The Official Status Thread
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Amazon doesn't make money on purpose.
They're probably the most (possibly only) successful company ever to use the "don't make any profit" strategy.
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Status: Today I have to work with a person at a client's office who is transgendered. I have no problem with the transgendered part. That does not bother me. What does bother me though, is that now that she is out, she acts like a bitchy woman all the time. It just seems like a facade, and a very fake one at that.
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What does bother me though, is that now that she is out, she acts like a bitchy woman all the time
FTFY
;-)
and no, i'm not going to comment on anything other than the pronoun choice there. ;-)
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From context clues, I assumed they appeared male and started out female. Otherwise the "bitchy woman" thing wouldn't make sense.
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I wasn't kidding when I said AC isn't needed in Western Washington except about 5 days every 5 years. (Although this year it's more like 2 weeks.)
WESTERN HEAT WAVE BREAKS RECORDS ACROSS WASH. STATE
Walla Walla, Washington reached 113 degrees. If validated this will set a new June record high for both the city and the state. The state record is 112 degrees at John Day Dam on June 18, 1961.
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Hottest temperature ever recorded: 118 F at Ice Harbor Dam on 5 August 1961 and at Wahluke on 24 July 1928.I thought I heard somebody on the radio say it hit 120 yesterday, but the radio is in the other room and not quite loud enough to make out where this allegedly happened, but I'm quite sure I heard him say "the highest temperature ever recorded in Washington State." If true, of course, it would also surpass the 113 as the June record. Edit: I should point out that, wherever this was, it would have been in the more extreme, arid climate east of the Cascades, not in relatively mild, damp western Washington.
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I assumed they appeared male and started out female.
hmm... yes i can see that reading. but then the acting like a bitchy woman wouldn't make much sense for FTM
that's why i parsed it as a MTF transition.
i guess only @Polygeekery can resolve the ambiguity there.
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i guess only @Polygeekery can resolve the ambiguity there.
I did. I added the "s".
The English language needs a gender-neutral pronoun that does not make it seem like you are referring to a person as an object.
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This is where you explain how the border is wrong, and should have been drawn vertically along the Cascades instead of horizontally along the Columbia.
And Oregon should be the loser State on the east side of the mountains.
And Washington should be named something cooler. Like... uh. Anything.
Status: this Windows 7 work laptop just bluescreened. If my personal laptop had 1/10th the problems I've had with this work laptop, I'd throw it in a dumpster.
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this Windows 7 work laptop just bluescreened.
Say it ain't so blakey! Say it ain't so!
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Yeah I think it's something to do with the driver for the shitty VPN software they have installed. And who knows, maybe Windows 8 could have coped with the problem without rebooting, Windows 7 is paleolithic at this point.
Other than Juniper's, I've never in my career seen reliable VPN software. Why is that?
EDIT: and now that I'm on, I see I have ZERO Jira tickets to work on. And triage isn't until 10:00. Guess it's time to write some documentation I've been slacking on.
EDIT EDIT: oh man I'm not on any PRs either. How am I going to generate email so people know I'm working!?
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The English language needs a gender-neutral pronoun that does not make it seem like you are referring to a person as an object.
it does. "they/them/their"
although some will manage to find insult with that approach. because there is always someone that will find offense where none in intended.
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someone that will find offense where none in intended.
Same as when a person changes gender identity. The natural inclination is to keep using the one that you first knew them as. When a person makes that change, if they are not in your immediate vicinity you still think of them as the "original gender".
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agreed, and so long as you make an effort to adapt when this is pointed out politely i'll not say anything bad about that.
;-)
after all it took me a full year before i got
JT
's name right when he changed his name fromBB
* ;-)(using first/last initial only for anonymity)
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And... it bluescreened again. Something's fucked-up in this laptop.
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Other than Juniper's, I've never in my career seen reliable VPN software. Why is that?
I've seen Juniper's vpn. Stable isn't a word I'd use to describe it. But I've never witnessed it bring down an OS.
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I've seen Juniper's vpn. Stable isn't a word I'd use to describe it. But I've never witnessed it bring down an OS.
Well I guess that's what I meant.
All you need to take-out Cisco's is to turn on Internet Connection Sharing, which is a feature that's been in Windows since Windows 2000 and yet somehow Cisco hasn't gotten the message yet.
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The VPN client built in to Windows is extremely resilient. Cisco and others want their own proprietary standards though, so it doesn't work with their kit.
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The English language needs a gender-neutral pronoun that does not make it seem like you are referring to a person as an object.
How about ko'a?
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How about ■■■■?
.... can we try that again, but this time in English?#status:
Once a year or so i get the craving for McDonalds chicken nuggets, so i walk to the nearest store and pick some up.Every year my stomach, upon consuming chicken nuggets from McD's says "OMG WHAT IS THIS SHIT GET IT OUT OF ME!"
Every year i forget that this is going to happen until halfway through the last nugget.
Every year the rest of my day is shot....
Every year i swear i'll remember next time and not get the nuggets...
one of these years i'll actually learn.
