The Official First World Problems Thread™
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By bats, I presume?
No, bats spread the seeds, after the fig is pollinated and ripened.
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FWP: My pocket computer which is more powerful than the ones that launched rockets to the moon was smart enough to silence my phone at night so I wouldn't wake up when Operations called me at 1am to help solve a problem I couldn't do anything about.
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Sleeping through something you couldn't sort doesn't seem like a problem.
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People called out of their bed will proceed to call other people out of their beds because misery loves company.
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The guy who was scheduled on shift called me. He needed to have called A-- but he doesn't seem to have. I emailed the whole team, then texted A--, who told me yup, this is not a big deal. The promotion failed on a box that is brand new and not in the rotation because it's not done being configured yet. Whoop de doo. I could have forced it to promote but I'd have probably just had them wake A-- in the middle of the night anyway, the new machines are his project.
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Short of impulse engines, I have no idea how you'd get something into space without burning chemicals.
With a space elevator, you can just get energy (which may come from many sources, not just by burning stuff) to the elevator cars by, say, a maser. The power received can be used to drive motors and so to claw up the cable itself. Particularly for cargo, it doesn't matter if it takes quite a while.
Once you're at the top, you need reaction mass (or a solar sail) to actually go anywhere. The idea is that you throw it out the back of your vehicle as fast as possible and that accelerates you in the opposite direction. Chemical rockets are one way to do this, ion thrusters are another.
Currently most ion drives use noble gases, but water would be a reasonable alternative. (What some random piece of science fiction is going to be using as reaction mass will vary quite a bit; I know that it was beer in The Makeshift Rocket but that wasn't an ion thruster…)
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With a space elevator, you can just get energy (which may come from many sources, not just by burning stuff) to the elevator cars by, say, a maser. The power received can be used to drive motors and so to claw up the cable itself. Particularly for cargo, it doesn't matter if it takes quite a while.
Yeah but that's boring. You people seem to be missing the complaint here. How do you get a spaceship zooming around at ground level going pew-pew-pew with laser guns like that? Laaame.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, and something may turn up in time. Meanwhile we'll have to make do with what we've got. Under current physics, anything that can transition from atmospheric flight to orbit under its own power in one piece seems unlikely.
Well, maybe if you get a ton of electricity from a fusion reactor or something and use photon pressure.
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FWP: only 9 people downloaded my obscure video game's incremental update that needs to be manually downloaded in the first hour of it being released.
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needs to be manually downloaded in the first hour of it being released.
Why does it need to be downloaded in the first hour of it being released? Does it stop working after the first hour?
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Unfortunately, I don't have a time machine to know how many people will download it in the future.
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Unfortunately, I don't have a time machine to know how many people will download it in the future.
You should wait a while and find out.
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My mod:
20,036 Unique Visitors
(Public number)
5,308 Current Subscribers
(Public number)
802 Current Favorites
(Public number)SUCK IT!
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We seem to have a vastly different definition of "mod".
My mod is a full game with custom AI, camera views, and tools for mappers.
Your mod changes some numbers based on some other numbers and maybe adds a particle effect.
Also, if I wanted to distribute my mod on Steam, I would need to pay Valve $100 dollars and get approval from the community, whereas you just have to use the "upload to Steam Workshop" button in the GUI you told to change the numbers.
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We seem to have a vastly different definition of "mod".
Mine's better.
My mod is a full game with custom AI, camera views, and tools for mappers.
Pfft.
Your mod changes some numbers based on some other numbers and maybe adds a particle effect.
The best ever.
Also, if I wanted to distribute my mod on Steam, I would need to pay Valve $100 dollars and get approval from the community, whereas you just have to use the "upload to Steam Workshop" button in the GUI you told to change the numbers.
That's because your mod is so lame, there's a "lameness fee".
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WP swype inserts spaces correctly for (parens) and "dumb quotes", but not for actual “ quotation marks”. Also, the keyboard lacks en and em dashes.
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Do you often need En or em dashes?
