The Official Status Thread
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
something newer than FF 22?
That was current Edge on current Win 10 Pro...
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Pre-coffee meant to ask "what time is it," but instead pondered the much more profound question
Filed under: A miserable little pile of secrets.
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@hungrier The frogs are out there!
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It's time for our trientannual performance review, where we give ourselves scores on everything we've done and discuss our successes and failures with our managers.
It's basically the most terrible thing you could possibly ask someone with anxiety and poor self-esteem to do.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It's time for our trientannual performance review
It's not clear to me whether you mean it happens quadrimestrally or trienally.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
trienally
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
But the former.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
quadrimestrally
I meant "three times a year, but not spaced out evenly every four months." (We have beginning of year, middle of year, and end of year.) English has failed me.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
quadrimestrally
I meant "three times a year, but not spaced out evenly every four months." (We have beginning of year, middle of year, and end of year.) English has failed me.
I've heard of this unambiguous language. Log jamb or someshit?
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@error Is it Muphry's Law if I typed correctly how I thought the word was written even though that was not correct?
Probably.
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Status: Preparing for my yearly performance review tomorrow, 90 minutes, part of which includes me reviewing all the projects/work/publications/supervising students/etc. that happened in 2020. I always hate this, but this time I basically don't even remember. I mean, 2020 was mostly a blur, no idea what I worked on when and if it even was that year. I'd prefer not thinking about it much anymore. Oh yeah, including another round of "I didn't have the time to write that paper I promised to publish the last 3 years," with me thinking "stop annoying me with publishing shit and let me write software."
I don't even know why I dread it so much. The reviews have always been mostly positive, and it's not like the signs in any way point in them wanting to get rid of me or any other negative consequences. It's just the dread of being judged negatively, some left-over traces of impostor syndrome, and me never actually improving on the areas where last year was "pretty good overall, you should get better at xyz". E.g., see above for empty promises about academic output that I basically ignore all the way between February and December.Fake edit: I see @error happens to be doing the same.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh yeah, including another round of "I didn't have the time to write that paper I promised to publish the last 3 years," with me thinking "stop annoying me with publishing shit and let me write software."
I'm fortunate in that I don't have papers as a major output. (It's the key indicator for others in our research group; they get to do most of the writing.)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Fake edit: I see @error happens to be doing the same.
Lots of us are... (I have an email in my inbox from workday "ACTION: ...")
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I think my coffee binges are making me behave like a speed freak here. Time to cut back...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I mean, 2020 was mostly a blur, no idea what I worked on when and if it even was that year. I'd prefer not thinking about it much anymore.
Just put it bluntly. "To be honest, I didn't do much of anything last year and I barely remember it. I was probably drunk the whole time."
Management will find your honesty refreshing.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
making me behave like a speed freak
I mean, at least it's not making you behave like a Matrix freak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_(1994_film)
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OK, I'm going to focus on work now.
Spoiler
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I think my coffee binges are making me behave like a speed freak here. Time to cut back...
Or alternatively...
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@hungrier I caffeinate as a response to stress, but it just exacerbates the problem.
Cool scene, but if you could move around that fast, you'd be displacing air and shoving around huge amounts of kinetic energy. If you look at Randall Munroe's What If series, doing things at extreme speeds tends to always go poorly.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Zig-Zag-Internet
What are the kids in my neighborhood doing now that they take away such big slices of my line?4GB of RAM? Please return the computer you stole from @Tsaukpaetra now.
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@error But everything was already on fire, so it cancels out. Science!
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
4GB of RAM? Please return the computer you stole from @Tsaukpaetra now.
4GB of RAM is the total from like 6 of @Tsaukpaetra's computers.
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Do you mean the total amount of RAM, or the amount of RAM that's not broken?
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@Zerosquare Yes
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
4GB of RAM? Please return the computer you stole from @Tsaukpaetra now.
4GB of RAM is the total from like 6 of @Tsaukpaetra's computers.
*counts...* .... ... ... You're not wrong....
