minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[I'm a Puppy!]

Update on my inconvenience. Got an email back from the company they said they haven't forgotten about me and will be in touch early next week.
That seems like a pretty positive sign. We'll see. I won't get my hopes up.

[TVC15]

Just think of how much poop weight you've probably lost though.

I seriously think a lot of issues from the past month are because I stopped taking my ADHD meds after I got laid off. Medical meth definitely has an effect on that stuff. I think the extreme constipation was from quitting cold turkey, and things are trying to return to normal right now.

[kingv]

My kid wanted McDonalds the other night, so we went in to check out their new 'makeover'.


Even though there wasn't a line, they had those self-serve flatscreens installed so you can make your own order. They are clunky as FUCK. We sat there for 3 minutes trying to create an order before I just said screw it and walked over to the counter.

They should just have you speak at the thing and then confirm if that's what you want. By having layers and layers of menu options, it just needlessly slows down the process.

The automated revolution isn't quite ready yet.

I went to one of those McDonald’s about a month ago and had the same thought. It took like 5x as long to order on it.


Also, the order takers fill drinks and make ice cream cones and shit, so I’m not exactly sure how the screens even reduce head count

[Corporal]

Yeah, those terminal things are garbage. We have one McD at the Munich main station that uses them, and barely anyone uses them. Meanwhile the seating area is tiny and super cramped and could really benefit from all that wasted space...

Minor inconvenience: Fell asleep too early yesterday. Forgot to buy food. Now I'm eating canned stuff and noodles with random sauce. Own fault, not really bad, but still kinda annoying. And I have a gas station nearby that I could raid if I really wanted to.

[VomKriege]

Plenty of touch screen in Paris McDonald's. Works fine

[eleuin]

tvc is this you

[BlueTsunami]

When you peel put from a Wendy's at the intercom about a week ago because you had been waiting for 10 minutes for them to take your order. Most of the staff looking at you through the drive thru window but its 5pm on a Sunday and youre hankering for an Asiago Chicken...

[Nabbis]

Going to a new temp gym and scouting out the equipment while trying to figure out if you can you that piece of equipment as a substitute for whatever it is that you are used to is a pain in the ass.

[brawndolicious]

Plenty of touch screen in Paris McDonald's. Works fine

I went to Paris 6 months ago and didn't see a single McDonald's. I seriously thought I had some memory loss so I looked it up.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/mcdonalds+in+Paris,+France/@48.8553179,2.2861758,13z/data=!3m1!4b1


You've only got 20 McDonald's in the most American-visited French city where there are also 2 million locals. For reference, Austin Texas has half the population, probably no foreign tourists, and it has the same number of McDonald's. Same for where I live in San Jose California.  This is why you lost the naming rights to Freedom Fries.

[skullstorm]

I just had a flashback to yesterday when I had the extreme displeasure of witnessing a friend (questioning this now since you should stay away from crazy people) pull a part of a vein out of their arm after a blood test 

I'd already blocked that traumatizing shit out but then I read the word "vein" somewhere and now I'm just reliving that situation again in my head  Why the hell did I turn around when they said "look", goddammit why 

This might actually be a struggle

[ToxicAdam]

Wore a nice new dress shirt to work on Friday. I love a new shirt because it feels so crisp.

Then on the way home, I stopped at the barber and he had trouble turning down my collar to put the smock over me. He then pulled out the piece of cardboard I'd  been wearing all day.

[VomKriege]

Plenty of touch screen in Paris McDonald's. Works fine

I went to Paris 6 months ago and didn't see a single McDonald's. I seriously thought I had some memory loss so I looked it up.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/mcdonalds+in+Paris,+France/@48.8553179,2.2861758,13z/data=!3m1!4b1


You've only got 20 McDonald's in the most American-visited French city where there are also 2 million locals. For reference, Austin Texas has half the population, probably no foreign tourists, and it has the same number of McDonald's. Same for where I live in San Jose California.  This is why you lost the naming rights to Freedom Fries.

