sometimes its like playing jenga on a bouncey castle, you just can't get the thoughts lined up so you think "sod it, whats the easiest option, i'll do that"

Have you ever gone sleepless for a long time, like a few days? Do you remember how you felt? Everything felt slow and your thoughts area blur and you take long seconds to process the most simple answers and it looks like your brain is in standby?

yeah its like that but fuzzier

Huh

And when you take a drink and then feel like taking another and so on... You can't stop yourself?

As in, people know that getting drunk is stupid... But they still do?

only alcoholics can't stop themselves

@Burgi And how do you stop yourself from becoming one?

Asking because I'm scared to death after reading about how drunk acts ruin lives

how do you stop yourself from stabbing people in the street?

It's a gradient. The first level just kills your inhibition. The next ones slowly kills your sense of ridiculous. You keep drinking it slowly kills your judgement, then your conscious thoughts, then your motor functions.

@ThatBrazilianPony Yeah, but like... I mean, I have a couple (?) of drinks, and then I should stop because if I have too many then I won't be able to control, right?

basically you'll get absolutely shit faced one day and wake up feeling like you should be dead but forgot to do the dying bit

@rahuldottech yes

@Burgi ...and you can still consciously stop when you're just one or two drinks in?

you'll then think "OMG i'm NEVER doing that again"

@rahuldottech yes

@rahuldottech Alcoholism is a disease. You don't stop from being afflicted from it. There are people whose genetics or whatever makes them prone to being addicted to alcohol. Sadly, the only way they find out is when they drink and can't stop

HAMMERTIME!

HAMMERTIME!

0_0

ok thats going to be annoying...

@Burgi @ThatBrazilianPony Okay, thanks. Anything else I should know?

Ok this bot stuff is ridiculous.

@rahuldottech never drink whiskey

I'm telling you... these bots... they're made for each other

especially alone

@Burgi okeyy

if you start feeling too weird, its time to go home

It's usually safe to drink more than just a couple of drinks, but know your limits.

Don't drink "because you have to", or "because it's manly", or to impress anyone.

Drink if you want to have a good time and it feels good. If it stops being good, stop drinking.

there is also a natural limiting factor for most people and that is running out of cash

If it makes you take stupid decisions, or vomit, or spend all your cash, reduce your overall drinking

Alcohol is not like hard drugs where a few doses can make you addicted. Unless you're genetically prone to alcoholism.

if you go out take £50 with you, leave £20 for a taxi (hide it in your shoe), once the money has gone its time to go home

if your mates have to hold you upright, its time to go home

there are many indicators

Updated my question. No disconnects when on my parents' network.

Leave comments on there, please. Going back to my work.

@BenRichards Battery thing didn't work out?

@BenRichards Oh, good thing you showed up. I was going to ask, but forgot.

beer is actually good for you if you live somewhere with dodgy water

@Burgi when the bouncers are telling you to go home, go home

@Burgi as in?

@djsmiley2k +50

@rahuldottech the brewing process requires the boiling of water which kills the nasties in water

@Burgi Oh. In India, no one drinks tap water, everyone has filters at home

@Burgi As in "replace your drinking water with beer"? That's silly.

Someone tried to start a fight with me, bouncers knew me so he got promptly removed however they were like 'you couldn't even stand up'

@rahuldottech Same in Brazil. Drinking tap water is eww.

@Burgi not the fact that alcohol kills stuff?

@djsmiley2k Meh. Better to be safe and ignore the dude rather than him pulling out a weapon of sorts and mutilating you. I mean, the way I see it, bouncers exist for a reason, right? You don't need to respond to someone trying to mess with you.

During the fermenting when it's stronger

@rahuldottech unlikely here, especially where I was

And I knew of the guy

@djsmiley2k the alcohol in beer is too weak to kill anything

@djsmiley2k Well then. I honestly would rather not get a punch to my nose either.

