The Official Status Thread
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@FrostCat Pfft. I'm only an expert on Star Trek.
Either way, whether it's in the first or second movie, it's not much of a mystery where it comes from.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
it's not much of a mystery where it comes from.
Well, apparently it is, with the great Disney Continuity Reset.
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Status: fighting over the thermostat with menopausal coworker. No, it does not need to be 68° in here.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Mountain Dew is finally available in my country!
Huh, even we have it. Although I'm not sure why it's a stereotypical caffeinated drink, there's just barely any more caffeine in it than in Coke...
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@Maciejasjmj we have the less caffeinated version here in Euroweenieland, real Dew is more like just water, sugar and caffeine in a bottle.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Mountain Dew is finally available in my country!
Huh, even we have it. Although I'm not sure why it's a stereotypical caffeinated drink, there's just barely any more caffeine in it than in Coke...
Wrong.
Coca-Cola : 33.9mg
Mountain Dew : 54.8mg
Still doesn't beat a brewed coffee : 163mg
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@Maciejasjmj A lot of that is just the way its advertised to a specific "super-bro-man" demographic. Same problem Axe has; the product's fine, but the advertising is crazy.
I'm trying to find the photo of that video game announcer guy absolutely surrounded by Mountain Dew and Doritos...
Ah:
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Wrong.
Coca-Cola : 33.9mg
Mountain Dew : 54.8mg@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
there's just barely any more caffeine in it than in Coke...
I'm gonna rest my case. Now, if that was per 100ml, we'd maybe be talking...
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TIL : 61% more is equal to "barely any more"
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@TimeBandit In absolute terms, it's just 21mg. At best you could sub two mtn dew for three cokes.
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@TimeBandit
Except as @Arantor already said - European Mountain Dew has less caffeine in it.
Or not. It's more or less the same.
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
why the unicorn? why?
Because unicorns are cool and manly.
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@AyGeePlus said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit In absolute terms, it's just 21mg. At best you could sub two mtn dew for three cokes.
Screw that, you can replace 3 cokes with a brewed coffee.
And I drink more than 3 coffee per day ;)
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
goes to run Windows Update on her Surface tablet
Edit: Ah, no updates requiredFinally after 3 days I have an update! (Switched into the fast track Insider builds from the normal builds on my Yoga) Couldn't find the update-now-fucker button.
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Status:
Woot my boss left early
And he's WFH tomorrow
Which means I can leave at 4 today despite getting in at 10:00
And also slack tomorrow
... somehow I never get laid off despite thinking like this all the time, hahaha
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Bullshit. "3 hours ago" is about 50x easier to read than "2016-04-09 8:13:46 pm CEST".
At least that has a time zone. Trying to figure out a UTC time sucks more. Fucking lazy programmers!
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
What about "Today, 8:13 PM"?
When I download my calllog (CSV) from AT&T, that's what I get for today's calls.
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Status:
Made chili dogs with pickled jalapeños and chupaqueso strips (using @Lorne-Kates's recipe) instead of plain ol' shredded cheese. It was only after making everything that I realized I probably could have stuck everything inside the cheese shell to make chupaqueso-dogs.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Trying to figure out a UTC time sucks more
At least you generally know the offset from UTC to your timezone. If I see something with an American timezone I first have to look up how it compares to GMT/BST, then compensate. I prefer 3 hours ago to all of that shit
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STATUS:
Every Monday morning, on the dot, I receive a weekly report from one of the many little importers/data shufflers/glue services we have all over the place.
The numbers it reports are always zeroes. It didn't receive any jobs and didn't complete any actions. So it's obviously not in use any longer.
Yet, I have no idea where it is hosted (and am too lazy to find out).
So it will remain tucked away on some VPS somewhere, ever waiting for the jobs that will never arrive and bothering my inbox with its useless reports.
How sad.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
No, it does not need to be 68° in here
I should hope not. Two more degrees and you can boil an egg there!
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Status: came back from a meeting to find my desk being replaced.
Upside: more space on the desk, more space under, height adjustable, the divider is a bit higher.
Downside: someone's going to sit beside me ...
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Status:strong text
fighting autocomplete.... so far it's winning.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
At least you generally know the offset from UTC to your timezone. If I see something with an American timezone I first have to look up how it compares to GMT/BST, then compensate.
You should just live in a country that uses UTC.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official Status Thread:
YouThe World should justlive in a country thatusesUTC.FTFY
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Scumbag Amazon: makes you buy at least 19€ worth of stuff before shipping. Ships every object in a separate package anyway.
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@accalia if I used UTC I could be going to lunch now, but I'm not hungry. omg UTC is terrible.
