Root Access

DavidPostill

12:00 AM

That doesn't explain "It then lets me review all the questions posted under this name and they are not mine"

Journeyman Geek

That's just wierd

and I don't see anything like that with mod-vision (tm)

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek How did you figure out his registered account?

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill ip cross reference, then checked registered emails...

qasdfdsaq

Creepy.

Journeyman Geek

shrug

qasdfdsaq

12:07 AM

Woof

Journeyman Geek

User has a problem. Problem is wierd. Possible major bug causing a data leak.

Mods also happen to triage these things

Also us reading PII is logged and being a creepy shit is totally grounds for de-modding.

qasdfdsaq

The Creep (feat. Nicki Minaj & John Waters)

Classic

<3

(I haven't listened to that in years, Lovely song. So. Damned. Depressing)

yro.slashdot.org/story/16/01/26/235208/…

Someone in pakistan better have had been looking at a lot of porn for public morality....

DavidPostill

12:18 AM

I had to look up what "vitiate" meant ;)

Michael Frank

Heh... I was going through my LastPass vault lastnight, cleaning up old passwords and sites I no longer use. Clicked on one site to change the password and it was no longer the gaming site I remember, but full on porn.

qasdfdsaq

Or you just misremembered

Michael Frank

No, it was definitely a gaming site.

qasdfdsaq

Uhuh. Very likely.

Michael Frank

reddit.com/r/wow/comments/28zy1j/…

DavidPostill

12:28 AM

qasdfdsaq

12:40 AM

Goddamn it, where the hell is MH370

Dave

@MichaelFrank chardev goes to a pornsite now

@MichaelFrank ty i'm at work btw

lol

Michael Frank

Not my fault you didn't read the conversation we were having D:

But yea... Whoops.

Sorry.

Dave

lmao no biggy

Could have been worse.. i once convinced someone at work who loved pen's to check out pen island.com to get some huge deals

i almost got beat up that day for it.

someone actually recently registered penisland.net and made it a legit pen site.

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek you mean XKEYSCORE?

Anonymous

btw google code shut down yesterday: rip

Journeyman Geek

12:53 AM

The Little Mermaid - Under the Sea

►

too soon?

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Too soon for what?

OOoh.

heh.

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek I knew you were trouble since you walked in.

Ramhound

Can a moderator talk to Spencer4134 on what it means to properly cite material from an external link?

Journeyman Geek

hm. That should be me. Got a link?

Ramhound

Discussion between Spencer4134 and Ra…

Imported from a comment discussion on superuser.com/questions/...

he is in that room currently

I tried.

Whatever I am attempting to communicate is not getting through.

I pointed out that many of his answers seem to be copies directly from a link, and while he provides the link, what is his original words and what is the cited material is not disguisable

he requested an explicated solution which confuses me because from my point of view, I already provided that :$

Michael Frank

1:06 AM

@Ramhound Since JMG is giving that guy the copyright talk.. The image you used here is watermarked. I'm sure TenForums would prefer you don't take their content.

Ramhound

Its not hosted by them, I provided citation, but I can be more explicitly clear with regards to that if you think that helps

Journeyman Geek

I rather ~~do my own stunts~~ do my own screenshots

Ramhound

You know how many times I have provided their screenshots in answers :$

Michael Frank

@Ramhound So if I make a copy of the Mona Lisa, but don't keep it in the Louvre. I can claim it's not a copy?

@Ramhound I'm just saying, it's all copy and pasting. Words or images. It's no different.

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank I try to attribute there

Ramhound

1:09 AM

In that example, how is the copy made precisely, if its my original work then it truly isn't a copy. Its only a problem if I claim it is the Mona Lisa.

Journeyman Geek

but its so easy to paste a random google images picture and forget about it

Ramhound

Besides I don't claim that screenshot is my own

Anyways I fixed it

In other cases that won't be so easy, will consider it, in the future

Michael Frank

It looks cleaner as well. Plus it doesn't make it look like we don't just Google all our answers and paste the first result. ;)

qasdfdsaq

@MichaelFrank But we do

Ramhound

But that's literally what happens sometimes ;$

Michael Frank

1:18 AM

Yesss... I know, that's what the winky face is for.

