Root Access

Burgi

00:02

can you be a mod on two sites?

Journeyman Geek

Sure

I might have been for a while

Ben N

Yes; there are some that are mods on >5

Journeyman Geek

and there's people who moderate something like 7 sites

Ben N

I'm not sure where they find the time, heh

Journeyman Geek

;p

Michael Frank

00:03

Maybe they are the time. o.o

Journeyman Geek

One reason I'm a mod here is I spend the time here anyway

Burgi

can i nominate more than one person?

Journeyman Geek

Its self nomination

so, not really

Burgi

oh!

Journeyman Geek

But its entirely fine to bug someone into standing.

Ben N

00:04

Other-nominations go on for beta sites getting pro-tempore mods

DavidPostill

@Burgi Nominations aren't open yet.

Journeyman Geek

Even pro tem mods self-nominate

Burgi

so i have to manipulate the people i think would make great mods into nominating themselves?

Ben N

@JourneymanGeek Right, they have to be on board with it, but it can be other people writing the nominating answer

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill excellent!

@Burgi totally

@BenN Never seen that

actually, I have an answer for the tme thing on WB meta.

9

A: How much time does moderating this site actually consume?

As a mod elsewhere - If you can't spend the time flagging, editing, and otherwise helping make the site better now, you're not going to find the time to moderate. One of the funny things about being a mod is, how little I actually need my mod powers. It speeds things up. I have a flag queue for ...

Burgi

00:07

> Hey *person* have you been working that flag finger out?
> You know what they say about diamonds, chicks dig 'em
> You need some more bling! etc etc

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I had much more direct pressure ;p

Burgi

what has triggered these elections btw?

DavidPostill

20

A: What is the reason for insisting on self-nomination?

When we did allow outside nominations, it caused a lot of problems: users often did not know they were nominated by someone else users sometimes did not want to be nominated at all it implies a lot of coordination, more than there actually is, between users There is, I think, an important dif...

Journeyman Geek

@OliverSalzburg is stepping down

and we do need the help on peak days

bwDraco

Mar 1 '16 at 16:39, by allquixotic

Step #1: Accept who you are

DavidPostill

00:09

7

A: How can you nominate someone other than yourself for being a moderator?

Community Moderator Election Format and Design All nominations are by definition self-nominations. Nominating others is absolutely not supported.

Journeyman Geek

I don't really feel like applying pressure on people like @allquixotic and @DavidPostill to stand ;p

bwDraco

It's not the time. As much as I'd like to help, I really don't feel I can take up the mantle. My first vote would go to DavidPostill, assuming he runs.

No pressure, of course.

Burgi

did you know diamonds can burn like coal?

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi they do sometimes burn out, yeah

DavidPostill

I'm seriously considering it ...

bwDraco

00:13

I've come to accept that as great as having the diamond might be, there's a long road ahead of me and I need to grow up and improve my soft skills first. It doesn't mean I'll never be a good mod, just that I'm not ready.

Burgi

@DavidPostill watch this, you'll get a fulltime job right after the nominations close

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill If you have any questions... ;p

Michael Frank

Bleh... Eclipse is bugging me. :|

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I've already been asking ;)

Burgi

> Do you have to be a canine to be a moderator?

Journeyman Geek

00:14

@DavidPostill I guess the minimum is "Can I pop in on a real PC for 5 minutes a couple of times a day?"

@Burgi no but it helps.

We take a bite out of spam

Burgi

heh

Ben N

Get-Spam | Remove-Spam is my strategy

bwDraco

Besides, I'm helping out in other ways; for example, my account has autoflagging enabled in SmokeDetector.

DavidPostill

@Burgi That would be nice. Telephone interview ~~tomorrow~~ today ... with a large entertainment corp

Ben N

Good luck!

Burgi

00:16

good luck!

DavidPostill

Thanks!

Burgi

@DavidPostill japanese?

bwDraco

@fixer1234, if he's still around, would be a great mod, too.

Michael Frank

Cool! Pillars of Eternity runs on this laptop. :D

DavidPostill

@Burgi Aren't they all? :)

bwDraco

00:18

Mar 1 '16 at 16:42, by DavidPostill

@allquixotic I've been through it too. In my 40s. It's one of the most difficult things to learn.

Burgi

@DavidPostill i think its BadPasswordCorp aka North Korean Primary Target

DavidPostill

@Burgi lol

bwDraco

@DavidPostill, I think I've come to accept it. It took me some two years to realize that my social soft skills need work and I should focus on improving them first rather than constantly yearn for a position of authority.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Just one mod, yea?

@DavidPostill Ooh. Good luck.

