The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra can you get the MBAM log? it should say "Bad: (something) Good: (something)".
That'll at least tell you what the registry value was, and what it expects it to be.
I'm rebuilding the image, if it happens I'll post any findings. Still not sure what wind.exe, working on figuring out where that came from...
Turns out that the complaint is that the registry entries were outright missing. Way to go Windows PE!
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: after two hours, three litres of ice cream, four bottles of lemonade, 32 pancakes, and 50 balloons I now officially have a six-year-old.
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Status: Just finished watching second season of House of Cards. I hate screenwriters. I love their work.
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Status: Just discovered Visual Studio Code handles images natively. Convenient!
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Status: at baseball game. $11 for a hotdog. Drink and fries extra. Condiments are free.
Looks like I'm having ketchup salad...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: at baseball game. $11 for a hotdog. Drink and fries extra. Condiments are free.
Looks like I'm having ketchup salad...
Status: AT&T, you've failed to impersonate. Sorry.
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Status: Utterly exhausted. I've been doing the moving thing since 11:24, and it's now 19:02. It's not quite as long as I thought, I guess, but it feels a lot longer. >90% of the stuff that needs to go on the truck is on the truck, and there's actually a lot of room left. I got a bigger truck than I really needed, thanks to very efficient loading by one of the friends helping. But I just can't do any more tonight.
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Status: Trollybus Garage is the best category ever.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Wanted to troll our local liberal furries with this, but couldnt figure out how.
Simply posting it somewhere they could see it wouldn't be enough? You're overthinking this one.
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Status: found 3 dimes on the ground today.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: found 3 dimes on the ground today.
Wow, $0.30? You can buy almost a whole gumball with that!
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@ben_lubar I thought the first two were a penny, so they turned out to have a 20x points multiplier. Totally worth digging them out of that hole in the floor...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: at baseball game. $11 for a hotdog. Drink and fries extra. Condiments are free.
Looks like I'm having ketchup salad...
Status: AT&T, you've failed to impersonate. Sorry.
Well. We lost. Big surprise. Whatever.
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Status: Way to go, MailChimp. Like, if you weren't going to show whatever email address you claim you were sending to, just don't include the line at all.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Unfortunately @Lorne-Kates will call me an idiot but oh well.
@royal_poet bought it so you're not the one I'm calling an idiot this time...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: at baseball game. $11 for a hotdog. Drink and fries extra. Condiments are free.
Looks like I'm having ketchup salad...
Back in early 2000s, my brother and I went to a Tragically Hip concert. Extremely cheap seats. We were both near-broke students.
Concession was very expensive. But condiments were free. And they had pickle slices.
We ate a lot of free pickles.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: found 3 dimes on the ground today.
Even though a single coin-- even Canada's egregiously large $2 coin-- is, like, a fraction of a fraction of my hourly salary these days-- I still get a huge kick out of finding coins. It's like being a kid again.
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Status: Not bad.
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Status: Working on a boxed-in schema for my chatbot's API client system.
Since the table that these API commands in is defined as [Key][Property][Value], this is what I've come up with so far:
Key Property Value api List List of endpoint names allowed api.[endpoint name] URL (BaseURL) api.[endpoint name] Headers Raw headers to add to every request (i.e. api key) api.[endpoint name] Description Optional description and notes for the API in general api.[endpoint name] List List of actions api.[endpoint name].[actionname] URL URL to request (appended to base URL. Probably. Need to check MSDN docs) api.[endpoint name].[actionname] Headers Any extra headers to send (optional) api.[endpoint name].[actionname] Data Data to send. If blank, it's a GET request, otherwise POST api.[endpoint name].[actionname] Description Optional description and notes for the API in general Obviously bracketed items are going to be user-specified.
Quick sanity check: With the limitations that I can't change the table schema, does the above usage seem cromulent enough?
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I could swear I bought Zeus/Pharaoh in some bundle, but I can't figure out where.
It wasn't GOG, and fuck their ridiculous prices.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: found 3 dimes on the ground today.
Even though a single coin-- even Canada's egregiously large $2 coin-- is, like, a fraction of a fraction of my hourly salary these days-- I still get a huge kick out of finding coins. It's like being a kid again.
I found a €2 coin last week. Someone had put back the shopping cart but not gotten the coin out.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Wow, $0.30? You can buy almost a whole gumball with that!
Back in my day, that would have bought you 30 whole gumballs.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: found 3 dimes on the ground today.
Even though a single coin-- even Canada's egregiously large $2 coin-- is, like, a fraction of a fraction of my hourly salary these days-- I still get a huge kick out of finding coins. It's like being a kid again.
I stop to pick up pennies. Not even ashamed of it.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: found 3 dimes on the ground today.
