The Official Status Thread
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@loopback0 said:
Assuming there's no negative change to either performance or economy, yes.
Except you know there will be. Or you'll get a urea tank in your trunk. Or both.
There already is a urea tank in the trunk. It's just that the consumption of urea was so low that they could top it up during regular service intervals.
That's what the cheat actually does: It cranks up urea consumption solely during the tests.
The real world consumption of urea solution is about a liter per 1000 km when meeting the emissions standards. Which means that with the changes you'll now need to refill the urea tank about every 2nd refill of diesel.
And refilling this tank is a real bitch with most models - no easy access.
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AND HIS NAME IS This is CNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShmeaqUS5vc
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And refilling this tank is a real bitch with most models - no easy access.
Can't they just run a catheter from the driver's seat?
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@Rhywden said:
And refilling this tank is a real bitch with most models - no easy access.
Can't they just run a catheter from the driver's seat?
If you thusly manage to hit the urea concentration needed for the cleaning cycle, then I'd humbly suggest getting to a hospital stat.
You may need a new kidney or two.
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I drink a lot of coffee. I bet my 11am piss would work just fine.
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We're holding our thumbs for you.
Does that belong on the Dutch Expressions thread?
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What is your phone model? I had difficulty with CM on Galaxy SIII, but works flawlessly with LiquidSmooth.
Note II.
The ROM I'm using, CyanideL, works pretty well so far, but the graphical performance in games went way down. Very disappointing--I might have to give up CM-based mods and go back to one based on the stock ROM but deknoxed, unless there's a better driver binary or something.
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Sourh african, apparently (not too far off from dutch, then).
TIL; I always thought that was an expression that worked in english as well as swedish. I've been reading too much Wilbur Smith in my youth, I suppose.
Ok, we're crossing our fingers instead then, if that makes you feel better.
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There already is a urea tank in the trunk
Wrong for a lot of the impacted models. Most of them don't.
That's what the cheat actually does: It cranks up urea consumption solely during the tests.
Well... maybe on the cars with it. Sure as shit doesn't on the cars without it.
The real world consumption of urea solution is about a liter per 1000 km when meeting the emissions standards
My EmissionWagen's consumption of urea is 0 litres per infinity miles.
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Interview done. Dicsores on mobile sucks. It's been a very long day -- up @ 0300, home about 2400. Flight boarding; gotta go.
Well, now that I'm home, had a reasonable night's sleep (although
caffeine.consume()has not yet completed), and typing on a real keyboard...TL;DR:
Missed flights. Lots of stress. Interview ok, but not great. 21½ hour day: 0300 – 0027.Details:
Yesterday sucked. The interview, itself, went ok, I think, although not as well as I would have liked. Some of the technical questions were easy; some I needed rather more coaching than I would have wanted to do if I were on the other side of the table.3 software questions that were fairly straightforward:
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Reverse a linked list. This one took me a while, but I finally got the order of updating the pointers right so that I didn't lose any. (At least I didn't need the interviewer to point that out; most of that answer consisted of, "No, that's not right; I don't have a pointer to {prev,cur,next} any more. Hm, if I update Y before X, ... Still not right; now I don't have a pointer to ..." Eventually I got it right.) (Correct answer, although I don't think it's the one the interviewer was looking for: [spoiler]If you need to reverse it, a linked list is probably the wrong data structure to be using.[/spoiler]
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Implement a queue using stacks as the underlying data structure. "Ok, that works, and it's fairly well optimized for the case where enqueue and dequeue operations are interleaved. How would you optimize it for the case where we load up the queue with a bunch of stuff, and then start interleaving dequeue operations?" It took me a few minutes, mostly of checking myself to make sure I wasn't overlooking anything. "Good. I don't expect you to write any more code, because we don't have time, but what, if anything, is missing?" Handling the case of trying to dequeue when the queue is empty. (Enqueuing to a full FIFO was N/A, as one of the given conditions was that the stacks were unbounded.)
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Assume a rand() function with a uniform distribution. Write a class that, given a list of ints, returns a distribution weighted according the list. My solution wasn't particularly elegant or efficient for large lists or large weights. I didn't do very well on the "How could you optimize that?" question. Naturally, I thought of the answer while driving to the airport. (It's exactly a problem I had (although I don't recall whether I ever got around to implementing it) in that computer-mediated board game framework I once mentioned in a Coding Help topic. If you think of a spinner in which the segments the pointer can point to are of unequal size, the solution is obvious. If only I had thought of that during the interview.)
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caffeine.consume()complete; scheduled to run again in 3-ish hours.)Questions on logic design and verification, one pretty simple, a couple that were complex and needed some coaching. One, in particular, I needed too much (Maybe? I think so.) coaching.
Instruction/operation pipelining. Meh. I think I did ok on some questions; not so great on others.
No questions on the stuff I was worried about having forgotten from not having used it for a while.
Overall, I think I did reasonably well — not as well as I would have liked, but I think I have a decent chance at getting the job.
That was the highlight of the day; the rest of the day was a disaster.
