The Official Status Thread
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@HardwareGeek that's my point: they're somehow going out of their way to do this because all the frameworks have this figured out by default.
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status: this guy is way too excited for an overly boring piece of music.
Guess I need to watch "Hereditary (2018)" to get the context...
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status: weird, the front edge of my system is all down. What the fuck?
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@Tsaukpaetra People have way too much free time these days
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
this guy is way too excited for an overly boring piece of music.
You're aware that someone could also describe you as "way too excited for overly obsolete and half-broken computer equipment", right?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra People have way too much free time these days
He says, while posting on WTDWTF.
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@Zerosquare It's not so much having free time than it's .
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Status: These store brand japaleno potato chips are the fucking hottest jalapeno anything I've had.
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status: what the fuck? Why did they do this to a partially used roll?
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@Tsaukpaetra QC passed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You should either stop using beautify filters or clean your phone's lens.
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@Zerosquare It's not an either/or situation. Or in more techinal terms: .
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@Tsaukpaetra Because it looks fancy. It's a part of cleaning the room.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a part of cleaning the room.
"The room" is not what that paper is used to clean.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a part of cleaning the room.
"The room" is not what that paper is used to clean.
not with that attitude
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Status: Look, I'm not one to be anxious, but when you say "I'll be down in a few minutes" and, judging by the max travel time it would take a wheelchair to cross the building three times, that is a reasonable estimate, and it's been 38 minutes, I have to wonder if ya forgot about me....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I have to wonder if ya forgot about me
I doubt anyone who knows you could ever forget you.
Filed under: Not necessarily a good thing
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"I'll be down in a few minutes"
Sounds more polite than "Let me run away real quick".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
judging by the max travel time it would take a wheelchair to cross the building three times
If a wheelchair cross the building by itself, I would be worried
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
judging by the max travel time it would take a wheelchair to cross the building three times
If a wheelchair cross the building by itself, I would be worried
It's a Tesla wheelchair. 👍
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a Tesla wheelchair. 👍
That's even more worrying
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Status: Fuck you Amazon, stop bringing your shitty American business practices over here and infesting everything.
They’re not even using normal postal services anymore for delivery, they have their own huge fleet of Amazon trucks, operated by people who earn 3 cents an hour and don’t speak the language. Someone rang my bell at 7pm. When I opened the front door and asked who’s there, they just dropped a package in the hallway and left immediately. I went to check and it wasn’t even for me. FFS, don’t deliver your shit this late, ring the bell of the person the package is addressed to, and fucking hand it to them.
Well, at least they don’t just throw it on the porch like they do in the US. Once they start doing that, I’ll claim every single instance as stolen. Free stuff!Lesson learned: don’t even answer the door unless you expect someone.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
and don’t speak the language.
Their one redeeming quality
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, at least they don’t just throw it
on the porchin the fucking creek
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Someone rang my bell at 7pm. When I opened the front door and asked who’s there, they just dropped a package in the hallway and left immediately.
I recently had a FedEx package delivered - at 4am. At least they didn't ring or knock.
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Status: Just got an email from Kongregate, which if memory serves is a Flash game site from the the early Cretaceous era. Apparently they're still around, and as of today have updated their privacy policy to comply with GDPR and CCPA
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Someone rang my bell at 7pm. When I opened the front door and asked who’s there, they just dropped a package in the hallway and left immediately. I went to check and it wasn’t even for me. FFS, don’t deliver your shit this late
Most carriers here deliver to 7pm or 8pm. I don't think that's too late.
Amazon Logistics and DPD however do deliver up to 10pm here, and that does seem a bit late for deliveries although I've never had one that late.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Amazon Logistics and DPD however do deliver up to 10pm here, and that does seem a bit late for deliveries although I've never had one that late.
I've gotten things pretty regularly around 9p.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't think that's too late.
It's not too late when I'm waiting for delivery of something I've ordered. It's too late when they piss me off for something that has nothing to do with me.
