🔗 Quick links thread
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I could put together an explanation about servers talking to each other, DNS and IP addresses, and so forth. But in a tech interview for a job involving writing Winforms apps that connect to a local database and write to a file on the user's hard drive, it's completely irrelevant. Tech ≠ web
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I could put together an explanation about servers talking to each other, DNS and IP addresses, and so forth. But in a tech interview for a job involving writing Winforms apps that connect to a local database and write to a file on the user's hard drive, it's completely irrelevant. Tech ≠ web
Yeah, but Internet is pretty much the most important thing to happen to the world since computers. So if you have absolutely no clue about it, I'd be concerned.
Hell, you should know that shit purely as a nerd or "tech" guy, even ignoring any requirements for a programming job.
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You can make the "beat" times ridiculously long depending on how you define it... like those games that have are pretty easy to finish but then have a single achievement that's extremely difficult to get (play the entire game backwards in ultra-hard mode with your eyes closed using an old Atari 2600 controller without taking any damage), or stupidly boring quests that involve roaming around the map for 50 hours looking for collectible items.
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@cartman82 said:
Explain to me how the internet works
As an application/API developer, it would be completely irrelevant in any interview I've had. Fucking hipster technologies and their "everything is a browser" brainworms
There's electricity and lasers and shit.
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Explain to me how the internet works
Your computer connects to the nearest routing device and asks to create a path to the address it wants. If the nearest device doesn't know, it asks it's neighbors if any of them know. And they ask theirs, and so on. Eventually, a path is created, and the two computers can communicate-- the messages being passed back and forth along all the routing devices on that path. If part of that path gets disrupted, a new path is created using the same method.
I also don't need to know how CPU works to do my job, but I'd be embarrassed if all I had for an explanation was "magic".
A CPU cycles by checking it's hardware for signals. It does this several times a second-- that's the CPU frequency everyone loves. Each time it can do one thing-- take an instruction, process an instruction, return the results of the instruction. Instructions are mathematical-- add these two numbers. The "lowest level" languages are responsible for directly sending instructions to and getting instructions from the CPU. Everything we do with computers is built on top of that-- with everything being translated into that "lowest level" language, and then written to the CPU-- and the results passed back up.
Fucking done.
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Guild Wars 2 isn't very long if you cut out all the grinding:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEvDAIFuHC34dBl3bpEgQ7RRSMCoRccQzWhereas I've played over a thousand hours and still don't have a single one of these:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary_weapon#Components
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@Lorne_Kates said:
A CPU cycles by checking it's hardware for signals. It does this several times a second-- that's the CPU frequency everyone loves.
TIL quantities in the range n × 109 can be described as 'several'.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
A CPU cycles by checking it's hardware for signals. It does this several times a second-- that's the CPU frequency everyone loves.
TIL quantities in the range n × 109 can be described as 'several'.
something something Canada old computers something
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he's not really here.
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X3: Terran Conflict 121h 02m
Kerbal Space Program 335h 10mbetter get moving then
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i think eventually the supply of kerbals to kill runs out
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i think eventually the supply of kerbals to kill runs out
what? there's only a finite amount of victims to sacrifice to the Kraken?!
but those sacrifices are all that makes 99.999% of my launches a success!
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the kraken is a myth!
those kerbals died a dishonorable death you monster!
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the kraken is a myth!
they say the kraken is myth.
they also say the kraken lies slain in its grave
but I? I have stared the kraken in it's eye. I have borne witness to his tentacly horror...I know the kraken is alive and well.... and the kraken demands tribute!
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https://rapidpassvirginia.com/VaPublic/
RAPIDPASS is the optional on-road emissions inspection program in Northern Virginia. RAPIDPASS allows a motorist to simply drive through an on-road RAPIDPASS system to complete their emissions test. Upon notification of a clean emissions result, motorists can conveniently pay for their emission inspection on-line and proceed with their vehicle registration renewal.
So...emissions tests out on the road automatically done for you. Interesting idea. I guess even VW couldn't fake this (assuming it actually works).
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Why would I as an ordinary car owner care about these tests?
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It's an alternative to going to a mechanic and paying them to test your emissions as a periodic requirement for registering your car.
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It's an alternative to going to a mechanic and paying them to test your emissions as a periodic requirement for registering your car.
Oh, so govt is demanding that you do this crap?
Never heard of that nonsense before.
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Oh, so govt is demanding that you do this crap?
Never heard of that nonsense before.What did you think the VW emissions testing scandal was about? Yes, in the US it's common (universal? it's state by state so who knows) to have, as part of registration, emissions testing to make sure you're not driving a smogmobile.
There are often exceptions for things like old cars.
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What did you think the VW emissions testing scandal was about? Yes, in the US it's common (universal? it's state by state so who knows) to have, as part of registration, emissions testing to make sure you're not driving a smogmobile.
There are often exceptions for things like old cars.
I thought these tests were performed in the factory, as new cars are completed. Or maybe even just once when a new car model is designed.
Didn't know each individual person needs to test their own car. Sounds like WTF to me. Someone's getting nice pork on account of all these tests.
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Didn't know each individual person needs to test their own car. Sounds like WTF to me. Someone's getting nice pork on account of all these tests.
Eh, it's like $15 every year or two. I guess it helps keep the local gas station mechanics a bit busy, but I don't think anyone's getting rich off of it.
The factory tests would be useful, but these tests discover when stuff on your car has failed and it's now throwing out serious pollution (compared to normal). It's a serious part of what got our air so clean.
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Eh, it's like $15 every year or two. I guess it helps keep the local gas station mechanics a bit busy, but I don't think anyone's getting rich off of it.
