The Official Status Thread
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
His reaction makes me feel I'm going to be getting a phone call from school tomorrow...
Mine has been instructed not to talk about this site outside our home.
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@boomzilla My sons are bilingual, fluent in both languages (for their ages).
However, I taught them to swear in English (or at least, when they caught me swearing I would explain why I was using the words) whereas their mother tried to pretend swear words didn't exist and they must have misheard, or something.
Consequently, they only swear in English when they are angry at something, and they will use it correctly (it's had to be calibrated a bit).
But when they hear a 'bad' Polish word at school, they repeat it like crazy, without context, giggling at it.
So it wasn't the swearing he found funny, but the fact that there existed an initialism with a swear word, and it was written in big letters on the screen!
When my eldest was about two, he developed a Pavlovian reflex where every time we were in the car, and he heard a beep, he would shout, 'Fucking idiot!', which earned me much grief from his mother.
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Status: Looking for a way to embed a clickable graph in a web page. Solution:
#+BEGIN_SRC dot :file ./images/FSVGTest.svg digraph { A -> B a -> b b [href="http://www.zombo.com", target="_parent"] a [href="https://www.liverpoolfc.com"] } #+END_SRC
Graphviz supports it natively if exported to svg. Embedded into org-mode/emacs and this is all it takes.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS:
Increasingly annoyed at Skype's echo test. Why the fuck do I need to waste 30+ seconds just to check if my audio setup works? A simple screen where you can talk into the mic and hear your voice would be so much better.
Not Web 3.0 enough. Stop being a luddite! MOAR ON THE STACK CHAIN!
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@cartman82
For better or worse, you're testing not only your audio setup but also your connectivity to the conferencing server. So you can troubleshoot whether you have a headset problem or a 1-/0-way audio problem at the same time. Because troubleshooting :allthethings: is never a problem.
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@groo How about steel? Available in your choice of prison gray or prison gray:
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
For better or worse, you're testing not only your audio setup but also your connectivity to the conferencing server. So you can troubleshoot whether you have a headset problem or a 1-/0-way audio problem at the same time. Because troubleshooting :allthethings: is never a problem.
I have headphone issues ALL THE TIME. So I have to keep making those stupid echo test calls over and over again, every time I switch audio jacks around. ANNOYING.
I don't think I ever had a connectivity issue I had to troubleshoot from Skype itself.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
I have issues ALL THE TIME.
Found your problem
But, assuming that the headset issues are system wide and not Skype specific, you could use the "Recording Devices" panel (right click the volume control icon in the system tray) and run a sound test from there after you get done fiddling with your jacks. Select the active recording device, choose Properties, then go to the listen tab and check "listen to this device" and loop it back through your headset or speakers as appropriate. Click apply, talk to yourself, uncheck the box, click apply again, presto chango!
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STATUS
Winds of change in my company. My current TODO list:
- I got a 50% raise. Figure out a method of payment to avoid excess taxes (probably cash under the table).
- Freshen up my CV, add some react native-ish experience
- Send CV to the new outsourcing partner, and start working full time on their troubled react native project.
- Learn react native
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@cartman82 Sounds like the order of priorities is right. ;)
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@FrostCat Getting a Texas Toast sandwich from somewhere other than Sonic is riuRong
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@Tsaukpaetra That's not
Hey, look! is animated again!
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FFS
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Did the 120000 mile service on my car yesterday.
Coolant change.
Oil change.
Diff fluid change.
(Should have been a trans fluid change, but we just did the clutch last month)
Fog light bulb change (both were burnt crispy)The fog lights were actually the hardest part. Lots of screws and fiddly clips.
And then I put them back on, closed up there panels and then realized I forgot to plug the electrical cables back in.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Fog light bulb change (both were burnt crispy)
The fog lights were actually the hardest part. Lots of screws and fiddly clips.
And then I put them back on, closed up there panels and then realized I forgot to plug the electrical cables back in.I did that with front turn signals on my vehicle once. The drivers side is a real bastard to get to because of the battery tray. It also grounds through the socket and can be put in 180 degrees out of orientation. Got it all back together, checked function, cursed, started taking it all apart again, dropped the bulb in the housing, cursed more...
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Status: One of our clients has a new hire that is a dead ringer for Chris Farley.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra That's not
Hey, look! is animated again!