Ramhound

Which is annoying, which is why its frustrating, when people are like "why so critical" and I am like "really I copied and pasted your title of your question and literally clicked on he first result and your wondering why I am ...."

which is happened to that that question you linked to :$

But hey if they want to give me hundreds of reputation points for quoting a Wikipedia article I will accept it :$

I am still stunned by that one :$

Journeyman Geek

Completely unrelated but...

SNOWBOARDING WITH THE NYPD

►

Ramhound

0

Q: Windows 10 start menu missing certain types of shortcuts

I created my own shortcuts to a couple of HTML Help documents, and placed the shortcuts into my Start Menu folder here: C:\Users\Misha\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs However, they do not appear in the Start Menu when I type their name. For example, I have a shortcut n...

is it bad I want to comment

bwDraco

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 min ago, by SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Facebook load times are very slow, but other pages are fast, and >12Mbit/s up & down by Aich Pamular on superuser.com (@bwDraco)

Ramhound

"Then why did you submit your question now, without access to your pc, and skipped providing relevant screenshots?"

bwDraco

1:32 AM

The user is spamming his own (monetized) video. Don't bother asking the user to summarize the video content; there's a vested interest in not doing so. — bwDraco 4 mins ago

Ramhound

I see.

How does he have 5k reputation then?

bwDraco

Different users.

Michael Frank

You are both talking about different things lol

bwDraco

I was referring to the post I reported through Smokey.

Ramhound

Doh!

bwDraco

1:45 AM

Welp, from CrystalDiskInfo's monitoring, my machine seems to be writing 20 GB a day to the SSD if the system is left running overnight. That's awfully high; not sure why.

(Not a serious issue as this SSD 850 PRO is rated for 80+ GB a day over ten years, but that's an oddly high I/O rate.)

Journeyman Geek

heh

Its 9.50. My computer has not crashed yet....

So. If I leave my fastrack unplugged while I backup, all is fine

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek pranks #gonewrong #gonesexual #indahood #reaction

Anonymous

2:00 AM

@bwDraco I assume you don't have a pagefile in your SSD

Anonymous

nor when you suspend to disk, you use your SSD

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz #hastagabuse

tereško

bwDraco

@PatoSáinz Nothing to do with that. Seems to be some service as svchost.exe seems to be responsible for an inordinate amount of I/O.

Okay. Why is SuperFetch enabled?

(I disabled that a while back.)

thewindowsclub.com/disable-superfetch-prefetch-ssd

It remains to be seen if the problem is brought under control.

Anonymous

@bwDraco resmon.exe

bwDraco

2:20 AM

Okay. I've determined the cause of the issue. File History is to blame.

It's rewriting the catalog files Catalog1.edb and Catalog2.edb, in their entirety, every time there is new data to be backed up.

The sad part is that Windows does not allow the .edb files to be compressed; if I try to compress them, File History decompresses it.

Okay. Can I safely use an NTFS junction point to redirect the File History cache at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration to another location?

...or am I going to cause the File History service to fail?

Okay, redirected the Configuration folder to another disk. Seems to not disturb the File History service.

Anonymous

@bwDraco there's no reason for it to fail... it's transparent

bwDraco

The issue is that the catalog EDB files have grown very large and it's rewriting nearly 100 MB every time the File History is updated.

...which means an absurd amount of I/O is being performed on the system SSD.

I've redirected the configuration (but not the offline cache) to the machine's secondary SSD.

This means that another SSD will take the hit, but it's much less of an issue at this point.

That drive is much smaller (64 GB mSATA) but gets little use otherwise.

It has about 1.5 TBW on it, so I'm not really worried about it

Nov 1 '14 at 5:23, by DragonLord

@JourneymanGeek I have a cheap 64GB Plextor M5M SSD in my laptop and it is being used as a cache and high-speed scratch space. Somebody managed to wear one out after writing about 250 TB to it

Journeyman Geek

2:42 AM

@bwDraco this is fairly low use tho

bwDraco

forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=34801195

> not from normal use, but at work, I've run extended endurance tests on many models of SSD. Just today I killed a Plextor M5M 64GB drive. had about 250TB of writes on it, then I ran my daily power cycle and it kicked the bucket

Given that this laptop still has one open mSATA slot, I could conceivably just install a Samsung SSD 850 EVO alongside the existing SSD and move all data to it. (It's TLC, but 3D V-NAND technology greatly increases endurance so that it's more like planar MLC NAND.)

