The Official Status Thread
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tries to find recent @Tsaukpaetra backup, but fails
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
recent @Tsaukpaetra backup
Lol wut, there's no such thing!
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Status: Pondering if I can hack febbox.com to actually let me log into the automagic account it fails to create.
For research purposes, of course.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
The right seems OK for now, the left is all sorts of fuckery I don't even want to try describing....
is
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
if I can hack
Status: Found alternate. They're safe from Tsaukpaetra. For now....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: is a noticeable smell of chlorine in one nostril indicative of anything post nasal surgery?
The right seems OK for now, the left is all sorts of fuckery I don't even want to try describing....
status: turns out there's simply an absurd amount of free chlorine in the tap water supply. This has been remedied.
Also, added some hydrogen peroxide to the nasal rinse. Cleared that shit right up!
Now to target and eradicate the infection.... đŤ
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Status: WalFart sucks. Of the last five WWF figures Iâve preordered from them, three have been cancelled right when they were supposed to be released. The remaining two are due in August so theyâll be cancelled in a few more months. It sucks that this particular line is exclusive to WalFart because this is exactly how they bungled their last set of WWF exclusives.
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status: apparently it is unkind to extrapolate that the existence of prerelease software is a good indicator that there's still hope a product is not dead. It is Haram.
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My favorite email subject line:
I get paid again this week!
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@ChaosTheEternal said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
when I logged in, the hardware monitor software I use popped up and said the CPU was at 90°C and started raising. Kick on Task Manager, CPU was under 5% load and not throttling down, CPU claims it was at 95°C and then poof, the computer turned off.
@ChaosTheEternal said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
I assume the wild temp was some stupid shit with rebooting/Windows update fucking up the state and not it actually getting that hot (especially since the AIO cooler wasn't radiating any notable heat and also didn't ramp up the fans).
So, switching threads because this isn't specifically a Windows 11 update issue (unless the update somehow messed up the processor and/or AIO cooler). Reseated the plug for the cooler at their request and now the fans spin a little more, but still no significant fan speeds nor heat coming off, and it still randomly boots "hot".
iBUYPOWER has requested I send the computer back for RMA, so I get to do that fun today at my own cost (despite me paying for special warranty that was supposed to include free ground shipping back for warranty reasons).
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
despite me paying for special warranty
Ever since the car dealership wanted to screw me for a windshield wiper blade that I already paid for with a maintenance plan that specifically includes that, I always assume service reps do not check if you have Shit like that unless you ask them to verify. I'd totally respond with a "hey, just checking but I thought that was covered under the protection plan I bought, see the confirmation details attached".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
the car dealership wanted to screw me
Did you turn him down?
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Fuck. I innocently asked if "template A" through "template E" were final names. It spawned a 30-minute group ing of template names.
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Excellent! Next time you want to sabotage a meeting that would generate extra work for you, you know what to do.
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Ruh-roh.
I think it was actually empty though so not a big deal.
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E_TSAUKPAETRA_HARDWARE
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
the car dealership wanted to screw me
Did you turn him down?
Correct. I said fuck that, I want my free $10 wiper!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Ruh-roh.
I think it was actually empty though so not a big deal.
The Intel raid software actually reported an error? I'm shocked and amazed!
Not so amazed that the poof on poof connected to port poof is poof, but I suppose that's part for the course. Did you happen to update the drive controller driver without also updating the utility?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Not so amazed that the poof on poof connected to port poof is poof
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Did you happen to update the drive controller driver without also updating the utility?
No, doubt there are newer drivers for this.
It's one disk on one array. The others are fine. Either the port's iffy or the drive is - and the drive's a few years old.
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Status: Maybe should have built time into my schedule to go back home and wash up a bit between the early afternoon exercise and going in to work to start my day (working second shift today because yay maintenance window installations)
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
wash up
Nah, I hear some will be suitably attracted and you might get work done!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Try fixing any problems reported on the array disks before taking action.
ISTM that fixing problems on the array disks is taking action.
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Status: Sick as a dog.
One of the weird aspects of being sick the last few years is the mental aspect of it. I feel like my brain is trying to conceive an inconceivable concept. It gives me this dull but omnipresent headache.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I feel like my brain is trying to conceive an inconceivable concept. It gives me this dull but omnipresent headache.
Stop trying to understand woman
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Status: And I think somebody stole my mail yesterday. Fantastic.
