The Official Status Thread
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@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates My "cheap keyboard" has earned me about £120,000-£150,000 so I think this one is just fine. £15 well spent :D
Sorry I think only keyboard snobs care whether someone has the latest DAS keyboard
My laptop came with a built-in keyboard for free!
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@aliceif I will use a proper computer thanks.
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@Yamikuronue I'm on the second of four or five, and upstairs has been doing that ever since we moved in :/ I hope they finish what they're doing soon, our company doesn't know how to do noise reduction...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering WTF so many of the current Sonic games (Sonic Rush, Sonic Colors, etc) have such weird soundtrack song styles.
Also, there's no way I listen to way too much radionintendo.com at work.
Sonic Rush is very much not a current Sonic game.
It was released in 2005, which is twelve years ago. It even came out before the modern era and before the disgraceful Sonic the Hedgehog for PS3 and Xbox360.
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@aliceif
Anything that came out after I graduated from college is current
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@aliceif Still have Sonic and Knuckles dual game cartridge somewhere.
EDIT: I gave my mega drive to my little sister when I got a PS1 (this was back in 1998), I think she still had the mega drive. She still lives with my mum (loser) and I saw it hooked up to the TV still when I visited at xmas ... surprised it all still works.
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@lucas1 Cars, matresses, houses, pillows, and shoes are things everyone is best off paying a decent amount for, since you'll likely use them a lot.
Likewise keyboards, mice, monitors, and chairs for people in our professions.
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@lucas1 I'm currently playing Ecco the Dolphin on a Mega Drive II that I bought last month.
Ended up buying an aftermarket av cable because the sound sounded like total ass (and was in mono) over the coaxial cable it came with.
Neat little machine, but I can't seem to find as many games for it as for my SNES in my area.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Likewise keyboards, mice
No, anything that costs more than a tenner and is made by logitech is good enough. It is total branding bollox.
BTW I have owned a Sun Type 6 keyboard, a Cherry and a Bloomberg Keyboard (which was basically trash because it didn't work with the latest software and those keyboards cost £10k) and it is all shite.
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
monitors, and chairs for people in our professions.
Monitors and chairs do matter because they are obviously measurably better.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: fuck it. I am officially giving up :(
What's wrong :/
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@anonymous234 Dude just get a blowie. I will do a GoFund me for a prozzie if you really need it.
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@bb36e Well, in short, I'm supposed to do a presentation next week, and send a preliminary version of my dissertation today, that I'm supposed to have worked on for 3 weeks now.
And, well, I haven't. Because I'm a lazy piece of shit completely lacking in motivation or willpower. Or the ability to think about work without getting stressed and becoming unable to do it.
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@anonymous234 If you work on it 24h a day, you can fit 3 weeks in one
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
If you work on it 24h a day
If I can work on it 6h a day it'll be a huge success.
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@anonymous234
I feel your pain. Hope you're able to sort out progress on the tasks.
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Status: Got annoyed at my FTP server having write fails and tried running
sudo chmod -R 777 /
in a desperate attempt to fix it. Linux did not agree with that command very well. Now reinstalling Linux.
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HOLY SHIT STATUS:
http://www.vinylmeplease.com/record-of-the-month/
http://www.vinylmeplease.com/record-of-the-month/
Well, I'm signing up for this month. If anyone's interested PM for referral.
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@JazzyJosh You ever listened to the Deltron Albums?
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@lucas1 IDK I probably haven't gone out of my way to. Generally just "OK Google play Gorillaz".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6YJjkO7F5A
It is a bit of a concept album. Basically some guy is coding a computer virus to make music non-generic again. It is done by the same DJ that did Gorillaz.
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Status: No, brain, it is not cromulent to put my shoes on before putting pants on. Especially when the intent is to go out walking to get dinner...
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@anonymous234 Well, sounds like you're getting to the actual business end of doing research, which includes a whole bunch of “gotta do this before deadline XYZ no matter how much procrastination looks better”. It's a complete ass. OTOH, other people will be in the same situation. So stop feeling sorry for yourself and vomit something out anyway; actually getting on with writing it usually makes it easier to write it. The thing you send in as a preliminary doesn't need much polish; no pictures if you've not got any yet, no styling, just slap down bullet points and leave slide content blank (but with a title) if you know you need to do something but can't figure out exactly what yet.
The main thing is write stuff NOW instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You can do that later.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
HOLY SHIT STATUS:
http://www.vinylmeplease.com/record-of-the-month/
http://www.vinylmeplease.com/record-of-the-month/
Well, I'm signing up for this month. If anyone's interested PM for referral.
Sign up by the 15th to get this record; Plans from $25/month
If anyone's interested PM for referral.
What happened to just buying shit?
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
What happened to just buying shit?
I prefer to make my own shit.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
What happened to just buying shit?
I prefer to make my own shit.
I thought that comes naturally anyways?
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@Tsaukpaetra Hence my confusion at @Maciejasjmj's suggestion.
