The Official Status Thread
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@Rhywden The first and last two words in my post are related.
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@Magus Oh, go fuck yourself with a rusty garden tool.
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@Lorne-Kates I teach in a school system with a (web) app very similar to what's being proposed here. I've also worked in a system where everything was paper. Of the 2, I definitely prefer the electronic one. Here are a few of my reasons:
- The system pre-fills known absences (ie called in sick, school trip, etc).
- I can change attendance (oops, I goofed and marked them present or absent when they are the reverse, etc) with two clicks (and a wait, because it's more resource intensive than , but that's implementation not principle).
- I don't have to worry about spelling their names correctly. This is important for me, as I tend to be a supar spellar.
- It saves the attendance person (whose job I do not ever ever ever want) a lot of time even when we teachers forget to press the button.
- It saves a student the time otherwise required to run the paper to the office
- It's a simple toggle. Most of the time I don't even have to change anything (except 1st period)--everyone who's absent is already marked so and I just hit send.
- My computer is always up and ready--it's a persistent tab in my browser.
- There are no regulations in my system about changing attendance. We're professionals. I can't speak for the public system, but there's no legal requirements at least in my state.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden Bro, maybe when you tell a story, you should start closer to the beginning than the end. Still, it's a cool story.
I didn't know that I signed a contract requiring full disclosure.
Are you familiar with wtdwtf contract law? Don't anussume.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus Oh, go fuck yourself with a rusty garden tool.
Are you familiar with the oxidization rates of Bulgarian garden tools? Or are you just colonsuming that they're even made of metal at all?
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@Benjamin-Hall And we only have a single data repository. With our course system, the paper version requires the combination of ~20Ā paper attendance sheets at the end of semester.
This "single sourceĀ of truth" would also make it easier to recognize when a pupil suddenly starts to miss lessons massively or systematically.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall And we only have a single data repository. With our course system, the paper version requires the combination of ~20Ā paper attendance sheets at the end of semester.
This "single sourceĀ of truth" would also make it easier to recognize when a pupil suddenly starts to miss lessons massively or systematically.
Ugh. We get attendance reports weekly with both absences and tardies. If someone's marked absent 1st and present 2nd we get an email asking WTF (much more nicely than that though)
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Status: We're going to have a meeting with the S team tomorrow probably so we can discuss how we're using S to generate Fs. We only use them because they implement B (a blob of unknown business logic that works for customers in the field currently, more than we'd have without S), which means we won't need to implement B ourselves. At this point, I'd rather do that...
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
After it is painstakingly typed into a computer application by the unlucky bastard who now has to pull in notes from 20+ papers.
So instead let's offload that to 20+ other people who will take 2-3x as long to do that guy's job.
Again: No fucking clue as to how it currently works and thus no fucking clue as to what the time savings actually would be.
Bravo.
The hilarious thing is that I actually did exactly this project. Or, well, a variation on it. THIRTEEN YEARS AGO. In high school. Using flat files and floppy disks to sync because what network and what the fuck is a relational database?
Incidentally, letting high school students develop the software that's going to track their attendance is dumb as fuck, the primary key we used was a composite of grade and assigned seating location in the auditorium study hall - there are some kids who just kind of don't have to show the fuck up based on, effectively, where they sit.
The details Lorne is so concerned about really do not apply. Cut literally half of one vice principal's workload out (her job was basically 'do attendance and be bad cop to terrify students', and she spent half the day shuffling attendance paperwork - I do apologize for making the reign of terror worse) in exchange for adding literally no time to the individual teacher's workloads. Those who had to (eg phys ed, wood shop, auto shop) could still do it on paper - entering a dozen of those a day added ENTIRE MINUTES back onto the VP's morning routine while she waited for the detention slips to print versus the hundreds a day in the initial state.
As for the individual instructors... When you start every class by going down the roster and getting a series of "Here"'s it isn't going to add any time whatsoever to click a goddamn button during the awkward silence when someone doesn't respond.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
You have no clue and you're waffling on about something you know nothing about.
YMBNH
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Boring. Have some fun. Play along for a bit,
I've just never had the patience to do that...
