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HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin
E: Nope. Not on a snipe page.

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Bar Ran Dun
Jan 22, 2006




usually breakers aren’t just for lighting so I’d imagine flipping breakers would shut off other things they don’t want off.

Tempora Mutantur
Feb 22, 2005

mycomancy posted:

Hey you guys, I think computers *might* be bad!

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

as someone who touches computers for a living: yes, absolutely. no questions about it

cat botherer
Jan 6, 2022

I am interested in most phases of data processing.
I work in "AI" and you'll find nobody more skeptical of anything non-stupid coming out of it than me. I gotta get that bag tho

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

as someone who touches computers for a living: yes, absolutely. no questions about it

*that old computer toucher post about having nothing more sophisticated than a printer with a loaded gun next to it in case it starts making funny noises*

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


cat botherer posted:

I work in "AI" and you'll find nobody more skeptical of anything non-stupid coming out of it than me. I gotta get that bag tho

One of those cool moments in adulthood is realizing that very, very few people believe that their career field works as advertised, or indeed is even salvageable for anything other than a paycheck.

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Tulip posted:

One of those cool moments in adulthood is realizing that very, very few people believe that their career field works as advertised, or indeed is even salvageable for anything other than a paycheck.

♫ everyone hates capitalism, but they don't know they hate capitalism, so they complain about individual problems like they're unconnected phenomena without an underlying cause ♫

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Tulip posted:

One of those cool moments in adulthood is realizing that very, very few people believe that their career field works as advertised, or indeed is even salvageable for anything other than a paycheck.

yeah lol





tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)
HR people are universally freaks and bootlickers and I hope they all get shitcanned

porfiria
Dec 10, 2008

by Modern Video Games
Chad Moron

Falcorum
Oct 21, 2010

tokin opposition posted:

HR people are universally freaks and bootlickers and I hope they all get shitcanned

HR is just internal Marketing

Deep Dish Fuckfest
Sep 6, 2006

Advanced
Computer Touching


Toilet Rascal

Falcorum posted:

HR is just internal Marketing secret police

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
I used to be a union council rep so I sometimes had to sit in on disciplinary stuff and when I first started I sat in on one just to get a feel for it.

it was some old fucker who was downloading porno on his work computer and they brought in some 25 year old smoke show to facilitate the meeting.

the guy wouldn't stop talking. we had to like stomp on his foot to signal that all he has to say is yes or no to her questions. you don't need to give her more information.

months later it dawned on me that the guy might have had some kind of humiliation fetish and the company set him up for the climax of a lifetime.

mycomancy
Oct 16, 2016
Any employment with an HR department should be a decade in a gulag minimum.

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

I used to be a union council rep so I sometimes had to sit in on disciplinary stuff and when I first started I sat in on one just to get a feel for it.

it was some old fucker who was downloading porno on his work computer and they brought in some 25 year old smoke show to facilitate the meeting.

the guy wouldn't stop talking. we had to like stomp on his foot to signal that all he has to say is yes or no to her questions. you don't need to give her more information.

months later it dawned on me that the guy might have had some kind of humiliation fetish and the company set him up for the climax of a lifetime.

And y'all say HR never looks out for employees.

DrPossum
May 15, 2004

i am not a surgeon
The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lights-massachusetts-school-year-no-one-can-turn-rcna65611

quote:

For nearly a year and a half, a Massachusetts high school has been lit up around the clock because the district can’t turn off the roughly 7,000 lights in the sprawling building.

...when it was built over a decade ago and was intended to save money and energy. But ever since the software that runs it failed on Aug. 24, 2021, the lights in the Springfield suburbs school have been on continuously, costing taxpayers a small fortune.

...

“I would say the net impact is in the thousands of dollars per month on average, but not in the tens of thousands,” Osborne said.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

DrPossum posted:

The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lights-massachusetts-school-year-no-one-can-turn-rcna65611

have they tried - hmm, no, i guess not huh

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




circuit breaker cabinets glued shut?

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

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Real hurthling! posted:

circuit breaker cabinets glued shut?

LOTO'd by a custodial staff member who died of covid or something

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Real hurthling! posted:

circuit breaker cabinets glued shut?

I am guessing that the wiring setup is absolutely hilarious. Like, turn off the breaker for the lights in this classroom and the heat turns off in a set of classrooms 5 rooms down kind of scenario.

poo poo like bad old wiring gets grandfathered in so long as they don't make "major upgrades" or some such vague language language in the law so they're dealing with wiring that should have been replaced in the 80s but they can't get the tax dollars to do it so when the lighting company did their thing, they just layered on top of a really broken system in a shoddy way and now they can't turn the lights off without the access control system leaving all the doors unlocked all night.

