The Official Status Thread
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Status: It's snowing again. Weather forecasts, darksky.net etc are all showing light snow with <1cm accumulation, but looking out the window it's coming down hard and doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon. We really don't need any more of this crap.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
We really don't need any more of this crap.
Don't worry, it will all melt.
In July
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@hungrier We actually hit double-digit temperatures (F) today, and it momentarily stopped snowing!
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Status: company apparently didn't pay the Internet bill. That's awesome, considering we need to push an update hotfix...
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
People who use
i
should also be looked at suspiciously, there's a strong possibility they've been around too much PHP.Or C. Or FORTRAN! Or even BASIC!! I've been using
i
as a loop counter since Rasmus was in primary school, if not longer.
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Status: Looking for a good phone skin site that isn't dbrand (they don't have my phone model)
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@hungrier DBr - oh. Dunno. What's the model?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Looking for a good phone skin site that isn't dbrand (they don't have my phone model)
Flex seal!
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier We actually hit double-digit temperatures (F) today, and it momentarily stopped snowing!
Until Friday...
Fuck Minnesota winter in its frozen little starhole.
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@M_Adams said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier We actually hit double-digit temperatures (F) today, and it momentarily stopped snowing!
Until Friday...
Fuck Minnesota winter in its frozen little starhole.
On the plus side, six months from now it'll be far too hot!
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@Parody Yeah, but it won't be 'solar vortex' hot.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Yeah, but it won't be 'solar vortex' hot.
While it's not quite as extreme we can sit at "too warm and too humid" for days at a time, with occasional relief in the form of thunderstorms. This rarely shuts down the entire southern third of the state, though.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier DBr - oh. Dunno. What's the model?
It's the Xiaomi A2 Lite. So far I've found exacoat and GadgetShieldz that have skins for it
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier DBr - oh. Dunno. What's the model?
It's the Xiaomi A2 Lite. So far I've found exacoat and GadgetShieldz that have skins for it
Have you checked China? They pirate literally everything! Surely they have some options...
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Status: Attempting to offline convert my Server 2012 VM from VirtualBox to bhyve. Since bhyve doesn't really like BIOS-booting VMs unless they're going to be completely headless, I'm therefore also converting it from MBR/BIOS booting to GPT/UEFI booting.
Apparently there's a tool called
gptgen
, which alters the disk in-place with a GPT table. Would work wonders (or so I'm lead to believe) except that it's a 32-bit application, and the Windows Recovery Environment you can boot in UEFI mode is 64-bit only (No WOW here!).Cue transferring the disk image to my local computer, and subsequently to a drive emulator so that Windows can properly recognize it as a physical drive (ugh). Mounting it, running the tool, copying the small mod files back over and
dd
ing them onto the virtual disk.Next up, deleting the System Reserved partition and EFI-izing the disk properly, and then praying...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
then praying...
Status: OMG OMG OMG OMG is it actually going to work?!??
I'm cautiously optimistic....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm cautiously optimistic....
Status: Waiting.....!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
People who use
i
should also be looked at suspiciously, there's a strong possibility they've been around too much PHP.Or C. Or FORTRAN! Or even BASIC!! I've been using
i
as a loop counter since Rasmus was in primary school, if not longer.I wonder if everyone tends to still use the same one as they saw in examples when they first learnt to code?
Or if there is any actual tendency towards a certain one in certain languages, beyond confirmation bias when you seem to see the same one used in example code for a new language?
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@Cursorkeys What's wrong with i?
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys What's wrong with i?
Absolutely nothing, it was just a joke.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
counting variable
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
count
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@Tsaukpaetra it works. Though, strangely, it seems to always go through "getting devices ready" every boot. Something non-deterministic is happening but I can't tell what...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Have you checked China?
I've heard it's a big place, and quite far away.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Have you checked China?
I've heard it's a big place, and quite far away.
They do make all of our stuff, though, and I hear Amazon will ship it to you for cheap.
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@Parody Maybe, but I don't want to get some random skin from China, wait 9872398769512 days for it to ship, and find that the holes don't line up when I try to put it on. With DBrand I know it wouldn't be a problem, because I've used them before and their cutouts are perfect, and now I'm trying to find one before I buy that hopefully will have the same quality.
Right now I'm leaning towards GadgetShieldz, because from what I've seen online it looks like their stuff is pretty good.
Fake edit: Also, on Amazon (at least .ca) I can see 57918279876123 cases, but no skins.
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status Updates. Updates. Updates.
My 32bit Insider VM was starting to act very weird. Decided to just revert to my pre-insider snapshot (Build 1709) and start again.
First thing, bring this VM up-to-date. So, it's updating. To 1803 So I get to do it again.again.again...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
To 1803
Yeah, there isn't a straight jump to latest in many cases for.... reasons.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
To 1803
Yeah, there isn't a straight jump to latest in many cases for.... reasons.
It's like XP again! Finish installing all updates. Reboot. Oh, look. More. Rinse/repeat as needed.
