Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
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Please stand attended: Do not self-medicate against potential corona with pond cleaning agents.
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@PleegWat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Please stand attended: Do not self-medicate against potential corona with pond cleaning agents.
Edit: the response tweets are so funny...
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I get a note from my daughter's teacher that she only did one hour on DreamBox yesterday and they are supposed to spend at least two hours. So she gets marked as absent for the day.
This is their math assignment and math games.
She finished her math and got bored with the games. She should be punished because she is efficient?
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Nationalistic internet capacity trolling now here: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/27103/viral-neutrality
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@boomzilla Thanks.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She finished her math and got bored with the games. She should be punished because she is efficient?
Unlike physical locations where you can imprison subjects, there's no real way to ensure physical attentiveness, even if the metric itself is flawed.
I suggest teaching subterfuge and an application of patience for a longer-term goal.
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@Karla Yes. Remember that the goal of most assignments isn't for the child to learn anything, it's to force them to spend time. Being efficient means less time is spent, which frustrates that goal. Granted, the coronavirus epidemic means that unspent time is invested towards disrupting/destroying the home environment and not the classroom environment, and your daughter finishing early now doesn't affect any of her classmates (since they're not there), but teachers' mindsets aren't easily updated.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She should be punished because she is efficient?
All cogs are the same, you are simply a liar if you say otherwise.
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@Tsaukpaetra The curious thing about real life anime girls is that their eyeballs would be so big that their brains would have be just about as small as their general behavior suggests
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@PleegWat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Please stand attended: Do not self-medicate against potential corona with pond cleaning agents.
You and your silly rules.
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Fucking hell
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@TwelveBaud said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla Yes. Remember that the goal of most assignments isn't for the child to learn anything, it's to force them to spend time. Being efficient means less time is spent, which frustrates that goal. Granted, the coronavirus epidemic means that unspent time is invested towards disrupting/destroying the home environment and not the classroom environment, and your daughter finishing early now doesn't affect any of her classmates (since they're not there), but teachers' mindsets aren't easily updated.
I think there is a corollary here for length of writing. I have developed the view that the shortest response you can give that answers someone's question or shows that you heard what they said or wrote is the best; but this is contradicted by most of what we learn in academics; it starts off in primary school with essay assignments that must be of a certain length. (Not saying that this doesn't have some positive value, just that it also has a deleterious effect.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She finished her math and got bored with the games. She should be punished because she is efficient?
Unlike physical locations where you can imprison subjects, there's no real way to ensure physical attentiveness, even if the metric itself is flawed.
I suggest teaching subterfuge and an application of patience for a longer-term goal.
My husband bribed her. They get "coins" for each length of time. He told her he'd give her a dime for every 10 coins. She has a digital "piggy bank" which keeps a total that changes as coins are dropped in.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
My husband bribed her. They get "coins" for each length of time. He told her he'd give her a dime for every 10 coins. She has a digital "piggy bank" which keeps a total that changes as coins are dropped in.
This is why she should learn to program. There must be a way for a program to earn coins for her. ;)
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She finished her math and got bored with the games. She should be punished because she is efficient?
Unlike physical locations where you can imprison subjects, there's no real way to ensure physical attentiveness, even if the metric itself is flawed.
I suggest teaching subterfuge and an application of patience for a longer-term goal.
My husband bribed her. They get "coins" for each length of time. He told her he'd give her a dime for every 10 coins. She has a digital "piggy bank" which keeps a total that changes as coins are dropped in.
Ah, classic. In my day the coins were worth fifteen minutes of Nintendo time.
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@jinpa said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@TwelveBaud said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla Yes. Remember that the goal of most assignments isn't for the child to learn anything, it's to force them to spend time. Being efficient means less time is spent, which frustrates that goal. Granted, the coronavirus epidemic means that unspent time is invested towards disrupting/destroying the home environment and not the classroom environment, and your daughter finishing early now doesn't affect any of her classmates (since they're not there), but teachers' mindsets aren't easily updated.
