The Official Status Thread
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: um, what?
I KNOW RIGHT
You beat me to it!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got a phone call from my son. His cousin, my nephew, is in the hospital with what he described as "severe diabetes" — from the symptoms, it sounds consistent with diabetic ketoacidosis — and he has already "coded" twice. No previous known history of diabetes.
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Just bought a Nexus 6P to replace my Nexus 6 (which has utterly asstastic battery life remaining and the camera is flakey).
Also had to buy a new case. And screen protectors. And fucking charge cables because we finally have fucking USB-C.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Groaner said in The Official Status Thread:
or continue my Doom II playthrough.
I do that about once every five years or so. It's one of those rare instances of something that's both nostalgic AND fun.
I think I'm using one of the updated engines that adds smoother graphics, look up/down and jump.
One of my friends was comparing it to the latest Doom and noting how well the older games stood up, even against today's standards. That got me thinking, "Hey, I should play this again!"
Just downed the final boss last night. A good 20+ hours of gameplay from the $2.50 I spent on Steam.
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It's that time of year, and Ericsson is announcing their annual wave of lay-offs. As usual, people will walk out one day as employees and come back the day after as consultants because the job still needs to be done.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got a phone call from my son. His cousin, my nephew, is in the hospital with what he described as "severe diabetes" — from the symptoms, it sounds consistent with diabetic ketoacidosis — and he has already "coded" twice. No previous known history of diabetes.
My nephew died. He was the same age as my son. His father was one of my son's elementary school teachers, and he saw his cousin almost every day for years.
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@Magus To expand on this story, here is a video of someone playing this new character against one of the cooler season 2 raids in the Korean version:
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@Lorne-Kates Which reminds me, I ought to replay Marathon and Unreal.
Fuck you Doom people. Your game sucked.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got a phone call from my son. His cousin, my nephew, is in the hospital with what he described as "severe diabetes" — from the symptoms, it sounds consistent with diabetic ketoacidosis — and he has already "coded" twice. No previous known history of diabetes.
My nephew died. He was the same age as my son. His father was one of my son's elementary school teachers, and he saw his cousin almost every day for years.
:'(
:hug:
:-(
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The city shut off my water because there's a water leak somewhere.
The front fender of my car appears to be falling off.
The insurance company is dicking me around.
Status: FML
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got a phone call from my son. His cousin, my nephew, is in the hospital with what he described as "severe diabetes" — from the symptoms, it sounds consistent with diabetic ketoacidosis — and he has already "coded" twice. No previous known history of diabetes.
My nephew died. He was the same age as my son. His father was one of my son's elementary school teachers, and he saw his cousin almost every day for years.
Sorry to hear that. My girlfriend got admitted to the hospital with severe DKA in January. She came out of it with brain lesions and amnesia. It's rough.
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Status: Apparently TDWTF members and their kin are falling all around me. WTF happened that these calamities came to pass?
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@Magus "Make sure the YouTube preview image is the titties!!!"
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got a phone call from my son. His cousin, my nephew, is in the hospital with what he described as "severe diabetes" — from the symptoms, it sounds consistent with diabetic ketoacidosis — and he has already "coded" twice. No previous known history of diabetes.
My nephew died. He was the same age as my son. His father was one of my son's elementary school teachers, and he saw his cousin almost every day for years.
=(
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus "Make sure the YouTube preview image is the titties!!!"
Doesn't youtube do it automatically? I have a suspicion that it identifies the frame on the video that attracts more clicks, and that would be a reason the thumbnail is always the titties.
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@otter People set them pretty precisely somehow. I don't care how. And I don't apologize for having Iset be the thumbnail on a video I link, either.
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Status Wow, the DJIA, a meaningless number, is the highest it's ever been!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The city shut off my water because there's a water leak somewhere.
The front fender of my car appears to be falling off.
The insurance company is dicking me around.
Status: FML
Oh, and I installed Visual Studio Update 3 over lunch and it seems to have bricked my installation.
Tried several fruitless "fixes" from knowledge base and Stack Overflow. Looks like a nuke and pave might be the only option.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
Status Wow, the DJIA, a meaningless number, is the highest it's ever been!
7, another meaningless number, is still 7.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like a nuke and pave might be the only option.
Imma do that tonight (hopefully) if my new disk is here!
