The Official Status Thread
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
that was the crux of @fox's image macro
Shhh, I'm pretending l posted it before I saw @Fox's post.
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@dkf Sadly, left neighbor is a cornfield, right neighbor is an abandoned house (which doesn't front on the correct street anyway), rear neighbor is a cornfield, across the street neighbors have been pulled out to a retirement home. And that covers everything on my branch of the neighborhood. Calls to any other houses still leave a good 100 yards between me and the path emergency services would cut.
Hell, ignoring the cornfields, the last 100 yards of road only go to two driveways: and they're both mine.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Sadly, left neighbor is a cornfield, right neighbor is an abandoned house (which doesn't front on the correct street anyway), rear neighbor is a cornfield, across the street neighbors have been pulled out to a retirement home. And that covers everything on my branch of the neighborhood. Calls to any other houses still leave a good 100 yards between me and the path emergency services would cut.
Hell, ignoring the cornfields, the last 100 yards of road only go to two driveways: and they're both mine.
You must get a lot of free corn.
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@Lorne-Kates Status:
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@Lorne-Kates Feed corn, so it's not particularly good eating. Not that I haven't availed myself on occasion.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Hell, ignoring the cornfields, the last 100 yards of road only go to two driveways: and they're both mine.
Shucks! A great plan — getting them to go past your property on the way to dealing with a neighbor — is foiled by cruel reality!
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Status: Hour 14 of this work day. This report generator WILL work or one of us dies.
Progress sample:
Dictionary<DateTime,Dictionary<int,Dictionary<int, Dictionary<DateTime, Class>>>>
Some mistakes were made in the original structure...
Edit: Done. Made the deadline but that's a lot of refactoring I need to do tomorrow. Urgh.
Edit2: For the love of fuck. I've attached the new data to the wrong email job and it didn't go out to the customer. Sod it, I'm going to bed. I can grovel in the morning.
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Status: Hunting ghost issues.
Queries and stored procs will randomly hang for no reason, turning things that should take less than 1 second into 38-second "we're sorry the server isn't responding" errors:
And then out of nowhere it starts working fine again. For a bit.
The DBAs' tooling can't seem to find any issue at all.
Might start a General Help thread if this persists much longer, everyone is just scratching their heads over this.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
Because, apparently, you couldn't do that in Fortran until 2008?
@HardwareGeek probably can answer this better, but IIRC Fortran only had global variables back in the day. Maybe there were per-function variables; I don't recall.
I think per-function variables have been around for a while (at least f90/95, which IIRC is the first fortran I stumbled across); nowadays you definitively can have them. I'd guess that automatic/stack storage is the default nowadays, but don't quote me on that. (The blocks that I mentioned add additional scopes to functions, but again it seems that you can apply attributes to change how they're actually stored.)
FWIW - this excursion into the lands of fortran isn't exactly endearing me to the language. Or to the people that claim that "modern fortran" is indeed a modern language, especially with its recent (2003 or 2008?) addition of support for object oriented programming.
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Status: Thanks, I guess...
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Status: Wondering if an Arduino's GPIOs are sensitive enough to make a rudimentary EKG. My heart is doing some strange things and it would be fun to take a look.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
My heart is doing some strange things
"call a doctor" strange things or "call an exorcist" strange things?
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Wondering if an Arduino's GPIOs are sensitive enough to make a rudimentary EKG
Not without amplification, I would suspect.
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@ben_lubar I suppose the former, but all they'll do (like they have every other time) is say "Yep, you have some arrhythmia going on. Nope, nothing we can do, go home, good luck, and please pay the bill on your way out!"
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering if an Arduino's GPIOs are sensitive enough to make a rudimentary EKG. My heart is doing some strange things and it would be fun to take a look.
Considering the amount of stuff you have to build in order to get a somewhat usable signal-to-noise ratio, I'd say: Don't bother.
Coax cables of equal length, Galvanic separation between control and measuring units, band-pass filter, a Faraday cage, screening aganst magnetic fields, high impedance (> 10E8 Ohm) with low capacitance (< 2000 pF) and so on and so forth.
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KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
I thought I'd escaped attending the nightmare wedding of the year by virtue of having written an essay informing the groom that he was making a giant fucking mistake. On an email thread with the bride and virtually every single one of both of their friends. Two days before Christmas.
Everyone else got Save the Dates. I didn't. And then everyone else got an invite. I didn't. And then RSVP's closed.
And I just got a text message telling me that my invite had been returned by the post office (incorrect address, as it turns out).
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
Sadly, left neighbor is a cornfield, right neighbor is an abandoned house (which doesn't front on the correct street anyway), rear neighbor is a cornfield, across the street neighbors have been pulled out to a retirement home.
Sadly? That's fucking amazing, I could finally buy a drum kit and a good bass amp if I lived there.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Wondering if an Arduino's GPIOs are sensitive enough to make a rudimentary EKG
Are you willing to risk accidentally putting +5V across them? Are your C coding skills good enough you'd be willing to bet your life on them?
