The Official Status Thread
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I feel like we are back in the screen protector discussion, except you are on the other side of the conversation.
Maybe someone left the screen protector on blakey
All he needs to do is peel it off and he could see more clearly...
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I am always on the right side, that's the important thing to remember.
Also I hate pedantic dickweeds with the passion of a million burning stars.
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Your a/c bill must be astronomical.
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Status: Wondering if we can harness blakey's rage as a renewable energy source
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As long as there are furries, his rage will certainly be renewable.
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Status: I spent like half an hour making this thing and nobody has liked it. What do you people want?
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Well...that's fucking helpful.
Fuck you, and your mother.
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I spent like half an hour making this thing and nobody has liked it. What do you people want?
How about something that's actually funny? Or at least its failure to be funny appears to have a point? Or we can maybe figure out what you were trying to make a joke about?
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YMBNH <is this more descriptive?>
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I didn't say I expected any of those things. I was just pointing out that the utter lack of any of them was why nobody like his post.
ETA: Only the first of those is likely to garner likes, though. The others might at least avoid "point at the dork and make fun of him" reactions.
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Fuck you, and your mother.
OH NOES! If only you could find an answer on the first hit on a Google search of that error!
Oh, wait, you can!
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Why would the Windows registry have a key named
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade\AllowOSUpgrade
?
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Why is that even a thing in the registry? Shouldn't the OS always allow you to upgrade if you have the upgrade media?
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because that's why
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Oh, wait, you can!
I could have, had I given a shit and looked. Instead, I figured it was MS trying to keep me from making a horrible mistake.
But, I am with Ben. Why should I have to set a registry key to make it work?
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Status: Desktop users: hold
p
for 3 seconds and then look in the upper right.
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Oh, it's just like that one other bug I found ...
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Suggestion box
In a strange turn of events, this text was meticuously cleaned off the box sometime between yesterday afternoon and this morning.
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Oh, it's just like that one other bug I found ...
"Bug" as in "Feature I don't like"? Sorry, this time I find that actually useful. Albeit not much.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
Suggestion box
In a strange turn of events, this text was meticuously cleaned off the box sometime between yesterday afternoon and this morning.
Suggestion boxes tend to be big and blue here in Germany.
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The killer feature of auto-leasing (reading US-ian fine print YMMV) is the per-mile charge after some fixed number of miles/year.
Typical figures are ~25 cents/mile for every mile over ~12K¹.
You mentioned driving ~25K year....
¹And this figure seems to be drifting downwards over the years... I think I'm hearing 10K miles recently...
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Status: I've gone and done a course:
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Softare
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Excess mileage is the equivalent of 9 cents a mile here. Standard mileage limit is 10k miles/year but I can take the lease out as a 25k miles/year lease. I'd probably just take out a 20k miles/year lease and deal with any difference.
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That's part of being lean. Less letters = less time typing.
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That's part of being lean. Less letters = less time typing.
-> C progging style, umount cmd
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Status:
Dear DevExpress developers.
No, resizing a window containing a gridview is not a good fucking reason to redo the
IDataErrorInfo
validation of every single fucking object in that grid. Especially so if you trigger it multiple times during the resize.Fucking hell.
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Cars are the largest "investment" that we routinely make that we lose money on.
I've never considered a car to be any sort of an investment. The only way that makes sense would be old collector cars, if I had a business restoring cars or if I used my car as part of a moneymaking venture. It's simply a cost involved in having a decent life.
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OH NOES! If only you could find an answer on the first hit on a Google search of that error!
Oh, wait, you can!
Ugh. I'd rather use git.
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Excess mileage is the equivalent of 9 cents a mile here
YMDV ;)
Sounds like its more feasible for you, then. And makes me wonder what nefarious rules-differences exist that shift the balance so much between sides of the pond.
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Dollar cost averaging works in your favor when prices go down...as long as they come back up.
Eh, I'm pretty sure dollar cost averaging tends to do (slightly) worse than just dumping everything in all at once. Granted it's better when the market is going down, but I tend to refer to (the first ten seconds at least) this clip when talking about that:
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I've never considered a car to be any sort of an investment.
Neither have I, which is why I put it in quotes. But most people talk about it that way. I, like you, have always considered it:
simply a cost involved in having a decent life.
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Eh, I'm pretty sure dollar cost averaging tends to do (slightly) worse than just dumping everything in all at once.
Well, that depends. If you are constantly stockpiling cash and waiting for a recession, then yeah it would do a lot worse. In investing, there is no replacement for time. But, if you have an excess of cash for some reason, and you find yourself in a dip in the economy, investing that money while the market is down can get you a better return for your money. But, you probably would have been better to have taken a slow, steady approach to investing and put that money in over the period that you accumulated it.
I would agree with the first 10 seconds of that clip also, if you intentionally try to time the market, you will lose out to those who just invest every month.
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But, since you mention it, we have breakfast for dinner a couple of times a month
Since my wife is getting morning sickness in the evenings, and has been immediately throwing up anything she eats after about 5pm, we've been eating dinner for lunch. Had some nice pulled pork with jacket potatoes and roasted peppers today.
For dinner, we have lunch (or just an ice lolly)
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Why would the Windows registry have a key named
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade\AllowOSUpgrade
?Ben, none of my email addresses contain the substring "Microsoft".
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Status: my cow-orkers are yelling at each other in the conference room next door. The meeting was to discuss a strategy for picking who'd do each new customer implementation; I don't know if that's what they're still on about.
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24 posts were birthed to a new topic: New Parent Advice for Jaloopa
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Found a discobug I haven't seen before:
An unclosed <small> -tag is the culprit.
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yeah.... i saw it. CBA to report it though.
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Why would the Windows registry have a key named HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade\AllowOSUpgrade?
Probably so admins can override it.
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Status: staying away with work is definitely improved by staying in posh hotels.
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Status: oh CSI, I love you so much, but please don't do any computer-related things anymore. Having to grab your geeks to discover that someone managed to hide the secret information in a blog post by coloring the text the same as the background, it really makes you look like being put to shame by Encyclopedia Brown.
Well it's not as bad as the episode where they've had one of the poor schmucks sit the whole day in the lab playing a video game on which the crimes were based, because the CEO of the company wouldn't disclose the plot, and apparently they didn't have enough Nintendo Power. But it's close.
Filed under: also, every blogger knows
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"THE HACKER'S IP ADDRESS HAS BEEN FOUND: 192.168.1.2!"
<shut up, I'll post what I want.
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Probably so admins can override it.
You need admin privileges to upgrade, so your point is moo.
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Actually, they always end up in
3xx.xxx.xx.xx
range. Least of their sins, and at least justifiable in the same way 555 numbers are.
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No, I remember this one well. It may have been one of the other similar shows, but it was definitely the router.
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it was definitely the router.
Good thing it was not 127.0.0.1. They would have had to arrest themselves.