor will never turn back on until I reboot
Just restart X Window
- hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 then login
- sudo service lightdm stop
- sudo service lightdm start
- hit Ctrl+Alt+F7
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
The 2nd monitor will never turn back on until I reboot
Just restart X Window
- hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 then login
- sudo service lightdm stop
- sudo service lightdm start
- hit Ctrl+Alt+F7
Great. More super secret shit to remember. Screw it, I'll just stick to reboot. It's easy to remember.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
More super secret shit to remember.
You could enable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
or
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
The 2nd monitor will never turn back on until I reboot
Just restart X Window
- hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 then login
- sudo service lightdm stop
- sudo service lightdm start
- hit Ctrl+Alt+F7
Great. More super secret shit to remember. Screw it, I'll just stick to reboot. It's easy to remember.
REISUB
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
The 2nd monitor will never turn back on until I reboot
Just restart X Window
- hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 then login
- sudo service lightdm stop
- sudo service lightdm start
- hit Ctrl+Alt+F7
Great. More super secret shit to remember. Screw it, I'll just stick to reboot. It's easy to remember.
REISUB
Googles.
Gotta love discoverability.
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Status: Do you ever look at the stock market and think: If I just had $10K laying around to invest, I could day trade instead of working a job.
Damned near every stock in my watch list is double or triple its 52 week low. Companies like Square bounce between $30 and $90 on what looks like a regular cycle. For crying out loud, if you bought $10K of JC Penney when it cratered a month ago at 11 cents, you would double your money selling now.
I almost feel stupid for buying at low points and saving dividends for future low points. It's almost 1950s "work hard to get ahead" naive.
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Status: Updating drivers. Wish me luck.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Do you ever look at the stock market and think: If I just had $10K laying around to invest
and a source of inside information, I could day trade instead of working a job.
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@Zenith
Also, fun story from my 7th grade days. We had a simulated stock market competition in one of my classes, in teams of 3 or 4. There was a token amount of real world prizing available to incentivize us further, not that my inner over-competitor really needed any additional excuse to go super hard on it.I put hours and hours of research into it. Yahoo! Finance, going to the library for the Wall Street Journal, you name it, I did it. After much painstaking analysis, I had discovered a blue chip, American company, well known and stable, that had traded in a very tight cyclical range for multiple years, you could set your watch to it. Would go up to $28/share, then go down to $22/share, then go back up, without much volatility outside of that range. It was then trading for $28/share.
I sold my team super hard on shorting this stock. Guaranteed money. We'd be easy winners. And I was doubly proud because shorting was a bit of a loophole in the rules on the competition - while there were limits on how much of your portfolio you could take in any one stock for a long position, and the margin restrictions were pretty tight for long positions, there weren't the same restrictions for short positions, just fairly standard mark-to-market rules & the margin calls you'd get for an underwater short position. We went all in on my brilliant research.
Except my research turned out to be rather brillant, as I had missed the most important piece of information about my target company. Three days after the competition started, Wal-Mart joined the Dow Jones Industrial Index. The share price broke $50 before the contest ended (we closed our position with a big loss before that point, but couldn't recover from losing so much capital on the "sure thing").
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It's playing Tetris, with furniture.
When I moved, a couple of my ex-BILs (I'm still on good terms with everyone in my ex-wife's family, except her) helped me load the truck. They actually called it furniture Tetris. They did get it significantly more densely packed than I did, although at the sacrifice of
comesome care for fragile items — in particular, an 80+ year old table with bad legs that I wanted to minimize the weight it had to support — but as far as I have found so far, nothing important was damaged that wasn't already damaged.Now if I also had to make sure I was balancing weights, that'd take more work.
It was slightly unbalanced, but not enough to make it unsafe to drive. It was leaning visibly to the left, but only about 1° or 2°.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
7th grade ... Yahoo! Finance
I was in my 30s before Yahoo! even existed.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Do you ever look at the stock market and think: If I just had $10K laying around to invest, I could day trade instead of working a job.
Damned near every stock in my watch list is double or triple its 52 week low. Companies like Square bounce between $30 and $90 on what looks like a regular cycle. For crying out loud, if you bought $10K of JC Penney when it cratered a month ago at 11 cents, you would double your money selling now.
I almost feel stupid for buying at low points and saving dividends for future low points. It's almost 1950s "work hard to get ahead" naive.
10k? You’d have to beat the market by a huge amount to make a living out of that. If it’s just speculation instead of growth-based, where does your knowledge come from?
If you could do that consistently I’d give you 20k and we’d split the profit.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It's playing Tetris, with furniture.
When I moved, a couple of my ex-BILs (I'm still on good terms with everyone in my ex-wife's family, except her) helped me load the truck. They actually called it furniture Tetris. They did get it significantly more densely packed than I did, although at the sacrifice of come care for fragile items — in particular, an 80+ year old table with bad legs that I wanted to minimize the weight it had to support — but as far as I have found so far, nothing important was damaged that wasn't already damaged.
Now if I also had to make sure I was balancing weights, that'd take more work.
It was slightly unbalanced, but not enough to make it unsafe to drive. It was leaning visibly to the left, but only about 1° or 2°.
I've helped lots of people pack trucks. As it turns out, my favorite place is in the truck, directing the younger (and more in shape) guys where to put stuff. Been told I've got an eye for it. This one I had to make sure I had room (so I could decide what to keep). Good thing is that most of it would be very hard to destroy and is basically rectangular with heavy sides. Plus boxes all the same size, stackable totes, etc.
After helping so many people and being strongly irked by their lack of preparation (seriously, you're still packing boxes when we arrive to load you out? How much do you (not) value our time) and possession of excess crap (no, taking your entire kitchen of food across the country is rather pointless, as is taking that stuff that's already broken to heck and back and been sitting in your garage/shed. Throw it away already!), I vowed to never make anyone suffer through that for one of my moves. So I've been dumping/selling/giving away stuff for a while now and planning in advance.
Unrelated Status: I really should play games from my catalog (both on Steam and on GOG) before purchasing new ones. But a remastered Bard's Tale Trilogy for like $8? Right before I'll be restricted to only a laptop and no reliable internet for a week? Yup.
