The Official Status Thread
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@blakeyrat "I don't believe you" "Have a cookie"
The sperm and/or cancer emoji was an amusing (to my caffeine deprived mind) suggestion by the emoji picker.
WHY DOES THE CAFETERIA CLOSE AT CRUCIAL MID AFTERNOON CAFFEINE TIME?
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@blakeyrat I don't expect to ever see an office. Walls and doors are expensive, apparently.
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@Weng Yeah well intellectually I've known that but it still hit me this morning like a load of depression-bricks.
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@blakeyrat my personal favorite incarnation of this particular bit of brain damage is that my team needs to either move or do extensive security renovations to our existing shitfuck of a space (which will not improve the livability at all-the moldy, leaky ceiling and burned out lights remain.)
1 million bucks to rennovate, and we'll probably have to leave within 3 years.
200k per year to rent an entire office building that will give every single one of us individual offices, swank perks, adequate and healthy facilities, etc.We're almost definitely doing the rennovations.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
a load of depression-bricks.
Occasionally depression-bricks can be useful, but I wouldn't build anything from them. Best let them shore up against the waves of disaster and then kick it down when it blows over.
Oh, and sorry for your injury, I hope you get better! Those things are heavy "AF".
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
I think the original creators meant "rogue" more as in "going rogue", but I'm not 100% sure of that.
I read it as a callsign (indicating first/leading member of group designated 'Rogue' which I presume is some sort of rebel faction), but I could be wrong. I also haven't watched the trailer.
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Status: Tried using IE as my debugging target for this ASP.Net app (instead of Chrome).
Well, back to my normal methods I guess...
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It seem NodeBB has decided to resurrect a draft that failed to post several days ago. Might as well try again, even if it is now a bit out of date:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
may or may not manage to get online on mobile before then.
Finally left at 22:00, 10 hours behind schedule. (Of course, I forgot important stuff.) Drove until 01:00, chugging Mt. Dew as I drove. Stopped at a rest stop and got a few hours of uncomfortable sleep in the car. Started driving again about 06:00. Made multiple stops to feed the dogs, feed myself, let them relieve themselves, relieve myself, refuel. Arrived about 21:00.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm going to work my entire career and never have an office. No matter what I do.
For the first β and maybe only β time in my career, I have an office. Unfortunately, I share it with another contractor, but he seems to be here only about half-time, so it's a little like having my own office.
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Status: Trying to get this shitty third-party API to work. I'm sending it perfectly legit update requests, and it responds with 3 "success" responses, then deletes the record entirely.
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Status: Today my commute didn't suck much in either direction. Yay I guess? Newsworthy for sureβ¦
But now I've had and (; why is nodeBB suggesting a clock when I type
:pie
?!) so I'm happy to just take things very easy.
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@dkf Timepiece?
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@RaceProUK Oh, I didn't think of that. Duh.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
For a trashcan.
That you can't even put trash in!
It comes pre-installed with Windows
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I have an office. Unfortunately, I share it
I share mine with 3 other people. 2 of them only turn up once a month, the other turns up 2 maybe 3 days a week and they're often days I'm not there. I get it to myself a lot of the time I'm in.
At some point in the next few months we're moving a lot of people from my building into the newly renovated 2nd building next door and then moving everyone who's in IT in both buildings into the same space which is 15/20 of us sharing - although probably about 8 max in on most days.
Now is likely the closest I'll get to my own office.
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Status: Found https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il_Looking_at_Things on German Wikipedia
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
German Wikipedia
Thanks to Google, apparently I can now interact with German just fine!
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
But "Star Wars: That Scoundrel" takes the cake previously held by "Spinning Sex".
I find it especially annoying how they translated the original Alien move into "Eight Passenger". I guess because the Nostromo spaceship had 7 crew members and "alien" sounds a bit awkward in Serbian.
Now that it turned into a franchise, the names make zero sense.
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Status: I have made our corporate XBox safe for Rocket League again!
Which was mostly necessary because apparently an XBox is completely unsafe for any network where you don't necessarily want the XBox eating all the bandwidth at any given time. Because, despite my attempts to find a setting or to get Google to show me a setting, there is apparently no setting to allow you to tell the XBox "rate limit yourself when downloading updates" or even "only download updates during these times".
Holy bejeebers, how does anyone on a metered connection in the ass end of nowhere even own an XBox? Ours has downloaded no less than 30GB in any given month since it's been deployed. And averaging more than 40. Hate to see the bill for hooking that up to a Satellite Internet connection with a 12GB/mo data plan...
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Also, basically every time I've posted today, the forum has cootied immediately* thereafter.
Apparently I am forum cancer.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
how does anyone on a metered connection in the ass end of nowhere even own an XBox?
Ours is unplugged when not in use.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Apparently I am forum cancer.
Nah, it's just Redis hates you :P
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Which kind of defeats the purpose of making the XBox One the "last all in one entertainment center your family will ever need". Or whatever Microsoft was aiming for. Seriously, M
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@cartman82 Eighth Passenger kind of works, in that the alien "snuck aboard" after they took off from the planet.
Is Aliens called Ninth Passenger there? Because that would be kind of amazing.
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Playing GTAV today.Suddenly, I see weird art[e|i]facts on my screen. I get scared cause apparently my graphics card is on the fritz.
Then I realize that because my graphics are totally maxxed out, lighting effects apply to raindrops.
