The Official Status Thread
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There's a sign on the wall telling you to keep it down,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHsJdUv7k9Y
DVB antenna moved. Crappy reception
The FWP thread is
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Status: At the Copa-, Copacabana...
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Is it really the hottest place north of Havana?
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Is it really the hottest place north of Havana?
If you're allowed lateral movement, then I'd think somewhere in North Africa would be the hottest place north of Havana.
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So buy an old-fashioned meat grinder and some chicken and make your own ground chicken.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
If you're allowed lateral movement, then I'd think somewhere in North Africa would be the hottest place north of Havana.
do you know about hot places? You live in Canada.
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So buy an old-fashioned meat grinder and some chicken and make your own ground chicken.
I actually have one, and that is actually what I did. Smartass.
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RIP David Bowie.
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Status: eagerly waiting for the Trump vs. Maguire match today in just 2 hours. Man, is Masters awesome or what.
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Not going to start a new thread for this unless it explodes. My brother got an iWatch from his company as a Christmas bonus. He's been trying to give it away ever since. So far, eight or nine people have declined it. Reasons heard so far:
- Doesn't work with my Android phone
- I'm not interested in the core functionality (displaying time)
- I have no use for it
- I've gotten used to not have something strapped to my arm
- I've got a pacemaker
- It isn't waterproof, otherwise I could use it to check messages while fishing (rather than risk dropping my phone in the water)
So. Fancy and rather expensive piece of equipment, that people simply don't want even when given to them for free. Either for technical reasons, but mostly because they see no use case for it.
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* I've got a pacemaker
I'm pretty sure smartwatches don't interfere with pacemakers.* I'm not interested in the core functionality (displaying time)
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I'm pretty sure smartwatches don't interfere with pacemakers.
Apparently the boilerplate disclaimer sheet that shipped with the iWatch told you that you mustn't use it if you've got a pacemaker.
I'm not interested in the core functionality (displaying time)
That was my brother. He's time-agnostic.
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@RaceProUK said:
I'm pretty sure smartwatches don't interfere with pacemakers.
Apparently the boilerplate disclaimer sheet that shipped with the iWatch told you that you mustn't use it if you've got a pacemaker.
Unless I'm mistaken, the iWatch puts about as much current through the body as a normal watch i.e. zero. So
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It isn't waterproof, otherwise I could use it to check messages while fishing
To be honest that's a rather far fetched use case...Unless I'm mistaken, the iWatch puts about as much current through the body as a normal watch i.e. zero. So
Unicorn rays. Can't trust them.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
@RaceProUK said:
I'm pretty sure smartwatches don't interfere with pacemakers.
Apparently the boilerplate disclaimer sheet that shipped with the iWatch told you that you mustn't use it if you've got a pacemaker.
Unless I'm mistaken, the iWatch puts about as much current through the body as a normal watch i.e. zero. So
Having said that, I did find this:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-09/heart-patient-risk-from-ipad2-found-by-14-year-old
So... I dunno
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Unless I'm mistaken, the iWatch puts about as much current through the body as a normal watch i.e. zero. So
Probably along the lines of "We haven't tested it with pacemakers, and doing so could be dangerous, and it's not completely scientifically impossible that having a permanent Bluetooth connection between your pocket and wrist may pose some risk to pacemakers, so best to put in a disclaimer so that anybody who tries it and dies can't sue us".
Welcome back BTW
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Status: Last week at this job, not much outstanding work since I made sure to clear a lot before Christmas.
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Status: trying to get Wireshark to show a HTTP address:
Seems I missed to remove a part of the URI... meh
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Status: The thermometer by my desk reads 19°C. Feels more like 9°C.
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STATUS I forgot my key card to get into the office today and everyone is in a meeting, at lunch or working from home so if I go to the loo I'll be locked out of the office. I'm a prisoner in my own office and I need to use the loo.
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You should switch to Multiplayer ...
http://doomwiki.org/wiki/MAP31:Pharaoh(TNT:_Evilution)#Bugs
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Status:
public enum ValueKind { Text, Integer, FloatingPoint, Date, TrueFalse, TrueFalseNull, DropDown, Empty, ListBox, DistinctDropDown }
Did not miss this codebase at all.
