The Official Status Thread
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Also, status: implemented a basic rate-limited request-banger. Now to weave Discourse API around it...
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In the US Northeast there was this great soda called Jolt. "Twice the caffeine and real sugar!" or the other way 'round.
The first time I had one the first sip was like getting kicked in the back of the mouth. IIRC Consumer reports once described it as "threatening to go nationwide." Later, they turned it into an energy drink and then went out of business.
Great stuff.
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Great stuff.
Sounds so. I should probably get some caffeine powder for my sodas, it's dirt cheap. The only problem is that you really have to dilute it - two teaspoons can potentially kill you.
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In the US Northeast there was this great soda called Jolt.
I don't know if it was available throughout the country, but Jolt cola was a thing on the West Coast, too.
According to the worlds most reliable source *ahem*:
The initial slogan was "All the sugar and twice the caffeine"; this slogan survived for 24 years.[3]Apparently it still exists elsewhere in the world.
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Apparently it still exists elsewhere in the world.
"In Ireland, Jolt Cola is sold in 50 cl bottles"
Do metric types not like saying "half-liter"? Or is that an editor being weird even for The Other Wiki?
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Do metric types not like saying "half-liter"? Or is that an editor being weird even for The Other Wiki?
We use "cl" pretty exclusively for wine and some spirits. So my guess is either on the editor, or the label maker.
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Maybe it was to avoid a liter/litre spelling edit war.
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Indeed it is. In fact, when I read 50 cl, my brain was insufficiently caffeinated to translate that into meaningful units. I don't think I've used cl for anything, ever.
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Yuck. That's why I go sugar-free.
Also, Brits have this amazing thing called Irn-Bru - I have no fucking idea how to describe the taste, but it's glorious. Not much in terms of caffeine, though, so I supply myself with those 1 quid per litre Red Bull knock-offs.
Irn-Bru is predominantly a Scottish thing but us southerners get it as well and I agree.
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Considering Civ V, I'm giving Beyond Earth a pass. Maybe if I read some good reviews.
This one is somewhat less than fully coherent, but sounds like "give it a miss."
"You earn points in Affinities by dabbling with the "Tech Web." This evolution of the previous βtech treeβ system that has permeated just about every turn-based strategy game for decades is probably the smartest change in the whole game. "
But previously he says Affinities make the game feel tiny. So it's a smart change...that makes the game worse?
He keeps saying how great they are, and then in the next breath talking about how they're a drawback.
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In the US Northeast there was this great soda called Jolt. "Twice the caffeine and real sugar!" or the other way 'round.
The first time I had one the first sip was like getting kicked in the back of the mouth. IIRC Consumer reports once described it as "threatening to go nationwide." Later, they turned it into an energy drink and then went out of business.
Great stuff.
Wasn't there also a Super Jolt?
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Update: php-5.4.5/ext/openssl/xp_ssl.c:363: undefined reference to 'SSLv2_server_method'
It never ends...
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Filed under: Searching google images for 'frowny' does not bring up exactly what I thought it would bring up. NSFL...
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Irn-Bru is predominantly a Scottish thing but us southerners get it as well and I agree.
Prefer mine with ethanol in. (When I can be bothered with alcopops that is.)
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Sometimes bitch pops are exactly what you need.
There's also turbo shandy - beer plus alcopops. Tastes like shandy, gets you as pissed as full strength beer. I miss University sometimes
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In the US Northeast there was this great soda called Jolt. "Twice the caffeine and real sugar!" or the other way 'round.
The first time I had one the first sip was like getting kicked in the back of the mouth. IIRC Consumer reports once described it as "threatening to go nationwide." Later, they turned it into an energy drink and then went out of business.
Great stuff.
That sounds familiar. Was that the stuff I got a free sample of in middle school in Washington, and then never saw again?
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Prefer mine with ethanol in.
Yuck. How people manage to use sweet mixers with their drinks and enjoy it is beyond me.
I tried it once, since it's not really as sweet as, say, Coca-Cola, but... yuck.
