Root Access

12:04 AM

shrug @Dog chat moderation by nature is realtime. We do what we feel is right to handle things before they get worse.

I made a snap decision. It looked valid based off what I saw at the time.

"But he did it" is rarely an excuse, especially when there's typically more context than there is here to the use of the term.

bertieb

Close queue is interesting- seems like there's in some cases decent scope for turning a borderline Q around; clarifying an unclear question here, narrowing the focus of a (broad question* there etc etc

Just my luck that it's nigh-on disappeared as I get to it :P

(I know, I know, give it time and there'll be more)

bertieb

12:22 AM

Would an edit that changes the wording of a question such that it isn't a product-recommendation, say, "Is there a program to do X?" → "Is there a way to do X?" a conflict with author's intent?

My gut says no, especially if the change is literally s/program/way/

Journeyman Geek

Naw

bertieb

Cheers!

DavidPostill

@bertieb That's a great change to make if it doesn't involve much re-writing of the question!

bertieb

@DavidPostill Fab

Also, someone knows about ipconfig but not that 10.0.0.n isn't necessarily the nth device?

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill it didn't ;p

Looks significantly better

@bertieb is it?

You don't necessarily have to issue IPs in order

bertieb

12:33 AM

@JourneymanGeek Indeed not!

DavidPostill

@bertieb I suspect some users would know about ipconfig to troubleshoot or look up their IP, but not necessarily know much about router configs ...

It depends. Some routers allow you to configure the range of IP addresses given out by DHCP. This allows IPs outside that range to be used for devices required fixed IPs. — DavidPostill ♦ 3 mins ago

Journeyman Geek

yup

bertieb

@DavidPostill A fair point aye, and I'm not trying to give someone stick for not knowing something (pretty fragile glass house and all :P); just I'd have thought troubleshooting etc reasons would give enough insight to such things

Journeyman Geek

20 devices is quite a lot for a home setup

DavidPostill

And you might get not the first in the DHCP list if someone else had it before depending on the lease time and renewal etc ...

bertieb

12:42 AM

Also (sanity check) is it just me, or does an answer which involves deleting and recreating partitions and yanking a USB drive after an install starts deserve a warning or two?

-1

A: Windows 8.1 UEFI x64 is not able to boot-up UEFI Images

These steps are only for those who installed linux before. And maybe it work if you are not. I have solved my problem. I faced this problem, because I had installed Linux before, but when I tried to remove it and install Windows 10, I could not start from USB flash. After, I realized that the p...

DavidPostill

@bertieb That's a good way to maybe nuke the USB.

@bertieb I've nuked the answer (it doesn't answer the question) ;p

bertieb

@DavidPostill Good call (before it nukes someone's machine :P)

DavidPostill

Anyway, bedtime (02:00). Goodnight all :)

bertieb

N'night!

That Brazilian Guy

1:21 AM

@JourneymanGeek Please, use the reply-to >_<"

Journeyman Geek

1:37 AM

@ThatBrazilianGuy lol

fixer1234

2:34 AM

@bertieb, just popped in to see what's going on and saw your earlier exchange. Congrats on passing 3K.

Journeyman Geek

3:08 AM

@ThatBrazilianGuy I quite literally replied to the previous line tho

Journeyman Geek

4:13 AM

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Q: Server wiped after "yum remove python"

a disaster just occured to me after I ran the command "yum remove python" and now I can't boot the server up anymore How it happened: I tried updating some apps via yum on my CentOS 5 vps and the command was dieing due to some weird python 2.4 error. I noticed that my version of python was old a...

Ow

Rahul2001

5:38 AM

'lo

Ramhound

Having 5 NAS drives on your desk is fun :-)

First NAS, LOL

bertieb

7:34 AM

@fixer1234 Thanks, the ink is finally dry :)

user226528

Lonely place...

DavidPostill

8:00 AM

Holidays I guess ...

Gypsy Spellweaver

Just enjoying the blessed silence.

allquixotic

Two robots talking to each other. Gone wrong

►

user226528

Talking to each other while waiting for Bodot, the Godot's bot?

Journeyman Geek

lol

got vaguely sucked into superuser.com/questions/1199889/… (I'd love to see a better answer)

also

PUPPY! imgur.com/gallery/PqSBW

DavidPostill

8:20 AM

@JourneymanGeek Is that question actually on-topic? It seems a bit too much low level hardwarish to me. I wouldn't know where to migrate it to though ...