You need to browse down the list. There's way more than that. The first map doesn't show all locations.

According to the official website, 81 or so restaurants in Paris proper.

[Raist]

Quick is also eating a lot of McD's cake.

edit: had no idea it was just bought out by BK

[VomKriege]

Quick is also eating a lot of McD's cake.

Quick has been on the down low for a few years and they were bought by Burger King who took over a couple of spots to substitute their brand (like at Porte de Clichy). But the presence of an European fast food chain probably explains why apart from McDonald's no other major US brand really entered the market until recently. KFC, Burger King have been slowly increasing their presence and I know there's a couple of Chipotle and one Five Guys. Subway has a lot of small venues too though I saw some of them close so it was more of a fizzling boom than anything.

[Huff]

Between a weekend of heavy drinking and bbq + my preworkout, I’ve had to shit 3 times at the gym this morning

[Atramental]

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[I'm a Puppy!]

I always say about Agile/SCRUM that it's great and it can get any house you want built. Provided it can reasonably be built in 2 weeks. If that sounds silly to you...maybe you should rethink about Agile/SCRUM.  It can be good for some kinds of things, enhancements, platform tweaks, and the like. But people like to think it's the answer to everything, and that's not true of ANY methodology.

As to my non-struggle, got an email back from the company saying I was the leading candidate and asking for a salary range because they were "a good company, but not known for paying commiserate to the market" I had to politely state that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys and they're welcome to all the monkeys they want, but I've seen companies in their situation and the position they need is within x salary range. I'm betting if they're saying they don't pay market rates now, that I've just taken myself out of the running. Skrimp on the position that makes sense of all your data, brehs.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Yo Ronito, what do you do?

You spoke of Data Science once, yes?
I direct that.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Sure. You want my job?

[nudemacusers]

been working from like 8-8 for two weeks now. 

be on the east coast but have your reporting chain on the west coast, brehs  :'(

[I'm a Puppy!]

lol if they'd let me do it. No degree but I know the field like a rat knows cheese. Also I can mix a mean drink so if that's adequate quid pro quo...

PM me if you wanna chat. 
Though there's nothing I can do for a Vegas boy.

[chronovore]

Sure. You want my job?

[Raist]

Sure. You want my job?

Easiest job interview I've ever seen.

[Corporal]

So I've been keeping an eye on CPU usage on my netbook. Wondered why Firefox behaved so erratically in that regard. Experimented a bit, found out I can max out my quadcore 2.2GHz Turboboosted intel CPU by moving the mouse cursor in small circles over the Firefox main window.

 
So I researched a bit.

Found this bug from two months ago, apparently I'm not the only one to notice that issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427113

Status still left at unconfirmed despite copious amounts of evidence and devs coming in and explaining the why's and how's.

I just love the reasoning...

Overall around 30% of the time in the main thread seems to be spent processing mouse events (~12% in APZ processing, ~17% in dispatching to content) which does seem fairly high.

We use MousePosTracker to move the status panel (that displays link URLs) to the other side when the mouse pointer is close. We listen to mousemove events before we even display the status panel, so that we already know the pointer position when we want to display the panel. I'm not sure how this could be optimized away without compromising the UX.

THEY ARE FUCKING DISPATCHING MOUSE MOVEMENT EVENTS FROM WINDOWS... IN JAVASCRIPT. NO FILTERING, NO THROTTLING. Sorry not sorry for caps. That idea is just too outlandish to parse, it broke my brains. And it's by design and they seem unwilling to fix it.
   

Because they want their shitty ass tiny unusable crippled to fuck status bar to hide away from the mouse cursor. Without an option to hide it or make it always-on or otherwise customize it because webextensions are a piece of rotting horse manure that can't support downthemall, reload on fail, and a whole hogload of my other important extensions that I only needed in the first place because Opera jumped off a cliff and died when they switched engines.

