The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
cannot be sustained.
And buying a new truck will help!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra damn son, you spend a lot.
Yeah not usually. I've just self-accelerated some of my loans 'cause I don't feel like paying triple the principle balance...
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Status: This day has sucked on all counts, and not in the good way. I guess itβs time to go to bed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
3 year lease 15k mile limit
Is that 15k miles per year, or total over the 3 year lease? If that's 15k miles in 3 years, expect to get a flaming purple cactus in a very uncomfortable place for excess mileage charges, unless you never actually drive it.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra damn son, you spend a lot.
That just about covers the rent on a 2-bedroom apartment in Silly Valley.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
3 year lease 15k mile limit
Is that 15k miles per year, or total over the 3 year lease? If that's 15k miles in 3 years, expect to get a flaming purple cactus in a very uncomfortable place for excess mileage charges, unless you never actually drive it.
Per year.
Decided not to go for it. Felt a little too shady for my comfort level.
Natch, the one I went with instead is $260 after the whizz-bang addons ($190 base). But it has 4wd! That I'll use maybe once.
Ah well.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
But it has 4wd! That I'll use maybe once.
Back when I had a 4WD SUV, I think I used the 4WD three times in 10 years of owning it.
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Status: pooped.
It takes a lot of effort to properly de-install a full sound system, computer kit, and navigation. But I did it all and brought back my (now sold) truck to stock. And by stock I mean "it was below base-model when I got it, you see..."
In a mere hour and a half.
By the way. Just because the sun isn't visible doesn't mean it's not hot. Fucking 101 degrees and 22 percent humidity.
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Status: Playing with a spam email.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
2019 Tacoma 6 cylinder, access cab. $2.5k down, 3 year lease 15k mile limit, monthly payment $85/mo.
I have no idea what this is about
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
2019 Tacoma 6 cylinder, access cab. $2.5k down, 3 year lease 15k mile limit, monthly payment $85/mo.
I have no idea what this is about
Join the club!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra damn son, you spend a lot.
That just about covers the rent on a 2-bedroom apartment in Silly Valley.
I didn't know it was that cheap.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
101 degrees and 22 percent humidity
It could be worse. 90 and 90 (aka normal for the Gulf coast).
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
101 degrees and 22 percent humidity
It could be worse. 90 and 90 (aka normal for the Gulf coast).
I know... I probably would not have been able to complete the transfer at that point.
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Status: My new coffee machine (one of those machines which can brew one cup on demand and grind the beans just before brewing) works just fine. Got it for 50% of the list price (was 600β¬) from Amazon because someone returned it for a refund (in Germany, when you order online you can return the wares (or at least, most of them - obvious exceptions like perishables or limited-use objects exist) inside a 14 day window without having to give a reason.)
The description by Amazon stated: "The packaging is damaged and the housing has two scratches."
I couldn't care less about the packaging and the scratches. Turns out that "damaged packaging" meant a gouge which didn't even penetrate the carton fully and I haven't found the two scratches on the casing.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Turns out that "damaged packaging" meant a gouge which didn't even penetrate the carton fully and I haven't found the two scratches on the casing.
Actual reason.
Purchasers partner: You spent WHAT on WHAT??? Return it, or die.
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@dcon The most expensive such return that I know of, was a Nissan Note.
A story from my usual mechanic; his neighbor bought one, new. And returned it 4 hours later, after his wife saw it and strongly disagreed. New cars lose 20% value when driven off the lot. Some of the most expensive kilometers I've seen...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Turns out that "damaged packaging" meant a gouge which didn't even penetrate the carton fully and I haven't found the two scratches on the casing.
Actual reason.
Purchasers partner: You spent WHAT on WHAT??? Return it, or die.Naw, as I said: With "distance purchases" (i.e. online/telephone) you don't have to give any reason as to why you're returning it or revoking the contract.
It's actually quite a bit of a problem for, say, clothes / shoe sellers as their return rate may approach 50%.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Turns out that "damaged packaging" meant a gouge which didn't even penetrate the carton fully and I haven't found the two scratches on the casing.
Actual reason.
Purchasers partner: You spent WHAT on WHAT??? Return it, or die.Naw, as I said: With "distance purchases" (i.e. online/telephone) you don't have to give any reason as to why you're returning it or revoking the contract.
It's actually quite a bit of a problem for, say, clothes / shoe sellers as their return rate may approach 50%.
