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12:22 AM
lol
 
12:36 AM
...and another thing to consider learning: deep learning and AI. As the owner of a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, I am well-equipped to begin working with deep learning technology.
Worth a shot, or am I spreading myself too thin on all these learning projects?
 
@bwDraco I'm a person who does physical things. I own an A/C unit and a refrigerator, so I am well-equipped to start learning how to be an HVAC technician. Meanwhile I am also learning how to become a car mechanic, a carpenter, and a roofer.
 
@allquixotic Heh.
 
A few years back, I started building out a set of essential tools, trying to follow the footsteps of my father (who was once an auto mechanic).
 
I fixed a sewing machine once
 
12:38 AM
branching out and learning things you're genuinely interested in is well and good, but first you should be a semi-specialist at something - be deep enough in something to at least be able to demonstrate a level of expertise
and it should be something useful, which unfortunately, knowledge of AMD products is not
 
@allquixotic Obviously - I'm looking to actually spend time learning.
However, I've been tied up with lots of family and job obligations over the last few weeks, especially after that trip to Hong Kong.
And I'm preparing for an internship, which meant stuff like doctor visits.
It's been an extremely busy month for me.
So... how should I deal with the long list of technologies to learn?
Feb 19 at 9:13, by bwDraco
That same time could just be used to learn Docker/PowerShell/LXD/ZFS/JavaScript/Python/Selenium/AWS/etc.
 
You talk about it less, you pick a thing and do it.
 
Anyhoo, got some photo post-production work to do.
@allquixotic, any hints?
 
@bwDraco seems for years you've been saying you don't have time, so make time or just resign yourself to the fact that you're never going to learn anything... if you're literally spending every waking moment every day either helping your family, doing chores, or photo editing, you have zero time to learn stuff
if it's hindering you that badly, find a way to curtail your photo editing hours to make room for learning since that's what you really want to do
 
Part of this is that I tend to use my time inefficiently. If I'm less distracted, I'd probably have at least 3-5 hours available every day.
 
12:47 AM
well that's obviously your problem then
I have problems focusing a lot too, but at least once every week or two I find time to dig deep, shut out distractions and at least play with some tech... whatever interests me... this week it was Rust
 
Speaking of stuff to learn... Ngnix units looks fun.
 
Improved hardware and familiarity with the software has helped me complete photo editing faster, but it's not enough.
 
you won't have enough willpower to be able to free yourself from distractions 3 to 5 hours every single day, so don't set that as a goal, don't set the bar that high
just start by setting the bar at two or three times per month, spending that free time on doing something interesting IT related that benefits learning
fix a bug, spin up a VM, whatever
reward yourself after the fact by doing something mindless and fun like playing a game, or buy a new game on Steam or something
 
Start the Docker VM, play with it a bit, answer one or two Stack Overflow/Server Fault questions.
What? EKWB is building PCs?
 
1:06 AM
I fixed broke a cat once
 
1:58 AM
@allquixotic Was going through a mandatory phishing module at work and one of the points was that on average people get distracted from what they are doing every 3 minutes.
 
2:55 AM
I really hate PSN
I have an open nat on xbox live
I cannot for the life of me actually log into my PSN account
If it wasn't for the nick I would try creating a new account
 
 
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5:03 AM
@Ramhound What does the Network Test say for your NAT?
 
Nat Type 2
But that's because of my modem in RouteWIthNat and a router
Which is fine the problem is it fails to connect to PSN
I was able to get xbox to nat type open
But that was my pc
 
I think NAT 2 is the best you can get with PS4 tbh
 
I am shocked I am still connected I just performed a reboot on my modem, interesting
perhaps I didn't, due to the ping, lol
good grief
I have not checked if I even fixed it. I should go do that
Nope
It attempts to connect, then refreshes the screen, and goes back to the same state where I am not logged into the account
 
5:34 AM
Erf, been a while since I read TR
I don't even know why, it's not like they banned me or something
This is.... actually possible
 
6:08 AM
heh
oddly I found TR indirectly cause of SU
@FMLCat skip to the last page
 
 
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8:30 AM
@Ramhound so the NAT test on PS4 is broken
the best game I know to test on is COD
As long as you're doing the port forwarding, or UPnP is working, you should be fine
 
8:46 AM
@Ramhound can you login at store.playstation.com/en-gb/home/games
 
user226528
9:35 AM
Hi, guys.
 
user226528
Strange little world we have, don't we?
 
user226528
Surely, some of you have felt it in this same room.
 
user226528
I have a friend who has come to town to see a doctor. His mother reprimanded him because his brother lost her debit card. The mother believes that if my friend had handled it, it might not have been lost.
 
user226528
Apart from being blamed for something that is not his fault, he is in town because he has lost a contact lense! It is expensive and ordering a new one takes a long time. (In this case, a week.) For all intents and purposes, he has been given the life's worse portion.
 
