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12:00 AM
Okay. Will do :)
 
wow, worldbuilding is an awesome stack site
 
1:04 AM
haha, had to reset my wifi connection because of a bug/error and for a moment couldn't figure out why the AP didn't show up. Then I remembered it was hidden.
 
... 2001 a Space Odyssey.
... Wut.
What on earth did I just spend 2 hours an 20 minutes watching? o.O
 
I'm wondering the same thing...
 
Man, my dad said it was weird - didn't think it'd be that bad
 
Your Dad put it lightly :)
 
Basically that last hour is pure wut
And a crap ton pure brain insertbadwordhere-ery
 
1:09 AM
@RPiAwesomeness amazing, I have it on laserdisk ;)
 
@Mateo xD
 
@Mateo Now that is retro.
 
I have a new Numero Uno on the DNWEA list.
 
although I usually skip through the boring parts...
 
@Mateo Good GOSH. Those things are massive.
 
1:12 AM
and a few other movies, I'll take a pic
 
I still have some cassette tapes somewhere. Does that work?
I'm too young to remember records.
 
We have floppies ... does that count?
 
Yup, I remember those.
 
We also have records ... but no player :P
 
I'm even old enough to remember the 5 1/4" floppies.
 
1:13 AM
I remember floppies barely
 
Couple of my relatives still have a record player.
 
Those were notoriously unreliable.
 
@NathanOsman The truly floppy floppies?
 
Yup.
We even had a computer without a hard drive. It had two floppy floppy drives. One for the OS and one for documents.
 
@NathanOsman Whoooaaaa. Don't get too old on us, we might start making modem noises.
 
1:14 AM
I have a CD, does that count? :P
 
@Mateo So you actually enjoy that movie?
@Seth :D
 
I'm not as old as I sound. Growing up, I was always using technology long after it was obselete.
 
^^
 
@RPiAwesomeness I like the middle part...
 
@Seth I'm going to have to save some CDs to show my kids what they were.
 
1:15 AM
@NathanOsman I should have saved some floppies, cassettes, a VHS tape, maybe a record.. Oh well.
at the time it was just eating up space.
 
the space scene right until he disconnects the computer
 
@NathanOsman I had (not sure if I still do have) an Ubuntu 11.10 disk. I should keep that and try and load it up when 21.10 comes out ...
 
the rest...
 
@Mateo That's somewhat interesting, I suppose...probably the best part, yes
 
@RPiAwesomeness I have an official 9.10 disk :D
 
1:16 AM
@Seth Whoa
 
@RPiAwesomeness I've got a dual-sided 8.04 DVD :)
 
Great scott. I feel so non-l33t
 
@Seth I still have loads of VHS tapes lying around.
 
@NathanOsman Oh yeah. PLENTY of those.
We have the original TRON on tape. Now that is a retro movie worth watching.
 
they made a sequil 2010 did you see that one?
 
1:17 AM
@Mateo They did?
 
@RPiAwesomeness Wasn't that the first 3D-animated movie?
 
Now with more Michael Bay
@NathanOsman I believe so. Or rather, first to use CGI
 
Ah, right.
 
has john lithgow in it
 
'cause I think Toy Story was the first totally animated movie
@Mateo Have you seen it?
 
1:18 AM
Oh right.
 
@RPiAwesomeness at one point, don't remember much from that one
 
Ah
@Mateo It came out in the 1980s.
9180s facepalm
 
before I was born even...
 
Yeah...
 
1:19 AM
A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.
 
just in time for tv airtime ;P
 
A Big Huge Space baby happened.
 
@RPiAwesomeness sounds like an ISO specification :P
 
@Seth ikr
 
Supper, AFK.
 
1:20 AM
@RPiAwesomeness oh yeah... haha. hm.
 
@NathanOsman I should go get that.
@NathanOsman We don't have a TV so no way of watching the few we had left, so we just threw them out..
I did keep a copy of Chariots of Fire though, I'm definitely going to find a way to watch that sometime.
 
there they are, my lasedisks!
 
NICE!
 
and the only good versions of starwars that geroge didn't touch afterwards...
 
@Mateo You have the original Star Wars? Aren't those rare?
 
1:23 AM
probably
 
@Mateo Oooo. The Hunt for Red October. That's a awesome movie :D
 
one of my favs
 
@Seth Good movie :)
 
@RPiAwesomeness the book was really good too
 
It was indeed
 
1:25 AM
very good example of a good book to movie translation
 
I tend to like books better - I don't think I've run into a video adaption of something better than the original book
But that was very well done
Kinda like The Giver (one of my all time favorites)
 
Books are almost always better.
 
