The Official Status Thread
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
What the fuck happened?
"There's a new collectible on eBay I can get for cheap, that I can in some period of time go to a
antiques roadshowwhatever convention and sell at a ridiculous markup! Also, the people running conventions are stupid idiot babies that can't handle basic business practices, so I can't go AND IT'S ALL THEIR FAULT."Repeat times a zillion.
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@TwelveBaud burn!
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@TwelveBaud It's more that the mess keeps growing, even though I haven't ordered wholesale for 3-4 years and haven't bought hardly any arbitrage flips in the last year. I swear it's like the hydra where one box goes out and two reappear in its place.
Also, there's a spectrum for convention organizers! It's only the last one that couldn't figure out Invoicing for Dummies. I went to a different show instead and figure I made more money than I would've made at Dummy's show so I consider it a win. If I can get a spot at this other show they're partnered with, it would be even more so.
@topspin We'll see how much of a burn it is in a few weeks. I hope boxing it all up doesn't introduce obstacles to loading it onto the truck.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Splitting double bonds “in half” doesn’t count, evidently. You posted the image; you could have at least looked at it.
Aaagh.
Stop it, just stop it, none of this is how it works. A double bond doesn't get split, it ends up acting as an electron donor but the covalent bond is not broken, reaction energies would be much higher.
I'm always comparing it to wine in one of those half-full leather wine bags, sloshing around. With an addition reaction the "wine" merely accumulates at one position long enough to glue two wine bags together. The amount of wine does not change.
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As long as you don't put styrene into a wine bottle and drink it by mistake...
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Status: took me longer than I care to admit to realize why this page seemed to have problems loading:
This page has problems too:
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
haven't bought hardly any arbitrage flips in the last year. I swear
Wow, intervention time. You're flipsick right now, aren't you?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
As long as you don't put styrene into a wine bottle and drink it by mistake...
Eh, it's alright. 2600 mg/kg, safer than ethanol by LD50.
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I hate computers.
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@Applied-Mediocrity don't we all.
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Status: I have an SSD. The HDD was about 15–20 minutes away, as of 01:00 this morning, so there's no good reason it couldn't have been put on a truck for delivery today, but of course can't be delivered ahead of schedule. It's possible they put it on a truck and just didn't updated the tracking info, but that would require some consideration of customer service, so unlikely.
I'll wait to install the SSD until I get the HDD and install both at the same time, so I only have to go through the inconvenience of shutting-down once. It also just occurred to me that I might want some sort of mounting hardware to hold the drives in the case. Hmm... The case already has a plastic bracket to hold the 2.5" SSD (in a bay that holds two, but only one bracket). And it looks like I just need some 6-32 screws of appropriate length for the HDD.
Also, the slow boat from China arrived with my 200m of optical fiber for lighting model train buildings. I sorta expected it to be on some kind of spools, but no, just loose coils secured by a single piece of tape apiece. It's going to be keeping them from getting tangled.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It also just occurred to me that I might want some sort of mounting hardware to hold the drives in the case.
In my old PC, I 'd and left the SSD unsecured on top of HDD. Works flawlessly to this day, 7 years and counting.
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I don't know what this is but I know that I want to eat it.
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@DogsB Looks like millionaire's shortbread.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It also just occurred to me that I might want some sort of mounting hardware to hold the drives in the case.
In my old PC, I 'd and left the SSD unsecured on top of HDD. Works flawlessly to this day, 7 years and counting.
SATA SSDs, unlike hard drives, are lightweight and not motion sensitive, so as long as the cords stay connected you can pretty much do whatever you want. Screw it in properly with all four screws, velcro it to the top of your case, just leave it sitting on top of something, it'll still work. But no matter what, you could still get unlucky and the controller just bricks itself one day for no discernible reason
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate computers.
I fuck n' love 'em!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate computers.
I fuck n' love 'em!
Filed under: Things we could have guessed but chose not to
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Status It seems that today is marching band drum practice at the local university stadium. Wow that carries.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It also just occurred to me that I might want some sort of mounting hardware to hold the drives in the case.
In my old PC, I 'd and left the SSD unsecured on top of HDD. Works flawlessly to this day, 7 years and counting.
Oh yeah? That just shows you're not violently shaking the machine enough.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Mother messaged me about a job fair for Northrop Grumman. Not entirely sure if I want to get government clearance...
OTOH, they have more than one employee, and they actually pay them.
You're not wrong...
Huh. People are apparently lining up.
Clicked the "get in line" button as soon as it appeared and I was 6th in line before the chatters even went online...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
the chatters even went online...
It was text only and the guy took a minimum of 30 seconds to reply or ask a question. And when the system limits you to 7 minutes total.... Not good.
