The Official Status Thread
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I'm pretty goddamned blocked.
Quit complaining and get to work, you have a water heater to pay for.
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I have about 3 tickets I can't complete because I can't access their pull request comments. I have one ticket (the one I'm working on now) which I can in theory complete, but it also has a pull request full of helpful info I have no access to, so I have to spend like 2 days redoing it from scratch.
Huh...I'd ask for patches from the people sending the requests. They probably couldn't / wouldn't do it, but at least then you're being proactive in working around the organizational WTF.
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Yeah well, I've been talking about this with my boss all day and he's ok with what I'm doing so you'll excuse me if I tell you to fuck off.
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so you'll excuse me if I tell you to fuck off.
Not likely. But I don't think I'll be bothered or offended either, if that's any consolation.
Yeah well, I've been talking about this with my boss all day and he's ok with what I'm doing
Cool, at least you have your ass covered.
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you'll excuse me if I tell you to fuck off.
sure, but don't expect me to listen to you either. ;-)
i don't listen to anyone who says that to me. not without thinking for myself anyway.
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, but at least then you're being proactive in working around the organizational WTF.
Or at least looking like you're trying to be, which can be important.
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Status: OMG I can get work done, amazingsauce
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Status: Got my replacement hard drive in courtesy of Western Digital's RMA service. That was fast! Currently making a system image and then going to restore it to a RAID 1 array using the replacement drive and the new drive I bought when I didn't realize my dead drive was fairly new and under warranty.
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so nintendo!
i have those too.the SP is blue and the DS is red and black (actually 2 DS that i merged from one with a broken screen and another with a fang hole in the battery)
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dog actually.
but hey, i got a free DS (i didn't have one before that) and my friend upgraded to the DSi
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Seriously, just go burn their office to the ground. There is not a court that will convict you. <this is not legal advice, you will go to jail, it was a joke...>
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is that faster or slower than usual.... i admit i can't remember.
also what
@intercourse@Polygeekery said.
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So you probably don't want to hear about the 18/3 or the 13.5/5.5 results I got on my phone earlier today....
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is that faster or slower than usual.... i admit i can't remember.
How would you be able to tell? They're all "F-" so conceptually they're all equally shitty. Getting two POTS lines and a pair of modems and using bonded two-line dialup would almost literally be faster.
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we have a whole thread devoted to speed tests..... i think... or maybe it just went off topic to that and stayed on that topic for a while.
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Status: bad news, the water isn't hot. Good news, the water's at least luke-warm... meaning it's probably a bad thermostat. If it can stay luke-warm until I can get it replaced on saturday, I'll be happy.
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A bug report I just noticed on one of my Skyrim mods:
ther a littel bug im haveing with it your poiter and compis are mising can you fix this plees
I'll get RIGHT ON THAT!
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Good news, the water's at least luke-warm
It is likely the upper heating element, not the thermostat. Good news, they are even cheaper and easier to replace.
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Meh. I got a job now, and it's well over 10 years old, I'll just have it replaced with someone I don't need to worry about for a few years. They're not expensive. I've spent more money than that on pocky.
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I'll just have it replaced with someone I don't need to worry about for a few years.
You are going to hire a personal water heater? That new job must pay well!
I know what you meant though. Probably a good call. You would repair it and in a week it would start leaking.
Might be worth it to pull the anode though. If it is not entirely gone, it should be worth repairing. If you replace the anode regularly, there is no reason a water heater should not last virtually forever.
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If you replace the anode regularly, there is no reason a water heater should not last virtually forever.
TIL. I never even knew this was possible. I'm renting, so it doesn't do me much good, but if I can ever afford to buy again, it might come in handy.
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Yep. The only real terminal failure on a water heater is the tank. If you keep the anode replaced regularly (every ~5 years), the tank is highly unlikely to corrode and the rest of the parts are dirt cheap to repair/replace.
Once the anode is gone, the tank follows quickly. Manufacturers size them to last roughly the length of the warranty. As most people never replace them, they fail somewhat regularly. Fundamentally, not much has changed on tank water heaters for several decades. The last advance was probably the glass-lined tank.
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it's funny the way you keep doing this, like you're picking at a scab. It's probably neither sociable nor hygienic.
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Bigger numbers are better, right?
