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12:14 AM

@Burgi Early PDA!

I KNOW!!!!!

and they still sell them!

eat that lenovo

1 hour later…

1:20 AM

Oh hey a self-driving car killed someone

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Not seen any rampant hysteria or public backlash yet though, which is good

1:42 AM

Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona, Where Robots Roam nyti.ms/2u3QDYx

@allquixotic Yup. That's a bit odd but it makes phone calls sound more natural.

1:55 AM

100 TB SSDs!

Datacenter use, but only a matter of time before big SSDs become a reality for consumers.

Journeyman Geek

2:06 AM

@bwDraco the problem isn't size/tech

its cost

those things probably cost a bomb

My #SavageIndustries EDC1 has proven to be full of delight. ✊🏼🤹🏻‍♂️ Gratitude to @donttrythis

Tweeted by Nick_Offerman on March 19, 2018 at 10:33 PM

@Ramhound ^ ;p

I'd like to share this before I delete it.

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Q: THANK YOU - GENERAL STATEMENT

I AM NOT THE SHARPEST STICK AND FREQUENTLY NEED COMPUTER AND SOFTWARE HELP. LIKE ALL THE TIME. YOU ARE THE BEST AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE ANSWERS YOU GIVE IN A WAY I CAN IMPLEMENT. BRAVO

2:46 AM

The tweet or the question?

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Schouzer love!

Yes.... my tv was in my closet :-)

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound the tweet was specific. The question was just too... epic not to share.

3:31 AM

Bear was feeling lonely in that picture. Only dog I know who attempts to be picked up like a toddler. He does his version of “Up!”

Journeyman Geek

4:03 AM

lol

ash loves being carried

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2 hours later…

6:15 AM

Eric Lippert has cast 1 upvote and 3294 downvotes.

I lol'd. Check out Eric Lippert's profile. — BoltClock ♦ Sep 21 '15 at 15:43

@JeffreyBosboom: I was trying to reverse a downvote after an edit and accidentally turned it into an upvote. — Eric Lippert Sep 9 '14 at 15:48

6:27 AM

If we did that, then we'd have to disable it by default, or we'd also be accused of Zuckerpunching people in the Atwood, or Spolsky, whichever sounds more anitomical. — Tim Post ♦ Jan 22 '11 at 13:20

7:20 AM

> A late flight has caused a delay. We will update the delivery date as soon as possible.

o.O

8:07 AM

morning

8:47 AM

I.... aruggggggggggggggh

will rage later.

Journeyman Geek

*dumps an ice bucket on @djsmiley2k

9:01 AM

@JourneymanGeek Does he have ALS?

Journeyman Geek

No, but he may need to chill ;p

I totally was not thinking of the ice bucket challenge

@JourneymanGeek totally *wink*

9:19 AM

morning

Journeyman Geek

9:35 AM

woof

10:19 AM

@rahuldottech ha

I did the ice bucket challenge tho

Pritt Balagopal

Hello Super Users

hello person

Pritt Balagopal

If anyone has time to spare, please help me out: superuser.com/questions/1306055/…

!!shamelessplug

ChatBot John Cavil

@djsmiley2k That didn't make much sense. Use the !!/help command to learn more.

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Journeyman Geek

10:33 AM

@PrittBalagopal its been about 15 minutes

in addition, its considered bad chat etiquette on Root Access to link your own question as a way to get attention to it - unless there's something else interesting about it.

It's certainly 'weird'.

lol

11:10 AM

VTC off-topic

11:26 AM

Yawn

Anything occurin?

12:00 PM

we got a tech test back today

2 weeks late

lol

and it was all wrong?

12:26 PM

it was fine but he'd not used any pre-processors

Journeyman Geek

oh.

Smokey seems to be down, so if you guys happen to want to pounce on some flags, ita a good time ;)

!!IS THE BOT FIXED?

ChatBot John Cavil

@FMLCat Absolutely not

lol

##die

12:40 PM

@FMLCat You do not have permission to use the command die

facepalm

lol

Is stackexchange.com/questions?tab=realtime all questions, or just ones geetting warm?

