The Official Status Thread
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If you are spending $16 on a steak dinner, you are buying shoe leather.
For $16, I can make a steak dinner at home-- tenderloin, sides, salad and dessert.
For two.
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I feel that I should be offended but I don't know why.
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They seriously call it "Eclipse Che"?
Ugh. That makes me literally want to drive to wherever who picked that name lives and kick his or her ass.
Literally. Not "beat them up", just give 'em a couple of good boots.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
For $16, I can make a steak dinner at home-- tenderloin, sides, salad and dessert.
For two.
So you live in a land where Mahi Mahi is exorbitantly expensive, but beef tenderloin is cheaper than ground beef?
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Not sure if there's a real systemic solution for that.
There is. Give up all of your hobbies and devote all of your spare time to WTDWTF.
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Status: TIL that GCC has a warning that says "‘main’ is usually a function [-Wmain]".
-Wmain
Warn if the type ofmain
is suspicious.main
should be a function with external linkage, returningint
, taking either zero arguments, two, or three arguments of appropriate types. This warning is enabled by default in C++ and is enabled by either-Wall
or-Wpedantic
.IOW, beware of shenanigans (or stupidity) if you hit that one!
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One can not ask a simple question around here without being accused of other motives ...
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mainly UK
the person who is directly responsible for managing the work of someone else in a company or business, and who is one level above that personAnyone can have a line manager.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
For $16, I can make a steak dinner at home-- tenderloin, sides, salad and dessert.
For two.
So you live in a land where Mahi Mahi is exoritantly expensive, but beef tenderloin is cheaper than ground beef?
I can buy an entire tenderloin primal from Costco for about $20-$30 per pound. I'll denue it and break it down into streaks and roast. So pound for pound, a 6oz tenderloin is $9.37 per pound (assuming average of $25 per pound).
Sides and salad are a trivial expense. Let's say $1. Same with dessert. Eggs and flour, whatever.
So it might be closer to $20 for two.
Ground beef-- again, I buy whole cuts from Costco and grind it. $4/pound, depending on what cuts I buy and what the price is that day.
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So you live in a land where Mahi Mahi is exoritantly expensive, but beef tenderloin is cheaper than ground beef?
lets see 16$... call it 14.50$ after taxes....
/me looks up current market prices in her area
looks like i should he able to get 1.5 lbs of tenderloin or prime cut for that, maybe 3 lbs if i get one for marinading (but why would i do that to a steak?)
in either case that's more than enough for a two person dinner, and indeed i should be able to get a 4 person dinner if i grab the potatoes out of the cupboard, and pull some vegetables out of the crisper for a salad (or if you insist steam them, but you destroy so many of the vitamins that way)
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Nice ninja edit... ;)
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(or if you insist steam them, but you destroy so many of the vitamins that way)
Dashit? If you steam them, you preserve almost all of the vitamins. If you BOIL them, you lose a lot of water-soluble nutrients. Steaming takes longer, and people are lazy-- though a lot of those lazy people also don't eat veggies...
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Nice ninja edit... ;)
me am is math gud.would have been faster but discourse decided to wait 40 seconds to fill the editor with the post i was editing
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Status: for a moment, I thought I'm crazy, because I re-read a sentence and it contained completely different numbers than I remembered from a second ago.
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Wow. That is the sort of thing Brookstone would distribute.
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lets see 16$... call it 14.50$ after taxes....
Wait...what the shit? Do you live in a state where the state pays you taxes? How is it less after taxes?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
If you steam them, you preserve almost all of the vitamins. If you BOIL them, you lose a lot of water-soluble nutrients.
steaming preserves more than boiling does, yes.
but steaming also does a fair bit of damage as several vital vitamins get denatured and rendered completely ineffective by the heat of steaming.
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Status: for a moment, I thought I'm crazy, because I re-read a sentence and it contained completely different numbers than I remembered from a second ago.
yeah.... i have no idea how i managed to get 8-9$/lb to give me 2.5lb for only 14.50.... my math was wrong, and i corrected it.... like the unstealthiest ninja around
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Wait...what the shit? Do you live in a state where the state pays you taxes? How is it less after taxes?
i have 16$ in cash, i need food. a portion of the cash will go to taxes. sales tax in this state are 6% on most things 7% on the rest.... assume 7%..... that gives me 14.88 to spend on food. 14.88 is hard to math with. call it 14.50
simple.
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Sale?
well if i'm going to be getting beef it's going to be a hell of a sale because fuck spending even $8/lb for meat when chicken and turkey are regulary 1.20-1.50$/lb and even pork is usually under $4/lb
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Anyone can have a line manager.
What does the word "line" refer to if there's no assembly line?
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While writing a wizard I persisted the settings to make life easier for myself and left that functionality in there.
Whoops--since then I've learned to do something like check the computer name and only persist the data if it's running on my PC
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Yeah, try doing your medium-rare steak using chicken . Good luck.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
So it might be closer to $20 for two.
