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12:39 AM
@qasdfdsaq only if you do it wrong.
 
I'm just playing with Iometer right now, seeing how well the SSD copes with non-stop 4K reads at QD 128
 
@oldmud0 hm . gogo6 tunnel, I think the UDP option should work.
 
97k IOPS, moving nearly 400 MB/s.
 
@oldmud0 that's not double nat. And ugh. More info needed there. I had to set up ipv6rd or slaac on my router for ipv6 ips to get picked up.
 
@JourneymanGeek Lies!
 
12:50 AM
@JourneymanGeek, good luck with National Service.
 
Well, some weapons just have painfully high recoil.
 
What is the service rifle they're using?
 
Also doesn't help if someone's trying to get you to hold an AK47 "movie style" instead of y'know, properly.
 
Hmm, so Singapore uses a custom weapon?
The SAR 21 ("Singapore Assault Rifle - 21st Century") is a bullpup assault rifle designed and manufactured in Singapore. First revealed and subsequently adopted by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in 1999, it was designed and developed over a four-year period and was intended to replace the locally license-built M16S1 by the Singaporean Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), Singapore Army and the Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS, now ST Kinetics). Many of its design features are directly intended to counter the weaknesses of the M16S1 as encountered operationally by some infantrymen. The rifle is...
@qasdfdsaq It's a 5.56 NATO round. Recoil shouldn't be too bad.
That gun is a bullpup design, though, which means that the chamber is behind the trigger. That makes for a very compact weapon but brings up issues like cartridge casings ejecting near the operator's face, potentially causing injury as just-ejected cases are very hot.
 
Recoil on ARs is fine if you actually have the stock braced properly against your body
If you're just holding it without using the stock, in a CS-style spray-and-pray stance, all of it goes straight into your palm.
aka "firing from the hip"
You have a hard time hitting anything that way as well...
 
Bob
12:58 AM
@qasdfdsaq You'll hit plenty of things. Just maybe not what you were supposed to hit.
 
@bwDraco yup
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek You were leaving this morning, yea?
 
@Bob Well, if the target is the only thing in front of you on the range (And I'm not counting the ground)...
 
@qasdfdsaq I've fired from the hip with an m16. You still use both hands.
 
Either way, hilarious as hipspray and 360-no-scopes can be in FPS, they're utterly useless IRL.
@JourneymanGeek Yeah but you're trained to do it.
 
1:01 AM
@JourneymanGeek, are you actually going to fire the SAR 21 or what?
 
Bob
@qasdfdsaq Heh, it would explain the crazy recoil in FPSes too.
 
Maybe I just have sensitive hands, firing anything without a shoulder stock was uncomfortable for me, even an ordinary glock. And that's with a proper stance, and grip, and everything.
The only other thing I know is I can ADS pretty well for a noob.
Well that's what the instructor said anyway.
 
Bob
I picked up my first LED bulbs yesterday... ow that was expensive :\
Still not sure whether that was a good decision over CFLs.
 
How expensive?
You can get pretty decent LED bulbs for about £5-10 each
I paid about £7 each for my Philips Master GU10's
 
Bob
@qasdfdsaq Uhm. I think the 6W Philips was $9. The 10.5W was something like $16. The 13.5W (? didn't get that one) was $18
E27
1 GBP = 2.09 AUD
 
1:08 AM
For me it was a really good deal as they were dimmable and had pretty decent brightness and CRI, far better than the £5 generic ones you get off Ebay
 
Bob
But that's compared to something like $2.50 for two CFLs.
 
Also, finding dimmable CFLs around here is hard, and they tend to cost £10-20+
 
Bob
Ah. Yea, I don't use dimmer switches.
The Wi-Fi controlled ones (Belkin WeMo) were $100 :\
 
(And both are dirt cheap compared to the bulbs I use now...)
 
Bob
There's one place that might've been useful for me.
 
