The Official Status Thread
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Status: in my fortress, all the jobs are getting done, but there are 43% of the
0+dwarves doing nothing at all.MRTFY
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Status: 186 citizens, 30 military, 83 idlers, 68 pets
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Status: Listening to the Sonic the Fighters soundtrack. It's actually quite good. Not great, but good.
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Status: I was recently called in to bid a job to revamp a server room for a business. I walk in and it is a disaster. The kind of room that you would be in danger of hanging yourself as you move through it.
I have a friend who does electronics recycling for major clients, repo and off-lease stuff, etc. He just got in ~50 APC server cabinets that he wanted to move quickly. I asked the client if they would be OK with used cabinets if the price was right and they said yes. I just submitted my bid and it was accepted right away, within 15 minutes of sending the email. Because of the connection, I was able to turn in a total bid that was less than the other guy's costs for just the cabinets and other parts, and I am still going to make a killing.
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Status: Got a "OMG everyone join this call" with the grand total of information about it being it's about this broad category of project. Something tells me this isn't actually going to be a productive call or it will be but over half of us aren't needed on it.
EDIT: oh it's about lots of different projects stepping all over each other with over lapping changes. So it is needing everyone to talk about what the different changes are and trying to line up deploy dates.
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Status: at a friend's advice, seeing what the commute is like if I leave super-early. It's 5:29 AM and I'm about to leave the door...
So how did it work?
I tried that once, the last place I lived. I discovered leaving 15 minutes cut the commute by almost half an hour (I think it was more like 10 and 20 minutes) but then I was at work half an hour early, and my hours weren't flexible, so I couldn't leave early.
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Status: learning about electronic lab notebooks and how they integrate with institutional repositories. (Précis: it's both simple and complicated.)
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After 10 translations Bing says: Status: e-lab notebook to combine institutional repositories (abbreviation: simple and complex _ _)
Filed under: English -> Vietnamese -> Hungarian -> Bulgarian -> Thai -> Korean -> Latvian -> Lithuanian -> Norwegian -> Romanian -> Portuguese -> English
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So how did it work?
Seemed to work ok. I can't do it tomorrow because of reasons I won't go into but I'll try it next week and see if I can cope with this amount of sleep.
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Status: Proving Doob's martingale is a martingale.
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I'll try it [Leaving for work at 5:30am] next week and see if I can cope with this amount of sleep.
As anyone who has lived through raising children will tell you, you can learn to cope with a small amount of sleep.
Coping methods include (but are not limited to): Going to bed early, increased amounts of caffeine, naps and being shattered all the time.
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What does "shattered" mean in this context?
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based on context i would guess either:
- extremely tired, possibly dangerously so
- drunk
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What does "shattered" mean in this context?
In this context it means "extremely tired" and there are times when it's the only word that will accurately describe how tired you are. It's often used with the intensifier "fucking". It's the kind of tired where, when you get home, all you can do is slump on the sofa with your shoes and coat still on.
I was raised in the North East of England and it's used widely there (along with "knackered") but I can't speak for other parts of the UK or the rest of the world.
@accalia- Yes to extremely tired no to drunk. British people have 8,232,215 words to mean drunk but this isn't one of them...
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extremely tired, possibly dangerously so
Having raised two children, my experience says "this."
... and Hanzo'd
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I was raised in the North East of England and it's used widely there (along with "knackered") but I can't speak for other parts of the UK or the rest of the world.
It's a widely used term throughout the UK. Well, unless you're Cockney, in which case you say 'cream crackered'
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@accalia- Yes to extremely tired no to drunk. British people have 8,232,215 words to mean drunk but this isn't one of them...
i had thought so.... but wasn't sure.
you crazy brits have way too many slang words. i mean i can barely keep up with 'murican slang
;-)
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you crazy brits have way too many slang words
Don't get yer Alans in a twist! I'll Gary with ya; it's just us 'avin a Rory<Ah, the delights of Cockney Rhyming Slang
<There's a whole website devoted to it
<http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/
<I'm not Cockney, but I did watch a lot of Only Fools and Horses when I was younger
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I can't speak for other parts of the UK
Shattered and knackered are pretty universal in the UK.
Unlike say creamed (cream crackered) which means knackered.
Some parts of down South use wrecked to mean tired whereas elsewhere it means drunk.EDIT: Part-hanzo.
