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@error
Pretty sure there's a "don't stick your member in that" warning on most dishwashers
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My not-COVID has been on a surprisingly regular schedule
Oh, hey. It's time to feel very hot but also very cold at the same time!
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@HardwareGeek
suckers! now you guys are stuck with @Gąska
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I need to get a
girlfriend boyfrienddishwasher.It's offensive to call people that regardless of gender.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I need to get a
girlfriend boyfrienddishwasher.It's offensive to call people that regardless of gender.
That's why I did it regardless of gender.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I need to get a
girlfriend boyfrienddishwasher.It's offensive to call people that regardless of gender.
That's why I did it
regardlessirregardless of gender.FTFT
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I need to get a
girlfriend boyfrienddishwasher.It's offensive to call people that regardless of gender.
That's why I did it
regardlessirregardless of gender.FTFT
I considered that, but figured the post was trolley enough as is.
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Status: I have progressed from “watching SmallAnt play Breath of the Wild” on YouTube to literally “watching SmallAnt speed-run the world record to sharpen 10 pencils.”
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have progressed from “watching SmallAnt play Breath of the Wild” on YouTube to literally “watching SmallAnt speed-run the world record to sharpen 10 pencils.”
I'm not sure why I watch Zelda/Metroid randomizers. I think I get a tiny dopamine hit each time an item is revealed.
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Sex is good but have you tried having someone on the Internet concede an argument?
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@error
E_NOT_FOUND
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status: camping again, I guess. Probably the last one of the year. Two trips in rapid succession!
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@Tsaukpaetra If you encounter any bears make sure they are social distancing
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra If you encounter any bears make sure they are social distancing
I've already declined a few propositions from the coyotes. They were trying something fierce...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status sigh.
I feel sad when I think about how Christ Hastings ended Dr McNinja for a 25 issue run on The Unbelievable Gwenpool and will never publish the last Dr McNinja book.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I've already declined a few propositions from the coyotes
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin In-flight WiFi is a thing now.
It's not normally a thing for transoceanic flights (or wasn't last November).
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I had a dream that I posted 2 photos of a bunch of food cooking on my barbecue grill, and they both got several downvotes. I was confused and angry at the downvotes. Were they insulting my cooking skills? My photography skills? WhyTF would you downvote that?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I had a dream that I posted 2 photos of a bunch of food cooking on my barbecue grill, and they both got several downvotes. I was confused and angry at the downvotes. Were they insulting my cooking skills? My photography skills? WhyTF would you downvote that?
Couldn't decide whether to
this post for quality or
this post to validate the dream
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I had a dream that I posted 2 photos of a bunch of food cooking on my barbecue grill, and they both got several downvotes. I was confused and angry at the downvotes. Were they insulting my cooking skills? My photography skills? WhyTF would you downvote that?
Couldn't decide whether to
this post for quality or
this post to validate the dream
Thank you for not bringing my nightmares to life.
I don't really have good and bad dreams. More often, I have dreams that put me in uncomfortable situations.
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@error Mason is vegetarian?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin In-flight WiFi is a thing now.
It's not normally a thing for transoceanic flights (or wasn't last November).
I never had it on any flights
but I seem to recall it was offered a couple years ago on trans-pacific flights. Maybe it depends on the airline
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@hungrier I think it depends on what sort of radio coverage there is. Over the north Atlantic and Greenland, that evaluates to “fuck all” unless the airline's spent a lot on very fancy satellite connectivity. It's big and it's really very empty…
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@dkf I always assumed it was satellite anyway
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status: God damn you YouTube. I watch episodes 1-5 of a series, in a row, making up about three hours of watch time. 'Next up' is a video I keep ignoring every time it's recommended, the remainder of the 'related' videos are other random crap some of which are from channels I'm not even subscribed to. Home page has as 'recommended' a playlist of a different series by the same guy, episode 13, and episode 3 again. Episode 6, for some godfucking reason, I can't even find through search, and have to search the guy's channel directly. How hard is it to understand the concept of watching a goddamn series?
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@pie_flavor For some channels under some conditions, it's possible for the creator to define a series and declare episodes of that series. This usually (bot not always) makes autoplay work correctly. The most reliable method is to have a playlist of that series (preferably by the creator but possibly by other people) which works correctly kinda by definition.
One possible reason you're getting such trashy recommendations is that, if you've signed in to a device (Chromecast, Roku, PlayStation, etc) that someone else has access to, plays on that device are used to make recommendations for your account even if someone else is signed in and playing them. I know exactly when my sister-in-law puts on garbage for my niece because my recommendations become garbage immediately afterward.
