Root Access

Bob

15:00

@allquixotic I suppose if you could find a local store to try them out at...

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: I've mentioned my current 'dream' setup no?

allquixotic

plug in BT cans, they're too loud, turn down volume; get in car, it's too soft, crank volume to max; come home, listen to ballgame out of speaker, crank volume to max...

@JourneymanGeek No. :P

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: jdslabs.com/products/48/o2-odac-combo

allquixotic

actually, aside from leaking a ton of sound because of their sheer size, and facing the prospect of being named "Headphones" by people in the office, one of the best possible setups for audio quality (no BT dropouts, yay!) would be to buy another $300 Steelseries H Wireless for work. :P

Journeyman Geek

Its a bit of a hipster piece of kit tho

allquixotic

15:02

I've never felt that I need an amp....

music is loud enough as it is

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: and amp isn't just for loudness

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek if you're going to attenuate it or not use the full loudness, then what's the point of an amp?

amping and then attenuating actually reduces quality anyway

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: basically the driver stage of most sound cards suck

and that's not just an amp

its a sound card + amp

Bob

I take more issue with the Beats stage of mine, forget the driver -_-

allquixotic

@Bob the "Beats stage" of your sound card would be like having a "stutter" element in gstreamer and purposefully inserting it into a video pipeline: gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=... ! decodebin2 ! stutter ! autovideosink

Ruining things is good!

too bad you can't passthrough your raw sound hardware to Linux; I'm sure that if the Beats stage is in software, you could get around it by running Linux.

or you could run your host OS as a thin Linux desktop with pulseaudio and run VMware on top for Windows... though that would kill graphics driver perf... unless you could find a way to make the Linux headless and PCIe passthrough your GPU to Windows

Journeyman Geek

15:07

lol

allquixotic

heya ~~Spock~~ hinkle

nhinkle

morning, @allquixotic

allquixotic

@Bob I think I'll just add the Sennheiser MM 450-X to my "3-month wishlist" (I'm going to start adopting that policy like @JourneymanGeek) -- I have to want them for 3 months before I buy them

Bob

@allquixotic Well, I'm going to be 'replacing' the entire sound stack from hardware to drivers soon-ish.

allquixotic

@Bob How?

Journeyman Geek

15:10

;p

allquixotic

SP4? :P

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: it works pretty well

Bob

Aug 31 at 13:21, by Bob

@JourneymanGeek probably going with the fort then, thanks

allquixotic

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ... o wait it isn't out yet D:

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: SUPER tiny sound card ;p

allquixotic

15:11

@JourneymanGeek mini-pciE?

or cardbus?

Bob

O_O the fort completely dropped off the face of ebay

allquixotic

D:

Bob

ebay.com.au/itm/151330916968

oh there

Journeyman Geek

allquixotic

ahh (nostarsplz)

Bob

15:13

> 0 results found for SMSL fort,so we searched for s sl for t.

PoS didn't search international sites properly

allquixotic

> 0 results found for eby stpd, so we searched for ebay stupid.

Yo dawg, we herd u like SMSL forts, so we put an s sl for t in yo search box so yo can search while yo search

^ fail yo dawg, sorry

Journeyman Geek

woof?

allquixotic

rofl

sorry, that's the yo dawg meme, not talking to you, puppy :P

Bob

> Cons: Incompatible with USB 3.0

O_O

allquixotic

it has nothing to do with dogs :P

Journeyman Geek

15:15

0_0

I've not ever seen any USB 3.0 audio gear

allquixotic

@Bob it must take some real effort to build a device that's not backwards-compatible with a bus that's backwards-compatible

Bob

> The DAC does not function with USB 3.0 ports.

Journeyman Geek

(cause you don't need the bandwidth. Some folk swear by firewire)

Bob

how... wha?

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

15:16

head-fi.org/products/…

Journeyman Geek

That dosen't sound right.

allquixotic

that's ridiculous

Bob

I'm putting this down to user error.

allquixotic

maybe there are certain early-gen USB 3.0 controllers which are buggy that happen not to work

Journeyman Geek

I'd take a lot of the stuff you read on head fi with a large helping of salt

allquixotic

15:17

but the protocols are supposed to be compatible -_-

Bob

I've actually had USB 3.0 devices not work on some USB 2.0 ports because the port would short some contacts in the plug.

