My respect will increase as long as you are still learning Python... you can tell me whether or not I got the code right (let's pretend the function is defined)!
My respect will increase as long as you are still learning Python... you can tell me whether or not I got the code right (let's pretend the function is defined)!
It looks about right to me! Have you tried python yourself?
Nice to hear there are a few programmers on here then
This is a kit computer I built from scratch of the apple 1 computer, the first ever apple product, it cost $666.66 at the time and featured a blazingly fast 1mhz CPU!
I took this picture in the bathroom due to the solid white lighting, which makes it look all fancy and studio shot and whatever:
Heres a badly lit picture of it connected to an old tv, a ps2 keyboard and an ATX power supply printing off various lines of hex code (I think?)
It kinda defeats the purpose of making it look "studio-shot" if you outright told us you did it by shooting in the bathroom. It does look nice, though.
I either need to learn to solder circuit boards or I need to go to my grandma, who used to do it for a living. If I can repair the solder between the ethernet port and the motherboard, I should have an Xbox 360 for the cost of a controller for it.
Now how I came into possession of a bricked 360 is a much longer story.
What, a bricked 360? No, that's nothing special at all. But it's a fun story. Rather than type it up again, I'm going to copy and paste from an IM log, so you might notice that the style of speech is a little odd.
A couple years or so ago, my cousin's 360 red ringed. His mom had bought it refurbished of eBay. Big mistake. Then when it red ringed, instead of sending it in for an out-of-warranty repair (which it wouldn't have been, since neither of them realized the warranty extends to three years specifically for the red ring), she bought a fix-it-yourself guide. Bigger mistake. Then she let me and my cousin do it on our own. Biggest mistake? So we opened the thing up (noting along the way that 17 screws were missing) and found that it'd already had the x clamp mod done on it. Also, someone had taped a piece of construction paper over the heat sink.
I think it's still in there. I think I'll have to take it out when I go in for the soldering.
The instructions were basically to remove the CPU and GPU heatsinks and put new thermal paste, then remove the fan, hook everything necessary to run it up, wait for it to overheat, then shut it off after another minute. The theory being that the problem occurs because the GPU becomes unseated due to heat buildup melting the solder or something. So we did it, and it worked! The Xbox was no longer flashing three red lights at us!
It was flashing one. And now there was an error code on the TV screen, E 73. Microsoft keeps their error codes pretty much under wraps, but the community has pretty much deduced that it's a USB/Ethernet combo port failure. So the bricked console has been sitting in my closet for the last two years becuase he got a new one and lost the cables for the old one.
Well! He found the cables recently, along with the hard drive that came with the new one, since he just kept using his old one. No idea how big the drive is, but it's free dammit. We fired it up again to see if maybe it had resolved with time, as some people have reported it will. No such luck. Apparently different versions of the overheat trick have been used to fix E 73, but it's a temporary fix that lasts less and less time until it becomes a permanent failure. So that leaves me with the options of either soldering it or sending it in for an out of warranty repair. I'm going to give soldering a shot, since the out of warranty repair is $99 and a controller is $50.
It kinda defeats the purpose of making it look "studio-shot" if you outright told us you did it by shooting in the bathroom. It does look nice, though.
Because I'm being reaaaaly serious about taking it in studio conditions :rolleyes:
Seriously though, soldering is an easy thing to get used to, just use your tip to heat up the metal pad on the board for a few seconds, feed in a few millimeteres of solder, take the pen and the solder away and voila! (Well it's sort of like that, theres a slight knack but it's relatively simple!)
If you look at the ASCII connector (which isn't there) you can see how I messed up with a solder splash and couldn't get it out the hole. Good thing I don't have an ASCII keyboard or I wouldn't be able to use it, the solder sucker didn't want to cooperate
The worse way to go through life is not to know who your friends and enemies are...I'm almost clueless.
I'm the same - my best friend (atleast I thought he was, recently he's acting like a dick) has started ignoring me for no reason, and others are just not willing to listen to me at all
I'm the same - my best friend (atleast I thought he was, recently he's acting like a dick) has started ignoring me for no reason, and others are just not willing to listen to me at all
Yeah, like wise, I don't make any friends because of it. So maybe I'm just saving myself a step of hurt until I can figure it all out.
Been awake for something like 27 hours. I don't think I'm going to make it another 12 like I want to. I don't think I'm even going to make it as far as the bare minimum 9 more that I'm looking for. I absolutely don't want to set my sleep schedule to have me going to bed before midnight, but I don't know if I can make it that far.
You've interested me in staying awake as long as possible starting tommorow night, I did it last summer for a couple of days, I enjoyed the weird hallucinations and thoughts I got
Also, I just found out Brian Jacques died. Huh. I'd be more upset if it was Robin Jarvis given that I'm still waiting on that sequel to the Deptford Mice that he said he'd write in ten years. (and it's been twelve now...)
