The Official Status Thread
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Polish
names areis a crime against phonetics.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Realizing I can now reasonably schedule a date to ritually incinerate my facemask.
Conflagrations.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, that. It's in the post just above mine:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:you can respect someone senior and still take the piss out of them
Best I can come up with on short notice was the time someone incredulously asked me:
"Do you know who you're talking to? I've been doing this since before you were born."
In such situations there are plenty of ways to respond but nothing will shut someone down faster than:
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Status: Irritated I can't say "'d by .... over in " anywhere outside wtdwtf. Such a useful idiom...
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@HannibalRex said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Irritated I can't say "'d by .... over in " anywhere outside wtdwtf. Such a useful idiom...
Well you can get the easy enough, for most of the emoji:
↕👆⬇✴↗🔁⛔🔚🚎
🥷And if you can specify custom emoji (like in Slack) the image is also fairly easy to get.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And if you can specify custom emoji (like in Slack) the image is also fairly easy to get.
But no-one outside of here is going to know what he means
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And if you can specify custom emoji (like in Slack) the image is also fairly easy to get.
But no-one outside of here is going to know what he means
Communication
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
But no-one outside of here is going to know what he means
Just add the appropriate disclaimer.
@kazitor said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...:
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@Tsaukpaetra true indeed, but people wouldn't have a clue what I meant, they'd probably think I was having a stroke or something
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
But no-one outside of here is going to know what he means
Just add the appropriate disclaimer.
@kazitor said in ⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...:
I don't even type the full thing. If I misspell the first letters and don't see the emoji I want, I just pick a random emoji off the list.
STATUS I need a holiday. The kind of holiday where I go alone to a cottage in the middle of nowhere with a stack of books, a 3ds and no phone. I'll finally catch up on my reading and get through the Metroid series.
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@HannibalRex said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra true indeed, but people wouldn't have a clue what I meant, they'd probably think I was having a stroke or something
On the flip side, if they knew about this place they'd rather be worried about your mental health instead of your physical health.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Adding "Majiec" to the big list of ways in which my name can be misspelled.
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@HannibalRex said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra true indeed, but people wouldn't have a clue what I meant, they'd probably think I was having a stroke or something
There's nothing wrong with having a stroke in public, as long as you do it discreetly
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And if you can specify custom emoji (like in Slack) the image is also fairly easy to get.
Just yesterday I was mildly surprised that our slack doesn't have
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
3ds [...] and get through the Metroid series
Better bring a Switch too
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Status: Second day of feeling crappy in a row, after feeling low-energy most of the week. And today I can't even blame it on not having slept ok like I could yesterday.
Yeah. Definitely calling in sick today.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@HannibalRex said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra true indeed, but people wouldn't have a clue what I meant, they'd probably think I was having a stroke or something
There's nothing wrong with having a stroke in public, as long as you do it discreetly
Indeed. At the first smell of toast, casually and without fuss remove your monocle, as step 1. Tardive dyskinesia may otherwise cause its loss. Once secured against this catastrophe, quietly mention to your companion or manservant (as the case may be) that a stroke impends. Excuse yourself to an appropriate fainting couch, vapor settee, or fit-tossin' closet, and masturbate furiously to maintain cerebral blood flow.
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Status: I'm beginning to hate gamers. Aside from wine-guzzling suburban soccer moms there's no demographic more gullible in the entire lifespan of human history. And the contest is ongoing at this stage.
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@Benjamin-Hall too tired and out of it to do anything. Not tired enough to sleep. Bleh.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall too tired and out of it to do anything. Not tired enough to sleep. Bleh.
Need to pull up or down, high or ground. Floating is dangerous!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall too tired and out of it to do anything. Not tired enough to sleep. Bleh.
Need to pull up or down, high or ground. Floating is dangerous!
Especially when fighting a large mechanical (magitech) dragon thing that once was a person and now keeps ranting that the Empire is a cancer and he's the barber's blade. </FFXIV reference>
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@Benjamin-Hall Maybe I didn't pay as much attention previously or maybe you're sharing more of your troubles now, but it really feels to me like changing over to software devloper has not been a fulfulling career development for you
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe I didn't pay as much attention previously or maybe you're sharing more of your troubles now, but it really feels to me like changing over to software devloper has not been a fulfulling career development for you
Mostly more open and giving fewer about what people think. Plus deciding that I have sick leave for a reason and actually using it instead of just working through and being miserable.
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@Benjamin-Hall Well, okay. Then I'm glad to have thought wrong about it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall too tired and out of it to do anything. Not tired enough to sleep. Bleh.
