The Official Status Thread
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Status: Waiting for the Chinese food for dinner for me and the childling to arrive, and I just found out that one of my old favorite webcomics that stopped updating a couple years ago is coming back!
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
and I just found out that one of my old favorite webcomics that stopped updating a couple years ago is coming back!
Whatever you do, don't name it!
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Status: Starting to consider a new(er) car, since I'm worried about possible major maintenance costs.
Current car: 2010 Honda Civic, 70k miles, purchased used in 2013 at 35k miles. Blue book value ~$5k
Issues:- AC has been spotty. Already replaced the compressor/condenser, but it seems to not be cooling efficiently. Again. When they replaced the compressor, they suggested another part as well, but that's another ~$1k (with labor).
- Power steering rack is leaking more and more (requiring a top-up on fluid every few weeks and making squeaky noises frequently). Replacing that looks to be ~$1k.
- Several other minor issues, but those are trivial (sagging headliner, headlights are badly discolored).
Due to bad credit when I bought it (better now), I'm still paying it off from when I bought it (with about $3k left over the next year).
Ugh. I hate being an adult sometimes.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
headlights are badly discolored
That one at least should be a fairly easy fix.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
headlights are badly discolored
That one at least should be a fairly easy fix.
I tried once with a kit, but it didn't make much difference. But yeah, that's one of the minor things.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
I tried once with a kit, but it didn't make much difference
For about $60 per side, you can have a brand new headlight assembly at RockAuto for that Civic.
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status: I think this is the first time I've cricked my neck while awake.
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@Benjamin-Hall I am considering a new car because I am feeling the total cost of repairs for my current car is reaching the point where it's cheaper to buy a working car than getting it fixed. Right now I could drive it for another 8 months or so (to the next mandatory inspection), or until it breaks down, whatever happens first.
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Status: Waiting to get Adobe inflicted on my laptop, then I can go do some actual work. Also, still am a bit tired due to lack of a good sleep balance as I am getting back into normal routine, still not helped by WoW. Although, in good news, I've reached 120 and finished the Zandalari campaign so can start relax a bit. Sadly, I did not get to finish properly due to a bug that didn't play the ending cinematic, and talking to the NPC that can show the cinematic again just displayed the message "AWESOME IN-GAME EVENT". Thanks, Blizz!
Also, thanks to the sleep deprivation I misread tacos as tacOS and wondered wtf Apple are up to now.
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OH GREAT NOW MY SCROLLING WHEEL STOPS WORKING
WHY DOES EVERY PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY HATE ME. I NEVER DID ANYTHING TO THEM
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@anonymous234
Oh, hi, my former friend from high-school that we christened the Walking Computer Virus
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Status: Yet again I am reminded of my magical ability to say to myself at 2:30 am, "I really need to be up at 6", and waking up with no alarm clock at 5:30.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
AWESOME IN-GAME EVENT
Wowhead datamined them and put them up on their youtube.
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Status: Spent most of the day trying to figure out what my code was doing wrong that meant it kept timing out when receiving UDP response packets. Answer? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The hardware that was supposed to be sending them out was in a weird state (pingable but otherwise dead) and needed to be hard reset and have its OS reloaded.
Thank god for the weekend. Thank god for being on holiday next week.
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@ben_lubar SCHEMAS AND JSON GO AGAINST UNIX PHILOSOPHY BECAUSE THEY ARE COMPLICATED
ALL FILES SHOULD BE FREE FORM ASCII TEXT
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@anonymous234
gofundme.com/newcapslockkeyforanonymous234
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@ben_lubar I've never seen such an awful enumeration in my life... Also, if he'd been using XML, he wouldn't need you for this.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
and talking to the NPC that can show the cinematic again just displayed the message "AWESOME IN-GAME EVENT". Thanks, Blizz!
I see they've come a long way since "Captain Placeholder".
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@PleegWat Is that thing in the preview image supposed to be a human, or one of those grey aliens?
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@blakeyrat A human in a nightmare realm, I think. I play horde.
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@PleegWat That face is a nightmare realm. I'm pretty sure those huge-ass anime eyes if expanded to the full sphere would actually protrude beyond her skull.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Yet again I am reminded of my magical ability to say to myself at 2:30 am, "I really need to be up at 6", and waking up with no alarm clock at 5:30.
You bastard.
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@pie_flavor You've got a really satisfying double kung-fu neck crack in your future, then - stand up, tilt your head to each side with a horrifying sound, then presumably destroy your enemies. Then crippling arthritis but that double kung-fu neck crack will have been worth it.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Yet again I am reminded of my magical ability to say to myself at 2:30 am, "I really need to be up at 6", and waking up with no alarm clock at 5:30.
I've been under enough stress that I've been somewhat consistently managing to finally give up on sleep about ten minutes before my first alarm.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I believe I've beaten @Polygeekery in terms of drawing @blakeyrat's ire.
I didn't know there was a contest. I will have to up my game now.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, if he'd been using XML, he wouldn't need you for this.
... yes he would. XML schemas aren't any more magic than JSON schemas are.
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Status: It was inevitable.
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Status: Got an un-triggered NodeBB notification for the first time in weeks!
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It was inevitable.
Status: I started up some work. This might be satisfying.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It was inevitable.
Status: I started up some work. This might be satisfying.
Status: I paused some work. This will free up some CPU time.
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Status: Ever since I enabled Netdata I like watching the pretty graphs scroll on by. But the app seems to be detecting some.... oddities:
Yes, normally the server is fairly idle, so when a build finishes and starts transferring the results, of course there's going to be a relative "storm" of packets!
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@ben_lubar Except that they are part of the XML spec, and not an implementation detail of some tool. Most tools have supported them for the past decade.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Except that they are part of the XML spec, and not an implementation detail of some tool. Most tools have supported them for the past decade.
And VSCode supports JSON schemas. Ben Porter uses VSCode. Your point?
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Good lord! My computer was never malfunctioning! It's the screen that was spontaneously turning itself off!
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Status: I have made a lot of mistakes in my life, but today I made a choice that comes close to the top of that list. That choice was to have a gas station chili dog for lunch.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I have made a lot of mistakes in my wife
Is that what she calls them?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
I have made a lot of mistakes in my wife
Is that what she calls them?
Goddamn mobile keyboard.
Yes, I am posting this from the
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@Polygeekery you can give Lyndon Baines Johnson his royalties on that whenever, sport.
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@Gribnit bofa?
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@Polygeekery no.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I believe I've beaten @Polygeekery in terms of drawing @blakeyrat's ire.
I didn't know there was a contest. I will have to up my game now.
Your current challenge is to get him to block you on Discord.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery you can give Lyndon Baines Johnson his royalties on that whenever, sport.
what?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I believe I've beaten @Polygeekery in terms of drawing @blakeyrat's ire.
I didn't know there was a contest. I will have to up my game now.
Your current challenge is to get him to block you on Discord.
What's the stage after that?
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
part of the XML spec,
Given the size of "spec" that includes XML Schema, everyone and his angle-bracketed dog are part of the spec. (The specification space of XML is painfully large. BTDT.)
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@pie_flavor thanks, I'm planning on making a collection of these now. Yours are really common but they give the presentation structure, y'know?
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@Polygeekery Dunno, I'll tell you when I reach it.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor thanks, I'm planning on making a collection of these now. Yours are really common but they give the presentation structure, y'know?
what?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor thanks, I'm planning on making a collection of these now. Yours are really common but they give the presentation structure, y'know?
what?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery Dunno, I'll tell you when I reach it.
I got him to unironically tell me to kill myself. Have you reached that level yet?