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  • a5ehrena5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Yuck it's like 50% sports channels, no thanks.

    If you don't want sports, your best bet is Philo. It's also the cheapest one, because no fees to ESPN or Fox RSNs.

    bowen
  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    What's a good way to get started with Python? A customer of mine had ATOM open and showed me the performance maps he's able to generate with Python and they were amazing and I want to learn how to that.

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Butters wrote: »
    What's a good way to get started with Python? A customer of mine had ATOM open and showed me the performance maps he's able to generate with Python and they were amazing and I want to learn how to that.

    Do you already program?

    Python has some good resources here:
    https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    I've been on datacamp and found it to be an excellent resource.

    schuss
  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    What's a good way to get started with Python? A customer of mine had ATOM open and showed me the performance maps he's able to generate with Python and they were amazing and I want to learn how to that.

    Do you already program?

    Python has some good resources here:
    https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers

    I do mostly g-coding in LabVIEW these days but yes I program, I can understand low-level C and C++ stuff.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    Disc drives will be pretty important for video games until the internet gets fixed in the US (so like forever). This is from the FCC's 2018 Broadband Progress Report and the numbers aren't great and I am also extremely skeptical about some of them.

    -As of year-end 2016, 92.3% of all Americans have access to fixed terrestrial broadband at speeds of 25 Mbps/3 Mbps, up from 89.4% in 2014 and 81.2% in 2012. Nonetheless, over 24 million Americans still lack fixed terrestrial broadband at speeds of 25 Mbps/3 Mbps.

    -Rural and Tribal areas continue to lag behind urban areas in mobile broadband deployment. Although evaluated urban areas saw an increase of 10 Mbps/3 Mbps mobile LTE from 81.9% in 2014 to 90.5 % in 2016, such deployment in evaluated rural and Tribal areas remained flat at about 70% and 64%, respectively. Approximately 14 million rural Americans and 1.2 million Americans living on Tribal lands still lack mobile LTE broadband at speeds of 10 Mbps/3 Mbps.

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    The last few days Verizon has been pestering me to do a "security update" on my phone. Finally did it. It upgraded me to Android Pie.

    Guys fucking...remember my blowup about how Gmail was getting too kiddie bright colored and ugly and I hated it? That but now its a device I use constantly. If Samsung didn't have its own program for changing some things I feel my phone would be actually unuseable.

    And fuck you and pushing your shitty 'gestures' system on me. I like the navigation bar. Just not all the time

    Kane Red Robe
  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    I also got the Pie upgrade for my Galaxy Note 8 on Verizon the other day, but I actually kinda love it.

    They actively fixed a bunch of little things that annoyed me about the previous version of Android.

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    I've been on datacamp and found it to be an excellent resource.

    Datacamp, O'Reilly Safari classes and Pluralsight all have solid offerings. It also depends on what you're using Python for, as that will change which is best.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Okay, I've got another question for you folks.

    I currently have a 32" TV I'm using as a monitor. While it's fine for playing games on, the HDMI input from my PC to the TV is annoyingly blurry. I've tried a number of things to fix it, but the text is still blurry and makes it hard to look at the screen for too long. The TV has a VGA input, which MAY solve the problem but also I'm not positive it will, as my video card only has DVI. I've bought two separate DVI adapters only to find out that they don't actually work for the type of DVI I have. Apparently I have a DVI-D? So basically I'd need a DVI-D to VGA (male) adapter.

    I'm wondering if anyone thinks this would solve the blurriness issue or if I should do something alternate like just get a new PC monitor. My problem with my old monitor is that while it has HDMI in, it has no built-in speakers so I'd have to plug speakers into it. I'm thinking I could have one set of speakers and just a female-end plug leading up to them that I could just plug a cable into when I need to get sound from my PC. Plus my monitor has capacitive buttons which I fucking hate.

    Apologies if this doesn't make any goddamn sense, I'm still waking up this morning.

  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    VGA will make it worse, not better. Likely the issue is simply that the TV doesn’t have the required MTF. And why would it? It’s just a TV.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    That's a fair point! Glad I shouldn't continue to bother with it. It's a fine TV, but a cheap one, and likely not really made for using as a monitor.

    I'm also considering dual monitors (I like having my PS4 there to play games on) but the more I think about it the better it may be to just get a new, better monitor, since it's not as if I'd use the dual-monitor setup for much.

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    That's a fair point! Glad I shouldn't continue to bother with it. It's a fine TV, but a cheap one, and likely not really made for using as a monitor.

    I'm also considering dual monitors (I like having my PS4 there to play games on) but the more I think about it the better it may be to just get a new, better monitor, since it's not as if I'd use the dual-monitor setup for much.

