Root Access

One of my best friend is a senior software developer and she was asked by her boss to ask easier technical interview questions (e.g. avoid recursion based problems) when interviewing women, black or LGBT people and other minorities in order to increase the chances of getting the job and promote d...

surely troll,. D:

@Burgi he should have said tho :/

I mean, moving back to romainia isn't something he's come up with overnight

Burgi

@djsmiley2k he did

djsmiley2k

:/

Burgi

the company hasn't given him the opportunities or challenges that were promised

satibel

@Burgi en.wiktionary.org/wiki/minion actually darling might be better than cutie, but still, that's where it comes from.

djsmiley2k

@Burgi ah

so the whole job wasn't right

give him a good send off at least!

Burgi

12:33 PM

> A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.

i like the sound of that

@djsmiley2k the job is right, its the company taht isn't

we are too print focused, web is a poor after-thought

djsmiley2k

@Burgi o_O

ur a print company? :O

Burgi

"full marketing agency"

djsmiley2k

/me gigglez

Burgi

with a focus on PR and print

djsmiley2k

o_O

Gypsy Spellweaver

12:45 PM

@djsmiley2k Someone missed the whole point behind the movie/book "Hidden Figures"

djsmiley2k

I've not seen/read it

Burgi

arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/05/…

djsmiley2k

@Burgi lol

why don't I get to play with things like this

if i brought a random device like that

it'd have a epoxy'd storage and I'd never know wtf it was running, etc

Gypsy Spellweaver

@djsmiley2k It's about the black women working for NASA who did all the real math and made the computers work for space flight to happen in the USA

DavidPostill

You might want to consider providing dummy data for your example. Exposing all of that personal data on a public site may well be breaking a few privacy laws ... — DavidPostill ♦ 1 min ago

djsmiley2k

12:57 PM

@DavidPostill ....holy crap xD

let the spearphishing begin

Swimming goggles have been handed in to HR. If you think they’re yours, please come and collect them.

just got that on email, wut

people here seem to loose all sorts of random crap

wallets, keys, .... swimming googles?!

Bob

@DavidPostill apparently mods can purge history..?

DavidPostill

@Bob Yep. I'm about to do that. It is difficult to get right :/

Burgi

@djsmiley2k ask if anyone has found the will to live

djsmiley2k

:D

Burgi

wtf... crazy text from my mum...

djsmiley2k

1:05 PM

hope she's ok

SBM

I hope it's nothing serious

Burgi

> Do you have a gadget that lights up when electricity is going through it? If so bring it tonight. Mumx

djsmiley2k

o-o

DavidPostill

@Burgi A light bulb?

djsmiley2k

a.... bulb?

:D

Humans, at high enough voltage

Also, gerkins

DavidPostill

1:07 PM

lol

Burgi

@DavidPostill thats what i said

DavidPostill

Fireflys?

user226528

Does any one know what's the popular acronym that means "I abandoned reading the whole thing midway"?

user226528

Let's see. DNF? Of course not.

djsmiley2k

@FleetCommand TL;DR

too long; didn't read

user226528

1:11 PM

@djsmiley2k LOL. Nice try.

SBM

Chat jargon is so complicated

user226528

Guess I must go off hunting in the Goodread's comment section.

djsmiley2k

@FleetCommand wut?

that's a thing.

satibel

@DavidPostill oops, deleted the whole db, sorry.

user226528

@djsmiley2k Being a thing isn't enough. It doesn't mean I'm looking for. TL;DR means the sheer size scared me off and I didn't even start reading.

satibel

1:17 PM

@Burgi ah, secure devices.

djsmiley2k

You accidentally the db?

Bob

1:37 PM

@Burgi One of those socket testers? Though they're pretty dangerous.

Burgi

@Bob your guess is as good as mine

XKCD

2:01 PM

Kenneth Arrow hated me because the ordering of my preferences changes based on which voting systems have what level of support. But it tells me a lot about the people I'm going to be voting with!

SBM

I don't understand that comic

Oliver Salzburg

Baxter doesn't want to give his cheese back.

►

I find that to be very entertaining

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

2:21 PM

Help! I keep getting java.nio.BufferUnderflowException 's and I don't know how to stop them!

Burgi

stop using java

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

You might 'get' a joke but you dont get the android update ha funny I dont know what you're talking about cause I aint android

Burgi

NEXT!

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

or stop causing underflows everywhere?

Burgi

chuck a test before your faulting code to test nio is the expected length

Oliver Salzburg

2:26 PM

@Burgi Spot on

Burgi

btw why did you morph into a snail?

Gypsy Spellweaver

Just keeping things slow for a while?

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi The logo is awesome

It combines my love and hate for Chrome equally

Burgi

2:46 PM

@OliverSalzburg i hadn't noticed it was a chrome logo

Nick

@Avery stackoverflow.tech’s server DNS address could not be found.

