Root Access

allquicatic

21:01

is it using FP64? you might benefit from a Tesla or a Radeon instead

electronbeam

I currently have no job

therefore no money to buy a different gpu

therefore, poop.

allquicatic

er...

oh, okay, I had been assuming (wrongly, I guess) that anyone doing something like that would be doing it in a professional context

electronbeam

I'm actually working on launching my new album, which, hopeeeeefully I can sell a few copies of

and THEN

I might be able to eat! \o/

allquicatic

but hey, look on the bright side; a Radeon has a significant FP64 boost over even a GTX 1080, and the RX480 isn't that expensive (nor is a R9 290X)

@electronbeam please don't starve meanwhile :|

electronbeam

Might be a bit late for that

allquicatic

21:04

also. all that waifu-scanning you been doing? NO! THEY'RE MINE! *steals them all*

electronbeam

It's really fun to get recruiters not call you back after you tell them you're a woman.

allquicatic

*scolds* Wait your turn! Higher chat-rep (# of chat lines submitted) gets priority! So, one for JMG or Bob first (can't recall who's got more chat lines), then the other, then me, then ... , then you ;p *poke*

@electronbeam ... :'(

electronbeam

My resume gets tons of calls since it just has my first initial, and then when they find out I'm a girl..... no more calls.

allquicatic

how is that even not discrimination?!

@electronbeam you're fairly certain that's the reason?

electronbeam

Conjecture, approximation 85%

allquicatic

21:06

....'cuz

it's around 50/50 genderness split where I work, and I happen to know that women are extremely employable and useful in tech

electronbeam

I'm extremely employable -_-

allquicatic

maybe I just work for one of the few employers that doesn't discriminate on gender?

electronbeam

eh

idk

:/

allquicatic

Damn. If you lived near here and/or had a INITIALS/I/CANT/USE/WITHOUT/TRIGGERING/TLAs mlearance, I'd be able to get you in, and get a $10k bonus for mahself

they are goin' crazy looking for people with IN/ITIALS

electronbeam

Pretty sure I don't have that one or the skills to work in your crazy thing

but if you wish, we can chat about it in private.

allquicatic

21:09

you know how to diagnose problems, right?

electronbeam

duh.

allquicatic

that's 99% of it - have enough grey matter to troubleshoot shit

electronbeam

6 years of service desk experience, I'd hope so

allquicatic

the rest comes from on the job learning

in fact, using your grey matter to diagnose shit makes you some kind of cult folk hero around the office

electronbeam

any options for telecommuting?

allquicatic

21:10

"OMG!!! This person used critical thinking and my software magically works!!!"

IN/ITI ALS makes Lim[telecommuting probability] ~ 0

more like, get locked in a vault all day where you get patted down randomly on entry/exit

Potato Cat

Woohoo! Finally found the elusive >150Mbps 4G+ transmitter!

electronbeam

Yeah but then I'd have to relocate AGAIN -_-

Potato Cat

Now that's carrier aggregation. @Bob.

allquicatic

@electronbeam but on the upside you'd get random pat-downs. hr-hr ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

maybe from a lady segurity guard

electronbeam

sound like an oppressive and patently un-fun situation, that would have been the situation at CSC and that would drive me fracking crazy

allquicatic

21:14

meh. you get to have fun outside the vault where you have a cubicle/ledge/desk/solitary confinement hole where you have a computer with relatively unrestricted 'net access once you OpenVPN to your dedi

generally only have to spend part time in the vault being oppressed

Potato Cat

@electronbeam Yeah well, I can do that too on WiFi.

allquicatic

> VERIZON FIOS

*finger* GDI. Envy. >:(

Potato Cat

lol

note to self: Find somewhere to live that has CityFibre gigabit FTTP

electronbeam

I have FTTP :3

gigabit service is coming soon, too

allquicatic

Verizon missed a "T" and gave me FTP instead of FTTP. :( I can now FTP into their servers and download at ADSL speeds, yay me

4

@electronbeam do you feel the heat?

that heat is coming from a nuclear explosion originating at my present location

electronbeam

21:16

Well fios in our area was acquired by frontier so it got slightly shittier

allquicatic

yes, it's several tens of megatons to reach you from here

electronbeam

you should go ahead and de-unfriend me on skype

allquicatic

I think VZW added another antenna to their MIMO solution recently so now I could theoretically get 3x3, but my Jetpack AC791L doesn't support it anyway, and my iPhone is restricted to 5 Mbps by the MVNO agreement

@electronbeam how would I go about doing that? I didn't know Skype supported "Undo" friend defriending across operating system and months

electronbeam

I ADDED YOU BACK

JUST

ADD ME

allquicatic

and the chances of me accidentally undoing blocking some random number ...

