Well, there's nothing like research.

Having determined that DDR5 is going to carry a substantial price premium over DDR4 memory for at least a year -- assuming that you can *find* it -- and that the observed performance benefits from having it are sharply limited; and having determined by observation that the available motherboards tend to only have ( Read more... )

The studio computer continues to misbehave in various ways. When I fired up Cubase today, I got a lot of nasty, blocky video, despite having cleaned up the Nvidia drivers earlier. I checked the cable connections, which did something to improve the blockiness, but then Cubase crashed out while playing audio, which wasn't encouraging. I set Cubase ( Read more... )

I recall having mangled a CSN tune many years ago on the way to Contraption. Like that convention, the particular co-worker whose code I was digging through and sorting out is also gone.

Ah, well.

When the project's months behind,
You're debugging, know what you'll find.
There's some code, not writ by you
And you're wondering just what it will do.
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One of my XML processing routines showed up with a glitch when presented with some unexpected data (what is all that whitespace doing there?). Now the good news is that confronted with this, it didn't run wild, it just issued an error message, which is what *should* happen when you find constructs that you don't expect. The programmer who was ( Read more... )

So Julie is trying to figure out how to watch videos on her phone as she falls asleep in her bed while still making sure that the phone has charge in the morning. This is, in theory, simple. You just have to make sure that the phone is plugged in and charging.

This afternoon, Julie told me that the phone was not charging and asked me to take a ( Read more... )

We had the meeting with the counselors today to try to figure out what Julie should be taking in her freshman year of high school. It looks like we need to make one small tweak to the results, but things look promising.

I took a load of laundry to the basement today and figured I would spend a bit of time in the studio today looking at some Cubase features and seeing if I could learn a few things. I learned a few things, but they weren't what I intended to learn.

The video on the studio computer has been a little glitchy in the Chrome browser lately, for reasons ( Read more... )

The newly assembled bed is a big success, but we are collectively suffering from a post-assembly hangover. There is a tremendous amount of packing debris scattered around the living room that needs to be collected and prepared for next week's trash pickup. Unfortunately, since that hasn't yet become urgent, getting it done is a slow process.

I ( Read more... )

The fellow who wanted the old bunk bed came and picked it up today, along with his son, so I didn't have to do a lot of lifting. The bed came apart fairly easily into five pieces (not counting the trundle) and they got it home in two trips.

Sam and Bonnie came over and helped us put the new bed together. It is now assembled and waiting for sheets.

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Made some progress at work today. Made some progress at home too, as K took the drawers from the bunk bed downstairs today, which will make unshipping the assembly tomorrow easier.

It *does* mean I need to get up early tomorrow, but I should survive that. :)