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12:07 PM
!!caat
 
@JourneymanGeek I've knocked a few off, as well as a SMD transistor when disassembling a Philips Hue bulb
 
having a minion is HARD!
 
Although at the time I think I was the first person to do so (at least online) and there were no teardowns or disassembly videos on the internet. So I went in blind and brute-forced it.
 
@qwertyuiop see 'violence'
lots of violence
 
12:10 PM
Did manage to repair it a few months later, the SMD caps one is missing and one I resoldered... seems to... work
Never did get round to uploading that vidoe
 
12:23 PM
Indian metro is slow
I just saw a guy on a bullock cart pass us...
 
'metro' = normal clapped out trains with less seats? ;p
Depends where I guess'
 
@JourneymanGeek Here metrô == subway
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy yeah. India's metro trains are often above ground
 
Peculiarly enough, one of Rio's two subway lines is above the ground.
Also...
 
12:31 PM
oh hi everybody btw
 
ah
shanghai
 
@GuitarShoeDave hello!
 
Yay Brazil!
 
are you guys ready for the olympics?
 
12:36 PM
As in, excited, or as in, buildings delivered on time?
Brazilians, specially politicians, master the art of delivering late and over budget.
Sometimes they have to deliver on date, so they deliver, ahem, alpha versions. Then it gets closed again to be delivered on a later date.
 
so the opening ceremony will be going on with builders in the centre of the stadium?
 
you make it sound likebrazil is worse than India
 
Man, schmitten chocolate is disgusting...
 
Well, I don't think it will be SO blatant. Specially with key points with all the world's media.
 
@HackToHell it is, in some aspects
 
12:39 PM
you had a trial run with the world cup
 
Every country has it's pros and cons
 
@HackToHell everywhere is terrible
just in different ways ;)
 
But, for instance, there's a new subway line being built for years. It will be opened.... only for Olympic users.... the local population can't use it... then they will close again
 
when india hosted the commonwealth games they managed to nearly kill all the atheletes
 
Yeah true that :D
 
12:40 PM
So, even though I love pointing out faults in India, I love it and will defend it if the need comes...
 
they had connected the fresh water system directly to the sewerage
 
@Rahul2001 Same, same, every true Brazilian is the same.
 
:D
 
the qataris plan on killing all the footballers
 
"I can complain forever about my country, but the second you start to badmouth it, there will be retaliation" :p
 
12:42 PM
@Burgi lol, there isn't much difference in the water quality anyways :P
 
45+ temp, no shade, middle of the summer.... in a desert...
 
@Rahul2001 india... kinda is
 
I went to Qatar for a competition last year... the weather is seriously messed up
@JourneymanGeek I was kidding
 
;p
@ThatBrazilianGuy that's a LOT of poop
 
12:44 PM
Rio. The brown part is... well... ahem.... excrement
 
wow
 
Lol
 
i just thought it was silt
 
well silt is partially shit
 
Decades of "let's throw it in the water, what could possibly go wrong"
 
12:45 PM
What happens when you write emoji in markdown italics?
😉
 
ZALGO HAPPENS
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy that's just ,,,
whoot @ThatBrazilianGuy is a room owner now ?
 
So you guys see a difference?
@HackToHell he has been for a while
 
nice
 
@HackToHell No. Nothing to see here. Moving on... moving on...
 
12:46 PM
I kinda lost touch for a while here
@ThatBrazilianGuy whatcha hiding :P
 
so anyway.... the politics of the south atlantic...
 
@Burgi are messed up AFAICT
Have been since forever
 
all politics is messed up ;p
 
It only varies on how much
 
as a brit we are pretty happy with the state of affairs in the south atlanic especially now we discovered oil in our territorial waters.... ;)
 
12:50 PM
Yay, LTE!
 
Oh by the way @JourneymanGeek my translator's fee is a sample of the product in the mail ;p
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy alas, I think it will go mouldy, and they will tax you ;p
(we'll hopefully be trying it tommorrow. Photos should follow)
 
Bob
@qwertyuiop video?
 
1:33 PM
@Bob You might find this amusing as well
-1
Q: Tried to fix old graphics card, Motherboard and card started smoking. Possible further damage

givawaySo, last week I lost my r9 280x. After finding no physical damage, I tried to reball it and Oven it, Neither worked. Today I remembered an old no name brand gtx 650ti I had in my basement. the main problem with the 650 is that it had vertical artifacts and could not display high resolutions, no ...

 
a R9 280 would still be under warranty no?
 
