Charcoal HQ

Undo

12:23 AM

@ManishEarth ^ Cookies not needed.

ManishEarth

@Undo Yay! /me awaits swag shipment

Undo

Now I have to figure out where to get some swag.

hichris123

Congrats @Undo.

Undo

thanks :D

I'll be setting up a blag.

hichris123

grumbles at Ubuntu and MySQL 5.6

blames @Seth

I'll go to ~~WWDC~~ IO sometime, @Undo. :P

Undo

12:26 AM

yeah. We need to get you there.

Anyway, got to go. Cya.

hichris123

Cya.

ManishEarth

@hichris123 And me to the Mozilla San Francisco meetup thingamabob!

Seth

@Undo Wohoo!

@hichris123 :(

hichris123

@ManishEarth rofl. It needs to have a cool name, like WWDC and I/O. :P

ManishEarth

It does, I just forgot what the name is

It'll be easy for me to get into I/O Extended at any rate :)

hichris123

12:29 AM

@Seth Hey, you're the Ubuntu expert here. Anytime there's a problem with Ubuntu, I can blame it on you. :P

@ManishEarth Yup. I (apparently) live in an area without many programmers, so I either have to livestream it or go ~100-150 miles away. :P

Seth

@hichris123 Perhaps, but I'm not the SQL expert ;P

ManishEarth

"Mozilla Summit"

Not such a cool name, but I do get to go to bangalore in probably an awesome hotel as part of the technical task force meet

and some more trips like this for meets or talks

hichris123

@Seth But... it's Ubuntu's fault! They didn't include MySQL 5.6 as the default MySQL version in 14.04; instead, 5.5 is the default, and 5.6 is a standalone thingy.

@ManishEarth Huh, cool.

Seth

@hichris123 smart move IMO

hichris123

Meh.

It makes it harder for people like me. :P

Seth

12:33 AM

They gotta think about breakage.

hichris123

... and I don't think (not sure) they even have a dev build of 5.7.

Braiam

@hichris123 MySQL? why not MariaDB?

hichris123

@Seth True, but Amazon RDS (database thingy) has 5.6 as the default.

It's been in GA (general release) for a while now.

@Braiam Because MySQL is cool!

ManishEarth

Ooh, MozFest 2014. 2014.mozillafestival.org

Blaze

[Blaze] answer flagged by hichris123: stackoverflow.com/questions/23353031/…

[Blaze] answer flagged by hichris123: stackoverflow.com/questions/23353346/…

hichris123

12:41 AM

sigh Why do they make using the GPU for a program so hard?

ManishEarth

@hichris123 because the GPU is not meant for normal computing

if it was a simple switch to flick, the program wouldn't run at all

because a program as a whole works best on a CPU.

hichris123

True.

ManishEarth

You have to delegate specific portions to the GPU. And that's why it's hard.

hichris123

However, I'm planning to do large mathematical computations via this... (which should be faster by using the GPU?)

ManishEarth

@hichris123 of course, but you need to make sure that only the CPU-intensive bit of the problem is on a GPU

hichris123

12:48 AM

@ManishEarth Yeah, pretty much. However... couldn't someone come out with a nice IDE/something for it? NVidia's thingy doesn't work with VS Express, AMD's OpenCL thingy I don't even know what it does. :P

ManishEarth

The program as a whole, again, if you have to run it on a single thing, would work better on the CPU

@hichris123 heh. GPU requires careful delegation of work. So it's really best if you do it manually

hichris123

@ManishEarth What do you mean by "if you have to run it on a single thing"?

ManishEarth

@hichris123 Programs need RAM too. If you try to run your entire program on just GPU or just CPU, you'll have problems on the GPU

hichris123

True.

ManishEarth

8

Q: When should I be offloading work to a GPU instead of the CPU?

Newer systems such as OpenCL are being made so that we can run more and more code on our graphics processors, which makes sense, because we should be able to utilise as much of the power in our systems as possible. However, with all of these new systems, it seems as if GPUs are better than CPUs ...

> A significant limitation of current GPUs is that the cores all have to be running the same code. Unlike the cores in your CPU, you can't tell one GPU core to run your email client, and another core to run your web server. You give the GPU the function to invert a matrix, and all the cores run that function on different bits of data.

