Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
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@Karla I suggest you buy her an Arduino Zero beginner's kit. Next time she finishes early and gets bored, she can program it to present a virtual mouse to the PC, to fake her presence.
...Of course, I assume that the games timeout. If they don't, then leaving the game on would maybe suffice?
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@Zecc said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
You really like to deal in absolutes don't you?
I'm an engineer.
Engineers don't deal in absolutes. They deal in estimates ± error factors.
A software engineer.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Oh, we were talking about essays and stuff. Yeah....I knew that....
It does get a little confusing with people talking about washing their hands before auto-fellating.
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Status: watching, on the news, videos of angry Italians from social media.
Paraphrasing:
What's this about asking hairdresses to go to your homes?
Do you not realize the coffin will be closed?
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I don't speak Italian, but from what I read elsewhere, this is about some announcement of huge contract for shipping over 100 million face masks from China to Italy. Some important looking people gathered for a group photo - four Italians and one Chinese.
If this is how all Italians wear face masks...
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@Polygeekery What a world we live in, that a "mouse jiggler" is even a thing.
Also, how'd you first come across that?
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"But it's not wearing a face mask!"
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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.
....and that OS decided to shit itself on Windows updates last night.
It just never ends.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery What a world we live in, that a "mouse jiggler" is even a thing.
Also, how'd you first come across that?
My wife has nosy coworkers that like to complain if her computer is idle for too long when she works from home (fucking Lync, ratting people out). As it is a company computer that I don't have admin rights to, and it had to be something super easy to use, I went looking and ran across that. Every 10-30 seconds it moves your cursor a few pixels one way and then back, keeping your computer from going idle.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
creme filled long johns
Um … No, I think I’ll leave people to make their own jokes about that.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery What a world we live in, that a "mouse jiggler" is even a thing.
Also, how'd you first come across that?
My wife has nosy coworkers that like to complain if her computer is idle for too long when she works from home (fucking Lync, ratting people out).
Have you or she read Snow Crash?
Oh, wait, someone posted the relevant bit online (though the OCR seems to have mistaken “min” towards the end for “mm”, which may make the whole thing make very little sense if you don’t realise that).
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it's an éclaire on this side of the pond
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@Luhmann "It was like lightning" isn't necessarily something you want to hear when talking about that.
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@remi
true, I like my pastries to last more then a mere second
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
which included IT staff essentially living there for any real shutdown
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@Polygeekery apparently some yoga types are stretchy enough to do it. But not worth the effort because, I quote:
it feels more like sucking cock than getting your cock sucked
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@admiral_p Are we allowed to QOOC that in such a way that it seems like the quote is coming from @Polygeekery?
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@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@admiral_p Are we allowed to QOOC that in such a way that it seems like the quote is coming from @Polygeekery?
Is your house insured?
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@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
which included IT staff essentially living there for any real shutdown
They have what amounts to apartments built in to the facility for just such contingencies. They are staffed, open and operational 24/7/365. If travel restrictions had been more stringent we would have found a way to stay there in shifts.
The ones and zeros must flow. And with almost all of their competitors closed down they are absolutely slammed. I've never seen them so busy.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
They have what amounts to apartments built in to the facility for just such contingencies.
Ok, that makes a bit more sense. Here, I was imagining a random company with a server room going full panic mode and starting ordering a few beds and other basic necessities.
A friend works at a nuclear power plant. They also already have apartments on-site, primarily so that technicians and engineers can stay there. AFAIK those are used relatively regularly, as there are several yearly processes that need to be completed by off-site people but that also take a week or two to perform.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Is your house insured?
Country is under lock down. I feel safe at the moment.
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@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Is your house insured?
Country is under lock down. I feel safe at the moment.
Fire, uh... finds a way
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@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Ok, that makes a bit more sense. Here, I was imagining a random company with a server room going full panic mode and starting ordering a few beds and other basic necessities.
Nope. There are two areas reminiscent of 1/4 of a dorm quad. Little "living room"ish area that leads back to two rooms with 2-3 bunk beds each, plus the couches. IIRC, about 30 people can sleep there and in one of the restroom areas there are 4 showers each in the men's and women's restrooms.
In the wintertime when the weather gets really bad it is not uncommon for folks to stay there for several days at a time. During the summer the interns sometimes crash there.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
the interns sometimes crash there.
Do you reboot them?
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@Bulb said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@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.
The title conflicts with the onebox, which actually makes sense because it says CPAP: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, which is typically used to treat obstructive sleep apnea.
It's not a ventilator, but it could be used for people who don't need a full on ventilator. I've seen some stuff suggesting that CPAPs could be used, except a normal mask would end up spewing a lot of air everywhere, which is probably suboptimal, but this looks like the air comes back out the tube, so it could be controlled, which would be a benefit.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
She's in a charter school
She's learning how to plot charts?