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
I thought I'd escaped attending the nightmare wedding of the year by virtue of having written an essay informing the groom that he was making a giant fucking mistake. On an email thread with the bride and virtually every single one of both of their friends. Two days before Christmas.
Everyone else got Save the Dates. I didn't. And then everyone else got an invite. I didn't. And then RSVP's closed.
And I just got a text message telling me that my invite had been returned by the post office (incorrect address, as it turns out).
I'm getting to hear about a trainwreck-to-be by proxy. A friend of mine has been asked by her best friend to be her maid of honour.
She also thinks it's a big mistake and from what she told me, I'd agree wholeheartedly.
Basically, she (her friend, that is) hasn't had too much experience with men until her 34th birthday while he is the archetype of a computer nerd: No experience with women at all (not even a kiss), lives with his parents (don't know about any basements, though), doesn't know how to cook or wash his stuff and is socially inept (when my friend met the two, he wouldn't meet her eyes and be tongue-tied.)
They met through an online dating service, have moved in together after 3 months and are planning the wedding for next year's spring. They haven't even been on a mutual holiday yet.
And she's already planning the children. My friend thinks that he, while initially being receptive to the idea, is beginning to show signs of panic.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
hasn't had too much experience with men until her 34th birthday
And she suddenly gained much experience with men then? That must've been one hell of a birthday party.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
hasn't had too much experience with men until her 34th birthday
And she suddenly gained much experience with men then? That must've been one hell of a birthday party.
Well, considering the guy she wants to marry, I'm dubious about her experience now - 'twas merely a statement of "Until this date, this value was {epsilon-sized}, henceforth it shall be {undefined}".
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Status: Got the Parking spaces map for the new building. Not impressed that my cube will literally be the in the corner farthest away from any of the allotted areas. I think I'm going to stretch boundaries...
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@Rhywden Ha, this is:
Him: Socially inept, hyper religious nerd. 30. Less than zero experience with women (like, no frigging porn even!). He didn't live with his parents, but only because he'd been living for several years in a sort of post-collegiate frathouse another one of my friends had assembled. Except instead of frat boys, everybody who has ever lived there works in IT, sucks at women, and is an irredeemable alcoholic gun nut nerd.
Her: 25. 2 prior dumpster fire marriages before age 21. The first of which reportedly involved her dad and a shotgun making the persuasive argument about "you break it you bought it". 2 kids (one from each marriage). She's from Alabama. She was also pregnant for the second wedding, though dad was in prison.She was hit by a bus (literally) early in their dating and suffered actual brain damage (she's kinda fucking crazy now). Shortly thereafter, she touched his peepee and he decided he had to do the honorable thing. He took over her bills, helped her be a part-time parent, bought a fucking house and got engaged to her so she would win a custody fight (because she transitioned from being unemployed and living in a ghetto apartment above the effing court house (WHAT KIND OF SHITTY COURT HOUSE HAS APARTMENTS UPSTAIRS?) with a boyfriend who lives in a commune with guns literally laying on every horizontal surface to suddenly being engaged to an upstanding guy of substantial financial means with a permanent home in a nice part of town with nice schools.
You know that thing people do when they're house shopping where they ask friends for opinions? He asked his friends how much money he should offer on this place (the answer was "nothing because that price is absolutely fucking insane for that property") AFTER he had already put in an offer for MORE THAN asking price. Because time was of the essence and he wanted an accepted offer before the custody hearing.
My bet for "she'll be pregnant before the wedding" is quickly running out. I think he got wind of our betting pool and has cut off the premarital sex train.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
My bet for "she'll be pregnant before the wedding" is quickly running out. I think he got wind of our betting pool and has cut off the premarital sex train.
Wait, I'm not really familiar with betting terms. Does this mean it's probably not going to happen now?
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@Tsaukpaetra With only 2 weeks to go, it's highly unlikely.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering if an Arduino's GPIOs are sensitive enough to make a rudimentary EKG. My heart is doing some strange things and it would be fun to take a look.
Definitely not, the signal is tiny and noisy.
There is a nice open-source project if you want to make one though: http://mobilecg.hu/
Or you could just make a carefully designed instrumentation amplifier to go with your arduino and that should work for a simple 3-lead one. Analog Devices have some really nice IA chips.
If you want a quick and easy 'is my heart beat irregular' my cheap eBay blood pressure monitor can pick up my PVC which is kind of neat to see it flash up.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
t all they'll do
If you think you might actually have a problem, you need to convince your doctor to do a study, where they put a machine on you that you wear for 48 hours to 2 weeks. It'll shriek at you when it detects anything unusual and then, via connected cellular device, upload the data directly to them. You'll probably have to go see a cardiologist, and may need to talk your PCP into doing a referral if you're on an HMO. It may also be necessary to get preapproval from your insurance.
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@FrostCat I've done the Holter Monitor thing before, it showed that I have premature ventricular contractions (PVCs). They come and go and there isn't a whole lot that can be done. While physically uncomfortable, they typically aren't dangerous. Today I'm having a ton of them for some reason.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I'm going to stretch boundaries...
