The Bridge

ardaozkal

09:07

Hmm, seems nice

store.steampowered.com/app/387990

cc @GnomeSlice

Ronan Forman

According to the internet it's -1. Doesn't feel quite that cold, but there is frost.

Still no snow though.

Kevin van der Velden

We had some snow this weekend

fredley

I had condensation in my beard when running this morning

Kevin van der Velden

It's foggy here as well

Arperum

Ugh. I need a new job.

Kevin van der Velden

09:21

Uhhoh

Come work in utrecht :D

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Can I work from home four days/week? If so: I would debate it, otherwise the traveltime is a bit too much.

fredley

@Arperum Come join Bridge Canadian Startup Visa Enterprise ltd. inc.

Arperum

@fredley I'm in.

Ronan Forman

@fredley What do we even do?

So far it's been eerily similar to my previous job.

Kevin van der Velden

@RonanForman Troll people

Arperum

09:23

@RonanForman I assume write code for some reason.

Anything is better than the nonsense that this job is becoming.

Kevin van der Velden

Uhhoh? :(

Arperum

"here is hotelinformation, work out a system so we can put it in this wordpress theme that only accepts tours"

fredley

Step 1: Get Canadian Visas
Step 2: ???????????????
Step 3: PROFIT

Arperum

...

I FUCKING TOLD YOU WHEN CHOOSING YOUR BLOODY THEME

Ronan Forman

@Arperum I was doing some of what was similar to sysadmin work. It's okay for a bit.

Kevin van der Velden

09:26

@RonanForman he's also their copywriter for some reason

Ronan Forman

@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, I remember The Welcome.

Arperum

Did I forgot to mention: "you are not taking all that much initiative, and I'm drowning in work, you did exactly what I asked you too yesterday, but that was not enough"

Kevin van der Velden

Wut

Arperum

For today: I ask "what do I have to do?" "I assume you did that yesterday, since there wasn't much on your agenda?"

That's a pretty crappy non-answer if you ask me.

Kevin van der Velden

"So you have nothing else for me today? Sweet! $Game it is"

fredley

09:29

Bosses are the worst

Arperum

About that tour theme: we ended up picking that one after the client said he was going to work with tours anyway. So now I'm supposed to have finished yesterday the fitting of unrelevant hotelinformation into a tour system.

that I do not have access to as of yet, so all I have to work with is a demo website for the theme...

So I have no clue what kind of options I have when entering a price.

I'm seriously debating updating my CV during worktime.

ANd tht's my planning for today.

so I'm not clear on what to do.

Private Pansy

Is it possible for a computer to wake itself up from sleep?

Every night I put the desktop to sleep, and when I wake up, I find it already woken

Arperum

@PrivatePansy Windows 10?

Private Pansy

Yes

Arperum

I've read on multiple occasion that it would selfwake to do updates and then not shut down again.

fredley

09:36

@PrivatePansy The faceless old woman who lives in your home?

Kevin van der Velden

TIL @Wipqozn is diseased

Ronan Forman

09:53

@fredley Secretly.

fredley

Have you considered putting a very dry cow in the room? — Tom Medley 6 secs ago

Ronan Forman

@fredley I... why?

Kevin van der Velden

It's a lifehack!

Private Pansy

@fredley Moo?

fredley

4

A: How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?

Breathe a lot... keep a moist cow in the room... have a lot of houseplants... hang the laundry around the place to dry.

Ronan Forman

09:59

@fredley I see....

fredley

> Breathe a lot

Private Pansy

We can't say much. But the #GravityFalls finale is going to blow your mind ... And break your heart. https://t.co/vR00tFjrCy

Tweeted by DisneyInsider on January 20, 2016 at 4:44 AM

Arperum

@fredley Because everyone hasa cow available plus the space to keep it.

Ronan Forman

@Arperum That's not the point. If you do it'll work.

Private Pansy

@fredley I can't tell if it's been upvoted because it's a joke of if people think those are actually valid means of getting a room humid

Ronan Forman

10:02

@PrivatePansy I mean the last two.

Arperum

@RonanForman Next question: how do I keep this moist cow from shitting on my bed?

Ronan Forman

@Arperum That is beyond the scope of this course.

Private Pansy

@RonanForman Except the last two non-joke answers have already been suggested much earlier and in greater details

fredley

@PrivatePansy It's probably one of those, yes

Ronan Forman

@PrivatePansy Fair enough,

Private Pansy

10:06

> The response to suggestions that a project needs a Code of Conducts inevitably shows the need for the project to have a Code of Conduct

fredley

> Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

y u do dis evry tim

Kevin van der Velden

Because apple

Private Pansy

Why are permissions on (OSX?) called entitlements?

Kevin van der Velden

2 mins ago, by Kevin van der Velden

Because apple

fredley

10:25

Meanwhile, in robotics

Kevin van der Velden

I saw that... thing

fredley

Now we know for sure: Science has gone too far.

Arperum

Current status: still mad. Still not gotten anything serious to do.

