The Official Status Thread
-
-
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Pouring rain and howling wind.
Rain has stopped and seems like it will stay stopped for a while. Still very windy but not howling. Drive to work was uneventful.
-
@Benjamin-Hall Coordinates suck for composition. But witness how virtually everybody around here hates point-free notations.
-
@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Coordinates suck for composition. But witness how virtually everybody around here hates point-free notations.
They're absolutely more abstract. Doing general relativity in fully co- and contra-variant notation was mind bending (still is). But I found that abstracting away all the integral calculus and going straight to a more matrix-based idea let you see all the concepts way easier because you're not wading through ugly math. It's elegant and beautiful, but takes a different mindset.
I'll be honest though, I'm one of those weird people who saw QM and thought "oh, that makes sense." I never did the really messy stuff (QFD, QCD), for which I'm really grateful.
-
@Benjamin-Hall Yeah, well the fact that the bra- and -ket are left and right adjoints means that you have a tripleable (monadic) adjunction, so there's naturally a monad to model sequences quantum events. But don't say the M word. ๏
-
@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Yeah, well the fact that the bra- and -ket are left and right adjoints means that you have a tripleable (monadic) adjunction, so there's naturally a monad to model a sequence of quantum events. But don't say the M word. ๏
Words. There are words there.
I prefer the vector/matrix interpretation personally. But whatever orthogonalizes your Hilbert space.
-
-
@anonymous234 Mulva
-
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
But don't say the M word. ๏
That's nuts!
-
@Captain But is it a mulvoid in the category of endolores?
-
How about a nice game of cricket?
-
Status, after reading the last few pages: "Oh, I may be a scientist by degree, but I never wanted to be anything else but a programmer."
-
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
How about a nice game of cricket?
The only winning move is not to play.
-
@topspin The same is true of quantum mechanics.
-
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin The same is true of quantum mechanics.
Except QM isn't optional.
-
@Benjamin-Hall But the math is, and I opted out many years ago.
-
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall But the math is, and I opted out many years ago.
True.
-
@Gฤ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My phone just got update to Android 10. And it's a Huawei, of all things! Updating right now. I wonder how much stuff will blow up...
Since my phone is still on 8.0.0, I don't think it will ever get an update to 10. Par for the course with AT&T.
-
Status: When the kernel starts thrashing your disk and you don't know why...
Edit: rebooted and it's still thrashing. WTF. Am I hacked?
Seems to be affecting only one drive, but why and what???!?
-
@Tsaukpaetra Full disk scan?
-
Status: One hour until time to go home. Five unread threads (not counting Song of the Day, which I don't read/listen to at work). Will I make it, or will I be forced to do some work at the end of the day?
-
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gฤ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My phone just got update to Android 10. And it's a Huawei, of all things! Updating right now. I wonder how much stuff will blow up...
Since my phone is still on 8.0.0, I don't think it will ever get an update to 10. Par for the course with AT&T.
I'd say "you get what you paid for", but in this case I'm pretty sure you paid way more than you could buy it carrier-free.
-
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gฤ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My phone just got update to Android 10. And it's a Huawei, of all things! Updating right now. I wonder how much stuff will blow up...
Since my phone is still on 8.0.0, I don't think it will ever get an update to 10. Par for the course with AT&T.
Meanwhile in another universe: "I can't get new tires for my car because I bought it through Exxon Mobil."
-
@Gฤ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gฤ ska said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: My phone just got update to Android 10. And it's a Huawei, of all things! Updating right now. I wonder how much stuff will blow up...
Since my phone is still on 8.0.0, I don't think it will ever get an update to 10. Par for the course with AT&T.
I'd say "you get what you paid for", but in this case I'm pretty sure you paid way more than you could buy it carrier-free.
Nah. I didn't pay anything - my last company did! AT&T doesn't like to update anything that's older than 6 months. Maybe 12. I have an S7. And since I now have to pay for my own phone, I'll keep this until it doesn't work.
