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ekaj

00:00

Thanks Journeyman..

Michael Frank

@ekaj A couple months ago I got back into soccer after about 5 years. 3rd game of the season and I hyper extended my left knee, fracturing my Tibia and tearing of the ACL.

Who needs exercise anyway?!

That Brazilian Guy

@ekaj ADwhat?

ekaj

I think ADT

but then when they transferred me to their.. associate or whatever, they called it alliance security

adp is a crappy software company that does printing for checks and crap

@MichaelFrank That's terrible :/

Michael Frank

It's okay. I'm almost fully recovered now. :P

Journeyman Geek

01:13

@ekaj Meh. Clearly you should have been more careful :p

ekaj

01:51

Starting to hurt a good bit =p

Journeyman Geek

02:03

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/…

Michael Frank

03:01

Ugh... Service desk are setting cases to closed before escalating them to our team...

We do all the work, but the close doesn't count towards our stats.

random

03:26

in The Assembly, 8 hours ago, by random

Join the NCAA Stack Exchange bracket if you're so inclined

Bob

...NCAA?

Psycogeek

@JourneymanGeek there is more than one reason to not compress, it should be a simple users choice as it has been for the last decade. If I have storage space over battery life, or fan noise . if i am running progrms pulling 100% cpu to do work, and decompr4essing would get in the way of that. If they wanted to solution the Install size thing, Allow for MS cruft removal, cleanly and fully and properly with full and proper re-install as needed.

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: some forms of decompression are very low impact

and you won't be accessing all the files all the time. This is reducing the size of the base install and more importantly killing off restore partitions.

Psycogeek

And exes and dlls are still like 50% size compressable things, even with a lightweight alogrythm. I have played with all manners of compressing programs for decades, always choose not to after it all.

If the machine starts deciding for us :-PPPP it is going to do it wrong again, as it often does when deciding for us.

Journeyman Geek

and this is more for systems with super limited space anyway, like netbooks.

random

03:43

@Bob University and college athletics mostly. Around this time in the US it's basketball finals

Psycogeek

I feel it is the wrong solution for the problem. We had 200M fully operational (with most programs) Xp systems that were fast as heck, and zero trash, by simple Work adjusting what they more or less locked down. To PIG pile the system still, Then solution it by taxing the hardware , it is lasy :-) dumping the job off on others.

Bob

Ah.

> Please be advise that we closed the international shipping for the chargers for the following reason:

1. The charger is US plug, we receive a lot of complaints from different places in the world about the plug as they are not able to use it.
2. Most important thing for us is customer service and experience. As we only have our warehouse now in the US, therefore, our customer service can only cover very limited areas as well.
3. The high shipping fee and the frequent package lost in transit.

... ... ...

If someone can't figure out a simple adapter, they have other issues. This isn't exactly great customer experience when they can't easily get the products, though I concede the support point. High shipping fee? I should point this guy to the parcel forwarders' fees -_-

Journeyman Geek

lol

And american plugs are wimpy

Bob

Seriously, proper Amazon international shipping is cheap and tracked. It's cheaper than local parcel mail!

@JourneymanGeek I really find that to be a weak reason. Oh, look, some idiots can't figure out a simple passive adapter, and you don't bother with a FAQ or even a copy-pasted support response... so you stop selling internationally? Wow.

Travel plugs aren't exactly rocket science...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: It probably is.. but in my experience adaptors don't always work right. My amp has an american plug, and cause its a bit bulky, it won't sit right horizontal. Also, yeah, there's probably other issues, and they're being lazy,.

Bob

03:51

@JourneymanGeek Eh, these chargers (at least the higher-current ones) have a standard IEC connector and cable. The US plug end is very small - bulkiness isn't an issue.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I have a adaptor that looks kinda like [____]=

(also, I like mocking power plugs ;p)

Bob

Even then, a bulky one would have issues without an adapter, and somehow they still manage to sell those.

Journeyman Geek

also, using a forwarder would fix that, I guess?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Costs approx 5x more.

$10 vs $50

Journeyman Geek

04:07

ahh k

Journeyman Geek

04:28

ooh. We're doing <redacted>

Bob

-_-

Journeyman Geek

(actually, looks like we're involved in a good chunk of the current batch of blockbusters ;p

ekaj

04:44

guise i went to the site selling testosterone pills that was advertised in one of the posts and im growing moobs now

Journeyman Geek

04:54

Oh noes!

