vrek

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

I kinda agree. I don't like huge huge data centers but this may be better than having them on land. Probably would require fiber through the ocean but that's done plenty of times already. Deep ocean is pretty cold for cooling but the pressure and salt water contamination may make it unreasonable...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 17 hours ago

Expensive but cheaper than it looks like it should cost

[–] vrek@programming.dev 20 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

That looks great, but how much did that cost? It looks like $100-$200 lunch...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

No, after I got arrested for it I got way too paranoid when high. It wasn't fun it was traumatizing. I couldn't enjoy being high and watching crazy cartoons, I had to keep getting up and checking the windows to make sure police weren't outside...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 20 hours ago

It wasn't hurtful at all. I was just trying to explain that I'm not really autistic but have a connection to the autistic community.

If you break a task into many subtasks but still can't complete it because you get too stuck on the details, maybe this coping strategy isn't for you. You can either work on this issue(maybe with a professional or maybe self-practice) or find another strategy which works for you. Like some people release stress by sitting silently and concentrating on their breathing. This just makes me more stressed because my mind searches for more things to think about, probably why I need sounds and voices to sleep(pointless stream on conscious talk is like benedryl to me) . Not saying silent meditating doesn't help people, it's just not the solution for me.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 20 hours ago

Eh, I've slept with worse...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

If I am, it's incredibly mild. Mostly read this community because my son has extreme autism. He is 13, only says 1-3 word sentences, can't use the bathroom by himself (can go to bathroom and use toilet but can't put his underwear back on), watches TV way below his age bracket(blues clue, known as "blue" and team umizoomi, known as "bot") etc.

Anyways, size and type of screws would be important decisions to make, for example if mounting shelf to dry wall you wouldn't want an ultra fine threading on the screw. But it's not important in the first step. There's a good chance you actually need/want several types of screws. But the first step is meant to be quick and easy to give you the feeling of atleast doing something instead of paralyzed by the complexity of the whole task.

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

Yeah that's probably a good rule of thumb. My point was with the number of sub tasks op stated they had were probably either broken up to much or the task was way too big. Like if you have chronic fatigue and standing up is a struggle your goal should not be build a colony on venus. Maybe set a goal for running a marathon. Hell maybe just set a goal to take a shower every day this week.

But I like your idea of when you think you can reasonably complete that goal stop breaking it up into further steps.

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

Maybe not what it's intended for but I promise that's what it will be used for...

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

True but I could see using Ai to write a function which does the math... Like I write a prompt (simplified example as I'm on my phone) like "sum all the values above A4 and place result in A4" and the Ai should then write the function "sum(A1, A3)" and place it in cell A4

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

Wow, yeah most people who want to use a function like this will mess that up...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Also be careful how much you break stuff into steps... I said make a list. I didn't say ok now you need to get a pen. Ok to get a pen you need stand up. We'll to stand up you push against your chair and extend your legs etc.

 

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?

 

What os? What ide? What plug-ins?

 

I'll give an example. At my previous company there was a program where you basically select a start date, select an end date, select the system and press a button and it reaches out to a database and pulls all the data following that matches those parameters. The horrors of this were 1. The queries were hard coded.

  1. They were stored in a configuration file, in xml format.

  2. The queries were not 1 entry. It was 4, a start, the part between start date and end date, the part between end date and system and then the end part. All of these were then concatenated in the program intermixed with variables.

  3. This was then sent to the server as pure sql, no orm.

  4. Here's my favorite part. You obviously don't want anyone modifying the configuration file so they encrypted it. Now I know what you're thinking at some point you probably will need to modify or add to the configuration so you store an unencrypted version in a secure location. Nope! The program had the ability to encrypt and decrypt but there were no visible buttons to access those functions. The program was written in winforms. You had to open the program in visual studio, manually expand the size of the window(locked size in regular use) and that shows the buttons. Now run the program in debug. Press the decrypt button. DO NOT EXIT THE PROGRAM! Edit the file in a text editor. Save file. Press the encrypt button. Copy the encrypted file to any other location on your computer. Close the program. Manually email the encrypted file to anybody using the file.

 

So background, my kid has seizures often. He is currently on 5 different medications to try to control it(plus 1 for sleeping and 1 for his liver enzymes) plus severe non verbal autism so he can't tell us if he already had his meds. Currently when it's medication time, it's always "did you give him his meds yet?" and we have no way of tracking how many seizures he actually has besides "alot more recently" or "it's gone down recently". Yes he had multiple doctors and this is NOT a post looking for health advice.

I am creating an app for phones(c# Maui) which will send json objects to a api to store/retrieve data in a database(when he last had medication x, when he has a seizure etc). It will probably only be used with in my family, maybe 20 entries a day on a really bad day(7 medications twice daily + 6 seizures to give a round number) but should be less then 10 transactions(most medications given at same time).

What's the cheapest/easiest was I can host something like this? I do not have a static ip. Yes it's health information but I'm only storing first names and tracking time of events, not too worried about hippa like security.

 

The only possible exceptions I can think of are fish(I imagine gills and mouth are not connected but don't really know). I am excluding bacteria and viruses and I believe they don't really breath(correct me if I'm wrong).

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