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12:54 AM
> In discussing some of these issues with Wendell from the YouTube channel Level1Techs, he found that certain benchmark software would get a large improvement if the process affinity for the test meant that it could never touch ‘CPU 0’, or the first enumerated core on the processor. In simple terms, each thread was being initiated on CPU0 and then thrown onto a different core, causing slowdown, but it meant that management also occurred through CPU0.
Wat.
Get with the program, Microsoft. Your SMP/NUMA implementation needs serious work.
Freaking Windows scheduler.
 
@Bob lol
 
WHO IS STILL USING GROWL 0_0
 
More importantly... Why did you accept the answer, but never upvote it! :o
 
So... one year ago, on this day, Astaroth came online.
Oct 25 '17 at 21:16, by bwDraco
...and Astaroth is alive!
 
@MichaelFrank ._,
POOOINNTTTTTT
I do actually like the other answer better
 
1:10 AM
Deadmau5 has a batshit crazy setup
He has more GPUs in his house than I have hairs on my head
 
Perhaps, in several years' time...
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek ...good question
@JourneymanGeek GtT is still getting decent traffic :P
 
@Bob its the hackiest way to do what it does
 
Bob
Three people cloned the repo over the last week o_O
 
hell, I don't think the OSX/macos growl is still in development and GFW and GNTP-send are based off an older open source version
 
1:15 AM
@rahuldottech Sweet video
@rahuldottech Wait... the video says 43 GPUs... are you Homer Simpson?
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@MichaelFrank I was gonna say... close to bald?
 
1:43 AM
@MichaelFrank Lol, I actually have a very thick and messy hair.
I saw the video a a loooong time ago, so didn't remember the exact number ;)
In other news, my new project is almost complete \o/
 
Bob
2:15 AM
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Q: What is the Windows Projected File System?

Canadian LukeIn the latest builds of Windows 10, there is a new feature, in Beta, called Windows Projected File System. I cannot find any information on Google, other than programming APIs that do not make sense to me. What is it, and what kind of users would it be targeted for?

O_O
FUSE for Windows?
ext4 on ProjFS on Windows?
zfs on ProjFS on Windows?
FUSE on WSL/ProjFS on Windows?
Every FUSE FS on WSL on Windows?
:D :D :D
@HornOKPlease ^
 
I NEED DORITOS
Question: I boiled some milk and then left it out for a few hours (like, idk, 6 hours - I forgot about it completely) before putting it in the fridge. Is it likely ruined?
 
2:32 AM
If you're worried about bugs... you could just boil it again.
 
@MichaelFrank Nah, about it getting spoilt
I don't know how this works, OKAY? I AM NOT AN ADULT.
:P
 
Sounds like it's time for an experiment!
 
@MichaelFrank oh lord
 
> UHT milk packaged in a sterile container, if not opened, has a typical unrefrigerated shelf life of six to nine months. In contrast, HTST pasteurized milk has a shelf life of about two weeks from processing, or about one week from being put on sale.
UHT is >135ºC for 1-2secs.
HTST is >72ºC for at least 15secs.
Could still be okay.
 
@MichaelFrank No idea what any of this means, tbh
@MichaelFrank It tastes... kinda sour
 
2:37 AM
@rahuldottech probably not
 
ehh I'll just go get some more milk
 
if it tastes sour. yes.
it could be yogurtised tho
 
Yea, sour milk... :X
 
@rahuldottech is this milk from a pack or a guy on a bycycle?
 
@JourneymanGeek pack - but like a plastic bag, not tetrapack or bottle
(mother dairy?)
 
2:38 AM
ah
Probably UHT
But apparently bags of milk is an enigma to americans ;)
 
Canada sells milk in bags.
 
I'm just going to get some more. See ya.
 
2:41 AM
rofl
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Q: What's the reason some places use milk bags instead of milk jugs or other means?

Joan VengeI am not sure if it happens in other countries, but some provinces in Canada uses milk bags for 4L instead of jugs, or other containers. Anyone knows if there is an advantage of this over the other conventional method? Is it because it's supposed to be more consumer friendly? Because of this you...

NOT where I'd expect to fund it
 
@rahuldottech It's already been treated, so probably just the leaving it out for 6 hours was the bad bit.
 
@MichaelFrank yeah :/
 
Bob
2:54 AM
@rahuldottech @MichaelFrank IIRC rule of thumb is no more than 2 hours out warm if you want to be safe (/follow food standards).
 