Journeyman Geek

"Extended endurance tests"

This is the PC equivilent of a little ol lady weekend car ;p

Still need to talk my dad into it

bwDraco

@allquixotic: Hey, Das Keyboard has a new line of gaming keyboards: divisionzerogaming.com

In any case, drives are overprovisioned to extend endurance.

Journeyman Geek

2:58 AM

heh. Am I a hipster for using mechanical keyboards before they were cool? ;p

bwDraco

That 64 GB M5M only has 48 GiB formated (19.3% overprovisioning).

@JourneymanGeek That Roccat keyboard can't come out soon enough :(

(It's a preorder)

I also have intermittent key bounce in the UIOP keys on this Isku.

I'll hold onto it as a spare but it's probably not going to last more than 6-12 months at the rate I'm wearing it down.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco that's a funny thing

You've had decent luck with roccats

I've had shit luck with them (Love their design tho)

Razer has a bad rep for reliability but most of my stuff from them lasts

bwDraco

It's been extensively used. It's not surprising that a membrane keyboard would wear out this quickly under heavy use.

allquixotic

3:15 AM

@bwDraco cool!

bwDraco

@allquixotic So is it typical for a membrane keyboard to fail after less than two years of (heavy) use?

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco typically my cheap ones lasted 5 or more years

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek under how much use and were there any anomalies (soft key feel, key bouncing, unusual keystroke acoustics, etc.) before failure?

allquixotic

@bwDraco I had a ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint (original model, not the Compact one) fail after 2.5-3 years of heavy use

Journeyman Geek

3:40 AM

@bwDraco typically? I threw them out cause they were complete shit, and I ended up getting a nicer keyboard...

I think I had a total shit one survive 8 years of constant office use

bwDraco

Updated Firefox.

Please be advised: The Tab Groups feature is deprecated and will be removed in Firefox 45 (to be released in six weeks): support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal (@Bob)

A functionally identical add-on, based on the existing Firefox code for Tab Groups, is available if you rely on this feature.

bwDraco

3:59 AM

venturebeat.com/2015/11/12/…

Mozilla is cash-strapped which means that commercial partnerships with other services is one of the few remaining ways they can stay competitive.

venturebeat.com/2015/07/06/…

A focus on high-quality core product; extra features may be cut or moved to add-ons.

Again, Mozilla is struggling to stay afloat.

Aug 11 '15 at 14:31, by allquixotic

@DragonLord they're struggling not to run out of money

I fear Mozilla may meet an untimely end at some point within the next few years...

theregister.co.uk/2015/11/26/…

Chrome is the industry standard these days and competing with Google is not easy.

bwDraco

4:16 AM

Well, Mozilla isn't cash-strapped but their flagship product is losing market share fast which could mean "game over" in 3-5 years unless they do something about it.

Bob

5:00 AM

17

Q: Building a bridge to the stars

Could I, purely in quantity of material only, build a solid bridge to a star? Ignore anything like strength, relative motions of systems, that is all taken care of, using lalalaicanthearyouium - this is not remotely based in any actual science. All I want to know is whether there is enough mate...

space materials engineering

> lalalaicanthearyouium

bwDraco

@allquixotic: GPUOpen has launched. gpuopen.com/welcometogpuopen

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Its worldbuilding tho

Some of the questions there are crazy

Well... if your structure is thin enough, it sounds feasible. BTW i would use unobtanium, if i were you, or handwavium. Both are much more convenient. — Burki 16 hours ago

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I know, it's just funny.

