Posts by Mr P Hucker

21) Message boards : Number crunching : Ralph test spotted (Message 108649)
Posted 31 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Incredible - they have 11 `tasks in progress` on ralph . I thunkd it was ded .
Though even if they did release another million python`s upon us , nnnnnn . . . .
for me this winter`s project , I am all in on cosmology@gnome ,
I'm fine with pythons. I overtook loads of people in the stats with those, I'm guessing a lot of folk didn't like them. There were many complaints. It's just a VB program, dunno what the fuss was about. I think it needed a modern processor, with AVX or something.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Ralph test spotted (Message 108646)
Posted 31 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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I'll post in here too, as Ralph message boards are 99% spam.

I got 1 task on each of 2 machines. 5GB vdi image downloaded for Python.

1st machine said download failure, not sure why. Computer may have crashed of it's own accord, it has a dodgy old GPU.
https://ralph.bakerlab.org/results.php?hostid=49339

2nd machine got it ok, but caused a computation error immediately.
https://ralph.bakerlab.org/results.php?hostid=48821
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108643)
Posted 24 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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You're in a country with a decent health system.
Your data are old. USA has been falling over the years and now ...

US comes in last in health care rankings of high-income countries
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/health/us-health-care-rankings/index.html
My data is comparing my family's experiences with yours.
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108638)
Posted 20 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Jean-David Beyer was lucky, never having much pain.
Maybe I was lucky in having chosen a very good orthopedic surgeon and a good hospital to have the surgery done in.
You're in a country with a decent health system. Here in the UK, the average taxpayer has £300 a month stolen from them whether they like it or not to pay for the "NHS", a money pit which puts you on a 2 year waiting list, even if you're allowed onto it in the first place, I wasn't. I'll have to lie and exaggerate to even get on. Then when you do get operated on they screw everything up. You can go private, but you actually have to go through the NHS to arrange it, and then you've paid twice for the same thing. That's right, people with private healthcare insurance still pay the NHS they'll never use. Welcome to rip off Britain.
25) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108636)
Posted 20 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Jean-David Beyer was lucky, never having much pain. My wife had a lot of pain for weeks. Then she got tendonitis and was in pain for several months. Physical therapy helped that, now she's fine.

You are way too cynical, bitter and sound unhappy. Lighten up.
In your first sentence you tell me your wife suffered a lot, then you tell me not to be cynical (I assume you mean cynical about the operation and not one of you?) - if your wife had problems, I might too, I'll wait until I really need it.
26) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108634)
Posted 18 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Surgery is painful, no getting around it. She just finished a round of physical therapy and is getting along very well, almost without a limp. My wife is not tolerant of pain. But if she can do it, so can you. Don't be a wimp.


I suspect my hip replacement surgery would have been painful, but I got a moderate general anesthetic to begin with so I do not know. I was presumably on my back the whole time. When they did the heavy duty part of the surgery, they gave me a strong local anesthetic in the area of the operation. They removed the top of my leg bone and cleaned up the area of the hip. Insalled a ceramic ball in the top of he leg bone, a titanium socket in the bottom of the hip, and a miracle plastic bearing surface between them. Then put me back together. I forget if they sewed me up with thread or the self-dissolving kind. But I woke up about three hours after they began. I am told the procedure took less than an hour. They had me walk around the same day and do some exercises. The next day some physical therapy. They prescribed me some Oxycodone for pain if I needed it, but I was never in any pain, so I did not take any. They sent a physical therapist to my house 3x a week for less than an hour each time. Then I did outpatient therapy for a couple of months. I had no trouble driving. I did get a walker that I used for a couple of weeks, but after that it was more of a nuisance than a help, so I stopped using it.
At some point I asked my surgeon how long that plastic bearing would last and he said over 30 years. Since I do not expect to last another 30 years, I guess that will be OK.
I think I'll postpone mine until it gets worse. Not being able to run and having to put a strap on when walking a long way is not as bad as what you describe.
27) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108633)
Posted 18 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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"I'd never thought the human body would be stupid enough to put the pain in the wrong place." It's not a matter of stupidity. That is called referred pain and it is a common thing, contrary to your knowledge.
I do know about it (or have since summer when a friend told me of it) - but it's still horrendously stupid. Your car doesn't tell you it's out of oil when the petrol is low. We're wired up wrong.

The "barbaric tendency" to use only local anesthetics is reserved for people who are allergic to certain medications or who are old, infirm and have underlying conditions.
And dentists, who are pure evil.

Surgery is painful, no getting around it. She just finished a round of physical therapy and is getting along very well, almost without a limp. My wife is not tolerant of pain. But if she can do it, so can you. Don't be a wimp.

You are always complaining that most people are sissies. Here's your chance to decide whether or not you are a sissy.
Everybody hates pain. That's normal.

Others have told me getting hip replacement is wonderful, and better than the real thing. Doesn't sound that way with your wife.

