The Official Status Thread
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http://what.thedailywtf.com/badges/14/first-link
Nice. I can see the admin console now!
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Don't tell anyone. You are now part of the inner circle.
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Status: "I know Kung fu"
This scene always amuses me. For their lack of even a tenuous grasp of how computers work, and how shitty Keanu Reeves acting is.
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Aww, don't make Keanu sad...
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"Rules" and "functionality of the software" (as you said yourself) are completely different things. You know how blakeyrat gets when you use incorrect terminology.
And I have to agree with him, change the title of /t/1000 all you like but don't go around changing "serious" threads because that's just being a dick.
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A guy had partially buried a cow skeleton in sand and had a hand painted sign (that looked like something from the old west) that said, "But it's a dry heat".
Sam Simmons - Problems - Aussie Heat – 01:21
— slopkins
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It suggests you can have staff who are neither moderators or admins, and that all staff can be TL0. Is that accurate?
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It suggests you can have staff who are neither moderators or admins, and that all staff can be TL0. Is that accurate?
The former no, the latter yes.
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He told me that in the first week his windshield cracked, presumably from the heat.
Been here almost 6 years. Never had a windshield crack from the heat. My MIL has lived here here whole life, never happened to her. My FIL has lived here ... well, I'm not sure. I know he moved from Mexico to Cali when he was 18, and then to Arizona after that. Anyway, he's only seen windshield crack from the heat if they weren't properly installed (he used to be a mechanic). You friend was either not entirely truthful, or he had a debris impact.
It's pretty unlikely, but cracking them happened a lot on older cars, especially with dark colors. I've seen auto parts stores sell what's basically a carpet for your dash to protect it.
Yeah, some people do that. If you also make sure to just take care of your dash - keeping it clean, use a protectant like ArmorAll - then a cracked dash is much less likely.
Basically, the complaints from your friends indicate that they are either not taking care of their vehicles, exaggerating, or outright lying.
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The problem with Asheville is there are literally no* IT jobs there.
*Definitely exaggerating
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The problem with Asheville is there are literally no* IT jobs there.
No problem, I would be moving there with the intention of creating some.
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Bad Idea: Modular power supplies with ambiguous connectors. While lying on my side beside my PC and working on cabling, I managed to plug an unused 6-pin GPU power plug back into the PSU itself because it's the same connector as the PSU-end of the modular cable I was connecting for the extra hard drive and I got them mixed up. The power supply survived but my motherboard did not
Plopped my CPU and RAM into a coworker's PC which was compatible and it boots up. Now running Memtest over everything, but it looks like I only lost my motherboard.
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My daughter wanted "Christmas lights" for Christmas. Despite the number of times I asked for alternatives.
I bought her....
A lite bright.
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Is the list of edits a recent discoursety? I can't seem to find my older edit of one of your threads' title in it... It was a much more stupid edit than the star trek one.
And please notice that the "Is" in the star trek one is still capitalized. I assume that wasn't my doing but I can't check because someone doesn't have public edits enabled.
[size=5] ... What?[/size]
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@created_just_to_disl said:
Is the list of edits a recent discoursety?
Did you use Unicode? There have definitely been problems with that.
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@boomzilla - No, I don't think I ever used Unicode, actually - too much of a weak mind.
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Status: comparing costs of flights with airports other than the local one. When I discovered this WTF:
I knew that stuff like this happens, but seriously? $100 less to take the exact same flights, as long as you also take a couple of others?
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TRWTF is airline ticketing -- this is why the whole morass around hidden-city ticketing exists.
(For those who don't know -- hidden-city ticketing is booking a flight from A to C through B when you really want to get off at B; the airlines tut-tut people who do that though.)
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the airlines tut-tut people who do that though.
true, but they also appear to plan for it by overbooking flights.
and of course hidden city ticketing only works if you don't have any checked luggage. ;-)
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It's also not as odd as (warning for those with SE allergies) this situation...
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what? that situation seems perfectly reasonable. there's no station where they want to disembark and while they would not have normally ended up going through their destination on the normal route, a rerouting is not that uncommon.
now if there were a station there and the train was stopping there anyway then it would be a WTF to backtrack, but there';s no station and no stop so bummer but for all the reasons listed in the reply you gotta backtrack.
