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Bob Morales posted:this kept them from being able to get any work done. I’ll take “completely foreseeable consequences for $200, Alex”
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The Fool posted:I’ll take “completely foreseeable consequences for $200, Alex” Having worked in contact centres for the last 15 years I am very confident in saying that any time you ask someone who didn't apply for a call centre job to take calls in anything like a call centre environment it will go incredibly badly. Frankly I'm amazed it got as far as being implemented in Bob's case without the finance department all calling in sick or otherwise feigning an inability to answer a call.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 19:58 |
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gently caress the issue of getting work done. Why in the ever-loving gently caress are you asking accountants to console family member of people that could very well be dying. That's not what they signed up for. Like, this isn't even a minor process issue, you dumped a whole lot of psychological trauma on a team that has zero training on how to deal with it. gently caress every aspect of that. It's not good for the workers and it's not good for the people calling in.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:01 |
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Woof Blitzer posted:I'm so sick of AnyConnect and ASAs. God drat. Always stop working when it's least convenient. AnyConnect just angers me all the time. Terrible logging, terrible interface, terrible options, terrible documentation. On Linux it doesn't even support PKCS11 devices (but it does on Windows & MacOS, because that makes sense). Really just nothing good to say about it other than 'sometimes it works as expected' which is about the bare minimum you can say about a given product and nothing at all to be proud of.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:12 |
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Sheep posted:AnyConnect just angers me all the time. Terrible logging, terrible interface, terrible options, terrible documentation. On Linux it doesn't even support PKCS11 devices (but it does on Windows & MacOS, because that makes sense). Really just nothing good to say about it other than 'sometimes it works as expected' which is about the bare minimum you can say about a given product and nothing at all to be proud of. At least AnyConnect works on Linux, that's more than I can say for Palo Alto's
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:22 |
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Coffee break chat: Anyone else out there go hog wild on a new coffee machine when work from home hit? I got a Jura A1 espresso/americano machine and it's quite possibly the best qol improvement I have ever gotten.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:27 |
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I got a burr grinder and have a chemex pour-over
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:28 |
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For coffee, I have the reusable pods for my Keurig and a nice grinder so I get fresh ground on demand, I never worried about a french press but we did have one in a hotel room recently and it was quite nice. I just really love the convenience of the Keurig.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:46 |
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I've used the same Ninja coffeemaker for the past while because I am a whole and put enough sugar in my coffee for the subtle difference in flavors (French press, kuerigh, etc) to not matter. Best qol improvement for coffee for me was a yeti dedicated to coffee. That way it stays hot and I can make a predetermined amount at a time and not have the last cup from the pot scorched to all hell because I got lost in a rabbit hole of an issue and forgot to drink it for a few hours.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:51 |
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Ive got a decent burr grinder and just use that with a regular drip coffee maker. Freshly ground good coffee seems like its 80% of getting a good cup of coffee. When I want to get fancy in the mornings I make a couple of espresso lite type coffee with my Moka pot.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 21:18 |
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I'm still using the same old cheap grinder and drip machine, but I have up'ed the quality of coffee I am getting. I was doing the Kona thing for a bit, but then I found the guy in SA MART. He likes Ethiopian coffee and so do I.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Ive got a decent burr grinder and just use that with a regular drip coffee maker. Freshly ground good coffee seems like its 80% of getting a good cup of coffee. When I want to get fancy in the mornings I make a couple of espresso lite type coffee with my Moka pot. Bringing a moka pot to work and using it, people think you've brought back some kind of martian artifact, it's pretty cool.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Coffee break chat: Funny you should ask, right as I'm making a pourover. As soon as both our employers announced WFH, we upgraded our burr grinder from a cuisinart to a Baratza Virtuoso, got a chemex to replace an older, jankier setup and got 2 single origin coffee subscriptions going. Wife used to work for a coffee roaster and I've been into single origin drip even before we met, so once we realized we're on our own for 2 coffees a day instead of 0-1, it was time. The Virtuoso is so much better at producing consistent grinds than our $50 cuisinart. We're holding off on an espresso machine until we IPO. Then it's time for a La Marzocco GS3
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Adobe licensing. My supervisor repeatly tells me the users manage their own licenses. The users never have it. They think new laptops for WFH have it by default and I gotta break the bad news. They think I can restore software after a crash when no one kept the records. gently caress
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 02:09 |
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How many licenses do you have and are you already on the subscription model? You should look at Adobe Teams
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Also, never let users manage licenses unless you intentionally want them to lose it
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luminalflux posted:
Do you plan to preinfuse often? Why not just get a linea mini and have a prettier machine and four figs to spend elsewhere?
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skooma512 posted:Adobe licensing. My supervisor repeatly tells me the users manage their own licenses. The users never have it. They think new laptops for WFH have it by default and I gotta break the bad news. They think I can restore software after a crash when no one kept the records. gently caress Your supervisor is a moron.
