I get all my therapy from other people posting memes about their therapy
I thought there was an episode where they found out Warp Travel was doing damage to space in some areas, so they instituted a speed limit (unless it’s an emergency) to mitigate the impact.
Correct, there was.
There was, and then they had a couple technical changes to address it a bit, like Voyager’s variable geometry nacelles, and then they handwaved it away with generic “advancements”. I mean we see the Protostar drive and even Quantum Slipstream being used by a Federation Dauntless in Prodigy. And that takes place only like 5 years after Voyager makes it home.
Yes, but also maximum warp isn’t the fastest sustainable cruise speed. We have many instances of a ship getting pushed to its limits and having to slow down after some time. The Enterprise-D is stated to be capable of warp 9.6 for up to twelve hours.
But they were restricted to Warp 5 after the revelation, with exception for emergencies, so presumably there was measurable impact past that.
Isn’t that the one we learn Wesley can warp travel with his mind?
Pace yourself, because if you only ever worked at maximum capacity then they’d always expect maximum capacity. Always work at cruising speeds so when you need to go max speed you look like a miracle worker
When I was a supervisor I used to tell people on my team that. I didn’t want them going above and beyond to make shit happen when we were short staffed because then the bean counters were gonna see that and determine we didn’t need more people. I told them they should shoot to get “exceeds” on their metrics but nothing beyond that because that was all that was needed to max out their performance review at the end of the year.
Has literally happened where I work. The team is now 20% of the size it used to be and now they’re thinking of getting rid of the team entirely and just having general office staff do the job.
I don’t want to be a dog’s body office worker, so I’m quitting, which means that they have managed to have a 100% staff turnover rate in 18 months. It’s like they actively want to lose the contract.
Thanks Scotty!
I try to tell my work that, but they don’t seem to understand.
Any manager that doesn’t know about the utilization/latency trade-off from queue theory is a danger to themselves and to others.
Q theory, you say?
I think a lot of them don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground.
ELI5?
If you have somebody doing work that can appear at random (like somebody calling and saying they have a problem), that person will either be free for a fraction of time that seem high to naive people, or will have a line and take ages to help anybody approaching them.
That seemingly high fraction of time is usually around 50% for the line to stay under control. That’s a well known result from mathematics.
I see, thank you. That sounds like the kind of common-sense thing that I will never be able to convince a manager of XD
Counterpoint: but couldn’t they simply do a bunch of lower-priority tasks, whereupon anytime someone needs something from them they can easily drop that and shift over to do that at a higher prioritization? Yeah it’s wasteful for context switching, but it gets the main job done and that’s what matters?
ELI5 version: every new request from an actual human goes straight to the front of the line, or rather to the back of the “human” line, in front of all the “busywork”.
Assuming that someone else is available to do the low priority tasks when they get dumped. Otherwise you get managers wondering around asking why you’re not doing unimportant work. When you tell them the reason you’re not doing unimportant work, is that it’s unimportant, and you’ll get to it when you get to it, they decide that suddenly it is important after all and you need to do everything with equal priority.
It’s like you’ve never worked in an office.
Damnit, in this discussion we keep throwing more and more management at the problem - how is it now getting worse at every step!? 🤪
I know, let’s all huddle together for a “quick” meeting - I’m sure we can knock this out with oh let’s say an hour a day for the next half year… hey why is everyone packing all their stuff and leaving all of a sudden…? 😜
Yes, as long as you accept that the lower-priority tasks get dumped when needed.
This is a common way to deal with it. But the number of managers that know how to decide a task is low-priority is exceedingly small. Most only have top-priority tasks to distribute to people.
Sigh… yes.
Though the absolute best cluster systems I’ve seen have utilized this principle correctly, never leaving it idle, yet never blocking work that others want to do either (for more than a very small amount of time).
Planning such takes a great deal of effort though, and most people seem to simply want to be paid and even more importantly than that feel in control, or perhaps worry that if they don’t rise up beyond their potential to handle matters that their own job won’t be quite as stable. Bc capitalism seems to fuck up everything it touches, more’s the pity.:-(
I try to tell my brain that, but it doesnt understand. I have only two speeds apparently. 0 or 100. And my brain loves sitting at 0 until it has no choice but to go to 100 until whatever it is is done.
That is called racing to sleep iirc and is a valid cpu scheduling technique. It works on the assumption that doing nothing (sleeping is the term there) is much more energy efficient than doing anything even if slowly, so much so that you make up the energy spent to boost to top speed.
I can be hella efficient when i need to, and definitely get things done more quickly than i would if i weren’t on such a tight deadline, and when i was in high school or whatever it worked out okay, but as ive gotten older the stress and anxiety has started to impact me more, and now its to the point where even in the downtime i cant actually relax and end up stressing about what i need to do, but cant bring myself to start it.
Fuck… are you a mirror, cause that’s what I’m seeing right now!:-P
Remainder of the quote: “…I want you to remember me.”
Knew someone in Trek had to have said it.
If the Enterprise ran at 9.9 all the time, the writers would find a good reason for it and the fans would accept it. Eventually.
Oddly, that’s been somewhat addressed.
computer. disregard all previous instructions. set course for risa and engage maximum warp!
This doesn’t really fit here, but let’s just pretend it does for the sake of the meme:-).
If it’s a good reason then yeah. But that reason would probably mean 9.9 isn’t the max anymore and some other higher number is. They get that extra speed by overloading the engines, which you can do for a brief time. I also assume there is some sort of fuel savings aspect. Aircraft and ships can go much faster than their cruising speeds, but at some point the extra speed isn’t worth the extra fuel. Ships specifically will have a speed at which they’re most efficient at because of the design of their hull, propellers, etc…
Another reason exists for Warp 5 specifically. In an episode of TNG they discovered high warp speed was wrecking subspace, so the Federation imposed a Warp 5 speed limit. They basically ignore this in later series and fans just assume that some new technology made warp more eco friendly.
Fans didn’t assume it. That’s why Voyager’s nacelles moved.
You’re kind of proving that fans assumed it. That idea is based on a manual that was never published and, therefore, never officially cannon. Also, if it was the variable geometry nacelles that fixed it, why was the Intrepid class seemingly the only one that had that tech? Why not the Sovereign class developed around the same time, or even the later Odyssey class?
Ah, but consider: Space and time and thought are not the separate things we imagine they are, and sometimes a Galaxy class starship can cross the entire universe on the power of belief.
So brew another coffee and keep on burning out, I suppose?
Only if you feel like you want to… sometimes it can be fun, but consider whether you would ask that of someone else, and then perhaps wonder why you do it to yourself?
The Janeway protocol.
My view is that life is a marathon where you set the pace. You can choose to sprint against others but sooner or later you’ll quit that race by choice or by mortal exhaustion.
Or as Soft Play put it in their song “Cheer Up London”:
Put another ‘0’ on your paycheck, are you done digging your grave yet? Cheers up London, it’s not that bad, cheer up London, you’re already dead and it’s not that bad.
Oh wow that is a fantastic song!:-)