I think there is a corollary here for length of writing. I have developed the view that the shortest response you can give that answers someone's question or shows that you heard what they said or wrote is the best; but this is contradicted by most of what we learn in academics; it starts off in primary school with essay assignments that must be of a certain length. (Not saying that this doesn't have some positive value, just that it also has a deleterious effect.)
I hate (and have always hated) minimum length requirements, although I've struggled more in the past with maximum length requirements. I'm rather prolix.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@jinpa said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@TwelveBaud said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla Yes. Remember that the goal of most assignments isn't for the child to learn anything, it's to force them to spend time. Being efficient means less time is spent, which frustrates that goal. Granted, the coronavirus epidemic means that unspent time is invested towards disrupting/destroying the home environment and not the classroom environment, and your daughter finishing early now doesn't affect any of her classmates (since they're not there), but teachers' mindsets aren't easily updated.
I think there is a corollary here for length of writing. I have developed the view that the shortest response you can give that answers someone's question or shows that you heard what they said or wrote is the best; but this is contradicted by most of what we learn in academics; it starts off in primary school with essay assignments that must be of a certain length. (Not saying that this doesn't have some positive value, just that it also has a deleterious effect.)
I hate (and have always hated) minimum length requirements, although I've struggled more in the past with maximum length requirements. I'm rather prolix.
Yeah, once I get going I can be hard to stop. It's the starting up that takes effort...
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@PleegWat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
You'd expect 'Eating and/or drinking establishments' to cover everything with a horeca license.
Not really: hotels also fall under that, which is probably why it was worded the way it was. Of course, hotels would have to close their restaurants and bars, but by specifying only eating and drinking establishments, they do not need to evict all their guests as well.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It was raining all day yesterday, I didn't want to go out.
Think of all the people who would happily go out in that, if only they were allowed to!
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@Gurth said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It was raining all day yesterday, I didn't want to go out.
Think of all the people who would happily go out in that, if only they were allowed to!
ah, good memories when I crossed the "dance in the rain nude" item off the bucket list. Can't speak much on the dancing part, but the rain was nice.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Sometimes you wanna just bap people. Like, I get it, you're stressed that you have to stay home and not make money. But, honey, if you're so bad off that you desperately need a $75 refund ASAP because the con's cancelled because you have no money.... What were you planning on doing in a few weeks if the con hadn't been cancelled? Like, brah, seriously?
Word has it that Amazon is seeing record numbers of returns which is also trying up shipping and warehousing. Everyone is returning the crap that they bought even though they couldn't afford it and didn't really need it.
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@Benjamin-Hall One thing you need to keep in mind about all this is that... the testers know how many tests they've given out to the high risk population so they can estimate size and growth on the first day.
The data gets more accurate every day, same as always.
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@Captain said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Benjamin-Hall One thing you need to keep in mind about all this is that... the testers know how many tests they've given out to the high risk population so they can estimate size and growth on the first day.
The data gets more accurate every day, same as always.
True. As I said, I'm not really worried about the professionals understanding this. It's the pundits and others who bloviate about the "fast exponential growth" without trying to distinguish growth in known cases due to testing and growth in real cases due to spread of the disease. They're correlated, but when talking about rates (not as much total numbers), a graph of the growth rate looks a lot scarier if it's artificially high because of increased testing of particular sub-groups (those who are sick).
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Word has it that Amazon is seeing record numbers of returns
For some reason I read "Amazon" as the forest.
Feeling
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@Zecc said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Word has it that Amazon is seeing record numbers of returns
For some reason I read "Amazon" as the forest.
Feeling
If I was from the Amazon, I might figure this was a good time to return.
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@Zecc said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Word has it that Amazon is seeing record numbers of returns
For some reason I read "Amazon" as the forest.
Feeling
I've always wondered, how did a forest in South America end up getting named after an ancient Greek myth about warrior women?
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More 3D printing to have extra solutions for ventilator masks:
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I've always wondered, how did a forest in South America end up getting named after an ancient Greek myth about warrior women?