9:52 AM
There's a site for this! Its called IPS!
 
user226528
10:06 AM
IPS? Indiana Public Schools? Intrusion Prevention System? Image Packaging System? International Professional Surfers? (This one seems to be it.)
 
10:19 AM
Interpersonalskills
 
10:42 AM
lol
how to tell someone not to blame me for something that wasn't my fault?
The problem with IPS is everyone asks questions, and then adds the condition 'without offending them'
it's like pfft, someone's a prat, they're a prat
If they feel no shame, you won't change them
 
11:08 AM
;p
 
 
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1:09 PM
@Burgi and @CanadianLuke you both use WordPress, right? Maybe one of you could help me with this:
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Q: wp_remote_post doesn't work with more than 1024 bytes in the body

That Brazilian GuyI'm working with a third-party API (for the intents of this question, it's irrelevant which one) and need to send a POST request to an external service. I'm trying to use wp_remote_post to achieve what I need, but there seems to be a limit to the amount of data it can send in its request body. ...

 
1:24 PM
...and I just used up my first pack of Death Wish Coffee.
 
Ave
@bwDraco how was it?
 
Hi. Anyone experienced TeamViewer 13 session timeouts. Lasts only 5 mins then gets kicked out.
 
@Ave Not as rich as the other coffees I drink, very dark and bold. Tends to require more creamer. As the name suggests, huge on caffeine.
 
Ave
So, I just bought stayathomeserver.club
 
lol
 
Ave
1:34 PM
also my home server will be called "stayathome" because why not
 
lol
as long as its not hikikomori ;p
 
16
Q: How many users use browser's text search within a page?

Ashley CoolmanDo any significant number of users Ctrl + f windows or ⌘ + f osx to activate browsers' text search? I'm trying to find some usage numbers, but I can't find anything. Background I'm working on a page that has "hijacked" scroll events, which interferes with all native browser features that rely ...

^PLEASE DON"T DO IT...
 
1:53 PM
Hijack browser events? Agree
Causes many grumbles
Also, specifying text sizing in a way that renders zoom useless
Otherwise I end up looking like that still frame from Inception, or (more likely) hitting the back button / close button / power button
 
LOL
 
> Found an article sourcing a study conducted by Google. Apparently, 90% of people don't know about [ctrl + F].
DAFUQ. 90% 0.o
> I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for.
 
'How do you find things'
them: 'Google!'
 
1:57 PM
People use computers to Do The Thing™, not necessarily to Learn the Shortcuts™
 
'How do you find things'
Brazilians: Post on facebook asking random people! \o/
Let's Create a Group on WhatsApp! (c) (r)
Post on Instagram
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy No
 
Yeah, we're 100% Zuckerberg's bitches.
 
heh. My mom finds things the old fashioned way...
she asks me to look for it.
 
1:59 PM
She uses the efficient way, I see. True and tested.
 
(for most things)
 
@JourneymanGeek Isn't it the other way around, when you can't find something, you ask your mom,
 
@RogUE naw
my mom would just complain about how I'm careless.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy That is true. Once I found my classmate looking through a pdf file containing around 100 pages containing registration numbers and names(for an exam) to know the location of her exam centre.
 
@RogUE Exactly!
user image
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2:03 PM
lol, that is so true.
 
In my family we look for something else
 
Yes! But you have to actually look for that other thing, otherwise the universe is wise to you and you don't find the first thing
The crafty, crafty universe
 
@bertieb I once managed to fool the universe.
I was with a group of friends at a bus stop and it was taking forever to arrive.
Someone said "we should go to another bus stop", to which the obvious reply was "the very second we leave, the bus will arrive".
So someone suggested we should pretend to leave, wait for the bus to arrive, then run and get the bus.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy that probably only worked cause you didn't expect it to work
 
2:10 PM
But, alas, the universe is crafty, and the bus would only arrive at the exact moment it would be impossible for us to run and get it back.
 