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@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.
Schools are also accredited based on days or hours kids spend in school so they might be getting pressure to make sure kids are participating enough not to endanger that sort of thing.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Zecc said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
You really like to deal in absolutes don't you?
I'm an engineer.
Engineers don't deal in absolutes. They deal in estimates ± error factors.
A software engineer.
Who never uses floating point numbers?
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@Zecc
Damn future statisticians!
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@PleegWat said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@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
As long as you label it
ITAPPMONROBOT
I'm sure it'll be fine.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Zecc said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
You really like to deal in absolutes don't you?
I'm an engineer.
Engineers don't deal in absolutes. They deal in estimates ± error factors.
A software engineer.
Our error bars are also called off-by-one errors.
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@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Zecc said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
You really like to deal in absolutes don't you?
I'm an engineer.
Engineers don't deal in absolutes. They deal in estimates ± error factors.
A software engineer.
Who never uses floating point numbers?
Not never exactly... Hah. I find them handy surprisingly often, considering I mostly work on hardware that doesn't have an FPU.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla I suggest you buy her an Arduino Zero beginner's kit. Next time she finishes early and gets bored, she can program it to present a virtual mouse to the PC, to fake her presence.
...Of course, I assume that the games timeout. If they don't, then leaving the game on would maybe suffice?
I like that. She's in 1st grade though.
I haven't quite convinced her to follow in my footsteps. She's not happy with the answer when she asks me what I want to be when I grow up and I say a computer programmer.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
she asks me what I want to be when I grow up
Cute.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla I suggest you buy her an Arduino Zero beginner's kit. Next time she finishes early and gets bored, she can program it to present a virtual mouse to the PC, to fake her presence.
...Of course, I assume that the games timeout. If they don't, then leaving the game on would maybe suffice?
I like that. She's in 1st grade though.
If she can English, then she can C++.
Maybe earlier even; C++ has fewer exceptions.
I haven't quite convinced her to follow in my footsteps. She's not happy with the answer when she asks me what I want to be when I grow up and I say a computer programmer.
Bait and switch.
My Little Pony is computer-animated. (Just about every cartoon is.)
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
If she can English, then she can C++.
Nobody can C++.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery What a world we live in, that a "mouse jiggler" is even a thing.
Also, how'd you first come across that?
My wife has nosy coworkers that like to complain if her computer is idle for too long when she works from home (fucking Lync, ratting people out). As it is a company computer that I don't have admin rights to, and it had to be something super easy to use, I went looking and ran across that. Every 10-30 seconds it moves your cursor a few pixels one way and then back, keeping your computer from going idle.
I do my wasting time, surfing the web on my work computer. Keeps my connection active.
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@admiral_p said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery apparently some yoga types are stretchy enough to do it. But not worth the effort because, I quote:
it feels more like sucking cock than getting your cock sucked
Kind of like the fact that you can't tickle yourself?
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@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@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.
Schools are also accredited based on days or hours kids spend in school so they might be getting pressure to make sure kids are participating enough not to endanger that sort of thing.
That too. She's only spending less than half the time she would spend at school.
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla I suggest you buy her an Arduino Zero beginner's kit. Next time she finishes early and gets bored, she can program it to present a virtual mouse to the PC, to fake her presence.
...Of course, I assume that the games timeout. If they don't, then leaving the game on would maybe suffice?
I like that. She's in 1st grade though.
If she can English, then she can C++.
Maybe earlier even; C++ has fewer exceptions.
I haven't quite convinced her to follow in my footsteps. She's not happy with the answer when she asks me what I want to be when I grow up and I say a computer programmer.
Bait and switch.
My Little Pony is computer-animated. (Just about every cartoon is.)I can't C++.
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@dkf said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Our error bars are also called off-by-one errors.
And sometimes the error bars are off-by-one:
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@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
If she can English, then she can C++.
What are you trying to do, leave her with PTSD from a young age
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@acrow said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
If she can English, then she can C++.
What are you trying to do, leave her with PTSD from a young age
Well, yeah, you can't start explaining Pointers, Templates, SFINAE and Destructors too early!
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@dfdub It's always too early to explain C++. It may not be the worst language ever created, but it's definitely the worst ever to be taken seriously, and the more effectively you avoid ever having to touch it, the better.
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@Luhmann said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Zecc
Damn future statisticians!You must be a Calvinist, because the only way they could be damned now is if it is pre-determined that they will not be saved.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It may not be the worst language ever created, but it's definitely the worst ever to be taken seriously
*laughs in PHP*