'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition

[mindlessobserver]

CPU cooler seated properly? Sufficient paste on it?

Seems so. I am not detecting any heat spikes in the CPU before it shuts off either

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

I hope this falls under internet:

If I wanted to find out who owns a vehicle through their licences plate, is there a good website I could do that through? I know I could do my states vehicle record search, but I don't want to give my name.

 

[Least Concern]

If I wanted to find out who owns a vehicle through their licences plate, is there a good website I could do that through? I know I could do my states vehicle record search, but I don't want to give my name.

I actually looked into this a few weeks ago when I was trying to confirm if Ron Toye doxed his own license plate, the idiot. From what I could tell there are no services which will give you ownership information for free, but you can find the make, model, and year of the car. If that's useful enough for you, here's the site I used, which feels slightly less scummy than most of this type: https://findbyplate.com

 

[Dick Justice]

Does anyone know a easy way/app to add and write subtitles on a video with no watermarks at the end?

Just write a .srt file and give it the same name as the video.

 

[Least Concern]

Does anyone have some recommendation for on-ear or over-ear Bluetooth headphones in the $50 range? I don't care about noise cancelling or microphones/headset capability. Is Monoprice still a good value-priced brand? Is Target's "Heyday" store brand worth considering? (I've found Walmart's store brands to be hit or miss when it comes to electronics.)

 

[Mr. Bung]

Where is the best place I can find cheap used monitors? I looked on Amazon and a few other places and everything I could find was over $50. Someone's gotta have some crappy old monitors for less than that somewhere...

 

[Kosher Dill]

Where is the best place I can find cheap used monitors?

Garage sales.

 

[misterduckford]

Does anyone have some recommendation for on-ear or over-ear Bluetooth headphones in the $50 range? I don't care about noise cancelling or microphones/headset capability. Is Monoprice still a good value-priced brand? Is Target's "Heyday" store brand worth considering? (I've found Walmart's store brands to be hit or miss when it comes to electronics.)

I use TOZO T-10's and they have been fucking workhorses for going on a year now. Dropped them in the toilet a month or so ago; let them dry - never happened.

E: you have a waifu avatar

 

[Least Concern]

Where is the best place I can find cheap used monitors? I looked on Amazon and a few other places and everything I could find was over $50. Someone's gotta have some crappy old monitors for less than that somewhere...

Have you checked thrift stores? They might be 4:3 with only VGA connectors, hell, they might even be CRTs, but I've found you can often find some there.

I use TOZO T-10's and they have been fucking workhorses for going on a year now. Dropped them in the toilet a month or so ago; let them dry - never happened.

E: you have a waifu avatar

Thanks, but I'm specifically looking for on- or over-ear headphones, not buds. I do already have a pair of buds (the type with a neckband so I can't lose them because otherwise I frickin' will) and they're fine but I don't find them comfortable for long periods.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Is there a difference between data science and cybersecurity, and is information technology better than computer science?

 

[Kosher Dill]

Is there a difference between data science and cybersecurity

Yes, I would say data science is about working with large datasets (genomes, data dumps from the internet, databases, etc) and getting meaningful insight out of them, whereas cybersecurity is about, well, keeping your computers and information secure.

and is information technology better than computer science?

Better for what?

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Better for what?

better for the future as far how as fact technology is expanding and moving?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Where is the best place I can find cheap used monitors? I looked on Amazon and a few other places and everything I could find was over $50. Someone's gotta have some crappy old monitors for less than that somewhere...

Universities, they're switching things on the reg and sales reps sometimes bamboozles them into buying really nice $1,500 monitors instead of normal $150 monitors then selling them for the same price when they're getting replaced.
That's how I ended up with this some years ago.

Thanks, suckers!

Goodwill/second hand/thrift stores are other places to look, refurbs is another option but if keeping the price down is a priority then shipping will kill you.

 

[Chad Nasty]

better for the future as far how as fact technology is expanding and moving?

That's a complex question. A lot of companies are moving to distributed db platforms like Cassandra for warehousing and using mongodb as a non relational db or to query cassandra. There are big companies adopting Kafka as a message broker for data streams. Is this better? Not necessarily.
These are tools that have specific purposes.

When you look at a tech problem, you need to fully understand the problem and have in depth research as to why you are doing a+b+c. Unfortunately, this has largely been replaced by the "Google's doing it" mentality where choices aren't made to solve a specific issue, rather it is blind trust.

If you want to do real high speed shit, learn your linear algebra (multi dimensional matrices especially), stochastic process/modeling and quantum cloud computing. Also, discrete mathmatics as discretized algorithms are important for performance benchmarks.

