The Official Status Thread
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Status: I have 2 objectives remaining until Magus Falls completion. A point of interest and a vista. That are both locked behind a 2 hour boss fight.
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@ben_lubar That'll teach ya.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar That'll teach ya.
It starts in about 3 minutes. Should I go for the Auric Basin (north) lane, the Verdant Brink (center) lane, or the Tangled Depths (south) lane?
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@ben_lubar You should find a Charr dude and stand behind him, letting him take all the damage, then rush forward and take full credit for the win at the last moment.
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Status: I can't really do anything on my computer while it does this super-long video render, so I'm checking out Netflix's Voltron reboot.
It's... it's ok? Not terrible. A couple funny lines I guess. The voices are awful.
It's got some great techno-babble. "The mice were hidden in my sleep pod for 10,000 years therefore I can telepathically communicate with them!"
Oh. Right. That makes... sense?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
You should find a Charr dude and stand behind him
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Status: enjoying a weekend break in Dublin with @royal_poet, flew out here yesterday, then wandered around the city, saw Dublin Castle, the Book of Kells, and finally went to a whiskey bar to try whiskey as I'd never tried.
Content.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Did you mean wine glass? With you it could really go either way.
I meant fuck you get the alcohol into my mouth!
Yes there are people who do that. They're called whores.
Unless you meant FUCK the alcohol into your mouth. Unsurprisingly, that, too, is a fetish.
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Status: Streaming:
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Status: watching England follow their tried-and-tested techniques of not bothering to score.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
You should find a Charr dude
Hey, good thing YOU made a Charr, and are in his guild!
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This JavaScript-laden webpage loads videos for the page background, yet it scores itself near-perfect. Meanwhile my own sites which use plain and simple HTML+CSS and only use JavaScript for analytics score significantly lower. I'm not sure what I expected from web developers...
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Status: Internet is down for the second time in a month! Both at the stroke of midnight.
Of course Virgin Media's status page says there is no problem. I miss my gigabit symmetrical connection.
PhpBB is ~~totally~~ nearly unusable on low-bandwidth connections. It's taken me about 5 attempts to get the composer up, with 'error' toasters everywhere.
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@LB_ said in The Official Status Thread:
This JavaScript-laden webpage loads videos for the page background, yet it scores itself near-perfect. Meanwhile my own sites which use plain and simple HTML+CSS and only use JavaScript for analytics score significantly lower. I'm not sure what I expected from web developers...
Compare that with another site
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@ben_lubar meta is doing a lot better than current tdwtf forum
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Status: this is fscking regarded. Voltage on the battery is rising, but the percentage reported back is DROPPING. WTF!
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@fbmac that'd be because people have big avatars.
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@ben_lubar but it's ok because they're cached and fuck Google, first time visitors and people who have a finite cache size
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar but it's ok because they're cached and fuck Google, first time visitors and people who have a finite cache size
Oh, that wasn't my stance on the issue, but if you feel that way I'll go with that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: this is fscking re
gtarded. Voltage on the battery is rising, but the percentage reported back is DROPPING. WTF!Where? cheap devices will just read a voltage off of a resistor that is not properly isolated, so on a higher load the reading follows a different discharge/charge profile.
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Status: As a single guy who lives alone and has a crappy-long commute, it's hard to eat healthy dinners, especially quality salads as they require a lot of prep time.
Solution: I just finished pre-making 6 dinner-sized salads. With soy sauce and lemon chicken breast strips to go on top. Well, 5, I'm going to eat one in a few minutes.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: As a single guy who lives alone and has a crappy-long commute, it's hard to eat healthy dinners, especially quality salads as they require a lot of prep time.
Solution: I just finished pre-making 6 dinner-sized salads. With soy sauce and lemon chicken breast strips to go on top. Well, 5, I'm going to eat one in a few minutes.
I bought 12 single-meal-sized tupperware boxes last month and I've been making very large batches of anything I cook, like 3 kilos of chilli at a time. It works out very well to have quite a variety of meals frozen so you can just microwave it up when you're too knackered to cook.
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@Cursorkeys That doesn't work with salads, though, because you can't freeze them and they don't keep long enough.
VERDICT: salad is reasonably good. Chicken turned out well. I packed too much lettuce in the bag, so it spills off my plate. OH NOES.
