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@gitreflog I meant more like things you can't really learn for but awesome!
@ThatPerlDeb Yeah I often have this one as well 😅 -
@irene I'll high-five you to that, my friend. My stubbornness and physical inability to take bullshit from anyone seriously seems to be genetic, no joke. It's a trait that's very noticeable in both my mother, my sister, myself, as well as two of my sister's kids now.
We all also seem to have this bloodhound-level sense of smell for some reason and want to smell everything. It's a bit of a running joke at this point; the Sniff family. Is that a superpower?
I'm also able to time travel. I sit down to write some code, I look up about half an hour later and four hours have passed... -
@Navigatr Today I learnt that I have an entire hidden family. Seriously, the smell of things is super important! May I join you for your next family dinner?
Other than that, I have this special ability of stressing over nothing. Not very useful you say? Well, can't argue with that...
@linuxxx I envy your sleep power! -
@Jilano Seems like we have more than one thing in common then! :P And you're very welcome for dinner, depending on how easily you can get to Sweden.
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@Navigatr Ha! Thanks, mate!
Just need to hop on a plane, grab some people from Belgium and the Netherlands on the way and that's how you end up with 5 people from the Internet on your doorstep :D -
@beleg So... You're basically a scout/foot soldier?
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All the companies I leave suffer a lot: go bankrupt, get closed, last spare HDD in PROD DB dies, a huge sinkhole opens right underneath the office, etc. All this happens within 4 months after I leave the company.
Even going to a job interview causes at least an immediate PROD server outage in my current workplace.
I think that is my superpower :) -
@PrivateGER Hum. How far have you tested it? For example, let's say you go to bed 2 hours before you have to wake up, does it still work? What about half an hour? I need more data!
@netikras You need to try that with a government agency. -
@AporueSutol I need you around my code then
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@Jilano It worked with one hour and it works with ten hours. It's funny.
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I can process alot of tasks and put them into memory. Like someone says that I should do this, then that, then something else, [3 more different tasks].
I am then splitting these tasks into its microtasks and plan the most efficient way to solve it in my head very quickly.
I guess that has a side effect though.
I am forgetting more and more things from the past.
I can barely remember what I did 3 days ago. -
Plus, I am a non-stopper.
If I am obsessed with something, be it due to me being excited about a topic of which I can not easily let go of because it is so interesting to learn about or be it just because of a deadline, I just can not stop. Hours pass by as if they are just a few minutes.
But I would not say that this is a superpower since all devs have this.
Side note: I had a phase when I saw paranormal things without using drugs, if that can be put as a superpower. -
I can remember things disjointedly and then refer back to them weeks later "oh yeah bug 553214, the resolution is abcd1234.. I saw it once a week ago while looking for something else"
My threads runtime is an 8 bit integer so I can sometimes overflow and forget that I even started a thread
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*survival mode on*
I can work the whole day from morning to evening without eating, drinking and going to toilet.
*survival mode off*
but, around 9-10 pm the physical limits kick in and I have to eat and drink so fucking much that my stomach hurts afterwards.
happens occasionally on very stressy days or when I get lost in my thinking, programming, debugging...
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superpowers? here it probably doesnt count:
computer or any tech has a 50% break down probability modifier as long as i am close to it. its a 10 meter aura so when i get called to fix something the problem usually starts resolving when i get close to the door. other than that, i am good at linking information together and find stuff on google.
apart from that, i have the curse of being lucky which angers the girlfriend quite a lot -
@AporueSutol things tend to break around me for no reason, we could bring equality into the universe.
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@marci010101 @BurnoutDV this is like devdate for you guys
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@BurnoutDV Dude, I think your powers are still evolving because I hate you too now because of your luck :D
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@Jilano i heard there are 4 levels of sys admin
1st: has to actually type gibberish to solve problem
2nd: lays hands on keyboard and problems resolves before anything can be done
3rd: mere showing up solves the problem
4th: getting called about a problems makes it disappear
i dont know how i got to the 3rd level, i have no real training but it was always that way since i got my first pc. be it mp3 players, phones, in my vicinity that stuff tends to live way over its warranty (except that one external HDD i dropped) -
@BurnoutDV I'm on level 3, too, but in the other direction.
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@BurnoutDV How much EXP remaining before the next level? The council is asking if you'll be Lv.4 by the end of the year.
@Fast-Nop Your duty is to go from school to school during exam periods. -
@Jilano I fear the xp is logarithmic, so reaching level 4 might take another year, but if I run in some severe server meltdowns around Christmas I might get enough xp to level up earlier
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Finally someone accepts me for sexually identifying as a Linux kernel!! <3
My superpower is that I can deal with nontechnical people and their "datacenter==basement", "turminel user==hacker" etc bullshit for about 2 hours and manage to not jam my fists into their damn ignorant airheads. Does that count? (:
I'm wondering, what's you guys/gals/linux kernels/however you identify yourself 'superpower'?
I think that nearly everyone has something which can be extremely useful (maybe not healthy) and which not many other people you know have.
In my case it's that i can manage with extremely variable sleep patterns and when needed, I can sleep very short for days in a row (3-4 hours a night) and I'm all good. Nearly all friends/family that I have NEED regular sleep patterns + at least 8 hours of sleep but i can very much manage without those. Very useful when having disruption service and stuff.
Please post yours in the comments if you're comfortable with that!
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