Root Access

Anna duh

14:00

@Bob Oh oh oooh

It's in dunfermline

That's about 30 minutes drive away

Bob

@Annaduh Is it a 15"?

880M should be pretty good

Anna duh

@Bob Yeah

> Clevo P150SM / i7-4810MQ
16GB Ram / 1TB HDD / 880M 4GB
DVD-RW / 15" / Windows 10
B

Bob

ooh nice

probably take that HDD out though

Anna duh

Lol, yeah

Bob

If I start using mine more I'll be taking it out of mine :P

noisy, hot, heavy... dammit

Anna duh

14:04

Still, 880M is only half the speed of a 1060

1/3rd the price though

Bob

was a dumb thing to add but I needed storage at the time

allquicatic

knowyourmeme.com/memes/nedm

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi Every. day.

allquicatic

man, that's one of the deepest memes I know, and it has a serious message

it takes like 4 paragraphs to figure out what it actually means

Anna duh

Remind me why I'm doing this again... Oh yeah I wanted to impulse buy a laptop

@Bob eh I'd have probably put a large HDD in if I hadn't impulse bought a 1TB SSD

Burgi

14:17

don't you buy a new laptop on an almost weekly basis?

Bob

@Annaduh yea, that was when I was using it daily. now, I don't really use the portable ones as much, so less storage on them is fine

@allquicatic well. I just learned more about the backstory of that cat picture than I really wanted to know...

That Brazilian Guy

Oh my God there's a Dollynho knowyourmeme page! knowyourmeme.com/memes/dollynho

Dollynho e o Jorro - Tome muito líquido!

►

electronbeam

I'm back, kids. Miss me?

Journeyman Geek

Only cause dogs have terrible aim... ;p

(wibbles)

That Brazilian Guy

@electronbeam Now that's a user I haven't seen... in a very long time.

electronbeam

14:29

Yeah sorry I met a girl

That Brazilian Guy

@electronbeam Yay...? :D

electronbeam

Yep.

That Brazilian Guy

Yaaaay!!! \o/

Congrats!

electronbeam

I am, and have been, off the market for a few months.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

electronbeam

14:30

And uh.. this time it's likely permanent.

Journeyman Geek

that's a reasonable excuse

Burgi

congrats

any luck with that job?

electronbeam

Actually

After losing my job.... I found another.

Burgi

"this time it's likely permanent." she got you pregnant?

electronbeam

about 2 months after that

Burgi

14:31

i didn't know you had lost your job

electronbeam

making about 10k more

Journeyman Geek

nice

electronbeam

So yeah, I'm happy.

@Burgi she didn't get me pregnant.

Burgi

;)

electronbeam

For the obvious reason that we are both women and you can't.. really do that?

also I can't have kids.

That Brazilian Guy

14:32

@electronbeam Did you manage to land a job on that game dev you wanted?

electronbeam

Negatory, but this job is likely more stable

That Brazilian Guy

Well, stable and better paying, that's quite nice :)

Burgi

i know gay ladies that have got pregnant

Journeyman Geek

@electronbeam sure you can, first you find a goat farm.... and talk the owner into letting you acquire some of the young of the sheep and....

electronbeam

NO

ZERO PERCENT OKAY

Journeyman Geek

14:33

to the small goats?

Bob

o.O

...what conversation did I just walk into

2

That Brazilian Guy

0.o

Bob

*nopes out*

electronbeam

Ohhh... nevermind. lol

Bob

oh hi @electronbeam

Burgi

14:34

you can buy the necessary fluids off the internet...

electronbeam

for a moment I thought you were suggesting a highly different goat-related activity

Burgi

or so i am told

Bob

somehow you manage to start the weirdest convos in this room :P

Journeyman Geek

@electronbeam you arn't welsh enough

electronbeam

My family originated from wales

damnit.

Journeyman Geek

14:35

>_>

Burgi

hands JMG a spade

Bob

. i.imgur.com/j51uHm1.gif

Journeyman Geek

My paws will do.. ;p

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek ooooh I see because one of the meanings of "kid" is "small goat", right? aaaaah

electronbeam

But yeah, it's a complicated situation for me right now.

Journeyman Geek

14:36

@ThatBrazilianGuy precisely

Burgi

@Bob was john travolta always that badly anti-aliased?