Avery

I know

djsmiley2k

@Burgi me neither

tho tbh i hadn't even clicked on it until you mentioned it was a snail.

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/659968

the image is.... :/

superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/659961

and wtf is going on here

Journeyman Geek

3:03 PM

@djsmiley2k I'd be inclined to reject the latter

Burgi

@djsmiley2k i rejected the edit

Gypsy Spellweaver

Looked like someone trying to gain rep by doing edits. They could have at least removed the fluff at the end :(

djsmiley2k

I REJECT UR EDIT AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN!

Gypsy Spellweaver

3:19 PM

@djsmiley2k humph

djsmiley2k

=D

Oliver Salzburg

@Burgi It's the Chrome App Shell IIRC

djsmiley2k

BOOM BOOM!.

Gypsy Spellweaver

mummer

Burgi

oh btw it turns out my mum was talking about a voltmeter

can anyone recommend one?

Gypsy Spellweaver

3:35 PM

No specific recommendations, but I've always gotten Fluke meters. If it's just a quick task, and not going to be used again anyway, just get something cheap at a local shop.

allquixotic

@OliverSalzburg hope she's not pulling too hard or it could curt the cat's teeth

Burgi

is this one any good?

amazon.co.uk/d/Electrical-Tools-Testers/…

blargh! Y NO ONEBOX?

welp i ordered it

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I had a cheap multimeter for something like a decade

djsmiley2k

3:56 PM

This person's name is storm o_O

Journeyman Geek

lol

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Burgi Looks like a good one. It ought to last you longer than you care to use it :)

djsmiley2k

4:24 PM

looks simular to mine

cept mine is red :O

@Burgi Amazon is good, but didn't your mum say 'tonight' ?

wow my answer is still hitting HNQ it seems

+60 today

Myles Keating

4:37 PM

Hey Journeyman, thanks for the suggestions on how to improve this answer
https://superuser.com/questions/1212271/windows-10-location-of-docker-image/1213274#1213274
I edited the answer, but can't un-delete it. Womp #1 :/
I can't comment on the answer to notify you since comments are disabled on deleted stuff. Womp #2 :(

I also tried to post a new answer, but my account seems to be unable to post new answers. Womp #3 :(((
Anyways, hope you see this and un-delete it. Right now there is no answer at all for the question, and I think an attempt is better than nothing at all. It may not fully solve the guy/gal's issue but at least starts a conversation.

I work at Microsoft, and I'm trying to help Kong use our stuff :)

Burgi

AH!

@MylesKeating while we have you, can you fix the thing where my PC turns on at 3am and never turns off?

Myles Keating

Lol what build are you on

Burgi

also the annoying unkillable language bar in Win10

Myles Keating

^also can't tell if you're seriously talking about a current specific thing or just complaining about updates generally -_-

Burgi

that needs fixing please

oh and my excel issue with the weird ghost window

Myles Keating

4:43 PM

Burgi, this is all great, but I'm one person and Microsoft is 40k in Redmond alone. If you post in the relevant forum or tech community, folks are generally pretty good about responding (mileage may vary by team ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Communities/ct-p/communities

Burgi

of course i am joking

LOL

Myles Keating

yeah it got more and more ridiculous :)

Burgi

the communities are terrible

Myles Keating

you'd be surprised tho...

what about em?

djsmiley2k

MS should work with SE to setup a Windows net.

get the experts here, find out they aren't experts, offer something nice to real experts who tirelessly help out everyday

Myles Keating

4:44 PM

They are to be fair brand new. Frankly, I'm still maintaining our current forums and setup while cautiously optimistic about communities

Burgi

the moderators will randomly accept an answer for you and close the topic

Myles Keating

OK which communities have weird modding? Is it all of them?

Burgi

also i just thought of another bug i need fixing

Myles Keating

^^^nooooo haha

djsmiley2k

@Burgi my mousepad randomly stops working on my laptop

Myles Keating

4:45 PM

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers

^if it's about containers I'll do it haha

djsmiley2k

Then tehre's the 'local account has no password, but now you've attached a ms account to it, you can't use the local account to login anymore' thing too

Myles Keating

@djsmi

ah eff

djsmiley2k

lol that still highlighted me, nice

Burgi

@MylesKeating yeah, at least in my experience, hence SU

Myles Keating

@djsmiley2k what about SE? What is that?

Stack Exchange?

djsmiley2k

4:47 PM

Yus

It works...

Why the NIH syndrome :/

@MylesKeating eithers way, stick around

We can have some interesting convos around AI

Myles Keating

Look I can't speak for every team, but the way we approach it is to try to meet people where they are. You commented on our docs? Well that's not exactly where I'd like to do support but sure why not. You posted in our forum or Docker's? Nicely done! I'll definitely get that. You tag one of the tags I monitor on stackExchange/SuperUser/StackOverflow, I'm there

Burgi

@MylesKeating i hope you've been taking notes, i want an update on those fixes by lunchtime friday!

