The Official Status Thread
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9am Company wide email welcoming a new staff member.9.30am Company wide email saying ignore the last email as she's changed her mind.
ROFL, that's a morale buster.
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No one paid too much attention the bit about her because it wasn't the biggest wtf.
The email was sent out because upper management are being encouraged to share more information with us plebs. Happily it also disclosed in the mail that this person was being brought in to head up a project that had been top secret, a real game changer for our company. Everyone is now talking about this project and the implications rather than our "new starter".
Just another day.
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But if it started as shit, it should surely turn into gold now, right?
No, it only goes in one direction. Instead of just being shit, it'll turn into smelly shit. Or liquid shit. Or both, or worse.
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Is it a big new project to improve employee retention?
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Even better, it'll piss off a bunch of customers so they'll end up leaving us.
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This is the dumbest thing.
Dumbest quote about dumbest thing:
The F21 Thread Screen is one of the most complex machines ever built for a brand. It's comprised of 200,000+ parts - over 8 times what you'd find in your car. Every component, from the thousands of motors and gears, to the 600 pounds of milled aluminum, to the turned wooden spools - all have been custom designed, engineered, and manufactured from scratch. Despite the massive complexities living under the hood, the result is a beautiful and simple looking display that is mesmerizing to watch.
No. It's not. It's one of those old train station flip-signs but with spools of thread. Except they aren't even spools of thread, they're spools of long rainbow belts made to look like spools of thread.
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Status: an AT&T truck showed up at my house and the guy from the truck said he's installing UVerse. Apparently MilwaukeePC is now outsourcing their internet service through AT&T instead of buying a Time Warner plan and splitting it three ways. Also, apparently we need to have all new cables. That makes a bit more sense than what my dad told me, but still, why does 6Mbps internet require a cable modem?
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This is the dumbest thing.
They'll find that out the first time someone instagrams goatse with their hashtag.
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Status: an AT&T truck showed up at my house and the guy from the truck said he's installing UVerse. Apparently MilwaukeePC is now outsourcing their internet service through AT&T
... so why the hell are you buying from MilwaukeePC and not AT&T directly?
Also, apparently we need to have all new cables. That makes a bit more sense than what my dad told me, but still, why does 6Mbps internet require a cable modem?
Is that a trick question, or...?
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Awesome--they livestream from their web page, and just now they showed a picture from @kyangger, who is a bad spellar.
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Passed third actuarial exam. Updated book about second actuarial exam. Writing book about first actuarial exam.
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Presumably if they need to run new lines it isn't coming through the phone line, right?
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Is that a trick question, or...?
Well, presumably we've been getting 6Mbps already because if we haven't they're selling us a service and then not giving it to us.
If we have been getting 6Mbps through the phone line, why do we need a whole new line for the same speed of internet?
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You're switching providers. Should anyone be surprised if they do things differently?
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If we have been getting 6Mbps through the phone line, why do we need a whole new line for the same speed of internet?
Oh; so you're asking why they need to give you a cable modem instead of your existing DSL modem.
Now it makes a bit of sense.
But the cable modem has a much, much, much higher top speed, so it's still a dumb question. Take it if they offer it. Even if you don't get the speed today, maybe you can 6 months from now.
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Presumably if they need to run new lines it isn't coming through the phone line, right?
Unless they're going to run a new phone line. But I'd imagine you'd know if that were the case.
But yeah, if you aren't already wired for cable/fiber/FIOS/etc/whatever, then yeah, they'll have to do that. When I got FIOS at a previous address, they had to do that because the wires weren't already there. In that case it was pretty nice, they had a trenching tool that made, essentially a half-inch-wide or so cut a few feet deep. There wasn't a pit or anything.
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According to Wikipedia, the 6Mbps U-verse plan has 1.5Mbps upload. But MilwaukeePC's site says the 1.5Mbps upload only comes with the 18Mbps plan. I'm confused.
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If we have been getting 6Mbps through the phone line, why do we need a whole new line for the same speed of internet?
It could be that the existing line is of poor quality, so they're putting a new one in. That might explain why your speeds are so bad.
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But MilwaukeePC's site says the 1.5Mbps upload only comes with the 18Mbps plan. I'm confused.
Perhaps so is MPC.
