The Official Status Thread
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
There's a Java Bug System? Good job, being systematic about it.
And they've only had 8 million so far.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Note: I'm NOT actually serious about this. Probably.
You should be serious. Polish names are a crime against phonetics.
You mean trying to read non english texts like they are english sounds weird? Uh, yeah, kind of not surprising.
But from the source perspective they are as 'phonetic' as you can get. Reading Polish when you know what sound each letter denotes is pretty easy. It's a very phonetic language in writing. It's probably the only easy and user friendly thing about it
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@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
.It's still better than
Silly Goose
!
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@Tsaukpaetra I thought the goose was untitled?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I thought the goose was untitled?
Localization fixed it.
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While on the subject of phonetics: only recently I've realized I've been mentally mispronouncing the word "awry". Not sorry, alright.
Edit: I missed the word "word".
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@Tsaukpaetra so what’s the localised version of the game called?
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@Arantor Kurwa.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
Reading Polish when you know what sound each letter denotes is pretty easy.
Don't agree. Though I really how the polish bug chrząszcz is supposed to be pronounced, I cannot pronounce it correctly...
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
Reading Polish when you know what sound each letter denotes is pretty easy.
Don't agree. Though I really how the polish bug chrząszcz is supposed to be pronounced, I cannot pronounce it correctly...
That's just individual ability to do (very easy) sounds. Nothing to do with phoneticallity (not a word).
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@BernieTheBernie So, it's a shibboleth that distinguishes foreigners from natives?
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@MrL Well, couldn't you folks write it simply hšonšč, too?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL Well, couldn't you folks write it simply hšonšč, too?
We already have s and c with squiggles and they are for different sounds. Nobody wants to repeat the ż ź debacle.
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@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@MrL Well, couldn't you folks write it simply hšonšč, too?
We already have s and c with squiggles and they are for different sounds. Nobody wants to repeat the ż ź debacle.
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Status: I'm filling a form which has separate "legal first name" and "preferred first name" fields. I'm so tempted to write Maciej and Maciek respectively as an inside joke nobody will understand.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie So, it's a shibboleth that distinguishes foreigners from natives?
Ah, that's your new terminology for SSO, is it? I look forward to establishing relaying party trust with your shibboleth.
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Today during shopping:
Oh, lightbulbs. Do we need any lightbulbs?
Nah, all lights are working.A few hours later, the living room light is out.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Everyone who wants to make a joke about having a lightbulb moment, kindly please fuck off.
You forgot the
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Everyone who wants to make a joke about having a lightbulb moment, kindly please fuck off.
You forgot the
The bulb isn't screwed in, but it's alight nonetheless. Uncle Fester!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Everyone who wants to make a joke about having a lightbulb moment, kindly please fuck off.
You forgot the
The bulb isn't screwed in, but it's alight nonetheless. Uncle Fester!
I've got one of those. It contains a battery and a butch of LEDs.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
a butch of LEDs
I didn't know LEDs had sexual preferences.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
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"?
On today's episode of @Zecc's exploding breakfast: the blueberry food container with a tight vacuum.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie So, it's a shibboleth that distinguishes foreigners from natives?
Ah, that's your new terminology for SSO, is it? I look forward to establishing relaying party trust with your shibboleth.
Shibboleth being the name of a reasonably popular federated identity solution this may well be the case.
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Found myself in a meeting about a new website / web app to be developed. The meeting consisted of my co-supervisor, their student, and me. Neither person has any relation to professional software development. Not only I was arguing against software architecture considerations ("I don't care whether it'll run Go or Django, let's just decide how this thing should behave"), I also ended up speaking in user stories. What has become of me? I don't even like web development!
Left the meeting with a nagging suspicion that the whole thing could be replaced with a couple MediaWiki plug-ins that I don't have time to verify. Also, someone is already invested in their architecture.
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@aitap said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, someone is already invested in their architecture.
Not a good sign, especially from non-technical folks.
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Status: Trying to re-grok PayPal API documentation to bring the app up to the V2 spec.
