The Official Status Thread
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Status: I think if I still had the time to look for a job, I would probably start nicknaming recruiters (and possibly featuring them in a comic strip with Style Notsy or something). Yesterday I had a call from one that I call "The Mutterer." He always sounds like he's A) sick or B) frenching the when he calls.
So, anyway, he wants me to interview for an SAP/ABAP job at some hole in the wall in the middle of Amish country. You know, because C# and SQL skills transfer so well and I totally don't have "SAP can die in a fire" on my resume. But, you know what, I decide to play along and he says he'll send me the details right away. Unsurprisingly, it's the end of the following day and there's nothing in my mailbox.
This is at least strike three. A couple of years ago, he sent me to the wrong building and disappeared. Around six months ago, he disappeared again after a client told him they were looking for somebody less qualified (after putting me through two lengthy interviews of course). From what I hear, this isn't a unique experience either. I really wonder how people like this make it through a McJob, much less promote up to managing director.
Edit: I really don't understand people in the job hunting circuit. If I follow the golden rule, they disappear. If I treat them them like contemptible shit, they disappear. It's like I, as a job seeker, am a complete non-factor in the equation. Sometimes I just want to:
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I would probably start nicknaming recruiters
I think I've mentioned previously that I have one in my contact list identified only as "Fast-talking Recruiter I Can't Understand". Literally. I could make out enough words in his voicemails to figure out that he was a recruiter, but nothing else, including his name or number (although I got the number from my call history). Needless to say, I've never responded; he's only in my contact list so that I know to ignore him if he ever calls again.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It's just a way to launder more of the state's money into the hands of middlemen who are likely located in another jurisdiction while still complying with any in-state spending rules.
Are you suggesting corruption in our government?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Happy. I just spent $35.50 on chocolate.
I have discovered that the world's best chocolate (that I have personally experienced, anyway) is certified gluten-free, so I can eat it. I just need to get a second and third job to afford it. $8.50 / 50g for their regular bars. $9.50 / 50g for their single-origin cru varieties. $18.50 / 50g for their 70% cocoa, 100% Criollo bars.
Those are the prices you'd pay for nose candy.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
"SAP can die in a fire"
Funny, I work with SAP and every day I hope to die in a fire.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
If the former, I suggested the latter. For no particular reason.
Algorithm adjustments are perpetual and ongoing.
If you need an algorithm for deodorant, I suggest you remove your complicator's gloves.
Once they're off, maybe washing underneath them might help too.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Happy. I just spent $35.50 on chocolate.
I have discovered that the world's best chocolate (that I have personally experienced, anyway) is certified gluten-free, so I can eat it. I just need to get a second and third job to afford it. $8.50 / 50g for their regular bars. $9.50 / 50g for their single-origin cru varieties. $18.50 / 50g for their 70% cocoa, 100% Criollo bars.
Those are the prices you'd pay for nose candy.
I wouldn't have any idea about that; I've never even considered buying nose candy, and as a very clueless, middle-aged, white guy, I'd probably be unsuccessful and/or beaten up if I tried looking for it. But I can tell you the very best stuff comes from roughly the same part of the world as nose candy.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I suggest you remove your complicator's gloves.
He wouldn't be the @Tsaukpaetra we know and love without them.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
"SAP can die in a fire"
Funny, I work with SAP and every day I hope to die in a fire.
@Polygeekery has entered the chat.
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So I've been up over 24 hours cleaning out my full-fledged hoarder mother's house so a crew can install new floors and cabinets after the flooding.
I'm silly-stupid delirious (but what else is new?).
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm silly-stupid delirious
If you continue to stay up, you may start hallucinating. I did that once in college, trying to get papers finished at the end of the term. It was weird. I have no idea whether what I wrote made any sense whatsoever; I doubt it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm silly-stupid delirious
If you continue to stay up, you may start hallucinating. I did that once in college, trying to get papers finished at the end of the term. It was weird. I have no idea whether what I wrote made any sense whatsoever; I doubt it.
*chuckles darkly* and if it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make dollars!!!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I have no idea whether what I wrote made any sense whatsoever; I doubt it.
Narrator: Fortunately, it was a social science paper, so I still got an A.
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@Zerosquare Unfortunately (for my grade, but fortunately for my sanity), it was Solid State Physics lab reports.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm silly-stupid delirious
If you continue to stay up, you may start hallucinating. I did that once in college, trying to get papers finished at the end of the term. It was weird. I have no idea whether what I wrote made any sense whatsoever; I doubt it.
