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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Physics is always fun but calculus sorts of brings back the whole "jerking off but now with sandpaper" situation. Maybe it's just me cos I don't like math that much cos raisins.
I was weird. I despised math on its own, but when it was tied to physics I couldn't get enough of it. I guess it turned it from something nebulous and abstract into something with real uses. The concepts also made much more sense to me through physics. In match class alone, I'd think "What the f
is a derivative and why do I care?" But in physics, it was more like "Oh, so that's what a derivative really means. Totally makes sense now."Di-fucking-tto. Math that came in the context of physics did not feel like normal math at all!
It seemed like fucking awful integrals to me.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Constant "Looks like your connection was lost" toasters.
I get this all the time when am using my phone. It's a way of life now.
For a second or two every time my phone goes to sleep or I switch tabs or apps, yes. Every minute or two for no apparent reason and lasting 5 minutes, no. It even hung this morning while streaming posts halfway through a post.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got greeted by a robot at the office this morning.
I greet anyone for the first time in the day with any one of three greetings. I'd like to think it momentarily improves mood.Might possibly depend on what the three greetings are, but sure...
- Welcome !
- Welcome back!
- Hello!
Well, depending on your intonation and expression...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
(way back when) I had COBOL class
I'm so very, very sorry.
Way back when, my first semester of night classes at community college, the Fortran class I was talking shared the lab with a COBOL class, but I didn't know it until halfway through the semester, because that's how long it took them to write their first program. (We wrote hello world the first night of class.) There were kids literally in tears because they had hundreds of compilation errors. That very night I vowed never to go anywhere near COBOL, and that is a vow I've kept faithfully ever since.
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Unplanned production outages are not on my list of favorite things.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Awake at 04:whatever. Can't get back to sleep. Restricted caffeine intake. Today is not going to be fun.
I dozed off finally, a little after 06:00 — just before someone started playing (really bad) percussion with a dumpster lid somewhere. Thanks so much, jerk.
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@heterodox
Late night deploys and production a-breaking
Bosses a-screaming and no breaks a-taking
Code gone berserk, services right upset
These are a few of my least fav'rite things...
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Status: I may buy a new GPU.
EDIT: Maybe even the 2080ti... maybe even the official one, since it at least has two fans now. It probably has enough cooling. Dunno.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
(way back when) I had COBOL class
I'm so very, very sorry.
Way back when, my first semester of night classes at community college, the Fortran class I was talking shared the lab with a COBOL class, but I didn't know it until halfway through the semester, because that's how long it took them to write their first program. (We wrote hello world the first night of class.) There were kids literally in tears because they had hundreds of compilation errors. That very night I vowed never to go anywhere near COBOL, and that is a vow I've kept faithfully ever since.
As I remember, it was actually a requirement for the degree. The one and only time I worked with COBOL.
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Status: Employer requires me to take an online safety class on arc flash. I work with C compilers and interface cards (PCI and the like), I really can't imagine any situation in which those would trigger an arc flash, and if they can, I want out of this business.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I may buy a new GPU.
Do I trace a ray of hope there?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I may buy a new GPU.
Do I trace a ray of hope there?
Tracing one ray won't provide much of a picture, but I suppose it'd be a proof of concept since if you can trace one ray you can trace all the rest of them.
...or am I assuming too much from your username?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Tracing one ray won't provide much of a picture,
Ray tracing at 1x1 resolution ought to be extremely fast though. And the graphics style fits right in with the new era of retro-graphics games.
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Ok, let's tern it this way: Do I trace...
(num_rays > 1 ? (is_array(my_rays) ? "array of rays" : "rays") : "a ray")...of hope there?@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
...or am I assuming too much from your username?
Alas, you probably do :/
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
(way back when) I had COBOL class
I'm so very, very sorry.
Way back when, my first semester of night classes at community college, the Fortran class I was talking shared the lab with a COBOL class, but I didn't know it until halfway through the semester, because that's how long it took them to write their first program. (We wrote hello world the first night of class.) There were kids literally in tears because they had hundreds of compilation errors. That very night I vowed never to go anywhere near COBOL, and that is a vow I've kept faithfully ever since.
As I remember, it was actually a requirement for the degree. The one and only time I worked with COBOL.
Yeah, it probably was, back in the day. But I was EE, not CS, so the only CS classes I had to take were Fortran and assembly (maybe; it turned out the community college was really bad at advising what classes were required to transfer to uni), and later, Data Structures and Numerical Methods — and various EE classes dealing with μprocessors. I took other CS classes as electives, but those were the only ones that were required (and some of those may have been required, or only recommended, only because of my concentration within the major, not the major itself).
