The Official Status Thread
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No.
When I pick up, the thing beeps at me like it's recording. When I call back, it's a dead number. No other audio plays. It called 5 times yesterday (which I didn't notice because I was WFH) and 5 times today.
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Woosh!
Since it was a kinda weak joke, I'll keep theHave a .Edit: I changed my mind.
[spoiler]The two I mentioned are from Belgium.[/spoiler]
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Eating a crack-filled calzone meant for 2-3 people.
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Status: did all my job paperwork while the PlaneShift video is compressing. Took almost an hour. Paperwork sucks.
Also I had to go into my basement to my fire safe to get some documents and I hit a spider web.
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So Google Maps either added a new building and didn't remove the road, or this B-dubs has a drivethrough.
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@Intercourse said:
Yeah, until you have to transport them, or run on battery power, or try to use them on your lap without toasting your genitals, etc.
Pfft. Doesn't bother me. I'll take it off your hands.
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"Slower than 99% of us."
YOU ARE THE 1%. (Which is a different joke than I was going to originally make.)
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How much trouble is it for you to change a username?
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Let me give it some thought and I will get back to you. Thank you sir.
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Just bear in mind it'll have to be done when we're both online.
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is that...... slower than the last time you posted?
it is isn't it?
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Status: Considering multiple options to extract some information from a CAN device driver. I have the choice between opening and parsing the contains of a debug-only
/proc
entry,popen()
ing someiproute2
command and parsing its output, or use the crappyAF_NETLINK
interface.I think I’ll take the scenic route and add a specific
ioctl
to the driver...
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Status: Working from home today, hoping to catch up with a feature that's already a day past the deadline.
9:00 AM... "Why don't I start the day by browsing through a few old TDWTF threads, just for the old times sake?"
later... "Ok, time to start working, for real this time"
(looks at the time) 2:30PM
... "Shit"
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There you go. Trying to help poor confused yanks, and this is the thanks I get.
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eeeh. don't try and help them. if they can't understand a 24 hour clock belgium them!
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The problem is generally with provincial non-Americans who can't grok the 12 hour clock.
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The problem is generally with provincial non-Americans who can't grok the 12 hour clock.
IMNSHO the 12 hour clock was a stupid idea. just stick to the 24 hour clock.
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Status: it's dog day at the office again!
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That's an interesting idea. But how do you handle:
- Stupid people who don't like or are afraid of the dogs (and you just know there'll be some asshole spoilsport)
- Dogs shitting all over the place
- Dogs misbehaving, chewing on things, fighting with each other
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Honestly curious.
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Welp.
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That's an interesting idea. But how do you handle:
Stupid people who don't like or are afraid of the dogs (and you just know there'll be some asshole spoilsport)
Dogs shitting all over the place
Dogs misbehaving, chewing on things, fighting with each other- dog day is every friday, if you don't like/are allergic/etc you are welcome to WFH, laptops are provided to all employees so a little planning and no problems.
- cleaners come in on saturday as part of their contract and vaccum the floors to remove doggy dander
- we have some rules....
- Dogs must be kept restrained in the employees work area (this means leashes or gates or in the case of managers closed office doors. voice command doesn't count)
- Dogs who have "accidents" are to be removed from the premises and should not be brought again. no strikes, no forgiveness.
- Owners must clean up after any accidents themselves, immediately.
- if a dog is misbehaving the employee should remove them from the premesis and allow them to calm down before returning. this could mean taking a walk or bringing the dog home and waiting for it to be a little older and mellower before returning.
- there are a couple more rules that define what exactly doggy etiquette is but they're all pretty common sense.
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Wow, that sounds like a lot of rules. I'm surprised you guys are making it work.
But I wouldn't mind it at all. If, you know, I actually had a dog.
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I switched to 24hr time on all my devices after I set my alarm for, say, 7PM one too many times.
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Wow, that sounds like a lot of rules. I'm surprised you guys are making it work.
it's really not so many rules once you realize that about 90% of them are there just so we can have everyone on the same page as to what acceptable doggy behavior is.
everything else boils down to: "if the doggy plays nice, they can stay. if not they gotta be taken home."
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It did the first few tries.