But hey, at least the guy knows about robot vacuums!
C++ with BSP, huh? So not quite machine learning, but... C++. Hrm.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Mother messaged me about a job fair for Northrop Grumman. Not entirely sure if I want to get government clearance...
OTOH, they have more than one employee, and they actually pay them.
You're not wrong...
Huh. People are apparently lining up.
Clicked the "get in line" button as soon as it appeared and I was 6th in line before the chatters even went online...
Yay, visible queueing. Nothing like having a queue number that for some reason I need to know.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
C++ with BSP, huh? So not quite machine learning, but... C++. Hrm.
That's in C, so, apparently they can't quite C++. But who can. Also BSP is grandpa's guitars.
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Status: One of the brakes on my car started grinding loudly a few days ago, so I took it in for service this morning. Didn't hear back with any estimate or anything until the afternoon, and the guy initially said it would cost $2000 to fix (replacing a seized caliper, plus front and rear brake rotors and pads, since the rest of them had worn down normally to a low level). When I mentioned that I had an extended warranty, he went to check what was covered by it, and the calipers are covered. So instead of over 2000 + tax, now my bill would only be 12xx + tax. So tomorrow I'm going to pick it up, with all new brakes
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Status: Just spent $700 to avoid $5.99 in shipping, and wound up paying the $5.99 shipping anyway.
The light switch on a ceiling fan broke. I found a replacement switch at Home Depot for $5.97, for which they wanted to charge $5.99 shipping, but free shipping on an order of $45 or more. Ok, well, there's other stuff I wanted at HD but forgot to buy on my last order; let's see if that adds up to $45. Well, sorta, but only if I include some stuff I'm not sure I really want any more.
Screw it; I'll finally buy that $600+ band saw I've been thinking about for months. That's way more than a $45 order, and it has free shipping regardless.
Check out. There's still a $5.99 shipping charge on the order. I guess it doesn't count toward the free shipping minimum if it would be free anyway. Oh, well; it's $5.99 shipping on a $700 order instead of $5.99 shipping on a $5.97 order, so that's not so bad, right?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Check out. There's still a $5.99 shipping charge on the order. I guess it doesn't count toward the free shipping minimum if it would be free anyway.
Could be anything. I was shopping there the other day and it seemed like some items are exempt from the free shipping threshold.
GameStop I know splits up orders and preorders for the purpose of calculating free shipping.
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Status: I dug out an email from Spam a promo for $4 off a Google Books book. It was legit, which is funny, but now I have to wonder what I want to spend $4+ on...
Well I look up a series I liked as a much younger person...
$deity fuck, 12 year old book series and it's still $5 per book, DIGITAL???!!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
C++ with BSP, huh? So not quite machine learning, but... C++. Hrm.
Binary Space Partitioning?
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In this context, I think they mean this:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate computers.
I fuck n' love 'em!
I don't want to break your heart, but I'm not sure the feeling is mutual...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
In this context, I think they mean this:
I was under the impression it was for a parallel processing framework, but microcontrollers would probably be a good match too. Dude didn't type fast enough to get a chance to explain himself.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
C++ with BSP, huh? So not quite machine learning, but... C++. Hrm.
Maybe they can weaponize your... uh, QA skills? Enemies of the won't know what hit 'em. And neither will friendlies, for that matter...
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
I hate computers.
I fuck n' love 'em!
I don't want to break your heart, but I'm not sure the feeling is mutual...
We're working on it!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
C++ with BSP, huh? So not quite machine learning, but... C++. Hrm.
Maybe they can weaponize your... uh, QA skills? Enemies of the won't know what hit 'em. And neither will friendlies, for that matter...
I mean, honestly, "I can break everything" would actually be a valuable skill for such companies, if they care as much about QA as they should.
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But first, they'd have to create a bug-report system that's immune to @Tsaukpaetra's curse... good luck with that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I dug out an email from Spam a promo for $4 off a Google Books book. It was legit, which is funny, but now I have to wonder what I want to spend $4+ on...
Well I look up a series I liked as a much younger person...
$deity fuck, 12 year old book series and it's still $5 per book, DIGITAL???!!
I had the same problem with fearless. I got it into my head that I could finally finish it but I stopped at book 20ish and it goes until 36. At $6 a book... Like fuck.
STATUS Oh god a visitior pattern. And a wrapper for String. There goes my hopes of a nice clean codebase.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra's curse
Is it really a curse if you fuckin' enjoy
fuckin'it?