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy ...soooo, what else did you think he meant?

@Burgi eh, gif transparency is crap

works better if you have an actual background properly blended in

also it was took big to keep oneboxed... 7 MB sheesh

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi You should've seen him back in the 80's when he was a .pcx file

Bob

@Burgi better blended greenscreen version i.imgur.com/mkhFnmC.gif

Burgi

LOL

> Hi @Burgi

While you’re having your internal discussions, I wanted to invite you to one of our regular free Lunch & Learn events.
This one is focussed on the ‘converged’ datacentre.

It thought it would be a good opportunity for you to get to know us better.

Regards

IT Supplier

what on earth is a converged datacentre?

That Brazilian Guy

14:40

I'm watching Over the Garden Wall

The animation is amazing!

Over the Garden Wall (miniseries)

Over the Garden Wall is an animated television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network. The series centers on two half-brothers who travel across a strange forest in order to find their way home, encountering odd and wonderful things on their journey. The show is based on McHale's animated short film Tome of the Unknown, which was produced as part of Cartoon Network Studios' shorts development program. The show features Elijah Wood and Collin Dean as the protagonists Wirt and Greg, and Melanie Lynskey as a bluebird named Beatrice. Over the Garden Wall was broadcast throughout the...

electronbeam

did @Rahul2001 ever come to Dallas?

Burgi

@electronbeam i think he is still in school

electronbeam

@Burgi supposedly he was going to come to Dallas for some robotics event

Rahul2001

@electronbeam no, unfortunately

How're you?

electronbeam

Great :)

Rahul2001

14:44

How's the music production going?

electronbeam

I've taken a bit of a hiatus. I've been busy with... other things. ;)

Rahul2001

Oh, okay

@electronbeam is that you in your profile photo?

I imagined you differently...

That Brazilian Guy

@electronbeam Well, that's nice spending your time in a relationship and everything, but one needs a little time for nerding out as well

electronbeam

@Rahul2001 yes, that's what I look like.

@Rahul2001 also, do you make it a habit of imagining me? lol

WHATEVER Dave

i look like my profile picture too

Bob

14:48

@Rahul2001 ouch.

WHATEVER Dave

@electronbeam: he imagines about me too.. ;)

Bob

@WHATEVERDave you look like a shoe? oh wait other dave

2

WHATEVER Dave

roflmao

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 She used that photo, or a similar one, on Telegram IIRC

@Bob No, he looks like a guitar. Wait, another wrong Dave. He looks like... Ah, well, WHATEVER.

WHATEVER Dave

!facepalm

!!/facepalm

ChatBot John Cavil

14:51

allquicatic

@Bob the cat picture is actually unrelated -- that cat picture is from a Russian brand of cat food and that cat was never harmed (IIRC)

Bob

@allquicatic oh, phew...

I've never watched the video

don't want to, either

Burgi

@electronbeam his mum won't let him play out until after he finishes his homework ;)

electronbeam

@Rahul2001 - so you don't have to imagine anymore. i.imgur.com/Z5I13Q4.jpg

and yes, I know I'm not that gorgeous. Sorry to disappoint :)

One more: i.imgur.com/K9Kg4yC.jpg

Burgi

better than my gravatar i use for work

electronbeam

14:54

My partner is.... waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy out of my league lol

at least, in my opinion

Burgi

clearly you are doing something right...

2

Journeyman Geek

blah

wifi sucks

Rahul2001

@Bob hey not a bad thing

I have a mental image of all of you :P

electronbeam

@Rahul2001 I'm curious... what did your mental image of me look like?

Rahul2001

Uh

Bob

14:57

@Rahul2001 what, fox, dog, ~~cat~~ fwog...

Anna duh

@Burgi err, no. I talk about buying a new laptop on an almost daily basis but the last time I bought a new laptop was 5 years ago.

Rahul2001

shifts uncomfortably

Burgi

@Rahul2001 do i look like the hotshot viper pilot that i am or some sad pastie geek in your mental image?

Anna duh

Well OK I bought one a year ago but returned it and got a refund cause it was faulty, so that doesn't count

Rahul2001

@electronbeam you looked kinda more geeky?

electronbeam

14:58

lol I am a geek.

