Root Access

allquixotic

00:00

WTF, adding in print statements causes threads inside the TS client to hang

maybe qWarning() will work

Dog

If you’re one of those who takes the extremities of gaming culture in jest, you’ll get a kick out of this. The Acer Predator 21 X is not only gaudy, lumbering and unnecessarily equipped with a full-size mechanical keyboard, but it’ll also set you back a good chunk of change. If you have $8,999 (£7,350, AU$12,500) to spare and literally nothing better to spend it on, well, the Acer Predator 21 X is certainly an option.

Want.

Pisses me off though you still can't get G-Sync and Optimus at the same time, and practically no manufacturers specify if it's possible to turn off the dGPU in BIOS

allquixotic

nope, qWarning doesn't work

Journeyman Geek

@Dog I noticed they have space for another display on top of the keyboard.... :P

Dog

00:16

Bleh

Dell has the laptop I want in the US for 500 pounds cheaper than the old version of it in the UK

Except in the US 32GB of RAM is a $200 add-on whereas here it's 64 pounds

fucks sake

Spose I could use the 500 pound difference as an excuse to fly to the US

All I want is absolutely everything in a tiny package, for little money. Why is this so hard do find?!

Bob

@allquixotic oh, how did you install Qt?

I think that's the part that messed up QDebug for me

both Qt itself and the project must not have spaces in any of the paths

Dog

00:36

Dang it why is it so hard to choose a laptop

allquixotic

@Bob o_O

I'm using the Qt from TS itself

Bob

00:50

@allquixotic sorry, I meant the sdk

the sdk, compiler, etc, trip over spaces

allquixotic

@Bob C:\Qt\5.6\msvc2015_64

Burgi

is it me or are white mice the best pick and mix sweet known to man?

allquixotic

01:05

@Burgi parse error: I have no idea what you just said

@Bob I have this SOASE music stuck in my head: youtube.com/watch?v=FbrbSXClJ4s :P

Burgi

01:24

white chocolate mice

pick and mix is where you get a bag and and shovel in as many loose sweets as possible

metro.co.uk/2016/06/05/…

allquixotic

How to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space

►

github.com/bretcope

> Stack Overflow

Burgi

OMG! how did i forget flying saucers!!!

allquixotic

The BIGGEST, HEAVIEST, Laptop EVER - $9,000 Acer Predator 21X

►

Burgi

anyway this is a debate for when more brits are around @Dog @DavidPostill @djsmiley2k @Mokubai

Bob

@allquixotic looks right :/

allquixotic

01:36

@Burgi Dog just eats Dog Biscuits

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic @Dog is a cat. No biscuits for cats.

Bob

@allquixotic we should play that again sometime :P

Ramhound

03:09

-1

A: How to find the INF file in an installed printer driver

Add some salt and water, a little sugar and there you go.

allquixotic

04:00

@Bob I agree strongly. I personally prefer the Star Wars mod, but without it it's still a good game

I want to help Geek become self-sufficient

because, if you recall, when I ended up being the AI's target, I was able to hang on. I lost, like, one planet

Journeyman Geek

lol

allquixotic

another cool one to play would be Hearts of Iron IV, but that's even slower, and probably not Geek's cup of tea

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic eh, I find SOSE overwhelming.

allquixotic

04:19

@JourneymanGeek that's fair, but you can make it less so by organizing and focusing on the (few) things that are important

building and upgrading your "border" starbases; managing your "main" powerful fleet with Ctrl+1 (assign it an action group) and keep after it...

if you're expanding, only expand on one world at a time, and when it's stable and fortified, then move on

Journeyman Geek

Its a bit deeper than "my tactics suck"

lol

I just don't feel the game

granted the two things are probably linked

bwDraco

04:43

@Burgi That reminded me of those Aji Ichiban stores in Hong Kong. There's one here in NYC.

!!/wiki Aji Ichiban

ChatBot John Cavil

Aji Ichiban

Aji Ichiban (Japanese: 優の良品, Chinese: 優之良品) is one of the largest snack food franchises in Hong Kong, established in 1993 by Lai Chan Yuk Hing and Lai Hin Tai, which was the president and managing director, respectively. Despite having a hiragana syllabary no (の) in its name, Aji Ichiban is not a Japanese franchise. There are over 90 international locations in varying international destinations. == Product == Items sold vary by location and encompass a wide range of flavors from both East Asian, Japanese and American cuisines, including beef jerky, dried apricots, Skittles, chocolates, nonpareils...

bwDraco

First thing that came to mind when I looked up "pick-and-mix".

