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Factabulous

Factabulous
What is everyone wearing to the
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since I'm sure SotG will be a major part of this I'm thinking a tux 🤔 There might be prizes!
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nemolomen

nemolomen
Darth Ender said:
old dubbed iron chef and Good Eats.. only two cooking shows worth watching.
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I disagree..."Chopped" is where its at, though I haven't watched it in a while. They do some crazy stuff on that show. I once made a peach bread pudding based on something I saw on there...(canned peach halves, sourdough bread & heavy cream with a few other seasonings added along the way, possibly vanilla extract)
 

AlSki

AlSki
Lysette said:
there are physical differences - like female brains have far more connections between both halves of the brain and emphatic abilities are enhanced (this can actually be shown in brain activity scans). The female brain is smaller, men have about 13% more neurons than women, but female brains have increased processing power (basically balancing it out), the male brain supports focusing on a single task better and allows more easily for deep thinking, whereas the female brain is more holistic oriented with quick focus switches, which support multi-tasking and holistic thinking - the latter is quite beneficial in my area of expertise, because it requires inter-facultative thinking and a female brain supports this rather well - but I can get quickly tired, when I have to ponder deeply about a subject - so I rather let this to my brain, feed it with multi-channel input about the subject and wait for the results to "bubble up" and get conscious (I basically force aha-effects in a relaxed state) - works for me well enough, better than deep thinking, what is more the domain of male brains.
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Bizarrely working in IT, particularly where support and development cross, you still see sub-divisions within the focused vs multi-tasking space, but on the whole it follows male vs female. It also means that I've seen women excel in Support (a highly underappreciated and underpaid sector) via their ability to multi-task, yet highly focused individuals will cut a niche as the "anti-social rock star coder" (often a lucrative position to be in). Also, and again so stereo-typically, development managers need to multi-task, so your best developers rarely make the best managers, but instead you end up pulling in somebody with these skills to oversee them (and all the friction that causes).

Hmmm, maybe there's a comedy script here, I know lets call it "The IT team". Maybe not, they rarely work together. I'll have to work on it.

Lysette said:
This said, I might not be the typical female - I'm a tomboy, probably got more testosterone in the womb than girls normally get, which might as well have had effects on how my brain is structured - so eventually what I feel in regards to brain function might be biased and unlike that of a typical female. I feel this for example with mulit-tasking - I get stressed having more than 4 chats at the same time, whereas gfs of mine aren't even stressed with 6,7 or 8 parallel chats (written chats). Male friends I asked about this have rarely more than 2 in parallel - this just doesn't seem to be a thing for men, to have a multitude of chats in parallel.
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Nope. I have a couple of colleagues (one female, the other is a PM so highly multi-tasking) and they will chat you while we are in larger conf calls. I have to ignore them while I walk around focusing on the persons voice. If I am answering either of them, I am not listening to the call.

Lysette said:
The most surprising chat to me were 3 greek women, all talking at the same to each other - I mean full duplex about different subjects all in parallel - and when I interrupted them and asked them how they can do that, their answer was, we don't have enough time for a normal chat - they exchanged information about family issues and other subjects all talking at the same time to each other - listening to 2 others while talking to one, then to the other, then back to the first one and so on. It was chaos but they got it sorted and were quite consistently going on like this.
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Now that's an impressive skill they have. Neither TDMA or CDMA can match that.
 

Horse372

Horse372
Good morning dear bretheren and sisteren of the brebus! The weekend is nigh! May you avoid as much shopping and holiday decorating as you can (unless your into that sort of thing - we're not here to judge) in these festive times. I'd like to publicly apologize for contributing to the dangerous spread of cat media as identified by the NY Times we should all be ashamed:
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In other news:
-Also a lefty although I am ambidextrous/ right dominate in some cases (which i guess also makes me somewhat "abby normal")
-Thanks for the VR insights as I start on my game comp build
-I forget what i had for a joystick for the c-128 but I seem to remember something a few steps above the old atari stick and def remember suction cups on the bottom
-Had a big crush on Ms. Anderson during the x-files days there may have been some interweb stalking involved it's all a bit hazy now
-Smudge
-Other than that I'll need another coffee or 3 before delving into the impacts of brain chemistry and anatomical differences as applied to the differing physical reactions to VR sensory inputs in gaming and multi tasking in the workplace (and martial arts).

Game update: still running on xbox as of midnight last night. The Witch of November is on station in a pristine ring ready to commence mining operations assuming fdev doesn't pull the plug on consoles before my training gets out tonight.

off to draft my departmental budget for next year! yay:
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Darth Ender

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I'll join the stream of 30 other people, wearing horse blinders so I dont accidentally see what's actually being communicated and only the message that fdev wants us to believe.

hashtag TotallyNotDoomedConsolesAreStillComingKeepBuyingArx
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
Horse372 said:
Yeah may even be around to use it got my evaluation last week and looks like they're keeping me around.
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Glad to hear your good news...

You get evaluations...you lucky dog...not that I'm complaining though...in my 15 1/2 years with my current employer I've had 1 "formal" evaluation and several "informal".

What were the "informal" ones, you ask?

When I was hired to write documentation for both manufacturing and engineering procedures way back in 2006, I was the, at the time, 13th current employee. Fast forward to 2014, the company had 42 employees and in January of that year there was a layoff down to 25 people. My wife was the only person left in her entire department of 9. Two weeks later they cut another 7 (down to 18).

Over the next 3 1/2 years, it was whittled down to 12, then 10, then 7 and now we're at 3 full-timer's and 4 part-timers.

Wife and I are still here, which speaks volumes... (and surprisingly, for those who might think so, we're not still here because we have/had lower salaries than those who've been "let go")

At 15 1/2 years, I'm currently the lengthiest continuous employee and the company is about 26 years old.

So no, I'm not complaining. On the contrary, I'm extremely thankful...and very lucky too...
 
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