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bwDraco

17:00

Familiar defrag report, PowerShell style!

That REDACTED Guy

@bwDraco Yay, PowerShell :D

So, what do you guys use as server naming schemes?

ToxicFrog

For pets, I give them descriptive latin names

That REDACTED Guy

OH A WIKI FOR SERVER NAMING SCHEMES! namingschemes.com <3

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ToxicFrog

For livestock, the datacenter provisioning system names them

rahuldottech

Donald Trump ft. Daft Punk - China, China, China, China

►

OMG THIS IS AMAZING

var firstName

17:14

except that doesn't skip percentages, @bwDraco

bwDraco

@varfirstName Yup.

var firstName

does it?

bwDraco

PowerShell can be awfully verbose when you want it to be.

allquixotic

I have an extreme case of "kitty glue" today

ever since my cat saw me over an hour ago, she's been all over me... I went to take a 20 min power nap and she jumped up to sleep with me

gave her treats that she loves, she didn't eat them

That REDACTED Guy

@allquixotic <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

=^_^=~

allquixotic

17:20

now she's laying on her "Purr Pad"

amazon.com/Mysterious-Purr-Padd-Cushion-Charcoal/dp/B000XJN4QA/…

bwDraco

Pictures? I bet she's cute.

You said it's a Maine Coon, right?

var firstName

@allquixotic you rascal, sleeping with other cats without having dinner with them first ;)

rahuldottech

@allquixotic: *rants about cat not letting him sleep*
Rest of RA: Awwwww...

DavidPostill

17:41

@rahuldottech Child Genius: Rahul becomes overnight star on Channel 4 show

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djsmiley2k

:O

@allquixotic my turtle gives me those looks too

rahuldottech

@DavidPostill smart boy, that fella

I WANT DOGGO

So, I have the perfect plan

When I graduate, I'm obviously gonna work with computers

So, to ensure that I get exercise, I'm going to get a Siberian husky

Won't have a choice but to go for a long run everyday

XD

allquixotic

18:13

@rahuldottech When that dog comes up to you whining and hands you his leash in his mouth, while you're mid-thought on coding, you might regret that

Dog: "I need to run"
You: "Is it tail recursi... Aw fuck"

rahuldottech

@allquixotic I loved my dog. Don't care when, I'd go for a run with her whenever

I really really want a dog

In unrelated news

LMAO thenewsminute.com/article/…

(CC @allquixotic @Burgi thoughts? :P)

> The KDA Chairman has also demanded that Siri be modified to understand Kannada.

Kannada is a majorly complicated language

allquixotic

@rahuldottech Demanding that someone do something is far less likely to succeed than suggesting it and providing reasons for them to do it

djsmiley2k

since when was x not jump in ac anymore o_O

allquixotic

A private company has absolutely no obligation to add any feature to their products that they don't want to, for any reason

rahuldottech

18:32

@allquixotic yeah except that

Apple is trying to open large manufacturing plants in India

And they probably don't want to piss our (somewhat crappy) government off

Avery

@rahuldottech y'know they should try and not have 359384508 languages in a country

rahuldottech

@Avery lol

Kannada is a major one

@Avery most are correlated dialects

Avery

language is a thing that holds us back

rahuldottech

@Avery it's kinda cool

Avery

people can't communicate and understand foreign languages without effort to learn it

rahuldottech

18:34

Having so many diverse cultures

Avery

so the language and those who speak that seem alien

rahuldottech

@Avery hence the concept of a national language

And an internationally accepted one

Avery

and alienation is a big factor of alt-right, white supremacism, white nationalism, etc etc etc

allquixotic

@Avery Well, yes. It separates people from one another. Due to the indeterminacy of translation computers will never be perfect at translation, even in a practical sense, and even people who know 2+ languages often can't translate idiomatically between them.

It's a problem in CS, too. And unlike spoken languages where we're trying to at least stop creating new ones at such a fast rate, in CS we're making new programming languages all the time.

To be 100% egalitarian it would be nice to create a new language with absolutely zero historical or cultural baggage and maximizing good linguistic qualities (no ambiguity, clean syntax, no self-contradictory rules, no homonyms/homographs with different meanings, etc.), maximum spoken and written efficiency, etc.