Anna duh

@electronbeam Hi! And yes!

Bob

how exactly does someeone look geeky

Journeyman Geek

lol

Rahul2001

@Annaduh wait... You're @Dog ???!

@Bob specs?

Bob

^ the real geek

Anna duh

14:59

@electronbeam actually you can, they've recently managed to turn skin cells into sperm or something

Rahul2001

Okay, I'm being stereotypical

Burgi

@Bob glasses, retro t-shirt and bad skin...

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi or a beard

electronbeam

@Annaduh I lack the mechanical components on my end required to have children due to a birth defect.

Journeyman Geek

sometimes both

Bob

14:59

@Rahul2001 i7 I suppose :P

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek i shaved yesterday....

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 What's your mental image of me?

electronbeam

@Annaduh consquently, so does my partner.

Journeyman Geek

However I think a beard would not suit @electronbeam

@electronbeam like or lack?

electronbeam

@JourneymanGeek LOL BOTH I SUPPOSE, but that was meant to be "lack." corrected.

That Brazilian Guy

15:01

@JourneymanGeek She means "like", don't you know she's a cyborg?

Rahul2001

@ThatBrazilianGuy uh... Nothing like your profile photo

Anna duh

@Burgi Err. . . Software Defined EverythiNg. Or, go And Find Out

Rahul2001

@Bob lmao

electronbeam

@Rahul2001 if you want geeky, let me find a picture of Jennifer.

Anna duh

@electronbeam Oh tes, i Remebry Yoie Type NnowW

Rahul2001

15:02

@electronbeam Jennifer?

Anna duh

Sorry autoxucumwber

2

Burgi

@Annaduh i doubt i can get time out of the office if it isn't relevant

electronbeam

@Annaduh did you just have a stroke?

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 I have a different one each month.

Burgi

@electronbeam touch type failure

That Brazilian Guy

15:03

@electronbeam No, they had cucumbers.

Anna duh

@Burgi do you work near a datacentre? Do you want to converge with it? Then it's relevant!

Bob

@Annaduh looks more like lack of cucumber

Anna duh

@electronbeam no, my typing is really that bad when my auto-incorrect breaks

Journeyman Geek

CATLIKE TYPING DETECTED

Anna duh

@Bob damn = damn you broken again

Burgi

15:03

converging with a datacentre sounds like a commitment i'm not ready to make

3

Journeyman Geek

@Mittens I'm typing on an unfamiliar keyboard in the dark....

That Brazilian Guy

@Annaduh Depending on how hard one tries to converge with the datacenter, one might find themselves not working there anymore...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek i'm learning tomuse the win10 touch keyboard

Anna duh

@Burgi your loss, if you change your mind in a few years it might not be relevant anymore

electronbeam

@Rahul2001 muh woman

Bob

15:05

it's not so bad, except it covers up the textbox

so i have no idea what i'm typing

who designed this

Rahul2001

@electronbeam oh

That Brazilian Guy

@Annaduh Oh, are persocons already on the market?

Burgi

@Annaduh its almost lawnmowerman-esque

Rahul2001

@ThatBrazilianGuy I've seen your pic on telegram

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 Oh, that's right.

Journeyman Geek

15:06

also, to me geekiness is an attitude, not a 'look'

3

Bob

maybe ink Typing wall work better

electronbeam

@Rahul2001 here. i.imgur.com/pFKi4eU.jpg

The glasses caused me to fall for her. Immediately.

BUT SHE'S MINE

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek No, it's totally a look, see:

Bob

but that would require deer handwriting

Rahul2001

Okay, yeah... That is geeky

Burgi

15:07

@electronbeam cute

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy er...

where would she keep... anything?

Burgi

uh... "IT Director" is floating about....

brb

Rahul2001

@ThatBrazilianGuy no geek right in her mind wears spectacles like those

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Also, totally geek guys:

Journeyman Geek

....

That Brazilian Guy

15:08

Bob

@JourneymanGeek why won you net to *happiness

Journeyman Geek

Glasses... those you need

Rahul2001

@ThatBrazilianGuy top row third looks fake

That Brazilian Guy

Thay have glasses! And checkered patterns!!!

