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nimper posted:I see you haven't heard of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_left, although this intersection is a little different. Judge Schnoopy posted:Town near me rebuilt a major tollway/highway interchange and eliminated crossing traffic on a left turn. They did this by making all north/south traffic cross itself. Twice. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 04:35
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carry on then posted:https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9519716,-93.090167,15.5z, but randomly some of those ramps may be closed or redirected. It's a fun new experience every time I go through there! Try living here - for the longest time over a decade ago, the north/south 680 lanes were closed for YEARS. Literally. All because the governor at the time decided to go with the lowest contract bidder and they kept bitching about costs or just straight up not working on anything. Main thoroughfare completely hosed because the idiots in charge hired bigger, lazier idiots to do the work and somehow expected things to work  And due to that, a bunch of other infrastructure changes got pushed back or put on hold, so it's a clusterfuck.On the upside, at least the job market isn't bad, cost of living is alright, and nothing is too far away. There's always the running joke of Nebraska having three seasons - warm, cold, and orange barrel (construction).
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Oct 20, 2015 04:51
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Crazy intersections you say? https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9235021,-96.7623754,861m/data=!3m1!1e3 It even has its own wikipedia page that is actually pretty detailed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Five_Interchange And it won an award for something. And traffic still slows down to a crawl every day because reasons.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:58
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flosofl posted:Top part of the pic, just to the left of the canal. There's some pretty obvious tire tracks and you they go pretty much anywhere that *isn't* a road. Those are tram rails.
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Oct 20, 2015 04:58
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Alighieri posted:Crazy intersections you say? I remember my first time going through there as a kid and my face was  the entire time. And yes, traffic is abhorrent through there.
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Oct 20, 2015 05:00
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Haquer posted:I remember my first time going through there as a kid and my face was I ride under this on US75 most mornings these days. It the only amazing thing to me is how slow traffic is through it.
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Oct 20, 2015 05:07
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It's still leagues better then what it used to be, but it's proof you cannot engineer the stupid out of people.
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Oct 20, 2015 05:13
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nitrogen posted:This is one of my favorite intersections, from when I lived in Phoenix: Looks like every intersection between Market and the rest of the grids around me in SF?
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Oct 20, 2015 05:17
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Town near me rebuilt a major tollway/highway interchange and eliminated crossing traffic on a left turn. They did this by making all north/south traffic cross itself. Twice. Hey hey. That's my old town, and right next to where I used to work.
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Oct 20, 2015 05:39
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If you nerds wanna talk traffic and such there is a very old thread in ask/tell for this http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3177805
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Oct 20, 2015 05:53
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An email from the CEO came in, to all staff, titled "Important News!":quote:I’m sure most of us know this… but just in case… there’s a new Star Wars, The Force Awakens, trailer on tonight during halftime of Monday Night Football. Just an FYI for those interested.
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Oct 20, 2015 07:20
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anthonypants posted:An email from the CEO came in, to all staff, titled "Important News!": Are you hiring?
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Oct 20, 2015 07:30
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RFC2324 posted:Are you hiring?
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Oct 20, 2015 07:42
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anthonypants posted:Probably, yeah. How are you at helping old people set up IMAP/POP3 mail accounts? Before I started doing actual sysadmin work, I did tech support for a company that provided WiFi for RV parks. You haven't lived til you walk an 80 year old man who claims to have retired from network engineering through resetting a wifi connection, then have to explain to him why a wifi extender might be a good investment.
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Oct 20, 2015 07:52
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RFC2324 posted:Before I started doing actual sysadmin work, I did tech support for a company that provided WiFi for RV parks. You haven't lived til you walk an 80 year old man who claims to have retired from network engineering through resetting a wifi connection, then have to explain to him why a wifi extender might be a good investment. "We didn't have wifi back in my day. If we wanted data in another room, we carried the packets, by hand, uphill both ways in the snow."
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Oct 20, 2015 13:54
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unclenutzzy posted:lafayette > american coney Truth. Also, I loving hate that intersection. I take Lafayette down to the new DC, and so far there has been a DPD horse trailer blocking part of the path to make the turn 3 of the 4 times I made the trip. The Woodward loop around Campus Martius is at least entertaining during the construction as people freak the gently caress out about where to go.
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Oct 20, 2015 14:43
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Gothmog1065 posted:"We didn't have wifi back in my day. If we wanted data in another room, we carried the packets, by hand, uphill both ways in the snow." The anecdote about the bandwidth of a car full of tapes? He literally did it, though it was a bit slower with a horse and buggy. Also he only had simplex ethernet, uphill both ways in the snow 
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Oct 20, 2015 15:24
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RFC2324 posted:Before I started doing actual sysadmin work, I did tech support for a company that provided WiFi for RV parks. You haven't lived til you walk an 80 year old man who claims to have retired from network engineering through resetting a wifi connection, then have to explain to him why a wifi extender might be a good investment. It is kind of understandable if the network engineering he was used to was, like, token ring and SNA or something. Other than the basic concept of 'things talking to each other' it's not going to have much connection with WiFi.
