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SixPapaCharlie

SixPapaCharlie

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Anyone else noticed that this website is responding too quickly, refreshing too fast and returning results at an uncomfortably quick pace?

Seems odd lately (in the last 8 hours).
I used to be able to click new posts and then go get a cup of coffee but now I don't know what the hell to do.
 
The jet gets to Colombia and back for coffee more quickly than the Comanche? Or are the FAs are quicker with the coffee?
 
It's so fast that it posted my entire thread with a poll before I could even start.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Anyone else noticed that this website is responding too quickly, refreshing too fast and returning results at an uncomfortably quick pace?

Seems odd lately (in the last 8 hours).
I used to be able to click new posts and then go get a cup of coffee but now I don't know what the hell to do.
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Fly the plane?

-Skip
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Anyone else noticed that this website is responding too quickly, refreshing too fast and returning results at an uncomfortably quick pace?

Seems odd lately (in the last 8 hours).
I used to be able to click new posts and then go get a cup of coffee but now I don't know what the hell to do.
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By the way, I finally got around to looking up your YouTube channel, and I have been really enjoying your videos on what it has been like getting into airline flying!
 
I randomly visited Loudoun County and my cell service was about 150% faster. Maybe those x files episodes based in Loudoun foretold the alien releases trickling out of the “war” department these days
SixPapaCharlie said:
Anyone else noticed that this website is responding too quickly, refreshing too fast and returning results at an uncomfortably quick pace?

Seems odd lately (in the last 8 hours).
I used to be able to click new posts and then go get a cup of coffee but now I don't know what the hell to do.
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I actually had a similar experience at work with some software years ago. We would do a bunch of work, then press "run" and knew it would take about 25 minutes to run. So we'd take a break, take a walk, talk to coworkers, whatever. Come back and continue working when it was done.

Then we got new software and hardware, and the same evaluation now took less than a minute. We no longer got up, walked around, etc., instead basically working straight through. I did notice that before, we practically had software-enforced breaks, but now we didn't, and it meant the day was much more tiring (and probably unhealthier).
 
What are they giving the hamster that powers this site? Whatever it is I think want it stat!
 
Interesting that this happened shortly after the release of more UFO Files.
 
RussR said:
I actually had a similar experience at work with some software years ago. We would do a bunch of work, then press "run" and knew it would take about 25 minutes to run. So we'd take a break, take a walk, talk to coworkers, whatever. Come back and continue working when it was done.

Then we got new software and hardware, and the same evaluation now took less than a minute. We no longer got up, walked around, etc., instead basically working straight through. I did notice that before, we practically had software-enforced breaks, but now we didn't, and it meant the day was much more tiring (and probably unhealthier).
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This reminds me of the difference between uploading big files at home versus uploading big files at work. What finally crashed at home after grinding away all night uploaded in about 30 seconds at work.

[So why do you even try at home? Answer: I'm semi-retired and rarely go into the office. I still have access, but I live a ways away, so I usually try at home, even if I know it probably won't work.]

[So why don't you get a faster connection at home? Because I live in a rural area and the $B that were budgeted by Obama for rural high-speed internet somehow never made it out of Washington, DC, at least not as far as Idaho. So I'm stuck with DSL.]

[So why don't you get Starlink? I live in a forest, a forest of very tall ponderosa pine trees. On a south-facing slope. Actually, we're going to try, but as we have to string a cable approximately 200' up the hill to the open area, it's not clear it will work. But we're going to try.]
 
AV8R_87 said:
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And then linking. I worked on a i386 system that used a RTOS (VRTX specifically). We developed code on a VAX 11/780, tested some of it there, then cross compiled on the VAX for the x86 version, downloaded the object files over a 9.6kb cable, then set it to linking on the 386. Took about an hour to download then link. Built in breaks. We also would patch code on the target to test thing when feasible to save all the time compiling, downloading and linking. Version control was a very careful set of notes and processes-at least for those of us with enough experience to be sufficiently paranoid for this environment.

