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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 200 euros is about $235 US.
Typical labor rates start at $100/hr and quickly go to $120. Sounds about right.Yeah, IN UNITED STATES.
In Serbia, doctors make like $6-7 an hour. If he worked two full days on this (which I doubt), he just gave himself double that.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh boy, I can have a Mensa laureate on board. I am honored.
Moderately intelligent then, but not intelligent enough to see through the BS that is Mensa certification…
Ohoho, it gets even better.
HE ACTUALLY POSTED THE CERTIFICATE ON LINKEDIN
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh boy, I can have a Mensa laureate on board. I am honored.
Moderately intelligent then, but not intelligent enough to see through the BS that is Mensa certification…
More troubling is that he considers it something worthy of bragging about.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh boy, I can have a Mensa laureate on board. I am honored.
Moderately intelligent then, but not intelligent enough to see through the BS that is Mensa certification…
More troubling is that he considers it something worthy of bragging about.
indeed. Avoid at all costs is my recommendation
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh boy, I can have a Mensa laureate on board. I am honored.
Moderately intelligent then, but not intelligent enough to see through the BS that is Mensa certification…
More troubling is that he considers it something worthy of bragging about.
indeed. Avoid at all costs is my recommendation
Nah. Bring him in for interview so we can see what sort of overengineered architecture astronaut system a mensa member builds for sorting fruit
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
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Accepting my criticism of the poor choice for mettle S07E02, boss just dropped his remaining 6 CV-s in my lap. I get to pick this time.Conclusion: all candidates are terrible.
Just a sea of mediocrity, no one has anything to show or to stand out from the crowd.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
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Why does the "skip this many data rows" in the flat file connection manager's "preview" tab effect which data rows it processes at compile & run time?
Because it's actually setting that value? What, did you think preview meant read only?
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status: listening to this mouse jack off in my walls. Ugh. I really hope it's just the one....
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What, did you think preview meant read only?
More fool me, apparently.
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Status: Windows just rebooted while I was using it, reboot not a crash with the 'your PC is rebooting' text.
I turned to talk to a colleague and noticed something happening out of the corner of my eye. It force-closed everything and I've lost some changes in Dia and various Notepad files, plus my Hyper-V VMs. Visual Studio managed to excel with the auto-recovery fully auto-recovering.
All that's in the event log is:
...NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Legacy API shutdown
I had nobbled the UpdateOrchestrator
reboot
file that Windows uses to restart after updates, I'm willing to bet that the bloody Fall update has put that back together again.
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At our retrospective today I won custody of out team's mascot: a "ferret" gaffer-taped to a brick, for the duration of the next sprint.
The "ferret" is, obviously, a stuffed toy, and it's actually a weasel. And the brick is polystyrene. But the tape is real.
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@carrievs said in The Official Status Thread:
a "ferret" gaffer-taped to a brick
I feel like there's a meaning to this mascot that I really want to know. :D
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I'm in very annoying state of feeling that I want to do something, but at the same time I want to do nothing... :(
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@heterodox It doesn't actually refer to our team but another team we have some involvement with. They were said to be "as Agile as a..." and this amused our PO so much that someone acquired and assembled the aforementioned object.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Windows just rebooted while I was using it, reboot not a crash with the 'your PC is rebooting' text.
I turned to talk to a colleague and noticed something happening out of the corner of my eye. It force-closed everything and I've lost some changes in Dia and various Notepad files, plus my Hyper-V VMs. Visual Studio managed to excel with the auto-recovery fully auto-recovering.
All that's in the event log is:
...NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Legacy API shutdown
I had nobbled the UpdateOrchestrator
reboot
file that Windows uses to restart after updates, I'm willing to bet that the bloody Fall update has put that back together again.And people wonder why there are some MSDN subscription users choose to use a Server OS as the OS of their development machine.
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@carrievs said in The Official Status Thread:
They were said to be "as Agile as a..."
I figured it was something like that (or you guys were said to be "as agile as a..."); that's pretty funny. :D
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@carrievs said in The Official Status Thread:
They were said to be "as Agile as a..."