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill oddly enough....

I was debating throwing it to electronics.se

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Sounds better there. At least its not a low-quality post.

DavidPostill

Ah. The question you sort of referred to in the other place.

Journeyman Geek

Yup

ugh. There's a specific mod I can ping, but timezones

DavidPostill

I guess it will wait. Holidays and all.

Journeyman Geek

8:24 AM

lol

I can't seem to ping him. He's the one who pops by here to ask sometimes

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek superping?

Journeyman Geek

We could just kick it over ;p

lol

also, Shog feels we should just kick stuff over and let them reject ;p

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Turn about is fair play. :/

Journeyman Geek

Also see the comments

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I tried that and got a meta post for my trouble. Then I had to grovel :/

Journeyman Geek

8:25 AM

The user's got a bit..

blah ;p

Gypsy Spellweaver

Well/// that was interesting reading.

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Ah. I just read the deleted comments :)

Gypsy Spellweaver

It went poof before my very eyes.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek stinks of electronics :P

Journeyman Geek

Migrated with a comment. We'll probably want to reopen if it gets rejected

(And stuff like this is why mod teams are awesome XD.)

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Q: Ultra high refresh rate monitor

Hello dear folks of the internet, I was searching for a 144Hz monitor when I came across this Asus VZ239Q 5.6 GHz monitor. After lots of research I couldn't find anything about refresh rates of that height. So these are my questions: are there negatives about such a high refresh rate? And why ar...

refresh-rate

> Asus VZ239Q 5.6 GHz

._.

Gypsy Spellweaver

8:38 AM

@JourneymanGeek This one seems to be a space cadet and dangerous around computers.

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver lol. That's a pretty mean thing to say

Gypsy Spellweaver

Have you looked at his first question?

Journeyman Geek

ah

Gypsy Spellweaver

Trying to install macOS on a machine with Windows. Huh??

How old are PowerPC systems?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I think he's getting confused with an Asus graphics card. There are many that have a "5.6 GHz Effective Memory Clock"

Bob

8:47 AM

I started looking at LFS. Then noped out.

Journeyman Geek

Ah.that makes sense.

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver FYI, Apple rebranded modern OS X back to macOS.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Bob LFS/BLFS is something that I intend to explore. After I rebuild my box.

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver I might try it in a VM if I ever have a few weeks to spare :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Bob When did they make that installable on a Windows machine?

Bob

8:50 AM

But there's so many things I'm better off doing.

Journeyman Geek

Hackintosh?

Gypsy Spellweaver

I like getting into the guts?

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver Legally, never. Technically, it works fine on any Intel-based system. And you could probably broaden that to x86 (AMD) in general with a bit of hackery.

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver 1996 to 2006 I think

@Bob not any :p

Gypsy Spellweaver

I'm not 100% but hasn't hackintosh been 86'd on SE in general?

Journeyman Geek

8:51 AM

Would fail on most atoms.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Eh. "with similar specs to official hardware". better now? :P

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver not really. It's more of a long standing SU rule

Gypsy Spellweaver

I do bounce all around, and often forget where I read this or that.

It just collects in the gray matter to spew forth later :)

Journeyman Geek

And well... Beating unsupported hardware into working is fraught at best

Gypsy Spellweaver

And then chooses to format the disk for an install while he plans to setup backup software the next day.

Journeyman Geek

9:02 AM

Lol

People have bad days

DavidPostill

Lol. I figured it out

"Refresh rate


De refresh rate is het aantal keer per seconde dat het beeld wordt ververst en wordt uitgedrukt in hertz (Hz).
	5,674kHz"

Bob

o.O

Journeyman Geek

....

Looks dutch

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Good call :)

@DavidPostill in re Smokey. I can use the notify command to have notices for a given site sent to a specific room, but to post the reply, I have to be in HQ, correct?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Exactly. See my answer.

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A: Ultra high refresh rate monitor

I came across this Asus VZ239Q 5.6 GHz The link in your comment actually says: "Refresh rate 5,674kHz De refresh rate is het aantal keer per seconde dat het beeld wordt ververst en wordt uitgedrukt in hertz (Hz). 5,674kHz" The website is a Dutch website and the Netherlands u...

