The Official Status Thread
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@Adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck Nvidia with their crappy out of tree Linux driver.
What problem are you encountering?
It is out of tree, you have to install it on your barebone server manually and puncture a hole to all the goodies that come with VM/Docker isolation. Just to get the fucking thing work (forget about security updates that those suckers are so bad at releasing their driver for and after autoupdate I had to reboot the server because they suck!!!)! If it was in-tree at least you could expect to get a cloud service with installed NVidia card to run Cuda application, but now it is all anti-pattern.
Ah, did I mention you have to disable the secure boot if you want auto-update? It is a kernel driver after all.
Fuck Nvidia
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Status: Just tried my hand at a tool to create tutorial videos (to use for my Physics lessons). I tried two separate ones (ExplainEverything and Screencast-O-Matic).
Both are not ideal for different reasons, though.
Now, there are Physics simulations out there, most of which even run in a browser. And I don't want to reinvent the wheel every time.
Now, ExplainEverything does have a webbrowser you can put on its canvas (no screencapture). But it does not capture any kind of animations (CSS, Javascript, Flash - it's all static). You can see the animations when doing the recording, but they don't make it into the actual recording. The actual editing tools are nifty, though. Free drawing, easy zoom, drag and stuff.
So, Screencast-O-Matic. This one does do screencaptures and thus does show the animations. It also has a scripting tool - which means that you have a neat overlay which shows you what to say next (reduces the amount of "Erm... eh... let me see..." considerably).
Their editing tools do suck, though. Because if I want to draw on the screen, to highlight something in an animation, they take a screenshot upon activation of the drawing tool which makes the underlying animation not quite so animated anymore.
Yes, I can add arrows and shit afterwards but no freedrawing. And the additions are relatively static, I mean there are pathing tools but it's a pain.
Also, Screencast-O-Matic has some serious issues with high-DPI screens (that shit is tiny on my Surface Book).From a usability perspective, ExplainEverything does win out by a slight margin. I guess I could simply use the built-in video capture tool of Windows to make a video out of the animation, and paste that video into EE.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
Fuck Nvidia
I didn't know you moonlighted as Linus Torvalds…
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
It is out of tree, you have to install it on your barebone server manually and puncture a hole to all the goodies that come with VM/Docker isolation.
VM/Docker isolation
VM/Docker isolation
I don't know what you expected.
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@dse said in The Official Status Thread:
It is out of tree
AMD tried putting their driver in-tree, but the kernel developers declined. It was probably a good decision, because otherwise the kernel devs would be expected to maintain the driver and also the development process differs between the groups.
It seems reasonable that everyone sticks to what they do best: kernel devs to the kernel, AMD to their driver and Nvidia to their driver.
The latest CUDA worked for me straight out ofapt-get
, so I am satisfied.you have to install it on your barebone server manually
You would put the 100+MB driver into all the images just because they might run Nvidia GPU? Having it installable through
apt-get
(as it is now) is a good compromise.
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@Adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
I especially liked this blurb:
AMD can't threaten not to support new GPUs in upstream kernels without
merging this,
that is totally something you can do, and here's the thing Linux will
survive, we'll piss off
a bunch of people, but the Linux kernel will just keep on rolling
forward, maybe at some
point someone will get pissed about lacking upstream support for your
HW and go write
support and submit it, maybe they won't.(terrible carriage returns not mine. Apparently they were using 80 columns or somethin)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
and here's the thing Linux will survive, we'll piss off a bunch of people, but the Linux kernel will just keep on rolling forward
These are the benefits of being volunteer/hobby developers :)
It is probably for the best this was not merged. I can't imagine kernel devs and AMD working together on the same code.
(terrible carriage returns not mine. Apparently they were using 80 columns or somethin)
Yes, this takes 1/3 of my screen width, but on the left, not center - and they chose a terrible font for text.
If kernel devs can't even display an email, no wonder they don't work well with graphics drivers :P
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Status: Dealing with a 20-yo non-native speaker. Fun!
Also, beware the Mexican mafia, apparently...
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STATUS
I have a Core i5-2300 in my main desktop. This 2nd generation Intel CPU was pretty slow ever when it first came out 5-6 years ago (we are at 7th gen now, btw).
But I never minded. I played all the games I wanted, ran Visual Studios, multiple VM-s, whatever. It was all fine.
