The Official Status Thread
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Dealing with OPC tires me out. Even when that other person is me, just the me of several months ago.
When you don't understand someone else's code, you always wonder "is this code , or am I ?"
When it's your own code, at least you don't have that problem.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Dealing with OPC tires me out. Even when that other person is me, just the me of several months ago.
When you don't understand someone else's code, you always wonder "is this code , or am I ?"
When it's your own code, at least you don't have that problem.
Because the answer is always "yes"?
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...yes.
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fuck you WordPress. Fuck you and your wp_redirect function for not actually doing a redirect immediately on requesting one.
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Since I've turned the night light/blue light reduction function off of my laptop I'm getting less eye strain. I suppose you win again @Gąska. You and your fucking awkward a.
*edit my god. a donkey for a middle mouse button on a laptop trackpad.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
a donkey for a middle mouse button on a laptop trackpad
When I absolutely need a middle button, I plug in a mouse. Most apps that run on a Mac don't need that.
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Meanwhile, something funky's going on with my touchpad.
Sometimes it gets into this state where the cursor starts spazzing around as I try to make precise movements, skipping big parts of the screen, also occasionally clicking when I don't want it too. It's like its sensitivity goes through the roof.
Plugged in a mouse, and plugged it out again; now the touchpad works fine. Seems like a driver issue rather than hardware.
But it's getting worse recently.
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I just bought a sandwich. The cost came off my euro balance in revolut. Once the currency conversion had taken place the price of the sandwich was 6.66.
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Status: Starting work early on my last day this year. Ugh. I think today is going to be more "hardly working" than "working hard". The other dev and the product owner are already on holiday; the QA person is on her second-to-last day with the company (the last being the monday after the new year, and I'm doing analytics. For the (shared) part of the project that I'm least familiar with and is the most crufty.
Oh, and Apples auto-carrot is the most demanding thing I've seen. If I don't mind if you suggest changes in Numbers. JUST DON'T CHANGE THINGS UNTIL I SAY SO. This is not a phone. And if you do change things on hitting space, at least have the grace to not automatically change that word again when I backspace, change it back to how I wanted it, then hit space again!
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STATUS Alright! Two Jamies and I'll do the training and then spend the rest of the afternoon figuring out how to get my new fire cube to read video from a USB stick and play iptv shite.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Sometimes it gets into this state where the cursor starts spazzing around as I try to make precise movements, skipping big parts of the screen, also occasionally clicking when I don't want it too. It's like its sensitivity goes through the roof.
Yeah, probable degradation of the sensor lines. Not much you can do about that but replace the pad (if that's possible). Or maybe bad ground?
Not sure why plugging in an external mouse would "fix" it though...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
changes in Numbers.
I think that should go in the WTF Bites thread.
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Status: Gribnit appears to have returned ( ?)
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Gribnit appears to have returned ( ?)
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Gribnit appears to have returned ( ?)
We'll have to batch buy posts by the hundred thousand instead of ten thousand now. At least threads are free.
As for training. I ticked all three answers instead of all of the above. That was wrong. The second time round I clicked all of the above and it was correct. That's some bullshit.
@Tsaukpaetra I don't know why but it's a bit mesmerising.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Last day (for this year) of work tomorrow. Maybe I just... won't.
I've got another week (They're encouraging us to take vacation - but I'm not burning vacation days for stay-at-home. No corp shutdown.). On the plus side, today is a 1/2 day before a long weekend. And for New Years, we get both Fri and Mon off.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
When I absolutely need a middle button, I plug in a mouse. Most apps that run on a Mac don't need that.
And those apps probably all originated on Windows.
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Status: Microsoft is really frustrating me. I'm trying to sign up for these certification courses and it's doing that retarded confirmation code business. The code expires in 20 minutes and it's taking an hour for the automated system to e-mail them to me. Needless to say, I'm still not signed up, because I'm waiting for the last one I requested hours ago before I figured out it was slow instead of broken.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Sometimes it gets into this state where the cursor starts spazzing around as I try to make precise movements, skipping big parts of the screen, also occasionally clicking when I don't want it too. It's like its sensitivity goes through the roof.
Yeah, probable degradation of the sensor lines. Not much you can do about that but replace the pad (if that's possible). Or maybe bad ground?
Another possibility is a glitch in the communication between the touchpad and the motherboard. Some of them are connected using legacy buses and use packet-based protocols that are not self-synchronizing, which means that a single corrupted/missed byte can cause those symptoms.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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Since I've turned the night light/blue light reduction function off of my laptop I'm getting less eye strain. I suppose you win again @Gąska. You and your fucking awkward a.
Good for you, I guess, although I'm not sure what it has to do with me.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
although I'm not sure what it has to do with me.
