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16:11
@Boris_yo well someone said that theres fake airbnb listings where you show up and there's no place to stay. but just look at reviews and make sure your host is verified thats all I heard
Had an ugly confrontation with my father.
@Rahul2001 Did he find out you got your girlfriend pregnant?
@ThatBrazilianGuy I thought you needed to hook up for that to happen?
user226528
@Rahul2001 I'm sorry to hear that. Family confrontations can be nasty, especially when the family connection is deep.
16:29
@ThatBrazilianGuy If you knew @Rahul2001's family history you would know to be a little sensitive towards him.
@DavidPostill !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere ?
@DavidPostill :(
Sorry @Rahul2001
@ThatBrazilianGuy No problem I'm sure, just wanted you to be aware. It's in the chat history.
@DavidPostill @ThatBrazilianGuy I'm mostly okay, will be in any case. I think I'll go offline for a bit and write a diary entry to calm down.
16:39
@Rahul2001 Hope things get better, man.
@Rahul2001 Take it easy, let us know if you feel you need to vent talk more about it later.
Well, eventually they'll get, but it doesn't mean it doesn't suck while it's happening.
Yeah, and be certain you have friends here wishing you the best.
@DavidPostill hello :]
your name looks very blue today
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Thank you. My name is always going to be blue in here - until it isn't ;p
16:44
Mar 28 at 20:05, by Ben N
The moderator election is over - DavidPostill wins!
@DavidPostill Will do :)
@ThatBrazilianGuy :)
So... I spent my morning manually converting numbers from base 2, 3, 4, 8, and 16. +_+'
[s]It was so fun. [/s]
You could have used PowerShell!
Even calc does 3 of those :)
@BenN Sure. I should just have told the exam supervisor "wait a second while I grab my laptop".
16:51
Hehe
Actually I just checked and there's not a super convenient way to do an arbitrary base :/
Might as well use wolframalpha and symbolab (spoiler: for the non-presencial courses I did) ;)
LOL. Every user in /r/talesfromtechsupport/ is now the Wahoo Lady
17:15
at uni, one of my assignments for a joke module, was to make a spreadsheet which did that @ThatBrazilianGuy
tbh it would of likely been faster :D
17:43
Blargh, the newest Win10 x64 ISO won't fit on a standard DVD
I have no dual-layer ones and all my flash drives are 4GB -_-
Wow that's grown a bit...
I remember back when I could fit 32 and 64bit editions of Windows 7 onto a single 4GB memory stick
@ThatBrazilianGuy isdungeddit
@Bob: Just bought another Galaxy S4 LTE-A, hopefully a real one not a korean one this time, because what the heck am I doing with my life? Fail.
hi
all settled @Rahul2001?
When is the marriage?
I think he's pregnant
4
18:12
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Are there unverified hosts?
AirBnB - the guy from Chainsaw Massacre... lol
@PowershellforLinux This one is 60GB but they have unlimited for 35 EU I think
18:30
@tereško OHMAGAWD CHOCOLATE-COVERED LOVE-APPLohwaaaaaitaminute
@Boris_yo o_0
That'd cost like 100 Euros in this country, for just 60GB at like, 15Mbps
@PowershellforLinux I look at your contry prices and laugh cry desperately
@ThatBrazilianGuy Australia's worse, apparently
USA is even worse, apparentl
y
@PowershellforLinux THAN BRAZIL?
Dolan pls
@ThatBrazilianGuy Than UK
18:32
I think Cuba might be worse than Brazil.
In tru XKCD 606 fashion, I'm off to play Gears of War. Volume 1. Released 2006.
!!xkcd 606
Holy crap, the cake was a lie in 2008? :-o
That was 9 years ago
Okay, my life is majorly fucked up.
@Rahul2001 That's kinda what happens when you get pregnant at 15
I like going to the terrace and for walks at night sometimes to get away from stuff and clear my mind. Dad is now going to court and saying my mum is incompetent because she allows this 'dangerous' behaviour, and apparently he's very worried that I might die
18:39
I.........wut?