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@Atazhaia could be a VM, you don't know.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
no idea what I worked on
I know
a computer
Alternative, NSFW (or not-safe-for-boss) response
A penis.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I mean, 2020 was mostly a blur, no idea what I worked on when and if it even was that year. I'd prefer not thinking about it much anymore.
Just put it bluntly. "To be honest, I didn't do much of anything last year and I barely remember it. I was probably drunk the whole time."
Management will find your honesty refreshing.
Given that last year was 2020, that might be more forgivable than usual.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I mean, 2020 was mostly a blur, no idea what I worked on when and if it even was that year. I'd prefer not thinking about it much anymore.
Just put it bluntly. "To be honest, I didn't do much of anything last year and I barely remember it. I was probably drunk the whole time."
Management will find your honesty refreshing.
Given that last year was 2020, that might be more forgivable than usual.
For some work-at-homers, that could be "I did a
git clone
. Status this year - still waiting for it to complete."
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia could be a VM, you don't know.
With that amount of RAM, it would be his VM server
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I need to get better about putting perishable food back in the fridge once I use the portion I need. Things like mayo, (fake) cheese, etc.
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@Benjamin-Hall That's a reason to use real mayo instead of salad dressing. "Soybean oil, water, whole eggs and egg yolks, distilled vinegar, salt, sugar, lemon juice concentrate, calcium disodium EDTA, natural flavors." No dairy.
Oh. Fake cheese, not fake mayo. NEVER MIND. Punctuation blurs out if I hold the phone too close, lost the comma. Too much longer and my arms will be too short to see my phone when I have my contacts in.
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@SirTwist said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall That's a reason to use real mayo instead of salad dressing. "Soybean oil, water, whole eggs and egg yolks, distilled vinegar, salt, sugar, lemon juice concentrate, calcium disodium EDTA, natural flavors." No dairy.
Oh. Fake cheese, not fake mayo. NEVER MIND. Punctuation blurs out if I hold the phone too close, lost the comma. Too much longer and my arms will be too short to see my phone when I have my contacts in.
Yeah, bad eyesight sucks. I should get my glasses checked, but . Heck, I go outside my house for more than checking the mail and taking out the trash about once per week, and not because of covid-19.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
It's time for our trientannual performance review
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Preparing for my yearly performance review tomorrow,
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status: Internet is down. Am annoyed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: Internet is down. Am annoyed.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm going to focus on work now.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Zig-Zag-Internet
What are the kids in my neighborhood doing now that they take away such big slices of my line?4GB of RAM? Please return the computer you stole from @Tsaukpaetra now.
Embedded.
But you're right: we actually decided to use an 8GB version. Don't know what happened here...
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
4GB of RAM is the total from like 6 of @Tsaukpaetra's computers.
4GB EVERYTHING is Off-by-One.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Zig-Zag-Internet
What are the kids in my neighborhood doing now that they take away such big slices of my line?4GB of RAM? Please return the computer you stole from @Tsaukpaetra now.
Embedded.
But you're right: we actually decided to use an 8GB version. Don't know what happened here...Did someone install 32-bit Windows on it?
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Status: At office. Is very cold. Except for break room, it is warm. Lack of people for body heating of rooms methinks. And lack of computers producing hot air. Also, IT support called back back about my printer issue that I submitted back in september. Through combined effort (and an hour) we finally managed to make sure I can print on the office printer from my laptop. I shall remember this process for future reference.
Also, as I am at work I can do some minor electronics shopping as I go home. Need some cables and stuff. And maybe a mouse as my cat has mortally wounded my current one.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
And lack of computers producing hot air.
I've heard that managers also produce a lot of hot air.
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@Zerosquare Yes, but they are locked in the boss office having manager meeting and not sharing the hot air with us others.
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Cold turkey coffee detox: go
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@Zecc It's going to be tough, but with a little willpower and a lot of amphetamines I should make it.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc It's going to be tough, but with a little willpower and a lot of amphetamines I should make it.
In most jurisdictions, it's better for your health and continuing freedom to be addicted to coffee instead of meth
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Cold turkey coffee detox: go
You eat cold turkey instead of drinking coffee? That's weird, but whatever floats your boat, I guess