Benefits website
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No, it's not them, as far as I can tell
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Reminds me of the forum my last girlfriend administrates. You can't make any argument of any kind unless you can back it up to philosophical levels, and well, I'm just not that smart.
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Stay away from the XKCD forums.
XKCD has forums?Filed under: cartoons are a barrier to detecting forums
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XKCD has forums?
They used to be linked on the front page, but that was replaced with a link to the What If articles when they started.
There's some interesting stuff about physics, /maths?/ and computing. All the expected XKCD topics.
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http://forums.xkcd.com/
Ah, the pain of coming back to Discourse! Here I can't just zoom into the page with the two-finger touch gesture because that doesn't work anymore. And the scrolling... so much faster over there because it's not InfiniScroll! *sigh* I know you didn't mean it... Oh, had I never asked!
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You mean it was unintentional this time??
Well I didn't expect a bunch of nerds are gonna go all pedantic dickweed on my ass and star discussing physic...
Oh.
Nevermind. Colour me stupid, 'cause I am.
Filed under: FF's spellchecker decided I'm British and forces me to use all the extra U's or I get squigglies, Jolly good show
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Filed under: FF's spellchecker decided I'm British
Did you accidentally download the wrong language version?Filed under: pity they don't differentiate between the three Germans - I would download the Swiss version just for the lulz
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And it's phpBB for teh lulz! (That means British English by default)
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Did you accidentally download the wrong language version?
It came pre-installed. The system install is US English though. I'm pretty sure it was fine with both for a while and just decided it should switch to full on UK because I think I preferred civilised to civilized and such. Do note most of my English is self-taught so I sometimes operate on best guess basis.
I should switch the system to UK though. Last time I did it by accident, "Trash" got renamed to "Rubbish bin". I actually used Delete as opposed to ShiftDelete just so I can see that I have some items in my Rubbish bin.
Yes, I'm easily amused.
Filed under: I lost me pea!, No, I don't know why I referenced that either
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It came pre-installed.
I hate preinstalled things. My machine at work has a german version of windows preinstalled which means I have to do some serioustranslatingguessing whenever I google a how-to for windowsy things.
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I hate preinstalled things. My machine at work has a german version of windows preinstalled which means I have to do some serious translating guessing whenever I google a how-to for windowsy things.
Preinstalled with system, not computer. Though this computer did come with Ubuntu originally (which I nuked in favour of Mint, less bloat with all the good stuff left in), I think even that let me choose the language on first boot / install wrap-up.
I agree with you on translations though, I had a good laugh today on a "translated" version of XP (by which I mean they translated like 2% of it). Someone actually used an automated tool it seems and "State" column in network section of task manager got translated to... well, "State" in the sense of "country / territory", not "connection status".
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And you can never get a perfect 0 as gravitational pull is everywhere. Very, very weak, but everywhere.
It doesn't matter if it is every where. The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. There are regions where the forces are equal.
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Filed under: pity they don't differentiate between the three Germans - I would download the Swiss version just for the lulz
Eh? I have my German spell checking set to "German (Switzerland)".
Filed under: [I reserve my βs for math]()
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Eh? I have my German spell checking set to "German (Switzerland)"
I meant the download version - on the download site they differentiate between American English and British English. But there is only one German version. Spellchekcing doesn't bother me.
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I meant the download version - on the download site they differentiate between American English and British English. But there is only one German version. Spellchekcing doesn't bother me.
Ok, I see. I never bother with anything other than the English versions, so I immediately thought of spellchecking, since that's the only place where I have non-English languages available.
On a related note, applications that use geolocation to determine language settings need to die in a fire.
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On a related note, applications that use geolocation to determine language settings need to die in a fire.
Also, Google. Even though I set it to English, the fucking thing keeps redirecting me to
google.hr
, meaning that, without fiddling, pasting an URL won't onebox it here, and also, gives away my location in places where I might want to keep it secret.
Filed under: Croatia is small enough target
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Filed under: Croatia is small enough target
Good try. I just went to the page and it's actually "Hrvatska".
Filed under: Almost got me...
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Also, Google. Even though I set it to English, the fucking thing keeps redirecting me to google.hr, meaning that, without fiddling, pasting an URL won't onebox it here, and also, gives away my location in places where I might want to keep it secret.
Aggh! So annoying! No google, I don't want the fucking Cyrillic ghetto crapfest version, thank you very much! My favorite part: you get on a corporate let-us-route-your-traffic-for-you VPN and suddenly, everything is in Kuwaitan or some shit.
Is it too much to ask to just get the normal fucking google everyone else is getting? Sheesh!
