The Official Status Thread
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@Lorne_Kates said:
why shouldn't I be running it?
umm..... based on your arguments shouldn't you be looking for a new browser?
No other browser fits the "all my plugins work" and "no forced ads" requirements. I'll loosely define "ads" as "spying on me for Google"
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I'll loosely define "ads" as "spying on me for Google"
ah.
god luck with that then.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
forced ads
Sponsored tiles got removed.
The fact that they were ever is a deadly sin-- it's a permanent bloody mark on Mozilla's soul that can never be wiped clean. Trust permanently blemished, with no possible way of regaining that trust. Fuck them.
I suppose if they fired all their CEOs, stopped paying millions of dollars of their payroll to just a few useless execs, killed their marketing department (note: I didn't say "fire"), and cut the developers back down to a small core group working on undoing everything that's been done since FF22, and then kept them on only to do bug fixes, security releases and support new hardware-- then maybe I'll upgrade.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I'll loosely define "ads" as "spying on me for Google"
ah.
god luck with that then.
Caught between two jokes.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Caught between two jokes.
well? what' stopping you from using both?
And now three.
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You don't care about security bugs? Do you use this copy of Firefox to convey your credit card information at any point?
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You don't care about security bugs? Do you use this copy of Firefox to convey your credit card information at any point?
And what security bugs should I be worried about, given I also run the whole stack of anti-JS and adblock things?
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Status.shouldBe = Doing useful work
Status.actuallyIs = programming Mandelbrot set explorers in various esoteric programming languages.
It's an obsession that started one day when I was really bored in
methmath class and had a programmable calculator with me.
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I would add
@Singleton
and@Deprecated(":doing_it_wrong:")
but wouldn't let me
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Didn't they just deprecate a bunch of crappy SSL encryption standards that were broken?
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Didn't they just deprecate a bunch of crappy SSL encryption standards that were broken?
I don't know. Did they?
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I'm going to confidently say yes, even though I'm too lazy to look it up.
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Status:
I've got twitchy-eye this morning from:
- Not enough sleep last night
- Dealing with dumbshits on this forum whom I hate
- Being informed that, because of a last-minute change made by a client they neglected to tell us about, the feature that originally had a code-complete of March 15th has to be done and QAed by March 7th (and I'm sole developer of it, also PTO next week)
Even worse, the feature that's had its timeline moved up, I can't even START on without input from my boss who has been stuck in meetings all morning.
AND my lunch is late.
So I guess today is the shitty day making up for yesterday's pretty good day. That's how karma works, right?
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Status: Turns out that Samsung's RAPID mode for SSDs and the Windows upgrading system for Insider Previews don't really work together.
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Status: Turns out that Samsung
's RAPID mode forSSDsand the Windows upgrading system for Insider Previewsdon't really worktogether.Well, at least the 840 Evo's had that nice slowdown bug.
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I'm currently more worried about something locking up my PC randomly.
Symptoms: All downloads (e.g. Steam) grind to a halt, I cannot open anything and all already open programs/apps seem to lock up as soon as they have to access a disc drive.
There's no trace of this in the event viewer, though.
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get resource manager open and check your disc queue when this is happening. i'll bet you a dollar that it spikes well above 1 (it should never exceed 1 except under extreme IO load)
if you're lucky you'll be able to identify a rogue process that spams IO, if you're unlucky it's something in the disc or SATA controller that's gone wonky.
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Consider that the vast majority of hardware makers seem incapable of writing 10 lines of code without introducing 20 new bugs. Now consider the complexity of SSD firmwares. Now consider that most of that firmware was written by our friend Assmung... so yeah. It's practically a miracle that it works in a different OS than was tested in without exploding.
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get resource manager open
"I cannot open anything". I really meant it when I wrote that. Yes, that includes the Task Manager.
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Yes, that includes the Task Manager.
This is why I have it open all the time in the background. Ya' neva know when ya might need it!
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Indeed. This does not fill me with confidence:
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@accalia said:
get resource manager open
"I cannot open anything". I really meant it when I wrote that. Yes, that includes the Task Manager.
i meant rather do it as soon as you can and leave it open for the next time it happens.
