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| 05:25 | | * macdjord notes that whoever decided that the 'on but no signal' indicator for this monitor should be to have to blink the power light constantly should be shot |
| 06:07 | <&[R]> | OMG WTF |
| 06:08 | <&[R]> | I'm guessing it's one of those "lol, the sun isn't even remotely as bright as this fucker!" blue LEDs |
| 06:08 | <&[R]> | Just to double up on the assholeness |
| 06:45 | <~Vornicus> | my old mac had, as a sleep indicator, a slowly pulsing LED |
| 06:46 | | * abudhabi puts duct tape over the blue fuckers. |
| 06:46 | <~Vornicus> | You could read by it at top brightness. |
| 07:07 | < ion> | blue LEDs are the worst :( |
| 07:08 | < ion> | I was amused to find the notes on different revisions for my beaglebone black included a statement that they lowered the brightness because the blue LEDs were keeping people awake |
| 07:09 | < ion> | Sadly they could be lower still, I wound up sticking tape on top of them anyhow :) |
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| 11:13 | < ToxicFrog> | I have a monitor kicking around somewhere where not only is that the way it indicates "on but no signal", but during the "off" phase of the LED blink it quietly goes eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
| 11:15 | <@abudhabi> | Exorcism needed. |
| 11:19 | < ToxicFrog> | Nah, a lot of electronics do this |
| 11:20 | < ToxicFrog> | I have half a dozen USB power bricks where I can tell when whatever's connected to them is fully charged because they start screaming |
| 11:25 | <@Tamber> | The 12v->usb adapters in my car whistle under load, it's only a tiny bit annoying. Better still, the stereo amp picks up their switching noise, and amplifies it... (But it also picks up noise from the ignition, so I need to get a better one anyway...) |
| 11:34 | <@TheWatcher> | (... yeah, you do. Eeesh) |
| 11:35 | <@Tamber> | The ignition noise is a little amusing, because it's a whine that increases with revs; so it sounds a tiny bit like a very small supercharger. |
| 11:37 | <@TheWatcher> | (Or at least fit a sodding big decoupling capacitor across its power rails) |
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| 11:37 | <@Tamber> | I don't think it's coming through the power rails, I think it's being picked up on the signal side. |
| 11:38 | <@TheWatcher> | XD |
| 11:38 | <@Tamber> | Since the shielding on the current one is, er, nonexistant. |
| 12:21 | <@macdjord> | [R]: Yes, it's a bright blue LED. |
| 12:22 | <@Tamber> | Of course it is. I think it's actually a regulation that hardware now has to have at least one eyesearingly-bright blue LED. :/ |
| 12:23 | < ion> | I tend to give any whining electronics the treatment of replacing a cheap wallwort/power brick or recapping an integrated supply to shut them up |
| 12:23 | <@macdjord> | Tamber: It's not /that/ bright - it's wouldn't be a problem if it were on solidly. |
| 12:23 | < ion> | Elementary school and high school were fun - pretty much anything I couldn't touch was stuck at a screaming 60hz |
| 12:23 | < ion> | for computers hooked up to CRTs in the school anyhow |
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| 13:29 | < ToxicFrog> | I am so glad that CRTs are dead. |
| 13:37 | <&[R]> | I thought they still used them for boat anchors |
| 13:38 | <@TheWatcher> | Heh |
| 13:47 | < ion> | I have a couple nice trinitrons I use for gaming and legacy machines, but electrostatic deflection is where it's at for most CRTs I own now |
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| 15:19 | | * TheWatcher ... |
| 15:19 | <@TheWatcher> | One single fucking missing , |
| 15:19 | <@TheWatcher> | I've spent half a sodding our trying to trace that bug |
| 15:19 | <@TheWatcher> | *hour |
| 15:30 | | * macdjord replaces one random semicolon in TheWatcher's codebase with a Greek question mark~ |
| 15:32 | <&[R]> | TheWatcher: I spent three hours trying to figgure out why TPC_* functions were all giving linker errors. Even posted on some forums. s/TPC/TCP/g fixed it. |
| 15:33 | <@TheWatcher> | Ouch :/ |
| 15:48 | < ToxicFrog> | Perils of context-sensitive autocomplete: you end up with a dozen calls to a function named CalculatHealthForExperimnet() |
| 15:54 | <&[R]> | Because it just copies the typo repeatedly? |
| 15:54 | < ToxicFrog> | Yeah |
| 15:54 | < ToxicFrog> | And I never notice because my keyboard input just is calchex<tab> |
| 15:54 | <&[R]> | At least a :%s/erimnet/eriment/g will fix it all up |
| 15:54 | < ToxicFrog> | Have to replace "Calculat" with "Calculate" too : |
| 15:55 | <&[R]> | Fair enough |
| 15:55 | | * [R] really needs to learn to use vim better |
| 15:56 | <&[R]> | I can do copy/paste with visual mode, search and replace and not much else. Multiple files would be really nice to be able to do properly. |
| 15:59 | <&[R]> | Excellent: npm 5 has been released! It now had a manditory highlander type mode. If you do `npm install X` it will uninstall everything, then install X for you. |