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what? that situation seems perfectly reasonable. there's no station where they want to disembark and while they would not have normally ended up going through their destination on the normal route, a rerouting is not that uncommon.
now if there were a station there and the train was stopping there anyway then it would be a WTF to backtrack, but there';s no station and no stop so bummer but for all the reasons listed in the reply you gotta backtrack.
There's an unused station there, but no normal stop -- it's weird because of how it arose.
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Status: of course the crazy idiots who installed the water heater in my house picked a 5' tall one. Which apparently are now the rarest things ever.
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hidden city ticketing only works if you don't have any checked luggage
And are doing one way (though I guess you could travel to the endpoint for the return).
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$100 less to take the exact same flights, as long as you also take a couple of others?
Not only that, but unless the way air miles work has changed in the last few years, you get a minimum number of miles for each segment, not each leg, so that second option gets you twice as many miles.
I used to abuse that.
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could just do two one way tickets.
That'll cost more. You'd have to see if two round-trips were cheaper.
I used the technique once, but I only needed to go one-way, so it worked. Theoretically if you only did it once[1], you shouldn't have a problem trying to go both ways. For all they know, maybe you were sick and spent the entire time in the hospital.
[1] or some small number of times.
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Basically, the complaints from your friends indicate that they are either not taking care of their vehicles, exaggerating, or outright lying.
Knowing those two, likely a mixture of the three...
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Status: It's January, it's 5° F outside, and somehow I have a mosquito bite on my arm.
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Status: This is the longest friday afternoon in history, and I still have an hour left.
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Status: posting from my shiny new Moto G ;-)
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TRWTF is airline ticketing
Train ticketing in the UK as well.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-train-tickets#split
You want to go from A to B. C is a stop in the middle. Buying an A->C return and a C->B return can be cheaper than a A->B return.
A->C and C->B can be the same train - you simply don't get off at C.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-train-tickets#singles
You want to go from A to B. An A->B single and a B-> A single can be cheaper than an A->B return.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-train-tickets#tesco (Actually the next @ 11, but there's no anchor for that)
Your journey starts in peak time, but ends in off peak. Buy two tickets (as above) one covering the peak time (which is more expensive) and one to cover the rest.
#21 - again no anchor
Advance fairs on a journey Y->A->B->Z can be cheaper than a ticket for your desired journey from A->B. This one is apparently dodgy (well dodgier than the others since this can get you fined apparently.)
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Advance fairs on a journey Y->A->B->Z can be cheaper than a ticket for your desired journey from A->B. This one is apparently dodgy (well dodgier than the others since this can get you fined apparently.)
Only in the UK could you be fined for having a valid ticket for your journey...
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Only in the UK could you be fined for having a valid ticket for your journey...
well you did have a valid ticket. but you got on the train half way through your journey..... ;-)
i can see why they would want to discourage that, as you did book a seat for the legs you didn't travel on, thus preventing them from booking someone else for that seat.
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book a seat
I don't really know how trains work in the UK and US, but you can buy seatless high-speed-train tickets in Germany.
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book a seat
Booking a seat is 1) optional and 2) dependent on the operator, and on a lot of services, it's simply not possible.
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Booking a seat is 1) optional and 2) dependent on the operator, and on a lot of services, it's simply not possible.
#1 is not always true and (again) depends on #2 and possibly 3) the type of ticket. Last few years all the Newcastle <-> York journeys I've booked, for example, on one of the operators requires you to book a seat.
That said the trains they use aren't that long so seating can be an issue.
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#1 is not always true and (again) depends on #2 and possibly 3) the type of ticket. Last few years all the Newcastle <-> York journeys I've booked, for example, on one of the operators requires you to book a seat.
That said the trains they use aren't that long so seating can be an issue.
Quick guess: is that operator First?
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Quick guess: is that operator First?
Possibly/probably.
Since I deal with quite a few train operators as part of my job, I take little notice of them when it involves leisure...
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Status: Wondering who shat diarrhoea all over cylinder head 4...
Future status forecast: Shopping for a new car.
It's a 10yo (54-reg) Fiesta; tbh, the repair bill will likely be big enough I may as well replace the damn thing
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Motog sounds like a Klingon Bird-of-Prey captain.
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Status: wondering how many games can run for over 36 hours and not get anywhere.