Thorry84

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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah als ik zou moeten gokken dan denk ik dat de server geheugen tekort heeft en daardoor non-stop staat te swappen. Dat stapelt op en zorgt ervoor dat de load steeds hoger en hoger wordt, tot op een gegeven moment het geheel niet meer werkt.

Iets wat vanuit de cache geserveerd kan worden, werkt goed. Soms kun je iets werkend krijgen door het op te vragen, waarna je een timeout krijgt. Dan heel even wachten en opnieuw hetzelfde verzoek naar de server sturen, met wat geluk is de cache dan gevuld met wat er nodig is en krijg je wel resultaat. Vraag je bijvoorbeeld All Top Six Hours, dan krijg je meteen resultaat, want die zit vaak in de cache. Probeer je dan te bladeren naar de volgende pagina, krijg je een timeout. Doordat de pagina afhankelijk is van je eigen persoonlijke cursor zal die niet in de cache zitten en dus niet werken.

Afhankelijk van het tijdstip werkt alles of juist niets. Vroeg in de ochtend werkt alles perfect, maar begin van de avond is het een wonder als er überhaupt iets wil laden. Het persoonlijke profiel incl recente posts laden is iets wat vrijwel nooit werkt.

Wat de oorzaak is? Geen idee. Het zou kunnen dat de hoeveelheid gebruikers teveel is voor de server, maar Ted zei dat hij rate limiting had ingeschakeld, dus dat zou niet direct het probleem moeten zijn. Het lijkt haast wel alsof er iets mis is met de database, een index die ontbreekt of corrupt is, waardoor bepaalde zaken veel langer duren of veel meer geheugen opeten dan de bedoeling is.

Iets wat wel duidelijk is, is dat de status pagina's vrij waardeloos zijn op het moment. Wellicht dat we wat constructieve feedback aan de makers kunnen geven, zodat ze die kunnen optimaliseren. Wanneer een simpel request 5 sec duurt bijvoorbeeld, zou ik dat niet als "up" beschouwen. Of de Photon interface, die technisch gezien up is, want hij serveert de bootloader pagina, maar alle benodigde requests geven vervolgens een foutmelding. Vanuit het perspectief van de gebruiker krijgt die alleen een witte pagina te zien, dat lijkt me ook niet "up".

Maar ik heb er alle vertrouwen in dat Ted het kan fixen als ie de kans krijgt.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

You'd have to ask a real expert, I'm more of what you'd call an armchair expert.

As I understand it, horses are a species that can be domesticated. That means with relatively benign actions (intensives with food, corrections with hitting with a paddle or small whip) the animal can be made to do what you want it to do. And usually once a horse is domesticated, they will stay that way and won't become aggressive. However this isn't universal, not all equine species can be domesticated, it's just that humans only keep the most useful around. We've also done so for so long, selective breeding is probably a huge factor in this. Horses can be dangerous as well, but far less so than bears. A horse can throw a human, kick or step on them, but usually that's not enough to kill someone. Bears can do anything a horse can and on top of that they are usually bigger, have sharp teeth and sharp claws. Another aspect is probably that horses are prey animals where bears are predators and pretty high up in the food chain at that. Bears probably hunted humans, before humans invented stuff like fences and fire and stuff.

Bears can't be domesticated, they can only be scared so much they will obey. The techniques used are usually very brutal, with a significant amount of animals not even surviving the process. They won't ever truly obey, only when they are afraid. So they will be abused continually, to keep them afraid. And even then, when the animal sees an opportunity to strike back or see something as prey, they will act upon that instinct.

But in the end I personally don't think humans have the right to domesticate any kind of animal and raising something living with the express purpose of using/abusing/consuming them is morally incorrect. So in that case there is no difference between a horse and a bear. But from my experience with people who hold horses these days, they are more like pets, being loved and cared for rather than working animals. So it is a spectrum and bears are more on very much not OK side as compared to horses.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Because they are wild animals that don't lend to domestication very well. All so called "tame" bears have been tortured to get them to behave. And even then they don't always behave and leads to them getting killed because they are too dangerous. On top of that, they are so large and powerful, they can easily kill or severely injure humans by accident.

