The Official Status Thread
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@deadfast said in The Official Status Thread:
"pwepawe to instaww updates,"
Yeah, it's actually installing them, just not telling you that. Essentially, doing all the file extraction and making the "apply this on reboot" registry entries.
And not at low priority either. Because you obviously want to be updated as soon as possible, right?
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Status: This past weekend I installed two 2GB 800 MHz DDR2 memory sticks into my home theatre PC. I actually had to buy them from Amazon, my junk box only had DDR3 sticks
I can alt-tab without the computer spazzing out now! :smiling_face_with_open_mouth:
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I want to buy two copies of an old game so I can play it again and lend it to people. There's something odd, though: It's cheaper imported.
Have you checked the language and localization? The different title implies that it's the Japanese version of the game.
EDIT: NM, I see you discussed that later.
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@deadfast on a side note, I recently upgraded my work PC from Debian 8 to 9 while working on it and didn't even notice a slowdown.
Crappy open-source-crap
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@deadfast said in The Official Status Thread:
"pwepawe to instaww updates,"
Yeah, it's actually installing them, just not telling you that. Essentially, doing all the file extraction and making the "apply this on reboot" registry entries.
And not at low priority either. Because you obviously want to be updated as soon as possible, right?
Judging by the amount of resources consumed, I figured as much...
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@tsaukpaetra Remember that dialog you clicked through when you started the debugging session about how the program database didn't match the source code anymore and that therefore some exceptions may highlight a line of code that doesn't exhibit the problem the exception asks about it?
Clean you some output directories and rebuild!
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Cwean you some output diwectowies and webuiwd owo
No, the actual problem ended up five lines higher. Due to Entity Framework not actually attempting to run the query until that line, it didn't thrown the exception.
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@tsaukpaetra That's fair. I always get confused about when EF actually materializes the results...
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Status: Apparently Stan Lee was rushed to the hospital for arrhythmia.
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Status: Updated FreeNAS to the latest nightly.
Yay! Error feedback!
Nay! WTF Stupid BBQ OMG quality...
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Status: Huh, never seen Windows get stuck like that before...
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Status: I have no clean clothes to wear to work
tomorrowtoday. It's midnight; no laundry is going to get done before work.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have no clean clothes to wear to work
tomorrowtoday. It's midnight; no laundry is going to get done before work.Ah, I was wondering who stole my basket of involved laundry...
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Status I didn't run fast enough and have been tasked with updating our website .pdf docs before audit. Found this in one of the docs:
Edit: Also, what's with the Martian justification on the second line, it looks like the words got tired. All the document is like this.
Edit: info@{ourdomain} has never existed, I checked.
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Status: Did slack emoji start looking weird for everyone or is it just something our corporate did?
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Also, what's with the Martian justification on the second line, it looks like the words got tired. All the document is like this.
That's simply what happens if you turn on justification while also including loooong strings you can't break apart. Working as intended.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Also, what's with the Martian justification on the second line, it looks like the words got tired. All the document is like this.
That's simply what happens if you turn on justification while also including loooong strings you can't break apart. Working as intended.
Hmmn, genuine question then, should I 'fix' that or does that look acceptable to everyone else? I'm definitely not a technical writer.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Edit: Also, what's with the Martian justification on the second line, it looks like the words got tired. All the document is like this.
That's simply what happens if you turn on justification while also including loooong strings you can't break apart. Working as intended.
Hmmn, genuine question then, should I 'fix' that or does that look acceptable to everyone else? I'm definitely not a technical writer.
Fix it by turning the sentence around:
Please contact info@foo if you desire to create a link to the Website.
That advice does not concern the underlying logic behind the sentence, of course ;)
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently Stan Lee was rushed to the hospital for arrhythmia.
Scared me there.
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Great, now YouTube is showing me ads for ads.
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@hungrier Ouch.
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@hungrier I predict a right-hand burn
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@hungrier Look at it this way: Eventually your pain receptors will be destroyed.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I predict a right-hand burn
I also predict an exploding BIOS battery.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't really comment on the FP articles TBH...
So say we all.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't really comment on the FP articles TBH...
