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At my old office, when my hands got cold, I'd load up Photoshop and start doing batch edits on my photos directory. Worked like a charm.
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I actually made fingerless gloves when things got super-bad, but they do impact your typing speed. That gets annoying after a few days.
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This. Also, Brain instead of Brian? :(
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Where I work, building managers seem to be obsessed with air conditioning. As in, the room temperature is down to 66 but the chiller is still blasting a high speed breeze of cold air on everyone. They generously put a vent right over each desk so you can't avoid it. I tried taping cardboard over mine; safety officer made me take it down. I wear a heavy jacket, ski mask, and gloves -- in the summer. Not exaggerating. Sometimes I even have to step outside for 10 minutes or so to warm up. You can imagine how that helps productivity.
Years of complaints to everyone imaginable have had absolutely no effect. Not even when the governor of the state put up a "suggestion box" web site to help cut costs.
Yeah, that's right, it is a tax funded facility. And we all know taxpayers are a sustainable resource made out of unlimited money so why not waste it as fast as possible?
I can sorta understand a place that is too cold because they want to save money, but too cold and wasting money? WTF?
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Seconded.
We got yelled at for running folding@home, even after we proved that it wasn't a virus, and wasn't causing anyone any harm. I couldn't even get them to agree to SETI@home, and our agency works with them!
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Oh, and I forgot to mention, space heaters (in the summer, mind you) are of course banned, so a bunch of us bought these lovely air purifiers which just happen to put out a substantial amount of heat... which only makes the AC work harder but F 'em if they won't listen.
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x86, as well as pretty much every other CPU architecture, has a "halt" instruction that will stop execution until the next interrupt. An OS should use it whenever all threads are idle.
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Prime95 can load all cores to 100% and verify hardware integrity. Why reinvent the heater um I mean wheel....
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Core body temperature isn't the issue. Try typing with gloves on.
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Nope..
I once had a PSU vent the 'magic smoke' due to a compile of a new Perl version for a software upgrade. The server had worked fine until then, but load had been small enough that the PSU was not taxed, the compile of the Perl executable on the other hand...
So yes, specifically giving the CPU something to do does indeed increase the power consumtption of the system => Heat...
Yours Yazeran.
Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer
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TRWTF is measuring temperature in non-standard units.
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-Harrow.
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He.
Reminds me of the time when I found that one of our core servers had 4 CPU's sitting arround doing almost nothing and started running SETI@home on all of them. I specifically ran all the instances at nice -19 so that any real work would get priority, however after a few months, the sysadmins stopped me saying that it did not look good on their survaliance systems having that server show up with 100% CPU load....
Did give me a good ranking for a while though...
Yazeran
Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer
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Most CPUs now reduce the voltage when not "doing something". This keeps them "doing something" and keeps the voltage at full the whole time they are running. They should have been reading and writing a file the whole time, too. Keep those hard drives spinning...
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Hard drive gets organized as part of the "heating" system. Its genius.
+1
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And I thought they smelled bad on the outside...
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Ah, i love to remember the days before bitcoin mining..
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I used to work in a room where the fat CFO would come down the hall and crank the AC because his office was colder than ours. He would always shove it as far as it would go, because, like most people, he didn't understand how AC works.
Also, in the winter he would try to save money by not running the heat. But then everyone had space heaters under their desks making it 10X more expensive to get the same amount of heat.
I solved the problem with a single piece of paper. I just folded it 7 times over and then opened the ancient Honeywell thermostat and shoved the wad in there to the left of the slider. At that point, it couldn't move farther left than 72°F. That worked great for almost a year until he finally opened it. Once he opened it, he looked at us accusingly, but I told him that he was the one that told maintenance to be sure nobody could set it lower than 72°F (which was true).
Finally one day, I told him to set the heat at 72° in the offices and see what happened. The next month, the electric bill was down 20%.
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One day the lab was too cold for one guy. So, he took a can of cold spray and shot the thermostat. The cold spray is normally used to test for temperature sensitivity in rugged PCBs, and other things.