But the contacts on the port are recessed, so this shouldn't happen the other way around...

allquixotic

rats, I think I took my 3.5mm cable home! -_-

I did! D:

got so fucking tired of the constant dropouts

Journeyman Geek

lol

@allquixotic: Have spares!

allquixotic

I was like... *rip headphones off* OK WHERE THE HELL IS MY CABLE.

Bob

amazon.com/SMSL-Fortress-Computer-Headphone-Amplifier/…

> The noise plus distortion came in at 0.25% at 1khz.(at 500mv output) That seemed to be a reasonable figure for what it is. Should be below what
can be heard. A frequency sweep showed a very flat response down to the bottom octave. At 20hz it had drop of about 0.75 db.
A little weak in the lowest octave but hardly enough to notice.

Journeyman Geek

15:20

lol

allquixotic

I'll probably buy some little dongle that connects to the 3.5mm port on my phone and does bluetooth to my headphones, that way I can have my cake and give Samsung the finger too

Journeyman Geek

....

actually, I should have tacked on a 3.5mm cable to my most recent dx order

allquixotic

either that or another pair of H Wirelesses

Journeyman Geek

they have one I like, and I'd like a spare.

allquixotic

but I prefer smaller, more discreet sized headphones in the office

Bob

15:21

you might as well flash cyanogen at this rate

allquixotic

Knox + VZW lockdown + latest patched OTA + no bootloader unlock exploit exists = no Cyanogen

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

besides, I like having access to ~~ISIS Wallet~~ ~~Softcore~~ Softcard

Bob

@allquixotic I basically said fuck knox

allquixotic

I like ~~Knox~~ ~~SE for Android~~ NSA Backdoor for Android. It keeps me safe and secure. In a nice security blanket. Wrapped up tight. In chains. Chains of the tyrant. Tyrant chains that bind and restrict and prevent and monitor. "Ohhhh, so he likes pizza from that restaurant..."

Journeyman Geek

15:23

lol

Bob

> My connection to my car appears greatly improved with the 1/12/14 nightly on my att S4, fingers crossed it has been corrected.

allquixotic

> nightly

oh. CM. I was about to say, we don't get nightly OTAs here!

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: Any government handler who is trying to watch me is going to die of boredom.

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek Any government handler who is trying to watch me is going to realize I'm really JC Denton and activate my killswitch, but only after I'm on a plane to Hong Kong to meet Tracer Tong to have it deactivated after having a revelation and blowing up one of their agents in a confrontation aboard a private 747

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

15:26

no, I have no fantasies about living my life like the game Deus Ex

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

or maybe I'm JC Denton in the alternate timeline that was never coded into the game but was entirely possible, where Denton shoots Lebedev, then tells Anna Navarre that he just saw Paul and Paul is sided with the NSF and tells her to lock down the facility, then they catch and kill Paul and JC becomes the bad guy

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

the guys who did The Nameless Mod really should've done that timeline instead, would've been awesome

but as it stands, you weren't given a choice; you had to rebel against UNATCO

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: would have made the rest of the story more complicated tho

what would you do in paris, for example

allquixotic

15:29

@JourneymanGeek find and kill Nicolette DuClare?

Journeyman Geek

ahh true

allquixotic

or maybe instead of killing Paul right there at LaGuardia, you'd confront him, but he'd escape by the skin of his teeth

possibly killing Anna Navarre in the process (since nobody likes her anyway)

then you'd be chasing Paul the whole game

and while chasing Paul you'd have to kill people like Nicolette DuClare and Jaime Reyes and Tracer Tong

Journeyman Geek

ahh, and he kills Gunter Herrman with nanobots in his orange soda.

allquixotic

lol. yeah. I mean even in the JC is Evil timeline I'd still want Gunther to die -- Paul would simply take over for JC, and instead of Tong curing JC of the Grey Death, Tong would cure Paul, and Paul would be your rival

you'd get to a point late in the game where you finally think you've got Paul cornered, but Gunther would get there before JC does, and right as he goes to shoot, Paul says "Laputin Machine"... BOOM... which makes you black out from the explosion nearly killing you

then you wake up to Paul and the remaining resistance and are forced to turn against UNATCO (finally) and face an uphill battle without half your friends there to help

yeah, they could totally remake Deus Ex much more grisly and dark (even though it was very dark to begin with) in a new engine, and man, it would be awesome

