The Official Status Thread
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I should probably get around to doing some work instead of browsing WTDWTF at the office all day.
I put WTDWTF as a small tile on my second monitor and then I can easily use it when I can't do anything else for a little bit. Thankfully
MPLAB-X and Android Studiopractically every development tool come to think of it, take ages to build anything so I get plenty of opportunity.I should quantify sometime exactly how much of my life is just waiting for progress bars...
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@anonymous234 WTDWTF is currently shitting all over my productivity.
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windows 7 requires administrator permissions if I want to calibrate my display colors, WTF?
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Status: Scores were low on the most recent test, including for the "good" students. Normally that indicates that something was screwy with the test...but no, they just derped the easy ones.
Example:
What is the wavelength of a radio wave with frequency 7.45 MHz?
a) 2.6e-2 m
b) 2.6e-8 m
c) 3.8e7 m
d) 38 m11 out of 17 missed that question. Those that missed it usually put
c
. And we even gave them a sheet that hadM = 10^6
on it!Guess this will be a wake-up call grade!
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@Benjamin-Hall Did the sheet also include the refractive index of air?
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Did the sheet also include the refractive index of air?
It was in a vacuum. This is super basic physics (ie physics utopia where we define
n_air === 1
)
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@dkf Does any substance have a refractive index that could drop the wavelength by three orders of magnitude though?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It was in a vacuum. This is super basic physics (ie physics utopia where we define
n_air === 1
)Hmm, then none of the answers are right, because one of them is 5% off (whereas the others are many orders of magnitude out). I was hoping to put that down to this being in air and not in space…
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Does any substance have a refractive index that could drop the wavelength by three orders of magnitude though?
A Bose-Einstein condensate can go even higher than that.
edit: Damn, wrong way. This one ups the wavelength, of course :)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
It was in a vacuum. This is super basic physics (ie physics utopia where we define
n_air === 1
)Hmm, then none of the answers are right, because one of them is 5% off (whereas the others are many orders of magnitude out). I was hoping to put that down to this being in air and not in space…
Rounding. Plus me transcribing it wrong--it was 7.85 MHz, not 7.45 MHz. So the correct answer was 38.2 m, using
c = 3e8 m/s
(which is the version of the constant we use). The actual test had the right version.Of course, 11 of them also missed the one that said
A ray of light hits a plane mirror at 29o to the normal. The reflected ray comes off at
a) 71o to the surface
b) 71o to the normal
c) 29o to the surface
d) 29o to the normal.They put
c
again.They mostly got the ones that actually took thought (it was a unit about mirrors), but the derpy gimme questions? Nope.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's a buncha fuckin' files, could kill the devs to provide more information than
Error N° 1025 [Ok]
??? Or a log? Something?Over twice as good as
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Scores were low on the most recent test, including for the "good" students. Normally that indicates that something was screwy with the test...but no, they just derped the easy ones.
Example:
What is the wavelength of a radio wave with frequency 7.45 MHz?
a) 2.6e-2 m
b) 2.6e-8 m
c) 3.8e7 m
d) 38 m11 out of 17 missed that question. Those that missed it usually put
c
. And we even gave them a sheet that hadM = 10^6
on it!Guess this will be a wake-up call grade!
With one significant digit,
3e8/7e6
smells like option D. You mention a cheatsheet so that probably has C, and given kids these days they probably had calculators too. And it's multiple guess.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Scores were low on the most recent test, including for the "good" students. Normally that indicates that something was screwy with the test...but no, they just derped the easy ones.
Example:
What is the wavelength of a radio wave with frequency 7.45 MHz?
a) 2.6e-2 m
b) 2.6e-8 m
c) 3.8e7 m
d) 38 m11 out of 17 missed that question. Those that missed it usually put
c
. And we even gave them a sheet that hadM = 10^6
on it!Guess this will be a wake-up call grade!
With one significant digit,
3e8/7e6
smells like option D. You mention a cheatsheet so that probably has C, and given kids these days they probably had calculators too. And it's multiple guess.They just flat out ignored the units. And yes, we gave them
c
and EVEN THE BASIC EQUATIONc = f lambda
!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Of course, 11 of them also missed the one that said
A ray of light hits a plane mirror at 29o to the normal. The reflected ray comes off at
a) 71o to the surface
b) 71o to the normal
c) 29o to the surface
d) 29o to the normal.Are you typing on the phone? I can understand notational laziness for special charachters, but even phone keyboards usually have ° easily available.