Speaking of buses...
 
So I devised a plan: we split, half of us stay here and half leave. That will get the universe confused.
 
so, my workplace has only one bus
 
They said I was crazy. I convinced them to try it, just to see what would happen.
The literal instant we tried it, the bus arrived.
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy That was a really good strategy.
 
2:12 PM
and no way to walk in our out on foot. Only thing is the bus stops twice at the same bus stop, in different directions.
@ThatBrazilianGuy until that bus blinks out of reality
 
@JourneymanGeek Rather convoluted way of transportation. Only way of getting in or out. Hm... Suspicious. Highly suspicious.
Do you still don't know who you're working for?
 
oh I do now
 
... sort of
 
If nothing makes sense, everything is postponed and there's so much red tape you could supply a tape factory... it might be the government.
 
2:17 PM
Sounds about right
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy a friend of mine at college....
well, we'd get him to light a ciggy
because every time he did
the bus turned up ;D
 
Oh I once bought an umbrella.
 
it stopped raining?
 
Put it on my backpack and forgot about it.
It stayed on my backpack for months.
Literally months. Not a raindrop.
The very day I took it out of my backpack... A storm.
@djsmiley2k Oh and don't get me started on missing buses.
There's this bus I take to go home from work.
It seems to know the exact moment I'm arriving at the bus stop.
 
HAMMERTIME!
 
2:30 PM
No matter which time I leave work, no matter how long I take to walk from work to the bus stop...
The bus is always leaving when I'm crossing the street. Every time.
 
@djsmiley2k but you can't smoke inside a bus?
 
@RogUE Are there places where you can? Eeeeew.
 
2:53 PM
yay
 
Bob
3:09 PM
hi
 
Ave
hey
 
o/
 
@djsmiley2k Turned out it was my privacy settings
 
Bob
@allquixotic you're up early :P
 
@djsmiley2k I had the opportunity once to set them on the original console, sold that to GameStop, in favor of the Pro. Flipped the settings on the PS Application on my phone and I was immediately able to login.
 
3:31 PM
Looks like on mobile something was changed my reputation isn’t being displayed
(On any SE website) anyone confirm?
 
Bob
@Ramhound WFM
 
!!caat
 
@Ramhound oddly I found this morning that the playstation site had changed so that my login didn't work until I allowed a load of new scripts that never used to run :<
 
3:44 PM
> We are showing this as completed. Can you check the output of:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Regards
Barry
> Hello,

According to /proc/cpuinfo, this upgrade has NOT yet been performed on my system. Please see below.

root@asdfcode:~# date
Sat Apr 21 15:40:57 UTC 2018
root@asdfcode:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz
ffs
 
WFM?
iphone Safari
@djsmiley2k I considered the PSN to be broken if a privacy settings prevent you from logging in, proper user flow and error catching, would have allowed me to chnage the Settings.
the thing was I could see it “log into the account” but logout was immediately
** immediate
 
Bob
4:00 PM
@Ramhound works for me
or WOMM If you prefer
granted, this is firefox on android which is mostly sane
a term I would not use to describe safari
<== ran into yet another safari rendering quirk last week
@allquixotic o.O
maybe they upgraded the wrong machine? :P
I'm shocked they'd actually be swapping CPUs, actually
would make more sense to move the drives
...or just give you a new one
 
@allquixotic Golly gosh that's an ancient CPU
 
PLZUPVOTEKBAITHX Ooops, I mean, if you guys could take a few seconds to upvote this question on wp.se I'd be immensely grateful, it's driving me crazy:
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Q: wp_remote_post doesn't work with more than 1024 bytes in the body

That Brazilian GuyWhat I need I'm working with a third-party API (for the intents of this question, it's irrelevant which one) and need to send a POST request to an external service. I'm trying to use wp_remote_post to achieve what I need, but there seems to be a limit to the amount of data it can send in its re...

 
@Bob They say they're swapping just the CPU, but what I think they actually do is move the drives into a new chassis, because the chassis, motherboard and RAM they have on there are for Core2, and they're upgrading me to Westmere
DDR2 -> DDR3, incompatible mobo (and socket?)
@FMLCat trying to get them to upgrade me to dual L5630s, which is about a year and a half to two years less golly gosh ancient
 
@allquixotic Yeah still ancient
 
@allquixotic Who's "them"?
 
