The Official Status Thread
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@accalia I am Mr. Robot.
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But but but... the whole PLOT of the Seinfeld episode is that they couldn't make it work unless the trucking was free. They only ended up doing it because Newman scammed a free trip in a US Postal Service truck.
This guy actually paid to rent a truck. What an idiot.
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Dear hotel,
If your website says 24 hour check-in, moseying in at noon and saying "Check in at 3" is uncool.
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@Weng Where did the hotel mosey in to? Could only be a larger building, maybe a train station or stadium? I'm surprised it could talk, most buildings can't except perhaps "car approaching" at the parking garage.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
moseying in at noon and saying "Check in at 3" is uncool
Yeah, why would you say that to the desk clerk?
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Dear hotel,
If your website says 24 hour check-in, moseying in at noon and saying "Check in at 3" is uncool.
You can check in at any time, but your room will not be available until 3p.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng Where did the hotel mosey in to? Could only be a larger building, maybe a train station or stadium? I'm surprised it could talk, most buildings can't except perhaps "car approaching" at the parking garage.
Sorry, this sportsbar thinks 24oz is a small beer.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Sorry, this sportsbar thinks 24oz is a small beer.
I would kind of like to hear the non-gibberish version of what you were trying to communicate.
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@blakeyrat So we arrived at noon. Well after checkout.
The website said 24 hour check-in.
The desk clerk was absolutely astonished (literally speechless for 30 seconds) that we were in her lobby at noon wanting to drop off our junk.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
The desk clerk was absolutely astonished (literally speechless for 30 seconds) that we were in her lobby at noon wanting to drop off our junk.
Where you checking in or dropping off luggage? I'm confused too.
I'd see "24 hour check-in" as more like when a car rental place has a "reservation" for you. It's a work of convenient fiction.
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@Weng I was unaware there was a difference. Check in, put shit in room, go get drunk is the order of operations I use everywhere.
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@blakeyrat Yeah. I've gotten the "oh we were full last night and are still cleaning" line before, but never an outright "no check in until 3"
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I was unaware there was a difference.
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If you get to the hotel before check-in, you can just leave your luggage at the desk and come back later when the room's ready. It's always worked that way.
The reason I say 24-hour check-in is a fiction is because of purely practical matters. They can't give you a room until the last jerk's cleaned-out, and they can't clean all the rooms instantaneously. I'm not even sure how, logistically, 24-hour check-in even could work. Maybe if they had an army of maids.
EDIT: I suppose it could work for hotels if they can keep a "floating" 5% of rooms or so empty at all times. Even then the check-ins could outpace the check-outs. And, more importantly, they're leaving 5% of their nightly money on the table just to cater to jerks who aren't happy just leaving their luggage at the desk.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not even sure how, logistically, 24-hour check-in even could work.
You can check in between 3pm the day of your reservation and 2:59pm the next day.
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@blakeyrat If the hotel says 24-hour check-in, then it better delivers somehow. Even if it's just "here's your keycard, your room will be accessible at 3, but you can leave your luggage in this storeroom for now."
"We're saying 24-hour check in but you actually can't check in before 3, go away now." is neither polite nor good for business.
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@ScienceCat I dunno. Car rental places always say, "we reserved your full-size" but when you arrive there it invariably turns out they have no full-size cars at all but they put you in a Toyota Echo instead, and they seem to be doing ok business.
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@blakeyrat Maybe the guy is foreign and don't call them full-size cars like you americans. Ask for a "large bus".
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@otter Once I asked for a compact (I was traveling alone) and ended up with an Acadia. So it goes both ways.
Point is, rental reservations are pure fiction.
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@blakeyrat While I'd definitely try to avoid doing business with these liars, if that happens more than once, but most people probably don't care, so you're right that it doesn't harm their business, especially if everyone is doing it.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@ScienceCat I dunno. Car rental places always say, "we reserved your full-size" but when you arrive there it invariably turns out they have no full-size cars at all but they put you in a Toyota Echo instead, and they seem to be doing ok business.
Somehow I've always lucked out the other way. I hate trying to use huge cars so I always go for a hatchback or smaller. Nearly ever time I get 'we've upgraded to you to this thing the size of a bin lorry!'.