Journeyman Geek

Questions with recent activity

just got one spam flag

:D

12:49 PM

> The chief of the Tempe Police has told the San Francisco Chronicle that Uber is likely not responsible for the Sunday evening crash that killed 49-year-old pedestrian Elaine Herzberg.

After viewing video captured by the Uber vehicle, Moir concluded that “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."

work collegue said he's goin to Aldi for some lunch, asked if I wanted anything....

> I need.... a new drill
some shelving brackets
some chisels

@FMLCat welp, people predicted that

@djsmiley2k Good!

Yeah, but dum dmbs be like 'omg the cars are killing us ban them!!!!!!! don't take my guns!!!'

The benefit of being an autonomous testing vehicle with a thousand sensors and cameras recording every action... puts debates about what happened and why to rest very quickly

The best bit is now uber will release the info showing what happened (from the car's pov) hopefully.

At point X the car starts braking, etc.... - still would of been faster than a human no doubt

12:54 PM

Apparently it didn't do any braking.

But we'll see when the full data comes out

oooooooo

> The police said that the vehicle was traveling 38 miles per hour in a 35 mile-per-hour zone, according to the Chronicle—though a Google Street View shot of the roadway taken last July shows a speed limit of 45 miles per hour along that stretch of road.

Maybe she was car coloured or something :/

Also, how do you not see a car doin 38?!

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@djsmiley2k Easy, you don't look for a car.

12:55 PM

See that virtually black area behind the guy in the shiny vest? I suspect that's the dark patch the victim stepped out of

@FMLCat 'Cyclist gets in way of 2 ton moving object'

I'm guessing the car was using camera based imagery rather than LIDAR

@djsmiley2k It's almost like jumping in front of a bus!

@FMLCat hmmmm where?

@Green well then who's fault is it?

@djsmiley2k Sounds like the pedestrian's to me but that argument will never hold up in court.

Also, once we have 'inter car comms' they'll hopefully comunicate the location of humans around them.

@Green Depends on the court.

But america? god knows.

12:57 PM

@djsmiley2k Fair :)

@djsmiley2k But noo! Robots tracking our movements and sharing the information without our consent! Privacy violation!

@FMLCat :O

MAN THE GUNS! SHOOT THE ROBOTS!

@FMLCat Yep.

(and busses if in seattle)

@djsmiley2k blob:imgur.com/ec96da21-1b08-44aa-8527-d832b47f44e8

1:00 PM

@FMLCat derp image.

Dammit imgur seems broken

lulk

from my ISP it just fails any type of upload, on vpn it gets stuck on "processing" forever

Sigh

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1:02 PM

I can't help think that car thing yesterday/today with the little girl was suspicious... :/

@FMLCat oh the blind spot, that cyclists are warned about in the highway code!

Also, strange that I see no lights on that bike

nothing on the front/back, nothing reflecting on the pavement...

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wtf imgur

Have they deliberately broken hotlinking?

How does it see anything in the red area, beside it?

@djsmiley2k smaller auxilary sensors?

@Green maybe

@djsmiley2k Given that flashing bike lights are transient, we may have gotten (un)lucky and the picture is of the lights when they are off.

@Green flashing bike lights are terrible

@djsmiley2k in what way? I've found them very effective.

1:12 PM

they are distracting, and can be disorientating when riding at speed.

Anyways, hopefully the cars get even better.

@djsmiley2k agreed.

@djsmiley2k Do you have any ideas for alternatives to flashing lights that get driver's attention?

@Green A solid light, plus reflective clothing, plus riding in the center of the lane.

A solid light in the center of the lane means one of two things

1. a cyclist

2. a truck and one headlight is out.

Do you want to take the risk? ;)

Journeyman Geek

.... I've heard this one before ;p

@djsmiley2k you mean a taillight?

Journeyman Geek

...Or 2 scooters transporting a wardrobe!

1:19 PM

:D

Journeyman Geek

Oddly enough, I know of an even worse one....

@Green Depends where you're viewing it from, but the question stands, you gonna take the risk

Journeyman Geek

Someone I know had a power outage in their area

they were in the middle of laundry...

so...

they decided to transport their washing machine...

contents and all...

somewhere else....

full of water...

between two bikes.

@djsmiley2k ONLY IN INDIA!

that's awesome.

So it's the introduction of uncertainty that's most important, not so much the way that uncertainty is introduced.

