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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Actually, I once designed a Lego RCX-based robot control system like this.
I experimented with that, even going as far as installing custom runtimes. (If you write in raw C, you can get quite a lot of program on there.) Haven't done much for a long time; I had a first-generation system, with an RS232 connector to the IR tower, so I've lacked a computer I could physically connect it to for quite a few years…
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
My Er
dõs number is 17.Uhu
Eh, I'd probably still fuck.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I had a first-generation system, with an RS232 connector to the IR tower, so I've lacked a computer I could physically connect it to for quite a few years…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Actually, I once designed a Lego RCX-based robot control system like this.
I experimented with that, even going as far as installing custom runtimes. (If you write in raw C, you can get quite a lot of program on there.) Haven't done much for a long time; I had a first-generation system, with an RS232 connector to the IR tower, so I've lacked a computer I could physically connect it to for quite a few years…
Yeah, mine own disappeared more than a decade ago after it was given to younger siblings. Probably via garage sale.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
given to younger siblings
:scooby: Ruh roh, Raggy! :scooby:
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
given to younger siblings
:scooby: Ruh roh, Raggy! :scooby:
Yeah. No appreciation for the tech. I believe I have a semi-working portable version of the software still stored somewhere.
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Found out yesterday that Mr. Robot ends in Season 4 :(
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Status: Slack is not a logging platform, Slack is not a logging platform, Slack is not a logging platform...
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Status: The workshop I'm in this week (except tomorrow) has coffee so weak that we think it is American…
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Sunburn.
Status: OH GOD WHY DOES IT ITCH SO BAD!!!
Status: The itching is bearable now, but now it's all peeling. And I suck at resisting the urge to peel it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Since I got the guitar. Which I'm still shit at.
A college roommate was learning guitar and tried to teach me. I wasn't sufficiently interested to stick with it long enough to get to the point where my fingers didn't hurt. 30+ years later, I have no idea how to make any chord.
Draw a straight line segment that non-trivially intersects a circle.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: This bacon has had the life sucked out of it.
That appears to be fake bacon that never had any life to begin with.
Oh, it had life... as a Mechanically Separated Turkey.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
My Erdõs number is 17.
It says there are no finite erdos numbers above 12....
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
But try to do anything a little more complex, so that more than one finger at a time is playing
My mind could never really wrap itself around that... So I stuck with a wind instrument - Bassoon.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, remember that even great maestros make mistakes. They keep going as if nothing happened when they do. Don't worry about mistakes, worry about what you do n
Pretty much true of everything. As I've discovered running my dog in agility... (they don't know you made a mistake!)
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
My Erdõs number is 17.
It says there are no finite erdos numbers above 12....
And I added five points because: I've never published, never co-authored anything that was published, don't math, am not publicly associated with anyone who has published, and... Um.... Some other things.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I had a first-generation system, with an RS232 connector to the IR tower, so I've lacked a computer I could physically connect it to for quite a few years…
I've got one of those around here somewhere... (bought it when I still used my old Garmin GPS unit with Street Atlas USA on a laptop)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I had a first-generation system, with an RS232 connector to the IR tower, so I've lacked a computer I could physically connect it to for quite a few years…
I've got one of those around here somewhere... (bought it when I still used my old Garmin GPS unit with Street Atlas USA on a laptop)
I still have a working copy of the Nuvi-like software I use in my CarPC. Updating maps on it is a bitch...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I still have a working copy of the Nuvi-like software I use in my CarPC. Updating maps on it is a bitch...
Why don't you use your phone for that?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I still have a working copy of the Nuvi-like software I use in my CarPC. Updating maps on it is a bitch...
Why don't you use your phone for that?
I've just started doing that as my Navman's maps were about 10 years old. The TomTom app is actually really good and reasonably priced. I've tried to use Google Maps before but it doesn't work when the data connection is spotty.
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Wanted to play uncharted for about half an hour before dinner, ended up playing just 20 minutes of cutscenes with moving from point A to B for the rest. I'm feeling 'y.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I still have a working copy of the Nuvi-like software I use in my CarPC. Updating maps on it is a bitch...
Why don't you use your phone for that?
My phone overheats really quickly. For example, I nominally get five hours of screen time on a single charge. While engaging in the likes of Google Maps navigation or Pokémon Go, I have a run-time measuring in the tens of minutes. You can actually see the percentage going down.
I think it's because the kernel sees a "game" and locks the CPU and GPU to Max frequencies for "butter" or something like that (it doesn't work).
And, plugging the phone into a charger to offset that increases the heat output to "you know that pocket warmer is supposed to be in an oxygen-poor environment, right?" levels.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I've tried to use Google Maps before but it doesn't work when the data connection is spotty.
You can download the map for off-line navigation
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
While engaging in the likes of Google Maps navigation
When plugged into the USB slot in my car, my phone's battery still goes down with Maps. But I still use it. (For really long trips - where traffic doesn't really matter, I'll use my Nuvi)
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Mechanically Separated Turkey
If there will ever be a civil war in Turkey, that's what I'm gonna call it.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I've tried to use Google Maps before but it doesn't work when the data connection is spotty.
You can download the map for off-line navigation
It doesn't help the main problem - constant path recalculations every time your connection goes on or off.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I've tried to use Google Maps before but it doesn't work when the data connection is spotty.