... Which reminds me, I really need to figure out my Ram speed before leaving work today. Today's do-before-9pm list is pretty cramped...
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Status: Oh dear...
Looks like there are no "Biotechnical Unified Organism" or even "Custom" entries.
Whelp...
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Status: whatsapp blocked on brazil again
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@Mikael_Svahnberg How long until everyone's a consultant?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
My nephew died. He was the same age as my son.
My deepest condolences to you and your family. Losing a child is horrible.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
"Make sure the YouTube preview image is the titties!!!"
They probably did just that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like there are no "Biotechnical Unified Organism" or even "Custom" entries.
Someday I'll decipher these vague references to being a xenophile.
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@otter said in The Official Status Thread:
Doesn't youtube do it automatically? I have a suspicion that it identifies the frame on the video that attracts more clicks, and that would be a reason the thumbnail is always the titties.
IIRC you can pick one of 3 or 4 choices, something like first frame, one at the 25%mark, and one at 50%, or something along those lines?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like there are no "Biotechnical Unified Organism" or even "Custom" entries.
Of course not. The set is defined by the Federal government, just like it is for things like VETS-4212.
If you're not in the government contracting business I'd pass. If you are, your employer needs to make an effort, because having (IIRC) 7% minorities or more gives them a bonus when being considered for contracts.
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@Tsaukpaetra what do they have against hispanic or latinos?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I've never seen that last paragraph about If you decline to self-identity, we have to look at you and tell the DOL what race we think you are.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg "Hispanic or latino" is a separate category, that happens not to be listed in the screenshot.
IIRC if you're HoL and something else, you use "two or more races".
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@FrostCat too many mid and upper level managers that are able to reorganise themselves out of harms way when these lay-offs occur for that to happen anytime soon.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg They're just preparing for the possibility of a Trump presidency.
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@HardwareGeek Huh. Me neither, but it's true: https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/faq.cfm
"If an employee then refuses to [self-identify], employment records or visual observation must be used."
I didn't realize this wrinkle but basically every company over 100 employees has to file EEO-1.
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Apparently if you're Latino you can't be anything else:
Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.
White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment.
Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races.I actually looked up the reporting requiremenrts. These are your choices. Note "2 or more" still specifically says "no latinos".
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Status Need to schedule Global Entry interview. I can wait a month and drive 4 hours away... or I could try walking in a day or two from now since I might need to go to Charlotte anyway.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
If you're not in the government contracting business I'd pass
@Tsaukpaetra Apparently you don't really get that option--your employer has to SWAG if you decline to self-identify.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
If you're not in the government contracting business I'd pass
@Tsaukpaetra Apparently you don't really get that option--your employer has to SWAG if you decline to self-identify.
Eh, no bullets under my skin, apparently I answered several years ago so whatever.
Edit: fscking mobile.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, and I installed Visual Studio Update 3 over lunch and it seems to have bricked my installation.
WOMM (I've put it on 4, including one VM)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh, and I installed Visual Studio Update 3 over lunch and it seems to have bricked my installation.
WOMM (I've put it on 4, including one VM)
I'm still babysitting the uninstaller so I can get around to running the installer.
That was Microsoft's official advice, by the way.
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Status: Adobe, you drunk...
Discovered while closing all Tabs in Internet Explorer 11 while focused inside a PDF being displayed inside a tab.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I guess I'll just stop toying with it and wait for the flip.
Why does deleting a file need 2 GB of Ram?!?!?
FFS JUST DELETE
Windows.Old
!!!! WARGLPBNALERBAERBOROPAERTAFSDGH@#%TRAGW$ B!~!
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@Tsaukpaetra If you want to delete Windows.old without running into such issues, you should use
cleanmgr
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra If you want to delete Windows.old without running into such issues, you should use
cleanmgr
Unfortunately, the disk cleanup tool doesn't seem to recognize that anymore...
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Status: Having a battle of the wills with a 3 yo. She has realized I am not giving in and hoping daddy will give her what she wants.
Forgot to add...they main reason we had a problem was because I had wanted to ask her father for something.
And so she did.
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@Tsaukpaetra are Asura, Kobold, Khajiit, or Troll on there?
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@ben_lubar Are those recognized by the Federal government?
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Are those recognized by the Federal government?
No because the federal government is run by RACISM