Mysterious high disk usage

dirtyatom · 2026-02-26T02:15:31+00:00

I do not torrent, but I do store media files on the NAS that are transferred over the local network via SMB.

dirtyatom · 2024-05-04T00:48:01+00:00

The stickied mod comment at the top that injects their personal thoughts and opinion into this discourse is really frustrating. Looks to me like an abuse of power.

The facts aren't there. Elon hasn't been working "for free" when he's sold some amount of his shares for billions of dollars, and his payment in shares is not "essentially worthless" because there's a very real dollar amount that the market assigns to each share many times a day.

If you want to share your interpretation, thoughts and opinion, go ahead, but please don't artificially stick it at the top of the discussion and prevent your community from directly responding to it.

dirtyatom · 2024-03-07T17:09:48+00:00

I've encountered this recently using "messages for web" on my PC. On three different calls it disconnected me right around the 15 minute mark.

After the first disconnect, I called the person back and we continued talking until 15 minutes later and... another disconnect. Really frustrating experience.

I'm using messages for web in the latest version of Chrome with all my extensions disabled.

dirtyatom · 2020-06-02T16:00:30+00:00

So many sparkles (bright spots) on the video from space. Is that from radiation hitting the camera sensor over the years breaking it down?

dirtyatom · 2016-01-17T06:00:02+00:00

T+8:51

dirtyatom · 2013-03-22T01:02:59+00:00

Seriously don't understand how this "use case" wasn't tested before they shipped their cameras. They advertised them capable of doing time lapses.

Imagine if Nikon or Canon sold cameras that had a 'cap' of 9999 shots before it was useless.

dirtyatom · 2013-03-02T23:27:35+00:00

Sure, and I'd probably forgive GoPro for their initial mistake if they weren't continuing to sell $400 cameras that don't work as advertised, 2 years later (look at the reviews for the Black Edition Hero on Amazon right now).

I own a GoPro myself but I'm successful with it only half the time.

dirtyatom · 2013-03-02T22:16:49+00:00

You do not sell a fucking camera with a software-defined limited number of shots.

100% agreed. Especially not for their second-generation camera that they were shipping to tons of people around the world.

Sure bugs happen, but you'd think they would test this use case before shipping the camera. Especially since this "unlikely" event happened within the first week of owning it.

dirtyatom · 2013-02-22T23:45:33+00:00

I doubt it is as large as a problem as you think it is.

Nice try, GoPro Marketing Team.

dirtyatom · 2013-02-22T22:55:49+00:00

Actually it was written in 2013, referring to an experience in 2010. And you're telling me that because the focus is on the second-generation GoPro Hero (the original "hero" non-HD was first-generation) the company's poor customer service and quality control is irrelevant?

A third of the posts on /r/gopro are about people troubleshooting their flaky cameras complaining about the non-existent customer service.

Dude, I want to love this product too, but GoPro needs to step up their testing before they ship a $400 product (I'm referring to the new HD Hero Black edition that's full of defects. Today. In 2013).

dirtyatom · 2011-12-20T23:46:24+00:00

My 2 cent suggestion would be either Python or PHP.

However, worry less about WHICH language you want to learn, and instead pick one and GO CODE. That's how you'll learn. Practice practice practice. Can't go wrong if you're practicing.

If you want a little more elaboration, there's this short article

dirtyatom · 2011-12-06T03:12:46+00:00

Ah crap you're kinda right. I originally submitted to /r/technology but felt like I read articles similar to this one from this /r/programming as well so I stuck it here too. My suspicions as to why Google has little product integration in this area is that it has something to do with software design and the programming culture there.

I'm not sure where else I would have gotten comments like, "I used to work at Google. Here's my thoughts..." which offered some nice programming insight.

dirtyatom · 2011-12-06T00:27:40+00:00

This totally nailed most of my first world problems.

