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12:03 AM
lol
 
12:16 AM
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@Bob you mean per-song?
 
Bob
@allquixotic Ya. Or per-length-of-time.
 
@Bob at one time, they had 96 Kbps or 256 Kbps Vorbis in a crypto container, depending on the quality preset you selected
idk if that changed
 
Bob
@allquixotic I'm just trying to get an estimate for that playlist ("extreme" quality)
8 hours ago, by Bob
> 4297 songs, 311 hr 43 min
 
@Bob roughly 286 million kilobits
 
Bob
12:28 AM
whoops.
didn't quite catch your meaning :P
 
about 35 gigs
 
Bob
...yeaaaaa that's not gonna fit on the half-full 32 GB MicroSD.
Spotify needs the option to download half a playlist.
Or I need to get a 64 GB card.
Or I could just not download it, but that'll eat up data fast.
 
@Bob actually, it'd be more; according to their site, their "extreme" profile is VBR with a target bitrate somewhere around 320 Kbps
 
Bob
Hm.
Or I could reduce quality.
 
if your music has tons of long periods of silence, it could be way less (yay, VBR!), but if it's all complex instrumentation, it'd be close to 320 Kbps CBR
 
Bob
12:30 AM
Hm. Not much silence, I think.
@allquixotic I suppose I could use high (160).
96 would be too low.
 
44.8 GB at 320 Kbps
22.4 GB @ 160 Kbps
 
Bob
Still not gonna fit :P
Also, the offline-download of > 20 GB is going to be a pain... urk.
Yea, I think I'll just listen online :P
Thanks. Probably should've looked up the bitrates... my first thought was you'd probably have estimates from YASDown.
 
@Bob I have 8551 files in my desktop spotify offline cache eating up 17.8 GB
but they may not be as long
 
Bob
These seem to average 4-5 minutes.
 
if you have lots of electronica or something, those tracks are much longer duration than pop songs ;p
 
Bob
12:40 AM
I don't normally download on the desktop. Maybe I should, just to see how large it is.
But it's rather big to test.
@allquixotic I honestly have no idea what genre these fall under :P
 
1:32 AM
Hey guys
Am I the only one freezing?
 
@wizlog ?
physically?
 
can I consider shivering close enough to freezing?
 
Bob
1:57 AM
@wizlog Well, I'm in the middle of an Australian summer...
 
2:38 AM
Nope. I am not anywhere near 0 degs celcius, or 273 Kelvin
 
3:27 AM
are discussions on using iOS applications on-topic here?
 
Off-topic, not about computer hardware or software. If specific to Apple equipment, it may be on topic for Ask Different.
 
ah, thank you
 
 
1 hour later…
4:51 AM
 
whazzat?
 
5:51 AM
ow
blah
I need to dig up my spare gig-e card to test something
 
6:16 AM
ahh got it
 
6:42 AM
ugh
damn it realtek
YOU HAD ONE JOB! ONNNNE JOOOB
can't find the drivers for this card, it did perform horribly in linux too and its giving wierd errors in windows 8
and its PCI... so....
I AM REGRETING THE FAIRLY TINY AMOUNT OF MONEY I SPENT ON IT.
 
6:58 AM
fixed
3
 
7:19 AM
hmm
 
7:38 AM
Ok, I'm confused
turning off the serial port fixed it
serial ports are controlled by LPC or super i/o
 
7:48 AM
Also, I am not entirely sure how I installed the driver
 
 
1 hour later…
8:54 AM
lol
 
ANNND
It breaks my network connection when I set it up :(
actually it MAY have temporarily taken down my switch
cooool
0_0
Is SU down?
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ya
 
ahh k
Wanted to update a question :/
boo :/
 
9:12 AM
I wonder why they don't have an actual status page that updates in realtime using monitoring tools.
Well, they probably have, internally.
 
went down hard?
 
lots of stuff is down
 
Apparently – SO is down, too, and that lives on a different server.
 
