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[birdmanmike]

While we get picky It complicates - the Valkyrie (Wagner) as a bunch, tend to be a mixture, complicated worse because the lead gals have gone from mezzo to full soprano - and sometimes vice versa in their careers. Yes the Hoyo final screech is in higher range but often turns out rather more screech than sweet - but then that's what is wanted in there. Brunhilde is generally soprano, but most younger mezzo's can hit it I believe. Her sidekicks are often mezzo. Other roles of course, Sieglinde a mix, but Fricka I believe is always mezzo.

Most have the beef to belt it out - stick 'em in a dirndl and I'm sure they'd do some justice to Urwumpe's anthem, (though possibly not to the dreaded yodelling :hmm: )

Of course I could be wrong - sadly the memory goes with age . . .

I hope this isn't getting sexist . .

 

[Urwumpe]

And another one from WW2, after the last to suspected duds turned out to be just iron junk, today they are evacuating a part of the VW factory and the nearby village of Sandkamp for disarming a 250 kg bomb with malfunctioned impact trigger stuck 5.5 meters underground for 70 years.

Right now they are just evacuating, from 13:00 local time on, they plan to disarm the bomb. Lucky its factory holidays right now and most of Wolfsburg (except a few insane software developers) has already left the town for more exotic places. Also the few remaining citizens in Sandkamp have only a short way to the evacuation site, they only need to cross the bridge over the Midland Canal.

Luckily its an impact trigger and not a delay trigger, the latter are far more deadly to the UXO experts and have in the past years been detonated safely right on location after three bomb disarmers got killed in Göttingen.

 

[Pipcard]

So I just installed a RX 480 graphics card...

...and the Falcon 9 and M-III flyback and landing autopilots run flawlessly at 100x time acceleration.

 

[SolarLiner]

So I just installed a RX 480 graphics card...

...and the Falcon 9 and M-III flyback and landing autopilots run flawlessly at 100x time acceleration.

Nice! I myself got a GTX 970 as birthday present, it's currently shpping, but I can't wait to see how great it all behaves!

 

[PhantomCruiser]

WBN U2 is sitting at 48% power. There's some testing to do and we can't exceed 50% to do it, but we are close enough. Bunch of people never thought we'd see the day.

 

[Urwumpe]

Exams passed, now I can upgrade to Windows 10...

Orbiter 2010 still works! :rofl:

 

[SolarLiner]

Got sis' old laptop, and installed Ubuntu on it. Had to use my phone for network over USB because it didn't recognize the Wi-Fi card, then fiddle around in the config to allow the OS to control backlighting as well.

Tried to get Remix OS to install along side it, but to no success for now. The UI doesn't want to load.

This is why Linux in general is not ready for the public, despite numerous claims. I had to rely on the terminal for dozens of times throughout the day, and while that's fine by me, it's a big turn off for a huge number of users. Plus all the problems trying to get the laptop to function normally that shouldn't happen.
Linux is fine, Linux is great. But not for everyone.

 

[Urwumpe]

OK, orbiter beta works, Black Dart VC still crashes. Reminds me that I wanted to post the bug report again...

 

[Thunder Chicken]

I'm meeting a team chair of our accreditation team this Thursday in Baltimore. I can't get this song out of my head:

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Got sis' old laptop, and installed Ubuntu on it. Had to use my phone for network over USB because it didn't recognize the Wi-Fi card, then fiddle around in the config to allow the OS to control backlighting as well.

Try Linux Mint. It's an Ubuntu fork. Wi-Fi works out of the box (for me anyway, and I've taken this laptop on several overseas trips without problem). Only thing I miss is I can't run Orbiter on it, but I think that is a driver issue with the Atom processors.

 

[DaveS]

Nice! I myself got a GTX 970 as birthday present, it's currently shpping, but I can't wait to see how great it all behaves!

Just out of curiosity, which did you go with? MSI, EVGA, Gigabyte or Zotac?