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@pie_flavor They have to keep their priorities straight. Automatically demonetizing channels for using bad words or snippets of music: Very Important and the algorithms are easy to implement. Detecting a number after the word "Episode" in a video title and presenting the next video in the sequence: Who even needs that, and besides, it'd be impossible to program advanced AI like that
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
status: God damn you YouTube. I watch episodes 1-5 of a series, in a row, making up about three hours of watch time. ... How hard is it to understand the concept of watching a goddamn series?
Did they make a Playlist of their series? That's how I usually watch a series on YouTube, unless they weren't smart enough to put the playlist in the right order. (Why isn't reversing a playlist part of YouTube? :(
Status: YouTube Recommendations are almost never helpful.
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@Parody That's the thing. It works great a lot of the time. Until it doesn't. YouTube sorts by high view count, and if you're watching a series with a very low view count, it decides you must not really want to watch the next episode because it has a low view count, but when you're watching episodes with, say, 10k views, then obviously you want to watch the next episode in the series because that's what everyone else did.
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Status: Back to the basement!
While I was taking time off, my cubbyhole has been refurbished after that unfortunate bit of flooding. Gone is the wall-to-wall carpeting. Gone is the plasterboard. Tiles for the win, baby!
Next up: working two PCs at once, like a tru 1337 haxxor.
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Addendum: I'd like to take this opportunity to extend a warm and heartfelt "Fuck You!" to all PC makers and graphics hardware manufacturers. Could you please agree on one plug format and stick with it, assholes?
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@GOG said in The Official Status Thread:
working two PCs at once, like a tru 1337 haxxor.
tru 1337 haxxorz work two on one PC with one keyboard
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@GOG said in The Official Status Thread:
working two PCs at once, like a tru 1337 haxxor.
tru 1337 haxxorz work two on one PC with one keyboard
It's been decades since I last played Spy vs. Spy.
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Microsoft claims Azure storage is "Designed to provide at least 99.99999999999999 % (16 9's) durability of objects over a given year" i.e. a 1 in 10 quadrillion chance of losing a single file for a year.
Microsoft is worth over 1.5 trillion dollars. If they actually believed that claim, they should be willing to take a gamble where I pay $0.0001 (in addition to normal storage costs) to store a file for a year, and if they lose it, they give me ownership of the entire company. Somehow I doubt they'd be willing to take that, particularly given that their SLA doesn't seem to include any compensation for data loss at all.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Why isn't reversing a playlist part of YouTube?
You want to watch the newest content first!!!
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Last week, I mentioned that Dylan Matthews’ suggestion that maybe there was only 10^-67 chance you could affect AI risk was stupendously overconfident.
Where would you even pull that specific number from if not your ass? Can't think of any other source.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Designed to provide at least 99.99999999999999 % (16 9's) durability of objects over a given year
I don't design my software to be faulty either.
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@PleegWat
Seems like a way to lose out on those lucrative maintenance coding contracts.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
maintenance coding contracts.
Why would I be scumming my way into those when my permanent employment gives me much more interesting work?
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@topspin You take a bunch of (maybe reasonable) numbers, make stupid assumptions and multiply them together. Same way Microsoft calculates their durability.
I.e. if I take a file and copy it to 10 hard drives, and each hard drive has a 1/1000th chance of failing, the chance of losing the file is (1/1000)10 = 10-30. That's 30 zeros! Take that, Microsoft!
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
You take a bunch of (maybe reasonable) numbers, make stupid assumptions
Pray tell, Mr. Babbage, if you take wrong numbers, but make correct assumptions, will the same result come out?
By commutative property of arithmetic multiplication...
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So uh. I'm on 3 different dev teams at work, and I have 0 stories assigned. It's been this way for a few weeks.
I'm not complaining about getting paid to
, but starting to get concerned that they don't really need me.
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@error I'd also have 0 stories assigned if I didn't pick any up from the backlog.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I'd also have 0 stories assigned if I didn't pick any up from the backlog.
We don’t even have storiesI don’t even know what that is.
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@error What about other literature? Poems?
We'll go no more a coding
So late into the night
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@GOG said in The Official Status Thread:
It's been decades since I last played Spy vs. Spy.
What is that, a videogame?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I'd also have 0 stories assigned if I didn't pick any up from the backlog.
In these parts, you don't pick your own stories; they get assigned to you.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
What is that, a videogame?
There most certainly was a videogame, but there was a comic strip long before that.