The Official Status Thread
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@Tsaukpaetra That safety issue is a big one. Also, since it'll have to be a multi cell battery, balancing the charge between the cells would be desirable
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra That safety issue is a big one. Also, since it'll have to be a multi cell battery, balancing the charge between the cells would be desirable
I have my doubts whether to original charged even does that.
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@Tsaukpaetra The original charger and batteries are all NiCd. My plan is to first fix the charger and determine how good the batteries are as-is, then replace the cells in one with Li-ion and figure out all the charging stuff, then eventually do the other batteries.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra The original charger and batteries are all NiCd. My plan is to first fix the charger and determine how good the batteries are as-is, then replace the cells in one with Li-ion and figure out all the charging stuff, then eventually do the other batteries.
Ooh that's a bad idea. Do NOT mix batteries of different chemistries.
Either build up a new pack with the right (and same) batteries or replace existing ones with the same type.
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@Tsaukpaetra Sounds like @hungrier is just replacing all of the cells in each housing to avoid buying a tool that "needs" a differently shaped battery housing (because reason).
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra The original charger and batteries are all NiCd. My plan is to first fix the charger and determine how good the batteries are as-is, then replace the cells in one with Li-ion and figure out all the charging stuff, then eventually do the other batteries.
I'm pretty sure you can not just wire it up with Li-ion cells. You always also need a battery management chip.
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@Tsaukpaetra Right, I'm not planning on mixing them in the same battery. This is for the set of power tools I mentioned
a couple days ago. TLDR I have three 18V NiCd battery packs, one of which is supposedly severely degraded, but at this time they're all useless because the charger doesn't work. So first I'll fix the charger, and after that I'll convert the degraded NiCd battery fully to li-ion, and either build some charging and protection circuitry into it to use it with the original charger, or construct my own charger specifically for that. Once that's done and confirmed working and not burning down my house, then I'll do the same for the other battery packs.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty sure you can not just wire it up with Li-ion cells. You always also need a battery management chip.
Supposedly, you can, with a thousand asterisks and you have to really baby it in order to keep it safe. But I don't want that, so before I touch a single lithium ion cell for this project, I'm researching BMS, balance charging, charge/discharge protection and all the rest, so I can hopefully do a good job of it
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I think I'm going to start saying "A.T. machine" and "P.I. number" just because that sounds somehow even more grating
S.O.Bitch!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Narrator: "He didn't."
I did. I got back to sleep some time after 06:00, I think, and woke up again just after 09:00. Just in time to grab a bowl of cereal and sit down in front of the computer for online church.
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OK, Steam, yes I'm a pervert, but half of these aren't even smut:
Filed under: You can't take this out of context; it's pretty much the same in-context.
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@error I kinda want to play nudity games!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Narrator: "He didn't."
I did. I got back to sleep some time after 06:00, I think, and woke up again just after 09:00. Just in time to grab a bowl of cereal and sit down in front of the computer for online church.
I’m sure they wouldn’t have noticed if you’d just slept through.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error I kinda want to play nudity games!
There’s a thread for that!
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Status: I give up at Campaign Cartographer. It's just too steep a learning curve. Great results...if you can figure out the highly unintuitive (makes Blender look sane) UI and operation conventions. And you better do things it's way or you'll be in for a world of hurt. Good thing the license was cheap.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: 95% better after starting Levaquin on Friday
I thought I might ask if it doesn't get better, can I get your Steam cards, but I guess I won't be asking then
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: 95% better after starting Levaquin on Friday
I thought I might ask if it doesn't get better, can I get your Steam cards, but I guess I won't be asking then
You saw my Steam posts today and it piqued your interest, huh? Ya perv.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Desperately trying not to accomplish anything.
Well I did finish the laundry, dishes, and cat litter. The vinegar seems to be working faster on the bathtub than the toilet though so that's still a work in progress. Got the car wash formula but the bottle said it was too hot to wash the car. Looks like tomorrow's job after the status meeting. Forgot to buy new bathroom rugs. I knew I should've written it down. At least I remembered to buy pencils. Couldn't find my pens because nobody wants to sell 1.0 mm Pilots in-store for some reason. Ordered a few protective cases before I left so I can start getting some of the collectibles out of the way. Should be a big help.
I think I need to break down and buy a cheap Hoover vacuum from Wallsmart (LOL, remember when they were actually good?) instead of saving up for a decent one anywhere else. I wanted an Electrolux but those clowns don't sell online and I'm pretty sure the only dealer within 125 miles was corona'd. Not quite to the point where I have to figure out what's going on with mops. I had a good one with a spray bottle attached but tripped over it during a midnight bathroom run and bent the fuck out of it. House has to be cleaned up if I'm going to have a chance at selling it in this market. Could not find cedar blocks to keep moths away from clothes (in storage) either...don't know if it's corona or that's something only KMart ever carried.