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



Azathoth posted:

I am guessing that the wiring setup is absolutely hilarious. Like, turn off the breaker for the lights in this classroom and the heat turns off in a set of classrooms 5 rooms down kind of scenario.

poo poo like bad old wiring gets grandfathered in so long as they don't make "major upgrades" or some such vague language language in the law so they're dealing with wiring that should have been replaced in the 80s but they can't get the tax dollars to do it so when the lighting company did their thing, they just layered on top of a really broken system in a shoddy way and now they can't turn the lights off without the access control system leaving all the doors unlocked all night.

Simply install another system on top of that one that locks the doors based on what time it is. Put all the controls for that on to an apple mini and toss it in some closet somewhere so no one can find it and mess with it.

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

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lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

Azathoth posted:

I am guessing that the wiring setup is absolutely hilarious. Like, turn off the breaker for the lights in this classroom and the heat turns off in a set of classrooms 5 rooms down kind of scenario.

poo poo like bad old wiring gets grandfathered in so long as they don't make "major upgrades" or some such vague language language in the law so they're dealing with wiring that should have been replaced in the 80s but they can't get the tax dollars to do it so when the lighting company did their thing, they just layered on top of a really broken system in a shoddy way and now they can't turn the lights off without the access control system leaving all the doors unlocked all night.

article says the system was installed when the school was built so its not lovely old wiring here. its lovely new wiring!

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/ohshidt/status/1616271983645188096

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_roqqu7x8A21qigfjt.mp4

Tempora Mutantur
Feb 22, 2005


:discourse:

DrPossum
May 15, 2004

i am not a surgeon

I refuse to believe any German would create something like this.

silentsnack
Mar 19, 2009

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

DrPossum posted:

I refuse to believe any German would create something like this.

what if they were really wasted at the time?

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

DrPossum posted:

I refuse to believe any German would create something like this.

if there's anything I've learned working for a german company: that whole efficiency thing is just a cover for overengineering "solutions" to simple problems

cat botherer
Jan 6, 2022

I am interested in most phases of data processing.

DrPossum posted:

I refuse to believe any German would create something like this.
Nothing says "German engineering" like being incredibly over-complicated and unreliable. I take it you have never driven a Volkswagen.

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

That looks like every other vending machine I've ever seen and not a specialised design for glass bottles

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Farm Frenzy posted:

That looks like every other vending machine I've ever seen and not a specialised design for glass bottles

there are similar ones I've seen that have a small conveyor built into that platform the bottle falls on, and then the dispenser is on the right side of the machine under where you put the cash in. that way the machine just conveyors it over to the dispenser slot instead of setting it up for an 18 inch drop

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
The easiest way to do it is just have the front open when you put in your money, and then use the honor system that people would only take what they pay for. If you can't trust drunk people who can you trust?

DrPossum
May 15, 2004

i am not a surgeon
*edit* Cyberpunk echo chamber

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

Haha owned

take_it_slow
Jul 7, 2011

reminds me of that vending machine designed for chips etc. that somebody filled with 'fine' china. some sorta art project.

Rhesus Pieces
Jun 27, 2005

here’s a fun and useful trick:

https://twitter.com/ryan_hassett/status/1616638127006679041?s=46&t=B1Vt5lD_2lUgCZJnRTQAWQ

https://twitter.com/ryan_hassett/status/1513251632170950657?s=46&t=B1Vt5lD_2lUgCZJnRTQAWQ

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Rhesus Pieces posted:

here’s a fun and useful trick:


lol

itskage
Aug 26, 2003



The dystopia for me is why does this recording exist at all?

Hey let's recording getting beers out of the machine cause A) I know it will/might break and I can post on social, B) I want to record it to post on social for clout C) I'm genuinely excited about it and am making a candid video

'Cause I'm picturing A but with multiple takes. Bit I'm probably just jaded.

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Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

itskage posted:

The dystopia for me is why does this recording exist at all?

Hey let's recording getting beers out of the machine cause A) I know it will/might break and I can post on social, B) I want to record it to post on social for clout C) I'm genuinely excited about it and am making a candid video

'Cause I'm picturing A but with multiple takes. Bit I'm probably just jaded.

This is a level 4 embarassing post. Your options are to never acknowledge it or try to post through it.

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