Random thought of the day
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@dkf Michael Palin was in the Prodigy??????
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Is it time for the Lumberjack Song yet?
Razor razor razor murder death blood spurt.
I don't remember that Prodigy track.
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf Michael Palin was in the Prodigy??????
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It is possible I got the words wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5yEz8g12fg
He didn't want to become a barber, he wanted to become a lumberjack!
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
artificially inflate shipping
When Led Zeppelin released their first album in the late 60s the grand-daughter of Ferdinand von Zeppelin was invited to attend an event promoting the new album. She said it was flattering that they had chosen her family name for the name of their group.
Then she saw a large picture of the album cover. (The Hindenburg crashing, on fire). She was not happy.
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@Gern_Blaanston That must have dropped like a lead balloon.
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...Any cloud providers supporting "serverless" Erlang functions?
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@Watson pretty sure you could do it on Lambda as long as your runnable binaries aren't too large.
At a previous job we had LibreOffice Online (headless, basically) running on Lambda as a document converter from Word to PDF, so you can basically slap whatever.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Watson pretty sure you could do it on Lambda as long as your runnable binaries aren't too large.
But not as a natively-supported language? Bundling the whole runtime kind of defeats the purpose. The whole point of Erlang programs is that each function operates as a distinct lightweight process.
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@Watson no, not natively supported.
The list:
Java, Go, PowerShell, Node. js, C#, Python, and Ruby code
Even PHP doesn’t get a look in here and so I’m using an environment that ships Docker containers.
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Laptops should have an e-ink display showing how much battery is left.
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@Zecc MacBooks used to have a little button on the side that, if pressed, would illuminate 1-4 little green lights to indicate battery power. Didn’t even need to open the case for it.
But of course in the latest rounds of Apple minimalism, that neat feature is gone.
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@Arantor be happy they still have keyboards.
Which reminds me: one of the useless keys they haven’t gotten rid of yet is Caps Locks. So I’ve since just disabled that in settings.
A few weeks ago the stupid VMware Horizon client was acting up again (every once in a while it sends bogus keys or repeats keys, even after applying their trouble shooting suggestions and years after they have supposedly released versions that fixed that bug). This time, though, it enabled Caps Lock on the remote. And I’m like: not only is it not possible that I actually did that, i.e. that’s demonstrably your bug, but now I can’t even deactivate it anymore.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Laptops should have an e-ink display showing how much battery is left.
In real life, the laptop will be badly designed and draw significant battery power even when it's off, but without updating the display. With predictable consequences.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Laptops should have an e-ink display showing how much battery is left.
I use an outdated Windows on my laptop, and in its "system tray", a little icon is showing the battery status. Hovering over it, it tells me
Aufgeladen (100%)
.
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@BernieTheBernie I have an icon too saying something similar in an intelligible language. My point is you shouldn't have to turn on the laptop to check if it has enough battery to be on for more than a couple of minutes.
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@Zecc What an odd use case...
See, my laptop just sits in its dogging station where it gets properly charged. So when ever I take it from there, I reliably assume that the battery is full.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc What an odd use case...
See, my laptop just sits in its dogging stationDoes it wag its tail every time you come into the room and look like you might pet it?
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@izzion That "typo" was intended.
A former employer outsourced some work to a company based in Saxony. And one of their guys wrote "Dogging Station" instead of "Docking Station".
I like it.
Because the device and the dogging station get locked together, like a pair of dogs during ...
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion That "typo" was intended.
A former employer outsourced some work to a company based in Saxony. And one of their guys wrote "Dogging Station" instead of "Docking Station".
I like it.
Because the device and the dogging station get locked together, like a pair of dogs during ...I don’t recommend using a garden hose when it’s time to break your laptop loose and go home for the day.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc What an odd use case...
See, my laptop just sits in its dogging station where it gets properly charged. So when ever I take it from there, I reliably assume that the battery is full.My work laptop is always plugged in to its power supply (it gets power from that, not from the USB docking station). However, it tends to sit around 90–95% charged. It never actually charges, unless I unplug it and plug it in again. Then it will charge briefly, but not to 100%, before stopping.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
dogging station
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Laptops should have an e-ink display showing how much battery is left.
In real life, the laptop will be badly designed and draw significant battery power even when it's off, but without updating the display. With predictable consequences.
Oh, you mean like this Dell I delt with a few weeks ago?
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@izzion said in Random thought of the day:
@BernieTheBernie said in Random thought of the day:
@izzion That "typo" was intended.
A former employer outsourced some work to a company based in Saxony. And one of their guys wrote "Dogging Station" instead of "Docking Station".
I like it.
Because the device and the dogging station get locked together, like a pair of dogs during ...I don’t recommend using a garden hose when it’s time to break your laptop loose and go home for the day.
PLEASE DON'T DO THAT TO DOGS EITHER!
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It was something close to 55 years ago when I learned that there were people who thought the metric system was even sillier than I did:
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc MacBooks used to have a little button on the side that, if pressed, would illuminate 1-4 little green lights to indicate battery power. Didn’t even need to open the case for it.
Mine has 8
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On that topic, I miss external buttons on laptops. I had an old Dell with media buttons on the outside, and sometimes I would set it up with the lid closed, playing music or a video on an external screen
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
On that topic, I miss external buttons on laptops. I had an old Dell with media buttons on the outside, and sometimes I would set it up with the lid closed, playing music or a video on an external screen
Surely, that Dell was running Windows. So I must assume that, just like the fridge light, you never knew when Windows decided to turn on the display whenever you pushed that button. ď…ş
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@hungrier The volume keys in my laptop are the same as
F11
andF12
and require pressingFn
, which is between the leftCtrl
and ď…ş keys (the alternative configuration would be all the function keys requiringFn
, and screw that). They apparently don't want people to be able to adjust the volume single-handedly.I seem to recall some laptops having a similar situations, with volume keys being the same as the up and down arrows.
