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The first step is amazing you his job title exists!
(Or having a title like that because you work for the park jail at Disney World)
At PA I would honestly accept that title, but it's super not up for grabs here.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
...that's evil of you, @Jedoc.
Would you say you have a lifetime of Posterior Analysis with a wealth of hands on experience?
Absolutely. I'd love to meet Peter Stormare.
I wish.
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Island. Being on fire.
* Union contract
Except the day after I left, my colleague nabbed the ethernet cable to use for his laptop. (Didn't find out about this till today when I checked on progress). I'm not sure how far it ended up getting, but I suspect <20%.
It also took ten minutes to wake from sleep, so I feel like I'm really racing the clock on this one.
Also, I've never done a Skype interview before, and the only computer I have here is my desktop, and it's in my bedroom, and I'm not sure about how best to clean up behind me to make everything blank. Thoughts?
Office Technician and we encompass everything from secretaries to data entry to paper pushers to customer service.
I got something put on my calendar for tomorrow, which is my Monday, with the people who I know are doing the interviews for a job I applied for, but the calendar invite doesn't have any other content with regards to what the meeting is regarding (just: meet with X and Y) and it popped up on my weekend, so I can't imagine they'd assume I'd be checking my work email. A pretty unprofessional way of handling it if so, all things considered
Most of my posterior observation has been through various educational videos aside from one specific posterior I admire regularly, but I feel that the knowledge gained from those can be applied to any posterior.
Nullify the jury!
Yay.
what the fuck tynic
Somewhere there is a person with a large box open on their kitchen table, filled with dildos, wondering if this is supposed to be a prank or providence.
You'd presume 1 phone/skype 1 in-person, but a lot of places like to make it "competitive" and do two in-person rounds to weed people out.
That's what i ended up with today, my last day before starting a temp job tomorrow (so two weeks solid without work of any kind, though i had severance pay). Did an in-person after a brief phone screen and they want to narrow it down to 2-3 candidates early next week and they'll call about a third round.
Meanwhile i've got a different, better temp job boiling. Pay matches the permanent job that let me go, and it's a 1 year term instead of 60-90 days. More expensive commute though.
I feel like i'm going to end up stabbing this current temp job in the back one way or another, but that's business, i guess.
honestly it could be a lot worse. Our actual data consists of roughly quarter of a million individual files per experiment, and we run 40+ of those every Namibia trip.
Fortunately that stuff is heavily backed up and spread around a bunch of SSDs, so tends not to be subject to the vagaries of whatever nonsense field I exert on hardware.
Seems like you guys need a better solution than storing them locally though.
Pretty hard to upload stuff when you're in a really remote area studying termites though.
Sounds like there's a bug in the cloud.
Would it be called the swarm in this context?
Important data gradually gets shunted to the university's cloud storage. The main bottleneck is extraction; we had to compress everything while in the field, it's a long story. It's in progress, anyway.
edit: we have to store locally while in the field because internet access is spotty and slow at best. To get online we have to get a signal bounced off the local cheetah conservation group about 20 miles away into a dish on the roof, and pray that not too many interns are checking their email. Also, baboons.
basically this is a combination of a) storage access being needlessly difficult to negotiate, b) having a bunch of preliminary/test data which isn't really important enough to fret about having permanent backups, but IS useful enough that you kind of want to keep it around for a few more months, c) a local mechanical drive failure, and d) a computer that is totally shitting the bed and keeps spinning off into eternal electric daydreams.
Better close your windows.
hard to tell? IT support tends to be a local phenomenon. For example, the IT office one floor down is totally useless. The other IT office in the basement is great, I have no idea why there are two or what they each manage. And the guys who manage the main computer cluster are helpful, but the cluster itself seems to be chugging along on something pre-2010, which is deeply annoying for processes I can't parallelise.
I strongly suspect the physics department of having excellent IT infrastructure, but it's hard to assess.
my postgraduate institution, the departmental IT staff had been grandfathered in from 1995 when the only qualification required was 'can use a screwdriver' and 'has seen a keyboard'. Fortunately they were at least vaguely aware of their own limitations and if you were running linux they'd just give you admin access and wash their hands of the whole business.
this was australia's top-ranked university at the time
what a clusterfuck.
I definitely mentally skipped over the words "conversation group" the first time I read this post and that made for some amusing mental images with regards to trying to bounce a signal off a cheetah.
PSN:Furlion
But then again, I'm not the boss or a team lead and its not my responsibility to tell people their schedules.
But I was the one who actually told boss about the scheduling glitch. Although I am pissed that new guy ran off before I could properly resolve that glitch when pointed it out.
It went:
A: Huh, Alderaan?
Royce: Hmmm, you've not been trained on that, hold on A let me email the.....A? A?
A: Disappears like batman.
This heat is leaving needle like sensations in my skin and I need a shower.
Well, you want the internet to be fast right?
Steam
It's fast, but spotty.