Bob

08:57

So.

My Android contact list spontaneously decided to take ~5-10 secs to load.

Apparently I have 14k "not assigned" contacts it auto-imported from gmail at some point

there's so many I can't even load the list to look at them

2500 are from the same person...

just merged in the gmail interface

wtf is going on here

stupid thing seems to have created one contact for every email I've received

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

that is so broken

> Gmail automatically adds addresses to your Contacts list each time you use the Reply, Reply to all, or Forward functions to send mail to addresses that don't already exist in your Contacts list. Each time you mark a message as Not Spam, your Contacts list is also automatically updated so that future messages from that sender are received in your inbox.

oh god dammit

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob What's bad about that?

Bob

2 mins ago, by Bob

Apparently I have 14k "not assigned" contacts it auto-imported from gmail at some point

2 mins ago, by Bob

My Android contact list spontaneously decided to take ~5-10 secs to load.

...yea

Oliver Salzburg

Ah

Bob

09:02

I have no idea what's going on now.

I've merged the same 2500 contacts twice

contact count has gone down to ~9.5k

but the duplicates are still there!

oh, now it's finding other duplicates too

...soooo.... there's so many it's apparently broken gmail

great.

this is after deleting half a dozen duplicate groups and merging about 7k contacts

I don't even use gmail contacts!

ok, third go found another 2.5k from the same person

apparently it can't find more than 2.5k duplicates in a row from one person

4th one

5th

> Failed to merge your contacts:

welp.

and no reason after the colon either

there, down to 46 after the duplicate purge -_-

Sabre Tooth

it seems I may have partial hearing loss... and here I was thinking I was just merely ignoring my students and colleagues...

Journeyman Geek

09:17

Could be both

Sabre Tooth

i think it might be both indeed

lol... the boss starting fretting that I would not be able to do my duties if I have partial hearing loss.... it's partial, not total

Boris_yo

@Hennes What's so bad about those WPS?

@BenRichards Can you put it on indefinite bandwidth stream testing? Like endless speed test? Do you know if such websites exist that allow you this?

@JourneymanGeek Familiar with TestMy.net?

Journeyman Geek

no?

Boris_yo

Hmm I need Australian IP to participate in forum but I don't have paid proxy account. I use ZenMate but they do not offer IP in this country...

I hate proxy websites due to spam and malware etc.

Bob

09:42

@Boris_yo I'd offer, but my connection really is too slow to act as a proxy for anyone else.

Also don't ahve any Aus VPSes... they're a tad expensive :\

Boris_yo

09:57

@Bob Are you familiar with this one? i2pproject.net/en

I wonder if I can switch IP there to Australian.

That Brazilian Guy

10:54

Good morning!

Journeyman Geek

¡woof!

allquixotic

12:41

hii

Journeyman Geek

woof

allquixotic

did someone forget to walk you? you're acting like a feral canine this morning

I notice when you are in distress you resort to your canine roots

Journeyman Geek

lol

I'm fine

(well, I was a little distracted ;p)

allquixotic

tomorrow I have a phone meeting and an online presentation with folks from India, and they scheduled it "conveniently" for 7 AM local time... which is a comfortable 5 PM IST

Journeyman Geek

lol

that's annoying

what time do you normally start work?

allquixotic

12:49

no earlier than 9 AM, usually 10

Journeyman Geek

eh. We work 10 to (WHY ARE YOU GUYS STILL HERE, ITS 7, GO HOOOOOME)

allquixotic

here's the deal:
Boss's boss goes on a panic saying "WE NEED SOFTWARE THAT DOES X!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Boss tells his boss, "Oh! I know some guys in Company-India that make something like that!"
Boss's boss: "Great! Can we try it? Get a demo?"
Other part of Company-US interjects, "Uh, we already have great in-house software that does X, developed and tested, ready to go; here, have a demo!"
Boss's boss: "Great! So since we have two separate solutions that do the same thing, logically we need to INTEGRATE THEM TOGETHER!"

