The Official Status Thread
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Can anyone think of a reason they make non-crunchy peanut butter?
i use it in cooking occasionally when i need the flavor and the binding but don't need the crunch and it's vastly superior to crunchy for making hummus with....
apart from that, i can't think of any reason.
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I searched around for quite a bit. Ended up having to skip that episode.
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Status: it costs $150 to update the map in my Ford Fusion navigation system?
I could buy a smartphone or Chinese Android tablet specifically for maps and plug it into the console for that much. Jesus, Ford. Get with the program.
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Does it force you to update the map too?
And I bet it doesn't even have Waze data.
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Status: I hate Discourse. The auto-like script can like 2 - 3 posts at a time, then I get either "An error has occurred" or "You are not permitted to view that resource."
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When I get "An error has occurred", my auto-like script keeps on liking behind the dialog box, but the posts don't get marked as read.
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Status: Due to the forum being switched to SSL, ServerCooties.com is currently undergoing emergency maintenance. SockDrawer will keep you updated on our progress.
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Status: Due to the forum being switched to SSL, ServerCooties.com is currently undergoing emergency maintenance. SockDrawer will keep you updated on our progress.
ServerCooties.com has been updated; normal service is resumed!
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Status: Getting a refund for some premium texts I got signed up for without my consent. The company refunding me is an official body, along the lines of OFCOM/OFGEM, but for some reason they offered to pay me through Paypal.
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Status: Due to the forum being switched to SS
... ooo! Shiny!I am suddenly very happy for the outage a bit ago. :-)
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Status: I just ran in to this little hunk of feces.
The best part: There is no option to download through the browser. The only option that I can find is to use Java.
Who the hell still uses Java downloaders? Well, besides www.thruinc.com and Microsoft's VLSC?
Rubbish.
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Status: I spent an hour trying to debug a crash that happened in engine.dll when playing an ingame recording yesterday. Today, Windows Update told me that I had to reboot or it would murder a cat. And now the crash isn't happening anymore.
What the fuck, Windows? Are you intentionally breaking my programs when there's an update ready?
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What the fuck, Windows? Are you intentionally breaking my programs when there's an update ready?
Yes.
Also, Linux hardware, etc.
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Status: I'm the only one getting invalid certificates ?
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Status: I'm the only one getting invalid certificates ?
there's a hiuccup with the ssl cert. @sam's looking into it.
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Status: it costs $150 to update the map in my Ford Fusion navigation system?
That's cheap. A mailing list owner I'm aware of was told that it would cost $1100, although his was an older system.
Even worse, he's a rural EMT/first responder, and he discovered after he bought the system, that Garmin or whoever makes it will not route you onto a road that one of their drivers has physically been on, and generally they won't go on dirt roads. That means he couldn't use the in-dash nav at all for rescue calls, and he was told they would likely never fix that.
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that Garmin or whoever makes it will not route you onto a road that one of their drivers has physically been on,
That makes so little sense I can only assume you wrote that clause backwards and upside-down.
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Well, considering that your average satnav can't find the typical railroad yard office, either... :P
Never mind trying to do something interesting -- like giving you directions to a railroad crossing. (Yes, there are reasons why someone would want a satnav to do that. Of course, if you really need that function, you can also call your employer and ask them for directions...)
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Or get your employer to issue you with a sat-nav that has the crossings marked as Points of Interest
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Hrm, how many Points of Interest can your average satnav store?
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A quick Google shows Garmin allows a couple million
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That makes so little sense I can only assume you wrote that clause backwards and upside-down.
Awww, this is where Blakey abandons thread, because he is demonstrated to be wrong: http://www.crankycustomer.com/cant_navigate_out_of_a_paper_bag.html
"before the navigation system can work, someone has to "verify" the roads. That means, he said, that they drive the roads to confirm them before the voice prompts will work. The maps are there, but the system refuses to talk me through them unless they're "verified"." She claims Ford themselves verified this; you can click the link to see it if you want.
It was the nav system built into the Mercury whatever; no mention of who the actual nav maker is.
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A quick Google shows Garmin allows a couple million
IIRC that might even be based on storage capacity, so only limited by the size of SD card you can plug in. (It's been years since I've used a dedicated GPS, but I used to have a couple of different kinds.)
