The Official Status Thread
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I was slightly annoyed when I traded in my pickup for a newer one and none of the newer ones were manuals. I learned to drive on an ancient stick shift V8 farm truck with bad head gaskets that rarely ran on more than 5 cylinders at a time get off my lawn dammit!
It's been three years and I still occasionally notice my left foot subconsciously reaching for a clutch. My right hand doesn't know what to do. Thank god the Allison transmission overheats1 if you idle in drive too long, gives me an excuse to shift into neutral if I'm stopped for more than several seconds and once again pretend I'm on a manual.
1Supposedly. I've never actually had this happen but even the truck's manual mentions this.
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Replaced the oil, oil filter, and oil level sensor, which was long overdue. No more brief yellow oil light on startup, and it will actually come on if my oil level is low! Also examined the seal for the VANOS (variable valve timing system) oil supply line, it seemed to be fine. So I guess that I have two extra oil drain plug seals, and one extra VANOS oil supply line seal, but they cost me about two bucks combined.
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It was a 2004 PT Cruiser and, while you guys are probably going to tell me how much you hate the styling, it was a great reliable car that I liked a lot.
My last car was a 2006 PT Cruiser Convertible. I didn't have a problem with the styling, while everyone else either loved it or hated it. My problems with the car were that it was severely underpowered and that they went cheap on the parts. In the 6 years that I had the car I had to replace both tie rods, the battery, the clutch, and the front struts. That's the only car I've ever had to have suspension work done on.
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Status: tried Daikatana. Yes, that infamous game. It really is crappy.
The "sidekicks" in particular feel a lot like a bad Discourse feature: extremely buggy and 100% pointless. It was hilarious seeing one stuck in a walking animation trying to go down the stairs and the other repeatedly jumping in place.
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I always thought the convertible looked like a Nazi staff car.
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"You can't leave without your buddy Superfly!" will become your recurring nightmare if you continue playing that game.
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That's the only car I've ever had to have suspension work done on.
I've had a lot of suspension work done on my car, but that was completely optional.
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Nov 9, 3025:
House Steiner graciously provides funding to down-on-their-luck mercenary group Mott's Marauders, who have been stranded in the Free Worlds' League for several years now, to assist with badly-needed overhauls in exchange for an exclusive five-year contract working for the Lyran Commonwealth. Unit members are ecstatic and look forward to new work. "This is a great moment for Mott's Marauders," one of the pilots (who spoke to ComStar on the condition of anonymity) told us. "Have you ever tried patrolling in a Rifleman that has no arms and no paint? It sucks! It rains once and I have to spend weeks scraping rust out of everything, and if we find trouble all we can do is radio for help and run. Now I'm finally getting working weapons installed and Mott promised me a blingin' paint job!"
"Work has been short these past few years," according to another pilot. "We did some work for House Marik but they didn't pay well and we couldn't afford repairs. Steiner's finally getting us out of here, fixing us up, and I expect they'll deploy us along the border with Kurita. Rumor has it they'll even provide ammo for my Autocannon 20! I pilot a 100-ton assault 'Mech and I've been forced to look scary and bluff. Now that's all over!"
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TCoCDCK has fixed the uncivilized discourse around here by the simple expedient of not displaying the actual posts.
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It's been three years and I still occasionally notice my left foot subconsciously reaching for a clutch.
It's been something like 13 years for me, so I don't do that any more, but it took a while to stop. I do still brake with my right foot, though (learned to drive that way even before I learned to drive a manual, because "someday you'll learn to drive a manual, so you might as well learn to brake properly now").
And I still try to step on the brake when someone else is driving.
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Liking this because I read the raw, since Discourse saw fit not to show me the cooked post.
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I didn't know left-foot braking was even a thing.
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I dunno; I guess people who only have two pedals use one foot for each. Like I said, I learned to Do It Right™ from the beginning.
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Status: compiling <insert xkcd here>
I almost forgot how many breaks you can take when not working on web stuff.
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Status:
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Yeah, my dabblings in proper languages didn't last long... sigh...
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Seriously!? The old standby "you didn't put the gas cap on quick enough" error? That still exists in 2014 model year cars?! Jesus shit.
Bonus WTF: my car doesn't even have a gas cap! It's one of those capless filler flap thing systems. So I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to do about it except hope the light goes off after a couple days. Geez.
Have your mechanic check the charcoal EEC canister, purge/vent valve, and lines: it sounds like something else in the EEC system is kablooie if it can't be the classical 'driver forgot gas cap' error...
