vrek

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 20 minutes ago

It's probably too expensive for a joke but you should make a circuit board in the shape of a chicken, one side a bunch of leds on the other a control circuit to randomly light them so the chicken circuit hoard looks like it's sparkling.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 0 points 1 hour ago

Also every person I worked with typically made a serious mistake within 3 months. Initially they start and are being trained and closely monitored. Then eventually they are determined to be good enough they don't need more training. They want to do a good job, impress their boss and Co-workers so the pay close attention to everything they do. They have daily to-do lists everyday to ensure they don't miss anything. They double and triple check everything. Then around the 2 month mark they start to believe they know what they are doing, they got this, it's easy, all that stuff was a waste and they could do this while talking with a friend about their weekend plans. Then they make a stupid mistake, click a wrong button, forget to do a step, put something upside down etc. As a result they mess something important up, company losses money, co-workers are mad because they have to do extra work to make up for the mistake, boss is mad. Hopefully that's all that happens, in certain roles or certain industries it could cause death or massive loss of money or legal consequences. A good employee then starts recalibrating how much attention they need to pay and develop new habits to prevent repeating the mistake. Somewhere around the fifth month they get the right idea and are benefiting the team. Then you quit at 6 months and all that time and money spent on you is now wasted.

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

I don't know about you specifically but for anything complex or technical it takes atleast about 2 months to be similar to a long term employee. Between learning the computer systems, getting any permissions they need, learning the general work flow, learning what is not normal, what to do when something goes wrong, who to contact if you have issues or need something outside your role for example at my last job part of my job was looking at a process and determining how to improve it, let's say I thought a different fixture would increase throughput. First I had to contact the cad team to transform my thought into an official drawing. Next to see if I was right, I had to contact the 3d printing team to get the new fixture printed. Next contact the production scheduling team to get a test run done, while also working with production supervisor to ensure they were aware, then run the test and analyze the data assuming data looked good, now contact the machine shop to get it made out of metal or traditional milled plastic, now back to original scheduler to schedule final test. That's all assuming no software changes or quality concerns or bio material contact concerns or regulatory submissions or purchasing components from a vendor. Learning who all those people and when you do and don't need to contact them takes time. Previously I also repaired industrial equipment, where are the extra parts? What is the common issues and how to fix them? What can you just quickly do and what becomes a big issue? What is caused by user and what is caused by machine fatigue/issue? Where are the keys for things that are locked up? Who are the vendors if I need to order spare parts? These are only a few examples and are different for every company and every position. You can't learn it from college and the knowledge is useless when you leave that company. Generally if you only stay for 6 months you are a burden to your boss/trainer etc for about 1/3 of your time there. This is why I always hated interns, they may be smart but by the time they get the company specific information they had like 2-3 weeks left. Management would be like "I'll give you an intern to speed this project up" but no, most likely it will only slow it down. I typically took the intern though because it's important to train the next generation but it almost always resulted in additional work for me.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 11 hours ago

As long as you don't work with cows it shouldn't matter, Now if it a job on a dairy farm...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 13 hours ago
[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago

Let's just say they were not impressed with the plans of the engaged woman...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 36 points 22 hours ago

Fun fact is the turbo button wasn't actually turbo anything. It pressed in was the default and designed speed. When it was depressed it set it to run at a lower clock speed. This was meant for older games where aspects of the game like movement and attack speed were tied to the clock rate. With a high speed cpu the game was unplayable so you take off turbo mode and it mostly fixed the issues.

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

I guess that makes sense but its different from other reply

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

Yeah, I'll use them to prop up this table... Oh some of them can be used to make shadow puppets... Maybe some can be used to ensure proper efficiency of the garbage trucks...

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

Oh, it was a general contractor marrying the plumber. That makes sense. I read it as 3 separate people.

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

I worked with this Indian guy and a Indian woman. Both great great people and excellent at their jobs. We had a work outing(normally work ended around 5, we went to a restaurant with free food and 2 drink tickets starting at 3 and lasting till 6) and somehow we got talking about weddings, I think another women just got engaged. OH MY GOD, the weddings they talked about were insane. The guy didn't walk up the aisle, no he wasn't waiting up there for the bride, they literally rode live elephants down the aisle. Both of them said their weddings went for 3-4 days, plus honeymoon. Multiple performances by professionals including sword juggling, fire breathers, several live bands, etc. I don't even know what else. Yeah they were engineers and made good salaries and their spouses were also professionals with good salaries but not like actors or ceos or anything. I have no idea how they managed to afford it but they said it was "expected" in their culture.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ok... I can understand that but... What does the plumber have to do with it? Was he "laying pipe"?

 

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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