The Official Status Thread
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@julianlam So would you say...it's a source of Discourse?
:D
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Status: In Canada for a few days on business. Minor list of WTFs:
- I have no idea what to set my hotel thermostat at because it's using weird degrees.
- It is warmer here than at home.
- Got interrogated by four different customs officers who asked a million questions about my trip and asked me to elaborate every time I mentioned something they didn't understand regarding my employer and the purpose of the trip. Sorry, but it's an absolute waste of everyone's time to explain AFDX to customs officers.
- My cell phone does not work here. I hope nobody needs me for anything.
- The cops wear body armor but are unarmed...
- Calgary is a complete ghost town. There's no traffic and no people anywhere. I'm slightly worried our plane was hijacked and sent to a North Korean set town in order to steal information about open avionics protocols from us.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I do have all variations possible in the folder, btw. It just seems to be ignoring it.
Maybe it recognizes that there's more than one, and it's ignoring them all because it doesn't know which of them to choose.
Well the contents of the ignore files are the same, so even then it should just be prepetivelyt applying the rules. :P
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
At least it isn't named Uranus.
No, that's one of the domain controllers...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
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this really isn't hard.
You're right, stateful text entry isn'titalicised text**. But the Composer isn't a stateful text editor.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I have no idea what to set my hotel thermostat at because it's using weird degrees.
Double 'em and add 30. That will get you close 'nuff -- leastawise, close enough that you won't freeze, nor melt.
edit: or to go the other way, knock off 30, and then half.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: In Canada for a few days on business. Minor list of WTFs:
- I have no idea what to set my hotel thermostat at because it's using weird degrees.
"Ok google, 74 Fahrenheit in Celsius"
- It is warmer here than at home.
All the better to try on new winter fashions?
- Got interrogated by four different customs officers who asked a million questions about my trip and asked me to elaborate every time I mentioned something they didn't understand regarding my employer and the purpose of the trip. Sorry, but it's an absolute waste of everyone's time to explain AFDX to customs officers.
Yeah... I get stopped every time at the airport just because I happen to be carrying five laptops. :D "Whatcha doin' there?"
- My cell phone does not work here. I hope nobody needs me for anything.
Ain't it something?
- The cops wear body armor but are unarmed...
Just in case those no-good criminals have a gun. Wouldn't want anyone dying, yeah?
- Calgary is a complete ghost town. There's no traffic and no people anywhere. I'm slightly worried our plane was hijacked and sent to a North Korean set town in order to steal information about open avionics protocols from us.
Feasible.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Just in case those no-good criminals have a gun. Wouldn't want anyone dying, yeah?
But how are they going to respond? Apologize them to death?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Ok google, 74 Fahrenheit in Celsius"
Did I do this right?
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Just in case those no-good criminals have a gun. Wouldn't want anyone dying, yeah?
But how are they going to respond? Apologize them to death?
Nah, just wait until all the bullets are gone, then start apologizing. Wouldn't want to waste breath after all...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"Ok google, 74 Fahrenheit in Celsius"
Did I do this right?
"Ok google, make the warthog kneel..."
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@mott555 7) (Not necessarily a Canada WTF) My phone clock only has automatic time zones. So without cell service, I cannot set it to the correct time zone.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
My phone clock only has automatic time zones.
Edit: What's your phone? Name and shame!
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@tsaukpaetra Galaxy S7. (Other possibility is I'm dumb. I'd say it's about 50/50.)
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Galaxy S7. (Other possibility is I'm dumb. I'd say it's about 50/50.)
You're not running a custom ROM, right?
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Status: it sounds like fuckin' voodoo, but I read that stainless steel will chemically neutralize raw onion smell on your hands. Soo, since I'd just finished dicing a pungent couple of onions, and the smell was so powerful I could taste it, I decided to give it a shot.
Pure fuckin' magic. Yeah. It works.
Just to make sure, I waved my hands under my wife's nose to see what she thought. Her comment was "how? when I chop onions, my hands smell like onion for days." All I told her was "magic".
...I might've told her the secret later, though...
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Calgarians also pronounce their city name all funny-like.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: In Canada for a few days on business. Minor list of WTFs:
- I have no idea what to set my hotel thermostat at because it's using weird degrees.
I'm an engineer; I can handle weird degrees.
- It is warmer here than at home.
When I was there, where I was was about 5–6 weird degrees cooler (and unsurprisingly, about 100x wetter).
- Got interrogated by four different customs officers who asked a million questions about my trip and asked me to elaborate every time I mentioned something they didn't understand regarding my employer and the purpose of the trip. Sorry, but it's an absolute waste of everyone's time to explain AFDX to customs officers.
"Business or pleasure?"
"Business"
"What kind of business?"
"I'm an engineer. I work for a consulting company. The client has an office in $city."
"Welcome to Canada."- My cell phone does not work here. I hope nobody needs me for anything.
