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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
status: incredulous
So I came back to work today after two weeks of holiday. Before I left the boss-man introduced a new system for our support teams. Every time they close out a customer issue they need to send out a resolution statement and wait 24 hours because the case can be closed.
First question the boss asked when I came in today: "So Poet, we seem to have a problem in support. Our one-day-fix rate has dropped dramatically. I have run the numbers 4 times and I can't explain it."
This is about the same level of intellect some of my pupils showed on today's exam.
First question (multiple choice):
Magnetic field lines point in what direction?
a) North-to-south
b) South-to-north
c) North-to-northThe following task then instructed them to roughly sketch the field lines around several permanent magnets (with the location of north and south pole indicated by N and S).
I honestly don't get how you can first select, say, a) as your answer and then draw lines pointing from north to north.
How would you even draw that?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden
I'd say that's just intelligent hedging. You're not sure if it's one or t'other, so you split your answers between the two questions.Naw, getting them wrong consistently would yield some points for consistency - after all, if they got the first question wrong I can't very well expect them to answer the second one correctly, what with them being related to each other.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden the hands on a clock turn in which direction?
a) 12:00 to 6:00
b) 6:00 to 12:00
c) 12:00 to 12:00Clockwise.
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@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
status: incredulous
So I came back to work today after two weeks of holiday. Before I left the boss-man introduced a new system for our support teams. Every time they close out a customer issue they need to send out a resolution statement and wait 24 hours because the case can be closed.
First question the boss asked when I came in today: "So Poet, we seem to have a problem in support. Our one-day-fix rate has dropped dramatically. I have run the numbers 4 times and I can't explain it."
This is about the same level of intellect some of my pupils showed on today's exam.
First question (multiple choice):
Magnetic field lines point in what direction?
a) North-to-south
b) South-to-north
c) North-to-northThe following task then instructed them to roughly sketch the field lines around several permanent magnets (with the location of north and south pole indicated by N and S).
I honestly don't get how you can first select, say, a) as your answer and then draw lines pointing from north to north.
How would you even draw that?
Easy:
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@Rhywden I read it as, "how would you even draw the lines going from north-to-north", which is what ^ is supposed to represent.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden I read it as, "how would you even draw the lines going from north-to-north", which is what ^ is supposed to represent.
Yah, figured that when I saw your response.
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@anotherusername that was what I meant... and it's a fun attempt for sure :)
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@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername that was what I meant... and it's a fun attempt for sure :)
I mean, you practice calculating the magnetic field density about one time per lesson for about 6 weeks.
And you still get asked "Where do I get this 'B' from I need for this formula?"
Another one asked, after two damn months of oscillations and waves:
What's this funny "w" you're always writing into the sine function?
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I see you are having some fun with that.
If it makes you feel any better I work with medical physicists that seem to struggle with the concept that a dose can't be simultaneously less than 0.3Gy and more than 1.8Gy. And that is people who have chosen physics as a career.
I had a customer shout me down over the phone because a treatment plan they were trying to set up needed to deliver 1.8Gy to the tumour (next to spine) but no more than 0.3Gy to the spine itself. "You're stupid software can't calcuate worth shit!"
"I am very sorry Sir, it's physically impossible."
"Yeah, yeah. You support people never put any effort into things. Either you fix it yourself or nothing will happen."
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@royal_poet
Clearly the solution is to perform a Wolverine surgery on the patient to line their spine in lead. QED.
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Status: Looking at C# code written by C++ devs. Every class has an associated interface, which is the class name prefixed by I. I'm guessing that someone didn't realize that C# doesn't have or require header files, and banged together a psuedo-implementation of header files via interfaces.
EDIT: Uh-oh, also finding calls to the static garbage collector class
System.GC
alongside IDisposable implementers that have no unmanaged resources. And destructors.EDIT 2: Calls to
GC.SuppressFinalize()
, despite the class not overridingFinalize()
.I get that C++ (and especially Qt) can have a lot of annoying boilerplate, but that's not an excuse to add in boilerplate which evaluates to no-ops to all our C# code.
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@royal_poet You could suggest implanting lead shielding around the spine?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Polygeekery I'll never trust a vegan who has fewer than 3 stomachs.
Those pandas are shifty motherfuckers.
