The Official Status Thread
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in The Official Status Thread:
Status - can't reproduce and didn't think to screenshot, but just a few minutes ago - all the "about x hours ago" in a topic were replaced with freaking ISO time.
The topic list still has them.
fake edit: sometimes...
fake edit 2: OH. MY. GOD...
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Status: About to go to a pub quiz... in the office.
Yes, you read that right.
No, there probably won't be booze (besides, I'm driving).
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
Since when we have the raw button?
We do?
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Try clicking the post hamburger menu and see if you don't notice something else.
Like what?
http://i.imgur.com/8sTmkmL.png
Web 3.0.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor But I don't run Ubuntu
There was no 16th month in 2010, so that's probably not Ubuntu.
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Status: Our webmaster is retiring today. He was one of the really competent people round here; there's a betting pool on when the main website will go down and wedge there, despite the most earnest meetings of management to try to expedite the knowledge optimisation protocols (or whatever next week's buzzword BS is).
He'll be missed by lots of people; he's a really nice guy.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Our webmaster is retiring today.
"webmaster"?
No wonder he's retiring. How fucking old is that guy? Did they just, like, construct your office around him-- like a building that has a tree in the lobby?
When he leaves, who gets his 486?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
When he leaves, who gets his 486?
@Tsaukpaetra, of course
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Status: It turns out that even when using high-voltage cables that creeping current is a thing.
Please wait while I try to comb my hair back down.
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Determinedly procrastinating on some malware I'm supposed to reverse engineer because UGH that is not my favorite thing to do. Maybe I'll do some Christmas shopping instead.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
some malware I'm supposed to reverse engineer
Reverse engineering Windows10 is illegal
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Status: Surprised that plasma TVs are a thing in 2016.
<amberose> https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-PN51D6500-51-Inch-1080p-Plasma/dp/B004MNADXK/
<amberose> Why are there 600hz tvs
<aliceif> amb the correct question would be
<aliceif> "who the fuck still buys plasma TVs"
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
who the fuck still buys plasma TVs
Someone who can't afford an OLED TV?
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in The Official Status Thread:
Status - can't reproduce and didn't think to screenshot, but just a few minutes ago - all the "about x hours ago" in a topic were replaced with freaking ISO time.
I saw it too, I think it was when I had sat at the topic list for a while.
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Status: LOL Wat. Why does a Game Capture program need to mess with Chrome?
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@Tsaukpaetra I'd guess it's a system component they both use or something.
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status Ah, a nice quiet Thanksgiving Friday. All our American customers will be closed, and I can just futz off all day.
Hi, this is your American food bank customer. Of course we're open on Thanksgiving. Halp with things plz?
Hi, this is your Canadian customer. We suddenly remembered we're doing a Free Shipping deal on Dec 1st, and need changes to the coupon logic. Let's scope that out and get the CR finalized now!And now it's 5pm. :/
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
status Ah, a nice quiet Thanksgiving Friday. All our American customers will be closed, and I can just futz off all day.
Hi, this is your American food bank customer. Of course we're open on Thanksgiving. Halp with things plz?
Hi, this is your Canadian customer. We suddenly remembered we're doing a Free Shipping deal on Dec 1st, and need changes to the coupon logic. Let's scope that out and get the CR finalized now!And now it's 5pm. :/
But Thanksgiving's over!
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@Tsaukpaetra yes, technically, the day itself is over, now we're into the corporate carnage of profiteering on the back of it.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
How fucking old is that guy?
I'd guess late 50s. I never asked.
However, it's not a matter of running just one website. It's a matter of running thousands of small PHP websites that are rarely maintained and keeping all of the fuckers secure. Yes, there's a lot of gently decaying data in there and also uncertain responsibilities, uncertain usefulness, lots of bad practices (mostly unfixable; IT don't have the political clout inside the overall organisation) and next to no money to improve anything.
OTOH, to date it has mostly worked extremely well, so much so that management doesn't seem to think that they're looking at a catastrophic risk.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I'd guess it's a system component they both use or something.
My guess: It installs spyware into some graphics library that lets it intercept OpenGL or DirectX or something.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I'd guess it's a system component they both use or something.
My guess: It installs spyware into some graphics library that lets it intercept OpenGL or DirectX or something.
I suppose it's needful, otherwise attempting to capture a Chrome window just results in a black object...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I'd guess it's a system component they both use or something.
My guess: It installs spyware into some graphics library that lets it intercept OpenGL or DirectX or something.
