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[Artlav]

I'll never understand how some people can be so smart, and so much of an idiot, at the same time.

"Think? Why would i think, i got you for that!"

 

[Urwumpe]

I'll never understand how some people can be so smart, and so much of an idiot, at the same time.

As somebody who is really happy to have a girlfriend who solves all those problems that can't be solved by my limited highly specialized skills (My boss sells me to really desperate customers as the "expert for the impossible jobs" (sic)), I really know first-hand how it is like to be such a person.

And at least I can see very often: Even in my weakness, I have at least become a better idiot than before... but I really envy those people who are not feeling mentally aground by being off duty. (Maybe that is why they are managers and I am not.)

Without being parent, my time off-duty would have been like my time on-duty. Isn't that crazy?

 

[MaverickSawyer]

:rofl: Some of them are dumb enough to maybe try it.

I'll never understand how some people can be so smart, and so much of an idiot, at the same time.

Because everyone has their specialization in which they're intelligent, competent people. Some folks simply choose to not expand their knowledge beyond that, though, and I pity them.

 

[tl8]

Your weather is terrible, I have no idea why my ancestors waited until 1848 before moving to Australia...

 

[PhantomCruiser]

We have some pretty smart idiots. My problem with them is [1] they wind up being in charge and [2] they fail to understand their own limited knowledge base. If I wind up with a boss that honest with me and just pulls me aside and says "Please, just don't let me look stupid", I can deal with that. And, I'll do my best to keep them out of trouble and will try to coach them through. Kind of like Happy Gilmore did with his caddy

If they walk in and start throwing their college degree around, then I'll happily let them wander through the minefields without a map.

So far here at the nuke plant I've had one boss to do that. She said "Just keep me out of trouble". And we all did just that. Problem is we made her look like gold and they promoted her. The guy we have now knows procedures, but that's it. Nothing about maintenance, or even how to deal with maintenance people. We've reached a détente, wasn't easy to get there though.

 

[Urwumpe]

That is why in my common field of work, its impolite to wave your doctors degree around at somebody.





"Yeah, many of us have them too. What was your subject, african arts in colonial France. Nice. Here is one, who engineered this machine that is just about to crush your arm if you are not quickly getting away from it."

 

[Thunder Chicken]

We have some pretty smart idiots. My problem with them is [1] they wind up being in charge and [2] they fail to understand their own limited knowledge base. If I wind up with a boss that honest with me and just pulls me aside and says "Please, just don't let me look stupid", I can deal with that. And, I'll do my best to keep them out of trouble and will try to coach them through. Kind of like Happy Gilmore did with his caddy

I've been on the other side of this working relationship, and there can be big bad egos on both sides. I worked in power plants while getting my PhD and there was this one old coot who couldn't get through the day unless he publicly shamed me and show the world all the things PhDs didn't know. Sucked hard.

Thankfully (for me, anyway), the miserable SOB had a heart attack and decided to retire, and the guy that moved up to replace him was awesome to work with, and I learned a lot from him. We both riffed off each other; he showing me the nuts and bolts and me showing him the engineeing and physics behind a lot of stuff. We worked on a lot of projects together and we got a lot done.

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I have no idea why my ancestors waited until 1848 before moving to Australia...

Probably too busy not breaking the law in Britain.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

...the guy that moved up to replace him was awesome to work with, and I learned a lot from him. We both riffed off each other; he showing me the nuts and bolts and me showing him the engineeing and physics behind a lot of stuff. We worked on a lot of projects together and we got a lot done..

That's awesome. Both of ya'll smart enough to develop an actual working relationship. And, and example of how they can be a success.


We've got a couple of outstanding engineers. Excellent operators. A handful of good managers. The people we want to be in charge are too smart to take the job.

What I think the primary problem is, as an independent government corporation, we are limited in what we can pay our execs. So what we get are people on their way up (who get some good training and find greener fields), or people on their way down (have screwed up other places and no one else will take them). There are a good many people in the middle of the field, but they don't make as much noise.

 

[Linguofreak]

So I'm playing KSP, and I'd like to recover some hardware that was not built with return in mind. So I put together a parachute rig that can dock with a spacecraft in orbit, make a deorbit burn, and deploy a 10m inflatable heat shield at the back to make sure that we have enough drag high up that the lack of a heat shield on the front (where the payload is) doesn't cause parts to overheat when we get down lower.

I do a test flight with a load of uranium for density to make sure that a heavy payload can be recovered without having to deal with too bulky of a payload on my test launch. Launch goes well, reentry goes well, and at 16000 meters I separate the heat shield so that the parachutes on the main rig have space to deploy. The heat shield is almost a parachute on its own, so it goes flying off the back, and the main rig starts accelerating downwards again. Then I notice that I'm getting to an uncomfortable fraction of mach 1. The chutes half-deploy and I'm still picking up speed. I pass Mach 1 with the ground approaching fast, and I'm sure I'll lose the spacecraft. The chutes full deploy, and miraculously, despite the somewhat flimsy attachment of the chutes, the spacecraft screeches to a halt with room above the terrain to spare. But the uranium dummy payload separates and hits the ground, as far as I can tell, still going full-speed.