HackToHell

What' the name of that tab group addon that is nice for firefox

There are a lot

And they all seem same

And also I am using normal queries instead of an ORM for now

Ha I think I found it

allquixotic

5:28 AM

@bwDraco ...except that (1) a lot of their libraries depend on (closed) DirectX and thus won't run on open platforms; (2) they still haven't announced any plans for opening up the source on any of their proprietary graphics drivers on any platform, preferring to leave them closed; and (3) they continue to push "standards" like OpenGL and Vulkan with proprietary, patent-encumbered extensions that have to be licensed and proprietary to implement.

The "openness" is little more than skin-deep. When you get down to it, GPUOpen is really GPUClosed, because they're too chicken to go whole-hog. If they're not fully invested in the open source philosophy, why do it? They make all these arguments for why open source higher level libraries are good for developers, then ignore the fact that those very arguments undermine their myriad closed source efforts that will not be opened up.

bwDraco

Well, AMD is just getting started.

Even if it is half-hearted, it is still better than the entirely closed NVIDIA solution.

Bob

@allquixotic PR.

Two humans and a Foo walk into a Bar... — immibis 1 hour ago

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco heh. You just hate nvidia

As with everything, it isn't black and white.

Bob

+1 for working "I pity the ... Foo" in. — Monty Harder yesterday

bwDraco

It's all a matter of degree, but a partially open ecosystem is better than a mostly closed ecosystem.

Journeyman Geek

5:39 AM

AMD's in a wierd place. They can't be allowed to fail. That said, they're kinda crunched between two giants in terms of GPUs

Bob

A slightly open ecosystem claiming to be fully open can be worse than a blatantly closed one.

Journeyman Geek

and not quite sure what path to take in CPUs

Bob

Going beyond "open = good, closed = bad" (which is an ideological issue), claiming to be more than you are is not good.

bwDraco

We'll see how developers react. It's too early to draw any conclusions on the effective openness of the platform.

tereško

6:04 AM

well, I really hope that initiative works out

I would love native FreeBSD drivers for AMD

Journeyman Geek

@tereško that might be easier than you think

IIRC sony runs a freebsd versionon the PS4

tereško

true

but without community doing the work, AMD just cannot afford to maintain another set of drivers

and PS4 is something of a special case, since they had to write a driver only for a single GPU on a precisely known HW

bwDraco

welp. Machine turned off and back on without warning. Might be a thermal event.

(I was doing CPU-intensive photo editing and the fan was not running at 100%, just spinning up and down.)

tereško

if they really opensource all of the GPU-related software (under sensible license like MIT or BSD) then FreeBSD foundation could "adopt" it as an official supported

bwDraco

I do have an HWMonitor PRO license so I'll use it to understand what's going on.

bwDraco

6:34 AM

1

Q: Prevent IP address conflicts on a heterogeneous network consisting of PCs and embedded systems in a retail environment

In our LAN environment (wired and wireless), IP Address conflict almost always gets our systems down. We have a lot of equipment connected to the network: PC's, Access Points, RF, weighing scales, POS machines. Each equipment has its own range of defined IP Addresses. However, IP's are stati...

networking lan ip-address

This surely belongs on Server Fault.

Journeyman Geek

needs a fair bit more information tho

bwDraco

> weighing scales, POS machines

...hence I edited "retail environment" into the title.

XKCD

Maybe if I put it in a box for a while with a speaker playing some pleasant pastoral music, I can reprogram it.

bwDraco

The tricky part of this question is the fact that the network has a whole bunch of embedded systems that have their own IP configuration.

Journeyman Geek

and there's no real information on things like how things are managed and where these conflicts are from

Journeyman Geek

7:10 AM

@MichaelFrank heh, still watching the expanse?

Michael Frank

9:39 AM

@JourneymanGeek I'm a couple episodes behind, but yup!

Journeyman Geek

11:23 AM

._.

So I tried to grow potatos.
Nothing happened. Buried it in the dirt I had kept to mound it (you keep burying potatos as they grow, to get the most spuds...)

I just had a potato plant grow out... through something like a meter of soil on top....

after a few weeks

jokerdino

12:20 PM

Yay?

Journeyman Geek

Presumably

If we can keep my dad from overwatering the plants, we might get a bucket of potatos in a few months

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek You have a garden with 1m of soil in your 55th floor apartment?