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Status: slow
Before we have a serious accident, please make sure you are watching your speed and obeying all traffic signs in the parking lot and parking deck. If you are doing more than 10 miles an hour, you are going too fast. A number of complaints have been reported both Belgium property management as well as to myself regarding dangerous driving.
I don't think I've seen anyone driving through a parking lot (who wasn't pulling in or backing out) slower than 10mph ever.
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Lack of 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione is a barrier to useful neurological activity. Lack of (2 R,3 R,4 *S,*5 S,6 R)-2-[(2 S,3 S,4 S,5 R)-3,4-dihydroxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]oxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol is a barrier to enjoyment of 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione.
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1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione
[spoiler]Lack of Caffeine Citrate is a barrier to useful neurological activity. Lack of ??? (my google-fu fails me, but various sugars are poping up in the results i get with distressing regularity) is a barrier to enjoyment of Caffeine Citrate.
[/spoiler]Filed under: "oxane" (and any subsequent words) was ignored because we limit queries to 32 words.
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Caffeine Citrate
Should be just caffeine; the citrate would have a 2-hydroxypropane-1,2,3-tricarboxylate-like thing stuck on it somewhere. AFAICT, the caffeine present in beverages is the base, not the citrate or other salts or esters.TIL:
A typical 28-gram serving of a milk chocolate bar has about as much caffeine as a cup of decaffeinated coffee, although dark chocolate has about the same caffeine as coffee by weight. Some dark chocolate currently in production contains as much as 160 mg per 100 g84 – which is double the caffeine content of the highest caffeinated drip coffee by weight.
Lack of ??? (my google-fu fails me, but various sugars are poping up in the results i get with distressing regularity)
Should be sucrose, ordinary table sugar. (There shouldn't really be a space between the numbers and R or S, but markdown; I was too lazy to type HTML.) In our lunchroom, there is enough Splenda to outlast the heat death of the universe, but no sugar — other than some spillage that nobody has bothered to clean up — at all.
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Should be just caffeine; the citrate would have a thing stuck on it somewhere.
i just googled and that's what google told me. ;-)
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i just googled and that's what google told me.
I just wikipediaed, and that's what wikipedia told me. ;P
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I just TDEMSYR and that's what TDWTF told me
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One of my dogs would be ok with that, but the other one does not like young puppies, I think I mentioned that before. She's really weird that way.
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Status: did a walk-around damage inspection on the house. Storm seems to not have done any damage, at least not to my property. Gonna do some errands, so we'll see how the rest of the town fared...
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Did you lose power? I lost it for about an hour or so — local; the lights were still on a couple of blocks down the street. A SnoPUD cherry picker was driving up and down the street shining a spotlight at the wires looking for what went bang.
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Did you lose power? I lost it for about an hour or so — local; the lights were still on a couple of blocks down the street. A SnoPUD cherry picker was driving up and down the street shining a spotlight at the wires looking for what went bang.
Did you actually hear a "bang"? That was probably a fuse blowing.
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Did you lose power?
Not before 11:00ish, when I went to bed. If I lost it between 11:00 and 7:00 I have no way of knowing.
My UPS kicked in a couple of times, it has a huge-ass relay in it so it makes a loud "click" you can hear anywhere in the house. But it's also a power conditioner, so it might have just been cleaning up unclean power as a result of other places on the grid going down.
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Did you actually hear a "bang"?
No, I was using "went bang" figuratively. I don't remember noticing any particular noise when the power went out (any of the multiple times it went out). There was a loud noise later (I can't remember whether the power was on or off at the time) that might have been a fuse blowing, or something, a few blocks away in an area that wasn't affected already.
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Ah, nice. The power flickered at work for me yesterday.
My drive to work in the morning had been 10 mins.
My drive home took an hour and a half, because half the businesses and stoplights were out :/But my apartment complex didn't have any trouble apparently.
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cleaners come in on saturday as part of their contract and vaccum the floors to remove doggy dander
Shamus Young had a post not too long ago where he said he's allergic to something other than dander and just a regular vacuuming doesn't solve the problem for him. That seems to be fairly rare, though.
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I switched to 24hr time on all my devices after I set my alarm for, say, 7PM one too many times.
Just like with texting, you have to remember to look at what you just did at least one more time before hitting send or save or whatever.