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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
give UPS credit, they didn't try claiming it had been delivered.
They may have tried to claim this, but also failed.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
We used to have a problem like that with files coming out of our simulations. It's a pain on Unixes where you discover that yes, you really are running out of file handles when trying to access that many, which causes failures in your code that are really quite rare under other circumstances
It's a bit ironic that the Unix guys keep telling you about their "everything is a file" approach and the collary of the filesystem is a DB, but then when you run
ls
in a directory with 10k files you get yelled at that you can't do that and the file server grinds to a halt for 5 minutes.Plain
ls
does a fair bit of sorting and layouting. Tryls -1U
next time.Consider also
find . -depth 0 -print0 | xargs -0
if you need to do anything with them, if the sysadmins are already yelling.I generally use
find -exec somecomand {} +
. There are usecases forfind | xargs
it doesn't cover, but they're not common ones.And generally if it's in product I'll be handling the files from C. So it's all
opendir()
followed by areaddir()
loop.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
We used to have a problem like that with files coming out of our simulations. It's a pain on Unixes where you discover that yes, you really are running out of file handles when trying to access that many, which causes failures in your code that are really quite rare under other circumstances
It's a bit ironic that the Unix guys keep telling you about their "everything is a file" approach and the collary of the filesystem is a DB, but then when you run
ls
in a directory with 10k files you get yelled at that you can't do that and the file server grinds to a halt for 5 minutes.Plain
ls
does a fair bit of sorting and layouting. Tryls -1U
next time.Consider also
find . -depth 0 -print0 | xargs -0
if you need to do anything with them, if the sysadmins are already yelling.I generally use
find -exec somecomand {} +
. There are usecases forfind | xargs
it doesn't cover, but they're not common ones.Too much syntax to remember, and too much escaping. xargs it is.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
So FedEx lied about delivering it,
It did arrive, eventually. They lied about having already delivered it at 14:01; it actually arrived some time between about 16:30 and 18:20. But I'm not sure it was even FedEx that delivered it. It showed up in an Amazon Prime box with an Amazon packing list and Amazon gift receipt, so it may have been delivered by Amazon, despite my intentionally having ordered it from Anybody But Amazon.
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@HardwareGeek SMH. I just got an email from Walmart saying that a different item was delayed, and "your updated delivery date is Fri, Jul 9" [today]. Also, "since these items [wrong; there's only one item] are coming from our store, you can expect to receive them either in store bags or in their original packaging."
Actual status: It came from a 3rd-party seller and was delivered by FedEx either yesterday or the day before, I don't remember, in a box with lovely hazmat stickers (aerosol can).
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
So FedEx lied about delivering it,
It did arrive, eventually. They lied about having already delivered it at 14:01; it actually arrived some time between about 16:30 and 18:20. But I'm not sure it was even FedEx that delivered it. It showed up in an Amazon Prime box with an Amazon packing list and Amazon gift receipt, so it may have been delivered by Amazon, despite my intentionally having ordered it from Anybody But Amazon.
One of these days, and at this rate before too long, it's gonna be full of human flesh, or worse.
It might even arrive early.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Plain
ls
does a fair bit of sorting and layouting. Tryls -1U
next time.@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
but
ls
will still take a long time; sorting the entries has non-zero costUnless
ls
is doing something really idiotic (possible but I doubt it), "sorting takes time" is a tautology but still a huge overstatement. Sorting is pretty fast. It's getting the dir entries that takes forever.(Sorting by access time is slower. That requires touching the inode and not just the directory entry. It should be a linear extra cost in the size of the directory, but it becomes quadratic with old FSs that used linked lists.)
The problem is the cost of looking up a filename to map it to an inode, and that is a cost that you end up paying over and over. It isn't just the
ls
; it's everything, every system call that takes a filename of something in that directory. (Once you have a file descriptor, everything after that is about the same cost as ever.) This is contrary to the usual expectation ofopen()
costs (slow-ish, but mostly constant time).Some modern filesystems are hash-table based. Those just don't have this problem.
