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A group of dragonflies is called "winterdamsels".
Do not google that (at least while you are at work) ...
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
A group of dragonflies is called "winterdamsels".
Do not google that (at least while you are at work) ...Seems safe enough.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
the current version of Chrome was too old
.. how do you manage that? It keeps it up to date automatically!
Believe me, I know. I thought I had finally killed the update service for good a few months ago until it came back. So the site was crying about version 92 because stupid.
Oh right. You're the guy who intentionally hobbles his browser. Carry on...
The browser that updates every day with more problems because why not. Lately it's decided it needs to not just spawn a renderer thread for every single tab, it keeps letting the main GPU process grow as high as 400MB. Last year it was exploding the network service process. That's on top of the 700GB it's using for "browser" which is somehow separate from the 300MB it's using for my e-mail, any major retail storefront, Discord, or anything else with more lines of (JavaScript) code than all of Windows. And did I mention it has some kind of lock that it won't let go of that really fucks up any other browser that I dare run simultaneously?
Yeah. Fuck updating Chrome. If I had my Windows CD or wasn't shopping for a new PC, I would burn this entire instance to the ground.
Your Chrome install is the @Tsaukpaetra of browser installs. Perhaps you should install Windows 10 in S mode and use MS Edge so you can't break anything else?
(I'm assuming you meant 700mb, although the concept of Chrome eating a terabyte of RAM, (or disk space for that matter) is quite amusing)
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
the concept of Chrome eating a terabyte of RAM
If you had it, Chrome would eat it.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
Seems safe enough.
Oh, a couple of days ago I saw p0rn links only...
They seem to have cleaned that up - the results have changed also for me.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Your Chrome install is the @Tsaukpaetra of browser installs. Perhaps you should install Windows 10 in S mode and use MS Edge so you can't break anything else?
Chrome is shitty but somehow "I" broke it? Yeah, no.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
exposed to virus
Ayyeeeeee!!! The crown virus!!!!
Brillant! A fish out of water story. A virus and a princess? It's so crazy it'll make a billion dollars!
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
Seems safe enough.
Oh, a couple of days ago I saw p0rn links only...
They seem to have cleaned that up - the results have changed also for me.The connotations of the cognates of
damsel
used differ? Is it MΓ€dchen in both?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Chrome is shitty but somehow "I" broke it?
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Must you toy with me Ticketmaster?
Last call! Tickets on sale for
$yourFavoriteBand
playing live near you!It's in Austin. 200 miles away.
Cocktease.
Filed under: For large values of near me.
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@error That is near by standards.
Also, that suggests either Galveston or DFW area. (Don't clarify if you don't want to; I'm not going to tell you where I am, either.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, that suggests either Galveston or DFW area. (Don't clarify if you don't want to; I'm not going to tell you where I am, either.)
It says Dallas in my user profile here on TDWTF. (Actually, Plano, atm.)
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
profile
Reading someone's profile?
Plano, atm.
You have to go all the way to Plano to find an ATM? Man, your bank sucks.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
profile
Reading someone's profile?
Plano, atm.
You have to go all the way to Plano to find an ATM? Man, your bank sucks.
Yeah, Plano's in Illinois.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My car's alternator let out the magic smoke. Guess I'm not getting new computer parts anytime soon. :(
They're not that expensive.
No single thing is that expensive, but at the moment I'd need to build an entire computer sans video. Also something something income.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
at the moment I'd need to build an entire computer sans video
Obviously...
bogus. But Wccftech "literally" fell for it.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
at the moment I'd need to build an entire computer sans video
Obviously...
bogus. But Wccftech "literally" fell for it.Looks like I'm going to need a lot of
quarters100Β₯ coins.(FWIW, not too far back I priced "most of a new computer" at around $1000. Haven't quite found a case I really like in this modern era of "all airflow and LEDs, no optical drives", but I'm sure I could pick something if I actually had the $ for it. :)
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
And did I mention it has some kind of lock that it won't let go of that really fucks up any other browser that I dare run simultaneously?
How the fuck do you manage that? Unless all you're doing is locking out Chrome reskins like Edge and Braveβ¦
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status I honestly thought this was a joke but it might be a trilogy!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0753GJ34Z?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_tukn
Guess what the next three posts in required reading are.
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@DogsB You can do beβtβtβer.
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6 solid hours of meetings today. I'm going to have to eat lunch today in a meeting.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
6 solid hours of meetings today. I'm going to have to eat lunch today in a meeting.
Nifty. Tellings, watchings, or meetings? You can ignore most tellings you already know about. The meetings that are actually only meetings between a subset of attendees, if you're just a witness you can fade pretty hard. All in all, it sounds like you may not need to be present and engaged for more than an hour or so.
I recommend preparing a good avalanche question to jam the meeting for when you want to eat.
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@Gribnit 2 hours training, 1 hour interactive debugging session, 2 hours "group working session" (where 6 developers get together to do the work of 1), 1 hour administrative bullshit.
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@error What? And all that without preliminary planning meeting?
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
1 hour administrative bullshit.
That's where you zoom your camera in on your mouth, turn up the mic sensitivity hard, and have your lunch with maximum mastication. And refuse to acknowledge that there's any sort of problem, claiming that you thought you'd turned things off rather than to maximum annoyance.
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Status: Working from my couch for a while this morning while I wait for
- A monitor to be delivered (could be any time and I don't want them to go back without actually delivering it, if possible)
- The stove repair guy to show up to fix the large burner on my stove. He's scheduled for between 9 and 10 am.
