The Official Status Thread
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The rim is mildly fucked. Still usable, but it looks like a small chunk has been knocked out of it.
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i'm sorry but why is that such a big deal?
i mean the rim is still round and a bead seal will sort that nick out.
sure it doesn't look as pretty anymore and you have the extra annoyance of the bead seal but it's not the end of the world is it?
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"Java has decided that Java Is A Bad Thing™ and has blocked it from running."
"Java has had a moment of self-realization..."
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it doesn't look as pretty anymore
There ya go.
I buy vehicles to use. A scratch or ding here and there does not bother me.
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There ya go.
wait. that's it‽
that's the whole issue?
it's a car! that sort of thing happens!
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I know a guy that insisted on washing his car's tires before going on a trip.
TIRES!
You know, the bit that goes on the road? The dirty road? That will get dirty in about .4 of a femtosecond after we start moving?
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i'm sorry but why is that such a big deal?
If you pay for aluminum rims, I guess looks matter...
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it's a car! that sort of thing happens!
I agree. ~15 years ago, I bought an almost new Silverado pickup. ~3,500 miles on the odometer IIRC. The next weekend I went to haul something with it and one of my friends was incredulous that I would do that with a new vehicle. , that is why I bought the damned thing.
I have always been of the opinion that you might as well scuff it up right off the bat, get it over with, and move on.
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rekt
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I have always been of the opinion that you might as well scuff it up right off the bat, get it over with, and move on.
that would explain why my father always took a ballpeen hammer and put a right old dent in the bumper behind where the license plate goes when he got a new car.
his explanation was "got to get it over with"
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I probably would have liked your dad, my dad always did something similar. Except, he had coal mines that would just do it naturally within minutes.
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...and now I can finally say that I'm back from vacation...
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you would like him. the only reason he doesn't do that anymore is he stopped buying new cars. when you buy used they always already have a scratch/dent/something else.
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that is why I bought the damned thing.
QFTif you want something pretty put it in a frame an hang it on the wall.
the cars are there to use them
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Status: I'm done with this shit. Fuck networks, fuck routing, they can wait until tomorrow when I can get a TeamViewer connection to configure the damned port forwards.
TR is, of course, having all this shit behind a cheap ISP-provided router that either doesn't support SSH or it was locked by ISP. No, I didn't actually check, because they are all locked.
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That's what Adventure is. ... right? Am I crazy?
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Subaru logo? Yeah.
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Because there's also this:
ADVENT
FOR LIFE!TEXT BASED IS THE BEST!
RAH RAH RAH!
WHAT DO WE WANT‽ CLI!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT‽ CLI!
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Ugh...cow-orker has solved duplicate rows problem in giant query with several subqueries. I can't let that go by without looking into it...
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It is. If I'm not mistaken @accalia was referring to this one though:
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that's the one!
best adventure game ever.
:-D
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I have always been of the opinion that you might as well scuff it up right off the bat, get it over with, and move on.
I managed to get through 8 months in my current car without a scratch. Then the ice storm showed up. I stayed home because people here don't know how to drive unless it's warm and sunny (and really not even then). Someone slid into my (parked) car in the parking lot.
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Point of pride. Flawless wheels after 2 years and 70000 miles of daily driving, track time, Autocross and the scourge of wheels parallel parking is a feat.
Same sort of weird minor OCD that led me to order twenty bucks worth of replacement plastic bits to replace the torn up ones.... On the underside of the car. Where you can't see them. But they're fucking with my drag coefficient.
The paint is fucked. It's permanently dirty. The brakes sound like metal on metal (race brakes do that). The interior is.... Lived in. The windshield is basically made of chip repairs. But God dammit nothing was actually DAMAGED.
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The windshield is basically made of chip repairs
Seems to contradict
@Weng said:But God dammit nothing was actually DAMAGED
If nothing was damaged, why does the windscreen have repairs?
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Windshields on low slung sportscars are wear items.
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How do you even cause that?! The tyre doesn't look like it's been near a curb there.
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I honestly don't know. Closest guess is some flying debris in a construction zone. Or pothole related flexing. It's entirely possible the whole thing is out of round.
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I've got my windows updates set to automatically download, but install when prompted. This has worked so far: It'll prompt me to install updates and shut down, rather than just shut down, when updates are available, and I reboot back to linux on every day I use windows anyway.
Of course, that doesn't work on a work laptop which you only turn off when you want to immediately disconnect & bag it to go home.
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Status: tipped all the walnuts out of the way to uncover a rich seam of cashews.
Filed under: fuck walnuts
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Status: power outage means can't cook at home, but catching up on this thread after several days away gave me something to do while waiting on food.
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Status: Wondering what it would take to get this
to appear for the Status Thread...
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You gotta up your game. Like six fold.
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a bot. and a time where the mods aren't here.
Filed Under: if anybody asks, i don't know you, or the bots
fuck walnuts
how do you even ...
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i think it involves tipping them. but i don't wanna know anything else about it
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how do you even ...
I don't know, and I'm quite sure I don't want to know.
Nobody here's familiar with the venacular expression "Fuck X", in which "fuck" is being used as a simple expletive pejorative (as in "Wow, X is terrible"), and not to indicate an act of sexual congress?
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Every time I use it, people assume I'm being literally because it's "hilarious".
You have to just ignore those humorless fuckers.
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But in this rejection of modularity lies great descriptive power: a theory of linguistic humour can draw upon every such facet with ease, crossing functional boundaries as needed and allowing the interpretation and generation processes to view each component of meaning (lexical, semantic and pragmatic) as re-entrant and available at every level of linguistic analysis
http://afflatus.ucd.ie/Papers/iclc2003.pdf
TL;DR;
silly jokes often are made by misunderstanding a word to take out of context something.besides, you don't like walnuts, you don't deserve any respect
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besides, you don't like walnuts, you don't deserve any respect
I would like walnuts, if they weren't awful..
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you don't like walnuts, you don't deserve any respect
That depends. Common (English, a.k.a. Persian) walnuts, Juglans regia, are not my favorite nuts, but they are quite good IMO. If @tar dislikes black walnuts, J. nigra, I am in complete agreement with him. Well, except for the lewd conduct. I can't comment on butternuts, J. cinerea, or other species of walnuts; I've never eaten any that I know of.
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Every time I use it, people assume I'm being
literallyliteral because it's "hilarious".It is because if anyone understands what you imply we get yelled at for shoulder aliens. Thus we are forced to buttume that everything you say must be taken literally due to you being some kind of trolling robot who has gotten tired. (Can anyone point me to the post with the autoblock JavaScript snipit so I can actually start using it?)
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setInterval(function(){$('*[data-user-id=671] .contents').hide();}, 100);
crude and it silences a certain fox so you'll need to modify it, but it's effective.
someone else may have a better one that only fires on post load or some such and is therefore more efficient.
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You ought to be able to do it in CSS, I'm guessing. Need to spend a few moments with Stylish...
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well @locallunatic asled for javascript so i provided.
if you want stylish the CSS is:
*[data-user-id=671] .contents { display: none !important }
again, that's my user id in there so you have to actually research who you want to block.
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I can't comment on butternuts, J. cinerea, or other species of walnuts; I've never eaten any that I know of.
Yes, but have you ever had sex with one of them? That is the real question.
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Hmm. I couldn't get that to work (in CSS) in the time before I reached my boredom threshold... Oh well...
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you wouldn't dare!
:-D
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What exactly is the boredom threshold for a stuffed bear sans ears?
- The ears are there, just very small and they don't resolve at such a tiny rendering size.
- I probably spent about 4 or 5 minutes on it.