Fond memories, but not good times.
 
AvNavCom said:
Sounds like you need a weather balloon with a starlink dish tied to it.

Sometimes my own genius astounds me.
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You can consider yourself ahead of your time if you're willing to accept a small sign error.
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Loon - A Google X Moonshot

Loon was Google X's moonshot to deliver internet connectivity to billions using stratospheric balloons.
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Nauga,
and his neighbors
 
Years ago I worked in a building with a guy who was pretty much in the sauce all the time. He'd often depart the site to go to "the bank" and come back even more juiced up. One day, I was sitting at his desk and went to use his computer terminal for a minute. I couldn't figure out why it was set for 1200 baud (it was hardwired), so I jumped it back to 19.2K. Apparently, when Jack came back in, his reaction time wouldn't let him do anything as it was scrolling too fast.

Of coures, later we got a memo that drug and alcohol addiction had been classified as a disability for the purpose of merit pay review. "I'd have done as good of a job as Joe, except I was drunk all the time at work." I wanted to know if it also qualified you for disabled license plates. Could be handy when you come knee-walking drunk out of the bar at closing time. You wouldn't have to stagger too far to your car.
 
flyingron said:
Years ago I worked in a building with a guy who was pretty much in the sauce all the time. He'd often depart the site to go to "the bank" and come back even more juiced up. One day, I was sitting at his desk and went to use his computer terminal for a minute. I couldn't figure out why it was set for 1200 baud (it was hardwired), so I jumped it back to 19.2K. Apparently, when Jack came back in, his reaction time wouldn't let him do anything as it was scrolling too fast.

Of coures, later we got a memo that drug and alcohol addiction had been classified as a disability for the purpose of merit pay review. "I'd have done as good of a job as Joe, except I was drunk all the time at work." I wanted to know if it also qualified you for disabled license plates. Could be handy when you come knee-walking drunk out of the bar at closing time. You wouldn't have to stagger too far to your car.
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In college, I bartended at a pretty swanky place overlooking the harbor. On Fridays, I’d work from lunch straight through to the end of happy hour, which gave me a front-row seat to one of life’s great mysteries: how some people could put away a proper three-martini lunch; sometimes four, and then head back to work like it was just another Tuesday. Driving back to work? Even more impressive, or maybe just more concerning.

On the flip side, I never quite figured out how the cooks, dishwashers, and busboys; most of whom were surfers, could smoke pot in the parking lot and then clock in like they were about to perform brain surgery.... different fuel sources, I guess.

I’d work Saturday night (live music in the bar), then turn right around and be back for Sunday brunch. As the song goes, “the same rowdy crowd that was here last night is back again” and somehow they looked just as enthusiastic as they did twelve hours earlier.

I worked for a company that did random drug testing under the Drug-Free Workplace Act back in the ’80s. I used to have a little fun with that, every so often I’d loudly announce, “Dammit… they want me to take another pee test.” You could practically hear the collective panic ripple through the room....
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Anyone else noticed that this website is responding too quickly, refreshing too fast and returning results at an uncomfortably quick pace?

Seems odd lately (in the last 8 hours).
I used to be able to click new posts and then go get a cup of coffee but now I don't know what the hell to do.
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Kindly meet our horse Gift.......

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Well, despite living in a forest, we finally managed to find a place to put a Starlink antenna. It's WAAAY up the hill, and the tech wasn't sure it would work even with the high-quality cable we got (and that we're not supposed to tell anyone about), but it does work. SO much better than DSL, and cheaper. I haven't tried up-/downloading any giant files yet, but it sure works faster for regular stuff, although today this particular website is positively glacial in its speed.
 
Ironically, it just took about 7 seconds for this thread to load.
 
I'm typing this reply on June 12, let's see how long it takes to go live when I hit 'Post reply.'
 
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