@GypsySpellweaver Yes. Or some other room where Smokey is running. There are several. I think SOCVR is one of them.

Journeyman Geek

9:17 AM

5khz is rediculously high.

It's closer to 30 or 60 hz no?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Now he's changed his question :/

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Mfg says 48~76Hz(V)

Journeyman Geek

Lol

Gypsy Spellweaver

>Analog Signal Frequency : 54~85.5 KHz(H)/ 48~76Hz(V)
Digital Signal Frequency : 54~85.5 KHz(H)/ 48~76Hz(V)

Journeyman Geek

Ohhhhh

That makes sense. It's entirely useless as a spec.... But it makes sense.

Gypsy Spellweaver

9:26 AM

Ok, how do they come up with 5.674 out of the Mfg numbers?

Journeyman Geek

Hm. @GypsySpellweaver no idea :p

DavidPostill

Can someone please rollback the question? I don't want to abuse my mod powers :)

Journeyman Geek

I'd argue tho, the right answer is that the question has a flawed premise

Bob

@DavidPostill ehhhhhhhhhh. Unlike code review, I think this is actually a legitimate update of the question.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Granted, OP is just repeating what's on the sales web site (decimal separator aside).

Bob

9:30 AM

It's not a major question change. At most, it's fixing a mistake in the question.

DavidPostill

Fair enough. My answer is still correct, although maybe a little confusing ...

Bob

I'm sure there's a meta post about it somewhere

Gypsy Spellweaver

It is useful as a reminder to check the Mfg specs, not some store site spec. (claim)

DavidPostill

@GypsySpellweaver Good point. I will add that to the answer.

Bob

@DavidPostill I think the best thing you can do here is address the 5.6kHz part too.

Your answer doesn't explain why that (still clearly too large) number exists

Gypsy Spellweaver

9:33 AM

The GHz vs KHz error is an international miss-understanding in it's own right.

Bob

Ugh. Can't find anything on meta...

418

Q: Exit strategies for "chameleon questions"

I'm not sure if there's already an existing term for this, so I'm inventing my own. (tl;dr: I call them "chameleon questions" because they change every time you submit or edit an answer. If you're already intimately familiar with the phenomenon, please skip past the first set of bullet points t...

discussion questions

@DavidPostill ^ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/217754/… meta.stackexchange.com/questions/132346/… meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286803/…

DavidPostill

@Bob I've no idea, other than the website/reviewer screwed up.

Bob

Looks like it's generally discouraged, but idk - some argue that if the core problem remains the same...

DavidPostill

@Bob I've wasted to much time on this to worry about it any more. His corrected number is still wrong.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill imo that's the answer :p

DavidPostill

9:44 AM

@JourneymanGeek I said that in my answer.

Bob

@DavidPostill eh. *chucks upvote* here take this

Gypsy Spellweaver

Oops. Someone removed duplicate content, w/o reading carefully. Effectively did a rollback :/

But only to rev. 2

Bob

> In the US's rating standards, Breath of the Wild is rated E 10+.

In Europe, it is rated PEGI-12.

In Australia, it is rated M

fail.

Journeyman Geek

10:02 AM

._.

@BloodPhilia thanks to your comment above, this page is now the top match for "I didn't get any hits when googling USB-C D-shaped icon" — Criggie 1 min ago

Gypsy Spellweaver

:/

Journeyman Geek

hi @TomWijsman

user226528

10:16 AM

Should I flag this post? superuser.com/a/1200112/477799

user226528

Is it a rant to your or an answer?

DavidPostill

@FleetCommand It's a very long comment to @JourneymanGeek's answer as it doesn't actually answer the OPs question.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill I actually think it compliments my answer well ._.

But I'd definately leave that flag to another mod.

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Agreed - but it doesn't answer the question :)

Gypsy Spellweaver

Looks like a rant to me. And claims to have been a writer, yet his language is tortured.

Maybe it's Praise be to editors.

user226528

10:23 AM

@GypsySpellweaver Claims to have been a writer in nineties. That's at least a decade ago. If he hasn't written anything for so long, it is quite natural.

user226528

Especially, if he has voted for that famous president who said "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."

Gypsy Spellweaver

o_O They can't ??

user226528

@GypsySpellweaver LOL. It is the same president who said ""They misunderestimated me."

DavidPostill

lol

> Bush was right, you know. History has no record of a major fish uprising. (The movie Jaws doesn't count.)