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.... can we try that again, but this time in English?
How about
he/she/it/they #1
(that's one word)
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Every year my stomach, upon consuming chicken nuggets from McD's says "OMG WHAT IS THIS SHIT GET IT OUT OF ME!"
Occasionally I get suckered into eating something with bean sprouts in it. Then I fart continuously for the next 36 hours. Chicken McNuggets are yummy though not as good as when they used to have dark meat.
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Then I fart continuously for the next 36 hours.
more information than i needed..... or wanted.... but thanks for sharing.
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There's something about their hamburgers that's different from everywhere else, such that once a year, I must have one. And I enjoy it. The shame!
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It's the msg :P
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Status: The Esperanto course on duolingo has this gem:
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isn't the dress white and gold?
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Status: my boss and the one other programmer in my office just gave two-week notice. That's going to leave me and 3 trainers left. The next six months ought to be interesting.
The product we maintain is a red-headed stepchild; we used to be a separate company that was bought out about 9 years ago by a competitor. I'm probably OK because I know the other system some, but I guess I should touch up my resume just to be safe.
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I gave them a lingot.
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Did you click the link? Why do you think I posted this, anyway?
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Other than Juniper's, I've never in my career seen reliable VPN software. Why is that?
We use cisco's anyconnect, which is quite reliable when connecting with openconnect on linux.
All you need to take-out Cisco's is to turn on Internet Connection Sharing, which is a feature that's been in Windows since Windows 2000 and yet somehow Cisco hasn't gotten the message yet.
It seems likely that is intentional. Their VPN approach seems to be "This is your network configuration. You may not edit it." IIRC the official linux client will monitor your routing information, restoring it to the cisco version on every change.
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It seems likely that is intentional.
It might be intentional that the VPN doesn't work.
It's probably not intentional that it crashes.
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It might be intentional that the VPN doesn't work.
It's probably not intentional that it crashes.
Hm, yes. Probably not that.
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put a two-tone test through his integrated sound, then replace that buffer opamp with a decent one and try the test again..
Who made this circuit up for you anyway? You bought it in a shop? Oooo, what a terrible job. You've got your negative feedback coupled in with your push-pull input output... take that across through your redhead pickup, to your tweeter... you're modding more than eight... you're going to get wow on your top. You try to bring that down through your rumble filter, to your woofer... what do you get?
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There's something about their hamburgers that's different from everywhere else, such that once a year, I must have one. And I enjoy it. The shame!
I like a Big Mac®, fries and Oreo® McFlurry®, but I nearly always have a stomachache afterward, even if I don't eat all of it.
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a short sampling of @ben_lubar's recent posts indicate the answer is "probably not"
;-)
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Status Last day before vacation. There goes my attendance
Of all idiotic decisions, we have booked a trip to Greece (As our excuse, we did book it in January, which was before the midden hit the windmill).
Wonder how this is going? He hasn't been here for two discodays, so I guess he actually went.
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Wonder how this is going? He hasn't been here for two discodays, so I guess he actually went.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-tourists-anxious-about-access-to-cash-in-greece-1435591196
Hope he took cash.
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I haven't heard anything about credit card processing.
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I haven't heard anything about credit card processing.
Their government should have cut up its credit cards a long time ago.
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Status: I ran out of MASH yesterday; I think I'll give Quantum Leap a go next.
The very first episode starts in media res in such a weird way, I'm convinced there must have been a TV movie or something Netflix doesn't have. WTF?
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The very first episode starts in media res in such a weird way, I'm convinced there must have been a TV movie or something Netflix doesn't have. WTF?
I don't think so. I believe it was supposed to start that way so that you sort of felt like the lead character. His memory was supposed to be very "Swiss cheese".
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No; the explanation of the premise relies heavily on footage of him as a Air Force test pilot, which isn't the plot of any of the first season episodes. There's no way they did all that special effects work merely to explain the premise-- there must be a missing pilot or TV movie.
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there must be a missing pilot or TV movie.
i don't think so, as i recall the airforce pilot bit was rather a retcon.
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footage of him as a Air Force test pilot
I just read Wikipedia's article on it and there's no mention of a pilot/movie: it says the first episode involves him leaping into a test pilot.
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No; the explanation of the premise relies heavily on footage of him as a Air Force test pilot
Netflix doesn't have those episodes? The pilot was named "Genesis" and was a two-part show where he leaped in to one of the Bell Labs X-2 rocket planes around the time they broke the sound barrier.
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Right; that's the confusion. It's missing from Netflix. Netflix's collection starts with The Right Hand of God, where he plays a boxer in the 70s.
And since it's a show with some a weird premise, it's really jarring that, on Netflix at least, there's no explanation of the premise. Just Dean Stockwell starts talking about Ziggy and you're like, "what the hell's that?"
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Netflix's collection starts with The Right Hand of God, where he plays a boxer in the 70s.
Yeah, that is episode 4, and the third story line.
Weird. I watched it on Netflix at some point and I could have sworn it had "Genesis". Or, maybe I watched it on Hulu?