Filed Under:GTX970 FTW
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 Eighth Passenger kind of works, in that the alien "snuck aboard" after they took off from the planet.
Is Aliens called Ninth Passenger there? Because that would be kind of amazing.No they named it "Eight Passenger 2".
You have one guess at how they translated Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.
They at least switched to the real word "alien" for the awful Predator spinoffs.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
lighting effects apply to raindrops.
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STATUS
Reading about reification, type erasure, covariant vs invariant types and all this shit about Java arrays vs lists. Awful stuff. It's amazing how they both suck in their unique horrifying ways.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
I read it as a callsign (indicating first/leading member of group designated 'Rogue' which I presume is some sort of rebel faction), but I could be wrong. I also haven't watched the trailer.
The EU had a series of books about an X-Wing squadron named Rogue Squadron. This may or may not be related.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
even "only download updates during these times".
On the positive side, everyone who upgraded to Windows 10 and ignored the "your computer will reboot in three days" messages on updates will eventually not have to worry about that, because the latest Insider build has a "don't reboot after updates during [this range of hours]" setting, and a bunch of other new ones I can't screenshot because my work PC is blocked from Insider builds via group policy for some reason.
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@izzion I am now envisioning a reality in which Microsoft has enterprise management tools for corporate xbox deployments.
That reality is much cooler than our own.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
everyone who upgraded to Windows 10 and ignored the "your computer will reboot in three days" messages on updates will eventually not have to worry about that
I found it eventually got the times I typically wasn't using the computer right and then just left it to it.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
I found it eventually got the times I typically wasn't using the computer right and then just left it to it.
Did it also get that oftentimes documents are left open unsaved during those times, and that rebooting will of course force you to rely on whatever AutoSave feature may potentially be "working" in the applications that get forcibly quit, as you're otherwise not warned to expect a reboot (unless you're watching the Update screen like a hawk)?
It's this exact behavior that caused my to just switch to using Remote Desktop to Windows 7 machines instead of doing the work directly on my laptop.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Did it also get that oftentimes documents are left open unsaved during those times
I don't leave documents I care about unsaved when I'm not using the computer.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
I find it especially annoying how they translated the original Alien move into "Eight Passenger". I guess because the Nostromo spaceship had 7 crew members and "alien" sounds a bit awkward in Serbian
We had "Alien: The Eighth Passenger of Nostromo". The sequels were "Alien(s?) - The Decisive Fight" (huh?), "Alien(s) 3" (okay, fair enough) and "Alien(s) - The Awakening" (I guess "resurrection" is more of a Jesus thing in Polish).
And both "alien" and "aliens" are spelled the same, so there's no spoiling how many aliens there are in the movie.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
How does that affect the client? Unless the database server goes back after login and says, "Hey, client? That password you sent me? Yeah, forget it. I know it worked, but I want you to never remember you had it."
I think that's how RDP works - if you disable logging in via saved credentials, the server notices the "those credentials were saved" flag from the client and refuses to authenticate.
I think there's a story somewhere on the forum about how saved credentials miraculously work under Windows XP because the XP client didn't obey that protocol yet.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
I think that's how RDP works - if you disable logging in via saved credentials, the server notices the "those credentials were saved" flag from the client and refuses to authenticate.
I think it just asks again. So rather than the credentials entered/saved into RDP, you enter them again into the remote Windows login screen.
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@Weng We were debating if we could add "Business XBox Engineer" to our LinkedIn after this week. Or "Enterprise Entertainment Facilitator"
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There's also a "choose a time for automatic restarts" now. And a bunch of new stuff that used to be only in Control Panel.
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"Enterprise Entertainment Facilitator"
The business at which I am working definitely qualifies as an "enterprise," and there's plenty of entertainment. Down the hall from me are a ping-pong table, pool table, air hockey table, Dance Dance Revolution, Avatar arcade game, and a TV. The TV has the sound off, and I've never seen anyone playing Avatar, but all the others are loud enough to hear while I'm working. Especially the air hockey and DDR. :(
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@blakeyrat I'll never work in an office, and I'll never have a lot of things too.
But we have pizza. Pizza makes me happy. Doesn't it work for you?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng We were debating if we could add "Business XBox Engineer" to our LinkedIn after this week. Or "Enterprise Entertainment Facilitator"
Chief Fragging Officer
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@FrostCat oh goodie. So rather than rebooting unexpectedly while I'm working OR overnight and lose all my work and my open programs-- it will only reboot overnight unexpectedly and lose all my work and open programs.
As long as I correctly guess when I'm using the "device" (fuck you it's a computer). If I don't guess right BAM auto-reboot in the middle of work. Because its absolutely inconceivable that I might be using the computer a different times. Nope I Must. Mechanically. Use. The. Computer. On. Schedule. Beep.
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@fbmac Nothing makes me happy.
The worst is when you feel like mega-shit but you still have to hang out at the office and joke and schmooze.
Now I'm going to make a pizza, then drink beer on the floor until I pass out.
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@FrostCat They're also featured in this movie, what's it called, oh yeah, Star Wars.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Did it also get that oftentimes documents are left open unsaved during those times,
Why are you walking away from your computer with unsaved documents? Are you using like a 6 RPM HD and it takes like 54 minutes to write that Word file?
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@blakeyrat you sound happy in your videos
did you try pills? pills are good
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
did you try pills? pills are good
I take my pills in beer form.
What do you care? You spent like 2 weeks only a month ago doing your best to make my life a living hell.
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