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Also, Google. Even though I set it to English, the fucking thing keeps redirecting me to
google.hr
, meaning that, without fiddling, pasting an URL won't onebox it here, and also, gives away my location in places where I might want to keep it secret.Yeah, their redirects are annoying. I would sometimes use Google books to get BibTeX-entries for various books. The generated BibTeX includes a localized url (i.e., something like
url={http://books.google.XY/books?id=foobar}
). If you want to be anonymous in a smallish, specialized community, keeping your location secret can be somewhat important.
Filed under: [XY isn't that big either.]()
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DuckDuckGo, anyone?
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DuckDuckGo, anyone?
Well, for searches, maybe. But, for getting pre-made BibTeX entries for books and stuff?
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Also, Google. Even though I set it to English, the fucking thing keeps redirecting me to
google.hr
Don't use google.com - use google.co.uk. Similar language but google.co.uk doesn't try to impose your national version on you.Filed under: yes, google.com redirects to google.de when queried from within germany
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DuckDuckGo, anyone?
It's fine, but sometimes I find it's results lacking. No idea if it's the index, the algorithm, or Google's "remember EVERYTHING" thing actually being useful.
Don't use google.com - use google.co.uk. Similar language but google.co.uk doesn't try to impose your national version on you.
Well fuck me with a pruple dildo, it works! Much appreciated.
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DuckDuckGo, anyone?
Can you really trust the people who thought that name was a good idea?
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https://www.google.us/ redirects for me
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g kind of works?
It leads to [url]encrypted.google.com[/url] in the end which doesn't seem to auto-localize.
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It leads to [url]encrypted.google.com[/url] in the end which doesn't seem to auto-localize.
Hmmm... do you have any idea, what the encrypted in the urls does / stands for?
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Hmmm... do you have any idea, what the encrypted in the urls does / stands for?
Well duh, don't you see? The whole site is in double ROT13.
(Also, it does localize for me. Maybe it's Chrome settings, maybe something else, CBA)
Filed under: httpvs://
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Edit: Honest answer apparently here
Thanks for the link; didn't see that one when googling for encrypted.google.com.
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Update: Got an email saying they'd "reset" my info, try to register again.
Same issue.
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Breaking news! HR just called me. There's apparently another person with my initials. Despite having the same email address I had before I got married, and having had it since last April, someone else has (presumably) signed up for the system using my email address assuming it was their email address. They suspect that in order to resolve this I'll have to change my email address.
This is why I prefer first.last@companyname.com over flast@companyname.com >.>
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someone else has (presumably) signed up for the system using my email address assuming it was their email address
Soooo, they don't send a verification email? Why not just put a random email address in if it doesn't matter whether you can access it?
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In retrospect this also makes no sense, because the system explicitly said there was no username for my email. I think they have yet to sign up, but the system has 'reserved' my email for their membership number and thus won't let me sign up either.
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They suspect that in order to resolve this I'll have to change my email address.
Push back. Tell them that your email address is impossible to use because of the number of other things that already have it embedded, and ask that they fix their system instead. An ideal outcome would be for the other person to end up being dismissed for attempting to hack your email…
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They suspect that in order to resolve this I'll have to change my email address.
@dkf already said it all so I'll just add on a silly picture of what my reaction was when I read this (and what I'd say if I saw those guys in the hall):
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Today my company had a "health fair" thingiemajigger. The people from this website were there. They said I am in fact eligible, my stuff looks fine in the backend, and when I used their computer to sign up, I got signed up just fine.
I have not changed my email.
So basically it was some issue with their site not liking some facet of my computer (I tried IE after Chrome failed, so it's not a browser thing, possibly a corporate firewall thing since the other machine would have been on public wifi instead of corporate lan), and I've been on a wild goose chase this entire time.
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possibly a corporate firewall thing
Isn't this thing something to do with your company's benefits though? Wouldn't that mean corporate firewall causing it to not work still be a WTF (though then it's your IT people rather than the site itself).
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So basically it was some issue with their site not liking some facet of my computer (I tried IE after Chrome failed, so it's not a browser thing, possibly a corporate firewall thing since the other machine would have been on public wifi instead of corporate lan), and I've been on a wild goose chase this entire time.
When did we switch from
Browser requests HTML. Server sends either HTML or error.
To:
Browser requests HTML. Server... is that a pink shirt? No, I don't like pink, go away.
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Because Jeff said so? Oh wait, this isn't a bash-Discourse thread. Yet.
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....my shirt is actually pink today.
One more for the "everyone on this forum secretly works in my building" theory....
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Your shoes are white with offwhite laces.
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You're thinking of the chick down the hall. My cube is closer to the bathrooms.
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I was actually phishing for your shoe colors so i could ninja edit my post.
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I'm wearing black jeans; a little too heavy and thick for this weather but it's okay. Dark grey boxers. Thin calf-height business socks. Good, slender brown leather shoes. A grey T-shirt with names of cities I've never visited.