The Official Status Thread
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@Zecc that inspires confidence. Also
assmethod
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@Zecc What's the problem, looks like perfectly cromulent Dutch to me
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DDF Status: Now distorting packages themselves.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Now distorting packages themselves.
That's nothing new.
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@Applied-Mediocrity 450 grams per cubic centimeter is ... a little (but only a little) heavy. Someone here reported a student to calculate with a value of more than 1,000 grams per cubic centimeter, so it is not a new record on earth surface.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
450 grams per cubic centimeter is ... a little (but only a little) heavy
About 40 times denser than lead. Or close to the density of some students I've known.
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@Applied-Mediocrity squints no, that’s not the shipping/logistics site I used to work on.
(To self) Thank gift because that would be embarrassing to admit otherwise. But so far nothing I have built has, to my knowledge, made TDWTF.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
But so far nothing I have built has, to my knowledge, made TDWTF.
The secret there is that to be a front page All Star, you have no knowledge at all. And thus you have no knowledge of any of your byproducts making the front page.
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@izzion to the best of my knowledge, even this is a fate I have been spared.
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@HardwareGeek does anyone ever want to use Office?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek does anyone ever want to use Office?
Hypothetically, someone of a more oldschool persuasion might have pictures of a certain type set up as a PowerPoint slide show.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Installation appointment is next Friday morning, so I get to see if I can get the Comcast contractors to run the cable from the front all the way around the back of the house and punch it in through the back wall into the living room to make things easy...
New modem and router have arrived and have been wall-mounted (through a slight bit of trouble including needing to whack one of the screws/anchors a few mm to the left since I drilled ever so slightly to the right of where I needed to to line up with the router's mounting holes). Router is hooked up to old internet connection, so now I just need to wait for Comcast to come hook me up with service, swap a couple cables around, and I'll be in business.
Status: Comcast tech has come and gone. New internet is up and running, speeds are a bit wonky but building and I've been told that they can fluctuate like that for the first day or two on a new cable connection as their system "learns" my cabling.
Technician gave me a bit of a hard time about drilling a hole in the exterior wall, and was a bit pushy about my choice of cable modem (Arris SB8200) but otherwise got it done and handled within ~2 hours or so.
Now, once I make sure it's stable and functional, I just need to call and cancel my old service and arrange to return their equipment.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
their system "learns" my cabling
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@Applied-Mediocrity Dunno, it's something with how their substations learn how much power needs to go down the line + signal/noise ratios and whatnot and then optimizes the transmissions to it can sometimes take a day or two to even out.
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@e4tmyl33t Sorry, still sounds like technobabble to me.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity Dunno, it's something with how their substations learn how much power needs to go down the line + signal/noise ratios and whatnot and then optimizes the transmissions to it can sometimes take a day or two to even out.
I'm not sure initial ranging is supposed to take a couple of days, but it sounds like a reasonable figure to tell a customer so they don't ring up to complain 20 minutes after the tech has left.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t Sorry, still sounds like technobabble to me.
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status: blood pressure maintained average 153/122 throughout the procedure, despite medications they added to decrease.
Having a concern....
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
to be a front page All Star
Obligatory: We have a front page?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
blood pressure maintained average 153/122
Hardware maintenance required.
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Status: Was just thinking about whether I should call to see if my new
headache generatorsupdated prescription glasses were in. Got The Text.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@e4tmyl33t Sorry, still sounds like technobabble to me.
So not so much learning as a calibration process which requires a decent amount of real signal.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
So not so much learning
Presumably why @e4tmyl33t put it in quotes.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
blood pressure maintained average 153/122
That's high. Too high. Did it later on go down to something more normal?
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Status: I love watching Technology Connections. The attention to detail is only topped by how he gets ridiculously worked up about things that are stupid, while remaining completely professional.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Was just thinking about whether I should call to see if my new
headache generatorsupdated prescription glasses were in. Got The Text.Guess I shouldn’t have skipped last years small update. Two ticks this time is a doozy.
Or they fucked the lenses up. But can’t really raise that possibility until a couple of
rebootsadjustment days.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
blood pressure maintained average 153/122
That's high. Too high. Did it later on go down to something more normal?
That's what it was on the recovery time. Before it was 140/89
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
things that are stupid
He really should make a playlist all about lights.
