1/1/2024 0 Comments A little life cover![]() The cutting is both a symptom of and a control mechanism for the profound abuse Jude suffered during the years before he arrived at the university. It is described with a directness that might make some readers queasy: “He has long ago run out of blank skin on his forearms, and he now recuts over old cuts, using the edge of the razor to saw through the tough, webby scar tissue: when the new cuts heal, they do so in warty furrows, and he is disgusted and dismayed and fascinated all at once by how severely he has deformed himself.” Every fifty pages or so, we get a scene in which Jude mutilates his own flesh with a razor blade. At the end of the visit, having sewn up Jude’s wound, Andy says to Willem, “You know he cuts himself, don’t you?” ![]() He is evasive about the cause of the wound and insists that he doesn’t want to go to a hospital, asking instead that Willem take him to a mutual friend named Andy, who is a doctor. The first real hint of what we’re in for comes on page 67, when Jude wakes Willem, his roommate, saying, “There’s been an accident, Willem I’m sorry.” Jude is bleeding profusely from his arm, which is wrapped in a towel. And having upset our expectations once, Yanagihara does it again, by refusing us the consolations we have come to expect from stories that take such a dark turn. And with Jude at its center, “A Little Life” becomes a surprisingly subversive novel-one that uses the middle-class trappings of naturalistic fiction to deliver an unsettling meditation on sexual abuse, suffering, and the difficulties of recovery. As the pages turn, the ensemble recedes and Jude comes to the fore. The effect of this is to place the novel in an eternal present day, in which the characters’ emotional lives are foregrounded and the political and cultural Zeitgeist is rendered into vague scenery.īut the clearest sign that “A Little Life” will not be what we expect is the gradual focus of the text on Jude’s mysterious and traumatic past. The September 11th attacks are never mentioned, nor are the names of the Mayor, the President, or any recognizable cultural figures who might peg the narrative to a particular year. Yanagihara scrubs her prose of references to significant historical events. There are also curious absences in the text. For one thing, there’s the huge hunk of paper in the reader’s right hand: more than seven hundred pages, suggesting grander ambitions than a tale of successful careers. Yet it becomes evident soon enough that the author has more on her mind than a conventional big-city bildungsroman. ![]() “It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common…. “New York was populated by the ambitious,” JB observes. At one point, after his acting career takes off, Willem thinks, “New York City … had simply been an extension of college, where everyone had known him and JB, and the entire infrastructure of which sometimes seemed to have been lifted out of Boston and plunked down within a few blocks’ radius in lower Manhattan and outer Brooklyn.” Yanagihara is a capable chronicler of the struggle for success among the young who flock to New York every autumn, sending up the pretensions of the art world and the restaurant where Willem works, which is predictably staffed by would-be thespians. Jude, we later learn, was a foundling, deposited in a bag by a dumpster and raised by monks.įor the first fifty or so pages, as the characters attend parties, find apartments, go on dates, gossip, and squabble with each other, it is easy for the reader to think he knows what he’s getting into: the latest example of the postgraduate New York ensemble novel, a genre with many distinguished forbears, Mary McCarthy’s “The Group” and Claire Messud’s “The Emperor’s Children” among them. ![]() Francis, a lawyer and mathematician, whose provenance and ethnic origins are largely unknown, even by his trio of friends. They are a pleasingly diverse crew, tightly bound to each other: Willem Ragnarsson, the handsome son of a Wyoming ranch hand, who works as a waiter but aspires to be an actor Malcolm Irvine, the biracial scion of a wealthy Upper East Side family, who has landed an associate position with a European starchitect Jean-Baptiste (JB) Marion, the child of Haitian immigrants, who works as a receptionist at a downtown art magazine in whose pages he expects, one day soon, to be featured and Jude St. At the beginning of Hanya Yanagihara’s new novel, “A Little Life,” four young men, all graduates of the same prestigious New England university, set about establishing adult lives for themselves in New York City. ![]()