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Status: Unwraveling the licensing model of a particular going-defunct team chat product for the purposes of permanent archival.
It's... surprisingly easy, once you know what to look for...
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@Applied-Mediocrity It's partly that, but partly the idea that I could turn a few games' settings higher, and possibly run some things at 4k, and yet have a nice enough framerate.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
once you know what to look for...
Also, if anyone knows how to brute-force a DSA private key from a public key with no messages, feel free to DM me. It would make this a lot easier...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
It would be far easier to just generalize
You assume that calculus isn't a key tool in understanding how to generalise…
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, if anyone knows how to brute-force a DSA private key from a public key with no messages, feel free to DM me. It would make this a lot easier...
Seems unlikely you'll get any DMs. The only people who know how are probably working in a SCIF.
Edit: Well, actually not the people who know how to brute-force. Anyone can brute-force. Doing it efficiently, now that's the tricky part.
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status: *indiscriminate swearing for several minutes*
When I added Intro to Data Structures, it had one prerequisite: Intro to Programming, which I obviously passed with flying colors. Easy stuff, right? First day of class today. Guess what? Retroactively, they added a new prerequisite of either Pre-Calculus or eligibility for Calculus I, along with a corequisite of Discrete Math. You know, that class I was assured I didn't have to take until next semester. This is the last 'first day', so I'm worried, but thankfully the time block directly after ITDS had a Discrete Math class. At which I am told that there are more people seeking class spots than there are class spots, and I won't know whether I get a permission code or not until the day I have to turn the proof of prerequisite in. That is not a whole ton of wiggle room, especially considering I end up on the registrar's shit list if that deadline rolls around before I drop ITDS myself. I am absolutely flummoxed as to why they didn't just have the prerequisites in at the beginning instead of springing that on a classroom of hundreds. And I don't know whether or not my C in Calc II will impact my priority in that DM wait list negatively.
FUCK! If I don't take ITDS this semester I am seriously screwed, and here I go overloading myself with 16 units again.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
whether or not my C in Calc II will impact my priority in that DM wait list negatively.
Unlikely. First come first serve, usually.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Retroactively, they added a new prerequisite of either Pre-Calculus or eligibility for Calculus I, along with a corequisite of Discrete Math.
Retroactive alteration of requirements is the sort of thing that can lead you to having a legitimate reason for a grievance. It's on the same order as having a winnable appeal against an examination grade, because it is an indication of a failure of their processes.
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Status: Shodan found me a camera in California. I've been watching cars go around at midnight...
http://64.29.226.143/mjpg/video.mjpg
It's almost as interesting as people watching...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
whether or not my C in Calc II will impact my priority in that DM wait list negatively.
Unlikely. First come first serve, usually.
He did ask us all for our previous math scores. And there is a hierarchy - first graduating seniors, then first time takers, then repeaters, then Open University students.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Retroactively, they added a new prerequisite of either Pre-Calculus or eligibility for Calculus I, along with a corequisite of Discrete Math.
Retroactive alteration of requirements is the sort of thing that can lead you to having a legitimate reason for a grievance. It's on the same order as having a winnable appeal against an examination grade, because it is an indication of a failure of their processes.
AIUI the extended course description explained that, but nobody reads that because they already know that they have to take the class. They listed it technically, but didn't mark it as an official prerequisite.
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STATUS:
My ex junior who was featured in one of the mettles: Hey Cartman, can we take one of your mettle tests to give to a job candidate?
Me: Sure. Just do a clone on glitch and send me the results afterwards, just out of curiosity (hehehe)
Ex junior: Great! I'll take it from that cartman account!
Me Eh sure.... O.O
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wld659Nlw8I&feature=youtu.be&t=4m15s
What's the song that plays towards the end?
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Status: Just yelling at my ex-friend for the second time in two weeks because apparently some people are that variety of jackass who have to be told it's rude to ring someone's phone at 4:00 AM, forcing me to constantly put my phone in "do not disturb" mode and possibly causing me to miss a REAL emergency, for example, about my aunt with terminal cancer.
Apparently this is my fault because "you can set certain people to bypass by not disturb" or some shit, as if:
- I should HAVE to in the first place
- I'd be able to find that option in Google's shitty software
- I need a whitelist and not a blacklist
I chose another solution: uninstall Google Hangouts from my phone. I only know 2 people who use it anyway.