@Bob I didn't know that, thanks
@Burgi did you end up using that logic of modulus-using-only-addition?
 
3:27 AM
Okay, this is such crap. Halloween party tickets are 3x as expensive for guys
 
you should complain its sexist
 
@JourneymanGeek unlikely to do anything
 
Complain anyway. Maybe tweet ;p
hides
 
It's pretty common here for guys to be denied entry into bars and clubs without paying significant sums of money, whereas girls can always enter for free
@JourneymanGeek lmaoooo
> Attractions in the party:
Performances By Different DJ's
EDM & Trance Music Night
Selfie Booth
Props for Halloween
Make up Artist
Drinking Games
UV Props & Decorations
Halloween Make Up Artist
Neon Theme
Security officers
Professional Photography
Don't miss the chance to miss this party.

Couples 2000

Male Stag 1500/-

Female Stag 500/-
Hmmmm
 
Also, your current formula has ~30 ( and only 14 ). They need to balance or this will never work. — Michael Frank 15 secs ago
Excel formula nightmare!
 
3:33 AM
> Attractions in the party
> Security officers
🤔
 
are the security officers attractive?
 
@JourneymanGeek They are, I infer
Also, make up artist and Halloween make up artist are different?
 
Sexy Security Officer sounds exactly like a Halloween custome.
 
One makes you look scary. The other makes up pumpkins.
 
Oh c'mon
This is even worse
I have half a mind to just take any random friend and claim couples' entry
I wonder if they'd accept two guys as a couple, now that homosexuality is legal in India?
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3:51 AM
Linus (the youtuber) just got a router worth USD 10,000
wtf
 
sounds enterprisy
but eh, he can probably afford it from all the product placement he does
 
@JourneymanGeek halp
How do I stop my laptop case's screws from coming loose?
 
@rahuldottech hmm. Threadlocker is what the original builders use
 
I appear to have to tighten them every couple days
@JourneymanGeek Is it expensive?
 
not really
 
3:53 AM
@JourneymanGeek this stuff? amazon.in/s/…
This... is not for PCs
 
oh
the stuff lenovo uses is blue
 
@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I see it on the screws
But I dunno where I can get any
 
ask if its on topic on the HWrecs meta ;)
 
@rahuldottech I broke this the other day... it's worth >$25k
 
@MichaelFrank wtf why is it so expensive
 
3:56 AM
@rahuldottech VERY fast, high throughput
 
Pretty much.
 
How'd you break it?
 
thankfully, the ones we use at work should be obsolete soon
 
Amusingly, my job is to repair them... except I was using that one for parts and broke the parts I was trying to use. -___-
@JourneymanGeek What models?
 
the thing they're used to scan is going full electronic.
@MichaelFrank you're xandora on matrix right?
 
3:58 AM
@JourneymanGeek yea
 
Bob
4:08 AM
@rahuldottech uhm.
> Don't miss the chance to miss this party.
 
@Bob lmao
hahahahah
So, there are two parties. Both are super unfairly priced towards dudes. One of them has those ridiculous details, the other one has no details, but a single 5-star review from someone who filled their name in all caps
whatdoido
 
 
4:39 AM
> Why do companies not give root access to their employees
...
......
.........
srsly?
@JourneymanGeek he got a cnc router, not a network one
 
5:17 AM
@rahuldottech still true. ;)
You can get a 200-300 dollar CNC router...
 
5:38 AM
@rahuldottech Because they probably don't need it.
 
Its a HNQ
 
5:51 AM
Oh
I'm surprised the answer isn't "because they probably don't need it"
 
might be
lol
 
It sounds like a homework question...
 
6:24 AM
Okay, so
You know how my three laptops running as servers are stacked on top of each other?
 
uh huh?
 
Now, if I switch them off remotely or the power gets cut off, I have to dismantle the entire structure to switch them one, since the power button is under the lids
And it's a pain
 
Bob
lol.
 
So I'm thinking that I'll open them up, solder a couple wires and pass them through the kensington lock hole, and attack a switch outside
 
erm
why?
erm
don't laptops have WOL?
 
Bob
6:27 AM
@JourneymanGeek gaaaaaaaaah tempted by the ticwatch pro again lol
 
@Bob the c2 looks pretty good
 
Bob
$370, currently 12% cashback on amazon, and 10% TRS...
 
