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Vitalius

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  1. This is an incredibly disingenuous summary. She used many quotes, which is a way to convey exactly what was said to her, because that's what quotes are usually for. You've conveniently ignored so much of the contents of that twitter thread that I can only assume it was intentional, because it would be pretty hard to accidentally do that in the convenient way you have.
  2. There is one: https://discord.gg/KK8AUQa That reminded me of this, which I rather enjoyed: As for why I enjoy anime: It is full of infinite possibilities. If someone can imagine it, and carries the artistic skill to draw it, they can make it in anime. The best example of an insane concept brought to life, imo, is this: The Dragon Dentist (2017) | Anime-Planet
  3. Long time; no post. I've been enjoying watching Spy X Family and will be watching Cyberpunk: Edgerunners when it comes out. I have to say, I was very disappointed in The Boys: Diabolical. It had a gem here and there, but was mostly a waste of time for me. My nephew is watching the Ocean Cut of Naruto with his friends. It seems like a major upgrade. Anyway, I'll probably be around more often going forward. A reminder that Heaven Society has a Discord where we chat, talk about anime and many other things like games, cars, investments, technology, and the like. Join if y'all'd like: https://discord.gg/KK8AUQa
  4. I used to watch anime. The last thing I saw was Dawn of the Deep Soul. I'm waiting patiently for Castlevania Season 3.
  5. Hey guys. Been watching One Piece (which accounts for over 10% of all anime series I've watched, i.e. not counting movies and such), Goblin Slayer, & JoJo Part 5 Golden Wind. Apparently I've kept up with the fact I'm at like 8,000 episodes of anime, but One Piece is on episode 865 and is included in that 8,000. So that's both disappointing and interesting.
  6. Just a reminder that there is an HSC Steam Group: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/HeavenSociety The reason I mention this is because Steam updated and has a Discord-like Chat now. It's not as good as Discord, but it has at least one feature Discord doesn't. Spoilers for images. It's a huge improvement over old Steam Chat though. Group chats are attached to all groups so yeah. I'm pretty sure you all have Steam accounts, so if you wanted to talk more instantly, but not use Discord for some reason, there you go.
  7. Cool, so, my problem is that the two modes don't work as expected. PWM keeps the pump at 100% even when I set the performance curve. DC keeps the pump at 20-30% regardless of settings.
  8. I have this motherboard: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming-ITXac/index.asp Here is the manual: http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming-ITXac.pdf I have this pump: https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-ddc-3-2-pwm-laing-ddc-3-2-pwm It is now wired like this: Going out to this: So ending up like this on the motherboard (sorry about it being dark): Now this motherboard supports doing this as it says in the manual: Which is what the specifications for that pump are, as listed on the site: And in the manual, it says this: In the BIOS, I have these options: I've switched it to W_PUMP, and set it to PWM Mode, but when I do this, it is stuck at 100% speed at all times. In the manual, it says this: If I choose DC mode, it barely runs the pump at all (10-20% speed I guess). I can hear/feel it running, but it's so slow that my CPU gets up to 50-60C on idle. I want to control this pump with PWM, but it doesn't respond to any settings I give it in BIOS. What are these two different modes and why are they interacting with this pump in this way?
  9. SO-DIMMs for DDR4 are double the price compared to regular DIMMs. Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. Where are they getting 5 USB 3.0 Type A ports? And 5 USB 2.0 ports? Are they counting them twice? Or the USB 3.0 & 2.0 Headers? That's dumb. They never do that with other boards. And the 2nd GbE port couldn't be anywhere else. Maybe those pictures are pre-final production?
  10. Here is the calendar for keeping up with HSC gaming events: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=4t11i5l77il0ucp82skdlaiufc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Chicago Vote here now for HSC's gaming events. http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=fcfbe4f315b1fddf6 You can add your own answers and check multiple boxes. I can administrate this poll so if I see someone trolling, I can undo the trolling. And I'm stubborn enough to do it consistently, so YMMV but I doubt it will be worth trolling. You can also change your answers, so if you see someone added something you didn't vote for but want, go for it.
  11. On average, each manufacturer cheaps out in a specific area more often than not. What they cheap out on is hard to determine, so it's mostly hearsay, but.... ASRock tends to cheap out on marketing and their website (generally things that involve communication with the customer). As opposed to the actual boards themselves. MSI tends to cheap out on power delivery. The worst possible thing to cheap out on. YMMV, but ASRock is more reliable in my experience and what I've heard from friends' experiences.
  12. Eh, I default to words. If I don't have words, I have nothing usually. I have to intentionally invoke visualizations and concepts (those are two separate types of imagination btw). And emotions? I can't think with those, like at all. I barely feel them. It's nice in a way, since I can actively shut down emotions I am not interested in feeling, but that's very much a double edged sword. It doesn't extend to all my emotions either. Just the higher, more complex, ones.
  13. Funny thing regarding that. Some studies hypothesize that the concept of God comes from the human mind developing an inner monologue. At some point in human development, instead of having an inner monologue, it sounded like someone was speaking to you. This was the left and right sides of the brain communicating, apparently. Gives me a whole new perspective on people with schizophrenia who hear "voices". I don't believe that's the case, but it makes logical sense in a way. And considering some people just don't have an inner monologue, and purely think in terms of emotions and concepts (with no voice to vocalize them in their head), that too is pretty neat.
  14. ? In Galatians, Paul condemns jealousy in the same breath as idolatry (Galatians 5:19–20).
  15. Presuming the world is a hologram/simulation, the coder is God. .... presumably. I know it sounds stupid, but the idea is that there is some "thing" we don't fully perceive as humans that God would. And if He is, then it's logical He would be able to do that if that thing also existed. That thing being a soul (or something like it). Like, ok, presuming a God exists, and souls along with Him, how do souls work? Does it have some tie to genetics? Are they similar or are they not? Is mine just an amalgamation of pieces of my parents or are they unrelated entirely? Assuming they're related (i.e. your parents' souls have something to do with your own's creation), it makes sense that the punishment should be passed down generations because the sin is tied to the soul. I don't know. Souls can't be empirically studied (at this time) if they do exist.
  16. Vitalius

