The Official Status Thread
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I should make an argument that we'd be even more productive with food in us.
Make the argument by walking out of the meeting to get lunch.
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STATUS:
Today on the flea market, I stumbled upon a pirated DVD stand. Haven't seen one of those in a while.
-- What you into, buddy? Cartoons? Games? Something for jerking off?
I ignored him and walked on.
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I need to confess something: I have never watched a single Star Wars movie. And I'm in no hurry to change that.
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I need to confess something: I have never watched a single Star Wars movie. And I'm in no hurry to change that.
You are hereby required to turn in your nerd card at the nearest nerdery and apply for a job in a machine shop. Not a new-fangled one that does CNC either. Only manual machines.
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Mine did not contain pizza and it was over lunchtime. Catering is verboten unless customers are present. I should make an argument that we'd be even more productive with food in us.
That is criminal. Any long meeting that occurs around noon should include food. Pizza is cheap.
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That is criminal. Any long meeting that occurs around noon should include food. Pizza is cheap.
I may have ranted about this before, but at a previous job I had a manager who would routinely (recurring meeting, at least weekly, maybe more often) schedule "half-hour" meetings at 11:30. The meetings always ran to at least an hour, and often only ended when people arrived for the 13:00 meeting that was scheduled in that room, or when our people had to leave for their own 13:00 meetings. Since the meeting wasn't scheduled during lunch time, no food was ever provided.
That was representative of his disregard for his subordinates. I've generally been blessed with having good managers throughout my career, but he was definitely the worst.
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I need to confess something: I have never watched a single Star Wars movie. And I'm in no hurry to change that.
I will confess to having seen only the original three (in both original and '97 remastered versions), but not the prequels or other stuff. I'm not in any particular hurry to change that, either. I was going to stick them in my Netflix queue, but Clone Wars appears to be the only one available.
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<gasp!> Don't tell me you've missed "Caravan of Courage" !
In my movie-deprived childhood that was the only thing available --dubbed in German-- an omnious sunday afternoon.
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Status: I made a list of all the jbovlaste words that don't have glossary entries. But the content isn't important. Go on that spreadsheet and try scrolling a tiny amount to the right.
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Status: All children's toys should be dishwasher safe. This especially includes any touchscreen video games for 3-4 year old kids.
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One of these days I need to watch those, just to say I have. I already suffered through the Holiday Special, the others can't possibly be worse.
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I already suffered through the Holiday Special, the others can't possibly be worse.
I was going to retort “wanna bet?” but you've seen the Holiday Special. The others indeed can't possibly be worse.
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OH MY GOD THE ICONS CHANGED HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
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you've seen the Holiday Special. The others indeed can't possibly be worse.
I haven't seen any of them, so I have no opinion of my own, but according to Rotten Tomatoes, The Clone Wars manages, somehow.
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there's no sense in lojban?
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This is just a list of words that don't have a "meaning" or "sense" field. Most of them have at least one.
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"Brainbleach" should be a thing.
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schedule "half-hour" meetings at 11:30.
"Oops, sorry, my hypoglycemia won't let me attend."
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I keep forgetting that other countries have lunch at 12:00.
Shit, by 11:30 I'm having breakfast, if I don't have to go anywhere in the morning.
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Status: Tonight I made a dinner that my wife described as the best thing she had ever eaten. I tend to think she was not just trying to be kind, as she is never quiet during dinner and tonight I did not hear a peep until she was done. Normally she is Chatty Cathy.
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there's no sense in lojban?
Correct. No sense in learning something like Lojban. It is less useful than Esperanto.
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Esperanto has a whole thing about how the last letter/letters of a word tell you what kind of word it is, and then they have numbers that go unu du tri kvar kvin.
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Status: wondering why there's nothing like EXIF location data for video game screenshots.
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There's no reason other than that nobody's thought to do it. The main tricky thing is that you'll need to include information to identify which map/world is being used, where you won't be able to repurpose any standard tags. Nobody's tackled getting correct EXIF location data from planetary explorers and deep space probes either, and that's approximately the same sort of problem.
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Would you mind sharing the recipe?
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Esperanto [...] numbers
One could argue that the cardinal numerals were meant to be without ending (ordinals are built regularly, based on the cardinal as word stem), but there are adverbs that don't fit the scheme at all (rule: adverb <=> ending "-e", but "tuj" - "immediately"/"this moment").
There is a constant debate among Esperantists whether Esperanto couldn't be mathematically logical (which is the very goal of lojban, as far as I've understood), but I know by experience that Esperanto is usable in everyday life, and that is probably due to it being not mathematically logical.
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Status: wondering why there's nothing like EXIF location data for video game screenshots.