Human Revolution wasn't sufficient imho. it was a good game but not a proper remake or reboot.

not loyal enough to the source though

it was more of an "evil guy in the background, mwa ha ha ha ha!!!" story than a "the entire world is complicit in a conspiracy and there's nothing you can do about it because it's so extensive" story

the latter is more chilling / darker / more faithful to the original

hm. or instead of you eventually turning, you could simply succeed and completely eliminate all resistance to the MJ12 takeover of the world, but then turn on your masters, and kill Bob Page and take his immortality device thing and become what he was trying to become :P

Journeyman Geek

isn't that sorta what happens? ;p

HackToHell

15:40

mosh.mit.edu/#usage

allquixotic

no. either you shut down his fusion reactors, or you merge with Helios (which isn't what he was trying to do), or you blow up the whole damn place and plunge the world into the dark ages again

HackToHell

Goona switch from ssh to that ;p

Journeyman Geek

mosh is neat

and since there's a chrome addon, you're fairly OS independant

HackToHell

There's no windows native client :/

Journeyman Geek

yah

:/

@HackToHell: apparently mobaxterm does mosh

HackToHell

15:53

It looks dodgy o0 ;p

Journeyman Geek

lol

its a cool app. and not too cripped free-version wise

HackToHell

jackopen

16:08

Hi @JourneymanGeek

nhinkle

17:25

@HackToHell I've long hypothesized that cars will eventually converge on a perfectly round sphere design.

allquixotic

@nhinkle The Dig's tram!

(it's small in the background but it's coming through that tube)

Canadian Luke

17:59

clientsfromhell.net/post/96698429712/…

Boris_yo

18:12

@JourneymanGeek Your opinion about these?

allquixotic

@Bob my new favorite "cat-typing-esque" string that isn't actually cat typing is "QLssLLa32"

Windows::API.new('SetCurrentConsoleFontEx', 'LBP', 'B').call(Windows::Console::GetStdHandle(-11), false, [84, 5, 9, 14, 54, 700, 'Lucida Console'].pack('QLssLLa32'))

no, those aren't random numbers

they're magic numbers

Stack Exchange

18:41

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Q: Allow instant bounty award for "exemplary answers"

When setting a bounty on a question, I'm given several options. One of those options is "One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty". I chose that option, and there's a bounty button besides every answer. When I click the answer I want to award the bounty to, it te...

feature-request

allquixotic

19:09

@ThatPelicanGuy nice question

@ThatBrazilianGuy ^^

allquixotic

19:40

opensource.apple.com/source/JavaScriptCore/…

> // This file would be called String.h, but that conflicts with <string.h>
// on systems without case-sensitive file systems.

2

That Brazilian Guy

22:13

@allquixotic untrusted connection asks me to accept a certificate.

I'm only used to seeing it at sites hosted where I work, because f#$% certificates, who needs them, let's self-sign.

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy you work at Apple?!

Você trabalha na Apple ?!

or (even more hilariously/poorly translated):

Você trabalha na Maçã ?!

That Brazilian Guy

22:44

allquixotic

lol

That Brazilian Guy

Maçã? Que maçã, senhor?

(although those fruits aren't apples, they look like pears or something)

allquixotic

hehe

That Brazilian Guy

123ms, 0.23 MB/s ;_________________;

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy because US CEOs need the money you are not earning (or which is not being spent on better infrastructure) to buy more yachts than they already have

16-yacht owners are statistically found to be 4% less likely to obtain a new fling with a different 23 year old blonde PYT every weekend, compared to 17-yacht owners

That Brazilian Guy

22:56

@allquixotic It's more in the lines of "you have to pick the less shitty, except we're all shitty so you are screwed".

Oh no wait, those are our politicians.

Presidential elections this year :(

That Brazilian Guy

23:15

I'm sad. Someone offered me a position I'd love to accept but I had to turn it down. :(

allquixotic

:((((( wat

That Brazilian Guy

Last saturday I gave a talk on WordPress. The guys who usually do those talks are super busy organizing the Rio WordCamp so me and some other guys basically decided to do this month's talks on our own (with their approval and help), I stayed awake a few

nights to write my text and powerpoint slides and it was a (relative) success, about 16 people showed up on a saturday and stayed the whole day, it was cool and all, and I recognized one of the guys present there from a WordCamp in São Paulo last year

When I began my talk I said I worked at $myworkplace but in an area unrelated to what I love, WP and web. So he sends me an email saying there's a position where he works, to work exclusively with web and WP, asking for my resumé and portfolio (plugins I wrote, etc).

