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[Fionavar]

Sauna would be lovely, @Azdeus see below

Back from Florida-land. It is -17 c (-30 with the wind-chill) and I am taking the hound for a 12k run shortly! #NuttyCanuck 

[Azdeus]

15 minutes ago, Fionavar said:

Sauna would be lovely, @Azdeus see below

Back from Florida-land. It is -17 c (-30 with the wind-chill) and I am taking the hound for a 12k run shortly! #NuttyCanuck 

You're welcome to drop by sometime, I've got an outdoor hottub too

It was amazing, it's only a couple of degrees below, but you can really feel it when you go from 75-80C and ~80% humidity to take a dip in the hole in the ice

-17C would be real nice though, at that temperature they don't put salt on the roads, and while my car is technically speaking sandstone metallic, or Brown depending on who you ask, I really prefer the metallic paint to the rust.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

39 minutes ago, Fionavar said:

Back from Florida-land. It is -17 c (-30 with the wind-chill) and I am taking the hound for a 12k run shortly! #NuttyCanuck 

That's a real whiplash.

Around here it's warmed up and started raining. Looks like it's going to be up and down for a minute, so no luck getting used to the cold.

[Gfted1]

I shoveled the driveway this morning just in time for another ~4" of snow. :doh: Then I took a little nap on the couch and was awoken to the doorbell. Answering it revealed a little girl selling Girl Scout cookies! I almost couldnt believe my eyes, and I didnt buy anything, but I had to respect her hustle going door to door in this weather.

[Fionavar]

2 hours ago, Space KP, Baby said:

That's a real whiplash.

Around here it's warmed up and started raining. Looks like it's going to be up and down for a minute, so no luck getting used to the cold.

How's the humidity today in Houston, Space KP, Baby?

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

1 hour ago, Fionavar said:

How's the humidity today in Houston, Space KP, Baby?

By the numbers, 85%. By the feeling, well that's hard for me to say. I grew up here and am used to high humidity, so I don't really respond to it as I do the lack of it.

[Gorth]

2 hours ago, Space KP, Baby said:

By the numbers, 85%. By the feeling, well that's hard for me to say. I grew up here and am used to high humidity, so I don't really respond to it as I do the lack of it.

Just before the weekend, it was 34C (92F-93F) here.... and raining. Greenhouses got nothing on Queensland

[Hurlshort]

I ran my first official half marathon today. It was pretty good, I put up a 1:35 time and ended up 3rd in my age group. We will see how the legs feel in the morning.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

22 minutes ago, Gorth said:

Just before the weekend, it was 34C (92F-93F) here.... and raining. Greenhouses got nothing on Queensland

It's summer for y'all if I'm not mistaken, that happens on our summer days too. Not a good time at all.

[Fionavar]

Cold day out there. Slow remote workday. Prepping for a week of lots of Zoom and Team meetings! Hope the older pack member's right shoulder continues to heal, though vet thinking injury is now chronic and Border Collies are not know for taking it easy!

[Gorth]

Not so much done today as going to do the next few days. Flying to Melbourne Thursday morning to meet up with my friend and hang out for a few days. Meeting an old colleague Thursday evening for some movies and Chinese food (he's Taiwanese and knows all the good places). Watching Halestorm concert Friday night, watching Phantom of the Opera on Saturday night and hopefully getting time for a bit of shopping in between. As well as a lunch at some point in something called 'The Danish House'. No idea what it is, but curiosity got the better of me.

 

We saw Halestorm in 2019. It was great. Had to wait for Covid to settle down and the concert scene to pick up down under though.

 

Her suggestion... none of us have seen Phantom of the Opera before, but we were both keen to see it.

 

[Malcador]

Thinking of tracking what we spend money on in groceries in a database, guess can use a MySQL one.

