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[MetalSlimeHunt]

I can sympathize. I'd probably be having a better time if not for Hell Roommate, but it is hard to get anything done here except schoolwork.

[alway]

Often in history, multiple people come up with the same idea independently. Quaternions were discovered by two independent people, apparently.

It's pretty hard for that to happen these days, though. The rate of idea creation has been jacked up so high by population and scientific advancement that two people coming up with the same idea quickly enough to have not heard about the other is rare.

That's assuming everyone reads the literature to a degree which they know all about the things they are working with. Which most people don't; even the sub-field of CG consists of tens of thousands of really dense academic papers. The other issue is you then aren't allowed to build off other people's work. Much of computing consists of tiny incremental advances in an algorithm, each contributed by a different group; usually including work and groups from other fields, whose initial work provided the math and/or physics equations for the algorithm, which is itself just an application of those basic formulas.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I wasn't just talking about academia, but IP in general.

[Vector]

I can sympathize. I'd probably be having a better time if not for Hell Roommate, but it is hard to get anything done here except schoolwork.

Yeah, thanks.  I haven't been able to complete a real personal project in something like five years due to mental illness and lack of time.  I'm really. . . really. . . really looking forward to being done with this stupid crap for a while.

[Frumple]

Whole thing with light being easier to see in the peripheral vision is kinda' being annoying right now

Shit be reflecting off things, I look straight at it, poof no light. Know where the light's coming from, know what's causing my perception of it to disappear, still terribly annoying when my mind momentarily lapses in awareness of it and freaky glowy shit beyond the normal freaky glowy shit startles me.

Damned useless mark one eyeball bullshit. C'mooon upgrades!

[RedKing]

We have one technical team that's not really technical, it's staffed by two women who I'm pretty sure were the Wicked Witches of the East and North in their prior careers. When the training courses they administer don't work for people, their attitude is that if it works for even ONE person, then it's not broken and it's our job to figure out what the other 99% of users are doing wrong.

In a way, I'm glad they're with us and not at say, FDA.
"Hmm....well, one of the hundred people who ate these Botulism Bites didn't die, therefore it's safe for public consumption."

[Lagslayer]

That's assuming everyone reads the literature to a degree which they know all about the things they are working with. Which most people don't; even the sub-field of CG consists of tens of thousands of really dense academic papers. The other issue is you then aren't allowed to build off other people's work. Much of computing consists of tiny incremental advances in an algorithm, each contributed by a different group; usually including work and groups from other fields, whose initial work provided the math and/or physics equations for the algorithm, which is itself just an application of those basic formulas.

Crippling overspecialization. It is consuming us. It will kill us all.

[MaximumZero]

"Hmm....well, one of the hundred people who ate these Botulism Bites didn't die, therefore it's safe for public consumption."

Hey, that's only a 1% fail rate. Can't knock that.

[RedKing]

"Hmm....well, one of the hundred people who ate these Botulism Bites didn't die, therefore it's safe for public consumption."

Hey, that's only a 1% fail rate. Can't knock that.

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[Greiger]

Bright House networks has apperantly decided that they do not need to give their customers access to their routers.  The routers have a randomized access password, so no documentation has it, and bright house does not want to give it to me.

I have a program that apperantly can't get through, and I need to open the relevant port manually to see if that's the problem. (and if so change the port the program uses to some obscure high number so I can safely open it)  But I cannot do that because I can't get the password.

The most depressing part is that it sounds like I know a whole lot more about networking than the guy I had on the phone does.  I've spoken to a manager before and got it in the past, but they've recently changed the router after it malfunctioned, and it really annoys me to have to jump through all those hoops again to get something I should have as a matter of course.

I could always buy my own router,, but even if I did that I would still need access to theirs to shut the damn router function off because it's also the modem.

EDIT: It seems that it is not because they did not want to give it to me, but more that they could not get it.  Apparently the device is malfunctioning, they cannot retrieve a password from it, it also is not accepting any passwords, including what the tech referred to as a kind of backdoor.  The device is functional, but is denying all access attempts to it's settings even after being reset.  They are coming to replace it in 2 days.  Still a bit of an annoyance because the first tech should have saw that and reported it instead of... whatever the hell it was they did do.

[Mr Space Cat]

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

My random late response is random, but holy cow dat guitar riffing.

[Pnx]

I'm feeling so incredibly frustrated with the internet connection acting up right now. Especially since it's kind of making it difficult to do my online math homework... Up until now I was willing to just grit my teeth and bear it, but this has really gotten out of control.

[OREOSOME]

Goddamn School Lunch Pricing.
I had to pay 3 dollars for 2 very small breadstick things that are supposed to be 'Pizza Dippers', whatever that is supposed to mean. 3 dollars.

[Lagslayer]

Goddamn School Lunch Pricing.
I had to pay 3 dollars for 2 very small breadstick things that are supposed to be 'Pizza Dippers', whatever that is supposed to mean. 3 dollars.

Get used to it. Won't be long before schools start banning all outside food.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Goddamn School Lunch Pricing.
I had to pay 3 dollars for 2 very small breadstick things that are supposed to be 'Pizza Dippers', whatever that is supposed to mean. 3 dollars.

Get used to it. Won't be long before schools start banning all outside food.

Very unlikely. Most schools could not handle having to feed everyone. I know mine wouldn't have.

Plus, the parents would not be accepting of such a policy.