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Status: Overcame some and wrote a script that attempts to download the Google Domain Verification text file from itself via public IP, and if it fails, issue a DNS update to (hopefully) make it so.
In theory this means that when my IP changes some 15 minutes later it will update it.
We'll find out when Cox decides it needs to reset us for several hours again...
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@HardwareGeek: I think you should do a scientific study of your Delivery Distortion Field. Maybe it's the next big discovery in physics, like quantum mechanics. With theorems like "you can never know either the location or the speed of a parcel, even if you observe the tracking page".
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Status: apparently you can get sunburned through hair.
Next time I'll just coat my entire head in sunscreen.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
apparently you can get sunburned through hair.
Next time I'll just coat my entire head in sunscreen.GlovesHat
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall ESL get some slack; they get respectful correction (sometimes, if what they wrote isn't too funny to avoid making a joke). Native speakers don't have that excuse; they get laughed at (by a snarky riff on what they actually wrote, instead of what the clearly meant to write, if at all possible). Native speakers who write things like irregardless intentionally to annoy me just get .
Irregardless is a perfectly cromulent word
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
apparently you can get sunburned through hair.
Next time I'll just coat my entire head in sunscreen.GlovesHatit sounds dangerous to cover heat emanation surfaces....
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
I think you should do a scientific study of your Delivery Distortion Field.
It's not just me! My son is expecting something that is supposed to be delivered by end-of-day today. However, it's still somewhere in Louisiana, and based on previous experience with FedEx, it has to make an overnight stop in a sorting facility near Houston, then to the local distribution facility, before spending at least 6 hours on the truck from the local facility (less than .5 hours from here), I can say with near-certainty, it ain't gonna get here on schedule.
Edit: My son blames me for this.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@GÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@GÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
And it's a decent movie overall, much better than the 1995 one.
I don't know if I'd go that far, but it's a great modern sequel among a sea of garbage
Just for the record, original Jumanji sucks. This one is actually enjoyable.
This points to a promising strategy: sequels of terrible movies. It shouldn't, but point it do.
A lot better than the current trend of remaking old greats and raping the corpse to pieces.
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@HardwareGeek OTOH, the DDF brought my son a box he wasn't expecting, at least not today. A box with an Ender-3 Pro. Or pieces thereof. Some assembly required. And there was much happiness in Texas.
Filed under: I hope he shares.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek: I think you should do a scientific study of your Delivery Distortion Field. Maybe it's the next big discovery in physics, like quantum mechanics. With theorems like "you can never know either the location or the speed of a parcel, even if you observe the tracking page".
This could be our foothold into improbability, if not full bistromathics.
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Status: The lad plays Minecraft. I remember reading about the voxel approach and a cursory overview of getting it to be memory-efficient, maybe 25 years ago. It's kinda stunning that the granularity of voxels hasn't been pushed much closer to display pixel resolution by now.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@GÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@GÄ…ska said in The Official Status Thread:
And it's a decent movie overall, much better than the 1995 one.
I don't know if I'd go that far, but it's a great modern sequel among a sea of garbage
Just for the record, original Jumanji sucks. This one is actually enjoyable.
This points to a promising strategy: sequels of terrible movies. It shouldn't, but point it do.
A lot better than the current trend of remaking old greats and raping the corpse to pieces.
To be fair, they're trying to rape it alive. The distinction necessary is unfortunately rather dulled.
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Status: Is being mentally challenged a requirement for being in a toy related business venture? I don't understand what's so difficult about sending an invoice. This mook must open his mailbox and tilt his head sideways like a confused border collie.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Is being mentally challenged a requirement for being in a toy related business venture?
Aren't you in a toy-related business venture?
I'm not sure you want your statement to be self-supporting.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Is being mentally challenged a requirement for being in a toy related business venture?
Aren't you in a toy-related business venture?
Yes and never did very well at it because apparently not retarded enough.
Edit: fixed your quote
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Is being mentally challenged a requirement for being in a toy related business venture?
Aren't you in a toy-related business venture?
Yes and never did very well at it because apparently not retarded enough.