    Dual monitor is awesome! I'm on the forums on one monitor and have a giant bomb video up on the other. I do a lot of youtube or other video watching services while I play sim games and other games that don't require attention to their audio. Also I've been thinking about hooking up a console to one.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Yeah, the more I think about it, the more it seems like dual monitor may be the way to go. I just wish my damn video card wasn't such a weird DVI thing. I'd have to run HDMI to the second monitor if I wanted my PC on it.

    But at the same time I think I'd be best served just getting a new monitor. One with actual buttons, none of this capacitive bullshit!

  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    To add a bit of "why" in addition to the "what":

    HDMI is a digital specification. As long as your cables and endpoints meet spec, what you request is what gets displayed...modulo limitations of your monitor. Hence the jokes about gold HDMI Monster cables. It literally doesn't matter, as long as the cable meets spec!

    VGA is an analog input/output, and as such there will inevitably be losses translating to analog (at the output VGA port), line losses from the cable, and then translating back to digital (at the input to your TV). And that's before it goes back to analog again as pixels in your TV.

    MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) is a measure of the spacial resolution of an imaging system. It's a little more complicated than this, but one way of thinking about it is if you request a max white line on and a max white line off with the width of the lines decreasing, at what point do you start to see blurring/defects in contrast? For the engineers, MTF is just the transfer function of the imager, as it says on the tin.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Huh, interesting.

    Do you know why VGA seems to be coming back as monitor inputs? I thought DVI was the new hotness, but most monitors I'm looking at these days don't have it and instead still have VGA/HDMI/Displayport.

  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    I don't know why VGA is coming back. It's a garbage input that I want nothing to do with. HDMI is compatible with single-link DVI via a simple passive adapter, so no biggy there. And the DVI connector is huge, so for anything space constrained you don't want it if you can avoid it.

    Kane Red RobeASimPerson
  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    I don't think VGA ever went away on cheap monitors.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    yeah it's always been a holdout, I think just because it doesn't cost much to include

    which is sorta nice since you can plug in a machine from like... 1991 into a monitor that's 20+ years younger and get output

    pimento
  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Huh, yeah, looking it up, the higher-end monitors do indeed still include DVI.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    So theoretically I should be able to use the HDMI out from my video card to the HDMI in to a monitor and the picture quality should be fine, right?

    Also what the fuck is displayport

  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    So theoretically I should be able to use the HDMI out from my video card to the HDMI in to a monitor and the picture quality should be fine, right?

    Also what the fuck is displayport

    Displayport is basically the same as HDMI, in that it carries both video and audio. Apparently it's better somehow? It is uncommon on TVs and cheap monitors.

    Kane Red Robe
  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited April 2019
    Moriveth wrote: »
    So theoretically I should be able to use the HDMI out from my video card to the HDMI in to a monitor and the picture quality should be fine, right?

    Also what the fuck is displayport

    Displayport is another digital display interface. Its defining feature is that with "active" Displayport monitors you can use a single output to drive multiple monitors daisy-chained together.

    Butters on
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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Butters wrote: »
    Moriveth wrote: »
    So theoretically I should be able to use the HDMI out from my video card to the HDMI in to a monitor and the picture quality should be fine, right?

    Also what the fuck is displayport

    Displayport is another digital display interface. Its defining feature is that with "active" Displayport monitors you can use a single output to drive multiple monitors daisy-chained together.

    Oh, so basically nothing I'd likely use it for. Good to know, thanks.

    I think I'm just gonna go the route of getting a 32" monitor. As nice as dual monitors are, I don't really NEED it - I have an ipad that I can stream video to if I want, so I wouldn't be missing out on anything there, really.

  • expendableexpendable Silly Goose Registered User regular
    edited April 2019
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Moriveth wrote: »
    That's a fair point! Glad I shouldn't continue to bother with it. It's a fine TV, but a cheap one, and likely not really made for using as a monitor.

    I'm also considering dual monitors (I like having my PS4 there to play games on) but the more I think about it the better it may be to just get a new, better monitor, since it's not as if I'd use the dual-monitor setup for much.

    Dual monitor is awesome! I'm on the forums on one monitor and have a giant bomb video up on the other. I do a lot of youtube or other video watching services while I play sim games and other games that don't require attention to their audio. Also I've been thinking about hooking up a console to one.

    I have dual monitors too! Except the desk I have isn't actually big enough to hold two monitors, so one monitor just sits on the floor next to the desk. It works well, because my cat has a habit of wanting to sit between me and the monitor if there's something interesting like a game being displayed. So now she has her very own screen that plays youtube videos of things running around for her to watch.

