The Official Status Thread
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
The straps are rubbish.
The one that came with my Flex was trash. The Chinesium one I got on Amazon has been working way better.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I would start to switch pages faster than I'd read them, which implies being faster than they'd read them. I knew I'd won whenever I heard the Tut of Disapproval.
Probably wouldn't have worked with me; I've been known to read books faster reading upside down than other people read them right way up.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I would start to switch pages faster than I'd read them, which implies being faster than they'd read them. I knew I'd won whenever I heard the Tut of Disapproval.
Probably wouldn't have worked with me; I've been known to read books faster reading upside down than other people read them right way up.
They usually weren't upside down but literally over my shoulder - I'm a short-arse.
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our new phone system launched October 12.... We are hearing from patients and staff that it’s been working exactly as intended.
It successfully prevents patients from ever speaking to the staff? That was my most recent experience, anyway.
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Status: assembling bricks with @Arantor
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@royal_poet see, my father is making fun of me for spending money on keyboard key caps, and I'm like "there could be more frivolous things I could buy...."
It does look pretty neat though. I find it funny when Lego goes out of its way to create non-standard brickery.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
your keyboard
Status: Going to try using an XBone controller on PC for the first time ever and see just how different the experience is...
Edit: Nevermind, apparently Bluetooth is currently fucked and I didn't know it and I can't seem to find an appropriate cable (where the fuck did the Micro-B cables go?!?)
Status: Done. I hate controlling FPSs with an XBoner controller. I can aim and shoot more accurately with my fucking trackball that uses the same thumb.
What the hell.
On the other hand, the decrease in buttons certainly makes knowing what's possible easier to figure out. If not convenient since now some things are a double-tap and and awkward-er, but you win some you lose some...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
your keyboard
Status: Going to try using an XBone controller on PC for the first time ever and see just how different the experience is...
Edit: Nevermind, apparently Bluetooth is currently fucked and I didn't know it and I can't seem to find an appropriate cable (where the fuck did the Micro-B cables go?!?)
Status: Done. I hate controlling FPSs with an XBoner controller. I can aim and shoot more accurately with my fucking trackball that uses the same thumb.
Me too, and I don't even have a trackball!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@royal_poet see, my father is making fun of me for spending money on keyboard key caps, and I'm like "there could be more frivolous things I could buy...."
It does look pretty neat though. I find it funny when Lego goes out of its way to create non-standard brickery.
What’s not clear from the picture is that this is really non standard. There’s two of the Lego Botanicals sets that were part built, part raided, and a whole bunch of other bricks bought in from other sets to mix and match for these flowers.
Also uses “illegal building techniques” but we won’t talk about that.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
illegal building techniques
I said we wouldn’t talk about that!
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@royal_poet see, my father is making fun of me for spending money on keyboard key caps, and I'm like "there could be more frivolous things I could buy...."
It does look pretty neat though. I find it funny when Lego goes out of its way to create non-standard brickery.
What’s not clear from the picture is that this is really non standard. There’s two of the Lego Botanicals sets that were part built, part raided, and a whole bunch of other bricks bought in from other sets to mix and match for these flowers.
Also uses “illegal building techniques” but we won’t talk about that.
I was thinking this looked fuller than the standard set.
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@Tsaukpaetra We’re actually quite planty here and this came at the back of me being pissed with UK plant quality and prices. There is just no joy in spending 50 pounds on ten stems of droopy lisianthus or worse yet a couple of roses that look like someone chewed on the petals and that smell about as pleasant as a bottle of insecticide.
I dunno what it is about this country. Allegedly were a nation of gardeners and all that, but people pay absolute ransom money for bad quality plants - potted or cut. It’s mental. We recently managed to acquire a small, potted ceanothus off season, which only set us back 100 pounds. An absolute steal.
So here we are a couple of weeks later where I’ve decided a built bouquet beats a real one.
The sad thing about Lego is that it’s not made for creative people, but my review is that it’s getting better. I remember being so angry with it as a kid. I loved building spaceships but it was just an impossible challenge to get the parts together - especially if you were a little girl pointedly asking why spaceships couldn’t be purple or light blue.
I found designing this bouquet easier. It’s actually no longer a hassle to find out which parts they make these days and what colours you can get them in. Even better - you no longer have to buy whole sets to raid them for 1 or 2 parts you need. You can actually buy pieces straight from pick-a-brick at Lego.
I only bought two sets here for parts and the rest came as loose bits and pieces.
The less fun part is - the Lego pick a brick store is bloody expensive which then makes you deal with things like bricklink and bricklink almost broke me.
