The Official Status Thread
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My sister hit snooze on her alarm clock instead of turning it off so I awoke to 500dB music at 5 AM.
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Brb, submitting the question of "What would happen if your alarm clock was capable of emitting music at 500 dB SPL?" to XKCD's What If.
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Oh! And anytime something happens, even little trivial shit, they blow up my phone and email, etc. You have access to our ticketing program. Freaking use it, that is what it is for. If you blow up my phone and I am in the datacenter, where cell reception is shit, it may be a while before I get back to you. If you submit a ticket, someone will be with you immediately. Everyone in that office is a total pain in the ass, with the exception of one person. Also not helping, their hot Venezuelan intern has moved on so now I don't even have any attractive girls in their early 20's to make me want to go to their office.
This morning at 7AM my phone started ringing. That seriously pissed me off, at least partly because I did not yet realize that I had not had caffeine for well over 24 hours... I show up at their office at 10am and the reason they were unable to login to the laptop was because they were putting in the wrong username. Everything was still setup from the last time he went on vacation. (it is a shared laptop for those who travel or go on vacation, etc)
It was all taken care of in a few minutes. While I was there, a person's monitor failed. Swapped it out from the store room and all was taken care of. If I had went yesterday, I would have been back today, so things worked out.
Also, the Executive Director is being asked to step down as he gave a preferential contract to a contractor who also turned out to be his mistress. Bad idea...
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It's 4 star IIRC.
Maybe that was it. Anytime I travel for work it gets expensed back to the client so I stay in nice places. They all seem to have them, and it always seems useless to me...
Google suggests it might be that for AAA rating. Not all rooms here have it though.
Maybe that's it? Chances are, whatever the reason, that reason is silly and antiquated.
On a related note: I am good friends with a mildly famous CEO who I would consider to be part of the "old guard". Big office, drinks bar in the corner, immensely qualified but could not tie his shoes without his assistant, etc. First time I took a piss in his personal bathroom I saw that there was a phone right there above the TP dispenser. Then I wondered how many conversations I might have had with him while he was taking a dump...
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Anytime I travel for work it gets expensed back to the client so I stay in nice places.
As long as its under a certain value per night, can be wherever. Can generally get some lovely places.
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TIL how to upgrade my hotel rooms for free1 with an ObamaPhone!
1 At taxpayer expense.
How did they come to be known as "Obama Phones" when Obama had nothing to do with it and it actually is not paid for with tax dollars? It is funded from revenue donations from t-comm providers.
Edit: Knowing our government, I probably should have said "donations". They are likely less than voluntary. ;)
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Beats me, I just remember some YouTube video with a woman talking about how awesome Obama is because he's gonna give everyone free ObamaPhones and she already has a few of them.
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Yeah, I just always wonder how these terms come to be. Clinton and GWB had a lot to do with it, but the program was well in existence before Obama ever took office.
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remember some YouTube video with a woman talking about how awesome Obama is because he's gonna give everyone free ObamaPhones and she already has a few of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio
I believe this is the one. ;)
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Status: on a meeting today the estimate for how much data a new system needs to support went from 5 TB to 35 TB. It's starting to sound like development charges aren't going to be the big part of the bill on this one.
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Status: Kinda wish I'd stayed in the hotel and ordered room service. Restaurant is way busy. This may be a FWP.
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Status: Kinda wish I'd stayed in the hotel and ordered room service. Restaurant is way busy. This
may beis a FWP.
FTFY
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It's definitely a problem if my beer doesn't appear soon.
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How did they come to be known as "Obama Phones" when Obama had nothing to do with it
Where could the idea have come from? It's a mystery!
The existing program was "updated" to give people cell phones in 2008 IIRC, whereas before you only got landline minutes. The timing is about when Obama became visible, which is probably how the bundling of concepts came about. He did talk a lot about redistribution.