Mine would work, but they wanted to charge me my entire life savings in roaming charges if I tried.
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@hardwaregeek In a previous job, I went to Canada with some coworkers for a meeting. One of my coworker's interviews started like:
"What is the purpose of your trip?"
"I'm here to work!"
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@greybeard said in The Official Status Thread:
"I'm here to work!"
I don't remember who told me, but it was made very clear to me before my first trip to never use the W word when entering the country.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
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this really isn't hard.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
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this really isn't hard.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm an engineer; I can handle weird degrees.
Yeah, engineering is a pretty weird degree.
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@jaloopa When it's Lorne, I never know whether it's a joke or actual stupidity. Safest bet is to keep mocking it anyway.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Galaxy S7. (Other possibility is I'm dumb. I'd say it's about 50/50.)
You're not running a custom ROM, right?
Since his phone doesn't work in Canada, there's 99% chance he's got CDMA only model. And the only way to get CDMA only model is to buy it from CDMA carrier like Verizon. And they always put custom ROMs in phones. So yes, there's a very high chance he's running custom ROM, even unknowingly.
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@gąska
Euh no. You are on those definitions. The ROM that is on your phone when you by it and that is supported by the manufacturer is the original ROM even if that ROM is customized, castrated and stuffed with bloatware out of the gates.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa When it's Lorne, I never know whether it's a joke or actual stupidity. Safest bet is to keep mocking it anyway.
It's actually quite easy. Anything about trans hookers is 100% absolute truth. Literally anything else he says is completely false, even if it sounds accurate and incontrovertible.
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@luhmann Verizon ROM isn't supported by manufacturer any more than CyanogenMod.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
"Business or pleasure?"
"Business"
"What kind of business?"
"I'm an engineer. I work for a consulting company. The client has an office in $city."
"Welcome to Canada."Went something like this for me (C is Customs, M is Me)
C: Business or pleasure?
M: Business.
C: Who is your employer?
M: <redacted>
C: And what do you do?
M: I am a software engineer.
C: And why are you here?
M: On-site training with a client.
C: And what type of products does your employer sell?
M: Avionics equipment.
C: What kind?
M: Um, <redacted>, <redacted>, <redacted>, <redacted>, probably a few others I don't know about.
C: Do you have any of those with you?
M: No, just a slide deck.
C: How much do those products cost?
M: I have no idea, I'm a technical engineer, not in sales.
C: Well you should probably know these things.
M: ...
C: What other products does your company do?
M: A bunch of stuff. I only know stuff for my division.
C: How many divisions does your company have?
M: I don't know. We're a 4,000 employee multinational corporation.
C: And why are you here?
M: Training with a client.
C: Training over what?
M: AFDX.
C: And what is AFDX?
M: It's used in avionics.
C: How so?
M: It's a modified form of Ethernet used to carry avionics data around a plane network.
C: And what does it cost?
M: I don't know.
C: You should know these things before you travel to another country. How long ago did you buy your plane tickets?
M: I'm not sure, our travel agency booked it all for us.
C: You don't know what date your tickets were booked?
M: No.
C: You should know these things. Who is the client you're training?
M: <redacted>
C: And what do they do?
M: I'm not sure. Something with aerospace.
C: Why don't you know what they do?
M: Because I'm not in marketing or sales. I'm just the technical guy they sent with a slide deck.
C: You should know these things. What do you mean by you aren't in sales?
M: ...
C: ...
M: I'm a software engineer. I don't sell things, I make things work.
C: So why are you here if you aren't in sales?
M: Because I understand the material in the training the client purchased from us.
C: And what does the training cover?
M: AFDX.
C: And what is AFDX?
M: ...
<snip about 10 more minutes of conversation before they let me go>M: Whew. Now I can move on.
<meets another customs officer. Process repeats 3x times. Fortunately the fourth officer didn't care and only asked me about two questions.>
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Nothing in Windows Power Plan. It's set to "When on battery, fuck it, go for max performance!"
It may be a shitty BIOS setting. I may need to {shudder} reboot.Or {shudder} clear the fans and radiators from dust / change thermal-conductive paste.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm an engineer; I can handle weird degrees.
Ended up being a moot point. Regardless of what I set it to, it stays at 22 weird degrees. 22 weird degrees is too warm.
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
When I was there, where I was was about 5–6 weird degrees cooler (and unsurprisingly, about 100x wetter).
The rental car thermometer display said -14, which seemed wildly incorrect to me. Later I realized it was probably in weird degrees, not normal degrees, though the display didn't say which scale. My coat was unzipped and I wasn't wearing a hat or gloves, and that would be instantaneous frostbite death back in Omaha.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Later I realized it was probably in
weird degreesnormal degrees, notnormal degreesweird degreesFTFPATMU
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Later I realized it was probably in
weird degreesnormal degrees, notnormal degreesweird degreesFTFPATMU
Celcius is better for science, no question. Everything's nicely decimal with sane limits. Really you should use Kelvin for that, though.