Of course the real test is how good the one I eat 5-6 days from now will taste.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: this is fscking re
gtarded. Voltage on the battery is rising, but the percentage reported back is DROPPING. WTF!Where? cheap devices will just read a voltage off of a resistor that is not properly isolated, so on a higher load the reading follows a different discharge/charge profile.
It could also be Coloumb counting too. If the cell isn't feeling too well then terminal voltage could be rising without much current going in. If there is any life prediction on top for that capacity percentage estimation that could affect the percentage reported maybe.
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Status: Watching Tarn Adams explain his favorite Dwarf Fortress bugs.
- A farmer picked up a bed, went to a field, and planted it.
- An executioner with no arms cannot use his hammer to punish a dwarf, so he bites the dwarf's arm off and carries it around for years.
- Cats walk around taverns, step in alcohol, and clean their paws, causing the equivalent of a cat drinking 4 mugs of alcohol. Because of 4 different unrelated systems.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
Where? cheap devices will just read a voltage off of a resistor that is not properly isolated, so on a higher load the reading follows a different discharge/charge profile.
Silly autocorrect. Anyways, the load is the same (idle doing-nothing-except-updating-Task-Manager) and not changing, so the process of charging should mean the percentages go up, especially if the corresponding voltage goes up.
I literally watched this stupid thing (doing nothing but reporting it was doing nothing) go from 74% at 3.76 V to 6% at 4.12 V.
In other words, while a typical battery being charged should have a positive correlation between voltage and apparent charge %, this one had a negative one, or inverted from the norm.
Status: The charge percentage gets reported correctly if charging while the device is "off", but if it's "On" the percentage will never rise up. Ever. I want to say it's a driver issue somehow, but I don't have any Linux hardware to compare it to...
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
It could also be Coloumb counting too. If the cell isn't feeling too well then terminal voltage could be rising without much current going in. If there is any life prediction on top for that capacity percentage estimation that could affect the percentage reported maybe.
Who knows? Pretty sure the charge circuitry is faking almost all of the readings except voltage (because I measured that and it's pretty spot on).
This is a new battery (well, reasonably new, never can tell with China), so it can't be going this dead, especially as it lasts for almost 3 hours on idle (though forever stuck at 6%) and the voltage decreases reasonably all throughout the time.
I have a battery logger going on so maybe I can grok some statistics, but with a serial number like "12345678" I'm not so sure I can do a lot...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a serial number like "12345678"
That's the serial number on my luggage!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
That's the serial number on my luggage!
You think I'm joking?
Taken straight from the Windows API.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
That's the serial number on my luggage!
You think I'm joking?
Taken straight from the Windows API.https://www.google.com/search?q="123456789Intel+SR+1SR+Real"
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
https://www.google.com/search?q="123456789Intel+SR+1SR+Real"
Yeah, BS fake chip, innit?
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Status: OH MY BELGIUMING DOG IT HURTS!
Cooked some chicken breasts for chicken tikka masala. Brine, Brown each side in skillet, finish in oven. After taking the skillet out of the oven, and the chicken out of the skillet, I then went about firmly grasping the skillet by the handle. Without protection.
I of course finished making the meal, because:
A) It only appeared to be minor second degree burns, and
B) It would be a shame for all these vegetables I'd already chopped up to go to waste.So I finished chopping up the onion, chopped up some of the chicken breasts, and proceeded to cook them all in the skillet that burned me, because fond. Almost entirely one-handed, as my right hand was sitting in a four-cup measuring cup full of cold water. And then I did as much clean-up as I could.
The really bad part: this is the second time I've burned my hand like that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Taken straight from the Windows API.
Oh man, check out that trippy Windows 3 font.
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@Dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
After taking the skillet out of the oven, and the chicken out of the skillet, I then went about firmly grasping the skillet by the handle.
I think I've done that 3 times in my life. Cold water, ice pack, and "after burn" ointment (same stuff used for sunburn). Ouchie.
Almost did it again today while searing veal steaks in a cast iron pan from a 500 degree oven.
Solution: realize I was going to do it eventually, and turn the handle 180 degrees away from me, so I couldn't grab it.
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went to end of /unread, and started working my way backwards. Ignored some threads, read some others. Caught up on shitposting and joke making. Have about 20 threads to go.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh man, check out that trippy Windows 3 font.
Hey, if it ain't broke...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
a serial number like "12345678"
Oh, some of my laptop parts are apparently manufactured by VENDORNAME. I guess they make batteries too.
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Status: my parents got a new oven, and it turns out it has (among others) an "eco" mode and a "quick heating" mode.
