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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I'd take it in a heartbeat for the shorter commute alone. Ditto. Plus exciting projects.
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You weren't looking for a new job because you wanted to stay at the current one!
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:You weren't looking for a new job because you wanted to stay at the current one! Listen to this! Every time I've swapped jobs I've had the same thoughts as you do now "I know what I have, but what will I get? Maybe it'll be worse.  ".Pack your bags and leave, Harriet. The marriage is over.
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Oct 29, 2015 11:13
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Waking up cleaning crew persons is always amusing. They're always "on break" too , like I care that they're sleeping. I just have no idea that they're going to be in there (lights are off) and always scare the poo poo out of them opening the door at 5:30 - 6:00 or whatever. I've taken to knocking now but sometimes I'm at work 15 minutes after I woke up and don't think about it, or they're just in some random room in a rocking chair with an afghan blanket or something.
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Oct 29, 2015 11:56
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Westie posted:poo poo pissing me off: indecisiveness. You are more than making up your time from the shorter lunch with the time saved commuting. Why NOT go for it?
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offer came in for a programming job. I've posted in this thread about it, but the new company froze recruitment for whatever reason for a month - and now they've come back at me with a revised offer.
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Oct 29, 2015 15:10
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:I'd take it in a heartbeat for the shorter commute alone. I would be so happy for a shorter commute. Even at the same amount of money I would jump on it to get an hour or two a day back.
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Oct 29, 2015 15:10
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Just move to Beaverton already.
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Oct 29, 2015 15:48
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stubblyhead posted:Just move to Beaverton already.
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MY WIFE doesn't want to.
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Partycat posted:Waking up cleaning crew persons is always amusing. They're always "on break" too , like I care that they're sleeping. I just have no idea that they're going to be in there (lights are off) and always scare the poo poo out of them opening the door at 5:30 - 6:00 or whatever. Why the gently caress are people sleeping at work?
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Why the gently caress are people sleeping at work? My work was actually next to all the clubs and show spots. If I went out to a show and because I started work at 5am, i'd just sleep in the nap room. A few other people who had my shift in the past would literally just wear PJs to work some days. I don't know how the gently caress you manage to work somewhere so far that you've got a 22+ mile commute. But then again my commute is 8 miles and takes me 30 minutes or more. silicone thrills fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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Oct 29, 2015 16:07
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ChubbyThePhat posted:It's almost like labelling ports is good practice. He should try it some time. When I moved from a building where the network admin refused to label switchports with jack numbers to one where we meticulously inventoried all the descriptions on the switch ports to include the jack number and device name was amazing. Going from every jack request requiring a trek across the building to maybe 5% requiring it if that jack had never been used before was mind blowing (there was a lot of jack activations because people got wired connections for their personal laptops and research groups moved around a lot)(at a University).
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Tigntink posted:
It just depends on the area, I grew up in Washington DC commuter hell, where 50+ mile commutes aren't considered unusual.
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It was actually 22 miles closer. The route to my current job is 31 miles in one direction, which on most days I can do in 43 minutes. The new one is like, 8 miles from my house or something like that. At 8am I can easily do that in 15 minutes.
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When I was getting radiation treatment I was lying there one time waiting to get zapped and over the PA I head the old Windows "ding" error sound. I said "please tell me this thing isn't controlled by a Windows machine" and they laughed because the culprit was the PC that does their patient scheduling.
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Jesus Christ, the fact that no one questioned this, not even the patient, boggles the mind.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Why the gently caress are people sleeping at work? When I worked nights I'd usually just eat at my desk while working and burn my lunch hour taking a nap in the break lounge.
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Oct 29, 2015 17:15
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Westie posted:It was actually 22 miles closer. The route to my current job is 31 miles in one direction, which on most days I can do in 43 minutes. So that's 1h saved per day. At 2 weeks vacation, you're saving 250h/year. At $50/h, that's an extra $12,500/year. Take the new job.
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FISHMANPET posted:The ticket kiosks for my local transit system run Windows 2000, so every once and awhile when something goes awry you hear the WIn 2k ding. My local petrol station uses a POS has ICQ sounds when processing transactions. Every time I pay by credit card and hear it, I assume my card details have just been IMed to Russia.
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Oct 29, 2015 17:19
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spog posted:My local petrol station uses a POS has ICQ sounds when processing transactions. I remember when ICQ was the defacto instant messenger for online gamers. Hell it basically was the UO whisper function.
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Oct 29, 2015 17:30
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A bank in Belgium has ATMs that make sounds straight out of Windows 3.11 for withdrawals. It was rather unsettling the first time I withdrew money there.
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Dick Trauma posted:When I was getting radiation treatment I was lying there one time waiting to get zapped and over the PA I head the old Windows "ding" error sound. I said "please tell me this thing isn't controlled by a Windows machine" and they laughed because the culprit was the PC that does their patient scheduling. Are you familiar with the Therac-25?
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My wife and I both remember our ICQ numbers from ~15 years ago. Mine is 9 digits, but hers is 8. She beat me!
