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7:02 PM
interesting
 
small bit of luck. I was called almost instantly and the infection source didn't disguise particularly well
I submitted it to kaspersky online... but somehow the file-ending .doc.js.js didn't arouse any suspicion...
 
I hate conference calls!
.doc.js.js would have alerted me for sure.
 
well it was two of those in a zip
 
especially if it was downloaded from www.totallysafesite.com.cn/notavirus.zip
lol
 
attached to an application coming from a reasonable-looking email at a big german telecommunications provider
and since you cannot view the contents of a zip file without basically unzipping it in windows :/
 
7:31 PM
Hello people!
@Burgi I'm going to win!
 
The design of AMD Vega 10 is complete.
Design team is thrilled with your response. Celebrated a milestone with the team. Long way to go before you see it https://t.co/duQVBBGict
 
@Rahul2001 You have two questions 1/ asking people to vote for the bot to stay and 2/ for the bot to go. That mean one of your questions will always win (unless the vote is the same for both).
 
(@allq)
 
@DavidPostill :P I'm in favour of him staying, @Burgi wants him to leave...
@DavidPostill Did you know that if you type cmd in command prompt three times, you will have to type exit four times to close window?
Apparently It opens one interface in another...
 
...all the while NVIDIA is unable to meet demand for GP104 parts.
 
7:48 PM
@Rahul2001 Of course I knew that.
F:\test>cmd /?
Starts a new instance of the Windows command interpreter
 
Well, I just noticed that today and found it pretty weird
 
did you know that when you ssh three times in succession you have to exit three times?
it's basically the same thing
 
This also means that is you are going to call a batch file which annoys you because it has an exit command at the end, you can run cmd before calling it
 
@Rahul2001 If you use cmd /c it won't :)
 
@Burgi Move to Scotland!
!!caat
 
@Bob Yeah, about that...
 
@DavidPostill how does that work if you're passing in cmd.exe as the cmd and cmd hasnt terminated?
:)
exit terminates the command i'd think
yeah, im seeing forked cmd processes that way still. via /c argument.
 
8:20 PM
@GuitarShoeDave cmd /c dir terminates by itself and doesn't require an exit
 
Oh hey
The referendum wiped $2800 off the value of my savings.
 
@qwertyuiop lol. My savings are in Euros. They are worth 6% more :)
 
8:58 PM
Correct Dave but cmd /c "cmd" does not sir
It was a doodoostorm in us markets today
 
@GuitarShoeDave Who's "Dave"? ;)
 
/bops @DavidPostill
😂
 
I think Bob likes Stellaris
 
Bob
^ :P
Does need a good chunk of time though
 
I think it's a little less repetitive than SoaSE because of the wide variety of planets and the ever-expanding tech tree
the early game feels completely different from the mid-game, the mid-game feels completely different from the late-game
being at war is crazy (we haven't done that yet)
 
Bob
9:04 PM
@allquixotic It is, but OTOH I like the simple-minded "you enemy. me smash." of SoaSE
 
@Bob you prefer the simple minded or can appreciate both?
 
Bob
@allquixotic s'pose it depends on my mood? :P
the diplomacy and empires are interesting
bit hard to keep track of which ships are where, though! :P
I 'lost' a colony ship for a bit
anyway, was a good game and a nice intro - thanks for that @allquixotic
Zzz time
 
@Bob night!
yeah, things can be hard to keep track of, but using the outline really helps (turn off the tutorials once you know what you're doing)
 
#FreeJohnCavil
#OpposeCavexit
anyone tried inbox.google.com?????
> Fastly error: unknown domain: superuser.com.. Please check that this domain has been added to a service.
can anyone talk to the SE people and tell them to fix this botnet
> @oldmud0 you're not using the word "botnet" correctly ...
I know, I just like to drag the "botnet" meme on and on and on
 
9:30 PM
Anyone bought anything fun in the Steam sale?
 
no
buy me citiesXXL k
this should work but it doesn't superuser.com.
it's a goshdarn fqdn why doesn't it work
 
I'm more into Skylines myself, though XL and XXL seem cool
 
oh
looks like britain is filing for divorce
"until revolt do us part" -EU 2007
is SPARC even that good
why don't we use exotic cpu architectures
 
9:46 PM
@oldmud0 Note that the Queen would still have to agree. "The monarch remains constitutionally empowered to exercise the royal prerogative against the advice of the prime minister or the cabinet, but in practice would only do so in emergencies or where existing precedent does not adequately apply to the circumstances in question."
 
so basically a veto?
 
I'm not in the UK, but I thought it was the Parliament that had to approve the referendum's motion first?
Ah, but then the PM has to file Article 50?
 
