The Official Status Thread
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Who the Shit thought that was a good idea?!?
A design team which carefully observed usage patterns and tendencies collected using telemetry, to figure out the best way to display two fucking numbers on screen. For the 10th fucking time. Don't you worry. The next release will be even more innovated.
On the other hand, they may surprise us and include an analog one.
How to confuse Americans:
Looks like time to post a meme. You’ve just triggered @boomzilla
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: 700 page hardcovers are kind of awkward to hold while lying down to read.
And this is why I love my Kindle. I've gotten over missing the book-smell.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Updated my phone to Android
12L12.1. No more giant lock screen clock! It probably changed some other stuff too.status Still stuck on 8.0.0. And I will be until I buy a new phone. Which will be when my S7 breaks.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
On the other hand, they may surprise us and include an analog one.
They might even double-surprise us and let us pick which one we want. ()
Oh come on. You know that they know better. Choice is not an option!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
How to confuse Americans:
If you can read this, you qualify to join our club!
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If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.
Status: could not find good meme image.
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@dcon nothing quite replaces the flavor, but the convenience is even worth not having it to eat after reading.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.
This sounds like a sexual metaphor and I'm not sure what "chocolate" stands for, so I will cautiously skip the invitation this time.
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@Zecc in this case it’s a small bar of biscuit covered in chocolate, called a Club bar, and many people from the UK will no doubt have heard the jingle that I still can’t get out of my head after hearing it in the 1980s.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.
I do, but alas I can't participate unless the biscuit is made of rice/corn/sorghum/buckwheat/almond or other such gluten-free flour.
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@Arantor for anyone curious
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Who the Shit thought that was a good idea?!?
A design team which carefully observed usage patterns and tendencies collected using telemetry, to figure out the best way to display two fucking numbers on screen. For the 10th fucking time. Don't you worry. The next release will be even more innovated.
On the other hand, they may surprise us and include an analog one.
How to confuse Americans:
Better:
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
heard the jingle that I still can’t get out of my head after hearing it in the 1980s.
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
for anyone curious
Oh, no you don't! Nope. Not clicking Play!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
heard the jingle that I still can’t get out of my head after hearing it in the 1980s.
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
for anyone curious
Oh, no you don't! Nope. Not clicking Play!
Yeah but there's always someone who can't resist the temptation.
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@loopback0 We already know it's an earworm of epic magnitude:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
the jingle that I still can’t get out of my head after hearing it in the 1980s.
Nope! Not going there.
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Yep, that definitely looks like an advert, but I'm not quite sure it's from 1985.
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@loopback0 I wonder if YouTube's algorithm believes people looking for ads want to see more ads.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 I wonder if YouTube's algorithm believes people looking for ads want to see more ads.
Youtube's algorithm believes everybody wants to see more ads.
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This is also too funny, some folks I hang out on Discord with had a rather spirited conversation yesterday about how amazeballs YouTube's 'algorithm' is and how amazing AI in general is.
Let's just say the conversation had a bit of a car-crash with reality when I joined in.
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@Polygeekery is the face of downvotes now. First he tries to steal my place as the resident alcoholic. Now this. What's that fucking do gooder done to get the privilege.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery is the face of downvotes now. First he tries to steal my place as the resident alcoholic. Now this. What's that fucking do gooder done to get the privilege.
Keep going and @boomzilla might make you the face of upvotes
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You could always make me the face of downvotes since Gribnit seems to think I have it in for him. (Him? I apologise if I have mistaken gender.)
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Gribnit ... (Him? I apologise if I have mistaken gender.)
It.
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@HardwareGeek Well that would make sense. It would be difficult to pronounce Gribnhim or Gribnher correctly, though I'm given to understand in Gallic this might be possible.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
This is also too funny, some folks I hang out on Discord with had a rather spirited conversation yesterday about how amazeballs YouTube's 'algorithm' is and how amazing AI in general is.
