The Official Status Thread
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Status: Coughing up my lungs. I had a sense that I might be sick yesterday, but now it has really started to hit me. I don't know if this cold (or whatever it is) is all that bad itself, but since I seem to have a persistent lung infection that flares up into bronchitis whenever I get a head or chest cold, and often eventually turns to a pneumonia (which is why it's suspected to be an deeply-ingrained infection, rather than just tissue damage), I am likely to be in for a nasty time the next few weeks.
I have some OTC guiafanesin and another generic OTC cold remedy with both dextromethorphan, phenylephedrine, and acetaminophen, with a night-time version of the latter that also has for at later. I am hoping that these will keep the symptoms in check, but right now, I am not doing well at all. I just hope I don't get to the point of having to go to the ER for it.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Getting really tired of getting a book at the library, go to checkout #2 in the series and there's 17 people ahead of me.
Does your library not have self checkout? I haven't waited in a line at the library for 8-10 years, I think.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Eventually gave up and ordered one battery off Amazon.
I'm quite possibly one of the last people remaining who prefers brick and mortar stores to Amazon. I make maybe four Amazon orders a year, around Christmastime. And thinking about the supply chain and waste involved in shipping one battery to me just weirds me out. I'm aware I'm insane.
@scholrlea said in The Official Status Thread:
I have some OTC guiafanesin and another generic OTC cold remedy with both dextromethorphan, phenylephedrine, and acetaminophen, with a night-time version of the latter that also has for at later
Probably shouldn't go to the stores by this point, but I swear by the real Sudafed (pseudoephederine) you can get behind the counter. I usually get Mucinex DM 12-hour (one will take away the cough completely, two will go so far in the "dry" direction that it'll make me start coughing again) and the generic Sudafed + ibuprofen combo. More and more though I'm leaning towards skipping the DM (going with plain Mucinex) since I should be home anyway and the DM just makes me fucking loopy.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm quite possibly one of the last people remaining who prefers brick and mortar stores to Amazon. I make maybe four Amazon orders a year, around Christmastime. And thinking about the supply chain and waste involved in shipping one battery to me just weirds me out. I'm aware I'm insane.
I think you missed the part where I did go to three brick-and-mortar stores, all of which had a decently large selection of button-cell batteries, and none of which had the size I needed.
Brick and mortar stores need to fear Amazon, not because Amazon has been getting better, but because they have been getting worse. Worse selection. Worse service. I don't feel bad about ordering a single battery, because I couldn't find that battery anywhere else in a reasonable amount of time.
Look, I buy Halloween candy on Amazon. Why is that? So wasteful, right? Because when I go to brick and mortar stores to buy Halloween candy, they only have the same two brands of "fun size" candy bars that literally everybody else in the neighborhood is handing out to the kids. (Because they go to the same brick and mortar stores.)
If I shop at Amazon, I can give the kids something fun: gummy candies shaped like body-parts, jelly-eyeballs with fruit filling, hard candies shaped like bones, plastic vampire teeth with candy "sauce" that looks like blood, etc. None of my local stores, despite stocking with (ostensibly) Halloween merchandise have near that selection. They have the same goddamned pack of "fun-size" Krackle and "fun-size" Snickers that every other goddamned brick and mortar store in the goddamned county has.
Can you buy fun candies at a brick and mortar store? Yeah, sometimes malls have those specialty shops with unique and bulk candies, but to go to a mall I'd have to drive miles, and when I took a lot at the register I'd have a heart attack at the price.
Instead, I go to Amazon and buy the fun Halloween candies for the same price or cheaper as the lame "fun-size" candies everybody else has. I have more fun. The kids have more fun. I didn't pay anything more, and the only "cost" I incurred is having to break up a few cardboard boxes in the recycling bin.
Good trade in my opinion.
EDIT: I should add that when I was a kid, this was absolutely not the case... store owners/managers had wide latitude to carry whatever products they thought would sell well, and even those stores that were chains had very little central control. Now the giant corporate boss will dictate everything to retailers, exactly which products they can carry, exactly when to put up a display, exactly what aisle to put it on-- that's why they remodel all their stores to have identical or nearly-identical layouts, so they can plan out in-store ad campaigns in a fucking CAD program. There was no such thing as "well we carry Hershey's products, and we can't carry this Swedish brand of candies because if we did Hershey's would jack-up the price and make a big loss for us"-type collusion you get now in retail. Sure the products are cheaper, but the soul is gone.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Does your library not have self checkout? I haven't waited in a line at the library for 8-10 years, I think.
No, that's not "17 people in a physical line ahead of me", that's "17 people who have reserved that book ahead of me", meaning 17 people have to check it out and back in before your reservation is available and you can check it out (self-assisted or otherwise).
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Status: I hate these drives...
Either that, or I hate this power supply. Can't decide.
Edit: Yep, we're headed for a crash. Yay.
I hate not having physical presence...
Edit: Edit: OMG I can't even power down the system.... Um...
Things just got interesting...
