DarkDobe posted:

It's worse.

A technician determines they want a part.
They log in to the System, and submit a work order. This is fully digital, and the System can be accessed by supervisors, technical advisors, ordering clerks, anyone. But...
They print the work order and take it to the control office.
There, someone picks up the piece of paper, logs into the System and looks up the work order they are holding a copy of.
Some sort of magic determines if they agree to send the work order onwards to acquisition.
Eventually that piece of paper, otherwise unchanged, ends up in a tray for Purchasing section.
I take the paper(s) and sort them by priority (or what I feel like dealing with).
I log into the System, and open up the work order again.
Using the information therein I create a Purchase Requisition and print this.
Then its a game of telephoning vendors and bothering technicians for clarification because all they sent me was a paper with "Bolt, Steel, Quantity 4"
Eventually given a quote (also printed) I make up a Purchase Order. This is the only piece that ought to be printed as it is a final contract between us and the vendor that we are buying Thing for Price.
Once the piece is acquired, it needs to be Received- more paperwork in the System. More printing. This also requires a third party to complete so that I cannot 'receive' my own orders.
Then it needs to be Invoiced - yet again using the System.
Finally, I have a package including a printed Quote, Work Order, Requisition, Purchase Order, Receipt Slip, Vendor Invoice, Payment Receipt. All these need multiple signatures. More trays in and out!

That's not even getting into the end of month reconciliation (more printing out paper copies of digital System records) - or random accounting checks we have to do.
Or the fact that they want us to update a redundant list of work orders and their status, despite the System literally doing this - no, we need an external Excel sheet. Nobody reads this though, they just call us (or walk on) to ask where their parts are. Every day.

I am hired by this organization as an electronics and optics technician.

Hyperlynx posted:

Hm, yes, from a conference naming itself after the most vile and chaotic programming construct there is. Well, that's on brand I guess.

Sockser posted:

Alright I did the thing
And then shattered it while installing the LED but I’m not sitting around for another 5 hours wasting resin to do it again

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Mr. Sunshine posted:

Are you at war with one or more gods? Because otherwise it's not a warcrime, just regular old crime. Go hog wild!

Power Khan posted:

Ask her about the Treaty of Trianon

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Antioch posted:

Sagebrush posted:

Sagebrush posted:

the teapot isn't fake. it is a real teapot made by the german company Melitta. a graphics researcher in the 1970s built the original model based on his own tea set and published the data for other researchers to use, since in those days it was really hard to build new 3d models, and as a result it became well-known in the graphics community.



the cg version looks squashed compared to the real thing because the computer he programmed it on used non-square pixels. if you view the model on his original system the proportions are correct.

OwlFancier posted:

Is that the conspiracy theory that hilary eats babies?

DandyLion posted:

can I interest you dudes in some Non Fungible Teapots?

Brawnfire posted:

I'm Melitta teapot!

Power Khan posted:

That's a "triathlont".

But no, ask a hungarian about the treaty of Trianon and you'll get an avalance of unhinged ranting about injustice of not being an empire anymore (read: literal prison for anyone except hungarians and trampling on the rights of everyone else). It's a deeply embeded and state sponsored chauvinistic myth, of "stolen greatness" and the "injustice" of ethnic hungarians ending up in the new formed nations. It's a really cheap and good tool to whip up the dumbest elements of society.

I don't think there's anything remotely comparable in the US. It's really intense. They have songs in church about this, collective, national processions and national grieving each year.

Sagebrush posted:

the teapot isn't fake. it is a real teapot made by the german company Melitta. a graphics researcher in the 1970s built the original model based on his own tea set and published the data for other researchers to use, since in those days it was really hard to build new 3d models, and as a result it became well-known in the graphics community.

the cg version looks squashed compared to the real thing because the computer he programmed it on used non-square pixels. if you view the model on his original system the proportions are correct.

Antigravitas posted:

I could go into the firmware and manually set the time, but that would be admitting defeat.

Antigravitas posted:

Southern Germany be like

thepopmonster posted:

you MODEL melitta? you squash her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for modeller! jail for modeller for One Thousand Years!!!!

Sagebrush posted:

the cg version looks squashed compared to the real thing because the computer he programmed it on used non-square pixels. if you view the model on his original system the proportions are correct.

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

This seems to be a good time to talk about computers and programming.

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

This seems to be a good time to talk about computers and programming.

ILL Machina posted:

Would all you non programmer computer touchers please spend one day learning regex ffs?

ILL Machina posted:

Would all you non programmer computer touchers please spend one day learning regex ffs?

Indecisive posted:

what the gently caress is regex and why

ILL Machina posted:

Would all you non programmer computer touchers please spend one day learning regex ffs?

Indecisive posted:

what the gently caress is regex and why

Indecisive posted:

what the gently caress is regex and why