Even though a single coin-- even Canada's egregiously large $2 coin-- is, like, a fraction of a fraction of my hourly salary these days-- I still get a huge kick out of finding coins. It's like being a kid again.
I found a €2 coin last week. Someone had put back the shopping cart but not gotten the coin out.
There is a store here that does that, but they use quarters ($0.25 = ~€0,22).
It's a bit less of a disincentive to leaving them about, but people mostly do still put them back to get their quarter out.
We do have $1 coins, but I don't think most people carry them around. If the carts used those, they'd probably need to put a change machine there so people could change bills for the $1 coins.
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@anotherusername In The Netherlands €0,50 is most common, but the mechanism will accept €1 and €2 as well. Other countries use other denominations; I think in France I usually see them only accept €1/€2.
Historically in NL we'd use ƒ1. Coins of ƒ2,50 were fairly large and may have been too large for the mechanism, and ƒ5,- coins arrived fairly late. ƒ2,20 = €1.
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Status: Tents come in bags that are meant to be storage for said tent. Why won't they ever fit back in the goddamn bag? Once unfolded, they will never again fit in that bag with the zipper closed. Ever. I could probably run the tent through the vacuum packer and it still wouldn't fit.
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@Polygeekery ENOREPRO. Learn to roll up tightly?
If the bag were spacious it'd be harder to pack in a tight luggage compartment.
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@Polygeekery
Maybe you should sacrifice a little of your dignity to actually roll the air out of the tent before you start rolling it up?And/or have a second person or object of considerable weight to hold the far end of the tent in place while you roll (person works better, because a person won't block the air from getting out the open door-zipper on the far end of the tent), so that you can slowly roll and force air out as you go.
But pre-rolling the air out of the tent usually works the best. And maybe you can even channel your inner Tom Sawyer and convince your kids how much fun rolling the air out the tent will be!
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
a second person
Both putting up and breaking down a tent tends to be a 2-person job. After the rolling, you can have one person hold up the bundle and the other wrap the bag around.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a bit less of a disincentive, but people mostly do still put them back to get their quarter out.
If people don't take the coins out, it becomes a nice hourly bonus for the guy who has to collect all the carts.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I stop to pick up pennies. Not even ashamed of it.
Canada recently discontinued the penny. They're still legal tender, but we do the rounding thing.
For years I've been collecting pennies. I would use them as counters in games, or to play poker with. Now that I have actual counters for games, and a good set of poker chips-- and it was unlikely that the jar would ever grow in size again, it was time to cash them all in.
This is right around the same time we bought a new car. No, this isn't "I bought a car with pennies". I didn't have that many pennies and/or don't drive that shit of a car.
We bought the car in cash, but for logistical reasons, paid for it on a line of credit, then immediately paid off the line of credit. There was about a 3 day float there, so of course a couple dollars in interest accrued on $16k. So I paid off that couple of dollars.
The next day, we rolled up all the pennies and took them into the bank to color up. It struck me then, hey... there's probably some daily interest that accrued on the interest. So I asked them calculate that so I could just pay it all off.
Okay, that's {tap tap tap tap} one cent
Uhg. I JUST cashed in all my pennies. What can we do about it?
{blank deer in the headlight stare, because bank teller}
Fine. Here's a nickle ($0.05).
Do you want change?
No.So I have a $0.04 credit on my line of credit. And I've had it for a few years now. It's way too small to gain any interest. But since it's non-zero, they mail me a bank statement every month.
I take a bit of perverse pleasure out of knowing the bank has to spend $0.80 in postage-- every month-- in order to tell me that they owe me $0.04.
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STATUS: Watched Deadpool. It was good. Especially considering the subject matter.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Watched Deadpool. It was good.
Meh. Better than most superhero movies, but I expected it to be more subversive than just playing out yet another troperrific superhero origin story, just with more sex jokes and some winks at the camera.
And the cancer storyline. Because when you think "the true danger in the epic superhero beat-em-up comedy movie", you think "cancer". It murders the pacing, it's completely out of place for this movie, it's just a filmsy excuse to push the story forward. What's next, X-men figuring out how to tell a kid his dog got run over by a car?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a bit less of a disincentive, but people mostly do still put them back to get their quarter out.
If people don't take the coins out, it becomes a nice hourly bonus for the guy who has to collect all the carts.
That guy lost his job when they came up with the cointrap carts.
The next customer who cares to put the cart back where it belongs gets a free quarter, more like.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
So I have a $0.04 credit on my line of credit. And I've had it for a few years now. It's way too small to gain any interest. But since it's non-zero, they mail me a bank statement every month.
I take a bit of perverse pleasure out of knowing the bank has to spend $0.80 in postage-- every month-- in order to tell me that they owe me $0.04.My bank mailed me a check last time that happened and it was clear I wasn't going to use the account.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Not bad.
