What Are You Doing Right Now
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Common pattern, but I'm never clear how to explain what this is. It's "asking a crazy question" and being upset that no one has an answer. But it's because the question is so crazy and unpredictable.
Imagine if I asked "does this fridge support bananas? I looked it up on their website and it doesn't list bananas as getting cold in here anywhere, how am I supposed to know if this fridge is compatible with bananas." How dumb would that be? But so many IT questions are like that - demanding answers to nonsensical questions or wanting information in a form or from a person that isn't applicable.
I see this on SW all the time, but I need a term or something for it. I'm very clear how to describe or tackle this problem. But like in this case, this person is all frustrated yet it never occurs to them that no vendor has ever provided this kind of info. They are looking for info that no one else has ever needed, yet feel it is important. They never realize that the reason no answer exists might be because the question makes no sense.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2015721-netgear-readynas-pro-2-maximum-disk-size-in-xraid2
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They realized immediately that the question was nutty once I pointed it out, though. Which is good. Everyone has those moments. But what are those moments called?
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Overthinking it is not quite what it is. But may be related.
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I'd go for inside the box thinking.
Sadly I have to admit that I fall for it more often that I would like to admit.
In this case it appears rational to ask - Hey this says it's a limit of 4 TB - how is this limit arrived at?
Of course logically, we understand that from a general understanding RAID 1 has no limit other than the amount of storage provided in the smaller drive of a two drive setup (This assumes that someone's inappropriately using two different sized drives).
But then we see this listed limitation - 4 TB - suddenly we are - WTF? why is there a 4 TB limit? What does this mean? So the question gets asked.
While I understand the vendors need to put a number on the box, the number itself is what allows this rabbit hole to be open in the first place.
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EArly to customer site. Trying to kill time.
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Waiting on my IT guy to wake up so that he can push a release lol.
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@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on my IT guy to wake up so that he can push a release lol.
Coffee waiting usually gets me out of bed sooner.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on my IT guy to wake up so that he can push a release lol.
Coffee waiting usually gets me out of bed sooner.
Me too, he should pay someone to have that ready to go for him in the AM :). I guess I can't blame him though, it was a late night last night in terms of dev. I actually missed my alarm this morning and was almost late to my other full time position haha.
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@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on my IT guy to wake up so that he can push a release lol.
Coffee waiting usually gets me out of bed sooner.
Me too, he should pay someone to have that ready to go for him in the AM :). I guess I can't blame him though, it was a late night last night in terms of dev. I actually missed my alarm this morning and was almost late to my other full time position haha.
My wife just starts hitting me until I shut my alarm off. Then again 5 minutes later, and 10 minutes later, and 20 minutes later until i finally get up and go to work, or give up and smash the alarm clock and go back to sleep.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on my IT guy to wake up so that he can push a release lol.
Coffee waiting usually gets me out of bed sooner.
Me too, he should pay someone to have that ready to go for him in the AM :). I guess I can't blame him though, it was a late night last night in terms of dev. I actually missed my alarm this morning and was almost late to my other full time position haha.
My wife just starts hitting me until I shut my alarm off. Then again 5 minutes later, and 10 minutes later, and 20 minutes later until i finally get up and go to work, or give up and smash the alarm clock and go back to sleep.
Getting hit in the morning is not a wake up call. It's a "what the hell were you thinking last night you ^&%)*(&)"
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@dafyre Mine did not give me that convenience this morning lol. Mine came into the room and was like.... shouldn't you be up? It's 7:15.... meanwhile my alarms have been going off the past half hour. (she had gotten up at 6:45 with the baby)
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@dafyre LOL. Laura wakes me up every morning and verifies that I am alert by asking me a question related to whatever we discussed during the week
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@wirestyle22 Well played good sir, well played. Mine has learned to just not talk to me about anything she expects me to remember prior to my coffee.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre LOL. Laura wakes me up every morning and verifies that I am alert by asking me a question related to whatever we discussed during the week
Getting tested in the morning is as bad a honey to do list while your completely hung over from MangoCon!
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Good morning everyone.
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@QuixoticJeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 Well played good sir, well played. Mine has learned to just not talk to me about anything she expects me to remember prior to my coffee.
You can learn to follow that with "and now I have to poop" for a silence extension.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'd go for inside the box thinking.
Sadly I have to admit that I fall for it more often that I would like to admit.
In this case it appears rational to ask - Hey this says it's a limit of 4 TB - how is this limit arrived at?
Of course logically, we understand that from a general understanding RAID 1 has no limit other than the amount of storage provided in the smaller drive of a two drive setup (This assumes that someone's inappropriately using two different sized drives).
But then we see this listed limitation - 4 TB - suddenly we are - WTF? why is there a 4 TB limit? What does this mean? So the question gets asked.
While I understand the vendors need to put a number on the box, the number itself is what allows this rabbit hole to be open in the first place.
This isn't inside the box thinking, though. Inside the boxers don't ask it. The stated limitation provides the limit. He created a new limitation that doesn't exist and then expected someone to document something that doesn't exist. It's seeking the negative or something like that.
It's like me suddenly being upset that no one has produced proof that potatoes can't fly. Yet no one thought that they did. So we are confused by the question.
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@scottalanmiller Didn't someone say that your roommate is hot? Give her my number...
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Alas, I've been dismissed from jury duty.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Alas, I've been dismissed from jury duty.
Oh, shucks. I wanted to be ripped out of my life to make $100/day to judge somebody else.
