The Official Status Thread
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Sounds like a real losing proposition for one arcade game you can emulate on almost anything.
Considering how difficult it is to install homebrew on a switch it mightn't. People have bought skyrim everywhere but I suspect that has a wider appeal.
status feeling better today. Four hours of meetings in the afternoon though.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
mightn't
Is this another one of those things you annoy @HardwareGeek with?
E: Apparentlyn't. It's a real word.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
mightn't
Is this another one of those things you annoy @HardwareGeek with?
That's purely accidential. My goal is @Gąska but I think he may be ignoring me.
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@DogsB as you may of notice in another threat recently, I don't real care about grammar.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB as you may of notice in another threat recently, I don't real care about grammar.
But then you shout at me that the disctinction of when possessive
's
becomes'
for words already ending ins
is so simple, obvious, and consistent across style guides, how dare I do it wrong.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Perhaps the X-Men® license costs more than the TMNT® one?
Considering they doubled the price of two TMNT games based on nothing more than changing which of them had its art on the cabinet, I doubt it was licensing that alone behind the XMen pricing.
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Why can't I just buy these old games on the Switch for $50?
Sounds like a real losing proposition for one arcade game you can emulate on almost anything.
Retro offerings are weird. They'll put out dedicated handhelds, 1:6 scale arcades, 1:18 scale arcades, etc for Contra, Bad Dudes, TMNT, Legend of Zelda, etc at $50 a pop. But we can't get a Switch cartridge or disc for these other systems?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB as you may of notice in another threat recently, I don't real care about grammar.
But then you shout at me that the disctinction of when possessive
's
becomes'
for words already ending ins
is so simple, obvious, and consistent across style guides, how dare I do it wrong.Ranting is fun.
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Status: Ate a whole bag of not exactly skittles but still unhealthy, sour candy. Might be crashing @DogsB's crypto investments.
Waiting for theregretstomach ache to set in.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Four hours of meetings in the afternoon though.
Ha!
I almost "went" to work today. Looked at my messages - and was reminded today is an off day because we're on summer hours! (powered down work computer) Wee! Free day!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB as you may of notice in another threat recently, I don't real care about grammar.
But then you shout at me that the disctinction of when possessive
's
becomes'
for words already ending ins
is so simple, obvious, and consistent across style guides, how dare I do it wrong.It's simple:
's
shortens to'
when it follows a plurals
. If the word with the terminals
is not a plural, you still use's
to form the possessive.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB as you may of notice in another threat recently, I don't real care about grammar.
But then you shout at me that the disctinction of when possessive
's
becomes'
for words already ending ins
is so simple, obvious, and consistent across style guides, how dare I do it wrong.It's simple:
's
shortens to'
when it follows a plurals
. If the word with the terminals
is not a plural, you still use's
to form the possessive.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB as you may of notice in another threat recently, I don't real care about grammar.
But then you shout at me that the disctinction of when possessive
's
becomes'
for words already ending ins
is so simple, obvious, and consistent across style guides, how dare I do it wrong.It's simple:
's
shortens to'
when it follows a plurals
. If the word with the terminals
is not a plural, you still use's
to form the possessive.
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Mac Status It does appear that it's something with either the KVM switch or just having external monitors plugged in while it's asleep. I disconnected the dock and the non-dock'd monitor and it slept just fine without crashing.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB as you may of notice in another threat recently, I don't real care about grammar.
But then you shout at me that the disctinction of when possessive
's
becomes'
for words already ending ins
is so simple, obvious, and consistent across style guides, how dare I do it wrong.It's simple:
's
shortens to'
when it follows a plurals
. If the word with the terminals
is not a plural, you still use's
to form the possessive.I'm sure there are exceptions to this rule ( to find any) because every rule in our broken language has some, as English is fundamentally a creature of chaos.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparentlyn't.Yesn'tFTF
Narp
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB as you may of notice in another threat recently, I don't real care about grammar.
But then you shout at me that the disctinction of when possessive
's
becomes'
for words already ending ins
is so simple, obvious, and consistent across style guides, how dare I do it wrong.It's simple:
's
shortens to'
when it follows a plurals
. If the word with the terminals
is not a plural, you still use's
to form the possessive.I'm sure there are exceptions to this rule ( to find any) because every rule in our broken language has some, as English is fundamentally a creature of chaos.
I have hopes that
P'ic'l'r'ly
in particular will eventually become canonical.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Ranting is fun.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
P'ic'l'r'ly
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB as you may of notice in another threat recently, I don't real care about grammar.