1:09 AM
Oh yeah, I have six of the Philips Hue WiFi controlled bulbs, around £50 each.
Apart from the price, they're awesome
 
Bob
Oh, they also had $10 for two 8W Click (generic? cheap.) branded ones.
Except those were all cool daylight. Urk.
 
I'm done with generic cheap LED bulbs.
 
Bob
Osram was about the same price as Philips.
 
The Philips ones are just so much better for CRI, the difference is night and day. And they don't cost a huge amount more
 
Bob
Hm. I've never actually used LED bulbs before.
 
1:11 AM
Also when Philips say 400 lumens, that's 400 lumens after 2 years of use.
 
Bob
As far as cheap bulbs, I pretty much exclusively use Mirabella CFLs these days.
 
I had some cheapo Ebay LED bulbs last year.
 
Bob
Even Philips ones tend to die early :\
 
Took one look at my flatmate's Philips bulbs and was sold. Twice as bright and far better CRI and dimmable... at only 50% more than the crappy ebay ones
Also colour temperature is a bit irrelevant now with my Hue kits
 
Bob
lol
 
1:13 AM
Also before you point out spending £350 on light bulbs is excessive...
 
Bob
Do you even bother changing the temps?
I did see a cheaper Philips one that can toggle between daylight/warm by switching it off and on again.
 
Bob
Was about double the price of the basic ones.
 
That's just one light, and it's not even the most expensive one
 
Bob
But I pretty much go warm => bedrooms, hallways, living and cool => kitchen. Not much use for changing temps.
@qasdfdsaq They don't sell Philips Hue in Bunnings :\
They have some Osram thing, and Belkin WeMo.
 
1:15 AM
Oh hey, that's dropped. I'm sure they used to cost like £3000 :-/
 
Bob
O_O
 
And yeah, I change them all the time.
Usually according to mood, time of day, and how tired I'm feeling
Also I like putting them in party mode and playing loud music at the weekends
I also have them programmed to fade on (simulated sunrise) in the mornings
 
Bob
Hm. Interesting.
 
Slightly helpful in getting me up in the mornings, but sadly even six of them aren't nearly bright enough to replace a proper SAD lamp.
Or .. well, actual daylight for that matter.
 
Bob
I might try if they drop in price. Drop a lot in price :S
...I'm used to <$2 for a bulb. $15 was painful enough, never mind $100
 
1:19 AM
They sorta had the Phoenix range, which gave you full colour temperature control from 2700k-7000k but no RGB control, but ironically they cost more than the full RGB ones and they don't sell the bulbs separately
See it's no longer "just a bulb", it's a smart home accessory :-P
Hmm you can get the Philips Master dimmable LED bulbs (3000K) for £4.96 now
 
@JourneymanGeek: Have you fired sniper rifles that use rounds like .338 Lapua Magnum?
 
I have.
 
Bob
That sounds... bruising.
@qasdfdsaq Those are just the basic bulbs, yea?
 
@Bob 5 year warranty.
 
Bob
What's the output at that price?
 
1:23 AM
@Bob Yeah, standard dimmable LEDs, no fancy wifi stuff
5w/400lm.
But again these are GU10's
 
Bob
Ah.
 
@Bob Funny enough it's far less bruising than hand holding a pistol or AR
 
Bob
Yea, I think the ones I saw were around there.
 
I found it had far less noticeable recoil since it's hefty and has a full-on shoulder stock
 
@qasdfdsaq .338LM is a high-power sniper round, how can this be the case?
 
Bob
1:24 AM
Huh, a basic Belkin Wemo bulb is $60
The $100 ones might've been a kit.
 
@bwDraco You don't fire snipers from the hip. You also rarely hand hold snipers IRL.
Tripod and shoulder stock are the norm.
 
Bob
$80 for a 9W/600lm Hue
 
Err... bipod.
 
Bob
Pretty sure I didn't see any in-store... :S
 
@Bob They have 800lm ones now.
 