In high school, I wrote my "best paper of my junior year" (according to the teacher) at 3am the day it was due. And I'm no morning person. I later said "I just wrote what the voices in my head dictated".
But really, that teacher was just a lax moron (but a nice person). She was more focused on being the cheerleading coach than on teaching honors english.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
"SAP can die in a fire"
Funny, I work with SAP and every day I hope to die in a fire.
You know what, I was jealous that your bonus was so close to my salary but now I realize you're paying for every cent of it.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
"SAP can die in a fire"
Funny, I work with SAP and every day I hope to die in a fire.
You know what, I was jealous that your bonus was so close to my salary but now I realize you're paying for every cent of it.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
In high school, I wrote my "best paper of my junior year" (according to the teacher) at 3am the day it was due. And I'm no morning person.
Oh, I wrote a lot of stuff late at night. Pulled quite a few all-nighters here and there. But this was like 3 all-nighters in a row — almost; I think I got a couple hours of sleep the first night, and I dozed off in a few classes. So maybe 6 hours of interrupted sleep in 3+ days.
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Status: Opened Office "ClickToRun". It's failed to launch, because it is apparently trying to relaunch itself and failing epicly.
Well, I shouldn't say "failing". It's launching itself just fine, but is obviously not satisfied with the result because that new instance immediately tries to launch another one.
This is repeating infinitely, eating up RAM in 2 MB increments quite quickly. So quickly, in fact, that the PIDs wrapped around in two minutes before I figured out what was going on!
Fun...
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@Tsaukpaetra I must say the novel ways in which things break for you never cease to amaze.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I must say the novel ways in which things break for you never cease to amaze.
I'm an excellent tester!
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I think if I still had the time to look for a job, I would probably start nicknaming recruiters ...
Edit: I really don't understand people in the job hunting circuit. If I follow the golden rule, they disappear. If I treat them them like contemptible shit, they disappear. It's like I, as a job seeker, am a complete non-factor in the equation. Sometimes I just want to:
Wave your dick. If it's a porn gig, do this literally, in any other context, do this to the fullest metaphorical extent. Don't slap people with it. Just wave it and let them sway in the breeze.
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@Gribnit welcome back!
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Got via detours to looking at some >1Gbps switches (2.5, 5 or 10 Gbps). Damn, those are pricey compared to just plain gigabit switches. (And somewhat unobtainable at the moment.)
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Status: I want to choke this retard on eBay.
(4:20 PM Monday): "Hey if I purchase this today can you ship today"
already off to a great start - impatient, no understanding of business hours, ignorance of all punctuation
(7:19 PM Monday): buys it anyway
(4:20 PM Tuesday): "Hey when are you gonna ship this item?"
I don't know, within my clearly defined 3-day handling period, you little goblin?
(8:34 AM Wednesday): pays for label and posts tracking number
(~noon Wednesday): drops off at post office
(12:11 PM Saturday): delivers box to Idiotville
(3:40 PM Saturday): "Hey the figures leg broke"
Ladies and gentlemen, Karimfallplayz Karimninjafall, the dumbest asshole I've seen on eBay all year.
Now I have to look up how to respond to this so eBay doesn't rob me on behalf of a retard with 1 feedback point in 2 years of being on the site.
Edit: Oh joy, it turns out he also left negative feedback. Somehow it's my fault that he hamfisted a Japanese collectible.
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Status: Wound up with 1 vitamin gummy left in a bottle that (allegedly) came with 110 gummies and you're supposed to take 2 per day.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wound up with 1 vitamin gummy left in a bottle that (allegedly) came with 110 gummies and you're supposed to take 2 per day.
Someone stole your yummy!
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@izzion: meh, it's just an off-by-one bug. I'm sure it will be fixed in the next release.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wound up with 1 vitamin gummy left in a bottle that (allegedly) came with 110 gummies and you're supposed to take 2 per day.
This is not a surprising result at all. Given 55 postulated manual samples with a nonzero chance of error, your manual gummy sampling method's non-one success rate is raised to the 55th power.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wound up with 1 vitamin gummy left in a bottle that (allegedly) came with 110 gummies and you're supposed to take 2 per day.
This is not a surprising result at all. Given 55 postulated manual samples with a nonzero chance of error, your manual gummy sampling method's non-one success rate is raised to the 55th power.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wound up with 1 vitamin gummy left in a bottle that (allegedly) came with 110 gummies and you're supposed to take 2 per day.
This is not a surprising result at all. Given 55 postulated manual samples with a nonzero chance of error, your manual gummy sampling method's non-one success rate is raised to the 55th power.