Rahul2001

As do most of them

Journeyman Geek

15:08

those appear to be hipsters

Rahul2001

Yes

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 They all look fake.

electronbeam

I actually don't need glasses, but I've been considering getting a pair for fashion... I know it seems vain but idk

Journeyman Geek

See. Hipsters did X before it was cool

Geeks don't give a shit.

Burgi

That Brazilian Guy

15:09

@JourneymanGeek Nerd, geek, hipster, same difference. All you need is an iphone, a game console and a youtube channel.

Rahul2001

I've given up on dating before I even started

@Burgi whoisthat??

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 I'd safely assume it's @Burgi

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy Game controllers are not designed for beings lacking opposable thumbs.

Bob

It's a Burgi

jokerdino

A wild one.

That Brazilian Guy

15:10

@jokerdino Only on pub nights.

Rahul2001

Heh, turns out all my mental images.were way off point

Burgi

from my days on the road as a wandering it engineer

Bob

A wild dino appeared!

2

jokerdino

@ThatBrazilianGuy That's a vile one.

That Brazilian Guy

@Rahul2001 I can win, I once thought @JourneymanGeek looked chinese.

jokerdino

15:11

@Bob pretty tamed sorry.

Bob

@Rahul2001 what do I look like

electronbeam

I love my new office... I'm one of two girls, but it's awesome... the Pokemon red theme is playing in the background right now

jokerdino

@ThatBrazilianGuy Hmm, you thought wrong.

Burgi

Rahul2001

@Bob uh... Asian?

electronbeam

15:12

and before that it was the theme from LoZ Ocarina of Time.

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob A Firefox window with 94385067 tabs open, duh...

electronbeam

I finally work in a geek office :)

Rahul2001

Because I seem to recall that you know mandarin

Journeyman Geek

This is me ;p

Burgi

a more recent piccy

That Brazilian Guy

15:12

@jokerdino Yeah, I was corrected.

Journeyman Geek

That quite literally is the most recent photo of me ;p

Bob

@Rahul2001 gee, that's specific.. ..

Rahul2001

What do you guys imagine me as?

jokerdino

@Bob hmm

@Rahul2001 a small kiddo

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek I wonder, when your human owner was hired, how did he managed to get the real you there to do all the work? Wait, was that the reason they'd just send him to assemble tables? :-o

jokerdino

15:13

I think we can all see your face in the telegram group.

Bob

@jokerdino no. You are not allowed to answer.

Rahul2001

@jokerdino not many of these members of chat are on it

jokerdino

:)

Rahul2001

@jokerdino I look kinda different now

Bob

@jokerdino heh. I don't think I him any on you on there

have any of

jokerdino

15:15

o.O

Either Bob or I is having a stroke.

Rahul2001

@Bob uh... Wot?

Burgi

@Rahul2001 a tall indian kid with hipster style glasses (we've seen your facebook)

Rahul2001

I'm not actually that tall

And I got new spectacles

Bob

@Rahul2001 I don't think I have you on Telegram

allquicatic

@electronbeam hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Rahul2001

15:18

@Bob group

electronbeam

@allquicatic hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Bob

only one contact there actually

jokerdino

@Bob mine is the same handle.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy I'd tell you, but then I'd need to steal all your socks

Bob

@Rahul2001 what group

Rahul2001

15:19

@Bob hotel California?

Bob

@jokerdino like you need we of my info :p

jokerdino

@Bob :P

Bob

need any more of

Rahul2001

Deleting in 5...4...3...2...1

jokerdino

@Rahul2001 did you close the group? I can't send any message.

Rahul2001

15:20

@Bob what's up with your typing today?

@jokerdino uh, no?

Bob

I'm slowly getting the hang of handwriting on a screen!

jokerdino

@Rahul2001 Am I in the group?

Bob

@Rahul2001 " typical "

Rahul2001

@jokerdino I think you left

jokerdino

How do I join?

Bob

15:21

damn it quotes ae screwed

HackToHell

You betrayed us and you left @jokerdino

Rahul2001

@jokerdino ping @electronbeam

tereško

halp

jokerdino

I ping @electronbeam for help.

@HackToHell yay

electronbeam

@jokerdino sup?

jokerdino

15:23

I want in.