Bob
1:26 AM
@qasdfdsaq Not at Bunnings, apparently
 
They're new. They come with the V2 bridge (Apple Homekit kit) but the separate ones are still a bit hard to find
 
The 800lm ones are only brighter in the mid-4000K range anyway.
They slapped on a few extra ~4000K white LEDs, but left the R,G, and B ones the same.
 
Bob
o.O
 
At 2700K or 6500K, they're the exact same brightness as the 600lm ones. Same while displaying pure colours. Yea I was a bit disappointed.
I also smashed one by accident, and then proceeded to disassemble it FOR SCIENCE.
 
Bob
1:29 AM
Hm.
 
TBH if you just want simple lighting, then yeah, they're hideously expensive
 
Bob
The local store doesn't have the Hue, and the website doesn't have the range of basic globes.
That's annoying.
@qasdfdsaq Do they still work when smashed?
 
@Bob Yep, perfectly well.
 
Bob
I thought the cover was just a diffuser.
 
It is.
 
Bob
1:30 AM
Wait, is it even glass?
 
Those are the old ones. At the time I couldn't find any online images for the new ones, so made my own, but I never uploaded them :-(
 
Bob
At least smashing/disassembling those don't carry the whole mercury risk of CFLs :P
 
I managed to break mine a little more while forcing the controller PCBs out of the housing, knocked off a couple of SMD caps or resistors and now the blue channel doesn't work
Might try fixing it one day
What's great is the RESTful web interface, you can control it via practically any means, apps, web pages, javascript, even bash scripts.
 
Bob
That's a lot of force.
Last I remember, SMT components don't come off particularly easily.
Do you still have the parts? Hopefully not too hard to solder them back on...
 
@Bob They're tiny
And I needed a lot of force, had to bend the PCB by about 6mm
 
Bob
1:41 AM
O_O
yea, that'd do it
Says something about the design that the rest still work :P
 
The power supply side is basically glued into the base and completely embedded in a giant wad of silicone
The ICs and controller side is moveable, but plugged in via a mating connector that requires ~6mm of displacement to unplug.
Since both sides of the connector and the power unit is completely immobile, the only way to get the controller out is to bend it enough to un-mate the connector.
I eventually dug out enough of the housing using a hot knife to melt through the plastic but I suspect that's also about the time I knocked off the SMDs.
Anyway, off to bed, work tomorrow ._.
 
Bob
'night
 
1:57 AM
@DavidPostill Use ublock.
 
@Bob yeah but there's a lot of waiting.
@bwDraco naw. Nothing other than .223
I'm a remf
@bwDraco I'm not allowed to discuss specifics. Outside I should have packed a book.
 
 
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3:53 AM
???????? LOL
user image
3
 
Train derailment. You've got to be joking.
Package seems to have never gotten delivered.
 
Anonymous
poor guy there
 
4:20 AM
Ow.
 
Bob
4:39 AM
@allquixotic O_O
What was the conclusion there?
...
A parcel from the US to Canada.
Went through Japan.
Twice.
o.O
 
0 0
Ninjas?
 
Bob
> The paper mentions that “Introducing N-oxides onto the tetrazole ring may . . . push the limits of well-explored tetrazole chemistry into a new, unexplored, dimension.”, but (of more immediate importance) it may also push pieces of your lab equipment into unexplored parts of the far wall.
 
5:08 AM
 
5:22 AM
Great movie but odd category....
 
Bob
5:56 AM
@JourneymanGeek still waiting? :P
 
6:19 AM
@Bob waited. Had lunch. Waited for something else.....
I'm doing all sorts of hurry up and wait.
 
Bob
6:37 AM
@JourneymanGeek At least you have your phone :P
 
And my giant powerbank.
Nice. I might be getting a 500 point bounty.
 
6:53 AM
@Bob it made it to its destination :P
 
7:12 AM
The guy sitting next to me is snoring
On the bright side I can leave here at 6
 
Bob
7:44 AM
Hm. I just got a missed delivery notice (Toll).
Took me 15+ mins to figure out what the delivery was o.O
There's four parcels I know are coming in over the next week, but this was too early for that :P
 
8:06 AM
Lol
 
 
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9:12 AM
@qasdfdsaq
18 hours ago, by DavidPostill
Even better. For Firefox goto > about:config and set image.animation_mode to none. Works perfectly ;)
 
9:24 AM
Yay. Nowhere to sleep here. Going home!
 
