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Ryodo

:)

cava

tu parle français

Mateo

1:13 AM

huh, did visual studio code install to my home directory?

that is quite an interesting place to install a program...

1:42 AM

@Mateo Didn't install there for me.

Also, is that Nemo?

It looks different from my Nautilus

@Fabby Radioisotope dating? That's been proven time and again that it's wildly inaccurate.

2:02 AM

@RPiAwesomeness It's wildly inaccurate for very short-term dating and extremely accurate at medium-term dating and "meh" for long-term dating...

So if radioisotope dating say the Earth is 4 000 000 years old, it's never going to be 10 000...

;-)

And thanks for the star! :-)

Mateo

@RPiAwesomeness 15.04 nautilus

3:06 AM

@Mateo Ah

Right.

@Fabby Star?

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... movies online? o.O You dun goofed @SmokeDetector

4:57 AM

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Serg

Nah smokedetector is doing a good job but he's still a boty bot

Forget what I said. The damn bot flagged a crontab question -_-

Q: binary is able to run only when run after creating a symbolic link to it

5:37 AM

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Nathan Osman

6:36 AM

@Fabby Don't get me started on the problems with radiometric dating.

Anyone being intellectually honest will admit that all of the methods are based on assumptions.

(For example, the assumptions that the decay rate was constant, the original estimated quantity of the daughter product is correct, no other sources of the daughter product were introduced, etc.)

> "So if radioisotope dating say..."

Wooooah. Wait a second. That's the fallacy of reification. Radiometric dating methods don't "speak". Rather, they are models that attempt to explain evidence. Since fallible humans are creating the models, they are not themselves infallible.

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7:27 AM

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I am facing a rather strange problem. I have a 32 bit qmake binary placed at a very deep path. So for ease of use I created a link using ln -s /complicated/path/to/qmake ~/qmake I am running a 64 bit machine. So I installed 32 bit libraries. The binary is failing to load when I run ~/...

Q: Serial upvoting reversal fail

9:21 AM

@NathanOsman Correct! ;-)

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10:28 AM

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I got serially upvoted acouple of hours ago and the system (correctly) reversed this a few minutes ago... However I also got a silver badge for this question but that was not reversed. Should I mention this on meta.SO as well or is a bug tag here good enough for the powers that be to pick it up?

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11:34 AM

@NathanOsman Whoa. Very well put! I applaud you.

Q: Can install and work with pycuda if I have ubuntu linux 32bit and boot from usb?

12:11 PM

o/

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12:43 PM

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System is 32bit. Have Nvidia Geforce 610M graphics card on my laptop. Am booting ubuntu 14.04 lts from usb

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Q: What should I do if a duplicate answer is posted at the same time as my own?

I saw this question this morning and gave an answer. In the time between me typing my answer and submitting it, there had been a comment and another answer posted. Both said broadly the same as my own answer. The other answerer has made some comment on my answer. I think (s)he is making the poi...

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1:22 PM

Ugh. I need a way to infinitely recurse through nested XML to grab formatting data from a Gtk TextView/TextBuffer but I don't know the proper way to go through all the data...

not really sure how to explain it either :P Which, in turn, means I can't figure out the correct process :P

@RPiAwesomeness Recurse to do what?

@RPiAwesomeness Sounds like you're looking for an XML parser. Don't try and code it yourself.

Agreed :) Let lxml (et alii) help you out.

Or BeautifulSoup if you can. That's about as nice an interface as you'll ever get on XML-like content.

@Oli Well, basically I get a string of XML from the Gtk textbuffer with the formatting flags included. It looks similar to <text><apply_tag="bold">TEXT<apply_tag="italic">Moar text</apply_tag></apply_tag></text>

I need to go through that and find all of the <apply_tag="..."> tags and any of the text within that tag and convert the tag and text into HTML.

@RPiAwesomeness XML parser!

1:32 PM

@terdon Okay, so, any suggestions?

BeautifulSoup in Python. Super-simple.

See Oli's above.

A: How to change tag name with BeautifulSoup?

6

I don't know how you're accessing tag but the following works for me: import BeautifulSoup if __name__ == "__main__": data = """ <html> <h2 class='someclass'>some title</h2> <ul> <li>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li> <li>Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.</li

Whoa. It's literally that simple?

sobs in the corner

@RPiAwesomeness XML was not designed for humans to deal with. It's an awful format unless you use a dedicated parser.