So say we all.
There's a front page?
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@jazzyjosh said in The Official Status Thread:
There's a front page?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have no clean clothes to wear to work
tomorrowtoday. It's midnight; no laundry is going to get done before work.Ah, I was wondering who stole my basket of involved laundry...
I do not know what those two words mean when used together in that way.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I predict a right-hand burn
I also predict an exploding BIOS battery.
Perhaps, but the PCIe slot will melt first.
Also, I actually did that once, but realized that something didn't feel right about the "handle" so quickly that I dropped it before it transferred enough heat to my hand to cause injury, or even pain. I don't recommend it, though, as I have no confidence that my reaction would always be that quick.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I predict a right-hand burn
I also predict an exploding BIOS battery.
Perhaps, but the PCIe slot will melt first.
Also, I actually did that once, but realized that something didn't feel right about the "handle" so quickly that I dropped it before it transferred enough heat to my hand to cause injury, or even pain. I don't recommend it, though, as I have no confidence that my reaction would always be that quick.
Back in college, I was working on some kind of electronics project and had my soldering iron out, and one of my really weird roommates came into my room, quickly walking backwards towards me with his pants pulled down, saying "I want that in my butthole right now!" He never did that again when I almost succeeded in tapping his buttcheek with my iron.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have no clean clothes to wear to work
tomorrowtoday. It's midnight; no laundry is going to get done before work.Ah, I was wondering who stole my basket of involved laundry...
I do not know what those two words mean when used together in that way.
Autocorrect from "folders" no goddammit , folded there we go... Apparently I don't get folder very often...
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@hardwaregeek When I was an impressionable teenager with a slight deficiency in critical thinking, a friend told me that if you melt a lump of solder and let it fall from a foot above your hand, it will be cool enough by the time it hits that it won't hurt. An interesting splash shaped burn mark on my hand was a suitable disproof of that
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Status: Two days ago, when setting up a laptop to run Dragonball Fighterz, it ended up wiping my steam cloud save. So yesterday I rushed through the first two parts of story mode again, and it was still fun :D
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I predict a right-hand burn
I also predict an exploding BIOS battery.
Perhaps, but the PCIe slot will melt first.
Also, I actually did that once, but realized that something didn't feel right about the "handle" so quickly that I dropped it before it transferred enough heat to my hand to cause injury, or even pain. I don't recommend it, though, as I have no confidence that my reaction would always be that quick.
Back in college, I was working on some kind of electronics project and had my soldering iron out, and one of my really weird roommates came into my room, quickly walking backwards towards me with his pants pulled down, saying "I want that in my butthole right now!" He never did that again when I almost succeeded in tapping his buttcheek with my iron.
There is a competition between the part of my brain that is saying "Ewww!" and the part that wishes you had fulfilled his wish.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek When I was an impressionable teenager with a slight deficiency in critical thinking, a friend told me that if you melt a lump of solder and let it fall from a foot above your hand, it will be cool enough by the time it hits that it won't hurt. An interesting splash shaped burn mark on my hand was a suitable disproof of that
I've had solder drip on me before. It hurts but it's never left a burn mark before. The last time, I was replacing speakers in a 412 guitar amp cabinet and sitting cross-legged on the floor while wearing shorts. As part of the speaker swap, I was soldering spade connectors onto the leads and a glob of solder went up into my shorts.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Ewww
Yeah, the smell of burnt shit is no laughing matter. But might be worth it for the life lesson...
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@magus I am seriously debating getting that game. It's been a while since I've had a good fighting game (the last one was the original Marvel vs Capcom 3 on the PS3)...
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek When I was an impressionable teenager with a slight deficiency in critical thinking, a friend told me that if you melt a lump of solder and let it fall from a foot above your hand, it will be cool enough by the time it hits that it won't hurt. An interesting splash shaped burn mark on my hand was a suitable disproof of that
After about 40 years, I still have a scar on my knee from a drop of solder falling from a height of 2 – 3 feet and still being hot enough (still liquid) to melt through polyester fabric.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I've had solder drip on me before.
I once got melted metal fall in my work boots while welding with a MIG.