Trying to figure out if I should care about things like:
The server stores keys for 6 hours. The API callers can request the times to up to 72 hours by speaking to their Account Manager
Request the times? Speaking to someone IRL? WTF?!
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@Tsaukpaetra Needful doer hands typed that documentation. It sounds like you can get the time changed from the default of 6 hours to up to 72 hours if you call support. Good luck reaching a person at PayPal though. It's not impossible like with Google but it's not easy either.
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Status: Finally figured out why my start menu was disappearing almost instantly except when I used the keyboard key to open it.
Turns out it was the hyper-sensitive "Widgets" thing next to it that was responding to mouseover. Even a pixel outside the start button was enough to trigger it, like trying to go diagonal from the start button to the power button. I thought we left that behind back with the cascading menu version of the Start menu?
Promptly turned it off entirely.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Not a good sign, especially from non-technical folks.
I'm trying not to be dismissive of the student. My first dynamic website was a failure in everything except teaching me how web stuff works. Maybe it's inconvenient or it'll result in performance problems if we enter 10000 Semantic MediaWiki data points to display in Maps for MediaWiki. (So if we go with a custom solution, we can at least make it more convenient to enter data.) Maybe if I'm there to steer things, learning will occur without the failure part.
Academia could be enabling abuse like this, but at least this time, it's between consenting (no, enthusiastic!) adults, and the student gets paid.
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Today should be Trumpet Day too.
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@aitap said in The Official Status Thread:
Left the meeting with a nagging suspicion that the whole thing could be replaced with a couple MediaWiki plug-ins that I don't have time to verify. Also, someone is already invested in their architecture.
So you're firmly setup for failure. Business as usual.
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Trying to blag a refund out of Ryanair and Standsted express after Friday's nonsense. Ryanair was a very emphatic no. To be fair they did put on a bus which legally means they got people there. I don't have the heart to try the five-hour delay stuff. If the Stansted express stuff works out I might have only paid for half the trains I've taken this year.
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Status: Perusing https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/ and found this:
Image
.... I'm a bit turned on and I don't know why.
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@Tsaukpaetra No.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra No.
Status: turning off. Do not update your computer...
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status Guess it's going to be a quiet day. Slack's down...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Some customers are unable to load Slack.
Guess you're not part of the "some"
Such quiet. And no meeting scheduled until 3p. Life is good.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Slack's down.
Whatever it is appears to be not causing problem for people who are already connected to the only channels they care about. (Also, they're bridged to IRC so I've got an easy fallback.)
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Good luck reaching a person at PayPal though. It's not impossible like with Google but it's not easy either.
Reaching someone isn't the problem. The person you reach is.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/24029/paypal-and-the-aye-eighteen-anne/
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@Gąska well frankly you're asking for it, walking around with a name like that.
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Dear Visual Studio, please stop auto-incorrecting all the formatting in the entire file, as well as moving around my viewport, every single time I enter a new line.
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Status: Glad I got my food before this knucklehead clocked in.
- Face diaper in chin strap position (and the restaurant doesn’t require staff to mask - the other two employees are maskless)
- Pulling his pants up with his gloved hands and then scratching his armpit while waiting for the customer to tell him what sub they want
- Didn’t even contemplate regloving
Hooray for the high school staff.
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Status: TIL there's a Cuphead Show.
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2022-02-22T22:00
As with all weird dates, it's been a horrible day for me all around. Nothing specific to talk about, just a hundred little annoyances. And to top it off, I forgot my meds.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: TIL there's a Cuphead Show.
Seems to be a new craze of utterly shit ideas to see what will bomb harder. Disco Elysium, Cyberpunk, Fallout, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Tomb Raider, Ass Creed, Division, Far Cry, even the old Splinter Cell all are getting shows this or next year.
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arrived a few minutes late at work ...
First action: open the team chat to say good morning to non-present people, shitpost a cat meme as a reply to the ongoing conversation, actually say good morning
Second action: go to tdwtf to brag about the shitposting lord you are
Third action: vaguely wave away the collague who's been nagging since you came online about some urgent thingy ... maybe a second cat gif is in order
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@Luhmann
After 5 minutes of productivity give up and go in search of coffee