I'm at work way later than anyone usually is because I have an event to go to on this side of town.
I have spooked the HELL out of like three janitors who did not expect me to be here
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
Forgot today was a day off so I've been off work for 3 days. I'm 100% going in tomorrow because there is a training class for the mentor/coach stuff and if I miss it I'm out but I honestly still don't feel like going to work.
I'm beginning to think it is a mix of depression, bad sleep (slept really well last night at least) and all of the fucking hobbies I have that are far from finished.
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
The MC of this 'robot exoticism' panel is not a Yang fan. Me neither, dude. Hi-5.
edit: now I'm watching a bathroom being cleaned in VR. Truly, this is the future our parents dreamed of.
double edit: "What is this going to do for people who are employed to clean bathrooms", good question MC let's see how he flails
oh we're going with the "same staff can clean MORE bathrooms!" approach. Think there's an upper limit on the quantity of bathrooms available to clean, my dude.
My work just sent out their covid19 flyer. It states that anyone tangentially involved with the disease gets two weeks off.
Unpaid of course
...
Great way to get people to avoid reporting potential contact
I think people should be able to apply for unemployment for those two weeks, with a whole lot of locational caveats tacked on.
Yeah, I've literally been working overtime through two emergency releases over the last two weeks to put the covid-19 emegency hardship assistance grant in place here. It would have been in place last night but an executive bumped it to Thursday for another priority issue.
I'm kind of making fun of how these people are stumbling around the ethics questions at these panels, but the fact they're even being asked about the political and social ramifications of this stuff is such a big step forward that five years ago I would have found it incredible.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Just finished my only work-related function this week: I volunteered to run the census table at the Department of Libraries' annual legislative day. Which in this case meant putting on professional clothes and standing around for two hours so I could chat to one legislator for two minutes about the census. And she learned nothing of value because she was a census taker in 2010 and not that much has changed.
Sorry, sloth. Sorry, frivolity. You were right, and I won't compromise our project again.
God I wish there were audience questions at these things though. "We need to increase food production, and we lack agricultural labour. Solution: robots." My dudes if you're gonna make a raw food supply argument can we first talk about soil nutrient levels and desertification, plz
edit: "Well tynic, how would YOU tackle these problems, which (since you're not a plant or soil scientist) you actually know very little about?" "Same way I tackle every problem. Termite robots."
God I wish there were audience questions at these things though. "We need to increase food production, and we lack agricultural labour. Solution: robots." My dudes if you're gonna make a raw food supply argument can we first talk about soil nutrient levels and desertification, plz
edit: "Well tynic, how would YOU tackle these problems, which (since you're not a plant or soil scientist) you actually know very little about?" "Same way I tackle every problem. Termite robots."
This is also only really true for labour-intensive crops, too. Cereals don't need an army of robots to harvest, GPS-enabled combines already remove a lot of labour anyways
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Sounds more like a murderous cyborg potato.
Which, as it turns out, I'm equally in the market for.
Which, as it turns out, I'm equally in the market for.
It's made out of termites but it is powered by potatoes.
But then they decided everything is potatoes.
You've doomed us to hiding from hordes of robo termites building termite mounds out of our flesh.
THANKS Tynic
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
I've always wanted to be a mound. Thanks, Tynic.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Huh. One of my senators actually responded to the letter I sent about the whites house wanting to cut federal library funds. They seemed to be very much in favor of libraries and against the White House cut, which, they are a hardcore republican so I’ll believe that support when I see the voting results I guess.
Still better than my other senator and congressman who didn’t even try to respond.
How do people deal with feeling just... burnt out and exhausted? Like I have no real complaints about this job. I just feel... really tired.
I mean... you know how unhappy I have been but hey it was always a choice between being homeless or actually having a place to live, and that sufficed as a reason to haul my ass to work.
I dealt with it because there was no alternative, basically.
Are people supposed to not feel continually burnt out and exhausted because uh
any time I take a vacation it’s like ‘ooooh so this is what happiness is’ and then the remaining 51 weeks of the year it’s back to surviving
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Ideally? You should not feel that way.
In our capitalistic hellscape? You have to be fairly lucky to get into a job where you don't feel that way.
How do people deal with feeling just... burnt out and exhausted? Like I have no real complaints about this job. I just feel... really tired.
I mean... you know how unhappy I have been but hey it was always a choice between being homeless or actually having a place to live, and that sufficed as a reason to haul my ass to work.
I dealt with it because there was no alternative, basically.
Are people supposed to not feel continually burnt out and exhausted because uh
any time I take a vacation it’s like ‘ooooh so this is what happiness is’ and then the remaining 51 weeks of the year it’s back to surviving
The boomers sure make it sound like it's an option but I've never worked with anyone that didn't eventually just get tired or bored with their job. Nothing stays exciting forever, but it's weighing two shitty things against eachother.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
How do people deal with feeling just... burnt out and exhausted? Like I have no real complaints about this job. I just feel... really tired.
