The Official Status Thread
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He can't upvote them, so he bookmarks them.
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Well, that "dogging station" is not my invention. A contractor from Saxony coined that term. Saxonians are bad at differentiating voiced vs. non-voiced consonants, and often lack proper knowledge of English. What's a "dock"? But likely they now a "dog". And when a device is put in its station, that's like mating dogs, isn't it?
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, that "dogging station" is not my invention. A contractor from Saxony coined that term. Saxonians are bad at differentiating voiced vs. non-voiced consonants, and often lack proper knowledge of English. What's a "dock"? But likely they now a "dog". And when a device is put in its station, that's like mating dogs, isn't it?
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status xcode.
Xcode update, 7.8G. About 75% downloaded and my router reboots (oh, AT&T). Can Apple restart a download. Fuck no. Let's redownload all those GB again!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Why it couldn't display instead, I don't know, tabs maybe?
It's trying to tell you you're a tab-hoarding weirdo who should use Bookmarks instead.
One of us!
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status xcode.
Xcode update, 7.8G. About 75% downloaded and my router reboots (oh, AT&T). Can Apple restart a download. Fuck no. Let's redownload all those GB again!It could be worse. You could still have a monthly bandwidth usage limit.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status xcode.
Xcode update, 7.8G. About 75% downloaded and my router reboots (oh, AT&T). Can Apple restart a download. Fuck no. Let's redownload all those GB again!Yeah! The install finished on the same day I started it!
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Oh wait.
(starts xcode)
: "Install additional components?"
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@dcon The only additional components worth a damn are those you need for bootstrapping an alternate toolchain.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon The only additional components worth a damn are those you need for bootstrapping an alternate toolchain.
Unless you're doing native iOS development, in which case you're kinda stuck.
And remember kids, with xCode it always is worse. Yes, worse than that.
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Status: Tinnitus sucks.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Tinnitus sucks.
I determine my current processing speed based on it.
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Status: The beast of Verizon's making appears to be slain.
I set up a callback for today (and promptly forgot about it being for this morning until they called me). On the phone with the rep, I give them the ticket number and re-explain the issue. Apparently, the ticket hadn't been worked at all. But this rep was able to give me more details about this mystery order and finish it.
So, the mystery order apparently "failed successfully" in that since it was set to split to my bill and a credit card, when the attempt to charge the card failed (which is interesting, because Privacy didn't even mark that a charge was attempted), the order should've been cancelled, but somehow it also failed to back out the part where it billed to my account, so I guess it threw up its hands and told me the order was placed successfully with an order number. The lack of emails or the order showing on my account were, apparently, the hint that the order failed, but it being on my bill was an error. Well, I already paid it, so the "refund" is just them crediting it to my account so my bills will go against that instead of my bank for awhile.
Now, the only worry left is getting new nano-SIMs for these new phones. I couldn't order them myself (due to a "pending/in-progress account change" which was either the unworked ticket or them fixing the spelling of my name, who knows), so I asked that rep to, and she did, so now I'm waiting on them to get my folks on new phones and hopefully stop getting letters and emails that the 3G network their current phones use is going away at the end of the year.
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Status: managed to beat Starcraft and Brood War for the first time in my life.
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@homoBalkanus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: managed to beat Starcraft and Brood War for the first time in my life.
I stripped out the campaign so it would fit on a zip disk, so never got the chance to.
Was it fun?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I stripped out the campaign so it would fit on a zip disk
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Using ZIP disks in 2022 isn't normal. But for @Tsaukpaetra, it is.
Tsaukpaetra. Not even once.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I stripped out the campaign so it would fit on a zip disk
Reduced it to 60mb if memory serves. Taking out the sounds and animations made it even smaller. 💆
Good times.
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I bought Starcraft back in the day, but people also kept giving me burned copies for some reason. Then, at some point Battlenet let you redeem your serial number for an online copy, and I had lost my original one, but luckily for me one of the burned copies had a valid key
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KVM Status: I got the KVM, and it works nicely except for one thing: Whenever it doesn't have a video signal coming in, it completely cuts off the signal from the monitor, as if the cable is disconnected. Before, the monitor would just sit there in standby mode until it got a signal and woke up, but now it shows a "Check your connection" graphic for a few seconds, then does a countdown and turns itself off. The next time I want to use it I have to manually turn it back on.
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Unrelated status: I added my most recent gas receipts to my spreadsheet and made this chart:
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
as if the cable is disconnected
Booo, that's a solved problem, Name and shame so I blacklist it!
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@Tsaukpaetra
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B099K2LJB8Aside from the monitor issue, I quite like it. As soon as I hooked it up, everything Just Worked™, and the remote is a nice feature. I can put the device itself wherever, out of the way, and use this button to control it:
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@Tsaukpaetra It says ******, HTH
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@homoBalkanus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: managed to beat Starcraft and Brood War for the first time in my life.
I stripped out the campaign so it would fit on a zip disk, so never got the chance to.
Was it fun?
It was. Took me several months since I don't get much free time with small kids. Next up : Warcraft 3. I'll reach this decade at some point.
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@homoBalkanus said in The Official Status Thread:
Next up : Warcraft 3. I'll reach this decade at some point.
