The Heap™ – Consultancy ©®

8:22 AM

Morning

Andriy M

Morning

morning

8:50 AM

morninG

9:24 AM

morning grumpiness:

Did you try to do any research before asking? — dezso 15 secs ago

Andriy M

I thought "morning" defaulted to "good morning", not "grumpy morning". I'll try to remember to be explicit next time.

2

9:58 AM

finally, there were some valid chat flags somewhere

profile 101

10:27 AM

hi friedns , i need to create column "commission" in 2 tables, may i create with same column name or different one [ column is not primary or foriegn key ] ?

@profile101 it depends on your naming conventions

but tecnically nothing is preventing you from having all tables in your DB with the same column names

OTOH, if those two columns refer to the same (IRL) thing, you might want to store them in a separate table and refer that using FKs

profile 101

thanks @dezso

Unless "commission" refers to a free to enter percentage, I don't think I would create a table with 10%, 11,5% 10.25% 8.90% etc

So it depends :)

11:26 AM

@TomV hm, sure. But if it is a designated group of people or a commission in the sense it's used in logistics (which is an often seen use case here, so I didn't even thing about other uses), then maybe yes

Registered for a Coursera course today in Modern combinatorics.

in Russian ...

@ypercubeᵀᴹ for the challenge?

@dezso More or less. It says it has English subtitles in the videos!

12:03 PM

@PaulWhite Yeah, that deserved a bounty. Have to wait 5-6 days though for it.

12:44 PM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ Thanks but I really don't have any need for the rep. Just thought you might like to know that answer had been added.

@PaulWhite me neither ;) Nice answer however, so it needs rewarding!

And who knows, we might get some extra hats

Ooo hats yeah

hats?

already?

In 6 to 8 days

ah, ok

12:57 PM

I would link messages but the arrow is infeasibly tiny on my phone's screen

Andriy M

I imagine it's only usable on phones that are infeasibly large.

@PaulWhite there is a mobile specific edition, which is nearly usable

Yes I'm using the new chat. The old one was utterly unusable. This one is much better but still too hard to click the small things

1:15 PM

@PaulWhite I thought you were using android?

On my device it tends to zoom if you click close to links/buttons

@PaulWhite I can't make chat work in android most of the times

on the version I see, when I click a message, a menu of icons appear, with a nice big answer arrow

in turn I cannot see which post is an answer to which one (or could not figure it out yet)

@dezso Can't you just tap the little grey arrow (similar to the one in full chat)? That works for me but I have to tap it instead of hover over it like in the desktop version. And exactly on the arrow, not on the message

Maybe you all need to buy larger phones :)

for is unusable because it keeps constantly refreshing the page

@TomV hm, really

I somehow missed this earlier

@Lamak like for i in *; do refresh; done?

1:29 PM

like that

1:39 PM

Seriously, this customer has disabled the changing of keyboard preferences on their servers by using group policies

Having to watch an image of a french keyboard to figure out where the symbols are gets boring really quickly

@TomV that's...overly controlling

@Lamak imagine that someone mapped the pile-of-shit unicode character to 'a'

yeah, but seriously, why waste time in policing that?

@Lamak was joking

@Lamak Because ... French. They police even the language itself.

1:45 PM

they possibly must control everything, otherwise Bad Things Happen™

@dezso Hmm, tempting to waste an hour just to try attempting to hack that

imagine how long it could take them to revert it :)

@dezso I know....sorry

@TomV when done with your task, you could also change the wiring physically

@dezso not over RDP :)

(remote desktop for the *nix minded)

a screwdriver, a pair of scissors, some wire, and soldering stuff is all that you need

@TomV ah, that makes it harder

1:46 PM

Language police

Language police may refer to: The Language Police, a book by Diane Ravitch Latvian State Language Center, a Latvian government body State Language Inspectorate, a Lithuanian government body Language Inspectorate, an Estonian government body Office québécois de la langue française, a Quebec government office Minister of Culture (France), a French office known as the "language police" == See also == List of language regulators Linguistic prescription Political correctness...

TIL there is no space in 'e.g.'

so far I looked even more oldschool than I really am, inadvertently

I suppose they had a user at some point who kept messing up his keyboard settings, so they just turned it off for everybody

Ok, so I have access to the correct machine registry key to set up keyboard mappings, but they have to be physical keys

All that's left is figuring out how to stick alt-codes in there and we have unicode poo

They have to be standard keyboard scancodes, the best that would work is make their keyboard leds blink everytime they push some letter

2:35 PM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ I won't be able to look at that poor number like until now

3:42 PM

If you're having internet weirdness and your dns server is set to 8.8.8.8, google has dns issues

billinkc

5:00 PM

^^^ That amused me