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[nuuskur]

In and around the bigger towns, having 100/100 or 300/300 (Mbit/s) down and up is quite usual. There is a lot of fibreoptics going around. There's no fibreoptics (yet) where I live so I make do with a 100/25 connection for now :P

There is also excellent 4G wireless, but I don't use it much, because the data rates are ridiculously expensive.As for security, it seems it's all relative. There is constant criticism about weak security of the systems. The entire ID card-related security protocols are due to be revamped next year. I have never felt the adverse effects of these supposed security loopholes, so I don't worry too much about it. Yes, we can do most transactions online. Most notably, it takes not five minutes to fill your annual tax return.

 

[WWGD]

I am not an engineer nor pm nor designer but I can tell bad ideas on products when I see them. Why have unnecessary moving parts? I was looking for a belt, took it with my hands and stretched it outwards. It snapped open , because there were two parts connected , instead of being a single piece. Whose idea was that?

 

[fresh_42]

I am not an engineer nor pm ...

The US doesn't have a PM. That's the UK.

 

[WWGD]

The US doesn't have a PM. That's the UK.

Does the UK have a UKulele though?

 

[WWGD]

" A Project Manager is someone who believes nine women together can have a baby in one month". Not sure if true, but pretty funny.

 

[DrGreg]

" A Project Manager is someone who ...

... uses the project management tool formerly known as PRINCE.

Spoiler

PRINCE2

 

[fresh_42]

" A Project Manager is someone who believes nine women together can have a baby in one month". Not sure if true, but pretty funny.

I like the following version:
"I need five more men to stay in time! Or a woman."

 

[fresh_42]

" A Project Manager is someone who ...

... uses the project management tool formerly known as PRINCE.

... is forced to drown in administration tasks to comply with the auditors instead of getting the job done.

 

[Borg]

There's room for screwups at every level.

 

[nuuskur]

How the project is documented
It really be like that sometimes.

 

[WWGD]

... is forced to drown in administration tasks to comply with the auditors instead of getting the job done.

Du bist ein Former PM? IT , I would guess?

 

[WWGD]

... uses the project management tool formerly known as PRINCE.

Spoiler

PRINCE2

TAFKAP unfortunately died in 2016. Purple Rain and all.

 

[Klystron]

Gary Gray is the only combo I know where the name is an anagram of the last name.

How about, "Norm Morn"?

Gary: "Mornin' Norm Morn!"
Norm: "G' day, Gary Gray."

 

[WWGD]

How about, "Norm Morn"?

Gary: "Mornin' Norm Morn!"
Norm: "G' day, Gary Gray."

Ian Nai? Bob Obb? I just never ran into any of these IRL. Good morn, Norm Romn. G'Day, Gary Gray.

 

[WWGD]

Ian Nai? Bob Obb? I just never ran into any of these IRL. Good morn, Norm Romn. G'Day, Gary Gray.

How about anagramed pairs? Gary Cral and Carl Gray? Gary Lare and Earl Gray? Imagine one example in a married couple. I would beg them not to divorce.

 

[hmmm27]

Lester Telser

 

[WWGD]

Lester Telser

And his birthdate is a palindrome: 1/3/31, sort of on the same family.

 

[Borg]

Programming mood swings...

Estatic at having finally figured out how to assemble a complex environment and getting everything to work.

Depressed at having to document which of the 300 links over the previous 2 days were the ones that actually got all of the parts working rather than dead end Google searches.

 

[WWGD]

Lester Telser

Just curious, if you don't mind me asking, how you went about finding this example. Did you scrape or somehow queried Wikipedia?

 

[WWGD]

I like the following version:
"I need five more men to stay in time! Or a woman."

Is this the old trope of women being underpaid? If this was the case, companies would hire only women to do the work, which they would supposedly complete at, e.g., 80% of the cost that men would complete it. Yet this does not happen, seriously putting the claim in question.

 

[fresh_42]

Is this the old trope of women being underpaid? If this was the case, companies would hire only women to do the work, which they would supposedly complete at, e.g., 80% of the cost that men would complete it. Yet this does not happen, seriously putting the claim in question.

No, it's not about payment. It refers to the fact that women get things done more efficiently, i.e. with far less "meetings". It is also the case, that men compete better if a woman is around. They might not know, but they instinctively attempt to make an impression. The difficulties sometimes occur, if you have more than one woman in the team.

 

[WWGD]

No, it's not about payment. It refers to the fact that women get things done more efficiently, i.e. with far less "meetings". It is also the case, that men compete better if a woman is around. They might not know, but they instinctively attempt to make an impression. The difficulties sometimes occur, if you have more than one woman in the team.

So the ideal team is composed of several men and one woman?

 

[hmmm27]

Just curious, if you don't mind me asking, how you went about finding this example. Did you scrape or somehow queried Wikipedia?

Pure'ish serendipity, or possibly my tinfoil hat's sprung a leak : I googled for "Lester Tesler" and that came up as an alternative spelling.

I like the following version:
"I need five more men to stay in time! Or a woman."

Is this the old trope of women being underpaid?

An even older trope : "men are useless", that was very popular in the (19)70s/80s, pervasive in family-oriented TV/movies : husband/dad's a klutz and the wife/kids have to compensate : hilarity ensues.

The kernel of truth is that - apart from the need of outsiders to have to work harder to gain respect - women are generally better at multitasking (I won't posit biological andor cultural) : the underlying message promotes the idea of women in the workplace, in non-"traditional" roles.

 

[fresh_42]

So the ideal team is composed of several men and one woman?

I think this is a bit too oversimplified. E.g. such a "team" has significantly higher chances to die in a car crash if they are in one car driving home from a bar or disco.

