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Journeyman Geek

00:00

that's nice. The picture of the office building IS A CONSTRUCTION SITE

0_0

bwDraco

@Boris_yo B+W Käsemann polarizer filters are supposed to be the best out there. I wouldn't skimp on filters.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Uhm. This sounds like the kind of thing you're meant to research the day before :P

Get directions in two separate steps?

I usually use Here Maps on my phone.

bwDraco

I'd actually give it a trial run before the interview, get a sense of how the trip goes.

That's what I did last time I went through this.

Journeyman Geek

yup

bwDraco

Google Maps is usually accurate but it's not infallible. With the New York City Transit system, it's usually not an issue, but YMMV.

Journeyman Geek

00:11

@Bob I did, and I did, and the route via the nearer station is half an hour sooner

Bob

@bwDraco Eh. <estimated_time> * 1.1 + 15mins

And/or the train/bus one or two before

bwDraco

@Bob I generally give a 30-minute buffer for interviews and a 15-20 minute buffer for normal work days.

Journeyman Geek

One hour 6 min + 20 minutes for walking estimated

Looks like a 5 minute walk to me

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Maybe a really weird path

bwDraco

I'm actually more likely to trust the MTA Trip Planner (for NYC) if I'm going someplace unfamiliar.

Bob

00:14

Where do you think Google gets timetable data from?

bwDraco

@Bob I know but I've used both.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob no streetview for that area either

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ow

bwDraco

Ouch.

Bob

sounds a tad dodgy...

Journeyman Geek

00:17

ooh, no NOW it works

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek: You should be able to download bus and rapid transit (MRT) maps to your phone.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob naw, sounds about the right area for that kinda company

bwDraco

Here in NYC, we have PDFs of all the maps and timetables on mta.info.

Bob

that was popular about a decade ago

now we get fancy stuff

bwDraco

We have what's called MTA Bus Time. There's an API that apps can use to access this information.

Me? I just text the bus stop code and I get time estimates for the next bus.

Bob

00:24

that was also popular about half a decade ago

bwDraco

I still have a physical copy of the local bus map in my everyday camera bag just in case...

(My camera bag is my everyday bag.)

Journeyman Geek

The last local bus guide we bought was a quarter inch thick. There's a local transit app but it has a terribad ui

bwDraco

00:55

lol @ "terribad"

Journeyman Geek

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=Terribad+&room=118 co

This is used here a Lot XD

Rahul2001

Mornin'

bwDraco

!!/help s

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco Command s does not exist.

bwDraco

Hmm.

Does Cavil support multiple substitutions in the same command?

Ben N

01:11

Are you looking for /g?

bwDraco

No. Two different patterns, two different replacements.

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill where do you live?

bwDraco

Semicolon does not work.

@allquixotic, @Bob: Substitutions do not work for messages inside the Bot Overflow room.

Ben N

I think they're broken everywhere at the moment

bwDraco

A piano has 88 keys. Each one is different. But what if they were all the same? Be together. #NotTheSame https://youtu.be/xLhJIFC8xkY

Tweeted by Android on February 16, 2016 at 2:00 AM in reply to Android

> A piano has 88 keys. Each one is different. But what if they were all the same? Be together. #NotTheSame

!! s/[a-z0-9]/c/g

ChatBot John Cavil

01:18

@bwDraco A ccccc ccc cc cccc. Eccc ccc cc ccccccccc. Bcc cccc cc cccc cccc ccc ccc cccc? Bc cccccccc. #NccTccSccc (source)

bwDraco

!! s/[A-Z]/C/g

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco @bwCraco C ccccc ccc cc cccc. Cccc ccc cc ccccccccc. Ccc cccc cc cccc cccc ccc ccc cccc? Cc cccccccc. #CccCccCccc (source) (source)

bwDraco

Uh-oh. It's mangling the username.

C ccccc ccc cc cccc. Cccc ccc cc ccccccccc. Ccc cccc cc cccc cccc ccc ccc cccc? Cc cccccccc. #CccCccCccc

Tweeted by Android on February 16, 2016 at 1:00 AM

bwDraco

!! s/[a-z0-9]/c/g 31402146

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco A ccccc ccc cc cccc. Eccc ccc cc ccccccccc. Bcc cccc cc cccc cccc ccc ccc cccc? Bc cccccccc. #NccTccSccc (source)

bwDraco

01:20

A ccccc ccc cc cccc. Eccc ccc cc ccccccccc. Bcc cccc cc cccc cccc ccc ccc cccc? Bc cccccccc. #NccTccSccc

!! s/[A-Z]/C/g

ChatBot John Cavil

@bwDraco C ccccc ccc cc cccc. Cccc ccc cc ccccccccc. Ccc cccc cc cccc cccc ccc ccc cccc? Cc cccccccc. #CccCccCccc (source)

2

bwDraco

...and there you have it.