Need to pull up or down, high or ground. Floating is dangerous!
Floating is a handy antenna / RNG / accumulator tho.
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Status: Asics running shoes are a little too efficient at wicking moisture the wrong way (outside to inside).
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Status: Hoo boy am I pissed off about Verizon today.
So, because of their situation, my folks phone lines are on my account. They've been fine with old dumb phones they have, except now Verizon is terminating the network those phones work on by the end of the year.
Well, better to get a head start on something instead of let it sit, I figure I'll just get them new phones (my coworker recommended just getting them iPhones since it would be easier) and upgrade my plan.
Two days ago: Updating my plan wasn't a big deal, I did that on Tuesday. Then, when I wanted to order the phones, I couldn't, because I had a plan change pending. OK, wait until today, when my billing cycle flips over and, according to them, the new plan is in effect.
This morning: I check my account. Uh, I guess I didn't change my plan, because it was still the old one. Then why couldn't I order the phones when I did? Whatever, redo the phone plan change, it actually goes through.
Figure my folks, who don't need latest and greatest on that, would be fine with Verizon's "certified pre-owned" iPhones, so I try to order an iPhone 12 mini for my mom and iPhone 12 for my dad, both in "great" condition. Go all the way through, kinda a pain because of how many page jumps I have to go through, but I get the order done. A little bit later, though, I get the confirmation email, and it says my order is for two iPhone 12 minis in "good" condition.
Uh, , I go to the order page and look everywhere I can. No cancel option. OK, there's a chatbot thing, try that. Immediately get an "agent" who asks the info, I give the order number and "location number" and they go "OK, I see the order, can you cancel it in the app"?
OK, I'll try the app. No, it's basically the same as on my desktop, it just lists the order details. Back to the "agent", they tell me to call a specific Verizon line. I do so, get through basically immediately, get on the phone with a lady who asks my details. Go through the call, and in the end, I find out that she can't cancel the order, but will put in a ticket for it to be cancelled and it should take like 3-5 days. But, that hopefully frees up the thing, right?
Nope. Can't place a new order because of an existing order. So, back to the "agent" and I say "hey, I called that number, they said they put in a ticket but couldn't cancel the order" and they give me another Verizon line to call. So I try it, get a little wait, then to a person, who has to forward me to another department. Get on the line with that lady and repeat my issues.
This lady puts me on hold, back on to let me know she's working on it, on hold, back on to say a new ticket is going in because even they can't cancel the order, I tell them "there's already a ticket" and I'm back on hold, back off and "OK, they see the ticket" and they'll see about expediting it and that she'll help me try to get the actual order going. I tell her specifically what I want for the order, she relays it, then sends me a text for a link to finish the order. I visit the link and everything looks right, so I continue to payment and tell it to split the payment on my bill and on a Privacy.com card.
At that point, it's reconfirmed that the ticket will cancel the order (now 5-7 days) and all that jazz, and the new order should be set up and I should get a notification and shipping for it when it does. Check Privacy.com and... not been charged. OK, maybe they don't fully charge until it ships. Look for the new order on my Verizon account and it's not there. Maybe something to do with the weird route, whatever, as long as it's all fine.
About a half hour ago: I got a shipping notification. Great! It's for the original order. Also, I decided to check my "estimated bill" and... the two lines for my parents will be getting double charged for "smart phone line access", so my regular monthly bill is nearly doubled.
So, because I'm kinda busy at work for the afternoon, I call the line back, try to fumble through their automated assistant, and set up a callback from 5:30pm to 6pm tonight. I at least made sure to grab the details for the second order before this call, so I have that for reference.
Whoever ends up calling me, well, I'll try to be nice, but they're gonna be on the line with someone pretty pissed off.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm beginning to hate gamers. Aside from wine-guzzling suburban soccer moms there's no demographic more gullible in the entire lifespan of human history. And the contest is ongoing at this stage.
Audiophiles.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm beginning to hate gamers. Aside from wine-guzzling suburban soccer moms there's no demographic more gullible in the entire lifespan of human history. And the contest is ongoing at this stage.
Audiophiles.
... Martial-arts students.
but do you know... Deadly Whistle?
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
Verizon's "certified pre-owned" iPhones
As in, they make sure someone else owned them previously?
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I'm beginning to hate gamers. Aside from wine-guzzling suburban soccer moms there's no demographic more gullible in the entire lifespan of human history. And the contest is ongoing at this stage.
Audiophiles.
I’ll just throw crystals, magnets, and homeopathy into the mix.
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@topspin I considered that, but then I realized that's just soccer moms.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
they make sure someone else owned them previously?