Journeyman Geek

25th

jokerdino

he lives in a mansion

Journeyman Geek

and its in a bucket

DavidPostill

12:27 PM

A 1m high bucket?

jokerdino

It could be an industrial one.

Journeyman Geek

er

actually no

DavidPostill

That's some bucket ;)

Journeyman Geek

Sorry, I clearly mis-estimated the size of the bucket, being a small dog...

2 feet?

jokerdino

that's 3/4th of a metre.

or is it 2/5th?

DavidPostill

12:28 PM

or about 2/3 even.

jokerdino

I think it's actually 3/5th.

Journeyman Geek

....

jokerdino

60 cm to 100 cm.

Journeyman Geek

still

LOTS of soil

jokerdino

lots of soil to hide poo.

DavidPostill

12:29 PM

2ft = 24 inches. 1m ~= 39 inches

Journeyman Geek

naw

We WERE going to layer coffee grounds and soil

but I think we kinda gave up after a while

DavidPostill

2ft = 0.6096 m

jokerdino

1m = 1m.

Journeyman Geek

.... you pedants. let me go get a tape measure

DavidPostill

lol

Journeyman Geek

12:32 PM

can' t find one

DavidPostill

this is a bucket

Journeyman Geek

Its slightly less than knee height for the human tho

DavidPostill

Journeyman Geek

yeah

something like that

but it basically grew through most of that filled with soil

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek 55th floor ? ....

that's too bloody high

mes scared

Journeyman Geek

12:34 PM

lol

25th

there's a 50 story apartment building nearby tho...

jokerdino

I don't think a cat can die if it leaps from 55th.

Journeyman Geek

Most cats are smart enough not to try

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek still too damn high but I suppose that's common in sg

DavidPostill

"Miracle cat falls 20 stories" nypost.com/2011/07/13/miracle-cat-falls-20-stories

Journeyman Geek

pretty much

We're used to it tho

jokerdino

12:36 PM

Have you ever tried climbing it JMG?

DavidPostill

" The 16-year-old cat survived a breathtaking 20-story plunge from an Upper West Side apartment window with barely a scratch.

“He didn’t even chip a tooth or break a bone,” his thankful owner, Barry Myers, 44, said yesterday of his amazing kitty’s crash landing onto the pavement.

“I usually call him ‘G,’ but he’s Super G. He is Miracle G now,” he said of his best buddy.

Richard Fried, Gloucester’s vet agreed, saying, “He’s lucky to be alive. Most cats would die outright, or suffer serious injuries. He made a miraculous recovery.” "

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino Wierdly enough?

2 days ago

Hennes

If you are hight enough then extra height does not add more speed

jokerdino

I heard it's good for the knees. ;)

Hennes

Not sure what terminal velocity is for a cat, but for humans ist was something in the neighbourhood is 270kmph

Journeyman Geek

12:38 PM

(I've started morning walk-jog-runs to try to loose weight. if It rains, I take the stairs home)

DavidPostill

It's bad for the knees coming down again.

Hennes

At which point air friction and gravity are in balance

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill going down is easy tho

DavidPostill

But still bad for the knees

jokerdino

That's why I recommend rolling down.

Journeyman Geek

12:39 PM

going up, I might try once a week

Still trying to actually get into a schedule

DavidPostill

@Hennes "an average-sized cat with its limbs extended achieves a terminal velocity of about 60mph (97km/h), while an average-sized man reaches a terminal velocity of about 120mph (193km/h), according to the 1987 study by veterinarians Wayne Whitney and Cheryl Mehlhaff."

In a 1987 study of 132 cats brought to a New York City emergency veterinary clinic after falls from high-rise buildings, 90% of treated cats survived and only 37% needed emergency treatment to keep them alive. One that fell 32 stories onto concrete suffered only a chipped tooth and a collapsed lung and was released after 48 hours.

From the moment they're in the air to the instant after they hit the ground, cats' bodies are built to survive high falls, scientists say.

They have a relatively large surface area in proportion to their weight, thus reducing the force at which they hit the pave…

bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17492802

Journeyman Geek

Also, cats have a lot of practice, falling from heaven and all that.

DavidPostill

35

Q: Can cats survive a fall from any height?

