@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin being in a cloud doesn't stop these devices accessing corporate stuff if needed.
But less efficiently, because routing between computers that might be on the other side of the planet.
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin being in a cloud doesn't stop these devices accessing corporate stuff if needed.
But less efficiently, because routing between computers that might be on the other side of the planet.
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
: Proposals for rest of the year?
:We should review all of our tests, check covarage and write tests everywhere they are missing.
@dkf Considering how the truck's windshield is pushed in, he might need to do that, regardless of how long the situation lasts.
@remi said in In other news today...:
the news item I posted
Yes, I understood that. And it's not a good idea. However, the ineffectiveness of sniffing UHU glue sticks was a (slightly) different sub-sub-sub-thread; my reply to that was not a comment on the news article.
Meanwhile in SPICE land, even
M
doesn’t suffice for 1e6…I don’t know if it’s wise to taint the innocent, but: while every other prefix is a single (case-insensitive) letter, SPICE uses ‘meg’ for mega. Nobody has ever inadvertently entered values off by 9 orders of magnitude due to this genius design decision.
I've wondered about this particular EE weirdness before, the insistence to say "megohm" to save a single vowel. Surely it's not phonaestethical pendantry …
The a-o phoneme sequence in mega-ohm is awkward to speak fluently. One of those vowels is going to get elided in pretty much any similar word.
Also, real EEs don't usually say megohm. If we're talking about a resistor, the ohm is implied; it's simply a 1 meg resistor. If the value is in kΩ, it's a 1 "k" resistor. For capacitors, the Farad is implied; it's a mike (microfarad) or a puff (pF — picofarad). (A Farad is not generally a useful unit; it's too big. Nanofarads and millifarads are units of useful size, but for some reason they're not used; values that might be expressed in nanofarads or millifarads are instead expressed in microfarads, such as .01μF or 10000μF.)
@Tsaukpaetra It might be more accurate to say that Shift inverts (rather than toggles) the shiftedness of the keys. Caps Lock, of course, does act as a toggle — but only for the alphabetic keys, not numbers or symbols. So if Caps Lock is on, it inverts the shiftedness of the letters, and if Shift is also pressed, it inverts it again, resulting in the unshifted state. However, since Caps Lock has no effect on the numeric or symbol keys, Shift always shifts them.
At least on en-us keyboards, and I assume en-uk works the same. I have no idea how modifier keys work on other keyboards.
@Tsaukpaetra I assume that what he means is that if the key is already shifted (i.e., Caps Lock), Shift gives you the non-shifted key.
@Bulb Yeah, that's how I worked around the lack of Paste Special. But it's a PITA when you have 50 cells you have to copy one-at-a-time using that multi-step process.
https://youtu.be/TZ1MjlHbSPY?t=46
Dude does not know how to drive a muscle car. And he gets a major fault for the dismount. (You can stop watching after he runs away; nothing interesting happens after that.)
@Zerosquare I do digital logic. SPICE is used for analog circuit simulations. Even for people who design clocks and other circuits that may exhibit analog-adjacent behavior, there are alternatives that are much faster, simpler, and accurate enough. (The last time I used SPICE was for a clock generator where the alternative tool that was available at that time was not accurate enough; it was very overly pessimistic.)
Meanwhile in SPICE land
I'm trying to remember how many decades ago I last used SPICE. Probably 3 decades, or close to it. Fortunately, I don't have to do that any more.
@sockpuppet7 said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I dunno how to say that in english without being offensive.
When has that ever stopped anyone here?
Random thought #1:
"YouTuber": Someone who uploads video shot with a potato.
Random thought #2:
How did the verb "shoot" come to be used for the creation of photographic/video images?
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Trying to paste from Excel
Trying to paste into Excel (copy from one cell to another). Paste special was completely disabled. Could not paste as unformatted text. Excel insisted on overwriting the destination's formatting. Since the destination cell has a bunch of conditional formatting involving multiple cells, and for some reason format painter wasn't behaving as expected, either, this was a PITA. I don't remember seeing that behavior before.