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Actually, I think his issue was with:
that Garmin or whoever makes it will not route you onto a road that one of their drivers has physically been on,
Where I think you meant:
that Garmin or whoever makes it will not route you onto a road that one of their drivers has not physically been on,
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Oh, I didn't even notice that. Yes, your correction is what I meant, so Blakey can come back into the thread.
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Blakey is always right.
You are always illiterate.
These are rules of the cosmos.
Maybe next time, knowing you have the reading ability of a particularly stupid gopher, double-check the part I quoted before going on a snide correcting spree.
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Status:
steam://connect/ben.lubar.me
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That's cheap. A mailing list owner I'm aware of was told that it would cost $1100, although his was an older system.
Sheesh. That's more than Garmin charges anually for a subscription to nav data and charts for the US for one of their aviation GPS units!
I wonder how often he has to buy nav updates...
A quick Google shows Garmin allows a couple million
So, probably enough for all the RR crossings in the US...(although if you really wanted to screw things up, you'd just go Hy-Railing for a while)"before the navigation system can work, someone has to "verify" the roads. That means, he said, that they drive the roads to confirm them before the voice prompts will work. The maps are there, but the system refuses to talk me through them unless they're "verified"." She claims Ford themselves verified this; you can click the link to see it if you want.
Yeah, lest they put trap streets, not-yet-built roads, or no-longer-extant roads in their directions. Good for ordinary cases, but rather bad for someone who needs to exceed the "verified" parameters Ford has.
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Article on Hacker News:
Java Micro Frameworks: The New Trend You Can’t Ignore
Watch me.
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Status: After relentlessly making fun of my coworker for having a Samsung 840 (the model with the leaky flash cells that lose data over time) in his workstation, I opened up my precious CI server to upgrade one of the hard drives and found a Samsung 840.
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Status: some training meeting (think the coworker is explaining things before leaving, but not sure) is now 20 minutes late to start. Dunno if it will ever actually happen now, which could end up badly if I'm right about the coworker escaping.
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Status: I want one of these:
I have no idea what I would do with it, or even where I would park the damned thing, but I want one. If nothing else, it would be good for intimidating Prius drivers.
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Maybe next time, knowing you have the reading ability of a particularly stupid gopher, double-check the part I quoted before going on a snide correcting spree.
Maybe I will, the next time you actually admit to being wrong, rather than doing so implicitly by abandoning thread.
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Sheesh. That's more than Garmin charges anually for a subscription to nav data and charts for the US for one of their aviation GPS units!
I didn't remember it exactly correctly: He paid $1100 extra to get a navigation system. When he found out it didn't route onto dirt roads, the dealership initially told him he'd have to pay for an update; that's about the time he discovered the update wouldn't help, so the nav system was utterly useless for him. In the end he bought a Garmin and tried to get the dealership to pay for it.
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the model with the leaky flash cells that lose data over time
That's not really an accurate description of the user-visible effect: they just get slow reading old data.
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You are always illiterate.
By the way, you are showing a (not terribly shocking) misunderstanding of actual illiteracy, not to mention being sexist and/or racist against actually illiterate people. Someone will be along shortly to escort you off the west coast and will have navigation instructions that route you entirely on dirt roads to your new home in Boseman, Montana.
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Maybe I will, the next time you actually admit to being wrong, rather than doing so implicitly by abandoning thread.
I don't even know what thread you're referring to.
Usually I only hit mute when they get stupid and/or boring.
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Status: I have a headache.
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Status: Today kind of sucked so I fucked off early and took the boy to the pool for a few hours. It was a good move.
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Build one of those portable houses!
No thank you. If I had to live in that close of proximity with anyone for long periods of time I would end up "The Shining" in short order.
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Well, build the wife and kid their own car-houses. Geez, do I have to think of everything?
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is it bad that i REALLY want one of those?
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No. Who doesn't?
It even comes with a slutty Russian bride.
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Status: I got 18 ounces of blueberries and I might just EAT EVERY SINGLE ONE TONIGHT also beer.
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18 ounces
Are those metric, imperial, US dry, or US fluid ounces? Are you talking about mass or volume? Pro-tip: your units should be able to answer that by themselves.