Bob

05:30

@allquixotic I need to too -_-

@allquixotic Remember when I got targeted and just kept getting pushed back? :\

@allquixotic I've not heard of it.

@allquixotic Depends on AI difficulty :P

I had fully upgraded starbases (granted, I think I was Advent, not TEC) and a fairly large battleship/frigate fleet. The AI came at it with titans, battleships and cruisers... bye-bye fleet. Bye-bye planets. Bye-bye starbases :(

@JourneymanGeek :(

Then again you seem to be the "MOAR BULLETS" kind of gamer :P

At least in Borderlands.

Journeyman Geek

lol

MOAR DAKKA!

More practically, I tend to prefer to have to focus on one ~~problem~~ target at a time

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Yea, that too :P

@JourneymanGeek I don't think you were with us (late night AEST) when we played Stellaris.

Oh god the multitasking.

Journeyman Geek

lol

prolly not

Bob

While I'm dealing with a war on two fronts, half my planets are hostile to me and starting to rebel...

@allquixotic was a lifesaver :P

Meanwhile I was also running out of energy and food :S

Journeyman Geek

Bob

05:43

@JourneymanGeek well, we never did finish

it takes forever :\

SoaSE is comparatively short :P

Journeyman Geek

that dog behind totally looks like sparky ;p

@Bob the game with three week sessions?

(for all you non locals mothership.sg/2014/03/… )

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Well we spent like 3 (4?) nights on SoaSE -- I think it was when quix had hols but you were busy -- and weren't even halfway done.

And the rebellions had just started, which could've been a massive setback.

Journeyman Geek

;p

Yeah, faaaaaar to complicated for me

Even worse when we're picking up after a while

Speaking of which

Borderlands next weekend? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Or SoaSE if time happens to mesh with @allquixotic?

Journeyman Geek

eh. Maybe, but I'd rather not SoaSE ._.

Bob

05:47

@JourneymanGeek though TBH I'm more often free at nights than in the afternoon these days, so maybe then? :P

@JourneymanGeek ah.

Journeyman Geek

SOrry, but... its not my thing

allquixotic

06:28

@Bob as I recall, it took BOTH of our fleets combined (and we suffered significant losses of top-tier ships) to repel the Stellaris equivalent of the Zerg

Hearts of Iron IV is Stellaris (same engine, actually) during WWII

@Bob either. I might be able to play something tonight actually

Ramhound

06:53

@Bob - What game are you playing?

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek What Borderlands game?

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco the first

bwDraco

Ah.

Journeyman Geek

I've been unable to play for an extended period of time due to family commitments tho

bwDraco

I was hoping it was Borderlands 2, could use some friends on a raid boss. However, I have not touched the game in ages so it may take several days for me to get accustomed to it (and my character's setup, etc.) again.

Journeyman Geek

06:54

We're getting to that eventually

bwDraco

(50 Psycho with a completed Normal Mode campaign and partially-completed DLC, got bored and stopped playing; very little progress in TVHM)

Ramhound

wow, that's a lot of playing...

lol

Having played Borderlands 2, I should know

bwDraco

The level cap is 72, as you probably know.

Ramhound

Its been awhile

I think I got into it right around the time I was writing a 13 page paper on the ethics of whats her face from GA

The cook

the purpose who thirty-forty years ago, said something she shouldn't have said, my brain is fried

bwDraco

Have never played online, and would rather not (except with trusted folks like you :p) because of hackers potentially tampering with my save game, boosting characters, etc.

Ramhound

06:59

Paula Dean;

bwDraco

(I keep backups of save files so I could revert in the event of trouble, but I'd rather not have to resort to File History to restore data.)

Just logged into Gearbox SHiFT. It's been a very long time :P

Ah well. I might just decide to install BL2 once again and fire it up.

All saves are still on the machine.

Maybe I should roll another Psycho and play from the beginning again (albeit with the benefit of Badass Rank bonuses and Claptrap's Secret Stash) to get a feel for the game before going back to my main character...