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STATUS:
Ordered a B class mobo for my home server.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131991
AM I INSANE?
Time will tell.
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Sometimes my fucking brain...Couldn't sleep. Finally did get to sleep at way-too-late-o-clock, and of course started having dreams where I had to wake up right away, because I had to get to work. Except @blakeyrat was stalking me for some reason, and demanded to know which route I took to work. And for the life of me, I couldn't remember the name of the road one block North of me that I always take. And I really, really wanted to tell him, but nope, absolute zero recall.
So I hopped on Google Maps-- but of course, this is a dream. It doesn't work. Well, Google Maps does show up, and I can see the entire country, but every time I zoom in-- either I end up in a different town, or a different PROVINCE. Or the roads are mislabeled. Or I can't scroll. Or they're named dumbshit like "y'know, that road". Thanks, Google.
I wake up eventually, tired. Really tired. And of course despite already dragging my ass out of bed and going to work IN THE DREAM, I now have to do it all over again. Except, fucking brain-- I STILL CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THAT ROAD. And of course I'm not taking to work today, because it's actually the road I took to work from the last place I lived, not my current house.
So I spend the entire time getting ready for work-- and the drive in-- thinking about what the fuck the name of the road is. Because I still can't remember. It starts with a W. So I go through the Iteration Game-- y'know, go through all the two letter combinations. Does it trigger anything? Go through again, but add the third letter and see if it triggers anything. Wa, We, Wi, Wo, Wu-- I'm sure it's We, but can't recall it. And my brain keeps going back to Wellington, which is a real street near me but I know as a fact is not the right one. Wea? Web? Wec-- not triggering anything. Wel-- that sounds familiar-- what have you got for me, brain? Is it Wel.....lington?
NO BRAIN IT IS NOT WELLINGTON FUCKING STOP WITH WELLINGTON!
So now I'm finally at work-- with coffee and a muffin. Google Maps is working for real-reals, thank fuck. Find my old place, zoom in, scroll North.
Weldrick.
Oh yeah. Odd name, starts with Wel, but I never would have guessed that. Because my goddamn brain KEPT GOING TO WELLINGTON IT ISN'T WELLINGTON GODDAMN IT!
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Still literally impossible for anyone to get a WYSIWYG correct.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
ve you got for me, brain? Is it Wel.....lington?
And at no point in this whole story do you say "who gives a fuck?" and move on with your life?
You people think I'm crazy. Sheesh.
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@blakeyrat The fact that @Lorne-Kates is crazy doesn't make you any less crazy.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Except @blakeyrat was stalking me for some reason, and demanded to know which route I took to work.
How was he stalking you? Like, his floating avatar was following you down the street?
And if so, which one?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
ve you got for me, brain? Is it Wel.....lington?
And at no point in this whole story do you say "who gives a fuck?" and move on with your life?
You people think I'm crazy. Sheesh.
Sure, when I'm sleep deprived, driving, and still need my breakfast-- and my brain just spent it's downtime spinning on trying to answer a question, I totally just go "meh, I guess I can ignore that and move on. Hippy hop tippity toe".
And we KNOW you're crazy.
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@Lorne-Kates I would have just popped-off an email to my boss and gone back to bed. But I'm sure that's the "crazy person" thing to do.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
How was he stalking you? Like, his floating avatar was following you down the street?
Just a guy wandering around, but I knew it was him. I might have heard his voice. The brain equivalent of "no image found - default avatar loaded".
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates I would have just popped-off an email to my boss and gone back to bed. But I'm sure that's the "crazy person" thing to do.
I have very limited days off left, and they're reserved for OB appointments this month (final month of wife's pregnancy). Also, she's under doctor's orders not to drive, so carpool it is. She does have sick days left, but again is holding some in reserve, and it was too late to arrange for a substitute teacher for her.
Otherwise today would be a "fuck it I'm in bed" day.
At least today on my schedule is a code review. A client is planning a major upgrade. So I need to compare their current system against the uncustomized base system of the same version, and note all the differences. I've already trained people that this takes me a few hours, and it's mostly staring at Beyond Compare. So low brain use day, yay!
And pre-emptive: yes, that would be a good use for documentation and change management. No there isn't any. Yes, I've pushed for a proper change management system. Yes, it's working for projects that began since I pushed for a change management system. Meanwhile, the company is paying the price now (in terms of my time and increased risk for the customer) for savings back then (documentation why lol).
