The Official Status Thread
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Status: WTF-U's handed out some free time off (i.e., it doesn't come out of my leave entitlement). So I've closed my IDE until Wednesday…
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Status: pinging @error just to trigger the double @boomzilla
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: pinging @error just to trigger the double @boomzilla
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@boomzilla I just realized I actually had to quote instead. Is that what triggers the bug? Heh, whatever.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: pinging @error just to trigger the double @boomzilla
errorboomzillaStatus: triggered
Filed under: So glad my custom Chrome extension disables this nonsense.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla I just realized I actually had to quote instead. Is that what triggers the bug? Heh, whatever.
Unclear. I saw it at least once today somewhere.
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@boomzilla I noticed it from my notifications
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@boomzilla I noticed it from my notifications
The time I recall seeing it was in the garage. I think I was responding to a post.
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Status: After only *checks calender* 3.5 months the new MacBook is finally here.
Now just need to walk over to the office to pick it up, then spend the Easter holidays installing/configuring things.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: After only *checks calender* 3.5 months the new MacBook is finally here.
Now just need to walk over to the office to pick it up, then spend the Easter holidays installing/configuring things.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Filed under: So glad my custom Chrome extension disables this nonsense.
You're missing out on all the fun.
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My manager just told us all to stop working at noon today before the 3 day weekend.
I hate the technology I work with, but I love the people here.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Filed under: So glad my custom Chrome extension disables this nonsense.
You're missing out on all the fun.
*flashes back to Mandatory Fun Day*
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My manager just told us all to stop working at noon today before the 3 day weekend.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: pinging @error just to trigger the double @boomzilla
errorboomzillaYou the MASTERZ of this forumz, aren't you?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Oi, this April Fools theme is already irritating me, and it's 5 minutes after midnight.
At least hovering over the name shows the real one...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Oi, this April Fools theme is already irritating me, and it's 5 minutes after midnight.
I'm pondering if I can avoid it by not refreshing?
Just keep pushing your timezone back until you can suddenly jump past it entirely.
He lives in Arizona, where the timezone is
Math.random()
anyway.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
we don't have an actual surprised emoji?
We don't have "surprised", but we do have "astonished":
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
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Do you remember the SEXY script injection a couple of years ago?
Every paragraph ended with SEXY.
I found that sexier than the current boomzilla injection.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you remember the SEXY script injection a couple of years ago?
Every paragraph ended with SEXY.
I found that sexier than the current boomzilla injection.That's because you haven't yet learned that they're synonyms. Oh yeah.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
the new MacBook is finally here
First impressions:
- When you open it for first set-up the OS already looks super smooth and polished. While Apple's designers are on the same Flat-Crack as everyone else, it actually looks usable compared to the abomination that is Windows 10.
- The display is fucking awesome. The MacBook Air 2015 wasn't high dpi and basically that was fine with me, but I didn't realize how crisp this looks. (Of course there's tons of PC laptops out there that have had high dpi forever, but that wasn't the point).
- Just tried out "side car" mode for a few seconds. Not sure I'll ever need it but while the mac ecosystem is annoying for being so walled off it is certainly super well integrated.
- Not a fan of the keyboard, preferred the old one. That might just be because it's different though, it's certainly not the absolute clusterfuck that was their previous generation of "you love the iPad so this keyboard makes it feel like punching glass, too."
- Their fucking "no ports" fetish is so annoying. It's got two USB-C ports (hey, better than one) and that's it. And a headphone jack, thankfully they didn't get rid of that. But of course both USB ports are on the left side and I got the stuff I want to connect to on the right side, i.e. my external monitor. That's already a decade or so old, but still works perfectly and I'm not a fan of throwing stuff that works out just cause. Of course it doesn't have an USB-C connection, but thankfully IT bought me these stupid adapters. So I try to chain all of that shit I connected to the previous MacBook Air 2015 together with this "Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) -> Thunderbolt 2" adapter. And it doesn't work. Some looking around I realize that what I put in the old laptop apparently wasn't a thunderbolt 2 connector but a mini display port, which has the exact same fucking plug but is not the same thing.
Sigh. Why do you make so fucking many different connectors? Going to buy a USB-C to VGA adapter because while that thing is roughly a thousand years old it's outlived all the crap that came after it. (Not going to buy an Apple brand adapter, of course, that'd cost more than the monitor)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
the new MacBook is finally here
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- Their fucking "no ports" fetish is so annoying.
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Sigh. Why do you make so fucking many different connectors?
- Their fucking "no ports" fetish is so annoying.
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@Gribnit it's not a contradiction. They have as few ports as they can get away with, but what kind they use they change all the fucking time.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Oi, this April Fools theme is already irritating me, and it's 5 minutes after midnight.
At least hovering over the name shows the real one...
what is this "hover" thou speakest of?
