CONT. "finally getting ( well not yet but soon ) a real paid job of some sort" .. to teach to THE SAME PEOPLE that were following those "courses about Z hoping to find a job in Z". So in essence "it's a closed loop" they learnt "how to teach about Z for those that will - if lucky - end up in teaching about Z" .. no one of them ( extremely few maybe ) will ever find a job in Z. It sounds like a joke it IS NOT, it JUST happened to this friend of mine ! "Too old to work on Z" it seems .. ..
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"Reality always SURPASSES imagination/irony" .. so I have this friend, basically 2 years almost now they are looking for work doing/frequenting ( and spending quite a lot of their own money ) courses/meetings/talks of Z ( some of them obliged to if they want to get unemployment benefits ) "to find a job in Z". NO SOLID JOB offers so far .. but THEN .. "the miracle" they start proposing like "could you make a course/talk about Z ? We need teachers of Z" and so here they are "teaching Z" CONT.
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CONT. seen before .. also when you are handling N different versions for N different HW architectures and you THINK "sure I already modified this according that" .. and then - today - I realised "YES BUT you forgot 6 lines of code" .. and then I found other 2 smaller bugs, but still present, again "for a stupid case user never done before". I got quite NUTS because even if seeing ( thank you RenderDoc ! ) what was going on took me A LOT to figure out WHY/WHERE this thing was happening. CONT.
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The whole day .. THE WHOLE DAY GETTING NUTS for approx 6 lines of code !! It took me the whole day to understand "what the heck is going on !" Ok the stuff is complex, I do have "a number" of various "test programs" to test bits and pieces of our engine to check they perform according to how they should. However do they cover ALL the possible use cases ? OF COURSE NOT ! And then you do something TIIIINY BIIIITSY different that you never done before and KA BLAM comes the bug you NEVER CONT.
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Do you ever get 'that situation' where 'you ONLY get a cup of tea and ONE biscuit' .. and then all in a sudden you feel like you'd need 10 more biscuits, 2 slices of cake, maybe 1 sausage sandwich, some chips and maybe another cup of tea with all that ? 😅
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[#]Defaidodon We just been out checking the sheep .. Buster was happy to see us 🙂 You know those YT videos where some people try to jump on some "high things" from a still position ? Well I just saw "our little sheep Buster" CAN jump from still to up to Ox's shoulder height in ONE single jump/motion while also doing 'a sort of a twist in the air' 😱 🥰 I don't think anybody can beat a sheep about that 😂
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Ok let's try the internet lore .. "how do you drill a hole for a BNC connector ? The ones that are like a 9mm diameter round hole but with 2 ( top and bottom ) flat parts at 8mm ? I was thinking 'maybe you drill 8mm and then SOMEWAY you file' or maybe there's a better "home" technique ? I say "home" because industrially they'd use a punch that costs far too many $$$$ Any suggestions ?
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I am warning you it's very stupid .. I think my brain is going into "stupid mode" to chill out from a stressful day of fix this and that ..
Ok I saw some posts ago this pic and I was thinking " .. it's always the hammer of Thor .." .. and then it stroke me .. "What would you get if you combine the hammer of Thor with the golden sickle of The Druid ( of Asterix ) ?" .. 🤔 😂
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CONT. hammering and cleaning it. So it took me HOURS and I was thinking at all those do/restoration videos where it LOOKS like "oh all happens in 10 mins" .. I should have took a 2 hours videos and speed it up and see "how short it looks after doing that" ( and chopping the repetitive parts ) so yeah "reality is always different". (*) as I said I had a 2mm to enlarge by filing to 2.5mm it's much harder than it sounds ! Today I'll try to "recover" a failed experiment.
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"Copper is harder than aluminium" .. so yesterday I've been doing some work like cutting some aluminium front panels ( 3U rackmount ) from a 2.5mm strip, filing, drilling some 2.5mm holes (*) and flattening some copper pipe and drilling holes in it to make some 90 deg "supports". So I have only a 2mm drill bit and some small files .. "Sure enlarging a 2mm hole to a 2.5mm should not take too much ?" .. well .. 20 mins per hole ? If you think copper is "soft" think again ! Especially after CONT.