Just as a point of comparison, 2-3 years ago I was on a little island in the Caribbean named Isla Mujeres and connected back to my office to check something and my ping was under 500ms and speeds were many multiples of that. From Mexico, on an island, back to the Midwest, over VPN....I had a better connection than you do right now.
Edit: From here:
my connection was better than at your place in Milwaukee. Is that seriously your only option?
Also, if anyone is looking for paradise, that is as close as it gets. Cheap also, once you get there. I would suggest:
http://www.hotelsecreto.com/index.html
The place is amazing, great service and good prices.
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it's funny the way you keep doing this, like you're picking at a scab. It's probably neither sociable nor hygienic.
The Gross Cow-orkers Thread is over there.
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Dan McNeely from those awful Christian Flash games on Newgrounds
Speaking of this, I just noticed a reference in Dead State on the "memorial" wall you can get in-game:
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My FIL hired a handyman to hang new smoke detectors...
Was he worried they might fall down if he hung them himself? Or spontaneously combust and burn the house down? Either I don't know enough about smoke detectors to be worried about hanging them myself, or there's easy money in being a handyman...
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Smoke detectors are radioactive.
Filed under: There was a kid who collected them in order to build his own nuclear reactor
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Learning is fun!
But still, I'm not going to turn into something out of [i]Fallout[/i] if I hang my own smoke detectors, right?
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Status: “Hm, I wonder why some items of the linked list are leaked... Let’s see how the linked list is freed.”
void freeLinkedList(void) { if (linkedList != NULL) { free(linkedList); linkedList = NULL; } }
“...”
EDIT: And syntax hightlighting still only works in preview... @discoursebot
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@VinDuv - Last Day Without A Discourse Bug: null
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EDIT: And syntax hightlighting still only works in preview... @discoursebot
it also works after a refresh or navigating away from the topic and coming back (but not via browser back button)
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Status: Jebus that was a chilly shower. Maybe I'll just have to take a day off and handle this shit.
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Either I don't know enough about smoke detectors to be worried about hanging them myself, or there's easy money in being a handyman...
The latter. Also, he is an idiot. Everything I do around the house is like 'effing magic to him. He has...no marketable skills.
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So he's at least not one of those people who are unreasonably afraid of anything that souds like "radioactive", "nuclear" or "atom"?
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So he's at least not one of those people who are unreasonably afraid of anything that souds like "radioactive", "nuclear" or "atom"?
I find it highly unlikely he is even aware that there is low-grade radioactive material in them at all.
Let us just say that you can be fairly certain that my wife's intelligence comes from her mother...
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You better find a smoke detector technician to install it otherwise you're probably violating several international nuclear non-proliferation treaties. He will have the correct geiger counter to calibrate the curies coming out of the device
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The Gross Cow-orkers Thread is over there.
Discoursistency for you: I got a notification that someone had replied to me in that thread, but by the time I clicked the link, it had been renamed. The notification contained the old name, though.
@codinghorror is that the way it's supposed to be?
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Discoursistency ... the way it's supposed to be?
Does not compute.
Anyway, yes, I think so. The notification contains the topic name as it was at the time the notification was generated. If somebody renames the topic later, the notification notifier thingy doesn't reach out and edit the notifications it has already notified.
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Status: bad news, the water isn't hot. Good news, the water's at least luke-warm... meaning it's probably a bad thermostat. If it can stay luke-warm until I can get it replaced on saturday, I'll be happy.
It could also be sediment build-up in the tank, meaning that flushing the tank might help. Of course, if the tank is old enough and the build-up severe enough, the only way to fix that problem is with a new water heater.
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But still, I'm not going to turn into something out of Fallout if I hang my own smoke detectors, right?
No you aren't. Well, not unless you disassemble them and start physically handling the radioactive material.
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Status: Jesus Christmas, recruiters need to stop calling me when I'm on the can, or in a meeting with the same agency's account manager, or in a meeting with my boss.
Those are the only times they call. And they never leave voicemail.
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Discoursistency for you: I got a notification that someone had replied to me in that thread, but by the time I clicked the link, it had been renamed. The notification contained the old name, though.
That was me. I put a unicode cow in the title, which worked at first and then didn't anymore.
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not unless you disassemble them and start physically handling the radioactive material
[b]Note to self:[/b] cancel smoke detector disassembly/licking session I had planned for later in the week.