This is one of the easiest problems to fix. The decision to take the necessary action is the only hard part. Drastic steps aren't even necessary, an accumulation of error is itself quite effective.
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Not you, @error, the other error. All other errors.
...
Might include you, then, I guess, but, not in any particularly direct way.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Is being mentally challenged a requirement for being in a toy related business venture?
Aren't you in a toy-related business venture?
Yes and never did very well at it because apparently not retarded enough.
This is one of the easiest problems to fix. The decision to take the necessary action is the only hard part. Drastic steps aren't even necessary, an accumulation of error is itself quite effective.
Are you saying I should try to organize a competing toy show in the same convention center in the same month with a similar name to undermine this one?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Is being mentally challenged a requirement for being in a toy related business venture?
Aren't you in a toy-related business venture?
Yes and never did very well at it because apparently not retarded enough.
This is one of the easiest problems to fix. The decision to take the necessary action is the only hard part. Drastic steps aren't even necessary, an accumulation of error is itself quite effective.
Are you saying I should try to organize a competing toy show in the same convention center in the same month with a similar name to undermine this one?
Maybe. That does sound pretty retarded.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Is being mentally challenged a requirement for being in a toy related business venture?
Aren't you in a toy-related business venture?
Yes and never did very well at it because apparently not retarded enough.
This is one of the easiest problems to fix. The decision to take the necessary action is the only hard part. Drastic steps aren't even necessary, an accumulation of error is itself quite effective.
Are you saying I should try to organize a competing toy show in the same convention center in the same month with a similar name to undermine this one?
Maybe. That does sound pretty retarded.
But is it so retarded it'll actually work? That's the $100,000 Pyramid.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Is being mentally challenged a requirement for being in a toy related business venture?
Aren't you in a toy-related business venture?
Yes and never did very well at it because apparently not retarded enough.
This is one of the easiest problems to fix. The decision to take the necessary action is the only hard part. Drastic steps aren't even necessary, an accumulation of error is itself quite effective.
Are you saying I should try to organize a competing toy show in the same convention center in the same month with a similar name to undermine this one?
Maybe. That does sound pretty retarded.
But is it so retarded it'll actually work? That's the $100,000 Pyramid.
That point is industry-specific, I'm in no position
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Status: pine nuts.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
Not you, @error, the other error. All other errors.
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Might include you, then, I guess, but, not in any particularly direct way.
I am summoned, and so I am fucking confused.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking confused.
NSFW: suggestive, artist:anti1mozg, artist:sofiko-ko, derpy hooves, pegasus, pony, blushing, chest fluff, collaboration, cute, dock, envelope, feather, female, floppy ears, lying down, mail,...
https://derpibooru.org/images/2629114
She deserves it.
-Zecc: this post was flagged. I agree it should at least have the embedded image behind a fair warning. The third-party embed also provides a description of what the image is like, which is bloody convenient.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking confused.
NSFW: suggestive, artist:anti1mozg, artist:sofiko-ko, derpy hooves, pegasus, pony, blushing, chest fluff, collaboration, cute, dock, envelope, feather, female, floppy ears, lying down, mail,...
https://derpibooru.org/images/2629114
She deserves it.
Derpy hooves, eh? That was the most important tag.
-Zecc: it would have been stupid to have hide the image in the post above but not the one in the quote here.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking confused.
She deserves it.
Derpy hooves, eh? That was the most important tag.
Considering that's the subject of the rendition? Yes, perhaps it is...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking confused.
She deserves it.
Derpy hooves, eh? That was the most important tag.
Considering that's the subject of the rendition? Yes, perhaps it is...
That's a name?
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking confused.
She deserves it.
Derpy hooves, eh? That was the most important tag.
Considering that's the subject of the rendition? Yes, perhaps it is...
That's a name?
'Tis the fandom name of the character. The official name is "Muffins". I personally like Derpy better.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking confused.
She deserves it.
Derpy hooves, eh? That was the most important tag.
Considering that's the subject of the rendition? Yes, perhaps it is...
That's a name?
