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Yeah, that's what I would suggest.

Though in practice, when I'm doing client / server stuff, I often tend to jump back and forth between the two so much I get dizzy :P

12:42 AM

Well, I mean... it's json. And I already wrote a game loop. How hard can it be? don't answer that.

Lol.

sometimes I don't get how this website works

the newest questions page will say one question w/ new activity, so I'll refresh and nothing shows up

Seriously though, it's a repetetive json post/reply. So, multi-game server will take some work, but two player is nearly there.

@NathanOsman ;) Will do

making me assume that it's just a comment or answer

then I'll go into a question and back out and suddenly there will be a new question

12:47 AM

@Zacharee1 cacheing i would suspect

@hbdgaf maybe

Chrome has been having problems with cookies and the like lately

oh my chromium is SOO broken, but it's fine. i think i found where mine is getting its ass whipped. when i try to search history evidently there's unicode in a title bar or something that is defeating it.

suffice it to say, history search is broken.

For those wondering about which video @NathanOsman was talking about earlier being better than George's, it's my Raspberry Pi 2 unboxing/review video

1:02 AM

o/ @jrg

Man. The difference in audio clarity this new mic has given me is crazy

Just met my classmate from high school at a pho restaurant. Like what are the odds

@Serg wow

Kinda a fail on Google's part, they've removed support for Adobe/Macromedia Flash, but it's required for adding annotations & stuff on Youtube >.>

It's a trap. I had a HS classmate show up at my job a while back.

1:06 AM

@RPiAwesomeness that's a lol

Quite

Macromedia though? Don't call it that. It's been Adobe for 10 years

@hbdgaf how's that a trap ? Im surely not about to be kidnapped by vietnamese mafia am i ?

@Zacharee1 Ah. Shows how much I care :P

@Serg Probably not. It's just too unlikely for me to say "Hey, this should be my comfort zone"

1:08 AM

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@RPiAwesomeness lol

I still dont get why they removed support for linux version of flash. Like , what ,it's too expensive or something ?

@Serg no one was buying it, duh

:}

@Serg You should be glad! It's a piece of junk (at least in terms of security) anyways & people really should be moving to HTML5 & WebGL

@RPiAwesomeness TRUE DAT

Buying how ?isn't flash free for Windows to dow load and install ?

1:10 AM

@Serg :P

@Serg you have an interesting typing style currently

@RPiAwesomeness i can deal with html 5 now. But once it came out it was a cpu hoag

@Zacharee1 im on mobile. Its hard to type on a small a$$ screen

@Serg You're excused :p

I'm using that too much, aren't I?

HI @hbdgaf

Mateo

@Serg they charge system makers, and charge to make the content with the pro versions - we just take it for granted because they gave out the runtime to hook people in

somebody was pinging me?

1:13 AM

I pinged you to say hi because I saw you enter. There is no urgent need here.

@jrg @hbdgaf except to chat it out

Somebody pinged me earlier today, but I can't find it.

@Mateo oh...that makes sense.... kinda

@jrg Probably nothing to worry about

Yeah, probably.

1:14 AM

@jrg wasn't me bindblottyandcajole.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/…

lol

?

When did SE start out?

It began as Stack Overflow in 2009.

They later expanded to Server Fault and Super User.

I just started college in falls 09

...and then the Stack Exchange network was born.

Originally it began as a paid option but then they opened up Area51 and the rest is history.

1:18 AM

Stack Overflow came before Stack Exchange? What was it the overflow for?

SO was so awesome that now there's an SE for everything that has enough users. Did I abbreviate too much? I think that explains it.

I probably go broke if i eat pho every day

@Serg you seem addicted

@hbdgaf got the abbreviations, but why was it called Stack Overflow?

Yes sir i am. I uses to work at one pho place and eat it every day

and what's the shortname for server fault?

