i'm geniusish i guess... i usually get "how do you know everything all the time" then i tell them about the sad story of when i was grounded one summer, so i read the encyclopedia. i realized i enjoy reading encyclopedias.
My wife now limits me to three physical encyclopedia sets in the house at one time, so if i want more i have to get rid of an old set.
@f00l I AM A GENIUS but really I code at work but really really I actually think up most of the code while in the bathroom or doing mundane things like ironing
@f00l Yeah, well part of my job is doing software support for folks who are nominally "programmers". Let me tell you, some of the "geniuses" out there who call themselves professional software developers are just winging it. Apparently, some high tech companies will hire someone if they have a pulse and can manage to boot their computer in the morning.
@f00l Many years of design, analysis, server setup, network design, troubleshooting, and everything else that my coders were incapable of doing. Yeh, they "know" a language or two, but little else. (Its how I got my name - "Ask the Ole Perfesser, he knows everything".)
Sound mixing and video editing. I'm not sure where that should fall... It's usually only complicated if you don't know how to do it, but that's true of everything. It does require a fair degree of technical competence (and occasional server maintenance), but not much actual coding or heavy lifting.
I'm retired. I don't do a damned thing. I used to do options one, and two, and a bunch of other stuff as well. I still have a home network, with multiple machines, but it's because the computers are my only friends. sniff
@Shrdlu It's amazing how much computers (starting w 360s and 370s and CDCs, then trash-80s and pc-dos - And later the internet (starting with bbs access and late-nite dialup on a special data line to a command-line (prob bash?) access in LA) - And now smartphones 24/7 - have taken over my time and interests. I suppose i've become increasingly pathetic. Likely lost many skills associated with civility/maturity/relationships (if i ever had such skills.)
@Shrdlu It's like you are my lost twin or something! Same life. Except I do have a cat, though she is only a friend when she wants to be fed or needs something else from me. Come to think of it, I have several human "friends" like that, too.
@rockblossom and @Shrdlu We should start a club. Except I have 3 dogs and husband. And the husband is a pain in the ass. He's retired too and expects me to entertain him. I'm sick of being "Camp Counselor."
Posting from here today. No, it doesn't make me a "freaking genius", just a technical professional. Ask me to do plumbing and you'll see a cussing, frustrated fool. Ask me to grow crops and you'll go hungry. Ask me to keep a bunch of computers running well, THAT I can do.
@smyle "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert Heinlein
@macromeh Let's see… No, no, no, no, no, no, yes, no, no, doubtful, yes, kinda, yes, yes, yes, yes, no (bad back), yes, yes, no way, don't know yet. I have a poor Heinlein score.
Well, just today I wrote an Ansible playbook for setting up a multi-machine Ganeti cluster, which got tricky because it changes network devices and IP addresses and SSH host keys and stuff in the middle of the playbook. I got it all figured out though.
But on the other hand, the remote you're selling today is terrifying, and I'm pretty sure if I program it wrong it will crash a satellite and the police and NASA will show up and it will be really embarrassing. No thanks. I'll just get up and turn the knob myself.
Man, there must be a shit load of unemployed professional programmers out in the real world OR they like to shoot the breeze.. From face palm to thumbs up:
Usually it's cuss out the IT dept for putting the shitty central management software on my computer as it doesn't play well with my PTC apps and I have to cold start my laptop which for those of you who know is a real pain in the ass a couple of times a day when I'm slicing and diceing 3D models.
This poll indicates a lot of geeks on meh. A LOT (myself included). Maybe a few more higher end tech deals are in order? Maybe an iPad mini 4 for a couple hundred...maybe? :P
A few years ago i found a 16 mb usb in a box. Surprisingly, it had a lot of stuff on it. (Actually, not really THAT surprising come to think of it).
I love looking back at comics written in the 90s which mention storage and RAM and how what we consider obsolete now, was state of the art then (although i guess it's true with anything really).
@DaveInSoCal ...GB for MB...hmm...question for you, Dave (and be honest, you are among friendlies here), for today's poll which did you select - 'successfully logging into your favorite websites' or 'clicking the "forgot password" link on your favorite websites?'
Who are all the geniuses?
@f00l
I only have 1 talent, and it's "being a genius".
@f00l I'm trying really hard not to be narcissistic... So, I will lower my hand :)
@f00l Apart from the "genius" part, the first thing described what I do at work.
@f00l the first one is what I do at work.
i'm geniusish i guess... i usually get "how do you know everything all the time" then i tell them about the sad story of when i was grounded one summer, so i read the encyclopedia. i realized i enjoy reading encyclopedias.
My wife now limits me to three physical encyclopedia sets in the house at one time, so if i want more i have to get rid of an old set.
I'm suprised i'm married too.
@f00l No genius here, but that's what I do at work...when I'm not answering polls on meh that is.
@f00l I AM A GENIUS but really I code at work but really really I actually think up most of the code while in the bathroom or doing mundane things like ironing
ah the genius life
@f00l Yeah, well part of my job is doing software support for folks who are nominally "programmers". Let me tell you, some of the "geniuses" out there who call themselves professional software developers are just winging it. Apparently, some high tech companies will hire someone if they have a pulse and can manage to boot their computer in the morning.
@f00l Many years of design, analysis, server setup, network design, troubleshooting, and everything else that my coders were incapable of doing. Yeh, they "know" a language or two, but little else. (Its how I got my name - "Ask the Ole Perfesser, he knows everything".)
@f00l I computer a lot for work.
Sound mixing and video editing. I'm not sure where that should fall... It's usually only complicated if you don't know how to do it, but that's true of everything. It does require a fair degree of technical competence (and occasional server maintenance), but not much actual coding or heavy lifting.
@jsfs
Personally, i would probably put that under the last option.