The thermostat froze right up, and so lab became very hot, and stayed that way for a looooong time. Not sure why we didn't ram a soldering iron in there...
Now that I think of it, maybe that could be the plot of ... ummm... a certain kind of movie.
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I do this with a command-line PHP script. Interestingly it is named 'heater.php'.
<?php while (1) {} ?>Useful during winter, spring, AND summer. The building's heating system is the heat from two very expensive pieces of equipment. And that doesn't work very well. The A/C works too well and is constantly on during the summer since the thermostats are basically broken. So, the company can afford the big expensive hardware but can't afford a $10 thermostat. Thus the programmers resort to writing programs that control the heat by wasting tons of electricity.
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First, this is the government. They are likely not allowed to bring in their own equipment, so the must requisition them through the normal channels.
Since that must go through GSA (the internal monopoply supplying agency that was to "save money", but wastes it left and right), the $20 heater costs $110.
Then you have the 5 people that must approve and process the orders, the paperwork costs, etc. etc. etc.
I think he ends up saving money in the long run.
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Do you cut the fingers off the gloves there Bob Cratchit?
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I imagine it is only 55 at the thermostat. Thermostats often seem to be (conveniently?) located near a large vent, which means pretty much everywhere else is guaranteed to be colder.
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That would require them to have requirement documents.
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I used to work in a small office building with the world's least efficient glass windows lining the entire outer wall of the office space, most of which faced south. Even though we had blinds on all the windows, any sunny day in the (Utah) winter time, the low sun would just absolutely bake our offices, with the thermostat reading between 84°-89° F.
It took a couple of calls to the building manager and the power company to finally figure out why the AC was not working. Turns out, there was a regulator on the AC unit outside that prevented the AC from turning on if the outside temperature was lower than 50°F.
Totally makes sense, I guess. Except for the inefficient windows that could not be opened. So, we had the regulator removed and ran the AC many days when it was sunny but below freezing outside.
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At this point, I'd be tempted to become BOFH and modifying the bureocrats' heaters.
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TRTRWTF is people who can't convert liquid-water temperatures from one of the two commonly-used scales to the other. Come on, you don't need that much precision here. don't worry about 9/5, just use 2.
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So that's how you type with boxing gloves on.
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I did something very much like that when the heating system in our office building broke in mid-winter, and it took three days to fix it.
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We ain't being ignorent of liniar interpolation as being taught in university:
[0, 100] -> [32, 212]
Also easy remembering Fahrenheit is human body closing to 100F and frieze of water is 2^5. ([0, 37] -> [32, 100])
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Seriously? Go fuck yourself. I shouldn't have to bundle up like I'm going to Alaska just to feel relatively comfortable at my INDOOR job.
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I'm guessing that a place that doesn't see the value in not having it's developers freeze to death wouldn't see the value in multiple core CPUs
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As an American taxpayer, shouldn't you be bitching more that people are complaining about government costs so much that someone thinks its a good idea to not provide heat to an office in Alaska?
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Compared to any other country in the first world, no he's not. Sure, you could say we have more rights than Nagesh's country, but is that really what we want to judge ourselves by? That we're slightly better than a shithole 3rd world country?
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In my country, ain't person except for untouchable that have labour rights.
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I worked for a few years in a "temporary" office trailer outside a manufacturing plant somewhere north of Los Angeles... and farther north than whatever you thought after that. Anyhow, one bright frigid winter day I had my office blinds open to enjoy the solar heating on my back. Left them open, went home for the night. The next morning it was about 20° (F) out, I came in late due to icy roads. My colleagues were already in by the time I got to work, and boy were they pissed.
Turns out the rising sun shone right down my south-facing window to the thermostat situated on the opposite corner of the room, which of course meant it was time to cool things off. Imagine arriving at 7am on a freezing cold morning to find the air conditioning going at full blast. No wonder they were pissed.
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Yep, and more importantly I was there to pull the plug before the darn thing caught fire..... (not something you want at all in a lab with a supply system for compressed H2, CO, CH4 and O2 , we do have gas detectors, but still.....)
Yazeran
Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer
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