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[n72.75]

May I ask, which state of Germany? We have a few other old Orbiter veterans around here.

Heck, I might move there too. Does everyone in Germany use Orbiter? You guys seem cool.

 

[Urwumpe]

Nordrhein-Westfalen.
It's exciting! Don't know much of what to expect, of course, so I'm trying not to expect too much, and instead be pleasantly surprised by the experience.

New country, culture, norms, workplace, and (hopefully) friends.

Oh, well, if its too close to the Rhine you might luckily get some time for cultural adoption this time before experiencing carneval. When I went to Cologne, NRW, for three months, I thought I knew what carneval is, before finding out, how little watching something in TV is like being right in the middle of the mayhem for over a week.

 

[Urwumpe]

Heck, I might move there too. Does everyone in Germany use Orbiter? You guys seem cool.

Considering how much we like oversophisticated things and steep learning curves, I am really surprised that we have no Orbiter E-Sports league....

 

[Quick_Nick]

I, after a few years of searching for a better job and one in aerospace, accepted a job offer....on March 9.

They called me the next day to rescind it.

That's pretty messed up no matter what.
I would be tempted to name and shame.

On the commercial side, it's almost slightly understandable, but still shouldn't have been such a change in one day.
If on the defense side, that's more than a dick move.

 

[n72.75]

That's pretty messed up no matter what.
I would be tempted to name and shame.

On the commercial side, it's almost slightly understandable, but still shouldn't have been such a change in one day.
If on the defense side, that's more than a dick move.

It was commercial. I won't say a name, but I did go into it knowing that this particular organization occasionally lays off new hires, even in non-pandemic times.

Just glad I didn't give my notice, and the company I work for is almost completely unaffected by the pandemic.

 

[jedidia]

Customer: "Half our devices don't work anymore, what's going on?"
Me: "Huh, they're all completely gone. Not reporting on any of the isolated channels they are supposed to report on. I suggest you take it up with your ISP."
Customer: "It's ok, we just learned that the entire Austrian mobile net had an outage".
Me:

 

[Urwumpe]

Customer: "Half our devices don't work anymore, what's going on?"
Me: "Huh, they're all completely gone. Not reporting on any of the isolated channels they are supposed to report on. I suggest you take it up with your ISP.
Customer: "It's ok, we just learned that the entire Austrian mobile net had an outage".
Me:

Ow. That hurts.

Still better as having the root password on a large post-it on a whiteboard facing right to the window towards the next building...

 

[Frilock]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/il1tl7

 

[Urwumpe]

Ooooooook.... does it still use DC power for the fan or do I need to install a steam boiler?

 

[jedidia]

I hear they are actually powered by a built in hamster wheel, including an enclosed genetically modified hamster to power it. Since the thing still gets ridiculously hot most of the components don't survive longer than 2 years anyways, so the hamster is not a liability. The housing of the card is actually this big because they need to store highly concentrated hamster feed for two years in there, after focus group experiments had shown that a feeding mechanism was impractical because most of the typical users attention span wasn't long enough to remember to feed it regularly...

 

[Linguofreak]

Ooooooook.... does it still use DC power for the fan or do I need to install a steam boiler?

A separate steam boiler would just be silly. A card with that kind of thermal design power raises the steam to drive its fan with its own waste heat, and contains an integrated boiler. It is, however, the user's responsibility to install an external condenser with an appropriately sized cooling tower (5000 gallons per minute is typical).

 

[Urwumpe]

A separate steam boiler would just be silly. A card with that kind of thermal design power raises the steam to drive its fan with its own waste heat, and contains an integrated boiler. It is, however, the user's responsibility to install an external condenser with an appropriately sized cooling tower (5000 gallons per minute is typical).

Wouldn't make more sense then to install a small water-tube condenser right next to the turbine for the cards fan, so the vacuum generated by condensing steam into feedwater increases the pressure drop and improves the efficiency of the turbine?

Of course, this still makes it my responsibility to ensure that the condenser coolant and lubrication oil pumps are started in the engine room before I boot the computer...

 

[Linguofreak]

Wouldn't make more sense then to install a small water-tube condenser right next to the turbine for the cards fan, so the vacuum generated by condensing steam into feedwater increases the pressure drop and improves the efficiency of the turbine?

Of course, this still makes it my responsibility to ensure that the condenser coolant and lubrication oil pumps are started in the engine room before I boot the computer...

That works. You still need the cooling tower, though, otherwise your water bill for cooling water will go way up, and I don't know how the local authorities will feel about dumping exhaust cooling water directly into the sewers at high temperature.

 

[mojoey]

Soo, Yesterday I made the decision to take a change of direction in my life. Tomorrow I start the process to get myself a C+E (Class 1) driving licence. Which means I may be driving HGV's as a Job in 8 weeks. And it only took a week of research and an agreement with my relations that I could couch serf for free, if i don't get a job immediately. As I will be homeless in November as it stands. This has been driven by the demoralizing process of job searching during a pandemic. Over the last 3 months, I have applied for at least 100 jobs and only heard back from 6 and got 1 interview.

I've done that in the US for almost 2 years now, its absolutely a 'what you make of it' type job.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

That is my understanding of what the job is like, which is kind of what I'm looking forward to about it. All though the revision for the three theory tests is steep (in the UK atleast).

 

[Linguofreak]

Stereotype 1: Germans have no sense of humor.

Stereotype 2: Germans spend most of their time drinking beer.

Has anyone who believes both stereotypes ever met anybody that was the slightest bit tipsy?

Reality: After a few beers, a German will tell you that the vacuum catastrophe can be solved by working in base 10^120, in which case the disagreement between QFT and GR on the value of the cosmological constant becomes rounding error.

 

[Notebook]

 

[Evil_Onyx]

After revising the Highway Code (Rules of the road for the UK) again for my up coming tests and then going for a 30 min drive. Soo many drivers have forgotten or ignore so many rules. I spotted, 3 Red light runners, 10-13 Junction offences, 4 Dangerous Parking/Waiting rule breakers, not to mention the Speeding and lack of indication from predominantly one group of Cars. It makes me wonder why mandatory retesting every decade or so is not a thing.

 

[jedidia]

It's surprising how well one can still manage with a broken thumb on the main hand, provided most of your job happens at a keyboard and you've already been relying on public transport.

The most annoying thing right now is that the cast keeps hitting the control key when I reach for the home key with my index finger, throwing me all the way to the top of the file instead of the beginning of the line. It seriously breaks my train of thought every couple minutes...

 

[Artlav]

Have you tried pulling out the ctrl key in question?