@JourneymanGeek 2006-era ones? I doubt it. Also, I've never used WOL. But I'll check it out.
This made me grin, for some reason
> Apollo 16 astronaut falls and gets himself up.
 
7:23 AM
@JourneymanGeek I see USB Wake, but not WOL in BIOS
 
8:07 AM
morning
 
8:22 AM
\o/
I can now ping out of my DIY router.
 
@MichaelFrank thats NZ dollars though so only worth £2.50 in real money
 
8:38 AM
ok wtf is windows subsystem for unix-based applications
 
o_O
that's a new one.
tho I think I've heard it once or twice before
 
I just was it on a win7 PC
 
ooh
that's old
 
and it was like old school ssh, prior to lfw etc
 
@JourneymanGeek whatz it do
 
8:39 AM
@rahuldottech so one of the cool things about NT is...
it actually let you stick different APIs atop the kernel
and there was a unix like one for quite a while
 
NT is POSIX compliant.
 
I don't think anyone used it...
 
@djsmiley2k wut
 
yus.
 
@JourneymanGeek So it was like... uh, a linux shell?
I have no idea what sort of API you're talking about
 
8:40 AM
NT could run.... bash, for example
 
but you'd need to build for it?
IDK, never used it, just knew it was there
 
> Microsoft POSIX subsystem, an optional Windows subsystem included in Windows NT-based operating systems up to Windows 2000. POSIX-1 as it stood in 1990 revision, without threads or sockets.
> Windows C Runtime Library and Windows Sockets API implement commonly used POSIX API functions for file, time, environment, and socket access,[33] although the support remains largely incomplete and not fully interoperable with POSIX-compliant implementations.[34][35][discuss]
> Windows NT kernel when using Microsoft SFU 3.5 or SUA
 
Yeah I never heard of anything using it
 
8:54 AM
\o/
ITS ALIIIVEEEEEEE
 
@rahuldottech not yet
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek using an underscore in the hostname? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
@Bob >_>
ITS LEGAL!
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek a lot of services can be very unhappy about it
I'd recommend changing it to a dash
much, much easier
 
@Bob well, in any case I will be rebuilding this from scratch once I got it working ;p
and weeeel
 
Bob
8:58 AM
@JourneymanGeek seriously, it's one command and maybe one file edit to change it
do it before you get stuck too far into the underscore one
 
I don't think its a good idea to name it after the greek goddess of crossroads and witchcraft
 
Bob
we have to deal with hostnames with underscores at work (old repurposed systems)
it. is. painful.
 
@Bob at the point I'm just trying to document the commands that make this work as I want to ;p
 
Bob
you think you're fine until something does not work
 
there's literally no services that rely on that
 
Bob
8:59 AM
@JourneymanGeek it was actually certified unix :P
(old) windows was more unix than linux ever will be :P
 
now I need to decide how I want to deal with the other two ports
 
yey MS teams isn't working
 
Looking at the names... Yup
 
its all over linkedin
the man in manchester is actually from the roman word for mammeries
the irony
 
10:30 AM
boobchester?
 
rofl! was this guy russian?
 
10:58 AM
@JourneymanGeek I'm going to go ahead with the switch hack because 1. I really feel like doing some DIY hackery and 2. I can't for the life of me get WOL working on these PCs
 
@rahuldottech its a terrible idea IMO
 
@JourneymanGeek why?
 
@rahuldottech you're making irreversible changes to hardware that isn't necessary
 
@JourneymanGeek how is it irreversible?
 
@rahuldottech you're opening it up, modifying buttons...
 
11:06 AM
It's just me soldering two tiny wires on
@JourneymanGeek I'm not modifying anything, just adding a couple wires. Nothing that can't be undone in less than five minutes
 
....
soldering is kiiinda permanant
 
not if you pull hard.
bit like teeth! D:
 
TWSS
 
snigger
 
11:28 AM
First post here (although I'm active elsewhere on the network.)
I just had an edit rejected that I made on behalf of the OP to clarify a few points about his question (to head off some obvious question) -- OP isn't too familiar with how things work around here and is nervous about participating. I suggested he could demonstrate what he'd already tried and he asked me to do it on his behalf.
So... the edit was rejected for not being in line with the OPs intent.
Is there any point in my resubmitting it? Question is superuser.com/questions/1370198/….
What do I need to do to make edit stick?
(Asking here rather than on meta because it isn't a big deal and probably not of generic interest).
 