So here's the premise. A cat reaches its terminal velocity after around 10meters of free fall. A cat can survive a landing from a speed equal to its terminal velocity. Therefore a cat can survive a fall from any height. This seems actually quite feasible and would be tremendous if it holds so...

physics zoology

Hennes

:)

Right. A quick shopping run and lunch (working from home and I am timing my break)

Journeyman Geek

1:56 PM

> also, you can be "not strictly conformant" no more than you can be "a little bit pregnant".

(sauce. Fox dosen't suffer fools gladly, and is hillarious in his snarkiness)

That Brazilian Guy

XP PC stuck in boot loop. I disable "reboot upon error" or whatever and google the bluescreen code. NTFS-something-related. I backup all files on an external HDD, erase the primary partition, create a new primary partition, copy back all files.

Then I think "ok, next step is reinstalling the boot loader, how do I do that without having to reinstall XP, where the hell do I get an original XP disc and / or a non-sketchy XP iso"

So while I ponder on this, I casually turn on the PC and... XP boots and loads. O_o"

I know the only question should be: "how do I nuke it from orbit".

But then it brings another, slightly more difficult question: "how do I change the OS of a 90-old-lady's PC who gets nervous when the icons change from tile to list".

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy pro or home?

@ThatBrazilianGuy depending on how old the PC is? Install windows 7-10 + classic shell ;p

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek A 2010 Sempron with 2 GB RAM

> a 90-old-lady's PC who gets nervous when the icons change from tile to list, or an icon on the desktop moves a bit to the left

@JourneymanGeek Classic shell? Never heard of it. Let's see...

!!google classic shell

Journeyman Geek

classicshell.net

2

DavidPostill

^^^^^^^^ +1

That Brazilian Guy

2:11 PM

I was considering installing a lightweith LTS distro, "transplanting" this XP install into a VM, and having it auto-starting in full screen.

Not sure if it is a good idea (in this specific situation) or something stupid and dangerous

Does not look like ~~WinXP~~ exactly like my granma's XP

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy Just above that image it says "every feature can be turned on or off"

Journeyman Geek

yup

DavidPostill

And "How do I install just Classic Start Menu or just Classic Explorer?
After you agree to the license terms the installer will ask which features you want to be installed. By default all components are checked. Uncheck the ones you don't want."

You can just install the start menu if that's all you want

That Brazilian Guy

@DavidPostill Not features, I mean it isn't a pixel-by-pixel replica of XP. Old lady will get confused, trust me.

DavidPostill

I love the class start menu but use xyplorer.com instead of explorer.

That Brazilian Guy

2:19 PM

@DavidPostill Interesting

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy if it has to be XP, it has to be XP

but meh

allquixotic

sup o/

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic SOUP?!

Journeyman Geek

2:38 PM

new mobile chat's officially available

6

@bwDraco Not really

One of the other mods brought it to my attention tho

But its something that was shared on open chat

just that its an official option now, not hacky console codes

bwDraco

I guess I'd have to work harder on the main site (and not act out on chat again)

...but above all, have fun and not stress it

Journeyman Geek

yup

bwDraco

That's the biggest mistake I've made on Stack Exchange and my failing to have fun nearly got me suspended.

Journeyman Geek

now, you're taking that too seriously

One does not take fun seriously.

2

Except in singapore.

bwDraco

Well, that was the truth.

:)

That Brazilian Guy

2:46 PM

@JourneymanGeek It's way too important to be taken seriously ;p

Journeyman Geek

anyway.this is not a super seekrit thing or anything

also, new mobile chat rocks other than the lack of a black theme

Also, You can now hit enter to send!

bwDraco

It'll still be a struggle for me to stay in control of myself, but I can assure you the sorts of incidents that have been happening should never again.