Fuck me, what an incredibly stupid way to waste CPU cycles. Each and every freaking time your mouse moves a subpixel. Not gonna waste battery on such idiocy. Time to download vivaldi.  Firefox Quantum can eat a dick.   

[Tasty]

The hell.

[Corporal]

A small correction, you can in fact customize the FF status bar. Kiiiiiiiiinda-sorta.

You just have to download status-4-ever install Classic Theme Restorer create a Chrome directory and download a Chrome CSS file from userchrome.org (or spin one up yourself). So very user friendly.

Firefox's style or appearance can be modified by creating  a chrome folder inside your Firefox profile folder and then placing a  userChrome.css file inside, that includes a custom style rule. The rules you put in the userChrome.css file will override the default styles in Firefox.

Note: Custom style rules might not work every time because of other factors (such as incompatibility with other custom style rules) beyond the Mozilla community's control. Your custom style rule might also stop working each time a new Firefox release comes out.

A... Chrome folder, you say. Huh. Call me vain, but referencing your biggest competitor like that seems ...odd.

Love the disclaimer too.

[Raist]

Lol, nerdz.

[Valkyrie]

Had a bad day yesterday and I'm still feeling a little weird, but much better. There are some things that bother me but they don't grand me reasons to be upset. I think it's a mix of things too, feelings, no feelings, thoughts, loneliness. Been pushing people away lately, I know that's not good.

[desert punk]

Remember that self isolation is one of the best ways to undermine yourself and your wellness

no shit sherlock

understanding that doesn't make it any easier

Replying like that to well-meaning advice is another sure-fire way to stay isolated 

[bork]

Ordered a new game off Gamestop.com.  I received an opened copy.  I started calling them but then googled this and see that this kind of crap has been going on for at least a few years now without any kind of resolution.  Fortunately the game I ordered was a Vita title and came with just the cart so nothing was missing and the case was perfect with no stickers...could be much, much worse.  And it doesn't matter...this was still an opened item being sold as new like they do with some store copies.

So, OK.  Mental note to not buy anything from Gamestop.com apart from exclusive GS-only pre-order items. 

Biggest reason to go all-digital?  Avoiding shit like this, broken game cases, shipping issues, etc.  Man, it just keeps on getting more and more tempting.

[Raist]

I think at this stage you should forget about buying anything that involves any sort of delivery. Like, forever.

[bork]

I think at this stage you should forget about buying anything that involves any sort of delivery. Like, forever.

And then switch to digital and my hard drive dies or game system goes up in flames.  I know it's gonna happen.


I'm just bitching about the bad stuff.  I get plenty of stuff delivered just fine.  But when it goes wrong...man does it go wrong. 

In this case I decided to not even bother calling them to complain because reports from others who did all went along the lines of "they sent out a replacement copy that was also unopened and in worse condition than the original."  The one I got is flawless so I'm not gonna bother.  Lesson learned. 

[Valkyrie]

Remember that self isolation is one of the best ways to undermine yourself and your wellness

That's why tomorrow I'm forcing myself to spend most of the day out of the house.

[Tasty]

A small correction, you can in fact customize the FF status bar. Kiiiiiiiiinda-sorta.

You just have to download status-4-ever install Classic Theme Restorer create a Chrome directory and download a Chrome CSS file from userchrome.org (or spin one up yourself). So very user friendly.

Firefox's style or appearance can be modified by creating  a chrome folder inside your Firefox profile folder and then placing a  userChrome.css file inside, that includes a custom style rule. The rules you put in the userChrome.css file will override the default styles in Firefox.

Note: Custom style rules might not work every time because of other factors (such as incompatibility with other custom style rules) beyond the Mozilla community's control. Your custom style rule might also stop working each time a new Firefox release comes out.

A... Chrome folder, you say. Huh. Call me vain, but referencing your biggest competitor like that seems ...odd.

Love the disclaimer too.

The chrome directory and userChrome.css likely existed before Google Chrome did. Notice that in Mozilla's instructions, "chrome" is lowercase. Did you ever stop and think why it's called "Chrome"?

