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10:00 PM
The other 1% will go "meh I format before I use it anyway"
@Flyk heh, you have made the mistake of expecting that the vast majority knows what a 'reuters' is.
 
sigh
 
Unless Facebook publicly denounces Lenovo, nothing big will happen.
Even then, most people will probably say, "Lenovo, what's a lenovo..."
 
@DavidFreitag 'MErkans!!
 
"This controversy couldn’t come at a worse time for Lenovo as the company faces growing competition from Microsoft’s Surface line of PCs. Those computers, by the way, do not come with adware whatsoever."
 
@DavidFreitag "I dont care about Lenovo, I buy Thinkpads".
 
10:02 PM
SHAMELESS PLUG
Microsoft paid money for that line
you know it to be true
 
@Flyk What plugs aren't shameless?
 
it's late and the first three things that I came up with were also shameless
that doesn't mean that you're correct, it merely means I'm too tired to continue
 
@AviD no those ones are especially shameless.
 
yeah, I shouldnt be internetting so late at night.
 
sink plugs
I know it's not relevant, but I am correct and that's what actually matters
 
10:04 PM
@Flyk If that's what helps you sleep at night.
 
it will
I won an argument on the internet
that will help me sleep for months.
"hahaha that time I won that argum....zzzZZZ"
 
Did all that pizza make you sleepy?
 
I have half left
for breakfast tomorrow
 
I really need some nourishment now. It's been a bit too long.
 
too long?
 
10:08 PM
@Flyk Excessively long.
 
incredibly long?
 
I made so much food that it took me an hour to eat it all. Think I might try making a bit less next time. Making 3/4kg food or something for one person is a bit overkill.
 
No, not that long.
 
@DavidFreitag so not excessively long?
 
MIT BENZIN!!!!!!
 
10:09 PM
@Arperum er... yes, eating it all is also overkill
every thought about maybe... saving some?
 
@Flyk It's excessive, not incredible.
 
I ordered a large pizza and only ate half of it
what the fuck, I typed "penis" instead of pizza first time around
 
@Flyk That's crazytalk. Not eating food is not my style.
 
@Flyk hahahaha
 
10:10 PM
dial-a-penis.com, obviously
 
@Arperum that's like one of my least favourite things to do
 
hello, I would like a large penis with no cheese and a fresh scented fragrance
 
@Flyk I would hope so too
why would you order one that wasn't those things
 
@RoryAlsop Not eating food? Yea, that seriosuly sucks.
 
@Flyk sorry, we're all out of that, all we got is anchovy.
 
10:11 PM
well, you could be after a small penis, a gigantic penis
maybe you're into certain fetishes, not every guy likes footjobs
 
saywhatnow?
 
maybe you want a guy that sucks toes
 
@Flyk o...kay...
 
too much?
 
A bit.
 
10:12 PM
yet you were talking about anal sex earlier and that was ok
unreal
the hypocrisy in society is just off the scale
double standards is one of the few things that actually turns up to 11
@DavidFreitag fishy
I don't like anchovies
or... fish in general, actually
or meat in many instances
except small servings of certain meats
 
I've never had anchovies, but I suspect I would hate it
 
like chicken
or a medium steak
 
What did you get a cheese pizza?
 
actually, medium-welldone
@DavidFreitag veggie pizza
with cheese, and peppers, and tomato, and onions
 
oh crap.
 
10:15 PM
Eugh
 
@Flyk I don't think I was
 
you guys suck.
 
@AviD toes
 
screw you guys, I'm goin home.
 
@RoryAlsop the conversation happened
 
10:15 PM
too late for this crap.
 
@RoryAlsop HAHAHAHA
 
@AviD you are home, aren't you?
 
@AviD lol
 
@Flyk weren't you the one talking about it?
 
nearly fell out of my chair
 
10:15 PM
yknow what?
 
@RoryAlsop no, I was denying that it was even a possibility
 
This room was placed in timeout for 1 minute; the topic of this room is "A bunch of dangerous sociopaths with a long history of violence. I don't understand how you keep forgetting that." - conversation should be limited to that topic.
yeah, thats right, I went there.
now shush.
 
Hang on, no, maybe it was @Simon's ex-dad
 
@RoryAlsop, you should be ashamed.
I'm not angry, just disappointed.
 