Give me a fifth, please

electronbeam

21:19

request sent

spam sent

or use soemthing encrypted

allquicatic

which one are you?

electronbeam

idk

allquicatic

Telegram isn't secure unless you exchange keys out of band btw

electronbeam

I can't like... reveal my skype in chat

allquicatic

*accepts a friend request from Skype Call Test Service* there, that must be you

electronbeam

21:20

I'll give you a hint

<----------

allquicatic

rhymes with selectron meme?

electronbeam

all of my skype usernames are some permutation of that

Yes.

allquicatic

I still can't find it; are you sure you added the right person?

electronbeam

are you not getting my messages? lol

allquicatic

ok, I just launched Insecuregram

maybe use that in the interim

one sec, updating

ack, shouldn't have said that; now the TLAs can inject their own compromised update

Potato Cat

21:23

Oh hey, the whole city is already wired up for ShittyFibre

Except it isn't

Supposedly every phase is now completed (as of May 2016) yet I'm still seeing road closures to build out the CityFibre network this month so clearly that's a lie

jrh

Hi there, I ran into this problem today, social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/… , I ended up booting into another OS to delete C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\WMI\RtBackup , which fixed the problem, do you guys think this would be a good candidate for a self answered question?

Potato Cat

@allquicatic: Were you the one who had that square-ish Corsair Carbide case?

35 exploded Note 7's, out of 400,000 sold. All this fuss over a 0.01% failure rate?

That Brazilian Headless Horse

35 more than what should have happened

allquicatic

21:38

@PotatoCat yar!

the 240.

Potato Cat

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse You'd be the luckiest man alive if you sold 400,000 hard drives and only 35 failed.

arda

@PotatoCat disagreed.

allquicatic

@jrh if you can explain in detail the problem you were having and how you fixed it, and it turns out not to be specific to something you (intentionally) did, sure

That Brazilian Headless Horse

I'd be glad if I sold 400 HDDs (and kept the money)

Potato Cat

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse Regardless. Most consumer electronics typically have failure rates between 1-5%

That Brazilian Headless Horse

21:40

Last week I bought a lightbulb and it came in the wrong color.

For 4 days my living room had a yellowish tone

Potato Cat

My lightbulbs come in every colour.

arda

Both batteries and hard drives are expected to die, however batteries are not expected to have the "explode-die", but "can't charge-die" and not just a year after release.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

But at least it didn't explode :p

Potato Cat

I explodified one. Well, I smashed it. Being a LED bulb, it really made no difference and works fine anyway

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@PotatoCat Even when you're sober?

allquicatic

21:41

@PotatoCat are you still Woof. I'm a cat.?

Potato Cat

@allquicatic I am now a Woof, I'm a cat on a potato.

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse Yes

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse I can also control the colour by talking to my hand

That Brazilian Headless Horse

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse Barbecued cat? How cruel! :)

Where is the baked potato?

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@DavidPostill Google "churrasquinho de Gato" ;)

Here we joke all meat sticks sold on the sidewalk are cat meat.

Potato Cat

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse ah ha!

DavidPostill

21:51

@ThatBrazilianHeadlessHorse Hmm. I don't remember seeing that when I was in BR

Potato Cat

I've figured out how you do it

jrh

@allquicatic as far as I know I didn't do anything to cause the issue, I never messed with permissions on the event log directory, it pretty much just mysteriously stopped working a couple weeks back, I suspect may have been indirectly caused by a Windows Update?

Potato Cat

Changing your name between guy, gato and horse all the time. I know your secret.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

@DavidPostill That's because you are a gringo and everybody was eager to sell you overpriced fancy stuff. Cat BBQ is for a true local experience

DavidPostill

lol

That Brazilian Headless Horse

21:54

@PotatoCat Oh no! You've found out I'm actually Jeff Atwood!

jrh

I mostly want to post this because the MSDN article's kind of a mess, a lot of "did this work? no? try this..." and stuff that seems to only get you about halfway there until you scroll down 3 or 4 screens

e.g., "just delete the directory"... well, you can't... not if the OS is running

allquicatic

@jrh well, write it up and it should be fine if you include detailed steps, etc...

tereško

22:16

sigh ... there is no way this will turn into a shitstorm, right:

We will also be removing Douglas Crockford from our keynote speakers list to help make the conference a comfortable environment for all.