It's because among browser developers, the GUI is the "chrome." It was a tongue-in-cheek name designed to call attention to how minimal Chrome's GUI was compared to other browsers at the time.

And thank god it freed us from toolbar hell.

Edit- More background: http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome (2008)

[Corporal]

I see. (It's still called userChrome.css and not UserChrome.css or userchrome.css (etc). That's gotta count for something.)

That Chrome webcomic makes me suspect that those people are the types that also want bezel free phones. In other words, the worst kind of people.


Bought shorts, three days ago.
Bought sweets, four days ago.

Shorts have arrived.

Sweets haven't.

I am now officially cranky. Nobody withholds my sweets. What am I even gonna do with shorts, dammit.

[Joe Molotov]

It’s been three days since I bought some shorts
Four days since I bought lots of candy
The shorts already arrived in the mail
But it’ll still be two days till I get the candy

[team filler]

Next time order edible panties 

[Yeti]

It’s been three days since I bought some shorts
Four days since I bought lots of candy
The shorts already arrived in the mail
But it’ll still be two days till I get the candy

Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish,
Although I like the Chalet Swiss
I like the sushi
Cause it's never touched a frying pan

[TEEEPO]

i'm a bit late but i'd like to add that quick sucks ass and mcdonalds in france is equally as bad.

management don't give af if your fries are cold

[Yeti]

Ordered a new game off Gamestop.com.  I received an opened copy.  I started calling them but then googled this and see that this kind of crap has been going on for at least a few years now without any kind of resolution.  Fortunately the game I ordered was a Vita title and came with just the cart so nothing was missing and the case was perfect with no stickers...could be much, much worse.  And it doesn't matter...this was still an opened item being sold as new like they do with some store copies.

So, OK.  Mental note to not buy anything from Gamestop.com apart from exclusive GS-only pre-order items. 

Biggest reason to go all-digital?  Avoiding shit like this, broken game cases, shipping issues, etc.  Man, it just keeps on getting more and more tempting.

Gamestop sold new games in store opened up as far as I can recall. Like, they'd open them so they could put the discs in a sleeve behind the desk or in the back, then put the cases on the shelf and sell them as new and unopened.

I had this happen to me back when I bought Perfect Dark Zero on xbox 360. I haven't bought a game from them since.

[chronovore]

Ordered a new game off Gamestop.com.  I received an opened copy.  I started calling them but then googled this and see that this kind of crap has been going on for at least a few years now without any kind of resolution.  Fortunately the game I ordered was a Vita title and came with just the cart so nothing was missing and the case was perfect with no stickers...could be much, much worse.  And it doesn't matter...this was still an opened item being sold as new like they do with some store copies.

So, OK.  Mental note to not buy anything from Gamestop.com apart from exclusive GS-only pre-order items. 

Biggest reason to go all-digital?  Avoiding shit like this, broken game cases, shipping issues, etc.  Man, it just keeps on getting more and more tempting.

Gamestop sold new games in store opened up as far as I can recall. Like, they'd open them so they could put the discs in a sleeve behind the desk or in the back, then put the cases on the shelf and sell them as new and unopened.

Yes, and I've heard them talking about how they'd been allowed to bring them home for the day to play them, then sell them as "new" despite not only having been opened, but handled, and run on a spinning spindle of spindleness. Between that, and not even putting new games on the shelf if they had used copies, I didn't even go into GS during my last two-week trip.

[chronovore]

Hay fever is hitting me since returning to Japan. I think the unseasonable warmth this week has caused some trees or grasses to speed their appearance. Boo.

[Bebpo]

Went to the ER, there now waiting. Chest pains were feeling weirder than usual walking to my car after a movie. Sat in my car for about 10 mins waiting for things to calm down then decided better safe than sorry and went to the ER instead of waiting to see someone tomorrow. Just in case I didn’t wake up tomorrow haha 

Probably just anxiety or heartburn since I suffer from both. Just felt stronger and a little off. Then again I had a cocktail 3 hours earlier but some alcohol shouldn’t give heavier chest pains I would think? Idk, I feel kinda bad wasting the ERs time because it’s much better now and feels more just like chest anxiety and I probably don’t need to be here.

