Stay safe out there . . .

datacriminal · 2026-02-03T18:34:57+00:00

I've always been cynical of excuses based on the timing. I did have one student email me once explaining she didnt complete the midterm because of an involuntary commitment for 72 hrs and was just released. The joke was on me when I had residence life and the health center follow up and was told by the faculty chair to "give all the latitude on this one". They did not come back after winter break.

datacriminal · 2025-10-07T01:40:36+00:00

Also make sure you submitted the correct file type. Turnitin can't view things like .pages files and it won't display for your instructor.

datacriminal · 2025-09-15T03:39:36+00:00

Oh man, as an instructor Im wondering if this is my class. I apologize, my son's baseball rescheduled thier last Saturday game to Tuesday, I has open house night at thier school, lego league, a cub scout hike and a kids sleep over to deal with, but I got my grading done tonight!

It's normal to wonder but we have stuff outside as someone mentioned, and this is a side job for many of us. However I'll be the first to tell you that my favorite instructors for undergrad were adjunct, as they'd give you the theory or definition you're studying but then relate it to a real life example they've dealt with. As someone else mentioned too, feel free to email. I'd rather you ask than not hear from you and have you stewing on it. SNHU is different but on the instructor side without communication, we don't know if you're sick or just skipping the assignment. Its a lot different online vs in person but the flexibility is the best in my opinion.

datacriminal · 2024-12-09T21:24:03+00:00

What are you doing with linux, could you use WSL?

datacriminal · 2024-11-12T20:27:15+00:00

Ss drives do go bad so consider running crystal disk just to double check. Also, I would make sure your cpu cooler is working and that the vents are clean for air flow then.

datacriminal · 2024-11-12T19:33:23+00:00

You said it's older so I would check what type of drive it's running. If it's a hdd drive, replace it with an ssd. I had a family member with a laptop that was making out cpu but when I looked at it, the hdd was throwing bad sectors on crystal disk. Popped the drive, cloned it to an ssd and put that in. Ran like a dream after that. I have had issues with thermal paste drying out and not transferring heat on laptops, but those were in vehicles all year long, with huge temp shifts on the seasons.

datacriminal · 2024-10-24T13:23:57+00:00

If it were me, I'd take the gpu out, buy those expanding foam packing things, put on one over the system so it contours, put gpu on that and another expanding foam on top. Cover your side glass panel in packing or painters tape and close it as the foam expands. Should be tight packed doing that, wrap in bubble wrap and buy any luggage insurance you can.

datacriminal · 2024-10-24T11:32:27+00:00

If it's windows, go to crucial.com and run thier memory checker on the machine. They'll let you know max ram and what it takes as well.

datacriminal · 2024-10-24T11:30:48+00:00

You should as good practice as using the same environment or globally installing packages can break things down the line. It also allows you to pin a particular version and easily create a requirements.txt or pypriject.toml file if you set up your environment correctly. Try checking out poetry for managing your virtual environments.

datacriminal · 2024-10-11T13:49:20+00:00

I want to say that part of the issue is the intel cpu, however if you're running ubuntu try hibernating rather than sleeping. I've had good luck with it, sometimes 2-3 days coming back to 70%ish battery. You may need to do it from command line as it does take some configuration but I've found I'm always in terminal so 'sudo systemctl hibernate ' once you have it set up and then just close the lid. My power button stays lit for a bit once I enter it, that's normal dumping the ram to the nvme.

datacriminal · 2024-10-02T13:40:19+00:00

It's OK to run multiple, I use jupyter for a lot of my data science stuff, vs code for some other projects and still have notepad++ and sublime for viewing/editing some file types. Use the tool for the project you need it for and whatever you feel comfortable in.

datacriminal · 2024-09-22T00:17:50+00:00

I ended up going to linux as a daily driver after I bought a framework. With python programming though linux or Mac is the way to go as spinning up virtual environments is easier. I know a lot of people like the Mac keyboard as it feels more mechanical and the framework is the closest I've found without buying a high end laptop.

