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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Langschwanz
And how!
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Status: An asshole cloud has just the right size, shape, position and velocity to cause rapid flicks in the intensity of sunlight. So annoying.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: An asshole cloud has just the right size, shape, position and velocity to cause rapid flicks in the intensity of sunlight. So annoying.
There's a metal park sculpture behind my school that vibrates in the wind. During the afternoon, this makes strobe light effects through all the windows on that side. Which is really annoying. I feel your pain.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
There's a metal park sculpture behind my school
What does a metal park look like and why did it get a sculpture?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
There's a metal park sculpture behind my school
What does a metal park look like and why did it get a sculpture?
Ah the lovely ambiguity of English word attachment.
The sentence was intended to mean a metal sculpture in a park. Specifically this one:
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@Benjamin-Hall I'm still not entirely certain what this thing looks like or why it got a sculpture.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall I'm still not entirely certain what this thing looks like or why it got a sculpture.
I'm not sure if I'm on a joke, but that's a picture of a sculpture. A metal one. In a park. Taken from the west-facing windows of the third floor of my school. Using parentheses to show attachment, that would be a (metal (park sculpture)). Not a ((metal park) sculpture).
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@Benjamin-Hall
E_SCULPTURE_NOT_FOUND
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall
E_SCULPTURE_NOT_FOUND
Sure. It's a modern-day abomination of a sculpture-adjacent construct. But "sculpture" is much easier to type.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
asshole cloud
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Status: Since the last Office 365 update that changed the save functionality (more clicks, like all Indian shovelware), every other Ctrl+S on an existing document pops up a "permission denied" dialog. I expect this has something to do with it trying to force users into saving everything to the cloud now.
Edit: That "sculpture" looks like when the Flash waves his arms really fast.
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Status: 09:00. Running late, as usual; have not gotten to work, yet. "Is it time to go home?"
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Since the last Office 365 update that changed the save functionality (more clicks, like all Indian shovelware), every other Ctrl+S on an existing document pops up a "permission denied" dialog. I expect this has something to do with it trying to force users into saving everything to the cloud now.
Edit: That "sculpture" looks like when the Flash waves his arms really fast.
And now imagine it vibrating in the wind with the sun shining off of it. It's awful.
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@Benjamin-Hall office is hard enough to deal with when it's stationary and matte.
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Status: okay, time to fix some tests! Yeah tests! Woo!
Hey wait why do these tests have update on their name. Wait they read from the config? Wait that's a customer's server. Wait that says production!
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
But luckily it only interacts with things currently scheduled, and the date range is static and in the past, so it seems like it does nothing.
I've made these tests not run when you try running all tests now.
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Happier Status: I went to Disneyland early this year for the first time in a few years, and managed to leave with extreme foot pain, a custom green Lightsaber, and a cool black robe I'll probably never wear but had to have (and don't regret!). The light saber ceremony was awesome, if a bit cheesy.
I'd heard you could buy other crystals in the shops at the park, but I thought you could only get the green, blue, red, purple they gave you at the ceremony.
Apparently if you buy red ones, you have a chance of getting blue ones that sell for $250 on Amazon. But you can also get white or yellow (the latter being the original color I'd wanted). Those are only $25 on Amazon, so now I have ordered cool pieces of plastic that will make my cool toy glow different and maybe make different sounds!
Woo!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
There's a metal park sculpture behind my school
What does a metal park look like and why did it get a sculpture?
Ah the lovely ambiguity of English word attachment.
The sentence was intended to mean a metal sculpture in a park. Specifically this one:
You need @Polygeekery to come by with enhanced tools.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
There's a metal park sculpture behind my school
What does a metal park look like and why did it get a sculpture?
Ah the lovely ambiguity of English word attachment.
The sentence was intended to mean a metal sculpture in a park. Specifically this one:
You need @Polygeekery to come by with enhanced tools.
Yeah. Best (if ) part--it was paid for by taxpayer dollars.
My rule of thumb is that public art sucks. All of it, unless it was made more than 50 years ago. Then only most of it sucks.
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@Benjamin-Hall The longer it's been there, the more chances there have been to tear it down for being hideous.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah. Best (if ) part--it was paid for by taxpayer dollars.
Our city requires art like that when business are built. But in our case, it's not (directly) taxpayer dollars.
(a) Provision of Art. Projects shall provide publicly visible art on-site that is equal in value to one percent of the project construction valuation.
(b) Building Valuation. Building permit valuation is determined by the chief building official using the city building permit valuation formula. Valuation of development projects includes the construction of the building shell. Valuation does not include land acquisition, site improvements, parking structures, off-site improvements or tenant improvements. In the event of multi-phased development, valuation is based on the cost of all phases, even though all phases may not be completed at the same time.
(c) Art Valuation. When calculating the value of an art to be placed on a private development site, eligible costs include:
(1) Purchase price of the art;
(2) Art consultant fees;
(3) Installation costs, including transportation of the art to the site, pedestals or display costs;
(4) Wiring, fixtures and other costs directly related to the installation of lighting the art;
(5) Identification plaque; and
(6) Ineligible costs include land acquisition, site preparation, travel costs for the artist, architect fees, utility fees associated with the installation or operation of the art, fees associated with dedication ceremonies, publicity, or educational components and maintenance fees and repairs.
