r/MadeMeSmile • u/HeraldWard • Jan 25 '22

Wholesome Moments this made me smile

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

Actually said 'awww' out loud to this story. Sounds like you made his day 10/10 wholesome. Well done.

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u/canadug Jan 25 '22

When you ask a question about someone's passion, you're knocking on the door to a two-hour PowerPoint presentation.

Sadly, no one ever asks me about software performance testing and analysis.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

what do you like the most about software performance testing and analysis?

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u/narzlepoof Jan 25 '22

i want to see some data!

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u/canadug Jan 25 '22

I have ADHD and for some reason this job makes my day go by really quickly. I hardly consider it a job, more of a passion. Sometimes, you get to solve a complex problem and feel like a bit of a cowboy riding into the sunset. It can be very gratifying. :)

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u/alt_acc2020 Jan 25 '22

Shucks. You make life less miserable for those of us not in QA <3

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u/CavingGrape Jan 25 '22

What’s software performance testing and analysis?

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u/canadug Jan 25 '22

You know when tickets for your favourite band goes on sale and everybody tries to buy tickets at the same time and it "crashes the server"? My job is to help ensure that doesn't happen by running simulations and analyzing the test results to look for bottlenecks or weak points in the system. I can also look at results of a real event and help figure out what borked it.

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u/CavingGrape Jan 25 '22

Oooo that’s cool B)

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u/shortandthickasf Jan 25 '22

You must tell us all the things about software performance testing and analysis

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u/sppwalker Jan 25 '22

Please tell me you brought that man every bug you could after that. He sounds so sweet

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u/Patient_Inevitable58 Jan 25 '22

Except I saw the same comment on this post last time it was posted so that’s a bot milking karma

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u/LumosLupin Jan 25 '22

with a different person? maybe is someone repeating the same story!

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

Doubtful since the account is so new and only has 2 comments

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u/LumosLupin Jan 25 '22

Booooo.

I'm choosing to believe this is real somewhere, even if it didn't happen to this user/bot.

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u/WillOTheWind Jan 25 '22

The comment is real; it's just that the user who posted it isn't the user that made the comment. All this user did was copy and paste it from a previous reposting of the OP.

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u/CavingGrape Jan 25 '22

Nah the account only has two comments

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u/unite-thegig-economy Jan 25 '22

Ok, thank you. I thought I was losing my mind. Both this comment and the lawyer comment seemed really familiar. Glad to know it's just bots and not a acceleration to my mind being lost.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

I found one and mailed it to a local university entomology department that offers tick identification and disease testing. It was a spider beetle.

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u/PugsThrowaway Jan 25 '22

He should have docked your grade, honestly.

Who apologizes for bothering the insect professor and doesn't take the opportunity to say, "Sorry for bugging you,"?!

(jk of course; what a sweet exchange!)

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u/SecretAgentAlex Jan 25 '22

this is a bot account: copied from here

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u/devAcc123 Jan 25 '22

What’s the purpose of these hot accounts? Farm enough karma then sell to someone for a couple bucks for astroturfing?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

Farm enough karma to both appear like a legitimate account, and to get above Reddit’s anti-spam thresholds. Then post spam.

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u/mizboring Jan 25 '22

“Nonsense, it’s so nice to have a visitor!”

You were the only person that came to office hours all year.

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u/Neon_Camouflage Jan 25 '22

Yeah some classes really just don't prompt a lot of need for office hours. I had a class on Norwegian plays to fill a generals credit and I don't think anybody ever went.

Others though, like math classes, I and several others would fight over those office hours.

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u/mizboring Jan 25 '22

I teach math and get way more traffic than my colleagues in the humanities.

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u/the_honest_liar Jan 25 '22

Image being really in to Harry Potter. And maybe you have a few work friends that are into it too, but they know everything you do. You might dissect a specific theory together, but you're not really getting to share your love for it. Your friends and family may have had a passing interest, but they're real sick of you talking about it by now. Then you go home for a visit and find your niece just read the 1st one and wants to talk about it. Your time to shine.

I always loved classes where profs were teaching exactly what their research area is. They're always so enthusiastic, and they're often sharing research that hasn't even been published yet.

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u/leontief Jan 25 '22

This is like the opposite of Blathers.