> Access to the GPU system has substantial overhead costs. The GPU has its own memory, so your calculations will be limited to the amount of memory on the GPU card.

hichris123

12:51 AM

Which is a bit better now that GPU's have more memory...

however, how do you manage the memory?

ManishEarth

but not optimum

hichris123

yeah.

but could you garbage collect some things?

ManishEarth

@hichris123 running garbage collection on a GPU? ick

Exactly why you want to run the core magic on a CPU and the calculations -- just the calculations on the GPU with a lot of parallel magic

hichris123

... that sounds complicated.

:P

ManishEarth

1:08 AM

@hichris123 What computations are you running, anyway?

room topic changed to Charcoal HQ: Where comments are flagged and SE is hacked. Handy links: erwaysoftware.com/blaze, github.com/Charcoal-SE (no tags)

@hichris123 if you want I can run your computations on the high perf server here

hichris123

@ManishEarth I'm curious about computating large numbers to powers (i.e. way beyond int range). Now... what do I want to do with that? Not sure yet. But I'm just curious more on how that can be accomplished quickly and not necessarily on a supercomputer.

@ManishEarth Ooh, you have a cool server!

That would actually work - but I'd have to code it first. :P

Blaze

[Blaze] answer flagged by hichris123: stackoverflow.com/questions/23353667/…

bot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] fab3b3d0327e48b18ea75751e4ae63b7

hichris123

@Bot "do you respond to commands?"

Anonymous

He does not.

hichris123

1:15 AM

But... he used to!

Anonymous

That was a bug.

hichris123

Oh. :P

3 hours ago, by bot

@Undo caught

^ I have no clue what that even was. :P

Anonymous

@ManishEarth Sorry, I guess I requested against master again. >_<

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanksΨ np

normally i'd fix it locally but im lazy

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] 2474233594c1457088f9a0501af9927c

ManishEarth

1:18 AM

github.com/Manishearth/ChatExchange/pull/21 <-- now the full tests get run on the spot :)

@hichris123 BigInteger :p

Anonymous

@ManishEarth Ah, that works. :)

ManishEarth

@hichris123 the bot is just being run by Travis CI

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] a9106f86266649c7af6659cc246145c4

hichris123

@ManishEarth Yup. Except... that's slow. :P

ManishEarth

Every time we push a commit to certain branches, it rebuilds everything and tests it

@hichris123 yep

Anonymous

1:21 AM

@ManishEarth What do you think about adding the ~~MSO~~ MSE sandbox to the TEST_ROOMS on default?

Anonymous

('MSE', '651'), # Sandbox

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] ead911f6e01d4006bb55e996446e80b1

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanksΨ Why do we need it, though?

Don't mind, just don't see the point of spamming multiple rooms

Anonymous

@ManishEarth I guess it's not necessary, since all of the site logins work basically the same. I originally thought they behaved differently.

Anonymous

because of that /prompt behaviour

ManishEarth

1:23 AM

@JeremyBanksΨ I'm using the part of the site logins that works the same

But they didn't, in the past

Anonymous

It confused the heck out of me when I was trying to use ChatExchange the first time, and I thought that specific sites behaved differently and weren't handled properly.

ManishEarth

(that's why I'm using the generic openid login with the SE openid endpoint)

Anonymous

Ah, makes sense.

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanksΨ your issue was that you were using the SE login, not the generic openid one. The SE login doesn't ask for permission, it's magically integrated

hichris123

@Undo So... does flare do anything quite yet?

Anonymous

1:31 AM

@ManishEarth Anything outstanding for github.com/Manishearth/ChatExchange/issues/9, or would it be appropriate to close it now?

ManishEarth

closed

hm. I wonder if I can give you repo access without test/master access

hichris123

... wut?

-4

Q: Create bad Stack Exchange clones

The Stack Exchange sites model has many clones. But have you ever thought of creating a bad clone yourself? Rules: You can use Stack Exchange or any of its sites as a basis You can make a pun from the site name, hijack its logo, etc. You can use an existing resource as long as you post it in a...

discussion stackexchange fun clone

Anonymous

@ManishEarth I don't think so.

Blaze

[Blaze] answer flagged by hichris123: stackoverflow.com/questions/2447657/…

bot

1:56 AM

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] d10f91bfe7624524946b4081806a9307

bot

2:07 AM

[ ChatExchange@localhost ] This is a test message for ChatExchange.