Considering the price difference, I'm pretty sure they don't want to mix new phones in there.
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
Whoever ends up calling me, well, I'll try to be nice, but they're gonna be on the line with someone pretty pissed off.
Surprisingly, not being at work mellowed me out a lot. The callback went pretty well, though the person couldn't find the second order at first (even suggesting the order number wasn't one of theirs, despite being the same format).
@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
the two lines for my parents will be getting double charged for "smart phone line access"
This was apparently due to the two orders, so their system thinks each of those lines has two smartphones. Once the original order cancels and refunds, the second "smart phone line access" items are supposed to just fall off.
@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
Check Privacy.com and... not been charged
This is apparently because the second order hasn't actually shipped yet. The first order I paid with PayPal, which is probably why it got charged "immediately", but with the second being to a card, they're apparently holding off until they actually ship.
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@Polygeekery Can I be the first to suggest @Gąska go with something cool like Voltron? Just don't offer to show them your blazing sword.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I need a holiday. The kind of holiday where I go alone to a cottage in the middle of nowhere with a stack of books, a 3ds and no phone.
When I read that, at first I thought it was going to go in a different direction:
The kind of holiday where I go alone to a cottage in the middle of nowhere with a stack
of books, a 3ds and noburner phones, galvanized pipe, and some tins of smokeless powder.I blame it on
pain meds.
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@topspin I've been having a similarly strange experience with a work laptop. I can connect via wi-fi at home but not in the office. The only reasons I could speculate on were A) it's a distance problem (I have no idea where office routers are) or B) almost two years of telework made the computer fall off some approved devices list. Won't be my problem at the end of the month though.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare no kidding. Throughout my current job hunt adventure I'm pretty sure I've said "don't worry, everyone gets it wrong anyway" more times than "hi, how are you".
Have you considered changing your name?
Yes actually! Back in 2017 when I had serious trouble finding work and thought about hiding my ethnic origin.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Polish
names areis a crime against phonetics.At least our letters have consistent sounds!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I need a holiday. The kind of holiday where I go alone to a cottage in the middle of nowhere with a stack of books, a 3ds and no phone.
When I read that, at first I thought it was going to go in a different direction:
The kind of holiday where I go alone to a cottage in the middle of nowhere with a stack
of books, a 3ds and noburner phones, galvanized pipe, and some tins of smokeless powder.I blame it on
pain meds.To be fair, that sounds like a great holiday.
STATUS faintly amused. My mother got into memes over the pandemic. I've just realised that a good chunk of them involved hookers of some sort.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare no kidding. Throughout my current job hunt adventure I'm pretty sure I've said "don't worry, everyone gets it wrong anyway" more times than "hi, how are you".
Have you considered changing your name?
Yes actually! Back in 2017 when I had serious trouble finding work and thought about hiding my ethnic origin.
I am not sure if
Little Goose
is so much better thanGąska
.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I’ll just throw crystals, magnets, and homeopathy into the mix.
What would happen if you put multicoloured LEDs on a crystal?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery Can I be the first to suggest @Gąska go with something cool like Voltron? Just don't offer to show them your blazing sword.
Needs more magic!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I’ll just throw crystals, magnets, and homeopathy into the mix.
What would happen if you put multicoloured LEDs on a crystal?
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Taking some granola into a bowl before I put yogurt on top of it, I see a relatively big lump stuck together, so I briefly considered picking it up and squeezing it between two fingers.
I quickly dismissed this idea, as the grains were quite light and the most likely outcome would be that it would explode and spread everywhere, specially because at that point I had picked it out of the bowl to inspect it.
Have you ever had that experience of one part of your brain saying "nope, abort, abort" and another going "Leroooy Jeeeenkiiins"?
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My brain's been slow as of late, and I blame it on cooties19.
Not the disease itself, mind you — AFAIK I haven't caught it—, but on having doubled down on an already sedentary lifestyle.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Have you ever had that experience of one part of your brain saying "nope, abort, abort" and another going "Leroooy Jeeeenkiiins"?
Yes, and the latter part wins more often than it should (but thankfully less often than it used to).
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Status: Now that's unusual! I've just hit (and worked around) JDK-8215470.
Apparently, doing (simplified from the real code):
things.map(Outer.this::theMethod);
is a recipe for trouble, but:
Outer outer = Outer.this; things.map(outer::theMethod);
is fine. Oh, the former works syntactically in my IDE, but blows up during testing…
You don't see that sort of miscompilation fault very often, and I can't quite even get the error to happen consistently. Weird and
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There's a Java Bug System? Good job, being systematic about it.