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I'm very glad I don't have to clock in or out (or even report my time anywhere).
Today I got there at 6 am (couldn't sleep) and left at 3:45 (instead of the usual 4:15). I tend to work 10 hour days, so I don't feel bad about, for instance, browsing TDWTF during my break periods or (very occasionally) leaving early. Of course, there's a fellow faculty member who often shows up at 8:45 (school starts at 8:50 and we're supposed to be there by 8:00), despite living like 10 minutes away from school, so...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
there's a fellow faculty member who often shows up at 8:45 (school starts at 8:50
If I were a teacher, that would be me.
and we're supposed to be there by 8:00)
Oh, ok, I'm not quite that casual about timeliness. I'd probably be there by 8:00 most days, with a few at 8:05 or 8:10.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
This is neat if it works as well as they're saying. In the video, it looked like they didn't get much desalinated water from the mixture — maybe only 10%, at most. The chemicals necessary would have to be cheap enough to produce in mass for it to really "change the game."
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
there's a fellow faculty member who often shows up at 8:45 (school starts at 8:50
If I were a teacher, that would be me.
and we're supposed to be there by 8:00)
Oh, ok, I'm not quite that casual about timeliness. I'd probably be there by 8:00 most days, with a few at 8:05 or 8:10.
Fun note: when I got there at 6AM today, there was already a faculty member there. And he's there by then every day, and has been for 45 years.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
there's a fellow faculty member who often shows up at 8:45 (school starts at 8:50
If I were a teacher, that would be me.
and we're supposed to be there by 8:00)
Oh, ok, I'm not quite that casual about timeliness. I'd probably be there by 8:00 most days, with a few at 8:05 or 8:10.
Fun note: when I got there at 6AM today, there was already a faculty member there. And he's there by then every day, and has been for 45 years.
You're sure he's still breathing, right?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
there's a fellow faculty member who often shows up at 8:45 (school starts at 8:50
If I were a teacher, that would be me.
and we're supposed to be there by 8:00)
Oh, ok, I'm not quite that casual about timeliness. I'd probably be there by 8:00 most days, with a few at 8:05 or 8:10.
Fun note: when I got there at 6AM today, there was already a faculty member there. And he's there by then every day, and has been for 45 years.
You're sure he's still breathing, right?
He's a great guy. One of the other 3 conservative (that I know of) members of the faculty.
He's also not the oldest member of the faculty--that award goes to my fellow science department member who is pushing his early/mid 80s and has
promisedthreatened to die in the school rather than retire. Mind's still pretty sharp, but I've noticed him slowing down more and more recently. He's one of the other conservatives, and he's British (still has the accent) and married to a Lebanese woman half his age (as in they got married in Lebanon where he was teaching). His youngest kid just graduated from college a few days ago.
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@brie said in In other news today...:
until they get
disenfranchised todisenchanted with that service also.FTFY. I don't think their right to vote is affected by their choice of telecom provider. :)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
This is why we have the best military in the world.
“Balls are going to be a little lopsided,” the pilot advised.
“Balls are complete,” he reported moments later. “I just gotta navigate a little bit over here for the shaft.”
“Which way is the shaft going?” the EWO asked.
“The shaft will go to the left,” the pilot answered.
“It’s gonna be a wide shaft,” the EWO noted.
“I don’t wanna make it just like 3 balls,” the pilot said.
“Let’s do it,” the EWO said. “Oh, the head of that penis is going to be thick.”
“Some like Chinese weather satellite right now that’s like, ‘what the (expletive)?’” the pilot surmised.
The jet streaked across the sky, and the duo’s magnum opus continued to take shape, showcasing the pilot’s prowess in the process.
“To get out of this, I’m gonna go like down and to the right,” the pilot said. “And we’ll come back up over the top and try to take a look at it.”
“I have a feeling the balls will have dissipated by then,” his partner answered.
“It’s possible,” the pilot said.
I fucking love everything about this.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Whether the workers will actually go to court over something like that remains to be seen, but a scheme like that is so transparent that any judge worth his salt will see right through it.
Eh. I'm required to fill in a time-sheet at the end of each month, but it's already telling me how much I've worked on each project in sum, for accounting reasons. Projects with industry partners have fixed bills whatever time I spend on it, but public funding money gets "earned" by reporting worked time, and so accounting tells me exactly how much time needs to be reported each month. I'm not scheduling my work to meet accounting requirements, though. That way lies madness. When I have deadlines to meet, more important things go first and I don't care if the time for a project is reported in the wrong month.