There's the reason you tell the retailer (none as you say). And there's the reason you had to do it.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
And returned it 4 hours later, after his wife saw it and strongly disagreed. New cars lose 20% value when driven off the lot.
Which just goes to show that his wife was right with the initial disagreement.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Which just goes to show that his wife was right with the initial disagreement.
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Nissan Note.
Duh.
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Status: at a lifestyle party
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: at a lifestyle party
Pics or it didn-- on second thought, nevermind.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: at a lifestyle party
Pics or it didn-- on second thought, nevermind.
Anyone can DM me for a link to my fetlife profile, which contains photographic and video evidence.
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Status: My SD CARD is outperforming my data drive.
I think it's time for a new one...
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Status: My brand-new truck can't handle more than 9,999 tracks. What the fuck.
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Status: seems JavaScript struggles to evaluate the full decimal expansion of floating-point numbers with exponents in excess of 16000β¦ at least in the current form of my code. Either I should look to optimise it, or do something sensible like evaluate only 100 significant figures
I'll just disable quadruple and octuple precision for now.
The point is,
Wikipedia:
β 4.9406564584124654 Γ 10β324 (Min. subnormal positive double)
β 1.7976931348623157 Γ 10308 (Max. Double)
Python:
>>> 2**-1074 5e-324 >>> 2**1023 * (1+(1-2**-52)) 1.7976931348623157e+308
JavaScript:
>> Number.MIN_VALUE 5e-324 >> Number.MAX_VALUE 1.7976931348623157e+308
Me:
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004940656458412465441765687928682213723650598026143247644255856825006755072702087518652998363616359923797965646954457177309266567103559397963987747960107818781263007131903114045278458171678489821036887186360569987307230500063874091535649843873124733972731696151400317153853980741262385655911710266585566867681870395603106249319452715914924553293054565444011274801297099995419319894090804165633245247571478690147267801593552386115501348035264934720193790268107107491703332226844753335720832431936092382893458368060106011506169809753078342277318329247904982524730776375927247874656084778203734469699533647017972677717585125660551199131504891101451037862738167250955837389733598993664809941164205702637090279242767544565229087538682506419718265533447265625
I win.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Nissan Note.
Duh.
At least it wasn't one of these:
First time I saw one on the motorway I laughed so hard I nearly crashed. It's the car version of the Short Skyvan.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My brand-new truck can't handle more than 9,999 tracks. What the fuck.
Somehow, that reminds me of a video I saw recently on a US postal service counter lock which could only be locked 9999 times.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
It's actually quite a bit of a problem for, say, clothes / shoe sellers as their return rate may approach 50%.
One of the reasons for a high return rate there is when people are uncertain about what the sizes really are when shopping online: I used to have a colleague who would always get two pairs of shoes at two adjacent sizes and then just immediately return the pair that didn't fit.
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@dkf Amazon explicitly encourages you to do that.
Maybe if brands would just tell you the actual, physical sizes of the stuff you're buying, people wouldn't have to do that so much.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe if brands would just tell you the actual, physical sizes of the stuff you're buying, people wouldn't have to do that so much.
Alas, that's not enough. I bought a coat some time ago and despite the sizes fitting me in all the places that they described, the coat itself was slightly too small (around the armpit) due to the cut of the coat. I swapped it for the next size up, and that's been great, but my point was that there's always more ways for things to not fit than you might expect. So which measurements should be listed? Well, that's not trivial since you simultaneously don't want to overload people with figures (and it might not be easy for someone who isn't a tailor to understand what particular measurements mean). A simple returns policy works better, especially when you have items (garments and shoes) that can probably be sold to a different customer just fine.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, that's not trivial since you simultaneously don't want to overload people with figures (and it might not be easy for someone who isn't a tailor to understand what particular measurements mean).
You know, there have been literally hundreds of startups developing augmented reality systems where you can see how the clothes look on you (it's like the "Hello World" of the startup world).
You'd think at this point this would be a solved problem. Maybe stand half-naked in front of a Kinect or something, and you get all your measurements taken and the website can match them automatically.
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Hot take: 90% of the time, separating "content" from "presentation" or "semantics" (like in HTML/CSS) is just intellectual wankery.