You've interested me in staying awake as long as possible starting tommorow night, I did it last summer for a couple of days, I enjoyed the weird hallucinations and thoughts I got
I can't imagine anybody doing this to themselves on purpose. I've only been awake for something like 30 hours and I have a headache and am having trouble walking due to the odd lesions on my feet.
Also, an update on that omelet I posted a picture of: my mom loved it. I don't like green peppers or onions, so the one I'd already eaten just had more ham.
I can't imagine anybody doing this to themselves on purpose. I've only been awake for something like 30 hours and I have a headache and am having trouble walking due to the odd lesions on my feet.
No, I'm awake because I'm an idiot and let myself get caught up in something until frigging 9 am, at which point I decided that since my sleep schedule is so out of whack and I would only be able to get a couple of hours anyway, I would just stay up, taking advantage of the fact that your circadian rhythm resets if you stay up for more than 24 hours. At whatever point I go to sleep tonight, my sleep pattern will readjust itself so that that's bedtime. The same phenomenon has allowed me to sleep on a normal schedule at an anime convention after pulling an all-nighter two nights before to get ready, even though my sleep schedule had been ridiculously out of whack at the time.
The real problem with it is if you pull an all-nighter for something (like a final or something) and then go to sleep as soon as it's over. Unless it's anything but a quick nap, you'll end up jet lagging the hell out of yourself. Also, it doesn't matter if you get your sleep schedule fixed if you can't get a grip on the bad habits that screwed it up in the first place.
I have some kind of infection. I have had a sore throat for days (as well as a runny nose) but I'm starting to feel like it went down in my lungs a bit, and lymph nodes all over my body are swelling.
I really hate infections, due to being allergic to antibiotics. The only thing I can do is try and boost my immune system and avoid things that could made it worse. Of course I'm in an airport, so one major option, getting some good rest, is straight out. I'll see if I can get some vitamins or something at least.
I can't imagine anybody doing this to themselves on purpose. I've only been awake for something like 30 hours and I have a headache and am having trouble walking due to the odd lesions on my feet.
Also, an update on that omelet I posted a picture of: my mom loved it. I don't like green peppers or onions, so the one I'd already eaten just had more ham.
I'm the kind of guy who gets jealous, lonely, gets upset some times, but in the end thinks about jumping in front of cars for complete strangers. The world is too beautiful a place for more people like me, and to have less people who are able to enjoy it, appreciate it.
I'm envious of so many beautiful people I meet who are so expressive, so unique. I wish I could be part of what they are, what they posess, not to take it, just to feel it, live it, experience it, share it with them openly, actually watch and take in what they are, who they are. I can't...I can't.
I'm stuck to myself like glue. So many people out there, some of them so interesting, so refreshing, in their own right they're just people, been the same most their lives. But they spent a life time being special, being who they are, and I can't touch that.
I can't get near that. Some of them have such fascinating and beautiful life styles, such beautiful personalities, attitudes, and ...I just
I'm just not , I don't know.
I don't know...
I don't even have good relationships with my surviving family. They just tell me that my love is limited.
I'm ranting about nothing now...well, something, whatever
Maybe I'm some what emo in places like these because in the real world I don't experience much of anything with others.
All he needed to add for it to be complete is the countless hours wasted trapped on TV Tropes, and even that's arguably covered under the Wikipedia part.
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My respect will increase as long as you are still learning Python... you can tell me whether or not I got the code right (let's pretend the function is defined)!
It was!
Sigh... my bad jokes have a habit of coming back to haunt me.
You think it's bad now, wait until I turn up the heat!
Necessary? What do you mean? I truly don't understand. I'm just winging it and whiping all this out...
I piss in your face! IN YOUR FACE!
It looks about right to me! Have you tried python yourself?
Sure - just then!
I'd forgotten that I rather like learning programmer-y things and bending machines to my nefarious whims.
I thought you were a vegetarian.
Dohoho, I am wicked
Bahahahaha! It's rare that someone's jokes are even worse than mine
This is a kit computer I built from scratch of the apple 1 computer, the first ever apple product, it cost $666.66 at the time and featured a blazingly fast 1mhz CPU!
I took this picture in the bathroom due to the solid white lighting, which makes it look all fancy and studio shot and whatever:
Heres a badly lit picture of it connected to an old tv, a ps2 keyboard and an ATX power supply printing off various lines of hex code (I think?)
I either need to learn to solder circuit boards or I need to go to my grandma, who used to do it for a living. If I can repair the solder between the ethernet port and the motherboard, I should have an Xbox 360 for the cost of a controller for it.
Now how I came into possession of a bricked 360 is a much longer story.
Man, I wish my parents had gone on a trip next week instead of this one, would've been more convenient.
A couple years or so ago, my cousin's 360 red ringed. His mom had bought it refurbished of eBay. Big mistake. Then when it red ringed, instead of sending it in for an out-of-warranty repair (which it wouldn't have been, since neither of them realized the warranty extends to three years specifically for the red ring), she bought a fix-it-yourself guide. Bigger mistake. Then she let me and my cousin do it on our own. Biggest mistake? So we opened the thing up (noting along the way that 17 screws were missing) and found that it'd already had the x clamp mod done on it. Also, someone had taped a piece of construction paper over the heat sink.