Take your odds of understanding my post then take your odds of understanding it 55 times in
a rowindependent samples... concurrent parallel universes I guess.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wound up with 1 vitamin gummy left in a bottle that (allegedly) came with 110 gummies and you're supposed to take 2 per day.
This is not a surprising result at all. Given 55 postulated manual samples with a nonzero chance of error, your manual gummy sampling method's non-one success rate is raised to the 55th power.
Take your odds of understanding my post then take your odds of understanding it 55 times in
a rowindependent samples... concurrent parallel universes I guess.So... negligible?
Status: Experiencing diminishing returns...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Let's say that the chances of you screwing up your daily gummy-eating are fairly low, i.e. 2%. That means each day's probability of success is 1.00 - 2% = 0.98. The probability of being successful for all 55 days is 0.9855 = 0.32918... which means the probability you screwed up at least once is 1.00 - 0.32918... = 0.67081... ≅ 67%. Do you feel lucky, punk?
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Let's say that the chances of you screwing up your daily gummy-eating are fairly low, i.e. 2%. That means each day's probability of success is 1.00 - 2% = 0.98. The probability of being successful for all 55 days is 0.9855 = 0.32918... which means the probability you screwed up at least once is 1.00 - 0.32918... = 0.67081... ≅ 67%. Do you feel lucky, punk?
Based on my track record, I'd say... yes. I have 99.789 percent compliance over the last three years.
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@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Let's say that the chances of you screwing up your daily gummy-eating are fairly low, i.e. 2%. That means each day's probability of success is 1.00 - 2% = 0.98. The probability of being successful for all 55 days is 0.9855 = 0.32918... which means the probability you screwed up at least once is 1.00 - 0.32918... = 0.67081... ≅ 67%. Do you feel lucky, punk?
Just.. Curious... How does one.. grab one gummy instead of two? Like... That does not seem like a normal failure mode
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status: unexpected fudge detected, but the signal is not registering from the nose. What the fuck?
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
How does one.. grab one gummy instead of two? Like... That does not seem like a normal failure mode
Would grabbing three instead of two seem more likely?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
How does one.. grab one gummy instead of two? Like... That does not seem like a normal failure mode
Would grabbing three instead of two seem more likely?
Or just have one escape unseen in the mental mists of morning to live out it's days in the land of lost socks while you retrieve two for consumption.
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Status: what the hell did I just finish reading?!
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Status: A wild SEGV appears! It uses Uninitialised Memory. It is not very effective.
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@dkf I'm way more bothered by the wrong order of events than I should of.
Unless you mean that SIGSEGV signal handler is buggy and uses uninitialized memory. That's a whole new level of ouch.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm way more bothered by the wrong order of events than I should of.
I ran the test code several times while hunting the issue, and it was one of these fun issues that had the actual locus of the problem quite a way from where the crash occurred. With many runs through the code that crashed (without crashes) beforehand, when it was processing some other data that was legal. The combination makes figuring things out with a debugger miserable, but I lucked out when I started wondering why the file offsets were crazy when they should have been zero. Yes, the crazy values were copies of uninitialised data from elsewhere…
But it “wasn't very effective” as I found (and fixed) the root cause quickly.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Just.. Curious... How does one.. grab one gummy instead of two? Like... That does not seem like a normal failure mode
Spoken like someone who doesn't know the joys of getting dressed & ready for the day in the dark.
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@izzion lights are a thing, you know.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion lights are a thing, you know.
Not if you live in Texas.
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@aitap said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: what the hell did I just finish reading?!
I'm having trouble determining words from all the ads...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
Just.. Curious... How does one.. grab one gummy instead of two? Like... That does not seem like a normal failure mode
Spoken like someone who doesn't know the joys of getting dressed & ready for the day in the dark.
My bitches have regular movement and noise patterns enough that I can probably navigate my wake-up routine blindfolded. Including the outside walk.
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@sloosecannon said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Let's say that the chances of you screwing up your daily gummy-eating are fairly low, i.e. 2%. That means each day's probability of success is 1.00 - 2% = 0.98. The probability of being successful for all 55 days is 0.9855 = 0.32918... which means the probability you screwed up at least once is 1.00 - 0.32918... = 0.67081... ≅ 67%. Do you feel lucky, punk?
Just.. Curious... How does one.. grab one gummy instead of two? Like... That does not seem like a normal failure mode
Remember, could have been 3, and they can get sticky. How's the local humidity, do you have a specific hygrometer for the gummies, or are you just using one per room, ?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@aitap said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: what the hell did I just finish reading?!
I'm having trouble determining words from all the ads...