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Hmm, I realized I needed to check the raw because Discurse displayed the hidden text very briefly before hiding it — not long enough to have any chance of reading it, but long enough to see there was more than meets the eye in the fully baked post. Useful, but I'm pretty sure that's Doing It Wrong™. @discoursebot
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@HardwareGeek - Days Since Last Discourse Bug: 0
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Discurse displayed the hidden text very briefly before hiding it
Actually, that was probably my edit going through
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Status: It appears my old 1 TB data drive bit the dust too with all the shenanigans my PC has been experiencing. Time to go poking through my backup drive and hope most of it's on there. If that drive doesn't die first!
The casualties thus far:
1 LGA1155 motherboard
2 1 TB hard drives
1 Radeon R9 280X (HD 7970)All because I plugged in the wrong cord on my modular PSU.
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What does "shattered" mean in this context?
If/when you have kids, you will know. It is exhaustion bordering on being a zombie.
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I can't do it tomorrow because of reasons I won't go into but I'll try it next week and see if I can cope with this amount of sleep.
You, ah, do know that you are supposed to go to bed earlier if you get up that early.
A coworker gets up at like 4:30, takes a bus for 2 hours each way--actually it's either 2 or 3, I forget which--and works from 6-3, then takes the bus home. He says he likes it because it gives him a lot of time to read.
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Status: had to mod the order of events in an adventure for the group I'm running through it (as they are high on combat and low on prep work). Didn't TPK but was a just barely and only cause of things they did to help themselves out. Was fun but need to keep in mind for the next one.
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[spoiler][/spoiler]
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Status: Proving Doob's martingale is a martingale.
"It's right there in the name. QED."
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oh it's about lots of different projects stepping all over each other with over lapping changes.
Forgot to lock the files again, eh?
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Status: boss out sick, it's already a half-day due to big all-hands meeting. Hm.
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Status: Driving my wife to a doctor's appointment this morning, and the engine started making "i'm low on oil" noises. I knew the car had a small leak, that had gotten somewhat worse in the last day or two. Apparently it went gangbusters this morning and dumped the entire complement of oil in the middle of the road. So I pulled over--fortunately there was a gas station only a quarter-mile up the road--put another quart in, and started the car, and backed up, hoping I'd be able to get to the doctor's office and then home, as I was already planning on calling a garage. Unfortunately, there was an approximately quart-sized puddle of fresh oil under the car, so I called a tow truck. Hopefully it'll be something relatively cheap to fix.
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Nice. What's that from?
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Dota 2 with a slightly* edited English language file.
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Status: think I'm coming down with a cold, it could not be worse timing.
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Posts like that are why you and @chubertdev are assholes.
Seriously though, we have been sort of looking for a larger house here, but now I am thinking we should move up our time line on moving to the Carolinas. Fuck this. Last winter it got down to -13F for several days. People should not inhabit such areas.
The problem is, I am ~2 years away from being able to move and not lose all income for a long period. I keep pursuing passive and residual income, but those eggs won't really hatch for a fair amount of time.
Yeah, we just put an offer in on a place with a lot of green landscape, no traffic noise, and a few miles away from the best parts of San Diego. And I fully confess to being an asshole.
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Took you long enough to reply. Have you been out sunbathing in January?
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I'm home in Connecticut right now. 40 degrees out, wind chill below freezing.
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Forgot to lock the files again, eh?
After an upgrade our TFS doesn't default to exclusive locks, so kinda.
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Current status: found out that my brother is the only person besides @ben_lubar that uses Go.
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he's dead to you now too? ;-)
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metaphorically, not literally....
i'm not helping anyone else hide a body.... not again.
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i'm not helping anyone else hide a body.... not again.
Quicklime, vacant houses and a nail gun.
Filed under: [Been watching too much of The Wire][1]
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Quicklime, vacant houses and a nail gun.
that's one method. not one of my favorites though.
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Status: how do i use prepared sql statements in C# using SQLCommand objects again?
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oh. that's simple. YAY!
SELECT TOP 1 T1.PRIMARY_KEY FROM TABLE1 T1 JOIN TABLE2 T2 ON T1.SECONDARY_KEY = T2.SECONDARY_KEY WHERE T2.PRIMARY_KEY = @id
please don't ask why i need that query.... please..... not unless you send me gWallet funds to pay for some alcohol.
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I have some Polish stuff if you want to drive a couple of hours south.
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i have a very nice bottle from stalingrad for when i get home.... :-D
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Status: 3 hours later, they haven't looked at my car yet, so I don't know if the bottom fell out of the engine[1] or it's just a ruptured oil filter
[1] I would have noticed that when the tow truck picked up the car..