Really agonizing over the checkouts. I spent almost a hundred bucks already today. I'm trying really hard not to spend money stupidly because of work (2 of my 3 options right now being pay cut and furlough). Debt is a bitch.
- Cart A: Replenishing shipping boxes to mail crap out. Freight charges always kill me but not as bad as mailing stuff in oversized boxes will. Not sure how much longer it'll even be a concern with eBay threatening to have everybody not Chinese off their platform by the end of 2021.
- Cart B: Storage containers because I still have so much stuff that needs jammed in the basement without getting ruined by lingering dampness. I hate buying these because there's always the sinking suspicion I won't need as many once this backstock sells off.
- Cart C: Jeans, because my nice ones are starting to look a little rough. Being between sizes since I mysteriously started losing weight again hasn't helped.
I will probably force myself to buy pants tonight. Not sure about the other two, I have so much crap in my house I'm practically swimming in it. Too bad none of it's "worth" anything and they cap garbage pickup at two cans per week.
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Status: Holy shit.
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Status: Studied Spanish for a while to not get demoted in stupidly gamified language app. (Can rack up XP faster in Spanish than Greek or German.) Spanish lesson on emotions. Bored is aburrido. Phone kept suggesting maybe I meant a burrito. Yes, Pedro, why are you a burrito?
Also status: Splitting headache. I'm not sure if it was caused by trying to get a week's worth of XP in about 2 hours before the weekly ranking at 00:00 UTC, but I'm sure it didn't help.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Holy shit.
Yeah, Community Server sucks.
That process hosts web application code so all types of fuckery are possible.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Holy shit.
Yeah, Community Server sucks.
That process hosts web application code so all types of fuckery are possible.
In this case it's the WSUS worker site. I'm trying to decline all superseded updates so it stops trying to download 1.2 TB of update files I'll never need...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Holy shit.
Yeah, Community Server sucks.
That process hosts web application code so all types of fuckery are possible.
In this case it's the WSUS worker site. I'm trying to decline all superseded updates so it stops trying to download 1.2 TB of update files I'll never need...
The developer probably got their downloader code off Stack Overflow. Every example I've seen on there buffers the entire file into memory before flushing to disk. It's too bad streams weren't invented until so recently.
Also: worker site
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Holy shit.
Yeah, Community Server sucks.
That process hosts web application code so all types of fuckery are possible.
In this case it's the WSUS worker site. I'm trying to decline all superseded updates so it stops trying to download 1.2 TB of update files I'll never need...
The developer probably got their downloader code off Stack Overflow. Every example I've seen on there buffers the entire file into memory before flushing to disk. It's too bad streams weren't invented until so recently.
Microsoft probably uses StackOverflow code, certainly.
BTW I'm talking about Windows Server Update Services, and the reason it's taking all teh RAM is because it's serializing effectively all the updates before sending them over the wire to the MMC addin for display.
This is my current dashboard:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
BTW I'm talking about Windows Server Update Services, and the reason it's taking all teh RAM is because it's serializing effectively all the updates before sending them over the wire to the MMC addin for display.
OK I didn't recognize the acronym but that's objectively poor UX, definitely wouldn't pass QA here.
Assuming code has quality because the company that wrote it is successful is the biggest fallacy.
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I guess my thumb flick-scrolls in the downboat column so I just reverse-Tsaukpaetra'd someone. :dealwithit:
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Every time I think there is nothing left in my lungs to come up, I find more!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
definitely wouldn't pass QA here
Oh yeah, I won't regale you on how shitty the frontend is. It frequently crashes when doing something banal like viewing this dashboard for no apparent reason at all.
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@Tsaukpaetra Then maybe you shouldn't view the dashboard for no apparent reason.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Then maybe you shouldn't view the dashboard for no apparent reason.
Help thou my disbelief. I'm waiting on this dashboard because I can't get it to stop synchronization (or whatever), and this is the result every time...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I give up at Campaign Cartographer. It's just too steep a learning curve. Great results...if you can figure out the highly unintuitive (makes Blender look sane) UI and operation conventions. And you better do things it's way or you'll be in for a world of hurt. Good thing the license was cheap.
I gave up too when I tried it a bunch of years ago. Tool knowledge led me to do some things in my DTP layout program and not do others at all.
IIRC, if you knew CAD programs from the 90s you would be very comfortable with it.
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@Parody I use Inkscape and GIMP for most things, but I have a few more specialized pieces of software for battle maps.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I give up at Campaign Cartographer. It's just too steep a learning curve. Great results...if you can figure out the highly unintuitive (makes Blender look sane) UI and operation conventions. And you better do things it's way or you'll be in for a world of hurt. Good thing the license was cheap.
