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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I bought myself a thing:
1,179.00 USD
3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router for High Precision Metalworking, with Linear Guide & Ball Screw Motion
Elevate your metalworking game with the Genmitsu 3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router, a cutting-edge precision tool engineered for unrivaled accuracy and power. This is a machine that gives you an opportunity for heavy-duty, long-term, and high-intensity work, right from your desktop. ...
Ball Screw Motion
Created after the Coding Help category, this is for other serious requests for help that don't fit in there (or any other subcategories that may be created.)
Does anyone here know gRPC / protobuf?
I'm passing large-ish chunks of data between my own client and server and have implemented streaming because the overall dataset to pass is larger than the max message size (default is 4 MB, I know I could increase that but probably not to the point where it would cover all my use cases, so streaming it is in any case).
The issue I have is how to find out what size of messages to send in my streaming implementation?
Searching the interwebz I can find tons of discussions on how to set the maximum message size when starting the server, but this is not what I want. What I want is querying an existing server to find out what is that maximum size. Either my google-fu is weak, or nobody ever discusses that?
Currently I need this in two places and in one I've hard-coded a 4 MB (minus a small margin for headers etc.) limit. In the other one I've been smarter and implemented a horrible hack where I parse the string from the error message (!!!) to read the maximum size.
Yesterday was a good day to be somewhere other than Nebraska and Iowa:
This tornado outbreak in the Midwest on Friday is legit like nothing we've ever seen
This is an unfortunately all-too-familiar news report in the U.S. during the spring and summer:
Shivali Best / Apr 27 / Science
How to upgrade your outdated acronyms to keep up with Gen Z
Currys have revealed the easy acronym swaps you can make to keep up with Gen Z.
@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
they're really more involved in Twitter than their profile suggests.
Is that supposed to be in indication of legitimacy or a red flag?
Filed under: Yes
@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
In Tony Toon Adventures, whenever Buster and Babs (Bunny, both) introduced themselves together they would quickly point out "no relation"
That wouldn't have been the reason though, since unlike Mickey and Minnie, they weren't presented as a couple, so it would have made perfect sense to just assume they were brother and sister.
Yakko, Wacko and Dot were explicitly put forth as siblings, although Dot Warner insisted that her full name was Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banna-Fana Bo-Besca the Third, suggesting that she must have changed her name from "Warner" at some point.
Microsoft seemingly admits "ads" on Windows 11 Start menu are in the works
Microsoft may finally be coming clean. With a new hidden change, the tech giant seems to acknowledge that "ads" on the Windows 11 Start menu are real, though it could also mean more ads are coming.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@cvi
Ok, I think we can start. Let's go 'round and introduce ourselves, all.
... Call me Ishmael
I once did this on a Usenet group where some schoolteacher had introduced her students with something like "Hi, we're a group of students who want to connect with others interested in {topic}."
My response was "Hi, I am an apteryx, a wingless bird with hairy feathers."
How Google Search was "killed". A very long article, but nice to read. Enjoy!
Apr 23
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The...
@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
Mark Harris
Texas High School Baseball Game Takes 2 Days To Play, Ends After 23 Innings
A high school baseball game in Texas took two days to complete and finally ended after 23 innings with a final score of just 4-3.
The 23-inning slugfest that took place over 25 and a half hours set a record for the longest game in Texas high school sports history, but somehow fell two innings shy of the American high school record for the longest game of all time
Nothing about 7 runs in 23 innings says, "slugfest."
Maybe the author is a Chicago White Sox fan who dreams of 2 runs in 23 innings
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Is it getting cold where you are? Do you have a Keurig? Mott's (I miss @mott555, when was he last around?) makes K-Cups of spiced apple cider that are surprisingly fairly good. Add a splash (or several glugs) of bourbon and you have something to warm you up in two ways.
You're welcome, or I'm sorry, depending on how many you decide to drink in a night.
Tonight was a fairly cool evening here where we are. Several of the neighbors ended up hanging out in my shop and I decided to introduce them to this cocktail and after this evening there's a strong possibility that many of those neighbors will not be allowed to play with me anymore.
@BernieTheBernie said in Pay peanuts or chicken feed:
How many Indian "sofwtare specialists" would be willing to take software job abroad
The point isn't to pay foreigners a reasonable wage, no matter how the "Fachkräftemangel" talk makes you believe that. The point is to drive the price down with the alternatives of not paying well here or outsourcing because you "can't find anyone" here.