Journeyman Geek

I might have gone in at 7 tommorrow (we have a contractor coming in) but my boss prefers someone else do it. Lack of experience sucks

@allquixotic: ow

allquixotic

it'd be like if a middle manager finds out that two separate divisions of your company both make pickup trucks, then declares that they will make a new vehicle that consists of one model of pickup truck stacked on top of the other and welded to it

Journeyman Geek

;p

upside down too!

so australians can drive it.

allquixotic

12:54

however, Boss is extremely buddy-buddy with Company-India team, even though the software is terrible... so far, based on our evaluations of both software packages, the Company-US solution is far better suited, and can do everything we need on its own

Journeyman Geek

ugh

allquixotic

but the Company-India team's software is riddled with weird bugs and UI head-scratchers

Boss thinks it's wonderous and magical though

Journeyman Geek

and it dosen't quite do the needful?

allquixotic

well, it probably does, but there's some janky way of doing it that we can't suss out after looking at it for ~10 hours

which is why we have a second demo of it tomorrow

despite the fact that the first one was almost useless to us

Journeyman Geek

ahh

That's pretty annoying

(One 'nice' thing about our industry, there's only a handful of companies that make software for it)

and in most cases, there's someone in our company with a direct line to someone in their company to ask them stuff

allquixotic

12:57

heh... I thought the Indians who've moved to the US and lived here for a while had a heavy accent? !!no... theirs are perfectly fine... the Indians still living in India have accents so heavy I can only make out every third or fourth word

Journeyman Geek

rofl

yeah

A lot of vfx guys are from there

work is odd accent wise ;p

We have indians, brits, and french.

allquixotic

no Chinese?

Journeyman Geek

suprisingly few

the only mainland chinese I know of works in tech ;p

Oh, there's locals of course

allquixotic

we have first-generation immigrants from every continent except Antarctica where I work, and within Asia we have people from basically every major direction - north Asia, south Asia, east Asia, west Asia

Journeyman Geek

Well, I was born here.

;p

allquixotic

13:02

we have fewer folks from Europe, but they're there

Journeyman Geek

Well, we're a british company

allquixotic

ah

Journeyman Geek

so the core of the company is british. But we merged with an indian company

allquixotic

mine is a multinational company, but somehow the branch in India is its own separate company that has some kind of deep, all-encompassing agreement with ours

Journeyman Geek

and for some reason there's a ton of indian guys doing vfx (which is odd, cause india dosen't have much good vfx in movies)

allquixotic

13:03

not sure why that is, since we have offices in many other countries within the main company

Journeyman Geek

(I work for double negative, who merged with prime focus. Wierdly, we do different things so, it kinda works out)

We might have sort of acquired them, I'm not sure ;p

allquixotic

I work for this guy ;p

Journeyman Geek

._.

allquixotic

weirdest chin I've ever seen

Journeyman Geek

Same thing I noticed ;p

allquixotic

13:08

meh

crn.com/news/channel-programs/300076031/…

that

Journeyman Geek

ugh.

I see all the scary words from management classes ;p

allquixotic

LOL, typical...

Oliver Salzburg

14:16

Yay, I just finished migrating all our GitHub issues and Trello boards to YouTrack :D

allquixotic

YouTrack? keeping track of everything with video?

Oliver Salzburg

@allquixotic jetbrains.com/youtrack

terdon

@allquixotic You might want to tell your boss that that's not where one wears a G-string.

Oliver Salzburg

I really like it. The way you can file issues is much better suited for us than working with GitHub issues and the agile boards YouTrack has suit us much better than Trello, especially since both features are integrated with each other

allquixotic

@terdon that's not my boss; that's the CEO :P

I haven't met him and probably never will

Oliver Salzburg

14:24

@allquixotic Well, in case you ever do meet him, be sure to leave the right impression by making an inappropriate remark about his face

Journeyman Geek

"I've always thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin, and his vice president has several. This to me is not a good combination."

That Brazilian Guy

So, SE looked into the SUPT proposal and said !!no

-9

Q: SUPT Can Be Awesome - But In A More Distant Future

I'm Tim, and I manage the internationalization effort here at Stack Exchange. I'd like to begin with how amazed we are at the progress you were able to make so quickly on this proposal. We don't often see proposals with this level of enthusiasm behind them; a great deal of debate, thought and dis...

technology

Journeyman Geek

I'm not hugely surprised

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek Dilbert?

that sounds very Dilbert-esque

Journeyman Geek

naw

Ivanova ;p

allquixotic

14:39

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hilarious

Journeyman Geek

Its funny, I haven't watched b5 in years

and I can quote it still

probably has binge watched the show 3,4 times

allquixotic

I've only binge watched it once

Oliver Salzburg

@ThatBrazilianGuy :(

Journeyman Geek

;p

Lets see.

