The Official Status Thread
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith If you didn't insist on using hideously old software, DaVinci Resolve is pretty good and runs on Windows 10 for free.
I just wish it wasn't so fucking complicated to blur a static section of the video for two seconds...
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Status Cross-browser CSS + vim via SSH + janky 10k+ line "php" files actually full of nothing but html/css/js = 'fun'
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith If you didn't insist on using hideously old software
Where’s the fun in that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I just wish it wasn't so fucking complicated to blur a static section of the video for two seconds...
And I thought there was nothing you were ashamed to share...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I just wish it wasn't so fucking complicated to blur a static section of the video for two seconds...
And I thought there was nothing you were ashamed to share...
Not me, I was blurring for someone else who had shame.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I was blurring for someone else who had shame.
He was ashamed of people seeing he was with you?
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Acrobat 8
Yup. Screwed. No activation server and googling basically says "buy the new one". Well, it'll work for 30 days...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Acrobat 8
Yup. Screwed. No activation server and googling basically says "buy the new one". Well, it'll work for 30 days...
Oh wait. Clicked cancel. Next dialog was "Register Later", "Register Now", "Never Register". Well, we'll see in 30 days...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
No activation server
Isn't that a version that could be activated by just adding activate.adobe.com in your host file and pointing it to 127.0.0.1?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
No activation server
Isn't that a version that could be activated by just adding activate.adobe.com in your host file and pointing it to 127.0.0.1?
It gave me a dialog with "Never Register" so we'll see what happens...
And FileMaker8 seems to have installed with no issues.
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Note to self: Jira on mobile is even worse than desktop. Basically unusable.
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Status: I'm off work this week, so I've been making productive use of my time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6xOBCAVvA
(just to clarify, I'm not the guy in the video, but I went down this McDonalds training game rabbit hole)
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm off work this week, so I've been making productive use of my time
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@Zerosquare Honestly, with how my skills have progressed since I was using version 4, I could probably develop my own basic AVI builder and then push the result through something that compresses into whatever variant of MPEG is popular now.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Note to self: Jira on mobile is even worse than desktop. Basically unusable.
And switching to Desktop View is hardly better.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare Honestly, with how my skills have progressed since I was using version 4, I could probably develop my own basic AVI builder and then push the result through something that compresses into whatever variant of MPEG is popular now.
If you can generate frames you can skip the AVI part and just feed an encoder directly.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
in Dutch
Excuseer, foutje.
There is no excuse for Dutch.
Laughs at @HardwareGeek in DutchLacht met @HardwareGeek in het Nederlands
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Status: one of the gifts I received was a scratcher. I don't play those games because I'm not that retarded, but just so I'm feeling good about my conclusion, this card is completely useless, right?
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@Tsaukpaetra I think I'd need to see the back for instructions.
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Status: First snow removal in a new house. I slightly regret getting a house on a corner.
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Status: Went dentist for emergency hole repair. The procedure took 10 minutes. Disappointingly short, would have wanted more poking and prodding.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Went dentist for emergency hole repair. The procedure took 10 minutes. Disappointingly short, would have wanted more poking and prodding.
Must be an extra-ordinarily hot dentist.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: one of the gifts I received was a scratcher. I don't play those games because I'm not that retarded, but just so I'm feeling good about my conclusion, this card is completely useless, right?
If none of the numbers in the big square makes a 5 in a row line in the small squares, yes it's useless.
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@Tsaukpaetra over here if you scratch free the serial number it’s worthless.
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@topspin here the serial number isn't covered
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin here the serial number isn't covered
Which means all tickets are worthless?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin here the serial number isn't covered
Which means all tickets are worthless?
I once read that over 90% of scratch ticket wins are 'invested' in additional scratch tickets. In which case, yes.
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@PleegWat
I re-invested 100% of all my lifetime winnings in scratchers.I mean I once got a bunch of them as a gift, I won something like €5 and just bought an equivalent amount just for the hell of it
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat
I re-invested 100% of all my lifetime winnings in scratchers.I mean I once got a bunch of them as a gift, I won something like €5 and just bought an equivalent amount just for the hell of it
I got a scratch off as a Chistmas gift. I won like $10. By the time I fought the warthog to claim it (2 months later?), it had expired.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I think I'd need to see the back for instructions.
Essentially, you scratch the left box to find out what numbers are "called". Then on the right grids you scratch off the matching numbers. Five in a row, cross, corners, are winners. If you have five in a row with a highlighted line, there's bonus.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: First snow removal in a new house. I slightly regret getting a house on a corner.
I live on a corner. I understand. And we don't even get snow!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I live on a corner. I understand. And we don't even get snow!
I live on a corner, I get snow ( obviously ) and I don't understand
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@TimeBandit Chicago snow isn't big enough to turn it into a beer cooler, so you get all the work with none of the benefits. Also, people can sue me if they slip on the sidewalk or something. #mericuh
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
if they slip on the sidewalk or something.