Until fucking react.js came along. Webpack dev server is taking AGES to rebuild my shit. Long enough that it keeps breaking my flow.
Not the latest Doom, nor some kind of database or 3D suite. It was modern fucking javascript stack that did my old CPU in.
My plan: Considering we are kind of in between gens (Intel just had their ass lit by AMD, and DDR5 is coming), I'll try to upgrade on the cheap. I have 4th gen mobo in my server (with some shit CPU). So I think I'll buy a used 4th gen i7 for 250 euros or something, and do a switcharoo between my home server and desktop. Benchmarks say that should give me a nice 60-70% speed bump, which should be enough to get me through another year or two.
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
It was modern fucking javascript stack that did my old CPU in
If its on node.js, then it can't multi-thread
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Status: Attempting to brain. Link still establishing, please wait...
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Got my CNC mill set up today.
Now I get to fuck around with this:
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CAD software has come a REALLY FUCKING LONG WAY.
I've already modeled a representative part.
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Status: Killed
explorer.exe
because it was mysteriously eating 15% CPU.It stayed dead, so I launched another instance from Task Manager.
Damn near crashed my PC, the YouTube video I was watching paused for a few seconds, all my screens blinked to white during that time, and for half a second after it came back I saw the Windows 7 Basic theme .
Looks like it's time for a voluntary reboot..
How long has it been?
Three weeks? Not bad...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Damn near crashed my PC, the YouTube video I was watching paused for a few seconds, all my screens blinked to white during that time, and for half a second after it came back I saw the Windows 7 Basic theme .
Make sure it didn't release any creatures from hell or some other demonic-like plane on our world
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@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Damn near crashed my PC, the YouTube video I was watching paused for a few seconds, all my screens blinked to white during that time, and for half a second after it came back I saw the Windows 7 Basic theme .
Make sure it didn't release any creatures from hell or some other demonic-like plane on our world
I was actually hoping maybe it was @accalia, but alas, no sexy Vixen graced my presence.
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@Adynathos In-tree does not mean necessarily packaging all the binary blobs for any possible combination of hardware. Just that ABI compatibility would mean updating the driver for some security update will not break a running application, nor to need re-compiling against the newest kernel any time a security update applies to the kernel. The hole
dkms
thing is abhorrent and breaks too often for the desktops, to be trusted on a server with high uptime requirements!!
Have you by accident changed the default compiler to clang? Then dkms builds your driver with it, you wont be able to boot.That kernel thread was interesting. The situation is similar to Nvidia's, they both seem to want to have their cake and eat it too. You cannot expect to write a driver that is too different from the rest of the kernel, just because you want to share your code with Windows and OSX and ....
no midlayer or OS abstraction layers in drivers
Yup
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Status: I like to think of myself as a man with strong mental fortitude who can face any adversity, but 20 minutes of hiccups will have me wishing for euthanasia.
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Status: I thought somehow I forgot who I was. Thank goodness Slack labels me in the channel member list!
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I like to think of myself as a man with strong mental fortitude who can face any adversity, but 20 minutes of hiccups will have me wishing for euthanasia.
Life comes at you fast.
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STATUS
New senior started today. All bright eyed and optimistic.
He was less so after I introduced him with his project, hehehe...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Damn near crashed my PC, the YouTube video I was watching paused for a few seconds, all my screens blinked to white during that time, and for half a second after it came back I saw the Windows 7 Basic theme .
Make sure it didn't release any creatures from hell or some other demonic-like plane on our world
I was actually hoping maybe it was @accalia, but alas, no sexy Vixen graced my presence.
You called for a sexy vixen?
i don't see any of those around. would a perverted one do?
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@coldandtired OH GOD THEIR EYES.
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Status: I'm a commander! http://thedailywtf.com/articles/radio-wtf-space-for-guests
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@bb36e said in The Official Status Thread:
Everyone's getting married these days. Almost everyone
Not me.
I'm crazy, not stupid
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Status: My mousewheel scrolling got really slow for seemingly no reason, then after a few minutes went back to normal, again for seemingly no reason.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Looks like it's time for a voluntary reboot..
How long has it been?Three weeks? Not bad...
You know you are talking to a Windows user when they tell you that a 3 weeks uptime is not bad.
