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  1. Mist

    Path of Exile

    Why didn't he turn off screen shake...
  2. Mist

    Situations at work thread

    If you're looking for someone for help desk, you should be looking at girls who took tech classes at a community college rather than ones in CS at a 4-year college. Go swing by the job placement office at the best community college near you. You're less likely to find liberal-indoctrinated...
  3. Mist

    Situations at work thread

    Favorite lies: "Due to the complexity of your environment I'm having this incident reviewed by our engineering team." = "I have no idea what you just broke, don't have any network diagrams or even the login credentials for any of the relevant devices documented in our labyrinthine abortion...
  4. Mist

    Situations at work thread

    Well, almost no one wants to build their own internal telecoms department, so we make a lot of money doing that. And we lie so, so much.
  5. Mist

    Situations at work thread

    Actually, we usually call them to tell them they've broken it before they know they've broken it.
  6. Mist

    Situations at work thread

    Managed services is not help desk! We are the people the head of IT for a Fortune 500 company calls in the middle of the night when a routing change breaks their whole call center.
  7. Mist

    Autonomous Systems

    This is sarcasm font, right?
  8. Mist

    Autonomous Systems

    I forgot to add, the machine-learning ticket/task system will also keep track of which tasks are best done by humans, which are best done by autonomous systems, and which are best done by human+robot teams, and assign tasks accordingly.
  9. Mist

    Autonomous Systems

    Almost entirely unlikely. A machine learning based ticket system could replace most of the managers today at most companies that use tickets for workflows. The ML ticket system will know who is good at what tasks by looking at metrics, assign them more of those tasks, and keep track of their...
  10. Mist

    Limitless

    Wow, some legitimately fake news. I bet it was made by Russian Skynets.
  11. Mist

    MTG thread

    Even if we throw MTGO under the bus completely, what I don't understand about Arena is how they differentiate a F2P game enough from their very not free to play paper card game, so that one doesn't hurt the other. It's possible that Arena could just decimate paper Standard, and that would be...
  12. Mist

    Autonomous Systems

    Hackers could program sex robots to kill These headlines are fucking hilarious.
  13. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Only if retails jack the prices up from demand. I can see that happening. MSRP should be like $389.
  14. Mist

    Help me create a campaign.

    I like that the campaign still starts in a tavern.
  15. Mist

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    I'm pretty well convinced that this whole project is now a Skunkworks project for Amazon's Lumberyard and has nothing to do with producing an actual game.
  16. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Intel's new Core i7-8700K reportedly launching on Oct 5
  17. Mist

    MTG thread

    It's going to be an insanely broken draft format for sure.
  18. Mist

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I'm not really complaining, except about the pee smell + mice. Going from untrained clueless call taker to Telecoms/Contact Center Engineer in the span of 2 years and tripling my income isn't really something to complain about.
  19. Mist

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Yes. We monitor+manage the infrastructure that runs 1000s of call centers and other corporate/government/911 phone systems.
  20. Mist

    MTG thread

    It's not a leak, people are playing it at Hascon.
  21. Mist

    MTG: Arena

    I doubt this ends up being anything more than an MTG-lite experience like Duels. Even building standard decks without the ability to trade seems hilariously untenable unless you can draft for a dollar or something, and if they let you draft for a dollar online they then risk canalizing paper...
  22. Mist

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Also, the experience is just amazing here. You pretty much have to teach yourself everything, but there's not too many other jobs where you're learning Voice, Data, Contact Center applications, Exchange UM, Skype for Business Server (including lots and lots of Avaya <-> Microsoft SIP and...
  23. Mist

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Eh. Let's do some math. Even at my shitty rate the first 8 months of the year, I'll end this year having made around 95-100k. Had to work 70 hours a week from January-August to do it, but a lot of people have salaried positions where they work similar hours and come out with less money. Over...
  24. Mist

    MTG thread

    I meant more the regular draft pods. There's a slim chance I could stop by the event hall but no chance I'd actually buy a full day ticket to do 1-2 drafts.
  25. Mist

    MTG thread

    Anybody know if you need to have a general admission con ticket to play in the MTG side events at Hascon? Or are they in separate halls?
  26. Mist

    Path of Exile

    Traps have been super easy with 5.7k life and 340+ attack speed on Whirling Blades.
  27. Mist

    Path of Exile

    I annihilate Uber Izaro and I don't even have 6L yet on my main attack, so that doesn't sound like the worst plan.
  28. Mist

    South Park Fractured But Whole

    Coming South Park game is harder for black characters
  29. Mist

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I sailed past burnout like 8 months ago.
  30. Mist

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    After 2 weeks of them trying to keep me under 50 hours they're now begging me to work 60+ again, at my new rate. Welp.
  31. Mist

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

    This is why it was good.
  32. Mist

    Path of Exile

    I was gonna use Kaom's Roots, but then realized I accidentally had 42% evade.
  33. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    For gaming, sure.
  34. Mist

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Eh. I make a lot of money now. I got a 9% raise at the start of the year, then helped get my whole team a 15% raise on top of that, and now I just got a 30% raise on top of all of that. I'm also still hourly, and the least I have worked in the past year is is 55 hours, so I'm now taking home...
  35. Mist

    Ray Donovan

    This show became unwatchable this season.
  36. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Wrong again. Show me an RX 480 new from a reputable store in that price range.
  37. Mist

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This exactly describes my life right now.
  38. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Before Ethereum maybe...
  39. Mist

    Path of Exile

    Found this yesterday, definitely the best yellow I've ever found:
  40. Mist

    Congratulations Mist

    Lotteries are for people who don't understand math.