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Can anyone tell me how long does pizza delivery take on New Year's Eve in US? Asking because in Poland it's anywhere between 2 and 8 hours, and I wonder if going to grocery store on such a cold day is worth it.
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@gąska I'd guess it might take a little longer than usual, but not more than about an hour. But that's just a guess; I can't recall ever actually ordering on New Year's Eve. I might conduct an experiment later, though (it's only 15:00 here, so it's a bit early to order dinner); if I do, I'll post results.
Edit: Also, I'm sure it depends significantly on where you live.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Does your library not have self checkout? I haven't waited in a line at the library for 8-10 years, I think.
I'm talking about ebooks for the Kindle. Yes, you can checkout/read a library book on the Kindle (I do it via Overdrive) But the library still only has 1 or 2 "copies", so you have to wait in (virtual) line.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Things just got interesting...
Well... fuck. Can't safely shutdown the system because every time I try it fails because it can't open the log file to write???
I'm going to force poweroff now and hope that letting the disks cool for a few minutes doesn't seize them up entirely...
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Status: Boy, do I love LuaJ. When your iterables don't actually implement Iterable, you know your API is hell. At least arrays start at 1.
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Status: Thankful that I was able to unfuck Vegas' settings enough to get it to render Rumu Part 2 properly. This means I am, so far, keeping to my internal hope of releasing one video a week.
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Status: Made it to 2018. Celebrated with prosecco and miscellaneous hors d'oeuvres.
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Status: Pulled out the Christmas present my son gave me, which has been stuck in the corner, out of sight, out of mind, since I last played with it on Christmas day. My dogs do not approve of mini-drones.
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Status: This damn DLink DCS-930L IP camera uses a fuckin' Java applet to configure Motion Detection. This would be fine if it used the entire picture area by default (i.e. anything moving anywhere counts), but instead it's entirely opt-in, so even if you enable Motion Detection it doesn't work if you don't also use the Java applet to say "yeah, this is the part I want you to detect".
WTF.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@gąska I'd guess it might take a little longer than usual, but not more than about an hour. But that's just a guess; I can't recall ever actually ordering on New Year's Eve. I might conduct an experiment later, though (it's only 15:00 here, so it's a bit early to order dinner); if I do, I'll post results.
Edit: Also, I'm sure it depends significantly on where you live.
Pizza ordered. Estimated delivery time: 49 – 59 minutes.
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@hardwaregeek Actual delivery time: 35 minutes:
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Status: the kids are so creative...
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Brick and mortar stores need to fear Amazon, not because Amazon has been getting better, but because they have been getting worse. Worse selection. Worse service. I don't feel bad about ordering a single battery, because I couldn't find that battery anywhere else in a reasonable amount of time.
I don't disagree with you.
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm talking about ebooks for the Kindle. Yes, you can checkout/read a library book on the Kindle (I do it via Overdrive) But the library still only has 1 or 2 "copies", so you have to wait in (virtual) line.
I also use Overdrive. The "line" is bullshit (although it usually only lasts at most a week or so for me). Stupid fucking... the industry has got to adapt eventually to the ease of printing/cloning. Right? Right?!
No, apparently not. They have a "line" for eBooks because they have a line for physical books and they don't "get" yet how one is different from the other. Good lord.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
No, apparently not. They have a "line" for eBooks because they have a line for physical books and they don't "get" yet how one is different from the other. Good lord.
You wouldn't steal a car, would you?
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@heterodox It's copyright laws what require them to only distribute a certain number of ebooks at a time, since they have only actually purchased x number of copies of that ebook.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox It's copyright laws what require them to only distribute a certain number of ebooks at a time, since they have only actually purchased x number of copies of that ebook.
I understand that. It's still stupid.
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@heterodox Why? Would you prefer they give out copies ad nauseum, and absolutely slam ebook sales removing a huge part of the author's income?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox Why? Would you prefer they give out copies ad nauseum, and absolutely slam ebook sales removing a huge part of the author's income?
Hahahaha...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
WTF.
I upgraded the firmware to see if they got over their insanity.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
"Warm" is
70s100s during the summer,30s-40s70s-80s during the winter.FTFTexas
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@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
"Warm" is300s during the summer,70s100s280s during the winter.30s-40s70s-80sFTFTexas
FTFNormalPeople.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox Why? Would you prefer they give out copies ad nauseum, and absolutely slam ebook sales removing a huge part of the author's income?
Off the top of my head, restrict the number of books a person can borrow per week/month instead of how many virtual copies of each book are out there. That opens the door for higher tiers based on the number of books you borrow
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
"Warm" is300s during the summer,70s100s280s during the winter.30s-40s70s-80sFTFTexas
FTFNormalPeople.
Normal people use Kelvin? Yeah, no. Not even in Europelandia. Scientists and engineers are by definition not normal.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox Why? Would you prefer they give out copies ad nauseum, and absolutely slam ebook sales removing a huge part of the author's income?