Bob
> [SKU295761]Original Xiaomi Micro-SD Aux-in Hands Free Stereo Pocket 1500mAh 3.8V Bluetooth Speaker[+Color;Blue]


is out of stock and estimated restock date is 2016-01-13, would you mind waiting for it or change the color to pink?
lol
 
 
2 hours later…
11:18 AM
@DavidPostill The who the what the huh?
@Bob I did end up with a pink/purple speaker myself cause it was the only one left in stock that was that cheap
Also my monitor is wonky. Somebody wonked my monitor while I was on holiday :-/
 
@qasdfdsaq Never mind replied to wrong person :/
 
11:34 AM
That explains it.
Windows 10 display scaling improvements... huhm,
 
Bob
@qasdfdsaq Heh. Luckily I can just wait a couple more days. I'm surprised they emailed me about it - I went for the free up-to-30-days shipping :\
Because the only other option, EMS, was expensive and not much faster :\
Other products had acceptable priority and expedited shipping. Not this one for some reason.
 
11:48 AM
Meep
 
0_0
23-inch 8K desktop monitors
Madness
 
Yeah...
Great, my parents are trying to bribe me again
 
Is it a bad thing that I'm not sure whether to ask "with what" or "why?"
also blah
I'm trying to remember where I saw a bad question which might be of use to me
 
@JourneymanGeek With money-related shit, and because I refuse to talk to them.
 
ahh ok
 
12:52 PM
I distinctly remember someone asking about various panel types refresh rates and such somewhere
not sure if it was on SU or HR and I can't find it
 
I answered some shit about colour accuracy with a side of response times, but I don't think that was it
 
naw
it was a specific list of questions
oh well
If I run across it again, good
 
1:13 PM
Hmm David Bowie has left the building.
 
Bob
@allquixotic I'm ... not very happy with NetBeans 8.1 :\ forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?t=65094
@qasdfdsaq Yea, heard about that. RIP :(
 
2:12 PM
!!:-(
 
@qasdfdsaq That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: :-o
 
!!:-o
 
Nope, that's not what I meant
 
Bob
!!undo
 
2:15 PM
@Bob TimeError: Could not reach 88mph
2
 
Bob
...dammit.
!!info :-o
 
@Bob Command :-o, created by qasdfdsaq on Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:21:45 GMT, invoked 1 times
 
That's a lie.
 
Bob
!!forget :-o
 
@Bob Command :-o forgotten.
 
2:16 PM
Noooooooooo!
 
Whyyyyyyyy!
!!forget bob
 
@qasdfdsaq Command bob does not exist.
 
@Bob @qasdfdsaq bob does not exist. (source)
2
 
2:17 PM
HAHA BOB DOES NOT EXIST.
YOU ARE DEAD TO THE WORLD
 
Yeah saw that
 
Bob
o.O
 
Is my hat gone?
My hat's gone :-(
 
Bob
Hm.
I wonder why the Archer D7 is so cheap. Cheaper than the C7...
@qasdfdsaq :(
 
Costs more than the C7 here...
 
Bob
Odd.
Oh, the Click bulbs are rated at "80+ CRI"
And the Philips ones aren't supposed to be used in an enclosed fixture... shit.
Hm... I should hold off on Yet Another Access Point. Even 2.4 GHz is pretty clear here, and there's always the good ol' GbE cable.
 
