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At the suggestion of my supervisor, I created a help ticket regarding the horrid performance of my computer at work. Of course, the real problem is the constant disk thrashing, resulting from a paltry 8GB of RAM and a really crappy hard disk that probably also has bad sectors on it. I suggested to the IT dept. in my ticket that they should check the hard drive and if it was possible to add more memory.
After 2 weeks, the ticket was closed with the following reply:
Cleaned up the hard drive and noted that the computer hadn't been rebooted in 9 days.
So, "cleaned up..." meant that they deleted everything in my temp folder, some of which was useful. Granted I shouldn't have put useful stuff there.
But saying the problem was caused by the fact that I hadn't rebooted my computer in 9 days? Seriously?
Morons.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I used to do phone support for a computer manfacrturer, and one of that manufacturer's "features" was that their desktop's would hibernate rather than shutdown when you pushed the power button. Yeah I know, seems naff now, but desktops hibernating wasn't really a thing then, and to hook it into the power button meant people could just "turn off" their PCs and turn then back on and they'll boot almost instantly (as instant as a P90 could) and all their stuff would be there.
Of course we're talking Win3.1\Win95 here and apps where 90% of them leak memory and don't do a good job of resource management. Normally this is fine, but when you're never really rebooting the machine it just builds up to a whole range of bizarre issues. Long story short I spent most of my day getting people to properly reboot their machines and it fixed most issues people were calling about. The rest of the day was "No...double click...the left button....yes, the left button twice...no, a little bit quicker than that...."
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It's an AI that understands exploration. "Malfunction. Need input."
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Quote: Though, technically, the researchers define curiosity as " the error in an agent's ability to predict the consequence of its own actions in a visual feature space learned by a self-supervised inverse dynamics model." I just learned how to do this, and now I feel dizzy.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Curious computers? Like, a toaster asking where little machines come from?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Istio was developed to connect, manage and secure microservices. The goal of the project is to tackle challenges around resilience, visibility, and security. 100% of your recommended daily dose of buzzwords, in one convenient article!
Google - check, they know web
IBM - OK, they have that whole management and security stuff down
Lyft - Who?!
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According to the Google Play description of the app, “Path Guide” is a “completely map-free infrastructure-free, play-and-play- indoor navigation service.” In my day we had a different app for that. It was called looking up from your phone while walking.
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Lobbyists try to kill "opt-in" privacy standard before it can be implemented. And here I thought they were all about user privacy?
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Only when they have to be.
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The full-year Swift curriculum is for high school and community college students. "Swift as a shadow, short as any dream"
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The Windows team's migration to Git is almost complete. Big show of support for TFS, folks
Yes, I know you can "do git" through TFS, thanks for letting me know.
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I wonder what is the reason behind that a company of the size of Microsoft would use a single rooted, monolithic repository for ALL of the codes of a system?
Even a shop as small as ours uses a forest of git repositories, one for each project, to manage our code files and then developed a forest view manager, which also has a fine grained, project level, access control means if needed, to process common git tasks. Such a manager would be a piece of cake for companies like Microsoft: a lot easier than a GVFS. And it also can provide multiple views into inter-related projects, depending on the use case. It works well for us. Of course one has to structure the projects to not nesting within other ones on the disk, other than that it would be OK for at least a small team. It would be even better if it can be integrated with Visual Studio.
Yeah, there is a TFS project, it's quite interesting. In fact we are initiating a Transaction Storage System TSS for 1-NET (trans-LAN, account scoped virtual network). It would not be as complex as git at the early stage, but as a storage system, I try to make it less monolithic so that it can handle larger file system domains which could be nested within others. It's a work in progress, given the large amount of works already at hand, it is progressing slowly at present ...
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IFTTT said the Maker tier is designed to give developers access to more sophisticated tools. IF: give tools THEN: devs use tools?
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Someone should tell IFTTT that "if" statements are evil.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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By crafting malicious subtitle files for films and TV programmes, which are then downloaded by viewers, attackers can potentially take complete control of any device running the vulnerable platforms. I never did trust those new-fangled "talkies"
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A trio of researchers with Columbia University has conducted a series of experiments regarding how much effort people are willing to exert in fact-checking news stories. Best to read this while in a large group
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You're alone again, aren't you? Head down to the pub and read it again, it will make more sense.
TTFN - Kent
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Naturally, but you must have me confused with someone else.
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Nah, just trying to suggest a place where you'll have more company, so you won't fact check the story.
TTFN - Kent
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Ever seen me in a pub? Off in a corner, alone.
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That's a little hard to do when so many just lift the same story from others and pass it down the line and don't double check before publishing.
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It always amuses me that people have that many time to waste (and by the way - this research not listed at Columbia University sites)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That's because in groups, people don't shut up, as they so like to hear their own voice and opinions.
In practice, it should be easy to avoid falling prey to fake news—upon reading something that may not sound right, all a person has to do is type a few words and run a Google search.
Right. Which usually results in more fake news. Getting good results from a search engine is actually difficult, because more often then not, you're inundated with yet more opinion. Finding actual facts is hard work.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It only took a point-and-shoot camera, laser printer and contact lens. Fortunately it doesn't involve actual hacking of irises
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