For Cinco De Mayo we all made margaritas at work. Was good.
The bosses I used to work for were basically alcoholics, having several beers every day at lunch and then hitting the bar after 5. We actually had to institute a rule that "if you drank at lunch, no talking with clients for the rest of the day", after one incident my NDA still prevents me from telling you about.
I'm quite glad the company I'm contracting for now has an explicit "no drinking while working" policy. Considering some non-programmers are working with open flames, that's just downright necessary.
How do you guys get into software development positions? I'm currently an IT service desk analyst. I have been trying to learn C++ for a while now on my own purely for its execution speed and relative ease of writing large software with, though find it difficult to slip it in between work and stuff.
Do you just scout jobs until one becomes available and apply? Did you take part in some form of course? Did you write something or multiple quality software pieces which garnered attention or built a good enough portfolio for employers to hire you based on that?
Sorry for the abundant questions. I'm just getting sick of providing first line support.
I'm still in school but I got multiple offers for paid internships just by going to local programming/itsec meetups and talking to people
But yea just build some cool stuff and put it on github, should be enough to show employers how good you are
"omg why would you get 16GB of ram it's too much1!1!!!!1!"
Here I am playing Watch Dogs 2 and it's using up 16GB of RAM by itself
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JAtb1Bb.png[/img]
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52192242]"omg why would you get 16GB of ram it's too much1!1!!!!1!"
Here I am playing Watch Dogs 2 and it's using up 16GB of RAM by itself
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JAtb1Bb.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Why 16 gig sticks though? Do you really need the ability to upgrade to 256?
[QUOTE=helifreak;52192312]Why 16 gig sticks though? Do you really need the ability to upgrade to 256?[/QUOTE]
I got the pair for $130 i think, so I'm not complaining.
They're DDR4 ECC, so generally they're a lot more costlier than normal DDR4.
you can never have enough ram
[media]https://twitter.com/SilverEzhik/status/840793121189429248[/media]
[editline]5th May 2017[/editline]
those 4 processes corresponded to around 10 chrome tabs
I'm thinking of maybe trying to use PrimoCache to cache my parity spaces instead of using SSD tiering in storage spaces. Mainly because apparently SS doesn't benefit from a large write back cache, after 3GB it doesn't supposedly help. But SS will keep data in the SSD tier to accelerate reads and IOPS. But What I really want is a big write cache.
I could use PrimoCache, make a 4column 2 way mirror, use that as a cache. Because basically an 8 drive RAID10 has good IOPS and ton of bandwidth. It fills up, can make it like a 5TB thin provisioned ReFS space, then Primocache would unload it over time into the parity space.
Would be exactly what I want. Updated block data would be written to the very fast striped disk and overtime trickle into the parity.
Doesn't have direct support for WS2016 yet though :\
[editline]6th May 2017[/editline]
Looks like v3.0 will offer L2 Defer write options. Basically meaning you can make storage act as a big buffer. Currently only ram can be act as deferred writing. Might still do 8GB for it on my Parity.
Then in the future I could get maybe two 1TB PLP disks used, Setup a 2way ReFS mirror on them, then use them as the L2 cache for it and have it defer write after like 60seconds. I'd like to do it like this without using storage tiers since like I mentioned, it's designed to act as a read cache too, but that's not my workflow. I want write and modify operations to behave quickly since I'm just looking for it to store data not se rve it. If I could add on an SSD tier later I'd be happy. For SS tiering to work, I'd need to add the SSD's, make the tier, make a brand new virtualdisk and proceed to dump ALL my data directly into that new virtualdisk. Which could take literally like a week.
I'm going to 32 GB as well, fuck memory leaks.
Look what the TSA did to my friend's laptop
[T]https://i.imgur.com/rgerVNp.jpg[/T]
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52192924]I'm going to 32 GB as well, fuck memory leaks.[/QUOTE]
Stuck with 24 GiB of DDR3 with skylake since 32 GiB of new DDR4 was too expensive and fuck downgrades. Next upgrade isn't going to be anything less than 32, annoys the shit out of me every time someone drops a 'you don't need 16, just get 8.'
I can't imagine living with less than 32. Never know when you'll need to mod skyrim.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52193119]Stuck with 24 GiB of DDR3 with skylake since 32 GiB of new DDR4 was too expensive and fuck downgrades. Next upgrade isn't going to be anything less than 32, annoys the shit out of me every time someone drops a 'you don't need 16, just get 8.'[/QUOTE]
Anyone saying that has never had to work with virtual machines. I wished I had 16GB while using VMs for one of my classes at uni.