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1/1/2024 0 Comments Qt creator 9![]() ![]() ![]() In my case, I have all under the same folder. Here is where end the installation process. Note: If you change this directory to other path, execute again qtbinpatcher. Download Qt64-NG (posix-seh, or your above choose flavor) + decompress in one folder.Īfter that it's needed to execute the qtbinpatcher.exe included in that directory, just a double click.That's all, with this we can create 32 and 64 bits applications.īy other way, in addition to the above steps, if one want to create applications using the Qt Framework library (a GUI/Interface for our applications), it's needed the binary package, this case 64 bit (The 32bit binary package is available at the Qt official page) ![]() My advice is to download the 4.1 (or upper version) snapshots if one is going to use CMake projects.ĭownload MinGW-w64 (posix-seh, or your choice flavor) + decompress in one folder. I'm going to answer for 64bit binaries because it's what I use (and latter you just need to do the same thing for 32bits)įor use Qt Creator with MinGW-w64, one just need:ĭownload Qt Creator and install it. How to install a kit for your Qt Creator. So, if one need it, at this moment must be compiled by oneself (This is for answer your opensource 5.7 comment). I don't know other place where to get newer 64bits Qt binary packages for MinGW-w64 (Maybe the ones at MSYS2 project? I didn't tried yet). Unfortunately the project is closed, so only are available until the Qt 5.5 Framework version. Here is when come the Qt64-NG project, a place where get the Qt Framework 64bits binary packages for MinGW-w64. At Qt official webpage it's only available the 32bits builds for MinGW. MinGW-w64 5.3 (with flags 64 bits in the config) and the Qt 5.7 Framwork 64 bits build compiled under MinGW-w64 (MinGW-w64 version 5.3 or lower as long as they maintain binary code compatibility with our compiler).MinGW-w64 5.3 (with flags 32 bits in the config) and the Qt 5.7 Framwork 32 bits build compiled under MinGW-w64 (MinGW-w64 version 5.3 or lower as long as they maintain binary code compatibility with our compiler).This means, if we want to compile an application for 32 and 64 bits with MinGW-w64 5.3, plus the Qt 5.7 Framework, we need: When we make an application, we've to follow the chain of libraries compiled with the same compiler version, the same way we've to follow the application binary interface (32 or 64 bits) for those libraries. Qt Creator, an C/C++ editor, with additional editing tools for the Qt Framework.Qt Framework library, for create GUI's/Interfaces with multi-platform compatibility.In addition, we have other two different tools: With that we can create our applications/programs in Windows. TDM-GCC, GCC compiler for 32 and 64 bits applications.MinGW-w64, GCC compiler for 32 and 64 bits applications.MinGW, GCC compiler for 32bits applications.MinGW only works for 32 bits, so we need the 64 bits forks, what means to use the MinGW-w64 or TDM-GCC flavors. ![]() The intention is to use the GCC compiler under Windows, what mean we need MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows). I know that your question is how do you install a kit for your Qt Creator, but first I think it's needed an introduction (Sorry for your eyes, English it's not my native language) ![]() 1/1/2024 0 Comments Sql server deadlock traceflag![]() ![]() Required to be enabled on SQL Server instances with transaction logįile residing on disk with sector size of 512 bytes. Global trace flag, use DBCC TRACEOFF with the -1 argument.Īnd on the definition of flag 1800 it says:Įnables SQL Server optimization when disks of different sector sizesĪre used for primary and secondary replica log files, in SQL ServerĪlways On and Log Shipping environments. Trace flag with DBCC TRACEON is lost on server restart. For example, toĮnable the 2528 trace flag globally, use DBCC TRACEON with the -1Īrgument: DBCC TRACEON (2528, -1). Using the DBCC TRACEON and DBCC TRACEOFF commands. This ensures the traceįlag remains active after a server restart. Startup, by using the -T command line option. ![]() We recommend that you enable global trace flags at The documentation you referenced says that:Ī global trace flag must be enabled globally. If I cannot get this to work, I suppose the intermediate option would be to reformat the log drive on the existing primary to 64KB block size Obviously the way to find out is to test but due to this being a production server, I would need a maintenance window to that which isn't available to me at the momentĮventually, the primary server will be migrated to new hardware and I will ensure the disks are formatted in the same manner but for the tie being I was hoping this traceflag would provide a quick fix. The documentation doesn't reference that a reboot is required. I then checked the error log on the secondary and can see the messages regarding Async IO still persist.ĭoes this traceflag need setting as a startup parameter (with subsequent reboot) to take effect? Obviously I would do this anyway so it persists reboots but just ran the DBCC TRACEON first so it is active With this in mind, I ran DBCC TRACEON (1800, -1) on the primary and verfied it was on with DBCC TRACESTATUS Therefore it seems traceflag 1800 should be enabled on the primary. I have run the following command on both servers: fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo L:\Īnd can see for the primary: Bytes Per Sector : 512Īnd the secondary: Bytes Per Sector : 512 ![]() With 512-byte sector size as per Microsoft's recommendation This article suggests a fix is to turn on trace flag 1800 on the server The current IO is on file L:\SQLSERVER\Logs\MyDatabase_log.ldf. There have been N misaligned log IOs which required falling back to synchronous IO. The log drive (and other SQL Server drives) on the secondary has been formatted to 64KB block size, whereas the primary server is on the default 4KB.Īs a result of this we are getting the following entries in the log of the secondary almost constantly. We have recently migrated our database mirroring secondary to new hardware. ![]() 1/1/2024 0 Comments Mega blocks construction table![]() ![]() This blog post on fine motor precision and graded release explains more on this skill and has a fun fine motor activity to develop graded precision in fine motor skills.