Tweeted by nodevember on September 2, 2016 at 1:30 AM

Ben N

Wait, what did he do?

tereško

I am still not sure

some heard him saying, that some talks in conferences are stupid

DavidPostill

2

Ben N

Oh, I found this article, not sure how widely held that viewpoint is

tereško

it was linked somewhere on reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/50u77r/…

bwDraco

22:29

*sigh*

Photography is such a huge money sink :\

tereško

broke a lens?

bwDraco

No, but the cost of the sort of equipment that the pros is absurdly high

I'm a sports photographer by trade but I really want to get into serious bird photography. I've been reading digitalbirdphotography.com and while I have some of the equipment needed, it's not enough.

tereško

well .. that makes it an exclusive hobby

bwDraco

I selected a rather oddball system, Pentax K, which isn't really recommended by the author of that online book. While they do have more lens choices for wildlife these days, it isn't really at the same level as Canon or Nikon.

I have a Pentax K-3 II and a pro-grade telephoto zoom (DA* 60-250mm) but it's just not enough reach. The next purchase on my mind is the Pentax 1.4x teleconverter ($600), followed by the D FA 150-450mm super-telephoto zoom lens ($2500).

I also need a tripod and Arca-Swiss head (and plates).

I've considered switching several times, but the cost of comparable equipment on Canon EOS is presently beyond my means.

Besides, I've been shooting Pentax for almost six years and I'm just used to the Pentax way of doing things.

I've captured images of a Great Egret in flight once (with an older camera body, a Pentax K-5), but I've been constantly bumping against the limits of my gear.

Jun 8 at 4:19, by bwDraco

Jan 6 at 8:55, by bwDraco

- Replace DA* 60-250mm lens.
- Get a wide-angle lens.
- Get a longer telephoto lens (D FA 150-450mm).
- Get more prime lenses.
- Get a teleconverter.
- Get ND and polarizer filters.
- Replace flashgun (mine has a broken battery access door).
- Get larger, faster memory cards.
- Get a tripod and a Arca-Swiss head to go along with it.
- Get the upcoming Pentax full-frame body when it comes out.
- Get another camera body as a backup.
- Build new PC with fast CPU and lots of RAM for photo editing.
- Purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud membership.

(click through for the complete list)

I've acquired a larger memory card and color calibration hardware, and got my DA* 60-250mm replaced since, but that should get you a sense of what I want to get.

I also need a gimbal head for the tripod.

Anyway, going to be AFK for a bit as I go home. See ya in a bit.

That Brazilian Headless Horse

22:59

> we had a small exchange [in the backstage] - “the talks as the day went on just got stupider and stupider.” He said. “mmm.” I replied

Wait, is that all?

Ben N

Pretty much. There's also these, which don't seem offensive at all to me:

> He said that weak maps was one of his favourite new features and said that he was worried that programmers would overlook it because the name didn't seem very masculine, probably jokingly.

> Crockford refers to the old web model as promiscuous and his proposed model as commitment. By placing promiscuity in a negative light, Crockford slut shamed the audience.

...and that's it, in my understanding

Further open-source-related drama (linked in the Reddit thread): Exhibit A, Exhibit B

That Brazilian Headless Horse

I have no patience for that...

NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ

23:24

hey guys, got a question about a build I'm getting ready to start ordering hardware for. http://pcpartpicker.com/list/9KLTnn
I'm going to be using it for 3d graphics/video editing/gaming, using applications like Blender/Maya, Substance Painter/Quixel, After Effects, etc. I will probably be getting at least 2-way SLI within a few months, just don't want to break the bank too badly in one go. Any thoughts, recommendations, etc?

bwDraco

23:34

Get the 6900K instead of the 5960X. Same socket, slightly higher price, but better performance.

NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ

good point, thanks for spotting that

arda

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ go skylake

bwDraco

You've got two SSDs there. I assume the 950 PRO is the boot drive, but what's the 850 EVO doing there?

arda

(that said I'm off to sleep)

bwDraco

@arda Skylake currently goes up to 4C/8T. There's a reason he's selected an 8C/16T HEDT processor.

NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ

23:42

@bwDraco Applications mostly, lots of texture accessing etc, I work with game engines a bit as well. I hate loading screens :P

bwDraco

23:57

pcworld.com/article/3115758/components-graphics/…

Journeyman Geek

@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ I'd evaluate 2x 16 over 4x8. Pricier but you have room to go 32 gb

bwDraco

Polaris 10 in a laptop. That's pretty encouraging for AMD—plus it's a cheap GPU unlike the NVIDIA counterparts, making for a competitive high-performance mobile gaming solution that shouldn't break the bank.

@JourneymanGeek HEDT systems support quad-channel memory. His apps are probably memory-intensive.

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