I think it's still in there. I think I'll have to take it out when I go in for the soldering.
The instructions were basically to remove the CPU and GPU heatsinks and put new thermal paste, then remove the fan, hook everything necessary to run it up, wait for it to overheat, then shut it off after another minute. The theory being that the problem occurs because the GPU becomes unseated due to heat buildup melting the solder or something. So we did it, and it worked! The Xbox was no longer flashing three red lights at us!
It was flashing one. And now there was an error code on the TV screen, E 73. Microsoft keeps their error codes pretty much under wraps, but the community has pretty much deduced that it's a USB/Ethernet combo port failure. So the bricked console has been sitting in my closet for the last two years becuase he got a new one and lost the cables for the old one.
Well! He found the cables recently, along with the hard drive that came with the new one, since he just kept using his old one. No idea how big the drive is, but it's free dammit. We fired it up again to see if maybe it had resolved with time, as some people have reported it will. No such luck. Apparently different versions of the overheat trick have been used to fix E 73, but it's a temporary fix that lasts less and less time until it becomes a permanent failure. So that leaves me with the options of either soldering it or sending it in for an out of warranty repair. I'm going to give soldering a shot, since the out of warranty repair is $99 and a controller is $50.
Because I'm being reaaaaly serious about taking it in studio conditions :rolleyes:
Seriously though, soldering is an easy thing to get used to, just use your tip to heat up the metal pad on the board for a few seconds, feed in a few millimeteres of solder, take the pen and the solder away and voila! (Well it's sort of like that, theres a slight knack but it's relatively simple!)
If you look at the ASCII connector (which isn't there) you can see how I messed up with a solder splash and couldn't get it out the hole. Good thing I don't have an ASCII keyboard or I wouldn't be able to use it, the solder sucker didn't want to cooperate
I'm the same - my best friend (atleast I thought he was, recently he's acting like a dick) has started ignoring me for no reason, and others are just not willing to listen to me at all
Yeah, like wise, I don't make any friends because of it. So maybe I'm just saving myself a step of hurt until I can figure it all out.
As a child the elders tried to contain my powers, but, to no avail
Also, I just found out Brian Jacques died. Huh. I'd be more upset if it was Robin Jarvis given that I'm still waiting on that sequel to the Deptford Mice that he said he'd write in ten years. (and it's been twelve now...)
Why can no one make a quality chair that doesn't break or go flat in a week?
I can't imagine anybody doing this to themselves on purpose. I've only been awake for something like 30 hours and I have a headache and am having trouble walking due to the odd lesions on my feet.
Also, an update on that omelet I posted a picture of: my mom loved it. I don't like green peppers or onions, so the one I'd already eaten just had more ham.
Why are you awake then? Insomnia?
Problem is they charge high quality prices for them.
No, I'm awake because I'm an idiot and let myself get caught up in something until frigging 9 am, at which point I decided that since my sleep schedule is so out of whack and I would only be able to get a couple of hours anyway, I would just stay up, taking advantage of the fact that your circadian rhythm resets if you stay up for more than 24 hours. At whatever point I go to sleep tonight, my sleep pattern will readjust itself so that that's bedtime. The same phenomenon has allowed me to sleep on a normal schedule at an anime convention after pulling an all-nighter two nights before to get ready, even though my sleep schedule had been ridiculously out of whack at the time.
The real problem with it is if you pull an all-nighter for something (like a final or something) and then go to sleep as soon as it's over. Unless it's anything but a quick nap, you'll end up jet lagging the hell out of yourself. Also, it doesn't matter if you get your sleep schedule fixed if you can't get a grip on the bad habits that screwed it up in the first place.
I really hate infections, due to being allergic to antibiotics. The only thing I can do is try and boost my immune system and avoid things that could made it worse. Of course I'm in an airport, so one major option, getting some good rest, is straight out. I'll see if I can get some vitamins or something at least.
Well that sucks.
Not the omlet, the sleep issue.
I'm envious of so many beautiful people I meet who are so expressive, so unique. I wish I could be part of what they are, what they posess, not to take it, just to feel it, live it, experience it, share it with them openly, actually watch and take in what they are, who they are. I can't...I can't.
I'm stuck to myself like glue. So many people out there, some of them so interesting, so refreshing, in their own right they're just people, been the same most their lives. But they spent a life time being special, being who they are, and I can't touch that.
I can't get near that. Some of them have such fascinating and beautiful life styles, such beautiful personalities, attitudes, and ...I just
I'm just not , I don't know.
I don't know...
I don't even have good relationships with my surviving family. They just tell me that my love is limited.
I'm ranting about nothing now...well, something, whatever
Maybe I'm some what emo in places like these because in the real world I don't experience much of anything with others.
It's all so damn true...
Yeah... That was pretty cool.