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Most of the bigger companies here have public-view "parking lot cams" as part of a tri-county security watch program that started before the lockdown years. Today the lots fill up to near normal levels, more people can be seen out walking during lunch and breaks, so I assume fewer people are working from home.
We've had some hot spells and some rainy spells but in general a nice Summer. People are enjoying their last days of freedom before leaf raking becomes a daily chore again.
I'm a big fan of extractor fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
We put a camera looking at the glass door of one of our offices. Mostly it just picked up blurred images showing that kids used the lawn in the evenings, occasionally, which makes sense to me. It's a nice lawn. However, one time it picked up a cat peering in the door. Good thing we had a security camera. It might have been a cat burglar.
We set a record for number of days over 100. Just barely made it over the line, though, as it will start cooling down this weekend. It will be a long time before we rake leaf of our senses...or whatever.
Was it this cat?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
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For a stretch there automakers were using the empty parking around here to store uncompleted cars due to supply chain disruptions. Most of that went South though once Winter arrived at the end of 2020.
Now they are claiming big losses from all of the damage down South, mostly from rats and roaches gnawing on insulation and rubber and dragging in nesting material.
That is a big problem in the Southwest. My parents volunteered at a wildlife refuge in New Mexico. Everybody had to keep the hoods of their vehicles open all the time or the rats would eat the wiring. I'm a bit surprised that keeping the hoods open was sufficient to deter them.
I went into the office today to pick up my new laptop, there were 6 people in on the whole floor and I was the only person in my side which has over 40 desks. The whole floor sits about 90 - 100 people, pre covid there were about 70 - 80 people in on an average day.Quote:
Most of the bigger companies here have public-view "parking lot cams" as part of a tri-county security watch program that started before the lockdown years. Today the lots fill up to near normal levels, more people can be seen out walking during lunch and breaks, so I assume fewer people are working from home.
We moved into a new building. There is limited parking in the lot most convenient for me. There were a few days early on when it was full, but since then...not so much. I don't have enough data to understand that, yet. It might be that lots of people tend to be away in the summer, it might also be that people are still figuring out their parking habits for the new building, and it may be that lots of people are not coming in every day. I feel like it is the latter, but I'm not there often enough to know for sure.
I feel like half of our office is out on any given day. Whether or not that will change as the weather gets colder remains to be seen.
It seems like "return to work" participation varies here by sector and field. Government employees mainly working outside seemed to go back in numbers first, office workers followed.
We had an easy ride here through the newer virus variants, so that may factor in as well.
It might be that going back makes it harder to return to working from home even if perceived risk increases again. Makes sense there would be inertia involved in both directions.
Had a problem with that a few years ago. Damn thing was eating mainly the rubber hoses and also the radiator overflow reservoir. Someone told me it was looking for water, I don't know why it liked my car so much but it did a lot of damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
If the company can maintain the same level of productivity then it would save the cost of office space. It seems like that would depend on the business.Quote:
It might be that going back makes it harder to return to working from home even if perceived risk increases again. Makes sense there would be inertia involved in both directions.
SH,
You might have been right when you said everything is political. Especially if it involves the fossil fuel industry in some way.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...regular-savers
I can understand having to disclose if ESG is used but to ban it has to be purely political. Well at least that's how this article makes it sound. I'd never heard of it till today.
Of course I was right.
We should ban TLAs, while we're at it.
Your gonna need to be more specific. I Googled TLA and got a list of 89 answers. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I'm surprised that it was only 89. TLA: Three Letter Acronym.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
When I am asked the difference between a junior and senior developer, I will show this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delaney
Ah, very clever. Didn't realize you have a TLA's phobia. But I get it, the pain is real!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I lost a friend last week. He was 35.
That's rough. Sorry DD.
Awfully quiet around here.
Sorry DD about your friend. The lose of a friend is always terrible but when they are so young it makes it even worse.
I got called away to count fish, fish nests, and cut up a bunch of rotting salmon. It was kind of awesome.
I also managed to cut myself pretty well. Got blood all over the place. Doggone finger cuts bleed like crazy.
My feet hadn't fully healed from hiking, and now they have to heal even more. I need a break.
You sure a break is a good idea. The last break you took is how your feet got injured. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Seriously, if your dealing with infections be very diligent. You REALLY don't want the injury to go septic.
Yeah, I'm opposed to that. You might even say that I'm antiseptic.
I go back to work to recover from my vacations, but now I need a vacation to recover from my work. At this point, I'm not sure what to do...
Don't get old.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I got put on blood thinners last year, and became paranoid about any cuts or bruises because the warnings are pretty dire. Even bought a bracelet mentioning the drug involved so paramedics are forewarned if need be. Needless to say I'm super cautious about yard work, especially stuff involving ladders like cleaning out rain gutters.
I can't imagine engaging in the things I had in the past. Doctor told me even bicycling injuries can be very serious. I'm super cautious now with scissors and of course even more with utility knives, saws, and axes.
Those blood thinners might save you from a vampire one day ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifXgtsdO_9g
Good to know.
