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12:04 AM
God this pasta sauce is amazeballs
Suddenly disabling f.lux makes everything look blue, lol
 
 
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7:27 AM
@DavidFreitag - everything that was installable from that disk has been installed, unfortunately exactly what that included is impossible to say
 
@RoryAlsop Normally EGVA is a fantastic manufacturer. It would seem they have dropped the ball this time...
I suppose you could go around unplugging USB devices until it disappears... :/
 
Adi
Has anybody tried running Windows 7/8.1 completely from a USB 3.0 stick?
Not bootable installation, but a completely portable OS
 
@Adi Hmmm I wonder if I have any 32GB USB 3.0 drives. If I find one I'll test today.
It would likely be very slow.
Yup, I found one, I'll attempt to isntall 7 64 ultimate on it
@Adi Looks like it's pretty easy, actually... lifehacker.com/…
 
Adi
8:06 AM
@DavidFreitag Yup, that's the method I used
@DavidFreitag It is indeed very slow
But why?
The read rate on my USB 3.0 stick is ~ 240 MB/s
and the write rate is about 190 MB/s
 
@Adi Yeah modern sata is three orders of magnitude faster than USB 3.0
And USB3.0 drives generally don't get anywhere near the theoretical maximum, and thumb drives definitely wont.
 
Adi
@DavidFreitag I benchmarked it many times
Those numbers are lower than the advertised maximums
On my normal OS on the laptop, the read/write rate for normal usage is barely reaching 30-40 MB/s for read or write
(according to the resource monitor)
so I don't know why the stick would be slower
am I missing some other factors?
 
@Adi Bandwidth
 
Adi
Oooooh
Of course!
 
Also the controllers on flash drives aren't designed to support sustained read/write at full speed, so they will get hot and eventually die as a result
And many do not have the same fail-safe controls that modern SSDs have
 
8:28 AM
@DavidFreitag Buy a SSD, stick it in a USB enclosure.
 
@TerryChia Doesn't matter you would still be bottlnecked by USB throughput.
 
@DavidFreitag Yeah, but it'll be less likely to die out.
 
That would be an interesting concept though, an M.2 Sata board with a sata->USB 3.0 chip
 
8:44 AM
Although you'd have to put a cable on it because the M.2 boards are too wide to be good for flash drives
 
9:08 AM
@DavidFreitag: or something like the USB SSD devices samsung sells.
 
@JourneymanGeek Linky?
 
@JourneymanGeek Well that's just an external SSD
I mean an SSD in the form factor of a USB Flash Drive
 
9:28 AM
so I'm still trying to solve the whole message count thing, just downloading every single page from the DMZ and hopefully extracting all IDs and looking for doubles will give me some better insights
 
@LucasKauffman: 'message count thing'?
@kalina: Just for the record, I got a 2 day suspension from reviews on SU ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Wat?
 
@JourneymanGeek well I indexed the whole DMZ into a database, but my message count is way off, so I can't create reliable statistics
and I must know how many donuts simon is spreading
I think it's an issue with the IDs
there seem to be duplicates
Btw, I joined the Mastering the Mainframe course, if anyone else is interested, it's a free course and competition offered by IBM which allows you to learn working with zOS and zLinux
 
9:45 AM
@JourneymanGeek is that even possible
I've still not got all my audio software installed
I hate reinstalling
it interferes greatly with my % of productive time per week
 
@kalina isn't it easier to take like a disk image?
 
@LucasKauffman Or use a mainframe :b
 
@kalina you're on Mac right?
 
no
 
Windows?
 
9:50 AM
since when do you restore an image of your OS and stuff on a new machine after changing every single piece of hardware
 
@kalina you can do it, you will just need to update the drivers
 
I thought this was an IT room full of intelligent people who didn't do stupid things like that
 
@kalina It's not the best tho :p
 
@LucasKauffman Yeah but it's way less of a hassle to nuke from orbit and start over
 
@DavidFreitag true
probably you're licensed software would go b0rked as well if you change a significant amount of hardware
 
9:51 AM
@kalina Why don't you have your Windows installation and all of your applications on separate disks?
 
that and because of Windows 10 and me having a Windows8 retail license I had to install Windows 3 times
@DavidFreitag pls who even does that
my "other disks" are full of important information, not applications
 
@kalina Anyone with half a brain?
:P
 
C: has windows and applications
D: has projects samples application content
E: has projects samples application content
F: has projects samples game content
G: has projects samples and lots of free space
 
Well having your windows installation separate from your applications makes reinstalling a breeze
 
H: is an external disk containing projects samples application content game content movies tv shows music
I: is an external disk which is an image of the above
@DavidFreitag pls, windows applications don't work 99% of the time if you don't reinstall them after reinstalling
 
9:54 AM
@kalina I've never had that particular issue...
 
especially complex software with multiple types of DRM
like Cubase
in fact, the only thing I did wrong was not back up a few hundred GB of ISOs that I then had to redownload
 
@kalina what type of music do you create?
 