@dkf said in Today in reading the headlines...:
@loopback0 My knees say "No".
Very much this. But Betteridge says no, too
@remi said in In other news today...:
But UHU didn't sell tubes of glue as "sniff it!"
I'd guess UHU didn't contain much, if anything, sniffable. AFAIK, that was primarily, if not exclusively, the province of things like the glues for solvent welding polystyrene models, PVC pipe, and the like, containing fun chemicals like toluene and xylene. Glues intended for kids (model cement notwithstanding), like UHU and Elmer's, are "nontoxic" and avoid such hazardous chemicals.
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
These are only available in Asian cuisine shops and … I don't really know how to prepare those.
They're typically available dried and packaged in the Asian food section of American grocery stores. You soak them in warm water for a half-hour or so to rehydrate them. Remove the stems. Then do whatever the recipe says. I don't know what to do with them, either, unless I have a recipe that calls for them.
@dkf Perhaps, but that doesn't excuse the run-on sentence and comma splice. That may be the first time I've ever seen a comma splice with run-ons in both halves of the splice.
@Atazhaia said in I, ChatGPT:
does not have any similar-looking poisonous "friends" over here.
But it does have one in eastern North America, so no, I'm not going to go foraging for them.
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
But button mushrooms are usually the only ones that are cultivated.
Around here, we can typically buy button, portabello, shiitake, oyster, and maybe sometimes one or two others. I assume all of these are farmed, but I don't really know for certain.
Incidentally, I used to live 10 miles or so from a mushroom farm, and I'd occasionally ride my bike that way. Man, what a stench! The manure in which they grow the mushrooms is very fresh; it may be called compost, but it's not really composted.
@Bulb Forget AI, I wouldn't go foraging with any source of IDs less authoritative than a trained, experienced mycologist, and probably not even then. I buy my mushrooms at the grocery story, TYVM.
@Carnage Has Aldi apologised for the grammar in that apology?
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Spam Bites Thread:
@Watson said in The Official Spam Bites Thread:
@topspin said in [The Official Spam Bites Thread](/post
"Stop using social media."
Facebook has just turned 20!
My "not giving a fuck about Facebook
since 2010ever" just turned1420.
FTFM
@DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...:
been British
He's been British? What is he now? Is he done being British, or is he still? What other nationalities has he been?
@DogsB said in I, ChatGPT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfQu0bQTKc
This guy is gold.
I think that alone is enough humor for me; I won't bother watching the video.
@Bulb said in I, ChatGPT:
@Zecc I think it mainly makes difference in social intelligence. Dogs live in tight packs that cooperate and that requires a lot of brain-power. Cats are probably a little better in planning their own individual actions, but learning to hunt or fight in a coordinated pack is way out of their league.
I remember reading somewhere[citation needed] that dog have intelligence roughly equivalent to a 3-yo child (by whatever sort of intelligence measurement one could use for such a comparison). Cats are equivalent to a 2.5-yo child, IIRC. I might be a bit off on the numbers, but whatever the actual numbers, a dog was equivalent to a slightly older, more mature child. If you can believe such quantitative measurements of intelligence.
@The_Quiet_One said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
Unsure if any 'good' ones exist anymore.
"Good" ones exist. Good ones without the scare quotes are another matter.
@remi I have as many s as anybody here, but I don't think I ever used a camera that cocking the shutter and advancing the film weren't the same operation. It required intentional action to not advance the film, and there was no guarantee that the film wouldn't move slightly between exposures, so that the two were slightly mis-aligned.
Thinking about it, I vaguely remember having a camera that had a lever to cock the shutter that was separate from the knob to wind the film, but it was old and obsolete (and maybe broken) even in my early childhood. I'm pretty sure I never actually took any pictures with it; it was just a pretend toy for me.