Either the laws of thermodynamics have changed, or that's some placebo bullshit right there.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: my parents got a new oven, and it turns out it has (among others) an "eco" mode and a "quick heating" mode.
Either the laws of thermodynamics have changed, or that's some placebo bullshit right there.
Not sure if you're talking about a regular oven or a microwave one, but my regular oven has three basic modes: Grill, Hot Air and Top/Bottom Heat.
If I'm choosing hot air I also need to lower the temperature by 20 °C compared to Top/Bottom Heat.
Maybe something related to this?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@fbmac that'd be because people have big avatars.
and you are going to fix that..... when exactly?
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@LB_ And so far all those efforts by Google and Mozilla haven't managed to solve the most annoying thing ever: THE WHOLE CONTENT JUMPING UP AND DOWN FOR 10 SECONDS WHILE THE PAGE LOADS.
Seriously. It's infuriating. Web developers pretend that it's OK to have the important content load first and then the large stuff later, but it's not if I can't use the goddamn page while it's loading, which is true in like 75% of websites.
At this point I'd rather have my browser gray out the screen, download as much of the page as it can for 5 or 10 seconds, and then cancel the rest (because there's always that one picture or tracking beacon or other junk file that takes fucking forever).
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
At this point I'd rather have my browser gray out the screen, download as much of the page as it can for 5 or 10 seconds, and then cancel the rest (because there's always that one picture or tracking beacon or other junk file that takes fucking forever).
Self-compatible shim: click something, then immediately tab away and come back later.
Then again, tabbed browsing is probably ?
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@Dreikin Why do you put effort into your meals, but then eat them out of paper picnic bowls?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@LB_ And so far all those efforts by Google and Mozilla haven't managed to solve the most annoying thing ever: THE WHOLE CONTENT JUMPING UP AND DOWN FOR 10 SECONDS WHILE THE PAGE LOADS.
Seriously. It's infuriating. Web developers pretend that it's OK to have the important content load first and then the large stuff later, but it's not if I can't use the goddamn page while it's loading, which is true in like 75% of websites.
At this point I'd rather have my browser gray out the screen, download as much of the page as it can for 5 or 10 seconds, and then cancel the rest (because there's always that one picture or tracking beacon or other junk file that takes fucking forever).
Not sure how they're supposed to solve this when the images which are responsible for this behaviour don't use the width/height attributes like they're supposed to?
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Not sure how they're supposed to solve this when the images which are responsible for this behaviour don't use the width/height attributes like they're supposed to?
Easy:
- Browser requests a page
- Browser encounters an image
- Browser detects image does not have proper width/height attribute
- Browser detects Jellypotato
- Browser does WHOIS lookup on domain
- Browser gathers mailing address of Technical Contact
- Browser sends a flaming bag of poop to that address, along with a bug report
Repeat until The Internet is fixed.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Not sure how they're supposed to solve this when the images which are responsible for this behaviour don't use the width/height attributes like they're supposed to?
Easy:
- Browser requests a page
- Browser encounters an image
- Browser detects image does not have proper width/height attribute
- Browser detects Jellypotato
- Browser does WHOIS lookup on domain
- Browser gathers mailing address of Technical Contact
- Browser sends a flaming bag of poop to that address, along with a bug report
Repeat until The Internet is fixed.
Hmm, that's a REALLY good point. Why does NodeBB not generate width/height attributes, at least for the images in its uploads folder?
I'll take a look after guild missions.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Of course the real test is how good the one I eat 5-6 days from now will taste.
Don't tell me you have no way to order a salad delivered. Every delivery shop in my crappy city has at least a few options.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Why does NodeBB not generate width/height attributes, at least for the images in its uploads folder?
Probably because the render hook for standard image embeds probably doesn't recognize relative paths and to store such metadata somewhere to plug into?
Would that there would necessitate cooperative hands being held by two plugins (assuming the upload functionality is a plugin, and the image embed is also a plugin).
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
- Browser detects image does not have proper width/height attribute
- Browser detects Jellypotato
How about:
- Browser detects image does not have proper width/height attribute
- Browser assumes the image is 200 x 200
- If the image is of any other size, browser resizes the image to 200 x 200
a. Browser does WHOIS lookup on domain
b. Browser gathers mailing address of Technical Contact
c. and overlays ayour mom
joke about the technical staff in the lower half of the image
d. browser publishes the image in a public RSS feed, and instagram, public shaming the culprit
?