Edit: Forgot about Win10 not wanting to upgrade immediately after an upgrade. That's what they make the download assistant for.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
It's like XP again!
ο Ί10: Isn't it what you wanted? To be more like the good old days. This is what you meant, right?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
It's like XP again!
ο Ί10: Isn't it what you wanted? To be more like the good old days. This is what you meant, right?
:areyounotentertained.mjpg:
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Status: Attempting to move from iSpy to Zoneminder for my security camera watcher program.
It's quite rough around the edges and deep inside. And the rtsp streams keep dying. Not sure if that's caused by the shitty pocket router I had to shim in due to the mouse that destroyed the ethernet cable it was using before though...
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Status: Former job has apparently gone bankrupt twice in as many years. What does that say about my current job, which laid off literally everyone but me?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
What does that say about my current job, which laid off literally everyone but me
I've been there, it's flattering for a while..then they lay you off too, with zero notice or pay. I hope you have your CV out there already.
Edit: Not to be negative, I hope your company finds its feet again without that. It was just a really bad experience for me as a whole.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
the mouse that destroyed the ethernet cable it was using
I've seen plenty of fancy "gaming" devices, but I'd never heard of an Ethernet mouse before!
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@Zerosquare
It's IoT mouse. Instead of being connected directly to your computer it sends packets to a remote server which then writes them in a blockchain and forwards to your computer and several advertisers that look at your privacy and security very seriously.
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Status: Diodes have forward recovery as well as reverse?!
This has been murdering my project for weeks, it doesn't really appear in the literature at all and was never mentioned during semiconductor physics lectures when I did my degree.
When you start running into weird physics edge-cases in your projects maybe you're pushing state-of-the-art a little too far...
Edit: It was allowing energy to flow places it shouldn't, I was playing whack-a-mole with parts of the circuit, as soon as I protected one bit the energy would find a path somewhere else and explode that bit instead.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
When you start running into weird physics edge-cases in your projects maybe you're pushing state-of-the-art a little too far...
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Status: A colleague has managed to completely forget the difference between
&
and*
in C when applied to pointers, and is wondering why his code is crashing βweirdlyβ. I'm proud of the fact that I've not yet told him to give up and fuck off back to Pythonβ¦
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Diodes have forward recovery as well as reverse?!
Hmmm... yeah? A quick Google search found this:
Forward recovery time, tfr
The time required for the voltage to reach a specified value (normally 110 % of the steady state forward voltage drop), after instantaneous switching from zero or a specified reverse voltage to a specified forward biased condition (forward current). This recovery time is especially noticeable when higher currents are to be switched within a short time. The reason is that the forward resistance during the turn-on time could be higher than the DC current (inductive behavior). This can result in the destruction of a diode because of high instantaneous power loss if constant current control is used.@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
it doesn't really appear in the literature at all and was never mentioned during semiconductor physics lectures when I did my degree.
You need to stop reading stuff from theoreticians, and start reading stuff from people who actually build the damn things
(I'm teasing you, but I can relate. There's nothing worse than tearing your hair out for weeks on a problem and finding it's actually known and solved, it's just that you weren't looking in the right place.)
EDIT: maybe you already did this, but asking the manufacturers of the component(s) can help in those situations. They have applications engineers whose job is to know how their products are used in the real world, and help customers avoid gotchas.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
You need to stop reading stuff from theoreticians, and start reading stuff from people who actually build the damn things
(I'm teasing you, but I can relate. There's nothing worse than tearing your hair out for weeks on a problem and finding it's actually known and solved, it's just that you weren't looking in the right place.)
EDIT: maybe you already did this, but asking the manufacturers of the component(s) can help in those situations. They have applications engineers whose job is to know how their products are used in the real world, and help customers avoid gotchas.For sure, it's just that I've never come across it before. And neither had my colleagues. I think it's just not normally something that's an issue maybe, so it stays out of mind.
I've had limited success with directly questioning manufacturers, usually the first question is 'how many p/a?' and then that's the last you hear from them. Maxim were always lovely though, very free with samples too.
Edit: I also didn't know it was the diodes until I finally saw it happening, I was struggling to capture anything at all with the scope. It all happens on the nanosecond scale. That and the wideband RF from the spark-gap coupling into absolutely everything...
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
I've had limited success with directly questioning manufacturers, usually the first question in 'how many p/a?' and then that's the last you hear from them.
Ah, yeah, they all ask that. The trick is that you can be... "creative"... with the truth.
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@dkf You should tell him to try Haskell.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
When you start running into weird physics edge-cases in your projects maybe you're pushing state-of-the-art a little too far...
Why is the left guy about to stick his finger in a plate of spaghetti?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Why is the left guy about to stick his finger in a plate of spaghetti?
You've not seen an old style electric hob recently?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
Ethernet mouse
Stupid IoT shit ... the lag would be Yuge
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@Luhmann
Not necessarily. Not if they're using deep learning artificial neural networks and big data algorithms to predict your mouse events before they happen.
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@Tsaukpaetra
I'd be more concerned that you seem to be a Business Typhoid Mary