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@TimeBandit you know you're talking to a Linux user when they give a shit about uptime
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@Jaloopa @TimeBandit You know you're on WTDWTF when you're arguing about uptime :P
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@Jaloopa Obviously, you can't give a shit about uptime, you're a Windows 10 user
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@RaceProUK
As long as both participants in an uptime measuring contest have the same access to little blue diamond shaped pills and the NSFW thread, it's a fair contest, right?
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@izzion I don't make the rules, I simply provide the images ;)
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@Yamikuronue now we'll read all your comments with that voice and tone
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS
New senior started today. All bright eyed and optimistic.
He was less so after I introduced him with his project, hehehe...It's nearing the end of day, and he's really starting to feel it now.
The sunken shadow in his eyes, as the horrifying realization sets in: "Oh my God. What have I gotten myself into?"
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Status: wondering if The Walking Dead writers are still trying. I'm including the comic writers in that if the TV show is faithful.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK
As long as both participants in an uptime measuring contest have the same access to little blue diamond shaped pills and the NSFW thread, it's a fair contest, right?If you get weeks or even days of uptime this should be a cause for concern.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa Obviously, you can't give a shit about uptime, you're a Windows 10 user
7 at work, where I reboot at weekends to save electric and because the sysadmins got pissed off at people leaving their PCs on for months and missing out on updates.
At home, my PC probably reboots sometimes. If Edge is open when it happens it reopens with all my tabs and I tend to close most other stuff when I'm not using it anyway
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@RaceProUK
As long as both participants in an uptime measuring contest have the same access to little blue diamond shaped pills and the NSFW thread, it's a fair contest, right?If you get weeks or even days of uptime this should be a cause for concern.
If your uptime lasts more than 4 hours, consult a shot alien
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@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
@cartman82 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS
New senior started today. All bright eyed and optimistic.
He was less so after I introduced him with his project, hehehe...It's nearing the end of day, and he's really starting to feel it now.
The sunken shadow in his eyes, as the horrifying realization sets in: "Oh my God. What have I gotten myself into?"As a startup, shouldn't you have nice new code without all the legacy cruft that makes projects a nightmare to work on?
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@Jaloopa Maybe the guy is frustrated with the fixed width product/weight/price format.
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@hungrier I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A CODING TEST! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DEPLOYED IT TO LIVE?
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@hungrier But I need to keep my computer on at night for some reason!
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**Status:** I hate debugging build systems. Absolutely hate it.
That's why I do my damnedest to make them work really well, because then at least I don't have to keep going back to them to fix them. I've just spent the past week making our system of makefiles work better, but it's really difficult and there's a shit load of tricky bits and the documentation is terrible. But hey, it's not as awful as it was…
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@Jaloopa I'm on a 9month old project at my company, where they grabbed bits of the design of legacy stuff, wrote no tests, and generally made everything nightmarishly complicated and difficult to add to.
Basically, it depends on who you let do greenfield dev, and if they're willing to say no to product occasionally.
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Status: T-5 hours until I can go home and
get my exercise in for the dayunbox my new Nintendo Switch!
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@Perverted_Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@wharrgarbl said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Damn near crashed my PC, the YouTube video I was watching paused for a few seconds, all my screens blinked to white during that time, and for half a second after it came back I saw the Windows 7 Basic theme .
Make sure it didn't release any creatures from hell or some other demonic-like plane on our world
I was actually hoping maybe it was @accalia, but alas, no sexy Vixen graced my presence.
You called for a sexy vixen?
i don't see any of those around. would a perverted one do?
Yaaaasssssssss!
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@Tsaukpaetra rolled a Perception check to see the @Perverted_Vixen
@yamibot said in the depths of my imagination:
You rolled 1d20: 1
Your rolls:
1d20: 1 = 1
Total: 1@Tsaukpaetra's eyeballs whooshed.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@Jaloopa I'm on a 9month old project at my company, where they grabbed bits of the design of legacy stuff, wrote no tests, and generally made everything nightmarishly complicated and difficult to add to.
Basically, it depends on who you let do greenfield dev, and if they're willing to say no to product occasionally.
I've just written a new piece of work that's, in part, meant to be a POC for replacing a badly coded VB Webforms app with a nice new C# MVC one. I was pretty upset when i realised i was going to have to interface with the old database