I have never had problems with 16gb even tho I hoard chrome tabs and play games with it and even have part of my ram be a smart cache for my ssd
24GB has been fine for me except when I was loading massive arrays into MATLAB, although that said my next pc will likely have 32GB.
I jump between 8 and 16gb of ram when I feel like it
Yes, I actually do take sticks out
I don't know why
[QUOTE=Scratch.;52193426]I jump between 8 and 16gb of ram when I feel like it
Yes, I actually do take sticks out
I don't know why[/QUOTE]
You are a crazy person.
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;52193073]Look what the TSA did to my friend's laptop
[T]https://i.imgur.com/rgerVNp.jpg[/T][/QUOTE]
What actually happened?
[QUOTE=Kiwi;52193534]YouTube. How dare you freeze and attempt to buffer when you have plenty of buffer left.
Especially on Opeth.
[t]https://chie.club/files/images/st/66d64938-640f-46ac-bded-1082de9da469.png[/t]
What the fuck.[/QUOTE]
It does like to do that sometimes.
Also, dirty. Using Youtube for music :(
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52192316]I got the pair for $130 i think, so I'm not complaining.
They're DDR4 ECC, so generally they're a lot more costlier than normal DDR4.[/QUOTE]
I made sure that the configuration for my Precision forced them to use 16gb DDR3 DIMMs. Should be a good choice when it comes to upgrade time. Assuming the board can actually handle 128gb.
I wonder how exactly mastodon got so viral in Japan, even Pixiv have invested developers onto it.
Pawoo is considered the best mobile client for it, not to mention they even threw their oauth or whatever into it.
Out of the top 5 user count mastodon instances, three are primarily Japanese users.
This counts to around 300 thousand users from japan, compared to the 90 thousand users from the other two instances that are anywhere else.
Not like it matters which server you pick since they become federated anyway
[QUOTE=Kiwi;52193534]YouTube. How dare you freeze and attempt to buffer when you have plenty of buffer left.
Especially on Opeth.
[t]https://chie.club/files/images/st/66d64938-640f-46ac-bded-1082de9da469.png[/t]
What the fuck.[/QUOTE]
Hello there, Real Player.
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;52179577]Nice, chrome is now hijacking the programmable media keys I have on my G930 when it's the active window meaning I can't control fb2k while using it :poot:[/QUOTE]
They apparently also broke hardware acceleration on some systems?? Wtf Google fix your shit
[editline]6th May 2017[/editline]
It's sluggish af even trying to switch tabs, I feel like I'm on a P4
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;52193925]They apparently also broke hardware acceleration on some systems?? Wtf Google fix your shit
[editline]6th May 2017[/editline]
It's sluggish af even trying to switch tabs, I feel like I'm on a P4[/QUOTE]
I hate browsers/sites taking over key commands
I was writing a few scripts to annoy some discord users by having multiple accounts typing forever
"New incognito tab"
> Ctrl > Shift > N
"Would you like to join a guild"
Fuck you.
[editline]7th May 2017[/editline]
The same geniuses have also in the past overriden Ctrl + {number}.
Similar to Win + {number}, which opens up that position in your array of windows in the taskbar,
it would switch to the guild in the array
... All I wanted was to switch to the first tab
Fuck you.
Hardware acceleration has been broken forever on Chrome/Windows 10, and I absolutely hate it.
[QUOTE=wingless;52193535]It does like to do that sometimes.
Also, dirty. Using Youtube for music :([/QUOTE]
Our ASG has arbitrarily blocked music streaming sites on the network between 0500 and 1700. I say arbitrarily because this is the exact same network governed by the exact same policy as the network I was operating on in a different country, and I could access sites like Pandora up there, but down here they are blocked. I basically just have to hope that the albums I want to listen to are on YouTube, since my office is Secret so I can't bring my device in and listen to Spotify in offline mode.
I hate YouTube for streaming music.
Anyone see the gpd pocket?
It looks amazing but they dropped the ball for the keyboard it sucks. :(
I'd buy it otherwise.
[QUOTE=wingless;52193512]What actually happened?[/QUOTE]
She's not sure. She found her laptop flipped over in it's bag with a TSA check paper in it and it's fucked like this. I live 5 hours away so I can't actually help all that much
[QUOTE=01271;52194241]Anyone see the gpd pocket?
It looks amazing but they dropped the ball for the keyboard it sucks. :(
I'd buy it otherwise.[/QUOTE]
Eh, honestly at 7" there's plenty of other cheap wintab options in that range of 8" or so, and it's way too expensive considering that even refurb Dell wintabs with core m5s are like $250-300 now
At least the GPD Win is pocketable
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