Grumpy Old Man
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
Or even worse - when you compile training documentation and people don't even read it and then decry a lack of documentation.
I was doing training and a lovable chap said"Yes this tells us how to do this in the system, but where is the documentation on decision making?"
To which I replied "It's on page's 16-24 in the training document I attached to this meeting invite".
And then skewered him home with "Did you read this document before this training session?"
It made me feel angry and quite pleased with myself at the same time...
Of course the guy then spent the rest of the meeting trying to nit-pick anything he could find to try and get his credibility back - admirable.
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@Dan54 said in Grumpy Old Man:
Ok just to get it off chest. I had a growls about 5 weeks ago when my youngest sister passed away. Well a couple of days later wife's nephew who we have a bit to do with, woke up at night, had some kind of siezure, got rushed to hospital. He was put in an induced coma, but last Monday they had to switch off machines and he passed away. He had got some kind of virus that attcked brain, and they just couldn't isolate/treat it. Anyway he was only 35 for fucks sake with 3 young boys!! Where the fuck is the justice in this world???
I will say on a positive side he lived in Shannon in the Horowhenua, and the memebers of the rugby club (where he coached a kid's team), school and community were and are incredibly supportive!!
I am putting out a message to anyone I care about etc who are crook and dying--just f***en don't!!!FFS - that's shit man
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Is blunt knife castration without anaesthetic legal?
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@Windows97 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
Or even worse - when you compile training documentation and people don't even read it and then decry a lack of documentation.
I was doing training and a lovable chap said"Yes this tells us how to do this in the system, but where is the documentation on decision making?"
To which I replied "It's on page's 16-24 in the training document I attached to this meeting invite".
And then skewered him home with "Did you read this document before this training session?"
It made me feel angry and quite pleased with myself at the same time...
Of course the guy then spent the rest of the meeting trying to nit-pick anything he could find to try and get his credibility back - admirable.
Actually this makes me Grumpy. Who has time to read 16, let alone 24 pages of training manual before a course? We've got work to do. Just answer the man's reasonable question.
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@Higgins said in Grumpy Old Man:
Is blunt knife castration without anaesthetic legal?
Plus, what the fuck is Microsoft start, I'm not signing in to that or getting the app.
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Windows97 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
Or even worse - when you compile training documentation and people don't even read it and then decry a lack of documentation.
I was doing training and a lovable chap said"Yes this tells us how to do this in the system, but where is the documentation on decision making?"
To which I replied "It's on page's 16-24 in the training document I attached to this meeting invite".
And then skewered him home with "Did you read this document before this training session?"
It made me feel angry and quite pleased with myself at the same time...
Of course the guy then spent the rest of the meeting trying to nit-pick anything he could find to try and get his credibility back - admirable.
Actually this makes me Grumpy. Who has time to read 16, let alone 24 pages of training manual before a course? We've got work to do. Just answer the man's reasonable question.
You're the guy who turned up after preseason and expected to start aren't you...
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Windows97 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
fluffybunnies that demand things are documented time and again then come back to you time and again with "issues" that are covered exhaustively in the documentation.
Or even worse - when you compile training documentation and people don't even read it and then decry a lack of documentation.
I was doing training and a lovable chap said"Yes this tells us how to do this in the system, but where is the documentation on decision making?"
To which I replied "It's on page's 16-24 in the training document I attached to this meeting invite".
And then skewered him home with "Did you read this document before this training session?"
It made me feel angry and quite pleased with myself at the same time...
Of course the guy then spent the rest of the meeting trying to nit-pick anything he could find to try and get his credibility back - admirable.
Actually this makes me Grumpy. Who has time to read 16, let alone 24 pages of training manual before a course? We've got work to do. Just answer the man's reasonable question.
The answers to his exact question were in the document? All he had to do was read it...
Generally if you don't know how to do something and someone gives you a guide with a follow up meeting to ask any questions about the guide you would expect them to read the guide - to avoid making a fool of themselves.
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@Windows97 just save time and trouble by making a chat interface, use a LLM and point it to where your documentation is. Then they can ask at their leisure and not bother anyone else.
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@Windows97 The forever conflict between a User Manual which propellor heads love and a User Guide which is what the idiot in the office wants.
Too much detail and the idiot switches off. They don't want to know how it works just that it works. Sprinkle the pixie dist please.
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I can totally see how managers are happy using LLM
"The paper by Professors Brent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell and Sandra Wachter has been published in Nature Human Behaviour. It explains, ‘LLMs are designed to produce helpful and convincing responses without any overriding guarantees regarding their accuracy or alignment with fact.’ "
Large Language Models pose risk to science with false answers, says
Large Language Models (LLMs) pose a direct threat to science, because of so-called ‘hallucinations’ (untruthful responses), and should be restricted to protect scientific truth, says a new paper
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@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
LLMs are designed to produce helpful and convincing responses without any overriding guarantees regarding their accuracy or alignment with fact.
today i learned i am an LLM
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@nostrildamus the irony being the amount of "peer reviewed" papers published which aren't fit for wiping an arse with.
Any decent model fit for specific purpose holds the trusted data in its own storage blob.
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Windows97 The forever conflict between a User Manual which propellor heads love and a User Guide which is what the idiot in the office wants.
Too much detail and the idiot switches off. They don't want to know how it works just that it works. Sprinkle the pixie dist please.
A colleague sent me no fewer than 11 docs yesterday to look at before three separate meetings today. I read half of one of them.
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Prepping for meetings is for speccie nerds
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
Prepping for meetings is for speccie nerds
prepping for meetings stops interminable powerpoint slides that are being read out and lets good discussions happen.
so yeah, speccie nerds eh
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I have found that, no matter how much I prep, really it comes down to whoever is running it. Good facilitators make for good meetings (if, indeed, there is such a thing) not pre-reading. And i say this as someone who spends far, far too much time in them.