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Status: on a meeting today the estimate for how much data a new system needs to support went from 5 TB to 35 TB. It's starting to sound like development charges aren't going to be the big part of the bill on this one.
Hmmmm, does BackBlaze have an API that you could
abusecreatively use for $5/month? ;)
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They are likely less than voluntary.
Telecom providers are charged a per-subscriber (?) fee. Most of them pass it on to you, the customer. That's what the Universal Service Fee is on your bill.
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Chances are, whatever the reason, that reason is silly and antiquated.
In the cell phone era? The chance is 100%.
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You can add the link to your happiness note.
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Hmmmm, does BackBlaze have an API that you could abuse
creatively usefor $5/month?It's health insurance data so we have to do the hosting. Just thinking about how we are going to end up charging for things and hoping that I don't actually have to do dev work on this belgium.
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Aren't you glad it didn't do it 2 days after you left?
Then, I'd presumably be able to use my familar old one to create a new one when I got back to work. As it is, I left a post-it note on a monitor with the letter I changed on it, so I should be able to figure out what I changed it to when I get back... (although I think I still remember the new one anyway, so...)
Filed under: passwords
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snort. I change my work password quarterly so I usually remember what letter I'm on in the sequence.
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ObamaPhone
Are people really calling the lifeline program that was there when Regan was in office ObamaPhone now?
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Are people really calling the lifeline program that was there when Regan was in office ObamaPhone now?
No, but maybe they're calling the one that goes back to Reagan, if that's how far back it went.
Also, where've you been for like the last 6 years?
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What is news?
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What is news?
It's a form of creative writing, usually fictional but sometimes loosely based on real-life stories, with no regard for the basic rules of grammar, logic, or spelling.
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After years of coming here still wondering why the better rooms have phones in the toilet.
So people can talk shit.
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My hotel question/annoyance is why it seems that every hotel ever has switched to shower controls that don't let you change the water pressure.
I want to find out whoever started that trend and kick them in the shins.
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I liquidated a whole guild bank and didn't notice any framerate issues. I guess your computer is just a ball of shit that stinks like ass.
How much memoralio is on your card? I bet WOW even with its low poly count is taking up a shitload of texture memory.
You even quoted this yourself. WHY CAN'T YOU EVEN READ WHAT OTHER PEOPLE WROTE, YOU SIMPERING LOSER.
Oh, unless 6.0.3 fixed it, you will probably want to lower the graphics settings drastically if you go to a capital city.
I had people with GTX 780s and Ivy Bridge i7s in my guild tell me they were having the same problem at the time. I've been too busy to play lately so I don't know if it's been fixed or not, but I suggested it might have in the stuff you quoted but were too stupid to read.
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Status: relaxing after a somewhat crappy day. First I went to the wrong DC airport because I'm a dumbass1, and then when I got to my home airport I discovered that my car battery was as dead as I've seen a car battery.
On the bright side, at least I didn't have to stay in DC an extra night because I was going back to Boston, like some people at the meeting I was at.
1 A taxi from IAD to DCA costs about $75-80, including tip, in case you were wondering.
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A taxi from IAH to DCA
- I assume you meant IAD, not IAH.
- Isn't there a subway now? I could have sworn when I lived in DC they were pushing the subway out towards Dulles.
- A quick google suggests there's a bus route that would have been far cheaper, although might have taken longer: "It would ideally be 0:55 to 1:25 to get from IAD to DCA in traffic on the 5A bus to Rosslyn then the Metro (Blue Line) to DCA...or alternatively there's the Washington Flyer bus from the Airport to Falls Church (Orange Line) you would still make a change at Rosslyn to the Blue Line down to DCA which takes about 0:45-1:15."
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You even quoted this yourself. WHY CAN'T YOU EVEN READ WHAT OTHER PEOPLE WROTE, YOU SIMPERING LOSER.
@blakeyrat cannot be bothered with such trivialities, but will damn sure lynch anyone who does the same thing to him. Haven't you learned that by now? It is only an unforgivable sin if someone besides him does it...
