The Official Status Thread
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
The Nope thread is
people love to hate on git, but it's actually not bad if you stay away from shitty GUIs and memorize the structure of its source code along with the man pages for each command.
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Spotted on the internet:
A programmer can put together a good program […]
Anyone else doubt that?
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status: Hooray for getting to do a programming intro class all over again, except in C this time. Fucks sakes. And for bonus ducks, the lab is from 5:45 PM to 8:50 PM. Also there's no way out of using Eclipse this time because they use a custom build tool for a custom microcontroller. Which I have to buy, of course.
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
memorize the structure of its source code
:not_sure_if_serious.pptx:
Now, imagine if HR would need to memorize the structure of Word's source code to work with it.
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@pie_flavor Look at the bright side: At least with building microcontrollers, there's a decent chance the lecturer actually knows C, and what he's doing.
You know, unlike the people teaching something like "intro to programming for mathematicians", where even the lecturer shouldn't be allowed to touch C, ever, much less raise more clueless people writing the world's worst C code.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: various sensors disagree on the particulars, but there's one unifying trait: it's so hot and humid
Every year I always forget how horrible summer gets
It's deepest winter here in old blighty but yeah, humidity is the worst. I've been in 40 degrees with nearly zero humidity and that was lovely:
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: various sensors disagree on the particulars, but there's one unifying trait: it's so hot and humid
We've got cold and very humid right now. The ground and outside of all buildings (and most cars) are all at about 1℃, but the air is at about 90% humidity and is about 8℃. Everywhere is covered in near-freezing water, and there's nothing we can do about it except wait for things to warm up.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Also there's no way out of using Eclipse this time because they use a custom build tool for a custom microcontroller.
Are you really sure of that? It's probably just the arm-none-eabi-gcc toolchain under the covers. The only tricky bits of the whole process (except that you're building for a standalone system, not a hosted one) is taking the executable and stripping the crap out so that it's suitable for pushing to the hardware. And also the actual process of pushing to the hardware, which can be messy (but is trivial to can up).
Which I have to buy, of course.
Did you expect them to do anything else given that feeding the wrong code into a microcontroller really can let the magic smoke out? (It's unlikely, BTW; there's probably only a few memory locations that you can hit with that property. Be very careful with anything labelled “power” or “voltage controller” on the datasheet.)
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
it's so hot and humid
Every year I always forget how horrible summer getsEasy solution: just move to Canada
Edit: INB4 @Karla says that's my solution to everything
I'm not sure why I would say that.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
That's cute
Any colder and it would be ice, not water. Ice is a different sort of hazard…
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I have so many unread topics where am not caught up and there are a few direct replies and I just dont know how to manage this shit. TDWTF is my only dose of fun daily and it looks like I have to figure out how to catch up on shit. So many unread topics I don't even
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@stillwater I can't remember a time when I didn't have 99+ on the unread icon.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
I have to figure out how to catch up on shit.
Take a year off of your day job
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater I can't remember a time when I didn't have 99+ on the unread icon.
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@Tsaukpaetra almost there!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
You know, unlike the people teaching something like "intro to programming for mathematicians", where even the lecturer shouldn't be allowed to touch C, ever, much less raise more clueless people writing the world's worst C code.
Because they're translating FORTRAN to C as they speak?
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
I have to figure out how to catch up on shit.
Take a year off of your day job
It's easier just to block most (for some people, all) of the garage threads.
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@dkf I don't understand what's hard about "you break it you bought it" plus class copies. Let the kids who are actually in computer engineering buy the board because they'll still be using it two semesters later.
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@stillwater Unread goes away faster if you read from the bottom instead of the top.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater Unread goes away faster if you read from the bottom instead of the top.
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@pie_flavor I generally read the 9th topic from the top. That's generally old enough that it's not going to get a reply as soon as I close it, but still on my opening screen so I don't need to scroll.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
You know, unlike the people teaching something like "intro to programming for mathematicians", where even the lecturer shouldn't be allowed to touch C, ever, much less raise more clueless people writing the world's worst C code.
Because they're translating FORTRAN to C as they speak?
From the kind of spaghetti FORTRAN that inspired the
goto
pamphlet, yeah.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor I generally read the 9th topic from the top. That's generally old enough that it's not going to get a reply as soon as I close it, but still on my opening screen so I don't need to scroll.
Of course, those of us still using infi-scroll have had that problem solved for us in /unread.
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Status:
I need to repeat Calc II this semester. Repeaters are the last in line for registration, so I have to show up the day of and ask for an add code. I made sure to pick out my section over winter break, and then the day before yesterday confirmed it was still open. I say pick out, it wasn't really all that much of a free choice. There were a grand total of two sections. One conflicted with my computer engineering class. So, the other one it was.
I get to class along with about twenty other students. But not the instructor. We wait there for fifteen minutes, until someone has the bright idea of calling the math department and asking where the guy is. They have no idea what section we're talking about and have no record of it. So we all decide to go down to the math department together, and get the schedule straight.
The secretary gets a little spooked at the twentyish students all arriving at once, and we immediately get to talk to an actual department person. We ask about section 8, and she asks who the teacher is. We say it was listed as staff, and she squints at the schedule, and then goes "shit, I was supposed to be there telling you". Cue laughter. Wait, telling us what?