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Status:
Holy fuck. This is the curve one of my classes received on an exam we took last week.
Exam 2 score = [ sqrt(raw score) x 10 ] + 15
Thoughts, @Rhywden?
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That class is full of idiots.
If you can get half the answers on the exam right that curves to an 85. If you can get 1 in 4 correct you get a 65. I really hope that isn't a STEM based class.
That kind of grade curve is how NASA missed Mars by a few million miles in late-90s/early 2000s because they mixed Metric and Imperial units in code for the lander trajectory program.
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Without knowing how "Exam 2 score" is used (some weird raw number? and 0-100 based score? etc) and what the range of (raw score) is, it's kind of hard to say anything about this...
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That class is full of idiots
Well, there are only five short-answer questions on the exam, and the subject is rather... interesting.I really hope that isn't a STEM based class.
It is an upper-division biology elective focusing on how computations are performed by neurological structures.
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Exam 2 score
is the final score, out of 100, for the exam - it's what goes into our grades. The range ofraw score
is also 0-100.
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Status: I had assumed that subqueries were just as fast as the equivalent join, but apparently joins are infinity times faster, at least on postgres.
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Status:
Holy fuck. This is the curve one of my classes received on an exam we took last week.
Exam 2 score = [ sqrt(raw score) x 10 ] + 15
Thoughts, @Rhywden?
0 15
5 37.3607
10 46.6228
15 53.7298
20 59.7214
25 65
30 69.7723
35 74.1608
40 78.2456
45 82.082
50 85.7107
55 89.162
60 92.4597
65 95.6226
70 98.666
75 101.603
80 104.443
85 107.195
90 109.868
95 112.468
100 115
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if the planner is not clever enough to optimize those subqueries, then it will be slow as molases.
basicly, that subquery will be executed for every row of your resultset.
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Yup.
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Well, there are only five short-answer questions on the exam, and the subject is rather... interesting.
Getting 2 1/2 questions right and getting an curved-85 doesn't make me feel any better about the collective intelligence of you and/or your classmates.
@Fox said:It is an upper-division biology elective focusing on how computations are performed by neurological structures.
Sounds interesting if for no other reason on how cells might construct logical gates and/or do they even do that or just fuzz it.
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Status: Quick, someone make up some bullshit statistical explanation for this:
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Getting 2 1/2 questions right and getting an curved-85 doesn't make me feel any better about the collective intelligence of you and/or your classmates.
Well. Like I said, the subject is... interesting. And the questions are very in-depth.
Sounds interesting if for no other reason on how cells might construct logical gates and/or do they even do that or just fuzz it.
They do, actually. I think the only one we haven't discussed is XOR gates, which there is no known evidence for, according to our professor. Many higher-order cognitive functions rely on AND and NOT gates.
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100% of @ben_lubar's on Forest of Niflhel die horribly.
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if the opposing team makes 501 points, the history says that @ben_lubar has only 33% chances of winning.
(he did say bullshit statistics, not correct ones)
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John Ellis Bush
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It is an upper-division biology elective focusing on how computations are performed by neurological structures.
Color me intrigued...
They do, actually. I think the only one we haven't discussed is XOR gates, which there is no known evidence for, according to our professor. Many higher-order cognitive functions rely on AND and NOT gates.
interesting. I wonder if it's more that XOR is difficult to create or that AND and NOT are easier to fit into the XOR pattern, and having fewer logic types allows better compression of the template that builds them?
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You, or whoever, sucks at Forest of Niflhel?
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John Ellis Bush
That's not recursive enough to be interesting, though, although it
doeswould fit the "ATM machine" pattern if "jeb" actually were an acronym, which it isn't. Oh, I guess it sort of is? I never knew his middle name before.
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With this, we can get a much better BSE: You're not good at PVP.
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Necromancer
doesn't alwayshardly ever wins, but when he wins, it's overwhelmingly.
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Status: I'd like to thank @Ascendant for single-handedly fighting back the tide of . In honor, I'm working on making some very special underpants which should be finished in a few more days.