-
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Full disk scan?
Not from antivirus (to my knowledge. Perhaps Windows Defender is lying. Wouldn't be the first time).
Rebooted. It was fine for a while. Now it's back again...
Bloody hell....
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Not from antivirus
Forgot about
System
in the top box - I was looking atmsmpeng
in the 2nd.
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Bloody hell....
What concerns me the most is that write activity. What is it writing? Am I being encrypted right now?
Granted, there's nothing there that can't be recovered from, but still....
Edit: Started killing UWP apps I wasn't using but were apparently still being used.
That... solved the issue?Should have taken a screenshot of before-and-after...
-
Status: My kitchenette is completely free of dirty dishes (unless you count the storage containers in the fridge, but they're not dirty waiting to be washed; they're in use). I know I mentioned in the other status thread that I washed dishes this morning, but I didn't finish before I went to work, and I made dinner tonight and got a bunch of stuff dirty. But it's all clean now, for the first time in ... I dunno ... a while.
-
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
But it's all clean now, for the first time in ... I dunno ... a while.
Take a picture!
-
@Tsaukpaetra It's not that exciting.
-
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra It's not that exciting.
I get excited for that....
-
@Tsaukpaetra
Lifestyle stuff plz
-
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
But don't say the M word. ๏
Macarena!
-
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
But don't say the M word. ๏
Macarena!
ยกAyy!
-
@Tsaukpaetra I used to see that when AVG went nuts.
-
Status: Going to ask a math question on Stack
OverflowExchange. Wish me luck!
-
Status: I started looking for an external M-DISC compatible burner. Prices are definitely up from the last time I shopped for a USB disc burner. But Pioneer really takes the cake. I can get a Verbatim or Asus drive for as little as $30 but Pioneer is $100 for a pop top and $175 for a slot drive. Pioneer is the only current brand I have experience with...NEC, Philips, and Sony seem to have all but disappeared from the market. When I look on NewEgg, LG makes up practically half of their offerings...
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Bloody hell....
What concerns me the most is that write activity. What is it writing? Am I being encrypted right now?
Granted, there's nothing there that can't be recovered from, but still....
Edit: Started killing UWP apps I wasn't using but were apparently still being used.
That... solved the issue?Should have taken a screenshot of before-and-after...
Ah. Those UWP apps must have been downloading ads!
-
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Going to ask a math question on Stack
OverflowExchange. Wish me luck!I quickly got a good answer, which is nice. But now I feel stupid as it seems really easy in hindsight.
-
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Going to ask a math question on Stack
OverflowExchange. Wish me luck!I quickly got a good answer, which is nice. But now I feel stupid as it seems really easy in hindsight.
In the meantime we've been arguing about Trump, Bernie, Hello World, ten commandments, command line parsing, stuff like that. Do you think you may have missed out on things?
-
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Going to ask a math question on Stack
OverflowExchange. Wish me luck!I quickly got a good answer, which is nice. But now I feel stupid as it seems really easy in hindsight.
In the meantime we've been arguing about Trump, Bernie, Hello World, ten commandments, command line parsing, stuff like that. Do you think you may have missed out on things?
-
-
-
@Applied-Mediocrity I mean they do say he's long.
-
@Magus That's why I hide in the ceiling and peek through the cutout. No one knows my real size.
-
Status (in about an hour): My mother will ask me how my day was. I will tell her I literally slept under my desk for lack of anything to do. She'll say she can't believe that and I must be wrong. I will fight the urge to say "you're right, I made it up, just like the Holocaust."
-
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Feeling nostalgic/old
EDIT: Might be too tall?
I am officially intrigued.
-
@Tsaukpaetra Is that porn? I... can't tell.
-
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Is that porn? I... can't tell.
I think it's an anime...
-
@Tsaukpaetra so yes.
Related: I took the following picture on Monday in a game store parking lot. The whole car is covered in these, and these are the most tame ones. Also on the car? The word "senpai".