[Malankazooie]

Okay doomsday preppers, you can stop with hoarding up the gas now (I think across the AO you guys call it petrol?). The hack is cleared up and the pipeline is operating again, so stop hoarding gas. Fucking hoarding weirdos.

Damn, I thought only the gulf states and the states that pipeline runs through would be impacted, but I got sticker shock when I filled up yesterday. Had to fill up a gas can for my lawn mower too. Probably a good dose of greed mixed in from gas stations seizing an opportunity to gouge the consumer because of news headlines. BTW, if this is hack is in anyway a knock on effect from that Solarwinds hack that went undetected for six months, we're going to see many more of these to come.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Malankazooie, on 14 May 2021 - 05:02 PM, said:

Okay doomsday preppers, you can stop with hoarding up the gas now (I think across the AO
you guys call it petrol?). The hack is cleared up and the pipeline is operating again, so stop hoarding gas. Fucking hoarding weirdos.

Damn, I thought only the gulf states and the states that pipeline runs through would be impacted, but I got sticker shock when I filled up yesterday. Had to fill up a gas can for my lawn mower too. Probably a good dose of greed mixed in from gas stations seizing an opportunity to gouge the consumer because of news headlines. BTW, if this is hack is in anyway a knock on effect from that Solarwinds hack that went undetected for six months, we're going to see many more of these to come.

But it looks like so much fun....



It's all fun and games until somebody shoots through an eye (or any vital area really...).

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 14 May 2021 - 05:27 PM

[worry]

Sounds like a real MILFF (Mother I'd Like to Fart and Flickboogerswith).

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Reinjured my right wrist. I've gotten pretty good at doing everything with my left hand (touch typing etc.) but it limits my Seaboard playing (and obviously I can't type as fast).

[Tsundoku]

Azath Vitr (D, on 16 May 2021 - 01:46 AM, said:

Reinjured my right wrist. I've gotten pretty good at doing everything with my left hand (touch typing etc.)

How's the love life?

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but it limits my Seaboard playing (and obviously I can't type as fast).

I had to Google that. Interesting bit of kit. Who needs a band any more?

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 16 May 2021 - 11:54 AM

[Mezla PigDog]

My kid got his finger stuck in the hinge of a folding garden chair this morning. He started screaming so I went to help but it's a chair that I always have trouble folding and unfolding - it always seems random which way you have to bend the chair to get the hinge to open. Panic set in when I realised I was going to have to just do a 50:50 guess to try and free him. I picked wrong! It came lose eventually but he's taken a good chunk out. And Mr PigDog was having a conveniently long crap while it was all going down so absolutely no bloody help.

[Aptorian]

I got my fingers slammed in a car door when I was a kid. On the inside where the door hinges.

How my little child sausage fingers didn't get chopped off I don't know.

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Too many work weeks over 50 hours lately. Really falling behind on the non-work stuff I want to get done. We finally hired an extra engineer, but they are fresh out of university so it will be 6-8 months before they will actually reduce anyone else's work load - for the next couple months the supervisory and review time on projects will likely take longer than just doing the work myself.

[Macros]

Having done the 50+ hour weeks for years Gwynn let me tell you that you will get absolutely zero thanks for killing yourself in the long run and you will burn yourself out at it.
Took me a long time to realise that you aren't being a hero keeping things moving for the company, you're just feeding into a cycle of bad practices that benefit the top dicks with too much money, dig your heels in with management that the workforce needs to be upper, overtime shod be a very rare thing at the tail end of a project. If a project starts with overtime on it, it needs more bodies

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Macros, on 17 May 2021 - 04:20 AM, said:

Having done the 50+ hour weeks for years Gwynn let me tell you that you will get absolutely zero thanks for killing yourself in the long run and you will burn yourself out at it.
Took me a long time to realise that you aren't being a hero keeping things moving for the company, you're just feeding into a cycle of bad practices that benefit the top dicks with too much money, dig your heels in with management that the workforce needs to be upper, overtime shod be a very rare thing at the tail end of a project. If a project starts with overtime on it, it needs more bodies

I agree. Right now is abnormal as far as my work goes. Other than the last couple months, it's been five or six years since I've worked any significant amount of overtime. Back then it was work 48 hours one week then take a Friday or Monday off in lieu a couple weeks later, after project completion. I don't have a big problem with that, especially when the long weekend is in the summer. The new hire was at my urging, but their lack of experience is going to make finding useful tasks for them difficult in the short term. I'll be seeing how things go work load wise over the next month or two before deciding what action to pursue.

[Maark Abbott]

Scaffold is going up at the side of the house to sort the gable. Sounds like a positive, finally getting it sorted right? Well no because the weather at the weekend is meant to go bad and I would really like the pointing sorted by that point because otherwise it's gonna be horrendous. Anxiety is back bigstyle.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Math textbooks have so many typos it's ridiculous. Makes me wonder if they purposefully don't bother correcting them in order to increase the 'value' of having an instructor to explain all the errors in the textbook.

I was going for a quick review of topology today and right away I see:

'Let X be a set. A basis of a topology on X is a collection B of subsets in X such
that
(B1) For every x ∈ X, there is an element B in B such that x ∈ U'

Right at the start of the textbook. It's supposed to be x ∈ B. They just put a different variable in by accident. Ffs.

Of course I've emailed many authors about typos like these, and they don't bother fixing anything.

So much for just glancing through these to refresh my memory... without carefully examining them for errors. Oh well. Better go back to Munkres.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 20 May 2021 - 04:18 PM

[Malankazooie]

Man, centipedes creep me out. Got a good drenching of rain here a few days ago. In the morning I'm sweeping off the front step and pulled back the doormat and this medium sized centipede darts away. He wasn't big by any stretch, but for some reason I do not like those freaky looking nightmares.

[Maark Abbott]

Gran passed away this morning. She'd been in hospital for a bit due to an infection of some sort, preceding which she'd been in a home as she'd fallen last year and badly broken her hip.

We'd known this was coming and we weren't hugely close but she was my last living grandparent and it's as ever an unsettling reminder of mortality and how ephemeral we are.

[Morgoth]

I'm sorry to hear that, Maark. A person present in your life for so long leaves an absence, whether they were close or not.

[Aptorian]

Condolences, Maark.

[Tiste Simeon]

Sorry to hear that Maark.

[worry]

Condolences.

[Slow Ben]

Sorry Maark, that sucks bud.

[QuickTidal]

Sorry to hear that Maark, condolences. Always sucks to lose family.