(Badass Rank applies at the profile level and is shared across characters; Claptrap's Secret Stash is a profile-level storage box to allow for "twinking", or movement of items across characters)

Boris_yo

07:30

@bwDraco Samsung offer 5 year warranty for 850 EVOs and 10 year warranty for 850 PROs. I inquired them about it and they told me all their products come with 1 year warranty. WTF...

bwDraco

@Boris_yo Probably a bad CS agent.

Lots of customer service folks are really poorly trained.

See samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/M2M/html/…

Bob

@allquixotic ah... today wasn't great timing for me, sorry :(

bwDraco

> ؟ - 8h ago

The star wall is confused by RTL characters :\

Journeyman Geek

lol

Kinda tempted to meta it

bwDraco

...this is a known problem:

7

Q: U+202e in a chat message messes up the starred messages list

I'm sure the devs will be thrilled to have yet another case for which to test: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/6965398#6965398

Journeyman Geek

07:39

ah

bwDraco

G'night.

Boris_yo

@bwDraco I wanted to snatch one on a deal but thought they may not give international warranty coverage so I better add $40 and buy local...

MyDaftQuestions

08:40

Hi. I bought a WD hard drive, but it turned out I got the wrong one for NAS storage (there is a red and a green). Any way, the hard drive got corrupted, data loss etc. My question is, does this suggest the hard drive itself is broken? Or could I just reformat it and use it as a hard drive in my computer. Would you guys trust the hard drive?

Ramhound

08:56

I wouldn't

I would format the drive, then return it under warranty

Journeyman Geek

WD has a test suite. Run it. If it fails, and it's under warranty, return it. Else if it passes... I Donno. It's up to you.

I'd use it for things I don't mind losing

Data corruption need not be hardware and there is insufficient information to tell

Ramhound

09:28

either replace it or throw it out, data is to valuable to lose, because you use a hdd that's starting to fail.

I learned the hard way...

I waited to long, recovered after a soft-failure, and lost my data

( hdd ) lost its partitions

Bob

@MyDaftQuestions One question that comes to mind is how you came to the conclusion of "corruption" and what the scope is.

@JourneymanGeek Or it could be different hardware. Faulty RAM can result in corrupted files. Faulty motherboards. SATA controllers. Lots of things.

Journeyman Geek

Even sata cables

Rule of thumb for me is if data matters, the media shouldn't ;p

Rahul2001

09:44

Hi¡

user5609462

I'm getting into deep learning and I realize that my hardware is not sufficient for the purposes, so I would like to upgrade it, since I am on a budget and buying a new PC out of the box is not an option :)

This is my system as of now:

- motherboard asrock 960gm-vgs3 fx
- CPU AMD FX-4300 Quad Core X4
- graphic card AMD Radeon HD
- RAM Kingston 1600Mhz DDR3 8gb
- Hard Disk HDD SATA3 Seagate 1Tb (6gb/s)

Looking over the internet it seems that the first upgrade I need to make is to change te graphic card with a cuda/cudNN compatible GPU (so nvidia).

Journeyman Geek

._.

@user5609462 essentially you can generally replace any arbitrary modern video card with any other arbitrary video card as long as it fits in your case and you have the appropriate power adaptors

But no idea what's the 'best' option here

sometimes GPGPU tasks run better on AMD and hardware recs is probably the place to ask if you can go "I need to run this this and this, and I need these features on a budget of 2 clams and a bone"

Also, get a decent SSD. And without knowing what exactly is bottlenecking, its hard to say what you really need.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Depends which APIs @user5609462 is using.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob hence the sometimes ;p

Bob

If they're using OpenCL, then maybe AMD. Look at benchmarks, do a price/perf comparison.

CUDA is Nvidia-only, AFAIK. It simply won't work on AMD cards.

Journeyman Geek

09:59

ah yeah

Bob

So if CUDA is a requirement for the software @user5609462 is using, then Nvidia is the only option.

Journeyman Geek

ah, yeah

Bob

However, if you're writing your own program (and not in e.g. a college course that requires CUDA), consider using OpenCL instead for broader compatibility.

@user5609462 Also, depending on how much you actually need to run, you might find it cheaper to use a hosted solution, e.g. AWS, Google Compute Engine, Azure, etc..