Gypsy Spellweaver

Didn't do Johna no harm neither. Just gave him a free ride to Nineva.

user226528

10:28 AM

Oh, God, this is precious. My person favorite is: "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

Gypsy Spellweaver

We ain't free here. Ever looked at the taxes? Or the price of milk?

user226528

Okay, I digress. After Bush, the quality of writing declined. There was this writer, whose name I forgot. He showed his books to several publishers before Bush. They didn't print it. But when he tried after, they didn't even ask any questions.

DavidPostill

@GypsySpellweaver Ahem. Fish are not mammals.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Weeellll, in a manner of speaking. kinda depends on what "fish" is. Like what "is" is.

DavidPostill

@GypsySpellweaver Go look up the taxonomy :)

Gypsy Spellweaver

10:33 AM

Spiders are not insects either, but insecticide tends to kill them anyway.

user226528

@GypsySpellweaver That's where metonymy comes in. See, when someone tells the other "I'm gonna kick your ass", the former neither intends to restrict the act of harm to kicking nor limit the region of harm to the heinie.

Journeyman Geek

@FleetCommand YOU LEAVE MY DONKEY OUT OF THIS!

Gypsy Spellweaver

In re Jonah, he was swallowed by a ketos a "large sea creature" neither specified as fish nor whale. English version calls it whale.

In the OT it was a dahg, possibly "fish" but translated in the Septuagint as ketos, so who knows?

.. And, back to the beginning. Would that speaker have known the difference between fish and whale?

Journeyman Geek

lol

plausibly no

Gypsy Spellweaver

is that plausibly as in "plausible deniability"?

Journeyman Geek

10:49 AM

Well right up to the middle ages, they probably didn't have the level of taxonomy we had

a whale was a kind of fish

as were dolphins

Gypsy Spellweaver

Well, since it was "prepared" for him, it could have been something never before existing, nor since seen, hence having no other name.

Journeyman Geek

What's the difference between them to someone?

@GypsySpellweaver depends on how literally you're willing to take the myth

It could have been a time travelling submarine

or lizard people

Gypsy Spellweaver

&c.

And, could have been exactly that, a myth.

I neither confirm, nor deny.

Journeyman Geek

But if he was, would people have known a whale wasn't a fish at the time?

Possibly!

Gypsy Spellweaver

Can't say what other times and places knew. How did the Norse manage to describe electrical circuits and magnetic fields in relation to Thor's belt and his hammer?

user226528

10:55 AM

Thor's belt???

Journeyman Geek

assuming they did

or modern folks read into it that way

Based off our simplified understanding of science.

Journeyman Geek

11:45 AM

-3

Q: Kail Linux Login Problems

What do I enter as the Username and password when I boot up Kali Linux for the first time? I have tried everything I can think of but did not work. Thanks, Lake

linux passwords

._.

tereško

oh, to be a young hax0r again

wait .. no ... that actually would be terrible

djsmiley2k

i'm old and not haxor :(

too scared of concquences

Journeyman Geek

lol

(googled that. Username is root, password is toor)

Bob

12:00 PM

There we go, server cancelled

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek HAX!!!!

Journeyman Geek

HAX!

erf. This one is slightly better. I hope I'm wrong its not just adding sudo though, it would be much more interesting superuser.com/questions/1200180/how-to-install-vm-from-iso/…

Rahul2001

1:05 PM

@JourneymanGeek Minor markdown syntax error: meta.superuser.com/a/12338/432540

"*off topic here" should be "*off* topic here"

Fixed

:-)

or off-topic| here

1:27 PM

dear lord I'm really suffering today :/

warring against my own brain

djsmiley2k

1:45 PM

Why must my depression strike, when i should feel happy

Journeyman Geek

2:22 PM

aww

:(

whoo. Another potential reputation cap.

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek :) The monitor refresh rate question has gone HNQ as well :)

Journeyman Geek

I vaguely expected it to

DavidPostill

Thanks for linking the Q in here ;p

Journeyman Geek

;p

Only cause I was trying to decide whether to close it

Bob

100 repcaps for that badge yea?

only 72 to go! :P

Journeyman Geek

2:28 PM

150

Bob

oh shit

Journeyman Geek

But yeah to I'm at 77 ;p

only 122 to go!

73 to go

only 47 to go!

2:30 PM

200!