@ColeValleyGirl I think the rejections are cause the changes are pretty major and might not really be the OP's intent
I wouldn't really retry. Leave the question, in this case, to its fate.
 
@JourneymanGeek Pretty major? I added what he's already tried, and clarified that the site in question won't be accessible to people looking at the question. I also added that he was trying to understand how he can further diagnose it himself as well as resolve it.
I was just trying to make it as good a question as possible to up the slight chance that it might get an answer. He's unbearable when he can't play his daily sudoku :)
Goodness knows I recognise this site gets al lot of rubbish questions. I was trying to improve the signal to noise ratio even slightly.
But never mind -- I may suggest to himself that he does the identical edit.
 
i think that is off-topic
 
@Burgi I thought it came under computer software -- what makes it off-topic?
Not arguing -- just trying to understand
 
they are talking about a specific web application (the puzzle)
 
11:43 AM
@Burgi could be a browser question though
 
I have 3 systems infront of me in the library.
 
I thought it was a browser question -- why might X work in one browser but not two others (both of which it worked in yesterday, and still works in for me).
 
I'm mainly using the centre one and the ones by my sides are just autoscrolling tumblr feeds. It's trippy.
 
If my edit had stuck (asking how it might be diagnosed) it might be less of a problem?
 
possibly?
 
11:47 AM
@ColeValleyGirl it could, but its one of those cases where its 50/50 and not really worth the effort
Also, Java and Javascript are unrelated ;p
 
they share some of the same letters... ;)
 
@JourneymanGeek What is sc-in-f139.1e100.net ?
 
@Nick google
 
@JourneymanGeek I know Java and Javascript are unrelated -- the interface is definitely Javascript.
 
#TIL ICMP means Internet Control Message Protocol. It is one of the protocols in the Internet Protocol Suite.
 
11:50 AM
@Nick I was testing three things - IP address allocation, masquerading/NAT and dns
 
#TIAL 1e100.net is a Google-owned domain name used to identify the servers in [Google's] network.

Following standard industry practice, [Google] make[s] sure each IP address has a corresponding hostname. In October 2009, [Google] started using a single domain name to identify [Google] servers across all Google products, rather than use different product domains such as youtube.com, blogger.com, and google.com. [Google] did this for two reasons: first, to keep things simpler, and second, to proactively improve security by protecting against potential threats such as cross-site scripting att
 
@Nick its also a domain I know should exist, and be active ;p
same reason you'd ping 8.8.8.8 to test
 
Cool. The display to my [left] is scrolling down 10ft per second. I wonder how long till it completes a mile.
@JourneymanGeek For me, if it's gone it's gone :P Net is like that only.
 
@Nick I'd use something else ;p
 
12:23 PM
yay!
just saved $800 on our browserstack subscription
 
Bob
@Burgi How?
 
dropped it to the smallest package
also paid annually
 
Bob
Ah.
 
12:51 PM
@ColeValleyGirl Hi, I was one of the reviewers who rejected the edit suggestion
I don't have much to add beyond what Geek said about it conflicting with the author's intent - it looked like you had a similar question and were editing to ask something similar
The reason (title, subject) of your newer proposed edit makes your intent much more clear
 
@JourneymanGeek I DID IT
(sorry about the video compression)
I AM SUCH A BADASS
(lmao)
Final thingy ^
 
1:13 PM
oh hey look! a landline, how quaint
 
@Bob Uhhhhhhh
 
@Burgi we have one
 
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh‌​hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
@JourneymanGeek i've got one but only for the aDSL
 
@Burgi Its literally... a phone line
 
1:14 PM
for the older people in your life?
 
I'd say "This changes EVERYTHING" but that'd be a huge understatement
 
@Burgi kiiinda
 
@noitsbecky Are you doing an impression of Moonbase Alpha?
> UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
 
Personally I'd go with an internet connection and nothing else
 
> john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden john madden (etc)
 
1:15 PM
HFMG would probably be whatsapping anyway
 
@JourneymanGeek are you not even going to comment on how neat a job I've done -_-
 
@rahuldottech no
cause its a terrible idea ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek sending virtual h8
@JourneymanGeek hey, it works. These are ancient PCs. I haven't even damaged anything
I literally connected the wires to extra contacts on the circuit board
All I have to do to remove them is snip the two wires
 
@bertieb Thanks.
 
For those of you who are into traditional pop / operatic music, Andrea Bocelli's latest album, "Si", is out TODAY... if you have Spotify or Apple Music you already have it, go listen! The first new Bocelli music in 14 years!
 