Vita kind of does that when it takes screenshots-- at least it tells you the game, publisher, system, etc. Not the specific location in the game where the screenshot was taken. (Which would be great for games like, say, Skyrim or GTA, not as useful for games like Zero Escape.)
The problem is it just writes it right over the image itself, instead of putting it in meta-data.
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Would you mind sharing the recipe?
Sure. We have a busy weekend, remind me tomorrow and I would be happy to oblige.
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Will do. It might be good to have a recipe with which to shut the missus up.
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I got a few minutes, so I can do it now.
What I made was actually really simple, really quick, and most surprisingly...healthy.
I shredded some cabbage, grated some carrot on the box grater and mixed it up in a bowl to make a simple salad. I also added basil, mint and cilantro to the salad mix to make it more Thai-like. I then made a simple dressing from soy sauce, fish sauce, lime juice, brown sugar and minced garlic in a roughly 2-1-4-1-1 ratio. and dressed the salad to let it wilt a bit.
While it was wilting, I butterflied a chicken breast (as the ones we get here are enormous) and then sliced it on the bias in to strips. I got some peanut oil smoking hot in a skillet and quickly seared off the chicken breast strips until they started to brown. Once it browned, I added a Thai spice blend that I get at the local international market where no one speaks English and blackened that on to the chicken and at the same time I added some chopped peanuts.
I combined the dressed cabbage mix with the blackened chicken in to a sun-dried tomato wrap with some freshly sliced green onions (only the green tops), sliced tomato, wrapped it up and sliced in two. I served it with cottage cheese topped with some sliced tomatoes and basil chiffonade and salt and pepper. The cottage cheese helped temper the heat of the Thai spice blend, even though it was not overly hot.
Start to finish, I had dinner on the table in 20 minutes, a very healthy meal and a very happy wife.
BTW, that salad is great by itself and I serve it with any Thai food that I make at home. No oil necessary and the dressing is one of my favorites.
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Boo. The blakeyrant was just getting interesting when it vanished from sight.
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I put enough effort into it I made it into a new topic instead of a Status post.
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Status: having a bit of an identity crisis after finding out they're not going to prolong my contract at my current company. I mean it's not that big of a deal, and if they didn't do so I'd probably ask my boss not to prolong it anyway since it's a mess of a job, but still, me? Not good enough for them? Fuckers.
They say I "lack communication skills". WELL IF ANY ONE OF YOU OTHER THAN A SINGLE BA GAVE A FUCK ABOUT WHAT I'M DOING AND ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, HAD SOMETHING TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT... eh, fuck it.
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They say I "lack communication skills"
I guess it's the old 'none so deaf as those that will not hear'. On the plus side maybe your next client will be awesome.
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Thanks. Sounds delish. I've got most of it at home, except the non-english-speaking thai, so I'll try it tomorrow.
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I'll have to make that too. My girlfriend is back on Friday after 2 months interning in the US, might get some brownie points if I make something healthy and tasty (and she won't suspect I've been living off baked beans while she was away).
The soup recipe was delicious BTW, that's another one I'll have to share with her.
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she won't suspect I've been living off baked beans while she was away
She will know, when she smells the house. ;)
The soup recipe was delicious BTW, that's another one I'll have to share with her.
Glad you liked it. One of our favorites, especially when someone is sickly.
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Status:
I choose to make Arch Linux my main OS. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Because that challenge is one that I am willing to accept, one I am unwilling to postpone, and one which I intend to win.
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Linux is so shitty, Valve can't make Suspend work reliably-- say they won't support the feature.
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How about you link to the actual discussion and not just the discussion of the discussion?
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3h17u7/this_is_an_odd_decision_suspend_is_no_longer_a/
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Because every time I go to Reddit I get confused by that site's horrible design.
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What, no comment on how long it took to resolve the issue?
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BEN YOU ARE THE LINUX SAVIOR!!!!!
So... is this just the way to get Linux developers to fix their shit? Publicly embarrass them? Because... you'd think, given the state of their shitty broken OS, they'd be permanently embarrassed.
Maybe there's a better method to fix bugs. Maybe. Maybe in another 10-15 years, they'll have feature-parity with Windows 2000. Maybe.
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Considering most Linux machines are running servers, suspending them would be a very bad idea. You either do a full reboot or you keep it running.
And it's not even a Linux problem. If you read the comments, you would see that everyone is complaining about the proprietary drivers (NVIDIA's or ATI's). The reverse-engineered open source drivers work fine.
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Oh yeah. Fixing bugs is an awful idea for servers. GOOD THINKING BEN. SERVERS NEED TO HAVE MORE BUGS.
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I was not aware that "not breaking everything" was a bug.
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Fixing bugs is an awful idea for servers.
Hmmmmm, that is not what he said. I believe what he said was...
most Linux machines are running servers, suspending them would be a very bad idea.
I would tend to agree with him.