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Status: GIBBERISH
The ... platform builds integrated customer success communities and knowledge management portals in the cloud for a 1:1 channel.
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Status: Finally got my unsecured AP with FTP server working. Only much dicking about with Windows (refuses to do unsecured APs), macOS and Linux (could not write to FTP server), including killing that one Linux install... And finally, got an old Windows FTP server running in Wine on Linux running an unsecured AP to do the job. Now to get tea to celebrate.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Finally got my unsecured AP with FTP server
.... Are you trying to dump Nintendo DS carts or something?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Finally got my unsecured AP with FTP server
.... Are you trying to dump Nintendo DS carts or something?
Uuuh... (Actually, just dumping saves, not entire games.)
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
an old Windows FTP server running in Wine on Linux running an unsecured AP
wat
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm currently playing Ecco the Dolphin
Oh my God, I remember playing that game in the mall as a kid. I never managed to figure out how it actually works.
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My Amiga stuff is turning up tomorrow.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Because I'm a lazy piece of shit completely lacking in motivation or willpower. Or the ability to think about work without getting stressed and becoming unable to do it.
👋
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@anonymous234 I was a lazy piece of shit.
I was a guy that got perfect results on my A-levels went to one of the best uni in England. Then fucked up due to booze, drugs and actually not really knowing how to deal with life when parents weren't around.
Dropped out then went back to uni again got a mediocre degree and then finally got himself a job and then spent another 7 years getting to earn what I should have been if I bothered in the first place.
BTW I spent 8 years of my life moving vegetables from the lorry to the chiller. Don't do the 8 years of moving vegetables 3 days a week and 5 nights a week in the holidays. Not worth it.
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@lucas1, @anonymous234 BTW working on nights I had to work with fucked up dudes.
I worked mostly with my GF at the time. Me and her worked on Veg and Fresh. This guy used to come in flustered and he said he was attacked. My hobby at the time was getting fucked up fighting dudes in a cage. I knew he just cut himself before he came into work. The guy was a brick shithouse. This really pissed me off that my GF's little sister got mugged at knife point on the same way home a few days before. I was 22 at the time and my GF was 18 and her little sister who looked the same was 14.
I used to work with another guy that used to "pause" because of an epileptic fit. He would be just pushing a cage along and then he would pause and have a fit, honestly I saw a person BSOD and reboot. That wasn't the saddest thing about his life btw. He had to live with his brother and his brother used to beat him. So this guy could do much because if he had an attack he might hurt himself or others, and then his brother beat him up.
There was a Guy called Russell that was a nice chap. Still lived with his parents and a virgin at 55 (no way he got any fanny).
This is what pisses me off when people take the piss outta minimum wage workers. These people aren't capable of doing anything else. They are deeply broken in one way or another.
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@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
I had to work with fucked up dudes.
I worked mostly with my GF at the time.So, your GF was a fucked up dude ?
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
Finally got my unsecured AP with FTP server
.... Are you trying to dump Nintendo DS carts or something?
Uuuh... (Actually, just dumping saves, not entire games.)
.... Did not expect to be correct, holy crap!
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@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 I was a lazy piece of shit.
It's a competition I can win!
In the last 2 years all I need to get my college degree is writing a project and a paper. I should be doing it now.
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@Tsaukpaetra And now all my legit gen 3-4-5 carts have been given the time-limited event items that I missed because I pretty much missed nearly a decade of Pokémon. (And they may also have got all the event items that were never officially distributed... cough )
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status: this sums up my mood and general disposition
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@asdf said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm currently playing Ecco the Dolphin
Oh my God, I remember playing that game in the mall as a kid. I never managed to figure out how it actually works.
I still feel like I'm not fully in tune with the controls yet - and I'm beyond the halfway point of the game already.
But I've made some huge progress!
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STATUS:
Problem: A lot of candidates fail my coding interviews
Boss's solution: Hire people without coding interviewsTwo senior people coming next month.
It's gonna be "fun" seeing if they actually know something.
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Anybody interested in playing auto generated Mafia games but not already in the group?
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Status: actually making some progress with my MVC app. I still need to hook it up to the web services that actually provide the data rather than using the Entity Framework objects I've so painstakingly built up
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
knowledge management portals
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Status: What a discount
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS:
Problem: A lot of candidates fail my coding interviews
Boss's solution: Hire people without coding interviews
Two senior people coming next month.
It's gonna be "fun" seeing if they actually know something.Boss finally sent me CV of one of these guys. One page Word document. No github or personal site (which is the first thing I look for). All he has is empty-ish Linkedin and Facebook.
So now I'm scrolling through this guy's Facebook feed, past images of his girlfriends and vacations, looking for some computer related stuff.
Oh look! It's a blurry Mac screen in the background! Uuuh, is that sublime text? With default color theme? That code sure looks to have a lot of nesting...
Sigh... I just hope the Boss knows what he's doing...