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According to Wikipedia, the 6Mbps U-verse plan has 1.5Mbps upload. But MilwaukeePC's site says the 1.5Mbps upload only comes with the 18Mbps plan. I'm confused.
I wouldn't trust either one of those sources.
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They're apparently just going to leave the cable on the ground outside and send someone to bury it later.
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They're apparently just going to leave the cable on the ground outside and send someone to bury it later.
Now that's the kind of inattention to detail and quality we've come to know and expect from AT&T.
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https://www.att.com/shop/internet.html
AT&T's page doesn't even mention a 6Mbps plan. All they show is 3, 18 and 45. They just quote a single number without mention of down vs up.
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They're apparently just going to leave the cable on the ground outside and send someone to bury it later.
Verizon has done something similar with a FiOS cable in the development where I'm trying to get rid of my slumlord condo.
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AT&T's website has this:
AT&T High Speed Internet Elite AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet FastAccess DSL Xtreme 6.0
3.1 Mbps - 6 Mbps down
512 Kbps - 1 Mbps up
AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet Max
6.1 Mbps - 12 Mbps down
512 Kbps - 1.5 Mbps upSo I guess I'm getting the one with the really long name and my upload speed will be 10xDialup. And Wikipedia is lying through its teeth.
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Verizon has done something similar with a FiOS cable in the development where I'm trying to get rid of my slumlord condo.
I guess I got lucky when they buried the cable as they installed it.
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I love how the AT&T website has a speed called "MAX" and then three speeds that are above "MAX" named things like "MAX PLUS".
https://www.att.com/salescms/dam/att/2014/shop/buyflow-wireline/WLBF-18MBPS-en-MaxPlus.gif
Also, apparently people go to YouTube to do something other than watch videos or listen to music.
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Status: considering putting together a mini wind farm to benefit from the hurricane caused by all the s today.
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a speed called "MAX" and then three speeds that are above "MAX" named things like "MAX PLUS".
Marketers have no shame.
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I guess I got lucky when they buried the cable as they installed it.
I'm not sure what's going on. It's had buried FiOS cables for about 8 years now. But there's currently a fiber cable running on the sidewalk and grass.
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Status: Wondering why internet service providers never mention their latency in advertisements. I mean, they could bullshit it the same way they bullshit speeds. "down to 0.009 minute latency" sounds pretty good if you give it exactly 0 seconds of thought.
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Wondering why internet service providers never mention their latency in advertisements. I mean, they could bullshit it the same way they bullshit speeds.
Cable is probably going to have sub-100ms latency, and probably under 30ms. I dunno about DSL.
They don't mention it so that they're not contractually obligated to honor a particular number, of course.
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Status: Apparently they needed to run a new line because MilwaukeePC won't let them turn off one connection before the new one is up and running. Apparently they feel that having tin-cans-with-string internet and having to run a whole new set of cables is better than disconnecting one house's internet for a few minutes.
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Status: due to a miscalculation on my part, i'm going to see what happens when linux mint gets a full hard disk to work.
right now i'm compressing a folder AND moving files out of the main disk. if the moving out is faster, i won't break my system, if it's the compression well... fuck
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Status: D is a passing grade, you know.
What? Every school I went to, D might as well have been F. C- was always the lowest passing grade.
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Status:
Dad: "Can I unplug the old router?"
Ben: "Yeah, nothing's connected to it anymore."
Chromebook: "This webpage cannot be displayed because you are not connected to the internet"
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New Router: "No connection, starting up..."Apparently "unplug the thing and leave the other thing plugged in" was a difficult instruction for him.
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Ben why don't you just help your dad out?
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Ben why don't you just help your dad out?
And give up a burgeoning career in entertainment? What's wrong with you?
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Status: D is a passing grade, you know.
Seems a lot better than what you had before.
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Status: saw a fox this morning on my way to work
status²: it was laying in the middle of the road and wasn't moving
status³: even before I ran over it
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Status: after two weeks of bikeshedding things like column order, text on buttons, dictionaries, etc, etc, everything almost ready to ship:
"Yeah, that's really good... oh, by the way, that whole process you're modelling? It works totally different than you're assuming."
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKING JESUS FUCK.
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Status: saw a fox this morning on my way to work
status²: it was laying in the middle of the road and wasn't moving
status³: even before I ran over it
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Status: Reading a software license
I see the problem.
before I've had caffeine this morning.
Ah, trying to go back to sleep...