I mean... you know how unhappy I have been but hey it was always a choice between being homeless or actually having a place to live, and that sufficed as a reason to haul my ass to work.
I dealt with it because there was no alternative, basically.
Are people supposed to not feel continually burnt out and exhausted because uh
any time I take a vacation it’s like ‘ooooh so this is what happiness is’ and then the remaining 51 weeks of the year it’s back to surviving
The boomers sure make it sound like it's an option but I've never worked with anyone that didn't eventually just get tired or bored with their job. Nothing stays exciting forever, but it's weighing two shitty things against eachother.
My job is probably about as good as it gets for me personally, and librarianship consistently ranks among the highest professions for job satisfaction.
But yeah. I don't want to go to work more often than not, just about every single day between 2 and 5 is a wasteland, and I covet my vacation days like precious gemstones.
Pretty much the reason people give you money to do a thing is because if they weren't giving you money, you'd be doing something else. Otherwise they'd just ask.
Jedoc on
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God the Azure platform is just trash. I'm just trying to add a scope to an already registered app and it won't load the form that lets me add them, whilst telling me that I may have a degraded experience because my browser has failed to get a token
Even finding the page where I could try to add the scope took a Google search. Just let me do my job, Microsoft! Stop fighting me!
Just keep repeating to yourself, "at least we're not on Oracle"
God I wish there were audience questions at these things though. "We need to increase food production, and we lack agricultural labour. Solution: robots." My dudes if you're gonna make a raw food supply argument can we first talk about soil nutrient levels and desertification, plz
edit: "Well tynic, how would YOU tackle these problems, which (since you're not a plant or soil scientist) you actually know very little about?" "Same way I tackle every problem. Termite robots."
This is also only really true for labour-intensive crops, too. Cereals don't need an army of robots to harvest, GPS-enabled combines already remove a lot of labour anyways
uhhh you don't get robots to farm the crops
you make robot crops
duh
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ROBOCROP?!
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
God I wish there were audience questions at these things though. "We need to increase food production, and we lack agricultural labour. Solution: robots." My dudes if you're gonna make a raw food supply argument can we first talk about soil nutrient levels and desertification, plz
edit: "Well tynic, how would YOU tackle these problems, which (since you're not a plant or soil scientist) you actually know very little about?" "Same way I tackle every problem. Termite robots."
This is also only really true for labour-intensive crops, too. Cereals don't need an army of robots to harvest, GPS-enabled combines already remove a lot of labour anyways
So I didn't win the big prize at my company meeting today which sort of stings. Fortunately I'll be able to have them treat me to fried chicken and beer tomorrow night in Boston so I'll pretend we're even.
I think 4 day work weeks would go a long way in helping with the burnout.
I had a period where I was putting in extra time at work, I banked it as lieu hours. Each week I took an extra day off, normally friday.
That went on for 6 months and I was much happier, I'd love to be able to adopt that permanently. The only other thing that works for me is changing roles.
After 2 years I start to go mental. Crazy to think some folks did the same job for 45 years.
Funny wrinkle to everything, I'll include some context:
I'm going to Tokyo March 9-19 and have been planning this trip a year. My bosses and coworkers all knew.
An email goes out this morning saying anyone who travels to a Level 2 country from this point on must abstain from work for 14 days straight after returning. So my 11 day trip just turned into a nearly month long forced vacation.
My bosses tried to get me to cancel my trip but the chances of that happening are slim to none, and I'm looking into if they might have to pay me for the forced home stay time
Wait, not work from home but literal absence?
Yep. There's no way to work from home for my type of job.
Ah. Welp, cool! As odd as that response may be to a forced quarantine.
God I wish there were audience questions at these things though. "We need to increase food production, and we lack agricultural labour. Solution: robots." My dudes if you're gonna make a raw food supply argument can we first talk about soil nutrient levels and desertification, plz
edit: "Well tynic, how would YOU tackle these problems, which (since you're not a plant or soil scientist) you actually know very little about?" "Same way I tackle every problem. Termite robots."
This is also only really true for labour-intensive crops, too. Cereals don't need an army of robots to harvest, GPS-enabled combines already remove a lot of labour anyways
I'm taking part in a course on leadership and decision making. Intense, every day all week for 3 hours at night, same thing next week, then two weeks off, then a final week of it.
It's with a very big name person that people here would recognize teaching it.
How do people deal with feeling just... burnt out and exhausted? Like I have no real complaints about this job. I just feel... really tired.