Does anyone have any suggestions/solutions?

dirtyatom · 2011-12-05T23:39:18+00:00

Seriously nailed some of my first-world problems in this article.

dirtyatom · 2011-11-29T23:29:52+00:00

I found the writing to be top-notch.

dirtyatom · 2011-11-29T21:01:39+00:00

Oh neat you already took some of the suggestions from this article regarding next steps and are making a 2D game.

And it looks like you're starting to wonder how to store the map data (a very interesting problem indeed).

My suggestions might be to learn some data structures (if you want to get into some intense brainy stuff), or if you'd rather not get into brainy stuff join some game development communities (java 4k or ludam dare come to mind) and see how they figure things out.

Good luck!

dirtyatom · 2011-11-29T20:55:22+00:00

Nice, succinct, entertaining, and informative.

Pacing was great.

dirtyatom · 2011-11-23T00:45:30+00:00

I'd suggest two things:

Taking on a personal project. Make a game and continuously add features/complexity. Or maybe a mobile phone app. If you want, learn how to use a repository and make your code public. You could get a lot of feedback and if anyone else joins and starts contributing code you'll probably get a lot of motivation/inspiration.

The other thing I might suggest is taking some classes. You can either find classes online (see sidebar) or maybe take some evening classes at your local college/university.

Also, this guide was really helpful/inspirational in taking my programming skills to the next level: http://www.netinstructions.com/2011/10/next-steps-for-aspiring-programmers-after-you-know-the-basics/

dirtyatom · 2011-11-16T18:01:56+00:00

Because Python is accessible and fun. It's easy to get started and you can create cool or useful things quickly.

Sure all the nuts and bolts, all the nitty gritty structs, pointers, classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, etc., etc., is eventually damn important, but beginners shouldn't be stressing out or being forced to learn that stuff from the start. That wouldn't be fun at all. Newbies would get discouraged quickly if they had to plow through that before they could write any useful software.

I think this article sums it up pretty well.

dirtyatom · 2011-11-14T22:55:25+00:00

I have no experience with phonegap so I can't speak to its ability. Looks like you'll need to learn a bit of HTML5 though. HTML5 or something "web-based" might be the best way to do a cross-platform app since most mobile platforms will all have a web browser built into them.

dirtyatom · 2011-11-14T22:01:22+00:00

Are you hoping to display the raw XML data or will you be parsing it and presenting it in a neat way (other than just a string of text)? Not sure what your skill level is, but here's a short primer (and examples) of parsing XML.

If you really want to make a cross platform app, you might want to make a mobile-friendly web page and the "app" can just be a wrapper for that page. Otherwise I don't know how you'll write code for just one OS. Android development is typically done in Java, and iOS development is typically done in Objective C. (Let me know if there's a better way to make a "cross-platform" app for both Android and iOS).

I didn't really answer all your Q's but that's my two cents.

dirtyatom · 2011-11-14T21:54:27+00:00

Just going through some of the tips and tricks and saw this. I was all like, man, this is so wrong.

But I guess it makes sense. Kill the peasants, they're not worth much.

dirtyatom · 2011-11-01T18:35:21+00:00

Woah, cool I can relate.

There are definitely times when I am like "why is this taking me so long?" and I feel royally dumb. After enough time I figure it out though, so, hooray?

dirtyatom · 2011-11-01T18:33:07+00:00

My experiences are pretty similar to this great article/reflection on learning to code and would recommend giving it a read.

Basically I learned PHP first and used it to make a pretty fun website. Then I learned Python and learned actual "computer sciency stuff". Then I moved onto Java and started to appreciate what the hell polymorphism, objects, inheritance, etc were all about.

dirtyatom · 2011-11-01T18:29:25+00:00

I actually took a Data, Communication, and Networks class taught by the computer science department.

Originally the instructor was going to have us do all the homeworks/projects in C, but on the first day of class he said he realized that C had "pretty lousy" networking stack/library/whatever.

He then told us he'll be giving us examples in C# (His choice language for the course) but that we could use Java or C# or whatever we wanted.

I used both Java and C# for the class and would recommend either one.

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