@JourneymanGeek Not if he reballed it (which I presume means heating in an oven or some such stupid idea.)
 
@DavidPostill which is precisely why it was stupid
 
@JourneymanGeek Isn't it a bad idea anyway? Warranty or not?
 
hmm
There's a VERY narrow situation where its useful
 
1:49 PM
my gfx card am broke
here
let me fucking bake it like a cake
GG
 
Bob
@DavidPostill "I put my card in the oven, why doesn't it work???"
 
0/10
 
Bob
... what she said ^
 
lol
It might would with a 8000 series gforce
but there's a specific issue with them
My mom would klill me before the lead poisoning if I did that
 
Bob
lol
 
1:50 PM
I give this a 32.5 on the Helmann-Schmidt international studpity scale
a fake scale I just made up
 
of 50 or 100?
 
Scale goes up to 30
 
@electronbeam I consider stuff like like this 'cargo cult' repairs
 
@JourneymanGeek Exactly. Hence my original "stupid idea"
@JourneymanGeek What is the "very narrow" situation?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Wait. Isn't 8000 series well into the RoHS era?
@DavidPostill They had issues with heat stress cracking the solder.
Reflowing helped ... if done veeeeeery carefully.
i.e. try not to melt the capacitors off while you're at it
 
1:53 PM
Quick someone make the Helmann-Schmidt International Stupidity Index a thing
 
@electronbeam It's a starred thing. Is that enough for you? :)
 
Along similar lines I did once manage to revive a hard disk for about an hour with the freezer trick. Supposedly that is just as stupid ...
 
1:56 PM
augh I don't want to be at work - I either want to be flying my drone or sleeping :(
 
Bob
@electronbeam drone?
 
2:15 PM
@JourneymanGeek We were lucky to have escaped issues with the G84/G86 chips. We had a G84 card (GeForce 8600 GT) that operated upwards of five years before the card failed for likely unrelated reasons (capacitor failure was observed on the PCB).
 
It's not a reference card, which may have helped.
 
who said I escaped issues?
I had one that dropped dead, and of course, who can forget superuser.com/questions/333617/…
 
I'm back!
 
@JourneymanGeek Why do you have "Edit..." in your question? We can look at the edit history ... :)
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A: When is "EDIT"/"UPDATE" appropriate in a post?

ArjanEDIT and UPDATE are rarely needed, nor helpful. For future readers, posts need to be standalone, without any history. These sites are not forums, but intend to be libraries of canonical, high-quality, questions and answers. Future readers are not helped by seeing all kind of history. When peop...

lol
 
2:19 PM
@DavidPostill in this case the process felt important
also my question predates that question by 3 years
 
@JourneymanGeek Excuses :)
Please tidy up all your old questions and answers. As a mod you need to set a good example :)
 
:P
@electronbeam where did you learn ableton from?
 
@Rahul2001 I bought ableton. ran it. played with it until I learned it
@Rahul2001 and then I continued doing so for 7 more years :)
 
@DavidPostill I have... a few thousand? ._.
 
@electronbeam fix my libvirtd >:'(
 
2:24 PM
@allquixotic That's what you get for using bad virualization solutions :3
 
@electronbeam wtf
 
hmmmmmmm
how can i tell if a machine is correctly on thye domain
 
waits patiently for @allquixotic to realize that she's trolling
 
i.e. no trust issues etc
 
2:30 PM
@JourneymanGeek "waits patiently for @JourneymanGeek to realize that he's trolling" :)
 
@allquixotic all week? OPTIMIST!
 
:P
@electronbeam lol
 
@DavidPostill Time for a Root Access editing spree on @JourneymanGeek posts!
 
Wait till I reach home!
Protip: Playing sad Beyonce songs in shopping malls isn't a good idea...
 
!!s/sad//
 
2:38 PM
@DavidPostill Protip: Playing Beyonce songs in shopping malls isn't a good idea... (source)
 
@djsmiley2k windows explorer > network > see if it is there?
@DavidPostill 😉
Neither is Eric Hassle...
Man, this manager has a very bad choice of music
 
You should set up a massively loud sound system in the middle of the mall and play really energetic K-POP songs
 
@BenN You search for Korean EDM on YouTube? O.o
...And now Sam Smith... :/
 
@Rahul2001 I frequently listen to K-POP, it's fantastic
 
Bob
@BenN That sounds like music I might find in the CBD Daiso
 
2:46 PM
(@allquixotic)
 
@Rahul2001 See if what's there?
 
