The Official Status Thread
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I feel like I should expose Gustav to the Amiga keyboard, with its Help key that I donโt think Iโve ever pressed.
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@Arantor PC has that too, though for some dumb reason it's labeled F1. I don't think I ever pressed it intentionally past the age of 8. I was torn between declaring F1 or F3 the most useless F key, and momentarily forgot about Regedit, which gives F3 just enough extra points to tip the scale.
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@Gustav I thought you were talking about the use "normal people" do. Do you not use F3 or Ctrl+F3 in your editor?
I use it in like 3 or 4 different programs.
The function key I use the least is F1, yes.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you not use F3 or Ctrl+F3 in your editor?
Nope. Regedit is literally the only time I remember this key exists. F2 and F4 through F12 are all used significantly more often by me. I used to use F1 somewhat often back when "open MSDN page for the function under cursor" worked half-reliably in VS (now it works virtually never).
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
"open MSDN page for the function under cursor"
Why would you want a keyboard shortcut to display a 404 page?
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@Zerosquare I'm old enough to remember MSDN being useful.
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One of us! One of us!
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Status: Wondering if my credit card was skimmed, because the bank notified me that the purchase I definitely swiped under was manually entered...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering if my credit card was skimmed, because the bank notified me that the purchase I definitely swiped under was manually entered...
No. The details were scanned in... and then sent to Guatemala for manual entry.
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Status: a bug was discovered on windshield.
It was a feisty one, but eventually moving fast made it go away.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It was a feisty one, but eventually moving fast made it go away.
So it was a race-condition bug?
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
The function key I use the least is F1, yes.
I use it to open the sidebar (where my vertical tabs live) in private windows in Firefox. Other than that, I don't think I ever use either F1 or F3
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
The function key I use the least is F1, yes.
I use it to open the sidebar (where my vertical tabs live) in private windows in Firefox. Other than that, I don't think I ever use either F1 or F3
Status: I regularly use F2 to edit-mode the current cell or filename, and F3 to continue the search in progress on the current document. F5 to reload when YouTube decides I've blocked too many ads. I've removed F7 because it pops an annoying box asking me to search for wedding rings? F11 to full the screen. F12 to dev the tools.
I never scroll the locks though.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: a bug was discovered on windshield.
No, that's not a bug (Heteroptera). It is definitely a member of Orthoptera. Maybe Acrididae.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
F3 to continue the search in progress on the current document.
I just press Enter. Or if the find textfield is out of focus, Ctrl+F and then Enter.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
F11 to full the screen
I don't think I've ever deliberately fullscreened a browser window.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
F11 to full the screen
I don't think I've ever deliberately fullscreened a browser window.
I have to do it every once in a while when the people who make the timeline images for ff14 raid content donโt keep them small enough to fit in a standard browser window
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: a bug was discovered on windshield.
No, that's not a bug (Heteroptera). It is definitely a member of Orthoptera. Maybe Acrididae.
Easy there grasshoppa!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It was a feisty one, but eventually moving fast made it go away.
So it was a race-condition bug?
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Status: apparently Cox activation servers are dead right now.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: apparently Cox activation servers are dead right now.
No, they're working. Just the three Tier 1 agents I ended up with the displeasure of having were so incompetent that the modem details weren't entered in correctly.
Well, the walled garden servers are still dead, but the backend that authorizes the modems is not, so... win?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
I use it to open the sidebar (where my vertical tabs live) in private windows in Firefox.
TIL
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Status: Delievery Distortion Field.
Ordered 3 books1 from Amazon, should have arrived today. This morning I first got an email that my package will arrive 1 or 2 days later. "Well, guess I don't need to work from home, then." Go to work, get an email that my package arrives "sooner than planned", i.e. today. Ugh. Finally, got an email that the package could not be delivered because, surprise, I wasn't home.
I come back home and check the mail. One postcard telling me I have to pick up a package that couldn't be delivered, and one package containing 2 of the 3 book, which they just deposited next to my mailbox. Well, gee, couldn't you have put both packages there??
1 Blade Runner, as the German translation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Proofs from The Book, German,
and Read Team Blues, English hardcover, as either paperback or German translation are only pre-orders for next year.
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Status: Why does it seem like third worlders are so stupid about simple tasks? I mean really, on what fucking planet does it make sense to put bubble wrap around the outside of a shipping carton instead of around the product inside of it? Every time I see something like this, I imagine it's being done by these idiots from Dawn World.
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@Zenith lack of education?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
to put bubble wrap around the outside of a shipping carton instead of around the product inside of it?
Perhaps the assumption is that the product already has sufficient packaging....? No, yeah, that's pretty dumb either way.
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Status: First homegrown tomato of the year. Very tasty. This ain't no store-bought tomato.
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status: have summoned the rain via car wash earlier today.
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@topspin should've taken that opportunity and instead post: "I ordered Dick online"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: apparently Cox activation servers are dead right now.
Cox activation? COX-2 inhibitors are used to treat rheumatic diseases - better do not activate those Cox thingies!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
German translation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
But why? Why would you buy the translation when you could read the original, too? And the english version is available for free download somewhere on the web.
