CIPWTTKT&GC 0x2E - Abort, Retry, Fail? - Hardware & Software

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so looks like we shouldn't just install gentoo for the time being https://twitter.com/tarah/status/1012455792551661569

It only affected the GitHub org which is being used for mirroring, the actual infrastructure used for Gentoo isn't affected.

Looks like the organisation has been removed from github, unsure if it's coming back one of my sysops was in it

Uninstall Gentoo

delete gen2

Ordered one of these today... Not the most flashy drive out there but I couldn't pass up the deal for what it is. https://www.rakuten.com/shop/adata/product/ASU800SS-1TT-C/?scid=af_linkshare&PublisherName=Slickdeals+LLC&ranMID=36342&ranEAID=lw9MynSeamY&ranSiteID=lw9MynSeamY-z7ivt5GekddKU1.2rcOLZQ&siteID=lw9MynSeamY-z7ivt5GekddKU1.2rcOLZQ

I'm still blown away at how far SSD prices have dropped. Only a few years ago that would've been upwards of $500.

That's about what I paid for my original 128gb Samsung ssd on black friday, like 5 years ago

That's about what I paid for a 500 GB drive for my brother like a month ago. It was a Samsung so obviously a higher quality drive but still.

Running an 840 EVO in mine, 120GB, don't really see a reason to upgrade.

No reason to upgrade an SSD unless it’s your only drive bay and you need more space. It’s nkt like a good quality SSD from 3 years ago will be significantly slower than one today.

Especially when the drive is being used in an aging Thinkpad

For most modern SSD's the big thing is smarter cache control and power usage. Besides that I frequently buy used pro or enterprise SSD's from like 2013-14 because they're just about as cheap as modern disks, still have a 5-10 year warranty, have a fuck load of endurance and have are just as fast. Just pull more power.

I'm interested in picking up a caliper. But been trying to find an analog one and not digital since I don't want to worry about a battery. And... it's just something I'll use occasionally. Can barely find anything on amazon.

http://a.co/hnEl7O3 Cheapest one I found. Looks like ones that are half-decent bottom out at $30, though. A bit much for something only occasionally used, I think.

Digital is way better imo. I have this one: https://www.amazon.com/VINCA-DCLA-0605-Electronic-Fractions-Conversion/dp/B017KUC6XQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1530393598&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=digital+calipers&dpPl=1&dpID=41g03DIv4aL&ref=plSrch Battery lasts practically forever if you don't use it, or for at least 6+ months with heavy usage like I do. Also comes with a spare battery which is nice. Digital is nice because there's no question of "is it closer to this tick or that tick...", it'll just start going into the decimal places. And you can change units on the fly.

The one I use: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AQEZ2W/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Also get one of these and never worry about CR2032 problems ever again: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008XBK7PG/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

idk I trust gears and mechanical linkages over digital for my measurements any day ironically I'm also an electrical engineer

I think if you spend $15 on a caliper you probably shouldn't be using it to make any actually important measurements

While true, I trust my human eyes to see the tick and compensate for possible perspective distortion correctly for guestimating decimal points a whole lot less than just getting a number on a screen

to be fair though dial calipers are only really accurate to within 1 thou and that's one tick on a dial so it doesn't really matter how you round idk at my job I've used dial calipers since I was hired and I've grown a soft spot for them over digital even though we have a set of amazing mitutoyo's.

Fair enough, to each their own

Why is google app script such a potato. Been using someone's script to geotag emails (think I got it from here?) and it just randomly emails me a syntax error every few days then continues working fine again.

It's more so that I really enjoy analog measurement tools. I don't need it for any work, just hobby stuff and I'm making a bit wishlist for tools I've wanted over the years. Sort of a late birthday present to myself. Been looking at some of the midrange ones in the 50-70$ range, but finding one with decent build quality seems to be tricky.

I'm renting a house with a big three bay garage and its got work benches on one wall. I have nothing to build but I'm very tempted to go get a junkyard v8 motor and work on it now just because I can I've also been going to Harbor Freight's website a lot lately just looking at what is available and daydreaming about filling the garage with tools and a small lift now

It's not aging, it's a fine vintage.

ThinkPads are like fine wine https://i.imgur.com/CBuGrC2.jpg

So at work I have set up a catch-all for emails on our domain just to see if we were getting some mails to some old addresses or just plain out wrong. There is a few recurring addresses that send to that doesn't exist any longer, some automatic ones that should be send to the correct address, etc. What are some best practices for this? Should we contact the services to change their mail that they are sending to. What if we have clients that are trying to contact older addresses? Should we just redirect from old emails to the new ones when possible? My intention is to remove the catch-all later and right now I am just trying to clean up.

AFAIK redirection is the fairly standard. Some other people at my company still use their emails from the old domain and I was emailing a client for weeks before I realised I was using an email from before they merged with another and they all went through fine.