You are communicating, but it is with the in-group and not with the out-group. Which in turn is a form of communication to those in the out-group (granted it is mostly "neener neener you aren't in this group").
Posts made by locallunatic
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RE: "Jump, Apple". "How high, ancarda?"
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Yes, it's a bag. To protect your homeopathy tea from WiFi devil.
This part is a bad idea.Just for 23β¬
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
But it also requires that a refund be issued. Not everyone gives the government free loans (though people that are careful enough with their money not to do this probably won't have that small of loan debt that they are dodging).
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RE: "Jump, Apple". "How high, ancarda?"
by @Magus in the status thread
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-status-ideas-thread/1673/39569But yes, I'm trying to get someone to help @ben_lubar out with this plan as I think it would be funny.
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RE: "Jump, Apple". "How high, ancarda?"
It could be more!
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-status-ideas-thread/1673/39568
hrrm, one box isn't showing the important image there.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
From the apple adding it thread it looks like both @ancarda and @royal_poet can do lojban well enough to help out in getting @blakeyrat to learn it.
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RE: 1 server, 10 workstations, 1 idiot, 1 cup
To be fair the CV could have gone through a recruiter, there are plenty of them that will edit so that someone gets an interview.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Of course, I get the feeling that our sales guys (who serve as go betweens with the client) just forge it without ever mentioning it to the client.
Oh man, when they get caught you have to post that to the Lounge, hopefully I'll be ranked back up to read it then.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Huh, you must deal with different people in the insurers then I do. If a violation is going to be their fault they piss themselves, though maybe that is more having to talk to their legal department about getting your style of paperwork signed.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Every. Singles. Fucking. One of them has signed it.
OK, that kind of thing normally terrifies the customers I deal with. Are yours insurers or providers or what?
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RE: Someone back me up here-- Bethesda changing price of Fallout 4 Season Pass
You pretending to not know about the Fallout games is such an obvious lie it is not believable that you were not aware of the new one. @blakeyrat was just pointing out to @WernerCD that you were obviously lying as they missed it (somehow).
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RE: The Official Status Thread
OK. Including the fact that the headphones hit the mouse would have made this much clearer. I guessed that was what had happened, but wanted to avoid another annoying "I can't tell what is implied here therefor telepathy required" rant from the rat.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
I was coughing so hard that my headphones fell off
OK
now I have to press my right mouse button harder for it to work :(
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RE: The Official Status Thread
I'm not sure I'm up to the task of teaching them how to log on to a freshly-restarted server to enter in the encryption key so that their services start up.
It is really easy to motivate them to learn "Not doing this is a HIPAA violation". Or if they do want to argue it tell them to talk to their lawyer and that you think the protection is super basic.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
HIPAA doesn't require encryption for data "at-rest"
It's more of a it isn't technically required by the standards. But they do say you need to do it if reasonable, which basically means it is. You could argue that it wasn't reasonable to encrypt but the costs are so low that it could be hard to win with it.
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
So they didn't pay a debt that is damn near unforgivable and are surprised when they get caught for it? I mean the pay to the marshals was probably higher than the debt, but they were getting paid anyway right?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Lost my status so I can't see them. Teach me to take a month and some break.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status:
The helper site thing for this system is saying there is a big backlog at this step.
Yeah, it looks like someone has been putting an item that crashes that step back through it over and over again. Looks like there was two hours of nothing being done, thus backlog.
Yes they keep doing that.
Maybe we should put a message saying "this means things probably crashed, if they have restart them" (not mentioned, I said to do this previously)
That is a good idea
How do I know if they crashed?
It will be in the event log of the machine (like I've been telling people for the few months someone other than just me have been looking at this ) -
RE: The Official Status Thread
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Oh noes report is missing data! Huge ticket!
Uh, looking at the ticket but nothing seems to be broken.
It's broken!
Has anyone called ?
No.
Then do so.
:phone:
Nothing is missing from the report the dates are just out of order.
It's broken.
Ah, one of the dates is sorted alphabetically descending for some raisin.
Something changed then!
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RE: The Official Status Thread
In case someone is reading this once the site has stabilized, @LB_'s graph looks to be the latest response graph from http://servercooties.com/#graph.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Even better, now there are no images (instead you have 'Uploading...') rather than two that look the same.
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RE: The abhorrent π₯ rites of C
You know someone on this forum's going to take that as a challenge, right?
I know I immediately started to think through how to do something like this.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: only been on TDWTF off and on for a month and a half, took a while to get caught up in this thread. Luckily I've been "working" tickets about systems with third party (actual third party and different division thirdish party) that are acting funny without a reboot; basically I have to be on chat/email chains so someone from Dev is there while systems people do actual things.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadβ’
Think they mean the other one.
You are talking about:
I believe they are talking about:
But it's been a long time since I last looked at this junk.
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RE: "Signs that you're a very special and boring hipster"
if i was sadistic enough to inflict a model M on my coworkers they'd lynch me with the cord to my own keyboard
that isn't how you kill with a model M. As I pointed out not long ago:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/coding-horror-with-a-keyboard/53468/41
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Pff...you just need to get them a warning label then it's OK.
