The Official Status Thread
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin dumb criminals, that pizza delivery must have an address
They have it delivered to the sewer.
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Status: Logged into facebook for the first time in... years?
Apparently, we don't even need to get the browser to remember passwords, you'll just be perma-logged in!
Who thinks this is a good idea?
Edit: Oh hey, someone messaged me:
Oh yeah, I remember now why I abandoned facebook...
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@dkf all jetbrain IDE-s have their own version control called "local history". That saved my butt multiple times when I did the exact same thing as that kid.
What pycharm taketh away, pycharm giveth.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
WTF dude!? Too large
Yeah, a file can only be 100MB and a repository should be less than a gigabyte or Support gets mad at you.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf all jetbrain IDE-s have their own version control called "local history". That saved my butt multiple times when I did the exact same thing as that kid.
The local history stuff was chugging like hell. Something to do with having a 90GB file in there. The machine this was on had a reasonable amount of memory — 32GB IIRC — but it was still paging like a demented thing until we finally got everything purged. As it happened, once we had a git repo with the commits in it (even if they were full of problem files) then I could get things back into a reasonable state with the git command line.
I also set up a sensible set of ignored things for his work so that we won't have a repeat. Derived output data truly doesn't belong in a git repo. (We do tend to put a few binaries in, but since they're usually no more than 32kB that's not a big deal; most trivial assets are larger. We store them because the build environment for them is a nasty cross-compilation thing made of gcc, perl and crazy glue.)
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status: warni
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The local history stuff was chugging like hell. Something to do with having a 90GB file in there.
Admittedly, I never tried it on such big files (a few gigs max).
If you are dealing with huge binaries, SVN is probably a better choice than git.
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
@dreikin dumb criminals, that pizza delivery must have an address
I had my debit card details stolen and one of the purchases was lots of (mail-order) designer clothes. The police were totally uninterested and just said talk to the bank. The bank would only say they were refunding me and wouldn't talk about anything else.
I seriously doubt anything was investigated, should have been an easy 'gotcha' for the police. Doubt carding is the only thing these scum were up to either.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
If you are dealing with huge binaries, SVN is probably a better choice than git.
Huge CSV output. Essentially an image, except in higher dimensions (AIUI) and with each bit of the “image” encoded as a
It was a trace of simulated neural activity from a spiking neural network fed a reasonable audio sample; the student is studying how all the various feedback circuits perform all the audio analysis done in the human auditory system; I believe he's trying to work his way up to understanding how sounds are located in perceptual space, but he's still getting to grips with the fine frequency-specific gain control feedback. His work is very cool stuff, but a software engineer he ain't.0
or a1
in a field.
So yes, it was a stupid format containing stupidly much data and didn't belong in the first place. It wouldn't have belonged if it had even been as small as 60kB. The input data for his experiments would have been different matter, but this was the precisely wrong thing and the user knew it too. But IDEs hide too much and recovering from an excrement-ventilator incident with them is often too hard; so easy to instead wedge things far worse and turn a minor problem into a major one…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Huge CSV output. Essentially an image, except in higher dimensions
Save it in HDF5, maybe it will reduce the size and allow for saner and faster read/write.
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@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
The bank would only say they were refunding me and wouldn't talk about anything else.
The bank wasn't interested because the liability is on the vendor when this happens; they got all their money back.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: warni
Oh come on. Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to type "warni" and hit post.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
The bank would only say they were refunding me and wouldn't talk about anything else.
The bank wasn't interested because the liability is on the vendor when this happens; they got all their money back.
The vendor was the only one involved that was sympathetic and actually helpful. I called them first as I hadn't heard of ASOS before so it was just a charge I didn't recognise at that point. I'd bought a lot of turbine engine spares that month so there was a lot of high-value activity with companies I'd never dealt with before.
They paid for CIFAS registration for me immediately, as far as I know they weren't obligated to do that.
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@lorne-kates Perhaps he was dictating to Alexa.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: warni
Oh come on. Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to type "warni" and hit post.
I'm not dying! That was an unexpected end of stream!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
unexpected end of stream!
so ... it was more a dribble then a geyser?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
In school, rarely do we learn how fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
unexpected end of stream!
so ... it was more a dribble then a geyser?
