The Belt Onion club
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@Gustav said in The Belt Onion club:
Varying degrees of
I merely wanted to establish mine.
Strictly speaking, I recognise the NES controller, in the sense that if I had to guess, that's what I'd say, and I can see that bottom-left is an XBOX controller of some description, because it says so on it.
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I recognize all of them, have most of them, and also some less common ones that aren't depicted. I don't know what that makes me
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@Zerosquare A nerd.
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@Luhmann said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
I still have my GameBoy.
it still works as well as when it come out of the box. my daughter had some fun with it, only to put a switch on her christmas list. so marketing wise it still worked too.
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@LaoC we need to go deeper. "We'n sen' 'im o' ba' wi' a blade, 'e can cut 'un" deeper.
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@dcon Some of us look old enough that they don't even bother checking.
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@HardwareGeek I can't remember the last time I was... (but I do know some places have a 100% check policy - you know, non-discrimination)
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@Gustav Needs a keyboard as the first picture.
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@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek I can't remember the last time I was... (but I do know some places have a 100% check policy - you know, non-discrimination)
But yeah, you always need to account for IT people.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon Some of us look old enough that they don't even bother checking.
and I'm a 90s kid.
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You really feel old when it's harvest time and you mistake the smell of burning leaves for flesh sacrifice.
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@Gribnit you too? I thought it was just me who made that mistake
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@boomzilla I find that in terms of work load, managers want to put 100 lbs. of potatoes in a 100 lb. bag. Plus fifty pounds of yams.
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@jinpa said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla I find that in terms of work load, managers want to put 100 lbs. of potatoes in a
10020 lb. bag. Plus fifty pounds of yams.
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I was in a mood for junk food so I had lunch at a Burger King today.
Last time I went there it went something like this:
- Wait in queue for my turn, looking at the overhead billboards while choosing what to eat;
- At my turn:
- Ask the employee for clarification about the ingredients of two of the burgers. Decide what to eat based on that;
- Tell the employee what I'd like to order. "I don't really want a drink, but since it's included I'd like a bottle of water. Not cold, please";
- Pay, get the food, enjoy the food.
This time around though, it went something like this:
- Pass through the people hanging around the entrance, since the inside of the store is visibly empty, noticing they are hanging around the self-checkout kiosks for some reason;
- Walk up to where you'd expect the registers to be, only to realize there's a sign saying the order must be placed at the self-checkout kiosks. This isn't optional except for special needs clients. Notice there is indeed a sign up on the ceiling saying "Order here";
- Queueueue behind the people awaiting their turn at the kiosks in the tight space close to the entrance.
- The billboards are further away than you'd like, and they are animated. There's no such thing as a menu to glance over so you can quickly pick what to eat, so you have to wait your turn to see their offers at the kiosk;
- Wait for the people in front of you to figure out how the kiosk interface works. Don't worry, you'll get your turn to do the same;
- On your turn using the kiosk: navigate back and forth between menu categories and scroll up and down while you look at what they have to offer. Want someone who you can ask what's in a burger or whether they still carry a burger you remember you liked? Tough luck;
- Pick a menu. Tap furiously at the picture of a glass of coke captioned "Coca-Cola", because that's not what you want. Realize after some effort that's just a picture representing one of the steps of a multi-step wizard you're going through, and you need to click "next" a couple of times to arrive at that particular step. Steps are "burger", "side" (default fries), "drink" (default Coca-Cola), in that exact order. No getting ahead of yourself! Also I hope you noticed you should have picked the button to change the size of your fries from large to normal;
- Oh great, they're having problems with the payment network and the debit card failed. Apparently there's a national outage. Fine, not their fault. Oh, the machine printed a ticket anyway;
- Walk up to the one register at the counter. Wait for the employee to re-enter your order into the register. Pay in cash, while realizing this register exists not only for special needs people but also for anyone who wants to pay in cash after they've placed their order at the kiosk;
- Clarify with the person who's prepared your order than you'd rather have your water not chilled, since that wasn't written anywhere and you didn't think to mention it to the employee who re-entered your order by reading the ticket;
- Enjoy your food while shaking your head at how much less efficient this system is.
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I didn't even think about this at the time, but how come the guy at the register had the information that I hadn't payed yet, but he still had to re-enter my order manually into the system?
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@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
I didn't even think about this at the time, but how come the guy at the register had the information that I hadn't payed yet, but he still had to re-enter my order manually into the system?
Come on. You know:
BEST PRACTISE
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50 years ago, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper demonstrated the first mobile phone. Take a look at that modern flat design with its high resolution colourful screen:
(Battery pack not shown)
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@BernieTheBernie Britain was certainly forward thinking.
Cargo pants originated in Britain in 1938
They created the necessary pockets decades in advance!
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@boomzilla In case anyone in the future is wondering about the significance of those 2 meds, Booms posted this about 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning.
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@dcon I can do snapchat or tiktok, or could if I wanted to, but I don't.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon I can do snapchat or tiktok, or could if I wanted to, but I don't.
Well, yeah. "Don't" being the operative word.
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Padawan spends 3 hours trying to fix some janky alignment issues with grid. Then flex box.
Declares it a browser bug.
Fixed by me with a float. He looks at me and declares me old-school.
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
Fixed by me with a
floattable. He looks at me and declares me really old-school.FTFM
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@HardwareGeek in this situation, you didnât get to declare the markup. Display:table-cell would have been harder to make work given relative hierarchy of tags.
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
Also. This was restyling a WordPress plug-in.
Looks like a fax machine with a barrier and a playing card in it to me.
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@loopback0 your turn for
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek in this situation, you didnât get to declare the markup. Display:table-cell would have been harder to make work given relative hierarchy of tags.
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@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
Can you knap a flint, sneak up on a rabbit, and denature manioc toxin?
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
Padawan spends 3 hours trying to fix some janky alignment issues with grid. Then flex box.
Declares it a browser bug.
Fixed by me with a float. He looks at me and declares me old-school.
I guess an int wouldn't have been precise enough?
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@jinpa CSS float, not numeric float.
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@Arantor Your joke detection seems to be faulty. Do you need a reboot?
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@Zecc I just need to not be reading WTDWTF in between meetings as there isnât sufficient bandwidth to deal with (shudder) people as well as engage humour detection mode.
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@Arantor Au contraire! For that humour mode should be engaged by default
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
I just need to not be reading WTDWTF in between meetings
You're saving it for in meetings?
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@loopback0 yes because the meetings I had today required a camera and me to actually do talking to (shudder) people. Like clients.
My role is part dev, part solutions architect, part sysadmin, part consultant, part clean-up guy.
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
clean-up guy
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
My role is part dev, part solutions architect, part sysadmin, part consultant, part clean-up guy.
Does the clean-up part involve carpet and quick-lime?
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Yes, somewhere between the Wolf and the BOFH.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Belt Onion club:
Does the clean-up part involve carpet and quick-lime?
Or a bathtub and sulphuric acid? (Assuming you know your movies...)
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(as long as you do it sequentially, not at the same time)