The Official Status Thread
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Hit my knee on the bed frame while walking past it. WTF, can I possibly be any more of a klutz?!
Don't tempt fate...
Considering how much my big toe hurts now from kicking a volleyball... instant karma I guess.
Granted, this one was more (not well thought out, spontaneous) intention than accident, but it wouldn't hurt if I kicked it in a normal, non-klutz way.
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Status: Made my first successful call to the USPS postage calculator API.
Successfully received a Stripe token yesterday (Square might be a ways off). If I can just overcome the neurosis evident in my storefront design, I might be able to start taking orders in September. That would be a huge step forward...
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Status: holy fuck how hard can it possibly be to make a functional text field in a web app?!?
Forget deleting twice when I press backspace once! I just want it to delete period!
Luckily there's always comments, cue fuckery.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
how hard can it possibly be to make a functional text field in a web app
is writting SQL on a phone
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: holy fuck how hard can it possibly be to make a functional text field in a web app?!?
Forget deleting twice when I press backspace once! I just want it to delete period!
Luckily there's always comments, cue fuckery.
What in the name of fuck would you want to write SQL on a phone for?
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: holy fuck how hard can it possibly be to make a functional text field in a web app?!?
Forget deleting twice when I press backspace once! I just want it to delete period!
Luckily there's always comments, cue fuckery.
What in the name of fuck would you want to write SQL on a phone for?
Because I'm not driving back home just to do a one-off delete statement. It's frankly easier to do what I did than most any other wankery I'd need to do to get a real computer reconfigured to talk through my phone.
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@Tsaukpaetra If that was me, it'd be a problem for when I go home anyway. Fuck that.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra If that was me, it'd be a problem for when I go home anyway. Fuck that.
It's either that or start writing up a "technical override document" describing in detail generally how Hypatia works internally for the layman. Yes it's as it sounds.
So far I've doodled this infographic :
Of course, Google Docs wasn't enabled for offline mode before the Internet went away so today I'm fucking around in Notepad++.
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Status: so as expected the game does not really work when offline. Not so expected, the Editor fucking shits bricks when offline. It was frozen solid for a whole ten minutes when I tried to initiate a play session. Guess I'm not testing code today....
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Is this obu etekj?
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Status: TFW Bluetooth is more reliable than USB.
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Status: Fuckin' floored. I'm actually getting (close to) my paid-for Internet speeds! Downloads upward of 160 mbit/s!
I grabbed Windows 10 x86 in only ten minutes!
I think I should save my Internet usage for 1am more often...
Edit: Now of course, installing Windows 10 over USB 2.0 (because that's the fasted we got on this machine). This will take significantly longer...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
his will take significantly longer...
Actually, 16 minutes for the first-stage copy isn't bad...
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Status: Oops I killed it...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
16 minutes for the first-stage copy isn't bad...
And 15 minutes for Stage 2 device initialization isn't terrible either, considering it's a
CeleronCentrino Duo with an IDE HDD (I assume, based on activity rates).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
considering it's a
CeleronCentrino Duo with an IDE HDDAnd we're back!
Unfortunately, the clean install did not apparently fix the issue with certain devices randomly being duplicated on the system bus.
Edit: picture giving 1k words:
From this tree, it seems like wires are literally crossed somehow, and I have no idea how or why...
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Status: might was well make it pretend to be useful...
Much wow! So animated!
INB4: fire!
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I want the median value over these 500M records and I want it now.
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@PleegWat at least median is O(n).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
So far I've doodled this infographic :
There, FTFY.
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Status: Queued up a bunch of test suites and a final release to run via Jenkins overnight, so I could just come in this morning and have all my work done already. But all the Jenkins processes got blocked by corporate antivirus.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
MATLAB is still the same WTF as ever, and the way these people teach "scientific computing" is what creates software with zero code organization or common software engineering practices.
Don't worry. The of that is much scientific computing is just as bad in pretty much any language that they touch. It's mostly because many scientists are simply not interested in writing good code; they're too busy understanding the science of underwater basketweaving or whatever it is they do. It's also far far worse in most commercial-sector science; analytics labs tend to try to be as uncreative as possible, for example.
