The Official Status Thread
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Hoping it's just a muscle thing that will heal on its own.
It is just old age. Might I suggest a:
and possibly a:
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We had a large inventory of ancient XP machines
You poor bastard.
all the hideous things the salesmen download
I can imagine, but why wouldn't they get salespeople better machines than that? They are the revenue generators, they are the last ones you want to hamstring with an ancient machine.
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I see Bikeshed Industries™ added this moved posts banner but didn't bother to actually make the notifications any less broken.
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Yeah, any yellow posts these days are manually generated.
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It's a nice change, it's just a shame the notifications didn't get fixed at the same time.
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The Church of the Holy Bikeshed would never fix a bug.
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Status: wondering why nobody has marketed salt or oil as "non-DHMO".
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Status: the inside temp dropped down to 78 late last night, got back almost to 84 during the day, and is nearly down to 80 now. They're supposed to fix our AC first thing tomorrow.
Also: my computer wouldn't boot. Put in a different drive, it came up. Put the SSD back in, nothing. Fuck it--went to Fry's, got a 250GB 850 Evo for $10 less than the 120GB 840 plain. Windows 8 took 8 minutes from clicking the Install button after the disc loaded (counting some time wasted getting the partitions set up).
Tomorrow: upgrading to 10.
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"Listening" to really boring music coming from the church across the street. (It's a Spanish-speaking church; I think the style of music may be "Tejano," but I'm not sure, and I don't care enough to research it.) Monotonous fast eighth-note rhythm, and exactly two chords, alternating every measure.
I can hardly wait for the preaching to start. I can't understand what he says (both because of language, and because it's far enough away that I can't really make out the words, even if I could understand them), but it's the style of preaching where everything he says is a breathless shout. I don't necessarily have anything against what he says, but the style is definitely not my cup of tea, even without the language barrier.
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Status: Found a nice PDF annotation tool for emacs. All I had to do was to replace the idiotic C-c C-a t keycombo with a simple t.
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STATUS:
What's with all these scratches on my brand new phone's screen!? I only had it for a month! This sucks, this never happened with Samsung...
Wait, what's this?
Oh. Never mind.
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Status: three million records. Zero fucking keys, not even an index. What now?
Also, I used to chuckle at this XKCD. Now it's the sad everyday reality.
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Wait, what's this?
And some people put those on their phones...on purpose. They usually trap dust and lint under the screen protector also, making their phone look like total hell.
Just last week, I saw someone who had put a screen protector on their Macbook Pro. How the hell do they think that screen is going to get scratched??
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Those are some ugly fingers
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Status:
"Well, I'll just trace-log everything, then enable the logger only for debugging, what can possibly go wrong?"
a while later, enables the trace logger
"...okay, 50 thousand log entries before the program even loads the main form miiiight have been a bit overboard..."
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At least it gives you an easy way to accelerate the code. <removing all the excessive logging does that>
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Status: Instead of writing a memory manager and a garbage collector, I'm going to just write
malloc
withoutfree
. Also, every function's stack will be allocated on the heap.
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Is the joke here that you didn't use the screen protector and thus got scratches on your screen, or that you did and thus the scratches were all on the protector and not on the screen? Or something else entirely?
I don't get it.
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The screen protector in that blurry photo seems to have some scratches on it.
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It's too blurry for me to make a call one way or the other.
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Looks like it was just the soft peel off plastic thing that comes with it that's meant to be removed when you first open it. Not the sort of protector that's meant to be actually used.
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Is the joke here that you didn't use the screen protector and thus got scratches on your screen, or that you did and thus the scratches were all on the protector and not on the screen? Or something else entirely?
I don't get it.
I had the stupid screen protector, didn't even realize.
As this part would indicate:
Wait, what's this?
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Status: I had a dream last night. I dreamt1 that I found a new job, which I inadvertently abandoned a week later, because I dreamt that the new job had only been a dream.
1Yes, Chrome, that's a correctly spelt2 word.
2So is spelt.
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So is spelt.
a wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
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I had the stupid screen protector, didn't even realize.
I know you had it, you photographed it! DUH!
What is want to know is how the screen protector ties into the narrative of the scratches.
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What is want to know is how the screen protector ties into the narrative of the scratches.
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Phone have scratch.
OH NOEZ GORILLA GLASS CAN HAZ SCRATCH!?
Phone have screen protektr.
Only protektr scratch.
YAYZ!
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So you are claiming the protector was installed on the phone at the time the scratches occurred.
That's fine, but the post we're talking about doesn't even slightly hint at that.