    Spica watching the laptop
    Spica watching baseball on TV
    Spica watching Youtube on her private screen so I can play Stellaris

    edit: whoops, realized you could piece together my phone number based on the partials shown on her collar. Fixed.

    expendable on
    Djiem wrote: »
    Lokiamis wrote: »
    So the servers suddenly decide to cramp up during the last six percent.
    Man, the Director will really go out of his way to be a dick to L4D players.
    Steam
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  • Descendant XDescendant X Skyrim is my god now. Outpost 31Registered User regular
    So I'm thinking of trading in my iPhone 8plus to get something better, because I've got a bug up my ass and want something new. Should I upgrade to an X, an XS, or an XR?

    I should add that I would basically be paying for the new phone by trading in my old iPhone 8plus, so budget is a consideration and may take the XS out of the running.

    Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
  • RadiationRadiation Registered User regular
    Butters wrote: »
    What's a good way to get started with Python? A customer of mine had ATOM open and showed me the performance maps he's able to generate with Python and they were amazing and I want to learn how to that.

    @Butters check out your library and see if they have a partnership with lynda or something similar. Mine does and has crazy amounts content to view for free (well, I mean, I pay taxes).

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    We actually had to disable access to Lynda for people with temporary library cards because so many people in India were signing up for cards to access it. It's legit.

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    being able to pay things with my Apple Pay on my watch meant that I lost my I think last Friday and I didn’t really bother to look for it that much (I was reasonably sure I lost it at home) until today and has made me seriously question if I really need a wallet on me.

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    a5ehren wrote: »
    pimento wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    Butters wrote: »
    Can they get away from disc drives yet? Is there enough sales to justify it?
    They'd "have to" put SSDs in there instead. Which has not happened yet, at least on Sony's side of the fence.

    I don't see that they would, a platter drive is still faster than streaming data from a bluray disc. Putting one in a luxury model could work nicely though.

    A low-end 1TB SSD is only like $140 at retail now (the Intel 660p is $115 on Newegg today, even), which isn't too far off what a 500GB laptop drive cost in 2012.

    At console/integrated scale you would pay less than that. Another option would be phone-style UFS 2.1 storage embedded in the motherboard, which would probably cost even less.

    It would be a decent chunk of their BOM cost, but they could definitely eat it early on in anticipation of costs dropping during the lifecycle.

    Yep, and the cost per Gb has gone down by like 1/3 in the past year alone. A 500Gb SSD would be maybe $50 for console manfacturers?

    Plus with an SSD you can make the console smaller, use less juice, and remove a large point of mechanical failure. It's also fairly easy to add an NVME slot to allow people to upgrade their console, in which case the manufacturer BOM is reduced to whatever including an NVME slot and 4 PCIe lanes cost.

    Sorce
  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    I have an external SSD plugged into my Xbone and I wouldn't want to go back, it makes a noticable difference in load times.

    Descendant X
  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Really I should expect a true hybrid drive where the each games gets a set amount on the SDD (say two to three gigs) then the rest is stored on a traditional platter drive and while the game loads that first portion, the console organises for the rest of the game copied onto the SSD.

  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Both the base and pro ps4 do not have significant differences between a platter and solid state. Digital foundry (I think) did a series of tests and showed that there really wasn't a big enough difference for most games to justify the cost. Presumably the next generation will be better able to take advantage of SSD even if they don't come with then by default.

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    I think the big improvement would be having the OSes on a smaller SSD to improve initial boot times. Or run a hybrid HDD with the OS stored on the SSD memory.

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  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    Hybrids aren't that much cheaper, and have all the disadvantages of size, power draw and mechanical failure.

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  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    The boot times on my xbone are awful, but that's because I use it so rarely there's a multi-GB patch every time I turn it on.

    Donovan Puppyfucker
  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Thanks for the advice on monitor stuff, folks. I ended up grabbing our 20” TV and plugging my old monitor back in, and have my ps4 into the tv. It only does 720p but it’s fine on a screen that small, honestly.

    Tox
  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    pimento wrote: »
    The boot times on my xbone are awful, but that's because I use it so rarely there's a multi-GB patch every time I turn it on.

    I had that with my PS3 for a while, felt like there was a new firmware update released every day or two! I'm glad the newer consoles are meant to do that shit while you're not using them.

  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    pimento wrote: »
    The boot times on my xbone are awful, but that's because I use it so rarely there's a multi-GB patch every time I turn it on.

    I had that with my PS3 for a while, felt like there was a new firmware update released every day or two! I'm glad the newer consoles are meant to do that shit while you're not using them.

    You have to pay for ps+ in order for the ps4 to do it while it's in rest mode automatically. Otherwise you have to start it yourself.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Gross! Fuck you, Sony!

    a5ehren
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