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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
A "strip away all non-text data and formatting ctrl-v ctrl-a ctrl-c environment."
I use the JS console for that.
I use the browser's search bar (unless it's multi-line, then notepad).
Funny how many people have a need for that.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Today I found this in my inbox.
I sent you the only copy I have! Send it back!
Sure, here you go:
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@topspin
"I say we fight!"
https://moc.bricklink.com/pages/moc/mocitem.page?idmocitem=5251
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Today I found this in my inbox.
I sent you the only copy I have! Send it back!
Sure, here you go:
All of it! I sent you a spider with 8 legs.
STATUS I have the last two Mondays off in December so it's now every Monday in December!
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@dkf
I started getting ideas after you posted that last week. I spent some time browsing. Was considering VEX, Mindstorms, Technic and others. VEX IQ brain seems more capable for the same price. Decided for the Technic. It's more like clockwork than robotics, but those small linear actuators are cool. Pneumatic action kind of sucks at small scales (except for engines, but that's too advanced stuff to begin).Fortunately I was able to restrain myself. I could foresee only two possibilities how that would have ended:
a. Something built once, played a bit with and then collecting dust
b. Hobby getting expensive, because there's never enough parts
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Status: Forgot the key to our server cabinet this morning. That shouldn't be a problem, but what do you know, first thing when I arrived at work I needed to get in there for something. Then I remembered I have a set of lockpicks in my truck, and wondered if I could pick the lock faster than driving home to retrieve the keys. And 45 seconds later, I had the cabinet open. I have no remaining illusions about the physical security of that cabinet.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Pneumatic action kind of sucks at small scales
More usually it blows.
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Status: I am an old curmudgeon that does not handle changes in routine well. Going back to work after a week off is...not so fun.
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@Jaloopa
Naw man.On its face, sure. But what I find properly fascinating are the fine details. The cracks, repairs, bodge work, the way structures were engineered. "What is the function of this widget".
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@Weng don't mind me. Early morning snark after being up with the baby half the night
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@Jaloopa: "Increase your uptime. Have a baby."
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Status: I woke up before my alarm went off and couldn't get back to sleep. I urgently need to see my dentist, but my phone was being extremely uncooperative about finding the email with the PDF of my (not really) insurance card, and when I finally had it available and called them, I find out they're not in the office today. My work laptop was unresponsive, and took a half hour to get into a useable state after waking up. When I was finally able to read my email, I found out there was a power failure over the weekend, and I lost both my Linux and Windows remote sessions, with all the context of what I was working on last week, but leaving behind lots of annoying editor swap files. Then my laptop blue-screened, losing all the context of what I was doing locally. When it rebooted, I had to wait for Windows updates. Then Office wanted to update. It must be Monday morning after a long holiday weekend.
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status: ugh.... Did I really sleep all the way past noon? That's not normal even for me....
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
. I have no remaining illusions about the physical security of that cabinet.
Obligatory XKCD:
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I woke up before my alarm went off and couldn't get back to sleep.
Lie in bed without moving, even when you start to feel uncomfortable or itch. You'll fall asleep eventually, although you'll probably be able to realize you're asleep and you'll wake up as soon as you do.
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Status: Compiling a Linux kernel which hopefully solves the "hang without erroring out" problem I have with Clonezilla. I've now compiled the driver for the USB network card into the kernel, instead of as a module. Maybe that will help?
Of course, such an endeavour could not be complete with the usual wealth of information on how to compile a Kernel on Ubuntu. This official manual includes:
a) Not stating that you need to uncomment several sources in/etc/apt/sources.list
(but the error messages are helpful, at the least)
b) Not stating that you'll need several packages installed first (but the error messages, once again, at least point you in the right direction)
c) Not maintaining the manual which then leads to the discovery through StackOverflow that you should have pulled in a completely different source package for the kernel
d) Having corrected that mistake, you now discover thatyou need ncurses (ncurses-devel) installed
. Is this packages calledncurses
? Of course not! Is it called ...ncurses-devel
? What are you thinking! It'sncurses-dev
of course! How obvious!
e) Then go through the menuconfig for each and every arch of Linux that is available under the sun because the build script errors out otherwise. Yes, even if you only want AMD64 - you'll configure and compile for ARM-Snapdragon and PowerPC and you'll like it!Geeze...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I woke up before my alarm went off and couldn't get back to sleep.
