Conversation started May 11, 2017 at 22:06.
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
May 11, 2017 22:06
News headline in 2023: "Windows now powered by Linux kernel"
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
2025: "Windows now Linux"
2030: "Windows?"
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
2031: "Apple acquires Linux"
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
NO
DONT SAY THESE THINGS
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
[insert joke about Oracle]
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
"Oracle acquires Apple and sues all customers"
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
May 11, 2017 22:09
2033: "Linus Torvalds forks BSD, creates new operating system"
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
lol
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
2034: "Systemd is ported to said new OS"
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
"Names it Xunil"
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Lol
terdon
terdon
@NathanOsman That's actually. . . kinda cool.
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
May 11, 2017 22:10
2035: "BREAKING: It is discovered that Torvalds was working for the NSA all along"
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
AAAAAAAA
terdon
terdon
I'm in favor of anything that i) brings FOSS to the limelight; ii) makes Windows more usable; iii) brings more attention and dev time into Linux.
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
2036: "Richard Stallman comes out of retirement to rewrite all GNU utilites from scratch"
terdon
terdon
Not to mention that after spending a couple of decades crapping all over Microsoft for not getting involves with FOSS, it's a wee bit hypocritical if I now object that they have done so :P
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
2037: "GNU Hurd successfully runs a 'Hello World' app for the first time"
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
May 11, 2017 22:11
2038: "Dennis Richie comes back from the dead to develop X"
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
@TheWanderer No, they upload his brain to a neural network.
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
2040: "Steve Jobs resurrects self to steal the credit"
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Let's keep this reasonable :P
terdon
terdon
@TheWanderer [. . . ] to develop the increasingly aptly named X.
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
huh?
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
May 11, 2017 22:12
Lol.
terdon
terdon
:)
@TheWanderer It is an ex-system.
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
uh
terdon
terdon
ex parrot?
The Parrot Sketch - Monty Python's The Flying Circus
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TheWanderer
TheWanderer
oh
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
2041: "US government bans all forms of computation as 'electrical wizardry for terrorists'."
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
May 11, 2017 22:14
odear
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
2042: "Electricity is classified as a banned substance"
2043: "Welp"
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
Trump's 7th term?
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Who knows...
Maybe the "welp" should have come sooner.
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
2016: "TRUUUUUMP"
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
I'm out of jokes now. :(
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
May 11, 2017 22:16
how about this code that I wrote: 
if (!blacklist2.equals("")) {
    try {
        Settings.Secure.putString(currentActivity.getContentResolver(), "icon_blacklist", blacklist2);
        Settings.Secure.putString(currentActivity.getContentResolver(), "icon_blacklist2", blacklist2);
    } catch (final Exception e) {
        currentActivity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                exceptions.secureSettings(view.getContext(), currentActivity.getApplicationContext(), e.getMessage(), "icon_blacklist");
if blacklist isn't empty, do this, otherwise, make blacklist empty
wtf what I thinking
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Why not run the whole block in the UI thread?
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
because it lags everything out
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
That is so confusing.
Are you sure broadcasts wouldn't be easier?
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
well now it's just this: 
                                try {
                                    Settings.Secure.putString(currentActivity.getContentResolver(), "icon_blacklist", blacklist2);
                                    Settings.Secure.putString(currentActivity.getContentResolver(), "icon_blacklist2", blacklist2);
                                } catch (final Exception e) {
                                    currentActivity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                                        @Override
                                        public void run() {
actually it's fine without being in a new thread
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
2044: "Mark Zuckerberg declares himself ruler of the world by intercepting all of Facebook's traffic in realtime and rewriting it on-the-fly in his favor."
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
May 11, 2017 22:19
0
Q: Why is the env directory called before echo?

sqlsqlsqlI am looking at a program coded in C. The issue with this program relies on this line of code. system("/usr/bin/env echo and now what?"); I understand that the system() just runs the command. But I am just not sure why it is like that. Normally it would just be "echo and now what". But why is...

linux ubuntu c
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Hey, that might make an interesting movie.
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
lol
ugh
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
2045: "Ancient disc artifact unearthed with strange inscription 'Nickelback' written on it; scientists successfully play the disc and hear bizarre demonic noises."
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
heheheh
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Now I'm truly out of jokes.
 
Conversation ended May 11, 2017 at 22:22.