Just in time to be chasing the 2040s!
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@Tsaukpaetra 0111 1100 0101 0011 0000 0001 1000 1112 ?
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Status Numbers (the program) sucks. Seriously. It tries to be helpful, but ends up just being Clippy.
Secondary status: Anyone ever seen those fancy timelines/charts with branching bars all coming out of a main flow and merging back in (or not)? Anyone have any idea how those are made? Is there some software package that helps with that? Or are they hand-drawn? Because I'd really like to make a few to visualize some things for my D&D setting, and can't find any reasonable tools. And I quail at the thought of doing it myself.
Edit: something like but on a different topic.
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@Benjamin-Hall easiest is probably a semitransparent background centered on an <li> but much larger than it. That way I don't have to try to explain the arithmetic or the traversal (tree or skip-list)...
H'mm, the merging back in part... well, largely the same again, but in Hebrew.
Also, no Help requests in Status threads.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone ever seen those fancy timelines/charts with branching bars all coming out of a main flow and merging back in (or not)?
You mean like a Gantt chart?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone ever seen those fancy timelines/charts with branching bars all coming out of a main flow and merging back in (or not)?
You mean like a Gantt chart?
No, because Gantt charts don't have the interesting part, which is the second half of the example. With lines splitting and rejoining. The stacked bars is boring and can be easily done. It's the second part I'm interested in.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
With lines splitting and rejoining.
You just haven't paid enough.
Status: Shit, now Google is showing me ads for Gantt software.
I knew I should have done the search in Incognito...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I'd really like to make a few to visualize some things for my D&D setting, and can't find any reasonable tools.
Introduce your players to Git
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I'd really like to make a few to visualize some things for my D&D setting, and can't find any reasonable tools.
Introduce your players to Git
I concur with @HardwareGeek's take on the matter.
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Status: Businesses do go senile.
They're changing the timeclock again at the part-time job. It wasn't enough that they turned off the card swipe in favor of a slower and error prone manual entry. Now we're apparently getting a new system that won't let you clock in/out more than 8 minutes late/early. That should work super awesome on truck days where there's no manager on duty to override or otherwise do anything. It totally won't encourage people to drop what they're doing immediately at their schedule shift end (which is getting really old cleaning up after as-is). I'm annoyed because I haven't had to be a slave to the clock, especially in the last two years when I've volunteered more time to help cope with "labor shortages."
I also found out that part-time people apparently don't accrue paid time off anymore as of a couple years ago. I'm grandfathered into that, among other things, and in this case it's based on hours worked so it doesn't amount to a whole lot (maybe 3-4 days a year - I can't easily check because business senility moved that to an app that I can't install). But it's such a mystery why "people don't want to work."
The company's done some things right, don't get me wrong, but clamping down on clock punches amidst record profits isn't one of them.
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@homoBalkanus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@homoBalkanus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: managed to beat Starcraft and Brood War for the first time in my life.
I stripped out the campaign so it would fit on a zip disk, so never got the chance to.
Was it fun?
It was. Took me several months since I don't get much free time with small kids. Next up : Warcraft 3. I'll reach this decade at some point.
Shouldn't take too long. They stopped making decent strategy games.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
It totally won't encourage people to drop what they're doing immediately at their schedule shift end (which is getting really old cleaning up after as-is).
I guess they hope you'll clock out first and clean up afterwards?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone have any idea how those are made?
Sounds like you're looking for a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone have any idea how those are made?
Sounds like you're looking for a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram
Thanks! my thicknesses would be arbitrary (bait), but that's a starting point for further searching.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm annoyed because I haven't had to be a slave to the clock, especially in the last two years when I've volunteered more time to help cope with "labor shortages."
In a previous job, I once got reprimanded because by arriving a few minutes early, I set off the intrusion alarm. Except nobody had told me the alarm schedule, or even that there was an alarm system.
Lesson learned. From then, I made sure never to arrive a minute early, or leave one minute late. Want to play stupid games? Expect to win stupid prizes.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
that's a starting point for further searching
It's so much easier once you have the right keyword to search for.
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Status: No matter how much I overbuy, I still have trouble finding something when I need it.
My speakers are finally starting to konk out. I've been using a set of HP notebook speakers that were just the right size to fit under my screen. I don't have room for typical 7-9 inch speakers and a subwoofer, so I'm looking for alternatives. Seems like nobody makes a similar product anymore so I was looking at sound bars instead. I don't known what the use case manufacturers think is for these things but they seem like they should fit under monitors and alot of them can't. Plus I'm having the quintessential modern electronics problem - everything is weird shaped, Chinesium brand, or both. Lots of models with
ticking time bombslithium batteries too. I should've bought a couple of the HP sets when I had the chance...Edit: Seriously, who the fuck designed this?
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@hungrier thanks for informing me, I wouldn’t have known otherwise.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin everyone cares now.
Fake-ass publicity stunts.
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@topspin
:half-garage: There's nothing fake about the assed-ness of the people involved
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Status I have to say, proper Intellisense with Visual Studio's advanced autocomplete (whatever they call the suggestions) makes boilerplate so much less painful to write.
I guess having a proper type system (ie not a half-hearted, after-the-fact one like Typescript) does make a difference.