Ben N

C ccc. Cccccc ccc ccccccc.

(I see. Thanks for testing.)

bwDraco

Android: Monotune

►

Journeyman Geek

Oo

bwDraco

01:23

I just wish this could be done with one command.

Ben N

Pull request time?

bwDraco

That was fun.

Bob

The parser for s is a pretty dumb thing. It's not calling out to sed or anything.

Bob

01:47

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

bwDraco

Trick to click isn't allowed but absurdly high CTR means pulling the ads really hurts :\

Journeyman Geek

Eh. There for the job interview thing. This whole place feels like the old country o0

Looks like there's a bunch of outsourcing firms here. Quite a lot of other non start up ish tech firms. Surprising amount of new construction

Also feels like they have the same interior designer as rivercorp.

Bob

02:08

uhhhhhhh

Journeyman Geek

Lol

bwDraco

Should I consider relocating for a new job (at parents' expense)?

I have very little in the way of savings and will likely end up homeless if this fails.

(My parents likely will only cover the expenses for one way. If I must return because of a negative job outcome, I will probably be on my own, and I cannot expect to have sufficient funds to return home.)

Journeyman Geek

Cart before the horse. Apply for things. Get information. Then decide.

bwDraco

There are too few jobs for entry-level folks like me.

That's why I'm evaluating more options.

Journeyman Geek

That's why networking helps.

bwDraco

02:21

I'll see. I'm mainly a lone wolf which hurts me a lot.

I'll take the risk anyway if there is no other choice.

...okay. Any ideas on how to prepare for homelessness? (This isn't a joke!)

Bob

02:39

Step back, take a breather, and don't go down that path.

@JourneymanGeek Turns out 5 year old Opterons are slow :P

bwDraco

I anticipate being forced onto the streets as a consequence of the job search and worsening relations between me and my parents.

oldmud0

Holy cow I almost KILLED!!! the windows 2003 server trying to turn ipv6 on.

Dude why would you not get a job

You have talent, being here shows that

bwDraco

Has anyone here ever been homeless for any period of time?

oldmud0

I need to jury rig SATA support to this server, the hard drive capacities are too low.

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek: Is an image with rapidly-flashing content that is likely to cause seizures in some people flaggable?

See here for an example (caution: rapidly flashing red and green)

oldmud0

03:03

I think the whole seizure warning thing is overblown. I have never heard a report from someone who claimed they got a seizure from looking at a GIF.

Yes, it could happen, but like they say in pamphlets, to a very small percentage of people.

bwDraco

3

Q: What are USB device resets?

I have this brand-new software RAID-1 built with two WD Elements external USB drives, and I can see that Linux repeats the following message quite a bit: ... [302148.036912] usb 1-3.1: reset high-speed USB device number 19 using ehci_hcd [302153.052029] usb 1-3.3: reset high-speed USB device num...

linux

Started a bounty on a whim

> I know it is generally uncouth to drag up an old thread, however, I would really like to know the answer to this question. It was never answered, and yet it comes up fairly high in Google results relating to USB resets. If it will not be answered, can it be taken down?

Anonymous folk posts an "answer" wanting attention? BOUNTY

Journeyman Geek

03:25

@bwDraco that should be a question for a mod there.

bwDraco

It's getting late here.

Journeyman Geek

I wouldn't link something a room owner said here as a example of what to or not to do elsewhere.

@Bob lol. 5year old anything is.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Hey, my desktop has a 5-year-old Sandy Bridge and it's plenty fast.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

oh dammit

I was wondering why that remote desktop gateway wasn't working

turns out I assigned the DNS label on the wrong instance

Rahul2001

03:43

Kali Linux is sooooo cool

Bob

...

!!trout Rahul2001

ChatBot John Cavil

slaps Rahul2001 around a bit with a large trout!

Rahul2001

;P

Bob

oh yea, link @Rahul2001?