So in case you don’t know - bricklink is like a second hand platform where folks sell Lego pieces. You can make a want list of what you need for your design and the platform works out which stores you can buy this at for the best price - except the chucklefucks who designed the platform don’t take into consideration minimum order amounts and shipping costs. So you can spent absolute ages there working out how to actually get a decent deal and not pay 44.38 for pieces and 276.99 in shipping for an order that got split over 26 global stores.
I actually don’t have that many special bricks in there. It’s a lot of technic parts (plant stems), a huge number of car parts (wheels, doors, roofs) and minifigure parts (heads, hand tools) and a tidal wave of 1 x 1 plates modified.
But what would be neat is if they could do things like boxes of parts that people who make custom builds would like seeing grouped together.
So here you go - unsolicited rant on how much effort has gone into this seemingly simple affair. :)
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@royal_poet Bricklink deserves a proper write up in either WTF Bites or UI Bites sometime. Maybe both.
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Status: It’s past 7pm. I can’t keep my eyes open. Maybe I should go to bed, lest I end up being awake past midnight again.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie You're supposed to reboot him, not terminate him!
That will be achieved afterwards by the
AppRobot
which hits the on switch...
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@topspin Way ahead of you (+01:00, anyway). Felt tired around 17. Took a short nap. Now I'm tired and annoyed, and won't be able to fall asleep again till well past midnight, thinking all manner of stupid thoughts
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@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
assembling bricks with @Arantor
These youngsters and their hip euphemisms
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
illegal building techniques
Figures, we know your day job
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Status: Where'd all these pink-haired gnomes come from
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Status: Too exhausted from ~6 hours of driving and 3 hours of fiddling with telescope and phone to comment further at this time. I have a time-lapse sequence of the "ring of fire", but it's too big to upload.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I have a time-lapse sequence of the "ring of fire", but it's too big to upload.
Ah, the modern version of "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
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Completely forgot that was a thing.
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Annular? That’s pretty rough.
I just have to wait five more years for a really good one… it was more than five years away a few years ago!
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@kazitor I wound up getting pretty lucky by moving to Texas (in a bunch of ways, not just eclipses, but that's what's relevant at the moment).
I live fairly close to where those two paths cross. Yes, today's eclipse was annular ("ring of fire"), and I had to drive 2–3 hours to get to the center of the path. From my house, I could have seen the moon blocking 90+% of the sun, but off-center — no ring of fire.
For the eclipse next April, I live in the path of totality. Not in the center, so totality won't last quite as long, but still pretty good viewing (assuming the weather cooperates, of course). I could get closer to the center of the path, so longer duration of totality, by driving a half-hour, or so, but unless the weather is going to be bad, I won't bother (and if it is, a half-hour almost certainly won't be far enough to make a difference). I'll just set up my telescope on the sidewalk in front of my house (or maybe across the street, because trees) and invite my neighbors to a viewing party.
Speaking of neighbors, I met a couple of people from same city I live in. We all drove ~3 hours to see the eclipse, and all just happened to pick the same spot along the side of the road to stop and watch it. It's not where I planned to watch it from. I was going to go to a park in the town 9 miles further down the road. I was running late, and the eclipse had already started. I saw people parked along the road, obviously for the purpose of watching the eclipse, and I decided that was as good a place to watch as the park (apart, perhaps, for the lack of restroom facilities), so I stopped there.
I wasn't sure I was going to be able to see it. I was headed for Bandera, TX, a town in the hills about an hour west of San Antonio. As I was driving through San Antonio, the sky started clouding up, and this continued as I drove west. The sky was pretty overcast, with the sun visible only through occasional holes in the clouds. However, the sky to the west was clear(er), so I continued, hoping it would be clear when I got to Bandera (and hoping I'd get there in time to see the climax of the eclipse). Indeed, by the time I decided to stop a few miles from Bandera, there was just an occasional wisp of cloud drifting across the sun during the eclipse. Not ideal viewing conditions, but sometimes Mother Nature just doesn't cooperate, and more than good enough to enjoy watching the eclipse.
And speaking of not cooperating, using a phone camera is definitely not ideal. Its continual attempts to auto-adjust focus and exposure (especially the focus) were annoying enough, but during the time-lapse video of the ring of fire, it kept "Dimming the screen to save power". No, don't do that! I need to see the screen to keep the image ~centered. It's
harddifficult enough to see the screen when it's bright; it's completely invisible with it dimmed.Also, lens flare. There are light leaks between the telescope eyepiece and the phone lens. I was mostly successful eliminating those by covering everything except the telescope objective with a black cloth, but there was still lens flare from something. I'm pretty sure it wasn't from a light leak, because I've seen it during nighttime astrophotography, too, when there was very little ambient light to cause problems. It's from light coming in the proper way, through the telescope, but then getting bounced around somewhere in the telescope, camera or . It's really annoying; I might have to get a better camera before the eclipse next April.