It was nearly midday in Ireland, he was probably just drunk.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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Since I've turned the night light/blue light reduction function off of my laptop I'm getting less eye strain. I suppose you win again @Gąska. You and your fucking awkward a.
Good for you, I guess, although I'm not sure what it has to do with me.
You complained that blue light reduction is bullshit, would be my guess.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
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Since I've turned the night light/blue light reduction function off of my laptop I'm getting less eye strain. I suppose you win again @Gąska. You and your fucking awkward a.
Good for you, I guess, although I'm not sure what it has to do with me.
You complained that blue light reduction is bullshit, would be my guess.
Ding ding ding! More of a poke at a snowflake â though.
Just learned that one of my favourite songs is a cover. The last decade makes less sense now.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Meanwhile, something funky's going on with my touchpad.
Sometimes this seems to be triggered by a fiber from clothing falling on the touchpad, and goes away if I remove it.
But not always.
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Yes, Windows. That's exactly what I meant
To clarify, this was the only match.
Cancelling and opening it again fixed it, at least.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
When I absolutely need a middle button, I plug in a mouse. Most apps that run on a Mac don't need that.
And those apps probably all originated on Windows.
So far, no; they originated on some very old Unix.
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Status: some assholes are shooting motherfucking fireworks at midnight! What the hell!!!!
Bitch is beside herself (as usual). I'm supposed to be sleeping gorrammit!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: some assholes are shooting motherfucking fireworks at midnight! What the hell!!!!
Bitch is beside herself (as usual). I'm supposed to be sleeping gorrammit!
Steady on, there. New Year isn't for a week.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: some assholes are shooting motherfucking fireworks at midnight! What the hell!!!!
Bitch is beside herself (as usual). I'm supposed to be sleeping gorrammit!
Steady on, there. New Year isn't for a week.
Right?!??!!?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: some assholes are shooting motherfucking fireworks at midnight! What the hell!!!!
Maybe they're anti-orthodox and their calendar is a week early?
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status the fire alarm is going off. We have turned off the fire alarm. My mother is surprised there was a battery in it.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status the fire alarm is going off. We have turned off the fire alarm. My mother is surprised there was a battery in it.
The real surprise is that you were thinking enough on Christmas to set off the smoke detector
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
the fire alarm is going off. We have turned off the fire alarm.
You're at home. You don't have to follow work procedures.
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Status: Ah, yes, that's the nominal max transfer rate of this hard drive.
I'm thinking we should retire this camera. It's a Sony HandyCam DCR-SR42 (Outputting 720x480 video) so.... perhaps it's just.... time?
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@Tsaukpaetra seems a bit quick for your usual level of hardware.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra seems a bit quick for your usual level of hardware.
It is newer than most of the laptops I have... By a few years anyways.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra seems a bit quick for your usual level of hardware.
It is newer than most of the laptops I have... By a few years anyways.
So you'd consider retiring this camera but not those?
If your only beef with that camera is that it'll only transfer data at 19MB/sec (which isn't particularly slow) then leave it be.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
So you'd consider retiring this camera but not those?
They are retired. And nobody wants to take them off my hands!
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
If your only beef with that camera is that it'll only transfer data at 19MB/sec (which isn't particularly slow) then leave it be.
My other beef is that it's basically 480p quality max, and it's glaringly obvious when I put it up on the 4K tv...
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Status: Tired and hot. Wearing a red sweater, because it's about the only thing I have that's quasi-Christmasy and festive. But it's much too hot for standing in front of a 400° oven.
Side dish is done; just waiting for a few more degrees of doneness of the turkey. Details in the cooking thread, eventually.
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@HardwareGeek Also, my son was helping me prepare dinner, but he failed his constitution check versus onion.
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My family had a little get together yesterday for a reason or another. I made this cake:
Did it look great? No, but was it super delicious? Also no.
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Status: Guess who left Debug mode enabled on their production server, letting me know that apparently a password to a particular database for a particular user is no longer working...
Hey at least it's not a Log4J2 issue, right? That's gotta count for points...
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status didn't die in a blizzard. Or crash. And the car didn't break. Yay. 15 hours of driving solo in one day, working from about 4 hours of sleep, no caffeine, and very little real food other than snacks... I'm beat.
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You seem to be tempting fate a lot lately... that's not really a good thing.
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If 10-year-old me could see me now.
He'd all be like "all these years and you still suck this much at playing this?"
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
If 10-year-old me could see me now.
He'd all be like "all these years and you still suck this much at playing this?"
My record is 19 minutes.
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@MrL Before giving up?
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
you still suck this much at playing this?"
I don't even know the controls. Got the dude killed because could not jump.
Oh well.