Myles Keating

It's a mess, but it's a fun mess, and it's better than just leaving people out to dry because they "didn't post in the right place so I'll just not bother to look at where people naturally try to get support"

@Burgi that'll be a negatory

Burgi

otherwise i'll be on to @BillGates and @SatyaNadella

Myles Keating

OK I gtg do work, but if you have a real question ping me and I'm happy to answer as best I can

djsmiley2k

4:52 PM

@MylesKeating yup that's cool

:D

you gotta hang around man

it's no fun if you leave, @Burgi needs a new pet.

Myles Keating

@djsmiley2k This got a bit overwhelming, but ping me if you have containers thoughts myles.keating at microsoft.com or on the forum
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=windowscontainers

djsmiley2k

=D

just bein friendly

Burgi

@djsmiley2k i think he likes you

Myles Keating

So much friendliness haha

Burgi

you have a date there

Myles Keating

4:54 PM

Like a dog when it first meets you "OMG OMG A PERSON MUST LICK FACE"
It's just a lot for a newbie like yours truly haha

Also, if y'all actually have the power to facilitate a Microsoft / Stack Exchange collab I can work on that on my end

Burgi

@MylesKeating dude... you are in for treat...

Myles Keating

(no promises of course, again 1 of 40k+...)

Burgi

1 coder and 39,999 people in marketing

djsmiley2k

hey kids

Burgi

brb, deploying

djsmiley2k

4:57 PM

who's good with hardware interrupts on POS machines,

I believe they are win7 but I maybe wrong and it's embedded...

Gypsy Spellweaver

@djsmiley2k The manufacturer

hedgehog

anybody has knowledge on disk partition on win10? need some info

Burgi

OMG! A HEDGEHOG!!

hedgehog

hahahaha

Burgi

today is getting better and better

hedgehog

5:00 PM

any help here?

Burgi

if its quite a complex issue you might get some mileage by asking it on the main site

hedgehog

nahhhh its simple, i just cant get the correct way to do it

Burgi

but don't ask if you can ask, just ask!

djsmiley2k

@GypsySpellweaver :D

hahaha

Toshiba? D:

hahaha :(

hedgehog

i got on hard drive, somehow it became partioned into two sections, i deleted the second partiotion which was empty and now it is tagged as unallocated partition, win doesnt allow me to extend the main volume so i can relocate it all there. how can i add the unallocated partition in the main one?

djsmiley2k

5:03 PM

make a backup first

(You asked the correct way to do it)

hedgehog

keep on

Burgi

what is the drive formated as?

iirc you can only grow NTFS partitions

hedgehog

it is NTFS

Burgi

and you are doing this via the disk manager in windows?

hedgehog

yeap

prntscr.com/febnhe

this is how it is now

Burgi

5:07 PM

rightclick on the partition you want to grow and its one of the options in there

hedgehog

yeap its the Extend partition, but its greyd out

Extend Volume* sorry

Burgi

running as admin?

hedgehog

hmmm

leme check

Burgi

i'm mid deployment and i've run out of ideas

you'd get a better response on the main site

hedgehog

which main site?

Burgi

5:10 PM

Super User

hedgehog

damn i though i was on super use chat

Burgi

you are

hedgehog

lol then u mean make a question ?

Burgi

yes

hedgehog

ok tnx mate

bwDraco

5:19 PM

anandtech.com/show/11477/…

...or how the x86 tax is coming back to haunt Intel.

6

Q: Is it possible for an x86 processor to match an ARM processor in terms of performance per watt?

From my personal experience with my tablet, and from the benchmarks and articles I've read, it always seems ARM processors, as seen in virtually all mobile devices, deliver incredible performance for the amount of power they consume. It really seems like ARM is inherently more power-efficient th...

performance power x86 arm cpu-architecture

At least for native applications, there will probably be a major performance per watt advantage in favor of the SD835 over Atom or even Kaby Lake.

Burgi

...

bwDraco

@Bob Office Home & Student (US$149) is noncommercial use only. An extra $80 ($229) gets you Home and Business, which does allow commercial use.

djsmiley2k

6:03 PM

i DIDN'T think u ud extend the partition ur booted off

Ben N

@MichaelFrank I suspect scoping problems

Add a $user = $null before the if to create the variable in the scope you read it from

(cc @Bob in case you're curious)

bwDraco

7:09 PM

You can resize NTFS partitions online. I've done this more times than you think.

Mokubai

@bwDraco Amazingly I've pulled the battery out of a laptop about 10 minutes after starting to do that and nothing bad happened.

bwDraco

extremetech.com/extreme/…

This article should be updated, though.