Tony the pony applies.

1:34 PM

Search for all the soup.findAll ('apply_tag'), replace the tag name based on the attribute and bam, done

Whooo...wish I had known about this ages ago.

$ sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup
Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup
  Downloading BeautifulSoup-3.2.1.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/beautifulsoup/setup.py) egg_info for package beautifulsoup
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip_build_root/beautifulsoup/setup.py", line 22
        print "Unit tests have failed!"
                                      ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:

Errr

use bs4

and your import'll be from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Yeah. Just figured that out.

Yay for Docs

Oh good. There's a Python 3 version.

1:52 PM

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/bs4/builder/_lxml.py", line 73, in prepare_markup
    dammit = UnicodeDammit(markup, try_encodings, is_html=True)

facepalm

Well, you're useful Gtk reference (not)

I need to know what tagset's are supported/how to create one...

Bother it all. BeautifulSoup is amazing, thank you thank you thank you @Oli for pointing it out to me. However, the Gtk text box is returning incorrect XML (somehow) :P

2:13 PM

Hi there.

user136984

37 more rep points and I'll be back to 3k again! :)

Why is the Gtk TextBuffer.serialize() writing applying italic and underline tags to text that lacks any formatting in the TextView? Grrr

@ParanoidPanda Add a bounty on something?

user136984

@RPiAwesomeness: If I want more rep why would I add a bounty on something? As a bounty gives away points, it doesn't earn you any...

@ParanoidPanda I know, I was wondering why you went below 3k.

user136984

@RPiAwesomeness: Oh, right, I went bellow that amount because almost immediately as I reached it the system decided to catch up with someone who had been very slowly serial voting me up for a long time, so just as I got over the 3k mark, it set me back almost 400 points! :D

user136984

2:17 PM

And this was about 2 or 3 days ago.

@RPiAwesomeness Unfortunately, I don't have time for you now... I'm out this evening and have to prepare another speech about Shakespeare's Macbeth before.

@ParanoidPanda >.< Not fun man, not fun.

But I promise I will convince you to believe in science on Friday! ;)

@ByteCommander That's fine, I wouldn't have time to engage in rhetoric for very long anyways. I have to go get a drug test for a job application

Please, everyone remind me not to eat a lemon poppy-seed muffin within the next 24 hours >.>

o.O

user136984

2:19 PM

Why?

Drug test?

For what kind of job?

And how old were you again by the way? 15?

@ParanoidPanda Poppy's are the/a source of nicotine, so poppy-seed muffins (with poppy-seeds) can set off the nicotine detector in a test.

@ByteCommander Book Shelver for local library :D

@RPiAwesomeness THAT requires drug tests? From 15 years old?

Oh my...

lol, ikr

chili555

Ahhh! The famous whiz quiz!

2:21 PM

Where did this world go...

They gotta be careful, I guess

@ByteCommander Down the tubes.

I'm going for a quick diner.

@RPiAwesomeness Do you mean nicotine or opiate?

Brb.

@chili555 Indeed. Or, rather, the eCup (as it's called where I have to take it.)

@Oli Oh duh. Opium. Sorry.

I don't keep up with my illicit substances very well, y'know?

@ByteCommander A quick diner? Goodness, you must be strong or have a very tiny diner. ;)

user136984

2:23 PM

@RPiAwesomeness Oh, I'm sorry, but that is hilarious! :D :D :D

@ParanoidPanda ;) It's fine. I'm totally cool with it (never done drugs worse than taking steroids back when I had Strep throat)

Or whatever that stuff was...

All I know is that I reacted something awful to the first medicine they gave me. Hives ahoy >.<

@RPiAwesomeness You should probably find out. Knowing you have a penicillin allergy is a useful thing to remember.

user136984

@RPiAwesomeness: I remember once when I was having an operation, and just before the operation they gave me the medical equivalent of some drug, and basically the outcome was that I went overly happy, a little crazy, and now I've got pictures to prove it! :D :P

@Oli Yeah....

@ParanoidPanda >.<

I don't think it was penicillin, but probably still some thing I should know.

user136984

Well, I know for sure that I am allergic to fresh green Russian apples...

chili555

2:28 PM

@RPiAwesomeness If it's serious enough, you might make arrangements for EMTs to know it in case of accident. Medic alert and all that.

@chili555 yeah. I wasn't life threatening or anything, just exceptionally itchy

They can get a lot worse.