That shows non-domain machines too
 
yeah
 
I would check the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in
 
there must be some way
 
2:48 PM
RX 480 to hit the streets in just two days.
 
See I've only used Quest One AD tool
 
@bwDraco It's not targeted towards me. I'm a person willing to spend $700+ for the top-end graphics card. The RX 480 is for people with a price point of $200 who still want decent. I don't do decent
 
So @electronbeam any news on your job application?
@allquixotic I couldn't help but hear that in the voice of Walter White.
"I don't do decent, Skylar!" I am the man who renders!
2
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy LOL
 
How would I get the AD Users and computers snap in
 
2:51 PM
It's on your domain controller
Alternatively, install the Remote Server Administration Tools package
 
yeah
corp don't like us
so i don't have access to the domain controller directly
but they do seem to have accidently granted us permissions to create machines on the domain at least \o/
 
You should install RSAT then
Anybody with legit domain credentials can use it to browse Active Directory
 
yup, doing so now :) ty
 
Alternatively I have a janky command-line tool
 
So I have this quest tool, but it's very clunky :?<
maybe the native one will be better.
Oh, I've already installed RSAT :O
 
2:56 PM
Then you might need to enable the Windows features
Once you do that, you can open MMC and add the snap-in
 
k cool
hmmmmmmmm
need to run the add/remove programs as administrator
:/
This is where I get confused
 
Are you not local admin?
 
Not logged in as, no
I could switch users, but urgh
 
UAC elevate?
 
how do I do that? ;;/
 
3:00 PM
The UAC prompt should just ask for credentials, no?
 
ah no
it lets me go into features
then says it's unable to select some features when I hit OK
it doesn't try to elevate :/
 
Weird, I guess you'll need to switch user then :/
 
doh
Ok I'll make a note and do it next time i'm logged in
 
God, Drupal 8 sqlite-based takes forever to install on a Docker container. 30 mins and counting... ;_;
 
Ummm.... hellooooo there 512GB HBM2
 
3:07 PM
@qwertyuiop What are those?
 
 
13 mins ago, by That Brazilian Guy
God, Drupal 8 sqlite-based takes forever to install on a Docker container. 30 mins and counting... ;_;
45min and counting... >_<"
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy I talked with the Marketing director a bit this morning, about my portfolio and a few things. right now it seems like I have about a 75% of getting an interview for the position when it opens up
 
I hope it works for you! :D
 
@electronbeam good luck!
 
3:23 PM
good luck!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! my minion has run slapbang into his first issue with different versions of outlook rendering stuff weird
 
Wtf?
 
@Rahul2001 You don't even want to know. You're happier like that. Trust me.
 
3:47 PM
:-o
Oh Burgi has a minion
And I don't mean the yellow ones
 
I don't know if it fits to ask here but
When you update some program or videogame, and the update is 1 GB... Are you subtracting to your Hard Drive space 1GB, or is it that you are changing 1GB of data for another different 1GB of data?
 
@PichiWuana It depends a lot. There's no definite answer.
 
Some programs write over the old version (usually adding just a bit of code/data to the end, effectively), but some add lots more components
 
I mean supposing they do not add new features.
 
That's impossible to know
 
3:58 PM
Then it's probably not adding the full GB, but it depends entirely on the program
 
Sometimes they'll state in small letters next to the download link, or in some dialog
 
Yes, so for example a small update of "bugs fixed" shouldn't be an important subtraction ?
 
Right, that will probably not add too much occupied space
Of course, the installer might unpack the full new version onto your disk temporarily before removing the old one, so you'll need some free space to do the upgrade
 
4:14 PM
I understand
Thank you for your answers
 
Now the metro suddenly decided to break down
And it's 43°C
:(
 
4:35 PM
Oooh, a Visual Studio update
I now pause for thirty minutes of reflection while this installer runs
 
Lol
 
4:53 PM
xD
 
 HOURS=$(( $SECONDS / 60 / 60 ))
SECONDSINHOURS=$(( $HOURS * 60 * 60 ))
DAYS=$(( $HOURS / 24 ))
You'd expect DAYS to generally be a fraction, right?
(in bash)
 
Learning LaTeX. Do I want to print every or most documents I make?
(I know LaTeX output is supposed to be superb when printed, but is it worth it?)
 
how wierd
Nagios is rechecking the tests
but not updating the 'status' result :/
 
welp. Turned off the LUT for my monitors. Turns out the uncalibrated state of the display truly is horrendous.
 
