The Official Status Thread
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They can actually be very delicious if prepared properly. I'm not sure how, precisely, but I've had brussel sprouts twice that i can recall when they were nearly my favorite part of the meal.
I have a recipe that involves bacon. The pot was empty upon returning from that potluck dinner...
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Looks like a mutant dolphin
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Just gave my dog some Bok Choy stems. She's crunching away, all happy.
Gung hay fat choy, everyone.
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Shame. Possibly the most innovative FPS in history, and hardly anybody knows about it because it came out on an unpopular platform. (Unpopular for games at least; at the time it came out Mac had like a 25% market share.)
Tried it on an OS X. Meh.
It might have had a great story and network code, I don't know, but I found it a chore to play. In Doom, I feel the urge to run around like a loon, blasting monsters. In Marathon, I felt the urge to yawn.
Maybe there's some magical moment where the game starts to shine, but I never reached it in the first few levels, before I called it quits.
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I POO ON YOUR FACE
Did you get to Durandal at all? Best video game character ever. He's completely utterly insane, it's amazing.
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I POO ON YOUR FACE
I read this as iPod on your face, which sounds like a legitimate gamertag...
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Status: Amazed at the ways projects manage to abuse XML.
<foo> <bar>true</bar> <bizz>SomeEnum</bizz> <baz><gizz>true</gizz><gazz>frist</></baz> </foo>
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Status: Dwarf Fortress 0.42 is apparently interesting to several people.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
. Let's see if this gets you going on Kipling
Or Blake?
Or indeed Blake, now that I've googled for it. Either way, she turned out to be not controllable, so the point is moo by now.
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Did you get to Durandal at all? Best video game character ever. He's completely utterly insane, it's amazing.
Don't remember. I was stuck in some labyrinthine corridors, I may have found one of those story terminals and then I quit.
Frankly, the game reminds me of Tekwar. Technically impressive for its time, but just not fun to play.
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@CarrieVS said:
baby tipper lorry
I was a baby tipper once, but they get back up too fast.
Well I don't know what it's properly called. It performs the function of a tipper lorry but it's far from being a lorry.
Today they've fired up the mysterious machine that was standing around all yesterday, and revealed it to be a rock breaker. All the rubble they went to such trouble to pile in precisely the right place yesterday, they're now feeding into it.
It's quite neat, actually. First it's got a sort of vibrating sieve, and a belt pouring the dirt that's shaken off out of the side, then the rocks go through a box where I presume they're broken up, and then before they're poured off the end there's a belt spinning sideways over the top of them which flicks all the bits of metal cable and so forth out the side.
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Bit bigger than that one but yes.
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Status: if in doubt, just make another status meeting. You cannot overdo micromanagement, can you?
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I want a meetings stick. That's a forgot art.
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Don't remember. I was stuck in some labyrinthine corridors, I may have found one of those story terminals and then I quit.
You didn't even get past the first level? Christ.
Frankly, the game reminds me of Tekwar. Technically impressive for its time, but just not fun to play.
... Tekwar's a book.
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Status: Microsoft seems to have a unique definition of '100% complete', been like this for about 10 minutes now.
Preparing for upgrade This might take a while. Don't turn off your PC.
100% complete
Edit: 'Your product is ready' is also lies...
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Whatever, like I'm going to listen to the guy who didn't even get past the first level of Marathon.
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Whatever, like I'm going to listen to the guy who didn't even get past the first level of Marathon.
Says the guy who didn't know what's Tekwar.
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I do know what it is: it's a series of books. Also I think a shitty USA Network TV show.
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I do know what it is: it's a series of books. Also I think a shitty USA Network TV show.
If only you were as good of a liar as you were googler.
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Status: My father has to have a procedure done today, and I am driving him. Nothing too major, but his (surgeon? heart doc?) is named Doctor Cox.
Unfortunately, he is not as much fun as the Doctor Cox I first thought of.
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All right. I tried it. It is super salta. It's not completely awful though. Get rid of the first 10 seconds of salt and it's fine.
I could see how chomping on three slices at once could be considered Caustic.
It wasn't very chewy like normal black licorice.
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Status: worried
I only hope it's a wrong translation from Korean... actually, I don't care, not like I give LG any real data.