He was a regular too, but I'm a nice guy, even with bouncers ;)

always thank the bouncers even if they are utter arseholes

and remember arguments while drunk are 33 times more idiotic than they are when sober

also never do drinking games

Lol

never feel pressured to drink alcohol if you don't feel like it

@Burgi this always, it'll only end badly

I've done drinking games before. They can be fun if done right :P

@Burgi okay, another question. Uh, when people drink and drive... it's a deliberate decision? Or do you like need to have a sober guy nearby who you know will stop you from entering the car?

well in brazil i can only imagine that all drinking leads to the beach, skantily clad young ladies and "things"

@rahuldottech yes

its totally deliberate

@Burgi Oh, okay then

But... people know how wrong it can get, why do they still do it?

@rahuldottech Anyone who's in a state where they think "I'm drunk but I can drive" should have stopped drinking way earlier. Or was already stupid / reckless when sober. Nevertheless, it's good to have a designated driver in a group. Specially if laws say "one sip of alcohol = jail".

sometimes you feel sober but know you are probably over the limit so order a cab and grab the car later

@rahuldottech Because people are stupid or / and jerks.

@Burgi Ah. And walking home is not a good idea either?

@rahuldottech depends on how far you live and how drunk you are.

I think I'll just never drive to a party/bar/whatever till I'm sure of my limits

depends how far the pub is

@rahuldottech when drink, it's a lot easier for you to convince yourself something is easy/safe/not even think about the conseqenves

^---- that.

Honestly, I'm probably the kind of person who'll end up as the designated driver and not like to drink anyway... And I don't mind :)

Just never drink and drive. 1 beer? Give it at least 1.5hrs

Drinking impairs your judgement. Drinking a bit impairs it a bit. Drinking a lot...

if people are doing rounds and you are still on your first, politely decline joining the next until you are ready. that said, never squirm out of a round

@Burgi "squirm out of a round" meaning back out?

i mean if its your turn, don't back out of it

otherwise you are drinking for free at the expense of your friends

rounds is a tricky concept to explain

@Burgi Oh, as in if it's your turn to pay, not drink. Of course, got it

btw these rules all go out of the window on a stag party

What's a "stag party"?

bachelor party?

ah

@rahuldottech Haven't tested that yet! Yesterday I just happened to go to my parents' house directly after work so I was able to test that part of it.

@BenRichards ah ok

@Burgi You know, I wish I could have visited this magical land you speak of when I was younger and single.

i can see @rahuldottech coming to uni in the uk and on the first night at the student's union, getting wasted with his housemates and getting a tattoo of something weird

@Burgi may the lord forbid

lol

last rule of drinking: NEVER NEVER EVER ORDER THE WEIRD STUFF IN BOTTLES ON THE SHELF BEHIND THE BAR

@Bob You fixed Cavil? Woot!

@CircusCat i think there is still a couple of issue with him so he might vanish again

@CircusCat I hacked 'em chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/118/conversation/sentientbots1

@CircusCat there is a weird thing when you say stop

HAMMERTIME!

HAMMERTIME!

wtf again?

@ChatBotJohnCavil appears to run or at least respond faster

@CircusCat Am... I blocked?

the bots don't stop

@Bob Tbh I don't recall learning any new commands on my bot, since it was only ever meant to be a temporary fill-in

HAMMERTIME!

HAMMERTIME!

@rahuldottech Wtf

But happy to supply the config if it helps

@CircusCat hehehe

!!flagged

##flagged

Stahp!

HAMMAHTIME!

HAMMAHTIME!

##!!facepalm

@CircusCat That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: e_facepalm, facepalm

wtf is e_facepalm

##e_facepalm

@CircusCat 🤦

wtf is going on?

@CircusCat One of @bwDraco's emoji commands

!!info e_facepalm

@CircusCat Command e_facepalm, created by bwDraco on Sun, 02 Oct 2016 03:17:02 GMT

> People in startupland are obsessed with landing pages. There are entire businesses built around helping you put up and test landing pages, and since there’s so much money to be made selling you landing pages, there’s an inordinate amount of information supporting the landing page craze. (I’m not saying it’s some vast conspiracy. This is just how capitalism works.)

Ha!

I was wondering one thing about tor..If i only know the public key of a tor hidden service, is it possible for me to derive its exact onion address by encoding sha-1 hash of public key of hidden service with Base-32 encoder?

@ThatBrazilianPony where did you find that nonsense?

@Burgi "Landing pages are for wimps"

ty

(Burgi freaking out in 3... 2... 1...)

