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Bob Morales posted:HR has requested we no longer call the cell phone extender 'the cancer box' Get out your label maker so it can officially be recognized as the "Centrally Located Radiation Dispenser".
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We've got a machine here that needs a laptop with some proprietary software on it to talk to it and of course that software requires a hardware dongle and you'll never guess what happened when Rufus dropped the laptop. Anyway, the replacement dongle is $1275 and my normally laid back boss is getting a bit irritating complaining about having to spend that money. poo poo, it's the price of doing business, man. I've been telling him for months we need to find a safer way to talk to that machine and keep getting put off with 'we're going to replace it next month' for 5 months now. Well, now you're going to have to replace the dongle, too dude, unless you want to speed up that replacement unit. As for why the dongle costs so much? Because they can! Just because it isn't a artisanal custom machine part made in switzerland out of stolen Nazi gold doesn't make any less important for the functioning of the machine. Calm down, dude.
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Jun 4, 2018 17:15
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Bob Morales posted:HR has requested we no longer call the cell phone extender 'the cancer box' How very backwards, because what really is cancer but a very aggressive cell booster?
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Jun 4, 2018 17:31
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Inspector_666 posted:How very backwards, because what really is cancer but a very aggressive cell booster? The owner's daughter came up with that name. She is an anti-vaxxer, homeopathic/essential oils tard, turns off her home wifi at night, slept with a gold foil blanket over her belly when she was pregnant to avoid radiation to baby 
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tactlessbastard posted:We've got a machine here that needs a laptop with some proprietary software on it to talk to it and of course that software requires a hardware dongle and you'll never guess what happened when Rufus dropped the laptop. Anyway, the replacement dongle is $1275 and my normally laid back boss is getting a bit irritating complaining about having to spend that money. poo poo, it's the price of doing business, man. I've been telling him for months we need to find a safer way to talk to that machine and keep getting put off with 'we're going to replace it next month' for 5 months now. Well, now you're going to have to replace the dongle, too dude, unless you want to speed up that replacement unit. You can get non-poo poo USB network hubs designed for license dongles. So you keep the thing locked away in your server room and install a driver on the laptop.
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Jun 4, 2018 18:15
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Bob Morales posted:The owner's daughter came up with that name. tell her about medical grade steel that has to be harvested from ships sunk during wwii
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Jun 4, 2018 18:28
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Thanks Ants posted:You can get non-poo poo USB network hubs designed for license dongles. So you keep the thing locked away in your server room and install a driver on the laptop. Interesting! That got me googling, going to experiment with Flexihub.
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Jun 4, 2018 18:32
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RFC2324 posted:tell her about medical grade steel that has to be harvested from ships sunk during wwii Link for lazy, this is not a thing that I knew and is kinda interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
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Jun 4, 2018 18:33
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The Fool posted:Link for lazy, this is not a thing that I knew and is kinda interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel It is interesting, and most of the steel is being harvested from WW1 scrap ships, not WW2 casualties.
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my understanding is that the major qualifier is that they be harvested from ships that sank before the trinity site test.
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Jun 4, 2018 18:39
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RFC2324 posted:my understanding is that the major qualifier is that they be harvested from ships that sank before the trinity site test. It's actually ships that had the steel they were made out of manufactured before the trinity test, but that would certainly include the set of all ships that sank before the test!
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Jun 4, 2018 18:44
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tactlessbastard posted:It's actually ships that had the steel they were made out of manufactured before the trinity test, but that would certainly include the set of all ships that sank before the test! yeah, i wasn't arguing with you. just pointing out where the wwii timeframe i had came from. 
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Jun 4, 2018 19:18
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It amuses me that the best sources of wood and steel are from sunken ships because it's the only place to get samples from before the point where we irrecoverably hosed up the planet.
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Jun 4, 2018 19:21
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Zil posted:Use Tumor Tower from now on. The Mutavational Speaker
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iirc it's actually becoming less of a problem as the radiation levels decrease back to what they were before.
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Jun 4, 2018 19:29
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I don't understand why people are flipping out over Microsoft buying Github. Yes it'll probably get monetized to hell and back one day but that day isn't today and I don't see the reason why poo poo like this is happening over at Gitlab as a result. Microsoft could steal your code just the same before.
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Jun 4, 2018 19:37
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Github is already monetized so even that objection seems a bit thin. The spike on gitlab is really just a tally of how many basement dwellers are out there that still use terms like FUD and M$ unironically.
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Jun 4, 2018 19:40
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Yeah I figured it was just the Mikkkkro$oft people doing it
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It's something to be aware of and it's about it for now. Remember though MS bought Skype, then basically used it for only its name to rebrand Lync. Given how long these moves make it's not time to raise any alarms until Github For Business is announced. It's time to jump ship when it's worse in every way and loses stuff. None of this might happen, only part of it might happen. Microsoft has purchased a lot of things and some of them have been handled extremely poorly, others have been handled rather well but everyone loves to remember only the failures.
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Jun 4, 2018 21:03
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Che Delilas posted:Meh, I say take a break when you need one. It's not their fault that we as a culture have this insane notion of work as a virtue in and of itself, so people feel like they have to invent reasons to take the time they're entitled to. Now, if they're not getting their poo poo done or seriously disrupting the rest of the team due to chronic unplanned absences, that's something else again. I live in The Netherlands so by law we get 22ish vacation (pto) days. If you need to take a day of, that’s what these are for. I guess it’s somewhat of a different discussion. People calling in sick so often while not being sick usually leads to ‘management attention’ on everyone that calls in sick for real. Which basically means you’re screwing your co workers. But yeah, if you don’t have PTO, take mental health days whenever you need them.