No, but it did cut out
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@adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
Save it in HDF5, maybe it will reduce the size and allow for saner and faster read/write.
The problem isn't the filesystem; 1TB SSDs really aren't too expensive, and most sane FSs go pretty fast with such hardware underneath. The problem was tool abuse (and running out of physical RAM). Such data doesn't belong in a source code management repository; there are other, better ways to manage blobs.
That data doubly doesn't belong in a public repo before it is published, but that's a whole 'nother story.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The problem isn't the filesystem; 1TB SSDs really aren't too expensive, and most sane FSs go pretty fast with such hardware underneath. The problem was tool abuse (and running out of physical RAM). Such data doesn't belong in a source code management repository; there are other, better ways to manage blobs.
Yes I see the primary problem was putting it into git, but I want to offer a related advice for the project.
HDF5 also allows easy reading of sub-sequences from big files like the one you have here.
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Status: Oh dear, I may have made an entirely too long wall of posts in my raid team channel...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I'm going to just patch the pickup into another cassette player and run with it. Doesn't need to be pretty or work forever, just so we can digitize these tapes...
Status: Finally got a good chunk of time to work on this. Decided to see if I had components enough to make the circuit myself, which would be easier than hacking into the circuitry of a cassette player...
Some success! I heard sounds matching the human vocal range after dinking around with a LM386 chip I just so happened to have. Then I realized the sounds were backwards (some jerk probably didn't rewind the tape ), so flipping it around and I could hear conversation! Kinda...
Of course, the reels stopped spinning, I'm assuming a band broke (it is an old machine, after all) so back inside I dive! Hack pictures incoming...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
unexpected end of stream!
so ... it was more a dribble then a geyser?
No, but it did cut out
And now we know that @Tsaukpaetra is circumcised.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
unexpected end of stream!
so ... it was more a dribble then a geyser?
No, but it did cut out
And now we know that @Tsaukpaetra is circumcised.
Yes. It's somewhat annoying actually, but makes it quicker to clean in some ways....
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Oh dear, I may have made an entirely too long wall of posts in my raid team channel...
Pasting "fuk u newbz" 10000 times does not a wall of text make
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Oh dear, I may have made an entirely too long wall of posts in my raid team channel...
Pasting "fuk u newbz" 10000 times does not a wall of text make
Sure it does!
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@lorne-kates
Puhleze. I'm much more cultured than that.A detailed treatise on all the things we're doing wrong and alternate ways to do it is how you wall of text
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Hack pictures incoming...
Yep, the band was broken in two places (how?!?!). Well then...
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This hotel room. The neighbors are having a frigging party and there's basically clouds of pot smoke coming in. For fucks sake.
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
Pasting "fuk u newbz" 10000 times does not a wall of text make
Write it once per brick…
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well then...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzJisXNV_Zh3QkdEbUlVR0JqNFk/view?usp=sharing
Spent 50 minutes spinning the reel by hand. I think the buzzing is actually recorded on the tape. That's a lot of tape...
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STATUS: : Meeting on monday.
Oh, what a shame... I seem to have something more important scheduled at that time.
()
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@weng I'm going to have so much fun writing reviews for this hotel
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@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm going to have so much fun writing reviews for this hotel
Just to be clear ... did you crash the neighbors party or not?
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I've fallen into the Sky Factory trap. Tell my family and friends that I loved them.
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@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm going to have so much fun writing reviews for this hotel
Just to be clear ... did you crash the neighbors party or not?
Just to be clear... did you wait for the party to quiet down, indicating they're all stoned out of their gourd, then easily crack the shit-level hotel e-lock, enter their room, loot the passed out fuckers, and then smoother then one at a time while they were passed out, and then light the room on fire, making it look like a careless smoking accident?
Because that's the standard way of dealing with pot smokers in hotels, right?
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@lorne-kates Hm, interesting.
How does that procedure change if one of them's a trans hooker?
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Status: Wow that was really salty salmon. Ugh....
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wow that was really salty salmon. Ugh....
Are you sure it wasn't actually anchovy?
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@raceprouk said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wow that was really salty salmon. Ugh....