I figured it was something like that (or you guys were said to be "as agile as a..."); that's pretty funny. :D
I think the more interesting, as yet unanswered, question is, what did @CarrieVS do to earn custody of the mascot? This seems like the sort of trophy one wins for making a highly visible mistake.
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Status: Managed to set up a wireless camera last night.
Goddam this fucker is huge! No wonder these wimpy traps aren't catching him!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Managed to set up a wireless camera last night.
Goddam this fucker is huge! No wonder these wimpy traps aren't catching him!
Your setup is wrong. You should put the cables in the traps
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I think the more interesting, as yet unanswered, question is, what did @CarrieVS do to earn custody of the mascot? This seems like the sort of trophy one wins for making a highly visible mistake.
In actual fact, no. We had a retro exercise of sticking post-its on the board with things that were good, bad, etc, with an additional column of things that were just weird or didn't fit anywhere. My contribution to that column was the fact that the "ferret" is actually a weasel, and this was voted the "best" comment in that category, and worthy of a prize.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Mouse-catching idea 17b6 acted: Glued local favored food to the bait switches on traps. Let's see if the Elmer's glue tips them off.
In other news, I'm looking for where the fire extinguishers are (for some reason it's not obvious ). I've detected enough bare/exposed wiring that I'm rather uncomfortable right now...
I always use peanut butter.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Have now 4 exams I need to revise.
Don't wanna.
And now that I'm revising the exams, I really don't wanna.
"Yes, you're perfectly correct in your calculations that this satellite has an orbital radius of 6379.001 km. However, you do realize that when you combine that with the given Earth's radius of 6379 km this will mean that you either have to duck or jump quite often during the day..."
Some people simply don't seem to be able to think if their results make sense.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Have now 4 exams I need to revise.
Don't wanna.
And now that I'm revising the exams, I really don't wanna.
"Yes, you're perfectly correct in your calculations that this satellite has an orbital radius of 6379.001 km. However, you do realize that when you combine that with the given Earth's radius of 6379 km this will mean that you either have to duck or jump quite often during the day..."
Some people simply don't seem to be able to think if their results make sense.
I had one class (when I was a college TA) tell me that the drift velocity of electrons in a current-carrying wire was either ~10^-34 m/s or ~10^20 m/s. The correct answer is ~10^-4 m/s.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Have now 4 exams I need to revise.
Don't wanna.
And now that I'm revising the exams, I really don't wanna.
"Yes, you're perfectly correct in your calculations that this satellite has an orbital radius of 6379.001 km. However, you do realize that when you combine that with the given Earth's radius of 6379 km this will mean that you either have to duck or jump quite often during the day..."
Some people simply don't seem to be able to think if their results make sense.
I had one class (when I was a college TA) tell me that the drift velocity of electrons in a current-carrying wire was either ~10^-34 m/s or ~10^20 m/s. The correct answer is ~10^-4 m/s.
Oh, the FTL electrons are in the other exam.
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Status: Changes to our system seem to have made it start working better to some extent. And yet, the stuff I loaded into the system before may still be 'there' stabilizing the re-adds of the items. So I don't trust the results I'm seeing.
Additionally, some things seem to now silently return nothing, which worries me.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Have now 4 exams I need to revise.
Don't wanna.
And now that I'm revising the exams, I really don't wanna.
"Yes, you're perfectly correct in your calculations that this satellite has an orbital radius of 6379.001 km. However, you do realize that when you combine that with the given Earth's radius of 6379 km this will mean that you either have to duck or jump quite often during the day..."
Some people simply don't seem to be able to think if their results make sense.
I had one class (when I was a college TA) tell me that the drift velocity of electrons in a current-carrying wire was either ~10^-34 m/s or ~10^20 m/s. The correct answer is ~10^-4 m/s.
Oh, the FTL electrons are in the other exam.
What about the ones that get across an atomic diameter in the lifetime of the universe? (numbers fudged for effect)
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Have now 4 exams I need to revise.
Don't wanna.
And now that I'm revising the exams, I really don't wanna.
"Yes, you're perfectly correct in your calculations that this satellite has an orbital radius of 6379.001 km. However, you do realize that when you combine that with the given Earth's radius of 6379 km this will mean that you either have to duck or jump quite often during the day..."
Some people simply don't seem to be able to think if their results make sense.
