Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Autumnal]

…and that’s why my favorite space opera is Akira Kurosawa’s High And Low.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Oh, if anybody else here works IT, be aware that the lead time to order some optics for some popular switch manufacturers is now approaching TWO YEARS...

 

[Meech17]

Oh, if anybody else here works IT, be aware that the lead time to order some optics for some popular switch manufacturers is now approaching TWO YEARS...

Work in automotive, not tech, but lotta lead times are growing out there. There's a been a few times I send a quote back to my customer after they ask me to order it, and I go "You saw the lead times on this, right?" and it becomes obvious that they, in fact.. Did not read the quoted lead times.

 

[prabe]

Alternatively, it's a good way to identify people who would rather twist any thread into their preferred conversation rather than answering the prompt (or starting their own thread).

There are probably some of those, yes. Often, people want to talk about what they want to talk about and will take any conversational opening to do so; this can, but needn't, be bad-faith thread-twisting.

 

[Autumnal]

Maybe I’m just grumpy today - new meds + a cold will do that - but I think sufficiently oblivious ignoring of context to go on about a favorite subject instead is a kind of bad faith. It’s not that hard to pay attention to the basics of what others are saying and to rein oneself in that tiny bit

 

[prabe]

Maybe I’m just grumpy today - new meds + a cold will do that - but I think sufficiently oblivious ignoring of context to go on about a favorite subject instead is a kind of bad faith. It’s not that hard to pay attention to the basics of what others are saying and to rein oneself in that tiny bit

Fair, I was thinking of the difference between a kind of enthusiastic cluelessness kinda common among nerds and something more malicious, but that might not be a distinction that matters as much when one is interacting with either.

 

[Mannahnin]

From Red Nails
"Conan had discarded the remnants of his tattered, blood-soaked shirt, and stood with his remarkable muscular development impressively revealed. His great shoulders were as broad as those of Olmec, and more cleanly outlined, and his huge breast arched with a more impressive sweep to a hard waist that lacked the paunchy thickness of Olmec's midsection. He might have been an image of primal strength cut out of bronze."

RE Howard himself dabbled with a bit of bodybuilding and so definitely had the 1920's version of "gym bod" in his head. Not a hulking brute, elsewhere Conan as described as having muscles knotted like iron cables and to move with the supple ease of a great tiger, his steely muscles rippling under his brown skin - so muscle and suppleness, Strength and Dexterity (Agility)

The exert also confirms Conan wearing shirts, but also them becoming quickly tattered and discarded.

One of the fundamentals of pulp Sword and Sandals was that being close to nature (barbarism) naturally made you stronger, with muscles like knotted iron cables and a sexy hard waist - "Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph."

The Bard (of Why HeroQuest is so Great fame) talks in the video below a bit about the archetype of the barbarian and the importance of physicality, "rippling musculature" and the vitality of the body in the genre, especially post-Frazetta. He opines that Conan's body gives him his agency in the world, being enough for him to effect change in the world, even without a sword, or a knight's authority or armor.

 

[Ryujin]

Sure, I was a consultant for almost 20 years, so I have that, but it's true that a lot of IT guys don't seem to understand what it entails.

Today's FAFO moment is definitely in the thread where the guy who ordered equipment did it wrong.

They want to let the support contract on one switch manufacturer expire, so obviously we would need to replace the switches. So, we told them how many we would need: two network switches and one management switch per cabinet (plus miscellaneous others that don't factor in here).

They apparently asked one guy, "How many active ports are there?" He gave them the number, and they divided that number by the number of ports on each of the switch. Switches in the data center generally aren't fully utilized -- much like I don't use the full power of my phone to land spacecraft on the Moon, we have unused capacity in the Data Center. But what that means is, we now have only two-thirds as many switches as we actually need.

Currently, our thought is, we're going to have to order a mess of long cables and run them to neighboring cabinets, but that means it's going to look ugly, and it's a loooot of extra work (and therefore billable time). If anybody does a tour, it's going to look like my team don't know what they're doing, or are sloppy. But the dudes doing the ordering are patting themselves on the back for the money they "saved"...

For us, at the moment, it's manpower. We got a new school of medicine. That got 4 new people, because that's what the support requirements take. Well needs 5, but you never actually get what you need. Four techs for the first year of a new school, that is currently less than a third utilized.

Meanwhile the existing campus gets 3 new buildings and will be closing 1, which requires that we get those buildings ready, then eventually move the people from the closing rental space, and several other buildings, into the new ones. In the meantime we've lost a body, of a grand total of what was 7 to cover on-site for the entire main campus. The SOM is 30 miles off the main campus, so we can't use them for overflow.

 

[Ryujin]

Oh, if anybody else here works IT, be aware that the lead time to order some optics for some popular switch manufacturers is now approaching TWO YEARS...

I can't remember if it was here, or on a discord channel I'm on, where someone said that a batch of fibre they pre-ordered was getting redirected to a "higher priority client."

 

[Scribe]

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Worked into Sunday morning, then gym, then started early today, into pandemonium, into taking my wife to an appointment, and now I'm away from my precious caffeine while I wait for her.

This may be the end.