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Status: Just watched a seminar on RISC-V given by someone who really knows what a CPU architecture involves (as he's designed and implemented some). Interesting stuff. Particularly fascinating was how some common features are just totally missing (carry flags, array load/store) and what a complete botch the CSRs in it seem to be. The boss's comment on seeing those was “well I'm now much less worried that this will ever be a threat to ARM than I was 5 minutes ago”.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
some common features are just totally missing (carry flags
They took the R to heart.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
some common features are just totally missing (carry flags
They took the R to heart.
Yes, but carry flags and array ops are odd ones to exclude as they make working with 64-bit values on a 32-bit architecture annoyingly hard, and working with arrays of structures irritatingly expensive. Both are common enough (arrays of structures in particular) that they're odd omissions. It's possible to work around both in software, but it's adding a lot of complexity in some cases. There's other omissions too, such as binary rotates and popcounts, but they're probably just delegated to a standard extension (
B
, if I've got the terminology correct). The lack of access to the carry from adds and subtracts is more annoying.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The lack of access to the carry from adds and subtracts is more annoying.
Also, from my decidedly non-expert understanding, they're super cheap to implement in hardware and expensive to add in software after the fact.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I dug out an email from Spam a promo for $4 off a Google Books book. It was legit, which is funny, but now I have to wonder what I want to spend $4+ on...
Well I look up a series I liked as a much younger person...
$deity fuck, 12 year old book series and it's still $5 per book, DIGITAL???!!
I had the same problem with fearless. I got it into my head that I could finally finish it but I stopped at book 20ish and it goes until 36. At $6 a book... Like fuck.
STATUS Oh god a visitior pattern. And a wrapper for String. There goes my hopes of a nice clean codebase.
Is the wrapper at least halfway fucking sane, like escaped vs raw? Or did they decide that they have business rules about Strings...
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, from my decidedly non-expert understanding, they're super cheap to implement in hardware and expensive to add in software after the fact.
Yes. The problem is that the RISC-V architecture tries extremely hard to avoid having status bits, and there's no room left in the 32-bit instruction encoding for specifying a register to receive the carry. Simulating it in software requires something like 4 instructions and two spare registers (less if you're working with unsigned data). And then even more to do something with the carry. On the plus side for them, they get even cheaper instruction decoding, but that's not actually very expensive to start with† (and if you have the 16-bit instruction extension enabled then you have far more complex instruction decoders anyway.)
† Except on CISC instruction sets like x86, which is so complex that it's transpiled into microops at execution time. All the various RISC architectures don't need that sort of shit.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
the RISC-V architecture tries extremely hard to avoid having status bits
Ah, so the entire architecture is fundamentally designed around . Glad I've never had to work with it.
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@HardwareGeek They've got ones relating to privilege modes and stuff like that, but those are off in the CSRs. That's fine. (There's lots of in that area, but that aspect is fine. Very little code manipulates that stuff very much, even in operating system kernels.) But getting arithmetic overflow and carry information is just weirdly difficult, and that'll have significant impact.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
totally missing (carry flags
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
totally missing (carry flags
Just don't overflow. Or don't expect to find out if you do.
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@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I dug out an email from Spam a promo for $4 off a Google Books book. It was legit, which is funny, but now I have to wonder what I want to spend $4+ on...
Well I look up a series I liked as a much younger person...
$deity fuck, 12 year old book series and it's still $5 per book, DIGITAL???!!
I had the same problem with fearless. I got it into my head that I could finally finish it but I stopped at book 20ish and it goes until 36. At $6 a book... Like fuck.
STATUS Oh god a visitior pattern. And a wrapper for String. There goes my hopes of a nice clean codebase.
Is the wrapper at least halfway fucking sane, like escaped vs raw? Or did they decide that they have business rules about Strings...
No. It's a pojo with two fields. Value and description. Description isn't used anyway. There's also serializers to make sure that only Value is written when converted to json or XML. Its used everywhere.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gribnit said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I dug out an email from Spam a promo for $4 off a Google Books book. It was legit, which is funny, but now I have to wonder what I want to spend $4+ on...
Well I look up a series I liked as a much younger person...
$deity fuck, 12 year old book series and it's still $5 per book, DIGITAL???!!
I had the same problem with fearless. I got it into my head that I could finally finish it but I stopped at book 20ish and it goes until 36. At $6 a book... Like fuck.
STATUS Oh god a visitior pattern. And a wrapper for String. There goes my hopes of a nice clean codebase.
Is the wrapper at least halfway fucking sane, like escaped vs raw? Or did they decide that they have business rules about Strings...
No. It's a pojo with two fields. Value and description. Description isn't used anyway. There's also serializers to make sure that only Value is written when converted to json or XML. Its used everywhere.
Bahahaha, sweet. It's self-describing code plus just-in-time implementation. I guess the time hasn't come yet.