You go MIT
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The first reminded me of an incident 10 or 12 years ago: I had occasion to borrow my parents river boat for a weekend to "do stuff" with my then wife a a couple of friends. First day out my friend broke the toilet. It was a proper sea toilet i.e. it did no flush you had to pump it. This meant I spent the rest of the day stripping and cleaning / repairing the pump.
Go on away to your hearts content.
When I used to do my offshore sailing (in Tall Ship), with a mixed crew. the toilets often got blocked with "dead white mice". Despite loads of signs stating "Only put in this toilet stuff you have eaten". Eventually I asked what that actually meant.
The second one is easy, but expensive: You go it to the store and buy a shit load of plumbing stuff, including the tool you need to shift a load of shit.
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It was a proper sea toilet i.e. it did no flush you had to pump it.
Pah! Luxury! Our trains still have just a pedal that just opens a flap and everything just falls to the ground.
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Better be careful then. If to many people miss the "hole" and the wood becomes soaked in piss, it will rot. The effort of pushing the pedal just might be enough to push the whole floor out.
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how does a toilet work?
“It doesn’t.”Or was the question specifically about a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet]flush toilet[/url]?
there needs to be a loop for the electricity to flow seems lost on a lot of the people in the video.
One of them says that it needs more than one wire, yet doesn’t seem to realise she could press the bulb against the battery — like the guy shown after her does.There are no easy-to-obtain light bulbs you can power with an easy-to-obtain battery.
Bicycle lightbulbs are easy enough to get, as a 1.5 V batteries. Sure, the bulb might be designed for 2.5 V or 6 V or something, but it’ll light up with a battery like that.
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Why does every thread here go to shit lately?
I'll show myself out.
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Currently the "Shit Thread" is https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/google-what-country-is/51801
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Our trains still have just a pedal that just opens a flap and everything just falls to the ground.
It was only relatively recently that they started doing anything other than that here. The current generation of trains have tanks to hold it all in, but the previous ones did not…
And yes, the trackside environment is somewhere I definitely wouldn't want to work.
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How the fuck did a topic about lousy engineers converted to one about cat shit and toilets? Damn!
- Can you light this bulb with this battery?
- sure, let me try
- this isn't the right voltage
- here, another smaller bulb
- yay! Electricity is magic!
Now, I bet many of the guys who I graduated with wouldn't be able to do it.
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"dead white mice"
Is that what they call them nowadays?
Filed under: It always confuses me when people wrap up half their arm like a boxing glove for each wipe...
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wouldn't be able to do it.
Agreed, unfortunately.My first response to the question: "Probably, but I'd like to know why you need me in particular to do so"
Similarly to the toilet: "Usually pretty good, until it doesn't."
Filed under: Probably 'd, but can't be arsed to search who did
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My first response to the question: "Probably, but I'd like to know why you need me in particular to do so"
I hope you have already decided not to work there. This answer says these things to the interviewer:
- I am not interested in thinking about how things work at any level deeper than is absolutely necessary.
- Rather than answer your simply worded question, I am questioning your choice of interviewing technique. I am a professional developer and you are a professional interviewer, yet I feel I know enough about interviewing to doubt your skills at your job.
- Since, in #2, I have thought about interviewing at a level deeper than necessary, I obviously didn't really mean #1.
- This leaves no doubt that I do not respect the interviewer's prerogative to conduct this interview as he sees fit.
The standard "how many golf balls will fit in a 747" type questions are boring and of questionable usefulness, but the best response is just to play along and answer the question. It may be that the interviewer is required to ask these types of questions by company policy, or maybe he's new at this and trying out puzzle questions to see if they are worth it. Either way, you want to be seen as a pleasant person to deal with (even if it's not true). You can always turn them down if they make you an offer, but you can't accept an offer they don't make.
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I hope you have already decided not to work there
Depends on my mood, and how the interviewer presents themselves beforehand.When I'm feeling nice, I go into Dissertation Mode, starting with a brief history of electricity and working my way up from there. Wo be unto them if they allow me to use a writing implement (i.e. not a phone interview), for they shall receive two pages of assumptions, assertions, and diagram-sketches, a design document for the proposed project (along with attached requirements document), testing plan, proposed bill of materials, WBS schedule for project implementation and roll-out, and a few other things that I may think up of as we go, depending on how long they intend to let me ramble.
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Yeah but the mechanism wears out every decade or so, so unless you're a little baby-infant you've surely had to repair a toilet at least once. And it's basically impossible to repair one without knowing how it works.
You know what's awesome about living in apartments? You call the office and a guy comes out and fixes it for you.
Having said that, Youtube is full of videos on how to do it.
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Maybe if I visited one in a time-pod. They've all been LED powered for like 10 years here.
Even so. You can go into any store like Fry's or Walmart or Target and get a battery-powered LED flashlight for $3, which'll let you try this out.
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Actually: having to repair / unblock the toilet was, what I call, a life event. It was the occasion when I realised that I actual owned my own home, because the buck stopped with me. Yes, I had done so before but there was always the comfort of knowing that I could "pass the buck".
Never had to repair one but have unblocked ours a couple of times due to over-zealous toilet paper use/unauthorised wet wipe flushing by our 4 year old.
My toilet unblocking kit comprises of a reshaped wire coat hanger.
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reshaped wire coat hanger.
A screw-driver, a 2.5 HP shop-vac, pipe wrench, Elmer's glue, a bobby pin, tweezers, automated snake, and some fishing line (with hook, to be used only in emergencies because it's unlikely you're going to get it back).
Filed under: Why couldn't they make the pipe wider? Two inches is hardly enough for this!
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Two inches is hardly enough for this!
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I am not interested in thinking about how things work at any level deeper than is absolutely necessary.