Not a complete answer to your question, but I always figured the jungle was named after the river.
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As I understand it (or rather remember it from my 6th grade report on the Amazon), the most widely held view is it was named by a Spanish conqueror who fought a tribe(s) of natives that had women on the battlefield fighting alongside the men. Their skill and prowess on the battlefield lead him to equate them with the Greek myths about the Amazons. This then ultimately lead to it being named as such.
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@Dragoon Huh. TIL.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She should be punished because she is efficient?
There's a life lesson right there.
I feel that right now. I was being efficient earlier last week, then everybody started finding ways to fix that.
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@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She should be punished because she is efficient?
There's a life lesson right there.
I feel that right now. I was being efficient earlier last week, then everybody started finding ways to fix that.
Yeah, just like many jobs.
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
More 3D printing to have extra solutions for ventilator masks:
Wondering how much that could help. The difficult part is the actual ventilator, the device that varies the pressure to force appropriate amount of air under just the right overpressure into the lungs and then lets it out again.
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@Bulb said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
The difficult part is the actual ventilator,
Also in a close second place - making/distributing enough masks. This is where this helps.
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@Zecc said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It's impossible for just about anyone. So you're the first to even think about it.
Not really. I once thought about it, got curious, and... there are images.
Edit: oh crap, this almost makes it sound like I did it and I posted photos online.
I haven't. But others have.I love you guys, but ya'll motherfuckers are weird.
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@dkf said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Stay safe, especially people in Florida.
They're fucked by the nature of where they live. At the very least this pandemic could leave them alone.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She should be punished because she is efficient?
That's public education for you.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra The curious thing about real life anime girls is that their eyeballs would be so big that their brains would have be just about as small as their general behavior suggests
I fail to see the issue here.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She finished her math and got bored with the games. She should be punished because she is efficient?
Unlike physical locations where you can imprison subjects, there's no real way to ensure physical attentiveness, even if the metric itself is flawed.
I suggest teaching subterfuge and an application of patience for a longer-term goal.
My husband bribed her. They get "coins" for each length of time. He told her he'd give her a dime for every 10 coins. She has a digital "piggy bank" which keeps a total that changes as coins are dropped in.
She should use her first $22.39 to buy one of these:
Then fuck off to her room and let the money roll in.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@jinpa said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@TwelveBaud said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla Yes. Remember that the goal of most assignments isn't for the child to learn anything, it's to force them to spend time. Being efficient means less time is spent, which frustrates that goal. Granted, the coronavirus epidemic means that unspent time is invested towards disrupting/destroying the home environment and not the classroom environment, and your daughter finishing early now doesn't affect any of her classmates (since they're not there), but teachers' mindsets aren't easily updated.
I think there is a corollary here for length of writing. I have developed the view that the shortest response you can give that answers someone's question or shows that you heard what they said or wrote is the best; but this is contradicted by most of what we learn in academics; it starts off in primary school with essay assignments that must be of a certain length. (Not saying that this doesn't have some positive value, just that it also has a deleterious effect.)
I hate (and have always hated) minimum length requirements, although I've struggled more in the past with maximum length requirements. I'm rather prolix.
Yeah, once I get going I can be hard to stop. It's the starting up that takes effort...
I used to start up easily and it took forever to stop, now I take forever to get going and still take forever to stop. Age man, it does weird things....
Oh, we were talking about essays and stuff. Yeah....I knew that....
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
More 3D printing to have extra solutions for ventilator masks:
I think death may be preferable to looking like that.
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Coronavirus Pandemic Status: Jesus H. Fucking Christ, we are absolutely slammed. More MSPs seem to have closed down than businesses have slowed. We've picked up so much work and people aren't even bitching that it may take a while before we get around to it. They're just happy that the answer isn't "We've closed operations for the foreseeable future".
Also, yesterday I was woken up by a 5am call from one of our largest clients.
"Hey, I know you don't like being woken up this early, but hear me out."