They can indeed.

chili555

I'd get tested and follow te professional's recommendations.

Once you body knows it doesn't like them, you can have a proper immune response the next time. Swelling, not able to breath, etc.

user136984

2:30 PM

When I eat fresh green Russian apples, I can't breath!

@ParanoidPanda Ooo...not nice.

Yeah that's pretty bad

@Oli Hmm...I may need to go talk to my mom :D

user136984

@RPiAwesomeness: Yes, I found that out a few years ago when I went to a nice restaurant in Russia! :D

@ParanoidPanda Oh delightful. Did you get the EpiPen?

That thing just looks evil.

That. Stabbed into your leg at high velocity.

2:32 PM

Oy...

Don't want to imagine...

11 mins ago, by RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander A quick diner? Goodness, you must be strong or have a very tiny diner. ;)

user136984

@RPiAwesomeness No, luckily it wasn't such a bad reaction, and drinking a lot of water managed to calm whatever it was down. But I have heard that a lot of allergies can get much worse if you carry on getting whatever triggers them, so no more fresh green Russian apples for me! ;D

@RPiAwesomeness Why strong?

Btw does anybody of you all know a famous quote from Macbeth?

I know I can google (and I did), but there are so many I never heard of, so I wanted to ask if some of them are more common...

user136984

@ByteCommander: If I remember correctly there was something about the woman killing her own child while it was breast feeding if she had said she would to do it.

user136984

Or something of the sort anyway...

I will NOT present that one!

user136984

2:36 PM

:D

> I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.

user136984

Yes... That was it!

user136984

:D

This is too... full with metaphors

What about that:

user136984

I think it's rather powerful though.

2:38 PM

> Stars, hide your fires,
Let not light see my black and deep desires;

user136984

Any chance someone could just give me 37 extra rep so I can reach 3k (again)? :D :P

@ByteCommander 'cause a diner is where you go to eat, not what you eat.

user136984

@ByteCommander: I just don't think that the wording is powerful enough in that one.

user136984

:D

@ByteCommander Oh good gosh.

2:40 PM

Shakespeare... :P

ikr...

But that was exactly my thought too. :)

So how do you call the meal you have at noon then? @RPiAwesomeness

user136984

Does anybody know if playonlinux is good?

@ByteCommander Lunch, usually.

I think you meant dinner. Two Ns

@ParanoidPanda Takes a lot of the guesswork out of things, but it has quite a bit of overhead for Steam-based things (because it needs a separate install of Steam for each game).

2:47 PM

Dinner tends to refer more towards a bigger, fancier meal. Supper is more of the everyday.

@Oli Really? o.O

Yeah each game is its own Wine installation/prefix

>.<

user136984

@Oli: Yeah, well I probably wouldn't be using it for Steam, so that should be fine, but out of interest, why is there that Steam problem? And are they going to overcome it at some point?

WINE really needs to figure out how to remove that 2GB RAM limit. It's a royal pain :P

I'm actually curious why they haven't done that yet...

@ParanoidPanda As I say, it's because of the way it works. Every game you install in PoL is a separate version of Wine. This allows it to apply all sorts of hacks to that one version of Wine that the game needs (that may negatively affect other games). It's really by design.

2:50 PM

Ah, yes. Okay dinner with "nn".

Oh that's right...WINE emulates-thing a 32 bit version of Windows :P

user136984

@RPiAwesomeness: Is there not a config thing that you can change to remove that limit?

But supper was for the evening, I thought?

@ByteCommander It is.

Supper is evening, lunch is noon.

user136984

@RPiAwesomeness @ByteCommander: Why are you two on about different times of eating?

2:52 PM

Dinner can be used for either or, but it's usually for fancier/bigger meals.

You English speakers have a strange way to name your meals...

@ParanoidPanda No. It's because 32 bit computers can't use more than 4 GB of RAM

user136984

Oh, right...

user136984

@RPiAwesomeness: Shouldn't they create one which emulates a 64-bit computer then too?

In German it is just Mittagessen and Abendessen usually ("noon meal" and "evening meal", if translated literally)

It should be possible to break that limit.

2:54 PM

Yeah...I think I may have discovered the way to fix it.

user136984

@Oli: Would it be good to run the Windows version of Skype in PoL? As I tried in Wine but there was an issue with me not having the correct Microsoft fonts.

Which will be awesome because then I can use After Effects...