I'm not answering that
 
@kalina ok :(
 
@LucasKauffman The beep boop beep bwop kind
 
9:57 AM
@DavidFreitag ah electronic music
well I didn't expect her to make punk rock or jazz
 
@LucasKauffman Robot porn is also an acceptable answer
 
maybe she makes the music for the porn movies
did you know Ron Jeremy actually released a CD with porn music, it's quite good
 
and you linked it
who would have guessed
len - steal my sunshine (acapella).wav
 
I'm quite pleased with that.
 
what is it
 
10:02 AM
Motherboard for a new instrument at work
 
what is it
 
For gas mixing and dilution with mass flow controllers
 
what is it
 
Magic
 
...what is it
 
10:06 AM
PC board layout
The red and blue are top and bottom copper, the yellow is top silkscreen, the green are plated holes and the grey is a reference layer.
 
I just read the funniest thing... "2014 Cassette single"
@DavidFreitag I want to pretend I understand what you're talking about (which I 50% do) but I don't want to understand what you're talking about (which I 50% don't) while simultaneously wondering if I even need to understand what you're talking about (which I 99% don't)
 
@kalina You know the motherboard in your computer? Your graphics card? Your audio cards? They all have PC boards (or are PC boards...) that is the design for one.
 
I know
I worked that much out from the picture
 
@kalina yup
 
@JourneymanGeek that seems broken
since when did moderators care what the community thought
 
10:14 AM
lol
Quite a bit!
 
why would you get banned from reviewing in a way the community disagreed with
@JourneymanGeek well I'll believe that when I see evidence, which I haven't seen so far!
 
The community would probably be scandalised.
 
@JourneymanGeek So you got banned for doing a bunch of reviews that people did not agree with...?
 
seriously though, cassette tapes are still a real thing that people choose to use to release music
mind=blown
 
@DavidFreitag: review audits are a bit... wierd
 
10:16 AM
@kalina Three years ago my first car had a cassette deck and that's it
 
@DavidFreitag I don't believe I've ever owned a cassette
 
Granted it was a more rust than metal 1998 Ford Explorer but that's beside the point...
 
@JourneymanGeek not enough rep to load the page
 
1. Its not bloody spam 2. While borderline, its a plausible answer.
 
10:17 AM
@kalina I made a cassette adapter that allowed me to play bluetooth from my phone.
 
Good enough?
 
well you saw the one I got banned for the other day
it's an oddity I've only come across on SU as well
 
@DavidFreitag: My mom owns a relatively recent cassette deck
 
I don't even get reviewed on Arqade
and AU I always pass
 
@JourneymanGeek Yeah but don't you live in Singapore?
 
10:18 AM
@DavidFreitag: Singapore is all modern and stuff ;p
 
so in all honesty, since it's the same review mechanism and the only change is that it's based on your user's votes, the conclusion I've reached is that Super User is reviewed by people who just keep clicking next (I was going to say morons, but we'll go with the more politically correct terminology)
 
@kalina: So... maybe 4 reviews of 200+ in 2 days failed?
 
@JourneymanGeek Well not that I would know anyway, I'm 'murican don't forget :b
 
Oh, I click 'skip' a lot
 
I click skip a lot
primarily when I see spelling mistakes and can't be bothered editing
or I just don't understand the post
 
10:19 AM
You would think SE would implement an autocorrect
But then people would bitch about getting autocucumberred
 
all SE needs to do is autoban anybody who makes the same choice within the first 2 seconds after the button enabling, 10 times in a row
and I mean autoban for a month
so they don't fucking do it more than twice
it won't catch everybody but there are enough people that do it
 
A month is a bit steep, a week would probably get the point across and not ruffle too many feathers
 
@DavidFreitag Steep is good.
 
@kalina Maybe if SE were a nice tea, but alas it is not.
 