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I have very limited days off left,
So call in sick, not PTO. If you haven't gotten any sleep, you're not physically in shape to write software all day. You're genuinely sick.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
If I see something with an American timezone I first have to look up how it compares to GMT
Continental US has four time zones. From west to east, they're GMT-8, -7, -6, -5. Obviously, the offset shrinks by one hour during summer time, except for the few places that don't. It's not rocket science, although obviously if you don't have to deal with it you wouldn't have reason to memorize it.
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@cartman82 What is a B class mobo? Or do you mean it uses the B85 chipset instead of an H or Z chipset? If so, all that ti means is you've given up a couple of SATA and USB ports.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Continental US has four time zones. From west to east, they're GMT-8, -7, -6, -5
I still don't know which one is which when given a TLA. I can guess that Pacific and Eastern are the two extremes but don't even know what the other two are called. Is it Central and Mountain?
On another note, when hearing adverts for American TV, times are often advertised as something like "nine ten central". Does that mean 9 in {some time zone} and 10 in Central? 9:10 in Central? Why is it always Central that's specified, what's the other timezone? Why not say the time in all zones?
I like living in a small country where 9 O'Clock is 9 O'Clock
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I have very limited days off left,
So call in sick, not PTO. If you haven't gotten any sleep, you're not physically in shape to write software all day. You're genuinely sick.
Again, I would have, it was only me in the picture. If your cat had to go see the vet, you would have to go. I assume. Unless you really hate BlakeyCat. Cats are bad examples.
The advantage of being in a quasi-management position: I don't write code all day. So it does make "half-brain" days a bit easier to squeak by with. (insert management no brain joke here thank you try the fish)
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
And if so, which one?
I would bet on that eagle (or whatever bird that was)
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Is it Central and Mountain?
Yep. Central is east of Mountain. You can remember that by the big-ass mountain ranges running through the western part of the country.
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Does that mean 9 in {some time zone} and 10 in Central? 9:10 in Central? Why is it always Central that's specified, what's the other timezone? Why not say the time in all zones?
Right the first time. It probably goes back to OTA broadcast, where they'd broadcast shows from the east and west coasts at the same clock time (so a prime-time show would be 8PM Eastern and Pacific. That means that people in the middle two zones see the show an hour earlier by the clock in Central, and an hour later in Mountain (7PM C, 9PM M). Maybe out west they say "8 Pacific, 9 Mountain" but I've never heard it that way.) If you see it printed, like on an ad, you might see it written something like 8E/7C, which is a bit more obvious.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Why not say the time in all zones?
Because E/P are always the same clock time, so there's no need to list them both. I guess people in Mountain just have to remember they're an hour ahead.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Continental US has four time zones.
Someone's gonna be a pedantic dickweed in... 5... 4... 3... 2...
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Again, I would have, it was only me in the picture.
How the fuck is that relevant. If you're sick, you call in sick.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
On another note, when hearing adverts for American TV, times are often advertised as something like "nine ten central". Does that mean 9 in {some time zone} and 10 in Central? 9:10 in Central? Why is it always Central that's specified, what's the other timezone? Why not say the time in all zones?
Satellite feeds are expensive and for decades there was no time-shifting equipment (with broadcast quality). So the networks (generally) set up only a couple feeds, and the Central timezone got fed from the Eastern satellite feed.
(There were Beta tapes, but no equipment that could start playing the first minute of a Beta tape while you were still recording the last couple minutes of the show. So time-shifting on Beta would have required some amazingly quick rewinders, or you'd get out of sync very fast. Beta was fine for showing the Saturday Afternoon Movie, but didn't work for time-shifting a network broadcast. ... I suppose if you delayed your entire TV station for like 15 minutes and had a chain of like 8 beta VCRs manned by interns running at all times, you could pull it off. But then the announced show times would still be wrong anyway.)
I believe, but I could be remembering wrong, that Mountain was generally fed from the Pacific feed, but the times weren't announced differently over the network messages because nobody fucking lives there. (Relatively speaking.) Central includes Chicago and a lot of populous areas, Mountain includes... uh. Hm. Some trees? So in Mountain, it was up to the local station to either over-dub the ads, or add a caption about the time, or whatever.
Anyway now that time-shifting equipment is cheap, none of this shit is necessary. All stations can just take a single satellite feed and delay it until local time.
BTW: If a show claimed to be "performed live" it was a crapshoot whether the West Coast viewers actually saw a live performance, or a recording of the East Coast performance. That always bugged me as a kid. "Performed live, sure, but 4 hours ago." Usually special features (like a one-time live-acted play) were recorded live twice, but scheduled shows (like Saturday Night Live or In Living Color) were actually not-at-all-live for West Coast viewers.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Why not say the time in all zones?
Advertising seconds cost $$$