The Official Status Thread
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My girlfriend is demanding a hefty bribe to help me shop for jewelry for my other girl.
You sure have the weirdest first-world-problems.
Polyamory isWomen are expensive.Not that you can’t afford it.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Polyamory is expensive.
That's a tax for taking more than your fair share.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My girlfriend is demanding a hefty bribe to help me shop for jewelry for my other girl.
You sure have the weirdest first-world-problems.
Polyamory is expensive.
Just wait 'til the doctor's bills show up. You'd think penicillin would be cheaper by now.
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Status: It really bums me out when Teepublic purges a ton of designs right before I go to place an order.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My girlfriend is demanding a hefty bribe to help me shop for jewelry for my other girl.
You sure have the weirdest first-world-problems.
Polyamory is expensive.
Pandora's box? Kinky.
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@error Ah, Pandora. The Pokemon of jewelry.
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Status: I should really be unlazy enough to get going before 10am on weekend days I plan to hit the drive thru for breakfast sammies.
Also Status: Causing global warming.
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Status: Just finished watching Maze Runner Death Cure. What started in the first movie as some intriguing / mysterious story that had you wondering what the fuck is going on and why are they here turned into some completely nonsensical yet-another-zombie-apocalypse, with plot holes large enough to drive a truck trough. Or, in this case, a whole city.
In the end, when the rebels finally managed to destroy the last city (of New York size) where the remaining few million of humanity resided, including the headquarters of the evil organization looking for a cure, the hundred or whatever outcasts that did this can finally live in peace on some uninfected island or whatever. Hey script writer, TDEMSYR!
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Status: Dammit Git, why does
git commit -a
not mean commit ALL like the documentation implies it does?!?!?
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Status: Watched the Snyder cut of Justice League. Most of the four hours of it anyway. I must've drifted off a few times because it didn't seem like that much longer of movie. My thoughts were "meh." I didn't exactly hate the original version but I can't say it was a movie I planned to watch again either. Same goes for this longer version. I don't know what it is - I would watch the DC animated universe, specifically the Timm/Dini shows, all day long but Marvel positively wipes the floor with DC in the movie space.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Dammit Git, why does
git commit -a
not mean commit ALL like the documentation implies it does?!?!?I assume you're talking about untracked files. I realize this goes against the design philosophy of Git, but they decided to err on the side of caution in this case - Git has no way to know whether this random new file is intended for commit or whether it's just a temporary file created by the build system or some other tool that shouldn't be checked in. Also, the documentation literally says "automatically stage files that have been modified and deleted, but new files you have not told Git about are not affected".
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Marvel positively wipes the floor with DC in the movie space.
Better scripts, direction and editing. More focus on stuff that's interesting.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
My girlfriend is demanding a hefty bribe to help me shop for jewelry for my other girl.
Sounds like
girlfriend
is working properly...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Just finished watching Maze Runner Death Cure. What started in the first movie as some intriguing / mysterious story that had you wondering what the fuck is going on and why are they here turned into some completely nonsensical yet-another-zombie-apocalypse, with plot holes large enough to drive a truck trough. Or, in this case, a whole city.
In the end, when the rebels finally managed to destroy the last city (of New York size) where the remaining few million of humanity resided, including the headquarters of the evil organization looking for a cure, the hundred or whatever outcasts that did this can finally live in peace on some uninfected island or whatever. Hey script writer, TDEMSYR!I stopped watching the movies. I got confused. I was able to keep things more-or-less straight when reading the books.
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status Trying to login to the AT&T website. It's been doing it's spinny thing for 20 minutes. Oh wait. That's right. Why should they work on Firefox... Maybe it's time to just say to FF and change to the browser that actually works. Edge. Who knew...
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@dcon Use Edge instead of Firefox? Ewwwwwww
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Use Edge instead of Firefox? Ewwwwwww
Well, my company portal for paychecks and AT&T's website simply don't work on FF. Makes me wonder how many others are broken. Started after one of the recent FF updates.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, my company portal for paychecks and AT&T's website simply don't work on FF.
There being a reason doesn't make it less icky.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, my company portal for paychecks and AT&T's website simply don't work on FF. Makes me wonder how many others are broken. Started after one of the recent FF updates.
Q: What's the difference between a recent browser update and a not so recent one?