I had one class (when I was a college TA) tell me that the drift velocity of electrons in a current-carrying wire was either ~10^-34 m/s or ~10^20 m/s. The correct answer is ~10^-4 m/s.
Oh, the FTL electrons are in the other exam.
What about the ones that get across an atomic diameter in the lifetime of the universe? (numbers fudged for effect)
Much too fast. I had one which merely moved a tenth of a Planck length during that time.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
HE ACTUALLY POSTED THE CERTIFICATE ON LINKEDIN
Bring him in and ask if he understands that MENSA doesn't bother calibrating their IQ tests, making it basically a done deal that everybody with a pulse scores at least 120.
I mean he's super-smart, so he should know that.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@jaloopa I can't make nice coffee at home when I'm at work and there's a Starbucks downstairs. The address is for them to send my fancy gold card, since I've bought enough coffee there to qualify for that status.
Ah, in other words you could have retired by now if you'd made coffee at home...
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@homobalkanus said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Managed to set up a wireless camera last night.
Goddam this fucker is huge! No wonder these wimpy traps aren't catching him!
Your setup is wrong. You should put the cables in the traps
I don't have the necessary physical mobility to accomplish that....
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My first thought was
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
indeed. Avoid at all costs is my recommendation
But now I'm thinking I like
@jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
Nah. Bring him in for interview so we can see what sort of overengineered architecture astronaut system a mensa member builds for sorting fruit
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
My first thought was
this is the correct thought.
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
But now I'm thinking I like
This is the definiton of hubris. trust me this isn't worth your time nor theirs just to discover what you already know. worse it can end badly for you because if you interview and don't offer they may deside to sue you..... i've seen it done on less "evidence"
more times than I had ever wanted to see, much less remember.
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
My first thought was
this is the correct thought.
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
But now I'm thinking I like
This is the definiton of hubris. trust me this isn't worth your time nor theirs just to discover what you already know. worse it can end badly for you because if you interview and don't offer they may deside to sue you..... i've seen it done on less "evidence"
more times than I had ever wanted to see, much less remember.
Maybe I should rephrase - my first thought is what @cartman82 should do. My 2nd one is "fun" compiling-time/lunch-time reading. (We had a recent interview that ended badly - he was extremely smart - like "C++ question in magazine that nobody else could answer" smart. He was told 'thank you, but no' on the way out - I heard he basically exploded at the HR person - "what! I'm too good for you?!?" - that type of thing. Yeah, he knew the language way better than I do. But there's more than 1 person on the team...)
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Status: God fucking damnit. The phone alarm is supposed to go OFF. I don't care if the activity has been closed due to inactivity. That is the point of an alarm clock. Now I'm late to Spanish. Also, five bucks says that not only would the stock Samsung alarm clock not have this problem, but this behavior with the Google one would not be reproducible in stock Android.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
but this behavior with the Google one would not be reproducible in stock Android.
The one in Windows 10 Mobile still works great.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: God fucking damnit. The phone alarm is supposed to go OFF. I don't care if the activity has been closed due to inactivity. That is the point of an alarm clock. Now I'm late to Spanish. Also, five bucks says that not only would the stock Samsung alarm clock not have this problem, but this behavior with the Google one would not be reproducible in stock Android.
I've never had the alarm fail, but I have had timers go off several minutes late. Like I'll set my timer for an hour while my laundry is in the dryer, then when it finally goes off it's showing that it's 7:13 past due and counting.
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GEE.
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@cheong said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm in very annoying state of feeling that I want to do something, but at the same time I want to do nothing...
You want to be the type of person that does things but you don't want to actually do things. I get ya.
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Status: This comment:
What the fuck is the point of async if you're going to force it to sync?
I smell a big case of , but I'm not well versed in the bowels of
CreateFileW
to really know if they are or not.Basically from what it looks like, it's async, so long as you only need to do one thing at a time.
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It turns out my phone being slow had less to do with newer Android versions sucking up more memory, but with my apps hogging the phone's resources. Greenify to the rescue!
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@julianlam said in The Official Status Thread:
but with my apps hogging the phone's resources
NodeBB ?
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Status: new connection
Woo! Symmetry!
