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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can somebody outlaw left turns already?
I pity the Brit encountering a roundabout in that case.
We'll just outlaw right turns instead.
But then all you're left with is wrong turns.
This here just begs for a BREXIT joke.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can somebody outlaw left turns already?
I pity the Brit encountering a roundabout in that case.
We'll just outlaw right turns instead.
But then all you're left with is wrong turns.
No u turn!
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
This here just begs for a BREXIT joke.
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@Carnage : Continue straight for 350m, then take the next BREXIT right
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@Applied-Mediocrity
drives into a canal
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
drives intoa canalThe Channel
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@Applied-Mediocrity
No that's a and it runs under the channel
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity
No that's a and it runs under the channelNon, c'est un TGV and runneaux under Le Manche
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@Applied-Mediocrity
So ... it's a Troll Tunnel?
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Status: Stayed up too late raiding on Last Minute Monday. And didn’t even clear, to boot.
Think work will buy a call-in for Eorzean Coronavirus?
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity
So ... it's a Troll Tunnel?No, it's a toll trunnel.
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@jinpa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity
So ... it's a Troll Tunnel?No, it's a toll trunnel.
Tolles Tunnel?
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
Tolles Tunnel?
Tollés Tunnel? In the Chunnel, no one can hear you cry out.
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Status: Slightly jealous that I didn't get to fix bug #106969
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Slightly jealous that I didn't get to fix bug #106969
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I am exhausted
status: I was apparently not exhausted enough to sleep at all. Today is gonna suck. B the the
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Today is gonna suck
status: ohhhh yeah, my patience is incredibly short and of course two of my worlds are on fire. Who wants to place bets on a third?
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Status: Full of pancakes. Homemade raspberry jam is the best filling according to the scientific study I conducted. I even got a repeatable result.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Full of pancakes. Homemade raspberry jam is the best filling according to the scientific study I conducted. I even got a repeatable result.
Who was your control?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Today is the only day of the week I get to do some programming. So that's nice, I guess.
Okay, that was loooong, but I wanted to get something done. The rest of the week will just be PowerPoint and similar bullshit.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Today is the only day of the week I get to do some programming. So that's nice, I guess.
Okay, that was loooong, but I wanted to get something done. The rest of the week will just be PowerPoint and similar bullshit.
You could do some programming in PowerPoint. And, no, I'm not talking about macros.
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Status: Playing Disco Elysium. I thought I died. But it wasn't death. It was much worse.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing Disco Elysium. I thought I died. But it wasn't death. It was much worse.
Taxes?!
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@e4tmyl33t taxes? No, that will be @error. In roughly a month.
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@Rhywden I wish. That would at least be more fun than preparing conference stuff.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing Disco Elysium. I thought I died. But it wasn't death. It was much worse.
Taxes?!
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Can somebody outlaw left turns already?
Just because you can't turn left, doesn't mean there isn't more to life than being really really ridiculously goodlooking
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Who was your control?
This study was conducted into what I prefer, so controls in that sense are inapplicable. The other fillings in the study were:
- plain
- nutella
- maple syrup
- sugar and lemon juice (this was my second favourite)
Not participating in the study:
- whipped cream
- fresh fruit
- any savoury filling
The pancake style used was basically French crêpe. I had American waffles earlier in the day (thanks to one of our PhD students) with maple syrup in, and that's pretty good too, but I prefer the thin style.
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status dammit M$! First you change some office ribbon names, mainly the Excel 'PivotTable Analyze' has left me looking for the 'refresh pivot' again and again. I need to replace more of those pivoted excels with PowerBI. At least those have the courtesy of sending me a mail when the refresh fucks up instead of waiting on a luser (or worse manglement) to notice that it's not working any more.
And what's up with the nem 'file menu'? I have a document open, opening another one isn't my most used task. If I wanted to do that I would choose 'open' or 'new'. But now I have to hunt down to the 'Info' tab to get the damn document properties.
Worst move is however the killing of Skype. While a dreadful thing of it's own with its ghost contacts of the past haunting you, useless groups it was at least focused on one damn task ... getting in contact with one colleague. Now we have to move to fucking Teams that includes everything and a kitchen sink .... but using it to quickly ask a colleague one thing one time seems a hassle.
Dammit this pushed me right into levicki-mode.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
any savoury filling
The savory crêpes Brettonnes use a different dough with buckwheat and are a different thing.
Traditionally with an egg on top of other tasty stuff and a bowl of (hot) cidre.
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@Luhmann
and closing the blank workbook I used to take those screenshots also gave me thisAnd I need more because after editing out the onedrive (company) - Username thing I clicked 'Save' on the screenshot.