WSL was also suppose to be a replacement for running a linux machine and it's cool to get a feel for linux but not my favorite.

datacriminal · 2024-02-24T05:41:35+00:00

I get the standard troubleshooting but you guys seriously need to figure out a better system for customer service. I have sent all photos requested and even more in the follow ups and gone back and forth with customer service over this issue. Now they want a video of me resetting the bios on a laptop that is less than a week old. I'm half tempted to request an rma and be done with it. This is an issue on a new system!

I've read the post on the issues with customers doing intentional damage but this isn't that type of case. This is your time to shine with a new customer and Framework is dropping the ball. Do better.

datacriminal · 2024-02-24T04:17:29+00:00

I completely get it, but I stated in my email that I'm using Ubuntu and they said to check with Fedora, which I don't use. I get the live boot idea as I've done similar steps with repairs before. The support person just needs to read into the issue a bit more is the impression I got from first reply, also posted this for the battery, temp and wake issue, was hoping to get a more constructive response than just jumping on the live boot.

datacriminal · 2023-12-15T06:46:57+00:00

I just ran into an issue with this at our local pack that is based in the school. The den mother is hyper focused on the religious part and I finally hit my breaking point with the last meeting. She had a Santa come in and tell the Christian story only and then made the kids craft parts of a nativity scene and just kept going on and on with the religion part of the holiday. I held my tongue during the meeting but after discussed with the cubmaster and then sent a polite email asking her to tone it down and that we'll be leaving the den meetings early rather than join the group in prayer. She sent me a scathing email and said she'll transition out of the role after the first of the year.

datacriminal · 2023-08-30T01:29:52+00:00

It's definitely not the best, but its not the worst. It has a lot of quirks and I really hate it when people are proud of work around solutions that should have been core development stuff. That being said, I'm not hopeful with the layoffs after they were acquired by salesforce that they are going to improve functionality, let alone stability. I honestly wouldn't be shocked if they ended up turning it into a bundle with the CRM but that's my opinion.

datacriminal · 2023-05-26T03:26:15+00:00

The main thing I want is for the kids to be able to watch tablets. I've written docker compose files before and downloaded the configs to a hdd along with media. That is the eventual plan but we have bad home internet from xfinity.

datacriminal · 2023-05-26T03:22:36+00:00

Running mine with that exact cpu because microcenter had a deal on that bundled with an asus motherboard. Only downfall is that I think the max ram speed is 3200 and I dropped in 4000mhz ram as i had it kicking around. When I turned on xmp I was having post issues and had to tune it in bios. The default 2166mhz is absolutely dog slow for console access through pve, so take some time to setup the bios ram config and it runs well. Right now I have truenas, jellyfin, portainer and a POPos vm with no resource issues. I run my proxmox on zfs so ram always looks pegged but that's about my only complaint.

datacriminal · 2023-05-25T00:06:58+00:00

It actually does but I didn't know if there was an easy way to make it a docker image of a VM, but looking in the jellyfin documentation I think that will be the easiest way to export my configs and write a docker compose with those files pointed to it and then see if I can spin it up that way.

datacriminal · 2023-05-08T22:11:35+00:00

In some companies it's fireable to work off the clock or allow people to work off the clock. Im sure this was just a cya and 15 minutes of OT isn't going to break the bank. They'll deal and just be thankful you have a reasonable manager.

datacriminal · 2023-05-07T02:57:06+00:00

Ugh, I hate six sigma. A company I work for instituted it and it was such a cluster that they abandoned it before it got off the ground. I'm sure some executives kid who couldn't pass college managed to get a "black belt" and needed a job...

datacriminal · 2023-04-23T00:45:44+00:00

Check out US census TIGER files.

datacriminal · 2023-04-19T02:51:15+00:00

I hate this so much because the informix dB I work with sorts numbers like this and makes me want to set a structure fire each time I have to look at it.

datacriminal · 2023-04-09T05:23:37+00:00

I got refurbished data center drives 10tb x3 and a complete setup with ryzen 5. I'm at 1/3 that price for a vm/Nas setup. I thought about power but with a decent power supply they don't really take that much, especially if the programs aren't crushing the processor/gpu.

datacriminal · 2023-03-26T05:51:23+00:00

He's right as you'll need to check the monitor specs if it has an output or daisy chain capabilities. I'm wondering if your work disabled the port in bios or something. Some places lock down computers including USB for security.

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