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If you are the religious type, now would be a good time to pray
BE ATTITUDE FOR GAINS
(@ChaosTheEternal?)
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If you are the religious type, now would be a good time to pray
Surprisingly it wasn't that bad...
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/do-this-maths-it-r-hard/47782/219?u=pjh
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gopher://what.thedailywtf.com/fu
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I'm not too familiar with phrases from shmup's that didn't come out in the West except digitally on a platform I didn't own, but I knew that one.
Status: Annoyed because of having to deal with push-back about issues from a client in testing. Normally, I wouldn't be annoyed and it'd be a good thing, except:
- Half of the time, the push back is related around their customizable content which really needs to be revisited (or has been revisited on one instance, but he's reporting it for a different, when he should just replace it),
- He's pushing back on things that have been "done" for over a month, and have been in his hands to test for just as long,
- The site went "in production" on June 1, and he's only now doing testing for most things.
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Status: wrote an email at 00:53. The recipient replied at 15:57, 4 minutes later.
Anyone else want to take a stab at it?
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Got time zones?
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gopher://what.thedailywtf.com/fu
Gopher: really doing it wrong.
Fun fact that dates me hard: I originally started using NCSA Mosaic because it was a better gopher client than
xgopher
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wrote an email at 00:53. The recipient replied at 15:57, 4 minutes later.
DOES_NOT_COMPUTE
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It was midnight and I was just about to go to sleep. Dave Cheney posted a pop quiz and I whipped up a solution:
Then I sent it to him and he responded 4 minutes later, but our time zones were different.
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Status: Kind of wishing C# had checked exceptions right now, so I could have a bit more help tracking down a rarely-reproducible bug that throws a Sage.Common.ProgrammingByContract.PreconditionException with the message "Contract Failure: Invalid database string".
Sorted. Obviously, invalid database string means "Sage thinks you've disconnected, so it's killed your connection". It was intermittent because I don't tend to keep this application running for 20 minutes without doing anything. One background keepalive thread later and everything's fine
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I'm not too familiar with phrases from shmup's that didn't come out in the West except digitally on a platform I didn't own, but I knew that one.
Ow my head.
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Status: my dad asked me to come to his office to install Google Photos auto backup on his computer. I installed it by clicking the big "install the auto backup program" button and logging in with his password that he keeps in a little book of passwords.
Well, that took all of 15 seconds. Now at least the -- oh wait, the internet here is just as bad as at home. Oh, you brought your laptop too? The laptop with Google Photos auto backup already installed on it? Yeah, why don't we back up all 70000 photos over wifi? The other 80000 are on an external drive he didn't bring.
Status: currently using SSH on my dhromebook to write code on australium, which is my headless Linux machine at home. There's no way this could be faster without having to go through two terrible internet connections (on different ISPs) and instead just going through a single router. No, I'm perfectly fine with my keystrokes taking one or two seconds to show up on screen.
Well, at least I have 4 hours of battery left, and the battery is half full, and OH GOD HAVE I BEEN HERE FOR 4 HOURS ALREADY?
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backgroundnoise.wav (1.8 MB)
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Yeah, why don't we back up all 70000 photos over wifi? The other 80000 are on an external drive he didn't bring.
150K photos? Is your dad wearing a camera that takes a still shot every half-second?
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134k photos. (I miscounted) From several years worth of photos being copied from the memory card multiple times each.
His logic: "well, it's free storage, so spending 20 years uploading the photos and then having to look through page after page of 50 copies of the same photo to find the one I want isn't a problem"
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of 50 copies of the same photo
I am disappointed you haven't written a Go program to eliminate the duplicates.
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I could probably write a program to do that in Malbolge and it would end up taking less time to write than it does to upload all the duplicates.
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Status: Deleted all the duplicate songs from my phone's music library. But since there weren't actually duplicates, only duplicate entries (each file was only on the SD card a single time), it helpfully deleted ALL copies.
There is apparently no way to actually sync music to a Windows Phone 8 and have it Just Work. I have tried everything I know, multiple times. I have the choice between each song being listed 10 times, or no songs at all.
