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You being unable to debug UWP is intentional per their design
00:40
it was possible in 8.1
 
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03:27
8.1 uses a slightly different framework for Metro applications
 
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04:53
@bwDraco lol. A few of my machines boot off dodgy chinese brand SSDs
 
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Bob
Bob
05:58
> As a haze hung over Sydney on Saturday, residents in parts of the city were warned to avoid outdoor activities as the air quality reached "hazardous" levels.
lovely.
and I just spent all day walking around outside
06:57
Guy wants to have remote access to his CAD' like software. He asks if it's better to DIY i.e. have home PC configured with UPS backup and manage that home server versus rent a dedicated PC from hosting company and have that convenience. Which is better?
Also, should he start with virtual server or dedicated?
07:49
imgur.com/a/A2JP6 this is pretty crazy (complete, midrange PC shoehorned into a PSU ...)
08:25
@Bob Somehow I naively imagined Australian cities had clean air.
Bob
Bob
@FaheemMitha we usually do
except when they do fire reduction burns
@Bob Glad to hear it.
@Bob I see.
@FaheemMitha clean air and venomous critters
@JourneymanGeek Nothing's perfect.
09:22
@JourneymanGeek A PC integrated into power supply?
@Boris_yo the powersupply is the PC
 
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11:09
> The last message was posted 2 hours ago.
Bob
Bob
11:31
blah
11:43
lol
11:59
Well, this was interesting
@Hennes Hello!
Haven't seen you around in a while
Not enough time in the world to do all I want :(
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13:09
@rahuldottech hi
@Avery hello!
13:25
[-_'_-]
13:39
🐌🐛🐜🐝
14:25
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@rahuldottech Me no understand silly emojiis :/
@DavidPostill everything that is beautiful cannot be comprehended by these little minds of ours...
@rahuldottech shrug. I will continue to ignore your emoji posts then ;)
14:44
@DavidPostill lol
14:54
@DavidPostilldid you get that job?
Bob
Bob
hmm
what's the go-to tool to create an iso image in Windows?
I haven't done that in years :/
@Burgi Yes.
> I'm unlikely to be online anymore much before 18:30 UK time. I have no access to SU at work (even mobile) as I am working in a locked down call centre (mobiles must be left in lockers)
Bob
Bob
preferably something easy for someone tech-inept to use
Bob
Bob
@DavidPostill ah, that one's good? thanks
Google turns up a lot of suspicious tools :P
15:07
See also their forum CD/DVD/BD Burning Guides
Bob
Bob
@DavidPostill yea that's probably overkill for this person :P
@DavidPostill congrats!
Can you guys tell if this is spam or not? superuser.com/review/low-quality-posts/687731 Looks suspicious to me but not 100% certain.
That's spam. It's promoting a piracy tool.
Alright, got my first sports photography job of the season today. Gotta go.
Cool!!
15:39
@DavidPostill Just curious, what about emergencies?
How does one reach you?
@rahuldottech you don't typically go for one mod for things
@JourneymanGeek No, as in, home emergencies
Bob
Bob
@rahuldottech presumably call a company number
like we did in the old days before everyone had a mobile phone
@Bob huh...
Bob
Bob
15:42
"hi I'm David's <relation>, can you put me through to him?"
15:58
Just adding my two cents as a 16 year old: No offence, but you appear to be an overly strict parent. Everyone makes mistakes, and everyone deserves second and even third chances. Why would you take away her phone and access to the TV? That's going overboard. I realize that she made a mistake, but too much punishment makes people angry and bitter, instead of helping... — rahuldottech 16 secs ago
Thoughts?
how does the gold in the groud get there...
@DavidPostill :(
@rahuldottech is this the driving thing?
@djsmiley2k yep
i havent clicked yet, overly sleepy 1 yr old attached
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
imagine she needs the car to get to work, then it makes sense, but yeah i agree
@DavidPostill you 'started' yet?
im guessing monday but seeing the star i wondered
16:33
youtube.com/watch?v=ND_jsJTSPUw - I registered on parenting.SE just to post this here. You need it. — allquixotic 21 secs ago
##yes
@allquixotic @rahuldottech you both could of just upvoted my sanswer instead :P
17:14
my life is gud
cept the kids aren't in bed
17:38
@djsmiley2k baconnaise?
17:59
@Avery i agree that looks grim
18:11
tis nice :O
> About 21,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes and workplaces in the western city of Koblenz as a precaution before specialists attempt to defuse the 500-kilogram bomb on Saturday afternoon (local time)
o:
> Failure to defuse the bomb could cause a big enough explosion to flatten a city block, a fire department official said. "This bomb has more than 1.4 tonnes of explosives,"
but the best bit...
wait what
> Reuters notes that every year Germany discovers more than 2,000 tons of live bombs and munitions, adding "In July, a kindergarten was evacuated after teachers discovered an unexploded World War Two bomb on a shelf among some toys."
500kg bomb has 1.4t of explosives?
What?
1.4 tonnes in 500kg?
tonnes.... being imperial tonnes, not metric tons. I guess?
yeah ;)
ahh
probably
18:13
tonnes is metric
wait nope
even then it doesn't work
it's only 1016kg
its weird that nearly all the bombs dropped on the UK exploded but the ones dropped on germany haven't...
we're crap at making bombs?
also, there's been at least 3 in coventry, in the last 10 years
i think you just don't have many up there?
we had all the industry building tanks and planes around here
(my parents house has fire damage from a incendiry that missed the Alvis factory)