Maybe I should just forget the and go for instead
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@Luhmann Yes, some idiot decided that saving shit in the cloud or searching for stuff to open using Bing is a more common occurrence and you have to go out of your way to read from / save to your own computer.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Bing
Reminds me ... Good M$, you saw the error in your ways and correct your mistake but you are still just spraying rose water on a turd
The Microsoft Search in Bing browser extension will not be automatically deployed with Office 365 ProPlus.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
have to go out of your way to read from / save to your own computer.
sadly, that brain worm is already present for some years ... but I still don't really get why they push more for OneDrive (Company) then fucking SharePoint (Company). Why M$ are you trying to undo years of IT guys slapping users about saving their files on SharePoint? Saving them on your company OneDrive is only marginally better then saving it local. If it's a company file, save it on your team site or whatever.
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Status: Ran into the following cron job specification:
0 0 7 * 0
This means to run the job at midnight on the 7th of the month, but only if that's a sunday.
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@PleegWat
So that's basically twice a year, sounds like a typical accounting jobFake real edit: OK, so it's probably closer to once a quarter, but hey...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Playing Disco Elysium. I thought I died. But it wasn't death. It was much worse.
Playing Disco Elysium?
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@izzion Nah, once every 7 months approximately, but not very predictable which month. Might be 2 months in a row if it matches a non-leap year february. A proper semi-annual job would be:
0 0 7 1,7 *
A proper weekly job would be:
0 0 * * sun
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@PleegWat
That's what I get for doubting my gut without looking it up on the Internets first.But hey, at least the job will run 3 times next year! https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/weekday-sunday-7
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Status: Looks like another wave of sales is coming!
As a last ditch effort to clear out inventory, I started periodically posting random items to B/S/T areas of collecting forums. Prices were well below eBay because no eBay bullshit to deal with and motivation to clear it out. Here's what always happens:
Just got the latest figures in! Only $19.99!
Oh me, oh my, retail is robbery!
SIX MONTHS LATER
runs months of half off sales
Still overpriced! I'll wait for Ollies!
SIX MONTHS LATER
We didn't get any.
We have it for $20!
(eBay) So do I!
ONE YEAR LATER
Only $50! Buy it now before it's too late!
eBay scalpers ruin everything!
(forum) Still have a few, still only $19.99...
ONE YEAR LATER
Sorry, minimum bid is $100.
Hey do you still have those figures you listed a year ago?
Some. $29.99 individually or $19.99 each if you take two or more. Please take them all.
That's robbery! No wonder you went out of business! Burn in hell!
THREE WEEKS LATER
sells 70% of the list for $60 at a show or $80 on eBay
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Status: I thought my allergies were doing well this year. Turns out that it was only because I haven't really spent any time outside. Until yesterday, when we took 1/2 the 10th grade on a condensed college tour at the commuter college across the street. An hour of being outside and today (and later that day) I'm out of it. Antihistamines control the worst of the reaction (the sneezing, coughing, runny eyes), but not the dead-inside feeling of total sinus congestion.
Stupid trees. I hate trees. I can't wait to leave Florida. Because I'm allergic to everything in this overgrown state.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Full of pancakes. Homemade raspberry jam is the best filling according to the scientific study I conducted. I even got a repeatable result.
Creme Egg was my favourite.
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@Zenith
There are definitely a fair amount of studies that indicate that it's possible to price yourself out of a market by pricing too low, especially in skilled trades. @Polygeekery could probably attest to his experiences in IT consulting, but at my last job we ran into a lot of problems being able to sell phone systems (and eventually dropped the whole concept) because Asterisk systems were just too cheap compared to Avaya systems or the like. We'd mark up the servers, phones, etc that we needed by 100% and include our installation time and initial support, and still come in at half or less of the quote of a comparable black box system. So business managers would take one look at our bid, figure we didn't know what we were doing, and throw it out. Astricon had a session every year that basically told people "just mark things up more, trust us, you'll have an easier time selling".
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
There are definitely a fair amount of studies that indicate that it's possible to price yourself out of a market by pricing too low, especially in skilled trades. @Polygeekery could probably attest to his experiences in IT consulting
Yep. When I first started I looked at my costs, put in a reasonable chunk for profit and such and arrived at a figure. I think it was $75-80/hour. I ended up hitting a wall on sales so I went to talk to a friend and advisor. His advice was to raise my prices. Once I did I started selling again, pretty much immediately.
People wouldn't buy at $75/hour because they wondered what I wasn't providing since I was priced so much lower than competitors. But that same market segment would accept $125/hour without batting an eye. Same service, same people behind it. The only difference was a near doubling in price.
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status: memory error while verifying current-level reality and personality composite identification key. The error was: cyclic redundancy check dereferenced an invalid or unavailable link.
Attempting secondary external validation....
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@smallshellscript said:
if you give your users a new WiFi password without sufficient special characters, they will try to type it by hand
Really? People would really try to type out something like
afebb01aa3
?
Filed under: Full disclosure: That is the actual WEP password on the AP I keep for my legacy Nintendo DS systems
Data detected: validated and secured. The key has been repaired cheerfully!
All is as expected in the world again.
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@izzion Oh, I understand that. But this is retail sales, not skilled work. There's absolutely no self-awareness in some collectors.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
of course two of my worlds are on fire. Who wants to place bets on a third?
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Turing Completeness of PowerPoint