Lie in bed without moving, even when you start to feel uncomfortable or itch. You'll fall asleep eventually, although you'll probably be able to realize you're asleep and you'll wake up as soon as you do.
Sometimes it helps to count down from 100.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I woke up before my alarm went off and couldn't get back to sleep.
Lie in bed without moving, even when you start to feel uncomfortable or itch. You'll fall asleep eventually, although you'll probably be able to realize you're asleep and you'll wake up as soon as you do.
Sometimes it helps to count down from 100.
Make yourself hallucinate, it kicks in the dream apparatus.
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@Rhywden Oh, wait. The fucking BUILD process just errored out midway because I did not install OpenSSL. Thanks guys.
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@mott555 You carry lockpicks but still had illusions about a cabinet lock? New to the physical side of security?
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@Rhywden Aaaaaand the package is actually called
libssl-dev
, of course.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden Aaaaaand the package is actually called
libssl-dev
, of course.NOTAWTF. This is normal. libx is for running stuff built against x, libx-dev is needed to build against x
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@Gribnit It's normal to cry out for "openssl" and have the package named "libssl-dev"?
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@Rhywden Well, that sounds maddening. However, also probably normal but for stupider reasons.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Sometimes it helps to count down from 100.
To compile a Linux kernel? That's a bit odd, but I've heard stranger advice.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit It's normal to cry out for "openssl" and have the package named "libssl-dev"?
I have touched Linux a grand total of once in my life and even I knew that.
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Status: New (or probably just a substitute) fitness
nazidrill-seargeantcoach today was pretty annoying, and had no mic so was constantly shouting.I was this close to rambling “762 millimeters full metal jacket”...
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Geeze...
Thanks. I'll just stick with Windows Update. At least it WOMM.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
However, also probably normal but for stupider reasons.
Standard *nix raisin: fewer letters is better
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Compiling a Linux kernel which hopefully solves the "hang without erroring out" problem I have with Clonezilla. I've now compiled the driver for the USB network card into the kernel, instead of as a module. Maybe that will help?
Of course, such an endeavour could not be complete with the usual wealth of information on how to compile a Kernel on Ubuntu. This official manual includes:
a) Not stating that you need to uncomment several sources in/etc/apt/sources.list
(but the error messages are helpful, at the least)
b) Not stating that you'll need several packages installed first (but the error messages, once again, at least point you in the right direction)
c) Not maintaining the manual which then leads to the discovery through StackOverflow that you should have pulled in a completely different source package for the kernel
d) Having corrected that mistake, you now discover thatyou need ncurses (ncurses-devel) installed
. Is this packages calledncurses
? Of course not! Is it called ...ncurses-devel
? What are you thinking! It'sncurses-dev
of course! How obvious!
e) Then go through the menuconfig for each and every arch of Linux that is available under the sun because the build script errors out otherwise. Yes, even if you only want AMD64 - you'll configure and compile for ARM-Snapdragon and PowerPC and you'll like it!Geeze...
YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit It's normal to cry out for "openssl" and have the package named "libssl-dev"?
I have touched Linux a grand total of once in my life and even I knew that.
Yes, it's not exactly hard to find out but this discrepancy between "library or package referenced in the error message" and "name of actual package needed" is everywhere. That's what's getting my goat here.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: New (or probably just a substitute) fitness
nazidrill-seargeantcoach today was pretty annoying, and had no mic so was constantly shouting.I was this close to rambling “762 millimeters full metal jacket”...
That's a rather large gauge.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 You carry lockpicks but still had illusions about a cabinet lock? New to the physical side of security?
I haven't really spent much time with them. I bought them, successfully tested them on all my gun safes, and then forgot I ever had them.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
successfully tested them on all my gun safes, and then forgot I ever had them
And your forgot how easy it was to pick the lock of your gun safes
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
successfully tested them on all my gun safes, and then forgot I ever had them
And your forgot how easy it was to pick the lock of your gun safes
One of them opened in seconds, the other took over half an hour and I almost gave up. So I have no baseline experience for how long it should take.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
So I have no baseline experience for how long it should take.
Practice inevitably brings down that baseline quite quickly.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: New (or probably just a substitute) fitness
nazidrill-seargeantcoach today was pretty annoying, and had no mic so was constantly shouting.I was this close to rambling “762 millimeters full metal jacket”...
