Computer Forum Chat Thread

[Remilia]

Every week when I call my mum I've always answered the "what's new" question with "still not fired" (or "still not expelled" when i was in university). Honestly, I'm consistently amazed that people are willing to employee me. That's probably just a little bit of "imposter syndrome" and almost everyone suffers from that a little.

I'm not the worst programmer ever, I'm not even a hugely shitty person, but I can't help but think that all this good stuff is temporary.

Honestly a little self doubt humbles yourself which is imo better. Just as long as it doesn't truly overtake your life.

[DeltrusDisc]

Thus why I like Taiwan, I can walk everywhere. Though the pollution (although better than many years ago) is still bad.

Granted it's been YEARS since my last ticket.

[BicycleMafioso]

Why are manufacturers still shipping ANSI? Seriously. Recommended a replacement notebook for a friend, and it is delivered with an ANSI layout. What the heck. Purge it. Puuurge

Never gotten a speeding ticket. Then again, I don't break speed limits. Or have a driver's license.

[Artorius]

For Alindra and Butler: You can do gpu passthrough even on platforms which the cpus lack igpu, you usually just need another graphics card in the system and sometimes the right motherboard to make it work effortlessly. As long as you usa a tier-1 hypervisor (which means running both operating systems on top of the hypervisor instead of one on top of the other one), latency issues should be minimal and relatively irrelevant.

For evn: You're probably a much better programmer than most programmers, but always keeping it cool is a great way to never stop learning new things and improving as time goes.

[Remilia]

@DeltrusDisc
You planning on taking photos of the super blue blood moon?

[DeltrusDisc]

@DeltrusDisc
You planning on taking photos of the super blue blood moon?

No.

I've taken pictures of a super moon before, it didn't look any different.

Plus we aren't really supposed to have an easy viewing of it here in the US/Chicagoland area, anyways.

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Not sure if I ever posted this, but here's my photo of the moon from a year or so ago.



Holy shit, click on the picture. The crop murders the clarity and sharpness!

[Remilia]

No.

I've taken pictures of a super moon before, it didn't look any different.

Plus we aren't really supposed to have an easy viewing of it here in the US/Chicagoland area, anyways.

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Not sure if I ever posted this, but here's my photo of the moon from a year or so ago.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6Y2PSMpl.jpg[IMG]

Holy shit, click on the picture. The crop murders the clarity and sharpness!

It's the combination of 3 events that makes it different, shut up and go take pictures.
And yeah I remember that, it's why I asked, lol.
All I got is a lame phone camera, >.>

[DeltrusDisc]

It's the combination of 3 events that makes it different, shut up and go take pictures.
And yeah I remember that, it's why I asked, lol.
All I got is a lame phone camera, >.>

Clouds say no.

[Alindra]

For Alindra and Butler: You can do gpu passthrough even on platforms which the cpus lack igpu, you usually just need another graphics card in the system and sometimes the right motherboard to make it work effortlessly. As long as you usa a tier-1 hypervisor (which means running both operating systems on top of the hypervisor instead of one on top of the other one), latency issues should be minimal and relatively irrelevant.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks! My VM knowledge is pretty spotty, so while I want to ask questions, I feel I should do more research first instead of asking a lot of questions that could be answered myself.

For now just using OpenGL (my ancient knowledge of 2.1 will do the job because we're talking about a few thousand vertexes even with a super naive approach). Next step is getting enough 'semi modern' opengl working to use shader programs.

Ah yes, the legacy OpenGL API. It had way too much global state (almost everything), was inefficient, and had so much cruft due to years / decades of buildup, but it was a very nice learning tool. Since it's been deprecated / removed from the spec from 3.3 and up, when graphics manufacturers finally stop supporting them on their drivers, I think it's going to make learning graphics APIs that much harder because of how much additional code - and knowledge - is necessary before you can even start drawing pixels to the screen.

It could be worse, though, it could be Vulkan. :P (The principles behind it, though... very refreshing.)

The more I write of this, the less I think go is a good choice for a teaching language. It's "c-like" enough that people will be scared, but different enough that 'real programmers' who had to learn C won't like it. Maybe python or ruby is a better choice: the syntax gets out of the way a little better.

I also feel like (and I could be wrong here) that Go is more niche / not as well known as other languages like Python. It also depends on what audience you're targeting, right? Figuring that out might help inform your decision.

Of course, I'm not speaking from a position of authority, here. I'm still very uncomfortable giving presentations, so I don't exactly seek opportunities to do so.

[Remilia]

Clouds say no.

Tell the clouds to fuck off, >.>
D:

[DeltrusDisc]

Tell the clouds to fuck off, >.>
D:

Randomly woke up and heard my parents talking about it. Look out my bedroom window, there it be. On the horizon. Behind some trees. x_x

One of those rare days in my life where I practically jumped out of bed, grabbed the camera, and ran outside to take some pictures. Instead of using the lens that went to 600mm though I only used one that went to 200mm though, because time.

Frankly there won't be much to see. It will look like a crescent. Very blurry.

[Remilia]

Randomly woke up and heard my parents talking about it. Look out my bedroom window, there it be. On the horizon. Behind some trees. x_x

One of those rare days in my life where I practically jumped out of bed, grabbed the camera, and ran outside to take some pictures. Instead of using the lens that went to 600mm though I only used one that went to 200mm though, because time.

Frankly there won't be much to see. It will look like a crescent. Very blurry.

Don't worry, mine is very blurry. Potato camera!
It's very very cool though.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...4/dsc_0436.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...4/dsc_0450.jpg

[BicycleMafioso]

A friend got themselves new parts.
This CPU is huge. Long time since I did an AMD build..

[DeltrusDisc]

840?!

THAT'S SO OLD. Pffffffffff

Tell them the computer will be slow, SLOW, DO YOU HEAR ME?! SLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Alindra]

A friend got themselves new parts.
This CPU is huge. Long time since I did an AMD build..

First thought: A threadripper build? Neat!
Second thought: 4 keyboards?

[BicycleMafioso]

It's actually two. A G19 modded to be "around" a mechanical keyboard. Forget which.

[BicycleMafioso]

I'm not sure I believe you. Probably a hacker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb8G8qA9ibI

I got really scared at first, wondering how you got me on film - then I remembered my hacker mask had more red in it.

[DeltrusDisc]

So, got that ticket on January 25th, right?

Court date is February 9th.

Not supposed to send the completed form with payment till at least 10 work days after the ticket date... and no later than 3 work days before court date.

-.- Uhhhhhh...

[Remilia]

So, got that ticket on January 25th, right?

Court date is February 9th.

Not supposed to send the completed form with payment till at least 10 work days after the ticket date... and no later than 3 work days before court date.

-.- Uhhhhhh...

You literally have... no days to pay. Why is that even a rule?

I guess you can just pay in court instead of mail-in, granted if time permits. Going off this https://www.dmv.org/il-illinois/payi...ic-tickets.php

[DeltrusDisc]

You literally have... no days to pay. Why is that even a rule?

I guess you can just pay in court instead of mail-in, granted if time permits. Going off this https://www.dmv.org/il-illinois/payi...ic-tickets.php

I'll be calling the court and having a chat with them. Would be nice if they threw it out because the paperwork is technically wrong. >_>

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Update: Just called the courthouse and the ten days doesn't fucking matter! Why don't you guys TAKE THAT PART OFF THE INSTRUCTIONS THEN!?