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@topspin Computer keyboards (at least those in the One True Layout, US English QWERTY) don't have it. But at least for ° there's an easy to remember HTML entity
°
.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I can understand notational laziness for special charachters, but even phone keyboards usually have ° easily available.
Neither my phone keyboard nor my qwerty PC keyboard has ° immediately available.
I had a short exchange about this with my manager earlier this week when I was typing something out and immediately added in the » which we commonly use as a glue character. Initially, he thought it was over-eager. Then I did it again and he wondered how I did it and if it was a linux thing.
I had to disappoint him that wincompose isn't on the approved software list.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Of course, 11 of them also missed the one that said
A ray of light hits a plane mirror at 29o to the normal. The reflected ray comes off at
a) 71o to the surface
b) 71o to the normal
c) 29o to the surface
d) 29o to the normal.Are you typing on the phone? I can understand notational laziness for special charachters, but even phone keyboards usually have ° easily available.
I was typing on my laptop keyboard...and too lazy for that. Oh, and Muphry's law is in full effect here (
charachters
) =)
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@PleegWat I have the alt codes for the degrees symbol and trademark symbol memorized. But I do most of my general web surfing on Linux now, and apparently alt codes don't work on Linux. (at least Mint with Cinnamon.)
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Some computer keyboard layouts, such as the QWERTY layout as used in Italy, the QWERTZ layout as used in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the AZERTY layout as used in France and Belgium, have the degree symbol available directly on a key. But the common keyboard layouts in English-speaking countries do not include the degree sign, which then has to be input some other way. The method of inputting depends on the operating system being used.
TIL.
Phone on US English layout:
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@Benjamin-Hall if I'm doing this correctly, option d) is closest...
fake edit: oh hey, Google actually has megahertz as a unit, so it's even easier...
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@topspin I just checked on Swiftkey and at least on mine it's not available as an alternate on any of the keys, and it takes two clicks (123 followed by #$% which isn't available from the default letter layout) to get to the page that has it.
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@brie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall if I'm doing this correctly, option d) is closest...
fake edit: oh hey, Google actually has megahertz as a unit, so it's even easier...
Typo on my part when I transcribed it--the real test had
7.85 MHz
, not 7.45 MHz. So 38.2 m (option d) is the correct answer.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Does any substance have a refractive index that could drop the wavelength by three orders of magnitude though?
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
windows 7 requires administrator permissions if I want to calibrate my display colors, WTF?
The settings are stored in the Local Machine registry hive and are not a per-user setting?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Of course, 11 of them also missed the one that said
A ray of light hits a plane mirror at 29o to the normal. The reflected ray comes off at
a) 71o to the surface
b) 71o to the normal
c) 29o to the surface
d) 29o to the normal.Are you typing on the phone? I can understand notational laziness for special charachters, but even phone keyboards usually have ° easily available.
°• huh. While I wouldn't call it "easily available", it is there. Funny.
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@brie said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Does any substance have a refractive index that could drop the wavelength by three orders of magnitude though?
Holy shit! The aliens in plan 9 from outer space were right about us! We have to go extinct.
STATUS Uuuuuuuuuuggghhh using a content repository like a RDBMS. How could things possible go wrong?
*edit I will kill the person who forced the concept of tags instead of folders for organising stuff. Tags are useful but folders and gasp folders within folders are far more useful.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Scores were low on the most recent test, including for the "good" students. Normally that indicates that something was screwy with the test...but no, they just derped the easy ones.
Example:
What is the wavelength of a radio wave with frequency 7.45 MHz?
a) 2.6e-2 m
b) 2.6e-8 m
c) 3.8e7 m
d) 38 m11 out of 17 missed that question. Those that missed it usually put
c
. And we even gave them a sheet that hadM = 10^6
on it!Guess this will be a wake-up call grade!
With one significant digit,
3e8/7e6
smells like option D. You mention a cheatsheet so that probably has C, and given kids these days they probably had calculators too. And it's multiple guess.They just flat out ignored the units. And yes, we gave them
c
and EVEN THE BASIC EQUATIONc = f lambda
!That's pretty much par for the course.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Scores were low on the most recent test, including for the "good" students. Normally that indicates that something was screwy with the test...but no, they just derped the easy ones.