Hang on, no, maybe it was @Simon's ex-dad
 
10:16 PM
hehehe
 
I would love to know what goes through @AviD's mind when he turns up in chat
thanks @AviD! You've reset my flood timer
 
okay @Rory go stand in the corner of the stage with your mask on.
 
now I can continue as though nothing ever happened
 
@RoryAlsop Yes it was him, something about 6 or something, I can't remember
 
also, I feel oppressed
 
10:17 PM
@Flyk ?
@Flyk lol you always do
 
@AviD is abusing his powers for absolutely no reason at all
 
you're not happy unless you're feeling oppressed
 
this wasn't even the bad conversation, you didn't time out the anal sex conversation earlier
 
@Flyk HELP HELP I'M BEING REPRESSED!
 
FIGHT THE POWAH!
 
10:17 PM
why would you timeout this conversation?
it's completely uncalled for
 
@Flyk thats the best kind
@Flyk I WASNT HERE
 
I would have been so happy if you had timed out the conversation earlier
I was completely trying to avoid such a eugh topic
 
the timeout was punishment for that
 
again, that'll be twice this week
 
@AviD that's not acceptable
you've punished the victim, not @Iszi
 
10:18 PM
@Flyk hey I PUNISH WHEN I GET HERE
damn I dont like punishing
 
@Flyk It didn't really seem like it, you two kept going on about it
 
I've basically been double punished
what you just did was rescue a drowning kitten from a river and then stamp on it
 
you're grounded young lady! Now go to your chatroom and think about what we've done!
 
I hope you feel like the big man
 
I always get those wrong.
 
10:19 PM
@Flyk You say that like that's not what you are supposed to do.
 
@DavidFreitag animal cruelty is unacceptable
unless they attack you, and then you just kill them
 
@Flyk But, but, but - weren't you killing kittens earlier :-)
 
Yeah that was fucked up.
 
@Flyk I agree. If I wasnt starving I would edit @DavidFreitag into submission.
 
@RoryAlsop figuratively
 
10:20 PM
too hungry right now.
 
@AviD ...Gigity?
 
@Flyk (I wasn't watching, in case that's what you were thinking)
 
@AviD dial-a-penis.com
 
now behaaaave.
 
I am behaving
 
10:20 PM
@Flyk too many syllables anyway - or in other words:
that's a bit of a mouthful
 
@AviD Yeah, @Flyk ordered a large vegetarian earlier today.
 
If you would like an example of me not behaving, let me know
 
@AviD oh, the teeth, the horror
 
@AviD womanizing prick (in the video)
damn, that was the longest 11 second anti spam timer ever
 
10:21 PM
@Flyk Oh come on, like they didn't know what was going on.
 
I was like OH NOES HE MIGHT THINK I MEAN HIM D:
 
It takes two to make a beast with two backs.
 
Oh, isn't this not the first time Comodo have messed up?
 
@Flyk heh - no
 
people should petition to have them removed as a CA
there's your QOTW for this week
 
it's ok, I was only briefly trying to be on topic before swinging back around to the next train crash
 
Oh, huh. Funny story. If you leave a 24V solenoid on for three days it melts.
 
I am going to pretend I know what a solenoid is and say "lol of course it does, silly!"
 
@Flyk There are many different kinds of solenoids, but in this case it's essentially a magnet coil that moves a chunk of steel inside a larger chunk of steel to either allow or prevent air flow.
AKA a big resistor with steel bits stuck on it
 
what would that be used for
 
10:32 PM
Industrial flow automation
Like mixing and diluting gas
 
which is what?
you know what, nevermind
 
lol
That's a bit like asking 'what would a transistor be used for'
 
laugh away
I am not completely sure what a transistor would be used for
 
@Simon - I found a picture showing the correct use of pls
@Flyk altering a large thing under the control of a small thing - basically
where things in this case are voltage or current (depending)
 
I am missing too much prerequisite knowledge to grasp what you're saying
 
10:38 PM
Dammit - ingur has me:
@Flyk all your amplification works by small signal controlling large signal
transistors
 
@Flyk In the most basic terms possible: A transistor can be used as a switch.
 
the biggest problem I have in my life at the moment is that when I bounce out my riff in mono, half of it disappears
but it sounds so lovely in stereo
 
(there's other stuff, like how computers work, but then you get into the transistors being digital, not analogue any more)
 
and I hate myself
 
@Flyk see, I have no idea what 'bounce out' means
in this context anyway
 
10:40 PM
I know that CPUs are packed full of transistors
 
@Flyk In that case the transistors are being used as switches in a massive series of logic
 