Anyway he's like why are you so mad, gee, I dunno, maybe because I'm FUCKING AWAKE at 4:45 AM? Maybe? Maybe because I've been hinting for MONTHS that IMing people at 4:00 AM is rude and you haven't taken the hint and eventually people just fucking snap? I mean what a surprise that the person who's been woken up at 3 or 4 AM about 60% of nights for 3 months could be grumpy. WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT.
(He's so proud of himself for working all night, and I wanted to but didn't reply, "good, you can bank that against the SOLID WEEK you did no work at all while making broken promises to me-- you know the last thing I yelled at you about a week and a half ago." No sense opening up that old argument again, but how the fuck is he proud of doing HIS JOB after slacking an entire week.)
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
What's the song that plays towards the end?
It's the universe's worst cover of Axel F. (Even worse than the frog one.)
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Status: First cold medicine of the season. Eagerly awaiting when global warming puts an end to winter and thus the common cold
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, if anyone knows how to brute-force a DSA private key from a public key with no messages, feel free to DM me. It would make this a lot easier...
Seems unlikely you'll get any DMs. The only people who know how are probably working in a SCIF.
Edit: Well, actually not the people who know how to brute-force. Anyone can brute-force. Doing it efficiently, now that's the tricky part.
I have a keyboard. I will brute-force anything for $75/hour. Success not guaranteed.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I have a keyboard. I will brute-force anything
That's not me brute-force hacking. That's me when Windows Updates reboots my system four hours into a five-hour unit test job.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
It would be far easier to just generalize
You assume that calculus isn't a key tool in understanding how to generalise…
Sadly, my calculus-based physics professor wasn't satisfied with calculus-based generalizations on tests.
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Status: Chrome seems to be using Win10 notifications instead of their own custom ones. A key difference between the two being that the click handler doesn't seem to be working (or NodeBB is
, either is possible).
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@blakeyrat hang on, you're saying the instant message notification wakes you up?
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@anotherusername Yah.
Were you making... some kind of... point? Or?
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@mott555
But Uncle Bob tells me that Unit Tests are quick and easy to run. You must be
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
YouSome former employee from 10 years ago must beIt's considered a legacy product at this point. Also, it's running tests against a real PCI device which has an FPGA, firmware, and sometimes external avionics buses connected to it. I still don't believe it should take 5 hours to run, but that's why I have eleventy billion computers on my desk. I can kick it off and go do other things on another system.
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@blakeyrat do email notifications wake you up, too? You must really hate getting electronic bills and statements; they generally tend to run the batch overnight, in my experience...
I keep my phone on vibrate and I leave it on a hand towel, specifically so that short notifications (email, messages) aren't loud enough or long enough to wake me up. I don't know if that might help you, but you could give it a try.
I do try to avoid sending people messages or emails when they're sleeping, though. Because you're right, it is sort of a dickish thing to do.
Which reminds me, I was going to message my wife, but not at 6:45 this morning.
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@mott555 Uncle Bob would say that those are Integration Tests, not Unit Tests, but do we really care what Uncle Bob says?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Uncle Bob would say that those are Integration Tests, not Unit Tests, but do we really care what Uncle Bob says?
There's a bit of everything. Lots of dumb stuff like allocating an array of size 10, and then asserting that the array is actually size 10 (great guys, now we're just testing the C runtime...
). Other tests do things like sending 32 frames on the wire while monitoring, and confirming that 32 frames were detected and match the ones sent out.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
do email notifications wake you up, too?
My phone doesn't ding for emails. Why would it? Emails are never urgent.
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
You must really hate getting electronic bills and statements; they generally tend to run the batch overnight, in my experience...
I do hate getting bills, but not for the reason you imagine.
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I keep my phone on vibrate and I leave it on a hand towel, specifically so that short notifications (email, messages) aren't loud enough or long enough to wake me up. I don't know if that might help you, but you could give it a try.
Right; some dickhole's making my phone ring at 4:00 AM and it's obviously my fault that this happens.
The stupid thing is: you're not the first person to tell me this.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I keep my phone on vibrate and I leave it on a hand towel, specifically so that short notifications (email, messages) aren't loud enough or long enough to wake me up. I don't know if that might help you, but you could give it a try.
Right; some dickhole's making my phone ring at 4:00 AM and it's obviously my fault that this happens.