I had to politely turn it down because, in other words, I suck and have no technical knowledge about the things that I love.

allquixotic

um.

you should have accepted and been like YES I WILL LEARN ON THE JOB YES YES :D

especially if it was more $

don't ever respond to a job offer with

!!learn idk '<>https://i.sstatic.net/jhggb.jpg'

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Command idk already exists

allquixotic

!!idk

ChatBot John Cavil

23:26

@allquixotic i.sstatic.net/uk7Zg.jpg

allquixotic

!!forget idk

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Command idk forgotten.

allquixotic

!!learn idk '<>https://i.sstatic.net/jhggb.jpg'

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Command idk learned

allquixotic

!!learn bunny '<>https://i.sstatic.net/uk7Zg.jpg'

ChatBot John Cavil

23:27

@allquixotic Command bunny learned

That Brazilian Guy

Trainee / apprenticeship positions here ~~mean you either will perform menial tasks such as getting coffee, or be used as a cheap overworked employee~~ require that you're going to college except in really informal places. And, I don't like mentioning this, but I dropped out of college when I was 22 and never finished it.

(My wife signed me up for this year's upcoming exams without me knowing it)

allquixotic

instead of "pointing that", say "pointing this out" or "mentioning this"

I didn't "s" you in case you wanted to delete that

there are a lot of people who haven't finished college who are smart

exceptions can be made

cc @SmartymanGeek

if you gave a talk on something then you must know something about it - and if they want you to just use what you know, then there's really no reason why you should turn it down

worst case, they hire you and you're way in over your head and you're challenged and you have to step up to the plate -- this is rarely a bad thing unless you would need 8 years of training just to have a clue

I wouldn't take a job as a nuclear physicist, but I'd accept almost any job in application programming

even if I didn't know the programming language very well

you might be getting bitten by the backswing of the Dunning-Kruger effect. the front swing is people who are ignorant on a subject who think they are competent or knowledgable; the backswing is people who are experts but who think they know nothing and think that true experts know 100,000,000 times more than they do

That Brazilian Guy

I am trapped between a job that I don't particularly like and where I won't be learning or applying what I like, but (1) pays a sum that would require me much more knowledge to match outside the non-gvmt world, and (2) I'm almost "unfireable"; or a job where I'm probably earning much less (specially initially), might be eventually hired but even hired might be later fired, who knows; and maybe things end up fine and maybe they don't.

So I either pick dull + certain + some money or incertain + initial small ammount + maybe cool

allquixotic

well if it were a pay cut I wouldn't take it :P but I was under the assumption it would be a raise or at least a lateral and being something you like more

!!should @ThatBrazilianGuy pick dull and certain or fun and uncertain

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic @ThatBrazilianGuy should pick dull and certain

That Brazilian Guy

23:39

If it wasn't the money I'd be "to hell with it, I'm taking the chances". But I already owe the bank a little bit more than I'd like to.

allquixotic

:(

!!should I a or b

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic Both!

allquixotic

!!should I c or d

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic You should c

allquixotic

!!should I e or f

ChatBot John Cavil

23:40

@allquixotic f

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo Never heard of em

allquixotic

@SmarteymanGeek, @ThatBrazilianGuy isn't following his passions! Even @ChatBotJohnCavil thinks he shouldn't.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: dude. 2 week rule

If you know the basics, you can convince someone you're an expert in anything in 2 weeks ;p

I'd say consider it, and even if you don't, never say its due to a lack of knowledge

That Brazilian Guy

There's a considerable ammount of money I'm supposed to receive but ThatBrazilianGvmnt is taking more than 8 years to process the papers and I can't see the green of my money ;_____;

When / if I get it, I'd be so tempted to quit my job to pursue my passions

Journeyman Geek

I applied for a job on short notice, in the middle of the exams, supporting software I had never heard of.

