If I wanted someone's opinion on a technical subject, I'd ask for it
orrrr folk could learn to burn their own disks and play mp3s on a PC cause whoever mastered the disk was too damned incompetant to split up a long long long audio file into tracks properly while making it
I try to avoid edits for the simple fact they don't require approval, don't disagree the answer is now correct. Seems odd I have thousands of helpful flags and 4 declined flags put me over the edge.
I almost forgot how scary Haskell can look. Then I clicked on this:
ap :: Monad m => m (a -> b) -> m a -> m b
fromMaybe :: r -> Maybe r -> r
ap :: (r -> a -> b) -> (r -> a) -> (r -> b)
f g x :: b
ap fromMaybe :: (r -> a) -> (r -> b) , a ~ Maybe r , b ~ r
There are many cases where you have a minor addendum that (a) should be part of an answer and not a comment and (b) is too minor to make a good answer on its own
I mean my last declined flag was from Nov 30 '15 until these 4 flags, which are apparently 5 flags, but al the same day along with 10 that were helpful? Such a weird system
"Since all the solutions I tried didn't work (including the 2 which were posted here), I had to reinstall the OS on my raspberry pi using NOOBS. Thanks for all the help though." This an answer or a comment?
Because I am getting mixed signals from these helpful declined flags. (more) then half the time stuff like that is flagged helpful the other 40% is declined
and I am rounding up be a significant margin with 40%
I flagged the answer that the "Since all the solutions .." belonged to and it was declined by the way :-)
Should I change something like "Since all the solutions I tried didn't work (including the 2 which were posted here)" to simply say that "I had to reinstall the OS on my raspberry pi using NOOBS. Thanks for all the help though." since the part that isn't na answer is the part where "all the other answers didn't work"
@DavidPostill The U.S. is still “Land of the free!” but the issue is corporations in the country are really getting away with murder. Issue began in the 1980s. And Verizon is the biggest chunk of the Bell Telephone monopoly breakup. Nowadays they are quite bad, but the whole telco/cable-co culture is just so toxic and monopolistic.
I don't have enough rep to leave a comment but it appears this info is contained inside shell32.dll. The files been compiled so it's hard to see what functions are in it, but it appears to be the one.
Of interest (registry export):
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{3ad05575-8857-4850-9277-11b85bdb8e09}
...
I suspect some lucky people might even get bumped up two classes
What I don't understand is why they continue to sell tickets on the website for my flight, at a lower price than when I booked 3 weeks ago, even though it's already overfull
They're basically handing out £3000 business class seats at £600 at this point.
Need to figure out how to reclaim tax at Singapore too
> IRAS takes a serious view of foreigners who wilfully make false declarations to seek GST refunds under the Tourist Refund Scheme or Abuse the scheme.
But not locals? Hmm.
Wait, no. I suspect if they run out of space in premium to bump people up to they'll bump paid premium customers to business/first.
Either way, what a strange way to conduct business...
So… I started my own cleanup on diy—including removing the tag from some posts—and then decided, maybe there is a valid reason diy needs to exist? It seems nebulous and many of the posts fall into categories of tutorials or even hardware recommendations that are off topic.
Knowing that, should t...
@JourneymanGeek So is that how you go about stuff like this? Wait until the eyeballs are away doing other things and then like elves in a cobbler’s shop, just go at it?
@JourneymanGeek Here in the US, we do not have mandatory military service or conscription of any kind. We have what's called the Selective Service System, where all men 18 to 25 must register, so as to ease the selection process in the event the US must draft people into the military.
"i tested it to cut the power off by removing the socket of the ups from the wall socket" -- That is an unsafe test. The UPS owner's manual probably warns you not to do that. Instead use a power strip with a switch. — sawdustNov 24 '14 at 9:36
Lots of countries use conscription in place of a volunteer military. I'm not really sure as to the reasons for this, but it seems that the American system of a volunteer military in which participation is a career path rather than mandatory service for able persons is the exception and not the rule for states around the world.
@bwDraco in most cases its a useful way to get cannonfodder
The swiss actually trust folk enough to let them keep guns. SK and Israel do it cause their neighbours are a bit obsessed with wiping them off the face of the earth
Conscription here was a reaction to the brits leaving, and well, is part of the grand social experiement
I'd say the conditions that made conscription necessary arn't really in place (Like the confrontation, and communist insurgents), and in most practical senses, we still have a professional backbone for the military
Welp, just rebooted my router. For some reason, it's possible to cause the router to lock up with certain traffic patterns (too many TCP connections at once?)
I hate having to reboot the router at this time of day.
I live primarily in my office on the first floor of the building and I have to go upstairs and risk disturbing my parents to reset the router.
Is it good practice to reboot the router from its control panel on a regular basis?
Grrr. Argh. Not only did I manage to lose one set of headphones in Singapore now my expensive spare set has gone and broke itself en route to Singapore.
To the community: Please be advised that my time on Stack Exchange will be very limited as I will be dedicating large amounts of time to photography. I may not be able to respond quickly to inquiries and may be away for extended periods of time.
- Replace DA* 60-250mm lens. - Get more lenses for different uses. - Get a teleconverter. - Replace flashgun (mine has a broken battery access door). - Get a larger memory card. - Get a tripod. - Get the upcoming Pentax full-frame body when it comes out.
A couple years back, I actually had the audacity to ask my mom to lend about $20k for a pro-grade Canon setup (EOS-1D X, EOS 5D Mark III, several professional L lenses, Speedlites, etc.). Of course, the request was declined.