Example:
What is the wavelength of a radio wave with frequency 7.45 MHz?
a) 2.6e-2 m
b) 2.6e-8 m
c) 3.8e7 m
d) 38 m11 out of 17 missed that question. Those that missed it usually put
c
. And we even gave them a sheet that hadM = 10^6
on it!Guess this will be a wake-up call grade!
Off the top of my head, the Amateur Radio "40 m" band is ~7.5 MHz, so of the available choices, d must be correct. A is in the microwave region; b is 26 nm, which is high energy UV, almost X-ray; and c is 7.9 Hz, below audio frequency.
Also, the numbers are a bit off. As @brie noted, it should be 40.24 m, not 38.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I will kill the person who forced the concept of tags instead of folders for organising stuff. Tags are useful but folders and gasp folders within folders are far more useful.
Shh! Don't tell the guys in the thread that has drifted into arguing about a flat file system in which files are identified by GUIDs, not names. Or rather, do tell them, although they won't listen to you.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, the numbers are a bit off. As @brie noted, it should be 40.24 m, not 38.
See my correction above--that should have been 7.85 MHz, not 7.45 MHz. Option d is the correct answer.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
forced the concept of tags
Just misappropriate tags to emulate hierarchy, and you'll be fine!
Filed under: 1:(Users) 2:(Admin) 3:(Documents) 4:(Taxes) 5:(Death)
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
See my correction above
Noted. Of course, I posted before I saw that.
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Status: NodeBB over HDSPA is almost usable.
It's fortunate it doesn't fall all the way down to WCDMA...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
See my correction above
Noted. Of course, I posted before I saw that.
He's going to regret not editing and correcting that for a few days more...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
See my correction above
Noted. Of course, I posted before I saw that.
He's going to regret not editing and correcting that for a few days more...
I'm going to just start ignoring that error from now on...really. Truly....sigh.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
You know, for all the tech stuff that seems to break on me for no reason, my old Toshiba HDD and Samsung SSD have been in use for a decade now and haven't given me any problems.
You probably shouldn't have said that...
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 WTDWTF is currently shitting all over my productivity.
Ah, but it's keeping you mentally more alert. So while the number of work hours decrease, the productivity during that time increases. So it's either a net-gain or comes out even. Yeah. That's definitely what I'm going with...
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Status: I wonder if this crash is caused by not having enough characters for the "source string"...
Hrm....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
forced the concept of tags
Just misappropriate tags to emulate hierarchy, and you'll be fine!
Filed under: 1:(Users) 2:(Admin) 3:(Documents) 4:(Taxes) 5:(Death)
(tries to add a sub "folder" of Documents under Death) E_TAG_ALREADY_EXISTS
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
forced the concept of tags
Just misappropriate tags to emulate hierarchy, and you'll be fine!
Filed under: 1:(Users) 2:(Admin) 3:(Documents) 4:(Taxes) 5:(Death)
(tries to add a sub "folder" of Documents under Death) E_TAG_ALREADY_EXISTS
That would be
6:(Documents)
, natch.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
forced the concept of tags
Just misappropriate tags to emulate hierarchy, and you'll be fine!
Filed under: 1:(Users) 2:(Admin) 3:(Documents) 4:(Taxes) 5:(Death)
(tries to add a sub "folder" of Documents under Death) E_TAG_ALREADY_EXISTS
That would be
6:(Documents)
, natch.(later) Where did I put that damn thing. (Looks for
Document
) E_NO_TAG. (ok, how to I do a regex-tag search?) "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
You know, for all the tech stuff that seems to break on me for no reason, my old Toshiba HDD and Samsung SSD have been in use for a decade now and haven't given me any problems.
You probably shouldn't have said that...
That's why I haven't commented on my good experience with a drive usually considered unreliable.
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I don't know if anyone's said it yet, but I think it's a sewing machine
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't know if anyone's said it yet, but I think it's a sewing machine
You get a.... few leftover crumbs. Sorry, I was hungry and ate the cookies that were left over...
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@Tsaukpaetra I have some more leftover spaghetti that he could try.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I have some more leftover spaghetti that he could try.
I think the Geneva Convention kicks in on that...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I have some more leftover spaghetti that he could try.
How many kilos of ghost peppers have you added?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
That would be 6:(Documents), natch.
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
(later) Where did I put that damn thing. (Looks for Document) E_NO_TAG.
that topic is
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