1:22 PM

I transported my fish, in a bucket.

@Green nod

uncertainty makes us more aware

user226528

Hey, guys. 😊

@djsmiley2k in that case, things would need to be changed up all the time to overcome driver adaptation.

@FleetCommand Hey!

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k or two bikes transporting a tank of fish....

I liked the volvo, full transreflective spray idea

more or less, make your self as bloody visible as possible

nod

user226528

Here is a little brain teaser for the British and the Australians here. Five-years-old nephew has, for a while been using the expression "dad's the word."

user226528

1:24 PM

I got involved with this nephew because of another recurrent expression: "Java ME sucks." Fancy that.

Journeyman Geek

from mum's the word?

user226528

That's the idea.

user226528

Or at least I think.

user226528

Hard know how a five-year-old brain works.

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user226528

1:27 PM

Who's the judge? Sheldon Cooper?

@FleetCommand take a teenager and make them shorter and less grumpy and you get a 5yo

72C does sound too hot

user226528

72 C?

user226528

Are you sure?

user226528

Sheldon prefers 72 F.

72 kelvins

Journeyman Geek

1:29 PM

@Burgi a little nippy that

72c is ... somewhat warm

:)

Journeyman Geek

Freedom degrees are just odd

user226528

@JourneymanGeek "Somewhat"? Okay, I've seen worse euphemisms.

Journeyman Geek

Its not a euphamism

its dramatic understatement

i did find it odd in TBBT that sheldon uses Fahrenheit instead of Celsius

user226528

1:30 PM

72 C is the temperature of a furnace

user226528

Or a bread oven.

thats cool for an oven

mine goes up to 280C

user226528

That's not a bread oven's. Microwave oven more like it.

no, just an normal oven

user226528

Sure. That too.

1:32 PM

i don't think the air in microwaves gets hot

Journeyman Geek

72c is just around pasturising temperature

so maybe sous vide?

user226528

@JourneymanGeek Finally! Someone stopped joking around.

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi Americans!

but scientists in the US are required by law to use metric

Journeyman Geek

naw

1:34 PM

after the Great Missing Mars debacle of the 19070s

user226528

Anyway, Sheldon Cooper has drawn up a roommate agreement which stipulates the room temperature must be maintained at exactly 72.

user226528

It's been a running gag since season 1.

and my argument is that as a scientist he should use celius

i stopped watching in season 9

its become a less funny version of friends

user226528

And in season 3, episode 22, he says this exact sentence: "I rule that the thermostat must be set at exactly 72 degrees."

user226528

@Burgi Good call, buddy.

user226528

1:37 PM

Of course, I've been told that they have stopped using the word c***s altogether. But they've replaced with ***.

Siri in the '80s

user226528

Backronym

user226528

Of course, Siri is neither an interface nor does speech interpretation before recognition.

oh?

what does it do then

user226528

Siri's speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications.

user226528

1:46 PM

It is an AI.

user226528

I think I remember where the name has come from: From an iOS-exclusive video game called "Infinity Blade". Siri is the protagonist.

Yeah BBT got lame after they stopped doing funny geeky/science jokes, and instead did jokes which appear to be geeky/sciency but are funny to the 'general populace'

It's not an AI

it may make use of neural networks, but it certainly doesn't 'think'.

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Q: I dreamed you did so and so. Why did you do that? - How to react?

I had the following situation a couple of times: I sleep together with my (long time) girlfriend and she wakes up after a bad dream. In her dream I did something bad, like having sex with another woman. She is angry at "me" about what "I" did. But I didn't do it. It happened only in her dream. ...

relationships thailand

asdfgh

user226528

@djsmiley2k Alright. I believe the accurate term for it is "intelligent personal assistant".

jk

l

vbn

zxc

m

1:48 PM

catlike typing detected

user226528

Flag them?

Monkey like typing detected!

user226528

!!flagged

ChatBot John Cavil

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@Burgi Nah, that's the middle and third row of my keyboard, with random line breaks inserted

1:49 PM

@rahuldottech my GF does this to me

@Burgi ???

That's so weird

women

No person/girlfriend has ever said this to me

they act weird

But I guess my time will come, heh

Journeyman Geek

1:50 PM

@Burgi correct response "Your fantacies are so strange luv."