Avery

7:29 PM

@bwDraco isn't like, arm, like, very very slow compared to x86?

bwDraco

Kinda, but they're optimized for very low power. It's best compared to Intel Atom (or certain Celeron/Pentium) processors.

Burgi

8:38 PM

just had a weird thing happen in my car

DavidPostill

???

Burgi

i was charging my phone but i plugged it into the usb rather than the 12v because the charger had rolled away under the seat and it was making constant ping noises

it was like it was ctrying to charge then forgetting and then trying to charge again

anyone ever come across that behaviour?

GFSE

GemsFromStackExchange: -1, too superfluous, not enough terpidity.

posted on May 31, 2017

-1, too superfluous, not enough terpidity.

Captain Bohemian

root access to what?

Burgi

your mind!

Michael Frank

8:51 PM

@Burgi The USB in your car is probably designed for drives rather than charging...

Burgi

@MichaelFrank so the phone is drawing too much or too little power?

Michael Frank

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Burgi

hmm...

it was fracking annoying

anyway... now that i've visited ~~corsairs lagoon~~ my mum's i'm off home ttyl

Michael Frank

I know my S5 won't charge properly on the charger that came with my Nexus 5.

bwDraco

9:29 PM

Some thoughts about Ryzen Threadripper: The quad-channel memory controller consists of two channels in each of two Zeppelin dies on the MCM. As such, some of the memory will be closer to one of the dies than the other, and moving data from one die to the other would involve added latency. This means that Threadripper will need to be treated as a NUMA system. How will this be done?

@AnandTech, @tomshardware [1/2]: Ryzen Threadripper has a quad-channel IMC that is probably two channels per Zeppelin die - is this NUMA?

Tweeted by bwDraco on May 31, 2017 at 9:35 PM

@AnandTech, @tomshardware [2/2]: If NUMA, will there be updates, and would Windows treat this as two sockets for licensing purposes?

Tweeted by bwDraco on May 31, 2017 at 9:38 PM

Burgi

9:45 PM

dude seriously...

go for that AMD marketing job

2

Mokubai

10:02 PM

Maybe consider changing name to bwDrAMD

3

bwDraco

rofl

Mokubai

:)

I like AMD for bang for buck, but having tied up the console market for so long has made them lazy.

Bob

10:28 PM

morning

@BenN oh that's right, block scope... I've been doing too much js with its function scopes :P

Michael Frank

@Bob Yea. So that variable doesn't make it out of the foreach loop.

Burgi

10:41 PM

and if you don't want to go to canada, intel have over 800 jobs in the USA

That Russian Guy

11:12 PM

All Star but it's Donald Trump saying "covfefe"

►

Journeyman Geek

@MylesKeating IIRC SE's founders are ex MS (which explains the tech stack) ;p

also fixed up and reopened your question for you

in future, if you get one of those kinds of deletions, a custom flag is probably the best way to do it

Burgi

11:28 PM

also c# is hard

"lets invent a whole new datatype and not have any documentation on it"

@JourneymanGeek that myles guy wanted a dog to lick his face in welcome... he has totally come to the right place... ;)

Bob

@Burgi ...no it's not? :P

it's nowhere near as quirky as certain other languages *looks suspiciously at C++ and JS*

Burgi

it might be the whole .NET thing more than c# tbh

@Bob OMG! JS is so quirky it has a quirks mode

Bob

@Burgi hmm? example?

Burgi

remind me tomorrrow

i have purged my C# repo

JS is like that cute nerdy girl from college that you really wanted to get with but ended up in the friendzone and you discovered shes actually completely and utterly nuts and bathes in the tears of developers and eats bats or something and you become terrified that she might take you out of the friendzone and do weird shit to you that will take a lot of explaining in the ER.

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Myles Keating

11:44 PM

@JourneymanGeek @JourneymanGeek beautiful, thanks! Lol yes, that would explain a lot

Burgi

@MylesKeating i've discovered that the language bar thing appears to have been fixed in the creators update so you can cross that one off your list ;)

@Bob do you REALLY want to see the hellish monstrosities that i have to maintain? :)

i should go to bed

my eyes feel like they are pointing in opposite directions

and i might get a slap for the weird stream of consciousness that i've been rambling about for the last 20 minutes

Bob

@MylesKeating dunno about communities but I've complained many a time (see chat transcript) about Microsoft forums... copy-paste troubleshooting steps that aren't proper answers, marked as the answer by mods (probably to look good on metrics)

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi Lol. Too busy at the moment. Will smack with rolled up newspaper later

Bob

see also, reasons outsourcing to the lowest bidder gets horrible support staff

the team-specific forums do tend to be better

Burgi

i did think my description of JS would get a star though :(

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Michael Frank

11:52 PM

Huh... so the formatting on MSDN sites is atrocious because it pulls from Github pages.

Bob