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TRWTF is
Empty
; why would you put that in your GUI rather than just spacing the controls out?
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Same reason exam papers have
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no it isn't. if it was blank it wouldn't have that message on it!
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Status: The NAS is now building itself nicely. It'll take some time, but it's happy without me watching it.
And some kind of corporate “defend ourselves from teh eeevilll interwebz” is fucking around with HTTP connections to all sorts of things. Why? Most likely because it is administered by morons or know-nothing contractors. It's interfering with even upload of small POST bodies (the threshold seems to be about 4kB…)
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#https://twitter.com/soverybritish/status/603680547437699072
I did this just now!
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TRWTF is Empty; why would you put that in your GUI rather than just spacing the controls out?
It controls what kind of filter field you get over a homegrown grid column -
Text
lets you enter text,DistinctDropDown
gives you a dropdown with all values in the grid, etc.TRWTF is the naming. "Okay, so there's an enum named
ValueKind
, and it's assigned to the property namedType
- guess it's some kind of type metadata. We haveText
, we haveInteger
, we have... uh,DistinctDropDown
? WTF?"
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It's to distinguish it from
IndistinctDropDown
, which is rendered blurry, like there's a permanent smudge over it
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I'm pretty sure smartwatches don't interfere with pacemakers.
He probably doesn't want it, but was trying to be polite. Read between the lines.
Why? I'm not interested in a device that cuts the time it takes for me to tell the time from 5 seconds to 1 second. I don't use time at that fine a resolution.
I forgot my key card to get into the office today and everyone is in a meeting, at lunch or working from home so if I go to the loo I'll be locked out of the office. I'm a prisoner in my own office and I need to use the loo.
Pack your laptop, go to the bathroom, then go home and work from there. I solve all problems.
Also put your keycard in your wallet, so you can't "forget" it without also forgetting important things like your driver's license, or the ability to buy lunch. That's why they come in card form.
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Who in fucks name did this!
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Yes, that indentation is abysmal!
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Yes, that indentation is abysmal!
It's not tabbed! It's all spaces! The horror of it all. This has moved to the top of list of shit to get done!
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I remember recently having to add in the following to fix something:
i { font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; }
seeing how italics weren't supposed to be bold.
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I remember recently having to add in the following to fix something:
i { font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; }
seeing how italics weren't supposed to be bold.
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mostly because they see no use case for it
This.
Last Xmas my wife asked for the Samsung smart watch. She wore it for less than a month and stopped using it. I wore it for a couple of weeks and then stopped. Both of us found it essentially useless.
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Shit, I wish it were 9C here.
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I did this just now!
What if it was someone you work with who could've taken you to the loo?
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TR :WTF: is not having a bathroom in your office.
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TR is not having a bathroom in your office.
I know what you meant to say, but it reads like something a shithead CEO would say.
"You don't have an executive toilet in your corner office? I do. It is right past the bar where I keep the single malts and just before you get to the closet where I keep my $10K suits and where my secretary blows me when I am feeling tense. You don't have such things?
What is a cube...uh...cull??"
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Meanwhile I'm on Day 100 of Fitbit wearing. It serves a purpose. I only interact with it to adjust the band (move it up the arm for certain activities) or to see if the damn thing needs to be charged. Everything else it does is passive.
Smart watches are pretty much toys still.
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Meanwhile I'm on Day 100 of Fitbit wearing. It serves a purpose. I only interact with it to adjust the band (move it up the arm for certain activities) or to see if the damn thing needs to be charged. Everything else it does is passive.
coming up to a year on the misfit (which i went with because it supports being worn as a necklace and doesn't need charging (just occasionally (like once a quarter) replacing it's CR2032 battery).
works a treat.
Smart watches are pretty much toys still.
i have a pebble Time.... when i wear it it's nice, because i can look at it when i get an email and know if it's one that has to be dealt with now or if it can wait.and having the media controls is nice too.....
beyond that though...... nah. that's about all it's good for. and even then it's nonessential.
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My Microsoft Band 2 is probably somewhere in between - does the same stuff as the FitBit and notifies me of appointments and incoming emails. The smart alarm is a plus.
Don't really need more