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[–] vrek@programming.dev 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Depends on the show...some of them, no it's not because it's improper it's because they are super annoying to watch as an adult. I'm thinking stuff like team Umizoomi, Dougie and such.

Stuff for early teens is typically ok, like Steven universe or teen titans or adventure time. But when you go down to shows for the under 7 crowd...yeah the shows are horrible.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 16 hours ago

Oh that's fine then

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Probably true, it was just a joke though.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 31 points 18 hours ago (9 children)

Where does vegetable oil come from? Vegetables!

Where does olive oil come from? Olives!

Where does baby oil come from? Uh... Oh no!

[–] vrek@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

Yes, it's called conflict of interest. Your question is a loaded question because it states that the officer "kills" the victim and it was "unjustly". Let's a officer is accused of causing the death of the victim. The cousin lawyer may not do all the work required to defend against the allegations or may hide evidence that he is innocent since it doesn't fit what they want.

On the other hand, maybe cousin lawyer hated the victim. Maybe the cousin slept with the lawyer's husband. Maybe the lawyer suspects she can get a payout in a civil court later if the cop is convicted.

The risks of these occurring are so great that this shouldn't even be considered and I think would be banned by the bar association.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago

Back then they were "west Francia fries" as France wasn't found yet, otherwise a hostorically accurate comic.

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

Can you just have the board made as a square and then just cut it out with a jig saw?

[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lucky you didn't have to get a new home with the grease + high heat = fire situation...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago

Was it an older person? I remember when a big selling point of chrome was you could search Google from the address bar rather than going to Google.com. On a related note, have you seen my walker?

[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

They are real but rare. Situations that change society as a whole. For example creation of printing press which spread both religion and literacy. Or creation of the combustion engine which lead to cars and trains resulting in the society spawl we now live in. Or the discovery of germ theory which revolutionized medicine. Or the the west India shipping company started selling rights to some of the profits of a shop if people gave them money early so they could afford the ship and the trip, effectively creating stock markets(especially the futures market). Or creation of the transistor instead of vacuum tubes.

People claim things are paradigm shifts so others will give them money but most typically aren't. Like 3d tvs were supposed to be a paradigm shift about 15 years ago, now when did you last even see a 3d movie or see a 3d TV for sale in a store? Vr was supposed to be a paradigm shift for games but it's still incredibly niche due to price, downsides of current tech and lack of software (software isn't developed because there's not a consumer base and there's not a consumer base because there's no software)

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

If your company was anything like mine find a group of people who you work well with in your normal departments and try to use them whenever possible. For example basically every document released needed a signature from manufacturing, R&D, regulatory, quality. Technically I would contact the manager of each department with quick overview and ask them to assign someone, but I would also include a quick note like "I would appreciate if John could be assigned to this if he has availability". Typically I would also typically of already contacted John and checked if he had availability and if it was within his ability, typically they were willing but sometimes was told stuff like "I would love to but I'm on vacation for 2 weeks starting Monday" or "I could but I haven't work on fault tolerance stack up analysis since college, I recommend Tim as he can give a more thorough review of your analysis". All good things to know before starting out on a project.

Also if you need something done quickly prepare ahead and alert everyone and typically people will comply but don't use this too often. For example one time we had an improvement project, we were told we could use a Friday but report had to be completed and released before Friday morning or people's surgeries would need to be delayed(long story how we got in that situation). I wrote the whole report the week before assuming everything went smoothly, only thing missing was the specific numbers from the test. I sent it out the week before and asked for a pre-review so everyone agreed on the verbiage. I wrote a macro script to do all the analysis and verified it work with previous data sets compared to manual analysis. Test took 6 hours to run, finishing of report took 10 minutes, sent out for review to all signatories and cc'd my boss, the director and the dvp emphasizing urgency. Dvp replied all throwing his weight behind it. Everything was approved and released with an hour to spare before eod. I only did that sort of thing 5 times over 8 years in that role so people respected my request. I know people who said everything was urgent and no matter what the real priority was it got put into the normal queue for most people. Typically I budgeted a week just for reviews in my timeline, we got that one done in about 35 minutes.

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

I used to be in medical device, be aware everything takes forever. Minor changes were atleast 6 months. I added in a step to have an operator look at some component under a microscope for damage to increase yield. Basically if the component was damaged it wasn't detectable till much later and cost went from about 5 dollars to about 800. It took 9 months to implement and we didn't even have to buy anything or hire anyone.

 

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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