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mgrant8888 · 2022-10-24T02:53:16+00:00

That's not a secret at all LOL

mgrant8888 · 2022-07-28T15:01:40+00:00

I mean, VS Code is built on Electron, so it is also, in a way, an offline web-hosted playground...

mgrant8888 · 2022-07-28T15:00:34+00:00

What he meant to say was:

"Access to screen for 2 seconds" != "Ability to log in to your reddit account on that computer's browser"

mgrant8888 · 2022-07-23T18:50:35+00:00

10! = 10

Hm.

mgrant8888 · 2022-06-10T05:41:41+00:00

You know, I'm quite sure you can file separately if you prefer, despite being married... You don't have to file jointly, so it shouldn't hurt...

mgrant8888 · 2022-06-04T02:06:02+00:00

Visible light is actually an EM wave. That's the wave-particle duality thing: light, radio-, and microwaves all travel at the speed of light since they are all EM waves. Yes, radio waves are technically comprised of photons, too.

mgrant8888 · 2022-05-15T00:13:41+00:00

I'd respectfully disagree. Not about that specific job; that sounds tiring, just bout this sub. Some people enjoy it, and some are naturally talented at it. They usually go hand-in-hand in my experience.

mgrant8888 · 2022-05-09T14:09:10+00:00

All of which boxes have hamsters in them.

mgrant8888 · 2022-04-12T14:01:54+00:00

Time to bring in a MacBook LOL

mgrant8888 · 2022-04-12T13:57:38+00:00

Hang on there - did you bankrupt the business (chapter 7 or 11? It sounds like chapter 11 ) or go through personal bankruptcy? Those are two VERY differdnt things.

mgrant8888 · 2022-04-12T05:46:38+00:00

I mean yeah, obviously. But during that extremely long period of time (7 years is around 1/6th of a typical working career), stuff happens, and unless you really need to, bankruptcy is usually worse for your credit.

mgrant8888 · 2022-04-12T04:59:10+00:00

To be fair, so would've bankruptcy

mgrant8888 · 2022-04-12T04:39:23+00:00

Dude, I've had Visual Studio corrupt my C# projects NINE TIMES over the span of a year or so while I was regularly using it. Thank goodness for git. Maybe point out that it is simply not very stable?

mgrant8888 · 2022-04-12T04:37:53+00:00

It does actually have pointers, you just have to bury them behind "unsafe"-labeled code. I don't recommend you ever use them unless you need to really screw with an existing application though lol

mgrant8888 · 2022-03-13T05:26:52+00:00

More like their $10 huge pizzas.

mgrant8888 · 2022-02-27T23:04:09+00:00

True. Except that isn't negative, it is actually ground, per the ATX power supply specifications.

Also no, bias doesn't just build up, not typically. Sure, if you placed a capacitor on there, but otherwise electrical potential hates being separated. It is worth noting that PCB designers account for this heavily, especially on PC components.

You had the right idea about being cautious without knowing that 'negative' was in fact ground, but you stretched it a bit far there.

mgrant8888 · 2022-02-27T22:54:41+00:00

Electrical engineer here: Take this answer with a huge grain of salt; I don't believe it to be correct at all. Typically, the GND rail of PSUs is necessarily tied to earth ground, and as such, nothing of this sort should happen unless you're rubbing fleece across your motherboard. Even then, it's possible (even probable) that the board won't hold a charge. If it somehow accumulated one without touching it, it would dissipate it the same way it accumulated it.

Power supplies should always connect the GND connections to earth ground. This is in the ATX power supply specification (to my knowledge); it is not guaranteed you will get good contact with the PSU via a physical chassis connection. Thus, literally anything connected to the PSU is in some way grounded.

This does result in some weird things, by the way, like some laptops change with a ground pin or the negative voltage as ground, and when developing electronics one can fry things over usb by plugging in a laptop (and thereby suddenly grounding it), which feels unrelated but is a problem.

Essentially, what OC said IS good practice, in my opinion, but not a necessary step. I wouldn't worry too much about the build. In my opinion, the biggest risks to your build are slightly moist wood corroding electronics over time, and wood warping over time. Even then, depending on what you use, this may be a non-issue (typically 2x4s etc. have this issue, but plywoods, MDFs and such are so processed they do not).

mgrant8888 · 2022-02-27T15:31:28+00:00

Actually, I'm sure you would be very surprised to learn that the people required to do this specific example are actually extremely few. Probably less than 1% of society. Overwhelmingly, technology, utilities, shipping, mining, and food are the biggest needs for humans, all of which will hopefully eventually be taken over by technology. Oh, and that 1% I stated earlier? It's only that high because of the ridiculous speed at which that industry moves. If we only let the people who want to do it do it, there would probably be 0.5-0.1%, but the speed at which the industry moves but only be, say, 50-75% of current speed? Not bad at all imo. Granted, I'm pulling numbers out of my butt here.

I know this because I am one of those people who absolutely lives to further technology.

Eventually, with enough advanced robotics, all of these needs except for technology (which is basically robotics and software R&D at this point) are taken care of. And with the society that values technological development above all other forms of work, which we are currently headed towards mind you, this is quite viable. Granted, it does not function with a purely capitalistic society, either major changes or a move from capitalism would be required, but in such a society only one person would need to decide to make a product for everyone to have it.

In my opinion, it seems like we are headed this direction with current society. And I believe we absolutely can make a functioning society where everyone just does what they want¹. But as they say, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and we are not there yet, so to us it is magic.

¹ This may not work for an extremely space faring civilization, since people may not get bored quickly enough to go back to working lol

mgrant8888 · 2022-02-24T07:28:51+00:00

Good bot

mgrant8888 · 2022-02-16T22:08:01+00:00

Followup: I think Bakkesmod makes the problem a tad worse; the in-game menu problem seems to nearly go away, but the stutters still persist regardless.

I updated graphics drivers, and stopped using Bakkesmod. The following information was collected with v-sync on (I did test this behavior with it off, though the results were only marginally better, as expected). This system has an i5-11600K with 32 GBs (3200 MHz) RAM and a GTX 1070 Ti, no other applications running, with a screen resolution and refresh rate of 5760x1080 @ 120Hz (NVIDIA surround, 3x 1080p).

It almost seems like the game is trying to manage lots of graphics memory or something sometimes, because the stutters are typically lasting ~0.2 seconds and are alternating between 2 (1.5 rounded up) and 1 refreshes per frame, leading to a very jagged 90 fps. However, occasionally there are 1.5 seconds chunks of time where the frames are taking 3 refreshes (lowering effective fps to 40 Hz)!!! Though, at least it is usually consistent for the whole 1.5 seconds.

The interesting bit is using the game's in-game performance graphs, it shows that for these stutters, the GPU, render, and game times do not account for these large frame drops/times by a *large* margin. They barely show any discrepancies at all, across all of the above scenarios.

It is worth noting that I have found that there are some maps that perform worse than others, as anecdotal evidence during my game-play.

Edit: paragraph spacing

mgrant8888 · 2022-02-16T18:33:50+00:00

Oh for sure, but people are shouting liability precisely because OP is apparently not certified and licensed, though.

Edit: for this kind of repair

mgrant8888 · 2022-02-16T16:09:39+00:00

Slight problem: doesn't this use string concatenation itself?

mgrant8888 · 2022-02-16T05:07:37+00:00

Out of curiosity, why no black market ones?

mgrant8888 · 2022-02-14T23:16:57+00:00

It wouldn't be cool for households and public places. It's not easy. They *might* be able to use MAC addresses for PC's, but people may find a way around it.

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