!!tell defalt nerd

@defalt youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8

well that broke

@Burgi nah, this doesn't onebox if you ping

!!tell 40119017 nerd

@Burgi onebox's if you reply to specific message

@ChatBotJohnCavil i really thought that the link was having an answer..

This is a totally inconspicuous message

@defalt HAHA LOL OMG XD

@defalt you should totally punch him

@rahuldottech another way is to drink something odd, so on your round you can just buy yourself a pint of coke

@Burgi That's not nonsense. He's saying there is an audience for landing pages, and therefore there is a huge market selling (and writing about) it. Which is true, I guess.

@djsmiley2k coke or coke? :P

@djsmiley2k i hate it when your order a coke and they say "is pepsi ok?" and you know it isn't, they know it isn't but you say yes anyway :'(

@Burgi ok, I drink that crap!

weirdo ;)

afk, food

@Burgi if it contains booze it's fine :p

c

@allquixotic ya

ffffffgfg

so... you know that girl from the wedding last month?

turns out she's hooked up with the guy everyone at the wedding was telling me to keep her away from

Sounds about right, not your problem

Oh, FFS, how long can a tar command take?!

It's been 57 minutes!

what is the size of the folder?

How many files, how fast a disk? Compare the two

Some folders on my root folder. /etc, /var, /usr...

So a lot

105 GB, a lot lot of files.

But I'm checking the tar destiantion file and it's taking 10 minutes to grow from 5,2 to 5,3 GB

OH GOD IT ENDED THANK GOD

wow

I just realized

add a "w" to Anker

Compressed from 105 GB to 5,6 GB 0.o

> Anker (...) make the smart life simpler; tackling first-world problems

> first-world problems

@barlop Interesting feedback—I never even knew about SU back then but wish I did because I did a ton more PC support daily back then and could have written some good stuff then that others may have found useful, etc. FYI... I found this post stackoverflow.blog/2009/09/02/the-first-super-user-with-10k-rep so I find that interesting as well and still curious. Oh well

@Burgi PowerShell goodness has been dispensed

@Facebook the guy I had in mind wasn't there from the beginning, do couldn't have been John T. He appeared at some point, and in a short time (maybe a few months?!) drew with John T. He then decided to leave after a disagreement with the administration. And either Jeff Atwood or Joel Spolsky asked him to stay, though he still left.

I don't see him listed in the rep ranking for some reason.. He had over 100K rep

I guess I could consider it a badge of honour that one time I commented critiquing one of his posts as rubbish and he deleted it!

Another time he answered one of my questions and I accepted it.. So I may be able to find who that was.

or maybe I can't find him 'cos I have 180-200 questions

Ah found him , he didn't reach JohnT's rep score. 'cos he was only active for 67 days, but in 67 days he got over 15K Rep Averaged 224 points per day superuser.com/users/83981/kcotreau

here was the question of mine that he answered superuser.com/questions/317795/…

He got more rep in two months than I have in 7 years and two months!

The legend/epic of KCotreau ! "Fastest to the EPIC badge." too.

Jeeez

@barlop Wow!! That's very interesting!! Very quick too!!

Good info you have there to share

Appreciate it!

no problem!

How about...

HarryMC!

LOL, anything you know about him!

He like to keep an air of mystery about himself the last I checked so that's only why I ask but I'm j/k

I don't think he is controversial

Was John T. controversial?

That you recall or maybe you already said this?

hmc?

he is a bounty stealer

@Facebook he knows how to game the system

@Burgi He's swooped on in and sucked up mine before but I've done the same to him before too.... LOL!! His bounty stats are crazy like 70,000+ in bounties alone!!

I think that's the number I saw once when I found it

Converting hmc into Robin Hood.... Mission Impossible!!

rh is the best

@ChatBotJohnCavil If you can do an export and give me the link/ID, I'll take a look at merging them

@Bob Why are you talking to the bot?

Has @ChatBotJohnCavil reached sentience?

Was that the plan all along?

@CircusCat If you can do an export and give me the link/ID, I'll take a look at merging them

##/export

@bwDraco That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

##export

le sigh

!!/export

@bwDraco You do not have permission to use the command export

headdesk

@Bob Circus Cat's instance doesn't implement export. I already tried it.

It shouldn't be too hard, though.