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status Crap. I haven't even started reading my ballot. Better get that filled out. Now.
edit: Gotta love when a DEM candidate for prez has the first name of "President". "President R Boddie"
edit2: 27 candidates for Senate.
edit3: Damn. I'm about to change my answering machine message to "If you're a politician, go away. Otherwise please leave a message." 10 calls in the last 4 hours.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
10 calls in the last 4 hours.
Tell them to DIAF.
I was tempted, but too . As soon as I heard the long silent pause, <hangup>. A couple managed to get in on the end of the pause and I hung up as soon as I heard "I'm calling on behalf of..."
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Status: Not sure whether to yell at jira service desk, the support guys on our end, or whoever is dealing with this at the customer end. I'll settle for all of the above.
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Status: Damages are getting old.
Target had storage containers on sale so I ordered, among others, two cases of three 74qt totes. Cleared out a decent amount of space upstairs with the first case. Opened the second case last night and...not only do the three bottoms have a molding defect that prevents them from sealing, two of the lids are shattered.
Last time I tried to get a replacement from Target, they told me multiple stories. The website said I had to return it to the store before the replacement would ship. The store told me they could only do refunds and cancelled the replacement. The feedback/support response told me I would've received the replacement if I did nothing.
This time, the website tells me it's return for refund only. Customer support tells me they'll request a replacement from the manufacturer though. Either way it fucks up my plans to box stuff up this weekend.
So maybe I'll read instead. Don't anybody cheer yet. It's the next set of Slayers light novels. Reads alot like the classic anime.
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@Zenith And you still order them from Target?
FileUnder: fool me once...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
For the eclipse next April, I live in the path of totality. Not in the center, so totality won't last quite as long, but still pretty good viewing (assuming the weather cooperates, of course). I could get closer to the center of the path, so longer duration of totality, by driving a half-hour, or so, but unless the weather is going to be bad, I won't bother (and if it is, a half-hour almost certainly won't be far enough to make a difference). I'll just set up my telescope on the sidewalk in front of my house (or maybe across the street, because trees) and invite my neighbors to a viewing party.
And speaking of not cooperating, using a phone camera is definitely not ideal. ... I might have to get a better camera before the eclipse next April.
I don't remember whether I already followed up on this, but I did get a better camera. I've wanted a DSLR for many years, and I finally bought a nice one. It's not the highest resolution available, nor even quite the highest available at a (somewhat) reasonable price. But I chose this particular model because it will also record 4k video. It will only record 30 minutes at a time, although the card will hold many 30-minute segments, and it's only one button press to immediately start recording again when it quits (if you're paying attention and restart it right away). However, it also has an HDMI output that can send video to an external device, and that can run (with suitable option settings, and assuming the camera doesn't overheat) indefinitely. So I can send that to the computer to record/stream continuously the entire eclipse, start-to-finish, all 2 hours, 40 minutes, and 48 seconds of it.
Ideally, I'd like to just set up the telescope, start recording and streaming (probably on Twitch, although I haven't created an account, yet), make sure everything is working, and let it run while I enjoy just watching the eclipse, especially during the 3 minutes and 12 seconds of totality.
Unfortunately, fate seems to be conspiring against me. I ordered a clock drive for the telescope, so that it will track the sun across the sky as the earth rotates during the almost 3 hour duration of the eclipse. It was back-ordered, with an estimated ship date of late March, which would get it here in time for the eclipse, just barely. However, an update informed me that there is additional delay, and it won't even ship until a week after the eclipse.
My telescope is an inexpensive "beginner" scope, and the mount is non-standard. The motor that I ordered is designed specifically for it, and AFAICT it's the only one that fits it.