I try to evaluate what I'm doing outside of work to make sure I'm not doing something that compounds regular work stress. Am I getting more than 6 hours sleep, am I getting outside at noonish for 10-15 minutes, am I getting regularly dedicated exercise time multiple times a week (even if this is just 20 minutes of walking at a brisk pace), things like that.
If I'm already doing that than I know it's time to make a change. That change may be moving to a different project or something more drastic like finding a new job. I know you've got the horrendous Tacoma-Seattle commute which exacerbates the lack of time plus all the requisite parent duties which doesn't make of this easy.
God I wish there were audience questions at these things though. "We need to increase food production, and we lack agricultural labour. Solution: robots." My dudes if you're gonna make a raw food supply argument can we first talk about soil nutrient levels and desertification, plz
edit: "Well tynic, how would YOU tackle these problems, which (since you're not a plant or soil scientist) you actually know very little about?" "Same way I tackle every problem. Termite robots."
This is also only really true for labour-intensive crops, too. Cereals don't need an army of robots to harvest, GPS-enabled combines already remove a lot of labour anyways
uhhh you don't get robots to farm the crops
you make robot crops
duh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9zzHnRYxtc
Aerofarming can use meh and grey water to farm inside a building with no soil so a lot of crops can be raised that way without using more land just the push back against it is odd
There is 3 drones at work to clean, a floor mopping drone, a flying stock check robot and one monolith looking stocker robot
It's fun to watch people freak out about them. It is with abject glee I welcome the working robots and coming job apoc. I know we are ill prepared for it since it's on the horizon and coming soon
I'm listening to Stuart Russell explain that AI is definitely, certainly, 100% gonna end up killing us and normally I'd find that overblown, but hey, sure, it's been that kind of year.
If AI kills us it's going to end up being a ML algorithm that's doing something seemingly trivial and mundane but is actually incredibly important in the grand scheme of species survival and that algorithm is going to fail in a spectacular cascading fashion that can only be achieved by a computer ruthlessly running down it's machine code and this catastrophic fail state can only reached by a ML algorithm logically reaching an absurd conclusion from sensible data because it was trained on an insufficiently robust data set but no one knew before the all consuming fail state was reached since the why of a ML decision is an unknowable black box of chaos.
I feel a wild AI is both a curious thing and sadly will be hunted down to find out why it came to be
AI we created on the other hand I feel will not kill us but will kill
I'm listening to Stuart Russell explain that AI is definitely, certainly, 100% gonna end up killing us and normally I'd find that overblown, but hey, sure, it's been that kind of year.
It'll have to get on it, then. My money is on disease/environment/complext human failings getting us first.
Like most of those aren't the result of an AI guiding events to both produce itself a robotic work force and mostly destroy humanity along the way
Sleep on
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EncA Fool with CompassionPronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered Userregular
Looking at the destruction of people’s lives with glee is a bad look, even if the tech is cool and exciting.
God the Azure platform is just trash. I'm just trying to add a scope to an already registered app and it won't load the form that lets me add them, whilst telling me that I may have a degraded experience because my browser has failed to get a token
Even finding the page where I could try to add the scope took a Google search. Just let me do my job, Microsoft! Stop fighting me!
Just keep repeating to yourself, "at least we're not on Oracle"
The worst part is we're not even "on" Azure. This is just me trying to get scopes enabled for Bing Ads OAuth so we can allow users to pull data into our app
What previously was a simple form that you filled out is now this multi-step process through the same Azure Portal that's used to spin up servers
I can't even file a support ticket because we have no support contract. We have no support contract because all we need is a "yes, this app that has been working for the past 3 years can continue to work with a new scope"
I've taken to filling out the "feedback" request that pops up every time. It's painful
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
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thatassemblyguyJanitor of Technical Debt.Registered Userregular
Mad at another team. A piece of software they wrote is broken when I try to access a memory pointer in a way that is valid. When I point out that it’s broken, they provide a patch/fix linking a data region (RAM) into a device/peripheral region (not RAM!).
Like, fuck, don’t play this “move shit around until it stops asserting” game with me brujo. Ain’t no one have time for that.
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I have spooked the HELL out of like three janitors who did not expect me to be here
I'm beginning to think it is a mix of depression, bad sleep (slept really well last night at least) and all of the fucking hobbies I have that are far from finished.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
edit: now I'm watching a bathroom being cleaned in VR. Truly, this is the future our parents dreamed of.
double edit: "What is this going to do for people who are employed to clean bathrooms", good question MC let's see how he flails
oh we're going with the "same staff can clean MORE bathrooms!" approach. Think there's an upper limit on the quantity of bathrooms available to clean, my dude.
Yeah, I've literally been working overtime through two emergency releases over the last two weeks to put the covid-19 emegency hardship assistance grant in place here. It would have been in place last night but an executive bumped it to Thursday for another priority issue.