@Serg I don't blame you. It looks good

@Serg I'll have to find a Vietnamese restaurant

1:25 AM

that's pretty great. going to save it as a joke for later

sf.se

thx

Server Fault

hmm

I just wanna say , whoever created SO and proposed AU is awesome.

@Serg definitely

I'm glad I found this place

It's very organized and people seem to know what they're doing

high moderation, so no annoying ads for Brother Printer hotlines...

It's nice to see new people come in.

Ironic

There was spam for brother printers earlier today

1:29 AM

as a mid-4 digit user ID holder, it's nice to see people talk about what we've build together as "organized" and "high moderation, so no annoying spam"

Mid 4 digits here too. So, yes. It is nice to hear.

> 4 years, 11 months

wow.

@Serg That's why I said that

that's a long time ago.

yes it is @jrg

1:30 AM

I don't remember what I was doing 5 hours ago, let alone 4.11 years ago

@jrg more like 4.92 years

Im just a bit more that a year here. Still long way to go

I was talking about --> askubuntu.com/users 5768 <-- that

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A: Optimizing Boot-up

From what I'm seeing I think that you might be going as fast as you can. About the only thing I could think of doing would be to make a custom kernel specifically for your hardware, but I don't know how much of a speed boost that would give you.

i apparently was writing silly answers about boot speeds that didn't help anyone.

@jrg story of my AU life

1:32 AM

Wait - are we talking digits for Ask Ubuntu?

I'm a one-digit user :)

Bring the thunder.

askubuntu.com/u/5

And now we know why we love you.

I still remember when the site launched. I was at my keyboard pressing F5 repeatedly until the registration page came up and I quickly grabbed a really low user ID.

...and asked the very first question.

@NathanOsman Nice

1:34 AM

@NathanOsman made history yo

I jumped in mid game and just didn't lose much ground.

And here's when chat launched:

Sep 29 '10 at 17:20, by George Edison

Is this the new place to hang out?

(Don't be confused by the name, that's still me :P)

Not sure I would have been able to forgive you for using Thomas Edison. George Edison is okay though.

Yeah.

I started under my Chinese name Xieerqi

1:42 AM

I've seen lots of people come and go here on chat over the years.

Looking back over the transcript reminds me of just how long ago that was.

@Serg That's interesting. Why the switch to a more Russian sounding name?

@hbdgaf it's my real name. I figured if i wanna put my au profile on a resume, i should actually make it official and professional and stuff

Q: Boot stuck at "Assuming drive cache: write through"

Yeah, this so isn't going on a resume.

@Serg I'm not always as nice as I could be, but that is definitely a good reason for the switch.

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I've just built a PC and have tried to install Ubuntu on it. After booting from my HD, I'm presented with a menu with "Ubuntu", "Advanced Options", etc.. So I select Ubuntu, and it starts to boot, but the following few lines appear on the screen, followed by a flashing "_", and nothing more happe...

Time to go home

@hbdgaf not that i have that much to show on my resume, but at least au is some real world troubleshooting experience

Seth

1:51 AM

@NathanOsman I thought it was '08.

@NathanOsman I haven't been here as long as you and I feel the same way looking them over :(

Am I the only one that misses some of those days?

It makes me sad to think of it sometimes..

@Seth Oh, you're right.

I got mixed up there. I joined in 2009.

It was already about a year old at that point.

Then how did you get 5?

Homeless Drug Addict VS Homeless Father(Social Experiment)

Oh, I was referring to Stack Overflow.

Ask Ubuntu didn't launch until 2010.

Seth

wow this was... something else.

►

I can't tell if it took my last faith in humanity or gave it back.

although it also makes me wonder how legit these "social experiments" are.

2:11 AM

Some of them are odd, but there's a deck stack in that one. On the homeless drug addict side, they used an already had tips cup. So, it's subliminally saying "someone already gave this money" where if you look - in the father one it's empty from the gate. The first dollar is the hardest I think.

Seth

@hbdgaf oh that's probably true, I noticed that but I didn't really notice it, if you know what I mean. Good point.