Journeyman Geek

also 2 more silver badges to 200

DavidPostill

My most recent badge was Synonymizer - I didn't even realise there was a badge for that.

Journeyman Geek

lol yup

jokerdino

There is a badge for getting a badge.

Journeyman Geek

Lets see. big ones left/... Illuminator, I can grind, reversal is hard.

Tenacious and Unsung Hero are probably impossible due to the percentage requirement

also, nearly overtook William Hilsum (who's an awesome guy) ...

then I can go chase John T

DavidPostill

2:35 PM

@JourneymanGeek Yes. These are much easier to get early on before you start writing good answers ;p

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill Most of my answers are decent. Other than terrible spelling.

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek But now you are famous you are very unlikely to have any new 0 scored answers - that was my point

jokerdino

humblebrag.

Journeyman Geek

I suppose

@jokerdino on the contrary, there's no humble in that brag ;p

jokerdino

You can use a sock and then merge the badges.

Journeyman Geek

2:37 PM

That's cheating. Also... er. aibobot had more reputation per post than I do I think

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek :)

DavidPostill

I still need most of the Q badges - not surprising as I've only asked one question ...

Journeyman Geek

I've got 122

jokerdino

...

Journeyman Geek

Lots are self answered tho

djsmiley2k

2:41 PM

reviewed my first edit \o/

Journeyman Geek

some are turds - like this one superuser.com/questions/437537/what-is-this-computer-case-style (10K+ only, sorry)

DavidPostill

Epic fail. Someone just posted the contents of How to ask on SO as a question.

Journeyman Geek

lol

djsmiley2k

Ok so I'm new to the low quality queue righjt

but

superuser.com/review/low-quality-posts/646174

Technically it's correct

however I know @JourneymanGeek already answered with the exact same answer. However I can't see see that from thje review

Journeyman Geek

I didn't

djsmiley2k

2:44 PM

Oh, thought you had

Journeyman Geek

I mentioned it here ;p

I consider the answer adequete. The question on the other hand...

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k If in doubt (especially if you are not sure if it is an audit) always click the link called "link" to the right of the review.

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k to me Its an answer. Its technically and factually correct.

djsmiley2k

@DavidPostill if I fail an audit, because a user has provided the same answer as another user (and I can't see it!) then I'll not give a damn about failing that audit, because that would be bs.

@JourneymanGeek yah me too

@JourneymanGeek I'm not even sure you could expand much on it ( maybe verify where the infomation comes from...)

Journeyman Geek

However if someone decided to CV the question for a good reason... ;p

DavidPostill

2:48 PM

lol

Journeyman Geek

That would totally be an acceptable comment...

DavidPostill

djsmiley2k

CV the question should not directly collorate with the quality of answers.

I've answered many questions while on hold (mostly on arqade) because I happened to know the correct answer

Journeyman Geek

lol

I don't want to encourage such questions

I feel its very low quality and shows a lack of research

djsmiley2k

Yes, but we get one good answer, make it conconical

and make sure it details how in the future, if the defaults should change, you'd figure out what they are (links to documentation etc)

DavidPostill

2:51 PM

That answer ^^^ was posted by the same troll who posted the help as a question.

Journeyman Geek

ah

@djsmiley2k I do that sometimes

but this question lacks... rabbithole.

djsmiley2k

I've seen it asked enough times on IRC (for diffferent distros too) to know it's a common question.

because most of the time, supprisingly, it's not obvious

Most distros will randomize root p/w on boot

some will use root/toor, root/admin, root/password,

I've seen all the above.

Maybe expanding the question to be 'I've installed Distro X, how do I know the root p/w?'

:/

Journeyman Geek

._.

djsmiley2k

yah

expand it for all distros

If you're already logged in then you can always change it

Journeyman Geek

But it feels disingenious to me to downvote then answer

djsmiley2k

2:57 PM

Doesn't to me :/

Would be supprised if there isn't a bad for it

'This question is bad, and you should feel bad.... but here's the answer and how I got it'

Journeyman Geek

I was debating aibobot-answering it

tereško

@djsmiley2k you mean "most Ubuntu forks"

DavidPostill

I couldn't resist. I've added a properly documented answer :)

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A: Kail Linux Login Problems

What do I enter as the Username and password when I boot up Kali Linux for the first time? That depends on how you are running Kali. If you installed it then the installation program would have asked you to set a root password. If you are booting a live image then the documentation tells you ...