But then you shout at me that the disctinction of when possessive
's
becomes'
for words already ending ins
is so simple, obvious, and consistent across style guides, how dare I do it wrong.It's simple:
's
shortens to'
when it follows a plurals
. If the word with the terminals
is not a plural, you still use's
to form the possessive.I'm sure there are exceptions to this rule ( to find any) because every rule in our broken language has some, as English is fundamentally a creature of chaos.
It very much depends on which particular style guide you're looking at. Different style guides specify not merely different exceptions, but different rules to which those exceptions may or may not apply. It's a mess. No matter how you form the possessive of a word ending in s, plural or singular, at least one "expert" will agree and 3 will disagree.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
No matter how you form the possessive of a word ending in s, plural or singular, at least one "expert" will agree and 3 will disagree.
If the initial step in forming a possessive is to reduce the number of experts involved below four, this does not hold. However, in any other case, as only four experts will have an opinion, this is correct.
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Status: The Delivery Distortion Field continues to work. Two packages that weren't expected to arrive until tomorrow were delivered this morning. Not terribly surprising, really, since neither was coming from all that far away, and the original estimate had seemed to me a bit pessimistic. Meanwhile, DHL continues to predict Monday delivery of a package en route from the Czech Republic, and a package from California, which at last previous check was nothing more that a shipping label, is sitting in the USPS distribution center just a few miles from here but isn't predicted to be delivered until Monday.
Also Status: My son now has two spools of printer filament and is trying his first test print. Well, second, really; the bed wasn't properly leveled for the first one, which was quickly aborted.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: An unusual increase in humidity has been detected. Is it raining?
status: seems to have taken a bit to actually cycle, but hey, rain is rain. Too bad it's daylight, I kinda want to go out for a shower au naturale....
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status: I usually enqueue fics to read once I've finished my current binge novel, shorter ones to relax by.
I just looked at it and the next five are just smut.
Relaxing!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The Delivery Distortion Field continues to work. ... Meanwhile, DHL continues to predict Monday delivery of a package en route from the Czech Republic,
Guess what just arrived this afternoon. I'm certainly not complaining about getting packages earlier than predicted, but if this keeps up, I'm going to start getting stuff before I think of buying it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The Delivery Distortion Field continues to work. ... Meanwhile, DHL continues to predict Monday delivery of a package en route from the Czech Republic,
Guess what just arrived this afternoon. I'm certainly not complaining about getting packages earlier than predicted, but if this keeps up, I'm going to start getting stuff before I think of buying it.
Or DHL will lose it before you've bought it.
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@HardwareGeek OTOH, another package:
Given that it is now 23:52 on Friday, I don't think it's going to make it by end of day.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The Delivery Distortion Field continues to work. ... Meanwhile, DHL continues to predict Monday delivery of a package en route from the Czech Republic,
Guess what just arrived this afternoon. I'm certainly not complaining about getting packages earlier than predicted, but if this keeps up, I'm going to start getting stuff before I think of buying it.
Or DHL will lose it before you've bought it.
Can't exclude a zero-point field of such potential packages, yeah. However, the sooner they can't be delivered yet, the less likely they have anything good in them.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek OTOH, another package:
Given that it is now 23:52 on Friday, I don't think it's going to make it by end of day.
Days last from sunrise to sunrise, infidel.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
securing the account
One would think not having access to Email or SMS would have been secure enough, but apparently they bypassed that.
Just for shits and giggles I reviewed my security settings for my actual account. Also added a TOTP thingy for even more shits and giggles.
My secret is MLBZ7PFJRPZHPTKN.
This, of course, generated lots of notifications...
Now to double-check the stupid security questions....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Also added a TOTP thingy for even more shits and giggles.
What does Top of the Pops have to do with account security?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The Delivery Distortion Field continues to work. ... Meanwhile, DHL continues to predict Monday delivery of a package en route from the Czech Republic,
Guess what just arrived this afternoon. I'm certainly not complaining about getting packages earlier than predicted, but if this keeps up, I'm going to start getting stuff before I think of buying it.
Careful. People will start using you as an example of "See, AI really works!!".
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek OTOH, another package:
Given that it is now 23:52 on Friday, I don't think it's going to make it by end of day.
Supposedly, it's out for delivery now. However, it apparently took exactly 26 hours and 20 minutes to get from the FedEx regional distribution facility to the local facility (02:31 Friday to 06:51 Saturday). According to Google Maps, it should take ~2:40 to drive from one city to the other, give or take where in the two cities, maybe 3 hours. 4 hours in heavy traffic. Not 26.
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Status:
Rendering 2400 distinct sprites in WebGL to simulate a roguelike text-grid performs much better than expected.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The Delivery Distortion Field continues to work. ... Meanwhile, DHL continues to predict Monday delivery of a package en route from the Czech Republic,
Guess what just arrived this afternoon. I'm certainly not complaining about getting packages earlier than predicted, but if this keeps up, I'm going to start getting stuff before I think of buying it.