SF/SU...
AU seems up, oddly enough
 
@JourneymanGeek I think you better fix your net :-) you didnt realise the SE dependancy
That fiber line made for a good relay/vpn
 
9:41 AM
ES is down too, there is an update on the twitter page
 
@Psycogeek: Oh, only knocked out my desktop, guess teaming dosen't work
switch was ok tho ;p
 
 
2 hours later…
11:18 AM
Morning
 
11:42 AM
Hola
 
12:04 PM
Woo, spotify reduces volume if I open a video in the browser
 
12:36 PM
Blah multi touch for my trackpad works only after linux kernel 3.18 and I am at 3.13 -_-
It's probably a bad idea to install a kernel meant for vivid kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.18-vivid onto trusty
But I am going to try it anyway ;p
Oh fuck, did this and now right click isn't working
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Q: Elantech touchpad recognized as PS/2 mouse Ubuntu 13.10

Maiagallomy elantech touchpad won't work correctly in Ubuntu 13.10 (I had the same problem with 13.04). I can move the cursor and left/right click, but the sensitivity is too high, no scrolling and no multitouch. Under settings / mouse and touchpad, I have no touchpad tab. This is the result of xinput l...

fuck me
Blah it replaces psmouse
And I have no idea how to get it bacck
Will updating the kernel reomove the module ?
and bring back good old one ?
 
12:54 PM
Hey @JourneymanGeek how do you recognize an encrypted file ?
 
Bob
You don't.
 
:/ I have this .backup file generated from mediatek's fucked up Android recovery
 
Bob
Some particular container formats might have identifying bytes, but that depends entirely on the container.
 
And I have no idea how to view the data in it
 
Bob
In the general case? Proper encryption is literally indistinguishable from pure random data.
 
12:57 PM
I think it's conpressed
@Bob Do you know of a way or something to find out the container type ?
 
Bob
@HackToHell Chuck it at file or TrID.
 
Tried zip,tar(and other compression types)
Tried mounting t
 
That really clears it up
 
Tried TrID
It failed to find the container
> file userdata_20090101_061510.backup
userdata_20090101_061510.backup: data
I give up ;p
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg It means it won't be transient/temporary, of course!
 
1:05 PM
@HackToHell If you do not want a modules, then why no unload it and blacklist it ?
 
@Hennes I sorta replaced the original psmouse with an adultrated version
Now I have no idea how to get back good old psmouse
 
1:53 PM
@HackToHell Are you good at photography manipulation?
 
2:10 PM
@HackToHell: what bob and oliver said ;p
 
@Boris_yo not really, why ?
@JourneymanGeek :(
 
 
1 hour later…
3:33 PM
sigh
The review queues are flooded, and I'm running out of close votes
 
3:44 PM
> The review queues are flooded
See, this is what happens when JourneymanGeek gets a job.
Why, within 3 months, I fully expect the frontpage to be flooded with spam posts about 12 hours a day. :P
 
Everyone is saying we need another mod
Two votes left, and more than eight hours before the UTC clock strikes midnight
sigh
Is it time for another election?
I'm nearly powerless to address this issue unless I fall back on mod flags, and I'm not sure if I can use mod attention flags for this purpose
Dec 19 '14 at 23:26, by Psycogeek
SE need to hire extra holiday help. Temporary moderators to pitch in (secretly being given trials , if nobody complains then after the hollidays you got 2 more mods).
 
4:09 PM
@DragonLord I'm not entirely sure that /review being a little ripe is a moderator problem, if anything it's a sign that we need more community involvement.
 
I'm trying to keep things at bay by using the 10k mod tools and closing as many questions as I can, but that's not enough
!!/stop
 
@DragonLord That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.
HAMMERTIME!
 
@Mokubai Problem is, I've been seeing more entries in the close queue that are from flags only (no close votes).
Are our 3k+ people doing their job?
I could exhaust all my close votes every day using the 10k tools and not put a dent in the close queue.
 
4:29 PM
@DragonLord Questions that are a serious affront to the site get mod-flagged, and deleted. As I understand it, the mod flag queue is not increasing in size over time like the vote queues. If the question isn't a serious affront to the site, not having it closed is not a severe issue. A few downvotes should suffice to register with the community that this is not the kind of question we want asked here.
But like Mokubai said, having another mod isn't going to take care of the queues very much. We just need people with review powers to actually review.
 
@allquixotic You use 2 gpu cards, would you know how this issue happens superuser.com/questions/865837/videos-flicker-during-play-back ? like always i am interested in the problems one can have if i should aquire a layout of that type.
 