Ben N

That's correct

Journeyman Geek

00:23

@Bob yeah

I think we're just topping up/replacing oliver

Bob

i.imgur.com/etyfb3z.gifv

Michael Frank

@Bob I knew it was coming, but I still didn't expect that to happen. hahaha

Burgi

@MichaelFrank to be fair, it is only version 1.0

DavidPostill

@Bob lol

Burgi

did anyone see top gear?

Journeyman Geek

01:02

@Burgi I'm hearing its a lot better post-evans

Oliver Salzburg

Damn. Visual Studio just showed a "Catastrophic Exception" and I was too slow on the screenshot trigger :(

I'm still alive though. As you can probably tell

Journeyman Geek

You probably just wiped out a small village or two. You monster.

Oliver Salzburg

O__O

Michael Frank

Yea, whoever was compiling your code by hand is now picking up pieces of their house.

Oliver Salzburg

Others are faster

I got it in a different form though

Journeyman Geek

02:59

lol

Looking at old posts

Oct 15 '13 at 12:05, by Journeyman Geek

this needs to die in a burning pyre of windows ME cds

Oct 15 '13 at 14:55, by Journeyman Geek

Geek wants to feed all these people to velociraptors, cause anklemauling is TOO GOOD FOR THEM.

Was having quite a day

Psycogeek

03:20

ahh the memories

bwDraco

04:51

techspot.com/review/1348-amd-ryzen-gaming-performance

Most lightly-threaded games perform worse with SMT enabled. Hopefully, Microsoft fixes this sooner rather than later.

Windows 10 is seeing 136 MB of cache. Obviously, there's a bug.

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/…

Rahul2001

06:59

Hello!

Mokubai

@bwDraco surely if it's fine with Intel hyperthreading but not with AMD then the bug is on AMDs side not exposing the cores properly

Fixing bugs in crap hardware using software bandaids is smelly at best and harmful in the long run for the software.

bwDraco

07:14

Windows has CPU-specific scheduling code and the code that optimizes for Family 15h (Bulldozer and kin) is doing bad things with Ryzen.

Mokubai

Having lots of if using_buggy_hw then do_something_special clauses that you can never get rid of because that buggy hardware is out there is fundamentally bad and can harm software performance for everyone who doesn't have the buggy hardware. Fix the damn hardware, not patch around it.

@bwDraco then the question becomes why AMD hadn't spoken to Microsoft before now, as this should have shown up during their extensive validation testing (lol)

This is the P4 all over again

The processor would have been in the pipeline for several years, and if they were testing it even vaguely then the bug has been seen and ignored. If it is really something horrifying then they should have spoken to someone at MS about it sooner. Lazy company is aiming for flashy "look at our amazing products (but ignore the flaws)"

I lost respect for AMD a long time ago. Used to love them, they've given a lot of good competition that has spurred on the market, but their recent offerings have been lackluster at best. this sounds like it is going to be yet another damp squib.

Burgi

08:35

morning

Neil

dose any one have any clue how to fix a windows 8.1 computer that has failed its upgrade and that can't be entered into safe mode that has no backups or restore points

with out losing any programs or settings

Burgi

format and start again with a clean install?

Neil

@Burgi the refresh option would be better.

i don't want to lose any programs or settings

Burgi

bit late for that

Neil

windows updates and breaks it self

Journeyman Geek

08:38

@Neil eh. More information needed.

Neil

@JourneymanGeek like what

Journeyman Geek

Breaks how?

@Neil like everything

What upgrade? What is it doing that makes you think it's broken? Error messages?

Neil

@JourneymanGeek windows upgrade gets stuck at 11% then screen turns off and the power light blinks and never stop blinking.

@JourneymanGeek no error messages

Journeyman Geek

When you restart?

Neil

@JourneymanGeek all ready did a restart had to hold the power button to do a reset the result is the same not matter what i do

windows updates logs make no scene because the logs date back to last year.

Burgi

08:43

that sounds more like a hardware failure

so wait... you are able to boot into windows?

Neil

@Burgi no

Journeyman Geek

How are you reading the logs on a PC you can't get into?

Burgi

can you boot from a linux live cd?

Neil

@JourneymanGeek recovery options it boot into recovery mode when the computer turns on. i go into command line and copy the log file to a flash drive

but nothing in recovery mode helps

then if its rebooted then it trys the dam upgrade again then it gets stuck at 11% then goes to a blank screen

@Burgi Yes i can

Andy K

hey guys

(morning)

Burgi

08:49

boot into linux, do backup, fresh install

Neil

i run a CHKDSK

see if that dose any thing

Journeyman Geek

eh. Not the best idea oddly enough

backup first

Neil

i thought there would be another way but fresh install it it. after backup

probably wont mount on Linux

Journeyman Geek

in theory you could just do an "in place upgrade"

SOmething like winhelp.us/non-destructive-reinstall-of-windows-8-and-8-1.html ?