@loopback0 said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?:
Check out this Studio flat for rent on Rightmove
Studio flat for rent in New Street, Dudley, DY1 for £750 pcm. Marketed by Taylors Estate Agents, Brierley Hill
The building's a former police station. The holding cell is left in this studio flat as a feature.
Key features
LARGE STUDIO WITH FEATURE HOLDING CELL
Perfect for teenage daughters!
@da-Doctah said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
Now if someone can just come up with a relative who was born on 11/11/1111....
The approach to this is to redefine when year 1 of the calendar was.
Filed under: Putting target markers around bullet holes
@Arantor said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
@dkf said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
@Arantor said in responsivenes with vh and vw:
Right click, inspect element, add overflow-x: scroll, job done.
On my phone?
Well, not with that attitude, clearly!
No, for a phone other strategies are called for, namely bookmarklets that can operate on the current page.
Yes this approach works, I have a “view source” bookmarklet on my iPad for shit like this.
I use Kiwi browser, which is basically mobile Chrome with extensions and developer tools.
@PotatoEngineer said in The Fox Ideas Thread:
@accalia That reminds me of Lackadaisy Cats, which is about cats rather than foxes, but is definitely about illegal activity during Prohibition.
(Mind you, progress on that comic has come to a screeching halt now that the creator is working on an animated series for the comic.)
That's that I was thinking of but couldn't remember the name!
@error said in Another AI based art generator, DALL-E Mini:
@sockpuppet7 Is she falling to her death? Seems oddly dark.
https://youtu.be/nwhSOwoiz-A?t=13
@kazitor
I knew there was at least one such logo that I was semi-familiar with, but couldn't put my finger on it. Thanks!
Now I'm pretty sure there are other(s), based on how many close-but-not-quite matches any search for e.g. "square logo" returns, including a lot of stock images (so basically "hey business owner without any graphical skills, here's simple stuff you could use"). Any other suggestions?
@boomzilla
Voyager 1's distance from Earth complicates the troubleshooting effort. The one-way travel time for a radio signal to reach Voyager 1 from Earth is about 22.5 hours, meaning it takes roughly 45 hours for engineers on the ground to learn how the spacecraft responded to their commands.
"Hey! Get back to work!"
"Debugging!"
"Oh. Carry on."
@Arantor said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?:
@boomzilla said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?:
@Arantor said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?:
@Jaime considering that I’m writing the app in PHP and got this shit foisted on me in passing, no.
It’s a web app. It has web shit on the front of it. Which means I’m fucking doomed, forever, to deal with this clusterfuck of an ecosystem because every fucking thing in it relies on Node even when it’s not a Node app.
Meh. No ISVM report, no problem!
I did wonder at first what the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms had to do with it - plenty of packages in the ecosystem qualify as microorganisms.
Then I remembered the IT version, and left myself a note to run npm audit on Monday to see if my ecosystem has gotten a vulnerability this week.
What are we going to do today, @Arantor?
The same thing we do every Monday, Dashie.
Oh boy, checking npm for vulnerability reports!
I checked out of this conversation a while ago, but since it still seems to be going, I'll just drop this link I've bumped into without further context:
Visitor and multiple dispatch via C# 'dynamic'
@BernieTheBernie said in Windows Server?:
@loopback0 said in Windows Server?:
Azure only has Enterprise IIRC but standalone it's the same control over updates as Pro unless Azure forces them.
Actually none.
In order to control updates, the machine must be in a domain.
I do not have a domain, so...
You can edit "local" group policy (which is what I believe you're referring to) without being joined to a domain in all editions from Pro up.
@izzion said in Neighbors are TR:
The reported text of the signs seems pretty weak sauce. Personally, I think the judge should have tossed the witness intimidation charge, but
This later article has a few pictures of the signs and has the text of the report an officer made when visiting the property. It doesn't show where the signs are in relation to the neighbor's property, sadly.
Mar 25 / Crime & Courts
Free Speech Lawyer Says Charging Wyoming Man For Angry Signs ‘Really Lame’
A felony interfering-with-a-witness charge for a Wyoming man who displayed strongly worded signs in his yard is “a really lame case,” a longtime First Amendment attorney says.
I think it'll be dropped eventually, like the cleanup complaints.
Aside: One of the things listed in the complaint was an inoperable vehicle, which was later found to be working but not have its registration up to date. My Dad once got a visit from a local cop because a neighbor had complained about the car sitting next to his garage. Dad restores old cars and (IIRC) it was one he was waiting for parts to get back to working on it. Dad tells this to the cop and the cop replies "That's fine, but you still can't keep a derelict vehicle out in the open like that in town." Dad tells him the tabs are paid up, so it's not a derelict. The cop goes "Allrighty then, you're good. See you later."