Doorknob

@bot The test worked.

hichris123

@Doorknob You are a bot.

Doorknob

@hichris123 What are you talking about? I can solve a CAPTCHA! ... 10% of the time. But that's the normal human success rate at this point! :P

hichris123

2:22 AM

rofl

It's raining here. :D

@ManishEarth We may need your help sometime: we'd like to do something to analyse things to delete (comments, NAA answers, etc) and then come up with an algorithm (think AI) to catch those.

ManishEarth

@hichris123 sure

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test message for ChatExchange.

bot

[ ChatExchange@localhost](github.com/Manishearth/ChatExchange "This is a test message for ChatExchange usingthe nonce %s.") ] This is a test message for ChatExchange.

ManishEarth

@bot borked :p

Anonymous

:P

bot

2:35 AM

[ ChatExchange@localhost ] This is a test message for ChatExchange.

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test message for ChatExchange.

bot

[ ChatExchange@localhost ] This is a test message for ChatExchange.

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of jeremybanks/ChatExchange@ea711afc.

Anonymous

@bot @ManishEarth What about those local/travis messages?

Anonymous

Should I submit another pull request, or do you think I should change something?

Anonymous

(Well, the Travis build failed, so I need to change that, at least.)

bot

2:51 AM

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of jeremybanks/ChatExchange@6509f90e.

Anonymous

@bot Alright; passing now.

Undo

@hichris123 Yeah.

It hooks into the websocket, connects to a mysql db, and parses the question titles and stores them in a comma-seperated deelybob in the db.

hichris123

Huh, okay.

Undo

And it can parse existing titles from a table you give it.

(I think that's in a branch)

bot

3:34 AM

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of jeremybanks/ChatExchange@e1bee510.

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@45ef2a02.

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@cecd6511.

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@b36c0cff.

ManishEarth

hm, one extra

hichris123

@ManishEarth After school's out (end of May), you may just get me to contribute to Firefox & Mozila stuff. :P

ManishEarth

@hichris123 Sure!

Ping me then!

hichris123

k

bot

4:19 AM

[ ChatExchange@localhost ] This is a test message for ChatExchange.

michaelb958

4:37 AM

@Undo Comma-separated... database... ARE YOU CRAZY!

ManishEarth

7:21 AM

→ 24 messages moved to Sandbox

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@260bd5b7.

bot

[ ChatExchange@localhost ] This is a test message for ChatExchange.

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@afae9aaf.

ManishEarth

I probably should change that^ to the sandbox

bot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of jeremybanks/ChatExchange@21e0821d.

Anonymous

7:27 AM

@ManishEarth Yeah, it's a bit noisy when I keep running the tests during development.

ManishEarth

Yeah. Also when I do my merge antics, Travis does an extra build.

Btw, thanks for the initSocket logic -- really needed that :D

Anonymous

It's been fun. :) I keep meaning to go work on something else and ending up working on this some more instead.

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@d60f67d4.

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@583b81cd.

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanksΨ Yeah. Do you think that the generic botmaking logic should reside in this same ChatExchange package? Or in a different repo that submodules?

class SEChatBot or something?

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@583b81cd.

ManishEarth

7:35 AM

By generic bot logic I mean something where I can go
bot=new SEChatBot()
bot.addCommand("!die",function here)
bot.addOtherMagicalStuff(....)
bot.login(stuff)
bot.run()

ManishEarth

7:48 AM

It's what I'm going to work on when I get time in the summer, and if I put it here It automatically becomes easy to test

Awal Garg

8:22 AM

I am building a login mechanism with php and mysql

Are cookies a safe idea to use?

Doorknob

1:06 PM

Lol... I got a "thank you" email for Earth Science even though I've posted precisely one answer and zero questions :D

Undo

@michaelb958 yeah, I know. Please don't beat me.

Anonymous

1:43 PM

@ManishEarth It might be nice to have it in a different module of the same package, since a large fraction of people using the package will probably find it useful.

Anonymous

(Pardon me, I fell asleep abruptly, earlier. :P)

Doorknob

3:11 PM

So supposedly DS is supposed to launch today?

ManishEarth

3:31 PM

@JeremyBanksΨ ah, I see. so src/bot or something? doable :)

Undo

3:50 PM

@Doorknob DS?

