Ontopic Random Computer-Electronics Thread

[Jehannum]

USPS just emailed me with this:


Thats pretty amazing. They scan every letter anyway (which they only started doing in 2014 by the way, with a custom built HPC (high performance computer), so why not make use of that data.

I bet this will be great for cutting down on mail theft too.

That's funny, because it doesn't take much in the way of computing to adequately identify handwritten addresses.

Subsets of it are actually student problems in textbooks (at least they were way back in 2009-2013, when I was in school).

 

[Domon]

That's funny, because it doesn't take much in the way of computing to adequately identify handwritten addresses.

Subsets of it are actually student problems in textbooks (at least they were way back in 2009-2013, when I was in school).

Yeah, you aren't taking into account volume

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[Jehannum]

Yeah, you aren't taking into account volume

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Non-convolutional neural networks are all O(depth), so yeah volume isn't really an issue.

 

[Domon]

Non-convolutional neural networks are all O(depth), so yeah volume isn't really an issue.

you go right ahead and tell the usps they wasted their money, and loan them your home laptop and parallel port scanner then.

 

[Valve1138]

They found out you use tapatalk. And they want to extend that experience to your mail.

 

[Floptical]

@Jehannum did you see Meg's latest acquisition? What the hell is she thinking.

 

[Jehannum]

@Jehannum did you see Meg's latest acquisition? What the hell is she thinking.

Nope, I stopped working for that see-you-next-Tuesday.

 

[Floptical]

Nope, I stopped working for that see-you-next-Tuesday.

I know you did I figured you might still enjoy watching her make mistake after mistake.

 

[Jehannum]

I know you did I figured you might still enjoy watching her make mistake after mistake.

Too many friends still work there for me to have any schadenfreude

 

[Floptical]

Too many friends still work there for me to have any schadenfreude

Like half of Nimble is ex NetApp. I'm sad for them because they have no idea what's coming.

 

[Jehannum]

Like half of Nimble is ex NetApp. I'm sad for them because they have no idea what's coming.

Judging by the last acquisitions, a -15% salary "adjustment", followed by years of stagnation, and finally layoffs.

 

[Domon]

HP makes extremely questionable decisions. This lends more and more the theory that they dont have working memristors at all for the Machine, and are just buying up flash, hoping people wont care.

 

[Duke]

It's sad how far HP has fallen. They were, for a brief but very important moment in time, perched on top.

 

[Jehannum]

HP makes extremely questionable decisions. This lends more and more the theory that they dont have working memristors at all for the Machine, and are just buying up flash, hoping people wont care.

That's a unique perspective.

 

[nukes]

As a lay end-user, I gave up on HP machines due to lack of reliability.
Now I just buy the most powerful all in one hunk of junk $600 can get me and hope it lasts 3 years.

 

[Floptical]

It's sad how far HP has fallen. They were, for a brief but very important moment in time, perched on top.

Of maybe the server and printer space but that's about it. On the storage side they've always been crap and anything they buy they turn into crap.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Started a 14hr render as I left work yesterday
Came in this morning to find the program crashed after 4hrs

 

[Domon]

Started a 14hr render as I left work yesterday
Came in this morning to find the program crashed after 4hrs

wtf, get your work to buy you a printer that doesnt suck

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Started a 14hr render as I left work yesterday
Came in this morning to find the program crashed after 4hrs

Z18 again?

I need to reprint my controller board case. I tried to snap the hinge together and one of the tension pieces broke. Doesn't lay flat on any of the printers available to me, so it has to stand up at an angle. Takes 11-15 hours depending on the settings.

:-|

Probably going to redesign it, maybe so I use a spring instead of a tensioning piece.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

No, just a graphic render
Some images Im putting together for trade show displays