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JohnCompany posted:Do you plan to preinfuse often? Why not just get a linea mini and have a prettier machine and four figs to spend elsewhere? Manual preinfusion speaks to our inner coffee nerds, esp since they had manual paddles at the cafes when she worked bar. I haven't asked about the Linea Mini - she's the one specifying a GS3 as the minimum if we get an espresso machine. edit: i checked with her about a linea and her response was , "uh, duh, we need manual preinfusion control. we're not animals in this household!" luminalflux fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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luminalflux posted:We're holding off on an espresso machine until we IPO. Then it's time for a La Marzocco GS3 At $Job-1 those guys had an office down the corridor from ours and they kitted out all the kitchens
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Dick Trauma posted:The months long $250,000 AV project that I was not involved in is slowly coming to an end. I've been asking for documentation for two months, and what I just received is amateurish, sloppy, and written by someone who is obviously not fluent in English. It is a cornucopia of bad grammar, spelling mistakes, and bizarre formatting. (Ex: "Windows" is spelled "windos" over and over again.) I am not looking forward to having to teach people how to use this cumbersome, stupid beast of a system. Oh man we've just put in a whole new boardroom setup with meeting tools and a huge touchscreen and stuff and there'll be no documentation. We were told 'go along and have a play with the gear and if you have any questions make sure you come and ask the vendor at this meeting', and then a passive-aggressive 'well, if you haven't got any questions by now we assume you all know how to use it!' They also went with the cheapest wholesaler instead of a dedicated AV installer and were surprised that they weren't interested in providing frontline support for the gear.
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Dick Trauma posted:The months long $250,000 AV project that I was not involved in is slowly coming to an end. I've been asking for documentation for two months, and what I just received is amateurish, sloppy, and written by someone who is obviously not fluent in English. It is a cornucopia of bad grammar, spelling mistakes, and bizarre formatting. (Ex: "Windows" is spelled "windos" over and over again.) I am not looking forward to having to teach people how to use this cumbersome, stupid beast of a system. xiw posted:Oh man we've just put in a whole new boardroom setup with meeting tools and a huge touchscreen and stuff and there'll be no documentation. We were told 'go along and have a play with the gear and if you have any questions make sure you come and ask the vendor at this meeting', and then a passive-aggressive 'well, if you haven't got any questions by now we assume you all know how to use it!' The trick is to stop caring so much about work. Paladine_PSoT posted:Coffee break chat: Coffee.. machine??? Get your own green beans, roast them, put them into a French press in the morning or cold brew them all night in the fridge. For espresso, yeah, a good machine is amazing.
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I have a $30 Mr Coffee and the cheapest burr hand grinder I could find. You don't need to spend a ton of time or money on coffee stuff as the most important part is high quality beans that are freshly ground.
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I don’t drink coffee because I’m a better person than you
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"I don't even OWN a television!"
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 23:08 |
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Yes, but you are aware that there is an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?
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I handcraft my own Nipkow disks.
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deedee megadoodoo posted:I have a $30 Mr Coffee and the cheapest burr hand grinder I could find. You don't need to spend a ton of time or money on coffee stuff as the most important part is high quality beans that are freshly ground. A French press and a cheap coffee grinder are less than $50.
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DoomTrainPhD posted:A French press and a cheap coffee grinder are less than $50. So this thread has started me down the rabbit hole. New grinder on order. Getting a better scale. I pulled an old French press out of the closet and I am enjoying 500 ml of coffee made with Hoffman's technique. But that is as far as this goes, right? Or do I wake up the morning after a coffee binge, holding a Chemex I was using to chug espresso shots, with grounds all down the front of my shirt?
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SubjectVerbObject posted:So this thread has started me down the rabbit hole. New grinder on order. Getting a better scale. I pulled an old French press out of the closet and I am enjoying 500 ml of coffee made with Hoffman's technique. This is gonna make me buy a grinder and maybe a kettle for getting proper hot water for my French press.
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Irritated Goat posted:This is gonna make me buy a grinder and maybe a kettle for getting proper hot water for my French press. Gooseneck kettle was a gamechanger for my pourovers.
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It's so annoying when you have an IM/chat going with someone then they start asking you questions in email
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SubjectVerbObject posted:So this thread has started me down the rabbit hole. New grinder on order. Getting a better scale. I pulled an old French press out of the closet and I am enjoying 500 ml of coffee made with Hoffman's technique. The only other thing you should do is roast your own coffee. But that only requires a frying pan (or air-popper) and green coffee beans. You can pick up a 3lb bag for $~20 on Amazon.
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I'd love to join coffeechat but all I have is a crippling energy drink addiction.
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Biowarfare posted:I'd love to join coffeechat but all I have is a crippling energy drink addiction. not empty quoting
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SubjectVerbObject posted:So this thread has started me down the rabbit hole. New grinder on order. Getting a better scale. I pulled an old French press out of the closet and I am enjoying 500 ml of coffee made with Hoffman's technique. by which I mean there's a goon coffee roaster that's decently popular; I ordered a few bags recently to try it out after a banner ad. here I'm pretty lax about my coffee habits. Mason jar cold brew; decaf mostly these days because its a bad idea to do it with full caf. Strain when I want to drink, or after a day/overnight and store. Here's a question tho. Does anyone else besides me switch over to tea and waffle between tea/coffee when getting sick of one or the other?
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 20:48 |
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I just drink whatever poo poo coffee I can get at McDonalds, Burger King, or Speedway, in that order. I'm barely awake so I don't give a gently caress. If I'm running late I use the vending machine at work that gives you a cup with a poker hand on it, like in Terminator 2. And if it's a Friday I'll stop somewhere nice to get an Americano and a little snack.
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I am SO loving TIRED of having to prove that it’s crappy code/sql queries/app architecture and not the infrastructure.
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Biowarfare posted:I'd love to join coffeechat but all I have is a crippling energy drink addiction. Coffee is an energy drink!
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devmd01 posted:I am SO loving TIRED of having to prove that it’s crappy code/sql queries/app architecture and not the infrastructure. Maybe your infrastructure should suck less so I can do a 15-table join and then just foreach the terabyte result set in code instead of using LIMIT
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