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FISHMANPET posted:My wife and I both remember our ICQ numbers from ~15 years ago. Mine is 9 digits, but hers is 8. She beat me! 3-4 years since I've logged into ICQ and I can rattle that number off instantly. Can I remember my old phone numbers? Nope. 8 Digits 
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Boogalo posted:3-4 years since I've logged into ICQ and I can rattle that number off instantly. Can I remember my old phone numbers? Nope.
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spog posted:My local petrol station uses a POS has ICQ sounds when processing transactions. I hear the "uh oh" at a lot of gas stations; it's the sound to remind the clerk to check ID for tobacco and alcohol and such.
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Dick Trauma posted:When I was getting radiation treatment I was lying there one time waiting to get zapped and over the PA I head the old Windows "ding" error sound. I said "please tell me this thing isn't controlled by a Windows machine" and they laughed because the culprit was the PC that does their patient scheduling. OK, we won't. It is, though. vibur posted:I can log into my ICQ account with *7* digits. I can log into mine with seven digits, the first digit being '1'. 
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ConfusedUs posted:I hear the "uh oh" at a lot of gas stations; it's the sound to remind the clerk to check ID for tobacco and alcohol and such. I thought I was hearing that at convenience stores. That would explain why.
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Oct 29, 2015 18:08
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6 digit ICQ number get wrecked nerds
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go3 posted:6 digit ICQ number get wrecked nerds 
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FISHMANPET posted:My wife and I both remember our ICQ numbers from ~15 years ago. Mine is 9 digits, but hers is 8. She beat me! I remember my number and my password. One of our secondary contractors wanted me to unblock ICQ so he could talk to his overseas development team, so I logged into my ancient ICQ account to make sure it wasn't being blocked by our firewall. A few people I had friended from back in the day were still logging into it. God knows why.
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Migishu posted:https://medium.com/backchannel/how-technology-led-a-hospital-to-give-a-patient-38-times-his-dosage-ded7b3688558#.wvq92rfyu Alarm fatigue is a real thing. In the two live site email aliases i'm on for my project, at which ALL of our watchdogs are pointed, I get about 1-2k emails a day. There's literally no way to filter those well enough to catch issues, you can only let the issue be brought to your attention then search the alerts from the last <x> time period
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stubblyhead posted:Are you familiar with the Therac-25? I aware of that story before I started my therapy. I was pretty calm that first time until I noticed that the door to the room was very thick, like a bank vault, and as they hauled it shut I was the one that had to be on the inside of it.  Of course I was a little distracted by the process of first having my yarbles secured inside a lead clamshell.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Alarm fatigue is a real thing. In the two live site email aliases i'm on for my project, at which ALL of our watchdogs are pointed, I get about 1-2k emails a day. There's literally no way to filter those well enough to catch issues, you can only let the issue be brought to your attention then search the alerts from the last <x> time period We had a major datacenter issue last friday. A bad power supply popped a breaker and then something something I dont know, but 2500 servers or thereabouts spontaneously rebooted. Today event monitoring had finally dug deep enough into the pile of alarms to dispatch the ones for my systems to me, making me jump before I saw the open date on them. 
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stubblyhead posted:
I have a serious problem with the tone of that article.  is described as a "dense screen" as if it's incomprehensible and easy to gently caress up. I have never looked at an Epic screen before, and I'm not a doctor, yet there are two numbers which are clearly labeled there and are clearly too high. The doctor working this only has to modify 2 values on that screen and it fired an alert, I don't think it's too much to ask them to confirm they're not about to kill somebody when they hit "Accept." EDIT: It also says the pill-picker robot "breached" protections even though it was just doing what two medically trained professionals told it to. For fucks sakes, he don't have AI, computers do what we tell them to arghghghghg Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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I'd agree the tone might be a little too "computers are evil", but that screen: yeah, it's easy to see when you know there's an issue to be found, and when you're sitting with time to spare reading it. Imagine doing a bunch of those screens every day, while constantly interrupted, dragged around and whatnot, under high time stress. It happened, and going "obviously the persons should have caught it" is entirely pointless if you want to actually prevent the problem in the future.
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I feel like a lot of lives could be saved if you had a bar at the bottom that compares "average dose" to "requested dose" and a popup that says "You are X% over the average dose, are you sure you want to request this?". But I guess when you're a nurse on a 14 hour shift who has had to respond to false emergency alarms over 200 times today your patience and comprehension get a little dulled. Polio Vax Scene fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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kujeger posted:I'd agree the tone might be a little too "computers are evil", but that screen: yeah, it's easy to see when you know there's an issue to be found, and when you're sitting with time to spare reading it. It just seems like the author ignores the fact that people decided on the alerts thresholds and the requirements for the medications and all that, and blames "the computer" for letting this happen before they convened a committee to make changes. I'm clearly oversimplifying my response to this but the crux of the article seems to be "The computer didn't try hard enough to stop people from making a mistake" while also decrying alarm fatigue. EDIT: It also doesn't seem to even question the idea that doctors being this harried might be a bigger problem that can't simply be solved by ramming more technology into the process. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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dogstile posted:Shorter lunch isn't that bad anyway. I regularly just eat at my desk and soldier on through it, for lack of anything better to do (Yes, i know I shouldn't). Over 11 months as a field technician, I probably took lunch less than 20 times. With the amount of OT I was working, I had no desire to take another hour out of my day to sit around in Nebraska or Wyoming.
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