Journeyman Geek

blog.chipx86.com/2016/01/26/…

0_0

bwDraco

Dec 4 '15 at 10:14, by Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco I don't practice. I don't think about the greater good. I just have fun

Sep 6 '15 at 4:10, by Journeyman Geek

Have Fun

Sep 4 '15 at 23:37, by Mokubai

@DragonLord everyone has those moments so its no big deal in the grand scheme of things, just let yourself live and remember the first golden rule: "have fun"

Jan 15 '15 at 13:23, by Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord: You need to learn to have fun ;p

I've been told non-stop to have fun and I've failed to heed the warnings.

in Ask a Super User Moderator, Jan 24 '15 at 3:42, by random

You're in some kind of "full on" election mode setting. And time is just on the other side waiting to see when you're going to snap from stressing yourself out

Another mod already warned me about this a while back.

Journeyman Geek

yup. That was a year ago tho, almost

bwDraco

2:59 PM

As I've said before, dramatic changes have been in the works to ensure that I remain calm at all times, and these changes are finally starting to help.

Oct 21 '15 at 2:10, by Journeyman Geek

The next request to be suspended may be entertained.

This should never happen again.

Aug 16 '15 at 0:53, by DragonLord

> Bill has been the archetype for what a moderator on Stack Exchange should be. His patient, fair and calm demeanor even in the face of criticism is legendary; his diligence and skill in handling the numerous difficult problems that face Stack Overflow users are inspiring. For the past 6 years, Bill has been an example for new moderators to follow, his impressive record a lofty goal to strive for.

What I've always wanted to be.

There's still a long road ahead of me but we've finally come to a point where this is within a few month's reach.

Oct 21 '15 at 10:40, by DragonLord

To the community: I tend to lose my temper easily and to allow myself to act on emotion. The right thing to do in situations like this is to cool down first and to not act until that's happened. As a result of my failure to do so, I have made several erroneous decisions while reviewing and moderating content on this site and set a poor example for the community to follow. I hereby apologize for doing so, and will take steps to ensure that I moderate calmly and patiently at all times.

I'm sticking to my promise.

Well, it seems I was warned as far back as when I proposed committing 30 minutes every day to contributing to Super User:

Nov 16 '14 at 6:30, by Journeyman Geek

Naw. If you want to spend the time, do it cause its fun for you.

I never really thought about having fun on Stack Exchange. I only treated it as my duty. That was the biggest mistake I've ever made here.

Sure, some great things have happened since, but it nearly cost me my entire Stack Exchange career.

Nov 23 '14 at 5:03, by Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord 1205 to catching up with me ;p

I mistook this as a challenge, rather than a joke.

Dave

3:20 PM

@bwDraco: You creep me out at times man, and this is one of those times.

:)

jokerdino

It's ok Dave.

Journeyman Geek

Anyway... if anyone missed that...

VMware let go the entire team that does workstation/fusion/player...

bwDraco

Oct 3 '15 at 2:43, by DragonLord

Dave

@jokerdino its the things that he posts here that he's comfortable about posting openly to all which would make me feel uncomfortable about posting if it were me, leads to an ackward conversation and an odd feeling inside.

@bwDraco: I know man :)

bwDraco

Well, I have 2865 helpful flags as of this writing.

jokerdino

3:28 PM

@Dave You don't have to process everything.

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek They just don't want to support the SOHO market any more.

Dave

@bwDraco: No doubt, you're a helpful individual... But you're overly trusting as well.

@bwDraco: Everybodys different though =)

bwDraco

Oct 12 '15 at 18:58, by DragonLord

Dell is simply no longer a consumer computer company more than it is an enterprise computing company.

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek What?! That's insane. Workstation is critical to many enterprise customers. How can they just abandon it?!

bwDraco

(For the record, VMware is going to be acquired by Dell via EMC)

Oct 13 '15 at 6:12, by DragonLord

Only a matter of time before Dell goes the way of IBM and drops out of the consumer PC business for good.

bwDraco

3:59 PM

Here's an interesting question I just wrote:

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Q: Why should I discard a carafe if it has ever been heated empty? (Can thermal shock permanently weaken materials without causing them to fail?)

Related to "What pressure or tension occurs in a glass jar when I pour boiling water inside?" I just got a new coffeemaker, and one of the warnings states that you should discard the carafe if it has ever been heated empty. As written, this means I should do so even if there is no outward damage...

thermodynamics everyday-life material-science

bwDraco

5:22 PM

Out of curiosity: Does anyone here have an LG curved monitor?

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