[LadyCrimson]

Grocery/household - it all amounts to maybe $700-$800 a month for us right now. That's food and non-food grocery together, mind, but still, two people, pffft. I'm used to less food per day already, maybe I'll go to the one meal a day. Edit: I think eggs are $7-$10 at the moment, depends.

CostCo every couple months or so helps with some of the non-food to stock up on but they're dangerous to some of us in the sense that you always seem to find yourself walking out of there spending way more than necessary, even if you manage to avoid silly fluff items. Because it speaks to the lazy don't-want-to-come-back soul inside of you, so of course you need 4 giant packs of tons of paper towels right now, or 8 of those giant spice bottles, it's not like they go bad right??  Giant cheese packages, you like that brand right hon, gotta get couple of those! And oh! That's a new packaged food, very low carb, I have to try that at least once! >.>   Yeah, don't go there often unless you have the self-discipline of a monk.

Edited February 1, 2023 by LadyCrimson

[uuuhhii]

open pc just didn't show c disk and d disk for some reason and loading for minute

hope pc doesn't break again it only been about a year since last time

really couldn't go through the new pc new os routine again

Edited February 3, 2023 by uuuhhii

[majestic]

Found out that we got some wrong information about a certain date from our reseller, because Muricans just can't write dates. 01/10/2023 is somehow not in October.

[Bartimaeus]

I don't know why everybody isn't using year/month/day...anyone who's ever sorted anything by date should know that's literally the only way that makes sense.

56 minutes ago, uuuhhii said:

open pc just didn't show c disk and d disk for some reason and loading for minute

hope pc doesn't break again it only been about a year since last time

really couldn't go through the new pc new os routine again

I had one of my Windows PCs run for about a month and a half straight. All sorts of weird crap* started happening for the last couple of weeks, but for reasons, I couldn't shut it down until just a few days ago. I wouldn't necessarily worry about it.

*Like File Explorer hanging itself over and over, SMART data not being reported by the disk drives, disappearing disks, desktop UI straight up refusing to do anything I tell it to, massive memory leaks in certain processes that are usually perfectly fine, network adapter randomly dying, certain programs refusing to open, empty folders taking minutes to open... All fixed with a restart. Don't leave a Windows PC running that long, I guess.

Edited February 3, 2023 by Bartimaeus

[majestic]

26 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

I don't know why everybody isn't using year/month/day...anyone who's ever sorted anything by date should know that's literally the only way that makes sense.

Indeed, particularily for international communication, YYYY-MM-DD is the only format that is readily understood by everyone. It's a bit of a pickle now because we were told the deadline is in October, and now it is three weeks ago.

26 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

I had one of my Windows PCs run for about a month and a half straight. All sorts of weird crap* started happening for the last couple of weeks, but for reasons, I couldn't shut it down until just a few days ago. I wouldn't necessarily worry about it.

*Like File Explorer hanging itself over and over, SMART data not being reported by the disk drives, disappearing disks, desktop UI straight up refusing to do anything I tell it to, massive memory leaks in certain processes that are usually perfectly fine, network adapter randomly dying, certain programs refusing to open, empty folders taking minutes to open... All fixed with a restart. Don't leave a Windows PC running that long, I guess.

In the days of yore unused HDDs would spin down to reduce wear, and when they spun up it could take a while for the system to react. Actually, HDDs still do that. My father has some 30 odd TB storage space that is largely unused in regular use, but when opening the explorer they start spinning up. Takes up to a minute until Windows reacts. So, yeah, things taking a while with hard disks, not necessarily a sign of problems.

Edited February 3, 2023 by majestic

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

I woke up relatively early and decided to excercise.

The best date format is month NAME then day NUMBER then year NUMBER. You tell someone January 10 2023, (and if you can believe it...it's a Friday once again) and they will know you which date you mean.

Edited February 3, 2023 by Space KP, Baby

[majestic]

Okay. This day is officially over. I am, for a lack of a better term, exhausted by the sheer amount of incompetence of what feels like everyone working in IT. I ask someone from which IP address(es) they are going to connect to our system for the data transfer as we need to white list on the firewall, and the answer is: 192.168.XXX.XXX.