Further thinking brought up the memory of the camera I rented while taking a photography class in college. It was a field camera. It had a lever or something on the lens to cock the shutter, but there was no film advance mechanism at all. When you had the photo composed the way you wanted, you closed the shutter, inserted a holder containing a single sheet of (8"x10", in this case) film, withdrew the dark slide (thin sheet of metal that blocks light from hitting the film), triggered the shutter, inserted the dark slide again, and removed the film holder. The film holders were, IIRC, double-sided, so the trick was remembering which piece of film was already exposed and which was fresh. IIRC, the dark slide was a different color on each face, so when you inserted it after exposing the film, you flipped it over, so you could tell which film you had already used by the color. Or something like that. There was some kind of indication, but it was entirely manual; it was up to you to keep track of which pieces of film you'd already exposed. If you wanted to double- (or more) expose film, it was easy.
Also, the English term is multi-exposure, not multi-exposition. It took me a moment to figure out what you were talking about.
@Zenith I don't think I've ever encountered such a system where you have to explicitly switch between voice and tone. I try not to deal with such systems, but when I do, I can enter account numbers and whatnot by either speaking or keypad, and it will accept either (although keypad tends to be more reliable; the speech recognition sometimes requires very careful enunciation). The bigger problem for me is systems that don't have menus; you have to speak and try to get the system to understand.
@Dragoon said in Today in reading the headlines...:
How is that different than a toaster oven?
Learning that would require reading TFA.
@BernieTheBernie said in I, ChatGPT:
When will the worst possible AI accident happen, and an
AI of unknown origin
wreak havoc in the world?
Shall we play a game?
@Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...:
I drink tea, thank you very much.
My local grocery stores still have a place on their shelf for Tetley, but that space has been empty for at least a couple of months. I just obtained some Red Rose for the first time in a long time. The only "local" retailer that carries it is Walmart, and (at least the last time I shopped there, which has been a couple of years) it's not actually available locally; it's only available online, and that's not even from Walmart itself, but from a third-party seller through the marketplace. However, I found that Red Rose sells directly to consumers online, and you can even specify which of the little Wode ceramic figures you want. The shipping is a bit expensive unless you buy a bunch; it's flat-rate, so you can amortize the shipping cost over a several month supply.
I had Red Rose for afternoon tea yesterday, and I'm drinking it this morning.
weather:
while (1) {
wait_seconds(5*60);
weather= ~weather;
}
@Zecc said in I, ChatGPT:
copy an existing file and deleting what's going to be changed
That's what I do, because I'm usually creating a modified version of an existing test, so I start with the existing test and just change a few things. I've never used the script, but I think it does in fact copy and modify a template.
@Arantor said in Azure bites:
inspiration and enlightenment are as surely blocked as the hose.
So you're hosed?
@boomzilla https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/2200356, but this is a good place for it, too.
- (colloquial) to be puzzled, to be at a loss
Ah, thank you. I am no longer standing on the hose.
@error said in I, ChatGPT:
they're demoing it and it's not working on anyone's machine
Truth in advertising!
Someone at work just posted to the technical chat that there's a script that some people might not be aware of (I wasn't) to simplify creating new $language
files. Rather than starting with an empty text file, the script fills in boilerplate like the company copyright and confidentiality text. You can specify what kind of file you are creating (module, interface, test, etc.), and it will add the appropriate boilerplate for that.
Someone else asked (humorously — I think) if the script author could add AI to the script and have it just write the entire file from the spec.
@Gurth said in D&D thread:
mental health issues ... alternating ... between being passive ... and becoming very active, impulsive...
Diagnosis from totally-not-a-qualified-psychologist: That sounds like bipolar. Is he on meds? Is he supposed to be? Does he need a change to his meds?
@BernieTheBernie said in Before AI....Before Crypto...There Was...BIG DATA:
@Carnage said in Before AI....Before Crypto...There Was...BIG DATA:
So a swarm of functions
assumed to be doing stuff™.
Oh, they're doing stuff. Whether the stuff they're doing is useful or correct is where you leave the realm of reality and enter the Assumption Zone.
@Zecc said in Visual Studio WTfs:
That came out snarkier than I intended
Around here, that's considered a
sorry
Level-up rescinded.