Bold text is bold text. No one will ever render <strong> as anything other than bold text, and screen readers can understand <b> just as easily.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
You'd think at this point this would be a solved problem. Maybe stand half-naked in front of a Kinect or something, and you get all your measurements taken and the website can match them automatically.I've worked for a place that did exactly that 10 years ago, but with 4 laser scanner units instead of a Kinect. Was obviously large and bulky, meant to be installed at the store, but worked really well. You stand in there in your underwear, lift your arms up to form a T, and get a full high-resolution scan.
I still have a 3D scan of me from back then.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe if brands would just tell you the actual, physical sizes of the stuff you're buying, people wouldn't have to do that so much.
Alas, that's not enough. I bought a coat some time ago and despite the sizes fitting me in all the places that they described, the coat itself was slightly too small (around the armpit) due to the cut of the coat. I swapped it for the next size up, and that's been great, but my point was that there's always more ways for things to not fit than you might expect. So which measurements should be listed? Well, that's not trivial since you simultaneously don't want to overload people with figures (and it might not be easy for someone who isn't a tailor to understand what particular measurements mean). A simple returns policy works better, especially when you have items (garments and shoes) that can probably be sold to a different customer just fine.
Yeah, it's why custom-fit tailors are still a thing (albeit for the people with slightly more money).
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@dkf not to mention that there's no real standard for the measurements and there is large variation even within a single brand between product lines. And women's clothes are substantially worse with this--the sizes are a lie and everyone knows it.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
I'm currently finishing the last few chapters so I can uninstall it.
STATUS: Gears 4 completed.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
the sizes are a lie and everyone knows it.
Well, that's just the market at work.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
It's actually quite a bit of a problem for, say, clothes / shoe sellers as their return rate may approach 50%.
One of the reasons for a high return rate there is when people are uncertain about what the sizes really are when shopping online: I used to have a colleague who would always get two pairs of shoes at two adjacent sizes and then just immediately return the pair that didn't fit.
I had to get some steel toecap boots recently to be allowed on a set, I'm normally a size 11 shoe. I ended up with size 9 boots, I ordered a load of sizes and just stayed in Screwfix to try them on in the end, then returned the rest. The guy there said that happens a lot.
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Status: I wanted to test out some software out of mere curiosity. Doesn't have compiled binaries for mac, but the build instructions are pretty simple. git clone, open workspace in XCode, click build.
Opening XCode, what the actual fuck is that? Okay, at least Cmd-B builds as you would expect, but it fails with this helpful popup that disappears after one second:Great. Why? Fuck knows, because it doesn't tell you. <insert @blakeyrant here>
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Status: dammit, dream snapshot failed. Only scene that was even a little saved was the last one, about ten seconds in which I was trying to get out of a pond of mossy water and nobody on the path right next to it was helping except this girl that was expelled for stealing $2.50 of ink. Sigh.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: dammit, dream snapshot failed.
You mean there is a snapshot feature? Why didn't anybody tell me that before?!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Which just goes to show that his wife was right with the initial disagreement.
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Nissan Note.
Duh.
I've been quite happy with my Note, thank you very much. There's actually space for an adult male driver, and it's configurable for a lot of cargo. It's not a looker, but it's the safest car I could buy in Finland for β¬11,000 (in 2017).
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
At least it wasn't one of these:
First time I saw one on the motorway I laughed so hard I nearly crashed. It's the car version of the Short Skyvan.
That's a Kei-car.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: dammit, dream snapshot failed.
You mean there is a snapshot feature? Why didn't anybody tell me that before?!
It doesn't always work, since it uses the wrong end of what can jokingly be called the "stack", and most pointers are local variables on the heap that gets reinitialized (partially) as part of the wake-up sequence anyways. You'd think that such a feature would not use the memory it's supposed to be snapshotting, but no other interfaces are writeable in the needed manner at the point that the data is still meaningful...
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@Tsaukpaetra That's a surprisingly common dream. Except the part about the girl. That's just you.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra That's a surprisingly common dream. Except the part about the girl. That's just you.
Well I wasn't drowning. Just unable to manipulate myself onto what was apparently a cliff drop filled to the brim with slippery water.
I will add that there was apparently components of driving and avoiding a lot of car crashes while going downhill shortly before the mentioned scene. So maybe the cliff makes some sense.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a Kei-car
Technically, it's a Nissan Cube
OK. Then it's not a Kei car; too large an engine.
My bad.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a Kei-car.
Nah it's too big. it's just a shit car.
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