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Oct 20, 2015 15:39
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LethalGeek posted:If you nerds wanna talk traffic and such there is a very old thread in ask/tell for this http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3177805 This thread is great, I spent many hours over a long weekend reading hundreds of pages
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Oct 20, 2015 15:56
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"I'll be in a meeting for a while." "With who?" "The company putting in our VOIP system." "We're getting a VOIP system?" "Yeah." "You think I ought to be a part of the meeting?" "No." "Let me guess, it doesn't concern me?" "No, it doesn't." "It doesn't concern me, the IT department, the guy who will be installing all these things. I have absolutely nothing to glean from these talks?" "Pretty much."I stared at him as the elevator doors began to close. Before they totally shut, I announced, "You're an rear end in a top hat, [supervisor]." His eyes widening was the last thing I saw. Did I mention that in the next month, we're apparently going to have nine employees putting in their resignations due to the attitudes of the GM and CE? I'm the ninth 
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Oct 20, 2015 16:14
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larchesdanrew posted:
Considering you're probably not getting a reference from here, make sure the phones confuse you as much as possible since you weren't there.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:18
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larchesdanrew posted:I'm the ninth Is it too soon to say congrats?
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Oct 20, 2015 16:21
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evol262 posted:In the twin cities, at least, it's because 35 splits south of the cities, and W goes through Minneapolis (which is west), with E through St. Paul (east), so it actually makes some sense versus calling one 794 or something, since 394, 494, and 694 already exist. Well the proper thing to do, since whichever you pick to be the "real" 35 and whichever you pick to be something else, the something else is a loop road that connects to real 35 on both ends, is to name it I-235. Wouldn't make sense to name it off 94.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:26
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Spread your wings and fly; may god be with you. I want to say this to my GM so bad.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:28
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I love this thread, both for the stories of utter idiocy that you guys deal with and because the people in the worst places always get out.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:38
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You either get out or you stay long enough to become the CE.
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Oct 20, 2015 16:57
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larchesdanrew posted:
Do you have something else lined up? Either way congratulations, it should do wonders for your health to get out of that place. Also are you sure the others are actually quitting. I've experienced the "we'll all totally quit, that'll show them!" mentality a couple of times and inevitably once person quits who already had something else lined up and the others come up with reasons to no longer rage quit once they realized that they need those paychecks to keep coming.
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Oct 20, 2015 17:49
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Also are you sure the others are actually quitting. Yes. One put in his 30 days notice yesterday since his girlfriend accepted a job at Epic and he's moving to Wisconsin with her. Two put in their two-weeks this morning after one was lied to about a promotion and the other was bumped from full-time to part-time for no reason. One is putting hers in as soon as she hears from another job due to the company using her artwork without her permission. Three have already put in their notices and will be gone by the end of next week. The only one up in the air is a guy who jumped through hoops for months to chase a raise, and then they bumped his pay $0.25 an hour. Literally every single person, besides me, is in production, the crew that runs the studio and edits all the footage for air. This place is about to be fuuucked.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:12
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Sounds like a blast. Your coworker who is moving due to Epic is gonna have a good time.
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GreenNight posted:Sounds like a blast. Your coworker who is moving due to Epic is gonna have a good time. A shot at Epic is definitely in the pipeline for me. My wife is finally on board with getting out of here, but not for a few years until we've got our finances in order. I'll be using that time to regain my sanity and rack up some certs.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:18
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Keep in touch if you go that route. The Madison, WI thread has a ton of Epic goons.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:25
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larchesdanrew posted:Yes. I'm reminded of a ticket I had a few years back. Some small time TV station fired every single engineer except one with no notice, and told the last remaining guy that he was now on call 24/7/356 and solely responsible for everything. The guy was understandably pissed, so he pulled a bunch of wires and quit on the spot, taking the station off the air. I'm told it wasn't a difficult fix, but there was nobody left who knew how to actually get it back online. We also had a small time international Korean channel go out of business without warning. They just pulled the plug without warning and fled the building before anybody could find them.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:30
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Wizgonzin is a terrible frozen wasteland 6 months a year. As a former Michigoon it would be a tough sell moving there.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Well the proper thing to do, since whichever you pick to be the "real" 35 and whichever you pick to be something else, the something else is a loop road that connects to real 35 on both ends, is to name it I-235. Wouldn't make sense to name it off 94. Got myself jumbled up when posting (since 94 also goes through) The Twin Cities and DFW are in the unusual position of having a E/W split instead of 235, 435, whatever make sense.
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alg posted:Wizgonzin is a terrible frozen wasteland 6 months a year. As a former Michigoon it would be a tough sell moving there. I loved living in Madison. I went to High School and College there and finally moved away to be closer to my 80 year old mom in California. It does get frozen and cold, but it is a pretty awesome place to live.
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Oct 20, 2015 18:57
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Today a flurry of tickets came in about faxes not going out or coming in. I call our phone provider to see if there is an outage. We hadn't paid the bill in two months.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:00
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Mr. Fix It posted:He put a comma on the end of the link that doesn't belong there, so google maps was just going to your last view. https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9519716,-93.090167,15z should work Radium 
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siggy2021 posted:Today a flurry of tickets came in about faxes not going out or coming in. I call our phone provider to see if there is an outage.
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Renegret posted:Some small time TV station fired every single engineer except one with no notice, and told the last remaining guy that he was now on call 24/7/356 and solely responsible for everything. ilkhan posted:Well at least you got an answer.
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