Neil

@JourneymanGeek thinking about doing that

Journeyman Geek

08:58

but you want to backup anyway

Burgi

8

A: Are there any flights which fly above the Bermuda Triangle?

Others have covered the Northern hemisphere. But, what about the southern hemisphere equivalent ? Map the antipodes of the Bermuda Triangle into the Southern Hemisphere and see what you get!!! People fly there. Most come back.. BUT some of the weirdest and most mysterious things on earth inhab...

Journeyman Geek

@Bob picked up a sd card reader at daiso...

and it does MS and MS2 0_0

Bob

o.O

MS?

Journeyman Geek

Memory stick

Neil

@JourneymanGeek yea veeam agent for Linux is dam good backup tool

Bob

09:00

ah

Journeyman Geek

@Neil all backup tools suck if you don't have a backup in place when you need it

Bob

fairly typical, no?

Journeyman Geek

I had to look up what m2 was

Bob

I have a random $5 card reader here that does CF, MS, M2 and Micro SD

Journeyman Geek

eh, most daiso card readers are SD only

Bob

09:01

never really cared about the others :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob No CF here

this also has seperate micro and standard SD slots

Bob

oh, SDXC slot on the back of this one :P

Journeyman Geek

which are probably the same slot...

oh, no SDXC here

Bob

@JourneymanGeek SD normally implies SDXC these days

Journeyman Geek

and I mainly need it for, at most, SDHC cards from cameras

Bob

09:02

pretty sure they just use the same cheap controller

maybe leave off the CF slot cause it's really big

Journeyman Geek

and this makes it so I don't need to pull out the stream or another old laptop

Bob

@Neil You can preserve most settings by just copying the user profile folder.

Programs... lost cause, probably.

@JourneymanGeek I swear chkdsk breaks more than it fixes.

And of course it falls under the category of "running writing tools on a broken drive", which is a giant no-no until you're sure you have a backup image and have recovered everything else you can.

Burgi

everything on SE is loading really slow

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi works for me 0_0

Burgi

its only SE sites.... everything else is fine

very odd

think this is spam: superuser.com/questions/973007/…

Journeyman Geek

09:13

@Burgi yeah

Burgi

i'm glad i reflagged then :)

Journeyman Geek

dear god

-3

Q: Why when I load the ddns domain associated with the public IP of my huawey b310 router does this reject the connection?

¡Important, "~~~~://" means "http://"! I have the following domain hired at ~~~~://www.dynu.com: ~~~~://medaeditorbyuknown1.dynu.net/ The domain is associated with the IP of the router thanks to Dynu IP Update Client v4.43. Every time a certain time passes Dynu IP Update Client v4.43 is updatin...

router

this isn't spam I think

but that formatting

Burgi

yeah...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek smells like a misunderstanding of markdown :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob and trying to get around the dns blocks

@Bob that's not oh dear. That's too much jaegermeister....

Journeyman Geek

09:34

@Burgi apparently SE isn't just slow for you

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek oh?

Journeyman Geek

in Charcoal HQ, 55 mins ago, by Glorfindel

Is it just me or is SE really slow today?

in Charcoal HQ, 46 mins ago, by tripleee

reeeallllly slow for me as well

(Via Tavern on the meta)

Burgi

both users in the UK?

Journeyman Geek

I donno

looks like no tho

Burgi

well there goes that theory

Journeyman Geek

09:44

SU seems down for me

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek Not for me, working just fine

@JourneymanGeek duckduckgo.com/…

Journeyman Geek

yeah, seems back up now

Burgi

maybe they are rolling out an update?

DavidPostill

10:07

It does feel slower than normal to me - but then I don't have a fast connection in the first place :/

Burgi

MOAR HAMSTERS!!!!!

Andy K

one mate said SE was down in Australia

Rahul2001

10:29

Don't you just hate it when Wikipedia copies your homework?

2

Andy K

I thought it was the other way around, Rahul ...

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/839057673224130561

@Burgi now now. Its unicorns

jokerdino

hello

How would the new mod feel about me getting editing privileges?

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino NOOOOOOOOO!

(Well, for now I'm still one of the newest mods here)

@jokerdino I need to get 3k on your site so people will stop bugging me ;p

jokerdino

Haha, luckily I don't get pressurized like you are over there.

Burgi

10:42

@JourneymanGeek hamsters have a higher energy density per volume than unicorns

Andy K

JourneyM, thought you were an old mod

Journeyman Geek

@AndyK I was in the most recent batch of mods

jokerdino

He is one of the two latest.

Which is still 3 years ago.

Andy K

oh ok

Journeyman Geek

yup

I'm just rediculously active on chat

Andy K

10:44

I wish to be a mod one day

jokerdino

very rediculous

Andy K

but I need time

-_-

jokerdino

Depends on what kinda mod you want to be.

