Holy shit , haven ' t seen a rfffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu on the front page since 2009 . Congrats , bud . <| sep |> I think Randy has a higher max optimum population than the other 2 . With the double pop AI I think you can get to 50 pretty easy on Randy <| sep |> Let ' s see . best I can do this week is a very silly chain of events . Without going into any super secret detailsfor some background I work in an RD lab testing superconductors , which requires that the component be really really cold . So we submerge it in liquid helium , which puts us around 4 Kelvin 269 C 452 F . The entire process of loading a component , submerging it , and reaching a stable state for testing takes around 12 hours . Part of that process is a controlled cycle where we very slowly let the temperature cross the superconducting barrier , which requires that we have a pretty good idea of the component ' s temperature . Removal of a part takes about an hour , since we reuse the equipment involved and things have to be warmed back up . So this sequence went something like this . Hey nosjojo , test part A today . No problem I get started . Right after I finish loading the component and getting to the last few steps of cooldown , I get an email . New orders , go test Part B instead . Sure , let me just remove this . So I start loading Part B , and get it all the way down to 4 K . Get ready to start setting up my test manager walks in and says We want you to test Part A again , give Part B to the engineer at the other station , he ' s going to test Part B . Alright . Load up part A again in a completely new set of equipment . Go through the entire process again . start working on my cooldown stage where we slowly cross superconducting threshold and suddenly my temperature starts going nuts , spiking all over the place and making it impossible to do a cooldown . A few attempts later I realized it was whenever someone turned off the fiber optic light for a microscope . After about an hour of fussing with the equipment , we finally realize someone forgot to add a grounding strap to the temperature monitor . We slap one on , and the temperature stops fluxuating . Awesome ! So I finally get to start testing my part . About an hour later that thermometer starts spiking randomly during another cooldown , making it completely unusable . I said fuck it , send it to the technicians , i ' m going home . Whole process was ~ 9 hours . I did eventually test my part the following day , but oh man was it a tedious day .