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Status: clock adjustments, garbage collection, defragmenting, and checking for cycles. Next operation in queue, MegaSort, requesting a pristine execution environment.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
what is this "hover" thou speakest of?
s are special.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
what is this "hover" thou speakest of?
s are
specialdifferent.
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Status: Perhaps I should not have consumed 48 ounces of water directly after consuming this 10 inch sub sandwich...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
(Of course there's tons of PC laptops out there that have had high dpi forever, but that wasn't the point).
Of course not. The point was that Apple just invented it
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
(Of course there's tons of PC laptops out there that have had high dpi forever, but that wasn't the point).
Of course not. The point was that Apple just invented it
Touch screens too, right?
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status TOYS!
My new 27" 4K monitor just arrived. Now I have 2 4Ks, 27" and 22" running at 150% and 200% respectively. Sweet. (went with the ViewSonic VX2776-4K-mhd, $360)
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status Finally managed to schedule the covid shot. If you don't hear from me after Monday, you'll know what happened...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Finally managed to schedule the covid shot. If you don't hear from me after Monday, you'll know what happened...
If it's the J&J one, plan to get basically a mild (so far - 12 hours in) flu with fever, chills, and general malaise.
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Easter greetings!
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin Oh, I guess you want me to actually share it, huh?
Here:
@font-face { font-family:sponge; src:url(https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/original/3X/8/e/8e076a5d6aa6f28e8a485f969fb06e63082f7a5e.ttf) } html:not([data-disable-tdwtf-css]) .necro-post { display: block; font-family: sponge; /* font-size:72px;*/ background-image: url(https://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/d/dd5fb009afd1f83bc662d69ba3ee43a0278d8663.png); color: #fff; text-align: center; padding-top: 20px }
I think that's enough?
Works. Thanks!
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Easter greetings!
Tragedy + Time = Too soon. I'm still reeling from the events of Friday.
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I was driving behind someone with a Fake Taxi bumper sticker.
I wonder if they're a star or just a fan.
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status: warning: unexpected power outage
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: warning: unexpected power outage
Active testing of backup power in progress.
Critical systems continue running. Main station safely shut down. Main Internet expected runtime greater than two hours, main server expected runtime 50 minutes depending on load.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Critical systems continue running
Test concluded. Thank you.
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An 8-year old counting eggs can be persuaded to consider, but not quite believe, the existence of a
splortch
between 13 and 14 when counting eggs specifically.
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Status: This is just great. I've been copying over data from one billing system to the other and verifying it against source records as I go along because I don't plan to go through this ever again. The distributor's system leaves much to be desired.
The invoices they sent never had shipping charges. They all just say "as arranged." So the only way to have marked those down was to have logged into their system. Which when you're tired of being cheated, they revoke access to. Fortunately I wrote these down as I went but I have no proof.
I also don't see anything about restock/cancellation fees yet. They used to charge 15% when they advertised stuff in stock, pushed it back six months the instant after you ordered, and "helpfully" cancelled the order for you. Well I know that happened a few times but it's like the shipping fees where if you didn't write it down...
Almost the same with "handling" fees. This was one of the dumbest parts of ordering from these idiots. There was a time I ordered 4 of an item with a minimum order of 2, thinking 2 was the case size. Turned out it was 3, so I got charged a $2 "consolidation" fee to throw that 4th unit in the shipping carton. It's almost the same because the weekly status reminders I used to get do note a consolidation fee...but only the quantity and neither the amount nor the order it applied to.
How these amateurs ended up Hasbro's official distributor is beyond me.
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Status: Ah, spring in the Great Lakes. From 25F to 25C in less than a week.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: warning: unexpected power outage
Active testing of backup power in progress.
Critical systems continue running. Main station safely shut down. Main Internet expected runtime greater than two hours, main server expected runtime 50 minutes depending on load.I had one of these last week; someone else in the house decided to change the light and fan switches in the bathroom and flipped a few breakers to find which one ran to that outlet set. The computer kept running until power was restored; it would have shut down after ~5 minutes.
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Status: First decent block of time off in weeks if not months. I did not get quite as far with my records as I wanted. But I did get some tests coded to help reconcile some irregularities when they're closer to done. So glad they pushed the tax deadline back a month. I might stand a slim chance of being done by then...
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Status: Well it turns out what might trigger the access denied problem on GameStop's site is trying to visit a URL from an old notification e-mail. I clicked on the one order I had from the before the current iteration and now it's not letting me in to do anything. Last time I think it was several weeks before it let up...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Last time I think it was several weeks before it let up...
Sounds like it's storing something dumb in the session cookie (or rather in the session that the cookie is an ID for).
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"Shooting a movie", "shooting movie", and "movie shooting" have wildly different Google results.
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Kid grabbed his dada string (my hoodie string).
Status: I smell like spaghetti.