That's a rather large gauge.
Well it’s called “7 6 2“ in the movie, I don’t know where the decimal separator goes, if any.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: New (or probably just a substitute) fitness
nazidrill-seargeantcoach today was pretty annoying, and had no mic so was constantly shouting.I was this close to rambling “762 millimeters full metal jacket”...
That's a rather large gauge.
Well it’s called “7 6 2“ in the movie, I don’t know where the decimal separator goes, if any.
Well, here's a hint: This number denotates the outer diameter of a projectile. A 762 mm slug might just be a teensy bit hard to fire from a infantry man's rifle
Because you usually call that kind of gun a "cannon".
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@Rhywden that would be a rather large cannon.
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@anotherusername It's smaller than the one used by Jules Verne!
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: New (or probably just a substitute) fitness
nazidrill-seargeantcoach today was pretty annoying, and had no mic so was constantly shouting.I was this close to rambling “762 millimeters full metal jacket”...
That's a rather large gauge.
Well it’s called “7 6 2“ in the movie, I don’t know where the decimal separator goes, if any.
Well, here's a hint: This number denotates the outer diameter of a projectile. A 762 mm slug might just be a teensy bit hard to fire from a infantry man's rifle
Because you usually call that kind of gun a "cannon".
It could have been (if you don’t know it never is) the length of the projectile, which would make 76.2 plausible.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Compiling a Linux kernel which hopefully solves the "hang without erroring out" problem I have with Clonezilla. I've now compiled the driver for the USB network card into the kernel, instead of as a module. Maybe that will help?
Of course, such an endeavour could not be complete with the usual wealth of information on how to compile a Kernel on Ubuntu. This official manual includes:
a) Not stating that you need to uncomment several sources in/etc/apt/sources.list
(but the error messages are helpful, at the least)
b) Not stating that you'll need several packages installed first (but the error messages, once again, at least point you in the right direction)
c) Not maintaining the manual which then leads to the discovery through StackOverflow that you should have pulled in a completely different source package for the kernel
d) Having corrected that mistake, you now discover thatyou need ncurses (ncurses-devel) installed
. Is this packages calledncurses
? Of course not! Is it called ...ncurses-devel
? What are you thinking! It'sncurses-dev
of course! How obvious!
e) Then go through the menuconfig for each and every arch of Linux that is available under the sun because the build script errors out otherwise. Yes, even if you only want AMD64 - you'll configure and compile for ARM-Snapdragon and PowerPC and you'll like it!Geeze...
For most packages you actually need
apt-get source <package>
andapt-get build-dep <package>
. Very few tutorials tell you about the latter, but the kernel may be a special case regardless.I seem to recall there is a
make oldconfig
step which makes most of menuconfig redundant.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden that would be a rather large cannon.
According to Wikipedia, only 6 larger ones have been made: two bombards of the 15–16th centuries, one mortar of the mid-19th century, and one mortar and two railway guns from WWII.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you
Stop trying to fight The System. You're only hurting yourself. The sooner you accept that, the happier you will be.
I'm trying to not fight the system though. This is a fresh fucking install for fucks sake! 🍶
And I really don't want to scrap and recreate this piece of shit, moving over keys and encryption tokens was dodgy enough!
Trying an "in-place upgrade".
It's... not going well so far...
Edit: Rebooted and tried again. Yup, it's fucked.
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Status: Forgot to buy a train ticket, and the one time they actually check... sigh. Great, $75 fine. Except... I'm reading the receipt, and they managed to fuck up my name. And birthday. And fuckin' GENDER. Guy had my ID right in front of him the whole time.
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@pie_flavor How can anyone forget to buy a train ticket? You just walk into the train? How does this work?
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@stillwater I have an app. Was distracted by conversation with a pretty woman.
e: Oh, I get it. No, you just walk onto the train. Occasionally a ticket inspector will come by and make sure you have your ticket, but when I say occasionally I mean they target maybe two trains a day.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm reading the receipt, and they managed to fuck up my name. And birthday. And fuckin' GENDER. Guy had my ID right in front of him the whole time.
Sounds like you're not going to pay a fine, unless they find your long lost sister.
Or did you pay that in cash?