The Official Status Thread
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STATUS:
Chrome has updated. It looks worse than before, and does the tab bar now take up more vertical space?
Stupid browsers.
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Status: Big boss just said: 'you know, what I like about you is that you can say anything in an incredibly sarcastic way'. I was very careful to say 'thank you' in a completely neutral voice :/
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Status: Finished with this workshop.
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Status: So, we ordered some AirTames because we kind of needed a solution to project stuff from various sources to a projector without always having to switch cables.
They arrived yesterday and I managed to try one out today. I'm impressed - they're not cheap but it's a solid solution.
Some of the highlights:
a) Enterprise capable - which means that there's both a management tools so you can keep track of all AirTames in your organization, as well as tools for mass rollout and the capability to import certification files if your wifi encryption requires such.
b) You can stream the whole desktop as well as single windows only. And if you stream a single window it doesn't matter whether it's occluded on the desktop or not. Switching between modes and selecting windows is very easily done as well.
c) There's a downside: It's not a direct connection like Miracast, instead both client and receiver have to be in the same subnet. But: The adapter is capable of connecting both to the 2.4 GHz and the 5 GHz band. It can also act as an access point on both bands. Which means that you can have it connect to your network over 5 GHz and provide an access point on 2.4 GHz. If you want you can also have it act as a full AP and let someone access the network from 2.4 GHz.Display quality is okay on default settings - but you can also tweak it to your heart's content (you can adjust fps, resolution and quality). You can also adjust the amount of buffering and thus the time lag.
The configuration is clean, uncluttered and powerful. All in all, a very nice product.
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There was a thing in a news website where it asks about your opinion on several topics and rate what candidates for governor match your political opinions better. I got a tie between the extreme left and the extreme right ones (there are something between 5-6).
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
There was a thing in a news website where it asks about your opinion on several topics and rate what candidates for governor match your political opinions better. I got a tie between the extreme left and the extreme right ones (there are something between 5-6).
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I'm channeling my inner @r10pez10
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@sloosecannon I think it was mostly because all the "centre" people responses were hand waving and trying to dodge all questions. The extremes were the only guys that were telling what the hell they were planning to do.
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@Rhywden
The adapter does support being on a different VLAN than the casting device, with minor configuration of your networking hardware to allow cross-VLAN multicast. AirTame has a decent support guide on their website for the various configurations they support.They also sell Ethernet adapters to help reduce the amount of wireless bandwidth they consume, FWIW. We use Ethernet only for our AirTames and people can cast from our guest wireless, our secured wireless, or our wired network.
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@izzion Thanks for pointing that out. I haven't yet found the time to go through their manual, that was only the stuff which I toyed around with after unboxing. A proper rollout will come a bit later, we're still waiting on our new projectors.
Ethernet's a no-go, however, that would require laying new cables which would put the whole endeavour in a completely different ballpark as we don't own our buildings (yay for Public-Private-Partnerships!)
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Status: Today's achievement: someone from Intel asked me to review their x86 assembly code.
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Status: Why is a header file including itself? :/
Sometimes I swear...
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS:
Chrome has updated. It looks worse than before, and does the tab bar now take up more vertical space?
Stupid browsers.STATUS 1:
Normality restored (until the setting is removed).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Why is a header file including itself? :/
Sometimes I swear...
That won't do anything because of the
#pragma once
, but still.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: one of my next tasks is to develop an analytics system for the game. $deity help me.
DTO that will be sent over the wire scaffolded:
Reasonable? We'll find out.
Now to find a solution that can deal with this data...
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Status: Very excited for upcoming Guild Wars 2 content
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YOU HAVEN'T TAUGHT US WHAT A FUCKING HASH MAP IS YET
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@pie_flavor To be fair, you may not need one to make a perfectly good MVC site.
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@Magus Well, you probably do, but people make them without them anyway.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
YOU HAVEN'T TAUGHT US WHAT A FUCKING HASH MAP IS YET
When I did the Data Structures and Algorithms course (long ago), the hash map was the one data structure not really described, or rather it was described as impractical because of the perfect hashing problem, and the only presented workaround was double hashing. Which is kind of fucking embarrassing in retrospect as that's one of the few data structures I've used massively since then (along with the array and array-with-overallocation). But the lecturer liked linked lists and balanced trees because those could be done nicely in Lisp. OTOH, that course was good at teaching how to analyse an algorithm (a fairly useful skill for making code that doesn't suck) so it wasn't all bad.