 
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4:39 PM
 
5:03 PM
o/
 
5:19 PM
ok, this is kinda annoying
there is something wrong with linux + mechanical keyboards
I end up with stuck keys (at software level, not physically)
 
specifically?
 
and the shit I dig up on google only verify that it's an existing problem without providing any solutions
 
@tereško might it be a problem with XInput2 and n-key rollover?
 
that's what I have been guessing
but I cannot get any actual directions for conclusive diagnosis nor can I find any tangible ides for fixing it
I am about 2 beers from plugging in my old keyboard
it seems that I also am getting a problem with keyboard stopping to work in odd moments .. at least that how it feels
I suspect that there is something wrong with keydown and keyup event detection either at userland or kernel level
@allquixotic I actually tried disabling n-key - it didnt help
 
6:19 PM
I seem to have confused SU chat
Everything I thought I saw... just disappeared
 
Anonymous
heh
 
Anonymous
just got a job at a local datacenter
 
Congrats, can I have it?
 
@qasdfdsaq if you're using Chrome, that behavior's been going on for years
 
Anonymous
well paid (for what I can get), awesome work environment, cool responsibilities
 
Anonymous
6:21 PM
@qasdfdsaq hahaha you'd have to travel to Chile then ;)
 
@PatoSáinz I hope you have all your CPanel skills ready :(
 
Anonymous
@tereško haha why the sad face? also, my duties don't have anything to do with user-facing services so no cpanel for me
 
Anonymous
I mean I don't personally like CPanel but...
 
Anonymous
it's not that bad
 
no, what I meant is that from what I have experienced, majority of people in data centres are lost without their GUI tools
then again, it's a trend in IT sector as whole
 
6:28 PM
Hey guys, I got a hard drive in Debian that has bad blocks. I'm trying to mirror it in an mdadm array to keep the server running, but it keeps erroring out (for obvious reasons) with a new drive. What I was thinking was to mirror the drive with mdadm, pull the original bad drive, and put in a second new drive, mirror that one over, and run fsck to repair the file system. Is there something wrong with my thinking?
 
the amount of job positions has increased exponentially, while the amount of people with clues has basically stayed the same, @PatoSáinz
@CanadianLuke I would have just dd'ed the whole thing and went from there
 
Would that not break the array?
 
so you do have a raid (sorry, I am on my second glass of wine here)?
 
Yes
One of the two hard drives failed, completely
I removed it, added a new hard drive, had mdadm start adding it to the array
The other hard drive that was in the original array is showing bad blocks, so that one will need to be replaced as well
I was working on it one disk at at ime
 
Anonymous
@tereško hahaha well, we only use CPanel so clients can change their own stuff
 
Anonymous
6:38 PM
all the people working in the company are very technical (even the designers/marketing people/salesmen)
 
Anonymous
we are only like 7 people or so, a startup
 
then, do you have any ideas why my mechanical keyboard is freaking out on Arch?
 
Anonymous
@tereško that seems like an awful heisenbug
 
yeah, well, I have no idea what to google for
 
7:22 PM
@CanadianLuke Spinrite it!
 
Windows has found 221 mor eupdates. Shall I install them?
The joys of a clean windows 7 install on new hardware (update cycle #3-ish)
@MichaelFrank Uhm. No?
 
@Bob The problem is with enclosed fixtures is that LEDs are semiconductor devices and therefore very temperature-sensitive.
 
first copy all files you still can without touching broken parts of the drive
Then, and only then, start recovery
 
@Hennes Spinrite doesn't write anything at all, it's read only.
 
Anonymous
@Hennes W10 is better at it, much, much better
 
7:29 PM
I have ordered a win7 CoA
Once it arrives I can upgrade my win 7 (not activated atm) to win10
 
While modern LEDs can sustain temperatures of up to 125 °C, prolonged operation at high temperature can cause the LED to degrade and fail prematurely.
 
@MichaelFrank "SpinRite operates with the drive's built-in intelligence to reassign and relocate defective sectors without creating file system fragments." If it is reassigning/relocating defective sectors it is writing to the disk.
 
@DavidPostill Ahh okay. D:
 
@Hennes you should have just gone with 10th
 
7:35 PM
@Hennes lolz "You have 253 new updates to install."
restart
"You have 143 new updates to install."
 