Im on mobile, but I can give you different quantum computing languages. Your best bet for ubiquitous adaptation would likely be like the Amazon Braket system.

But, I would suggest better you learn to understand your problem through the lens of your needs than to over-engineer shit.
Stay simple, decoupled, containerized and scalable in terms of need. That is the best general advice I can give any dev.

Here you go @albertbrown26:
We are going to be using photons for the entanglement/coupling which started in 2011 as Quiness Project in DARPA and that is the program China got from us and has built massive shifts and are better able to rip off the QKD "Alice and Bob" Model
Quantum Resources:
Qiskit has great textbooks
Q is non microsoft language, Q# is the Microsoft quantum language (**Any Quantum Language runs through an emulator and will drain resources**)
MIT Learn Quantum Computing
MIT Discrete Stochastic Process

If you want to learn some high-speed stuff now?
You and anyone reading this is always welcome o join my open-source project/initiative. I take anyone at any skill level. Inbox me for those details. If you are less familiar, we'll work up. If you're more familiar, you can tear my shit apart.
This is a learning initiative and a training path I'm trying to build, so you'd also be doing me solid to learn how to make better material for onboarding, too.

 

[Pissmaster]

Does anyone have some recommendation for on-ear or over-ear Bluetooth headphones in the $50 range? I don't care about noise cancelling or microphones/headset capability. Is Monoprice still a good value-priced brand? Is Target's "Heyday" store brand worth considering? (I've found Walmart's store brands to be hit or miss when it comes to electronics.)

I have a pair of these: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24735

They're okay. Too tight on my head, but I've got a big head, and they sound fine - pretty good for $25, at that. They're good enough for short-term usage and I didn't have any problems with the battery life.

 

[Chad Nasty]

I have a pair of these: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24735

They're okay. Too tight on my head, but I've got a big head, and they sound fine - pretty good for $25, at that. They're good enough for short-term usage and I didn't have any problems with the battery life.

There is a real life issue of headphones and quality. Once you've had some gourmet shit like studio headphones, cheap headphones just don't work out.

 

[Pissmaster]

There is a real life issue of headphones and quality. Once you've had some gourmet shit like studio headphones, cheap headphones just don't work out.

Yup. I bought them as an interim between high-end headphones and they did the job about as well as you could expect from $25 headphones. But if I had them when I was 12, my mind would have been blown.

Where is the best place I can find cheap used monitors? I looked on Amazon and a few other places and everything I could find was over $50. Someone's gotta have some crappy old monitors for less than that somewhere...

If you're going for that cheap, I have found several working monitors from dumpster diving and junk pick up. Seriously, people just don't give a shit. If you're driving around and you see an old monitor out on the curb, there's a good chance it works just fine. They're perfect if you like to build out little MAME machines.

 

[glow]

is information technology better than computer science?

better for the future as far how as fact technology is expanding and moving?

Is this a career/education question? If so, my vote is for computer science. It's a lot harder and has a lot of theory but if you seriously apply yourself and make an effort to understand it as opposed to just parroting back facts, this can lead to an extremely well paid career.

Information technology is likely to be more practical and can itself lead to a good salary, and an easier job. However it will be based around technologies that will be obsolete in time, whereas the knowledge you gain from a computer science degree would be more timeless, even if you went a long time without using it. You are also more replaceable by offshore MSPs etc.

 

[Stilgar of Troon]

There is a real life issue of headphones and quality. Once you've had some gourmet shit like studio headphones, cheap headphones just don't work out.

I could have wept when my set of AKG K872's died. The shitty Shure ones that I could afford to replace them are so poor that I've gone back to mixing on my monitors*, which means I can only really do it on my day off, because neighbours.

Spoiler: *caveat

I'm fully aware that monitors>headphones but using cans means I can mix/edit any time of day

 

[Least Concern]

I have a pair of these: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24735

So I ended up picking these up and they came in a few days ago. I really hate the little nodules of padding at the top of the headband which push into the top of my head and I have half a mind to grab a pair of pliers and rip the fuckers off if they don't start conforming to the shape of my head soon or vice versa… but the ear cup parts are comfortable enough and they sound good enough for listening to streams while washing dishes and such, so even though I was kind of skeptical at the price being that low, I'm mostly happy with them so far. Thanks for the recommendation.

I also found it funny that they didn't come with an instruction manual, but I was able to sync them up with my stuff just fine going off of how other Bluetooth speakers and headphones have worked in the past. Are Bluetooth headphones now so commoditized and commonplace that we don't need manuals for them anymore?