The Official Status Thread
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I would like to be fucking around
Would you like to find out?
The only thing I found out is that nobody wants to fuck around.
See, maths is the better alternative after all.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I would like to be fucking around
Would you like to find out?
I feel like for aptness, if not necessarily technically correctness, the question should be phrased 'would you like to finding out' because as far as I can tell, FAFO is tense-matched, i.e. 'fuck around and find out' or 'fucking around and finding out'.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Read Friday's xkcd, don't get it. Went to explain xkcd, still don't get it. Did Munroe start doing math on acid?
That one isn't funny, and the "explain xkcd" is useless.
He's done nearly 3,000 of them. At some point you run out of ideas.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
the question should be phrased
I considered that, but I don't think I've ever seen FAFO used in the progressive subjunctive (usually in the imperative indicative, sometimes mandative subjunctive or past indicative), so I wrote it in the more common modal infinitive form.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
would you like to finding out
Isn't there an extra "to" in this sentence?
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@Zerosquare No, it's missing a be: Would you like to be finding out? That's the way he phrased the "fucking around" sentence.
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Oh, OK. That works.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
the question should be phrased
I considered that, but I don't think I've ever seen FAFO used in the progressive subjunctive (usually in the imperative indicative, sometimes mandative subjunctive or past indicative), so I wrote it in the more common modal infinitive form.
Does this count as another book?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
See, maths is the better alternative after all.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Okay, here's a quick one:
Wait ...
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Status: Email from Gitlab: your personal access tokens expire in 7 days or less.
Well, no problem. I'll just click on the link to the personal access token settings and renew it.
Right? Right?!Of course not. Apparently these tokens now have a limited lifetime that you cannot renew. Because MuH sEcUrItY.
In case somebody 1) already had full access the whole time and at least won't get updates anymore now, or 2) took about a year on a supercomputer to crack it and is now being stumped just before getting ready to use it. If I'd just been on holiday it'd break my automatic builds.I thought we moved away from constantly changing passwords because fuck that noise?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity Okay, here's a quick one:
Wait ...
Q: what does one do with a big fancy 600+ mm graphics drawing tablet?
A: brag about it at any opportunity, but also, do maths problems for fun
(thereâs probably some more obvious way to get that last bit but Iâd need a more expensive gizmo to see it.)
addendum: right, you can just add and subtract equations without bothering to expand the bits inside.
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status: working my way through the queue of drives to secure wipe. Damn this one has a grindy motor!
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pulls out Gimp measuring tool
length of 38 -> 620px, about 16px per unit
length of 31 -> 490px, about 16px per unit
length of 79 -> 1260px, about 16px per unit
length of x -> 1300px. So x is about 81 (length could be 1296)Also, if I rotate the picture to put the 79 on top of x, I get a difference of about 46px with x being longer.
That should be difference of about 3 units, so it checks out.
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@Zecc that's cheating!
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
(thereâs probably some more obvious way to get that last bit but Iâd need a more expensive gizmo to see it.)
addendum: right, you can just add and subtract equations without bothering to expand the bits inside.That's still quicker than what I came up with ( that's completely underdetermined? Well, let's just ...). But I did find the equation I was missing and the easy 2 minute solution after I had plowed through it, at least.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc that's cheating!
I prefer calling it "lateral thinking".
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@kazitor I'd have sworn that wasn't fully determined from the data.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor I'd have sworn that wasn't fully determined from the data.
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
The figure is not determined (5 variables (w, h, a, b, r) and only 3 measures), but the solution is. Notably, r is completely irrelevant.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
(w, h, a, b, r)
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Status: Weebs!
Take care, weebs food can be addictive.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
food can be addictive.
Definitely don't try to quit cold turkey. The withdrawal symptoms are terrible.
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@HardwareGeek Cold turkey I can take or leave; it's not too bad in sandwiches but can be a little dry. Hot turkey much preferred.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Is there any good RSS client/webapp?
I've been using FeedDemon. Though it's no longer supported...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It is too damn early to be thinking about maths!
What else would you be doing early in the morning?
Drinking caffeine.
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@dcon you can do this in the time your tea is brewing.
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Status: Calling to pay a Sears card (by Citi) bill just highlights what a clusterfuck "process" for "production" code is.
- It used to remember if you used speech or touch tone but not anymore. Always defaults to speech which may as well be deaf.
- You used to hit to flip from speech to touch tone. Now if you do that, it can't recognize your account number because it buffers the second in front of it (1234 becomes 1234). Don't worry though, touch tone to speech is still .
- Touch tone's buffer seems to have slowed down, meaning there has to be a distinct pause between each key.
- If you go too far into any menu, the touch tone line starts asking you to speak keywords, even for yes/no. Because it's deaf, all you can do is hang up.
- I had it do the most bizarre thing today where, after flipping to touch tone, it spoke the speech options in the touch tone voice (bizarrely, touch tone normally sounds like a person and speech sounds like a robot). It was impossible to get it to accept my account number or let me flip to real touch tone, forcing me to hang up.
For a phone tree, which should have really basic logic, how the hell it gets so confused is a needful question to being answered.