| 16:00 | <&[R]> | My motivation to find/make an npm alternative is increasing |
| 16:03 | < ToxicFrog> | I don't vim, so I can't help you there. |
| 16:17 | <@ErikMesoy> | HAIL CORPORATE. Corporate policy dictates full page covers. Corporate policy dictates table of contents on separate page from contents. So today I found myself translating a document of page 1, cover, page 2, "Foo - 3. Bar - 3.", page 3, maybe 300 words of content. |
| 16:20 | <@ErikMesoy> | I speak professional English and Norwegian, so I got assigned to a job of translating a bunch of corporate documents regarding real estate brokering. |
| 16:20 | <@ErikMesoy> | I do not speak professional Broker, so I notified my manager that I could do a 95-99% translation and would then have to speak to a domain expert about the technical terms for things like the Grunnboksutskrift (document compilation of legal matters touching on a particular property). |
| 16:21 | <@ErikMesoy> | My manager was perhaps somewhat unclear on how this "domain expert" thing worked, so instead of being scheduled for a final few hours with a domain expert for after-polish, I've got recurring meetings booked with two casuals who are at the "I will put it into google translate" level of translation that doesn't help much. |
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| 16:22 | <@ErikMesoy> | Still, they count as ass-covering for dubious translations and diffusion of responsibility, which is probably the best I'll get. >_> |
| 16:22 | <@ErikMesoy> | One of them also helpfully turned up this from the Norwegian Estate Broker Association: http://www.nef.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Engelsk-ordliste-2.pdf a "what's it called in English" glossary. |
| 16:24 | <@ErikMesoy> | It is riddled with errors like "Mouthly rent" and "Mortaged property". Some days I have impostor syndrome, but NOT TODAY! NOT WHEN I CAN CORRECT THE NORWEGIAN ESTATE BROKER ASSOCIATION! |
| 16:29 | <@Azash> | I once forgot how much my mouthly rent is, but fortunately it was all there in the dental agreement |
| 16:30 | <@ErikMesoy> | Oh, nice one :D |
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| 16:35 | <@ErikMesoy> | I'm not sure about the very technical translations - this is why I asked for help in the first place - but I am confident that several of the translations in that glossary are at least misleading if not outright wrong. |
| 16:37 | <@ErikMesoy> | "Forsinkelsesrente" has been translated as "Default interest". But "Default interest", IMO has the intuitive primary meaning of *normal* interest, whereas "Forsinkelsesrente" is the surcharge interest you pay when you are delayed - i.e. when you are *in default*. You could find this meaning in a dictionary. You should not use it for a glossary of meaning. |
| 16:39 | <@ErikMesoy> | Bloody thing. I realize this isn't exactly code, but I imagine some of you may have been in fairly similar situations: what do you do when a problem feels slightly above your level, but none of the documentation helps and StackExchange gives wrong answers too? |
| 18:17 | <&[R]> | $ $EDITOR test/test.js # or open with your favorite editor |
| 18:20 | <~Vornicus> | Notes. Lots of 'em. |
| 18:31 | <~Vornicus> | The Feynman Algorithm |
| 18:48 | <@ErikMesoy> | Is that the one that goes "Think hard about the problem?" |
| 18:51 | <~Vornicus> | Yes. |
| 18:51 | <~Vornicus> | Sometimes this is what must be done! And you will be better off for it. |
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| 23:16 | <@macdjord> | Vornicus: A slowly pulsing light would be less distracting. This one is straight up /blinking/ - no slow ramp up and down of the intensity, but a nice, sudden on/off transition guaranteed to draw the eye. |
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| 23:27 | < Vorntastic> | The pulsing went from Black to readable. It was so annoying I stopped sleeping my computer. |
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| 23:57 | <&McMartin> | So, here's a question for those of you who work in mostly-to-completely functional, strongly-typed langauges with algebraic data types. |
| 23:57 | <&McMartin> | If I'm writing a parser for a language that has a lot of keywords to demonstrate structure, a la BASIC or Python... |
| 23:58 | <&McMartin> | ... my AST Node type is going to have a bunch of alternatives of the form Keyword(tuple of stuff) |
| 23:58 | <&McMartin> | In a Lispier language, all of these would be just be a list of the form (keyword, thing1, thing2, ...) |
| 23:59 | <&McMartin> | Which could be expressed in something like Rust or OCaml or Haskell as Keyword(list of generic stuff) or even a pair of keyword, generic-stuff-list. |
| 23:59 | <&McMartin> | And it is, I suppose, also possible to pattern-match on elements of a list, thus intrinsically also checking length and such too. |
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