OK, so my job involves running computer programs that a) generate output files that are not small- rarely less than 500MB, frequently multiple GBs and b) require a LOT of swap/scratch space for the temporary files needed while performing the calculations. The laptops pretty much all of us are issued these days come with 500GB drives- I have MicroSD cards that size lying around. After complaining about this on every program I've worked and wasting (collectively) days worth of time having to compress/sort through/shuffle around files to have room to run things, we finally have approval to get a 2nd, larger drive sent out to us. But now they're dragging their feet in actually sending it out- so I'm once again effectively wasting time trying to free up the space I need to do actual work.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Stop.
Tell them you can't do your job without the proper tools.
A 1T external drive is under $100. A 1T SSD for a laptop is under $60.
If they won't spend that, find a better company to work for.
wae
UltimaDork
3/19/25 3:15 p.m.
I've been clearing the hill in our back yard of all the invasive honeysuckle that we've been neglecting for the last 15 years or so. I've got almost all of it cut down and I've gone through three tanks of gas in the wood chipper and have turned most of it into mulch. There isn't a muscle or joint on my body that isn't aching. I just remembered last night that when I installed the fence, I set it back 6' from the property line in order to keep the dogs out of the drainage culvert so I've got more honeysuckle to cut down and shred once I'm finished with all the stuff on this side of the fence.
All of this could have been avoided if I just went out there once or twice a month with a little hand clipper and snipped off any new growth as it came up. But do you think I'm going to learn that lesson? Of course I won't.
Ashyukun (Robert) said:
OK, so my job involves running computer programs that a) generate output files that are not small- rarely less than 500MB, frequently multiple GBs and b) require a LOT of swap/scratch space for the temporary files needed while performing the calculations. The laptops pretty much all of us are issued these days come with 500GB drives- I have MicroSD cards that size lying around. After complaining about this on every program I've worked and wasting (collectively) days worth of time having to compress/sort through/shuffle around files to have room to run things, we finally have approval to get a 2nd, larger drive sent out to us. But now they're dragging their feet in actually sending it out- so I'm once again effectively wasting time trying to free up the space I need to do actual work.
Space is so cheap right now have them build a offline box and dump it to that. I have the same issues but our daily data generated is 50tB. I built a small 100tb raid 5 box to host the data while it was pushed to the cloud.
In reply to Toyman! :
Right now I'm just waiting for them to ship out the 2TB SSD for my laptop (our computers are locked down so we can't use external drives, but apparently we can install the 2nd internal drive ourselves and the encrypted bios will take care of it). It's not as much of an issue for the majority of people who are at least a few times a week in a facility hooked in to the company network and can back things up to network shares, but I'm completely remote and doing so takes a lot longer.
I'm also supposed to be able to remotely access a higher-capacity analysis box back at the plant and send analysis jobs to run there... but for some reason when I connect using the VM client I don't see the Tier 2 box on the systems I can access. I'm curious which is going to happen first, getting the new internal drive or the help desk figuring out why I can't access the remote analysis machine.
Rodan
UberDork
3/20/25 3:22 a.m.
Why do smoke detector batteries always wait until the middle of the night to start chirping for replacement...?
Peabody said:
This E36 M3 makes me crazy.
Basically brand new is the new mint condition, but this is even worse.
2019 Sherco 300 ST factory trials BRAND NEW!
Absolutely mint trials bike. Bought new in 2021 as a new non current and only put 2 tanks of fuel through it. No BS this bike is absolutely mint! Just don’t ride it as much as I thought I would
No BS? How is a 6yr old bike that you've owned for 4 and put two tanks af gas through possibly brand new? You're an idiot.
I have to fight the urge to reply with something similar to your last paragraph.
Similarly, I can't stand the "absolutely nothing wrong with it. Just needs a [fill in your favorite $300 part, that's probably not even the real issue]." That sure feel like something?
I enjoyed this interaction I had from the sellers side:
Rodan said:
Why do smoke detector batteries always wait until the middle of the night to start chirping for replacement...?
That and you're out of town and the spouse is home alone.
In reply to Karacticus :
Messages like that is why I'm dreading listing my Kei truck on Facebook. Well for I'd love to not sell it. But secondly because of the messages I know I'll receive.
Peabody said:
That was a good comeback. I had one recently where she had something listed, I asked when I could pick it up and she said it was sold. I responded with lol, idiot.
Yeah, you deserved a smack upside the head for that one. Why respond like that and what did you hope to accomplish by it? Have you never forgotten to do something? (Ie, delete a listing when something sells.) She did you the favor or letting you know it sold and you responded like a child. The world needs less of that, and more "thanks for letting me know," which is how I reply when that happens.
Peabody
MegaDork
3/20/25 10:37 a.m.
Why respond like that and what did you hope to accomplish by it? Have you never forgotten to do something? (Ie, delete a listing when something sells.)
I hoped that she took enough offense that she realized what she did, and never did it again.
We need less of that, people wasting our time with items listed that don't actually exist.
I have never forgotten to delete a listing. When something sells I immediately delete it. It's something I take very seriously, and I wish other's did too
And on the topic of idiots, There was a bike for sale last fall. They were asking $4500 for a long time, but it did eventually sell. It came back up, looking a little worse for wear, about a month ago, listed for $6000. Then every day or two the guy would relist it, sometimes for a lower price, then sometimes higher. It was recently as low as $4000, now it's back up to $4500 CASH ONLY FIRM. His pics are terrible, the bike looks rough and dirty, and the ad goes up and down listed in different places at different prices. Why do people do that? What do they think this is going to accomplish? If the goal is to sell the bike, it's not working
wae
UltimaDork
3/20/25 10:40 a.m.
Peabody said:
Why respond like that and what did you hope to accomplish by it? Have you never forgotten to do something? (Ie, delete a listing when something sells.)
I hoped that she took enough offense that she realized what she did, and never did it again.
We need less of that, people wasting our time with items listed that don't actually exist.
I have never forgotten to delete a listing. When something sells I immediately delete it. It's something I take very seriously, and I wish other's did too
It's spelled "others". That's not an appropriate use of an apostrophe.
lol, idiot.
Peabody
MegaDork
3/20/25 10:42 a.m.
In reply to wae :
I will never do that again. Thank you for taking the time
Peabody said:
Why respond like that and what did you hope to accomplish by it? Have you never forgotten to do something? (Ie, delete a listing when something sells.)
I hoped that she took enough offense that she realized what she did, and never did it again.
We need less of that, people wasting our time with items listed that don't actually exist.
I have never forgotten to delete a listing. When something sells I immediately delete it. It's something I take very seriously, and I wish other's did too
Being an shiny happy person to people is no way to go through life. Calling a total stranger an idiot for a minor mistake is very rude.
I'm happy you've never forgotten to do anything like that in your life. I, however, recognize that it's hard to keep track of the million things everyone has going on and that deleting a listing for something that was previously for sale is easy to forget. At least she didn't let you go to her house, check it out, and then refuse to sell it to you for her asking price, which is what the last guy did to me. I still didn't call him an idiot.
I once had a hobby business. Some of my customers were Canadians.
I stopped selling to Canadians. Reasons.
"Famously polite", they said...
In reply to Appleseed :
Sorry, sorry..
My rant today is that even after making the deal, telling the sales person all the details they needed for the paperwork, and OKing everything, it took 2.5 hours from the time I left my office until I was back here from having bought my parent's car. That's just too long. Car dealers are SO SLOW.
In reply to dculberson :
You know what I would have done...