Kevin van der Velden

Current CV status?

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Too mad right now.

Kevin van der Velden

10:34

=[

fredley

**Arperum**

Work History:
2007-16: Mad

Arperum

@fredley To be fair: last job got mostly blown up because of incompetent boss and me refusing to take blame where I was not to blame. This time it's the move to more and more wordpress.

fuck being a content manager.

I'm a coder, not a content/wordpress backend monkey

I took this job for an interesting project that had a deadline of 1 december 2015. It hasn't even started yet. I promised to stay until december to do that thing.

I kept my promise. I'm going to look for something else. Fuck this shit.

Also: reading articles about people being raped is not helping my state of being mad.

fredley

@Arperum Go for a walk, if you can.

Take your (hopefully) contractually specified full hour for lunch, and spend it going for a walk.

Arperum

At such a point I wish I could do something to help, but since the culprit was most often a moron of the same gender as me, I can't do anything without triggering the fear reaction.

@fredley That starts in 20 minutes.

fredley

@Arperum Ideal

Arperum

10:41

Although, if I leave now and don't get a call, noone will even know.

Kevin van der Velden

Working from home has advantages

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Yes. It also means I can blast whatever music fits my mood pretty fucking loud right now.

Lazers 2.0

1

Q: Where is the earliest place to sleep?

I want my character to sleep ASAP from the start of the game. Where is the earliest place I can do that? Let's say it's in Riverwood. Is there or is it possible for a borrowable bed to spawn, like at a campsite, earlier than reaching Riverwood?

skyrim

0

Q: My GTA 4 social club is not opening

So I recently installed GTA IV on my computer i did the online activate and then tried to start it (with the LaunchGTAIV.exe) and it said this. So yeah.. does anyone know how to fix this??? I've never got to play it..

grand-theft-auto-4

fredley

11:00

It's the Olympics again this year, already?

wat

Time pls

Kevin van der Velden

I'ts only every other year

Which country is to be settled with massive bills this year?

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden every 4

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley winter

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden doesn't count

I mean actual olympics

Kevin van der Velden

Winter olympics definitely count, only ones that give the netherlands any medals =p

fredley

11:02

London 2012 was approximately a few months ago

Ronan Forman

The Whole Story: The Winter Olympics

►

Arperum

is actually working on CV

fredley

@Arperum Isn't it time for walkies?

Arperum

@fredley But it's cold?

fredley

@Arperum wear clothes

Kevin van der Velden

11:08

@fredley Buuut coooooold

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden ಠ_ಠ

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden ಠ_ಠ

Blem

Meanwhile, in Japanese(?) footwear

Arperum

@fredley I'll go see if the bakery is open and buy some bread.

fredley

11:09

@Arperum good plan

ardaozkal

All right, I fixed this

Kevin van der Velden

@ardaozkal seems legit

Arperum

@fredley That's about a km walk one way.

fredley

@Arperum A good distance

Kevin van der Velden

4 mins ago, by Kevin van der Velden

@fredley Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold

fredley

11:13

@Arperum Get your coat

Private Pansy

@Blem Chinese

The Chinese word for 'sex' and 'nature/property' is the same, so 'disposable shoe' gets translated literally into 'one-time use shoe', or 'a time sex shoe'

Arperum

11:42

Let it be noted that on january 21st 2016 @fredley did not troll.

6

Also: it's super bloody hot in here. How did I not melt an hour ago?

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum Yet

fredley

@Arperum hahaha

Arperum

@fredley I actually feel like leaving the door wide open for a bit...

Kevin van der Velden

35 mins ago, by Kevin van der Velden

@fredley Buuut coooooold

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Nope, it's not that cold outside, it's barely freezing. If it is even freezing.

fredley

11:46

@Arperum Even walking generates enough heat to warm you up

Arperum

@fredley yup, by the time I was returning coat was starting to feel too hot.

fredley

I was outside this morning in sub-zero temps in a tshirt and shorts (and a hat)

I was running though

Martin Sojka

Yeah, we had +1°C this morning outside, and the night wasn't any colder, looking at the cars and whatnot standing around. Way too warm.

fredley

@Wipqozn

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley the hat is the truly important thing

fredley

11:53

@KevinvanderVelden Yup. It's amazing how much a good hat affects body temp

Kevin van der Velden

Also it's a hat. Hats are important always.