I did that as a teenager, I just didn't tell my dad so he wouldn't notice if I died
I mean err, so he wouldn't bitch about it
Finding ways of sneaking out onto the roof/ground/partner's house/rave without your parents noticing is a pretty essential teenager skill
my mum said 'just contact me every 3 days so i know ur ok'
Dad doesn't live with us. Found out from a neighbour
my mum kinda realised that if she didn't set strict rules, no one would rebel
it worked.
If my dad gets custody I'm probably going to run away to a friend's house.
I'm not going to live with someone who threatens to kill me, my mom and my grandparents.
Fuck this
18:42
at some point I'd hope the court at least hears your views
@djsmiley2k didn't you know? a child under age is property or an object; they have no legal standing and the government doesn't care one lick what they might "want" any more than a cat going "meow! meow! I don't wanna die!"
@allquixotic But child trafficking...
erm
well that depends
over here, there's charities he could call
and the moment he did
things start happening
If someone threatens to kill me, I call the police.
but yolo
18:59
No one to call here. No one my dad can't bribe. The police don't even care.
19:35
@djsmiley2k lolo
@Rahul2001 Claim asylum in Australia!
Bob will adopt you!
Actually Singapore is nearer
wtf is that
wombles?!
19:48
@Rahul2001 Do you live in a very violent part of the city? Like, ghetto, slum, favela, you-go-out-you-get-mugged-and-raped violent?
@djsmiley2k Cities Skylines
oooooooo is that the not simcity simcity?
@djsmiley2k Err yeah, basically :-p
Anyway, there's a bear eating my train tracks
he needs iron?
Bleh why is it the camera store now sells more drone backpacks instead of camera backpacks
I wouldn't mind a drone that can lift a backpack though, would be useful for stealing wifi
I miss taylor swift :-(
I miss taylor swift :-(
Timeout my ass
20:03
oh good
not just me it does that to then
sigh
in my dreams ican fly
it's so awesome
Me too
This is why I like sleeping all day
it's weird
becuase in my dreams i'm utterly aware that i shouldn't be able to fly
but i'm not aware i'm dreaming still
WE
Ever managed lucid dreaming?
yup a few times
once i started reading in a dream
then something just 'clicked' - i noticed the words were moving
then i said to myself in the dream 'you can't read in dreams.... ohhhh'
but it turned partially nightmareish
and i ended up asking my wife to wake me up over and over again, until i actually woke up
"WE" was meant to say "Heh"
Fucking mobile provider
Who probalby hate me right now
@djsmiley2k o_0
20:19
CAAAAAAAAAAT
UNDERFLOOOOOOOOOW
Stack Overflow, Cat Underflow?
Contemplating whether I should drive to glasgow tomorrow or just take the bus
I read that as drive my glasgow
I don't think @PowershellforLinux owns glasgow, yet
20:22
@djsmiley2k Yet?
That sounds excessively optimistic.
hey, think positive
> The Department for Transport introduced a safety helmet assessment and rating program (SHARP) for motorcycle
helmets sold in the UK. The mechanics behind the part of the scheme that uses a rigid-sphere head-plus-helmet model
to estimate the peak headform acceleration in oblique helmet impact tests is assessed and the approximations exposed.
When Finite Element Analysis, of a deformable helmet with a realistic shape, was used, the predicted levels of
oblique peak acceleration were much smaller than those estimated by the SHARP scheme. The statistical data of
You've not been banned in what, 24 hours?> :D
tl;dr: The only independent, scientific, real-world safety based rating of motorcycle helmets has been determined by scientific review to be "meaningless"
you talkin to me chump? <3
(laughing with tears emoticon)
20:24
Guess I'll just go back to wearing a cocunut shell on my noggin then
Fuck emoticons, its all about the emojis now
😂😂😂😂😂
Hmm. I thought you ride a motorbike and drive a car ...
looks like a styled emoticon to me
@ThatBrazilianGuy No, I live in the most peaceful part of the city. Well, very peaceful except for the existence of my father.