I bet you're one of those people who'll happily spend three days debugging through a 3rd party library instead of getting on with your actual job.
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Unless his job is debugging 3rd party libraries :woosh:
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I suspect you don't know what 3rd party libraries are...
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Does it clump?
Yes, it does. Not quite as well as clay, but well enough. I used it for 8 months while I was abroad and never thought of looking for a source of clay-based litter.
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Having said that, Youtube is full of videos on how to do it.
Slight offtopic (shock, horror!) but I have found YouTube to be the best source of instructions on how to take apart laptops, since modern ones tend at have at least one damned screw hidden in a non-obvious place. Hunting the official service manual usually takes more time, if you even find it.
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Some of the comments above about experience and such are correct. I expect, though, that one of the biggest problems with people from MIT is the PhD effect.
This is definitely worth reading, if you want to know why PhD's sometimes seem so...well, however they seem to you...
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
Basically, they wind up focused exclusively on their specialty and tend to know little about anything else.
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Specialization is for insects. - Heinlein
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9V battery such as you'd fit in a fire alarm, just about any car bulb. Possibly the little ones from the indicator side repeaters would be best.
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a LED flashlight bulb would make the experiment possible
With the added challenge of getting the polarity right. But considering the problem space is of size 2 (after pruning all of the obviously invalid solutions), I would think a brute-force approach might just be feasible.
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How the fuck did a topic about lousy engineers converted to one about cat shit and toilets?
That's the magic of electricity!
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How the fuck did a topic about lousy engineers converted to one about cat shit and toilets? Damn!
YMBHN
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modern ones tend at have at least one damned screw hidden in a non-obvious place
Could be worse. Could be an old iBook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52-nCu2wW1M
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9V battery such as you'd fit in a fire alarm, just about any car bulb. Possibly the little ones from the indicator side repeaters would be best.
Wouldn't even need the wire for that.
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Give that man an MIT diploma in combined economics and electrical engineering!
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I bet you're one of those people who'll happily spend three days debugging through a 3rd party library instead of getting on with your actual job.
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Incidentally I'm protected from them.
Also what are we arguing about?
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Just how does a toilet work?
You don't know? Jesus christ, how did you manage to work your way up the corporate ladder without knowing how to shit properly? How do you even manage to function in society? Do you use a goddamn litter box or something? Is that what I'm smelling. I pity your underlings who have to kiss you ass when they get teeth full of litter, sand and stuck-on crap. Why in the name of holy hell would I want to work for an idiot that literally needs help to know to wipe his own ass?
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I believe this to be explanation enough.
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"Do you know where the toilet is?"
down the hall, third door on your left, first door on the right after that for female, first door on the left for male, or second door on the right for unisex disabled or baby station.
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down the hall, third door on your left, first door on the right after that for female, first door on the left for male, or second door on the right for unisex disabled or baby station.
You're hired.
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where
It's not really a question of "where", but more importantly, when.
Filed under: It seems maintenance is cleaning the "rest" rooms again. Gotta wait another half hour it seems...
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FFS! just wear adult diapers and you'll never have that problem again.
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wear diapers
No. Our Regeneration systems can hold bodily waste for far longer than the inconvenience of using such inefficient external waste storage utensils.
Filed under: Of course, that might be the exact reason why they seem to clean it so often...
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Could be worse. Could be an old iBook.
8-bit guy! He's awesome!
Anyhow, this reminds me of a Toshiba I took apart as one of my first jobs at Computer City back in '96 (was only there a month before I took an engineering position elsewhere). I counted 156 screws I had to take apart just to get to the hard drive to replace it, mounted under the motherboard and all. Occasionally two screws matched, otherwise they were all unique.
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Toshy's low-end laptops are some of my least favorite things in the whole world.
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Anyhow, this reminds me of a Toshiba I took apart as one of my first jobs at Computer City back in '96 (was only there a month before I took an engineering position elsewhere). I counted 156 screws I had to take apart just to get to the hard drive to replace it, mounted under the motherboard and all. Occasionally two screws matched, otherwise they were all unique.
to this day my official recommendation to anyone who asks me for help with a toshiba is "throw it out and buy a new one. it'll be cheaper."
if they insist my second answer will be "fine, that will be 300$/hr with a minimum of ten hours, plus parts, due up front. Don't like it? well you could try your luck with the
hamfistgeek squad atworstbest buy, or you could try your luck with the manufacturer.... that will be cheaper yeah, but it will take longer and the odds of fixing aren't great. Did i mention you could just buy a new one of these for like $400? less than a sixth of what i'm going to charge you? well if you insist.... cash only, In goddess i trust, all others pay cash.
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@accalia said:
down the hall, third door on your left, first door on the right after that for female, first door on the left for male, or second door on the right for unisex disabled or baby station.
You're hired.
Wait, was her answer audited for proper procedural correctness yet?
Filed under: Yes, I'm in the middle of 3 audits right now, why do you ask?
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was her answer audited
No, but apparently the apparent interpretation of the answer indicated strong tendencies toward a refined professional that cares about procedures and possibly policies, ignoring the choice of interviewing technique, and intending to interview deeper, which shows that she respects the interviewer's prerogative to conduct the interview as they see fit.
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@redwizard said:
was her answer audited
No, but apparently the apparent interpretation of the answer indicated strong tendencies toward a refined professional that cares about procedures and possibly policies, ignoring the choice of interviewing technique, and intending to interview deeper, which shows that she respects the interviewer's prerogative to conduct the interview as they see fit.oh, do tell me more.
/me pats self on back
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Not sure if I can. Unfortunately I was reversing the points @Jaime made in Post 61Sorry. I just don't have enough energy at the moment to be creative.
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Aren't the new MacBooks impossible to disassemble?