Are you sure it wasn't actually anchovy?
Nope, definitely salmon (unless somehow they made anchovies grow massive!), just a bad recipe that (probably) had a typo.
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Status: Pondering the merits of becoming @2...
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@1 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pondering the merits of becoming @2...
It seems to be about as trendy as registering single-english-word usernames....
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@1 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pondering the merits of becoming @2...
@2 what, weeks?
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@pleegwat said in The Official Status Thread:
@1 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pondering the merits of becoming @2...
@2 what, weeks?
@2 cans, obviously. ;)
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Status: Was sitting on the toilet and decided to clean my phone. While extracting it from the ~$1 silicone case, it fell from my hands about 2 feet, and managed to land perfectly enough to destroy all eight holding clips on the back cover, which means that my phone can no longer be used outside the case because the back cover can't snap on anymore.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Was sitting on the toilet and decided to clean my phone.
You don't clean phones like that!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Was sitting on the toilet and decided to clean my phone.
You don't clean phones like that!
Are you sure?
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@weng said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm going to have so much fun writing reviews for this hotel
Just to be clear ... did you crash the neighbors party or not?
Just to be clear... did you wait for the party to quiet down, indicating they're all stoned out of their gourd, then easily crack the shit-level hotel e-lock, enter their room, loot the passed out fuckers, and then smoother then one at a time while they were passed out, and then light the room on fire, making it look like a careless smoking accident?
Because that's the standard way of dealing with pot smokers in hotels, right?
Yeah, no. This wasn't exactly the savory sort of stoner crowd. Think 'sells crack, smokes pot'. And by all indications, they were ready to roll all fucking night.
The night from our check-in (about midnight) to 1:30AM went like this:
Call front desk. Complain about noise and literal overpowering pot reek.
Music stops.
5 minutes pass.
Music starts at a halfway-reasonable volume.
End of song. CRANK THAT SHIT UP YO!
"Are you fucking kidding me?"
Call front desk. Complain about noise and literal overpowering pot reek.
Music stops.
5 minutes pass.
Music starts at a halfway-reasonable volume.
End of song. CRANK THAT SHIT UP YO!
"Are you fucking kidding me?"Repeat. Decreasing time between music stop and music start, and eventually skipping the halfway-reasonable volume stage.
Eventually, we reach a point where calling the front desk does NOTHING.
Call the front desk. Demand a new room assignment. While I walk the 5 goddamned minutes to the fucking desk (this hotel's layout is fucking absurd) and another 5 minutes back, apparently someone busted up the party. There was screaming and doors slamming and general mayhem for several minutes. I get back to the room and we elect to just stay put because, fuck it, it's quiet now, it's 2:30 in the mother fucking morning, and the room keys I was given were for a room on the third floor and I can't even FIND a third floor access (apparently the only 3 story section is 5 minutes walk on the OTHER SIDE of the lobby, and the only reason I can think of for me to be given that room at 2:30 in the fucking morning with a room full of luggage in a hotel with no god damned baggage carts or elevators is because the front desk was annoyed that we kept asking him to allow us to fucking sleep).
7AM arrives. We are awakened by housekeeping trying to get into what they thought was an empty room.
They are very concerned that there are people in a room that's supposed to be empty. FUCKING SIGH. Another 5 minute walk to the fucking desk to clarify what the fuck is going on. Fortunately, morning shift desk dude is an actual human being who sympathizes with the shambling zombie standing in front of him, sorts that shit out and just for funsies credits me with some extra rewards points (I didn't even play the refund game because I'd prepaid via a third party booking service).
I am going to have SO MUCH FUN writing the goddamned reviews for this. And the email to corporate (the property loudly and proudly proclaims to be 100% SMOKE FREE. There are fucking ash trays every 3 feet outdoors. I've been to hotels with literal smoking wings that didn't smell of smoke as badly as this place did.) And disputing the charges if they try to get me for smoke damage to the fucking room. Because fucking seriously man.
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Status: Screw South Park! Why does YouTube seem to think I want to see ads about it EVERY VIDEO?!?!?!?!
YouTube, you made a mistake, and we're all sorry, but can you invent me a way to slap you and tell you that you don't seem to know me at all???