1:27 PM
> If you have booked any of the teaching rooms, listed below, during the survey period, you should expect a visit from an auditor who will count the number of room occupants during each hourly session. The auditors will be as discrete as possible while carrying out the headcounts
But I want a continuous auditor
@HornOKPlease tries to cock an eyebrow but can't so raises both
Andrea Bocelli, you say
 
to what
 
@bertieb Slight problem
By continuously measuring whether each student is all there at all points in time, they'll be affecting whether or not they are there
 
Uhhh... The Old Cock and Eyebrow... it's a pub just outside of, uhh, Colchester
 
Heisenberg uncertainty
 
@HornOKPlease Hah!
Funnily enough, there was a big stink raised last time this was proposed
because reasons
I think they're hoping people have quietly forgotten or moved on :P
 
1:37 PM
@JourneymanGeek TWSS
 
@JourneymanGeek THIS IS ART YOU DON'T APPRECIATE IT
 
@rahuldottech Wake on Lan
@JourneymanGeek They do
 
@noitsbecky doesn't exist on 2006-era laptops
 
@rahuldottech They do
 
@noitsbecky ...
 
1:41 PM
@djsmiley2k I have, can't remember what for.
@Bob Huh. Is it that bad? I'd assume if software XYZ has a broken handling of non-alphanumeric characters it'd be broken for all legal non-alphanumeric characters.
@rahuldottech Does on mine
 
@noitsbecky hmm.
 
Not all laptops from any given era have it though.
 
Bob
2:22 PM
@noitsbecky dash/hyphen is legal in situations where underscore is not
 
@Bob will fix it at some point
 
Bob
basically, some things might break and others won't
better to just avoid the situation entirely
we had to switch to using IP addresses in some configs cause the underscore wasn't accepted (see: old repurposed machines)
Java (as used in Spark) is one of the ones that won't accept it
 
WOL has existed on everything since ethernet was invented
 
@Bob Unless it's software running on the machine itself can't you just put both entries into the DNS?
 
Bob
@noitsbecky DNS wasn't the issue. The client software literally would not accept the hostname because it fails validation.
Ironically, it's apparently legal in DNS (but not for hostnames specifically)
 
anyone have any experience with remapping keys using scan code in microsot keyboard layout creator?
I effectively using sharp keys
this effectively makes virtualbox and teamviewer type applications work correctly
 
4:34 PM
@William I effectively always use sharpkeys, which actually effectively isn't very often but it works effectively pretty well, effectively. I have effectively never tired anything else effectively but effectively in my opinion, sharpkeys is the best. Effectively.
:D
 
@Bob Right, but I'm thinking just put server-name or servername instead of server_name into the client and have the DNS resolver ignore/wildcard it. Basically anything that isn't running on the offending server and using a local hostname lookup shouldn't be affected
(Lots of email server(s) ignore or wildcard dots (.) and dashes (-), including where I used to work, so Firstname.Surname, Firstname-Surname, and FirstnameSurname would all end up in the same mailbox)
Heck you could put ...Firstname...........Surname..........-----@xyz and it'd probably still work, assuming your email client didn't flip out trying to send it.
 
@noitsbecky Interest Rates have gone up again, 5th time in a one-year period in Canada
 
vuz you got high, cuz you got high, cuz you got highhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
5:09 PM
@Bob Oh I just realised you might mean the server sends its hostname to the client as part of some connection/negotiation. Though in many (most?) server applications you can manually override what its identity/hostname is.
 
 
1 hour later…
6:32 PM
Finally made myself a spotify account.
You can't change your username.
So I shall forever be know as MDNFBNDMSFBSNMGVFMSDNGVNMSGVMN
Also when you favorite an album, you autocomically favorites each of its songs.
What if I love 7 songs and hate 2?
"No you can only love a record if you love each and every song, period"
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy Lmao
You used to not be able to unlink from Facebook either, though I vaguely remember being told that's changed.
 
I've been unlinked from Facebook since 2006!
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@noitsbecky I don't know, because I always use a random email to sign up.
This [redacted] ticket service I had to use last night asked for my phone number (with SMS verification), email verification, postal code, SSN, and blood sample.
Only one of those is an exaggeration
@noitsbecky Also gmail ignores +whatever so joe.bob+blablabla@gmail.com = joebob@gmail.com
Some signup forms don't deal with "+"s, however.
 
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