..? Did I say it was? 😕
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Status: too comfortable.
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@cartman82 Related to this, we might see the return of Testing Juniors Mettle series, the first episode of which MIGHT happen at 9PM tonight CET (in 90 minutes).
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
MIGHT happen at 9PM tonight CET (in 90 minutes).
I think either Google is off an hour or....
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
Sweet Jesus, can I get hired there?
That's after two years of no raise, though. It's either drough or feast.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I think either Google is off an hour or....
What the fuck is CEST?
You know what? Fuck time zones. Just count to 5000 or so.
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@cartman82
CE Summer TDaylight savings, woo
I, for one, welcome our new Global Warming overlords, so that when they arrive we can just get Summer time all the time.
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
50% raise
Sweet Jesus, can I get hired there?
When the base from which you're getting the big raise is 2 potatoes a week, ...
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
What the fuck is CEST?
Central European Summer Time, of course.
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
50% raise
Sweet Jesus, can I get hired there?
INB4 Making $2/hr
Edit: is getting a real workout lately...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
IN
B4After Making $2/hr
Edit: is getting a real workout lately...FTFY
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@lolwhat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
What the fuck is CEST?
Central European Summer Time, of course.
Are we currently inCEST?
Oh, that doesn't look good does it?
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Status: Well maybe if you had more than three doors to get in and out of this gigantic building, maybe people wouldn't use the ones where all the customer-facing reps work!
Edit: And in another communication from :
This would be a great idea, if there weren't four of these red phones that merely go directly to the area's supervisor.
This would be great, but [Customer-facing reps] REALLY need that manually updated scoreboard!
It's a good thing I could just wash my dishes in the bathrooms instead....
Because nobody likes surprises, amirite?
Nope, surprises are Bad Idea.
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@izzion Global warming does not change when the sun shines.
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@aliceif But why does the sun shine?
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Someone sung this song and I had no idea where it came from.
Thanks for providing context!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@groo How about steel? Available in your choice of prison gray or prison gray:
Wife would never accept one of these
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif But why does the sun shine?
The sun doesn't shine. It's just reflected moonlight.
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@Lorne-Kates Fucking moon. It is too bright and prevents me from seeing most of the stars.
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Status: What is TDWTF doing? No, better, what thread did I visit to make TDWTF do this?
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Status: Curious: Is $0.05/MB a good rate for redundant storage?
Currently for capacity requirements similar to your [servername] we are purchasing NetApp 4246 6TB disk shelves at $50,000 each. Usable capacity after right sizing, parity and spares are accounted for you get 100TB usable. So you are looking at like $0.05 per MB of storage.
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Status: Hooray for having to work late to deploy a last minute change for something that was not tested until the day a client is going live.
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@groo said in The Official Status Thread:
Wife would never accept one of these
Holy fuck. You're married?
I never would have called that one.
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@Polygeekery I assume just about anyone I interact with is married. Keeps me from trying to hit on anyone, and saves me the awkwardness when it fails.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery I assume just about anyone I interact with is married. Keeps me from trying to hit on anyone, and saves me the awkwardness when it fails.
I'm married but I hit on myself all the time.
Filed under: but only with my left hand
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Curious: Is $0.05/MB a good rate for redundant storage?
Currently for capacity requirements similar to your [servername] we are purchasing NetApp 4246 6TB disk shelves at $50,000 each. Usable capacity after right sizing, parity and spares are accounted for you get 100TB usable. So you are looking at like $0.05 per MB of storage.
Uhmmmmmmm, it depends. For redundancy it seems like a really shit price. But it all depends upon how much care and feeding you want to give it, how much performance you need, and how much you feel like DIY.
But if you want a price comparison...I spend $.06/GB for our storage servers.
We have a fair chunk of work in the software that runs it all though.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@groo said in The Official Status Thread:
Wife would never accept one of these
Holy fuck. You're married?
I never would have called that one.
This thread is not on the trolleybus garage. Let's keep the flaming were they belong.
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@groo said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@groo said in The Official Status Thread:
Wife would never accept one of these
Holy fuck. You're married?
I never would have called that one.
This thread is not on the trolleybus garage. Let's keep the flaming were they belong.
Status: Notices @groo has been corrupted.
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@Tsaukpaetra @groo is confused with your statement
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status: shortwave radio