@ThatBrazilianGuy: I made that mistake with google ;p

That Brazilian Guy

23:44

What mistake? Quitting your job? Didn't you work at your family business?

allquixotic

I LOVE Pry so much -- when something crashes in my app, the Pry console pops up automatically, and I can literally type wtf? and it'll give me the exception backtrace

then I can poke around, run expressions, change threads, etc

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic As tempting as it is to believe that, I know I know a little HTML, a teeny tiny speck of CSS, absolutely zero JS and near-zero jQuery, and I smash my head on the keyboard until PHP does (close to) what I want. And I can configure really simple web servers.

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy so what was the job? doing web development in HTML/CSS/JS?

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic "Literally", as in there's a wtf command?

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy Correct. Not only that, but wtf?

methods can contain ? and ! in Ruby

it's wonderfully poetic, because when something crashes, the first thing you think in your mind is "wtf?"

well, it tells you what. .... the fuck. (happened).

That Brazilian Guy

23:51

@allquixotic He mentioned "web dev" and "WordPress" and asked for "code samples, free software, plugins and the like" so I assumed HTML/CSS/JS + PHP (specially the WP functions, hooks and filters)

allquixotic

:/

so he was expecting you to have a github repo of plugins you wrote for WP?

That Brazilian Guy

So yeah, I'd be clueless. Not "get hired and get working" material, I'd need training

Yeah, looks like, at least a couple. Or W themes. Dunno. Sounds so.

I guess I better spend less time on SU and more time on SO and WP.SE

/me goes buying bulletproof vest

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: literally literally?

@ThatBrazilianGuy @ThatBrazilianGuy: the pay's horrible ;p

and my mom bitches anytime I buy anything

allquixotic

@JourneymanGeek "neh neh neh neh neh why do you need that stupid soundcard neh neh neh neh neh!"?

Journeyman Geek

and I'd rather be a small fish somewhere cool, than the underboss (I am beneath you, but nothing is beneath me!)

allquixotic

23:54

I get that even when I'm earning my own money completely independent from my mom

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: pretty much ;p

allquixotic

apparently buying anything that isn't food, gas, repair for the car, or stuff that helps around the house is "irresponsible"

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek stop replying to completely unrelated messages and confusing the hell out of me!!!

Journeyman Geek

;p

PRECISELY

allquixotic

apparently using the same computer for 15 years is supposed to be fine

Journeyman Geek

23:55

@allquixotic: "It still runs!"

(until it dosen't, and I'm bloody scrambling to fix all the things)

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy he doesn't "reply" to any messages when he's feeling lazy; he just pings your name

Journeyman Geek

s/feeling lazy/on the desktop client

allquixotic

...my original unsubstituted sentence stands

if you're on the desktop client you should be able to reply

not doing so is lazy

That Brazilian Guy

O_o

Journeyman Geek

;p

allquixotic

23:56

:P

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic: its easier not to be lazy on chatse ;p

That Brazilian Guy

When I hover a non-reply ping, SE chat highliths my last message as if it was a reply to it

allquixotic

!! s/chatse/chatsey/

ChatBot John Cavil

@allquixotic @allquixotic: its easier not to be lazy on chatsey ;p (source)

allquixotic

@ThatBrazilianGuy yep. you get used to it

it's @JourneymanGeek's specialty :P

Journeyman Geek

23:57

@ThatBrazilianGuy yeah, it does.

allquixotic

at this point I'm used to scrolling up (perhaps by pages) to figure out what he's replying to

That Brazilian Guy

But... I was angry at @JourneymanGeek for nothing!

Journeyman Geek

On chatsey its tap tap (click click?) type

That Brazilian Guy

@allquixotic I had a friend on high school who would do that in real life. She would reply to you hours or even a day or two later, out of the blue, as if commenting on anything you just said.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy: I do that on IRC ;p

allquixotic

23:58

the reply arrows are really cool, in general, because it allows multithreaded conversations to take place with basically no "recontextification" -- if we didn't have reply arrows, and we wanted to follow up an earlier thread, you would have to give enough information for them to know what subject you're on

Journeyman Geek

wait. there was an extension ...

allquixotic

JMG does neither :D

Bob seems never to write a message in chat ever without a reply arrow

and I do it about 50% of the time

@JourneymanGeek I swear that looks like a smile

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