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Proud to be in that particular club, I am
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Status: Surprised and pleased. Dogecoin is going up in value, and I forgot I have a stash on a flash drive in my firebox. Gonna have to start paying attention to the cryptos again.
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Where were you in the US?
A couple of places in Rhode Island and the city of Boston.
Starbucks was exactly where I found some once I got to Boston (I didn't see a Starbucks before then) and my second hotel had breakfast tea.that's probably the source of some or most of the stereotypes
Yeah, I think that's very true.
The ones that sprang to mind were rudeness and bad driving. Nearly everyone I met was lovely and apart from being honked the millisecond lights went green in Boston people were very courteous on the driving side.
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A couple of places in Rhode Island and the city of Boston.Starbucks was exactly where I found some once I got to Boston (I didn't see a Starbucks before then) and my second hotel had breakfast tea.
Ah, you were on the wrong coast, that's the mistake. That one, over on the east? That one sucks. It's got Florida all over it.
Nearly everyone I met was lovely and apart from being honked the millisecond lights went green in Boston people were very courteous on the driving side.
Wait... you think... you think Boston drivers were courteous?
Maybe you're from Bizarro-world. Maybe that's what's going on here.
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Wait... you think... you think Boston drivers were courteous?
Absolutely, they always let me in to other lanes when I was in the wrong place (which happened a lot) which is more than you'd get in Oxford UK. Maybe it was the gigantic SUV I hired that did it.
Bizarro-world
SeaLab was one of the shows that kept me amused during the long flights. I was pleasantly surprised you can listen to devices during takeoff now, blasting off the runway to Kenny Loggins will never get old
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Absolutely, they always let me in to other lanes when I was in the wrong place (which happened a lot) which is more than you'd get in Oxford UK.
Wow.
I was in Boston a couple months ago, and all I can say is that, in comparison, Oxford UK must be like goddamned Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Maybe it was the gigantic SUV I hired that did it.
It would make sense that those primitive howling animals only respond to creatures larger than themselves.
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Ahh, they made an x2 Jolt.
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A couple of places in Rhode Island and the city of Boston.
Ahhh, my old stomping grounds.
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Still wondering why it was a good idea to connect to a production MySQL instance using Python 2.7 and MySQLdb on a Windows 7 box last night.
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.... @accalia needs this.
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Maybe it was the gigantic SUV I hired that did it.
It would make sense that those primitive howling animals only respond to creatures larger than themselves.
If you're lucky. I'm still surprised at how many little 4-cylinder sardine cans think they can somehow push around my 7,000-pound crew cab pickup truck.
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ick! coffee bad! even if it does have the goddess's own drug (caffeine) in it!
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@Arantor, have you had to deal with this
walldeluge of text?
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@Arantor, have you had to deal with this <s>wall</s> deluge of text?
Yes. NEVER. AGAIN.
And I wasn't even using PHP at the time.
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It was oddly easier to use this.
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This was years ago when I was getting the data out of my old ASP Classic CMS with a VB thing to push it into MySQL. Like I said... NEVER AGAIN.
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...............wow.
Have you ever used a UDL file?
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What's UDL?
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- fire up Windows
- open Notepad
- save empty file as test.udl
- close Notepad
- open file in Windows Explorer
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- profit!
- quote this post
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I went *nix on this stuff years ago and much happier for it
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I figured that step 1 would be the hardest, although not the most painful, for you.
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I figured that step 1 would be the hardest, although not the most painful, for you.
Did I forget to mention I'm running Windows on a MacBook like... RIGHT NOW?
I might have gone *nix for running websites but dammit I want to play games sometimes, and neither OS X nor Linux are particularly accommodating in that respect.
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So have you done it yet?
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What use would I have for such a thing these days?
I'm not porting stuff from Access databases to MySQL any more, it's MySQL all the way and I have tools for that
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Random knowledge? You seem to like that.
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No, @accalia is the one that likes random knowledge. Me, I just enjoy the ride
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Doesn't look that way.
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Doesn't look that way.
Good, good, means I'm keeping you on your toes and not revealing my master plans for world domination just yet.
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Isn't all knowledge random?
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do you want me to geek out on you? cause i can!