The question is, should I get the operation or not? At the moment I get a small amount of pain on my thigh when moving certain ways, which can be avoided by using straps round my leg to keep it straight. I cannot run, but everything else, including hillwalking, is possible. I couldn't get a straight answer out of the doctor, since she's told to lie to patients to avoid the NHS paying. Would a replacement hip improve me or not?
28) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108628)
Posted 17 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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When my hip started to hurt,
For some reason my leg hurts, random places along the front thigh muscle. My friend, a massage therapist, suggested I should get x-rayed, I'd never thought the human body would be stupid enough to put the pain in the wrong place. But he insisted 7 of his patients had needed a hip done after complaining to him about pain there. Sure enough, the xray showed I have hip joints which are slightly misshapen, so have worn out 2x faster than they should of. The "great British NHS" won't give me an operation. I'm not important enough. Looks like I either lie in a couple of years and tell them it's worse than it is, or pay 12 grand for the operation.

The first way is to inject something like cortisone into the joint. He said that often works for around six months. But additional injections become progressively less effective.
Sounds pointless.

The second way is to do a hip replacement. There has been a lot of progress with this kind of surgery in the last decade or two. If I were younger, it is a one-day outpatient procedure. But for me they wanted to keep me overnight. Good thing too. On the next morning they did a final checkup prior to discharging me and it turned out my BP was 70/40 and they not only did not want to discharge me, they had me skip my BP medication. Apparently this is a common side-effect of the two anaesthetics they used on me.
Do they put you out cold? There seems to be a barbaric tendancy nowadays to use local anaesthetics and you're awake while they operate on you! My BP is stupidly high, and I don't take medication, because none of the 4 they tried have any effect on me, so I guess I won't have that problem.
29) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108626)
Posted 16 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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When will rosetta beta stop being beta and replace rosetta 4.20?
And where did version 5 go?
The same place as windows 9 . . . . . . . .
Ah, 9 is "no" in German, 5 is "sank" in French. They don't want to sink.

String is either a theory , so therefore not a definitive thing that can be measured accurately
They must be measuring them by now. What are those boffins at LHC playing at?

Or can be used as in "The Goodies" episode for replacing knee joints, Raymond Baxter seemed ok with it :)
It's my hip I need replacing. Not sure if I want to, sounds nasty, I hate operations.
30) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108624)
Posted 16 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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My computers do the crunching, leaving me free to piss people off.
And you seem to excel at that. :>))
They deserve to be pissed off. I do delight in correcting the gullible.
31) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108623)
Posted 16 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Usual angle error...

(0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)</message>
<stderr_txt>
[ ERROR ]: Caught exception:

File: C:cygwin64homeboinc4.17Rosettamainsourcesrccore/pack/dunbrack/SingleResidueDunbrackLibrary.hh:306
chi angle must be between -180 and 180: -nan(ind)
------------------------ Begin developer's backtrace -------------------------
BACKTRACE:
------------------------- End developer's backtrace --------------------------

AN INTERNAL ERROR HAS OCCURED. PLEASE SEE THE CONTENTS OF ROSETTA_CRASH.log FOR DETAILS.
Rosetta has discovered a new dimension. Let's call it "twist".
32) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108622)
Posted 16 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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When will rosetta beta stop being beta and replace rosetta 4.20?
How long is a piece of string . . . . . .
That can be quantified easily using a tapemeasure and is therefore a monumentally stupid phrase. Maybe if it was a piece of string travelling at the speed of light....
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108621)
Posted 16 Oct 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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When will rosetta beta stop being beta and replace rosetta 4.20?
And where did version 5 go?
34) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108560)
Posted 6 Sep 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Haven't been here for a while.
Just tried to read this thread, but stopped after a while.

Seems like a lot of users (actuall just one) are having a great time here!

But I would suggest to do more crunching and less posting.

Guys and Gals: Just relax.

Cheers to all ...
My computers do the crunching, leaving me free to piss people off.
35) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108555)
Posted 3 Sep 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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But actually all you need today is Windows Defender, it's free and not as annoying as that McAfee crap and most other AV-suites with all their false positives, completely unnecessary features and extreme system load. AVG was good, 10+ years ago, wouldn't recommend it today anymore and I also wouldn't pay anything for AV today when a good one comes for free with Windows.
I tried defender, but it's very difficult to give it an exception, especially when that exception is a pirate windows adjuster. 10 Windows licenses to run Boinc? Forget it.
36) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108553)
Posted 3 Sep 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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McAfee came with my computer parts. I haven't renewed it.

I use Malwarebytes Premium. Supposed to have web, malware, ransomware and exploitation protection.
I don't bother with all that. Just a simple antivirus like AVG does me. A website isn't dangerous. You have to run a program on your computer, the AV stops that.
37) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108551)
Posted 2 Sep 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Nevermind, found it:
https://grafana.kiska.pw/d/boinc/boinc
That site was flagged by McAffee as "suspicious and risky."
AVG doesn't. And a site can't be risky unless you download some programs from it. It's just graphs.

And https://www.urlvoid.com/scan/grafana.kiska.pw/ says 0 out of 41 testers found it dodgy. It seems your McAfee is broken. McAfee is infamous for being crap.
38) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108549)
Posted 1 Sep 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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If only there was a way to disable beta.
Are you the one that makes graphs of task availability? Are they available for all projects? I was looking for Denis.
Nevermind, found it:
https://grafana.kiska.pw/d/boinc/boinc
39) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108544)
Posted 29 Aug 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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If only there was a way to disable beta.
Are you the one that makes graphs of task availability? Are they available for all projects? I was looking for Denis.
40) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 108513)
Posted 25 Aug 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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The answer is simple, don't close Boinc. And set it to leave apps in memory when suspended.


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