Edited February 3, 2023 by majestic
0 -> 8, stupid typo

[uuuhhii]

4 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

I don't know why everybody isn't using year/month/day...anyone who's ever sorted anything by date should know that's literally the only way that makes sense.

I had one of my Windows PCs run for about a month and a half straight. All sorts of weird crap* started happening for the last couple of weeks, but for reasons, I couldn't shut it down until just a few days ago. I wouldn't necessarily worry about it.

*Like File Explorer hanging itself over and over, SMART data not being reported by the disk drives, disappearing disks, desktop UI straight up refusing to do anything I tell it to, massive memory leaks in certain processes that are usually perfectly fine, network adapter randomly dying, certain programs refusing to open, empty folders taking minutes to open... All fixed with a restart. Don't leave a Windows PC running that long, I guess.

had problem with desktop icon for years now

not sure if this version of os just have a bug or something

Edited February 3, 2023 by uuuhhii

[Gfted1]

3 Feb 23 (D/M/Y) is the format I use.

[ShadySands]

41 minutes ago, Gfted1 said:

3 Feb 23 (D/M/Y) is the format I use.

That's what I use when writing about dates with people from other countries so that there is no confusion. I know year/month/day is the international standard but the military got me used to writing it that way. In my daily life it's month/day/year because that's just how it is here.

PS numerical D/M/Y is always wrong because you don't get Pi Day and that's a bad touch. You do get Pi Approximation Day though so that's something.

 

Edited February 3, 2023 by ShadySands

[LadyCrimson]

Re: dates - people use what they're taught in grade school (well when I was a kid, dunno about now) to the point where you're as used to it as seeing a word and knowing what the definition is.  I think the fault lies more in the human habit of wanting to always shorten/abbreviate stuff because we're all too lazy to write things out fully.    At least I -almost- never write checks anymore. I do not miss those.

My own PC - haven't had a spontaneous reboot for a week, generally or while playing a game, but Firefox tabs still crash occasionally etc. As long as it's not rebooting, it's all right I guess.

[Gromnir]

the obvious reason americans don't change to dd/mm/yyyy or something else is money. 

am recalling our brief time as a prosecutor. criminal database programs were all monochrome and did not conform to any kinda modern sensibility or convenience. were more than a little frustrating at times to need navigate computer interfaces developed in the early 80s. the problem were that any attempt to update the system were gonna be herculean as these inelegant and inefficient resources had been expanded multiple times with solutions which only made sense in these antiquated programs making it even more difficult to import/export data from other systems... and each year that elapsed only made the task more difficult as the old systems became more unwieldy. situation were made worse 'cause a fed system had to be compatible with all the local law enforcement and local likely didn't have money to do all but the most limited upgrades. counter-intuitive, as the systems became more unreasonable and difficult to maintain, the motivation to change decreased as costs for change increased-- were always cheaper to maintain an old and inefficient system as 'posed to starting new. 

is same reason in the US we is stuck with imperial system o' units for measures. sure, metric makes so much more sense and every public school kind in the US since the 70s has been learning metric... and any stem is obvious gonna be all metric, but the cost to change keeps getting bigger every year so while is less reasonable to keep imperial, the motivation to change actual decreases 'cause o' costs. even US drug dealers learned metric 'cause if you is running a biz based on weights and measures, metric is far more practical. nevertheless, is auto parts industry and tools to fix autos and and construction capital all based on imperial, so...

is another issue where US fed system is bad for implementing nationwide change. is a whole lotta things the fed cannot do or is impractical to manage. 

HA! Good Fun!

 

Edited February 4, 2023 by Gromnir

[Gorth]

I grew up with dd/mm/yy because year 2000 was a myth and years were double digits

 

For data purposes yyyy/mm/de makes sense because of lexicographical sorting of the fields is more efficient