Real Status: Trying not to fall asleep on the couch instead of working.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Working from my couch for a while this morning while I wait for
- A monitor to be delivered (could be any time and I don't want them to go back without actually delivering it, if possible)
- The stove repair guy to show up to fix the large burner on my stove. He's scheduled for between 9 and 10 am.
Real Status: Trying not to fall asleep on the couch instead of working.
Update on the stove. So electric coil stoves have switches for each burner that regulate the current based on the dial position. They have different sizes, rated by how much current they expect to pull--the large burner on this particular stove is designed to pull 11 A on high. The small burners have 3-5A switches.
Some moron, possibly at the factory (and this stove is 15+ years old), swapped the switches for the front burners. Meaning they put a 5A-max switch on the large burner and a 11A-max switch on the small burner (which won't pull more than 5-ish anyway). Those are the original switches, and there's no conceivable reason you'd swap them, especially since both of them work properly.
Nice simple repair (on the landlord's budget, not mine), just swap the two back into place. Glad it wasn't anything else, since the model number (which this stove, moronically, had placed on an adhesive sticker under the range top) had been completely removed and there's no part number on these (non-standard) switches.
If this really was a factory defect, I'm amazed it made it 15 years without anyone noticing that the big burner (the only big one on the stove) wasn't behaving right. It'd never get red (because the switch was clicking off at 5A) and took over 30 minutes to boil a pot of water. Silly people who don't cook. Probably college students, am I right?
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@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they thought it was normal
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they thought it was normal
Slow-cooking feature maybe.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they thought it was normal
I can't imagine that. When the big burner is putting out less heat than the little one and never glows red even on the hottest setting (and basically does nothing at any other setting)....guessing people just don't cook much. Life experience ~ 0.
As a teacher, I'd routinely tell kids that one of the more important things you can learn before you go off to college is how to cook.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Some moron, possibly at the factory (and this stove is 15+ years old), swapped the switches for the front burners.
I suspect it was a previous tenant that his wife was burning everything, so he found an easy fix to prevent her from doing it
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
As a teacher, I'd routinely tell kids that one of the more important things you can learn before you go off to college is how to cook.
Your students had no parents, your school didn't offer Home Ec., or you had nothing on subject for the class and decided to waste their time?
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Status: I really need to check the refrigerator β specifically, the produce drawer β (and to actually use the stuff I buy) before grocery shopping. I found no fewer than 5 purchases of broccoli in the refrigerator, and 2 untouched heads of lettuce. The 2 oldest broccoli are no longer edible (INB4 broccoli never was) and are now in the garbage, along with carrots whose use-by date was March, some ex-peaches that are now brown slime, and some rather shriveled kiwis. And a package of bacon dated February . No doubt I would find additional items to be disposed of if I did a more thorough cleaning.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
If this really was a factory defect, I'm amazed it made it 15 years without anyone noticing that the big burner (the only big one on the stove) wasn't behaving right. It'd never get red (because the switch was clicking off at 5A) and took over 30 minutes to boil a pot of water. Silly people who don't cook. Probably college students, am I right?
I'm already incredibly annoyed when our inductive clicks off because of apparent overload, I can barely imagine the stupid train that must have followed. "hur dur, electric is slower than gas." not that slow you dumb fuck!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
electric is slower than gas.
Having learned to cook on a gas stove, the biggest gotcha for me is that you can't quickly reduce the heat from high to low on electric.
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Between the thick accents and the shit connection quality, I can't understand a word of what's being said in this meeting.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I really need to check the refrigerator β specifically, the produce drawer β (and to actually use the stuff I buy) before grocery shopping. I found no fewer than 5 purchases of broccoli in the refrigerator, and 2 untouched heads of lettuce. The 2 oldest broccoli are no longer edible (INB4 broccoli never was) and are now in the garbage, along with carrots whose use-by date was March, some ex-peaches that are now brown slime, and some rather shriveled kiwis. And a package of bacon dated February . No doubt I would find additional items to be disposed of if I did a more thorough cleaning.
Probably time blowback from the DDF. You may have never even purchased that broccoli yet.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
or you had nothing on subject for the class
Cooking is a form of chemistry
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
or you had nothing on subject for the class
Cooking is a form of chemistry
The lowest form of chemistry.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The 2 oldest broccoli are no longer edible
So, nothing of value was lo...
And a package of bacon
What?! How do you dare let bacon go bad?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
The lowest form of chemistry.
That would be your brain
Lowest and heaviest.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
The lowest form of chemistry.
That would be your brain
Pfft. The redox alone is groundbreaking.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
The lowest form of chemistry.
That would be your brain
Lowest and heaviest.
by the post you're replying to, as usual.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
electric is slower than gas.
Having learned to cook on a gas stove, the biggest gotcha for me is that you can't quickly reduce the heat from high to low on electric.
*removes pot from stove*
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Status: The stellar news just keeps rolling in.
I had let my dad keep my spare car over at his house this year. He decided it was acceptable to not only rear-end a truck at a light in town and break the grille but to not tell me until I noticed it months later. So now I have an old car that's already hard to find parts for that I've lost several months on while that clock is ticking.
Any ideas on what I can do for a replacement if I can't find the OEM part? Are there garages that can fabricate a custom part from a sheet of grille patterning?
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Status: Windows, you're copying 100GB of data from one drive to another. Can you please not go to sleep just because I haven't moved the mouse for a few minutes?