Journeyman Geek

^ what he said.

Bob

AWS definitely offers GPU instances (with very beefy compute-heavy cards that are >$2000 ea if you wanted to buy the hardware). Azure is introducing them now but limited availability for the moment. I don't know about Google Compute.

e.g. for 90c/hour you get access to a single Nvidia K80 GPU.

A 2-GPU Nvidia K80 card would cost $4000.

user5609462

10:07

I'm using tensorflow on python so I think CUDA is quite essential to run on my own machine

Bob

@user5609462 Ah, looks like it supports OpenCL, but only experimentally. So, yea, you're better off getting a Nvidia card.

Or consider offloading to a hosted server.

@user5609462 What kind of budget are you working with? And what kind of runtimes?

Say, estimate how many hours per month you will be running this application.

And also estimate how long you want to do this for. Are you just playing around with it for a few months and maybe move on to something else next year? Do you plan to keep going with it for five years? etc.

It's highly likely that running on AWS/Azure will be far better value for money than buying a single new GPU.

(Unless you wanted to get a better GPU anyway for gaming :P)

The AWS/Azure method would also give you access to a far more powerful CPU and more RAM at the same time.

user5609462

@Bob thank you! I will do the math :D

HackToHell

@user5609462 You can use the CPU mode of TF to build the initial version of it on smaller data and for the final training you can either spin up a GPU node in AWS or a cluster based on the size of the data. It shouldn't be too expensive.

Bob

Oh yea. Listen to @HackToHell, he does machine learning stuff :P

Journeyman Geek

(not the advice you want, but the advice you need (tm) )

Bob

10:17

@JourneymanGeek Ha. That's why giving the reason is important :P

"I want a better GPU on a budget." => "Sure, get this gaming-oriented GPU."

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Well I didn't give any solid suggestions ;p

Bob

"I want a better GPU on a budget for compute/TensorFlow." => "Since you don't need low latency for gaming, you're better off renting a server."

Journeyman Geek

just that any GPU he got would likely fit ;p

HackToHell

I mostly deploy ML stuff these days, but yeah AWS is >>> getting a budget GPU because it's still going to be slow

AWS has monster GPUs and you can effectively run them for a fraction of the cost of owning one

Alan Watch

12:28

does TOR entry node know your IP Address?

Benjamin Gruenbaum

Hey, does anyone here have Windows 10 experience? I got myself into a shitty situation - a driver update Windows installed automatically got me a black screen with cursor scenario.

I'd do a system restore, but it requires a local user password - my computer uses a Microsoft account and the Microsoft password doesn't work.

cc @OliverSalzburg

So, I tried a lot of stuff until now - but it won't budge - I'm very close to just formatting it but I'd rather not spend half a day doing that and re-downloading everything

Feels like shit :D

(Also - I thought maybe safe mode with networking could work but it doesn't)

Journeyman Geek

I vaguely remember that being a known issue.

Oliver Salzburg

12:51

@BenjaminGruenbaum Nasty. Can't say I've ever had that with 10

Journeyman Geek

@BenjaminGruenbaum dual monitor or ~~dual~~ integrated + discrete video card?

hm, assuming its a desktop

things get messier if its a laptop

Oliver Salzburg

@BenjaminGruenbaum Do you know what driver it was?

Bob

13:12

> built using ultra-fast FinFET

*slap*

Benjamin Gruenbaum

I figured it out, was awful

Ended up booting from a livecd, renaming cmd.exe to give me access - and performed a hacky system restore

Was the intel display drivers

Bob

@BenjaminGruenbaum hehe, I love doing that

Benjamin Gruenbaum

booting from a windows restore disk didn't work :(

Burgi

@BenjaminGruenbaum were you getting EFI errors?

metro.co.uk/2017/01/05/…

WHATEVER Dave

13:27

hmm interesting mumble client written in html5

Burgi

when are the hats finishing?

DavidPostill

@Burgi lol cc @ThatBrazilianGuy

Burgi

@DavidPostill the irony is that st anthony is the patron saint of elves

DavidPostill

@Burgi Really?