And Cartman saying he owns the screen protector doesn't clarify the situation.
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a wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
I am aware of this. It is also one way (common in Britain and other English-speaking areas of the world; rare but acceptable in the US) of spelling the past tense and past participle of spell. We've had this discussion before.
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I gathered that it was the kind that comes on your phone, part of the packaging, and was never removed. He didn't know it was there.
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Ok, but you're just guessing.
Whatever, I don't care anymore.
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We've had this discussion before.
I just wanted to ruffle your feathers. I actually had to look past the definition that you intended in order to find that one. ;)
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Ok, but you're just guessing.
It is a safe guess, for those of us who do not have to have every tiny detail spelled out for them.
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This is the first time in my life I've heard of a phone shipping with a screen protector already installed. So it's not something I would have guessed.
But yes, you all are super-genius smarties. You win all the awards and double the prizes.
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This is the first time in my life I've heard of a phone shipping with a screen protector already installed. So it's not something I would have guessed.
Have youever bought a phone? Every one I have ever purchased has had plastic on the screen when it shipped.
But yes, you all are super-genius smarties. You win all the awards and double the prizes.
Our reward is being (semi) palatable human beings.
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Every phone I've ever bought has had a film over the screen with tabs for peeling it off. This isn't a problem with Nokias, because they have pictures on them telling you to remove them. Not every company takes the stupidity of consumers into account, however.
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Have youever bought a phone?
Yes. 5 or 6 smartphones, 3 pre-smartphones. 2 of those old fashioned wireless phones that need a base station wired into a wall. 1 answering machine.
Every one I have ever purchased has had plastic on the screen when it shipped.
I don't think any of my phones have had that, including the really mainstream iPhone 3G I had.
Sometimes electronics come with really thin plastic for protection of the corners and such during shipping, maybe some of my phones shipped with that? I don't remember. But you're supposed to peel that off before using it, it's very different than anything you'd call a "screen protector".
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it's very different than anything you'd call a "screen protector".
Technically, it IS a screen protector.
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Not every company takes the stupidity of consumers into account
at least as much as Nokia does, however.FTFY
No company could afford to take all the consumer stupidity into account.
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So you are claiming the protector was installed on the phone at the time the scratches occurred.
That's fine, but the post we're talking about doesn't even slightly hint at that.
And Cartman saying he owns the screen protector doesn't clarify the situation.
It's the protector that comes on a brand new phone. @cartman just didn't finish unpacking his new phone. At least, that's what it looked like in his picture.
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Phone have scratch.OH NOEZ GORILLA GLASS CAN HAZ SCRATCH!?Phone have screen protektr.Only protektr scratch.YAYZ!
That's the gist.
I don't think any of my phones have had that, including the really mainstream iPhone 3G I had.
Sometimes electronics come with really thin plastic for protection of the corners and such during shipping, maybe some of my phones shipped with that? I don't remember. But you're supposed to peel that off before using it, it's very different than anything you'd call a "screen protector".
(Also paging @abarker and others who think I'm a complete idiot),
This is definitely not the plastic peel-off thingy they use to protect the phone during transport. It was more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nle4XIrtBRw
How do you think I used the touch screen with the plastic on? Jesus.
Since I bought the phone used, the guy before me probably had this protector installed. The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure it also had the ordinary new phone shipping plastic on top of it, which I peeled off. I don't remember anymore.
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Status: contemplating the back lid of my Samsung phone that is about half as thick as the thin and wobbly plastic part that fixed it in its shipping box.
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How do you think I used the touch screen with the plastic on? Jesus.
When I buy a new phone, I don't remove the shipping plastic until I finish setup. Never gives me any trouble using the touch screen, so it probably wouldn't have caused you any issues.
Since I bought the phone used
Now wait a minute, you said brand new:
What's with all these scratches on my brand new phone's screen!?
So is brand new or is it used? You can't blame us for coming to perfectly logical conclusions when you give us incorrect data. One might even say that your statement about having a brand new phone was a misdirection or even a lie. Someone was bound to say it.
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Status: watching as the world comes to an end... Nasdaq just crashed -8% and most of the EU is in the -5% -10% range.
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Status: Because I'm a lazy fuck, my compiler will allocate string and numeric literals at runtime.
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Facebook was still up, as of a couple hours ago.
EDIT: nope it's also down now.
All-in-all, my investment account is down 1.94%. Suxxx. Of course I have to wait until market close to see how my mutuals did, it's probably even worse.
EDIT EDIT: I'm actually beating the index, which is down 2.34%. Go me.