(d) Art Valuation Remainders. In some instances the cost of artwork may not equate precisely to one percent of the construction valuation. If the developer does not spend the entire one percent on public art, then the remaining amount shall be contributed to the public arts fund.
(e) Alternative to Provision of Art. Developers may choose to make a contribution to the public arts fund in-lieu of placing art on their project site. Developers shall allocate an in-lieu amount equal to 1.1 percent of the building valuation. The additional 0.1 percent is to be used for maintenance of art provided through the public arts fund. The in-lieu fee shall be paid prior to issuance of the building permit. (Ord. 2977-12 § 2).edit: I can't believe I easily found that by just googling "mycity public art"...
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@dcon Wait. 1% of the building value? Isn't that just an invitation to have some rampant corruption in "valuation" of the art?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah. Best (if ) part--it was paid for by taxpayer dollars.
Our city requires art like that when business are built. But in our case, it's not (directly) taxpayer dollars.
(a) Provision of Art. Projects shall provide publicly visible art on-site that is equal in value to one percent of the project construction valuation.
(stuff about how to determine value of building and art)
(e) Alternative to Provision of Art. Developers may choose to make a contribution to the public arts fund in-lieu of placing art on their project site. Developers shall allocate an in-lieu amount equal to 1.1 percent of the building valuation. The additional 0.1 percent is to be used for maintenance of art provided through the public arts fund. The in-lieu fee shall be paid prior to issuance of the building permit. (Ord. 2977-12 § 2).But what then of that mythical effect that never exists in the planning stage, generally known as budget overruns?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Wait. 1% of the building value? Isn't that just an invitation to have some rampant corruption in "valuation" of the art?
Hang on, I'll go back and edit in (b)(c) and (d)
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@PleegWat I couldn't find a reasonably good piece of modern art offhand. So have a hideous piece of modern engineering defacing the skyline.
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status: on the one hand, effortless deep cleaning. On the other, saliva everywhere!
Filed under: I missed that...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat I couldn't find a reasonably good piece of modern art offhand. So have a hideous piece of modern engineering defacing the skyline.
:want:
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The sentence "stop it with the cryptic clues, give me a straight answer already or I'll shoot you" would have made a lot of fictional works much shorter.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah. Best (if ) part--it was paid for by taxpayer dollars.
I'm not against public money being used to buy pyrotechnics for my hobby.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Thermite?
That seems like it would be the right stuff!
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Status: When you backed up important CDs/DVDs, only for both the originals and the backups to disappear.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: When you backed up important CDs/DVDs, only for both the originals and the backups to disappear.
My backups started deteriorating way sooner than the 25 years I was promised they'd last.
So I put them on magnets and spinning rust.
One of these days I'll sort through them and put them in the proper (non-temp) place...
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Status: Getting bit hard that there's not an easy non-kludgy way to deep-copy objects in Javascript.
Oh well, local variables munging it is!
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Status: back from Japan. Sorry for all the upvotes, I'm fast-forwarding the last two weeks of WTDWTF.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Sorry for all the upvotes,
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Status: So I went to order some more small containers from Target...
Gee, I wonder why these are suddenly restricted...
They do ship to Beverly Hills though.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Sure. It's a modern-day abomination of a sculpture-adjacent construct. But "sculpture" is much easier to type.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: real art doesn't need installation instructions.
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@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Sure. It's a modern-day abomination of a sculpture-adjacent construct. But "sculpture" is much easier to type.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: real art doesn't need installation instructions.
I take it you think putting up an old painting is a suitable job for crazy glue and a nail gun?
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@dkf I suppose I should have expected that aphorism not to go without a here. I'd nominate you for a if we still had them.
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@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
I'd nominate you for a if we still had them.
I believe I gained some of the relevant when we were on
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Status: Good old Amazon. "You just bought a laptop charging cable. Let's advertise you laptop charging cables across every single tracker!"
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@pie_flavor status2: the reason I bought one. Observe this lovely graph:
https://i.imgur.com/wkG1TBL.png
That is how amazingly unoptimized modern Assassin's Creed games are. 100%ing an i7-7700. And every time there's a spike, suddenly my laptop draws so much power the charging brick shits itself, causing the laptop to switch into battery power mode, which causes about three seconds of the game completely hanging. God I love technology.
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Status: the same scientific advisor who made me sign up for a social media account (I'm still waiting for anything of importance to happen there besides pointless discussions of unrelated stuff) now wants to move the
MX
record of$department.$faculty.$university.$tld
to G Suite. The worst part of it is that I can't even meaningfully argue against the move, since the faculty e-mail is horrible for multiple reasons (it's an outdated copy of MS Exchange with a self-signed certificate, no spam filtering, and a mailbox size limit of 100M). Nothing a competent sysadmin wouldn't be able to fix, but we can't be having that, so off to Google we go.
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@aitap said in The Official Status Thread:
off to Google we go.
Yay!
Have fun. Should be simple enough. Probably.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
And every time there's a spike, suddenly my laptop draws so much power the charging brick shits itself
It's your shit hardware that cannot handle sustained load of CPU and GPU at once! Why does
Dellsome other idiot manufacturer firmware allow CPU to turbo when it knows for a fact that their charger cannot deal with that? That's false advertising, :that's_illegal.jpg:. Why are you blaming Ass Creed?
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@Applied-Mediocrity Dell? Who's using Dell?
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@pie_flavor See edit. Sorry for the confusion.