My mom was diagnosed with an extremely rare blood condition known as protein – S deficiency and was put on blood thinners when I was about five or six. I vividly remember her cutting herself with a knife while trying to peel an apple, and we had to rush her to the emergency room because she could not stop bleeding. It was particularly scary because we lived in a rural part of the state and the closest emergency room was 20 minutes away.
By the time my youngest brother was 18, she already had 22 DVTs and just stopped counting. He’s 24 now and we guess she’s at like 30-ish. I don’t know what she’s on now, but I know it isn’t warfarin, and it’s been like a year since her last DVT.
She still gets superficial clots regularly, but those aren’t anything to worry about.
I was tested when I was a teenager, in my PT reading was borderline. But my youngest brother is full blown and diagnosed. Apparently if affects men worse than women, but his PT was better than my mom’s, but who know with all the variables (age, health, etc.)
I barely remember what DVD is, so I'm not sure what DVT is.
I could make something up for it, though.
Deep vein thrombosis.
Or Dairy Rich Thirst if you’re from Wisconsin.
They spell 'rich' with a v?
How do they spell Visconsin?
VVisconsin obviously.
Yeah. I should have thought of that.
What is the correct formula for Waiting Time in the FCFS (First Come First Served) Scheduling algorithm, is it Turn Around Time - Burst Time or Response Time - Arrival Time?
It is the “I’m about to have a heart attack because LSU can’t execute against Florida State” one.
Boise State managed to get clobbered in their first game. That really takes the pressure off around here. When they have a magical season, everybody talks them up. They are too small to get invited to a four team playoff (though they might in the new format that is coming), so there are lots of sour grapes. Having lost their first game so badly, they can now play the rest of the season without people complaining about how they are ranked. Instead, people can just complain about the normal things, such as the players and coaches.
Hammer time!Quote:
What is the correct formula for Waiting Time in the FCFS (First Come First Served) Scheduling algorithm, is it Turn Around Time - Burst Time or Response Time - Arrival Time?
Well, it's not Forumula 1. They don't seem to be waiting.
Perhaps it's a secret formula?
In all seriousness, I've never even thought about that question...and clearly still haven't.
I just had an incredible programming moment - that only other programmers would understand.
The setup...last week, while I was training someone, and they were going back and forth from tab to tab in my web app, and clicking on rows in a grid to run a report. All of a sudden the app bugged out and didn't know what tab it was on. I was not happy - telling someone to logout and log back in again to get around a bug sucks!
The realization...three huge functions that build grids and tabs really should be re-factored and put into the class that eventually evolved in this app to manage the user-interface.
The satisfaction...after carefully moving the code into the UI class, the bug SIMPLY DISAPPEARED!
Wow - I was shocked!
Just doing the right thing in the code fixed a bug that I did not want to search for!
Happy day!
btw - Javascript with lots of little callback functions created on the fly with all kinds of closure variables!
That was such a wholesome story.....I shed a tear :cry:
Software is a theory of how best to solve a data problem. The more data you throw at the theory, the more you test it. When it works, the test passes, when it fails, the theory is not as good as it could be.
I spent a couple months wrestling with an arcane data problem. Eventually, I solved it, which was a relief. I then turned to a different problem...and found that the solution I had come up with for the first problem solved the second even better than it had solved the first.
It's very rewarding when a theory ends up being able to explain something it was never intended to deal with.
Ah yes. JavaScript closures and hoisting have caused me more headaches than I care to admit.
let and const solve some of that, but depending on your browser support they might not always be an option
Gonna be 113 degrees here today. Near by they are predicting 116.
Please light a candle for my AC and the power grid. lol
I had seen where California is expecting blackouts. The news article I read doesn't really make sense to me though, it explained that because a good percentage of the electrical production is from solar that at the end of the day, throughput starts to decrease while simultaneously the day gets hotter.
Wouldn't it be hottest at like 12 - 2 and not 5 - 7?
California imports 30% of its electricity from neighboring states. They burn off a lot of juice.
Ultimately that dissipates as heat, there isn't any way around it. Then consider the impact of rooftops, paved area, and solar panels converting a ton of visible light into infrared reflected back into the lower atmosphere. AC pumps more heat outside in a process that adds more heat itself.
All of that builds a runaway thermal bubble during the day, probably part of why things are so hot in the hours before dusk.
Continuous terraforming dancing on the razor edge of failure.
Yeah, cause if there's one thing you need it is more heat.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
(and if there's another, it's more fire)
There's also the interesting geography to consider. The Sierra Nevada creates a wall of craft be....I mean mountains, yeah mountains. This has some interesting local impacts on weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
I'd say @ 5pm is the hottest. I've notice places along the Gulf like New Orleans, Houston don't get much of a temp swing. 5 or 6 degrees. Here in Central Ca. we have 30 - 40 degree swings. Today the high is @ 113 and the morning low was @ 72.Quote:
Wouldn't it be hottest at like 12 - 2 and not 5 - 7?
So it takes a while to built the temps. Then where I live there is lots of concrete and pavement, very little green space, so it's like a big heat sink.
I don't know where all the solar power is coming from. There is one big solar farm out in the desert near AZ, They advertise that 90% of the daytime energy comes from renewable sources. I know of several wind turbine farms, my area has lots of hydroelectric.
I just did a search, southern CA does have several solar farms. I haven't been down there in 20yrs. lol