@jsfs that is also what I do!
I'm retired. I don't do a damned thing. I used to do options one, and two, and a bunch of other stuff as well. I still have a home network, with multiple machines, but it's because the computers are my only friends. sniff
@Shrdlu
It's amazing how much computers (starting w 360s and 370s and CDCs, then trash-80s and pc-dos -
And later the internet (starting with bbs access and late-nite dialup on a special data line to a command-line (prob bash?) access in LA) -
And now smartphones 24/7 -
have taken over my time and interests. I suppose i've become increasingly pathetic. Likely lost many skills associated with civility/maturity/relationships (if i ever had such skills.)
No pain no gain!
@Shrdlu That's only because we don't live near each other. Then you'd have computer friends and a stalker.
@Shrdlu It's like you are my lost twin or something! Same life. Except I do have a cat, though she is only a friend when she wants to be fed or needs something else from me. Come to think of it, I have several human "friends" like that, too.
@rockblossom and @Shrdlu We should start a club. Except I have 3 dogs and husband. And the husband is a pain in the ass. He's retired too and expects me to entertain him. I'm sick of being "Camp Counselor."
@Shrdlu That's because you turned your shotgun on me when I turned down you block! Not the best way to welcome someone!
@Raider Liar, liar, pants on fire. You know I don't own a shotgun. No more cookies for you.
too many words, I'm not reading all those choices.
Mass spectrometry for proteomics/ metabolomics.
SQL stuff in Oracle databases.
@heartny
@thismyusername i love this one.
@carl669 @heartny Yep. I think of Little Bobby Tables every time I fill out an online form.
@heartny
@Fish_Kungfu If he knew what he was talking about he would have said purple, not mauve. Everyone knows purple has the most RAM :-)
@Fish_Kungfu
Posting from here today. No, it doesn't make me a "freaking genius", just a technical professional. Ask me to do plumbing and you'll see a cussing, frustrated fool. Ask me to grow crops and you'll go hungry. Ask me to keep a bunch of computers running well, THAT I can do.
Use the youtube @smyle , let go, @smyle trust me. Watch a few videos get hints from each one.
@smyle "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
— Robert Heinlein
I'm still working on the butchering a hog thing.
@macromeh Let's see… No, no, no, no, no, no, yes, no, no, doubtful, yes, kinda, yes, yes, yes, yes, no (bad back), yes, yes, no way, don't know yet. I have a poor Heinlein score.
Well, just today I wrote an Ansible playbook for setting up a multi-machine Ganeti cluster, which got tricky because it changes network devices and IP addresses and SSH host keys and stuff in the middle of the playbook. I got it all figured out though.
But on the other hand, the remote you're selling today is terrifying, and I'm pretty sure if I program it wrong it will crash a satellite and the police and NASA will show up and it will be really embarrassing. No thanks. I'll just get up and turn the knob myself.
@awk What is this knob you speak of ?
@awk Should it worry me that I completely understood that whole first paragraph on the first read-through?
Man, there must be a shit load of unemployed professional programmers out in the real world OR they like to shoot the breeze.. From face palm to thumbs up:
@unkabob I'm not slacking off, my code is compiling
@MrGlass and these days "my tests are running"
@MrGlass .. Oh! Then carry on.
@katylava Believe it or not, when I posted that image I was waiting for my local VM to spin up.
image algorithms that merge multiple sets of deep sample information. does that count?
Just read my introductory "What is your occupation" post from earlier this year. That about says it all.
Shocker, people who spend a lot of time on computers are here more often than those that don't use computers!
Networking, Cisco fuckery.
Usually it's cuss out the IT dept for putting the shitty central management software on my computer as it doesn't play well with my PTC apps and I have to cold start my laptop which for those of you who know is a real pain in the ass a couple of times a day when I'm slicing and diceing 3D models.
This poll indicates a lot of geeks on meh. A LOT (myself included). Maybe a few more higher end tech deals are in order? Maybe an iPad mini 4 for a couple hundred...maybe? :P
I'm not sure what a lot of this stuff is, so I just starred everyone to be safe. If I missed one, it's BECAUSE I'M NOT A TECH GENIUS.
@DaveInSoCal Ha! An honest man.
@rockblossom I still remember that my father bought the upgraded 20gb hard drive for our 8088 and we were NEVER going to be able to fill it.
@DaveInSoCal 20 gb or 20 mb ??
@kadagan lol! My stupid autocorrect changed mb to gb! Yes, twenty megs.
@DaveInSoCal
A few years ago i found a 16 mb usb in a box. Surprisingly, it had a lot of stuff on it. (Actually, not really THAT surprising come to think of it).
I love looking back at comics written in the 90s which mention storage and RAM and how what we consider obsolete now, was state of the art then (although i guess it's true with anything really).
@DaveInSoCal ...GB for MB...hmm...question for you, Dave (and be honest, you are among friendlies here), for today's poll which did you select - 'successfully logging into your favorite websites' or 'clicking the "forgot password" link on your favorite websites?'
@elimanningface favorite websites. I'm actually fairly tech savvy, but compared to most mehtizens i feel much less tech savvy than usual
Some days I can run the copier. Some days it wins. Where/who are the fricking evil geniuses that design the UIs for copiers?
Dont you just love how modern wired traditional single line home phones come with long, tiny-print instruction manuals?
I bet many of us remember when the idea of a manual for a basic home phone would have been as absurd as a manual for a basic coffee cup.
And then, some of us don't remember wired home phones, except in the movies.
@f00l and the older you get the smaller the print gets.
@cranky1950
Yeah and people start to talk so that you can't distinguish all the words when there's background noise.
Wtf? Why are they so rude? Can't they just speak clearly for a change?
I take daily curmugeon pills, now that i understand the transformation is inevitable.