Boy, do I have the candidate for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOCf8sL0xgE&t=0s
"Panda bears are no longer on the endangered species list. We can do better. We have weapons and we are smarter."
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@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
If it makes you feel any better I work with medical physicists that seem to struggle with the concept that a dose can't be simultaneously less than 0.3Gy and more than 1.8Gy. And that is people who have chosen physics as a career.
You have a funny way of trying to console people by making them feel terrified.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
We have weapons and we are smarter.
Maybe, if by "smarter" you mean "not all of us eschew proper food in exchange for wood shavings"...
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@royal_poet said in The Official Status Thread:
First question the boss asked when I came in today: "So Poet, we seem to have a problem in support. Our one-day-fix rate has dropped dramatically. I have run the numbers 4 times and I can't explain it."
Also, 40% of sick days are taken on Monday or Friday!
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My answers
- true
- true
- true
- false
- true
- true
- true
- incomplete?
- TDEMSYR
- TDEMSYR
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@r10pez10 dafuq is "5/8 , 1/16 = 10" supposed to mean? I'm not familiar with that notation.
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@PleegWat I assume #8 is a missing division glyph (since 5/8 ÷ 1/16 = 10), and #9 and #10 are just converting representations to actual numbers.
Status: I just spent 2 hours figuring out how a single number in one report was calculated to push it back to the client that, no, it is in fact correct.
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I just spent 2 hours figuring out how a single number in one report was calculated to push it back to the client that, no, it is in fact correct.
Those days always tend to lead to a mixed feeling of satisfaction.
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@fbmac said in The Official Status Thread:
@flwf said in The Official Status Thread:
sick days while actually being sick SUCK
Being sick suck
But, sometimes, being a sick fuck isn't all that bad...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I get that C++ (and especially Qt) can have a lot of annoying boilerplate
Qt helps with that - if you don't forget to assign the owner for the Qt objects, it will do the memory management on its own.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
This is about the same level of intellect some of my pupils showed on today's exam.
I was great in high school and in the time I used to think I would have an awesome job as an adult. Now I take orders from the dumb kids like the ones you talk about.
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Status: My laptop is plugged into its charger, and has been for hours.
96% available (plugged in, charging)
A while ago it was
100% available (plugged in, charged)
. I don't think that number is supposed to get smaller while it's charging.What is using my battery (intermittently) faster than it can charge? Why is Radeon Additional Settings: Host Application using 30% of my CPU? WTF is Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation, and why does my graph need to be isolated?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My laptop is plugged into its charger, and has been for hours.
96% available (plugged in, charging)
A while ago it was
100% available (plugged in, charged)
. I don't think that number is supposed to get smaller while it's charging.What is using my battery (intermittently) faster than it can charge? Why is Radeon Additional Settings: Host Application using 30% of my CPU? WTF is Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation, and why does my graph need to be isolated?
In order: Most laptops nowadays (within last seven years or so) will actually not "bubble" the battery as it sinks below 100%. Instead, they charge to 100%, then, so long as the charger is plugged in, use only the brick. It starts charging once the battery gets to ~95% or so. Sample source, not by scientists or official Gurus, of course, but I'm sure someone has done research on why it's important not to bubble the battery. It's to protect the longevity and capacity of the battery. Likely your situation involves normal battery drain due to how batteries do and possibly insufficient power supply (hard to tell based on lack of information). Once it dips low enough it will actually start charging again.
As far as Radeon shit.... well, yeah.
Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation is (since Vista IIRC) what allows each program that is capable of producing audio to have their own volume slider, and (if the program is aware of it) how to direct audio output to different audio devices. More Info
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Good luck today, USA. We're going to need it.
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HEY GUYS I HAVE A FUNNY JOKE
Stephen Colbert tells Jon Stewart that Donald Trump is running for president and he spits water at him!
Let's use that joke four times in two episodes of the late show!
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh I don't think "-burger" is generic enough for hamburger to be included in that list. That's like saying "hotdog" is the origin of the "-dog" suffix, i.e. "corndog", "chilidog", "veggiedog"...
Fuck you, shitburger.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: No, Edge, and in fact I don't care...
Did you know there's an app for that that is just a fullscreen window that opens Edge to open the website?
Also, I am absolutely shocked "there's an app for that" hasn't brought down the hellfury of Apple's lawyers.