Domesticated bears is animal abuse and outlawed in most of the world.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So what was the point of the trade deal if the orange fucker still uses tariffs as a threat?

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 26 points 5 months ago

I've downloaded a pirated copy of a game containing a virus - Panik I'm running Linux so it can't hurt me - Calm Wine has gotten so good, the virus actually works - PANIK

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's what I DO

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago

I feel it's a vaguely Australian term?

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 8 points 5 months ago

I got shingles at 40 and it was terrible. They don't vaccinate people who are that "young" for shingles here. I was sick for weeks, it was brought on by stress from a surgery I had removing a tumor (luckily lab test confirmed not cancer). I was recovering from the surgery and the shingles hit my face. I had immense pain and high fever for weeks. The doctors did what they could, but set me down for the talk. I was most likely going to lose at least one eye and might lose both, I should prepare to go blind and be disabled for the rest of my life.

Turns out in my misfortune I was actually lucky, I didn't end up losing an eye. My vision in one eye did degrade a little bit, but it was at above 130% of perfect before (probably even better, but they don't bother testing beyond that). The right eye had issues for a bit, but in the end returned back to perfect vision. In my experience worse than it was, but still very good.

So imagine me laying in bed, super high fever, worst pain I've felt in my life and all the while waiting for the lab results to figure out if the tumor they removed was actually cancer. I might go blind and I might have cancer. Worst few weeks of my life right there.

Afterwards I was a lot better, but still had terrible nerve pains. It started as a tingle where I had scarring from the shingles blisters, then intensify into full pain. Over the years it has gotten better, sometimes it gets irritated or hurts a bit, but mostly it's fine. I wouldn't wish shingles on my worst enemy, that shit is hell.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

Interesting point. I don't really know what would be fair.

On the one hand you are right, if someone puts in a lot of time and effort to create a book. And it becomes a hit and gets a movie deal, I do believe they should be rewarded for that.

On the other hand, out of the tens of thousands of books written each year how many get turned into a movie? 1 or 2 maybe on average? And how much of the book is in the movie? I've both read Mickey7 and seen Mickey17. And while they both have some things in common, they are basically completely different stories. Should we really compromise the rules for everyone because of this very rare exception?

And I also feel like movies are caught in a slump the past years, with very few original stories being made. All remakes, reboots and super hero crap. If more stories were available for free use, how much would that influence new story creation? Very hard to say really.

As with all art, nothing is made in a vacuum. Everything builds on each other, everything is influenced by other things. I can't help but thing about what the community did with 3D printing once the patents expired. Having stuff available to use can only be a good thing right?

But I don't really know, you make a very good point. In a world where all kinds of art gets devalued all the time, I feel like we should celebrate artists and the art they make. I like to fuck around with creating my own art in my free time and have made stuff for friend and family. Even sold series of hundreds of units in the past. But it's not my day job and I consider myself an absolute amateur. Maybe if UBI was a thing, it would be the thing I put most of my time into.

I hate our world revolves around money and capitalism. It leads to difficult situations like this one, where copyright holds us back and mostly benefits large mega corps. But on the other hand, we must support artists for everything they do.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This joke is brought to you by the old people who's knees hurt

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 41 points 5 months ago (5 children)

People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry that happened to you. Being blinded by all mirrors is impressive, but I can imagine the kind of truck that does so.

You might want to check if your side mirrors aren't set wrong. They should be angled down a little, no sense in looking at the sky through them. This helps to prevent you from being blinded through the side mirrors. For the main rear view mirror there should be this little toggle on the bottom. With this toggle you can quickly flip the mirror down to a second shaded mirror. This way you can still use the mirror, but not get blinded by it. I don't know if all cars have this, but my old cheap car in the 80s had it, so I think it's pretty standard. My current car, and presumably a lot of modern cars, has a auto darkening feature. When there is a chance of being blinded, it auto darkens uniformly, just like a welding shield. This helps a lot.