@oldmud0 Yes. But it would be unprecedented.
@BenN Yes. There is nothing to stop parliament passing a motion that seeks to instruct the PM not to trigger article 50.
@BenN The PM is also free to ignore the referendum results.
The European Union Referendum Act 2015 makes no provision for the result to be legally binding on the government or on any future government due to the principle of parliamentary sovereignty although the decision will be final.
So that means they can ignore the results but they can't hold another referendum hoping for different results.
 
hmm, I wonder why an LLVM OS has not been devised yet?
 
10:03 PM
@oldmud0 probably because running a virtual machine within the kernel is wastefully slow. You can already compile no less than three kernels (*BSD, Linux, and XNU) with an LLVM-based compiler, but it emits native code. Is that an "LLVM OS"?
the kernel is a pretty frequently used path for system calls for things like disk I/O, networking and IPC... you can't just start adding thick overhead layers on top of that and expect to compete with existing kernels.
the very concept makes little sense. if you have LLVM-generated IL for a kernel, you want to precompile it to native code with an IL to native assembler and linker for maximum performance.
JIT compiling it doesn't help anybody, it only has disadvantages.
 
@BenN The PM quit
And the referendum was merely advisory
 
@qwertyuiop the PM announced he's quitting, but will likely motion for Article 50 before he resigns in October.
 
@allquixotic I thought he said he'd specifically leave that for his successor
Then again, I don't listen to what he says
 
@oldmud0 It's less about the architecture itself -- which by all accounts was at least okay -- and more about the lack of (recent) innovation and improvement to the CPU designs shipped using that architecture. Sun's latest SPARC stuff wasn't competitive with Intel, and it may not have been the architecture's fault; we don't know.
@qwertyuiop odd, considering he also said that he would file the motion with the EC as soon as he could...?
even the fucking Brexiters have no clue what to do with Cameron
 
@allquixotic Considering like most politicians he's a complete twat and liar, I wouldn't be surprised
 
10:07 PM
Boris "Trump 2" Johnson pleaded him to remain in office
Nigel "Who Are You" Farage advised him to quit immediately
 
@allquixotic so what's the whole point of LLVM if JIT is worse than native
 
Also, who the fuck votes for the option you're protesting against?
 
@oldmud0 LLVM has an intermediary layer of architecture-independent code, IL, that "source language" (C, C++, etc.) code gets compiled into. From IL, then, regardless of which source language emitted the IL, the IL can get compiled to native code.
The question is, does the IL get compiled to native code "on the fly" by a compiler optimized for speed (because people aren't willing to wait many seconds for a JIT compiler to finish), or does the IL get compiled at development-time by a compiler whose goal is to optimize as much as possible, regardless if the compile takes 5 or 10 minutes?
It's technically possible to compile stuff to IL and use the IL "interpreter" for your platform (basically, JIT for the most part, but it may interpret some instructions one by one without generating native code for them) to "run" IL without compiling it to native code first, but nobody ever does that
people who use LLVM typically go: source language -> IL -> native code, all during development time, and then the resulting binary is very similar to what you get with e.g. GCC, but perhaps faster and better quality code
and the IL is written in such a way that it can fairly well support non-C-like languages too, such as Java, .NET, Ruby, ...
hence the existence of things like Rubinius
 
do not go and see independence day
it is terrible
 
@Burgi :(
gcc gpgpu?
possible, or just throwing buzzwords around?
 
10:18 PM
in short, they're working on it
 
the anti-cylon vote has got a lot more support than i thought it would...
 
wait is this for compiling stuff using GPGPGPU?
 
@oldmud0 too many "GPs", but yes... though you'll probably have to write your code in a very specific way to take full advantage of it
I doubt you can just recompile any old code with a flag and make it run on your GPU
most code isn't written to handle well on a GPU's architecture
too many round trips to memory, etc.
 
GPGPGPU goes in the same category as WoWoW128
 
Unless it's a Xeon Phi!
 
10:21 PM
true
but a Xeon Phi is far less of a "GPU" than a GeForce card, and significantly less GPU than even a Tesla
it's more like a ridiculous-number-of-cores CPU
 
by 2150 the job market will be in an extreme demand for meta-metacomputing technologies
 
yet the number of independent execution threads in a Xeon Phi is still a lot less than the number of stream processors on a proper GPU, AFAIK
 
the xeon phi just looks like a graphics card painted blue. can it even run crysis?
 
@oldmud0 That's not what it's designed to do, so... probably not.
 
Dunno, but it can run Linux
 
10:26 PM
it's just a x64 processor bridged with pci, filled to the brim with cores?
 
All I know is it's expensive, and therefore we have lots of them
 

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