Getting up at 0300 gave me enough time to get ready, drive to the airport, and catch my flight — if everything went just right. It didn't. I missed my flight. I got to the airport maybe 5 minutes too late. If I had parked at the airport instead of the cheaper (maybe; more on that later) off-airport lot I usually use, I probably would have made it.
The only available flight that had a chance of getting me there on time went to SFO instead of SJC, which meant a much longer drive through traffic (instead of ~10 minutes). (Also, that flight was delayed for 15 – 20 minutes, for raisins.) Sitting in traffic on 101, it was pretty apparent I was going to be late. Called my contact (talking was hands-free, but dialing was not
), gave her my (pessimistic, as it turned out) estimate for arrival. Ok, we'll just have you start with the second interviewer, and reschedule the first on for the end of the day. Get there quite a bit early for the new starting time.When the airline rebooked my flight to SFO, they also changed the return flight. The ticket agent asked if I wanted to change (yes, because of rental car), but not what time I wanted the return flight. The return flight out of SFO was booked at almost the same time as the original flight out of SJC; I already knew I probably wasn't going to make that flight. Ticket agent said, there's a later flight that's almost full, but get to the gate so you don't miss this flight, and call Reservations at this number. Ok, go through security; get to the gate. (Security wasn't too bad; somehow I wound up with TSA Precheck status.) Call Reservations. "Sorry, you're in Check-In status; if I change your status now to rebook your return flight, you'll be denied boarding on this flight. Fly to SFO, then call us."
By the time I called them (while driving (again) to SFO after my interview), the later flight was full, and I was booked on an even later flight. Relax (in theory, but not really), refuel rental car* and return it, and get to the airport with about 2 hours to spare. Kiosk won't print my boarding pass; go to the counter. No TSA Precheck this time, but who cares? The line's not bad, and I've got plenty of time. Get something to eat. I should be able to relax, but I'm still running on caffeine and adrenaline from the earlier stress.
About 20 minutes before we land, and caffeine and adrenaline wear off, and I start getting really sleepy. Bad timing; I still have an hour drive home from the airport. Land, wait in the cold for the shuttle to the parking lot, scrape ice off windshield, pay for parking. The "cheap" lot is cheap, but has so many taxes and fees tacked on that it's about double the advertised rate. I'm not sure it's significantly cheaper than parking at the airport.
Drive home. Low fuel light. Can I make it? Maybe, but it's not worth it. Stand in the cold to pump gas. Finish drive home. Feed dogs, let them out to relieve themselves, give them a couple minutes of attention since they haven't had any all day. Collapse into bed at 0027.
Â* The gas station closest to the airport has exorbitant prices, almost as much as paying the rental agency to refuel it. I went to the station I usually go to, near my ex-wife's house, but actually bought the gas from a station I had passed that was a few cents cheaper. I don't know why I bothered, since the company will reimburse me for expenses, just habit.
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I drink a lot of coffee. I bet my 11am piss would work just fine.
That should, I think, result in a more dilute urea solution, not more concentrated.
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The "cheap" lot is cheap, but has so many taxes and fees tacked on that it's about double the advertised rate. I'm not sure it's significantly cheaper than parking at the airport.
Not for a single day.
The off-airport lots are only cheaper for 3+ days.
Drive home. Low fuel light. Can I make it? Maybe, but it's not worth it. Stand in the cold to pump gas.
Ok well that one's on you. And my grandpa always said, "the top half of the tank works just as well as the bottom half!" Then we buried him.
Feed dogs, let them out to relieve themselves, give them a couple minutes of attention since they haven't had any all day.
Pfft. My cat would have just given me an annoyed look because I came back.
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Status: after talking about theremin music a few days ago, I've been jonesing to watch MST3K: The Movie again. I know I owned it on DVD at one point, but now I can't find the disk for the life me of.
I mean it's not very good. But still.
But behind the screen of DVDs I use to trick people into thinking I'm cultured (Citizen Kane, Metropolis, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Cabin Boy, etc.) I found my complete Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. box set. So that's a positive.
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And my grandpa always said, "the top half of the tank works just as well as the bottom half!" Then we buried him.
Did you bury him in the top half of the coffin or the bottom?
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That should, I think, result in a more dilute urea solution, not more concentrated.
That depends on how often one eats burgers and steaks (and other high-nitrogen food).
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Did you bury him in the top half of the coffin or the bottom?
Do you have any plans for the other half?
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Status: Episode 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qdsebchx0
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Status: discovered some new locally brewed beer
Thought I'd some how been missing out for ages, but turns out the brewery only launched 2 days ago.
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Status: Was wrapping up an emergency support call caused by an alleged SQL developer not bothering to index any fucking tables causing a same day SLA process (the rodent-oriented process I complained about in lounge last weekend) to take zillions of hours when I noticed a series of other support tickets complaining that another process had done nothing for days.
I'm a curious SOB, so I glanced at it. Our operations team was steadfastly refusing that it was doing nothing as it was receiving no data, and the other end was insisting that that would be unprecedented.
