The Official Status Thread
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status2 My package has shipped (this is a different one then the one I'm tracking - and "This may updates automatically" - yeah. right. F5 - oh, they're closer now...)
Obviously, I have the same delivery system @HardwareGeek does...
LOL. And it was delivered today. But the other package is still wandering around the neighborhood.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It seems there exists no word or set phrase in English language that describes a person who has their birthday today
I'm not sure I'm following the problem - isn't the phrase for someone who's celebrating their birthday just "someone who's celebrating their birthday"?
Yes and that's exactly the problem.
I'm still not following - what about it is the problem?
(I'm genuinely asking BTW)
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
It's the difference between "a winner is you" and "a person who won the competition is you".
"You're a winner" and "You're a person who won the competition". The latter's a bit clunky but neither is wrong.
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Status: I love my body I love my body I love my body I love my body I love my body I love my body I love my body I love my body I love my body I love my body ....
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@Tsaukpaetra Ctrl+C
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
The latter's a bit clunky
Exactly. For me, "someone who's celebrating their birthday" is super clunky compared to "jubilat", especially if you want to use it in sentence like " by the one who's celebrating their birthday of all people, fml". And it's such a basic concept that I'm shocked no better phrase exists for it.
BTW you seem to have missed the reference.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Bot status: appears to be down... along with the server.
Yes. Cox has been extremely flaky these last few weeks.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
BTW you seem to have missed the reference.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
if you look at that last panel and decide the "kid" might be 16 instead of 4.
I assumed that before you pointed out the counter beads....
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
The latter's a bit clunky
Exactly. For me, "someone who's celebrating their birthday" is super clunky compared to "jubilat", especially if you want to use it in sentence like " by the one who's celebrating their birthday of all people, fml". And it's such a basic concept that I'm shocked no better phrase exists for it.
OK, gotcha
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
BTW you seem to have missed the reference.
Totes
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This comic is dark on its face but did looking into it gets even darker if you look at that last panel and decide the "kid" might be 16 instead of 4.
I think "he's 4 years old" version is even darker. Just look at their size.
Wait, I just realized it's 3 years remaining.
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@dkf How are you doing on those neural networks? I'm seriously considering the benefits of a slower operating speed....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm seriously considering the benefits of a slower operating speed....
Now I'm wondering if the reason @Tsaukpaetra is crashing regularly is because he overclocked himself
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@Tsaukpaetra, take note from and cool circuits using copious amounts of Jack Daniel's.
Disclaimer: Some memory loss may happen due to CRS effect. Do not operate heavy machinery, coworkers or printers with large amounts of paper if exposed to coolant leak. Operate WTDWTF instead.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
my social anxiety
I know you've mentioned that before but I can't help but at the thought.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Ding, level 37.
takes mental note: six days older, take that
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I know you've mentioned that before but I can't help but at the thought.
It (was) crippling. I'm not sure why everyone seems incredulous.
I'm guessing it has to do with my "lifestyle." First, I have had panic attacks at parties, when it's become crowded with strangers. Second, it's the social part that (was) terrifying for me. Actually talking to people is the scary bit, topping them doesn't trigger it for some reason.
It occurred to me, from my recent invitation to meet for lunch, that that would have been more scary to me when I was unmedicated than getting into an actual fistfight.
Filed under: But not with @boomzilla, he'd whoop my ass.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The slow bit will be learning the standard library and tooling environment.
That's true for any language, even though the HR drones don't know you can learn "the language" itself in a few days.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
why English language is absolutely the worst language
I wonder where does "it doesn't have fūņņy ļēttēŗš" rank on your list?
"English is the easiest language to speak badly."
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It (was) crippling. I'm not sure why everyone seems incredulous.
I can assure you not all of us are incredulous.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Google Tranny
As a vehicle transmission, I find this offensive.
Bing Tranny. Much better.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf How are you doing on those neural networks? I'm seriously considering the benefits of a slower operating speed....
Seriously? We're in the process of getting more staff, including an extra software person. I know the offers have been made informally, but don't know if they've been made formally or accepted yet (last I heard was a week ago when things were apparently with HR). And I'm in the process of rewriting the service that manages resource allocation in our facility, which has enough quirks to need to be custom, but not so many as to need to be quite as custom as the shit we were using before. The first version was done by someone who really liked "cute" Python hacks and who had no idea what security was; I prefer actual relational algebra, working transactions, and battle-tested ReST stacks.
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@Gąska That's what I mean. He's only going to live to 19 either way.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Seriously?
Only half seriously. I'm just slowly losing sanity from this annoying pain that is constantly interrupting my thoughts.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
an extra software person.
Careful there
I'm technically educated in the hardware sector, but I really prefer the software that ends up running on it.
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status: does muscle relaxants cause fever?
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status Ah, that explains the smoke a smelled while walking the dogs this morning. Just saw a NextDoor post - a homeless encampment tried to burn down the neighborhood (twice!) this morning.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm just slowly losing sanity
I think it's too late for that
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Status: I keep mistyping my VNC password, because my wireless keyboard goes to sleep to save battery and discards (but only sometimes) the first keypress when it wakes up.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I keep mistyping my VNC password, because my wireless keyboard goes to sleep to save battery and discards (but only sometimes) the first keypress when it wakes up.
My Windows logon password starts with Ctrl,Shift,Ctrl.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm technically educated in the hardware sector, but I really prefer the software that ends up running on it.
: I have experience in breaking hardware, but what I really like is breaking software.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm technically educated in the hardware sector, but I really prefer the software that ends up running on it.