The point? Lisp wasn't nearly as great as its proponents thought. It gave them immense blindness to how computation would gravitate to being done from the 1980s onwards by virtue of making strategic choices that would never be supported by modern hardware and making use of things that synergised with the hardware difficult to use. And I never want to see another fucking
alist
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@dkf if your dataset is small enough to hold in memory, you probably don't need to worry about what data structure you're using unless you're running some algorithm with billions of iterations.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
if your dataset is small enough to hold in memory, you probably don't need to worry about what data structure you're using unless you're running some algorithm with billions of iterations
Get the big-O right and let everything else look after itself. (Also, beware of systems that smuggle surprising extra costs in; database binding layers are often horribly good at being bad that way…)
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
if your dataset is small enough to hold in memory, you probably don't need to worry about what data structure you're using unless you're running some algorithm with billions of iterations
Get the big-O right and let everything else look after itself. (Also, beware of systems that smuggle surprising extra costs in; database binding layers are often horribly good at being bad that way…)
big-O doesn't matter if your data set never grows beyond a specific size. Any O(f(n)) is O(1) if n is bounded.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
for a broad definition, a finite Bacon number
Just how "broad" are we talking about?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It is yet again time for us to get learned how to not commit plagiarism. Our librarian helper is telling us currently how PDF is a picture file of how it appears in the journal, and therefore it's consistent across laptops and desktops. Apparently PDF will contain charts, but HTML is just text, so we should always choose PDF over HTML when reading articles.
The bigger WTF is that there's a good chance that she (he?) is right. The HTML version actually might just be the text.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Any O(f(n)) is O(1) if n is bounded.
Having worked with inherently EXP2SPACE problems in the past, I can assure you that you are wrong. Or rather than the bound on n is much tighter than you believe. Efficient (and correct) data structures and algorithms are vital, the foundation on which the rest of your program is built.
Or you can have programs that only ever work with trivialities.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Just how "broad" are we talking about?
My bacon number is less than six, because I usually have less than six rashers for breakfast.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
I usually have less than six rashers for breakfast
That sounds like a personal problem.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
That sounds like a personal problem.
I prefer to keep breakfast fairly light. YMMV
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
That sounds like a personal problem.
I prefer to keep breakfast fairly light. YMMV
You can only get so much energy from light....
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
That sounds like a personal problem.
I prefer to keep breakfast fairly light. YMMV
If they're so light that they're causing rashers, maybe take them inside. Or stop breakfasting under heat lamps.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
You can only get so much energy from light....
I delegate that job to grass. Then cows eat the grass…
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@anotherusername What, of respectable academic journals? Doubt it.
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Status: Installed a stock ROM (apparently) and it's now on... I think this is the 4th system update that it's downloaded and installed? All in the 250-350 MB range. Luckily I have fast wi-fi.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
for a broad definition, a finite Bacon number
Just how "broad" are we talking about?
Not movies, certainly, but daytime TV. (Think America's got talent, or similar). From there you get to "famous host", the usual few degrees of separation (don't know myself, but finite), Kevin Bacon.
The Erdős number is the classical definition, though.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
for a broad definition, a finite Bacon number
Just how "broad" are we talking about?
Not movies, certainly, but daytime TV. (Think America's got talent, or similar). From there you get to "famous host", the usual few degrees of separation (don't know myself, but finite), Kevin Bacon.
Ah. My excuse at having a Bacon number is... um, well, it's a broader definition than that. It involved taking the photo they used on their family Christmas card that year...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Any O(f(n)) is O(1) if n is bounded.
Having worked with inherently EXP2SPACE problems in the past, I can assure you that you are wrong.
He's technically correct, the best kind of correct.
O(10100000000000000) = O(1)
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf if your dataset is small enough to hold in memory, you probably don't need to worry about what data structure you're using unless you're running some algorithm with billions of iterations.
What??
Maybe you mean if it fits in L1.
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@pie_flavor Haha, you're having your brain damaged...
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The building I live is shaking in the wind. I feel like I'm going to have seasick...
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Error: error system instability detected. Exceptionally high intestinal gas levels. Motor control systems compromised. Unable to
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Status: Resolved . Entire digestive systems voided. I'm going to drink water now.
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And I thought physics was boring.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
And I thought physics was boring.Ugh, I've eradicated logical analysis from local memory....
Filed under: Wait...
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Status: Trying to find out why this PHP script runs out of memory on production. We still don't have a reproduction.
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@PleegWat
Blame it on the parsimonious systems teams limiting you to only 64 GB of RAM on your web servers. NEXT!
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
And I thought physics was boring.That's easy.
A ^ B is true if both are true (AND). A v B is true if at least one is true (OR). A -> B is true if both are true, or if A is false (equivalent to ~A v B).
What were the other options for the final result, out of curiosity? It is a tautology (always true), so I assume the other options would be a contradiction (always false) or ... neither, something else (sometimes true and sometimes false)?
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@anotherusername I know it's easy. It's also mind-numbingly tedious.
The second and third options were "contradiction" and "contingency".
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
It's also mind-numbingly tedious.
Of course. Boolean logic is indeed tedious, but that's also why it is very tractable for computers. Things get much more difficult once you add in integers (or other simple types) and extremely difficult once you have general functions.