SE needs to do something to convince more users to contribute in maintenance without taking the piss
rather than giving all the internet points to the people who answer questions
I thought the idea of SE was to improve the content on the internet, not add more mundane bullshit with spelling mistakes
 
10:22 AM
@kalina Hm my memory of english shorthand is failing me on that one...
 
wow, I'm going to step away from the PC for like 60 seconds and make coffee
because apparently I care too much about this subject
 
mmm coffee
I could use sme
might grab the aeropress and make a cup
 
Coffee is gross
 
@kalina are you actually traveling a lot now with your music? like how often are you still "home"
 
10:52 AM
I have successfully heated the inside of my apartment to 26°C with my body heat alone
 
11:51 AM
@DavidFreitag no going over styrofoam with fingernails?
 
@TildalWave I'm completely OK with that, but nails on a chalkboard makes me want to die
 
or that, same thing for me
just thinking about it makes me shiver
 
Yeah pretty much
 
 
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1:01 PM
PSA: U2F tokens for $5. yubico.com/github-special-offer/github-yubikey-special-offer /cc @tylerl since I know you have interest in U2F.
 
those only work on github
from what I hear
"universal" not so universal
 
@AviD Not from the Twitter grapevine.
 
@TerryChia yes from the twitter grapevine
 
@AviD Really? I saw claims that their universal.
 
@AviD Link?
 
1:05 PM
nevermind. I mistook genuine answer for Tayler swift snark.
ignore me.
I spent the morning - and much of last night - restoring my main machine.
 
@AviD Ooof.
 
Well I can't buy one anyway, that page is just sitting at a spinny windows page
 
ran out of disk, cleared some backups, didnt notice the machine crashed from lack of disk, boom backups gone.
 
Nope, just pebkac...
 
not the real backups, just the current processes.
 
1:07 PM
@AviD :/
Anyone wanna buy a oneplus one for $200?
 
also, somehow I have to login to all the services again... :-(
probably cuz I tried cleaning up my disk
frak me.
 
@AviD Or you super logged yourself out
 
@DavidFreitag heh. something like that.
 
> I'd like to receive infrequent but entertaining email updates and special offers from Yubico.
LOL
 
Afternoon all
was a nice morning for more walking :)
 
1:18 PM
@TerryChia Thanks for the link :D
So I just bought a Nexus 5X in anticipation of Google Fi.
@AviD What happened?
 
1:48 PM
@RоryMcCune you'll be getting all fit and that
 
2:05 PM
@RoryAlsop yeah definitely finding it easier to go up/down hills than it was
 
Yeah. Thank's for that.
"Oh look. We decided to just go for a quick walk. It's not bad. We happened upon this."
 
@ScottPack heh, that's a trig point :) they go on top of all the larger UK hills
 
2:22 PM
1 hour ago, by AviD
ran out of disk, cleared some backups, didnt notice the machine crashed from lack of disk, boom backups gone.
and then I managed to screw it up further, by trying to move my user directory off the C: drive.
seems mostly okay now, except it looks like I really screwed up IE.
inb4 "wasnt IE already screwed up"
no. shuddup.
 
2:37 PM
@AviD schoolboy error
never move the user directory
it rarely ends well
 
It used to work just fine in XP :P
 
3:17 PM
@AviD I still can't believe you actually use IE
 
3:47 PM
@AviD Install Windows 10, and you will use Edge.
(IE is still there, but not in the start menus.)
 
4:31 PM
@DavidFreitag I bought a 6P through the play store, cancelled the order, and then re-bought the same thing though the Fi signup flow so that I could spread the cost out over a number of months instead of an up-front lump sum.
 
5:16 PM
@LucasKauffman perspectives...
 
5:49 PM
evening infidels
 
installing RSAT on windows 10 should not be a difficult task
MS silently failing the install is seriously dumb
 
6:07 PM
aand the answer is that if the EN-US language pack isn't install, it just silently fails
<sigh>
 
 
2 hours later…
8:23 PM
@tylerl How did you manage to do that? I couldn't find that...
 
yawns
 
@tylerl BTW can you use some of your Google hookups to get my invite pushed along? :b
omnomnom, pretzel brownies
 
8:48 PM
what was the point
 
oh that again, I thought they removed it
@kalina none that I'd know of
 
 
2 hours later…
10:40 PM
@DavidFreitag fi.google.com/buy-devices -- you have to have your invite already I think, though.
maybe.
@DavidFreitag I had to wait in line like all the rest of you commoners.
I also have to pay full price for the damn phone.
 
I got my Fi invite last week. I also got tired of waiting and re-upped with AT&T a few weeks before.
/me sighs
 
@ScottPack had my fi invite a couple of months ago but sat on it because I was pretty sure new phones were going to be announced at the end of Sept.
 

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