Urgh, can I not have a head plase
I don't like the sound of 300G of acceleration during a low speed crash
@DavidPostill no you can drive anything really like your attitude, your graphics card, etc
20:40
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Wrong. The BBC agrees with me :)
@djsmiley2k can I borrow your oracle account?
> drive or ride?

Anything with four or more wheels (like a car, a bus, a lorry or a train) we drive; anything with two wheels or that we straddle (like a horse, a bike, motorbike or scooter) we ride, (even though you need a driving licence to ride a motorbike.
I have a question
does the motorbike drive itself
spperrr
I have one? XD
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere No. The drive chain drives it :)
20:48
oh wait in that movie when the girl let go of the brake the motorcycle drove itself. so maybe it does drive itself and the rider only steers it?
I have a question. does the bicycle drive itself
-> no the chains drives it
who drives the chain?
-> the pedals
who drives the pedals
-> the shoes

tl;dr Ima go drive my legs to work tomorrow
@Rahul2001 This is why I've moved to a different country from my father
@djsmiley2k I've not been banned since Mr Non-Reactionary Over-reacting Mod took office.
@djsmiley2k and I havent been banned since I got banned for no reason
erm \o/ ?
:D
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere Achievement level up!
20:51
yeah it's definitely up
I'm gonna have a serious problem if the FBI ever try to force me to unlock my laptop...
let me guess it's one of those things you'll never get if you force, you need to do it gently
@DavidPostill is it just me or do you think Rahul shouldnt get harassed by having his messages on the star wall
If he didn't want to become the centre of attention he probably shouldn't have gotten himself pregnant at 15
My dad would hate me if I did that too
Dammit my underpants aren't working
you're not funny mr cat
21:03
in Java on Stack Overflow Chat, 2 mins ago, by Mr_Tree
on a network do all the nodes/computers have the same broadcast address?
Cause if I was I've totally been wasting my life being in the wrong career
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere depends on your definition of "network", "all", and "same"
And maybe "do" and "have"
for it is not my definition
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere If @Rahul2001 wants the stars removing I will remove them.
cool.
that opportunity may not exist due to the lack of a PM system. he could be like sure I want it removed but im too embarassed to ask for that. then I could be like oh its all good Ill just say it was bothering me and I flagged it. "thx bro"
> their whole system backups for emergency recovery were apparently full of more holes than a President Elect's climate policy.
@CausingUnderflowsEverywhere there's a PM site moderators system.
21:13
I could not understand your phrase.
Try turning it off and back on again
.. suggestion ignored as it's deemed off-topic.
@PowershellforLinux I read that as fit
@DavidPostill Cool. I'll let you know if I ever do.
21:49
@ThatBrazilianGuy -1 for self promoting your question here :)
1 message moved to Trash
Sorry
I just thought any power user here maybe knew the answer
lol. I think it was in jest
Nothing wrong with the question itself
I could have said "hey, anyone know how to change DownThemAll's language" but the question was self-evident.
Well, anyway, I'm emailing the devs.
After all, I have an issue open for only six months!
YAY, LIBRE SOFTWARE, WHERE YOU CAN BE IGNORED FOR FREE.
@JourneymanGeek It was - hence the :)
NO IT WAS MOD ABUSE! HE'S ALREADY CRAZY WITH POWER!
@DavidPostill clearly lacks the superior canine wisdom and self-control to be a mod.
21:57
woof?
goes chew on @ThatBrazilianGuy's shoes
At the moment I'm schizophrenic. The "Non-Reactionary" and "Over-reacting" parts of me a fighting are death duel :)
Also knurd 5am me is a pain
@JourneymanGeek Yeah, why are you still awake?
The alarm I set at 5am for last week woke me up
22:06
> When accidentally knurd, people hurry to get alcohol into them to restore the balance.
@Rahul2001 We could ask the same of you when it is 3:36 AM? ;p
@ThatBrazilianGuy I just bitch about how annoying the job market is.