@Flyk well, all they do is take some inputs, and decide what the output should be based on them
 
@RoryAlsop well <instrument> is making a noise live, bouncing it out is basically exporting that single instrument as an audio file and reimporting it so that you're not generating it on the fly while playing it back
 
some make clock cycles
others take memory as inputs, or external stimuli etc
@Flyk oh, ok - in which case, surely bouncing out to mono would automagically remove half of the signal by default
 
@RoryAlsop Usually you use a piece of quartz crystal combined with a DPLL though ;]
 
10:42 PM
@RoryAlsop sure but it mixes the left and right channels, and any negative phase correlation results in phase cancellation
 
@DavidFreitag aye - last time I designed circuits, I had an array of 64k NAND gates to do it from
 
it's an amateur mistake caused by overindulgence in the multisaw worship in this instance
 
@Flyk lol
 
I don't think I've ever made a clock source from nothing but discrete logic...
 
@DavidFreitag I loved VLSI design, back in the day. Optimisation was fun
 
10:43 PM
I will admit that I also started the music conversation to offset how stupid I must currently look to anybody understanding what a transistor is
 
Implementing logic in as few gates as possible
 
@RoryAlsop They have that today for FPGA's in HDL and Verilog
 
@Flyk almost no-one needs to know what a transistor actually does, other than it can be a switch, or an amplifier :-)
 
especially since you're probably describing an arrangement probably not all that dissimilar from my audio routing setup but on a nano scale
 
@DavidFreitag FPGA's rock
@Flyk probably
:-)
 
10:44 PM
@RoryAlsop ASICs rock even more
 
this track has been a nightmare right since the start
 
@Flyk Well it worked because I feel very left out of that conversation
 
@DavidFreitag well I feel very left out of your electronics conversation!
and the security conversations
most of the programming conversations
 
@DavidFreitag yeah - unfortunately I moved away from circuit design before getting into that. Well, I still design circuits for effects pedals etc, but they are reasonably large scale :-)
@Flyk I tend to think you are bluffing on this one. I have seen your tweets, oh Sailor Twift
 
@Flyk I tried to pull you into the loop :]
 
10:46 PM
@DavidFreitag and I just didn't get it :(
@RoryAlsop sigh
you know, you're all just setting yourself up for a major disappointment
thinking that I'm blonde
and 26
and a country artist
 
@Flyk Nah we already know you've got black hair.
 
shudder
 
and a truck
:-)
 
and a truck
 
My OCD is not happy with this picture
 
10:48 PM
Do pickup trucks exist in England?
 
@DavidFreitag oh yeah - they're all American, though
pretty much :-)
 
@RoryAlsop Toyota Hilux
 
Interesting. I didn't think you chaps would buy them
@Flyk Beastmobile.
 
Okay, the Hilux, and there's an Isuzu, and the Nissan ones that all seem to be sponsored by Animal etc
@DavidFreitag Nah - mine is the Beastmobile
 
@RoryAlsop Finally get around to buying a Marauder did you?
 
10:50 PM
@DavidFreitag They don't really have a purpose here. But loads of kiteboarders have F350's
@DavidFreitag hahahaha - no
Still my nutter Litchfield Forester
imagine a black one of these, with black everything, and another 80 bhp:
this video is pretty much what persuaded me
 
Hey, cool. My vibration answer got accepted.
Eww 5th gear
 
It's like Top Gear, but with real racing drivers
 
@RoryAlsop Heh, you drive one of those on this side of the puddle and everyone'll call you a toolshed.
 
@DavidFreitag maybe so, but it will do 195mph
And 0-60 is now just under 4 seconds
 
@RoryAlsop It's like top gear except not nearly as good in any way.
 
10:53 PM
and I can take the kids camping for weeks at a time with it
and I can fit all of Metaltech's gear on tour in it
@DavidFreitag mostly true - yes
except for Tiff and Vicky - who are amazing
 
I'll take my Mazda over that any day. Even though it's useless if there is even a single flake of snow on the road
And so what if it will only go 135mph, it'll get 25 miles to the gallon while doing it.
 
@DavidFreitag I do like teh MX5 (or Miata) on the track, but after having various sports cars, the Forester is by far the most fun car I have ever owned. And the only cars I have enjoyed driving more have been Ariel Atoms, Caterhams, Formular Jaguar Palmer etc
 
25 miles to the gallon isn't even good
 
@Flyk At 135mph?
 