[Bebpo]

5 hours later, everything is ok. Might be muscle inflammation/spasms in my chest triggered by anxiety and stress, but heart is healthy which is the main thing. Gonna follow up on stuff, but for now, getting home at 3:30am, tired af and going to sleep!

[Cerveza mas fina]

I was cleaning the kitchen and bumped my head and have a cut now, also my neck and head hurt.

[bork]

Gamestop sold new games in store opened up as far as I can recall. Like, they'd open them so they could put the discs in a sleeve behind the desk or in the back, then put the cases on the shelf and sell them as new and unopened.

I had this happen to me back when I bought Perfect Dark Zero on xbox 360. I haven't bought a game from them since.

Them selling unopened games as "new" has been practice going back as far as I can remember, with the supposed last copies being opened display copies.  They were doing that shit as far back as the early 2000s and 99% of the time I'd tell them I didn't want the game if they didn't have shrinkwrapped copies.  Even back then it was fucked up as the overpriced mom n' pop shop I worked at would give a discount on opened 'demo' copies of games if we did this.

But I didn't know that they did this with online orders, too, which is extremely fucked up.  SELL OPENED GAMES AS USED, ASSHOLES.

Yes, and I've heard them talking about how they'd been allowed to bring them home for the day to play them, then sell them as "new" despite not only having been opened, but handled, and run on a spinning spindle of spindleness. Between that, and not even putting new games on the shelf if they had used copies, I didn't even go into GS during my last two-week trip.

Have also heard this was done as both an incentive for employees and to help prevent internal theft.  It's dumb.  When I pay for a new item...I expect to get a new item.  Opened is not new, period.  (On a sidenote, there are a surprisingly large amount of Youtubers out there with channels almost dedicated to talking about like every day of their lives when they worked at Gamestop.  )

I pretty much avoid their stores unless I'm looking to go dump a bunch trade-ins towards hardware or want to pick something up locally that I can't get online or don't want to wait for, but that's pretty rare nowadays with release day shipping and whatnot.  Their stores are dated, often dirty or smelly, unorganized messes where they've begun to push the video games to the back in favor of nerd-crap from Thinkgeek and cell phones from Cricket Wireless. 

[Atramental]

Ate a bunch of Mexican food last night. Just had tea and water to drink.
Went to sleep 2 hours afterwards.
Had a dream I was at some winter lodge with a bunch of friendly strangers that seemed to know me and I felt super drunk during the dream.
Woke up with a mild hangover headache this morning. 

[I'm a Puppy!]

So talked to the company we came up with a range that works but they still have 2 more people to interview. I'm not so much worried about them being better than me, I've been in the market long enough to know my competition. But I am worried that they'll  be cheaper, as that constantly harest oppens.

"Puppy! Everything's a mess! HELP!"
"Ok, it'll cost this much to fix it."
"Nevermind, this guy says he'll do it for way cheaper"
<spongebob: 6 months later>
"Puppy! Everything's WAY worse! HELP!"

Rinse and repeat.

It's going to be a long rest of the week.

[Atramental]

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Oh god. I’m going to have a fucking nervous breakdown if I keep on having to work at the pace I’m currently working at.

[I'm a Puppy!]

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Oh god. I’m going to have a fucking nervous breakdown if I keep on having to work at the pace I’m currently working at.

Get in front of that shit man.
Go to the boss and give them choices to make it better.
Let them know what's what upfront.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Speaking of work killing you. Let's get to some Puppy work drama.

