The Official Status Thread
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Yes but many of them are proper Lego pieces.
probably most of them. and even if there are custom pieces i'll find something for them after i inevitably disassemble the kit to play with like proper lego.
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Lego is cool, no doubt, but I was more of a Meccano girl when I was a wee hoglet. And later, I moved on to K'nex; I had this kit:
Fully assembled, it was about five feet tall IIRC
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hmm yes. i have about 40kg of knex that i acquired over the years. i have in the neighborhood of 100kg of lego and i'm still adding to that occasionally
the biggest knex set i had was this one:
which was pretty fun!
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That's how much I weight IRL…
i love lego!
it's also fairly close to my IRL weight too, and i'm working on making it much closer, possibly reverse which side of that mark i'm on, without spending money to buy more lego. ;-)
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Status Only just now realised that the RTL title of this thread was slightly more advanced than I thought, since it also changes the, by the web browser, hard coded bits:
Well played.
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Out of curiosity - visit the Discopædia thread and see what it does. Chrome and Opera go all weird on that one.
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Status: going crazy:
if(count($params) > 0) { // Replace keys of form some_key with someKey foreach($params as $key => $value) { while(($pos = strpos($key, '_')) > -1) { $key[$pos + 1] = strtoupper($key[$pos + 1]); $key[$pos] = ''; } $data[$key] = $value; } } var_dump($data); var_dump($data['ctsMemberId']);
Output:
array(4) { ["hash"]=> string(4) "blah" ["dateAdded"]=> string(19) "2015-05-06 12:54:02" ["dateEdited"]=> string(19) "2015-05-06 12:54:02" ["ctsMemberId"]=> int(1) } <br /> <b>Notice</b>: Undefined index: ctsMemberId in <b>/path/to/file.php</b> on line <b>70</b><br />
What in the holy mother of ass is this? No, I don't care that the rest of the code is ugly! WHAT?
It's going to turn out that
curl
is doing something stupid to the data, won't it (this code is supposed to parse some data sent from a third party service)?
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Out of curiosity - visit the Discopædia thread and see what it does. Chrome and Opera go all weird on that one.
Not much happening there:
Conkeror is based on Mozilla/XULrunner, so if it works in FF it ought to work in the same way here.
Now, now, Discourse. If I failed to post just now, the body of this post is really not that similar to what I just posted -- since I could not post. You see?
Edit: What was supposed to happen? It works fine in Chrome for me...
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Is this new? Didn't it used to be just a quote?
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I blame PHP rotting my brain! Or something...
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Well, they look similar.
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STATUS.
Can't work because GitHub is down. How fucked up is that?
Maybe they hired my intern to update their database :-)
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With my schedule, it works better to schedule the appointment at the end of the day.
I always try to get early appointments with doctors because their schedule hasn't had time to go to shit like it will have later in the day.
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The factory in which my father worked had this. It makes time "sort of" decimal. Let's say you leave at 12 minutes past four, then you can clock in 8.2 hours.
One summer I worked it a big industrial place (BIP) where everybody clocked in and out... and it was tracked to .1 hours.
Every so often, my bud and I would cook up a scheme to hit the beach at the other end of town after work...
If we could beat the wave of folks leaving the BIP it saved 15-30 minutes of driving... so I would scoot out just early enough to get outside the gate before the whistle blew.
The second or third time I did that the boss asked what I was doing and basically said "Srsly? Six minutes?! Give me your timecard..." Scribble...initial... good to go.. no worries.
Good to have a good boss.
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Status: Scooter.
@Luhmann! shakes fist
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shakes fist
That always makes me think of this game:
Filed under: [Why are there no screenshots with fighting black belts in them](#why)
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Dat attack animation!
Too bad there are no
Filed under: Why are there no screenshots with fighting black belts in them
Never mind...
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- always a step or two ahead of everyone else -
Filed under: [Not always in the right direction, though](#words)
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K'nex
One drawback to K'nex, compared to Lego, is how bulky they are. I saw a multi-digit adder someone had built in K'nex, and it was a tower about 6 feet tall and roughly 18 inches square; producing a sum took like a minute of cranking.
An equivalent Lego adder would be far smaller.
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I always try to get early appointments with doctors because their schedule hasn't had time to go to shit like it will have later in the day.
You'd like to think, right? A few years ago my wife was seeing an orthopedist; by ten AM he was running an hour late.
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An equivalent Lego adder would be far smaller.
And would likely fall apart while you're operating it.
Unless Legos really changed recently and there are now parts that are better for doing this kind of things.
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One drawback to K'nex, compared to Lego, is how bulky they are.
However, when it comes to making toys, as opposed to models - guns and cars, and the like - you can play quite energetically with K'nex ones, whereas Lego toys are apt to have key sections drop off if you look at them too hard.
welp, d, posting anyway.
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Just leaving to enjoy my 1/4 day off.
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A few years ago my wife was seeing an orthopedist; by ten AM he was running an hour late.
Yeah, it doesn't take long. I've worked at a few, which is part of what inspired me to always try to get close to the first appointment time as possible. Urgent sorts of appointments you just take what you can get, of course.
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Status: Dame RaceProUK, Pendantic Dickweed of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
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Status: Had to restart some services on production machine that was causing a work stoppage (for over 2 hours). Have not seen a ticket about it yet. Wondering when it will come in so that I'm allowed to fix things that crashed said services (they are sitting marked as problematic in the task list of the process).
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Status: Service integration test failed. Turns out that the JSON spec I got was wrong, causing Postgres to complain in all kinds of ways. Fun.
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Status: I have two songs stuck in my head at once. AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill, and Ozzy's I Just Want You. Apparently the chord sequence is the same.
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I used to use those with rubber bands to build crossbows that fired the long grey bits. Good fun.
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+1
The Good Ideas Thread is 
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Holy crap, with the storms again. A freaking tornado in Germany? Really?
You guys up north have it rough lately. Everyone in one piece, I hope?
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I'd use two circle pieces connected by the almost-really-long red bits, and slide the grey one along the holes in the middle, locking it with a half circle with a short bit to use as the trigger. The end result was quite compact.
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That's.... awesome.
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Apparently, northeast Germany. I live far away from there.
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I also remember trying to make buzz lightyear armor out of knex. It was just sort of a frame with wings and a 'helmet'. I played with legos more, but I feel like my most impressive creations were knex.
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Well, more Germans here. Also, Scandinavians. Again, heard in passing, I have no further data except "northern Europe" and "tornado in Germany" ATM.
Not that your report isn't appreciated :)
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Me and my brother used to smash tinkertoy cars together and basically do a smash-derby wooden edition... That was fun. I'm surprised they lasted so long...
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And would likely fall apart while you're operating it.
Unless Legos really changed recently and there are now parts that are better for doing this kind of things.
I'd use lego technic, which I have quite a lot of. Not sure offhand how I'd do binary though. You can't really do moving parts with other kinds of lego.
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You can't really do moving parts with other kinds of lego.
the technic pieces are increasingly being used in standard lego sets, which is i think what @onyx was referring to.
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Ah, but then you'll get the purists banging on about how Technic isn't 'real' Lego
Technic does kick arse though