@ParanoidPanda Why not run the Linux version? It works fine for me...

Physical Address Extension

^^

In computing, Physical Address Extension (PAE) is a memory management feature for the IA-32 architecture, first introduced in the Pentium Pro. It defines a page table hierarchy of three levels, with table entries of 64 bits each instead of 32, allowing these CPUs to access a physical address space larger than 4 gigabytes (232 bytes). The page table structure used by x86-64 CPUs when operating in 64-bit mode further extends the page table hierarchy to four levels, extending the virtual address space, and uses additional physical address bits at all levels of the page table, extending the physical...

user136984

@RPiAwesomeness: I do, but it's just that it has such great design flaws, and just looks really ugly (although you do get used to it, and at least with the mooning emoticon it does not put a big black box over its parts), it also has some privacy things which you have to manually change in the config file when it would be much more useful just to alter them in the GUI.

user136984

There are also many other feature limitations.

user136984

2:57 PM

And just things not working as they should and do in the Windows version.

Really? I've never had issues with it.

Stop praising Windows!

>;)

user136984

I'm not, I'm praising the Windows version, not the actual OS, just some of its software!

@ParanoidPanda Looks fine to me. You're just picky ;)

Both are from M$...

user136984

2:59 PM

Yes, Microsoft have just sort of left the Linux one to rot.

user136984

Anyway, all I'm asking is if PoL would put the correct fonts there.

Why does my chat not scroll automatically any more?

Dunno.

user136984

@ByteCommander: Is your bar at the bottom, if so, it should work, although it doesn't always with me.

It jumps to the bottom when I sent something, but does not scroll with others' posts any more...

user136984

3:00 PM

Hmm...

user136984

Odd...

Oooo...I may have Adobe After Effects CS 2 (7.0) working in WINE....

So yes, it is at the very bottom - until somebody else posts a line.

A: Unable to locate package libffi-dev

AAAAHHH NewUSer again

-1

Check this entry in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu vivid main restricted universe Start an update sudo apt-get update And install with sudo apt-get install libffi-dev The Package is in the main repositories: % apt-cache policy libffi-dev libffi-dev: ...

Whoa. What's with the downvotes there? o.O

It seems like all the questions he answers get downvotes on all the questions...

3:02 PM

My answer is 3 minutes older ok, but downvote?

yeah...strange...

I do not understand the guy.

That happened to another guy. I almost feel like he might be downvoting other answers ... can't judge for sure though

Question and Answer games, Down votes. Arg :\

@Rinzwind: to hoover: Brit. English. "To vacuum clean".

to hover: erboven hangen. (Dutch)

(and thanks again, couldn't find anything on AU meta, didn't check SO... :/ )

3:04 PM

@A.B I dont downvote

moreover i was writing all in comments before you

No?

i just swap my comments to answer

Hä

A: What does the output of dpkg -l means?

check it before

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Quoted from https://linuxprograms.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/status-dpkg-list/ Status of every package is represented by three characters xxx The first character signifies the desired state u: Unknown (an unknown state) i: Install (marked for installation) r: Remove (marked for removal) p: Purge...

what is wrong with you here

why are you facing me

This is your comment what is output of command apt-cache search libffi

3:05 PM

come on

be nice

be cool

@NewUSer I don't downvote without leaving a comment.

did you make sudo apt-get update?

this also

I just upvoted your downvoted answer and this is the comment....

:D

@Fabby thanks, im really not confused about downvoting

but i dont know what A>B want from me

Don't worry about @A.B.: he's just an old fart like me...

3:06 PM

What is the meannig of such comment?
What is the aim of this question answer game? – A.B. 6 mins ago

(though he's sometimes more of a curmudgeon then me!) :D

Please just look for his comments on me

You ask a question and gives an answer three minutes later?

I don't face him, i don't want anything from him, i don't hurt him or being rude

i explained that to you

Shall I give you points?

3:08 PM

i even flag to dleete my asnwe myslef whern i found an answer

@A.B. You see to much in too little: NewUser just posted 3 minutes before you and got the same downvote then you!

refreshing the chat site solved the scrolling problem...

no you shall be nice and ask polite about reason

@NewUSer :D Though shall be a gentleman...

@Fabby I'm so... I never hurt anybody of you and never be

3:09 PM

Calm down calm down y'all.

so please all of what i need to be so also

@Seth Thank goodness you're hear.