We get told that the section wasn't supposed to be listed. It was never open, and they thought they had already unlisted it, and they just couldn't find a professor. And as a result they had already padded the other sections from 25 students each to 40. What other sections? Turns out I probably should have looked at the entire math listing instead of just checking up on my one class; there were six other sections that appeared to have spontaneously appeared. Despite me checking well fucking after the priority advance registration deadline.
Good news: exactly the same situation as before. One section, and one section only, that doesn't conflict with my schedule. At literally the exact time as the nonexistent one, and four doors down. At this point, of course, I'm going in half an hour late, but better than not going in at all. I arrive, and I think that's the shortest conversation I have had with anyone: "register?" "no" "add?" "yes" "we full" "shit"
Looks like I'm dropping a class then. I fucking hate this school's administration.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Also there's no way out of using Eclipse this time because they use a custom build tool for a custom microcontroller.
Are you really sure of that? It's probably just the arm-none-eabi-gcc toolchain under the covers. The only tricky bits of the whole process (except that you're building for a standalone system, not a hosted one) is taking the executable and stripping the crap out so that it's suitable for pushing to the hardware. And also the actual process of pushing to the hardware, which can be messy (but is trivial to can up).
Which I have to buy, of course.
Did you expect them to do anything else given that feeding the wrong code into a microcontroller really can let the magic smoke out? (It's unlikely, BTW; there's probably only a few memory locations that you can hit with that property. Be very careful with anything labelled “power” or “voltage controller” on the datasheet.)
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater I can't remember a time when I didn't have 99+ on the unread icon.
I was in the same situation for a long time, but a combination of boredom and dropping old threads from the unread count allowed me to catch up. Now it tends to vary between 0 and 30-ish, depending on the time of day, for me.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't understand what's hard about "you break it you bought it" plus class copies. Let the kids who are actually in computer engineering buy the board because they'll still be using it two semesters later.
How much does it cost in the first place? If it's approximately an Arduino or less, stop worrying about it. Seriously.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like I'm dropping a class then. I fucking hate this school's administration.
Welcome to college.
My favorite incident of the sort:
Graduating seniors: We need this core curriculum class to graduate, but it's full.
Prof: I'm willing to take on an extra class beyond a normal full-time load so these seniors can graduate.
Dept. head: Prof, thank you for being willing to teach an extra class. Here's an overview class for non-major freshmen. Seniors, better luck next quarter.
Prof: I quit. (IIRC, he quit at the end of that quarter, although I may be conflating this a different, non-tenure-track instructor who was denied a tenure-track position.)
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@dkf It's about $85.
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@HardwareGeek At least that's not possible here. Graduating seniors always have number one priority registration in every class.
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@pie_flavor In theory, there, too. But there was only one section of the class but more than one class worth of students who needed it at the same time.
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@Tsaukpaetra I consistently stay near zero unread. I do prune topics and mark as ignoring, but I generally read almost everything. But I don't upvote it.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
But I don't upvote it.
Living life on the wild side?
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Status: Rewriting git history. (
582714 seconds passed, remaining25072805 predicted) Isn't the second number supposed to decrease as the first number increases?Filed under: Can I rewrite the part of history where Linus invents git?
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@HardwareGeek The time remaining has finally started going down, and is now slightly less than the elapsed time — almost entirely due to the increase in the elapsed time. The remaining time is now 4607 seconds.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
:not_sure_if_serious.pptx:
Now, imagine if HR would need to memorize the structure of Word's source code to work with it.what's wrong with that? we should design systems for intelligent people, if someone is too lazy to read through the X86 ISA docs and learn which interrupts to use then they don't deserve to have audio
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STATUS: Ow
In the hospital for some kind of pain in my ribs. I coughed way too hard the other day...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
It's about $85.
Yeah, that's really cheap for any kind of dev board. Depending on what you're doing, they can run to tens of thousands.
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@dkf Still.
I wonder if I should hold on to mine and rent it out for $20 to students taking that same class. 4 semesters later and I've broke even.
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@pie_flavor Pick a higher price. $50 and you'll be in profit after two runs and won't care too much if you lose the board (or some chump breaks it).
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@sloosecannon hope it's nothing serious :(
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I wish I could somehow filter out all car alarms from my life
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
I wish I could somehow filter out all car alarms from my life
Son of a shit it went off again
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
It's about $85.
Yeah, that's really cheap for any kind of dev board. Depending on what you're doing, they can run to tens of thousands.
Yep, just dropped 450 on an Arm dev board for home. Saying that though, all the lab work at Uni used hardware they provided. I wouldn't have expected to provide my own stuff.
Edit: Especially since as a starving student it was typically have lunch at Uni or pay for the bus, not both.
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Status: Woken up (relatively, for a Saturday) early today.
The neighbors have been running around with what sounds like a chainsaw for hours. It is winter, WHAT THE FUCK are you doing? What is this satanic noise?
Apparently it’s electric hedge trimmers, those blow things for people too lazy to sweep, and whatever else.
Why the fuck are you trimming hedges at 0°C, and why is it taking so long?!This is Germany, don’t we have laws against this kind of nuisance?!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I consistently stay near zero unread. I do prune topics and mark as ignoring, but I generally read almost everything. But I don't upvote it.
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
@sloosecannon hope it's nothing serious :(
Apparently not. X-ray came back clean. Got sent home with a bunch of pills and told "it's gonna hurt for a bit"
Great
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
I wish I could somehow filter out all car alarms from my life
You could stop stealing cars