Rahul2001

@jokerdino telegram just told me that you chose to leave so I can't add you

tereško

is there an alternative for source command in bash, that works on csh/tcsh?

electronbeam

@jokerdino what's the secret password and what is your secret handle

jokerdino

o.O

Same handle.

Bob

@tereško does just the dot work?

. script.sh

ooh, can I join group? :P

brb

Rahul2001

15:26

@Bob Done!

Bob

thanks

jokerdino

@HackToHell I call for your mercy haha

Only you can put me back into the group.

electronbeam

@HackToHell you're the only one that can add @jokerdino back

Bob

back to video :P

HackToHell

oh wow

okay lemme

allquicatic

15:28

The Problems with Secret Santa - Numberphile

►

Bob

15:41

@allquicatic and here i was thinking of joining the reddit one :P

yay probability

Journeyman Geek

0

Q: The superuser blog is going away

We've been trying to kickstart the SU blog again, and well, its mostly been tumbleweeds. We've had little no no activity, despite a few well meaning plans to. That said, networkwide, blogs are going away - there's no formal announcement as yet, though the writing's on the wall From what I've be...

@Bob I'd find the idea of a secret santa terrifying

Or you'd be getting random stuff off daiso ;p

allquicatic

@Bob but hang on, there's an algorithm for it at the end that actually works well

Bob

@allquicatic tea, watched. nice for a manual one, but I was thinking "isn't there an app for that?" the whole time :P

allquicatic

how would you implement the manual algorithm properly?

Burgi

ugh... i can't get this WP ajax to work

allquicatic

15:50

in code

Bob

@allquicatic you wouldn't have to implement that exact algorithm, but it's pretty easy if you wanted to

just a random shuffle, then each val buys for the next

shuffle(people)

for (var i = 1; i < len(people); i++) {
	santa[people[i - 1]] = people[i]
}
santa[people[len(people) - 1]] = people[0]

That's a direct implementation of that algorithm

allquicatic

yeah, makes sense

is that groovy? ruby? :P

JS?

Bob

I was more thinking just random choice excluding original

@allquicatic I write pseudocode as a mix of... everything :P

pretty sure that len() is from python

allquicatic

looks like groovy

except len(), yeah

Bob

@allquicatic except the semicolons, this is probably valid C#

and Java

and JS

actually JS is fine without the semicolons

Func<int, ICollection> len = (col) => col.Length;

whoops

Func<ICollection, int> len = (col) => col.Count;

I forgot my C# :(

allquicatic

16:06

The mathematics of love | Hannah Fry | TEDxBinghamtonUniversity

►

Anna duh

16:27

I'm alive!

allquicatic

@Annaduh yay

Burgi

i like how trump is trying to dictate UK government policy

its almost like we didn't know he was an arsehole before he got voted in

Mokubai

16:43

No you're not, you're @Annaduh!

allquicatic

@Mokubai don't tempt him to rename himself to Alive

Bob

@Annaduh This was a triumph~ 🎶

oldmud0

Ok

Mokubai

I'm making a note here: "Huge Success"

oldmud0

so I finally realized why my ssd is so slow

Because I plugged in the sata cable, but never the sata power cable!

d'oh

Mokubai

16:50

@oldmud0 But it did actually work?

oldmud0

Yeah, it works

Been using it for 9 months

Mokubai

Mmmkay

Andy K

bye folks

oldmud0

But I never understood why it was on the lower 25% of ssd performance

I was like, well maybe it's just a piece of crap (Samsung 840)

userbenchmark.com/UserRun/1896672

Only 109 MB/s on sequential I/O

Clearly because I didn't plug in the power.

Now everything makes sense.

Mokubai

It's a lot better now then?

oldmud0

16:55

Well, no

I have to unplug the computer and figure out where the power cable is in the power supply

I'm pretty sure I looked in there when I originally installed the ssd

And there wasn't a SATA power cable

Mokubai

Get a molex to sata adaptor?

oldmud0

I don't even know if there's another molex

I even had to supply my own SATA cable. Chances are that there isn't actually a SATA power cable or extra molex and I end up buying a new power supply, along with a new mobo, graphics card, and ram

allquicatic

I didn't know any SATA device could function with only the data cable connected

oldmud0

It's like 4 years ago when I found out that you could power the Pi by backflowing power from the USB ports

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