Burgi

nah i was making it up

> Patronage American Indians; amputees; animals; barrenness; Brazil; elderly people; faith in the Blessed Sacrament; fishermen; Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land; harvests; horses; lost articles; lower animals; mail; mariners; oppressed people; poor people; Portugal; pregnant women; seekers of lost articles; shipwrecks; starvation; sterility; swineherds; Tigua Indians; travel hostesses; travellers; Tuburan, Cebu; Watermen; runts of litters

what is interesting is that he is the patron of lost articles and the seekers of lost articles. Is that a conflict of interest?

another conflict is sterility and pregnant women

DavidPostill

13:35

There is a St Nyssa, and apparently Nyssa is "friendly elf or fairy" to Scandinavians :)

Burgi

the who did a song about st anthony

> Patronage the Internet, computer users, computer technicians, programmers, students

source

DavidPostill

@Burgi He's a very busy saint then ...

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I think its the patron saint of making people not sterile.

Burgi

ah

DavidPostill

@Burgi 10 hours 12 minutes 14 seconds approximately :)

Journeyman Geek

13:48

Which of course, wouid probably result in pregnancy in many cases

DavidPostill

End of Winter Bash Countdown timeanddate.com/countdown/…

Basically midnight tonight UTC

Burgi

ah ok

i thought it was the 6th

DavidPostill

@Burgi That was "Epiphany"

Burgi

when everyone realised what a crap christmas they'd had?

DavidPostill

lol

Burgi

13:51

or that they'd been back a work a week and done bugger all?

DavidPostill

It looks like I've won the SU hat contest. In front by 8 hats :)

Burgi

your current hat is.... odd

DavidPostill

I managed #11 over the whole network ...

Burgi

brb

DavidPostill

@Burgi That's "Philantropist".

I awarded a bounty to @allquixotic :)

Burgi

13:58

it doesn't look upside-down

just had my first BSOD since the rebuild

DavidPostill

@Burgi Yeah, I corrected it. I had to turn it upside down because my previous hat was upside down so it now the right way up :)

Burgi

> The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000003b (0x00000000c0000005, 0xfffff80668cd7827, 0xffffab0180a0a520, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: ea5cd791-89b0-4667-8261-6d885490dc7f.

give me a letter

DavidPostill

@Burgi zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Burgi

thats zombie army... :(

Tom Wijsman

14:50

@Burgi X

Hennes

15:15

Mornign

djsmiley2k

@Burgi 0xff

Hennes

/me peers at David Postil disguised as a terrorist. White shawl, thick glasses, some kind of purple shawl on top of the hat.

$ff

DavidPostill

@Hennes Goedemorgen

Hennes

Mogges. :)

Can't help that thought; I could barely make out the face behind all the 'hats'.

Journeyman Geek

someone put invisible unicode characters into a regex in a correct answer for stackoverflow even i am blown away by that level of evil

Tweeted by NO_BOOT_DEVICE on January 7, 2017 at 11:38 PM

DavidPostill

15:18

@Hennes Me peers at @Hennes but I can't see him (even through my thick glasses) as he is imaginary and doesn't exist ;p

@Hennes Although I lived in NL for 8 years I never learned any slang :)

@JourneymanGeek lol. I wonder which answer it is referring to?

Hennes

@JourneymanGeek I do remember early win10 installs automatically updating drivers and messing up the graphics part. But I only needed to solve that once. (I pulled the dedicated card and use the on CPU graphics in combination with my local account).

Journeyman Geek

@Hennes I vaguely remeber a similar issue when I first upgrade but totally don't remember how I fixed it

Bob

floof

DavidPostill

o/

Hennes

I assumed it was fixed by now. It was something with an incompatible driver.
I assumed that after a few weeks MS would have pulled that driver from windows updates.

The initial fix (IIRC) was to set windows to never update drivers automatically.

DavidPostill

15:26

I never make assumptions about fixing anything ...

Hennes

Yeah.

DavidPostill

lol

Hennes

I gave up about freshly installing windows 7; 12+ days 'searching for updates' is just to long.
(And yes, I also tried the cumulative updates. Same result... )

DavidPostill

!!s/fix/Microsoft fix/

ChatBot John Cavil

@DavidPostill I never make assumptions about Microsoft fixing anything ... (source)

DavidPostill

15:31

What I meant to say :)

Boris_yo

15:55

Hah...