Well, it's your phone. If you don't want it to ring at 4:00 AM, maybe do something about that.
I agree the dude's a dickhole, but you can't just expect all the dickholes in the world to stop being dickholes because they're bothering you.
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@blakeyrat And for all the Android fans out there saying "you should put your phone on do not disturb but whitelist the numbers you might get emergency calls from":
HOW THE FUCK WOULD I KNOW WHAT NUMBER I MIGHT GET EMERGENCY CALLS FROM! Does Google have a whitelist for "literally every hospital E.R in the continental United States also British Columbia"? And that's the MINIMUM I'd need to make that retarded plan workable.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, it's your phone. If you don't want it to ring at 4:00 AM, maybe do something about that.
I found from some 5 AM Googling that Hangouts does let you mute a specific person, if you can find the option which you can't because as a Google device its usability is shit. It doesn't say if that also mutes them on other devices you have Hangouts running on. Also there's no way to set a time period for the mute to happen, so it's all-or-nothing-- I have no problem talking to this guy at 4:00 PM, so this is kind of a nuclear option.
Anyway I know I'm an old fogey dinosaur, but when I grew up calling someone at 4:00 AM about a trivial matter was THE MOST RUDE MOTHERFUCKING THING YOU COULD DO. I dunno when society changed around me, but I guess I missed the memo that now that's perfectly ok apparently.
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@blakeyrat If I were in your situation, I'd probably just disable notification tones from Hangouts (or uninstall it as you did if there's nobody you want to talk to on there). Or you can snooze notifications from Hangouts, but that would get annoying to have to do every night
There are other options in the do not disturb settings like letting calls through if it's the second one from the same number in 5 minutes. I wouldn't want to rely on a hospital immediately retrying if they couldn't get through to me though.
But yeah, if an IM notification is enough to wake you up you must be a pretty light sleeper or you keep your ringer volume right up and sleep with the phone under your ear
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat If I were in your situation, I'd probably just disable notification tones from Hangouts (or uninstall it as you did if there's nobody you want to talk to on there). Or you can snooze notifications from Hangouts, but that would get annoying to have to do every night
I did uninstall it, but I'm still frustrated with fucking Google for not giving me any better tools to deal with this and with my friend for being so fucking rude. Keep in mind: 1) he's in the same time zone so he knows I'm asleep, and 2) he's been doing this for MONTHS before it finally reached a boiling point and I had to confront him about it. (None of the hints I gave before worked.)
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
There are other options in the do not disturb settings like letting calls through if it's the second one from the same number in 5 minutes. I wouldn't want to rely on a hospital immediately retrying if they couldn't get through to me though.
The do not disturb whitelist is fucking useless. I'm not sure why anybody thought that was a good idea if the point of the feature is to still get emergency communications while blocking mundane things.
A BLACKLIST is what I need but apparently that doesn't exist, because of course it doesn't.
@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
But yeah, if an IM notification is enough to wake you up you must be a pretty light sleeper or you keep your ringer volume right up and sleep with the phone under your ear
Which is ironic because back when we were talking about alarm clocks a bunch of people were like "I use my phone as an alarm clock". So many that I actually adopted that habit and didn't bother setting up my old alarm clock. (Well also because my bedstand isn't big enough for it and my laptop.)
Now you're telling me I'm the mutant freak for wanting my phone to be capable of waking me up and what I should do is swaddle it in 47 lbs of cotton so it can't make any noises whatsoever.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I found from some 5 AM Googling that Hangouts does let you mute a specific person, if you can find the option which you can't because as a Google device its usability is shit.
Yeah, I would've assumed so. Most messaging apps have a way to mute conversations. I know you can for Facebook Messenger (I've done it), and I'm pretty sure you can in Gmail.
Anyway I know I'm an old fogey dinosaur, but when I grew up calling someone at 4:00 AM about a trivial matter was THE MOST RUDE MOTHERFUCKING THING YOU COULD DO. I dunno when society changed around me, but I guess I missed the memo that now that's perfectly ok apparently.
There's a difference between calling someone and instant messaging them. Calling is a much more immediate demand of their attention. Messages can be responded to immediately, but you can also just ignore them and respond later. This is why phones ring for a call until either you reject or accept the call or until it finally times out and sends them to voicemail, but they typically play a short notification sound when you get a message. If you don't want the notification to wake you up, the simplest solution would be to change the notification to something that you can hear/feel while you're awake, but won't wake you up if you're not.