So my time table will look exactly like this:Project Sum Foo 27 7.8 7.8 7.8 7.8 4.2 Bar 42 3.6 7.8 7.8 7.8 7.8 Baz 102.6 Takes me 5 minutes. Blatant? Absolutely. But if I'm required to fill out something I don't care about and can't do correctly anyway (other than by madly juggling my work around to a fixed schedule), I want it to be obvious. And it needs to be balanced.
I keep track of my aggregate amount of over-time mentally (or on a post-it if it's more than a ~ 1/2 day) and use that to freely say "I'm going home early on Friday" or "I've got things to do on Wednesday morning", without having to write down the exact time I leave for lunch every day.
Also, I'm not allowed to work more than 10 (or is it 12?) hours a day. But when I'm on a business trip, getting on the train at 6am and coming home at 8pm, you bet I'll mentally clock 14 hours for it.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
there's a fellow faculty member who often shows up at 8:45 (school starts at 8:50
If I were a teacher, that would be me.
and we're supposed to be there by 8:00)
Oh, ok, I'm not quite that casual about timeliness. I'd probably be there by 8:00 most days, with a few at 8:05 or 8:10.
Fun note: when I got there at 6AM today, there was already a faculty member there. And he's there by then every day, and has been for 45 years.
You're sure he's still breathing, right?
He's probably one of those people that goes to bed at 9pm. I used to rent a workshop from a guy like that.
Personally, I count 3am as 'getting a bit late' and would wake up at midday if I could. We have flex hours, but practically it's only an hour or so which isn't great,
Edit: I have to do timesheets. but that's because the UK has a tax kickback for research. It's true hours, and while it's a pain in the arse at least I can see the point to it.
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@heterodox Also the following line:
“What did you do on your flight?” the pilot joked. “Oh, we turned dinosaurs into sky penises.”
, dinosaurs well spent.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
married to a Lebanese woman half his age
@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
He's probably one of those people that goes to bed at 9pm
Does not compute
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
married to a Lebanese woman half his age
@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
He's probably one of those people that goes to bed at 9pm
Does not compute
The morning works too (but can make you late for work...)
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I'm required to fill in a time-sheet at the end of each month
We're supposed to do them weekly. Fortunately, I can fill it out in terms of either hours worked or (fractional) days worked. Since I'm full time allocated to a project, that's utterly trivial to fill out in a few seconds (1→1→1→1→1Enter and done).
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@heterodox Also the following line:
“What did you do on your flight?” the pilot joked. “Oh, we turned dinosaurs into sky penises.”
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dinosaurszooplankton and algae well spent.MTMAFYARARHITP
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@dcon Do those cups come with saucers? Otherwise they'd probably be classified as mugs instead.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/COSTA-COFFEE-PINT-MUG-SAUCER/dp/B00MJ6TIOW
archive.wtf
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Like, in one place, HR actually said that their corporate requirement was that everybody recorded exactly 8h every day, using the exact same times
This sounds like exactly the sort of thing the ruling is trying to prevent.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Like, in one place, HR actually said that their corporate requirement was that everybody recorded exactly 8h every day, using the exact same times
This sounds like exactly the sort of thing the ruling is trying to prevent.
And failing grandiosely, unless they also mandate the use of some kind of time-puch system.
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@acrow They'll do nothing of the sort. They'll probably mandate a "reliable system" - you really don't want to be overly specific when it comes to legislation.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Of course, there's a fellow faculty member who often shows up at 8:45 (school starts at 8:50 and we're supposed to be there by 8:00), despite living like 10 minutes away from school, so...
Why do they make everyone show up 50 minutes early? I can see maybe 8:30, in case some students show up early. I can also see having one or two show up at 8. But why everyone? (They can do class preparation at home of course, as they see fit.) I'm guessing it's part of the union/school district agreement. I can imagine that after you've been there 10 years, it could become hard to take insufferably stupid rules too seriously.
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@jinpa Mainly because we frequently have faculty meetings at 8:00 AM. Also because otherwise traffic in the parking lot becomes even worse. Plus being available for student help (since they're allowed in the building at 8:30). Plus time to collaborate with other teachers & get ready for the day.
Our official working hours are 8 - 4:15, but school only runs from 8:50 - 3:30. Kids are frequently there by 7:30, sitting outside because parents drop them off on the way to work.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Fun note: when I got there at 6AM today, there was already a faculty member there. And he's there by then every day, and has been for 45 years.