But then ##xkcd standards

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

djsmiley2k

19:24

yawn

Avery

19:45

@allquixotic ew ##xkcd

foonetic #xkcd is better

Burgi

20:06

feck

my memory card in my phone has died

allquixotic

20:17

@Burgi GOOD. Note: I am not an employee or spokesperson of Sandisk.

However, you can always buy a new memory card.

Sandisk is a good brand.

Burgi

why is it good?

allquixotic

I was kidding

djsmiley2k

lol

buy a Duracell!

Burgi

it must have happened when i dropped the phone getting out of the car

i thought google was backing them up but obviously not

welp

allquixotic

shelp

DavidPostill

20:32

@Burgi Hmm. Phone memory cards should be reasonably shockproof. I would expect the phone to break before the memory card ...

> Shock and vibration proof:
SanDisk SD, SDHC, microSD and microSDHC memory cards are capable of withstanding up to 500Gs of shock.

Impact proof:
SanDisk SD, SDHC, microSD and microSDHC memory cards are able to withstand drops up to 5 meters (16.4 feet) and being run over by a 5 ton delivery truck.

allquixotic

20:48

Liquid/humidity damage?

var firstName

Burgi have you tried transplanting the card?

Must be one really tall car..

##s/welp/shelp/

!!s/welp/shelp

fuck

DavidPostill

@varfirstName Or @Burgi was parked on the edge of a 500m cliff :)

var firstName

> Drops up to 5m

@DavidPostill

oml

DavidPostill

lol

var firstName

HOW

DavidPostill

20:56

> drops up to 5 meters

Like that ^^^ ;)

var firstName

I was trying to tag you tho

how do you do tags and quotes in the same message?

DavidPostill

> drops up to 5 meters

var firstName

oh ffs

DavidPostill

^^^ Like that ;)

Put it on one line.

var firstName

> 5 meters

FINALLY

So I broke 1K rep today ;)

DavidPostill

20:57

applause

var firstName

I don't really feel much

Just a little bit of a tingly feeling from bleeding out

DavidPostill

Circus Cat

21:22

@allquixotic I have had several Sandisk SSDs and memory cards fail ungracefully. I cannot recommend them.

My Sandisk cards claim to be waterproof and shockproof now though.

Avery

sandisk sucks imo

I didn't have issues with their SSDs but I had countless flash drives die

barlop

22:00

should win10 be slower than win7?

@allquixotic what things in c# are baggage?

Burgi

@DavidPostill it was also pretty old

i was thinking maybe a voltage spike occured and fried it as i dropped it

too late to worry about it now

Circus Cat

22:27

RABBIT

Avery

ribbit

DavidPostill

robbit

That REDACTED Guy

22:51

reboot

##reboot

##sudo make me a sandwich

meh, this bot is boring. pretty, but boring.

Bob

morn

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech google's indic support is good

my mom uses it with tamil extensively

That REDACTED Guy

@Avery I'm experiencing very very slow USB writing speeds and I'm starting to think Sandisk is to blame.

~~Most~~ all of my USB storage is Sandisk, except for an ancient Kingston 1GB flash drive

Hennes

23:09

Well, USB is slow. Period

Burgi

THUNDERSTORM!!!!

YAY!!!!!

That REDACTED Guy

@Hennes 20 minutes to transfer a single 1 GB file is slow even for USB.

Specially when I'm right now transfering 20 GB in a couple minutes. Via USB.

Circus Cat

23:30

@ThatREDACTEDGuy Indeed

And that's to a hard drive, not an SSD

That REDACTED Guy

@CircusCat USB?

Circus Cat

@ThatREDACTEDGuy Yes

That REDACTED Guy

I'm getting 60 MB/s, tops, to this hard drive.

But I was getting the same 60 when I attached it to internal SATA, so I guess it's the drive.

Circus Cat

60MB/sec is typical for an older drive

Or a laptop drive

That REDACTED Guy

Yeah, it's a laptop drive. 1TB WD Blue (5400 rpm)

Circus Cat

23:34

It was doing only 30MB/sec with the default settings though (no write cache, optimize for fast removal)

@ThatREDACTEDGuy Yeah that sounds about right

That was to a USB SSD without write cache

That REDACTED Guy

Damn I need a SSD. And money.

Circus Cat

And that's a USB SSD with write cache enabled

Which is about the max the SSD can do

That REDACTED Guy

USB 3, I suppose.

Circus Cat

I have USB 3.1, but that just crashes all the time

So yeah I just run it in 3.0 mode

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