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Status So, yay, exec meeting. Went for 2 hours. All the execs got ruler-slapped by the chair head because everyone is being lackadaisical in doing things. I cheered on the inside.
From the head: "I watched conventions literally go to hell because people weren't talking to each other. That will NOT happen here." (paraphrased)
Here's to having a bit of fire under people's butts for the near future.
Also: Who wants to suggest a charity we should support in the California San Francisco Bay Area locale?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Good luck today, USA. We're going to need it.
My new years resolution is not starting the 2020 election. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it until at least new years.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
the hellfury of Apple's lawyers.
LIBEL.
Apple never sues people.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden the hands on a clock turn in which direction?
a) 12:00 to 6:00
b) 6:00 to 12:00
c) 12:00 to 12:00Wrong.
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@r10pez10 Assuming standard notations and conventions, 1-3, 5-7, 9-10 True. 4 False. 8 illegible but true if the operator is division.
Can I have the rest of the med-math ones?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@JazzyJosh I don't think "-burger" is generic enough for hamburger to be included in that list. That's like saying "hotdog" is the origin of the "-dog" suffix, i.e. "corndog", "chilidog", "veggiedog"...
It's a UK quiz, and we use burger to mean almost anything hot and cooked in a bun. Chicken burgers are grilled chicken breasts in a bun, and I've even seen a pulled pork burger that's just a pulled pork inna bun
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a UK quiz, and we use burger to mean almost anything hot and cooked in a bun. Chicken burgers are grilled chicken breasts in a bun, and I've even seen a pulled pork burger that's just a pulled pork inna bun
I've also heard of Eagleburger. Don't want to eat one though.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
This is the tool, which indeed I did have in my dickie
That's a hell of a Prince Albert.
Renault wheels have a special nut on them. The first year I changed to winter tyres I learnt what the little piece of metal sitting at home with the car instructions and spare key was the hard way.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
a special nut
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Status:
Yeah, I'm glad WTDWTF oneboxes just as "well" the other way around. Sure, @NeighborhoodButcher's avatar is totally worth blowing up to take more space than the text blurb.
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STATUS:
Watched a random video from one of these new multiplayer shooters. A guy was sneaking around with a knife, slaughtering a whole team of enemy soldiers. With gory kill animations and everything.
Me 10 years ago: Yeah! So cool! Radical!
Me now: Oh that knife looks dangerous... Oh no! Ouch. Jeesh, he looked barely twenty! Wait! Maybe they'll surrender if you ask them!?
TIL: I'm too old for that shit.
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@r10pez10 duh... for some reason I thought it was a screenshot/image of a printout.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation is ...
How dare you post helpful information outside a help topic?!? </blakeyrant>
Thanks, TIL. But why is it one of the top CPU users when I'm simply playing audio steady-state, not adjusting any volume nor redirecting audio? (Mostly rhetorical question/rant) And don't even get me started on Realtek HD audio drivers that eat something like 80% of the CPU when I'm not even playing music at all.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in The Official Status Thread:
Good luck today, USA. We're going to need it.
What we need isn't luck; it's competence. Unfortunately, we're not going to get that; it's just not one of the available choices.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Who wants to suggest a charity we should support in the California San Francisco Bay Area locale?
Second Harvest Food Bank is worthwhile and non-controversial (i.e., they don't have any philosophical or religious agenda that might offend anyone). shfb.org, I think, off the top of my head. The only reason I can think of for not wanting to give to them is that they already have some pretty big corporate sponsors, so you might feel your money would accomplish more going to somebody that needs it more.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Status Thread:
@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
Why don't you vote Libertarian right now?
That is not pragmatic, and the orange orangutan scares the shit out of me
I have never heard Hillary described that way before.
You might be right. That is depressing. I guess we will know soon enough.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation is ...
How dare you post helpful information outside a help topic?!? </blakeyrant>
Thanks, TIL. But why is it one of the top CPU users when I'm simply playing audio steady-state, not adjusting any volume nor redirecting audio? (Mostly rhetorical question/rant) And don't even get me started on Realtek HD audio drivers that eat something like 80% of the CPU when I'm not even playing music at all.
Someone wrote a bad filter and it made it into the graph somehow? Who knows, I forgot the tool that lets you look into the thing...