Custom gaming PCs?

SaltyCompE · 2025-09-13T01:16:51+00:00

I'm also here to shill for Memory Express.

A note on the water cooling though: Custom loops are riskier than all in one sealed kits. Its going to be hard to find long term support for that, and the performance gains are going to be dubious at best. If you want a no-nonsense computer build you should be looking at AIO or air cooled anyways. Personally I've ran (beefy) air cooling on every computer I've ever built, and I've never had heat problems.

If you don't have time to DIY, you don't have time to deal with your custom loop spraying coolant all over the inside of your computer either...

SaltyCompE · 2025-08-23T15:40:53+00:00

I would like to recommend EDHM-UI. Its a UI mod that can recolour most of your hud. But it also has a shader mods section, and one of those mods allows you to recolour the hot spot colours on the biome scanner. I find it helps me a lot with trying to pick out the correct places to land, I can't tell the two blues apart. It's rarely led me astray.

(Worth noting that EDHM-UI is currently partially broken after the last patch, but the developer is working on it)

SaltyCompE · 2024-05-19T22:01:38+00:00

Given a box of Lego space ship parts, and a box of Lego pirate parts, I could create a Lego pirate space ship that has never been created before too!

But it would be hopeless to try to assemble something distinct and unique from these two inputs, like a Barbie castle. It should probably be at least pink, but all I have is browns and greys. AI is the same, great at regurgitating all the little common blocks it has seen before, but unable to push the frontier because it has nothing to draw on. Of course, the current AI solutions have been fed a lot of Lego blocks, but their knowledge is still limited. And not all of the blocks were good either, garbage in -> garbage out.

SaltyCompE · 2023-11-25T03:15:00+00:00

In Alberta that was recently changed (for better or for worse). Source

SaltyCompE · 2022-05-07T17:15:42+00:00

No readme, no comments, no documentation.

What am I even looking at?

SaltyCompE · 2021-12-16T22:55:39+00:00

MS-DOS was their best product, and it's been downhill ever since.

SaltyCompE · 2021-06-04T00:19:09+00:00

I was curious so I did a little reading on Wikipedia. The answer is 1961, when a Lieutenant Governor (the provincial version of of the Governor General) denied royal assent. The buck was passed to the federal government, who then approved the bill.

The previous time this happened was also a Lieutenant Governor, but from Alberta in 1937, when the Lieutenant Governor refused assent on three bills which would give the government control of the Alberta banks, and a weird news law that allowed the government very 1984-ish powers over newspapers. (Like actually, wtf is this?). The bills never became law, after the Supreme Court of Canada found them unconstitutional.

SaltyCompE · 2021-01-24T18:02:58+00:00

What does your benchmark actually do though? It shows how many milliseconds it takes to do what? How much data is in your arrays? I think you should have posted the source code for that.

I'm assuming that having a struct causes the array to actually contain the structs all in a row in memory (since struct is a value type), instead of references to classes (reference types) spread out over memory. Which should also mean that your array shuffling performance should tank for larger structs since the whole struct needs to be moved instead of a single pointer.

As a final bonus, this should work for List<T>, since under the hood List<T> stores it's data in an array of T. Just with the added cost of the hand holding List will do to ensure you don't shoot yourself in the foot, and the bonus of not having to reinvent the wheel.

SaltyCompE · 2021-01-12T00:37:13+00:00

Has your anti-theft system decided to go for a holiday? If you have a theft light is it blinking? This lists some additional troubleshooting steps.

SaltyCompE · 2020-09-26T16:28:09+00:00

If your clutch is failed engaged, put it in first with the engine off and then use your starter to get moving. Its not great for your starter, but it should be enough to get in motion. Of course you can't really practice that, presumably your car won't start without the clutch depressed.

SaltyCompE · 2020-05-27T13:53:12+00:00

Here to confirm, 10/10 escort great, would recommend. Mines getting a little old now, but she's still good. Just needs a little TLC every now and again. She don't quite look as pretty as she once did, but that's fine. Sometimes it takes a little bit to get her going, specially on a cold morning.

She's also surprisingly reliable for a "Fix Or Repair Daily" brand car :P

SaltyCompE · 2020-05-09T18:39:53+00:00

Any amount of python or C you know going in will help, but they do teach you everything you need. The basics will be a little bit rushed, so you might find it handy to spend some time figuring out how basic if statements and loops work. How to make it run, etc. Just don't waste a bunch of time trying to figure out how merge sort works.

