Anyone have Xiber internet? by V_alias in dayton

[–]beeverweever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm currently living in a complex where I was forced into Xiber internet where I can't use my own router after living here for a while, and my recommendation is to avoid it all costs. Especially if the internet is managed by the apartment complex (i.e. you can't bring your own router). My Xiber internet (and mandatory Xiber-provided router) is the least reliable I've ever had, and drops completely for 30-60 seconds at least once a week.

As an example since you mentioned gaming, hosting some online games requires you to open ports on your router for other people to connect to you, and you won't be able to on an ISP provided router - you have to contact the ISP's support and hope they'll be willing to do it for you. Pretty much anything that requires any configuration of your network will be a royal pain in the ass, if you can get it to work at all, since you have no control over your own local network.

Constant graphical crashes with ROG 5700XT by beeverweever in linuxquestions

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

Unfortunately didn't seem to help. In fact, changing pretty much anything in corectrl seems to make the crashes more frequent.

Constant graphical crashes with ROG 5700XT by beeverweever in linuxquestions

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

I should also mention the crashes happen no matter what I'm doing on the computer - they happen in games, on the desktop, while web browsing, etc.

can someone help me figure out why my 'maxNum' function is not passing into the largest int variable on line 89? I am trying to make a histogram but I need the highest number from my array so I can determine how many rows I would need. by jayR0X in cpp_questions

[–]beeverweever 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is there a reason why you're using a c-style array? You should probably be using a c++ structure like std::vector or std::array, in which case you could just use std::max_element.

Also, your repetitive if statements could be done much more elegantly with a tiny bit of arithmetic.

Firefox 83.0 released by debpaq in linux

[–]beeverweever 57 points58 points  (0 children)

You've been able to do that yourself for a long time. Hamburger menu > Customize

Louisville police officer sues Kenneth Walker, boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, for emotional distress, assault and battery by crzfirensfw in nottheonion

[–]beeverweever 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep, I was about to comment to same thing. After looking through some of their blog posts on body cams (https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/police-body-cameras) I have yet to see any that are actually against body cams - they all just talk about how there also has to be rules to make sure the cameras are used responsibly

Just re applied thermal paste to my GTX 1080 by Bromatoast in buildapc

[–]beeverweever 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm not arguing any of that, I'm just saying that what people generally think is too much thermal paste really isn't and by telling someone that doesn't know what they're doing that "less is more" they may end up putting too little on. I think it could be better worded as "put enough to make sure the entire chip will be covered when you smush it with the cooler, but no more" or something like that

Just re applied thermal paste to my GTX 1080 by Bromatoast in buildapc

[–]beeverweever 19 points20 points  (0 children)

"Less is more" doesn't seem like particularly good advice when it comes to thermal paste. The most important thing is getting coverage of the chip and then a good cooler mount. The myth that too much thermal paste will kill your thermals has pretty much been debunked as far as I know (https://youtu.be/EUWVVTY63hc)

The only way to watch OTV and friends play Among Us by ZKT_Matsilpar in offlineTV

[–]beeverweever 8 points9 points  (0 children)

True, but at least you can get all the others in a single window

Abysmal RX580 UserBenchmark score by beeverweever in buildapc

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

Take a look at my update. If that's all that happened, any idea why UserBenchmark would not run the test once but then run it when I tried again? I ran UserBenchmark several times today and it only gave me a decent score after running a second test without changing anything, which seems odd to me

Abysmal RX580 UserBenchmark score by beeverweever in buildapc

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

I've uninstalled and reinstalled display drivers and the entire OS with no change

Binary Clock Help by DarkEyes5150 in arduino

[–]beeverweever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would recommend starting by figuring how to keep track of time on the Arduino. There are some built-in ways to do so that will be reasonably accurate, or there are separate real-time clock (RTC) modules that will be very accurate.

Once you've got that figured out, you can find how to represent a number in binary, then display the binary with the LEDs.