He's also not the oldest member of the faculty--that award goes to my fellow science department member who is pushing his early/mid 80s and has
promisedthreatened to die in the school rather than retire. Mind's still pretty sharp, but I've noticed him slowing down more and more recently. He's one of the other conservatives, and he's British (still has the accent) and married to a Lebanese woman half his age (as in they got married in Lebanon where he was teaching).There goes my theory that he gets there at 6 to get away from the wife. Well, not necessarily.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
I'm required to fill in a time-sheet at the end of each month
We're supposed to do them weekly. Fortunately, I can fill it out in terms of either hours worked or (fractional) days worked. Since I'm full time allocated to a project, that's utterly trivial to fill out in a few seconds (1→1→1→1→1Enter and done).
I worked at a place like that. We were supposed to allocate our time to different projects. But we worked on the software that supported all of them. So it was generally "1" in a misc category.
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@jinpa Two different people. The one who gets there at 6 is not the 80+ year old.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Two different people. The one who gets there at 6 is not the 80+ year old.
Dammit. I am error.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Two different people. The one who gets there at 6 is not the 80+ year old.
Dammit. I am error.
No, @error is someone else. But you are one of @boomzilla's alts.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@jinpa Two different people. The one who gets there at 6 is not the 80+ year old.
Dammit. I am error.
No, @error is someone else. But you are one of @boomzilla's alts.
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This could get exciting...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I worked at a place like that. We were supposed to allocate our time to different projects. But we worked on the software that supported all of them. So it was generally "1" in a misc category.
There's a separate timesheet system internal to the project (a different set of bureaucrats cares about it) but the rules there are so thoroughly bizarre that we just calculate “official values” after the fact and use those. It's a pack of lies, but we get away with it because we don't over-charge and consistently exceed the minimum on what we actually deliver. It annoys the project bureaucracy, but the effort estimation stuff was always BS anyway; it always is when it comes to software.
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No more Windows on Chromebook
INB4: Why would you do that?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
No more Windows on Chromebook
INB4: Why would you do that?Seems like a fair question.
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Great, I've just moved our network core to Cisco, and our internet-facing routers are Cisco too. Hope they get a patch out before it starts getting exploited.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Cisco
Yeah, everything is Cisco these days, so when they have a problem, it is a big one.
Sooner or later companies will have to learn that only proper security is having several firewalls, from different vendors, behind each other, so any hacker would be unlikely to know unpatched vulnerability of all of them at the same time.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Yeah, everything is Cisco these days, so when they have a problem, it is a big one.
Sooner or later companies will have to learn that only proper security is having several firewalls, from different vendors, behind each other, so any hacker would be unlikely to know unpatched vulnerability of all of them at the same time.
I imagine you said that half in jest. I'm not a security guy, but wouldn't you encounter compatibility issues?
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Yeah, everything is Cisco these days, so when they have a problem, it is a big one.
Sooner or later companies will have to learn that only proper security is having several firewalls, from different vendors, behind each other, so any hacker would be unlikely to know unpatched vulnerability of all of them at the same time.
I imagine you said that half in jest.
No. Each security layer is only this good, so the only way to further improve security is to have more layers.
I'm not a security guy, but wouldn't you encounter compatibility issues?
The point is that the only interface between them is TCP/IP. And some conventor from some common format of rules, but that should be independent for each firewall type, otherwise that will be a new security bottleneck.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I imagine you said that half in jest. I'm not a security guy, but wouldn't you encounter compatibility issues?
I've encountered firewalls that only ever let plain HTTP through, and then via a caching proxy that only implemented GET. It most certainly would stop most mischief in its tracks, yes, but then it did that by preventing just about everything else too.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I imagine you said that half in jest. I'm not a security guy, but wouldn't you encounter compatibility issues?
I've encountered firewalls that only ever let plain HTTP through, and then via a caching proxy that only implemented GET. It most certainly would stop most mischief in its tracks, yes, but then it did that by preventing just about everything else too.
If the internet was limited to HTTP, I'm not entirely sure that would be a bad thing. For other people, anyway.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
System didn't brake for semi.
It mistakenly took it for a firetruck
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
I've encountered firewalls that only ever let plain HTTP through, and then via a caching proxy that only implemented GET.
And yet one could still tunnel other protocols through, unless they only allowed plain HTML (and even then...).
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
And yet one could still tunnel other protocols through, unless they only allowed plain HTML (and even then...).
That's what we did in the end, but making it all work over GET was still horrible. (These days, we'd route over a tethered mobile phone instead. But this was all more than a decade ago and data usage was much more expensive then…)