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Status: Scratched my front bumper on a rock. Guess we'll just have to consider that proof the car actually sees use.
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Status: 13.50€ just for driving through a tunnel once. Holy heck, those Austrians must be swimming in kangaroo gold.
And it wasn’t even that long.
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@topspin And of course you needed the additional motorway toll, the tunnel is just added extra.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Scratched my front bumper on a rock.
Oh no! Is the rock okay?
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@Zerosquare To be honest I did not check.
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Status: Pit stop in .
Almost died because the first zebra crossing was a pedestrian priority crossing, as I’m used to, but the second one just marked a traffic light crossing, which I failed to notice.
The woman speeding with 70kph through this little town apparently had enough time to yell out of the window but not enough time to slow down.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Scratched my front bumper on a rock. Guess we'll just have to consider that proof the car actually sees use.
The first one sucks. Future ones are more .
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: 13.50€ just for driving through a tunnel once. Holy heck, those Austrians must be swimming in kangaroo gold.
And it wasn’t even that long.
I have to pay almost $20 when I go over a bridge with my 12ft/one-axle trailer. Cars are only 7 or 8. But at least we only pay one way. And when I go north, I can use the Golden Gate bridge (the non-pay way) and come back via Oakland (non-pay). Take that suckers!
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status letting my nerd fly free ... At Nerdland Festival
Of course it's a Belgian thing so now we're drinking beer at a technical level
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@Luhmann
So we payed for a two person beer experience... Divided it by three
Because we have two minors with us we take up a table of four so we have a double supply of beer
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
speeding with 70kph through this little town
Take care of Austriacisms. If there is a speed limit of 70 km/h starting just before the village, it does not end at the start of the village and replaced by the general 50 km/h for villages, but it stays valid throughout the village.
Also, police is allowed to "estimate" your speed.
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@Luhmann Wat moet ik daar lezen?
Zondag Veggie
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Ah, well, true, the beer is vegetarian, even vegan. So, it's OK.
I hope it can be accompanied by a good steak.
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@Luhmann
When you're Belgian and your surname is Weten (Wine) you make beer
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@BernieTheBernie
It is Sunday but when have a vegan on our team... I should blur more on these pictures but tasting heavy beers is taking it's tole
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie
It is Sunday but when have a vegan on our team... I should blur more on these pictures but tasting heavy beers is taking it's toleJust let your camera have a bit of beer and then the pictures will blur themselves!
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@izzion
Auto blur has just being reduced
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@Luhmann And your grammar has become Irish.
Well, anyways, we know the reason. Cheers!
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
status letting my nerd fly free ... At Nerdland Festival
I understand that with all the beer you might need to pee frequently, but nevertheless I'd advise you to keep your nerd fly closed when outside the bathroom.
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Status: Have a decision to make...
Talk to the fake and try working with an on-the-side person, or....
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Status: Today on Brillant Software Design...
Long ago, I battled the Chrome auto-updater and, after a brutal struggle with atrocities on both sides, emerged victorious. Yet, even in death, Chrome cast a dark shadow. Thus, I fled to Brave, and made sure its auto-updater would never be a threat. And so life, online anyway, was good. For a time...
Note: I think this version history is a lie. How did I install a 9-2019 version in 8-2020? I would've gone to their website and grabbed the current whatever.
Now websites are breaking like crazy. Walmart shits the bed, acting like HTTPS support is missing. Hasbro Pulse loads items, then erases them, because
string.replaceAll()
apparently is the nextstring.leftPad()
that everything everywhere suffocates without. Kohls goes into a spinlock trying to display sizes and colors of clothing items (which worked until they got turned into multithreaded microservices or whatever to pad some hipsterscripter's resume last week). And so on and so on.Oh, and speaking of string replace, fuck whatever dingbat decided the original JavaScript function would only replace the first instance. It's probably the same retard that keeps making substring functions require a second index instead of a length.
Anyway, I guess the browser is so ancient, like solid foods ancient, the updater can't figure out how to update (which in these days of infinite bandwidth is usually "download an installer and run it in the background" or half the reason I didn't want the updater running every 30 seconds) and wants me to reinstall the browser instead. Yes, because another "your files are right where
we disappeared them toyou left them" episode was right at the top of my to-do list, right next to slamming my dick in a car door.