Wipqozn

@Yuuki Get served

YOUR MOVE, YUUKI

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Prevent tech tree overview from closing when clicking a tech

I'm using Enhanced User Interface mod for Civilization 5 Brave New World and I really love it. There's one problem I have with it though; I like to click around on the tech tree when deciding what to research. Enhanced User Interface however closes the tech overview when you click a tech. Is ther...

civilization-5 mods civ-5-brave-new-world

Wipqozn

@fredley Listening now

fredley

@Wipqozn This is pretty great too

Wipqozn

12:11

@fredley That's the up next song and everything

WHAT A TWIST

GnomeSlice

Murgrind - Inheritor of the Forest Throne album preview

►

You might like murgrind

Private Pansy

I'm procrastinating so fucking hard right now

fredley

3

Kevin van der Velden

I've done about 20 minutes of productive work

Of course, I have about 4 more workdays before I leave this job sooooo

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Leaving job high five

@Arperum should join us

Kevin van der Velden

12:26

I realized today that my car trip will be about as long as my walk from the trainstation to get here

GnomeSlice

@ardaozkal Nice, been waiting for that one to show up on Steam

MYRNE - Celestial [Simplify]

►

cc @rapitor

Arperum

@fredley Debating intensifies

GnomeSlice

Goats are smaller and work just as well. — Adam Starrh 3 hours ago

2

So everybody's just trolling that question now?

Arperum

@fredley I've petted my cats, that surely counts as productive?

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum This is the internet: Petting cats always counts as productive

fredley

12:31

"Sheep are more absorbent, and can carry more moistness/m^3"

GnomeSlice

@fredley Don't

Arperum

@GnomeSlice That's posted on an answer about bowls, those are some seriously tiny goats or some huge bowls.

Private Pansy

@Arperum You have delayed your death at the paws of your cat by several hours. This is indeed a productive endeavor

ardaozkal

Hey, my internet is terrible, is this page loading? fikrimobil.com/hakkinda

GnomeSlice

@ardaozkal Worked for me

Gonna take you a while to load that on shitty net though

fredley

12:34

bagels

ardaozkal

Weird, stuck on this screen on me

GnomeSlice

@ardaozkal it's loading

it did that for me for maybe 7 seconds

fredley

shopping groceries privacy

ardaozkal

@GnomeSlice will take a few hours on me, probably.

GnomeSlice

Slime Rancher - Reveal Trailer

►

slimerancher.com

This looks cute

Arperum

12:36

@fredley what about your prominent lifehacks tags?

fredley

home air food

#airhacks

I'm hacking the air

Arperum

@fredley s/hacking/eating

I see " technology, pets, food" for @fredley

fredley

bagels, breakfast, work

cc: @Sterno

Kevin van der Velden

... I saw this and wanted to answer it. I need help

2

Arperum

@fredley You are way to invested in this site...

Chippies

12:43

@fredley tupperware works great

fredley

@Chippies Not a lifehack

Chippies

@fredley a tupperware made out of cardboard?

fredley

There is an obvious answer to this post (a classic #lifehack)

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley Yes

Chippies

@fredley eat the bagel and transport it inside your stomach?

Kevin van der Velden

12:43

@Chippies No.

fredley

But @Sterno's question was looking lonely in the bagel tag, so I asked it to keep it company

Kevin van der Velden

He is referring to the thing blank cdroms come in

Chippies

sigh

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden *used to

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley are blank cdroms even a thing anymore?

fredley

12:45

@KevinvanderVelden Aparently

amazon.co.uk/TDK-T18767-CDR-80-Piece-Cakebox/dp/B00063WUWW/…

pffffffft cakebox

It's a bagel box

Kevin van der Velden

Exactly

fredley

It's also a terrible™ lifehack, because the plastic these things are made of is not certified food safe

Kevin van der Velden

FINE

fredley

And if used over a long period of time would probably leech chemicals into your bagel

#lifehack

Chippies

@fredley you mean flavour your bagel over time

mm, tasty chemicals

fredley

12:47

@Chippies mmmmmm, carcinogens

Chippies

@fredley everything gives you cancer to an extent

so what if this solution gives you a bit more

Arperum

Welcome to Lifehacks! Are you able to expand on this, maybe providing some references why this works? Thank you! — Mooseman ♦ Jan 15 at 11:40

fredley

@Chippies life has a 100% mortality rate

Chippies

at least your bagels are transported fine!

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley there it is! It's just not a proper lifehack without it in some way endangering your life

2

fredley

12:48

@Arperum uwot

Arperum

In a reaction to an answer suggesting antifreeze against ice.

WHAT MORE INFORMATION DO YOU WANT?

Kevin van der Velden

links to a chemistry book

Chippies

@Arperum a physics lesson on why it works. Please and thank you!

Arperum

@Chippies redirects to physics.se

fredley

skeptics.se

I would like to see a skeptics vs lifehacks q/a drive

Kevin van der Velden

12:51

Write a bot: For every answer posted to lifehacks, make a question on skeptics going "Does $answer help for $question"

fredley

@KevinvanderVelden Even better, "is it safe to use $answer for $question"

GnomeSlice

Why don't we all just go to lifehacks chat

fredley

@GnomeSlice No.

GnomeSlice

@fredley Whoa, bomberarena works on my phone

@fredley Then stop talking about it

I probably can't do anything in it though, no keyboard input

fredley

Lifehacks are on-topic in this chatroom

GnomeSlice

12:59

whatever

Frank

As long as those lifehacks include, "Use the proper tools, idiot", anyways.

Kevin van der Velden

@fredley points at -lifehacks

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