The Official Status Thread
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@pie_flavor
Hallelujah!
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@pie_flavor Although, of course, being last in line means I get to sit at the chair next to the giant projector exhaust port. Fun times.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Pain. There's a stone
For a moment I thought this might have been @anotherusername's Markov bot.
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Status: who thought it would be a good idea to go camping at the height of summer? About half a degree closer to the equator and away from the coast, which is obviously significant. All the ice in the Eskies had melted after the first night.
We spent the middle hours of the days in various water streams because there's no way it could have been tolerable otherwise. Should've seen how wrinkled my hand got. At least I didn't get any sunburn; another got it all over her back.
To make matters worse, I got sick somehow while packing up yesterday and vomited last night. A long sleep seems to have mostly resolved that, thank goodness.
It wasn't bad though, the water was actually quite pleasant.
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@stillwater You get them by pissing off a witch or a brujo, obviously. They're blatant curses.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It's more tricky than it seems.
Almost had it, but then encountered an issue that literally makes it impossible the way I was attempting it.
Sigh.
So close, and yet so far.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wow, and I've been accused of TMI....
Don't see this as a challenge ...
Well, let me tell you about this paper cut....
I'm listening. Go on.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wow, and I've been accused of TMI....
Don't see this as a challenge ...
Well, let me tell you about this paper cut....
I'm listening. Go on.
I got it on January 13th of this year. It's just now healed enough that only the third skin layer needs to be resealed.
The scratch I got on Jan 11th however, is still in progress.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
On the early PICs you couldn't use divides, because there was no hardware assist and it was all software implemented and, consequently, slow as balls
Even on modern CPUs, divides take up a fair chunk of the (non-memory/cache, non-NOC) area of the chip. That only really gets tempered if there are also exotic things like big CAMs or hardware implementations of special functions; chips tend to only have those if the application area needs them.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Pain. There's a stone
For a moment I thought this might have been @anotherusername's Markov bot.
For some reason I was thinking
War! The Republic is crumbling under attacks by the ruthless Lord, Count Dooku.
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Status: Our daytime high occurred before I woke up for the morning. And that's actually going to be the high for the next 48 hours. Meanwhile, we got a little more dusting of global warming this morning so that will blow around for the next 2 days as well, on top of the nice, clean puddle of ice from the water that didn't drain off the roads yesterday before it froze so hard not even salt can help it now.
I might just have some car failure tomorrow...
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
I might just have some car failure tomorrow...
It sounds like that might be advisable.
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Status: It's stopped sleeting for now. I think I might head home a little early…
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@TimeBandit I don't have snow above the level of my third-floor window, so no, I'm obviously not in
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Status: I've got another one of those Ferris Bueller teachers that says about a word per second, except he's also got an Indian accent and speaks broken English. This is the only class I can't skip. Goddammit.
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Status: The stores are already selling out of diesel fuel anti-gel treatment. Took me a few stops to find a couple bottles.
Also, to change topics, I finally found a dosage of melatonin that actually works for me and has consistently worked these past several days. It's up around 60 - 70 milligrams. I'm nearly guaranteed to be dead to the world in less than an hour at that dose, assuming nothing disturbs me and wakes me back up during that time. 40 mg was pretty hit-or-miss for me, to the point that I wasn't sure if it was actually working or if it was just random chance. And to think that the bottle most people suggest has less than 1 mg per dose...
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
And to think that the bottle most people suggest has less than 1 mg per dose...
You may be on to something. My system is highly tolerant to many drugs, including melatonin.
But the last time I tried it it merely kept me unconscious for extra hours, and didn't help the initiation thereof...
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
I might just have some car failure tomorrow...
It sounds like that might be advisable.
Very. If the "car won't start" clause isn't invoked, then the "car won't stop" clause will be!
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've got another one of those Ferris Bueller teachers that says about a word per second, except he's also got an Indian accent and speaks broken English. This is the only class I can't skip. Goddammit.
I had a class like that. COBOL. 8a on a Sat. For 5 hours. After coming off a 3rd shift job. On the plus side, figuring out what he was saying caused me to have to concentrate enough that I didn't fall asleep...
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@dcon
(turn volume way up)
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@pie_flavor 2 hours of material will last him the full session at that speed
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@TimeBandit Two class periods in and he's finally told us how to install VS15. I remember reading some article on how they used to teach LISP in the first fifteen minutes of class and then jump straight to functional theory. Sigh.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Two class periods in and he's finally told us how to install VS15
And two class later, the installer is finally done
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@TimeBandit And we're using Eclipse for the labs too. 'Cause fuck logic
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@pie_flavor: Maybe your professor runs on Java? That would explain the slow speed and random pauses.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've got another one of those Ferris Bueller teachers that says about a word per second, except he's also got an Indian accent and speaks broken English. This is the only class I can't skip. Goddammit.