The factory tests would be useful, but these tests discover when stuff on your car has failed and it's now throwing out serious pollution (compared to normal). It's a serious part of what got our air so clean.
Ok, fair enough.
I'll call off the militia and release federal hostages.
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I guess even VW couldn't fake this (assuming it actually works).
They would have a good go at it.
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What did you think the VW emissions testing scandal was about? Yes, in the US it's common (universal? it's state by state so who knows) to have, as part of registration, emissions testing to make sure you're not driving a smogmobile.
This happens in the UK too as part of the MOT and I'd imagine most, if not all, of the EU.
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##Carjackers run away from stick-shift vehicle
I lolled out loud at this one.
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Yes, in the US it's common (universal? it's state by state so who knows)
Only like 5-6 of the counties in Washington State require it. It's not even universal in this single State.
I thought these tests were performed in the factory, as new cars are completed.
Nobody cares about new cars. (Hell, my 2014 car is exempt for like... 4 more years? Or something... the "newest" cars they're testing this year are 2008 model years) The problem is older cars where the emissions control stuff is broken.
Strangely, the Prius and Honda Insight are called out by-name as never needing emissions test, but other hybrids are not. I hope the web page is just out of date.
Actually, it looks like 2009 model year and newer cars never need testing. So it's not a rolling window, it's just done forever. (Until new legislation is passed.)
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Oh, so govt is demanding that you do this crap?
Yes. Not all states (yet) have this kind of inspection but most of them do. If you don't pass a typically annual inspection, you can't register your car. Until recently, all this meant was that if a cop happened to see your registration sticker was expired, he'd pull you over and ticket you, but they're starting to use automated plate readers mounted on cruisers, where the vehicle notifies the cop if it drives past someone with an expired registration or inspection sticker. (I found out about this a couple years ago when this happened to me because I forgot to get my inspection renewed.)
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Didn't know each individual person needs to test their own car.
Yep. Costs about $35.
Someone's getting nice pork on account of all these tests.
Given how clean modern cars are, relatively speaking, that's basically it.
Especially when you see city transit buses or school buses belching old-school black smoke, because they're exempt.
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The factory tests would be useful, but these tests discover when stuff on your car has failed and it's now throwing out serious pollution (compared to normal).
And of course, typically, if this happens to you, it means that you're gonna spend a lot of money fixing it. My car's catalytic converters are $800 each if you buy the Kia-approved part. That's not counting the couple hundred more dollars it'll cost to swap them out, because first you have to get to them, and then you have to use a blowtorch to cut the bolts off. (I'm not exaggerating about this; some fucktard thought using bolts of a material that will cause galvanic corrosion with the engine metal was a good idea, and the instructions literally say to start by cutting off the bolts.)
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Actually, it looks like 2009 model year and newer cars never need testing. So it's not a rolling window, it's just done forever. (Until new legislation is passed.)
That's interesting--every state I've ever owned a car, except South Carolina, where they don't have inspections, required every car to pass an inspection every year, unless the car was older than, say, 15 years or something.
Of course, there's all kinds of cheats, too. Disconnect your battery cable and the ECU wipes the check engine light. Of course, the car makers deal with that by having the engine report "sensor data not available" or something for the next 40 miles, if something queries it. Eventually, if there's a problem, the light will come back on, but between approximately 40 miles and when the light comes back on, you have a window where you can pass the inspection.
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That's interesting--every state I've ever owned a car, except South Carolina, where they don't have inspections, required every car to pass an inspection every year, unless the car was older than, say, 15 years or something.
In that case, it was probably just a money-grab by politicians who didn't give a shit about the environment.
There's no point in testing cars newer than about 4-5 years old. There's virtually nothing that can happen to a new car in that amount of time that would fuck its emissions, sort of a semi-major accident.
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There's virtually nothing that can happen to a new car in that amount of time that would fuck its emissions, sort of a semi-major accident.
Well, or the rare manufacturing defect. I bought my current car (a 2004) used with 50K miles, and within 3K the check engine light came on--bad catalytic converter. Fortunately, up to 100K miles, it's on the manufacturer to fix those. But yeah, that's rare and generally you shouldn't fail with a modern car. I haven't seen any states exempt newer cars, but since I haven't had a new car in several years, I wouldn't have personal experience.
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Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
How does your drinking measure up to the average in countries around the world? Find out below if you are similar to a boozy Belarusian or a teetotal Kuwaiti.i have a feeling that IT related people drink above the average...
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i have a feeling that IT related people drink above the average...
Not the best week, but:
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Excuse me while I do about 12 more shots to make up for the time I spent sleeping
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no other drinks besides beer and wine?
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Some interesting web stats. Nginx going up, apache and iis down.
Need to get into nginx at some point.
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huh....
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It seems, even though ethanol-wise we drink about the same, I'm the heavier drinker?
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nah, since i rarely if ever drink my vodka or rum straight. so i'm definitely over 52 pints per year if you count the final mixed drink.
i think the scale is a bit fucked TBQH
still fun tho.
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even though ethanol-wise we drink about the same
Based on the assumptions the site makes... 52 pints of beer is 1476ml of alcohol but 104 shots is 1040ml.
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That makes sense. After all, while people usually think of a beer as being two shots, that only holds true for beers around the 4%ABV mark; a lot of beers are closer to 5%ABV.
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I drink zero alcohol, which is apparently the same amount that most people in Kuwait drink. Kuwait is apparently the lightest drinking country in the world, since alcohol is illegal there.
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since alcohol is illegal there.
Like it is in Iran?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/09/iran-is-opening-150-alcoholism-treatment-centers-even-though-alcohol-is-banned/
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I had to look up what a "measure" amounted to in American terms. About half a jigger. But then they call them "shots", which is 1 jigger. So.... I'm not sure what I should have put.