ģ. These graded movements are essential for precision and dexterity in functional tasks as children gain a sense of personal awareness and how their body moves through space in order to pick up and manipulate objects. They are also able to place a block onto a stack of blocks without knocking over the entire tower. By gaining these skills, children are able to pick on one block from a stack without toppling the entire block tower. This occurs on a stability basis (use of the core and shoulder to stabilize the arm) and on a dexterous basis (precise, small, and graded movements of the fingers). Building with blocks helps kids develop graded fine motor skills- As small children progress through typical grasp progression, they begin to gain more control over those motor skills. By picking up on block, manipulating it in the hand, and placing it on a stack of blocks, children progress from a gross grasp to a radial palmer grasp and then to a digital palmer grasp, followed by a tip-to-tip grasp using the pointer finger and thumb.Ĭheck out this developmental checklist for more information.Ģ. Blocks are a fine motor power tool when it comes to working on grasp development! Read below for the specifics of small kids playing with blocks. ![]() Building with blocks help kids develop grasp- From the time toddlers can grasp a block with their whole hand, grasp development begins.In some cases, the nature of the item means that it is non-returnable, for example, due to hygiene/health and personal care/wellness/consumable nature of the product. 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The only thing I notice about Ardour that's missing in Reaper is about how the effects chain works specifically. Again though, for the basics, it's ready to go with very little to slow you down. If you want to limit the number of dialogs from your specific workflow, chances are there's an easy way of doing it whether you add toolbar buttons, make custom actions, use third-party scripts, assign things to a MIDI controller, or all of those. To use that functionality usually requires some sort of dialog, or at least triggering an action, but that's to be expected of any program. There are so many things about Reaper which allow it to be flexible that I have trouble limiting it to a few examples. It only routs to hardware outputs.) Someone made a tutorial about how to do an entire mix with Reaper using a single track, for instance. (The exception to this is the master track, which can't rout to other tracks. Any Reaper track can have up to 64 audio channels and rout to/from any other track. Of course, Reaper doesn't strictly follow a hardware-based paradigm. If you don't like working with it, you can use any other track as a bus. Like some others here, I started with hardware recording devices (tape) in the 80s and moved on from there.Īs for Reaper's master track: it's the final bus things funnel through before rendering, which when working with a stereo mix is commonly referred to as "the 2-bus" on hardware mixers, so that's also quite representative of a hardware workflow. It was the "most hardware-like" initial experience I've ever had with a DAW. After choosing my audio device, I double-clicked in the track control panel area to add a track (I guessed at that, and I was right), I armed the track and hit record. The basics though, for "just recording", are ready to go. ![]() Reaper has some things which seem unusual, as all DAWs do. Which by the way, was very easy for me after having used: Cakewalk, Cubase, Nuendo, Logic for PC, n-Track Studio, Sonar. I doubt you can appreciate Reaper until you've gotten accustomed to the way it works. This is a tall hurdle for people to overcome. Merlyn wrote: ↑ Fri 2:42 pm.but it's not what I'm used to. The more Linux way would be to try Ardour first, then, if the OP experiences as much PEBCAK as skei and bhilmers did, then try Reaper. The best suggestion so far has been to try AVL-MXE so the OP can have a look at both. For example I use a bus as a send destination partly because it looks different and also it's not a track - I'm never going to record onto a reverb send. I like that there are different kinds of tracks on Ardour. On Ardour it's simply another destination. For example the master bus has a special status as a tick box at the top. It's fine, but it's not what I'm used to. One of the dialog boxes I was referring to in Reaper is the routing dialog. Inside a computer there is really no reason to use a mixing desk as a paradigm. Stereo width kind of addresses this but it's not exactly the same. It's possible to move a stereo source around in the stereo image with more control by bringing the stereo track onto two mono tracks for example. ![]() Hardware mixers have mono and stereo tracks because they are different. This is also often framed as 'out-the-box' and 'in-the-box'. Instead of the grenade of a word 'analogue', which conjures up images of glowing valves, I'll use the word 'hardware'. Sysrqer wrote:Why would you need to differentiate between mono and stereo tracks? I always found that such a pain in Ardour and never understood why it was like that. ![]() |
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