It does mean that there's a clear gap in the market for programmers who also understand the science. (That's the real core of what I do. I'm not the scientist, but I understand enough to follow what they're doing so I can make the software support them…)
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Status: So, I wrote a bit of a user management system for our Office365 subscription. Nothing major, only mass adding/deleting users, everything else we can do through the Azure Portal.
The fun part, though, was that if you request a user entry, device info or similar through their Graph api, every result will get a
"@odata.type"
field (i.e. the key is named thus). JSON parsers (or at least the ones for Javascript) just love dots in the name of a key...
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@dkf Yup. My colleagues are mathematicians and some theoretical physicists. I sometimes have to convert their MATLAB to real code, with actual structure. I mostly blame the “programming for X” courses at the university, where X is non-CS scientists/mathematicians/engineers, because the lecturers themselves have never written any non-shit code.
Also, some day I’ll make a thread about the two times I had to adventure in FORTRAN, i.e. where the real “scientific computing” (not just academic) happens.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, some day I’ll make a thread about the two times I had to adventure in FORTRAN, i.e. where the real “scientific computing” (not just academic) happens.
Overheard a student yesterday arguing with a professor to let them add a course: 'I know the prerequisite said a data structures course in Java, but I'm pretty sure I can manage it. I know FORTRAN and BASIC.'
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Overheard a student yesterday arguing with a professor to let them add a course: 'I know the prerequisite said a data structures course in Java, but I'm pretty sure I can manage it. I know FORTRAN and BASIC.'
Needs a classic response: “I don't actually mind you sitting there in lectures, as long as you don't interrupt others, but you won't get credit for this course — or an assigned place in labs — until you can formally register, and you can't do that without satisfying the prerequisite. GTFO and stop bothering me, kid.”
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
So far I've doodled this infographic :
There, FTFY.
Caption: I.... AM... HYPATIAAAA!!!!
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status I don't think Firefox wants me to install any addons... addons.mozilla.org is slower than molasses in January in Canada!
(and what does load is ... interesting. Those 5 star ratings? The star is as wide as the screen. Makes infiscroll look good!)
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
I had to adventure in FORTRAN
Ah, my first "real" programming language, back in the mid-70s. Happily, I've forgotten almost everything about it.
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Status: now I want to print a model nuclear power plant. This one could even be to scale!
supplementary status: server cooties?
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
supplementary status: server cooties?
The server right now.
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
supplementary status: server cooties?
The server right now.
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Oh cool. Double cootie post.
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@loopback0 never let @Polygeekery near your server
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@discobot reply 1558408 the expanse
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@loopback0 Not sure how well that turned out for the miners in The Expanse (which is worth a watch IMO)
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
supplementary status: server cooties?
The server right now.
Is that @apapadimoulis's living room?
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weekend status Cleaning the scanner. Because this is what the backside of every scan does - the black bar. (partial screen shot of acrobat)
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The battery life of my phone has tripled since I stopped letting Chrome run in the background
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Status: Read a few glowing reviews about RAD, especially ones comparing it to Enter the Gungeon, so I thought I'd give it a buy. Loaded it up on my Switch, the graphics were god fucking awful. Low res textures, low res display, and a blur filter on top. Googled a bit more, turns out it's great on every platform except the Switch. Welp, I already supported the developers, I'll just pirate it on PC.
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Status: discovering all the services I have my credit card on file for that don't pay for the automatic cvv-number update list.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It does mean that there's a clear gap in the market for programmers who also understand the science.
Would you mind providing a few examples of/pointers to that gap? I'm considering it as an exit strategy after getting a natural sciences PhD, but I don't quite see it when I search for it on e.g. StackOverflow jobs. I must be looking at it wrong.
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
I know FORTRAN
To be fair, the latest standard (released in 2018) features OOP, distributed parallelism primitives, module system, and other goodies (some of which have already been present in Fortran 90-2003) worthy of a relatively modern language aimed at computational mathematics. It's just that a lot of FORTRAN code is older than 1991 and has never been updated even from fixed-form layout to free-form layout.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The battery life of my phone has tripled since I stopped letting Chrome run in the background
Ad: Man triples phone's battery life using a weird old trick; Google hates him!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
supplementary status: server cooties?
The server right now.
Unlikely. I don't see a network connection, unless it has a little USB Wi Fi dongle hanging off the front panel.
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