Perhaps if I could get my behavioral issues out of my way, I might have a better shot at getting these purchase requests honored.
Never mind different lenses for different uses, I just carry a pile of basic lenses to cover all main focal ranges and rent as needed when I need advanced £3000+ lenses.
I'm not surprised your mom declined. Not only is that only possible if your mom is excessively well off, it's also pretty pointless for anyone who isn't a high end professional
I know midrange professional photographers who earn over £1000 a day and they don't even need that kind of kit.
Also just bought new headphones at the airport after panic skimming a half dozen headphone reviews.
hi guys - if you don't mind i'd like to ask for some advice ubuntu rolled out the patch to cve 2015-8660 (the overlayfs privilege escalation thing) some 17 hours ago. i just found out that the computers at my school were affected. i wonder whether i should send the sysadmins an email now or wait a few days and see if they upgraded before telling them? if the latter then how long should i wait?
- Build new PC with fast CPU and lots of RAM for photo editing. - Get pro-grade monitors and color calibration equipment. - Get a pro-grade wide-format printer (e.g. Epson SureColor P800).
They're only £10 more than the lowest UK price for the same ones, and are along the lines of what I would have bought when I got back anyway. The reviews say they're pretty good and exactly suit my style requirements.
- Replace DA* 60-250mm lens. - Get a wide-angle lens. - Get a longer telephoto lens (D FA 150-450mm). - Get more prime lenses. - Get a teleconverter. - Get ND and polarizer filters. - Replace flashgun (mine has a broken battery access door). - Get larger, faster memory cards. - Get a tripod and a Arca-Swiss head to go along with it. - Get the upcoming Pentax full-frame body when it comes out. - Get another camera body as a backup. - Build new PC with fast CPU and lots of RAM for photo editing. - Purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud membership.
For some reason, I have this tendency to make grossly unsound financial decisions, and I'm afraid I could wind up in debt at some point in the future. Consider this chat message:
For some reason, I feel like I should spend thousands on software licenses for products such as Visual Studio ($6k for Enterprise 2015 with MSDN subscription), even without a solid reason to do so, just because I feel I might need it.
For a working pro, it's a lot easier to do the job with the appropriate equipment. They can usually make do with consumer-grade parts, but the results are going to be less than optimal.
I generally buy gear when I have reason to believe that I would benefit from it over time.
Then again, I am not immune to making impulse buys with no sound basis.
...or more likely, buy something on an otherwise valid reason but without doing due diligence (e.g. shopping for the best price, reading reviews, comparing alternatives, etc.)
@Bob: yeah that's why I actually read some reviews. As something I would have bought anyway once I got home, a £10 premium isn't too bad when I've still got 23 hours of travelling to do.
After all this is probably the most use I'll get out of it all year.
Also the £180 temporary smartwatch I bought at the airport was a far worse decision.
- Replace DA* 60-250mm lens. - Get a wide-angle lens. - Get a longer telephoto lens (D FA 150-450mm). - Get more prime lenses. - Get a teleconverter. - Get ND and polarizer filters. - Replace flashgun (mine has a broken battery access door). - Get larger, faster memory cards. - Get a tripod and a Arca-Swiss head to go along with it. - Get the upcoming Pentax full-frame body when it comes out. - Get another camera body as a backup. - Build new PC with fast CPU and lots of RAM for photo editing. - Purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud membership.
Lol a couple of blonde chicks just got on the wrong place.
Plane* wrong plane.
They're looking awfully embarrassed right now up at the front. I suspect they've missed their actual flight.
Yeah, security and procedures at Bangkok airport seem to be pretty fucked.
I managed to walk through a secure area earlier and right past a barrier with a giant cctv camera pointing at it. Also had the option of easily re-entering Thailand without passing through immigration....
Reminds me of some of the smaller Greek island airports. Arrivals, Departures, Customs and Immigration all in the same room with no barriers to stop anyone walking straight in/out to/from the exit ;)
Fucking hell. 40 minutes parked at the gate "waiting for some equipment before we can disembark".
Then security screening on arrival. Then immigration. Then customs. Then immigration and customs again. Then departure security screening. Ffs, Singapore you are cursed.
I have a couple older computers running 98. Not an option to upgrade. They are networked internally to a 2k3 server so that files can be transferred to them. Suddenly one of them has stopped being able to connect to the domain.
When the computer starts up and after I enter my password I get a me...
hm. Someone spammed me for a "handmade wordpress install"
I personally think everyone who wants to run their own LAMP server needs to get a wordpress install up from bare metal, cause if you can't get wordpress working, you have no business hosting stuff yourself ;p
It gets worse: ""I have an 18 year old operating system that hasn't been supported since 10 years ago. It doesn't work when I try and communicate with a 40 year piece of hardware via really old adapters and software. What can I do?""
I know ive had issues with tcp/ip corrupting historically on windows when installing / unstalling antivirus software that includes LSP firewall hooks. (Norton internet security, etc)
When I was at school nobody cared if you spilled Mercury in the Chem lab. Nowadays people turn up in NBC suits. Or you spilled Benzene on your hands ...
I don't have enough rep to leave a comment but it appears this info is contained inside shell32.dll. The files been compiled so it's hard to see what functions are in it, but it appears to be the one.
Of interest (registry export):
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{3ad05575-8857-4850-9277-11b85bdb8e09}
...