I did go off a little on the last one... Forget exactly what I said but something like 'why are all of you suddenly calling me now? did I get on some damn list?' in a very annoyed voice. The caller than started ranting 'well maybe because we have jobs too ... ' I tried to cut in with a 'take me off your list' but they were still carrying on, so SLAM.
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Status: my mom's doing college. This is the Math level they spanked her in.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Only complicated part will be decoding opus-encoded packets into 16 bit signed 16 khz mono raw wave data, stream it to an HTTP endpoint, do magic, and then the reverse (OMG I just realized I have to invoke Black Magic now!!!).
Think I can do this in a week?Okay, first round of core alterations in progress. Due to how Unreal Engine is done, the Dedicated Game server instances will now connect to the voice chat server in the same manner as a normal client, but... um... different. In theory. Cooking takes forever to test, because apparently Play In Editor (the de-facto method for quick-testing) is Differentā¢ when trying server-client interaction logic so I have to "Cook" the build.
It remains to be seen if I have the chat server send the opus audio to the game server (when needed, obviously I don't want to waste bandwidth listening to all the players when they're not near a bot that can listen) to be decompressed and re-coded into the correct raw wav format. I really hope that threading is somewhat easy in C++ (it probably isn't), because this promises to be a somewhat heavy and delayed operation, especially the HTTP request, if done in the server logic synchronously.
If that's not performant, I'll probably have the voice chat server do the decoding blech directly. Probably.
Filed under: Yay comma splice run ons?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
my mom's doing college
Is your mom 6 years old?
Times some number. After all, she had me, so that makes at least 9 years. Plus however old I am?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
makes at least 9 years
You gestated for 12 trimesters?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
makes at least 9 years
You gestated for 12 trimesters?
I honestly don't know. That information isn't currently available in the mapped memory space.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm also not sure why there would be such a time pressure.
... really?
The lesson is only x minutes long to begin with. It starts right away with a deficit because you have to wait for the PC to boot. Now the teacher also has to open the app, log in, find the class they're doing the attendance for. That's a couple more minutes. Now they have to use the app and enter attendance. See my point about it taking longer to enter data. Do you have ~75 minute periods? Well, now ~5 minutes is dedicated to doing a task in a harder way.Or you can start the lecture and mark up the absentees later during the lecture when the students are working on something on their own.
Unless you are a temp, of course, and don't recognise the students, but nobody expects a class with a temp to be anywhere near efficient anyway.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB WTF? The company asked you to pay for company infrastructure with your own money?
Pretty much. The argument put forth was it was only needed for the free tier. My response was "fantastic the company card will fit perfectly then.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB WTF? The company asked you to pay for company infrastructure with your own money?
Presumably he would submit an expense report and be reimbursed. Still, not everyone has the available cash to give their employer an interest-free loan while Accounts Payable processes the payment, and it's not reasonable to consider that disloyalty.
Not in this company. Since it came to light that the company is in the red to the tune of a couple hundred thousand a month finance hasn't a paid a penny in owed expenses to anyone. I've being waiting to be reimbursed for a webstorm license for about four months hence my fuck you give me money attitude.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it's not reasonable to consider that disloyalty.
Good for you. You be loyal to a sinking ship. I'll stay loyal to my pay-cheque.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it's not reasonable to consider that disloyalty.
Good for you. You be loyal to a sinking ship. I'll stay loyal to my pay-cheque.
You seem to have misunderstood me. I'm saying your employer should not consider you disloyal for considering your own financial situation in deciding whether to pay for company stuff out of your own pocket. Especially so in this case, where the probability of being repaid appears remote. "Reimburse me for the last time I spent my own money on the company's behalf, and maybe I might consider doing it again. No money for me; no more money for you." A reasonable person would not consider that disloyalty.
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What's the reverse word from customer?
Vendor, seller etc. But is there something more generic?
I hate words.
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@cartman82 I think 'vendor' is about as generic as it gets, tbh.
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@cartman82 vendor or seller if it's a physical thing, supplier if it's a service.
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@Boner I've seen 'vendor' used for those providing services too, and 'supplier' for physical goods.
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Status: Being notification-spammed by our resident necro-upvoter.