Rahul2001

hackatrix16.pyrotech.club

Protip: Use FF

Bob

03:46

ok, copied it down this time :P

will take a quick look after lunch

also TIL Server 2012 R2's minimum RAM requirement is 512 MB

...

> Processor performance depends not only on the clock frequency of the processor, but also on the number of processor cores and the size of the processor cache. The following are the processor requirements for this product:

Minimum: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor

@allquixotic would love that.

They've completely ignored processor architecture.

"1.4 GHz 64-bit processor" would match just about any CPU from 2005 onwards...

Journeyman Geek

04:48

Yup. Hired for 2 months.

Yay. No idea what the scope of work is, but nice job title and pay.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Nice.

Journeyman Geek

And. Scope of work is..... Unusual. Found out what I am doing.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Is it something you can safely share? :P with Google/the world as far as this room goes, anyway

>

A sub-region is the lowest level geo-location that you may select to deploy your applications and associated data. For data transfers (except CDN), the following regions correspond to Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3.

Zone 1: US West, US West 2, US West Central, US East, US North Central, US South Central, US East 2, US Central, Europe West, Europe North, Canada East, Canada Central
Zone 2: Asia Pacific East, Asia Pacific Southeast, Japan East, Japan West, Australia East, Australia Southeast
Zone 3: Brazil South

@ThatBrazilianGuy ^ why? o.O

Journeyman Geek

Not really sure. I now know more than anyone I talked to at Clipart Corp.

And they essentially just recruit manpower it seems.

Bob

o.O

@JourneymanGeek That's... an interesting business model :P

Journeyman Geek

05:03

Yup. Which is very old country.

Also if you think about it, people as a service

And since everyone is on contract you can scale quickly

Bob

@Rahul2001 Your challenge. It is broken. Again.

You need to fix your redirects.

If initial login URL ends with a /, e.g. /login.php/, then your first redirect goes to /login.php/blah.php which breaks

your current POST is to blah.php which just replaces the part after the last / in the current URL

if you change it to POST to /blah.php at least it'd go to example.com/blah.php (i.e. from the root)

alternatively, have your scripts redirect to the correct page if there's a trailing slash

alternatively, those should be 404 and you should also fix your intro page

uhhhhhhh

I thought you removed that :P

so... was there supposed to be a step after the impromptu quiz with dodgy answer recognition?

Journeyman Geek

05:36

Man. Swiftkey autocucumbers a lot.

It made awww awkward.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek :(

Are you tapping or swiping?

I turned off autocorrect on tapping.

Journeyman Geek

Tapping

Bob

Ah.

Yea it's really focused towards swiping.

Journeyman Geek

Error. SwiftKey not swipe

.....

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

yay! kies is finally working ._.

i had to use kies via wifi before -_-

Bob

05:45

@JourneymanGeek ? o.O

Journeyman Geek

Going back to the Google keyboard

It corrected err to error.

Google lets me slide to type too and feels more accurate to me

Bob

now I'm confused

you're only comparing SwiftKey to Google Keyboard?

cause I'm using Swype which has nothing to do with those two :P

Journeyman Geek

Yup. Cause this phone came with Swiftkey pre installed

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

06:03

I have the classic dreaded samsung keyboard -_-

Burgi

07:40

morning

Journeyman Geek

08:02

Woof.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek cbd daiso definitely restocked... All the other pen racks were full

But not the fp :/

It's probably gone forever :(

Journeyman Geek

Aww

DavidPostill

08:45

@Rahul2001 Read my profile?

Rahul2001

08:56

@Bob I'm new to PHP... this is confusing :/

Bob

@Rahul2001 You should rather look up absolute and relative URLs

This part isn't really php

Except the weird trailing slash getting accepted

Psycogeek

I got another cragslist scammer, same lame ass scam as the last one. very unaware criminal besides as they text me for a local product at 2AM . well i am awake and will be , but that would be very poor form, i can pretty much know they are not even in this country let alone local. Now i am thinking it is time to Play with the fool instead of just telling them to f---off.

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek Enjoy :)

Psycogeek

it is the money order scam, send $40 over, to reserve it. what can we play?

I assume they send a faux money order, the fool (me) puts it into the bank as deposit, and the stupid bank (them) starts processing it without realising it is just paper.

then the scammer asks for (real) money back.

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek Something like that is usually what they try.

Psycogeek

09:10

tell them they could send a non-refundable deposit?
say all the money up-front now ?
give them my address (thats dumb) but dont promise anything?