Oops

 

[MaverickSawyer]

There's a "What is your most facepalm-worthy moment?" thread over at the KSP Forums for moments just like that. I have several entries in it.

 

[Linguofreak]

There's a "What is your most facepalm-worthy moment?" thread over at the KSP Forums for moments just like that. I have several entries in it.

Eh, that was just an exciting surprise, not exactly a facepalm. It was a test flight, so I was going to reload anyways, and enough of the test objectives had been passed that further testing could be done with brief suborbital flights.

The facepalm came later in the night, when I realized that I had put landing gear outboard of some Infernal Robotics parts on a different vessel that I had put in orbit several days ago, and KSP's adjective verbing noun-of-noun @#$%& locked autostrut to the root-part for landing gear had spot welded things that needed to move in place. I tried editing the save by hand to excise the landing gear, but didn't reparent the 100+ parts right, and decided to write a perls script to do it for me. But now it's well past bedtime, so that will have to be finished tomorrow.

 

[jedidia]

New fun thing to do at work: Express the results of your server stress-tests with fitting poetry:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned!

 

[Urwumpe]

New fun thing to do at work: Express the results of your server stress-tests with fitting poetry:

17 GB wants the first converter
17 GB wants the second converter
17 GB wants the third converter
17 GB wants the fourth converter
78 GB is the demand of them all
20 GB is the RAM you have
16 GB is the page file you set
Mere 4 GB is what the OS needs
46 GB are what you do not have
to make the conversion system run again


(The system is so legacy, I needed alliterative poetry to describe it)

 

[steph]

Looks like you need a boatload of RAM? If there are slots for it )

I'm getting fed up with all the 'proprietary' stuff for the xbox console. I got a pair of headphones for it ( neighbors don't like gunfire and explosions at midnight) and since I was certain it wouldn't have a standard jack or connexion mode, I got a pair specifically for Xbox One, microsoft certified etc etc. It said that it connects to the controller, which is pretty fine by me.
So, I get home and, surprise, the headphones have a standard 3.5 mm jack aaaaand the controller, while it does have ports, it doesn't have an audio jack at all, 3.5 or otherwise . Upon googling, I find out that not all controllers have the audio output, and I'll have to buy an adapter which costs literally more than the headphones AND more than a new controller with the audio output, which I bought in the end

 

[Urwumpe]

Looks like you need a boatload of RAM? If there are slots for it )

I can NEVER have enough RAM in my job. :lol: Boatload? Try it with a Emma Maersk of RAM.

Too much RAM is literally impossible until all terabytes of file storage are moved on SSD, all databases operating in memory and all services running as IaaS..... and even then I am not sure if I could not need some more. Maybe a new dashboard. A new event data pump. A new development partition.

MOAR RAM!

 

[GLS]

I got a pair of headphones for it ( neighbors don't like gunfire and explosions at midnight)

I had to control myself so I didn't burst out laughing in the office. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[n122vu]

I bought headphones for my PS3, and later my PS4 back when I played Call of Duty. The neighbors didn't have to put up with the gunfire and explosions at midnight anymore, but they still had to put up with me shouting profanities at the game well into the morning.

The anger that series invoked in me is the main reason I stopped playing.

 

[Urwumpe]

And something for the radioactives here:

The nuclear power plant Three Mile Island will go offline in September, over 40 years after the famous meltdown incident.

It simply is no longer economic to operate it, the plant makes a loss every year since 2015. Only one block is still available after the meltdown in TMI-2.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Had heard about that. Nuclear plants are pretty maintenance intensive...

We've got another 7-8 days unit WBN U2 hits the line again. One hold up after another led to some thongs on the secondary side being pushed further and further back. Now they're ready for it, but it's not ready (for some strange reason). That's why I keep my emails, they can't deny that I didn't mention it to them like taking into deaf ears though.

Rolling back to the midnight shift tonight. It promises to be rough, 5 weeks on days and this will be my first night back. I'm going to be wore out by midnight.

 

[Urwumpe]

That's why I keep my emails, they can't deny that I didn't mention it to them like taking into deaf ears though.

The destructive power of those emails should be measured in Gigatons TNT.



We had one of those stored as attachment in the ticket system, mentioning that a refactoring of a old C++ module code is required to prevent a complete failure of the whole system in high load situations, because we located a dangerous race condition in a database operation and had been able to trigger the condition with a test case.


When two years after writing the email and filing a engineering change ticket, during an early emergency meeting with a big audience, after a lengthy argumentation that the software developers are to be blamed, the expected question came: "Why did this happen?" and you simply pull out the engineering change from the website, present this email in Skype and can show that EXACTLY the predicted scenario took place by putting two server logs side-by-side... And then you also have the almost two year old status change of the issue by the manager from "open" to "Rejected" visible to the whole circus...



Oh, that was fun. :rofl:


Implementing the fix for the problem only took half of the time predicted 2 years earlier: We knew it will come, so we had been prepared. We just made sure, we also get paid properly...