I joined an astronomy forum to ask about alternatives. The only answer I got suggested an open-source DIY controller and stepper motors. There are kits that include the fully assembled electronics and all the required mechanical parts; however, none of them are for my telescope mount, and the best-case scenario would involve machining mounting brackets for the mechanical parts and drilling/tapping holes in the mount to attach the brackets. The mount really isn't designed for that, and there aren't any nice, flat surfaces to attach a mounting bracket.
(Note also that this option would provide a fully computerized interface. Computer or phone app says point at, say, Betelgeuse, and the telescope rotates to point at it. Nice to have, but much more than I need for the eclipse. I just need a motor to rotate one shaft at a very specific speed after I've manually pointed the telescope at the sun.)
So I started looking at buying a standard mount that has a drive kit. The way the telescope attaches to the mount is standard; the way the mount fits to the tripod, maybe. The least expensive standard-ish manual mounts that could be relatively easily adapted to a motor drive, not counting the drive kit, cost almost as much as my whole telescope kit. Ones that are already motorized are almost double. And I could easily spend almost an order of magnitude more for just a mount.
It looks like I may have to spend the eclipse sitting in a lawn chair slowly turning a knob to follow the sun, rather than letting a motor do that for me. I am disappointed.
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@TimeBandit 5% off and free shipping with their red card (before any sale discounts). Trust me, with as many as I have in the basement, the savings have added up.
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Took a bus, which is something I hadn't done in a while.
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I'd noticed they are replacing the bus stops. Not sure why as the previous ones were perfectly serviceable. Something I hadn't noticed because I wasn't really paying attention is that the new ones do not have a clear indication of what their name is, unlike the previous ones. There's a sign, but you need to be standing right next to it to be able to read it.
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This is alleviated by the fact that inside the buses there is now a screen saying what the next 3 stops are, repeating the first one is larger letters readable from the back of the bus. Good job. Too bad the screen in the first bus went dark midway through the trip, way before my stop. Good thing I had paid attention to how many stops there were and I knew how to count.
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There was a large sticker above the windows saying "Please keep the windows open if possible". A leftover from times, I wager. This sticker was not covering the words on the windows themselves which say "Air conditioned. Keep windows closed."
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In some stops there's a bicycle lane between the bus lane and the sidewalk. Great for playing "will I be ran over by a speeding cyclist when exiting the bus?" Unfortunately the bus doors open inward, minimizing the Schadenfreude potential.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
In some stops there's a bicycle lane between the bus lane and the sidewalk. Great for playing "will I be ran over by a speeding cyclist when exiting the bus?" Unfortunately the bus doors open inward, minimizing the Schadenfreude potential.
In this situation, in NL, passengers exiting the tram have priority. I was taught only for trams but I'm sure it applies to buses as well.
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Status: Slightly annoyed I need to care about what a 14 year old shell version supports.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Slightly annoyed I need to care about what a 14 year old shell version supports.
RedHat?
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@topspin My colleague is worrying about RHEL6.
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@PleegWat How EOL do you want it? Yes!
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@HardwareGeek Hope you bought a direct solar filter for it too.
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@SirTwist It was included as part of the telescope kit: telescope, equatorial mount, tripod, two Plössel eyepieces, solar filter, lunar (plain neutral density) filter, and probably a couple more things I don't remember offhand. And a few accessories I bought separately: collimating cap, and camera mounts for my phone and DSLR.
Status: Today sucks for astronomy — 20°C and not a speck of clear sky all day.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat How EOL do you want it? Yes!
Quite. And the only solaris I have access to is fully patched, so that's 5.1.something.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I started looking at buying a standard mount that has a drive kit. The way the telescope attaches to the mount is standard; the way the mount fits to the tripod, maybe. The least expensive standard-ish manual mounts that could be relatively easily adapted to a motor drive, not counting the drive kit, cost almost as much as my whole telescope kit. Ones that are already motorized are almost double. And I could easily spend almost an order of magnitude more for just a mount.
Have you asked @Polygeekery? He may have an idea on how to build something cheap out of spare parts and scrap metal.
I'm not even kidding.