Hmm, what if i tell him that i am a prince , and if he sends me $1500 i will send him my old bently :-)

There must be some way to get real money from them, something really devious.

I have to verify your identity, and your willingness to pay, to do that, you need to send me $1 paypal, which i will return to you as soon as it clears. this will verify the communications network, and address and money exchange capability. then you can send me the money order.

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek This might give you some ideas 419eater.com :)

Psycogeek

hmm give the local police as the address, and the chief as the name :-)

Nzall

09:26

Weird. There is no question yet about why SSD sectors have a limited number of writes. I thought given the age of this board, at least one person would have wondered that already

I'm asking one right now for those curious

or would that question be off-topic?

Rahul2001

@Nzall on-topic, I think

Bob

5

Q: How does memory wear out?

I know that after time due to writing/re-writing memory wears out, and I was reading about a microcontroller from TI which uses "wear leveling" to insure the longest life of some EEPROM that the chip used. I can infer that this will try to write to all of the bits on the chip in some sort of cy...

memory eeprom lifetime

23

Q: Why does flash memory have a lifespan?

I've read that flash memories can "only" be reprogrammed 100000 to 1000000 times, until the memory storage "deteriorates" Why exactly does this happen with flash and not other memory types, and what does "deteriorate" refer to, internally? EDIT: Since it's not only flash that this happens, I'd ...

memory flash

Nzall

@Bob ah, okay

I already asked the question. I've deleted it

@Bob actually, those questions are on Electrical Engineering, not on Super User.

so it's still worth asking on here, I think

Bob

Yea I don't think we have one specifically on su

Nzall

even though the question is already answered on other domains

Bob

09:38

But I'm also not sure if it's all that relevant a question

Nzall

@Bob let's just let the community decide

Bob

There's a reason it's been asked more on ee :P

Nzall

0

Q: Why do SSD sectors have a limited amount of writes?

I often see people mention that SSDs have a limited amount of writes in their sectors before they go bad. I'm curious as to why that is. I'm looking for a technical yet consumer-oriented explanation, i.e. the exact component that fails and why frequent writes affect the quality of that component...

ssd hardware-failure

Hennes

Why does flash have a lifespan? Probably not?
Why can I not write infinite information to my SSD or USB flashdrive? And how do I mitigate that: possibly

Bob

@Nzall you're better off first identifying why the ee answers aren't good enough

Are they really that complex?

And if they're "dumbed down", will they still meaningfully answer the question?

Maybe?

*shrug*

Nzall

09:42

@Bob I understand them, but I'm not sure whether a question on another exchange is a reason to say "you can't ask that here".

Hennes

Su seems to be a bit devided on that/

Personally, I would like a good answer here on Su, assuming it is on-topic.

Bob

@Nzall it depends. In this case I'd say the question is rather borderline

Hennes

Even if that means poking theother user and asking her to cut-paste-edit her/his answer from another side to this site

Bob

I wouldn't vtc, but others might

Hennes

nods. Why is this. it a bad question on su

How do I deal with this? is not a bad question

Which might require understanding as to why it is.

Bob

09:45

@Hennes I don't entirely agree there either :P

Psycogeek

@Hennes me too, All your Computer questions Belong to Us. but if it is already answered (and it is quite sufficiently) on SE, then it still is a "Dupe"

Bob

Some "why" questions are great

Nzall

@Bob Let's just see what the community thinks about it. I created the question, if it gets closed, so be it

Bob

But it does depend on the amount of depth the answers require

Nzall

@Bob I see. I'll see if I can edit the question to clarify what I mean

Bob

09:47

@Nzall oh, I think it looks fine from here, but we'll see, as you say

Burgi

@Nzall superuser.com/questions/31324/…

Bob

@Nzall actually, I think a higher level question asking about SSD failure modes might be better than asking about the wearout mechanism specifically, but of course if wear is what you're looking for then that might not be good enough

Nzall

@Burgi that's a different question that I'm looking for

Bob

(e.g. Lots of ssds die to controller failure - wear is often a red herring)

Burgi

its incredibly similar

7

Q: What happens when a flash drive wears out?

Flash memory has a limited number of read/write cycles, after which it fails. What happens when it fails? Is it like a hard drive, where a failed write is silently moved to another part of the disk and that sector marked as bad and never used again, without data loss? Are there a limited numbe...

hard-drive usb usb-flash-drive

Nzall

09:51

@Burgi but it doesn't say WHAT causes the wear from what I can tell. the EE questions do explain that though

@Burgi That only explains what happens when they wear out, not how the wearing out works

Burgi

15

A: Will reading data cause SSD's to wear out?

