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Whenever I need to heat up water for a French press or hot chocolate, I do it in the microwave. Is there a good reason to use a kettle instead of the microwave to heat water?

Dog

Michael Frank

@Bob uhhhhhhhh

Bob

11:09 PM

My first thought: "wait, how else do you heat water?"

Second thought: "microwave?!?!"

dammit, Americans...

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

... uhhh @Dog? wht does p and bbc stand for?

Dog

@Bob: ^^ That's my ping via a wireless repeater to a Ruckus AP in the hotel across the road from the other side of the building, through four or five walls, on a highly congested 2.4Ghz channel

Michael Frank

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere big black... car?

Dog

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere p is a script to do ping -t -w 1000

bbc = bbc.co.uk.

I have aliased at bbc.qasdfdsaq.com

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

212.58.246.94 is from United Kingdom (UK) in region Western Europe
Input: 212.58.246.94
canonical name: bbc-vip015.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk
Registered Domain: bbc.co.uk

Bob

11:11 PM

@Dog nice

Dog

Because they use DNS load balancing this way I get a consistent ping target over time.

Bob

I should show you the ping to the AP at work sometime :P

@Dog I thought ping only resolved the domain name once at the beginning

Though anycast routing could mess that up too

Dog

That's what it looked like on the Draytek APs at my last place while sitting one room away >_<

@Bob It does

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

GUYS I JUST FOUND SOMETHING IN WINDOWS 10 THAT IS AMAZZZZZZZING OH MY GOODNESS THEY HAVE THE WINDOWS XP STYLE UPDATES AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Dog

I mean if I pinged on one connection, switched to another, then tried the same test, etc.

Burgi

11:17 PM

o.O

Bob

@Dog ohhh

Dog

Or one day to the next, or different machines, etc.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

oh wait

Dog

(Also if I'm pinging from abroad and don't want an anycasted local address)

!!facepalm

Oh god no bot

MY LIFE IS RUINED

Burgi

these drives are making weird noises

Dog

11:18 PM

@Burgi Another advantage of SSDs!

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

Dog

The only noise they make is a slight squealing and a tsssssssss as they explode

Ben N

Good morning(?) JMG!

Dog

Bob is up hours before JMG :-o

Journeyman Geek

Morning.

Burgi

11:19 PM

that one sounded like a machinegun

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

good morning journeyman :)

arda

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere y'know, the size of the language name is still visible there

Dog

Oh god this hostel is still on some ancient BTW ADSLMax product that gets throttled to 50% or less at peak times

BT removed throttling on all new packages like 4 years ago

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

yeah right, you'd have to make a wild estimate! then research all the sizes until you find the right one ;)

Michael Frank

@arda Not really, just the amount currently downloaded.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

11:21 PM

or install them one by one until one of them matches the bar in the same location with the size

DavidPostill

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Why have you censored your image?

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

if you want to know that bad what language I installed then feel free :D

arda

@MichaelFrank no, size as in the pixel size of language name

Dog

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Err you know the progress bar shows... y'know, progress

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

@DavidPostill oh I don't know, issues.

Dog

11:22 PM

Also we saw the first picture

Also what are you trying to hide

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

well people who lurk here in 10 years wont see it unless you ... you know say it out loud now :/

Im guilty!

Bob

@Dog Why change what [doesn't] works?

Dog

@Bob Er... well for one it used to throttle as low as 256Kbps

Though it seems to be "only" down to 5Mbps today

Last place I stayed (which gets terrible reviews) had a 200Mbps connection

Bob

@Dog yea, was joking about businesses not wanting to change things

Dog

5Mbps between a hostel full of younguns with their tech gear, reminds me of the days back at school when we had to share 64Kbps between a dozen schoolkids

arda

11:26 PM

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Meh, I won't dig up your language because tbh it wouldn't help me in any way, but if you want to keep your languge secret, just don't post the language install box.

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

actually it's not my language it's the language of my client. I dont have windows 10 :P

arda

@Dog Can you not?

Blaming people won't get us anywhere.

