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DerekT-P wrote: "Centigrade" was, in English usage, the exact equivalent of Celsius. A scale with 100 divisions. Simply meant 100 degrees between freezing and boiling. Many of us still use it (including me). That's like deciding that a meter should be called a centimeter
A centigrade is 100/th of a grade. The fact that there's 100 in the measurement unit between freezing and evaporating doesn't make it "centi"; there's 100 centimeters in every meter. Imagine the confusion if centigrades means something different in the UK than the rest of the world
The next divisor is called milli, then micro. How much microgrades go into your centigrade, and how much milligrades make one grade celcius?
DerekT-P wrote: A BLT isn't a main meal typically; more likely a hearty breakfast or a lunchtime filler I had a full English breakfast, and seriously, you guys know hearty breakfast!!
DerekT-P wrote: I've eaten cheddar in Cheddar
Hahaha
DerekT-P wrote: Sadly "Cheddar" does not have protected geographic status as a name, but "West Country Farmhouse Cheddar" does. I've eaten cheddar in Cheddar (the small town in the west of England it originates from) and a good mature cheddar cannot beaten I buy the cheap American cheddar for my burgers. The expensive smoked cheddar from the UK does NOT go on a burger; that one is saved for special occasions; mostly to prove to other dutch friends that there's more good cheese around than their/our "gouda".
DerekT-P wrote: Thanks for your response! Thanks for educating me. I'm an hour away from England, and I'd be dumbstruck if anyone told me to bake my spacecake at 200 centigrades; my fridge goes down to 400 centigrades, but not lower (since water has the highest density at 4 degrees Celcius, or @400 centigrades).
I'm afraid that someone took the word centi instead of celcius, and that now the UK is like, we go with that It is named degree Celcius, because that's the mister that invented the scale.
A grade being a unit, centi a qualifier. Celcius the name of the scale. Also, works with degrees Kelvin; again, a grade being the unit, deca, centi, pica, mega, giga, just qualifiers, and Kelvin the name of the scale.
I'm sorry if I confused you even more. If I'd got 100 centi euro (aka, a 100 cent) for each times this comes up, I'd have had a euro each time
(Since 100 cent, is a euro. 100 centigrade, is just a grade difference).
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ah. I see your problem now. You're approaching it from a logical and consistent viewpoint, but this is the English language!
Though, if you think it through, [cough cough] we should just plough on until we've had enough.
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Toasters can become haunted : https://9gag.com/gag/aKE4NeQ[^]
That is, standard toasters can. I wonder if a smart toaster can be haunted. Would it be from the ghost of internets past?
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Now, you need to start another thread on smart air fryers!
- Insert food
- Scan barcode
- Wait
- Enjoy!
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yeah... I think I'll give that a miss, as working out then marking with a pencil / felt-tip pen to create a bar-code could be a bit of a pain; not to mention error prone.
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I think I saw that on "The Jetsons"
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Obligatory Does Anyone Want Any Toast?[^] response.
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- Homer
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for 5 days and just got back home
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Those can be nasty - they can cause all sorts of things including mood changes, delirium, even what looks like Alzheimer's! (Herself works in an old folks home, where they are pretty common.)
Glad you are back on your feet!
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OriginalGriff wrote: mood changes, delirium, even what looks like Alzheimer's! That would really p#*s me off. Hold on a second...
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Was missing you in the daily Wordle and was wondering how you are doing.
Good to see your note.
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Several months back, we got a new customer using a cloud-based POS system that we hadn't worked with before. They are actually the first vendor we have encountered that had a real API for which they gave us a key and basically just said 'have fun!'.
I'm used to figuring things out myself so no problem, after all, it's just a web request that gets a response and does something with it. I dug in and using their Swagger UI found 90% of what I was looking for and started pulling data by the month. There are 2 different requests/pulls, 1 returns around 120K records/month and the other around 240K records/month. These ran fine until last weekend when they both started timing out.
I decided to break up the requests into smaller parts to maybe help things along so I added an outside loop to request one date at a time. Nope, still timing out. Increase the read timeout in the header. Still times out so double it...still times out so double it...
Now I'm up to a read timeout of 3,000,000 (50 minutes!!!) and it's finally running, albeit very slowly and still with some timeouts that I am currently manually re-running. It won't do any good to increase that value anymore as the timeouts are coming @ 2 minutes likely due to a server setting beyond my control.
It kind of worked up to 38K recs, then flat out refused to go any further. I just wrapped the request in a conditional loop so it can't get out until it actually finishes, or I manually stop it.
7 hours later and it's been hitting their server all night and no more progress...oh well, just keep on trying then. I wonder if they every check their logs?
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"Hope is contagious"
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I wonder when you'll get the DOS attack attempt notification.
/edit: forgot to mention : I feel your pain !
modified 12-Sep-22 11:32am.
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whats the back end db? ............
Caveat Emptor.
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abmv wrote: whats the back end db? ............
I have absolutely no idea. The tables are exposed as objects in the Swagger UI, requests are made using OData (v.1 apparently as aggregate extensions are not supported) and responses come back as JSON.
The query/request I'm trying to run is not complicated. (7 columns from 2 tables with joined on a PK/FK field.)
Maybe they need to wind up the rubber bands?
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"Hope is contagious"
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I guess it begs the question: what does a client do with 120-240K records that a query on the server can't handle? And how many fields and bytes are we talking about?
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: what does a client do with 120-240K records that a query on the server can't handle?
I didn't really elaborate on the fact that the records come in chunks of 2K. I've tried aggregates but the server doesn't recognize the $apply directive so I'm guessing they are using an old version of OData on the server.
Gerry Schmitz wrote: how many fields and bytes are we talking about?
7 fields from 2 joined tables (highly normalized db btw)
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"Hope is contagious"
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Maybe it's the wrong door. I would try FTP'ing the whole thing.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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A man goes to the dentist to ask how much it would be to pull a tooth. “$100,” said the dentist. “Oh, that’s expensive,” said the main. “Do you have anything cheaper?” “That’s the normal price for an extraction,” said the dentist. The man thinks about it, “what about if you don’t use the anesthetic?” “Well, that would be unusual, but we could do that. It would be about $75.” The man thinks some more. “What about if you used a trainee and no anesthetic?” “Well,” said the dentist, ”I think that could work, but it would be a lot more painful. I think that would be about $35.” The man thought some more. “That’s still a lot. What if you make it a training session with a student doing the extraction, and the other students can watch?” The dentist says, “Ok, that would be good for the students, but it will be traumatic to have it done that way. I’ll charge you $5 for that.” “Great,” said the man. “That’s perfect. Can I book my wife for her appointment on Wednesday?
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Have you discovered a very old box of Christmas crackers ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No but I have found how uncomfortable the dog house is!
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pkfox wrote: a very old box of Christmas crackers
More like damp squibs...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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