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RE: Fallout 4 Thread OMG SPOILERS INSIDE MAYBE
The weight sorting is objectively useless without taking amount into consideration.
So you would only ever want to know items by the weight of the entire stack? You would never be looking at a pile of things while close to your weight limit and go "what is the smallest number of things I can drop to pick all this shit up?"
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
also invented the phrase
It's a dumbass phrase yes, but I've seen it used (mostly in 'quotes' of people being dumb on the internet) for a year or so. As a slang term if it isn't used in the groups you are a member of not hearing it doesn't mean it isn't used. Of course the fact that people may not know what it means actually lends slight plausibility to the fraud (with this kind of thing it is all about balancing between someone may not know it, but your audience knowing it).
EDIT: and @aliceif shows a spot in this topic that had the definition and shit about the phrase already
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
First result is urban dictionary definition of the phrase you are asking about. Click below to see how they define it.
If you need further explanation about why a politician offering that as a prize is problematic I don't think I can help you.
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RE: :beers: The Beer Topic
AKA a sensible place, I was just pointing out that here it means a specific subset of juice.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: OK so the cinnamon jack daniels I bought was a mistake, but it is pretty good when mixed with cider.
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RE: Merry $FESTIVAL!
So who else went to see Star Wars on movies and chinese food day?
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
It would still look a little wonky with the other storefront having a sign, but without them having one the poor choice on having the part that sticks up branch two stores is really brought to mind. Less about sign placement bad idea and more about the architect's bad idea.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
It is supposed to appear magical or something.
In reality, it just looks like we hosted a stripper convention.
That is just a different kind of magical.
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RE: :beers: The Beer Topic
@blakeyrat said:
Non-alcoholic cider is the freak.
βNon-alcoholic ciderβ? Oh, you mean apple juice.
Specifically nonfiltered, but yes.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
guess I'm running it on high instead of low for the rest of the day.
Probably should have use high for only part of the day. The "pot roast" couldn't hold itself together enough to be lifted out except in pieces and the potatoes start to mash when you put pressure on them.
EDIT: maybe I should put it back on high and wait the couple hours for it to become stew instead.
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
the target doesn't know anything is coming until it's been hit.
To be fair, if you are watching something shoot at you (and can tell) then you do technically have reaction time. Just that if they are a light minute from you then you have a little over six seconds between "they shot" and it getting to you (assuming .9 C).
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
Thus my point of using scattershot. You throw out 100 10 gram pellets, if you only get one hit that is 5.47 * 10^15 joules (which is two orders of magnitude less but still plenty). Kinetic weapons once you get things that can do high fractions of lightspeed are absurdly destructive.
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
It's not a question of how big or small the ship is. It's a question of relatively how big or small the projectile is by comparison.
Yeah, but your scale of how massive the projectile needs to be looks way off, from wikipedia entry on RKKV
A 1 kg mass traveling at 99% of the speed of light would have a kinetic energy of 5.47Γ10^17 joules. In explosive terms, it would be equal to 132 megatons of TNT or approximately 75 megatons more than the yield of Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.
EDIT: Added in missing '^' from the quote.
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
We are clearly thinking of different scales of ship if you think that works.
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
small enough pieces that whatever does hit you just bounces off.
Uh, things moving at a high percentage of C don't bounce off anything.
You fire scatter shot at birds because they're super fragile; their wings even more so. You don't fire scatter shot at a rhino; it'd just bounce off.
Small can of air and life support in incredibly hostile environment is the bird not the rhino in your analogy.
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
not concentrated on a single point of impact.
So your ship is full of smaller holes all over rather than one bigger one? Now you can't just lock out the parts in hard vacuum behind your internal airlocks. Really you would probably be firing scatter shot for that reason in the first place.
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
Usually it also assumes sub-light drives that can operate at a fairly significant fraction of c,
Which would get you back to the lead them a bunch from where you see them (they were there minutes ago so extrapolate where they are and where they will be when the shot gets to them) and fire lasers or equivalent from long ranges. It doesn't remove the vast distances unless you hand wave it for story excitement purposes (which makes sense to do but is ignoring the vast distance issues rather than eliminating them like you claimed).
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
Doesn't all that pretty much always happen at sub-light speeds and close range?
OK then how do you get to close range? You see them over there, but it is 5 light minutes away. Do you go there and look again to locate it? Do you guess where he is going?
Plus there are different styles of doing FTL, if you do one like jump points between systems you avoid the emptiness between solar systems but not the emptiness inside them. If you do the ship goes can just go FTL in a direction then you could run into junk (plus you don't shoot lasers you shoot FTL projectiles).
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RE: Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly...
you pretty much eliminate the problem of enormous distances and mostly empty space.
For getting to specific place yes, for dealing with other spacecraft when not in orbit somewhere no (5 minutes ago they were over there, but where are they for shooting lasers at them?).
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RE: The Official Status Thread
3-4 hours isn't good, but it also isn't terribly dangerous for chuck.
EDIT: thought it started at 0330, checked it again after morning alarm and found the issue.