@A.B.: NewUser probably has the same knowledge level as you and is interested in the same things then you! You should try to be friends!

Beers anyone?

yes beer =)

We seem to have a bit of dispute between A.B. and New USer....

3:09 PM

Peace @NewUser

Sorry

meaculpa

@Fabby you can even check most questions of me has answered by him

and i love that

I'm here to learn and not to make war

sure peace @A.B.

I'm sorry!

Wonderful.

\o/

Peace, joy and pancakes to everybody! :)

3:10 PM

Don't be I'm sorry

user136984

Wow! This question of mine has become really popular (well, I've got more upvotes on this question than on any other of mine)! :D

I am stressed. sorry sorry sorry =)

I have nothing towards you

@RPiAwesomeness ?

Here have some beers the both of you!

3:11 PM

@A.B. Forget about

@Seth Problem solved itself already.

thanks @Fabby

Great

OK good.

=)

3:11 PM

I like self solving problems!

la bière...

Piwo

@ParanoidPanda Yeah everyone wants to hide their wget http://wellhung.com/Biggtitties[1].jpg...

@Seth What he said :) Problem solved itself

I always have the image of my French teacher in mind when I hear that word..

3:12 PM

sorry everybody and have nice time

He pronounced it in a very unique way... :D

user136984

@Fabby :D :D :D

@Fabby Did that have to be... >.<

@NewUSer Come more often in the Chat

I could repeat my Macbeth quote here...

3:13 PM

@RPiAwesomeness Let people talk to each other and they will sort out their differences right away...

;-)

This is relaxed

Sometimes I'm an old fool.

Most people are nice! (except me, I'm an old fart, so: Get off my lawn! :D

Crikey

Grr....stupid Gtk TextBuffer formatting being stupid :P

@Fabby funny flag your hanging there in the background ;P

Old fart is great

3:15 PM

@A.B. If you know you're becoming an old fool, then you can do something about it...

@Seth Clint Eastwood is an American... ;-)

I am also an old fart

I always wanted to get a black t-shirt with white letters:

Yes, I'm an old fart

@Fabby ;p

user136984

@ByteCommander: You mean this one?

user136984

39 mins ago, by ByteCommander

> I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.

user136984

3:16 PM

Or the one about the stars?

yes...

user136984

:D :D :D

no...

user136984

Yes? No? Make up your mind! ;D :P

slow chat!

yes goes to first quote, no to the one about stars.

user136984

3:17 PM

Oh...

user136984

Right!

user136984

:D

user136984

Ooh!

user136984

Now only 27 rep points before I reach 3k again! :)

@RPiAwesomeness I knew they contain trace opiates but cannot find anything that they contain nicotine as well... Do you have a link?

user136984

3:21 PM

@Seth: What does it mean if I am rank #25? Is that good or bad?

user136984

Here

@Fabby I meant opium. Messed up :P

@ParanoidPanda That's quite good.

>:) Errare Humanum est... ;-)

user136984

Only 12 more rep points and I'll be back to close and reopen voting! :D

user136984

Oh...

user136984

3:26 PM

This is really exciting for me! :D

user136984

As I got set back nearly 400, and now within 3 days I'm nearly back again! :)

Yeah, because you keep bitterly complaining about it and you get sympathy votes...

user136984

:D

user136984

Ooh!

user136984

Only 2 more vote to go!

3:27 PM

@ParanoidPanda It means that this year you are top 25 for reputation.

user136984

And I hope that someone isn't serial voting me otherwise it will just go back in 24 hours! :D

user136984

@Seth: Oh, well, I guess that is a good thing then! :)

Notme!

Yes!

user136984

Finally!

3:28 PM

@ParanoidPanda I only vote up your intelligent Q&As (and those are rare nuggets)

user136984

I'm back to 3k again! :)

user136984

:D

\\o \o\ \o/ /o/ o//

@ParanoidPanda Go do some close votes, because I have to wait another 8 hours or so!

(and leave us in peace!) :P

And I am going to leave you too...

3:29 PM

@ByteCommander Fµçĸ Off! ;-)

Oh, come on...

user136984

:D

@ByteCommander >:) :P

Turn your old-fart-level a bit down.

:D :D ;-)

3:30 PM

Try 60%

Installing Windows 8 machine...

BRB

(referring to the film "Interstellar" we watched today in Physics class... :) )

@ByteCommander Is it that good that it has to be shown in physics class????