My advice if you get annoyed by other people whilst driving, is to stay calm and focus on yourself and your own driving. Be sure you drive safe, look out for other people in the road you might have missed due to being distracted by other assholes. Do everything you can to not let it get to you and make the roads safer for everyone.

 

Hey @tedvdb, niet om te klagen maar volgens mij gaat er de laatste tijd iets niet helemaal goed. Response tijden zijn gigantisch hoog, regelmatig krijg ik timeouts en 503 fouten. De status pagina geeft aan dat de Photon interface up is, maar deze lijkt helemaal dood.

Mocht je op vakantie zijn, sorry voor het storen. Helemaal geen prio, gezien we niets betalen voor de dienst.

Heel erg bedankt voor alles wat je voor ons doet <3

 

I've played a demo of this game or a Shareware version, I never had the full game. It was on one of those 1000 shareware games CDs. It's a top down racing game with a gritty sort of vibe, a bit dark. As you raced there were pickups and bonus items and I'm pretty sure you could fire weapons at other racers. It was a single player game. It was top down in that semi 3D kind of way, but I think the cars were meant as full sized cars, not a micro machines kind of thing.

The one unique feature that never let me pinpoint exactly what game it was, was this very specific sound effect when getting a certain pick up. A voice would say "Booster", but it was pronounced more like "Boostah".

There were jumps on the game and one way to kill other racers was to jump on top of them. I think the track had multiple routes you could take.

I think because of the shareware version I had I only had one track, which was kinda dark, like maybe a cave. And the surroundings were rocks. I think there were also thinks like oil barrels with fire in them and pretty lighting effects for the time.

Very similar to Death Rally, but maybe a game inspired by Death Rally? Because that game was earlier I think and doesn't have the distinct "Boostah" audio clip.

 

She died about 10 years ago. I love and have loved all the pets I've ever had, but Pyxel was something special. She was very headstrong and did whatever she felt like, getting pissed off if you did something she didn't like. But when she was in the mood she would be the sweetest thing in the world.

She was saved from the dumpster, along with her mother and brother. The mother had to be put down and a lot of the brothers and sisters didn't make it from being dumped in a trash bag. But Pyxel and her brother made it and we adopted them from the rescue when they were very young still.

I remember Pyxel sleeping for hours in my lap, or in the cat bed on my desk. When I was working from home, she slept in the cat bed, till she got fed up, went for a drink and a snack only to get back and jump in my lap because it was her time and she would let me know it.

Still miss her every day.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/22643315

Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

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Rescued old CRT (imgur.com)
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Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

 

Serious question. I know there are a lot of memes about microservices, both advocating and against it. And jokes from devs who go and turn monoliths into microservices and then back again. For my line of work it isn't all that relevant, but a discussion I heard today made me wonder.

There were two camps in this discussion. One side said microservices are the future, all big companies are moving towards it, the entire industry is moving towards it. In their view, if it wasn't Mach architecture, it wasn't valid software. In their world both software they made themselves and software bought or licensed (SaaS) externally should be all microservices, api first, cloud-native and headless. The other camp said it was foolish to think this is actually what's happening in the industry and depending on where you look microservices are actually abandoned instead of moving towards. By demanding all software to be like this you are limiting what there is on offer. Furthermore the total cost of operation would be higher and connecting everything together in a coherent way is a nightmare. Instead of gaining flexibility, one can actually lose flexibility because changing interfaces could be very hard or even impossible with software not fully under your own control. They argued a lot of the benefits are only slight or even nonexistent and not required in the current age of day.

They asked what I thought and I had to confess I didn't really have an answer for them. I don't know what the industry is doing and I think whether or not to use microservices is highly dependent on the situation. I don't know if there is a universal answer.

Do you guys have any good thoughts on this? Are microservices the future, or just a fad which needs to be forgotten ASAP.

 
 

 
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