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Can't stop thinking at this .. "2025 .. the richest person in the world changed his name into Kekius Maximus .." ... WHAT ?? WHERE .. IN WHAT WORLD WE ARE LIVING ??!! 😂 😂 😱 😢 ... someone should warn him that "if read in Italian" it may sound like "s*** Maximus" .. he should consult someone before to change names 😅
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HAPPY NEW 2025 from Wales ! We just opened a bottle of spumante ( I suppose ) that we left there .. who knows since HOW MANY YEARS !!! .. Hopefully we won't get poisoned by "rotten spumante" 😂 May the 2025 be a good year for you all .. can't believe how much time already I am in Wales ( moaning ) with a ( grunting ) ox .. and sheep and and even grumpier donkey ... Oh well the important stuff is that stuff is still going well .. even if my beard now is definitely grey .. FUSH RO DAH ! then ! 😂
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"Thought of the day" .. I am watching some video shot in 60fps .. yet when the camera does certain pans/rotations there's some blur .. that .. of course almost ( not in those conditions ) never happens in human vision. Which makes me think "what would you need to approx human vision ?" I read once somewhere about VR that you'd need 300 Hz refresh to be "as real" .. is that true ?
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"An opinion" .. so I have a "not sure what" ( he never fully explained me ) let's say non-binary friend that cause "the new political change in USA" got "quite a bit paranoid" and insists that "from now on it'll only use Signal to communicate" insisting that it's mega secure. It pointed me to THIS article : https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest#install-signal which already "rings me a bell" as in "and don't you think that then you'll get into A LIST of 'suspicious people' using Signal ?" and maybe checked even more ??
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CONT. what they are saying. MUST be said, once got first in the queue and talked WITH A HUMAN PERSON I did sort the thing in less than 5 mins and turns out "yes you can do XXX, THAT is your eVisa" .. "Oh ?" ..
I think my only worse experience so far in UK been chatting ( on the phone and online ) with HMRC but that's another story ...
I never seen it but I know about that movie "I, Daniel Blake" but I think it's too dark for me to watch it ..
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Micro rant about GOV UK sites .. "write things more clearly" .. spent 40 mins in an online queue to understand if I did have or I did NOT have this new "eVisa" they talk about that it seems the deadline is 1 week and there are over 1,000,000 of people still missing it ! They should simply write CLEARLY "if you can do this xxxx then it means that you have it" but NO, it's full of weird hoops and loops and "circular links" that send you in circle while desperately trying to understand CONT.
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CONT. Masto/media "in general" and must be said "it worked", the world did not collapse ( yet ? ) while I wasn't watching it and allowed me to focus more on things I literally have behind my back ( on another desk/shelf ) instead of those that are "thousand of miles away". Actually to be honest I don't even know "if the world noted or not I wasn't here" and I don't think it should had to .. nothing exploded .. I haven't heard sirens .. all good. So from now on I think I'll "diluted" my CONT.
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Hi,
I decided to re-appear briefly today as tomorrow I'll be super busy cooking most of the day and especially preparing the turkey ( in Wales, we have turkey and roasted potatoes for Xmas ). As you can never be completely sure if people celebrates anything or not I still wish to take advantage to extend best wishes for and at least whishing a good end of 2024 and a hopeful better beginning of 2025. I decided to make 'an experiment' and I took a 2 week 'hiatus' CONT.
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RMD : UPS 300W that is reliable and doesn't cost the moon. We need something to 'protect' some new HW .. I was looking at UPSes "mostly" what I can see around is APC that SHOULD be "a good brand" BUT IN THE PAST I had 'bad experiences' with APC UPSes. I keep seeing this model : BX500MI but I read 'mixed reviews' of people reporting problems with it ( which kinda match my past experiences ) .. any recommendations ?
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I know it's never going to happen and that there's been a tragedy behind .. but anyone else feels there should be a "spiritual successor" to Night in the Woods ? I still think one of the best games I ever played ..
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