A: An hour.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe it's time to just say to
FFAT&T and change tothe browser that actually worksa phone company that doesn't suck.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Trying to login to the AT&T website. It's been doing it's spinny thing for 20 minutes. Oh wait. That's right. Why should they work on Firefox... Maybe it's time to just say to FF and change to the browser that actually works. Edge. Who knew...
Ah. Ran into that the other day (Friday or Saturday; I don't remember). Didn't bother figuring out whether it was FF or whatever. I was just trying to see if I could cancel my service (AT&T TV), because the promotional pricing was ending and the monthly fee was about to almost double, without having to speak to a
humancustomer service representative. Since it was uncooperative, I just bit the bullet and called the customer service number.It was a surprisingly not unpleasant experience. After giving all the necessary info to the IVR system, I was connected to a live, US English-speaking person in seconds. Of course, I had to repeat all the info I'd already given the IVR system, because why would it pass that along? But the CSR was helpful and did not try to pressure me with any customer retention BS.
"You realize you're in a 2-year contract?"
"No, I didn't. I thought it was probably a 1-year contract. So, there's going to be an early termination fee. How much is that going to be?"
"It depends on what month of the contract you're in. I'll look it up. ... $X"
"Ok, equivalent to about 2 months of service. That's cheaper than another 12 months of a service I've never used, will never use, and didn't want in the first place. When I signed up for internet service, a-hole CSR up-sold me the TV service without making it clear it was a separate service at additional cost; I thought he was just asking about how much bandwidth I needed for online streaming, not selling me TV. Yes, I want to cancel, despite the termination fee. In the year I've had it, I've spent about 15 minutes, total, channel flipping, only to decide there's nothing worth watching."
"Ok, , I'll cancel your service, and the termination fee will be charged on $date. Also, since you've been paying for 12 months, you don't need to return the box; you own it now. You won't be able to use it for AT&T TV, since you're canceling it, but you can still use it for Netflix, Hulu, HBO+, etc. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"
Unfortunately, he couldn't do anything about my slow internet connection. Turns out the previous a-hole CSR lied, and gigabit fiber is not available in my area. The 75 Mb I have is the fastest that's available, and he blamed the 20–30 I usually actually get on having too many devices (4 computers, 2 phones, and the TV box) connected to a not-fast-enough WAN.
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You got someone who was actually helpful? Did you double-check you called the right number?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
You got someone who was actually helpful? Did you double-check you called the right number?
Speaking as a prior U-verse tier 1 rep, there was a fairly big push on customer satisfaction for support calls. Apparently that area is still going.
But I agree the sales arseholes suck.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
sales arseholes
But you repeat yourself.
Indeed, you repeat yourselves. But I repeat myself.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
You got someone who was actually helpful? Did you double-check you called the right number?
Speaking as a prior U-verse tier 1 rep, there was a fairly big push on customer satisfaction for support calls. Apparently that area is still going.
I recently talked with a Uverse rep - surprisingly quickly. And efficient. (Got my router replaced "oh, it's that old? Yes, we definitely will update that with no issues...") It's just their website that sucks. (How slow can we go...)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
You got someone who was actually helpful? Did you double-check you called the right number?
Speaking as a prior U-verse tier 1 rep, there was a fairly big push on customer satisfaction for support calls. Apparently that area is still going.
I recently talked with a Uverse rep - surprisingly quickly. And efficient. (Got my router replaced "oh, it's that old? Yes, we definitely will update that with no issues...") It's just their website that sucks. (How slow can we go...)
If you can shed enough load via an underfed and discouraging first line, you can afford to slightly upgrade your second line.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
It's just their website that sucks.
I wonder if the call center is still on XP...
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Status: God damn it, Chrome found a way to force through an update even with the updater service deliberately disabled by an administrator account.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: God damn it, Chrome found a way to force through an update even with the updater service deliberately disabled by an administrator account.
Updates... find a way.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Trying to login to the AT&T website. It's been doing it's spinny thing for 20 minutes. Oh wait. That's right. Why should they work on Firefox... Maybe it's time to just say to FF and change to the browser that actually works. Edge. Who knew...
Status: Even better, National Weather Service severe weather warning won't load in Firefox. Or maybe it doesn't like privacy add-ons. Whatever. But it looks like maybe it's stuck in a redirect loop. I dunno, but even after a few hours it didn't load.