@Flyk I get 35-ish. Or 8 or 9 on a track day. But that's the least of my worries on a track day - I also need to spend a grand on tyres and the same again on brake bits every time
This one is fun. Not my kind of music or driving, but funny:
drift forester
 
10:57 PM
@RoryAlsop I want a Caterham kit car so bad, but there is absolutely no point. Nobody does track days here.
 
turbo diesel, I get ~55
 
@DavidFreitag here some folks use them as their regular commute. Even in the rain
 
@Flyk At 135mph?
 
at 135mph I'm usually looking at the road
 
@RoryAlsop Nope, that's never going to happen.
@Flyk Pansy.
 
10:59 PM
the average since I last reset it is 55mpg and I spend the bulk of my time at around ~100mph
certainly >90
 
@DavidFreitag Our carpark at work is amusingly like a muddy field, so my car is great fun. Even here, one guy takes a Caterham to work, and one guy alternates between his GTR and his Atom
 
Dude the atom is so awesome.
Is it the V8 one?
 
@DavidFreitag yeah. Did I show you my vid of spinning one out amusingly
 
wtb an electric car with range
 
I think so
 
11:00 PM
pref enough range to be useful to me
 
@Flyk They don't sell diesel cars here, only trucks. Well except for the jetta TDI
most gas stations do not sell diesel
 
@Flyk wtb a Tesla
 
@RoryAlsop not enough range :(
 
And here diesel is a dollar more per gallon than gas
 
@DavidFreitag wow - I assumed the US was mostly set up for diesel. Just due to the vast distances, large engines etc
@Flyk yet....
@DavidFreitag crazy
 
11:01 PM
@RoryAlsop hahaha, no not even remotely
 
if the tesla d could do 1000km on a charge I'd have ordered one already
@RoryAlsop hardly, diesels are a dying thing
 
@DavidFreitag I think I just saw the stereotype of trucks and pickups commuting hundreds of miles to work along 8-lane highways
 
governments, after spending so long getting people to get diesels are now actively looking at banning them
 
@Flyk not in Europe. Audi have made them more powerful than most petrol engines, and more efficient
 
@RoryAlsop uh
paris and london are looking at banning diesels
 
11:03 PM
@RoryAlsop You may be thinking big rigs, those are all diesel. The vast majority of people drive cars or SUV/crossover.
Since pickup trucks are pretty damn expensive right now nearly nobody drives them
 
once certain types of car are banned in big cities the market will just bottom out
 
@Flyk ban buses
 
it will suffer the same problem as electric cars: what's the point if they're not fit for purpose
 
that will get rid of most of the horrible diesel fumes
 
Why would they want to ban diesel? Thats like the best mpg out there..
 
11:04 PM
but it has emissions that are far worse than CO2 and CO
 
@DavidFreitag because they spew seriously nasty shit as fumes
 
@RoryAlsop Convert them all to electric trolleys
 
especially when a little bit old, as the tuning goes off they burn badly
@DavidFreitag Ahh - in Edinburgh that is a bad thing. We have a tram. 'The Slug' - and it cost us millions. And is crap
in every way
it doesn't go anywhere useful
It replaced a perfectly good bus (in fact the best rated bus route in the city)
It has screwed traffic
 
Someone needs to just invent a teleporter already.
 
it has put countless businesses out of, well, business
@DavidFreitag Oh, I have. I just don't know how to build it
 
11:06 PM
@RoryAlsop With SCIENCE!
 
@DavidFreitag I tried, but Aperture just weren't listening. They said they already had something...
 
@RoryAlsop Yeah they were too busy toying around with asbestos.
Off to class, see ya tomorrow \o
 
seeya
 
right... timezones
makes sense
yay for a dynamic range of 12db
 
@Flyk nice
and rare these days
I'm assuming you are talking about a track, and not just your kit
 
11:11 PM
bleh, it's a half finished idea that I keep getting stuck in my head
I do try and aim for a dynamic range of 12db though, it influences my arrangement a lot
but after mastering it's usually <8
and that's sad
 
@Flyk Still, you see much lower
 
oh sure
just dropping out the kick and ensuring you've got some silence in the track every now and again does wonders for how you arrange the rest of the track
and nice drop sounds epic, but sometimes silence sounds just as epic
 
@Flyk but not like this:
 
lol
that track has a dynamic range of 0db though
even by modern standards that's shocking
 

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