ManishEarth

Doorknob's Secret

Doorknob

Data Science. :-P

Anonymous

`ChatExchange/src/chatexchange/bot.py` is what I meant.

I don't think we actually need the `src` directory at all; we could just have `ChatExchange/chatexchange/*`. I was a little bit paranoid about Python's packaging behaviour when I added it. This would make your subrepo imports a bit cleaner, too.

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanksΨ ah, that

yes, we don't need src/

Anonymous

I was worried about setup.py grabbing all of the packages/modules inside of the package root, but I don't think it really does that; it only gets what you ask for.

bot

4:01 PM

[ ChatExchange@localhost ] This is a test message for ChatExchange.

ManishBot

4:11 PM

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@b3259f9d.

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@e6e33d3f.

ManishEarth

I'll have to update SmokeDetector to use the new paths -_-

bot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of jeremybanks/ChatExchange@c16ae79d.

Anonymous

@ManishEarth Well, at least I can't imagine they'll be changing again any time son. =P

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanksΨ heh :)

ManishBot

[ ChatExchange@Travis ] This is a test of Manishearth/ChatExchange@b0398203.

Anonymous

5:18 PM

I've modified my test branch so it won't use this room.

Undo

@JeremyBanksΨ What room are you using now?

... firearms?

How about making a special room for it?

Or chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1/sandbox

Sandbox

Where you can play with chat features (except flagging) and ch...

4

Anonymous

@Undo I'm also testing the abandoned Firearms room. >_>

Undo

heh, okay

Anonymous

It would probably be good to use the sandbox on master.

ManishEarth

5:35 PM

@JeremyBanks yeah. Or we can set up a Charcoal Sandbox.

Anonymous

That might be a bit nicer than flooding the Sandbox that regular users could be using.

ManishEarth

I'll make its parent site MSE to keep it hidden from the sidebars

Charcoal Chatbot Sandbox

This description is a test.

Anonymous

@ManishEarth for your convenience, if you'd like to make the change on test.

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanks doing it locally and pushing (pushed) :)

Anonymous

Got it. :)

Anonymous

5:48 PM

travis-ci.org/jeremybanks/ChatExchange/builds/24037130

Anonymous

Looks like there's an error in the websocket code I modified.

Anonymous

# The http polling code uses:
last_event_time = self.browser.rooms[self.room_id]['eventtime']
# while the websocket code uses:
events_data = self.browser.postSomething(
            '/chats/%s/events' % (self.room_id,),
            {'since': 0, 'mode': 'Messages', 'msgCount': 100}
        )
eventtime = events_data['events'][0]['time_stamp']

Anonymous

Ahh, it may have failed because there had never been any events in the test room.

ManishEarth

makes sense

Anonymous

So instead it can default to 0 if events is an empty list.

ManishEarth

5:55 PM

@JeremyBanksΨ I'll do it then

done, onto the test

We should add a human test. Join the currently active room, say hello to the last active user, and fail the test if the response is negative :p

Anonymous

That'd do it. But I should note that a bare catch: like that is considered bad style. I was going to do something like:

Anonymous

-        eventtime = events_data['events'][0]['time_stamp']
-        self.logger.debug('eventtime == %r', eventtime)
+        if events_data['events']:
+            eventtime = events_data['events'][0]['time_stamp']
+            self.logger.debug('eventtime == %r', eventtime)
+        else:
+            self.logger.debug("No previous events in room %s", self.room_id)
+            eventtime = 0

ManishEarth

good idea

Anonymous

@ManishEarth That'd be cool, although we might want to mark it as an allowed failure so CI doesn't shout at us if nobody's around. :P

ManishEarth

done

@JeremyBanks he

Anonymous

6:02 PM

https://pytest.org/latest/skipping.html#mark-a-test-function-as-expected-to-fai‌l

Anonymous

"Expected" has a bit of a more negative connotation than "allowed", but it might be appropriate.

bot

6:36 PM

test

Hello

Anonymous

@bot Hello

bot

Oh, good; I didn't crash.

that's a relief

Anonymous

!!/random

Anonymous

there's the crash

Anonymous

!!/random

bot

6:38 PM

@Jeremy Banks 0.0441523430839

okay; the example script is working again.