Off the top of my head, restrict the number of books a person can borrow per week/month instead of how many virtual copies of each book are out there. That opens the door for higher tiers based on the number of books you borrow
Sorry, you can't borrow any more books until next month because you read too fast.
Butbutbut... my term paper!
Not my problem! Talk to @pie_flavor.
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@dcon I'd have hated that as a kid. I'd go through ~10 books a week. And sometimes more: one time I measured my reading over a 10-day period--14,000 pages. Of fiction, not even counting stuff for school (I was in college at the time).
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
"Warm" is300s during the summer,70s100s280s during the winter.30s-40s70s-80sFTFTexas
FTFNormalPeople.
Normal people use Kelvin? Yeah, no. Not even in Europelandia. Scientists and engineers are by definition not normal.
"Normal" as in Normal people ;)
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status: Alan likes my comment.
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Status: Tomorrow, before I can continue this lego technic deconstruction, I'll have to procure more sorting boxes. I'm out of drawers for new parts in this set, and some of the drawers for existing parts are overfull.
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@jaloopa That's moronic. (a) Some people read fast, and this would be torture. (b) This still doesn't actually solve the issue - millions of people could read this one book, despite incredibly few copies ever being sold.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Alan likes my comment.
No, love is a different button. Love is something only the person who posted the video can do to a comment.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Alan likes my comment.
No, love is a different button. Love is something only the person who posted the video can do to a comment.
Oh wow, yeah, I apparently meant to type" loves", but something happened and that was the result that came out.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@antiquarian said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
"Warm" is300s during the summer,70s100s280s during the winter.30s-40s70s-80sFTFTexas
FTFNormalPeople.
Normal people use Kelvin? Yeah, no. Not even in Europelandia. Scientists and engineers are by definition not normal.
"Normal" as in Normal people ;)
As in "at
½π radians90° to the rest of the world"?Filed Under: Use the Normal Force, Luke.
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Status:
An external hard drive died. I think I have all the data either copied elsewhere or redownloadable, but I'm not sure because of some recent moving stuff around that happened.
It's really annoying that I can't even look at the directory listing to go "oh right, yeah, I've got all that safe and secure".
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
Does your library not have self checkout? I haven't waited in a line at the library for 8-10 years, I think.
No, that's not "17 people in a physical line ahead of me", that's "17 people who have reserved that book ahead of me", meaning 17 people have to check it out and back in before your reservation is available and you can check it out (self-assisted or otherwise).
It sounds like your library needs to order more copies of the book.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
your library
I no longer use libraries for this reason.
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@dreikin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
An external hard drive died. I think I have all the data either copied elsewhere or redownloadable, but I'm not sure because of some recent moving stuff around that happened.
It's really annoying that I can't even look at the directory listing to go "oh right, yeah, I've got all that safe and secure".
Welp, looks like I lost something. It's redownloadable Humble Bundle purchases, but the fact that they're gone means other stuff I don't remember is probably also gone :(
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Status: Happy new year everyone!
First day back at work since the 22nd. So far everyone has IT issues and this is the first cup of coffee I've had since getting in 4 hours ago. I suspect goblins...or Windows Update.
On one machine Edge suddenly cannot connect to anything (even by IP) claiming a 'DNS issue', but it's just Edge. All other browsers, lookups by shell, the OS, work fine.Edit: So far the 'everything comes out of one printer no matter what you select' was the best one. Especially as it was a label printer. Anyone want a thousand or so foil labels with a couple of letters on each one?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra More shockingly, Nintendo seems to know what "the Internet" is. A full decade ahead of when I thought they'd figure it out.
Oh wait, no cloud saves?
Nevermind.
They decided that instead of not writing code vulnerable to buffer overflows they would just not read anything from anywhere other than system memory.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Happy new year everyone!
First day back at work since the 22nd. So far everyone has IT issues and this is the first cup of coffee I've had since getting in 4 hours ago. I suspect goblins...or Windows Update.
On one machine Edge suddenly cannot connect to anything (even by IP) claiming a 'DNS issue', but it's just Edge. All other browsers, lookups by shell, the OS, work fine.Edit: So far the 'everything comes out of one printer no matter what you select' was the best one. Especially as it was a label printer. Anyone want a thousand or so foil labels with a couple of letters on each one?
The Y2K bug's all growed up.
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Status: -4 degrees. We're almost positive! I better clean off the motorcycle and look at the local swimming pool schedule!
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Status: IHAVERETURNED</dragoon>
A tumultuous end and start for the year, filled with great joy and pain.
Also apparently I forgot to turn in one of my timesheets and now the period to do so is closed. Oh well.
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Status: In a less than great part of town. Drove past a shopping center with a Dollar Store, a ghetto party supply store and a Cici's Pizza. Someone had put a "Valet Only" sign in front of the Cici's. I am amused.
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Status: urgh.
Back at work after 2 weeks off. Catching up on all the emails. Wanting to be back home and recording more video stuff for the Youtubes.
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EVERYTHING IS AWFUL WHY MUST EVERYTHING BE AWFUL.