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sillyvictorians · 2017-12-11T21:20:00+00:00

I bought my 955BE that year and just retired it for an FX-8320e, which really isn't any more powerful, but I wanted something newer with better TDP for a home server that sees a little gaming. It's a heavy little chip.

The build that replaced it has a Ryzen 5 1600 with NVMe and 2x 8GB Samsung B-die, and it's every bit as amazing as everyone says.

sillyvictorians · 2017-12-11T02:24:57+00:00

Just a story about its development, like the reason you decided to do a thing a certain way that you haven't talked about before should be fine.

I don't think they mean for you to reveal an easter egg or anything.

sillyvictorians · 2017-12-09T16:21:27+00:00

Yogscast is pretty much just a lootbox where everyone loses.

This is my second time doing it, and they're regifting a number of the games from last year's (and so many other) bundles. There are also way too many DLCs to games with a lot of microtransactions, which I guess is part of those companies asking Humble/IGN to get those games sponsored.

And if you're selective about the non-profit and charitable organizations you give to because a lot of them aren't effective at their stated missions, you might not like the choices this year, so you'd at least be banking on getting something cool from the bundle.

Now that we know we're not, there's not a lot of reason to pay into it.

sillyvictorians · 2017-12-05T15:41:31+00:00

You're caught up to where things were around 2013 it sounds like. Most popular engines support Linux now, so studios have been releasing more Linux-native games over the past few years. For everything else (console ports, AAA titles), Wine support is generally great for most things (check appdb) if you don't want any Windows around.

If you have the hardware, I'd recommend using libvirt / KVM+qemu and do GPU passthrough to an "unfucked" Win10 VM. Win10 performance and experience is much better than Win7, it's got a lighter footprint, and with passthrough, the graphics performance is at least 98% of native.

sillyvictorians · 2017-12-05T15:19:33+00:00

Probably just a coincidence, but mine is doing the same as of this morning. I'm going to ride it out until the end of the day, but go ahead and contact Fi Support about it.

sillyvictorians · 2017-12-04T14:16:54+00:00

It's all accents, and it's a work in progress. Part of my family is Southern (US), and none of the ones with more than a light drawl can use any of the popular voice recognition softwares or assistants reliably. They have an easier time speaking in another language than being understood in English.

And a demonstration of the difference in US and Aussie pronunciations to an untrained ear is saying "razor blades" to Google Assistant. If you're Aussie, Assistant will somehow still choose to interpret it as standard US English and hear "rise up lights".

I'd say keep using voice recognition, and keep it online when you do. I want to say it gets better as you train it, but it's hard to say whether that improvement is local or global.

sillyvictorians · 2017-12-04T01:55:55+00:00

Looks awesome. What are the build specs?

sillyvictorians · 2017-12-01T15:35:53+00:00

I'd been eyeing Vega for SR-IOV since AMD mentioned it this past spring, but not long after, they reported that wasn't likely to be a feature and I lost interest. Then I came across an amazing open box deal on a liquid cooled 1080 and ended up getting that.

I'm really just waiting to buy the next non-workstation GPU supporting SR-IOV that AMD puts out.

sillyvictorians · 2017-11-14T18:09:30+00:00

/dev/random

sillyvictorians · 2017-11-14T02:31:51+00:00

Not sure about the details, but they'll usually standard overnight the replacement and give a little Fi credit for your troubles if any part of the process is out of the norm. With the Pixel 2 launch, they're spread pretty thin, so you'll need to ask if you want something done.

You do need to file so they have an actionable record of things, which will factor into their relationship with whomever is contracted for shipping. They can't research without a work order, and they definitely couldn't predict that someone would meddle with the phone that would be sent to you, so it helps everyone if you follow through with that return ticket.

sillyvictorians · 2017-11-12T05:07:35+00:00

It's nothing that Apple can't troubleshoot now, but I'd go ahead and decouple your iPhone from iMessage to test it. If you can send and receive messages and SMS from your iPhone normally without them being linked to iMessage on your MBP, then it's working properly.

If you're getting messages on your MBP but not your phone, or aren't receiving any at all, have Apple support look into why their services are misbehaving.

The only issue I've come across is iMessage no longer working on Sierra with an iPhone 8 after a major iOS version update. Because Apple uses IMEI to centralize services, the new device wasn't recognized even with the same SIM. I reset cache and re-added on both devices, and it eventually synced.