Hello again

Anonymous

@bot goodbye

Anonymous

7:17 PM

@ManishEarth I got the syntax wrong. It is possible to include both of our credentials, but this causes the tests to be run twice. (Either once with credentials and once without, or presumably twice without if no secure credentials are enabled.)

Anonymous

https://travis-ci.org/jeremybanks/ChatExchange/builds/24043847

Anonymous

There might be a way around that.

Anonymous

7:31 PM

I think I've figured out the correct syntax for any number of secure credentials:

Anonymous

env:
  global:
    - secure: "TcOCPDytGQpQgiP4w4LRdLXn+pUvhf5SjJF4J3TXjaPUCfomNfod2WTZn3v4WBR2kg3UCaeqFo2BmGUdwCdPbrAZ3cF2W749HLNU0Z2zxFWru5W+GAGgUi2FXIzzjF+U8Hb/2fLZ6GoUiSlNzVHKo/+kvLDAyuGnGFwfH7dpEb8="
    - secure: "av9hxTZp/Dhe9xAOq6WlhTNDoWjjczN3lFanG6h/3h4kW7DsxhfXMRA96z6MambbC6c9ARFiwsQ24NeCAfPQ1m6r9uZwNkusqnRDOwZQeVQcmopnoNNG4Kd/9oclIVgsAlSG6WfhkyQPUG2p7PkOvxFV4/YjDSViYDR3eoih3JA="

hichris123

Eeeek!

I just got email #1. :O

ManishEarth

@hichris123 :D

@JeremyBanks what should I merge?

Anonymous

@ManishEarth Both PRs I have open now should be good.

Anonymous

oh

Anonymous

7:44 PM

36 github.com/Manishearth/ChatExchange/pull/36 into test, then create a PR for it into master, would let us test that it also uses your credentials when available

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanks github.com/Manishearth/ChatExchange/pull/37

Anonymous

It looks like it works. :)

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanks or we can simply set your creds as ChatExchangeUJ,ChatExchangePJ

Anonymous

Thanks for the merge.

ManishEarth

thanks for all the work you're putting in to this :)

Anonymous

7:50 PM

I'm on pace to beat my previous longest streak of 6 days...

ManishEarth

heh

@JeremyBanks Get it above 20, then it just keeps increasing without any effort :D

Anonymous

:)

Anonymous

So a bunch of people in this room are going to WWDC? Is that what I've been reading?

ManishEarth

@JeremyBanksΨ no, just Undo

when hichris says mail #1 he means modship email

Anonymous

Ahh, got it.

hichris123

7:53 PM

Me, WWDC?

Heh.

ManishEarth

hichris is a Google guy

Anonymous

:P

ManishEarth

Undo is Apple. I'm Mozilla

Anonymous

Haha

hichris123

... and I found out last night that I could work on Firefox for Android. :D

ManishEarth

7:54 PM

@hichris123 do eet

though Fx for Android is a bit annoying

but I find it annoying because it's Java

Fennec is a good team of people regardless

hichris123

I learned to code first on Java.

So... yeah. :P

Undo

I just handled 5 flags in under 2 minutes >:D

ManishEarth

@hichris123 most of Firefox is web-type code (JS/HTML/XUL, XUL is just XML that is pretty intuitive), so it shouldn't be a big problem

Undo

I feel useful.

Anonymous

I'm going to sound clueless, but is Is Firefox for Android much different from Firefox OS? I seem to remember reading that they were basically the same thing at one point, but that may be outdated or just wrong.

Undo

7:55 PM

@hichris123 :D

ManishEarth

it becomes a problem when you realize that the code uses the latest Javascript. function*, yield, for (j of k), let, const, etc

@JeremyBanks No, very different. Fennec is a browser that runs on top of the Android Dalvik thingymabob

Anonymous

@ManishEarth Okay. I thought the goal was to make a portable platform for web-technology apps, similar to what Google has done with Chrome/Chrome OS. Must be confused.