@Psycogeek I don't use nvidia hardware, but it's pretty obviously a graphics driver bug related to the multi-targeting stuff
with a "render-anywhere, output-anywhere" pipeline, each frame on each monitor has two separate things associated with it: (1) where it's rendered (on one card, the other, or both); and (2) which display head it's output to.
if SLI is anything like Crossfire, only certain fullscreen apps are rendered using SLI, and the rest of the desktop is rendered on the GPU that is internal to the display head of the video card.
but I haven't ever used Nvidia SLI so I don't know how it's architected compared to Crossfire
 
I wonder things like:
1) what if he put 2 monitors on each card instead of 3&1, but it is the lone one that is the problem.
2) what if he Un-connected them?
3) what if he changed the render type from a 3D or TO a 3D render.
 
the problem with Crossfire (and I assume SLI, too), is that it requires the application doing the rendering to be aware of the fact that Crossfire is there, and to time its rendering accordingly, and to use multi-threaded rendering
 
Hmm. Maybe
 
4:38 PM
it's not really possible for a single-threaded renderer to feed Crossfire, and Crossfire only works in fullscreen mode (that is, when the app is taking over the front buffer of the GPU and the DWM is suspended)
 
Or is it all done in the graphics drivers?
E.g. render frame X on card 1,
start and render frame x+1 on card 2
Without the app knowing about it
 
@Hennes for Crossfire at least, the application absolutely plays a large role in making sure Crossfire works
 
Ah
 
trying to force the graphics driver to use crossfire when the app isn't aware of it leads to terrible artifacting or flickering 99% of the time
 
I stayed away from Xfire and SLI.
Juist using a single fatter GPU seems to worm much better
At least on a budget where two or three really big fat GPUs are not an option
 
4:40 PM
@allquixotic Oh well that sucks, so a 2d only render might fix it, then it isnt trying to do a split up reassemble displaying.
 
a single GTX 980 looks to be the fattest GPU available right now, but I'll wait until AMD trumps Nvidia and then buy that :)
@Psycogeek if by "2d" you mean rendering in software and blitting to the GPU, then by definition SLI is impossible, since the CPU is rasterizing
 
@Dragonlord the problem with /review is that it is not really a problem per-se. A mod with a particularly hateful view of the site could completely wipe that queue inside of a day. That does not in any way imply that a mod should clear that queue. That queue used to be a metric boatload larger than it is now.
 
Yeah, this doesn't seem like a mod issue
I'm already doing my part
We just need to remind others to
 
Not sure what can be done though… badges would just encourage robo-reviewing.
 
We already have badges for reviewing.
Perhaps we should be given more close votes with reputation?
One extra close vote per 500 reputation above 3000, up to a maximum of 100 close votes?
 
4:52 PM
I guess that most 3k people don't even vote to close up to their limit.
So it's not a problem of not having enough votes.
 
More awareness of the 10k tools would help.
Sadly, not that many of us are 10kers...
Perhaps just increase the review limits?
 
I think they're going to remove these soon :/
(The 10k tools, I mean)
 
@slhck Why?
Any sources for this?
 
They're an implementation by waffles, who's left long ago, and his original review system was completely removed, replaced by the new review queues.
But I agree, they could be made more prominent.
Especially the new tags list…
 
I've been using the 10k tools quite extensively to VTC more questions than otherwise possible
I also depend heavily on the new answers to old questions list
 
4:55 PM
 
It would suck if they removed the 10k tools
 
Not saying they will, but it would be very typical for them to completely remove them if you asked for making them more prominent :P
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Q: Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue

Shog9The 10K tools are pretty cool... You get a birds-eye view of activity on the site, a "dashboard" view of what's happening. Some of the individual tools haven't scaled particularly well with Stack Overflow's growth, but the concept behind them is still sound: we trust you to enough to be a bee wat...

Seems it's going to stick around a little longer.
 
 
3 hours later…
7:39 PM
I'm assembling a couple of wooden chairs
The workmanship is really shitty
The part tolerances are so loose :(
 
 
4 hours later…
Bob
11:53 PM
+1 - all good points. The main risk, though, is bleeding. Puncturing an artery can cause it to bleed until it tamponades, causing a hematoma which can cause ischemia downstream and might compress/damage the nerve in that neurovascular bundle. Because of that, pressure must be applied for a while (longer for larger arteries). Before doing a radial artery stick (common for blood gasses), one should do an Allen's test for collateral circulation. The risks are acceptable for blood gases or monitoring but not for blood collection. — anongoodnurse 18 hours ago
O_O
I understood maybe half the words in that comment...
 

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