2

@Dog I approve this.

@arda lol

11:31 PM

i saw the cute kiwi one earlier

Dog

Aww

Burgi

formatting through the disk manager doesn't give a progress bar...

Dog

@Burgi Yup. Though it does sometimes show progress in percent as text, depending on its mood

Michael Frank

@Dog Kiwis are the best. But they're kinda dumb.

Dog

Should I go get ice cream? I've already over eaten today. But Ice cream!

@MichaelFrank I thought kiwi was a fruit

And a slang term for a New Zealander

I didn't know it was a bird

@MichaelFrank Turns out most cute things are kinda dumb

Eww this is terrible

Burgi

11:37 PM

grim

Journeyman Geek

oddly, the fruit isn't from new zealand

Burgi

@Dog including cats roleplaying dogs on the internet?

@JourneymanGeek wait... what?

Journeyman Geek

Its from china!

Dog

@Burgi Are you calling me cute or dumb?

JmG is the one roleplaying a dog

Burgi

JMG is a dog

not a cat roleplaying a dog

Journeyman Geek

11:42 PM

I'm certainly not a cat >_>

Dog

Michael Frank

@Dog It's called a Kiwi everywhere except where it's a Chinese Gooseberry. We call the fruit a Kiwifruit.

Dog

Heh

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

hey guys im back!

Michael Frank

Oh good, we'll call off search and rescue.

Dog

11:46 PM

]i.imgur.com/CG07OCo.png

Burgi

i think this drive is buggered

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

@Dog didn't you post a comment saying that's a progress bar somewhere?

it is a beautiful progress bar. (gleaming)

Dog

Urgh is it weird just about every OS has built in multiple clipboard functionality except Windows

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

@MichaelFrank Thanks for the warm welcome! :)

Dog

Burgi

11:51 PM

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere i'm not 100% sure but i think your maths is off a little

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

come on dog we've seen all these before

Dog

Then again just about every OS had built in multiple desktop functionality before Windows

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

@Burgi you might be right because 68 is no where near the amount it should be haha

Dog

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

where's the ignore button?

Journeyman Geek

11:52 PM

Burgi

LOL

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

always knew JMG was a hacker, thats why I remove PII's from my screenshots.

Journeyman Geek

oh crap

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

oh I was grabbing a bite of my food I didnt see that xD

must be a bad insult

Dog

i.chzbgr.com/completestore/16/6/28/xlg-37CGG0aEJKcU774_HA2.mp4

Journeyman Geek

11:55 PM

Naw just had some things non mods cannot see

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

please dont click that :(

ohhh haha

Journeyman Geek

@Dog ahh, that one

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

can I see it?

oh wait no

what can you see? my email?

Journeyman Geek

donno, Its not a number you want incremented

Dog

Journeyman Geek

11:56 PM

naw, how many times you got chat suspended

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

haha

Dog

My number is higher than his number I bet

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

no way Dog you're so famous here, and everyone loves you theres no way you got suspended

Journeyman Geek

@Dog nothing to be proud about

@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere @Dog tends to push the limits. Sometimes of good taste.

Dog

@JourneymanGeek bullshirt

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

11:58 PM

first you win against be for being dumber, now you think you can beat me at chat suspensions?!

Journeyman Geek

That said on good days they're a decent contributor to chat.

Michael Frank

@Dog MS has had multi-item clipboards for a while... but only with an installation of MS Office.

Dog

@MichaelFrank Yeah, I knew Office had its own clipboard... wait, for a while? They removed it? :-o

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

@MichaelFrank actually if I open word 2002 it lists multiple items on the clipboard and I remember an addon for it, well if you mean by for a while as in in that version only, maybe

Dog

Ah crud, supermarkets closed. Where am I going to get ice cream now :-(

Journeyman Geek

11:59 PM

Don't garages sell ice cream?

CausingUnderflowsEverywhere

lets get JMG to ship us some

see told you he knows all the locations

Michael Frank

@Dog I can't seem to find it in 2013 at least.

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