I gave up too when I tried it a bunch of years ago. Tool knowledge led me to do some things in my DTP layout program and not do others at all.
IIRC, if you knew CAD programs from the 90s you would be very comfortable with it.
I'm sure some people here could do it in Verilog.
INB4 bad ideas is
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm sure some people here could do it in Verilog.
Nah, Verilog has no support for graphics. But it'd be a great choice if you wanted to design a custom CPU/GPU optimized for creating and/or displaying your battle maps.
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status: new phone apparently has a awake time of about seven hours.
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@HardwareGeek it was an easy App to keep running in the foreground.
Strangely enough those percents don't add to one hundred...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm sure some people here could do it in Verilog.
Nah, Verilog has no support for graphics. But it'd be a great choice if you wanted to design a custom CPU/GPU optimized for creating and/or displaying your battle maps.
I assumed (without further knowledge) that you can program something that creates a chip layout which roughly looks like a map, DF style.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Every example I've seen on there buffers the entire file into memory before flushing to disk
In a linearly growing buffer?
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I guess I lost 5 pounds just being sick?
silver linings
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Status: Back in the office today.
... this feels weird now. Gotta get used to this chair, keyboard, and mouse all over again. And wearing pants.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm sure some people here could do it in Verilog.
Nah, Verilog has no support for graphics. But it'd be a great choice if you wanted to design a custom CPU/GPU optimized for creating and/or displaying your battle maps.
I assumed (without further knowledge) that you can program something that creates a chip layout which roughly looks like a map, DF style.
Well, Verilog could write out ASCII (or UTF-8?) graphics, but it's definitely not its strong suit. The chip layout is derived from the Verilog, but indirectly. The Verilog is compiled to generate a list of gates (AND, OR, NAND, NOR, etc.) and the interconnections between them (netlist). Then a place-and-route tool consumes the netlist (along with a file specifying constraints, like timing between point A and point B that must be met) and creates the physical arrangement of gates and wires. It's not something Verilog does, itself.
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Status: There sure is alot of iron in the water here. You can see the white of the bowl in a few spots. Just so much rust every where else. Online suggested actually stopping the drain before trying again. So I will have to just pee outside or at a store today I guess.
In other good news, vinegar worked perfectly on the tub. Looks even better than when I moved in.
Bad news though. I have to buy new suit pants. Jacket's fine, shirt's fine, tie is fine, but the pants somehow developed alot of holes like my last jacket did. I blamed moths last time but now I'm not so sure because A) I had a cedar block in there, B) I haven't seen any sort of flying bug in the house for years, and C) everything else stored with it looks fine. Maybe whoever JC Penney buys their suits from just sucks.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm sure some people here could do it in Verilog.
Nah, Verilog has no support for graphics. But it'd be a great choice if you wanted to design a custom CPU/GPU optimized for creating and/or displaying your battle maps.
I assumed (without further knowledge) that you can program something that creates a chip layout which roughly looks like a map, DF style.
Well, Verilog could write out ASCII (or UTF-8?) graphics, but it's definitely not its strong suit. The chip layout is derived from the Verilog, but indirectly. The Verilog is compiled to generate a list of gates (AND, OR, NAND, NOR, etc.) and the interconnections between them (netlist). Then a place-and-route tool consumes the netlist (along with a file specifying constraints, like timing between point A and point B that must be met) and creates the physical arrangement of gates and wires. It's not something Verilog does, itself.
, but the general idea was "use something for hardware design for your
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@Zenith Seriously, it's like that scene in BTTF 3 where Marty's old west great grandparents have him over for dinner:
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
alot of holes like my last jacket did
Residue deposits on something?
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Status: Three fucking years later, UWP apps randomly start working again, instead of all crashing with permission errors. Fuck you, Microsoft Support Technician Jet Anthony A.
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Status: Gas bill paid. I didn't realize I hadn't set up automatic payment for that account, until I got a voicemail asking me to call them about my unpaid bill. Oops.
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Status: OPEN SORES!!!
Secondary Status: How to get this application to detect and actually use
fam
? There's like, no configuration, but it's complaining that it can't talk to it, despite it (seemingly?) running...
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
And still DHL has no fucking clue that the package even exists...
USPS doesn't know about mine yet either. But I did just check as soon as I got the email... I'll have a better idea (probably) tomorrow.
Woot! It finally turned up in USPS's system this morning. Expected arrival: Mon evening.
Damn. So close. It was supposed to be here by 8p. Got home from class, there's a package, but not the one I expected (the one that came wasn't supposed to be here for another 2 weeks). USPS decided at 7:46p that they're done for the day - rescheduled to tomorrow. sigh.