we had the largest port in the country and all the steel factories and the vickers aero plant
why u got no bombs
(we had the blitz, we win :P )
tho yeah, 2000 a year?!
oh, 2000 tons a year? that's even MORE bombs..
i'm googling why now
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i th2ink the -germans use
d in
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we used some chemical fuses which worked..... when the bombs were pointing downwards
18:23
oh ffs
someones smoke alarm is doing that thing
> Screwed into a bomb’s tail beneath its stabilizing fins, the fuse contained a small glass capsule of corrosive acetone mounted above a stack of paper-thin celluloid disks less than half an inch in diameter. The disks held back a spring-loaded firing pin, cocked behind a detonator. As the bomb fell, it tilted nose-down, and a windmill in the tail stabilizer began spinning in the slipstream, turning a crank that broke the glass capsule.
> The bomb was designed to hit the ground nose-down, so the acetone would drip toward the disks and begin eating through them. This could take minutes or days, depending on the concentration of acetone and the number of disks the armorers had fitted into the fuse. When the last disk weakened and snapped, the spring was released, the firing pin struck the priming charge and—finally, unexpectedly—the bomb exploded.
@Burgi bleeping?
or going off?
bleeping every minute
enjoy :/
2.1 is being a little bugger
he has the remote and goes to hand it to me, i put my hand out for it, he 'walks' off, laughs at me, takes his dummy out and hands me that instead
your wife has trained him well, amirite? ;)
lol
he's a funny chap
which, at 1, is quite impressive
he did it again with the other remote then!!!
18:32
fool me once...
@Avery I wonder if they meant the destructive power of 1.4tonnes of TNT
you know, how they normally measure explosive power?
either way, that's a big de bomb.
while i was laughing at you being outwitted by a small child (twice) I banged my elbow on the edge of the desk and really hurt myself
18:58
;)
i have jd and coke
you've been outwitted by a smoke alarm..... twice
not really, i knew it was beeping i didn't know where
19:12
Does anyone know what I can do to bring more attention to a question that I think has been downvoted unfairly and without valid reason?
link it here?
Is that the only option?
we can see if it needs improving and maybe help you
ask about it on meta.....
If it's your question, you've asked it twice...
oh wait you self answered.
i remember reviewing this the other day it was in the LQP queue
19:20
but i only see one down vote...
i thought it looked ok
so, you're going to need to give us more to go on...
one DV and one close vote
Yeah, that's the one
it's 1 down vote
ignore it, get on with life
if you even try and make a fuss, expect more dv's
19:23
I'll create a meta for it later on.
I have a feeling it was done by someone as a grudge
you've self-answered, i don't see the problem?
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't have upvotes, so a downvote is definitely disappointing.
It's a unique problem to MM, and no one else has asked it.
@rahuldottech Good question. Don't know the answer to that one. I will ask during the training on Monday :)
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don't saY i DIDn't warn you
basically, 'no one cares' is my reasoning xD
@djsmiley2k Started last Monday. There are 6-8 weeks training. I scored 98% on the test at the end of week 1 :)
19:26
:)
in my interview, i wrote on the test correcting 3 or so of the questions.
;D
@Bob Hahaha. As it happens we are not allowed to handle queries on our own accounts (if we have one) or those of family/friends.
hmmm
ok but they'd give you a message if I was dying, right?
@:D
19:43
@DavidPostill seems ok?
@djsmiley2k lol
yeaaaaaaaaaah. well he's in bed now
/last laugh
20:07
lol
Quick Update: Our site servers are based in Houston, they are underwater, we're transferring out to different servers now. Stand by.
These are the web servers for the Hurricane Relief effort :)
And thy are based....
why ?!
WHY?
@djsmiley2k Exactly!
I don't even...
20:34
'bleep bloop hello i'm a drone' -- wut?!
 
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21:48
Is this an appropriate place to ask a question that might be too simple for the main site? I'd like to know how to move my .emacs file to a different location.
@DavidZureick-Brown I'd encourage you to ask on the main site anyway so that other people with the same question can benefit from finding it in search results :)
22:10
@DavidZureick-Brown I'd wonder why you want to move it
but mv ~/.emacs ~/new_location/.emacs
 
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23:26
So I was reviewing some posts and...
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Q: Can I write (200 MB - 150 min) music to a (700 MB - 80 min) CD?

skmI have mp3 songs of audio quality 320 kbps. The total size of the songs is around 200 MBs with a total playing time of around 150 minutes. Can I write these songs to an audio CD, whose specs are following: 52x top recording speed on a CD-R/RW burner 700 MB storage capacity equals 80 min music...

Could anyone explain that amount of upvotes, cause I am perplexed
Like, what the hell just happened
Is this suddenly the 90s again, where such a question would be timely and relevant?
@Hashim If I remember correctly the question made the Hot Network Question list. This guarantees it a lot more exposure. A link to the question could also have been shared on Twitter or other social media. Note: it has been viewed 24,243 times.
23:54
@DavidPostill Ah ok, interesting. What are the criteria for questions to make it there?

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