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Fairly often. I know how to use punctuation correctly. For example, number ranges should use an en-dash, 1–10, whereas an em-dash is more suitable for use in separating parts of sentences (though it can be easily abused, and commas and semicolons should also be considered).
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em-dash is more suitable for use in separating parts of sentences
A company in which I used to work had mandatory internal training classes in Business English because many customer-facing, not to mention internal, documents were written in Gibberish. The training was broken into about a half-dozen individual classes. I don't remember much of the content. (As a winner of multiple spellar/gramming badges, I of course had no need for such training. With the exception of one class that I thought might have some useful information — it didn't — on being concise and direct, I skipped straight to the end-of-class test to get credit for taking it.) However, the one thing I remember is that one of the classes taught that parenthetical phrases or clauses can be separated from the rest of the sentence by parentheses, commas or dashes, but another class marked your answer wrong if you said dashes could be used; only commas and parentheses were allowed. I assume such discoursistency was characteristic of the rest of the training. (I rarely, if ever, looked at customer-facing documents, but there was no noticeable improvement in the grammar of internal documents following the mandatory training.)
Of all the characters most easily entered using Alt+NNNN on a standard en_us keyboard, I use em dashes most often, and have that sequence firmly committed to memory. It is quite possible that if I am ever afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, I my no longer recognize my kids, nor even remember my own name, but will still remember Alt+0151.
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I assume such discoursistency was characteristic of the rest of the training.
That sounds like it has gone all the way to outright Jeffsistency.
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Alt+0151
Pfft, American barbarians.
The German T2 layout has – and — overloaded on the - key.
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FWP: Alien Swarm map makers apparently think that if there's snow anywhere in a map they need to have it animated falling from the sky. Because snow can't exist on the ground if it's not falling from the sky apparently.
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Well, are you saying we should just believe you when you say it falls from the sky?
Status: Can't sleep...
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It's a nice graphical effect if you're going to do something with it, but when every map in a 9-map campaign takes place in a snowstorm and there's no actual gameplay reason for there being a snowstorm, it gets boring.
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smart enough to silence my phone at night
My auto silence thing is smart enough to ring properly if the same number calls twice within 5 minutes
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was smart enough to silence my phone at night so I wouldn't wake up when Operations called me at 1am
By contrast, I specifically chose my phone ringtone to be the most likely of the available options to wake me up if I get an alert about a failure in the middle of the night, because that's what I got the phone for in the first place.Though these days we're running on beefier hardware and the run is usually over before I go to bed anyway.
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If I were the mom I'd be upset about raising such a disrespectful child.
"inappropriate" here means "calling me out for exaggerating".
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My shower broke this morning so I had to use the one downstairs.
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Was it this thread or the Likes Thread where we could witness @Arantor's great shower replacement adventure?
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It was the status thread. Discosearch for "bathroom manglers" should actually find it...
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It shouldn't be anything on that scale. It's a very simple job and nothing can possibly go wrong.
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From 2 days ago:
@Boner said:
Extremely unlikely
we had a famous last words thread around here somwehere didn't we? where did it go? :-P
@Boner said:
and nothing can possibly go wrong
Maybe we should start a 'famous last words' thread.
What are you trying to tell me?
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that you're great at coming up with one liners suitable to be famous last words?
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I'll add it to my CV.
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"inappropriate" here means "calling me out for exaggerating"
Yeah, I love how she says "Fuck, mom," but it's mom who's being inappropriate.
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Fuck rude people!
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Fuck rude people!
no thanks. they can fuck themselves. i prefer to copulate with nice people.... well... with a nice person..... @RaceProUK
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i prefer to copulate with nice people.... well... with a nice person.....
Behind my back? How could you without me‽
<And yes, I saw the mention
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Behind my back?
well since you asked.... maybe we should move that to the PDA thread.
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That joke has never been funny and will never be funny.
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it made me laugh, that's good enough for me.
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setx /m
FWP: I want to make a joke about sexting but the thread is in Coding Help now >.>
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You're probably fine as it wasn't started by a certain someone.
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Think such a trivial fact will stop him?