At least it's just a thunderstorm with large hail, not tornadoes.
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Status: Eating that sausage was a terrible idea...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status Trying to login to the AT&T website. It's been doing it's spinny thing for 20 minutes. Oh wait. That's right. Why should they work on Firefox... Maybe it's time to just say to FF and change to the browser that actually works. Edge. Who knew...
Status: Even better, National Weather Service severe weather warning won't load in Firefox. Or maybe it doesn't like privacy add-ons. Whatever. But it looks like maybe it's stuck in a redirect loop. I dunno, but even after a few hours it didn't load.
At least it's just a thunderstorm with large hail, not tornadoes.
What are you trying to hide about your weather interests? The innocent have nothing to fear. Not that, y'know, anybody has anything to fear from the National Weather Service. But especially not the innocent. Now run our data collectors!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Eating that sausage was a terrible idea...
Maybe it was a good idea, but it was somebody else's.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
At least it's just a thunderstorm with large hail, not tornadoes.
And it looks like we probably escaped unscathed. The main squall line has passed us. According to the radar, there is another cell or two headed this way, but the next one is not as strong as the first one, and the third will either miss us entirely or we'll just barely catch the fringe. And the severe thunderstorm warning has been downgraded to a watch.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Eating that sausage was a terrible idea...
Maybe it was a good idea, but it was somebody else's.
Regardless, now I'm managing a lot more distracting things originating from my stomach, and I'm not happy...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a lot more distracting things originating from my stomach
IOW, a squirrel-stomach?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a lot more distracting things originating from my stomach
IOW, a squirrel-stomach?
I can hang a squirrel by its nuts in retribution. I cannot do so with my stomach.
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status forgot to do laundry. Glad I work from home, live alone, and am antisocial. Tomorrow's going to be a bit...smelly.
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Status: Bought an interesting light table at Walmart of all places.
I had one of those days where it seems like maybe selling T-shirt designs online might be preferable to working in IT/development. Small hiccup is that not having any time to draw for years (aside from those dry-erase marker drawings all over the office before it closed) has really wrecked my creativity. I figured I might just retrace some of my old work, but I couldn't find my old light table in this clusterfuck of a house, so off to Walmart I went.
This thing works surprisingly well. The LED is bright enough to get through the thick paper I have here, the slot is sized so you don't have to tape anything down, and it takes AA batteries instead of some stupid specific lithium battery made for three weeks in 2017.
Almost makes up for my kitchen countertop deciding to ruin itself by absorbing water from an overflowing sink.
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Status: Need to write an abstract to submit to a conference. So far I've got... the title. And I'm not quite satisfied with that one either.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Eating that sausage was a terrible idea...
That's what she said.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Eating that sausage was a terrible idea...
That's what she said.
Have you tried washing it?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Eating that sausage was a terrible idea...
That's what she said.
Have you tried washing it?
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Status: After all that meteorological Sturm und Drang last night, today is beautiful — sunny and warm, with a forecast high of 25°C.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: After all that meteorological Sturm und Drang last night, today is beautiful — sunny and warm, with a forecast high of 25°C.
Well thank god it was only meteorological, I thought you meant literally.
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Status: Laughing my ass off. Anybody ever heard of Eurofins? International company that bought up alot of labs, including one at the other end of the county. Positively awful experience every time I've interviewed with them. I've heard both "not enough experience" and "overqualified" because Goldilocks. So, anyway, some job newsletter I've been unsubscribed from for months sends me noise about how they're looking for a "software programmer."
- Research and work with internal teams to develop new custom spreadsheets containing new custom code to automate data interpretation, consolidation and transfer
- Perform review of spreadsheets to meet validation requirements
- Perform changes to existing spreadsheet code
- Programming knowledge of Visual Basic,
- Strong computer, scientific, and organizational skills
Excel VBA? Really? In 2021? I actually like Visual Basic (or at least don't have a burning hatred of it) but even I have to wonder what's wrong with these people.
Edit: Oh and there's language that strongly suggests a style dictator. For their very special top secret VBA code...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Excel VBA? Really? In 2021?
Exactly. This task wants a full-fledged ActiveX Control, at least one.