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That's the only car I've ever had to have suspension work done on.
It depends on how long you keep the car, and how many potholes there are where you drive, and how deep they are.
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It depends on how long you keep the car, and how many potholes there are where you drive, and how deep they are.
Michigan winters are rough on the roads. They patch everything up in the spring, but in late winter there are occasionally potholes big enough to hold a basketball.
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Rancho Santa Fe
I once picked up pizza (riding) in a Lamborghini in Rancho Santa Fe. Probably the only time I'll ever be inside of one. I rode with the pizza on my lap. We barely fit.
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I once picked up pizza (riding) in a Lamborghini in Rancho Santa Fe. Probably the only time I'll ever be inside of one. I rode with the pizza on my lap. We barely fit.
Sounds very normal for that area.
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Must be nice to live in a place where they actually work on the roads.
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I didn't know left-foot braking was even a thing.
More of an anti-pattern, many people do it simply because they don't know any better.
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Status: Just had to explain to a project client what "waiting charges" are and what "portal to portal" means in the context of the contract. Even though my guys kept offering to reschedule or come back, he kept them around for 3+ hours before they were ready and now he is pissed that he got charged for it.
Did he really think that time is free? That we were going to just eat 3 hours on two guys?
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Relevant: today's XKCD.
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Also, banging one's head against the wall.
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@Intercourse said:
Did he really think that time is free? That we were going to just eat 3 hours on two guys?
Obviously.
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Current status: just sent a nasty email regarding the new help desk software to my supervisor. This should be an interesting day.
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Good luck!
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Current Status: Moe's Who is Kaiser is the best salsa ever.
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Current status: just sent a nasty email regarding the new help desk software to my supervisor. This should be an interesting day.
Is it web-based? If so, does the email contain a link to the page? With SQL injection on top?
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Yes, no, and no.
Although I might go in and edit one of his own tickets, change the "read-only" field.
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Just discovered there's an Oracle office about 100m from where I live. I feel dirty now.
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100m from where I live.
100 meters away and you never noticed it??
Current Status: Looking over my son's preschool show and tell for next week: "Teach your child a fact about bears that they can tell the class." Desperately trying to resist the urge for his fact to be: "They shit in the woods."
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there is no other fact that it can be.
"Bears..... do their poos in the woods." :shocked:
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@Intercourse said:
100 meters away and you never noticed it??
There's no sign on the outside. It's just a big black office building. Today I saw their logo in one of the mailboxes inside.
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Damn straight.
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@Intercourse said:
Looking over my son's preschool show and tell for next week: "Teach your child a fact about bears that they can tell the class." Desperately trying to resist the urge for his fact to be: "They shit in the woods."
This.
As an aside, I visited the Body Worlds exhibition in Toronto and there was a bear on display there. I didn't like everything about the exhibition but I found the bear's musculature awe inspiring.
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Nonsense. You can also say "when chased by a bear, you don't have to outrun it, you just have to outrun at least one companion."
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The quintessential security parable.
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At least they fail correctly.
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Status: just realized that my web application hijacks middle clicks...
*Just because nobody used it recently*In my defence, it's the Bootstrap tab and pill elements doing it, which kinda does make sense. But given how menus and tabs work in my app, opening in a new tab won't break a thing.
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My car doesn't have a ton of power, but when I put my foot down, it goes.
I'd consider that an absolute minimum requirement for a car.
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@Intercourse said:
Current Status: Looking over my son's preschool show and tell for next week: "Teach your child a fact about bears that they can tell the class." Desperately trying to resist the urge for his fact to be: "They shit in the woods."
At least you're sticking to the mammals of the family Ursidae and not the guys hanging out at that bar downtown.
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I have never been there. You still stop there every day after work?
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I'm very popular there.
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Status: Bookma^WStarring this topic because the title changes are starting to make it hard to find.
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>chubertdev:
My car doesn't have a ton of power, but when I put my foot down, it goes.I'd consider that an absolute minimum requirement for a car.
That depends on where you put your foot down. If you put it down on the other pedal, it should stop. Right pedal, go. Left (automatic transmission) or middle (manual transmission) pedal, stop. The two together constitute the minimum requirement.
Edit: I'm not sure how the pedals are arranged in cars that are made for countries where they drive on the wrong side of the road; adjust as necessary.
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there also has to be a button to eject all passengers from the car. this is to be used in the eventuality that you get hijacked by a bond villian.