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
drift velocity of electrons in a current-carrying wire was either ~10^-34 m/s or ~10^20 m/s
Either around 6 Planck lengths per second… or hyperluminal? Well, at least the first one is technically physically possible, though I have no idea how you'd ever measure it…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
drift velocity of electrons in a current-carrying wire was either ~10^-34 m/s or ~10^20 m/s
Either around 6 Planck lengths per second… or hyperluminal? Well, at least the first one is technically physically possible, though I have no idea how you'd ever measure it…
Yeah. I had given them Avogadro's number (6.02e23) as a red herring--some of them took it seriously and either multiplied by it (resulting in the 1e20 number) or made more mistakes and divided by it (getting the 1e-34 number).
That's a really common issue--thinking that all the numbers given are needed (instead of actually knowing what you're doing).
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Either around 6 Planck lengths per second… or hyperluminal?
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
drift velocity of electrons in a current-carrying wire was either ~10^-34 m/s or ~10^20 m/s
Either around 6 Planck lengths per second… or hyperluminal? Well, at least the first one is technically physically possible, though I have no idea how you'd ever measure it…
Yeah. I had given them Avogadro's number (6.02e23) as a red herring--some of them took it seriously and either multiplied by it (resulting in the 1e20 number) or made more mistakes and divided by it (getting the 1e-34 number).
That's a really common issue--thinking that all the numbers given are needed (instead of actually knowing what you're doing).
I made the mistake of exchanging the denomination for Newton's Gravitational Constant from a γ for a G. Guess what happened when I asked them to calculate the gravitational force the Moon exerts on a given body?
Hint: Gravitational constant and gravitational force both begin with a "g".
This, by the way, is also the reason why some tasks are simply impossible for them: First you have to take this formula, then use the result for that formula and finally rearrange a third formula to use it in conjunction with the previous result.
Three steps are simply impossible. And 99% of them despair even at the two-steps ones.
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@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
drift velocity of electrons in a current-carrying wire was either ~10^-34 m/s or ~10^20 m/s
Either around 6 Planck lengths per second… or hyperluminal? Well, at least the first one is technically physically possible, though I have no idea how you'd ever measure it…
Yeah. I had given them Avogadro's number (6.02e23) as a red herring--some of them took it seriously and either multiplied by it (resulting in the 1e20 number) or made more mistakes and divided by it (getting the 1e-34 number).
That's a really common issue--thinking that all the numbers given are needed (instead of actually knowing what you're doing).
I made the mistake of exchanging the denomination for Newton's Gravitational Constant from a γ for a G. Guess what happened when I asked them to calculate the gravitational force the Moon exerts on a given body?
Hint: Gravitational constant and gravitational force both begin with a "g".
Oops. In the US, we use "G" for Newton's constant and "g" for the free-fall acceleration. Forces are denoted with F + subscripts (lowercase f is reserved for friction in most high-school-level material)
Edit: Yeah, that multi-step thinking is real hard. They're doing the equivalent of string-replacement for equations--look for one with the right letters and stick in numbers. A clbuttic mistake.
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@anonymous234 You brokded the image link.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
drift velocity of electrons in a current-carrying wire was either ~10^-34 m/s or ~10^20 m/s
Either around 6 Planck lengths per second… or hyperluminal? Well, at least the first one is technically physically possible, though I have no idea how you'd ever measure it…
Yeah. I had given them Avogadro's number (6.02e23) as a red herring--some of them took it seriously and either multiplied by it (resulting in the 1e20 number) or made more mistakes and divided by it (getting the 1e-34 number).
That's a really common issue--thinking that all the numbers given are needed (instead of actually knowing what you're doing).
I made the mistake of exchanging the denomination for Newton's Gravitational Constant from a γ for a G. Guess what happened when I asked them to calculate the gravitational force the Moon exerts on a given body?
Hint: Gravitational constant and gravitational force both begin with a "g".
Oops. In the US, we use "G" for Newton's constant and "g" for the free-fall acceleration. Forces are denoted with F + subscripts (lowercase f is reserved for friction in most high-school-level material)
Yeah. I also told another course that from now on I'll use a "W" for energy because otherwise it might be easily confused for the Electric Field.
Much consternation this caused.