@JourneymanGeek HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA AINT HE CUTE
@ThatBrazilianGuy I lost my last proper job almost a year and half ago ;p
been applying since
it isn't even unemployment. Its how few employers bother to reach out
And I realised one of my Murdoch classmates from the management side works there.
So popped him a message asking if he can refer me
@JourneymanGeek Didn't know you were in a relationship
22:10
@ThatBrazilianGuy errrr..... oops
No, that comes after a job ;p
And here's me thinking he meant Stack Overflow.
"Hi I'm Jeff Atwood and I was wondering if you have an opening for our quasi-official mascot"
You are? ;p
I won't neither confirm nor deny that
@DavidPostill I'm keeping an eye on their SRE team (Since I know a few folks there) or if they're hiring new CMs
22:13
@ThatBrazilianGuy (parse error)
but nothing's really turned up that's a good fit for someone who isn't a developer
or its odd marketing or other jobs like that 0_0
I was a developer but that's too many years ago now ...
I'm nearly 4 years without a job :/
@DavidPostill and that's really where most support systems are faiing.
Our ---horror movie actor--- president is trying to end 5 decades of worker's rights.
So the entire prospect of future jobs looks quite sad for me.
22:16
I'm not looking for a handout. Mine won't give me one anyway
but telling me "get retrained" dosen't really help me put money in my pocket.
@DavidPostill Ok, Mr. Mod, here's questionable thing for your decision. This is one of the HTTPS image fixes. I fixed it, but I question whether or not there's a copyright situation here.
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A: Insert text with vi editor

slhckTo insert text into vi or vim, you need to enter Insert Mode. Do this by pressing i. Alternatively, press a to append, for example. Press o to insert text below the current line. Once you're done, press Esc to leave the insert mode again. There are lots of vi/vim commands for simple text manip...

I would love to retrain - as long as I'm not picking up the tab ...
@DavidPostill I was up talking to my girlfriend, going to sleep now.
@DavidPostill that's a thing. They kinda expect you to pay it. Unless you have a sponsor. Which means having a job
Don't forget needing at least 5 years experience to get your first job.
22:20
Yes!
In tech that's only been around for 3!
I don't think so. Looking at http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html it says:

This cheat sheet has proven to be pretty popular. Here are some relevant links:

Brendan Kidwell prepared a PDF version for easy printing of the whole tutorial and cheat sheet
Peter Hosey prepared a Dvorak layout version
Donglu Feng prepared a simplified-Chinese version
Mark Schoonover prepared another Dvorak version (more similar to the original)
Nathael prepared a version with the French AZERTY keyboard layout, you can visit his page.
So I don't think there will be any problem using it.
That was my thinking. I was made to download, and has it's own attribution and don't have a © on it anywhere.
And in other news:
in Charcoal HQ, 2 mins ago, by angussidney
Congratulations everyone! We have offically caught FIFTY THOUSAND TP spam posts since the start of MS. Nice work, and a huge thanks to everyone who helped us get here.
@GypsySpellweaver and lol. That's a ex mod!
@JourneymanGeek Then he ought to appreciate the benefits of being on SU
@JourneymanGeek Or was the post from an ex-mod?
22:24
@GypsySpellweaver No, the person who answered the question
@DavidPostill He's good! I've fixed some of his answers, or edits to posts, and he make super clean diagrams. Pleasure to see his work.
@JourneymanGeek Here you need to be proficient in every framework, language, tool, ranging from autocad to video editing to 3D modeling to photoshop to social media to tech support to web dev to embedded devices and you'll earn USD 500 / month.
'night folks...
@ThatBrazilianGuy damn straight.
@GypsySpellweaver Yeah. I always read his name as Slick :)
22:27
@ThatBrazilianGuy How does USD 500/month compare to cost of living there?
@Rahul2001 nn
@ThatBrazilianGuy -2 for self promoting your question a second time
@GypsySpellweaver I earn nearly twice as that, pay no rent, and barely make ends meet.