ManishEarth

FxOS is three tiered -- Gonk (which is a linux based on the Android bare essentials) which runs Gecko (the browser engine behind Firefox), which runs Gaia (basically a large webapp that is the final UI and all)

@JeremyBanks It is

A lot of the code is shared

one sec, I'll do an ls

accessible                  db           media                         README.txt
aclocal.m4                  docshell     memory                        security
addon-sdk                   dom          mfbt                          services
Android.mk                  editor       mobile                        startupcache
AUTHORS                     embedding    modules                       storage
b2g                         extensions   moz.build                     testing
browser                     gecko.log    mozglue                       toolkit

hichris123

... I guess that's email #2? I doubt any human can type out a 100+ word email in 30 seconds. :P

ManishEarth

Out of those folders, most are common to Fennec, Firefox, ad Firefox OS

Undo

7:59 PM

Is there a Firefox for iOS project?

Anonymous

Got it.

Anonymous

@Undo There used to be a "Firefox Home" app or something, but even that was cancelled.

hichris123

@Undo ... is it in the app store?

ManishEarth

b2g (boot to gecko) contains Fx-specific stuff, mobile contains Fennec stuff, and browser contains Firefox Desktop stuff

Seth

@Undo last year: computerworld.com/s/article/9237487/…

Anonymous

8:00 PM

> We have no plans to release the full Firefox browser for iOS. The iOS SDK agreement requires apps to use Apple's own JavaScript engine (or none at all, like Opera Mini which downloads pre-rendered pages from Opera's servers and cannot run JavaScript code in the client). Because of this, we have no supported way to distribute Firefox's rendering and JavaScript engine to iPhone users.

hichris123

Huh.

ManishEarth

@Undo iOS forces all browsers to use safari/webkit's JS implementation underneath, so no

Undo

huh

ManishEarth

Firefox for android supports userscripting :D

hichris123

@ManishEarth It does?

Why didn't you tell me this before?

ManishEarth

8:01 PM

@hichris123 through addons or something

Seth

They did end up building a firefox for metro, but I'm not surprised they don't want to do it for Apple.

ManishEarth

metro was recently scrapped

Seth

Oh really?

ManishEarth

The code is still there on hg.mozilla.org, but the team split up

Seth

Again, I'm not surprised.

ManishEarth

8:02 PM

We got mbrubeck (one of the metro guys) to work on Servo :D

Anonymous

> In the months since, as the team built and tested and refined the product, we’ve been watching Metro’s adoption. From what we can see, it’s pretty flat. On any given day we have, for instance, millions of people testing pre-release versions of Firefox desktop, but we’ve never seen more than 1000 active daily users in the Metro environment.

ManishEarth

blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/03/14/metro

Seth

I don't use the metro environment for firefox because MS forces you to make FF the default browser to use it and that breaks a lot of things.

and then I stopped using firefox.

ManishEarth

heh

hichris123

Screenshot plz of meta.stackexchange.com/questions/229918/…?

One for GFSE. :P

8:06 PM

ty

oh that..

devises scheme to force people without 10k to commit to Puzzling before letting them see deleted post screenshots

hichris123

rofl

Well, it is for gemsfromstackexchange.tumblr.com... :P

hichris123

8:27 PM

this would end in a next epic meta post, like Please stop using Software Recs.SE as your toilet bowl — gnat 3 mins ago

@Undo ^

Not again.

Yeah. sigh

@hichris123 Ha!

0

Q: Is there a library for computing Bigintengers with OpenCL?

I need to test a large number of consecutive numbers for finding primes which fit on several hundreds of bits. Most actual implementations are for CUDA, but I don't have a recent nVidia card. I tried to phoned for this implementation. The guy told me he will send it, but I didn't had any answer....

library

^ I swear, that's not my sock!

Undo

8:43 PM

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A: Should we change the "software recs" OT reason to point to the software recs SE?

SR mod here. This is not going to happen soon for a few reasons: We don't migrate crap. Most SO questions that get closed with that reason don't fit our quality guidelines, and thus would be closed on SR. SR is still in beta. The official rules say that one should stay away from migrating thin...

@hichris123 did you get any indication of the timing on ES mod appointifying?

hichris123

@Undo Nope, just a I'll be in touch.

Undo

Ah, great. I trust you replied?

:P

Yup.

Fun

:D

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A: Which motor (type) to use for an arduino controlled magnetic stirrer?

I'd personally recommend a continuous rotation servo or a brushed DC motor. Personally, for this kind of load, I think it would be easier and cheaper to go with the brushed DC motor. You have to remember a continuous rotation servo is a DC motor with some circuitry so you can send pulses to it to...