You can download the map for off-line navigation
It doesn't help the main problem - constant path recalculations every time your connection goes on or off.
Better than Waze... That would just lock up on me until I rebooted the phone. Or just crash. Oh wait, it liked just crashing anyways. Even when I didn't use it. <uninstall/>
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I've tried to use Google Maps before but it doesn't work when the data connection is spotty.
They've made it better about that. Now you can download an area of the map and get driving directions while you're completely offline, and last time I got driving directions I noticed that it offered an option to make the route available offline in case the data connection wouldn't be good for parts of it.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
constant path recalculations every time your connection goes on or off
can't say I've experienced that. Unless you're off the route that it intended, it shouldn't recalculate.
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@anotherusername the fastest route ignoring traffic, and the fastest route accounting for traffic were different. I think that was the main reason for weirdness.
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Status: Awake, out of bed, dressed, and in class in nine minutes. That's a new record. I could probably cut it down to seven if I really tried.
Goddamn alarm clock.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Goddamn alarm clock.
It rebooted in the middle of the night?
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@TimeBandit
Usually the problem with mine is that it gets booted in the morning and then decides it doesn't want to speak with me any more.
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Status: Steam gave me a nice popup asking if I wanted to hide age warnings. Of course I do! Except I can't view anything with a rating now as I get an error message
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
It says there are no finite erdos numbers above 12...
I suspect mine is somewhere around 5, which is both respectable for a non-mathematician of my generation and high enough to be quite annoying to calculate without significant computing power (given the rate at which the graph expands with the number of links).
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I've tried to use Google Maps before but it doesn't work when the data connection is spotty.
You can download the map for off-line navigation
It doesn't help the main problem - constant path recalculations every time your connection goes on or off.
It worked for me this summer when I went to a cottage in a rural area with very limited connectivity
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Status: I'm guessing somehow this code escalates to a table lock, and that's how three different calls (on three different connections) managed to lock everything?
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[CHAR_Character_UpdateLocation] -- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here @PlayerId int , @LevelName nvarchar(50) = null, @LocationString nvarchar(150) = null AS BEGIN -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with SELECT statements. SET NOCOUNT ON; Update Char_Characters Set [LocationVector] = ISNULL(@LocationString, [LocationVector]) , [LevelName]= ISNULL(@LevelName, [LevelName]) , DT_LastLogin = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP WHERE PlayerId = @PlayerId END GO
Hrm...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
I stuck with a wind instrument - Bassoon.
It could be worse. [Insert any of various oboe jokes here.]
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Goddamn alarm clock.
It rebooted in the middle of the night?
Way-back-when I worked on a Windows-CE based phone (think large form factor desktop phone). Our solution to memory leaks was to reboot in the middle of the night.
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Status: Cough, sore throat, and intermittent fever. Still at work because taking sick days is more stressful than being there. <sigh>
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Still at work because taking sick days is more stressful than being there.
Passing on your sickness to others is not a nice thing to do.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
taking sick days is more stressful than being there
But you're not married and don't have kids!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Cough, sore throat, and intermittent fever. Still at work because taking sick days is more stressful than being there. <sigh>
Anymore, I just work from home to keep myself quarantined and maybe even take short naps while waiting for code to compile. It seems like I can go weeks without talking to anyone at work, but the second I need a sick day, the entire world comes crashing down and everyone needs to me put out a thousand fires ASAP.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Cough, sore throat, and intermittent fever. Still at work because taking sick days is more stressful than being there. <sigh>
Physically at work? Or just working?
If you're passing your germs around, you're an asshole. Go the fuck home.
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@blakeyrat @mott555 @HardwareGeek A few things--
in this case, just about everyone else at work has already had it. It's been a rough few weeks for absences (even among faculty). That, and it came on mid-day when it's not really feasible to go home early.
As a teacher, working from home is not an option (obviously). To be absent on short notice, I must
a) create semi-rational lesson plans (which are normally in my head)
b) figure out how to rebalance the schedule (a non-trivial task when I have to stay parallel with other teachers of the same course)
c) grade whatever work they produce while I'm gone (which is trivial if I can do it as they go, but a pain to do all at once)
d) reteach the material from before I was gone, since it normally gets reinforced day by day.I'm 80% sure it's just aggravated allergies (since I'm allergic to just about everything pollen-wise).
If it stays bad I'll call in sick tomorrow (ugh).
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@Benjamin-Hall It doesn't matter what you do, but if your workplace doesn't have any procedure in place for people getting sick in the middle of the day, it's ass. I bet it does, you're just unwilling to use it.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall It doesn't matter what you do, but if your workplace doesn't have any procedure in place for people getting sick in the middle of the day, it's ass. I bet it does, you're just unwilling to use it.
It does, but I didn't feel it necessary for this. If I'd have been nauseated or woozy or otherwise unable to function? Sure. Although driving home at that point wouldn't have been safe. This isn't anywhere near that scale. Especially since it's likely allergic (rather than infectious).
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Gorram it Barnes and Noble, your “sales audit” department can go suck a fat one. This is the third time I’ve tried to order from your online store and your audit department cancelled the order for “not passing your order validation checks” but I can’t resolve this via email, only via your phone line which is only open from 10AM to 4PM my time, while I’m at work.
Die in a fire.