The sidewalk is not my property so not my responsability
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
if they slip on the sidewalk or something.
The sidewalk is not my property so not my responsability
In some of the cities around here (San Jose), the homeowner is even responsible for fixing cracks in the sidewalk. Thankfully, my city is more reasonable.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Installing Ubuntu on a real machine (instead of just a VM). This will be the first time I've used it on a 4K touch laptop.
(It's up and running - pretty sure I have complete notes on what I tweaked this time so I can repeat the process)
Just got a nasty-gram from github saying login/password (via https clone) is evil and is going away - use tokens! Hm. Why has my Windows system not triggered that? Oh, right - it has the credential manager which does that magic for me. Linux? Yeah, the usual "wizard status has not been achieved" thing. I've now made some notes so I know what to do next time...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, people can sue me if they slip on the sidewalk or something. #mericuh
Surprise surprise, we have that shit in Germany.
Filed under: Ordnung muss sein
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
if they slip on the sidewalk or something.
The sidewalk is not my property so not my responsability
I wish that was true on this side of the border too! (Not my property yet I have all the responsibilities.)
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Same thing here. It doesn't make sense to me.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Installing Ubuntu on a real machine (instead of just a VM). This will be the first time I've used it on a 4K touch laptop.
(It's up and running - pretty sure I have complete notes on what I tweaked this time so I can repeat the process)
Just got a nasty-gram from github saying login/password (via https clone) is evil and is going away - use tokens! Hm. Why has my Windows system not triggered that? Oh, right - it has the credential manager which does that magic for me. Linux? Yeah, the usual "wizard status has not been achieved" thing. I've now made some notes so I know what to do next time...
A colleague of mine got that too and was like "Are we being hacked?!?! Is it because we're not using paid accounts???"
And I'm just "bruh, no, they did a terrible job explaining it and how to fix it, here's some links kid, go buy a token...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: one of the gifts I received was a scratcher. I don't play those games because I'm not that retarded, but just so I'm feeling good about my conclusion, this card is completely useless, right?
(Picture removed.)
Eh, I was bored:
No lines or all 4 corners, so no winners.
When I worked at a gas station forever ago the lottery scratch cards had little letters in between the game elements that told us at a glance if it was a winner or not. To redeem them we had to use a special lottery scanner to scan the barcode on the back before we could give you your money (or more scratch cards, probably). Nowadays most places here that sell lottery scratchers have a public scanner the players can use to verify what they've won, so you could just show up at a gas station or grocery store and scan it without scratching anything. :)
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
When I worked at a gas station forever ago the lottery scratch cards had little letters in between the game elements that told us at a glance if it was a winner or not.
Now that sounds like an invitation for store owners to pre-sort the scratch cards.
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Definitely.
Reminds of an old story in France. The manager of a shop noticed that one kind of scratcher game always had at least one "big" winning ticket per batch - probably so that each shop could claim there was a 1:x chance of winning over a reasonable time period.
So whenever he had sold almost all tickets from a batch, if nobody got the lucky ticket, he would scratch the rest himself and have a 100% chance of winning much more than the cost of the tickets.
I think the lottery had to switch to a truly random system to fix that.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
I think the lottery had to switch to a truly random system to fix that.
Nah, they just adjusted that shop's allocation.
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@Zerosquare @Tsaukpaetra no need to fix anything. Tickets are working as intended. The manager was only ahead scratching those tickets because he sold all the other ones already. The lottery company loses nothing by this tactic.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
The lottery company loses nothing by this tactic.
True enough, but it's basically fraud, isn't it? Meh, a topic for another thread.
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@Tsaukpaetra probably not fraud, but definately against the rules (assuming there was a "the reseller, every single employee of the reseller, and the entire families of each of those people are forbidden from participating" rule, and AFAIK every lottery has this rule).
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare @Tsaukpaetra no need to fix anything. Tickets are working as intended. The manager was only ahead scratching those tickets because he sold all the other ones already. The lottery company loses nothing by this tactic.
The lottery company doesn't, that's true. But the customers do: they have a lower chance of winning than they should have.
The other problem is that the game was classified as jeu de hasard (i.e. a purely random-based game, where knowledge or skill don't give you any advantage). The fact that this scheme worked was a proof that the game wasn't actually purely random-based. This is the kind of stuff that can get you in hot water really quickly - anything involving randomness and money is strictly regulated.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Now that sounds like an invitation for store owners to pre-sort the scratch cards.
Here the code that tells you if you won or not is hidden behind a scratchable area that is marked "void if scratched"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: one of the gifts I received was a scratcher. I don't play those games because I'm not that retarded, but just so I'm feeling good about my conclusion, this card is completely useless, right?
No idea, I've got three scratchers in various white elephant gift exchanges around the office (seems popular) and I've just thrown them out. Thing is, my state's lottery doesn't allow claiming prizes anonymously. Would it be worth winning if you were subject to harassment for the rest of your life?