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@ChaosTheEternal said in The Official Status Thread:
iBUYPOWER has requested I send the computer back for RMA, so I get to do that fun today at my own cost (despite me paying for special warranty that was supposed to include free ground shipping back for warranty reasons).
Instructions were unclear, vendor sucks big for that.
In the support email, they mentioned starting a RMA for me. They made a comment about a label, but almost immediately I got an email for the RMA that specifically said to take the computer to "my nearest USPS, UPS, or FEDEX" and ship it to them with an address template where I fill in the RMA #. So, I did so, and shipped the PC back (I basically went to a UPS Store after posting).
About 6 hours after that, I get an email from them with a link to generate a prepaid FedEx shipping label. One email later and I basically get told "lol get fukd", so I'm out about $150 at this point for this shit.
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$120 to ship a PC?! I know shipping prices have gone up, but unless you're opposite sides of the planet, that's insane.
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@TimeBandit flipping those numbers would be closer, surprisingly.
$90 to ship, $30 for insurance, UPS ground.
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This meeting has exceeded business hours.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This meeting has exceeded business hours.
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Ooh, I used to have one of those on a somewhat regular basis. On Fridays, no less!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
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Drat, you disarmed my quote bomb.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
quote bomb.
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
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No.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
This meeting has exceeded business hours.
...and thus will be forcefully terminated by the operating system without saving data.
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Today I've learned f.lux has a mode which can make your screen show in grayscale.
I've also learned it has global shortcuts which can let you cycle through the different modes.
These two findings were of course completely intentional and did not at any time make me think I was having some weird hardware issue.
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@Zecc something you can use on an unattended laptop for a coworkerâs âdonât leave your laptop unattendedâ education.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc something you can use on an unattended laptop for a coworkerâs âdonât leave your laptop unattendedâ education.
But only after your coworker emails everyone in the office offering to pay for lunch, right? :padme:
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc something you can use on an unattended laptop for a coworkerâs âdonât leave your laptop unattendedâ education.
But only after your coworker emails everyone in the office offering to pay for lunch, right? :padme:
Hopefully before someone in the office sends something a bit more rude than that from their coworkers unattended computer and accidentally includes a customer.
Yes that happened here a few years ago. IIRC that person's a manager now.
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The custom in my previous work life was âfree beers for everyone at my deskâ.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
IIRC that person's a manager now.
The "those who can, do" principle in Spades.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Hopefully before someone in the office sends something a bit more rude than that from their coworkers unattended computer and accidentally includes a customer.
Yes that happened here a few years ago. IIRC that person's a manager now.Failed upwards, or the Dilbert principle?
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@JBert said in The Official Status Thread:
Failed upwards, or the Dilbert principle?
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Status: Wondering why my colleagues reimplemented quicksort in Python several times.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
reimplemented quicksort in Python
When you want to sort stuff quickly, but also slowly.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
reimplemented quicksort in Python
When you want to sort stuff quickly, but also slowly.
It's preparing things for a compressor so that the results will fit in a hardware accelerator. I want it to be faster, but in this case I just want things to be less complex. I've removed a lot of code from that class just by using the built-in sorting. (It's a little faster in testing, but the win is in having several pages less code.)
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@dkf why would implementing QuickSort in Python ever be faster than using the built-in sort (TimSort?), which is presumably implemented in C?
Also, how do you need several pages to implement QuickSort?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf why would implementing QuickSort in Python ever be faster than using the built-in sort (TimSort?), which is presumably implemented in C?
It wasn't faster. The initial replaced versions were about the same speed on the test datasets (each of which is about 110kB when gzipped) probably due to differences in memory management (and nuances in the algorithm). A little tuning of exactly how the data was presented to the sorting algorithm helped quite a bit. The quicksorters were fast because they didn't have to actually do much memory allocation or deallocation, a very good feature of quicksort.
Also, how do you need several pages to implement QuickSort?
Several implementations (first was part of generating a frequency histogram used to sort the main data) with somewhat messy comparator generation and entry swapping.
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Status: Friday evening, thunderstorm has just started.
Is that different from last Friday?
Perhaps: temperature is still 16°C.
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Status: Going to get another fine for the lawn.
Saturday: work, rained after
Sunday: work, rained after
Monday: couldn't find the keys for the shed
Tuesday: only got 1/3 done over lunch (and received a nastygram from the township)
Wednesday: getting sick
Thursday: recovering sick but got another 1/3 done before dark
Friday: raining now