"What time is it?"
"Earlier than you like to get up. Hey, I've got word that the governor may shut down basically everything today. Total lockdown. Can you be here for a meeting at 7am?"
"I don't know, what time is it now?"
"About 5am."
"Fucking hell. Yeah. I will be there."
"I'm having (admin assistant) get coffee and donuts, any requests?"
"I've been doing low carb for a long time, but if I have to be there that early have some creme horns and creme filled long johns waiting for me."It turns out that the governor heavily suggested that we shut everything down, but except for those businesses that are licensed at will he can't do much without imposing martial law. But the meeting was contingency planning for worst case scenario, which included IT staff essentially living there for any real shutdown.
Said client is deemed to be an essential service, so we all have letters stating that we are essential contractors for them that we carry on our person if we have to go in.
Speaking of, one of their communications systems just decided to shit out its RAID card today. So we had to move in yet more hardware today and recover from backups which took far longer than it should have. Another client had another major failure.
I am officially out of hardware. I have no more servers on the shelf to sell or loan or anything. We are now down to pulling machines from the datacenter that were recently deprecated and powered down but not removed, and salvaging parts from what is left in the aftermath. Parts are ordered but have estimated delivery dates so far in the future that it doesn't even matter. The stockpile of deprecated machines will last a while, but are also less than ideal. They were deprecated for a reason.
Fucking hell. Around the new year I was looking at our stockpile and thought that it was time to liquidate what I could on craigslist and eBay for cash to buy more toys and then give the rest to @sloosecannon.
That same client is also hiring every person that they can. They've rehired tons of employees that had previously left for other (less stressful, less critical and less essential) employers. It was weird to see tickets come in from names we thought we would never see again.
Tragedy for some is opportunity for others. The world is give and take. It's giving me income right now, but some investments have been devastated. C'est la vie.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It's impossible for just about anyone. So you're the first to even think about it.
He can't be the first to think of it, there were rumours about a certain musician in the 90s
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She should be punished because she is efficient?
That's public education for you.
She's in a charter school, so while still public, it is better than most public. I think since these teachers didn't sign up for remote teaching and are used to: X student takes Y time, so everyone has to spend at least Y time on it.
In addition to bribing her, she earned 60 coins today, we asked the teacher to provide her with additional challenging work (while this may sound like punishment it isn't for her).
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She finished her math and got bored with the games. She should be punished because she is efficient?
Unlike physical locations where you can imprison subjects, there's no real way to ensure physical attentiveness, even if the metric itself is flawed.
I suggest teaching subterfuge and an application of patience for a longer-term goal.
My husband bribed her. They get "coins" for each length of time. He told her he'd give her a dime for every 10 coins. She has a digital "piggy bank" which keeps a total that changes as coins are dropped in.
She should use her first $22.39 to buy one of these:
Then fuck off to her room and let the money roll in.
That's a great idea.
Wait-that's my money too!
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Speaking of, one of their communications systems just decided to shit out its RAID card today. So we had to move in yet more hardware today and recover from backups which took far longer than it should have.
I just logged all of that time in to be invoiced. The line item is:
(System)'s complete and total clusterfuck.
At least the accountant will be amused. She likes my sense of humor.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She finished her math and got bored with the games. She should be punished because she is efficient?
Unlike physical locations where you can imprison subjects, there's no real way to ensure physical attentiveness, even if the metric itself is flawed.
I suggest teaching subterfuge and an application of patience for a longer-term goal.
My husband bribed her. They get "coins" for each length of time. He told her he'd give her a dime for every 10 coins. She has a digital "piggy bank" which keeps a total that changes as coins are dropped in.
She should use her first $22.39 to buy one of these:
Then fuck off to her room and let the money roll in.
Looks at the price tag
Looks at his stash of lego technic
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You can also accomplish the same thing using software. Or if you want something that doesn't show up in Task Manager, I'm pretty sure you can emulate a mouse using a phone that supports USB host mode.