Let's just say the conversation had a bit of a car-crash with reality when I joined in.
My recommendations for music inevitably end in endless repeats of the same 3 trance songs. No matter the starting point.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery is the face of downvotes now. First he tries to steal my place as the resident alcoholic. Now this. What's that fucking do gooder done to get the privilege.
Keep going and @boomzilla might make you the face of upvotes
Damn. Twice in one day. What the hell.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery is the face of downvotes now. First he tries to steal my place as the resident alcoholic. Now this. What's that fucking do gooder done to get the privilege.
What did I do now? You guys always do this and leave me to figure out the context on my own.
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@Polygeekery For some reason, possibly @boomzilla related, our anonymous downvote user avatar now changes from time to time
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@hungrier I just now figured that out. I approve 100% and hope that it stays that way for a while. I like the change.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
First he tries to steal my place as the resident alcoholic.
You're Irish, do better. You're slacking. This should be an easy win for you.
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@Polygeekery apparently this also means your picture will appear next to some of Gribnit's content as someone seems to occasionally love-bomb them with
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery For some reason, possibly @boomzilla related, our anonymous downvote user avatar now changes from time to time
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery For some reason, possibly @boomzilla related, our anonymous downvote user avatar now changes from time to time
It's admin-configurable rather than hard coded now.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Does the little ball at least go under the date text?
I didn't know, so I set one up on my phone. The dot is the second hand and the date stays opposite of it. Bleh.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Updated my phone to Android
12L12.1. No more giant lock screen clock! It probably changed some other stuff too.status Still stuck on 8.0.0. And I will be until I buy a new phone. Which will be when my S7 breaks.
IIRC, this is my last update (Pixel 3a). Hopefully I'll get a few more years out of it.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery For some reason, possibly @boomzilla related, our anonymous downvote user avatar now changes from time to time
It's admin-configurable rather than hard coded now.
It should really be user id 4
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Status: I love getting a proto nosebleed in the car while driving during rush hour.
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Status: having this many doubled letters needs to be a crime against humanity.
(inb4 BOGGLE is )
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@kazitor This reminded me:
All that green and nothing to show for it.
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The problem with your first coffee is you haven't had coffee yet.
Status: quick enough to react and put a cup under the spout after I absentmindedly pressed the button
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STATUS spent twenty minutes writing and testing code to remove duplicates from a list based on db id. Then I realised the interface for the method uses Collection so I could use a Set. Delete the code and use a set. Feeling good about myself. The only real joy I get from my job is deleting code.
ClassCastException. Someone casts a collection to a list. Upon inspection of the set it contains duplicates. Hashcode and Equals aren't overridden. Back to the original solution after faffing about for 40 minutes with this shit.
This would be a lot simpler if I was allowed to tweak sql queries.
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@hungrier
went for a reply meme ... found another one
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It.
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Status: It's only Wednesday...
- $4.46 per gallon sucks.
- My GM Mastercard got sold to Goldman Sachs. As if that isn't bad enough, they'd made it really difficult to pay my bill. Their phone service is hard of hearing and wants a ton of information Capital One already had. They want you to go online, but you can't sign up without agreeing to e-statements. Oh, they say you can back out, after you mail a letter and wait "a reasonable time" for it to take effect. Yeah, I know how that game works. They've also been dragging their asses on sending me my new card, which I'd really like since the chip on my old card stopped working months ago (and most software seems too stupid to do the swipe fallback anymore).
- AT&T stores have some really lousy hours.
- And some really dumb help. I sat there and ordered a Samsung XCover FieldPro with the salesperson. We talked about the physical buttons and replaceable battery. Then I get home and find they've billed me for an Samsung XCover Pro instead.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
$4.46 per gallon sucks.
I paid $8.60 yesterday. It's $9.60 elsewhere.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
$4.46 per gallon sucks.
If that makes you feel better, the current cost here is about the equivalent of $8.30 per gallon.