@Seth Indeed
I think my Grandpa has a VHS copy of the original Star Wars - not sure if it's the edited one or not.
 
hm, I don't thing Nemesis was ever on laserdisk... I think maybe episode one starwars might have made it strangely
 
@Mateo Nemesis was almost certainly not on laserdisk.
tbh I didn't even know laserdisks were a thing until today!
 
1:28 AM
otherwise I have all the startrek movies
@RPiAwesomeness well, the big thing is the quality they had at the time vs vhs
and tapes wear out
 
Better?
 
I think I have the star trek tapes as well...
oh, and something with the audio makes some people really like them - kindof like records
> Unlike DVDs, which carry Dolby Digital audio in digital form, LaserDiscs store Dolby Digital in a frequency modulated form within a track normally used for analog audio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc
 
> "The last title released in North America was Paramount's Bringing Out the Dead in 2000."
Wow, they were still producing them in 2000???
> "Production of LaserDisc players continued until January 14, 2009, when Pioneer stopped making them."
O_o
 
yeah, they even had a player that had a smaller place for a dvd and could play both
 
1:44 AM
Whoa...
 
Hmm.... not bad.
 
nice price
and 5 fans, nice
@TheX looks good to me
 
Yeah. I tend to be a bit more cautious about things with low number of reviews (6 isn't much) but for that price it's not bad.
@TheX Any reviews on YT?
 
probably depends on the build - but at least you are putting your own power supply in - so no worries on that
 
1:58 AM
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Q: Merging launchpad + stackexchange

LudenticusI know it's been asked for a lot of times. But here it goes again: Please, merge my askubuntu/launchpad account with the stackexchange account. I began using launchpad back in 2010, but now I'd prefer the stackexchange integration. My question is: why weren't all askubuntu accounts automatically...

 
@RPiAwesomeness nah, doesn't look like it from e-bay, I think it is was the special box sets that were big money
 
Yeah. :(
 
or rather asking for big money ;P
 
2:13 AM
@NathanOsman Still around?
 
Yes.
 
@AskUbuntuMeta ah, not talking about the sites.
 
Okay. I thought I had a C++ question but I think I figured it out
 
I'm a cardboard programmer?
 
2:16 AM
It's a term used for someone who you talk to about a problem but figure it out as you're explaining the problem.
 
I'm just "a cardboard guy".
:)
 
I see. Well, can you explain the proper way to create an overloaded function?
I can't quite figure it out - it's one of the assignments for the chapter.
 
Very...gamer-esque :)
 
2:18 AM
@RPiAwesomeness An overloaded function is one with multiple signatures. Two or more functions with the same name but different types or number of arguments.
 
 
int doSomething(int val);
int doSomething(float val);
...for example.
 
So, here is the stereo - pioneer fan ;)
 
@Mateo Whoa.
 
Has a motorized volume knob...
 
2:19 AM
@RPiAwesomeness that is what I do with my PC, much to my wifes displeasure...
 
@TheX :D
@NathanOsman So, how would I use that? Do you declare it prior and then make a function that does whatever with (in that case) val?
 
You can just create both functions and the compiler will usually know which one to call based on what you pass to it.
 
I see.
 
int doSomething(int val) { return val * 2; }
float doSomething(float val) { return val * 2; }
 
@NathanOsman lol, did you see the tweet from @jrg
 
2:21 AM
One important thing to note: they must have different parameters.
@Mateo Yes :)
 
Any idea what's causing this?
 
So the functions cannot differ only by the return type.
 
average.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
average.cpp:21:15: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
  long long1 = 9876543210;
               ^
Of course
#include <iostream>

int average(int int0, int int1)
{
	return (int0* int1) / 2;
}
long average(long long0, long long1)
{
	return (long0 * long1) / 2;
}
float average(float float0, float float1)
{
	return (float0 * float1) / 2;
}

int main()
{
	int int0 = 2;
	int int1 = 10;
	long long0 = 1234567890;
	long long1 = 9876543210;
	float float0 = 3.14;
	float float1 = 4.2;

	std::cout << "Average int: ";
	std::cout << average(int0, int1) << std::endl;
	std::cout << "Average long: ";
	std::cout << average(long0, long1) << std::endl;
 
That's too big for a long.
You need a - wait for it - long long.
 