Not new to me. You'll need to go through multiple reboot cycles.
 
ddrescue. Job done
 
This is 100% normal for a fresh Windows install. The older the version (as long as it is still supported), the more updates you'll need to go through.
 
Also, ddresuce and fill blanks using the other drive.
If it isn't totally dead.
 
@bwDraco I imagine it's probably very familiar with pretty much everyone here.
 
7:37 PM
I've experienced this with a Hyper-V Server install a while back, too.
Went through a similar affair when my laptop had to go through a repair-install due to recurring BSODs.
In the unlikely event this happens again, though, I always have a DVD with the latest version of Windows 10. Given the pace of major updates with Windows 10, this should be less of an issue these days.
(You wouldn't be able to repair-install Windows 10 v1511 with a Windows 10 RTM disc, anyway, as they are technically different releases of Windows.)
 
Repair installs haven't existed since XP
 
@qasdfdsaq Repair-install = in-place upgrade to same version
Has to be done online, though. Won't work if your system is not bootable.
 
@tereško I prefer to start with something I know.
 
Ah.
I guess offline repair installs haven't existed since XP
 
Well, disabling the NIC (it's a backup server) seemed to help, quite a bit!
It's going at 40Mb/s right now
 
@qasdfdsaq: Can you not delete chatbot command messages unless genuinely necessary?
 
What commands
I don't see no commands
 
The last command you issued to the chatbot is !!/taytaytay, but you immediately deleted the command.
 
I had nothing to do with it. You saw nothing.
Lies!
 
!!taytay
 
8:08 PM
@CanadianLuke That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.
 
It was a demon, pretending to be me
Or a hallucination
 
Hmm... Thought there was a second one
 
!!listcommands
 
@qasdfdsaq help, listen, eval, coffee, refresh, forget, info, listcommands, tell, afk, awsm, ban, unban, color, convert, define, doge, domain, export, findcommand, forgetseen, github, google, hang, inhistory, import, jquery, learn, test, why, hello, friday, after5, theanswer, caution, nicethings, goaway, status, poptart, routertroubleshooting, networkingproblem, meta, rlemon, no, foxno, yes, orlmente, fixit, uio, taytaytay, ping, say, facepalm, hv, ohhh, whocares, snore, toostupid, bababababat
plz, whee, lol, ittts, gates, potato, pissed, evil, ohmy, cancer, theplan, thisplanet, win, suatmm
 
!!wasntme
 
!!tayderp
 
!!noitsbecky
 
!!info noitsbecky
 
8:09 PM
@qasdfdsaq Command noitsbecky, created by qasdfdsaq on Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:06:49 GMT, invoked 1 times
 
What.
I fail.
!!forget noitsbecky
 
@qasdfdsaq Command noitsbecky forgotten.
 
!!learn noitsbecky <>http://i.imgur.com/2mKsiO7.png
 
@qasdfdsaq Command noitsbecky learned
 
!!noitsbecky
 
@qasdfdsaq Yep. Use two angle brackets.
 
I deny any and all knowledge of Becky.
 
@tereško not for me.
Well, maybe the fact I can't code might have something to do with it.
@ChatBotJohnCavil No, it has to be this image:
 
@bwDraco Yeah. We shouldn't delete them... There are better ways!
 
8:25 PM
@allquixotic: AMD R9 Nano receives a major price break anandtech.com/show/9938/amd-cuts-price-of-radeon-r9-nano-to-499
 
!!learn clevergirl <>http://i.stack.imgur.com/cC097.gif
 
@MichaelFrank Command clevergirl learned
 
 
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9:39 PM
@qasdfdsaq mwahahahaha
 
@bwDraco Why?
 
jk
 
 
Anonymous
10:08 PM
@qasdfdsaq haha reminds me of Swift on Security
 
10:41 PM
need to add this one
 
Bob
11:20 PM
> No, making things that go off when someone down the hall curses at the coffee machine, that’s no problem. Making something like this that can actually be handled and stored is a real accomplishment.
 
11:58 PM
I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.
 

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