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@Zenith I don't think I've ever encountered such a system where you have to explicitly switch between voice and tone. I try not to deal with such systems, but when I do, I can enter account numbers and whatnot by either speaking or keypad, and it will accept either (although keypad tends to be more reliable; the speech recognition sometimes requires very careful enunciation). The bigger problem for me is systems that don't have menus; you have to speak and try to get the system to understand.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Calling to pay a Sears card
Wait. They still exist? I thought they went out of business...
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@HardwareGeek There's been this shift. When they started wanting spoken keywords, they'd still take the number key, usually (but not always) in the same order. I hate the Discover card because it won't even take 1/2 for yes/no. What works consistently, for me anyway, is my rough approximation of Daisy from Mario Kart. The short version of that story is I used to do animation and it was such a fight to get people to record lines that I decided I had to be able to voice a whole short myself.
@dcon Technically, there are still a handful of Sears stores, none near enough to matter. The card turned into a Sears-branded Citi card years ago. I don't expect the branding to continue past its expiration date though.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
What works consistently, for me anyway, is my rough approximation of Daisy from Mario Kart.
It's okay, we don't kink-shame.
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Status: Oh... no....
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What are you complaining about? You got an awesome disk size upgrade, for free!
Just restore your latest backup and you'll be fine.
...you have backups, right?
...right?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
What are you complaining about? You got an awesome disk size upgrade, for free!
Just restore your latest backup and you'll be fine.
...you have backups, right?
...right?
You look much better as a cat than a senator in hiding.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
your
Not my drive, and soon enough won't be my problem. đ
Sabrent Rocket SSDs are on my shitlist.
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New YT layout today. The one with (larger) thumbnails of suggested video below the currently playing video, and video description and comments on a right side scrollable area.
I like it.
On the other hand I've noticed the videos have started skipping lately. Guess I'm being punished for blocking ads.
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@Zecc from the wailing and gnashing Iâve heard, you may be the only person who does like it. I havenât yet encountered it so no comment.
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Update on this: I'm starting to reconsider. My first reaction was: okay, (I think) I like to read comments while watching the video and this allows for that. Also fewer video thumbnails means fewer distractions. This is obviously an oxymoron.
But: it's actually more annoying to read comments on a narrower space. And I really should pause the video anyway since â as much as I like to think otherwise â I can't pay full attention to both things at once. "Thinking" about what I might want to watch next is probably what I might want to do more often.
But ultimately I think it depends on the kind of video I'm watching and browsing for? I use YT more often than not just for background noise and not so much the visuals. And in that case the current layout, which favors reading comments, makes sense I think.
We'll see.
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STATUS Was reminded that Surface Duo was thing. I actually liked the concept, so I thought I would see how much they are now. Over a grand! What the devil? This was actually a good concept but like everything Microsoft touches now, it just turns to shit. They need to be stopped.
Has Azure stopped being a tyre fire?
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@DogsB Everything cloud is a fucking dumpster fire.
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Status: Got into an argument with coworker about the original definition of "virus" in regards to computer technology.
His claim is that originally (literally) any code that resided in sector 0 (aka the master boot record) was considered and defined as a virus.
'course he can't site any sources because "hur dur before the Internet no exist info" but I'm like "surely if it was so popular a concept that it was a widespread joke that someone would have written about it, right?"
No, of course not, because it's not true. People didn't literally define a virus as the boot sector.
Someone with a bigger prove me wrong on this!
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@Tsaukpaetra if that were true, how would systems that boot from disk primarily not also implicitly be viruses???
But I think his definition is nonsense anyway because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_and_Reaper don't appear to be bootsector viruses (though your coworker will probably that this is a worm not a virus, though the distinction is largely arbitrary that far back)
The 1971 entry under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_and_worms would pretty much seem to kick his thinking into the long grass though he'll no doubt that a self replicating process is also not a virus.
There is some merit to his thinking, because a lot of viruses back in the day were bootsector viruses, but not all bootsectors were viruses!
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
(though your coworker will probably that this is a worm not a virus, though the distinction is largely arbitrary that far back)
This. He literally stated, quote "Back then there was no distinction between types, everything was a virus, no malware/spyware/trojans none of that"
The 1971 entry under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computer_viruses_and_worms would pretty much seem to kick his thinking into the long grass though he'll no doubt that a self replicating process is also not a virus.
Right, and that's what I said, it was called a virus because of the behaviour exhibited, not because "it was in sector 0!"
There is some merit to his thinking, because a lot of viruses back in the day were bootsector viruses, but not all bootsectors were viruses!
Right, but there is no reasoning here it seems, even after explaining the difference and mentioning executable infection vectors and the like. "Well those were called viruses too!" duh, so your definition is flawed!
Thanks, Google, I don't need help, I can shoot guns any way I like!
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status: what's in the box?
three guesses, the first three don't count.
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@Tsaukpaetra a 2 year old version of Windows on DVD?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra a 2 year old version of Windows on DVD?
We don't need the DVD, just the pretty license sticker it comes with.
Sadly, you apparently can't just get the sticker, it MUST come with the DVD.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Calling to pay a Sears card
Wait. They still exist? I thought they went out of business...
They may have died but debt lives forever.
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@Tsaukpaetra Odd. When I recently got a new systembuilder license, I just got the sticker without the disk. If memory serves it also arrived in an unpadded envelope.