- I feel like you should check out https://youtu.be/5GFW-eEWXlc?si=w3KTUkIprSeBYH3f
Enjoy.
- Nice! I worked on something similar as an undergrad project years ago, setting up beams with different orbital angular momentum characteristics. Was a lot fun working in the lab. Sadly I didn’t have the focus/grit to finish writing a paper (sorry Dr. Singh). Side note, this was in 2007 and the folks in our optics lab would check the location of beams by grabbing from the stacks of ancient punchcards lying around and waving them next to the apparatus.
This paper has a pretty similar setup, but adds a spatial light modulator (like a DLP projector that can control phase as well as brightness).
What is wild to me is that the researchers here are able to create a beam where the angular moment changes as you move away.
Plus the really cool spiral patterns.
- Yeah, I’ve been waiting for bidding to open on https://hibid.com/lot/214229120/comino-gando-rm-long-fully-l... just see what it gets up to. (5955wx + 4x RTX 4090’s)
- If your table setup process starts to get slow like ours, checkout psql TEMPLATE (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-templatedb...). Do the setup once to a db with known name, then use it as the template when creating the db for each test.
- One of my crowning achievements(?) was using DOSbox for actual work purposes.
In 2010-14 I worked at large retailer that still did almost half their development in RPG running on IBM iSeries.
Part of onboarding for new devs was this series of training software modules that went over the fundamentals of the RPG language. It was boring, but very thorough. It clearly had been purchased in the late 90s and kept in use since not much had really changed.
I think it was with Windows 8 that it finally stopped working. My supervisor, in charge of intern program, started stressing after none of the built-in compatibility options worked.
I immediately thought of DOSbox, and sure enough, it worked like a charm. For the next couple years I was there, one of the first things all new devs did was install DOSbox and it gave me a smile every time.
- An additional option to consider is to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.
I had an issue with my wireless carrier repeatedly refusing to issue credit for a months-long ongoing problem on their end.
Within 2 days in filing a BBB complaint, I had a rep from the company asking how much I thought seemed fair and if I wanted a bill credit or a check.
- Sure, and even if the surgery happened on time, they still might have had a stroke once they got home and had the same outcome.
But as other posts on HN have discussed, anecdotes, especially your own, hit differently.
It makes me thankful the software I work on isn't involved in life and death situations... But then again, it causes me to better consider the things my work could be responsible for (banking). Rushed work that causes a loan application to fail or transaction to be held unnecessarily shouldn't kill someone outright, but there can be real consequences that affect real people just like Rita.
- Yesterday morning I learned that someone I was acquainted with had just passed away and the funeral is scheduled for next week.
They recently had a stroke at home just days after spending over a month in the hospital.
Then I remembered that they were originally supposed to be getting an important surgery, but it was delayed because of the CrowdStrike outage. It took weeks for the stars to align again and the surgery to happen.
It makes me wonder what the outcome would have been if they had gotten the surgery done that day, and not spent those extra weeks in the hospital with their condition and stressing about their future?
- On the one hand, yes!
But more realistically, think of the headache of trying to keep your engine's Hampsterdance in sync with the Hampsterdance blaring from your car's stereo, (as it naturally would be).
Not to mention all the other excellent tracks on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampsterdance:_The_Album
- I know a lot of people have praised cardboard and I've used it too, but after sniffing some particularly smudged boxes from an Amazon order, I'm pretty hesitant now.
I'm less nervous about things like pizza boxes (if not too greasy). Even if there are contaminants, they are already in my food.
- The explanation I got when I worked there was that it was put in to help identify competitors that were blindly scraping our online catalog. There's a couple others if you keep digging.
Similar to the concept of "trap streets" on some maps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
- Same, except the one in my hometown hadn't even thrown out the VHS tapes yet. There were still aisles full of early 80s movies in their faded, original edition boxes that had probably been there since the store first opened.
I remember finding "Breakin'" (the original, not Electric Boogaloo) in like 2003 when I was still in high school.
The owner was a pretty cool dude, I remember apologizing for returning some cheesy sci-fi flick really late after forgetting I had it. He capped my late fees to one day and said "Don't worry about it, you're the only one who ever rents that."
- Nice. I think the code is at https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix for those interested.
I had played with version 0.0.1 trying to get it to work with https://www.freeallegiance.org/, but ran into issues. I'm glad to see they are improving the documentation. I'll have to try it out again.
I was reading this the other day looking for ideas on how to test query retries in our app. I suppose we could go at it from the network side by introducing latency and such.
However, it’d be great if there also was a proxy or something that could inject pg error codes.