Andy K

I would like to be a moderator on SE but tbh, this is not a main priority therefore the lack of time

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino I try to be the mod I wish other people were ;p

@AndyK Its less being a "mod" than "Hey, I like this community enough to contribute a little more"

I don't spend any more time on SU as a mod

just differently

Rahul2001

10:46

!!will @AndyK ever become a mod?

ChatBot John Cavil

@Rahul2001 Impossible

Andy K

I like the community here

Rahul2001

@AndyK Sorry. The god has decided.

Me, on the other hand... chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/118?m=29797503#29797503

Andy K

but my priority is not too contribute on that community, right now

Journeyman Geek

@AndyK there's a few things that are handy for a wannabe mod.

Andy K

10:48

probably later

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek Interesting that you say that..

Andy K

but if you have suggestions, I'm all ears

Journeyman Geek

Get a marshall badge. Its a pain to get one as a mod - and there's a list of badges in the elections that mean something more or less.

Andy K

oh ok

Journeyman Geek

Popping into meta at least once a day is good too

Andy K

10:49

I did not know that

jokerdino

Yeah because after you become a mod, meta will be less fun.

Andy K

thanks for the info

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino so go ~~troll~~ trawl MSE ;p

Andy K

Rahul, ha ha ha

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino I used to know a guy who ran a community I used to be part of.

Was a perfect counterexample to how to run a community

Andy K

10:51

you guys, are my breath of fresh air

going back to the drill of emails and tasks to deal with. see you in a bit

Journeyman Geek

Of course outside chat, this is a less social community, and its pretty hard to mess up moderation as badly as he did ;p

jokerdino

True that. It's really hard to do things wrong.

Journeyman Geek

Oh, we can do things wrong, differently

Bob

11:10

djsmiley2k

11:34

@Mokubai the funniest part is, all through school my reading age was far beyond my peers, it was just the fact I had undiagnosed dylexica meant that exams were a killer

Also yey, at work

TOWMN

12:52

I wonder if this plane has WiFi

I doubt it, Malaysian seem stingy

Economy passengers aren't allowed to use the check-in desks anymore

Burgi

@TOWMN Malaysia Airlines?

TOWMN

@Burgi Yup

I know I know, their planes disappear sometimes. But in the grand scheme of things it's still pretty rare and mostly not their fault

2

Burgi

Good luck! Don't go missing over the indian ocean!

TOWMN

@Burgi Not likely to happen thankfully, I've seen enough Air Crash Investigation to know my way around these planes

Burgi

one was shot down by russians, the other...

TOWMN

12:57

For one I always have my GPS tracker on just for fun, so I'll know pretty quick if we're going the wrong way... Don't have a sat phone though

@Burgi "The Russians"

I like how they call 0.8Mbps "High speed business wifi" here -_-

Oh wow, Google Location History is getting even smarter by the day

Burgi

have they got "live" satellite imagery of you?

TOWMN

Not quite

Burgi

context?

TOWMN

It detects when I'm "on a train" when I'm on the airport transit train between terminals

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi @TOWMN is straying. Seeing the catteries of thailand and all that.

Burgi

13:04

@TOWMN oh yeah its been doing that for ages

TOWMN

Rather than guessing I'm on a motorcycle, or in a car, etc, just based on my speed, it actually sees me following a known train track (how it knows its a known train track I'm not sure)

Burgi

sometimes it gets confused if a road follows a railway track

TOWMN

Yeah. But I wasn't expecting it to know non-public train tracks inside an airport :-o

Burgi

ah!

TOWMN

Also in the past it used to label my flight paths as "Moving" but obviously at some point they added plane detection

Surprising given Android GPS is almost broken by design on planes and always has been

It can't quite tell the difference between an airport bus and a plane yet though

Burgi

13:10

@JourneymanGeek they are getting perilously close to your lawn... you might need to chase @TOWMN off

TOWMN

@Burgi I've been on his lawn. And in his workplace.

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi naw, my neighbour's cat infestation manages itself ;p

TOWMN

That was before I hated him and before he worked there thoughu

Burgi

do they eat cat in mayalasia?

TOWMN

I don't know. It's not on the menu here that's for sure

Journeyman Geek

13:13

@Burgi nope

more likely to find the odd, secret back alley monkey brainery, or maybe dried lizards on a stick than cats

Burgi

ugh! it looks like mclaren are going to be mid-pack again this year :(

bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/39151187

DavidPostill

13:55

Phone interview went well. Now I have to wait ...

Burgi

wtf.... bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39188092

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill good luck

but usually phone prescreenings mean they like at least a little of what they saw, and you're past the lowest level HR drones ;)

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