Sorry, sloth. Sorry, frivolity. You were right, and I won't compromise our project again.
edit: "Well tynic, how would YOU tackle these problems, which (since you're not a plant or soil scientist) you actually know very little about?" "Same way I tackle every problem. Termite robots."
This is also only really true for labour-intensive crops, too. Cereals don't need an army of robots to harvest, GPS-enabled combines already remove a lot of labour anyways
Which, as it turns out, I'm equally in the market for.
It's made out of termites but it is powered by potatoes.
But then they decided everything is potatoes.
You've doomed us to hiding from hordes of robo termites building termite mounds out of our flesh.
THANKS Tynic
Still better than my other senator and congressman who didn’t even try to respond.
I mean... you know how unhappy I have been but hey it was always a choice between being homeless or actually having a place to live, and that sufficed as a reason to haul my ass to work.
I dealt with it because there was no alternative, basically.
Are people supposed to not feel continually burnt out and exhausted because uh
any time I take a vacation it’s like ‘ooooh so this is what happiness is’ and then the remaining 51 weeks of the year it’s back to surviving
In our capitalistic hellscape? You have to be fairly lucky to get into a job where you don't feel that way.
The boomers sure make it sound like it's an option but I've never worked with anyone that didn't eventually just get tired or bored with their job. Nothing stays exciting forever, but it's weighing two shitty things against eachother.
My job is probably about as good as it gets for me personally, and librarianship consistently ranks among the highest professions for job satisfaction.
But yeah. I don't want to go to work more often than not, just about every single day between 2 and 5 is a wasteland, and I covet my vacation days like precious gemstones.
Pretty much the reason people give you money to do a thing is because if they weren't giving you money, you'd be doing something else. Otherwise they'd just ask.
Just keep repeating to yourself, "at least we're not on Oracle"
uhhh you don't get robots to farm the crops
you make robot crops
duh
Legumedom Wing.
I had a period where I was putting in extra time at work, I banked it as lieu hours. Each week I took an extra day off, normally friday.
That went on for 6 months and I was much happier, I'd love to be able to adopt that permanently. The only other thing that works for me is changing roles.
After 2 years I start to go mental. Crazy to think some folks did the same job for 45 years.
One day...one day we'll get there
Ah. Welp, cool! As odd as that response may be to a forced quarantine.
this barley makes any sense
It's with a very big name person that people here would recognize teaching it.
I'm so fucking tired
I try to evaluate what I'm doing outside of work to make sure I'm not doing something that compounds regular work stress. Am I getting more than 6 hours sleep, am I getting outside at noonish for 10-15 minutes, am I getting regularly dedicated exercise time multiple times a week (even if this is just 20 minutes of walking at a brisk pace), things like that.
If I'm already doing that than I know it's time to make a change. That change may be moving to a different project or something more drastic like finding a new job. I know you've got the horrendous Tacoma-Seattle commute which exacerbates the lack of time plus all the requisite parent duties which doesn't make of this easy.
By force
Aerofarming can use meh and grey water to farm inside a building with no soil so a lot of crops can be raised that way without using more land just the push back against it is odd
There is 3 drones at work to clean, a floor mopping drone, a flying stock check robot and one monolith looking stocker robot
It's fun to watch people freak out about them. It is with abject glee I welcome the working robots and coming job apoc. I know we are ill prepared for it since it's on the horizon and coming soon
If AI kills us it's going to end up being a ML algorithm that's doing something seemingly trivial and mundane but is actually incredibly important in the grand scheme of species survival and that algorithm is going to fail in a spectacular cascading fashion that can only be achieved by a computer ruthlessly running down it's machine code and this catastrophic fail state can only reached by a ML algorithm logically reaching an absurd conclusion from sensible data because it was trained on an insufficiently robust data set but no one knew before the all consuming fail state was reached since the why of a ML decision is an unknowable black box of chaos.
AI we created on the other hand I feel will not kill us but will kill
Like most of those aren't the result of an AI guiding events to both produce itself a robotic work force and mostly destroy humanity along the way
The worst part is we're not even "on" Azure. This is just me trying to get scopes enabled for Bing Ads OAuth so we can allow users to pull data into our app
What previously was a simple form that you filled out is now this multi-step process through the same Azure Portal that's used to spin up servers
I can't even file a support ticket because we have no support contract. We have no support contract because all we need is a "yes, this app that has been working for the past 3 years can continue to work with a new scope"
I've taken to filling out the "feedback" request that pops up every time. It's painful
Like, fuck, don’t play this “move shit around until it stops asserting” game with me brujo. Ain’t no one have time for that.
Back when my IBS was way worse I had a spreadsheet for keeping track of pooping, as a part of the CBT I did. I called it the Log Log.