@DavidPostill iirc it's soulhack, disemboweled
@ThatBrazilianGuy I had a company offer me 1k SGD for a sysop job.
@JourneymanGeek That makes sense, especially if you say disemvoweled :)
22:33
.... Autocucumber my old fiend
And I missed a chance to abuse my mod powers and fix it for you :)
@JourneymanGeek For what time period?
Per month
22:53
:/
Its a company that's got a terrible reputation and was clearly trying to exploit folks who were desperate. They also tried a bait and switch so the heck with them
@JourneymanGeek I don't know how much it is in terms of cost of living.
How much is the minimum monthly wage in SGD?
@ThatBrazilianGuy a security guard or burger flipper probably earns 1.5k
or more
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
So our IT markets look quite similar. =/
The Progressive Wage Model (PWM) is a wage structure advocated by the labour movement of Singapore, which is led by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), the sole national trade union centre in Singapore. The objective of introducing the Progressive Wage Model is to increase the salaries of workers through the enhancement of skills and improving productivity. Progressive Wage is enforced via business licensing (as opposed to legislation). This model was designed to enable rank and file workers to climb the wage ladder, and provides for a minimum wage. This would then lead to higher wages for...
1000 dollars is what a janitor earns
@ThatBrazilianGuy kinda.
I earn ~3.5x min monthly wage in my govmt IT job. With my not-so-stellar qualifications and experience, I'd be really lucky to earn 2x monthly wage.
Burger flippers, janitors, cleaning ladies and such "low" jobs earn 1x min wage.
That is, when they're not "tertiary" jobs, that is, they're employees of another company that rents out their services.
And then skips their payment for two, three months, goes bankrupt, then changes its name and registration and re-hires everyone, paying less.
Then our resident horror movie character president said "YOU GET TERTIARY JOBS! EVERYONE GETS TERTIARY JOBS!"
Another politician said "worker's regulations hinder economy, we gotta get rid of that"
YEAH HE SAID THAT.
Big protests all over the country, photos on social media, nothing on TV
23:24
2.5x minimum wage is my minimum
3.5x should be what a fresh grad gets paid.
god. Outsourcing IT's the worst.
@JourneymanGeek Well, currently at our uni they outsource janitors, cleaning staff, lunch room staff, security, and the like.
@ThatBrazilianGuy everyone outsources IT
sometimes with 3 or 4 levels of outsourcing
Well, not here. At least not yet. There's a law saying you can't outsource your core business.
So if you're an IT firm, all your employees are your employees.
Of course, there's a "nice" loophole that if you register yourself as an one-man business, then you're "technically" not their employee
So they don't owe you health plans, vacations, etc etc etc etc
IN THEORY, you'd earn so much more because you're now a business in itself.
In practice, there's lots of marketing and "creative" jobs paying less than 2x min wage to "one man businesses"
Without health plans, vacations, etc
And the politicians want it to be the norm for EVERYONE
They already fucked retirement plans for everyone last year
cause they probably don't need to work for a living
Now you have to work WITHOUT SKIPPING RETIREMENT TAXES A SINGLE MONTH from age 16 to age 65.
That way you can retire earning about 50% of your salary.
Yay \o/
The Man Who Laughs is a 1928 American silent horror film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. The film is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name and stars Mary Philbin as the blind Dea and Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine. The film is known for the grim carnival freak-like grin on the character Gwynplaine's face, which often leads it to be classified as a horror film. Film critic Roger Ebert stated, "The Man Who Laughs is a melodrama, at times even a swashbuckler, but so steeped in Expressionist gloom that it plays like a horror film." The Man Who Laughs is a Romantic...
Who needs horror movies when one's got brazilian politicians?
23:43
lol
The monster on top is fake.
Well, the one on the bottom is also a monster. And, actually, also fake. >_<
But it's a real photo
"To disprove the scandal that Brazilian meat is rotten and filled with dangerous chemicals, I'm inviting international leaders to a steak restaurant... one specialized in international (non-Brazilian) meat" \o/
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