Last summer when I had my little breakdown my boss and I went to dinner and we discussed what could be done. And he was like "Puppy, you just need to chill and draw boundaries. I was hospitalized 3 times a few weeks ago and the doctors said it was all because of stress. So I set some rules. I shut off work at 8pm and create more time for myself, take days off" yada yada yada. Then this quarter (first quarters are always killer in our company as most companies put off big projects until Q2 or later) I start getting texts from him at like 10pm and calls on Saturdays and emails at like 5 in the morning. And I was like "So much for taking it easy." Talking to another director today and they're like "Did you know the boss is back in the hospital?" Not surprised. Poor guy. Don't know why you would own a company to work like he does. He's well beyond the "start up" phase, and is pretty established. This would be the time to sit back and enjoy your success, but the dude's going as hard as ever for more. I couldn't do it.

In other news one of our sales guys really screwed the pooch. He was asking me what I thought he should do. I told him to take it easy and not to worry about it. What I didn't tell him was the reason he shouldn't worry about it was because it would be surprising if he was still with the company next week.

In even further news, my company is by and large Indian (like 80+%) and my boss once said that you'd never find anyone more racist against Indians than other Indians. I shrugged it off as I thought that's true for most races, latinos hate latinos and Bill Cosby hates black people, so I never gave it much thought. Though today I was sitting with some of my Indian coworkers and they started talking about Indians, and holy heck I was taken aback. The stuff they were saying would've put even Trump supporters to shame. That was something.

[Raist]

Caste culture breh. It's ugly.

[bork]

We took my wife's car in for 100,000+ mile maintenance this past weekend and it ended up costing a whopping $1500- $600 for parts and $900 for "labor."  I wasn't there when she went to go get the car and rather than let me know what was up or have anyone else look at the bill with her, she just signed for it and paid.   Sucks, but OK.

Then this morning we woke up to find that some asshole either did a hit and run or vandalized her car late last night.  Broke the passenger side mirror and there's some huge scratches on the side.  We are guessing it was a drunk driver since it seems to me that vandals wouldn't just target a single car like that.

My wallet 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Ouch Will the insurance cover it?

I'm paying 116 bucks a month over 6 years in a Toyota maintenance plan, which includes everything as far as maintenance goes and extends the cars warranty to 6 years as well. You can only get it on new cars though.

Car is doing 30k km a year so its well worth it.

[Nabbis]

Not having a car

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Being a poor fuck.

[close]

[bork]

Ouch Will the insurance cover it?

Dunno yet.  Guessing I'm gonna get F'd in the A.  It's pretty much just cosmetic damage though, mirror aside.  The mirror itself is still attached and the glass needs to be replaced so hopefully that won't cost too much.

Something else that makes me wonder if this was vandalism is that when walking around and checking all the other cars in the garage for damage, we found a soccer ball wedged under a neighbor's car.  There is no way it's hers and when she came outside we spoke about it and she said that she put a camera up after something was done to her car last year.  Pretty doubtful that it has any footage we can use, but you never know.  The ball definitely wasn't there when she came home yesterday.  The neighbors next door have a bunch of kids and I hope it wasn't one of them being stupid that caused this to happen.  Still, while a soccer ball could explain the broken mirror, it wouldn't have caused the scratches. 

[jorma]

The solution is obviously to buy a new car, a new vespa and then send your kids off to live with waifus parents in China.

[bork]

The solution is obviously to buy a new car

a new vespa

 

and then send your kids off to live with waifus parents in China.

 

[brawndolicious]

Ouch Will the insurance cover it?

I'm paying 116 bucks a month over 6 years in a Toyota maintenance plan, which includes everything as far as maintenance goes and extends the cars warranty to 6 years as well. You can only get it on new cars though.

Car is doing 30k km a year so its well worth it.

Wtf I drive more than you and that's ridiculous. I just paid $130 for 4 years worth of air filters and a set of spark plugs. Add maybe $300 a year for tires and oil changes which I wouldn't want to do myself.

Factoring in exchange rates and I don't even wanna say exactly how bad you're getting it.

[Mupepe]

Yeah that deal sounds terrible unless it covers the purchase of tires too.