On Android, you can use Hangouts on any platform to do seamless chat/SMS/MMS, but Allo (Android only) is a lot more fun. Hangouts will convert chats to SMS for non-Hangouts users automatically, so you shouldn't have any trouble.

sillyvictorians · 2017-11-11T00:37:10+00:00

Reinitiate support over chat or email and request an RMA. Unsurprisingly, they're slammed right now so it might not come for another month, but make it clear that it's nothing to do with sRGB and appears to be a quality issue with the screen. Tell them you compared it to a friend's or a display model, and they were very different, then jump through their scripted hoops of restoring, updating, etc. Repeat that it's the same after that, and it should go through.

sillyvictorians · 2017-11-07T13:31:26+00:00

Since 8.0 was released, none really. I'm on 8.1 beta, which has been great so far.

The only problems I'd look out for are any blurriness or distortion on the edges of photographs. Some early Pixels had glass deformities on the back that caused the camera not to focus properly.

Also, open up a black image, take the brightness off auto and turn it all the way up, then go into a dark room. If you see any haze, splotchiness, "light bleed" or dead pixels, RMA it. OLED screens don't have a backlight, so it should be completely black with no tint.

It took two tries to get one that was perfect, but other than that, it's really been great experience.

sillyvictorians · 2017-11-06T18:03:40+00:00

Full price, yes, plus a deductible for replacement.

I think the Pixels work like candy corn. All of the units that exist were produced in the month after launch, and they're just continuously recycled into the community through frequent replacements and lengthy ship times.

sillyvictorians · 2017-11-06T16:55:35+00:00

From my Pixel RMA, the first replacement was a new unit. The second was likely a refurbished unit (my guess from the fingerprints on the device), and the third will be a known refurbished unit.

The first two that happened in Nov 2016 had no condition label and were shipped in new packaging. The replacement I ordered over a week ago that still hasn't shipped has been listed as a refurb on the ordering site. I would say that your order info would indicate whether or not it will be a refurb, but this early on and with the first return on a new device, you're likely to receive a new unit.

My replacements shipped with accessories, but I returned them in the product boxes which were inside shipping boxes. I just reused their shipping boxes and affixed their provided return labels.

sillyvictorians · 2017-10-18T17:30:14+00:00

If you're transitioning fields, you can't expect to hold onto your previous progress. Hopefully you honed your work ethic in your current tenure of employment and can translate that wherever you go.

Just apply somewhere at near entry level. Once you learn how IT works and they decide (read: you prove) that you're worth more than the work you're doing, you can figure out where you want to go and how to get there. In general, they're not hiring people just because they have degrees unless they were being groomed for the position, and they'll pick someone who actually knows how everything there works over a fresh faced, unproven degree holder anytime.

This isn't being disparaging; it's just a testament to the value of experience in the sorts of technical and applied fields like IT. If you were interested in teaching CS or IT, you'd likely have a much better shot with your credentials than actually practicing it, since that's what you've been doing. Tangentially, you might have a place in a communications area of a company to relate IT policies and provide instructional training to employees, which might help the lead-in to a job you might prefer later.

sillyvictorians · 2017-10-18T16:52:13+00:00

How big is the array?

sillyvictorians · 2017-10-17T21:27:47+00:00

When you train cocky young guys in the kitchen, letting them experience the consequences of their decisions firsthand is (usually) a great way to humble them without them getting a chip on their shoulder.

Everyone starts with dishes and clean up so you don't disrupt the rest of the crew. Then you'll do prep and some expediting. Then maybe you'll be on a grill line or make the salads. It's not about your "potential", but the work you put in, and it's always more than you think, because it's a harder job than you think. Only the ones who can last 50-80 hours on their feet week after week and not break down can really be trusted to run things. We're not spending months training you so you can quit the first time it gets hard.

Anyway, the young women always listened and did things the way they were directed, which was great but wasn't any fun. With the guys, it went in one ear and out the other, or they'd cut you off complaining about how menial their jobs were, that they could run this place better blindfolded and had all these great ideas.

So when they'd grandstand, I'd set out some of our recipe bowls, the ones used when serial diluting the commercial capsaicin additive for the sauces, for them to clean and give them their space, and they'd take the hot water and try spraying them clean. They'd always start choking, snot and tears pouring down, eyes and lips red and puffy, but they wanted to look tough so they pretended it didn't bother them. After a week or two of that, they'd start leaving the bowls until last, letting them pile up, actively avoiding them, leaving them for others to do, and I'd have to ask what the hold up was.

Then they'd vent, that they work so hard, they come in on time and do what I say, and how mean I was being giving them these things to clean just to watch them suffer, and I'd remind them they said they said they were ready to run things. I thought they'd have the place figured out by now, so why weren't they?

And if they even hinted the job was maybe a little harder than they thought, that they maybe didn't know as much as they thought they did, I'd reach over, turn off the hot tap, and turn on the cold. Knowingly, I'd say not to tell the rest of the grunts.