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Well, “
available.
” is not the greatest of passwords (right number of concealment bullets) but it at least has a non-letter character in it…
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WTF? Who does that?
At the very least, they aren't salting properly. Worst case scenario.... *shudder*.
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STATUS: Just when everyone has written Sublime Text off, they come out with a new update.
Also, a brand new forum.
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Status: The stupid, it burns! About halfway done compiling a Visual Studio project when Windows 10 decides to autoreboot for Windows Updates with no warning!!
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Also, a brand new forum.
So that's why they have not had an update for well over a year. They had their entire team trying to figure out how to deploy Discourse.
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Well, at least I know what text editor not to use.
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STATUS sad
Back at work tomorrow after a 5 day bender =(
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Status: Found a nice way to fsck Visual Studio into an soft-infinite loop:
Step 1: Open an SSIS package that requires upgrading to open in the current version of VS (I used 2013, but anything with TFS built in will probably work).
Step 2: Let the automatic upgrade happen, which (coincidentally) automatically overwrites the old package without consent and without backup. Luckily you're using TFS, right?
Step 3: Leave the package open in the editor (Obviously , but hey, we're still viewing it after all!)
Step 4: Instruct TFS to "Undo" the file, which should restore it to its' previous non-upgraded form.
Step 5: TFS warns you that the file is open and wants to know if you really actually truly want to undo the changes or keep the stuff that's in memory in the editor. Clicking "Yes" here cancels the Undo, so click "No"
Step 6: TFS performs the undo (Nice! Something that kinda works!)
Step 7: VS's editor notices that the package has been changed, but that the user did not make any changes to the package themselves, so decides to re-open it. Guess what that means?
Step 8: The SSIS editor automatically upgrades the package during the re-open.
Step 9: TFS notices that the file we're supposed to be undoing isn't undone, and tries again.
Step 10: Go back to Step 5.Luckily, I am a more advanced intelligence and recognized the loop after only six iterations!
Filed under: Major accomplishment!
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Windows 10 decides to autoreboot for Windows Updates with
noAt least three days'warning!!<empty cannot be post
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I keep hearing about some mythical three day warning dialog but I have never seen evidence of its existence.
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mythical three day warning dialog
Mine doesn't work because the metro control panel is borked at least 70% of the time. I point my ignorant finger at that.
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Worst case scenario.... shudder.
Hash map? You get the user profile for the password you guess!
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I keep hearing about some mythical three day warning dialog but I have never seen evidence of its existence.
I just make a habit of manually checking updates to see if anything is pending. (Tho usually I have a notification waiting - just have to click the notification box in the tray)
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WTF? Who does that?
I only hope it's a wrong translation from Korean... actually, I don't care, not like I give LG any real data.
Reading comprehension?
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I keep hearing about some mythical three day warning dialog but I have never seen evidence of its existence.
Mine rebooted last night, I can say unequivocally that I received absolutely no warning.
Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to remove all capability to choose which updates we want to install? I just looked and I cannot even find a registry hack to bring back that functionality. And why can't I turn off updates or choose when to install them on my own?
Win10 updates are pure fuckery. I will install updates when I fucking want to.
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I hope "available" means "passes our complexity checks" and not "no other user shares this password".
One of those is just a localization problem, the other is a gigantic WTF From Hell.
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Not that I'm defending Discourse at all, but that "tux" guy on that forum is the WORST PIECE OF SHIT IN THE WORLD.
Do you consider it acceptable behavior to call people with a certain security in mind "trolls"?
Do you work for the NSA?
If someone said that to me, I'd enable HTML-only emails JUST OUT OF SPITE.
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accalia [13:36] ....... so my alma mater apparently has a new president..... and i cannot help but giggity everytime i receive a mailing from them these days.
accalia [13:36] > From the desk of President Cummings
accalia [13:37]
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Status: having my every-few-months crazy idea of making a CMS to take on the gap between WordPress and Drupal - something easier to set up and use than Drupal while having more power than out of the box WP. But I always realise that I don't have the time to build it and even if I did, it's never going to succeed because the WP fans will deride it for being too hard to use and the Drupal fans will mock its lack of insane
configurabilitycomplexity.But dammit I know I have the skills to give it a sane, stable and safe core.
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