You said $16, then you said $20. Why don't you go make up your fucking mind, then come back?
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What does the word "line" refer to if there's no assembly line?
Does it matter? My first job had the title "Software Engineer", and I wasn't even out of high school then.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
So it might be closer to $20 for two.
You said $16, then you said $20. Why don't you go make up your fucking mind, then come back?
If you want t-bone instead of tenderloin, it'd be for sure below $16. I quoted you $16, that's all you'd pay. Or do you want to complain about a free dessert?
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Yeah, try doing your medium-rare steak using chicken . Good luck.
cooking doesn't work that way.
if you insist on beef then you have to pay for beef.
i find i live quite nicely (and much cheaper) on not-beef.
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My first job had the title "Software Engineer", and I wasn't even out of high school then.
Right; because it's impossible to be a engineer if you're still in high scho--
Oh wait, this is the dumb fucker who only says extremely stupid bullshit, nevermind. Go be dumb somewhere else.
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Oh wait, this is the dumb fucker who only says extremely stupid bullshit, nevermind.
Implying anyone Blakey interacts with doesn't have this title
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I feel that I should be offended but I don't know why.
Nothing to see here, Meowve along.
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Right; because it's impossible to be a engineer if you're still in high scho--
Dunno about the USA, but in Poland, an engineer is an academic degree equal to BSc. So no, you cannot be an engineer while still in high school, because you need to finish high school to go to college.
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Go be dumb somewhere else.
Is your "I lost my debit card" forced diet making you extra cranky today?
Filed under: Fuck you. Give me a juice box and some Snackables
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Implying anyone Blakey interacts with doesn't have this title
In that case, the "extremely stupid bullshit" is interacting with him in the first place.
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What does the word "line" refer to if there's no assembly line?
The line connecting the two of you on a (probably imaginary) org chart.
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Status: making fun of @blakeyrat.
Yes, but that's also not friendly you dumb fucker I've decided just now I will no longer reply to ever.
Oh wait, this is the dumb fucker who only says extremely stupid bullshit, nevermind. Go be dumb somewhere else.
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So... how does a "line manager" differ from just a "manager"?
Org chart line? WTF.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Is your "I lost my debit card" forced diet making you extra cranky today?
He was remarkably non-cranky most of last week. He's probably making up for it.
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What does the word "line" refer to if there's no assembly line?
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It all depends on how much stupid shit I read on this forum.
There's been a LOT of stupid shit this morning.
It also doesn't help that the forum's been either:
- Moving too fast (meaning posts come in to my "I actually care about this thread" before I can get to the unread page to hit "mark posts as read".
- Down entirely.
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how does a "line manager" differ from just a "manager"?
Org chart line? WTF.
If you Google "line manager" it says it's a Britishism. Thus it's probably just one of those pointless archaic ways of saying things, like the imaginary "f" they put into "lieutenant" or calling a car's trunk a "boot".
If you dig around on wikipedia, there's separate articles for line and staff management that indicate the former is business- or product-focused while staff management is more like HR. But I'd just go with the "weird Brits saying weird things" theory, myself.
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Down entirely.
You could send @apapadimoulis a nickel so he could by a real computer.
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I'm guessing it's a really stupid abbreviation of "front-line manager".
Growing up in Boeing territory, I'd assume it would be an abbreviation for "assembly line manager" which is why I think Dogsb works in a beet cannery.
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Who the fuck are you calling british?
- the kind of person who brings a to a fight
- someone who CBA to remember where everyone's from, especially when they don't have that called out on their profile page
- someone who got jellypotatoed and forgot what the next thing I was going to say was.
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I'm guessing it's a really stupid abbreviation of "front-line manager".
Could be. Googling it found some UK HR site that suggests it's the lowest level of management: "Line managers have responsibility for directly managing individual employees or teams." About.com, summarized, treats it as a synonym for "direct manager".
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Status: Still fighting with the remnants of my cold - the last three nights were somewhat strenuous (i.e. 20 minutes of uninterrupted sleep, tops): high fever (I felt like a toaster), cough, a sore throat from hell and joint aches for the first two. Last night only sported the infernal sore throat and a mild fever.
This beast actually defied all my attempts at wrestling it into submission:
a) Gargling chamomile-sage solution held it at bay - for a whole whoppin' minute
b) Sore throat pastilles which were supposed to be soothing soothed my tongue, but not much else.
c) The "normal" pain relievers like ASS, Ibuprofen or Paracetamol didn't do much good either
d) The "heavy" guns I still had from my kidney problems (Diclofenac and Novaminsulfon) made no dent either.I can only hope that the doc was right and that it is indeed a secondary bacterial infection. Which my quasi-religious adherence to the scheduled ingestion of Amoxicillin should kill any day now.
On the upside: Never seen red-orange sputum before.