 

[Urwumpe]

I'm meeting a team chair of our accreditation team this Thursday in Baltimore. I can't get this song out of my head:

Suitable song for the day... have a phone conference today with our customers project lead. Explaining him again that something requires a client change and that a server change can not fix the problems at all, regardless what we do there. (But he wants a server change because a client change causes politics with the departments using the client API)

I really can't understand how the original developers of the client and these server modules got promoted. Features that have not been tested do not exist. And "try {} finally {}" is no error handling.

 

[jedidia]

The mind is a curious thing... Here I was, analysing my monitoring data of the test solution, trying out new scaling configurations to try to achieve the same performance with less money. I set the thing up... and then I hit 'T'. Because at some point my brain seems to have decided that it didn't want to wait a day or two until the new data has accumulated for review, and pressing 'T' seems locked in a s a proven method of reducing waiting times when sitting on a computer.

Seriously brain, are you going crazy on me? Things like this make me wonder if long-term effects of VR might not get a bit more problematic than we expect... :shifty:

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I really can't understand how the original developers of the client and these server modules got promoted.

But he wants a server change because a client change causes politics with the departments using the client API

Same old song in big corporations. Managers demand technically suboptimal solutions in order to scratch each others backs.

Manager: Hey, I have a friend over at xyz, they developed that really cool framework they'd let us use for real cheap, I think it would be perfect for our project!
Head of dev-team: Uhm, actually, that doesn't quite do what we need. There's a perfectly suitable open source framework we intend to use.
Manager: I said, it would be perfect for our project!
Head of dev: Uhm, yes sir, very well sir, we'll make it work... somehow.
Manager: Good man! keep it up and you're right on track for a promotion!

 

[SolarLiner]

Just out of curiosity, which did you go with? MSI, EVGA, Gigabyte or Zotac?

Got an MSI one, as is my motherboard, and it was the only one in discount (with a Xbox controller shipped!).

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And "try {} finally {}" is no error handling.

What's a good use of try/finally? I never found a single good use of that. Instead try/catch is all I ever used.

 

[jangofett287]

The finally block is always executed, even if the try block encounters an exception. It's for making sure any resources like file streams or pointers get cleaned up.

 

[jedidia]

What's a good use of try/finally?

Used as Urwumpe described, it's basically error handling for people too lazy to have error handling in their error handling...

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Looks like we will be doing a trip at 50% here in a few days. Treating it like a forced outage so there will be a mad scramble to fix some broke stuff. Then on to 100% once we run back up.

 

[SolarLiner]

The finally block is always executed, even if the try block encounters an exception. It's for making sure any resources like file streams or pointers get cleaned up.

Used as Urwumpe described, it's basically error handling for people too lazy to have error handling in their error handling...

But aren't instructions after a try block executed whether or not there's an error thrown in the block?

 

[Unstung]

This is what all my acceptable photos look like over the past few years:

I've finally finished going through all my photos and collecting the decent ones. Several photos were found and edited or re-edited.

 

[Urwumpe]

But aren't instructions after a try block executed whether or not there's an error thrown in the block?

If you are not handling the error there, they would not be executed, but the next higher catch block would be used or the uncaught exception handler gets something to do.

finally makes sure that regardless how you leave the block (throw, return, break, continue, etc.) - the code it the finally block is always executed first before leaving it.

A more modern alternative to make standard patterns in Java easier is the following syntax that was included in Java 7:

try(PreparedStatement st = connection.prepareStatement(stmt)) {
...
}

in which case you produce an implicit finally block closing st (and some other small actions regarding controlling this resource).

 

[kamaz]

I really can't understand how the original developers of the client and these server modules got promoted.

That's obvious. People are promoted so they will stop doing damage.

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What's a good use of try/finally? I never found a single good use of that. Instead try/catch is all I ever used.

The idea is that you should catch only if you know how to deal with the exception yourself, otherwise you just let it propagate up to the caller.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/128818/why-is-try-finally-good-try-catch-bad
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21386753