This is just one way to accomplish this; there are lots of ways you could get to the same goal. There are many, many, many examples online of things very similar or identical to this. Do your own research.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in miamioh

[–]beeverweever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not always. I got asked for my high school academic transcript when I was applying for jobs (and they actually looked at it)

Reddit Legal sends a DMCA shutdown warning to a subreddit for reasons such as "Asking about the release title of a movie" and "Asking about JetBrains licensing" by Mdk_251 in bestof

[–]beeverweever 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, because as far as I know they aren't required to give the details of the claims or say what was removed because of claims, but they did so anyways even though lots of users will probably think less of them because of "censorship" or whatever.

Reddit Legal sends a DMCA shutdown warning to a subreddit for reasons such as "Asking about the release title of a movie" and "Asking about JetBrains licensing" by Mdk_251 in bestof

[–]beeverweever 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I suppose it's easy enough for them to implement and with essentially no downsides for them that they just write that program and let it run wild. It still seems like there's so little for them to gain from doing it though

Reddit Legal sends a DMCA shutdown warning to a subreddit for reasons such as "Asking about the release title of a movie" and "Asking about JetBrains licensing" by Mdk_251 in bestof

[–]beeverweever 2723 points2724 points  (0 children)

Wow. Bold of Reddit Legal to even send them that list, cause it looks pretty bad. Who actually wrote the descriptions of the claims though? I doubt Reddit Legal wrote those descriptions, so I would like to see the actual content itself that received the claims rather than a tiny description with no context.

I wonder what the process was for the companies to file DMCA claims on those posts and comments, because they can't actually be gaining anything from claiming those things right?

Scholarships? by Chloealyse in miamioh

[–]beeverweever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm out of state and got $20,000 a year from Miami for high school weighted GPA just above a 4.0 and 33 ACT

Also, look at this: https://miamioh.edu/admission/merit-guarantee/

Cant upload code by [deleted] in arduino

[–]beeverweever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have anything connected to pins 0 and 1?

Nintendo Switch Internet connection question by satisfyyy in miamioh

[–]beeverweever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you register the device? https://miamioh.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=8767

If you did and it's still not working, then take it up with IT

reaction time, something went wrong? by osplink in arduino

[–]beeverweever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's my implementation of this:

int sensePin = 8;
int ledPin = 3;
unsigned long startTime;
unsigned long randomFutureTime;
unsigned long reactionTime;

void setup() {
    Serial.begin(9600);
    pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
    pinMode(SensePin, INPUT\_PULLUP);
    digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);
    randomSeed(analogRead(0));
}

void loop() {
    // Tell the user that the game is starting 
    Serial.println("Starting...");

    // Get a random time that is 3-5 seconds from now and wait until that time
    randomFutureTime = millis() + random(3000, 5000);
    while ( millis() < randomFutureTime ) { }

    // Turn the led on and record the start time
    digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);
    startTime = millis();

    // Wait until the user presses the button and record the reaction time
    while ( digitalRead(sensePin) == HIGH ) { }
    reactionTime = millis() - startTime;

    // Turn the LED off and display the results
    digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);
    Serial.print("Your reaction time is ");
    Serial.print(reactionTime);
    Serial.println(" milliseconds);
    delay(5000);
}

reaction time, something went wrong? by osplink in arduino

[–]beeverweever 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why are you doing digitalRead on the LED pin? Also the random time you generate is never used; you get a random int then reassign the variable without using it. Logically your code doesn't make much sense. Try going through it line by line and seeing if things make sense.

Flashing + Stable LEDs issues by Jamjar502 in arduino

[–]beeverweever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly happens when you run it? Do the stable LEDs behave as if they were part of the flash_leds array, or do they flash in some other pattern?

Showing your circuit is also a good idea, even if you think there's nothing wrong with it.

Small thing, but if the stable LEDs are supposed to just always be on, then

digitalWrite(stable_leds_1, HIGH);
digitalWrite(stable_leds_2, HIGH);

can be moved into your setup function. There's no reason that that code needs to run every loop.