You're going to deliberately break your own leg and get a temporary handicapped parking placard? I salute your bravery and/or foolhardiness.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wondering if an Arduino's GPIOs are sensitive enough to make a rudimentary EKG. My heart is doing some strange things and it would be fun to take a look.
American healthcare is worse than I thought.
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@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
actual brain damage (she's kinda fucking crazy now).
This is a blood-red dripping BACK THE FUCK UP flag. I have an uncle who married a woman who turned out to be crazy--her family helped keep it a secret beforehand--and it went from picking imaginary bugs out of the air to her trying to stab him.
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@mott555 Ok, if you've already done it, you're one step ahead of me, so I won't speculate any further. My wife's problem was tachycardia.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I'm going to stretch boundaries...
You're going to deliberately break your own leg and get a temporary handicapped parking placard? I salute your bravery and/or foolhardiness.
It doesn't need to be deliberate. I can just excercise and my ankle will strain itself without much effort. In fact, I'll even make it an accident: if I can exceed 115 strides per minute tomorrow (my current maximum for walking pattern) this is fairly likely to happen. Maybe 27 percent.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
xceed 115 strides per minute tomorrow (my current maximum for walking pattern)
That's probably because at that pace you should kick your gait from "walk" to "jog".
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
xceed 115 strides per minute tomorrow (my current maximum for walking pattern)
That's probably because at that pace you should kick your gait from "walk" to "jog".
Yeah, I... Can't currently do that in my current state. Hence the strain.
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@Tsaukpaetra You could also get a segway or one of those things they laughingly call hoverboards.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra You could also get a segway or one of those things they laughingly call hoverboards.
Why spend money when I can accomplish the injury for free???
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Why spend money when I can accomplish the injury for free???
Here's a crazy thought: Use the motorized vehicle instead of walking or getting an injury.
Just in case it hadn't occurred to you.
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This stupid wedding has already cost me money. It's on a Sunday (WHO HAS A WEDDING ON A SUNDAY!?), and it's 10 minutes from work. There ain't no damned way I'm getting drunk off my face at a reception, driving an hour home and then driving an hour back to work a few hours later.
Unfortunately, it's also High Tourist Season. And I work in a giant tourist trap of a town. So everything north of Knight's Inn and America's Best Value Inn (note to foreigners: These are places where you go to catch STDs, not places you actually stay) costs $120/night. Even the frigging Super 8 that just half burned down.
I booked into some swanky looking 3.5 star joint near the reception called The Warehouse Hotel for $150.
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@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates Status:
Related: A friend bought Bananagrams, which is basically a scrabble variant where each player is running their own board and can rearrange at will.
The first playthrough involved my use of "FUCKO" and "SAXY" (defined as an adjective describing music featuring inherently sexual saxophone elements. Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECyeUYsU14E
Eurovision is hilarious.)My competitors retaliated with Spanish.
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Which one, alan or Brad?
Filed under: Actually, I'm pretty sure both were evil already
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Weng said in The Official Status Thread:
My bet for "she'll be pregnant before the wedding" is quickly running out. I think he got wind of our betting pool and has cut off the premarital sex train.
Wait, I'm not really familiar with betting terms. Does this mean it's probably not going to happen now?
I'd have laid down $500 in the pool and $5 at the pharmacy for condoms.
Honeymoon funds++
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Gosh, you can remember a thread four years ago complaining about ostrich errors but you can't remember insults you threw at people? That's amazing!
Amazing, but not at all unexpected.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
a mere 9 centimeters
Hey, that's a lot! ...right, guys?
We Americans have NFC, and would have to get out a ruler to figure out the conversion.
We could try converting by dividing by 2.54, but would fuck that up and end up with a number befitting @Groaner's 787 Dreamboner.
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@Jarry said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
working from a hostel on the side of a mountain.
i love being able to work remote...until you are sliced up by a Dutchman who always wanted to be a surgeon.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@FrostCat said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
why?
Iunno, go ask a touch-typing teacher.
Probably because much of typing technique is still based on practices that developed on manual typewriters. It took a fair bit of effort to press a key firmly enough to make a good mark on the paper, and pressing a modifier key (i.e., shift) also required enough force to move the mechanism. Trying to do both with the same hand would likely not do either properly. The reasoning no longer applies, but the teaching persists.
You could have just said, "Because I am older than Methuselah" and saved a lot of typing.
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@Erufael said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 ...How does that even work?
I have one of these:
http://d2ydh70d4b5xgv.cloudfront.net/images/4/a/hp-envy-m6-k-15-6-palmrest-touchpad-w-keyboard-am0wu000110-missing-1-key-tested-708afa39784fc2eec2f2bc8bc91a6470.jpg
The trackpad doesn't seem to extend under the palm rest (?) at all.Yours is missing keys and a screen?
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@Polygeekery well no, I assumed that the fact I meant only the same model was implied. I must have forgotten where I was. ;)
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
We Americans have NFC, and would have to get out a ruler to figure out the conversion.
We could try converting by dividing by 2.54, but would fuck that up and end up with a number befitting @Groaner's 787 Dreamboner.
The decimal point would probably three digits too far to the right in that divisor.