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Status: Store listed my damaged box as no box yet shows the picture of the box. If it sells, do I ship the box or save money by leaving it out?
Another reason I want to strangle India through my phone line is to get somebody that said they wanted to buy a figure from me, asked stupid questions about it, and then ghosted.
Also, the store I was fighting had a write-in campaign to send reissue requests to one of the manufacturers. You could write in five figures. I requested some that have been sold out for some time. Judging from the reissue listings that have popped up so far, others weren't so thoughtful. Stuff that took forever to sell out the first time and stuff that was going to be reissued anyway aren't the best use of your votes, people. My disappointment is only compounded by the prices being listed as "unknown." When this fight started, I lost my momentum, momentum needed to maintain the highest tier of points, and I cannot regain it if everything is listed "price unknown."
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Status: about to settle down with a good book after watching over the husband code a media-wiki theme all day. Something, something if looks could decompile open source packages.
On the upside, I got a lot of mileage in on my crochet!
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Also, fuck MediaWiki.
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status: refraining from responding to the prior two posts. You're welcome @HardwareGeek . 🖖
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
husband
Huh. I had no idea.
I believe I offended one of them long ago about misunderstanding that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
husband
Huh. I had no idea.
I believe I offended one of them long ago about misunderstanding that.
If you did, which seems difficult, I don’t remember.
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@Tsaukpaetra I very much doubt that. Perhaps a joke gone sideways somehow.
New status: musing how to avoid turning into an alternative for npm. The below is clearly a yarn package and I’m clearly managing it.
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@royal_poet Setting up for some passive-aggressive knitting during unnecessary in-person meetings?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@royal_poet Setting up for some passive-aggressive knitting during unnecessary in-person meetings?
If there is crochet going on, people aren’t getting stabbed with the needles because don’t want to get blood on the yarn.
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@PleegWat always. Takes the edge of me wanting to murder people during the pointless AF calls I get subjected to.
One of the bonus points is that you can claim ‘to see something in the pattern’ and make predictions about situations.
“I looked at the threads of fate. Your code will not compile. There is a tangle in your if block.”
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@royal_poet "Return the code to the previous commit to restore the weave of fate, or persist in this doomed codebase you have created." :morrowind.m4a:
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
:morrowind.m4a:
I'd like to see this game remastered, if they won't give us ES6. It would at least be better than Skyrim Turbo Alpha 2: The Movie.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
:morrowind.m4a:
I'd like to see this game remastered, if they won't give us ES6. It would at least be better than Skyrim Turbo Alpha 2: The Movie.
Morrowind was the last Bethesda game that grabbed me. Sometimes think about going back to it but theres only so many hours in the month.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
:morrowind.m4a:
I'd like to see this game remastered, if they won't give us ES6. It would at least be better than Skyrim Turbo Alpha 2: The Movie.
Morrowind was the last Bethesda game that grabbed me. Sometimes think about going back to it but theres only so many hours in the month.
The trick is to learn how to drink and play video games. Frees up so much extra time!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
thinking all manner of stupid thoughts
That's what we expect you to do anyways.
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DDF Status: One of US.
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Larian Studios did a competent job with BG3. I never played the Divinity series. Should I?
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@error YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T YOU PHILISTINE??
The entire series, no. Games before Original Sin are proper eurojank. Dragon Commander had cool RP stuff, but it's still jank. OS1&2 are the good stuff, yeah. But that really depends what exactly you liked in BG3. Because they were made (OS1 literally, OS2 relative to BG3) on a shoestring budget.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, fuck MediaWiki.
With the help of your husband/wife, so ménage à trois?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, fuck MediaWiki.
With the help of your husband, so ménage à trois?
My wife wrote the content, I made the theme and MediaWiki is abso-fucking-lutely the third wheel here.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
:morrowind.m4a:
I'd like to see this game remastered, if they won't give us ES6. It would at least be better than Skyrim Turbo Alpha 2: The Movie.
Morrowind was the last Bethesda game that grabbed me. Sometimes think about going back to it but theres only so many hours in the month.
The trick is to learn how to drink and play video games.
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Status: Briefly forgot I was on reddit and not WTDWTF, was just about to shitpost...
Someone posted a link to a blog article. It starts withI have written almost 100 posts about C++20 in the last four years, but I’m not done.
Well, maybe you should be. Your articles suck.
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Status: Zoom's safe driving mode is very safe. It turns off audio at the slightest provocation (like going faster than 20 km/h or so) and is near impossible to turn it back on. So I guess it is mostly useful for ensuring your name is in the participants list while you cannot join because you are driving.