Well, in case of Chinese or ... Polish, I prefer the translation, too.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: have summoned the rain via car wash earlier today.
I was going to grill some chicken for dinner last night. There was a thunderstorm earlier in the afternoon, but by 17:00 or so, the rain had been stopped for a while, and the forecast said no more rain until ~03:00 this morning, so I started brining the chicken.
The forecast lied.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: have summoned the rain via car wash earlier today.
I was going to grill some chicken for dinner last night. There was a thunderstorm earlier in the afternoon, but by 17:00 or so, the rain had been stopped for a while, and the forecast said no more rain until ~03:00 this morning, so I started
briningburning the chicken.The forecast lied.
Read it this way. Figured you should thank the rain for putting out your grill before it was too late.
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Ongoing Status: Github Actions are because they can just fail randomly due to the networking deciding to go "fuck you!" It's completely unpredictable, but can hit any access to outside resources, such as to install the tools you need into the VM instance to complete the task. It's been ongoing all this year and nobody seems to have any clue what's going on. Run a job. Roll a D6 and hope you don't get a 1.
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@dkf just switch everything over to npm, which GitHub runs so you wonโt have the same drama
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@Arantor npm is one of the things that fails
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@dkf Interesting - we make pretty heavy use of npm in our GH Actions (literally every action we have does npm ci, even the weirder legacy ones we have that also sit and install Ruby first), and I've had zero network issues in the last 18 months with it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: have summoned the rain via car wash earlier today.
I was going to grill some chicken for dinner last night. There was a thunderstorm earlier in the afternoon, but by 17:00 or so, the rain had been stopped for a while, and the forecast said no more rain until ~03:00 this morning, so I started brining the chicken.
The forecast lied.
Well, I'm definitely not going to get to grill that chicken tonight, either. My neighbors are getting their cars professionally washed and detailed.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: have summoned the rain via car wash earlier today.
I was going to grill some chicken for dinner last night. There was a thunderstorm earlier in the afternoon, but by 17:00 or so, the rain had been stopped for a while, and the forecast said no more rain until ~03:00 this morning, so I started brining the chicken.
The forecast lied.
Well, I'm definitely not going to get to grill that chicken tonight, either. My neighbors are getting their cars professionally washed and detailed.
I was wondering why it seemed a bit more blustery.
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@Tsaukpaetra Chalk up another win for the unpredictability of Texas weather. The forecast called for rain. It was overcast and dreary all day. The neighbors had both of their cars washed. All signs pointed toward rain.
About 17:00 the sun made its first appearance of the day. Although it wasn't consistently sunny, it stayed dry, and I grilled the chicken.
It wasn't entirely without incident, however. I ran out of propane halfway through and had to make an emergency run to the store to exchange tanks. (Before you ask, yes, I know I should have a spare tank. I do have a spare tank. It was empty, too.)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Chalk up another win for the unpredictability of Texas weather. The forecast called for rain. It was overcast and dreary all day. The neighbors had both of their cars washed. All signs pointed toward rain.
About 17:00 the sun made its first appearance of the day. Although it wasn't consistently sunny, it stayed dry, and I grilled the chicken.
It wasn't entirely without incident, however. I ran out of propane halfway through and had to make an emergency run to the store to exchange tanks. (Before you ask, yes, I know I should have a spare tank. I do have a spare tank. It was empty, too.)
I bet you also donโt buy new toilet paper until the last roll is almost out. @Karla would be so disappoint.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I do have a spare tank. It was empty, too.
strikes again
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
I bet you also donโt buy new toilet paper until the last roll is almost out.
I buy the economy pack, a dozen rolls at a time. I generally buy it when I'm down to two or three rolls left. I go through that stuff pretty quickly. (Oversharing thread is .) I also have a small emergency stash of low quality TP left over from when that was all you could get three years ago, just in case I don't replenish my supply in time.
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@Zerosquare Shit, I'm old enough to remember when MSDN came in the mail in a box of CDs.
I still have the last CD & DVD set in a pair of binders in my desk at work.
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@SirTwist said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare Shit, I'm old enough to remember when MSDN came in the mail in a box of CDs.
I still have the last CD & DVD set in a pair of binders in my desk at work.
You mean AOL? Because I thought MSN was a built-in ad on Windows 95---- Oh wait, you said MSDN.
Sadly I recently discarded my diskette binders a few years ago...
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Interesting - we make pretty heavy use of npm in our GH Actions (literally every action we have does npm ci, even the weirder legacy ones we have that also sit and install Ruby first), and I've had zero network issues in the last 18 months with it.
Maybe it is the install of node that goes wrong? I just want to get a small typescript file (with no dependencies) built into deployment form.
However, I also get failures from apt-get, maven and pip. Those do not share code. They do not go to the same site. The failures are random, but look like network timeouts.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I do have a spare tank
Goddamn with their gun worship
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@SirTwist said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare Shit, I'm old enough to remember when MSDN came in the mail in a box of CDs.
Here's your
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I do have a spare tank
Goddamn with their gun worship
I've seen trucks in . Fits the description.