Fahrenheit is better for every-day life, however. The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly). That's -17.7 (repeating) C to 37.7 (repeating) C. Those are awkward limits. And one degree C (at about 2 F) is a large change, so the difference between 70 F (cool for a house) and 72 F (normal) is just about 1 C. You end up using non-integer degrees because the step-size is too big.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Later I realized it was probably in
weird degreesnormal degrees, notnormal degreesweird degreesFTFPATMU
Celcius is better for science, no question. Everything's nicely decimal with sane limits. Really you should use Kelvin for that, though.
Fahrenheit is better for every-day life, however. The coldest you ever really want to be is 0 F, the hottest you want to be is 100 F (both roughly). That's -17.7 (repeating) C to 37.7 (repeating) C. Those are awkward limits. And one degree C (at about 2 F) is a large change, so the difference between 70 F (cool for a house) and 72 F (normal) is just about 1 C. You end up using non-integer degrees because the step-size is too big.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
the difference between 70 F (cool for a house) and 72 F (normal)
WTF, my electronic thermometer has less precision than that and you say you can pick up the difference yourself!?
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Regardless of what I set it to, it stays at 22 weird degrees. 22 weird degrees is too warm.
Just open the window for 2 minutes, that will fix it
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
the difference between 70 F (
cool for a houseA smidge too warm) and 72 F (normalGetting uncomfortable)FTFY.
My house stays between 60 and 68F.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ended up being a moot point. Regardless of what I set it to, it stays at 22 weird degrees. 22 weird degrees is too warm.
Yes, 22 is too warm. Normal indoor temperature should be between 18 and 22, and for sleeping towards the lower end. When temperature stars nearing 22 I get issues sleeping because it's too warm.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm slightly worried our plane was hijacked and sent to a North Korean set town in order to steal information about open avionics protocols from us.
Think you're safe on that one... We can see your posts!
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
the difference between 70 F (
cool for a houseA smidge too warm) and 72 F (normalGetting uncomfortable)FTFY.
My house stays between 60 and 68F.
That would save a lot of money on my heating, but I'd have to wear more clothes than I prefer. And my wife would be freezing.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Think you're safe on that one... We can see your posts!
Yes. We're definitely not North Korean agents posting things to make you think you're accessing the outside world
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@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Regardless of what I set it to, it stays at 22 weird degrees. 22 weird degrees is too warm.
Just open the window for 2 minutes, that will fix it
My hotel windows don't open...curse you Canada!
I guess I could leave the refrigerator open.
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@jaloopa
On a different topic: I think Kim got a haircut.
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@luhmann Kardashian? Because that is what we talk about in this Western country we are from. I love the Kardashians!
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ended up being a moot point. Regardless of what I set it to, it stays at 22 weird degrees. 22 weird degrees is too warm.
Ah, so the person in the room next to you is now freezing! At least that's how office thermostats seem to work...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ended up being a moot point. Regardless of what I set it to, it stays at 22 weird degrees. 22 weird degrees is too warm.
Ah, so the person in the room next to you is now freezing! At least that's how office thermostats seem to work...
Our office thermostat is usually set at 78, yet most of us wear coats and jackets inside so I don't know what temperature scale that system uses...
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
the difference between 70 F (
cool for a houseA smidge too warm) and 72 F (normalGetting uncomfortable)FTFY.
My house stays between 60 and 68F.
Me too. But that's more because of cost! I'd prefer to be between 70-72. (68 from 5a-7a, 62 7a-5p, 68 5p-10p, 58 10p-5a; yeah one of those programmable things)
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ended up being a moot point. Regardless of what I set it to, it stays at 22 weird degrees. 22 weird degrees is too warm.
Ah, so the person in the room next to you is now freezing! At least that's how office thermostats seem to work...
Our office thermostat is usually set at 78, yet most of us wear coats and jackets inside so I don't know what temperature scale that system uses...
That would be the 'put a fake thermostat on the wall to make our employees feel in control' scale.
(I read an article a while ago - that's a real thing)
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
the difference between 70 F (cool for a house) and 72 F (normal)
WTF, my electronic thermometer has less precision than that and you say you can pick up the difference yourself!?
Absolutely. When my classroom is 70 F, my hands get cold as I type. When it's 72, no problem. 74 is significantly warm. Heck, my galileo thermometer has enough precision to measure that.
For sleeping, I tend to go 68 or so--70 is noticeably warm.
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The scale of the thermostat in my house has no basis in reality. The system is old, and therefore entirely passive. No automatic control based off actual indoor temperature. It's set to 13C which gives an indoor temperature of around 19.5C. The radiators are definitely warmer than the indoor air too.