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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Didn't realize they're that long apart.
Solar eclipses occur a few times every year, but not all of them are total. Even if it is, totality is visible within only a narrow region. Any particular place gets a total eclipse only once every 100–400 years.
Only twice I think? When the orbital planes align. You can have a (partial) lunar eclipse two months in a row, but I don't think that can happen with solar.
Solar eclipses 2–5 times per year, always 2 weeks before/after a lunar eclipse. I don't remember the source of that information, probably either NASA or Wikipedia.
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Status: Severe thunderstorm warning, with possible 3 inch (75 mm) hail. Stand by for a stream of roofing contractors ringing my doorbell to tell me I need a new roof. Yippee.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Delivery Distortion Status: One (1) package:
Delivery Distortion Update:
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status (yesterday): Really wanted to play the Konami X-Men arcade game online instead of unpacking the retro arcade cabinet in the midst of this chaos but I cannot find an emulator site that plays it without extremely choppy audio.
...emulator...site...plays...it... Emulator. Site. Plays. It.
E_PARSE_FAILED
Sorry, I've been playing X-Men locally for so long I never thought about using a website to play it. I mean, it's been in MAME for over 20 years.
It is a great game, though. The only downside is having to rejigger the key settings in the six player version if you want to play a better character than Cyclops.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Solar eclipses 2–5 times per year, always 2 weeks before/after a lunar eclipse. I don't remember the source of that information, probably either NASA or Wikipedia.
Which means there will be a lunar eclipse in two weeks then?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not traveling to Spain for this.
Greenland, the western tip of Iceland, and Siberia are also possibilities. Personally, I'd pick Spain over the alternatives.
Western Iceland is reasonably scenic; you'd be able to have a good time even if the clouds decide to not cooperate with the eclipse.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not traveling to Spain for this.
Greenland, the western tip of Iceland, and Siberia are also possibilities. Personally, I'd pick Spain over the alternatives.
Western Iceland is reasonably scenic; you'd be able to have a good time even if the clouds decide to not cooperate with the eclipse.
In general I’m not opposed to Iceland but I want to stop hearing about villages being evacuated when a volcano erupts. You live on a volcanic island near a volcano. This is not news.
status Its stopped raining so I have to go out and clean the yard.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status Its stopped raining so I
have toshould go out and clean the yard.FTFY, HTH
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status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
I’m assuming not as two separate words.
You and I would pronounce it eclipse, with a sort of eh sound. Not e-clips like it’s e-commerce.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
O’Hara
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
Eye-cleeeeps just to annoy @DogsB
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
Eye-cleeeeps just to annoy @DogsB
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
Eh-clie-pse, obviously.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
Eh-clie-pse, obviously.
Not ek-lip-seh?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
Eh-clie-pse, obviously.
Not ek-lip-seh?
No, because there's no yh.
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If I had a cannon, I would shoot ye out of it.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
If I had a cannon, I would shoot ye out of it.
Pronounced cah-noon?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
If I had a cannon, I would shoot ye out of it.
Pronounced cah-noon?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
If I had a cannon, I would shoot ye out of it.
Pronounced cah-noon?
Kay-nahn, truly.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Solar eclipses 2–5 times per year, always 2 weeks before/after a lunar eclipse. I don't remember the source of that information, probably either NASA or Wikipedia.
Which means there will be a lunar eclipse in two weeks then?
No, but there was one (not total) two weeks ago.
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Cow-orker Status: I fix warnings. I make new errors, instead.
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@DogsB said in AI Generated Music:
@DogsB said in AI Generated Music:
Are you going to risk £60 a go on an up and coming band
Might have to eat crow on that. Just got a Kris Barras ticket for £31.
Last month the Queen of Metal toured directly on my home turf for the second time now. But of course it was sold out immediately again.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
If I had a cannon, I would shoot ye out of it.
Pronounced cah-noon?
Pronounced cannon, but with a double N like the one @Gustav was talking about the other day:
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Status: Is this part of the Delivery Distortion Field?
Used to be "your item is shipped" and "your item is out for delivery" were separate statuses. The former was when it left the supplier and the latter when it loaded onto the local UPS/FedEx truck (in other words, out for delivery). Now it's like they trigger alerts at the same time, you think "oh boy my item will be here today!" and then see it says it's expected to arrive next week. Assholes.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status Its stopped raining so I have to go out and clean the yard.
Mostly done but somehow the gutters are somehow included in yardwork.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status people are pronouncing eclipse: e-clips.
How would you pronounce it?
Sonnenfinsternis
of course.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Severe thunderstorm warning, with possible 3 inch (75 mm) hail. Stand by for a stream of roofing contractors ringing my doorbell to tell me I need a new roof. Yippee.
Standby for power outages as all those solar panels go off-line.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
If I had a cannon, I would shoot ye out of it.
Pronounced cah-noon?
Pronounced cannon, but with a double N like the one @Gustav was talking about the other day:
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
If I had a cannon, I would shoot ye out of it.
Pronounced cah-noon?
You’re now the first person loaded in @DogsB ’s head cannon.
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status: very turned off right now.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
turned off
Who are you, and what have you done with the real @Tsaukpaetra?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
turned off
Who are you, and what have you done with the real @Tsaukpaetra?
.... I'm getting forward error-correction hints that you don't want an honest response to this question, so I'll refrain unless you ask again.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
you don't want an honest response
From you, that's usually true.
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Status: I think my HR gal is checked out of her job. I submitted the expense reports on time like a good doggo 3 weeks ago. The not-a-credit-card thing is due today and it looks like there's no hint of it being paid (not to mention the remittance on stuff I paid on my personal card).
Granted it's like 50 items to review (in batches of 15), but it's not like I was doing weird shit so why isn't it approved or rejected-with-comment?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
it's not like I was doing weird shit
I mean, receipts available upon request.
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STATUS After spending the morning investigating and tidying up my boxes of shite, my keys have gone a miss. I'm not going looking for them.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS After spending the morning investigating and tidying up my boxes of shite, my keys have gone a miss. I'm not going looking for them.
My keys (unless
stolentemporarily borrowed) are always on the one belt I have attached to the weekly shorts that I'm wearing, or attached to the retainer magnet next to the door.I have no idea why so many people seem to have issues with key displacement....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: very turned off right now.
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Contributed.
status: Twitter has decided to guide me into girls showing their shaved vulvas.
I am very slightly-less turned off now.
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@Tsaukpaetra I would think quite a lot of people have issues with the recent major key displacement.
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@Atazhaia it's mystifying, to be sure.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Twitter has decided to guide me into girls showing their shaved vulvas.
Yeah. Definitely wasn't looking for that. Totally Twitter's fault, I swear.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS After spending the morning investigating and tidying up my boxes of shite, my keys have gone a miss. I'm not going looking for them.
Did you find your Windows 7 DVD, though?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Twitter has decided to guide me into girls showing their shaved vulvas.
Yeah. Definitely wasn't looking for that. Totally Twitter's fault, I swear.
Considering I was scrolling from a post about Windows 10,I would say yes.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Twitter has decided to guide me into girls showing their shaved vulvas.
Yeah. Definitely wasn't looking for that. Totally Twitter's fault, I swear.
Considering I was scrolling from a post about Windows 10,I would say yes.
One sort of questionable behavior leads to another
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
One sort of questionable behavior leads to another
Windows 10... shaved vulvas...
both will get f***ed