@Fabby speaking of the cold water for banana treatment?

Yup!

and that was the fastest cigarette ever.

You're one of the original monkeys!!! ;-)

I just got one and am smoking it behind the PC...

(bad for the laptop, I know!) :D

Where I am I'm allowed to smoke inside if I only smoke 1 every 2 hours...

Second example: Book store original SOP was to dump the pile of books from a tote and put them on the shelf. Interim store manager was a district manager. Saw me stock faster and didn't know why. I spent the 15 minutes sorting by category and alphabetizing by author. Now you only walk once. Moving it with your hands is faster than walking up and down every aisle a bazillion times. Now it's SOP.

Wowzerz

@Fabby I have about 7 examples, but suffice it to say - He does it wrong. Sure, but it works.

@hbdgaf >:)

Most people do not think!

They just act...

I act and think at the same time...

Sometimes I have to reverse, but most of the time, I'm walking in the right direction already...

I remember some CIO standing in front of me saying "But your solution is against corporate policy!"

And me saying: "But you told me to solve it for less then 10.000€!"

My answer to that one is: "Yes, but it's better. You don't have to make it policy, but can you just watch that squirrel over there while I do it my way?"

"Just consider it as a temporary workaround and have your 1000 people look at the problem and come up with a better solution!"

(Today, 4 years later, it's SOP) :D

@hbdgaf Doesn't go well with VP and up-level... Then you have to use smthg like ----^^

I actually got asked to train someone both ways a few times.

Smart boss!

>:)

(and then did he/she/it compare both ways?)

There was no comparison. They just said - "You're faster. I have no idea why, but train them both ways. Then when we have company, they can do it the 'right' way. And when we don't, they can do it your way."

@RPiAwesomeness Did you know lightning strikes from the ground up?

@Fabby I did!

Well, it sorta comes from both directions.

@RPiAwesomeness Do you study science?

@RPiAwesomeness yeah! :D

@Fabby I took introductory Physics this past school year

@RPiAwesomeness Only introductory?

Going to continue?

@Fabby Well, it wasn't super insane quantum physics advanced. Your average HS-level physics curriculum.

No, probably not :D

It wasn't bad, but not really my cup of tea

If you know what I mean

o.O

Now you know why German engineers are the best???

He got stuff in High School that I got at University!

(although mine was 25 years ago)

Yeah. Germans man.

so nowadays, it's probably HS level! :D

Speaking of physicists:

img.memecdn.com/just-sheldon_c_824841.webp

Whats to download a webp file...

@hbdgaf Heh

@Fabby It just works in my browser. It's an image format.

@hbdgaf What browser?

Chromium

Yeah, Firefox apparently can't show it :P

@hbdgaf eog: no... now let's try VLC...

Nope...

It can't even play midi... what are you thinking >.>

I dunno... It's a media format: I used to try Irfanview first then VLC....

Honestly I like VLC. Inability to play midi is somewhat of a sore spot for me.

Nowadays: eog, then VLC...

WebP is an image format.

You can open it with the Gimp if you use my plugin.

Oooo...

wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

@Fabby eog doesn't work very well for me.

@NathanOsman link?

Accidentally cut it off, but multi-processing for Firefox? Sounds cool!

@Fabby launchpad.net/~george-edison55/+archive/ubuntu/webp

Add that PPA then install gimp-webp.

After that, you can open the file right from the Gimp.

How many PPAs do you have???

Lots :P

All the new FF Dev edition features!

@Fabby If you're going to count them, might I suggest some tunes youtube.com/watch?v=SAnFLgThTgo

8 KB???

Chiptunes man

Made using NES/SNES/Amiga/etc. sound chips

As usual: Nathan's code works like a charm!

Here's the PNG:

The cool thing about WebP is the incredibly small files it produces without a really noticeable drop in quality.

Yeah!

the PNG is 1.5 MB!

(sorry: US on-line! Dots instead of comma's)

>:)

@NathanOsman yup! seen the high-res too!

It's amazing...

I have a very poor memory when it comes to what I have and haven't posted here :P

Can I export to webp now too?

@NathanOsman the key to remembering a lot is to be able to forget the unimportant!

(My GF doesn't agree!) :D

She can be flabbergasted when I can quote one of her GFs word-by-word and then don't remember what she told me about something stupid like some dress from some girl... :D

Same with passwords...

I always tell people I don't want their passwords, but they keep telling me...

and then are stupefied I don't remember them...

>:)

(IT being my profession and all) :D

I even remember all of the passwords of all of the servers I ever managed... Takes me max 3 tries!

@Fabby Yup, it exports to WebP too.

:D

As you didn't answer I just tried it...

and quality works like jpg it seems...

Yup, it's lossy unless you use the lossless option.

now editing my mimetypes

It shows up as a white file name instead of purple now...

Does anyone remember by heart what file I should edit to add it to the mime types?

found it: help.ubuntu.com/community/AddingMimeTypes

@Fabby Apparently, he is OK!

Yup!

:) :) :)

Good evening good sir!

(or afternoon or whatever...)

UGT morning to all >.<

And good evening to you, too, sir! (It is evening here)

01:44 AM here...

How are you???

Yikes! Like rust, @Fabby never sleeps!

I've not been very active in the networking section lately...

too busy chasing jobs...

I'm in the running for 4 to start on Aug 1...

I hope something comes up now, though I'm hoping for one in particular...

"Job." I heard of that. It sounds too hard to me.

:D

I actually like working hard and fast...

Although I hear it pays better than no job; that's a plus.

That's why I'm still around here...

Yeah... When you lose your job in Russia as a foreigner you've got 2 options:

1/ Find another job...

2/ Leave the country

They should do that here too!

>:)

Less foreigners taking advantage of the government here...

>.<

Unemployment benefits: unlimited in time... (as long as you agree to be re-trained)

unless you're older then 55... Then you're supposed to be untrainable any more!

Can you believe that is actually a law? -----^

The 55 part or the training part? The training part ought to be the law in the US, I believe.

55 part! The other one is good, but there is no law to actually make you actually get a job after your training...

so people go on another training...

I know someone who's been training to be a nurse, a web developer, a

welder?

someone who welds metal is a welder?

I would hope the job pays better and has better benefits than training

Yes, welder

It actually depends on the level you're working in...

at the bottom of the rung, being unemployed is cheaper then working...

You don't need a car, no child care...

you get subsidized rent

(in not so good places, but still...)

I work now without a car and did work in Chicago without a car based on utilizing mass transit. So, the car doesn't necessarily count.

@hbdgaf like you said: in Chicago...

I have always taken transit but there are... other problems with not having a car.

How about 100Km from Chicago in some cheap and nasty neighbourhood?

(Or more specifically, not being able to drive one.)

In many countries, these systems seem helpful but end up not so much.

@NathanOsman Ah... I was 22 before I got my driving license!

@Fabby Train to Chicago. etc etc. But yes @NathanOsman that is a valid point.

@chili555 yup... There are entire generations that have never seen anyone work...

grandpa always running around in pyjamas, dad, mum, ...

How's the kid going to do?

:(

I think it may sadly be true here as well.

I thought in the US unemployment benefits were limited in time to 2 years?

6 months.

Fetching a cigarette

Also, this was my mass transit commute for the first 2 months google.com/maps/dir/South+Bend,+IN/Elmwood+Park,+IL/…

@hbdgaf 6 months?

Wow! What happens then?