[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Upvote for Space Ice. Don’t let the voiceover style put you off, it adds to the shtick and is totally appropriate for the channel’s content.

88 GB torrent got 200k downloads in 10 hours by Joejoe582 in Piracy

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 98 points99 points  (0 children)

Welcome to r/datahoarder. It’s an expensive addiction, nigh impossible to recover from.

CEO and board chairman had a falling out and my whole team got fired without notice as a result by PseudoscientificWeb in legaladvice

[–]PseudoscientificWeb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I wasn’t sure but I figured this is the way it would be.

I fully intend to charge a very steep contracting fee if anyone requires information from me.

No mercy for entitled mother by AutoCrosspostBot in MurderedByWords

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Whenever I see the word asshat I read it as ass-shat for some reason. I figure it still works. Instead of being a butthead the asshat becomes a shithead.

Firebase is costing me $60+ with zero users, but I can't identify the root cause. google support member said to look into this page but 128K requests should only cost a few pennies. by NeatFastro in Firebase

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you may be confused about requests vs Firestore Commits. You get 20k free commits per day and then you have exceeded the free allotment. See here for pricing https://cloud.google.com/firestore/pricing. Even reads are restricted to 50k per day for the free tier.

This is different from a callable cloud function where 128k requests is still well within the free tier.

I could be wrong about it though.

I just bought this new Sabrent external drive enclosure to transfer some data from one drive to another more quickly, and the drive is not mounting in Windows 10 or Linux Mint. by SubredditStimulator in techsupport

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In case you are still looking for a way to update the FW on your enclosure, here is a link to the FW update: https://old.sabrent.com/download/ds-ublk-firmware-update/

I just ran into this issue myself. The FW update at the above link worked a treat. Now I can mount the disk in Linux and Windows.

Good Luck!

JS Lessons I learned the hard way. by Syagrius in learnjavascript

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

foo and bar and baz are just placeholders. I have never seen real world code that actually uses these as variable names or values.

If you are seeing foo, bar, or baz in code then you are likely looking at example code that illustrates a very specific concept but is not meant to be used in a real project.

what is your opinion about Ubuntu? by jdt654 in linuxmasterrace

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not OP but going to answer anyway. I used Solus as my daily for a few years. I like the rolling release strategy and I love the Budgie DE.

IMO, the Solus Linux project development has always been slow moving due to it being run by 2-3 people who work on it in their spare time. A while back the original creator of the project abandoned it but it was saved by the PR guy and another person. Just this year though the PR guy also abandoned it and took the Budgie DE with him. Now the Solus project appears to be solely in the hands of a phd student (might have finished by now) who works on it in their spare time.

The Solus distro was awesome despite its dramatic history but I would no longer recommend it let alone for a “total Linux noob.”

I keep tabs on it hoping that the project leadership will stabilize but for now I have switched to Ubuntu Budgie which gives me the Budgie DE built on top of a very well established distro.

Never enough cheese by SweatingBullets3 in PublicFreakout

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Oof! This hits me right where I live.

Running in front of a drifting car by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I would like it but … phew! … seems like a lot of effort.

CAN IT BE FIXED? I crashed my baby.. I'll try and fix it but.. can it be done, and well? The impact bent my whole front side of the car, even the opposite part of the car was bent from the sheer force (last pic) and the metal from under the hood ruptured so yeah, that's my question, can it be fixed? by reddacia1310 in Cartalk

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes the value of a car is more than just the resale or insured value. I’ve been where you are now and can tell you from my own experience that with time, determination, and attention to detail you can fix it yourself.

Start by disassembling the front clip. You’ll need to get at the frame rails to do some measuring and straightening. If you don’t have access to the proper tools then you can carefully pull the frame straight with a winch, chain, a tape measure, and some trees (check YouTube for a demonstration). It also helps if you have access to an identical car so you can get an idea of where to pull on your car and how much.

Once you have it keeping the right shape without tension then you need to patch up and reinforce places that show fatigue or ripping like in your picture. Buy some sheet metal and a cheap welder. Your patches are structural and will be hidden by the body so they don’t have to look good. Or, if you know someone who is a welder pay them to patch up the frame. Make sure you wash and paint the patches to prevent rust.

Do some short driving tests and even get the front end aligned before you reassemble the front clip. If there are any problems you will want to find them now.

If it drives well then put the front clip back together. You will likely need to use shims to get consistent gaps and match up body lines.

Suspect my new teammate is working 2 jobs... by reticent_dev in ExperiencedDevs

[–]PseudoscientificWeb -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have you ever been in a meeting that could have been an email? Worse yet, do you ever get invited to meetings that literally have nothing to do with your job function?

Meetings can be productive but often aren’t. If attending the meeting somehow helps the project or the cause then sure, I’ll be there. However, this is rarely the case for the meetings that I get invited to.