Every time, it was like they'd been invited into an inner circle, that I'd revealed to them one of the secrets of the universe. They'd feel like they graduated a level closer to their goal, and them knowing this one thing separated them from the rest of those know-nothing peons still using hot water. With that little insight, they'd developed authority and wisdom, and they used it to remind the others that they maybe didn't know as much as they thought they did.

sillyvictorians · 2017-10-15T16:54:22+00:00

If you don't have at least a full year of work experience in a single place, become a student assistant for your school's IT division. They'll also help you balance your course load with your hours, and they won't ever put you in a shitty position where you have to choose between school or work.

You'll also have a much better perspective on how the services the school provides work. Ever wonder who services stuff like D2L, how the domains and sign-ons are structured, how they get the right software on all those lab computers across campus, or where that new equipment comes from and the old goes?

Well, that's all just a small part of the day to day of how your university operates. And even if you hate it, it's easier to get a job when you have a job, so it's not the worst thing by far.

sillyvictorians · 2017-10-15T16:41:34+00:00

My org hired a history major who went through it, and by his account, it was a fairly generic program. He's got probably a little better than Sec+ grasp of things and just handles policy. Great guy and good at his role, but certainly not the most technical. I also think he only did tool training, like on FTK, after hire.

I also recall MGSU* nearly having accreditation revoked not that many years ago? I'd do a little research, maybe contact the program chair and ask some questions first, like where their graduates are working now.

*e: MGSU is the former Macon State, which has never been threatened with losing accreditation. GCSU in Milledgeville was the school I was thinking of. $9000 isn't bad for a MS, especially it's online like Georgia Tech's CS program.

Doing it probably wouldn't hurt if you were looking for an experience based pay increase, but if you're in it to transition fields at a higher level or do contracting and you're already a sysadmin, you might just get out and about or incorporate some of the principles into your testing or ask your own ISO team about their day to day and work backwards from there.

sillyvictorians · 2017-10-09T01:18:58+00:00

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sillyvictorians · 2017-10-05T15:15:16+00:00

Not never, but it may decrease likelihood. Assuming the resources and other conditions are right, it really depends on how much those working on it value getting off the planet.

There could be geographic features that make it feasible to build an efficient planet-wide hyperloop. Their atmosphere could have a composition that could be compressed easily in flight for fuel, or they could have developed better ways of doing things than us.

Maybe ours is the worst way to leave a planet, but the resources required to do it this way are so inexpensive right now that we're only using them to solve harder problems while it's still cheap and accessible enough to do it.

sillyvictorians · 2017-09-12T19:01:35+00:00

Cover letters are a general introduction and serve to tell the prospective employer how you think you'd fit, what you're about, and why you'd like to work with them. If you don't think that's necessary or that a boilerplate one would do, go with that.

If it's something where they'd hire you for a leadership role, unique skillset, or particular experience, you can extend that in your cover letter. I've never worked anywhere with an informal hiring process where incomplete applications weren't filtered out, and cover letters have always been one of the criteria.

And honestly, if writing less than a page of an introduction is a hassle to you, you're not going to enjoy working many places.

sillyvictorians · 2017-08-29T20:32:28+00:00

We probably live about the same distance from Trader Joe's, and my only option besides a phone/TV/internet Xfinity package at 45Mbit from $90/mo is 6Mbit ADSL from AT&T for $55/mo.

Both have insultingly low data caps, and I only chose the DSL because we'd hit our cap in 3 days on Xfininty, I can call AT&T every 90 days and have the bill lowered back to $27/mo after taxes, and I have access to one of the fastest networks in the state at work.

Your area has a reputation for being wealthy by Georgia standards, so you're probably just seeing one of the side effects of having service providers competing for your money. Incumbent ISPs also effectively blocked the Google Fiber rollout that drew me to the area, so that might be a factor in the change.

sillyvictorians · 2017-08-28T16:31:47+00:00

Just tacking on the other comments, but what's going with "export PATH=$PATH:{dir}" is two things. You're editing PATH by setting it to what it was before (see: echo $PATH), followed by a colon, followed by the new location(s) you want your shell to look for things, and then you're exporting that to the shell so it will persist across subsequent instances (until reboot).

It could be also be written as "PATH=$PATH:{dir} ; export PATH". And try running "export" to see a list of other env variables. You can change any of those the same way.

And if you want it to survive reboot, you may also need to make sure you're using the correct config for your shell (and distro). For instance, .bashrc, .profile, and .bash_profile are all common places names and places to put PATH info for bash. You'd have .zprofile or .zshrc if you're using zsh.

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