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@HardwareGeek
Status: Setting a reminder to upvote the previous post in 2.9 months.
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You again :p
@RaceProUK said in The Official Status Thread:
Some slugs have shells, and some snails don't
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: my mom's doing college. This is the Math level they spanked her in.
I... Don't quite understand what the fuck those words are saying to do.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: my mom's doing college. This is the Math level they spanked her in.
I... Don't quite understand what the fuck those words are saying to do.
Split the digits into a table (one row per number given), aligning their "place" in the column.
Then, sort them.
It's probably too simple for most people here, the second grade was quite a few decades ago for most people here.
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Hundreds Tens Ones 2 7 3 2 5 4 2 0 9 0 9 7 7 3 4 0 0 3 2 9 3 0 8 9
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
the second grade was quite a few decades ago for most people here
So, they moved the second grade content from few decades ago into college courses ?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
the second grade was quite a few decades ago for most people here
So, they moved the second grade content from few decades ago into college courses ?
It's for all those who weren't left behind.
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Status: They consistently told us that the new building absolutely wouldn't be form over function. Yet we have a call center and random concrete walls, floors, and ceilings, and no trace of acoustic paneling yet.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
I repeat: You're insistent on being so contrarian that you're unable to get the notion into your head that there are other solutions which don't involve paper. Which, by the way, gets thrown away at the end of the semester. After it is painstakingly typed into a computer application by the unlucky bastard who now has to pull in notes from 20+ papers.
As he should be: You should always think hard about a thing you're going to produce so you don't waste time producing something no one wants. Starting out as critical as possible is a very good thing.
Yes, shove your "good" principles into other peoples' faces. It makes you not look like an upvote whore at all.
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@aliceif It's really more about poking someone who is taking things too seriously.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@aliceif It's really more about poking someone who is taking things too seriously.
Mayhaps you're not poking in the right place? :P
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Status: Finally watching a couple of Connect 2016 videos, and it's like this:
"Welcome t-
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Sharp Se-
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/me clicks Download
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@RaceProUK It' mobile ready !
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Bothering @Polygeekery via
pdm
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Status: Guess I'll work from home on Friday. I wonder how many millions in damage they'll do this time...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: my mom's doing college. This is the Math level they spanked her in.
Heather did tutoring for college-level math during one of her work terms.
There are people to whom this would be an insurmountable challenge.
A challenge on the level as something as confounding and mysterious as fractions.
These were students in the nursing program.
Who didn't understand why they'd need to know fractions, even when presented with the scenario "the doctor says the dosage is 20mg but there are only 40mg pills available, do the Maths on this."
:/
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@aliceif said in The Official Status Thread:
It makes you not look like an upvote whore at all.
Is an upvote whore anything like a trans hooker?
Asking for a friend who works at a garden supply store.
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Status: Just stumbled over the Vuforia library - interesting stuff and way less hackish than the other solutions I found for AR.
If only there were more hours inĀ a day for all the interestingĀ things I find and want to try out. :(
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@loopback0 I've been getting the same thing on my work laptop the past couple of days.
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Status: Apparently I'm the only person in the office who knows what a Chebyshev norm is, and can figure out why it would be useful when generating a mapping between cells (CPU chips) in a hexagonal tiling (the virtual network layout on our system cards) and the control cell location on the tile (the chip that's connected to the ethernet port and so is able to talk to the outside world). The previous solution involved a large table of control data that was manually generated, which our PhD students thought was the obvious way to do it.
It's not that the table approach was generating wrong answers, so much as it put my teeth on edge.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 I've been getting the same thing on my work laptop the past couple of days.
This was at home.
I've seen it once at work where someone accidentally ran some kind of load test against Google (can't remember the details) which resulted in the entire company (thousands of people) being subjected to that for every single Google search for a day.
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@loopback0 We had that for ourĀ students' dormitory.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
remotsuc
Only the ones that come with no-name A/V equipment, in my experience
Filed under: A long way to go for "professional services"
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
This was at home.
It happened to me both working from home yesterday, and at work today. At home, none of my other devices had that happen. So I still have no idea why Google thought I was being robotic