Thanks I guess...
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Status: Huh. Now I know why Plex for UWP automatically installed on my (recently clean-installed) Windows 10 machine...
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
what? i'm hungry! 3 pizzas isn';t enough. i need 6 pizzas for my hunger
Buy some more video cards?
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Furthermore, the odds are that this will only apply to US purchasers, since it's a US court case.
Dammit.
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Isn't @Yamikuronue from Columbus? This place is pretty rad for a vanilla Midwestern city.
Down to the eccentric, highly talkative Uber drivers, even. It's almost a real place.
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
Furthermore, the odds are that this will only apply to US purchasers, since it's a US court case.
Dammit.
You could always file a suit in your own country.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Isn't @Yamikuronue from Columbus?
Nope. I live in Cleveland now, but I've been down to Columbus frequently.
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@Yamikuronue aren't they the same place? Ohio is surely just empty space, endless cops on the freeway and one urban area.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
and one urban area.
Three: Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. They form a backbone of firmness down the otherwise empty white flab of Ohio's body.
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@Yamikuronue Fact: I have never driven in Ohio.
I'm probably going to pop that awful, boring cherry tomorrow (for today I have weirdo Uber drivers!)
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@Weng Are you black? If not you'll be fine :)
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
You could always file a suit in your own country.
Shame my country doesn't have class action suits. OTH an average Joe here can sue a big corp with a great chance of winning and zero chance of getting bankrupt like it happens in the USA. But after winning he never gets more than a couple thousand bucks, after waiting for at least 5 years if he get lucky. It's very comfortable to big corporations, because only a very small fraction of the people they screw will ever sue them.
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Status: I don't think I'm doing this right...
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Due to Chrome crashing like 3 times in 15 minutes from Flash movies, I finally enabled click-to-play on Flash.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Due to Chrome crashing like 3 times in 15 minutes from Flash movies, I finally enabled click-to-play on Flash.
People still use Flash?
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@Yamikuronue Worse: Out of state plates that come up with a DUI flag if you run them.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
and one urban area.
Three: Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. They form a backbone of firmness down the otherwise empty white flab of Ohio's body.
Hey, Dayton is semi-urban!
Well... more of "urban with a side of USAF base". But still.
Hey @Weng you should visit the Air Force Museum. Especially if you play Pokemon Go!
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@sloosecannon Is it in Columbus? Because I have a fairly tight schedule. Comic Con today, beeeeeer tonight, off to Pittsburgh tomorrow.
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@Weng Dayton. So an hour or so away, give or take traffic.
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@sloosecannon Hm. No good this pass, but I'm passing through on the way to gencon...
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@Tsaukpaetra More importantly, the web experience is becoming so shitty that even I am resorting to blocking shit.
The content industry's reaction to ad blocking seems to be letting ever more incompetent third-party broken Flash and JavaScript on their site, instead of any rational or sane response. Some of the sites I like to visit, like ComicsAlliance or Cracked are virtually un-browsable at this point.
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@Weng well there you go!
Yeah you wouldn't be able to make it in time to do much today anyways, they close at 5 :/
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
in the back left
your left or my left?
Mine. But I'm laying on my side.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Huh. Now I know why Plex for UWP automatically installed on my (recently clean-installed) Windows 10 machine...
Doesn't that defeat the whole point of UWP?
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Huh. Now I know why Plex for UWP automatically installed on my (recently clean-installed) Windows 10 machine...
Doesn't that defeat the whole point of UWP?
I don't understand the question. Doesn't what defeat the whole point of UWP?
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
Doesn't that defeat the whole point of UWP?
Making applications?
No.
No it does not.
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@Tsaukpaetra Making a separate phone version later.
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Status: Finished all work activities, 1:40 PM. I'm mega-efficient when working from home. Woo.
Now I slack. I have a long-term project I could work on, but since I have to switch gears on monday anyway I don't think it'd be a good use of my time.
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@coldandtired UWP allows you to use the same codebase for Windows and phone apps. It doesn't require that you release both at the same time.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
Making a separate phone version later.
Phones have different interaction patterns to desktop systems. It's reasonable to have a different version for them.
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@dkf It's also reasonable to have your QA team to focus on just one release at a time.