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Jun 4, 2018 21:41
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Partycat posted:I’d argue it is not the appropriate answer for hands free homes, or large enterprise. It has a niche. UBNT stuff is a good answer for when you want something that's better than consumer grade but not expensive. The niche is low-density sprawling networks in nerdhomes and non-nerd offices.
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PremiumSupport posted:This. Especially in the summer months. A customer of mine literally has “no meeting Fridays” during the summer. Their staff are expected to be goofing off and/or not coming in on Fridays during the summer months. poo poo. In the Pacific Northwest, productivity slows to a crawl during the
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I'm fortunate to work somewhere that offers flex time and has plenty of PTO accrual over the year. I'm able to take enough days off and half-days so I can take care of all that poo poo you just can't do on the weekend (mostly doctors' appointments). I also have one WFH day a week... which admittedly tends to be an "open my work email/chat on one screen, open Final Fantasy XIV on the other screen" day. 
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Jun 4, 2018 23:59
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If your work is getting done who cares how many days it takes you to do it is my philosophy.
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DizzyBum posted:I'm fortunate to work somewhere that offers flex time and has plenty of PTO accrual over the year. I'm able to take enough days off and half-days so I can take care of all that poo poo you just can't do on the weekend (mostly doctors' appointments). I work remote, so FWH is every day  It's the thing that motivates me way more than anything else. I want to never, ever risk losing this privilege because it's the single greatest perk I could imagine. My stress level since I started remote 5 years ago is so different. I went back to a cubicle for a few months at one point (desperation after a layoff) and wanted to kill myself inside a week. Sheep posted:If your work is getting done who cares how many days it takes you to do it is my philosophy. This is the prevailing attitude and why I love my current job. Just have Teams on your phone if you go out in case someone needs you to answer a question, and as long as you make it to all of the scheduled meetings and get your poo poo done who cares.
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Must be nice to work in a place that supports work from home. We have a wfh policy "only if you really can't come in"
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Congrats! You just re-invented the inner join in our lovely visual report generator
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Bob Morales posted:Congrats! You just re-invented the inner join in our lovely visual report generator OK I actually want to see this.
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pixaal posted:Github For Business I too am terrified of the thing that’s been githubs revenue driver and business plan for years already
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Phobeste posted:I too am terrified of the thing that’s been githubs revenue driver and business plan for years already But they were privately held so we don't know if they were ever actually turning a profit. Though Ars put out a big effort piece about "why microsoft made sense" that tries to analyze their money situation. Given how poorly most internet era companies handle their "holy poo poo our website got popular and no one wants to pay for it and we're burning Serious Dollars" situation, I wouldn't be surprised if github was doing badly.
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tactlessbastard posted:We've got a machine here that needs a laptop with some proprietary software on it to talk to it and of course that software requires a hardware dongle and you'll never guess what happened when Rufus dropped the laptop. Anyway, the replacement dongle is $1275 and my normally laid back boss is getting a bit irritating complaining about having to spend that money. poo poo, it's the price of doing business, man. I've been telling him for months we need to find a safer way to talk to that machine and keep getting put off with 'we're going to replace it next month' for 5 months now. Well, now you're going to have to replace the dongle, too dude, unless you want to speed up that replacement unit. Well they overnighted the dongle and it got here this morning and it wouldn't authenticate. I've spent all day on and off the phone with the vendor and they just realized they sent us the wrong dongle
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tactlessbastard posted:the wrong dongle Wallace and Gromit do IT
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AlternateAccount posted:Wallace and Gromit do IT Oh ho, they were being very evasive but the tech guy just admitted it was a license dongle for their much more expensive version of the software! Edit: They really want it back, lol. Overnighting the right one, waiving the original cost. tactlessbastard fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jun 5, 2018 |
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tactlessbastard posted:Oh ho, they were being very evasive but the tech guy just admitted it was a license dongle for their much more expensive version of the software! Sounds like they need to upgrade your software license for free to make you, the customer, happy... gently caress I hate dongles.
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called today & said he has not been receiving his ACH notices via email since December 2017. 
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About 6 months ago I got a call from a vendor about scheduling an update because their backend was being updated they had to install a new software version. I couldn't get much info beyond "it's needed if you want to use this and the engineer can answer any questions". Today is the day to talk to the engineer: He was very angry at management for hiring temps for the phone calls, many of them being highschool students. They called everyone and just assumed their list was accurate and nothing was explained to them. The "update" was for clients still on XP and 7 as they are dropping support for XP and 7. It wasn't an update as much as migrating the data from the old computer to the new computer. The engineer said the entire thing was a giant waste of his time now and he might as well have called as customers either don't realize they were supposed to have a new computer (the phone calls were about 6 months ago and they were scheduling well ahead of time, obvious now that it was because of hardware). It's that or people that were already fine and now confused about this massive waste of time. Giant waste of everyone's time, I'm sure their customers who need to buy new computers, weren't told so 6 months ago. I'm sure they'll love that they have less than a month to get a new computer. The guy seemed really desperate to keep me on the phone since I'm sure most of his day is people yelling about needing a new computer. I'm guessing the list is based on the last computer they installed the software on, their website has a download and tells you to just move the DATA folder to migrate to a new computer. It's really going to depend what the break down of that list is, but the guy seemed pretty fed up with his job.
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Bob Morales posted:called today & said he has not been receiving his ACH notices via email since December 2017.  ?
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My boss has been told to find another job so I'm just going on a shopping spree for my department. "x approved it..." when I get questioned about it at the end of the year We need new stuff. 2560x1440 monitors, new laptops...
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Just as a random straw poll, how many people here work in what they'd consider to be a team, and believe that over 50% of their colleagues pull their weight?
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I'm on a team of three, and I would say on any given day 66% of the team is pulling their own weight. The person who is the remaining 33% changes regularly.
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