: I have experience in breaking hardware, but what I really like is breaking software.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm technically educated in the hardware sector, but I really prefer the software that ends up running on it.
: I have experience in breaking hardware, but what I really like is breaking software.
Because Transmeta never made it.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm technically educated in the hardware sector, but I really prefer the software that ends up running on it.
: I have experience in breaking hardware, but what I really like is breaking software.
Have you considered a career in quality assurance?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I keep mistyping my VNC password, because my wireless keyboard goes to sleep to save battery and discards (but only sometimes) the first keypress when it wakes up.
Another reason filed under "Why I HATE Wireless Keyboards"
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status Thunderbird is not for use by mere mortals.
Recently, my "Send Unsent Messages" stopped working. About the same time it stopped auto-checking for new messages on startup. All settings look the same as another install.
<googles>Oh, there's an issue where
mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount
can be set wrong. Well, I have added/removed some imap accounts over time...So, off into the advanced config . Ok. So what should it be? It's 'account1', which isn't listed in
mail.accountmanager.accounts
. Fine. I'll search for each of the listed accounts (2,3,and 4). Nada. Nada. Oh, look, it has an id. Change defaultaccount. Restart TB. Hey look! It works now.So nice that doing normal things like adding/removing accounts can totally screw things up.
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Status: There are days I log into my stock trading account and think "if I could be bothered to find and learn an API, I could skim thousands of dollars off the system repeatedly selling stocks when they go up 3% and buying them back when they drop 3%." Why do I leave thousands in a business banking account to earn $2 interest per year when a $1200 investment swings $50 dollars a day every day?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: There are days I log into my stock trading account and think "if I could be bothered to find and learn an API, I could skim thousands of dollars off the system repeatedly selling stocks when they go up 3% and buying them back when they drop 3%."
We could call it Harmful, Fucky Trading.
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@Gribnit I'm aware of high frequency trading. I just wasn't going for the high frequency part.
Edit: Looking at all of the dumb/crooked ideas I've been considering, I wonder if modern translators dropped some words from Plato's original thought when they came up with "necessity (to stop dealing with bullshit) is the mother of invention (of all sorts of schemes)."
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
high frequency trading.
How many MHz?
Sounds like a user script across the consumer network, so OTO .0005 or so
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@Gribnit It's been awhile since I tried to drive a browser with the IE ActiveX control.
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Status: How fucking primitive is enterprise software in 2021 when it can't convert a C newline into an HTML break tag for display on its web front-end?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: How fucking primitive is enterprise software in 2021 when it can't convert a C newline into an HTML break tag for display on its web front-end?
Even the designers of HTML were well aware that people use the space bar and enter key interchangeably.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: There are days I log into my stock trading account and think "if I could be bothered to find and learn an API, I could skim thousands of dollars off the system repeatedly selling stocks when they go up 3% and buying them back when they drop 3%." Why do I leave thousands in a business banking account to earn $2 interest per year when a $1200 investment swings $50 dollars a day every day?
You’re assuming the stock has high volatility but no overall trend.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: There are days I log into my stock trading account and think "if I could be bothered to find and learn an API, I could skim thousands of dollars off the system repeatedly selling stocks when they go up 3% and buying them back when they drop 3%." Why do I leave thousands in a business banking account to earn $2 interest per year when a $1200 investment swings $50 dollars a day every day?
You’re assuming the stock has high volatility but no overall trend.
This works for everything, if you extend the sample enough.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
You’re assuming the stock has high volatility but no overall trend.
For the stocks that I've been watching, that's more or less true. If there's an overall trend, it's slightly up (so far). You just account for any drift in the algorithm buy basing the new limit on the last actual buy/sell price and not the old limit. Have it check once a day. When it buys or sells, the order flips from buy to sell (or sell to buy) and the limit goes +/- some dollar amount. Worst that would happen is you bought something that was on its way down (triggering a buy) and never came back up.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
You’re assuming the stock has high volatility but no overall trend.
For the stocks that I've been watching, that's more or less true. If there's an overall trend, it's slightly up (so far). You just account for any drift in the algorithm buy basing the new limit on the last actual buy/sell price and not the old limit.
Perfect! Be sure to give it all your money.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Perfect! Be sure to give it all your money.
Why would I do that? If the stock goes up or down a dollar a day, I could play with one share and potentially make $150 profit per year on a $100 investment (or less).
I've held Square since just after the IPO. Every year it would go up from about $25 to almost $100, crash, and then slowly climb back up, going up or down a few dollars per day. It only really exploded with the pandemic (if it had hit $300 I'd be out) and then it would do the same thing except from $100 to $250 (it's on its way back up ATM but it'll be starting over towards the end of the year).
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Status: The whole situation with printed T-shirts is annoying.
Stuff that I like is virtually impossible to buy at retail. If by chance something is being merchandised, the designs, quality, or both are awful. So for awhile I was going through custom one-off shops and getting really good quality shirts. Now most/all of those places are ridiculously strict about copyright/trademark.
I started going to those marketplace sites where they handle printing but pay designers a commission. At first the quality was alright but it has been slipping. What seems to be happening is that they're targeting a level where they can profit on the $14 sale price instead of the $20 normal price (which is really their fault running sales so regularly). At the same time...it is getting really old finding a shirt I like, going to reorder because it's worn out, and finding it's inexplicably disappeared (they have licensing agreements so it shouldn't be copyright/trademark).
Lately I've been thinking I should've ordered 100 shirts 2 years ago instead of a few every other time they run a promotion. That or reproduce the designs I like, submit them as my own, order 100, and abandon the account.