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➜  ~  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
 emacs : Depends: emacs24 or
                  emacs24-lucid but it is not going to be installed or
                  emacs24-nox but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
➜  ~  sudo apt-get purge emacs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'emacs' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.

solving dependencies issues is not easy guys....

Lucio

I would like to know some statistic about How many people broke its computer trying to solve update problems

98% my gut

@Lucio as long as you don't mix repositories (and I'm using testing/unstable/experimental, which breaks a lot) is extremely rare that you find a dependency issue

Lucio

12:34 AM

If your computer would be a person, it would look like this:

@Lucio D:

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1:49 AM

can this get deleted askubuntu.com/q/594/169736

Lucio

enough for today

gnight

@Braiam and no, that won't get deleted

@Lucio why not?

Nathan Osman

2:05 AM

According to the Go docs:

> "An upshot of having command line tools that manipulate an AST is go fix, which will rewrite your source to accommodate API changes in the standard library or builtins if you upgrade your language version. I’ve only done this one, but it worked. I cannot get over how cool this is."

That... is cool.

opinion based askubuntu.com/q/151488/169736, somehow I lost my close vote

too broad askubuntu.com/q/32276/169736

delete votes askubuntu.com/q/166701/169736

Seth

2:22 AM

ohhhh the 31st of July is the day all the Ubuntu One files get deleted.

cc @Rinzwind --^

Seth

2:40 AM

Moderators made it.

@Seth checks the ratio of diamonds vs normal users

2:59 AM

seeing an TV advertisement (@foss loves those) selling me an android tablet while showing a image of a Surface

Journeyman Geek

3:14 AM

lol

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6:07 AM

well 3 stars in one day... i guess it's a good idea. implementing it is going to be a monster though. >.>

on other news, new wallpaper:)

\o/

and this is funny shirt.woot.com/offers/stack-overflow

yay pancakes.

6:29 AM

@Braiam just updated my careers profile... any thoughts? careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/edit/104143#

Rinzwind

@Seth so? stil not reason to spam us with it >:-D

7:08 AM

@hbdgaf 404 here

Mitch

7:32 AM

@Rinzwind Thanks

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