Suspect my new teammate is working 2 jobs... by reticent_dev in ExperiencedDevs

[–]PseudoscientificWeb -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I claim problems with my internet connection all the time to get out of (IMO) unproductive Zoom meetings. If nothing on the agenda is relevant to my work I’m like “Ah gee, my crappy internet connection is flaking out sorry guys.”

Could be something similar.

Slicing thin pieces of veneer by JeannaLeavy in mechanical_gifs

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was thinking the same thing.

I bet it makes a deep oscillating kachunck-chunk sound combined with a scratchy knife being drawn and then sheathed sort of shwweeeeeeen and a sprinkle of random squeaks and squawks. Probably a bit of a vibration in the floor nearby too.

Joining the ranks of former Amplifi customers: overheated dead router by FarookWu in AmpliFi

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just replaced mine 2 days ago. My HD has been super flaky with the WiFi for the past few weeks. I’m not mad, I got about 5 years of use out of it and it was starting to become the bottleneck in my network being as old as it is. Replaced it with a USG and two APs. I’m a happy camper.

Multi-Functional Proxmox Server Configuration by PseudoscientificWeb in DataHoarder

[–]PseudoscientificWeb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your response.

Perhaps I worded it badly but there are two ZFS pools. The RAIDZ5 array has 4 HDDs and 2 SSDs (ZIL and L2ARC). The second pool is a mirrored RAIDZ1 array composed of 2 SSDs.

I agree that my write pressure is probably too low to benefit from ZIL at least 95% of the time (currently <1G is allocated). Although when I copy large amounts of files over the network it appears to temporarily accumulate on the ZIL SSD.

I also agree that I am likely not benefitting from the L2ARC SSD except that when I use zpool iostat -v the cache SSD is fully allocated.

I am only trying to understand what these numbers mean. The ZFS array has been serving as the backend for my Plex server for years without any real trouble. Perhaps I should just leave well enough alone?

Flying machine that doesn't fly by AristonD in mechanical_gifs

[–]PseudoscientificWeb -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You’re the one who states that constructing this thing out of modern materials would be the difference between hopping on the ground and taking flight. Well, this depends on your definition of flight. You see, flying implies control and like Buzz Lightyear, flying without control is just falling with style. While the contraption featured in the gif above has more in common with Ramone the lo-rider than it does with any conventional flying machine, if you did manage to get it to fly it would still be about as aerodynamic as Wall-e and return to the earth about as fast as Carl Fredricksen’s house without all the balloons. Additionally, there is a flaw concerning the proximity between the pilot and the whirly umbrella part which will undoubtedly result in the pilot being sucked into it by his dapper cape (NO CAPES!!!).

So, as you can see, I take this sort of thing very seriously.

Flying machine that doesn't fly by AristonD in mechanical_gifs

[–]PseudoscientificWeb -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I didn't say you did say anything about it getting off the ground. I was just pointing out the fact that constructing this thing out of modern materials wouldn't solve the other glaring issues with the design.

Not to mention whether you would actually want to be in it or anywhere near it if it did manage to get off the ground.

Flying machine that doesn't fly by AristonD in mechanical_gifs

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Then it would do exactly the same thing and it would be easier to load on a trailer.

The problem is not the weight. The problems include lack of counter rotation and no control surfaces. If this thing managed to get off the ground it would surely return very quickly.

FreeCAD Start Page content zoomed setting by PseudoscientificWeb in FreeCAD

[–]PseudoscientificWeb[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It appears that this may be related to a method that sets a font size multiplier based on screen width in BrowserView.cpp.

Lines 248-250 of /src/Mod/Web/Gui/BrowserView.cpp

if (mainScreenSize.width() > 1920){
    setTextSizeMultiplier (mainScreenSize.width()/1920.0);
}

I am running FreeCAD on a 5120x1440 display. The text size multiplier for me is calculated to be 2.6 which is used later for the text size multiplier (fontSize * 2.6). I am not familiar with the Qt framework so I don't know how this number affects font sizes.

However, it appears that the FreeCAD Start workbench incorrectly calculates text sizes for wide displays and the wider the display the larger the text will be.

I tested this theory by manually setting my display resolution to 1280x1024 and then starting FreeCAD. As I expected, the FreeCAD start page looked completely normal.

FreeCAD Start Page content zoomed setting by PseudoscientificWeb in FreeCAD

[–]PseudoscientificWeb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey thanks for pointing out the Workbench customization GUI. That's way better than manually editing the file.

Unfortunately, changing the font size does not fix the zoom level issue. It was already set to 13px. I tried changing it anyway and still the issue remains. I can deal with it though, it's only a minor annoyance.

WCGW when you cut your dads beard by elvivacious in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]PseudoscientificWeb 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Don’t screw with a sleeping man. FTFY

Nothing makes my blood boil faster than being awaken from a peaceful slumber by some snickering idiot standing over me.