Burgi

the place i'm going to meet this freelance client is odd

there is a synagogue, a catholic church and a mormon temple all sharing the same car park

DavidPostill

@Burgi if there was a mosque as well it would be even :)

Burgi

there isn't a pub for about 3 miles

which is weird in the UK

Animesh Ashish

Is torrent still the best place to get softwares/movies etc. from?

Burgi

16:11

no

legitimate streaming services are the best place for movies

Animesh Ashish

I need them for my collection. :3

Dont tell me people here don't use torrent?

Bob

Do I need to add "requests for piracy" to the room not-topical list?

DavidPostill

@AnimeshAshish VTC opinion based

Animesh Ashish

I apologize for my mistake.

DavidPostill

@Bob Not all torrents are pirated ...

Animesh Ashish

16:14

I still apoligize @Bob

Bob

@DavidPostill And I never claimed they were.

There's nothing wrong with discussing the mechanics of bittorrent.

There is something wrong with asking for sources for "software/movies".

Basically: it's something we do not discuss here.

DavidPostill

I download LibreOffice from the official torrents

Animesh Ashish

@Bob : I am a newbie, I am bound to make mistakes. The best part is I get to learn from them. I hope you cut me some slack in future. I don't know much places to ask this. So, I went ahead. My bad. I hope I am forgiven.

Bob

@AnimeshAshish Sorry if I seem annoyed - we've been getting a fair bit of this recently.

@AnimeshAshish There's no problem. You're fully welcome to stay and ... uh... chat. Just not about things against site-ToS :P

Animesh Ashish

@Bob : I am glad I am not flagged. Can you atleast suggest me where I could get ask this to get my query answered?

*ask

Bob

16:18

@AnimeshAshish Sorry - all I can really say is "not on Stack Exchange"

There are other forums with more lenient policies.

Animesh Ashish

@Bob : So I switch my question to "What are other forums with policies linient" enough to discuss this.

Bob

@AnimeshAshish Just to be clear (because apparently @DavidPostill objects): if you're asking whether the BitTorrent protocol is preferred over HTTP when offered by the legal owner of a work, that's fine. If you're asking about other software, movies, etc., that are not officially distributed via BT... don't do that here.

Animesh Ashish

@Bob : I am discussing about the former one.

But the switch-ed question is left unanswered.

Bob

There's an important distinction here because the former would be talking about relative efficiencies of the software protocols, while the latter would be more into discussions of what such sources might be "safer" or "more complete" or... yea.

Animesh Ashish

"Any linient forums that I can find where discussions related to torrents aren't objected at all"

@Bob And when I say "arent objected" it means I don't have to think twice before shooting another cannon. (in simpler, wittier words)

DavidPostill

16:25

@Bob I'm not objecting - just making an observation ...

Bob

Eh. I'm not about to flag or anything like that. The original message was supposed to be a light reminder. And it was only about piracy. If that's not what your request was about, that's perfectly fine.

Animesh Ashish

@Bob : You still haven't answered me. Any other "forums" with lighter rules?

@DavidPostill : Any idea when will @allquixotic would be online?

DavidPostill

@AnimeshAshish No

Bob

And to answer that first interpretation: HTTP tends to be more available (and easiest to use). BT can potentially provide higher download speeds if it's a well-shared file, as many large open-source software projects tend to be. BT has some protocol advantages such as built-in checksumming, support for folder downloads, and better download resumption/partial downloads.

Which method is "better" is rather situational and also depends on personal preference.

HTTP tends to be the best one to try first, simply because it's easier, especially for smaller downloads.

If you're on an unreliable network, BT might be better (w/ checksums and resumption).

Animesh Ashish

@Bob : Can you tell me the websites which are considered "best" in getting torrent links from. If thats in the domain of being in the "green zone" of the chat.

Bob

16:31

HTTP is definitely more lightweight - less network traffic/noise/overhead, less CPU usage if you're on a very slim machine.

@AnimeshAshish From the official distributor of whatever you're trying to download.

e.g. Canonical provides official Ubuntu torrents here: ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads

Animesh Ashish

I have heard "piratebay" is the best and "kickasstorrents" are offline. So..

Bob

... and that goes well outside the "we can discuss the protocol, but not piracy" bit.