I had a class like that. COBOL. 8a on a Sat. For 5 hours. After coming off a 3rd shift job. On the plus side, figuring out what he was saying caused me to have to concentrate enough that I didn't fall asleep...
I never had to deal with that, so I’m curious where it lies on a pain scale compared to FORTRAN.
All these horror stories you used to hear about “spaghetti code” and goto madness and such, that seemed to be far before my time and way exaggerated, until I actually had to touch FORTRAN code and see it with my own bleeding eyes. In this decade.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Two class periods in and he's finally told us how to install VS15
And two class later, the installer is finally done
Our professors would’ve never told us how to install our stuff. At best, that’s the TA’s job. Or, more likely, you should be able to figure that out on your own.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I never had to deal with that, so I’m curious where it lies on a pain scale compared to FORTRAN.
I've blocked it! That (and FORTRAN) were classes I took back in 1981-1983 time frame at community college. (so my fresh/sophomore years)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Our professors would’ve never told us how to install our stuff. At best, that’s the TA’s job. Or, more likely, you should be able to figure that out on your own.
We have support staff who do preinstalled images for everything if possible. Saves a lot of teaching time.
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@dkf Yeah, I can't imagine the lab machines not having the software already installed. It's a complete waste of teaching time, really.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon
(turn volume way up)Fucking hell he's even more boring to listen to than almost all of my lecturers way back in the day. Except for the courses on concurrent systems and software engineering, both of which have turned out to be the most professionally useful ones in the end. OK, the concurrency course had good supporting written material so it was just a matter of blocking the lecturer out while reading ahead, but the SE course was just the most boring thing ever and was really just a terribly dry description of Waterfall and maybe other things but I don't remember because nobody could recall anything that was said from it…
The guy who taught SE also taught compiler construction IIRC, and was interesting there because that was his specialism. But I was usually up to my eyeballs in discrete mathematics in that period. (That was interesting, but hasn't turned to be as useful as I expected.)
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@brie "lab machines" what lab machines?
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Or, more likely, you should be able to figure that out on your own.
Key word - should
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: What kind of a fucking Starbucks opens at NOON?
The same as the kind of Taco Bell that closes at 10PM
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
But the last time I tried it it merely kept me unconscious for extra hours
Even that would be very helpful to me. Waking up at 04:00 and not being able to get back to sleep results in my body trying very hard to fall asleep all afternoon at work.
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: What kind of a fucking Starbucks opens at NOON?
The same as the kind of Taco Bell that closes at 10PM
Same reason maybe, but different towns! Cause if the students aren't getting up before noon, you know damn well they're staying up well past 10!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I've got another one of those Ferris Bueller teachers that says about a word per second, except he's also got an Indian accent and speaks broken English. This is the only class I can't skip. Goddammit.
I had a class like that. COBOL. 8a on a Sat. For 5 hours. After coming off a 3rd shift job. On the plus side, figuring out what he was saying caused me to have to concentrate enough that I didn't fall asleep...
I never had to deal with that, so I’m curious where it lies on a pain scale compared to FORTRAN.
All these horror stories you used to hear about “spaghetti code” and goto madness and such, that seemed to be far before my time and way exaggerated, until I actually had to touch FORTRAN code and see it with my own bleeding eyes.When I took FORTRAN back in the 70s, we wrote "Hello world" in the first class. The COBOL class that shared the lab took something like 10 weeks to write their first program, and students were in tears because they had literally hundreds of compiler errors. I decided then and there that I would never touch COBOL; I've never regretted that decision.
In this decade.
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@pie_flavor Do they make you take programming classes on a laptop?
Even if they do, they should still have computers in the classroom. You can install the IDE on the laptop on your time.
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@brie The class is done with whatever we have on us. The lab has computers, but they get scrubbed routinely.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
The lab has computers, but they get scrubbed routinely.
Network drives? Thumb drives? Do they ever import common sense over there in California?
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@dkf No, just artisanal water. Common sense was banned by Proposition 96, I think.
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@dkf No network drives. Thumb drives aren't common; I don't know why.
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status After a long time, I am now caught up with Schlock.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf No, just artisanal water. Common sense was banned by Proposition 96, I think.
Because common sense cause cancer
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@TimeBandit Obviously.
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@pie_flavor do please provide a bad review of the prof to the university
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Network drives? Thumb drives?
I'd like to see Visual Studio installed on a Network or Thumb drive...
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Status: Was called on by one of my fellow church congregants to act as a physics consultant. For a pine-wood derby car build. I just had to laugh. Some people take those so seriously. And it's the dads, not the kids. It's all about beating the other dads at something that's so heavily random. No, that 0.1% difference (max, assuming physics utopia and no resistance) in maximum possible speed isn't going to make any kind of difference.