@bwDraco are you a graphic designer, or something?
 
5:04 PM
No, I'm technically a photographer by trade. Hence my displays, despite being consumer-grade, are color-calibrated to sRGB.
This laptop was sold with a wide-gamut display but wide-gamut does not mean color-accurate. It boasted 95% NTSC gamut coverage (which my colorimeter confirms) but the display was very far off sRGB.
 
ah ok
I was wondering if you were in a profession where the colour reproduction matters, or just obcessed.
 
The display covers upwards of 90% of Adobe RGB and 97% of sRGB, for what it's worth.
(These are actual measurements from a ColorMunki Display colorimeter using DisplayCAL software.)
 
5:22 PM
Wow, I went shopping and Visual Studio is still installing. I guess I will continue reflecting
 
@bwDraco That sounds good, but I'd no idea if it actually is
only really looked at colour on old school media while studying graphic design
never really covered it in multimedia at all, which when you concider it, is terribad.
 
6:02 PM
@BenN lol
Hm... coding is fun!
 
Just ripped a huge band-aid off
Wrote a "goodbye" letter to an estranged friend.
That hurt.
 
6:18 PM
aww bugger
i have a flagging ban
 
@Burgi my CMS should be ready within a fortnight... hopefully
 
@Burgi ?
A ban or just ran out of flags?
 
cool
 
I thought we'd gotten rid of flag bans
 
what tech is it?
 
6:19 PM
@Burgi PHP
 
@Mokubai a ban
 
Plus server side includes
I haven't found a good alternative yet...
 
jquery
SSI are waaaaaaay old
 
@Burgi I don't know jquery very well...
@Burgi but... it works!
 
@Burgi Oh. Patience is key I think.
 
6:21 PM
yeah 7 days
i didn't think i had flagged anything for a few days
maybe i had loads in the pending queue and they all got rejected
 
Apache is the best!!
 
i was trying to flag this answer as VLQ
7
A: How do you partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive?

user4553Out of the box, Windows Vista/7 allows the partition of an USB drive. The command is diskpart.

i struggle with guessing between VLQ and NAA
my minion is quite good
he has got the concept of pull requests first time round
my boss still doesn't get it
hmmm....
 
I hardly ever flag stuff...
 
it says i have only had 4 declined flags in the last 7 days
maybe the ban has been manually applied because i keep screwing it up
 
@Burgi There are a few close votes pending i think, and a few declineds. Give it a day or so.
 
6:29 PM
@Mokubai no worries
 
@Burgi I don't think mods can flag ban you, at least I've never seen a way...
 
shrug not to worry i'll just keep away from the review queue for a few days and do real work :P
 
Hm... I've taken up too many projects...
And too little time...
 
You can't flag posts with a score above zero as VLQ
 
What's a VLQ?
 
6:35 PM
Also, that answer is not VLQ; VLQ is for utterly horrible things that need to be destroyed immediately, possibly along with their owners
Very Low Quality flag
 
Oh, Lol
 
its a terrible answer that explains nothing @benn
 
@Burgi Terrible, yes, but it does at least attempt to provide some little morsel of help
 
should have been a comment
maybe i am overly harsh
 
@Burgi rep hungry users...
 
6:45 PM
I would probably comment-ify it if it was up to me, since it's basically a software recommendation
 
@Burgi I thought VLQ said something about severe problems or being basically unsalvageable, but I can't flag an answer to see...
 
the severe problem is the lack of full up information.... ;)
but i take the point
 
> This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.
It seems that there's an age limit on the VLQ flag?
Or maybe it's the computed quality score?
 
Ah, I can't VLQ flag anything with an upvote
 
This answer has no upvotes, but I can't VLQ-flag it (not that I would, I just picked it randomly)
 
6:48 PM
That makes sense I suppose, if it's been upvoted then presumably it's not VLQ
@BenN Could be age too
Maybe went through review. Hmmm. been updooted now
 
@Mokubai Updooted? xD
 
@Rahul2001 It's the noise you get when you click the up/down buttons... "doot"
 
@Mokubai um... I don't?
It's more like a 'tick' sound
Yay! It's raining!
It's pouring!
The old man is snoring!
 
The noise from your mouse when clicking it?
 
maybe mods get sounds?
 
6:56 PM
 
i can just see @Mokubai sat there making noises when he clicks random buttons
 

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