Once when I first got my paws on the whole series

then another time for kicks

and 2 more times when I was down in the dumps and needed a little cheering up ;p

Bob

Ah, programming competitions...

First submission: "Memory Limit Exceeded"

Second submission after 10 minutes of fruitlessly trying to figure out wtf it's complaining about: "Accepted"

Hint: it's a really really simple program that uses exactly 5 32-bit primitive int variables, with zero explicit heap allocation

I was so confused when it told me I was using too much memory -_-

HackToHell

14:54

That reminds me, I should prepare for Google Code Jam

HackToHell

15:11

Blah my buyvm vps is down

allquixotic

bwahahahaha

sorry, I took some strange pleasure in doing that ;D

HackToHell

@allquixotic and I thought that was real :|

allquixotic

15:26

@HackToHell not quite; you can find the original here

Oliver Salzburg

Neat

Didn't know Windows 10 has native console transparency support :D

Bob

@OliverSalzburg That was big news about 4 months ago :P

There's a uservoice page for further console suggestions

allquixotic

there -- I used inspect element to edit the text instead of gimp like my first ham-handed attempt

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob The last time I used 10 was on the day they made the preview available ;D

@allquixotic You have too much free time! :D

HackToHell

@allquixotic figured as much ;p

Oliver Salzburg

15:40

So they release a preview of Office 2016, but don't even replace 2013 with 2016 on the Outlook welcome screen :\

Looks pretty sweet though

William Hilsum

there's a difference between "preview" and "quickly release something to make it look like we have been busy for the last 3 years"

or something like that...

Stupid Outlook issue... or possibly I'm using it wrong - I have hundreds of folders, and, I put a bunch of emails in one and I can't remember where... They come up when I do an "all item search", but, it doesn't show which folder...

I know that if I open an actual find window and do it that way, folder is an option, but, is there an easier way/any way to see it in the preview window?

Bob

Right click on the result?

Canadian Luke

I liked my Windows 10 preview, made the Surface Pro actually usable

Oliver Salzburg

@WilliamHilsum Search in "all outlook elements"

William Hilsum

@OliverSalzburg yeah, when I do that, I find the email... but not the folder it is in... sorry if I wasn't clear

Oliver Salzburg

15:50

@WilliamHilsum Huh, Outlook doesn't show the folder name when I search the mailbox, but it does show the folder when I search in all outlook items

William Hilsum

oh... let me check again

Oliver Salzburg

I also noticed that it sometimes shows the folder and sometimes not. I never saw a pattern though

William Hilsum

I don't seem to be able to see folders on my search, even when I do the all outlook items :/

Oliver Salzburg

@WilliamHilsum When I configure the visible columns, I have "in folder" in the email columns

William Hilsum

thanks! Lol, it has made the columns look ugly now... gone from 2 lines to 5... but, at least I see it!

Thanks! :)

snipe

16:19

windows keeps deleting the folder as well as the html file

I only have he folder selected!

is there a way ti make it behave like it should

Oliver Salzburg

17:01

@snipe Copy the contents of the .html to another file ;P

That Brazilian Guy

17:17

@snipe Which folder? Which file? Context pls

Oliver Salzburg

17:41

@ThatBrazilianGuy Sounds like a saved website

Mokubai

18:14

Has anyone got the tools to scan a Windows crash dump installed?

Oh, it's done a full memory dump. No way I'm posting that on the interwebz

I'm gonna assume it was the water in the keyboard (poured there by the cat) that caused the bluescreen then.

Canadian Luke

You mean BlueScreenView?

Mokubai

18:30

Don't think bluescreenview will cut it, sounds like it only does minidumps, what I've got is a 700MB Memory.dmp

Installed the windows debugging tool

Apparently a hard disk vanished when it wasn't expecting it, which is odd considering it managed to write the memory dump...

Canadian Luke

I thought it would?

Mokubai

I wasn't sure, but I've got WinDbg now...

It claims FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x7a_c00000c0_partmgr!PmSurpriseRemoval

my suspicion is that the wet keyboard made the entire USB system shit itself and took down something that windows didn't like being taken down.

Current score is Cat: 1, Human: 0

I kinda like that windows has a PmSurpriseRemoval

Like it throws out party poppers as if it's a surprise birthday party just before clutching its chest and keeling over and dying...

Ben Richards