'Tis the fandom name of the character. The official name is "Muffins". I personally like Derpy better.
I can understand what motivates serial killers and church defilers. Also inventors, priests, small appliance repairmen, and to some degree office managers. But I can't understand bronies.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
But I can't understand bronies
I can't decide whether that's good or bad.... 🤔
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't understand bronies
No one does, but we don't kink shame here.
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Status: Holy shit, I found a guy with a Windows Phone!
He couldn't get the App to work...
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You found BlakeyRat?
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Status: Gallium. The necessary maintenance of body temperature is worthwhile, to keep in practice.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
You found BlakeyRat?
Blakeyrat is not in Arizona to my knowledge, so probably not. 😇
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
And I got a package that was supposed to be delivered yesterday. It had live plants. Well, one of them is still alive. The other one is still alive, but seems unlikely to remain that way; nearly all the leaves are shriveled, dry, and brown. I think the extra day in transit in the southern summer heat did it in. The shipper had put a cold-pack in the box with the plants, but it was not even slightly cool any more. I immediately contacted customer service, and they've already arranged for a replacement plant to be sent when they resume normal business hours next week.
The replacement plants arrived today. I never got a notification that they'd shipped, so thanks, DDF. Instead of the one replacement plant I requested, or even replacing both of the original plants (the second one is still alive, although just barely), I received four of them in good condition. One or two have a few withered leaves; the others are basically perfect. All five, including the surviving original plant, are now in my garden. I should have an abundance of fresh thyme for future cooking. Well, I will if nothing else eats them first. I'm not sure if it's bug, bird, or other animal, but some critter in my garden also has a taste for fresh thyme and last year made entire plants disappear a little at a time.
Their zendesk ticket is already closed, so I couldn't use the link in the "rate our customer service" email they sent, so I replied with an email thanking them for their outstanding service. Everybody dumps on customer service when they don't do a good job (or because Karens are never satisfied); hopefully, this thank you will make somebody's day.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I should have an abundance of fresh thyme for future cooking.
Not sure it's safe to assume that anything passing through the DDF is safe to eat.
Well, I will if nothing else eats them first.
Assuming nothing does, you might take pause.
some critter in my garden also has a taste for fresh thyme
Sounds like a culinary student. I recommend posting a Guy Fieri standee.
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@Zenith Meanwhile, my brother decides we have to go this brewery/restaurant for dinner. You have to go up a flight of stairs because reasons. When you get there, there's no signage telling you what to do. Seat yourself, go to a counter, who knows. The tables have a QR code menu but no instructions WTF to do with it. So you could just sit there until you decided to storm out because you didn't know you had to go up to the bartender to order food. Of course, I'm stupid because these aliens run their establishment counter to everywhere else I've ever gone out to eat. I halfway expect to be told to pay in Bitcoin and sent to a salt mine on one of Jupiter's moons for not having any...
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@Zenith Rats; you corrected your typo before I had the chance to quote it. I was going to tell you to ask @error; if anyone around here knows what to dom, he'd be the one.
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@Zenith dreams thread is
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The replacement plants arrived today.
I was so pleased with their customer service that I just ordered another nearly $100 worth of herbs directly from them. (They're a large grower that supplies plants to Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot, etc., but if you know about them, you can also order directly from them online.)
In deciding what to buy, I went outside because I couldn't remember whether the mint I already have is spearmint or peppermint. I pinched off a few leaves and smelled them, then popped them into my mouth and chewed them. (It's spearmint.) I started back into the house, then realized that's just what I needed for my iced tea and pinched off a bigger sprig.
I made tea yesterday afternoon, but forgot about it until evening, when it was really too late to be drinking caffeine, so I stuck it into the freezer for this afternoon (after pouring it into a different mug with tapered sides — less likely to crack as froze and expanded). So, I am now enjoying iced tea with fresh mint from my garden.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
So you could just sit there until you decided to storm out because you didn't know you had to go up to the bartender to order food.
Or you could just ask.
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Remember, @Zenith works in government. "Just ask" is something he's learned not to do.