 

[WWGD]

I think this is a bit too oversimplified. E.g. such a "team" has significantly higher chances to die in a car crash if they are in one car driving home from a bar or disco.

Must be an interesting project if they're all going to a disco together.

 

[WWGD]

Pure'ish serendipity, or possibly my tinfoil hat's sprung a leak : I googled for "Lester Telser" and that came up as an alternative spelling.<tl;dr> Issa joke </tl;dr>
It stems from the anachronistic trope "men are useless", which was popular in the (19)70s/80s, pervasive in family-oriented TV/movies : husband/dad's a klutz and the wife/kids have to compensate : hilarity ensues.

The kernel of truth is that women are better at multitasking (I won't posit biological andor cultural) : the underlying message promotes the idea of women in the workplace.

Yes, there is a difference in brain wiring and I guess form follows function ( and vice versa).

 

[hmmm27]

Yes, there is a difference in brain wiring and I guess form follows function ( and vice versa).

That'd be something for actual Science(s) to weigh in on in anything but a speculative manner. But, it's probably safe to say "millions of years of biology, reinforced by tens of thousands of years of culture". Just don't say it in the wrong place/time, or pretend there isn't a long list of caveats.

 

[WWGD]

That'd be something for actual Science(s) to weigh in on in anything but a speculative manner. But, it's probably safe to say "millions of years of biology, reinforced by tens of thousands of years of culture". Just don't say it in the wrong place/time, or pretend there isn't a long list of caveats.

Of course, I use it in an oversimplified way in this casual subforum , giving the Reader's Digest version.

 

[fresh_42]

How hot is it in the states?

 

[fresh_42]

That's wrong with the world we live in:

Brian Harold May is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and astrophysicist.

Brian Harold May is a British guitarist, composer, singer, astrophysicist, non-fiction author and animal rights activist.

 

[fresh_42]

I have an asian restaurant nearby. But I never figured out what kind, i.e. where from Asia. Not japanese, that's all which was obvious. Today I found out. It took a Coronavirus and a heat wave to gain sufficient evidence.

Because of the Corona virus, they had installed an extra temporary counter further away from the cooking place. This made someone necessary to transport (and translate) the order. Thus they had a young lady who normally isn't there to do the job. And I guess she is the only one who speaks the natives' language well enough. Moreover we have currently a heat wave here: $\approx 90\,°F$, and the young lady ran around like she would probably do at home: both, in her asian as well as in her local home: shoes and XL t-shirt. This left only one plausible option.

 

[nuuskur]

Nifty little reading by Underwood.

What to do when the trisector comes?

 

[etotheipi]

San Francisco vs Blade Runner (2049)

 

[Rive]

Got a new task: the 'specification' is a simple page of schematic without additional data, with many serious problems.
No changes allowed, must be done within a day or two.
My first time for GIGO
Gotta' get a beer once done. And wait for the fireworks to start.

 

[DennisN]

I found this texbook the other day in a second hand shop, in a shelf next to a book about astrology.
I hadn't planned to get a book on quantum optics, but the price was only half a dollar (!), so I got it.
I guess it was written in the stars.

I also got a book on chemistry for half a dollar:

 

[nsaspook]

 

[fresh_42]

Does anybody know how the minimal distances of english words of a given length are distributed? Or what is the minimal word length where the minimal distance is at least two?

 

[Tom.G]

Does anybody know how the minimal distances of english words of a given length are distributed? Or what is the minimal word length where the minimal distance is at least two?

Not sure just what you are asking here, but Hamming distance comes to mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance

That was found as #4 of 74,500,000 hits using:
https://www.google.com/search?&q=minimal+distances+of+english+words+of+a+given+length

(Seems like a rather large search space!)

 

[Keith_McClary]

Hamming distance comes to mind.

Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

 

[WWGD]

Interesting article on the FT on how while most creative people are in larger cities, they are usually born on smaller ones. The dullness of the smaller towns compel them to find and create their own entertainment to avoid ending up bored to tears. City dwellers, by comparison, have ready-made entertainment by just driving and walking around. Article by Janan Ganesh, who's written a few other interesting ones.

 

[Frigus]

I think people on PF can be broadly classified into two categories:-
1. Who don't want their brain to stop working
2. Who want their brain to start working.

 

[etotheipi]

I think people on PF can be broadly classified into two categories:-
1. Who don't want their brain to stop working
2. Who want their brain to start working.

I think you missed...

3. Who are using PF as a procrastination mechanism

 

[DrGreg]

I think people on PF can be broadly classified into two categories:-
1. Who don't want their brain to stop working
2. Who want their brain to start working.

I think you missed...

3. Who are using PF as a procrastination mechanism

But these aren't mutually exclusive categories.

 

[etotheipi]

But these aren't mutually exclusive categories.

Point taken, though if you're procrastinating perhaps that means you don't want your brain to do any work... or maybe you actually do, but you're actively suppressing it... that's quite philosophical, isn't it ☺

 

[WWGD]

And those of us trying to figure out what you're %#!$ talking about in the above discussion ;).

 

[WWGD]

After reading a 500+ post thread on another site on why people who put the cereal on the bowl before the milk are idiots, with insults galore, even a few death threats, I feel greateful again for PF!

 

[fresh_42]

After reading a 500+ post thread on another site on why people who put the cereal on the bowl before the milk are idiots, with insults galore, even a few death threats, I feel greateful again for PF!

I knew I'm an idiot. However, you shouldn't smoke the hard stuff if you are prone to bad trips (pun intended).

 

[hmmm27]

Any rewards for 3/3 ?

 

[WWGD]

3/3=1??

 

[hmmm27]

3/3=1??

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