Animesh Ashish

I so miss you @allquixotic :(

@Bob : Thank you Bob for your esteemed precious time. I am highly obliged that I got the tremendous opportunity to be shared and included in your time. I'd owe you for the information you imparted :)

Bob

o.O laying it on a bit thick there, no?

Rahul2001

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

Animesh Ashish

16:37

@Bob Simplify your hard-coded/in other words/ thingy

Bob

@AnimeshAshish I will offer a bit of general advice though: when you obtain software from unofficial sources, it is difficult to know that it has not been tampered with and malicious changes made. It's a common vector for malware.

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@AnimeshAshish Hm?

Animesh Ashish

@Bob " laying it on a bit thick there, no?" Means?

Bob

@AnimeshAshish dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/…

Rahul2001

CHAT GOT UPDATED WHILE I WASN'T HERE?????

Animesh Ashish

@Bob : I'll make myself brief from now. Learning new things, everyday

Bob

16:41

@Rahul2001 It did what now?

Rahul2001

yesterday, by allquixotic

whoa, github gists are ONEBOXED

Pretty sure that never used to happen

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : are you only 15yo ?

Bob

@AnimeshAshish Oh, I'm just saying you don't really need to be that thankful in chat :P

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Yes... I hope that you won't underestimate me just because of my age? :)

Bob

A thanks is nice, but that much makes me feel... embarrassed? Inadequate? :P

@Rahul2001 It's actually been there for a few years.

Rahul2001

16:42

@Bob really?

Bob

Actually I'm pretty sure @allquixotic's seen it before. Perhaps he forgot? :P

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : COuld you help me out on the issue I started on. Scroll and read. ANd you can answer me anywhere. On my facebook/social media.

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Torrents? And piracy? Is that your question?

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : Indeed

Rahul2001

Um, what exactly do you need help with?

Animesh Ashish

16:44

@Rahul2001 : Suggest me website. The best one to get my stuff from.

Rahul2001

I'm not promoting piracy here... But torrentfreak

Animesh Ashish

This website distributes torrents? I though it just a knowledge imparting website?

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Is knowledge not what you seek?

Animesh Ashish

Suggest me website. The best one to get my stuff from.

Bob

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Q: Gist support for chat 'onebox'

It would be very helpful on question chats (when they go live) to have gist 'onebox' support, to make it easy to share code.

feature-request status-completed chat

Animesh Ashish

16:47

@Rahul2001 : Thanks

DavidPostill

@AnimeshAshish You been asked to not ask that question here ...

Bob

Sigh.

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish You're welcome. In future, please don't repeat messages, especially not in bold. We usually see them the first time, especially if you ping us using an @. Also, it's best to keep piracy away from this chatroom, or SE in general

Bob

I look away for five minutes...

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 @DavidPostill @Bob : I'm sorry :(

Are we allowed to discuss/ask about each other in chat?

Rahul2001

16:50

@AnimeshAshish Yes, but a person might want to keep details of their personal life, well, private.

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : ARe you from the ones that woulld consider keeping it private? (I'm asking that am I allowed to ask about where do you live {state etc} from you)

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Uh, depend on what you want to ask. I probably would want to keep a lot of stuff private since this is a public chat room, but you can ask anyway.

DavidPostill

@AnimeshAshish If people are willing to share such personal information it is often in their profile

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : Where did you started learning programming from?

As 15 is a very young age to start with. Did you read a book/course

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish I picked up a book on HTML from the library when I was in 6th grade... That got me started with actual computer programming. Have been doing robotics since 4th grade. I have always been interested in technology and stuff...

Animesh Ashish

16:55

@Rahul2001 : May I know if you're preparing for IIT/ZIO?RMO?

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish Will give ZIO next year. Possibly trying for IIT

And MIT

Animesh Ashish

MIT? By giving SAT isn't it?

Rahul2001

And having a good portfolio (projects and competitions)

@AnimeshAshish How old are you?

Animesh Ashish

I am 18, bro.

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish College?

Animesh Ashish

16:57

@Rahul2001 : WHich State?

I'll be giving IIT this April.

Rahul2001

@AnimeshAshish That remains private, if you don't mind

Animesh Ashish

@Rahul2001 : I understand.

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