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@Zecc my laptop has Fn + left/right arrows as volume, with Fn + End as toggle mute, all very convenient for right hand use. (Fn + up/down arrows is brightness control)
Previous iterations of MSI keyboard had issues but this one works pretty good despite no numeric keypad.
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@Zecc My current laptop has semi-dedicated keys for volume up/down and mute mic (which could just be regular mute but with a mic icon), and an Asus ROG logo key, which all have alternate functions M1-M4. But they're all on the inside of the laptop, above the keyboard. I have yet to touch any of them since I mostly use the laptop docked
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@hungrier Having looked into it a bit more, it's not quite what I thought. The M1-4 keys are customizeable with the Asus app, and have default functions of volume up, down, mute mic and launching the Asus app. So I could theoretically make the keys do something else and have no way to change the volume using the laptop keyboard
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
I seem to recall some laptops having a similar situations, with volume keys being the same as the up and down arrows.
Lenovo likes F2/F3.
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Trying to export this thought before it ephemerates...
...dammit, failed.
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I have a wireless mouse that, just next to the left mouse buttons has a little red LED inset.
This red LED only lights up when battery is low and flashes to let you know that battery is low.
It gets progressively angrier with the flashing until the power goes out completely.
It is, to me, marking the very literal “rage against the dying of the light” in that it actively consumes more and more power as its power fades until it is no more.
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
I have a wireless mouse that, just next to the left mouse buttons has a little red LED inset.
This red LED only lights up when battery is low and flashes to let you know that battery is low.
It gets progressively angrier with the flashing until the power goes out completely.
It is, to me, marking the very literal “rage against the dying of the light” in that it actively consumes more and more power as its power fades until it is no more.
It should go from yellow to blue to red before the red starts flashing.
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@Watson said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
I have a wireless mouse that, just next to the left mouse buttons has a little red LED inset.
This red LED only lights up when battery is low and flashes to let you know that battery is low.
It gets progressively angrier with the flashing until the power goes out completely.
It is, to me, marking the very literal “rage against the dying of the light” in that it actively consumes more and more power as its power fades until it is no more.
It should go from yellow to blue to red before the red starts flashing.
That wasn't in the budget, I think. Just passive-aggressive blinkenlights.
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The blinkenlights are still passively-aggressively going, and more frequently. Now it’s almost every time I move my mouse - but the batteries keep going.
:why-won’t-you-just-die.gif:
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Does the definition of "cryptid" extend to include lifeforms that are human in overall appearance?
What I'm trying to decide is, does Santa Claus qualify?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Does the definition of "cryptid" extend to include lifeforms that are human in overall appearance?
What I'm trying to decide is, does Santa Claus qualify?
Is Paul Bunyan a kaiju?
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Literally random thoughts, inspired by a passphrase generator:
Death metal band:
Noise Seal[s the] Grave@Polygeekery's avatar:
double finger settle
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Ancient magic/necromancy books, as portrayed in fantasy and horror novels and movies, are basically documentation for interfacing with other planes of existence.
Are there any books or movies that explore the idea of said documentation being out of date?
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@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
Ancient magic/necromancy books, as portrayed in fantasy and horror novels and movies, are basically documentation for interfacing with other planes of existence.
Are there any books or movies that explore the idea of said documentation being out of date?
Surely every time it is a horror movie, that's just showing the consequences of the documentation being out of date?
Because surely no-one would summon an otherwise unbound demon or eldritch nightmare horror?
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@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
Ancient magic/necromancy books, as portrayed in fantasy and horror novels and movies, are basically documentation for interfacing with other planes of existence.
Are there any books or movies that explore the idea of said documentation being out of date?
Surely every time it is a horror movie, that's just showing the consequences of the documentation being out of date?
As far as I know, every single time without a fault, the book is always entirely correct and up to date, it's just the users are unable to read it (or misread it) for whatever reason. If anything, the consequences are for not following the documentation to the letter.
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@Gustav Not that I know of. The gods live longer than people, and since they don't use conventional technology, it seems like it would last longer.
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@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
Ancient magic/necromancy books, as portrayed in fantasy and horror novels and movies, are basically documentation for interfacing with other planes of existence.
Are there any books or movies that explore the idea of said documentation being out of date?
Surely every time it is a horror movie, that's just showing the consequences of the documentation being out of date?
As far as I know, every single time without a fault, the book is always entirely correct and up to date, it's just the users are unable to read it (or misread it) for whatever reason. If anything, the consequences are for not following the documentation to the letter.
What if the supplied documentation (the book) is damaged, known to be damaged, and when it was given out a warning was included not to try using parts for which the documentation is missing?
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@Watson in movie universe, that's a much more common occurence than the documented details becoming slightly different 10,000 years down the line.
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@Gustav Not exactly the same, but still worthy of note is that in Le Petit Prince there is a lamplighter on a small planet whose speed of rotation has increased since he was hired. He is a dutiful lamplighter, though, and so now, every few seconds, he has to either light or douse the lamps despite his exhaustion.
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@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
the book is always entirely correct and up to date, it's just the users are unable to read it (or misread it) for whatever reason. If anything, the consequences are for not following the documentation to the letter.
So, you're saying horror movies writers are former IT employees? That... makes a lot of sense, actually.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
horror movies writers are
formerIT employees?Not necessarily.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
@Gustav said in Random thought of the day:
the book is always entirely correct and up to date, it's just the users are unable to read it (or misread it) for whatever reason. If anything, the consequences are for not following the documentation to the letter.
So, you're saying horror movies writers are former IT employees? That... makes a lot of sense, actually.
You would like Charles Stross's Laundry Files series.