@JourneymanGeek lol

user226528

AFK

@JourneymanGeek pretty much

My wife just goes "hey, I had a dream last night where dream-you did [something horrible] and it's going to take me a little while to untangle that, so if I seem kinda grumpy this morning that's why"

the other night i dreamt i hooked up with a hot female friend of mine while we were lost in an escher like maze

Journeyman Geek

1:52 PM

@Burgi there's an IPS question about that....

i kept stum in the morning and didn't mention it to my GF

yeah i know

lol

@ToxicFrog We seem to be blessed with sane other halfs

Mine does the same thing

or did, it hardly ever happens

@ToxicFrog Sensible :)

mine has dreams about social events that she is planning and tells me off when i haven't agreed to them

lol

1:58 PM

@Burgi The other night I dreamed that I fixed stuff with my best friend, who hasn't spoken to me in a month

I rarely dream, bad sleep :(

Last night I dreamed that I could fly by kindling antimatter flames in my hands, which is not particularly relevant to my partners but was pretty cool.

Journeyman Geek

gotta love it when a scientific wild ass guess works out - I noticed that there was a different filename between what the OP listed and the error message in a question, thought it wasn't it, and it was.

I have to go to dinner with my dad tonight. Wish me luck.

Good luck. Don't get poisoned.

2:07 PM

Hello! Is superuser a good place to ask for help with docker containers ?

I've seen such questions poorly received on stackoverflow

Journeyman Geek

We arn't really SO

dosen't feel like the right place personally - I think there was a recent meta.se site that suggested devops...

what's the context you're using docker in?

trying to setup a dotnetcore webserver with a reverse nginx proxy

I've spent the past 2-3 evenings agonizing at back-to-back problems

Journeyman Geek

.... sounds fun ;p

(I've never really gotten it working)

when you look at the concepts it seems like it would be a breeze to setup

that hasn't been my experience

Journeyman Geek

@A_V oh I wouldn't close it on SU

but there's a certain odd set of skills needed I'm not sure is easy to find.

If you do, and don't get an answer, and its still open, let me know when bounties open up and I can toss it a small one.

(on SU of course)

2:14 PM

Thank you, I'll now resume my holy grail quest of fixing a mundane bug

@Burgi Dang. Dilbert is haut.

@Michael you know what i had a similar thought....

@JourneymanGeek are you working yet?

Journeyman Geek

still waiting on security clearance

I don't even know who the client is yet XD

does SG have a spy agency?

Journeyman Geek

2-3

2:19 PM

i've always said you look dashing in a tux... ;)

Journeyman Geek

ISD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Security_Department_(Singapore) SID en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_Intelligence_Division ....

you should start on the vodka martinis to prep your liver

Journeyman Geek

I'm probably more Q

> BOND: why is there dog hair in the new aston?

Journeyman Geek

or Mr Pickles the-kingsman-directory.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Pickle

2:21 PM

> Q: woof?

is it a real security check or just one to see if you have any criminal convictions?

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi its apparently super standard

interesting... do they normally take this long?

Journeyman Geek

yup

Journeyman Geek

3:08 PM

apparently at least 2 weeks

can be up to 3 months

my official start date is mid april so...

3:41 PM

@JourneymanGeek tbh if it's anything like over here, it could be any huge number of not interesting clients.

and a security check is standard for a lot places, banks, anywhere with large amounts of money, etc

Journeyman Geek

yup

3:53 PM

Anywhere with Patients

4:07 PM

Morning all

4:22 PM

> 'I was running this on virtualbox on my laptop, but need something more powerful!'

5 minutes later

> 'So the application won't run in a VM, hense why I need to run it on this random desktop on my desk'

....

Do users think I r dumb?

Umm....

@djsmiley2k and squidlets

erm yes

;D

@djsmiley2k well we think u r dumb so.... ;)

I guess they do get oily and inky sometimes :P

@Burgi yah but ur edumacated.

4:32 PM

cya tomo

A hypervisor or virtual machine monitor (VMM) is computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called a host machine, and each virtual machine is called a guest machine. The hypervisor presents the guest operating systems with a virtual operating platform and manages the execution of the guest operating systems. Multiple instances of a variety of operating systems may share the virtualized hardware resources: for example, Linux, Windows, and macOS instances can all run on a single physical x86...