Must have been funny to watch a welder dance on one foot
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I've had solder drip on me before.
I once got melted metal fall in my work boots while welding with a MIG.
Must have been funny to watch a welder dance on one foot
I'm far more careful with a welder than I am with a soldering iron, probably because of an incident that left me with a small patch on my palm where fingerprints no longer grow. I just haven't yet burned myself bad enough while soldering to learn to take safety precautions.
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status
You know what the sign of a real quality piece of helpdesk software?One where you get so used to copying your resolution messages because it's likely to take two or more attempts to get it through, that you start doing it automatically without thinking about it
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I predict a right-hand burn
I also predict an exploding BIOS battery.
Perhaps, but the PCIe slot will melt first.
Also, I actually did that once, but realized that something didn't feel right about the "handle" so quickly that I dropped it before it transferred enough heat to my hand to cause injury, or even pain. I don't recommend it, though, as I have no confidence that my reaction would always be that quick.
Back in college, I was working on some kind of electronics project and had my soldering iron out, and one of my really weird roommates came into my room, quickly walking backwards towards me with his pants pulled down, saying "I want that in my butthole right now!" He never did that again when I almost succeeded in tapping his buttcheek with my iron.
There is a competition between the part of my brain that is saying "Ewww!" and the part that wishes you had fulfilled his wish.
Oh, believe me, I really wanted to touch his butt with my hot iron. I tried hard, but I had a short cord and my roommate was able to move very quickly despite the position of his pants when he saw that I was going to take his joke more seriously than he anticipated. I wasn't going to insert it, but I did want him to learn that it isn't smart to expose your butt at contact range to someone armed with a soldering iron.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I've had solder drip on me before.
I once got melted metal fall in my work boots while welding with a MIG.
Must have been funny to watch a welder dance on one foot
Cotton is used for (cheap) welding jackets because it won't melt or ignite, but that doesn't mean that flying bits of white-hot steel won't char holes through the fabric to the skin underneath. One guess how I know this.
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Status: Currently sitting over my application for an open post at my school - the easy stuff has been done and it has been actually rather WTF-free for an online process. It's a multipage online form where every needed part is stated explicitly and also easy to fill out. And you can even fill it in out of order! And resume filling in stuff even when you closed the browser before!
'tis a marvel.
Now I'm sitting here, working on my concept - the open post is supposed to be about QM, budgets and IT, the first and last of which I'm already involved in. Now I "merely" have to lay down in writing my ideas on how to proceed from where we're standing.
My underlying theme will be "Evolution instead of revolution". Let's see what it'll buy me.
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@e4tmyl33t If that's what you're looking for, that's what you'll find. The cons thus far: playing online with friends is hard to do, since there aren't private lobbies, and some people find the autocombos troubling.
As someone who hasn't played online at all, and can just lug my laptop around with controllers, it's been no problem at all. And I don't use the autocombos: the basic controls are super simple.
One thing it could benefit from is some way to escape combos, because Vegeta Blue will ruin your day with his extended combos otherwise - but at the same time, it just feels good.
The most similar game to it is that Bleach one I mentioned above, which has those escape mechanics and moves at maybe half the speed of FighterZ - (And because I miss it, I ordered two used copies of that old game).
Anyway, if you like fighting games and/or dragonball, you will almost certainly like this game.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Cotton is used for (cheap) welding jackets because it won't melt or ignite
This reminds me that you should never wear anything made with polyester while welding or grinding metal.
Only 100% cotton.
I'm talking from experience
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@timebandit Or soldering. Refer to previous anecdote. Though toby faire, I'm not sure how much cotton would have helped; the liquid metal basically soaked through the fibers, as much as melted them, so it might have done the same with cotton.
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Only 100% cotton.
Or pay the extra money for a proper leather welding jacket. Although in my case, it was my jeans, not the jacket, that failed to resist the hot metal.
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Cotton is used for (cheap) welding jackets because it won't melt or ignite
This reminds me that you should never wear anything made with polyester while welding or grinding metal.
Only 100% cotton.
I'm talking from experience
There's a reason chemists wear labcoats (and glasses) ;)