Journeyman Geek

ooh

@slhck closed it ;)

Yay!

tereško

sigh ... I should have answered

with something like: "It is a test. If you can't reset the root password, you are not fit to use it"

Journeyman Geek

3:04 PM

Have you tried looking at the documentation for the default username and password? I also strongly recommend learning the fundamentals of linux before diving into kali, especially since they do many things strangely and is not typical of a 'real' linux distro. Maybe you could hack into your Kali system? — Aibobot 3 hours ago

@DavidPostill heh, you probably should post your better answer on the other question ;p

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek OK. I'll move it :)

djsmiley2k

-

@tereško gentoo is randomised

infact, gentoo is unset

even more weird

as is redhat/centos etc

DavidPostill

lol. I've auto flagged myself - duplicate answer :)

Journeyman Geek

lol

bertieb

I've seen elsewhere- aren't answers on low-quality Qs discouraged?

Journeyman Geek

3:14 PM

kinda sorta

DavidPostill

@bertieb How else am I going to get my reversal badge? ;p

Journeyman Geek

lol

bertieb

Something along the lines of "don't waste time on crap"

(in the "don't x crap" series)

Journeyman Geek

The hard part is having a poor question, good answer, and a user who dosen't self delete quickly

bertieb

@DavidPostill Heh :P

djsmiley2k

3:19 PM

I.... wat

slightly nsfw

Tho i'm still not exactly sure wtf it is

bertieb

Errrrr

> simulated human thrusting movement

Do you really need more info than that?!

Journeyman Geek

o0

bertieb

Right?

djsmiley2k

my ediuts go straight through now?

Journeyman Geek

yup

bertieb

3:23 PM

@djsmiley2k use your powers wisely :P

djsmiley2k

@bertieb well no, but then the rest of the description, and the image, makes me wonder...

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k I'm gonna make that link go away

bertieb

That said, some of the other parts have the feel of autotranslate about them

Journeyman Geek

it seems somewhat....inappropriate

bertieb

Or Markov chain-generated

> Uses the thunder is the super velocity

Bob

3:24 PM

> at the same time the detonation the perfection of human feelings

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek ok

Bob

that makes it ... weirder

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek I deliberately didn't 1 box itr

Journeyman Geek

yeah.

(also we do have teenagers here ;p)

bertieb

@Bob That's the exact phrase I use for the birds and the bees talk

"Well, when a man and a woman detonate the perfection of human feelings..."

Bob

3:26 PM

@JourneymanGeek show me a teenager who hasn't looked at things and I'll show you a liar :P

bertieb

(I'll stop)

djsmiley2k

@bertieb 'at the'

Bob

at this point, the question is more whether they actively look for it or just stumble on it

bertieb

@djsmiley2k insert that anywhere INTO THE SENTENCE

Journeyman Geek

@Bob lol. I didn't when I was a teen. Was pretty darned innocent till my 20s.

Bob

3:27 PM

@JourneymanGeek what does that say about you now? :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

but yea when you were a teen this kind of content wasn't quite as common

Journeyman Geek

lol. True

DavidPostill

I had to wait until I was tall enough to reach the top shelf :)

Ben N

Good morning everyone...

DavidPostill

3:33 PM

@BenN Afternoon ;p

Ben N

Oh hey, congrats on 2K @djsmiley2k

Nominative determinism!

tereško

@djsmiley2k last time I installed Gentoo, it requested me to enter root password in the installation guide

(whether it was a prompt or you had to call passwd, that I can't remember)

djsmiley2k

@BenN ty

nmot sure what that means but ty

now i can clean up tags a lil' bit faster ;)

@tereško you call passwd

Ben N

Nominative determinism

Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. The term was first used in the magazine New Scientist in 1994, after the magazine's humorous Feedback column noted several studies carried out by researchers with remarkably fitting surnames. These included a book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and an article on urology by researchers named Splatt and Weedon. These and other examples led to light-hearted speculation that some sort of psychological effect was at work. Since the term appeared, nominative determinism has been...

djsmiley2k

it's unset by default

same for rh

Ben N

3:40 PM

There's 2k in your name and you now have 2K rep :)

djsmiley2k

Hahaha

Tom Wijsman

@JourneymanGeek hiii

Happy easter everyone :)

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