Which type of Hypervisor?

Hmm?

What's the name for the problem, when someone has a machine under their desk, which the whole business ends up relying on, and it fails.

Not single point of failure

but that idea, that allowing a machine to start off doing some 'simple' task

That idea of SPOF? I call that stupidity / lack of planning

:D

hi

4:41 PM

The idea of this beast growing, below someones desk, consuming everything

and then dying suddenly.

sup @jokerdino

Virtualize it, and document it!

Nod

cept see my first or second quote

20 mins ago, by djsmiley2k

> 'I was running this on virtualbox on my laptop, but need something more powerful!'

20 mins ago, by djsmiley2k

> 'So the application won't run in a VM, hense why I need to run it on this random desktop on my desk'

our entire environment isbuilt on vm's

if something won't work on a vm, why are we even investigating it?

The funny point being

roar

Ahhh, got it

I thought it was something like a game that you were talking about

@CanadianLuke lol

4:49 PM

@djsmiley2k how is the day?

hmmmm

ok :/

lol

So wife went to see two childminders

the one who is great will require me dropping 2.1 off each morning. Which while ok, is a change and may cause other issues I've not yet forseen

one is great, one isn't

hmm, hope it works out great

we can hope ;/

can you not just send the childs to work down the mines?

#BringBackTheVictorians

@Burgi Down the mines? What's wrong with sending them up chimneys?

5:02 PM

@DavidPostill either or

Or going out pick pocketing ...

stealing hand kerchiefs?

@jokerdino lol

@jokerdino It's actually "making handkerchiefs" ;)

> Soon, Oliver naively goes out to "make handkerchiefs" with the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates, only to learn that their real mission is to pick pockets.

oh I see. I'll correct myself.

5:35 PM

o/

Saw this, figured it must be a review audit but nope- caught one in the wild!

@bertieb Nuked along with the luser :)

'ta!

user226528

Used to happen to me.

user226528

UAC Write Virtualization might be the cause.

user226528

Or low-integrity mode of IE.

user226528

5:42 PM

But of course, it could easily be a case with similar symptoms and nothing more.

user226528

The logon scripts can really change the parameters.

7:22 PM

Sorry to go all Seinfeld, but what's the deal with hackintosh questions these days?

I'd ask a meta Q, but reckon it would be closed as dupe

＠Arjan, ＠nhinkle, @slhck: there is no applicable SE-wide policy, so this is a community decision. The moderators do not have a binding vote here. Diago spoke here as a community member, just like Arjan. Hackintosh questions became banned because until you (Arjan) posted your answer, the consensus was against them. The policy would change if your answer rose to a significantly higher score that Diago's. — Gilles Feb 23 '12 at 0:36

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A: Are "Hackintosh" questions allowed?

Simple. As discussed in many similar matters on Meta Stack Overflow, there is no such things as worldwide legal agreements. Apple can put into their usage agreements whatever they like, in many countries that would never hold in court. One could use the comments to warn people about it, or when a...

As it stands, that answer is indeed more significantly upvoted than the 'accepted' answer

user226528

Really? I am so close to throwing an exception.

Wait hang on, the accepted answer isn't Diago's

user226528

How's that important?

Me?

Oh yes

so my raging from this morning

7:26 PM

(side note, is Diago now BinaryMisfit?)

I come into work this morning, collegue goes 'can you help me run these cables'. I'm thinkin it's going to be something dififcult, nope

he litterally has to plug in about 10 cables into a rack

they labeled, ready to go

i'm like 'errr ok' and start plugging them in, as he assures me he's configured everything on the switch

two people get knocked offline, and someone else has a config problem because it's all wrong

i'm just like.... dafaq?

he's like 'oh well i checked the list and emailed the people listed as sitting here'

..... or you could of walked through, and spoke to the people Actually sitting there.

user226528

Now, this is strange: ffmpeg's libx265 encodes much faster with the same parameters, compared to x265.exe.

user226528

Although, given the fact that it cannot be set to any profile other the main profile and the fact that I couldn't get its 2-pass encoding to work correctly...

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