Indeed it would be unprecedented. So I pulled up the processing queue for that app. Plenty of data, time-stamped from within minutes of the original complaint to just now.
So I flipped over to our automated processing issue triage system, pulled up that app and saw a series of faults that had been yriaged as "expected failure". A glance at the errors showed that it was reporting a very specific validation error on data in its processing queue that requires human judgement to clear. It was getting increasingly frantic as the data got older, too. Whoever developed that one needs a pat on the back.
I made the necessary judgement (because I'm awesome) and shot a nastygram to our operations bosses telling them that their team has not been doing their jobs.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only person around here who actually knows what they're doing.
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How come none of the Charr are pink?
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The off-airport lots are only cheaper for 3+ days.
Now I know. I'm not sure if I'd ever done a down and back in one day trip.
Ok well that one's on you.
Yeah. All of it is, really. I weighed the trade-off between getting (not) enough sleep to be alert during the interview vs. being rushed in the morning, and got it wrong. If I'd gotten up at 0230, I'd have been ok and not that much more tired.
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Status:
for lawn in lawns: lawn.mow() self.clean() self.dress() caffeine = Tea() lunch = Lunch() lunch.eat() while caffeine.temperature >= Temperature.SCALDING: WTDWTF() caffeine.consume()
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Why are you mowing the lawn(s) naked? Isn't it a bit cold in your neck of the woods for that?
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Quite, not to mention a bit too public. Prior to the start of the snippet posted above, there was a call to
self.dressInOldGrungyStuffIPulledOutOfTheDirtyLaundry(), but I didn't really feel like typing that. There was also a call toself.eliminateWaste()that I didn't think it was necessary to mention, either.
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I guess people in the Fallout-verse are pretty desensitized.
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So I'm awake. Because the helpful help desk decided to call me about that mousy ticket I complained about earlier.
It was reopened. At 630pm yesterday evening.
They called me at 430am.Do you know where I was at 430am? In my nice warm bed, sleeping.
Do you know where I was at 630pm? At my fucking desk in the fucking office because I am a fucking abused animal. Where I could have taken care of this in twenty fucking seconds.Do you know where the fucking Internet was down? At my fucking house at fucking 430 in the fucking morning. Do you know what my fucking employer doesn't pay for on the fucking rotation phones? Fucking tethering.
So I used my own.
Do you know what the problem that caused the fucking ticket to be reopened was? Neither do I because there wasn't a fucking thing wrong.
In summary, my escalation stats are shot to shit because the automated system shows 10 fucking escalations between when the ticket was reopened and when anybody fucking bothered to call me about it, I'm pissed off, I'm awake enough that there's no going back to sleep, my only internet is over LTE, and I am trying to figure out how best to kill everybody within 500 miles of our Bangalore office because it's the proportionate response.
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I am trying to figure out how best to kill everybody within 500 miles of our Bangalore office because it's the proportionate response.
You would need an h-bomb for that
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@Weng said:
I am trying to figure out how best to kill everybody within 500 miles of our Bangalore office because it's the proportionate response.
You would need an h-bomb for that
A bomb with that kill radius would probably crack open the Earth's mantle.
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Even the largest nuclear weapons are pretty localized. 500 miles is going to need either a high mass rock or a high velocity kinetic impactor dropped on it from space.
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A bomb with that kill radius would probably crack open the Earth's mantle.
Still matches @weng requirements, we're shipping it
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Not necessarily. Fusion bombs don't have an upper limit, AFAIK.
The Tsar Bomba was limited to 50 Mt because they wanted the pilots to be able to get out of the blast radius.
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Status: Bought a new machine, at last!
Plan for today: tweak all the things!
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Status: writing an extension for SMF... confused at some of the under-the-hood changes that have been made in the last year and a half.
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and I am trying to figure out how best to kill everybody within 500 miles of our Bangalore office because it's the proportionate response
Redirect your phone to them. That should take care of it in a week or two.
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Why not just poison the local curry supply. Come on, people, work smarter not harder.
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Bought a new machine, at last
So there will be clean cloths in your closet again?
E_MACHINE_NOT_SPECIFIED
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I did think of that, but there is no easy way to make it more poisonous than it already is.
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Put beef in it!
Jesus do I have to do all the thinking around here.
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Does not work on all of them, and the rest would just switch to biryani.
Some thinking might do you good, for a change. :-)
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it is likely that you can get them all into one giant fight if you release a limited supply of swedish porn magasines. That might work.
... If you also cut off their internet access at the same time.
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But I like curry
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Codsucker!
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Status: turned on some MST3K. SWEET HOTPAD LOVE!
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work smarter not harder.
Why "Work Smart, Not Hard" is the Worst Advice in the World
Work smarter, not harder? Don't tell it to Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe, who meets some of the hardest-working people in America. In fact, he argues, that mantra is the opposite of the attitude we need to beat this lousy economy.
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Status: powerlevelling in the first Guild Wars so I can get a pet in the second.