This game is evil.
The Gay Gamers group I am in is holding a Jackbox party in November. And yes, they have to plan these things out that far in advance, given the way the group runs.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
And the cancer storyline. Because when you think "the true danger in the epic superhero beat-em-up comedy movie", you think "cancer". It murders the pacing, it's completely out of place for this movie, it's just a filmsy excuse to push the story forward. What's next, X-men figuring out how to tell a kid his dog got run over by a car?
Hmm, so it wasn't the original "origin story"?
I didn't mind the subplot that much, I guess. A more traditional way would be to just kill his girlfriend.
It's a bit strange they got back together in the end. How are they going to mesh a wacky 4th wall breaking superhero and a loving somewhat sane fiancee in the sequel?
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
And the cancer storyline. Because when you think "the true danger in the epic superhero beat-em-up comedy movie", you think "cancer". It murders the pacing, it's completely out of place for this movie, it's just a filmsy excuse to push the story forward. What's next, X-men figuring out how to tell a kid his dog got run over by a car?
Hmm, so it wasn't the original "origin story"?
He doesn't actually have one, at least not one they won't change five issues later. He went through a different variant of the Weapon X process (actually 'Weapon Ten', which we later learn is a continuation of the Super Soldier/Weapon Plus project that Steve Rogers went through in 1941) that Wolvie was part of, and like Logan his memory of his earlier years is shot to shit. He literally has no idea who he used to be, though he's made several claims in the past which turned out to be either jokes or implanted memories.
Keep in mind that he was always meant to be a joke character, and his design (and 'real' name) is basically a parody of Deathstroke the Terminator, a DC character. He was supposed to be a mix of Spiderman and Captain America, but with a personality more like 'crazy' characters such as Ambush Bug, The Badger, Plastic Man, or The Creeper. A real origin story would be a to humor.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
A more traditional way would be to just kill his girlfriend.
It's a bit strange they got back together in the end. How are they going to mesh a wacky 3rd wall breaking superhero and a loving somewhat sane fiancee in the sequel?But you answer your own questions.
And it apparently wasn't the original origin story, and even if it was, they didn't have to have it in, or have it get that much focus. Deadpool isn't Batman, where every director trips over himself to make the scene of the Waynes keeling over even more sappy than the previous guy.
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@ScholRLEA said in The Official Status Thread:
holding a Jackbox party in November
Oh. You mean like, in-person? Because it's rather trivial at the moment to set up a Discord and host a 0.5 second-delay livestream to play it on across the Internet.
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@ScholRLEA I get the impression that any backstory he gives us is just him bullshitting us for laughs. We'd never hear his real backstory (and it's probably much less interesting). But then, I only saw the movie.
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Status: well my phone soft rebooted while playing a YouTube video. Huh.
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@Maciejasjmj I've had a bit of a superhero film marathon this week, which means I've watched about four hours of superheroes being thrown through walls.
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@coderpatsy said in The Official Status Thread:
I found a command line option "--force-device-scale-factor=1" that seems to mostly solve my problem (after resetting my zoom to 125% which was what it was before they "fixed" their scaling problems and fucked me over). Just have to deal with a small omnibar.
Shit like this just reaffirms my decision to never use chrome as my default browser.
Just try FF on a multi-monitor mixed DPI system. No, FF, you're NOT aware...
Still pissed at MS for making the default DPI when you don't declare in the manifest be 'yes, I'm aware'.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Preparing to debug a failed job. In order to debug the failure, it needed to be rerun with what, for the sake of simplicity, I will call very detailed logging enabled. Running it with the logging enabled took over 40 hours. The log file is >70GB. This should be fun.
The last line in the log will tell you - only if you made the proper sacrifice before running the job.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Took my dogs to the vet yesterday. They had an adorable little 5 month old black kitten for adoption in the office. The kitten was very playful. Kitten would rather play than be petted. Kitten has very fast reflexes. I has blood. I has less blood than I had before kitten played with my fingers.
Sounds similar to piranha puppies...
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@dcon Bonus points if it's 70GB of 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Bonus points if it's 70GB of 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'.
except the last line which reads 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull bot'.
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STATUS:
Watched Raid 2.
Action scenes are still spectacular, but the film itself is kind of a letdown.
The movie once again takes every possible excuse to throw together a martial arts fight scene. But it just isn't as believable the second time around.
Raid: The Redemption had a pretty simple story that took place in a constrained environment. So I could sort of swallow the lack of guns and ad hoc nature of combat.
Raid 2 has much much more traditional story, involving an undercover investigation and taking place in multiple locations. Seeing all these sophisticated crime families duking it out with hammers and screwdrivers was just ridiculous, even if fights were superbly choreographed.