4:05 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy my hosting provider, Delimiter
 
I mean my box runs on Sandy Bridge E, and that's ancient
 
@FMLCat at least it has EPT, which the E5420 doesn't
Core2 to Nehalem was a very major arch jump
if I'm gonna have a budget crap server with crap CPUs, might as well jump one of Intel's most significant historical tocks
 
Why do you need a budget crap server with crap CPUs? Thought you had a decent server somewhere that did everything
 
@FMLCat I have an Ivy Bridge server with an E5-1620v2 (I think) but I needed another for reasons
 
Bob
@FMLCat he wants a crap server that does less things? :P
 
4:08 PM
my good server is hosted on OVH
 
"Reasons"
 
Bob
@FMLCat well, that's more reason than I have for a number of my servers :P
 
I should probably downgrade mine. My average CPU usage over the past year has been like... 15%
 
Bob
CPU is easy
it's RAM that's limited ... and expensive :\
 
I gots 64GB of that, mostly about 40GB used
But that's with being hilariously inefficient
 
Bob
4:12 PM
yea, but usually a CPU downgrade means hopping down a tier to servers with less RAM, no?
 
This is an ancient Hetzer "serverbidding" box
 
Bob
oh
 
aka heavily customized "used" servers at dutch auction
Hmm, identical configuration of mine is currently only 4 euros per month cheaper than when I got mine 2-3 years ago
 
Bob
hmmm
Asus. Gigabyte. MSI. ASRock. ...
 
@FMLCat Cancel and subscribe and save EUR 48 per year
 
Bob
4:18 PM
Any major mobo manufacturer that's not Taiwanese? o.O
 
@ThatBrazilianGuy Yeah and pay an extra 60 euros for the month or so of overlap it'd take my lazy ass to migrate it
@Bob ... Dell? :-P
I'd save 20 euro a month by dropping from 64 to 32GB RAM
 
Bob
@FMLCat Well... unless Dell has started selling mobos by themselves...
Hm. Looks like EVGA does motherboards.
 
@Bob You forgot Biostar
But you're right, I'd never realised just about every motherboard manufacturer is Taiwanese
The only ones Scan.co.uk sell that aren't Taiwanese are NZXT and EVGA
 
Bob
@FMLCat never heard of them :S
 
@Bob Well I have!
Used to have an Iwill motherboard, which was Taiwanese too I believe, they don't exist no more
Anyone here play Civ VI?
CIVVI haha
 
Bob
4:44 PM
@FMLCat maybe @allquixotic?
 
@FMLCat I do
 
@allquixotic Is it worth the upgrade over Civ V?
 
@Bob Apple? :P (theirs would be Chinese because Foxconn)
@FMLCat if you're asking if I think it's a better game than Civ V, then yes, yes I do
 
user226528
Hola, Amigos! :) What's new?
 
5:19 PM
Nope
I played the heck out of civ 1. 2 was less fun. Treid 3 and 4 a few times
I got very annoyed at the computer player for being dump and cheating to compensate, so I stopped playing
@Bob Yes. Facebook
I think both google and facebook looked at their own server design and at least one of them actually builds their own motherboards
 
@allquixotic That'll do, lets see if I can get it cheap
Yeah we're in the middle of another record heatwave with the most sun we've had all year and I'm just buying more computer games
 
You got to collect them all?
 
wish i had money
 
Even bible, the game?
 
F*$%.
I somehow managed to git remote set-url origin git@bitbucket.org: totally-wrong-repo.git
 
5:34 PM
o_O
 
Then proceeded to git fetch--all
 
ouch
 
"You are 78 commits behind and 77 commits ahead"
git pull
Oh, what's it, some conflicts? Let's solve them! \o/
Waaaaaaitaminute something seems slightly off
Nothing that setting the correct origin URL and a git reset --harddidn't solve.
That and the habit of always comitting and pushing my code no matter how small the changes
 
...still no idea how the repo URL got changed (to a different project I'm doing at work).
 
5:44 PM
/me watching something about the electrical infrastructure in rio
;0p-#
 
@djsmiley2k Oh, you mean those?
 
lol
 
^--- this one even has the electric outlet in the shower, so handy!
Now you can take a shower, charge your cellphone and die at the same time!
5
 
 
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8:57 PM
lol
> 2 seconds later...
rofl
I've had a long day.
 
 
2 hours later…
10:37 PM
!!/tumbleweed
 

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