Come on Microsoft, you're better than this! I'm starting to think WP7 was better than WP8!
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What are you using to sync? I just copy files through Explorer
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I've tried both copying via Explorer, and syncing using Windows Media Player. Both result in massive problems.
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Windows 10 has explorer on the phone
I should try doing this some time.
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Status: it's friday.... i'm gonna piss off early because i can.
later sukkahs!
:-P
(and by later i mean in about half an hour after i drive home)
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Status: That's another weekend I've made it to. Today (as with most of this week) has been filled with meetings and mucking around with documentation, so it's been definitely towards the meh…
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Status: My mouse just spazzed out and closed my browser.
Tomorrow's Status: Buying a new mouse.
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I've tried both copying via Explorer, and syncing using Windows Media Player. Both result in massive problems.
Maybe your phone was hosed. Try factory reset.
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Tomorrow's Status: Buying a new mouse.
Scratch that; ordered one from Amazon.
It's pink!
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Status: Saturday morning and the start of a long weekend.
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Imperator Furiosa would like her hand back.
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Damn that looks ugly.
I'll believe it's a nice mouse, cause I've got a R.A.T. myself, and they're nice mice though they're ugly across the line, but that colour.
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Last time I bought mouses I bought 3 RAT5s, one in the matte black, one glossy white and one glossy red.
Of those, I gave the matte one to a buddy, I used the glossy white one until the clicker stopped clicking gud, so now I'm using the red one.
Honestly, the matte ones are much better-feeling (it's not paint, it's like a thin rubbery plastic coating) and don't get as dirty, so next time I buy only matte. Live and learn.
I should buy another stable, considering if this red one failed I'd have to go back to the white one that barely works. Once I find a piece of hardware I really like, I always buy 2-3 of them so I always have a spare.
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Once I find a piece of hardware I really like, I always buy 2-3 of them so I always have a spare.
You sound like James Lileks and air fresheners.
Pre-emptive blakeyrant-counter: He's a guy who buys multiple copies of something he likes in case they stop making it.
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http://opensource.com/life/15/6/five-linux-programs
THAT'S NOT LINUX. IT'S GNU/LINUX.
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Pre-emptive blakeyrant-counter: He's a guy who buys multiple copies of something he likes in case they stop making it.
That's exactly why I do it.
I love my Comfort Curve 2000 keyboards, so I have like 4 in a closet. They're not even expensive or anything, but I know:
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Microsoft changes their keyboard designs like every 2 years and
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Once I find something that works really well, it's really hard to find it again
Although RAT mouses have been manufactured for like 8 years now with no major redesigns, so maybe I'm being paranoid about those.
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OK, back behind friendly lines. I'm done with Windows 8.1 for today.
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That's exactly why I do it.
I figured; I was just wiseacring. Lileks has repeatedly had body wash, air freshener, etc., etc., flavors that he likes cancelled.
Comfort Curve 2000
I want one of these but $250 is a bit pricey for a keyboard.
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You want a "MUST BE LOGGED IN TO SEE ANYTHING"?
I know I don't. K70 all the way.
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I want one of these but $250 is a bit pricey for a keyboard.
What is that link supposed to be showing me? Because all I get is a huge "sign in with facebook" bullshit button.
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I figured; I was just wiseacring. Lileks has repeatedly had body wash, air freshener, etc., etc., flavors that he likes cancelled.
Ralph Nader supposedly liked army socks so much (from when he served) that he bought a lifetime supply while he was still in.
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You want a "MUST BE LOGGED IN TO SEE ANYTHING"?
What is that link supposed to be showing me? Because all I get is a huge "sign in with facebook" bullshit button.
What? I didn't have to log in, but if this'll help:
When I googled the link, it didn't redirect like that, sorry.
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Looks like a lot of relearning, but interesting nonetheless.
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Looks like a lot of relearning
You might be surprised; I've used some alternative keyboards that make this look tame, and it's much less difficult to adjust than you would think--assuming you're already a touch-typist.
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Status: New household pet arrived today. Fear for your lives, fruit flies!
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Watched Iron Sky with some friends tonight. It was terrible. Terribly AWESOME. Two words: moon nazis. That is all.