Careful. People will start using you as an example of "See, AI really works!!".
Only by comparison.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek OTOH, another package:
Given that it is now 23:52 on Friday, I don't think it's going to make it by end of day.
Supposedly, it's out for delivery now. However, it apparently took exactly 26 hours and 20 minutes to get from the FedEx regional distribution facility to the local facility (02:31 Friday to 06:51 Saturday). According to Google Maps, it should take ~2:40 to drive from one city to the other, give or take where in the two cities, maybe 3 hours. 4 hours in heavy traffic. Not 26.
If you keep doing this you're going to hurt someone. What if the DDF causes a traffic jam, or moves an airplane into unexpected weather?
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Status: The delivery distortion field is now affecting my grocery orders. Half my order was cancelled because they were out of stock of basic things like milk and cheese. The other half never showed up. It was supposedly delivered at 18:30, I got the email telling me it was delivered at 18:35, and I noticed the email at 18:47, but there were in fact no groceries here. I got a refund and a $15 credit, but I really want my food.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: The delivery distortion field is now affecting my grocery orders. Half my order was cancelled because they were out of stock of basic things like milk and cheese. The other half never showed up. It was supposedly delivered at 18:30, I got the email telling me it was delivered at 18:35, and I noticed the email at 18:47, but there were in fact no groceries here. I got a refund and a $15 credit, but I really want my food.
It's a good thing nobody else shops there.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Rendering 2400 distinct sprites in WebGL to simulate a roguelike text-grid performs much better than expected.
Please tell me you're not doing a JS version of Dwarf Fortress. Please.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Rendering 2400 distinct sprites in WebGL to simulate a roguelike text-grid performs much better than expected.
Please tell me you're not doing a JS version of Dwarf Fortress. Please.
Probably not. Technically TypeScript and WASM are distinct from the most common referent of JS.
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Status: Was dragged back into the role of Family Tech Support today. A laptop ran out of power while being used. After power was reapplied it gave a generic "Windows doesn't feel like booting" error. Booted from a Windows 10 boot USB, tried to Repair Startup and it asked for a Bitlocker key.
Ugh.
After an hour of "forgot password" shenanigans we eventually found the key connected to a supposedly unused Hotmail address. Good news: her data was still there. Bad news: automatic Startup Repair didn't fix it. At that point, though, I could get in and rebuild the boot files that got messed up and (after finishing a bunch of updates) Windows was up and running again. I'm turning off Bitlocker as soon as I finish backing up the data that's on it.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Rendering 2400 distinct sprites in WebGL to simulate a roguelike text-grid performs much better than expected.
Please tell me you're not doing a JS version of Dwarf Fortress. Please.
Whatever he's doing, I'm sure it'll be fun.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
but I really want my food.
It's amazing how efficient a car is at that task. (Speaking of which, I need to go to the linen store because the heels of my feet have worn yet another hole in my bed sheet)
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Status: this hosting company does not have a way to downgrade services, so instead they suggest I simply create a new account, after having suspended the current one for "ToS violations" .
The fuck....
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What do you need a hosting company for? You're the owner of the world-famous Up to 55.5555555% uptime! hosting service.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Rendering 2400 distinct sprites in WebGL to simulate a roguelike text-grid performs much better than expected.
Please tell me you're not doing a JS version of Dwarf Fortress. Please.
Whatever he's doing, I'm sure it'll be fun.
Post apocalyptic cyberpunk roguelike featuring augments, genetic engineering, and hacking, in the style of Nethack.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
Rendering 2400 distinct sprites in WebGL to simulate a roguelike text-grid performs much better than expected.
Please tell me you're not doing a JS version of Dwarf Fortress. Please.
Whatever he's doing, I'm sure it'll be fun.
Post apocalyptic cyberpunk roguelike featuring augments, genetic engineering, and hacking, in the style of Nethack.
If you're auditioning social contexts, consider
Paranoia
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
What do you need a hosting company for? You're the owner of the world-famous Up to 55.5555555% uptime! hosting service.
I didn't want to spin up another Windows VM.
To be fair to them I did try to spin up the target site on my own host, but apparently the currently-available package fucks up directory watching in some unusual way that causes an immediate crash.
On their side, they got past that, but the route middleware died somewhere unknown somewhere and they couldn't get me any better logs.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
some unusual way
For you, unusual would be if it worked out of the box.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
some unusual way
For you, unusual would be if it worked out of the box.
If it did, it wouldn't last long.