I'm using TypeScript, where the enums are just a combined object of name-to-number and number-to-name. The implementation looks vaguely like this:
ServerEnum = {
0: "FirstServer",
1: "SecondServer",
"FirstServer": 0,
"SecondServer": 1
}
And I'm using an enum as the key in an object. And it's really convenient a lot of the time, because I have one of those enum values hanging around most of the time.
{
[ServerEnum.FirstServer]: {...},
[ServerEnum.SecondServer]: {...}
}
It's great, except in two cases:
Object.keys(), Object.values(), and Object.entries() will all return a string key, so my enum value of 1 gets coerced into "1".
I also end up sticking that enum into the URL, where it should be the string-value rather than the number-value.
So for 1), I'm using parseInt(enumThing) as ServerEnum in my iterators.
And for 2), I'm doing a lot of ServerEnum[enumAsNumber] and ServerEnum[enumAsString]. I should probably switch from Object to Map, but , and Map's iteration API is a bit uglier.
Mar 27
Rescued 'baby hedgehog' turns out to be a pom pom from a hat - UPI.com
A Cheshire, England, woman rescued what she believed to be an abandoned baby hedgehog and took it to a local animal hospital, where veterinarians told her she had actually rescued the pom pom from a beanie hat.
@dkf said in India:
@BernieTheBernie said in India:
Many needful doers from India work in the IT industry in Western countries. But India is starting to experience a shortage of IT workers.
heise online / Mar 24
Missing Link: India's Software Brain Drain Turns the Tide to Talent Shortage
From India’s own digital rise to new visa dynamics to a huge demand for talent by Big Tech – there are many levers pulling IT professionals back to India.
Looking forward to ny times to come.
They probably really mean that they're short of people willing to do that much work over that many hours a day for that little money...
Sounds ripe for a gig economy startup!
@anonymous234 said in Nintendo plans on selling the same games AGAIN:
@LB_ Selling old games is a very good thing. Hell, now that digital purchases exist I'd say that there's no reason to ever stop selling a game. We've gotten too used to the absurd idea that software has to be on sale for a few years and then disappear forever. Remakes are great too (if there's a demand, why wouldn't you adapt things to newer hardware?).
What's not great is: 1. Having to buy a particular machine to run a particular game, and 2. Having to pay for the same game more than once. We need to switch to a model where once you buy a game, it's associated to your account and you own it forever and can play it on any device (within technical limitations). When Nintendo figures that out, then I'll start paying for my games.
(hell, they don't even sell the same games for the 3DS and WiiU virtual consoles, even though they all run on the same emulators).
some Xbox 360 games would be associated with my account if I had bought an Xbox one after it broke. too little, but at least they moved in the right direction
@The_Quiet_One said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.:
Well, that just means if it's in the park, then it's not being used on a road, therefore it's fine!
And there are no such things as off-road vehicles.
@topspin said in YouTube and cookie warnings:
@dkf said in YouTube and cookie warnings:
@Gurth said in YouTube and cookie warnings:
I had more or less read the notice before pressing “Reject all” but I had not connected “personalized content and personalized ads” with “Warning: this will clear your viewing history and recommendations based on it!” — largely because I didn’t expect that to be stored in cookies.
It isn't. The cookie is just the key to look that info up.
: it isn’t. The cookie just contains the “official” way to track you, so that they can pretend to obey GDPR. They’ll keep tracking you in secret.
I’ve had all cookies from YouTube blocked since ~forever. Yet somehow it often shows links to videos entirely unrelated to whatever I’m looking at but suspiciously similar to something I’ve watched prior…
@boomzilla this story misses the absolutely critical part of the third party repair that got crushed
Andy Greenberg / Dec 14, 2023 / tags
McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup
Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.
(Amazing jorb, wired home page. Pop up some bullshit about subscription halfway across the screen, I dismiss. Scroll , get the same popup again. Dismiss, repeat 3 times: well, looks like you’ve already read 3 of our stories for free, it’s subscription time now. Pops up another thing full screen that can’t be dismissed.)
As ever, wish I hadn’t said anything at all let alone something half-tongue-in-cheek over the fact that the previous conversation asserted a great deal more than the singular fact being claimed. Specifically that damn near everything was political all the time according to you and that I was in the wrong for so much as breathing an idea (not even the one I agreed with you about)
Don’t worry, you can have this garage back too.