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I assume you meant IAD, not IAH.
Yes, fixed; thanks. IAH is in another city with two main airports that I was in a month and a half ago. :eyeroll: (I didn't screw up that time though. :-))Isn't there a subway now? I could have sworn when I lived in DC they were pushing the subway out towards Dulles.
I'm not sure. There's an under construction part of the silver(?) line, which heads in that direction, but I don't know how far out it is supposed to go. I thought I saw active passenger rail lines near IAD, but maybe it was for something else. OTOH, Google Maps doesn't know of an all-metro route.A quick google suggests there's a bus route that would have been far cheaper, although might have taken longer: "It would ideally be 0:55 to 1:25 to get from IAD to DCA in traffic on the 5A bus to Rosslyn then the Metro (Blue Line) to DCA...or alternatively there's the Washington Flyer bus from the Airport to Falls Church (Orange Line) you would still make a change at Rosslyn to the Blue Line down to DCA which takes about 0:45-1:15."
The airline person I talked to said it'd be about an hour by transit, which agrees with that. I probably should have looked into it before jumping on the taxi, but the taxi was 30 minutes or something, and the extra 30 minutes would have mean that I'd have been cutting it... not close, but closer than I usually like to do airport departures. I was also not so clear-headed after discovering that mistake, which is on me.
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Current status: finally got through season 1 of Fringe.
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Brb, submitting the question of "What would happen if your alarm clock was capable of emitting music at 500 dB SPL?" to XKCD's What If.
By ~194dB the air pressure would already rapidly oscillate between 0 and 2 atmospheres.
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Isn't there a subway now? I could have sworn when I lived in DC they were pushing the subway out towards Dulles.
Not all the way. I think it's supposed to get there in 2018.
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Status: Despair.
Colleague: I'm getting this error in the GUI saying field X isn't set. I've tried to find it in the database to set it but I'm not sure I've found the right field because it's blank.
Me: That'll be it then.
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status: at work....... damn that was a lot of snow and Portland doesn't have many places to put it.
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Status: Working out WTF we need to do with this week's latest nugget from Linux:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/this-weeks-linux-vulnerbility-ghost/7608
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By ~194dB the air pressure would already rapidly oscillate between 0 and 2 atmospheres.
And 500 dB is like trillions of times stronger. Sounds like fun.
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Status: This site's being slow again.
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And 500 dB is like trillions of times stronger. Sounds like fun.
"The Intergalactic Federation is saddened to hear of the destruction of Sol 3, caused by one of the inhabitant's amplifying their alarm clock too much. They were young and naive, but showed such promise. A memorial will be erected among the debris field of the former planet."
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Status: This site's being slow again.
Status: Learning HTTP 500 errors via the power of Discourse
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Status: This site's being slow again.
We'd be faster if we could get the IRS to put that custom error page up!
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Status: Trying to keep up. Last night saw a massive series of updates to our supported systems. One DB change script that required updating 7 software programs. Not generally a big deal, until you remember that I'm the only developer left on staff.
Then the errors came in this morning. Apparently my boss overwrote some of the fixes I had made to the script during testing, and now stuff was breaking in production as a result.
Fortunately, it's all in the DB, so nothing needs to go offline for me to apply the fixes.
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Status: So I'm primary on call this week for one of the two on call lists we have. The other is a special one for a subset of reporting things. So far we've had 3 "OMG my head is on fire" tickets for reporting things, but of course they go to the general on call list. Then get routed back cause the reporting people are busy, so I have to deal with them anyway.
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Not all the way. I think it's supposed to get there in 2018.
Trust the government. I'm pretty sure construction started in 2004. If not, they were certainly doing something that looked subway-construction-like.
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The site only seems to be half working today, so it seems to be better than when I left.
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Status: finally caught up with the Status thread. Flying to Paris tomorrow.