vrek

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

The picture is also from 2012 so I don't know what was bought/sold/merged/divested since then

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Did my image show up for you? I tried to upload a bigger picture with 10 companies and every brand name they owned

[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 10 hours ago

The logic(and I don't agree with this) is that let's say Sally spent 550 dollars on catering. If she would have searched around she possibly could have found a comparable caterer for 500. By not doing that sally effectively stole 50 dollars.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (7 children)

This may be outdated but still really scary

[–] vrek@programming.dev 11 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I know people who work at Raytheon. It's a hot line for telling on your coworkers. That's it. So you find out Sally used her sister's catering company for a luncheon, you don't like Sally, you call the number, they "verify" and fire Sally.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Is it currently safe to eat anything? It's like a new outbreak everyday

[–] vrek@programming.dev 9 points 20 hours ago

I think part of it is what you listed but I also think part of it is to review your update for its architecture or your decision making. For example we had a system which read serial numbers with a barcode scanner. For some reason the original designers decided the user had to scan the sn off the paperwork then off the device then the system does another automated scan off the device. The software verified the first two were identical but accepted anything for the third. After launch we discovered a bug where sometimes the third scan would report the scanners status instead of the serial number. Another developer was assigned to fix the bug. His solution was to filter out anything from the scanner that starts off "status:" this would pass all tests but it's poor design. In the review it was brought up that it should be verified against the first two, not just that it's not a status message.

That's the real value of code review. Not "defects" but inefficient solutions which technically work for the tests.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, that's not education. My point is from a job perspective that's what's most important. Most jobs won't require anything you learn in calculus III or classical literature.

Let's say you are getting a EE degree. In a lab while learning about ac circuits, learn to play with an oscilloscope and learn how to really use it. That's most of the value. That's something you will likely use in your job.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago

I have a friend tell me he likes holes in the ground filled with water... I know he means well

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

In my experience I see a large part of the college degree is showing you can reliably show up and be in a state to use your brain. The knowledge you get is mostly not in classes but in the labs, most people don't regularly do tests in work, the build things design things analyze things etc. Yes you learn some stuff in class but when you try to do it, fail, struggle, then figure out what's wrong, correct it, and it works... That you will remember. It's like watching a YouTube tutorial vs actually doing a task.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

The other issue is enforcement. If somebody releases a weights table on the web publicly, by the time the government can review it thousands of people could of seen it and saved a copy of it. You can track down the first person and say take it down but you can't track down everyone. It's like the dvd encryption number from the early 2000s. Why waste the resources?

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

He didn't do any of that. Just typecast the numbers to be doubles.

The whole benchmark was a mess but that part specifically surprised me.

 

What I mean is everyone wants both. And I'm not talking huge differences. I don't mean go from 30k per year to 120k per year or going home sweating everyday to watching Netflix most days. What brought the question up was I was in hospital and the computer the scanned all the medication and machines into was on my right side of bed and Iv pole where all medications were on my left. Nurses also had to deal with wired scanners which they had to hold up above the bed to walk around. Not a huge problem but cover 30 rooms with 4-16 different medications to swap out per day was probably a major pain(nurses can chime in disagreeing).

Another thing I've seen is people in a warehouse with systems logging all locations a product could be in and saying yeah we have some of that in one of these and they have to walk around to check several locations to find which still has some.

So you want a 2k-6k raise... If your job was easier how much would that make you stay instead of just demanding a raise?

Edit: this is not a real situation but say I have 4 employees under me and an extra 25k in budget. Would you prefer a raise or to improve your job?

 

Unrelated to topic but I was in hospital recently and nurses came around to do vital,blood pressure oxygen temperature.i was having a high blood pressure. Often I lay with crossed legs but a nurse told me to uncross my legs and blood pressure went down. Why why cross legs increase blood pressure ?

 

Obviously like prescriptions are different to ensure safety and dosages and such. I mean like the notes to show that you or your child actually went to the doctor. Has anyone ever called like "hi, yeah so I just wanted to confirm my employee John saw your employer yesterday and confirm they are a real doctor"

I can't imagine any manager actually has enough free time and enough pettiness to actually do that, am I wrong?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by vrek@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
 

Running Debian sid and it mostly works (still struggling with Nvidia drivers for video). Last night I was watching a video and everything was fine, sound worked. Son was in room "asleep". I left to use bathroom and then he came looking for me. I don't know what happened while I was in bathroom but now I hear nothing out of speakers. If I reboot into windows sound works so it's not a physical issue. Reboot back into Linux no sound. Boot off flash drive Linux, no sound but I think that was always true and was a alsamixer issue on flash drive Linux setups. Volume on YouTube turned to 100, verified not muted, volume in KDE at 100 and not muted. Physical volume on speakers at 100, volume knob on keyboard at 100 and mute not engaged. All volume sliders in alsamixer maxed out. Simple setup, 2.1 speaker system plugged into sound output on motherboard no mixer or fancy equipment.

Son is non-verbal and severally autistic so I can't ask him. Whatever happened was almost definitely an accident but I can't figure out what happened. I see like a lighter bar moving on the KDE volume slider which seems to match expected video audio so I believe KDE is receiving the signal to play sound but nothing comes out of speakers. He struggles to feed himself soup or cereal so it's not like he found some super secret command and is playing joke. Something seems to be accidently hit and is blocking sound... Maybe a mute hot key not synced to main audio controls so it's not obvious that it's active???

Edit... This is solved. KDE mixer and alsamixer made no change but changing the output in pavucontrol fixed it. I have no idea why or how. Thanks for everyone who recommended it.

 

Those companies were all found to be pyramid schemes!

 

Well first someone would need to put a bank inside a whale...

 

I'm not looking for Chromecast but I have a Linux system hooked up to a TV and ether net. I want a way to pick a YouTube or Amazon prime or Netflix video on my phone and display it on the TV via the Linux pc. Is that possible? If so what software can do it?

 

I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

 

I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

 

For anyone interested agdq started today. Raising money for prevent cancer foundation and showing speed runs of video games. Available streaming on twitch and YouTube. Gamesdonequick.com

 

For anyone interested agdq started today. Raising money for prevent cancer foundation and showing speed runs of video games. Available streaming on twitch and YouTube. Gamesdonequick.com

 

I thought of this after a recent bug I found. I use Vivaldi browser and recently it updated. After the update my mouse cursor was not visible when within the browser window. Other programs worked fine. I tried visual studio and steam and epic game store all had my mouse, Vivaldi didn't.

I closed all instances of Vivaldi via task nanager(was unable to click the x) and restarted it. That fixed the bug and I haven't been able to replicate so I don't have anything to submit for a bug report. Just a really strange thing.

What have been your weirdest bugs?

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