    HandBrakeCLI.exe -P -e x265 --encoder-preset sl…

    After some help elsewhere, someone mentioned that the AAC codec in Handbrake is largely inadequate. They stopped using a higher quality encoder for political reasons apparently. Switching to audio passthrough, rather than re-encoding, fixed my issue. `HandBrakeCLI.exe -P -e x265 --encoder-preset slow -x strong-intra-smoothing=0:rect=0 -q 16.0 --vfr --all-audio -E copy -B 160 --all-subtitles -i $oldfile -o $newfile -f av_mkv` I probably don't need -B 160 now. That makes sense Tech_Dreamer. That's probably what it's for anyway. Thanks ionbasa. That will be useful.
  17. HandBrakeCLI.exe -P -e x265 --encoder-preset slow -q 16.0 --vfr --all-audio -E av_aac -B 128 --normalize-mix 1 --all-subtitles -i $old -o $new -f av_mkv

    Got this here handbrake command, but converting high quality content with it ends up with absolutely terrible audio. 

    Not sure if it's just cuz the AAC codec for Handbrake is bad, because I used --normaliz-mix, or because, somehow, the decoder doesn't know what codec the audio is in so it just says ??? (AAC), implying it doesn't know so it defaults to AAC.

    :/

    1. ionbasa

      ionbasa

      If you're not 100% sure what the source audio codec is, use MediaInfo.

      https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

    2. Tech_Dreamer

      Tech_Dreamer

      i only use normalization if i'm converting for a phone with a crappy stock earphone otherwise for me its pretty much a no no

    3. Vitalius

      Vitalius

      After some help elsewhere, someone mentioned that the AAC codec in Handbrake is largely inadequate. They stopped using a higher quality encoder for political reasons apparently. 

      Switching to audio passthrough, rather than re-encoding, fixed my issue. 

      `HandBrakeCLI.exe -P -e x265 --encoder-preset slow -x strong-intra-smoothing=0:rect=0 -q 16.0 --vfr --all-audio -E copy -B 160 --all-subtitles -i $oldfile -o $newfile -f av_mkv`

      I probably don't need -B 160 now. 

      That makes sense Tech_Dreamer. That's probably what it's for anyway.

      Thanks ionbasa. That will be useful.

  18. Hmm, I'm probably going to spend a lot more time on the Level1Techs forum. It has the features I wish LTT forums had. 

    >Images can be directly pasted into reply boxes from the clipboard
    >no page reloads while scrolling through a thread
    >side-by-side preview of post as you edit it
    >a full html/bbcode editor for replies
    >responsive
    >personal post history of edits, showing you what you changed
    >It's acronym is L1T. It's Lit yo.
    >default theme is a natural balance of light and dark.
    >you can bookmark posts as a user
    >they use > for quotes.
    >reply as a new topic - i.e. "I want to continue this conversation, but in a new topic separate from where it started".

