@Edlothiad Not heard back from my support issue and same problem so RIP

I don’t understand how this would be an issue?

What do you mean?

As in I don’t understand how this problem has come up

Although I phrased it terribly

Oh right, me neither

Got a response from the ticket though, they think the work's router might be blocking the traffic

Gonna see if I can log into it

Someone else is logged into it and I can't kick them off haha

Doesn't look like the router is configured to block access to anything

You should get your work to join Slack, then when you can’t connect be like “We need to fix this!” And once is fixed be like “nah this is useless, let’s go back to whatsapp”

I am thinking about doing that haha

Created one for work and it doesn't connect so not an issue there

Room specific issue anyway

Ah, it’s strange, if it isn’t the router, or the connection, it’s something on your computer specifically, right?

No colleagues won't connect but can through VPN

So either server, router, switch or something in the group policy

I'm no network expert so having trouble knowing where to look haha

Your colleagues’ won’t connect, ah ok. Get yourself a VPN, problem solvéd

Well I'd rather fix whatever the problem is with our network first haha

Opened a separate ticket for this new workspace :P

Tell your boss you’re part of a C# discussion group and you need to call in a professional otherwise all the scanners are going to malfunction

Lol

Shame most of the drivers are in C++ :/

If he asks what the issue is just say “you know Y2K..?”

And when he says yes reply “well it’s not that”

Drop the pen, walk out

Lol

You’ll either get sacked or have the problem fixed, either way you’ll be back on you-know-where. Win-win in my eyes

Aye t'is

We're meant to be rushed off our feet at the moment though so I'll try and sort it myself for a bit :P

Also those prequels in TQAT are the same prequels right?

Yeah, I think the link is just saying 1 has been ordered for a pilot

Ah I see, I think I’m meant to be the same at work, but I don’t even know what my project is

Lol

I think I’m going to ask the guy to actually explain what the end goal is so I know what I’m working towards and not just doing meaningless tasks

Yeah that usually helps

At least here cos we're basically doing the whole system between 2 of us we always know what the project is

I guess the difference is “don’t tell the intern too much”

This is the second optical sorting company I’ve worked at, and while I signed an NDA here, they’re always asking what the other’s sorting algorithm is. And I’ve never gotten access to them

Ah forgot you was an intern

Oh of course, they'll always want to know what their competitors do

They usually stick you on crap like Quality and testing and automisation, and keep you away from the trade secrets. So right now they’re giving me Lamp board testbenches (the boards that power the lamps) to write the automation code which they’ll try and push everywhere

What do you sort?

Or at least that’s what I think the plan is

We’re a packaging machine company

Hahaha, that's not too bad though, you still get to learn a lot of what the company does

Ah okay

So we’re less sorting and more defect checking

I getcha

And if the boxes are cut wrong, printed wrong, embossed/glossed/bedazzled whatever crap you can think of the machine chucks it

The other one was mostly food sorting

That's quite fun... if you're working on the actual checking though

Which was cool cuz they always had customers/tests to do, which required food, such as muesli or candy so we’d get like a 5kg bag in the office which would last ages

Ye, that was cool, although when I first discovered SFF so pretty lurky

Hahahaa

We had a potential project to read product packaging and look for allergens and report back... never went anywhere though

Yeah that stuff is cool, ours is mostly imgrec though

I like doing that stuff though

That's why I developed a Marksense engine for our company

Still wanting to improve it if I ever get time

Yeah fair enough, but imgrec doesn’t work so good for ingredients etc, OCR would be better but the technology isn’t quite there, or the algorithms

But that’s the other thing they do, hire MSc/PHD students to research OCR/ML algorithms and things like dat

Well we're "purely" an OCR company so we did quite a lot with the labels but in the end I think it was cheaper for them to just key everything in India haha

Lol, outsourcing, the pre-robot revolution

That's our struggle with a lot of new projects. We're generally pretty good at winning the automation battle (cos we're cheap and bend over backwards haha) but then we have to try and win the battle against that lot

Aye, cuz they’re cheaper and bendier

More annoying as well haha

BS this is, just found out Incredibles 2 and Antman are being delayed in the UK cos of the World Cup

Ahah!

Is ant man in July? I think I’ll see incredibles when it comes available on other media

Early August I think for me

Haven't looked though that's from a news article

July 6th is the international debut I believe, lemme just check imdb

Aye but I think it's pushed back for the UK

July 4th in Finland and Iceland, July 18th in France and some Central European countries, others are the 26th of July (Germany etc)

US 6th July, Italy 15th August

3rd August UK

RIP

Meh, I don’t really care about spoilers though, so whatevs

No I don't.. but I do want to see it

Aye, I only have 2 weeks... long time question wise

True

Oh it’s one and a half years to Star Wars IX?! Why did they put Solo this spring then...

Do they have anything major coming out at the end of the year?

Is a bit odd to group all of the Disney films releases close together

Yeah, I’m feeling financially burnt out, need to wait till I get back to the UK

Aye me too, all we're waaay to close

In the U.K. I guess it depends on the cinema, the Vues in London were £6.99. Here there’s only one option and it’s ~£14 a film

Aye it's not too bad prices, compared to elsewhere, but I get bored going all the time anyway haha

Yeah that’s true

Oh hi TLC

Yes we’re hiding in here

still having slack issues?