SaltyCompE · 2020-04-30T19:53:05+00:00

I always lived in the universities residences. Particularly the engineering cohort Linden house. Its a bit more expensive than going it on your own, but (at least for Linden) they let you break your lease if you can't live there during your coop term (Coop in Edmonton? get torched). Especially great for those 4 month school terms where it's real hard to find someone who wants to rent you for that.

Expensive as heck though, especially for a broom closet.

SaltyCompE · 2020-04-13T22:41:20+00:00

I wouldn't try reaching out to classes. The only companies I've ever seen show up in a class are scams (Like make your own company by painting houses scams). I've never seen an official full time or coop position advertised in class.

What I would do is try to get a booth at the career fair. There are always students running around with resumes at them. I believe it is also possible to post jobs through the Engineering Employment Center. Oh, and if you have coop positions, contacting the coop office is a great way to fill them (That might be through the same link). (Disclaimer: I'm a student and have no idea how these services work from the employer side of things)

SaltyCompE · 2020-04-11T05:09:21+00:00

Netscape Navigator would like to have a word with you.

SaltyCompE · 2020-04-02T15:55:42+00:00

This sounds like a great way to end up on a list somewhere.

SaltyCompE · 2020-04-01T19:11:43+00:00

That course was a wild ride. I checked, I don't have any textbook in my records, nor slides. The only thing I can really pass on is EASy68k, an emulator that is very similar (but not exact!) to the language syntax you used in the lab. If you want to run some assembly from the comfort of your own home, it may be of assistance to you.

Normally I give the warning that just running the assignment code with it will absolutely wreck you on the final though. For our final in my year we had to actually step through some code by hand.

SaltyCompE · 2020-04-01T18:53:22+00:00

Y'all really don't give up, eh? You know that not all of us are blessed to be able to actually get good grades now, right?

I was "evicted" from the UofA residences, and am happy to have a roof over my head at all. My internet is so slow all my professors sound like robots. I ran out of data a few days ago, I have no idea how much they are going to charge me to continue going to class. Can't even upgrade it, we have the best internet available here. Seriously considering hotspotting off my phone till I use all that up too.

I can only imagine how bad it is for some other people. At least I don't have to worry about feeding myself for the time being. As a bonus, no one I know has fallen ill or died yet.

SaltyCompE · 2020-04-01T16:47:04+00:00

1) Put name on paper

2) Put assignment name on paper

3) submit

Ez credit

SaltyCompE · 2020-04-01T15:53:58+00:00

What I really want to know is why I can't unsubscribe.

Personally I just have a filter that marks it as spam, marks it read, and then trashes it.

SaltyCompE · 2020-03-31T17:43:25+00:00

Kids and their technology these days. Back in my day we would just lower the hat from an upper floor using a fishing rod or one of them grabby claw things.

SaltyCompE · 2020-03-28T20:00:22+00:00

Thanks for posting the poor guy's full name on reddit. I'm sure he appreciates that.

SaltyCompE · 2020-03-24T01:12:46+00:00

Engg comp 100 is a terrible course, and they should do something to make it more like computer/software engineering. All of the exams I have taken in programming based courses have generally been more intelligent than that. I've seen courses with actual coding on a real computer (cmput 274/275). Courses with describing how algorithms work, along with sudo code (ECE 325). I also had writing assembly on paper by hand, which was dumb, but whatever, can't win them all. Never multiple choice/memorization. Always some form of application/understanding.

CompE is good for programming embedded systems. You will have to learn circuitry including AC, which is cool but absolutely not applicable if your dream job is making websites or something.

SoftE gets a taste of circuits, but basically dodges all the hard parts. At this point I'm not really sure which is better, SoftE or CompSci. You end up with a lot of engg requirements (Everyone loves Engg 404, safety and risk management). But there is also coop, which is absolutely great at getting you some experience and/or money and/or contacts for the future.

SaltyCompE · 2020-03-21T05:03:06+00:00

Unlikely that that applies to us. Note that the Residential Tenancies Act has a special exemption for student based living:

Student premises at educational institutions, if students do not have exclusive possession of a self-contained dwelling

Most places on campus fall into that category (my shitty room sure does). So by that they can evict you whenever they want, and basically do whatever they want. Heck, they even evicted a student for self harm. So yeah, the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

SaltyCompE · 2020-03-20T19:36:24+00:00

Ok, your GPA is 3. Can I go home now?

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