    Huzzah.

    1. FinestRyeBread
    2. wolfgang

      wolfgang

      Sounds interesting. May give it a look at some point.

    3. AnnoyedShelf

      AnnoyedShelf

      The L1T forums are far better IMO.  They're part of the reason why I haven't been on around here very much anymore.

  19. So, this is what it returns when I try that: Warning: fputcsv() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in /home/comp/public_html/db/db_PullData_ExportToXLS.php on line 80 And it repeats that for every line of the Array, saying it's a string. If I try just doing: fputcsv($file,$data_array); That actually works.... welp, IDK why it didn't the first time. However, XLSX isn't treating it as an array still. Unfortunate, but I can make a CSV work. Thanks :D.
  20. So, I have an array being given to me by a MySQL query. Here is the array, as it is printed by print_r function: Array ( [policydatakey] => 1 [policydatapolicykey] => 1 [policydatastatus] => Active [policydatapolicyname] => Policy 1111 [policydataprocessorname] => My Processor [policydatabranchcode] => Branch1 [policydatafiletaxid] => Taxid1 [policydatafilestate] => XX [policydatafilelicense] => Lic111 [policydatainsuredname] => Trim [policydatarisklocation] => 4 [policydataunderwritingcompany] => Stuff n Thangs [policydatapolicystate] => XX [policydatapolicynumber] => 1111 [policydatapolicytype] => 8 [policydatamultistate] => 9 [policydatalineofbusiness] => 0 [policydataeffectivedate] => 1 [policydataendorsementeffectivedate] => 2 [policydataenddate] => 3 [policydatapremium] => 4 [policydatainsuredamount] => 5 [policydatapolicyfee] => 6 [policydatainspectionfee] => 7 [policydatacatfee] => 8 [policydatasltaxes] => 9 [policydatafiremarshaltax] => 0 [policydatasurcharge] => 5-surcharge [policydataadditionalassessment] => 2 [policydatastampingfee] => 3 [policydatainvoicenumber] => XXXX [policydatainvoicedate] => 2016-02-02 [policydataac1] => 6 [policydataac1date] => 2016-01-01 [policydataac1comments] => 8 [policydataac2] => 9 [policydataac2date] => 0 [policydataac2comments] => 1 [policydataac3] => yes (ac3) [policydataac3date] => 3 [policydataac3comments] => Ac3 Comments go here [policydatacomments] => My Comments ) When I run is_array on the variable that holds that array, it returns boolean TRUE. i.e. if (is_array($data)==TRUE){ printf("It is an array."); }else{ printf("It is not an array."); } Comes back as "It is an array." When I try to have that array printed to a .CSV using fputcsv(), I get the following: Catchable fatal error: Argument 2 passed to fputcsv() must be an array, null given... When I try to have that array printed to a spreadsheet XLSX file, using xlsxwriter.class.php (see here), it complains of the same thing. Neither have a problem using a simple test array, as follows: $array = array( array('year','month','day'), array('2004','8','20'), array('2008','12','13'), ); The way I'm getting the array I'm trying to use is with the following: $data = $conn->query($sql); // $conn is the connection credentials to the MySQL Database, and $sql is the sql query. $data_array = array(); $data_array = $data->fetch_assoc(); fetch_assoc() is supposed to return an associative array, which it seems to, rather than an object. I have no idea what the issue is.
  21. So I got two things to say about that. One is long winded, but specific and the other is simple and short. Simple first: UREs are rated in bits, not bytes. So 10E14 is 100 Terabits which is 12.5(ish) TB. The long winded thing is a conservative (imo) example of a typical rebuild from a home user's perspective, presuming he bothers to use his RAID adequately but not excessively. It comes out to 14TB of reads by the time the rebuild is done, which assuming the URE rate is spot on, is a 100% chance of hitting a URE. If you need a source: http://blog.dshr.org/2015/05/unrecoverable-read-errors.html BER is another form of URE, just written the reverse. Rather than 10^14 bits, it's read as 10^-14 as "how often it happens" essentially. It's more intuitive to use the URE notation though. Unless something has changed and URE rates are in bytes now, which everywhere I look, that's not true, RAID 5 in this situation with 4TB drives is a bad idea long term. It's basically pointless. May as well solo use each drive independently. Also, you don't increase it by the number of drives. It just has to happen to one drive, and assuming they're all the same drive, the rate wouldn't change since it only needs to happen once to stop the rebuild. It *could* happen more, but it doesn't matter as long as it happens once. Long winded:
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