Oh? I thought a long was 10 numbers long?
Oh wait... Duh
2 million something is the max >.<
 
2:23 AM
No, it's (in this case) 32-bits.
And remember, without a specifier, it's signed by default.
 
Speaking of twitter, I had several weird followers, 4 or 5, that I did not know. Then I tweeted this twitter.com/thatcoderiguana/status/602968264830951424. Came back in a few days and all the weird followers (except 1) were gone. Coincidence?
 
When compiling an amd64 executable, the min/max values for long are:
-9223372036854775808 / 9223372036854775807
 
@NathanOsman Does G++ automatically compile as 32 bit?
 
Nope, on Ubuntu it will use the host architecture.
 
2:26 AM
... facepalm
I forgot my laptop is i386
Me: What happened on the coffee table? 5-year-old daughter: Elsa killed all the stormtroopers. http://t.co/36hCfd1z5s
lol :)
@Seth I was going over your feed and saw that :D
 
:D
 
If you have g++-multilib installed, you can pass -m32 to the compiler to build for i386 on an amd64 machine.
 
@NathanOsman Well, just finished up Chapter 5 of 24 in the C++ book. Gotta go to bed now.
 
Cool.
 
I can dream of unsigned long longs and of overloaded functions
I've heard of people dreaming in other languages ... I wonder what dreaming in Python would be like ...
 
2:29 AM
import sleep
 
Quite beautiful and smooth I would imagine.
@NathanOsman ikr
 
For the record, long on i386 is:
-2147483648 / 2147483647
 
@NathanOsman ImportError: sleep module is blocked by previously imported drink.caffiene
 
from sleep import override_sleep
 
Ooo. Forgot about that one! :D
@NathanOsman Goodness. I didn't know @GeorgeTheDev was so well traveled!
 
2:34 AM
Here or on Twitter?
 
Well, those starred images.
I should break out my penguin and post a pic. Unfortunately, he had to stay home for this trip. Bothersome deadlines.
Great googly moogly...this laptop needs it's own full size AC unit blowing air in...
 
jrg
YOU ARE ALL CARDBOARD. YOUR ARGUMENTS ARE INVALID. @Mateo @NathanOsman
 
I've done that with Stack Overflow more times than I can count.
 
@NathanOsman You should sell cardboard cut-outs of yourself and George. I'm sure they'd sell great :D
 
@RPiAwesomeness BRILLIANT.
 
2:37 AM
@NathanOsman Figured out your issue as you're typing?
 
@RPiAwesomeness Yeah.
 
@NathanOsman If you sold them together in a two-pack for a reasonable price (and you didn't live in Canada) I would totally buy that.
 
botherton. Losing at another game of chess.
wait a minute..
 
Chess is fun.
 
jrg
So I have thought about running a private stackoverflow.
just so i could post all the stupid questions i have, and then come back and answer them.
strive for a 98% answer rate.
think private wiki.
 
2:43 AM
huh. Interesting idea.
See yourself progress over time as you learn.
Would be a great place for looking back into to find solutions...
 
Or, you know, you could just do it publicly, on Stack Overflow..
Not to be a spoil sport or anything :P
 
@NathanOsman When I get home I am totally making a George cutout. With his permission of course.
 
@RPiAwesomeness I'll supply you with a really high-res transparent PNG if you want.
 
@NathanOsman That'd be cool :)
Just send it to the email that I sent you the Keyboard Mail test emails from.
I've got it set up in Thunderbird - so I get messages from it too.
 
Sending...
 
2:51 AM
So you have his consent?
 
No Yes.
 
Okay, message delivered.
 
Cool :)
I would make one of you too ... but my mom might find a tad strange ;)
 
Yeah.
And my face is enough to make most programming bugs solve themselves.
 
2:56 AM
so my friend is spending the night at a hunting/fishing cabin and the internet is so slow speedtest-cli crashed xD
 
:) In awe or in terror?
 
but somehow he's talking to me...
 
@Seth Bwahaha
 
The first time he ran it and it worked, but it reported 0.00Mbps up and 0.00Mbps down xD
 
2:58 AM
Pings took 203102.4 ms, for 1 packet.
 
Uhm... that's 3.38 minutes.
That's way beyond the timeout window for TCP connections, IIRC.
 
Dunno, he just pasted the ping output.
 
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