I suppose it's needful, otherwise attempting to capture a Chrome window just results in a black object...
Fun fact: No method I can figure out works for capturing Chrome windows short of disabling hardware acceleration or doing a monitor capture and cropping it.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Fun fact: No method I can figure out works for capturing Chrome windows short of disabling hardware acceleration or doing a monitor capture and cropping it.
You could always try reading the video memory directly?
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Status: I communicated!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
But Thanksgiving's over!
But don't you have that second holiday right after-- um, Trample Underpaid Worker Day or something?
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
But Thanksgiving's over!
But don't you have that second holiday right after-- um, Trample Underpaid Worker Day or something?
I don't recognize such a thing. My sister however celebrated her 18th today though.
Status: I'm tired of standing... Someone come hold me?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't recognize such a thing. My sister however celebrated her 18th today though.
inb4 legal
Status: I'm tired of standing... Someone come hold me?
Try doggy style. It's easier on the back.
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status fuck this fucking "raw" button fucking up where i want to click to reply.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
status fuck this fucking "raw" button fucking up where i want to click to reply.
You'll get used to it.
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Try doggy style. It's easier on the back.
Maybe, but not easier on the calves. Holding oneself at the correct height is... difficult.
urm, I mean, not talking from experience....
Filed under: It was for science, I swear!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You'll get used to it.
I already got used to the REPLY button being at the far left-- i.e. the first target to aim for. Just keep moving until I'm over blue and click.
Now I have to actually stop, think, aim and get it right.
There's a reason things are positioned on edges.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I have to actually stop, think, aim and get it right.
Yeah, nobody likes it when your aim is off...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Now I have to actually stop, think, aim and get it right.
Yeah, nobody likes it when your aim is off...
I've had to clean so many ceiling fans...
Filed under: The trick is to turn them on to HIGH and hope no one looks at the walls later.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status fuck this fucking "raw" button fucking up where i want to click to reply.
You'll get used to it.
Take it easy with Lorne, you know he doesn't handle change well.
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Status: My health insurance company sent me a letter last week stating:
We accidentally transferred funds to you which were meant for the hospital last year. Please transfer 694.52€ back to us. Kthxbye.
I remembered getting those funds and I also remembered the previous letter (last year) where they stated the same thing, but going over my bank records I couldn't find evidence that I transferred the money back. Damn. I really had forgotten to do so (in my defense, that was during the time I was in and out of the hospital regularly and I was positively flooded with receipts, bills and switch-arounds like this).
So I transferred the money. Only to find it back in my account today with the message:
Balance due has already been cleared
I'm not sure what happened here. I shan't complain, however.
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Status:
I think I need more coffee.
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I just built a bookcase.
Status: A bit sweaty.
I'm seriously unfit if I work up a sweat building a flatpack bookcase.
Status: Looking for a nearby gym to join.
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Status: Just found a bug that's been plaguing me for a few months. When one puts wrong conditions in some places in the code that writes the memory management code, is it any surprise that bad things happen?
I can't even blame anyone else. But at least it is fixed now, and the condition code is refactored so I won't screw this up again.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Looking for a nearby gym to join.
Update: Found one; will check it out properly tomorrow.
In the meantime, built another bookcase.
Status: Out of bookcases to build.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
who the fuck still buys plasma TVs
(50")
Someone who can't afford an OLED TV?
Ok, they didn't exist when I bought it...
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
My hand is a lot smaller than yours.
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Looking for a nearby gym to join.
Is it not better to look for a gym that is 20 minutes by foot away?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg Ideally, I'd find one that's on or just off my commute, but there isn't one. Nor is there one within 20 minutes walk of my apartment.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Nor is there one within 20 minutes walk of my apartment.
Maybe there is one in a 30 minute bike radius. Or a 10 minute swim ...
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe there is one in a 30 minute bike radius.
I don't have a bike.
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
Or a 10 minute swim
The north-west isn't that wet…
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
The north-west isn't that wet…
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't have a bike.
Your Christmas sales should be starting soon.
(Oh lord give me patience as I venture out into the post-Thanksgiving sales hysteria)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Your Christmas sales should be starting soon.
They've started already, thanks to us importing Black Friday a few years back.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
@Mikael_Svahnberg Ideally, I'd find one that's on or just off my commute, but there isn't one. Nor is there one within 20 minutes walk of my apartment.
What if you run?
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
I just built a bookcase.
Status: A bit sweaty.
Kinda.... No, very hot!