Doesn't affect the device. The limited write lifetime of Flash is a natural consequence of how they work. Data on Flash drives is safe because the bits are stored by electrons locked in a very well isolated layer. These electrons, if present, produce an electric field that can be picked up by a ...

Nzall

@Burgi Turns out that when you search for "SSD limited writes", you won't get any questions about reading data.

Bob

@Nzall because that kind of answer stretches a bit beyond the scope of su. Which is why I said borderline earlier. It's an interesting enough question, but not strictly on-topic. Not definitely off either, so it might still make it through.

Nzall

but to me, it looks like the community doesn't find the question a problem. 2 upvotes so far and 2 answers

Bob

Probably most of our HNQs are in this "borderline but interesting" category

Hennes

09:54

@Bob Yup. Def. interesting.

Nzall

@Bob And why exactly are "why does X happen" questions on the border?

Bob

Heck, I've probably answered a few myself and I'd probably try here if I were at a computer

Hennes

The site is about practical answers.
Theoretical questions do not match that

But how do I do this to avoid something else is practical

Bob

@Nzall imo it's more that this ventures beyond computing into ee

Borderline isn't necessarily bad, just depends who sees it. I've already said I'm on the side of keeping most of these :P

@Hennes heh, I've said in the past that I rather like some of the theoretical questions

Hennes

E.g.
Q: flash has limited writes? How do I avoid this
A: The writes are limited per flash cell -because of $reason-, so use wear leveling. Several filesystem are desgined with this in mind, e.g. FS-1, FS2, FFS-3, ... Do not use FAT since that always writes to the same block for its DIR info. On SSDs this is already mitigated by the controller which does $some_more_explanation

Bob

09:57

Practical devolves into troubleshooting all too often

Theoretical is sometimes a problem because it can be too broad, requiring lengthy explanations of basic concepts just to get to the answer. But sometimes that's very well done

Burgi

@Nzall this was my query: superuser.com/search?q=flash+drive+limited+writes

Burgi

10:18

lol! i just found out that we are meant to provide 2 hour 24/7 SLA on one of our clients

Hennes

I guess that means some tech being on call, and the relevant account manager to be on call?

DavidPostill

@Burgi lol. You should only offer that after you fix all the hacked websites...

Journeyman Geek

10:37

0_0

Burgi

@DavidPostill i'm not paid enough to provide that kind of service

i also do not have a company mobile or laptop

G. Kner

someone using miui7? i am experiencing random reboots on my mi4 lte and try to figure out why

cat

10:53

!!caat

ChatBot John Cavil

cat

I wonder how many days left I have of being a cat

ArtOfCode

..?

cat

@JourneymanGeek Nobody asked me nicely to do anything

@ArtOfCode Last time I tried changing my name from "Cat" it wouldn't let me. Apparently I must remain a cat for 30 days before changing to another animal.

I think it was some time in early August but I can't remember the date.

ArtOfCode

@cat change it on a different site and propagate it to the rest of the network

cat

10:56

@Bob Y'know I've found the Samsung stock keyboard in Lollipop+ is no longer completely shit

Burgi

nooooo

cat

@ArtOfCode o_0 I did not know you could do that...

Burgi

@ArtOfCode don't give her loopholes!

cat

How have I never known that.

Journeyman Geek

cause you're a cat?

Bob

10:57

@cat heh, too much trouble to switch at this point

cat

@Bob I'm only using it because I had to reflash my phone many times and it just reverted to the stock one. But it was sufficiently not shit that I haven't actually bothered switching to my usual again.

In fact I quite like the skin on the stock one better than any of the Swiftkey skins... the small island keys seem to actually improve my accuracy quite a lot :-/

That Brazilian Guy

Good morning humans!

cat

@ThatBrazilianGuy I'm a cat

That Brazilian Guy

and felines.

cat

> Display name may only be changed once every 30 days; you may change again in 7 days

Wow, I've only been a cat 3 weeks? It feels like forever.

That Brazilian Guy

10:59

And vulpines. And dogs. And dinos. And shoes.

cat

> Display name may only be changed once every 30 days; you may change again on Aug 13 at 21:40

Dangit, workaround doesn't work

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