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Journeyman Geek

12:59 AM

If Educational Videos Were Filmed Like Music Videos

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Journeyman Geek

1:54 AM

._.

Palm released a new phone. Which is actually pretty neat and I'll probably not buy.

New version of winamp

.... It suddenly feels like the 90s

Bob

Palm... makes phones?

Winamp... still exists?

WHAT YEAR IS IT?!

I still remember converting Mobi ebooks and something about trying to read a Palm-specific ebook on an emulator...

That Brazilian Guy

This is a fascinating read:

The Cuckoo's Egg

The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1989 book written by Clifford Stoll. It is his first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). == Summary == Author Clifford Stoll, PhD, an astronomer by training, managed computers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. One day in 1986 his supervisor, Dave Cleveland, asked him to resolve a US$0.75 accounting error in the computer usage accounts. Stoll traced the error to an unauthorized user who had apparently used 9...

Journeyman Geek

2:09 AM

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/…

@Bob Its palm

so. its a long, complicated story

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/…

The brand is owned by TCL who licenced it out to some former samsung people who seem to have exclusively be selling it via verizon but you can't get the phone with its own line...

Bob

@JourneymanGeek That UI hasn't been updated in forever

Journeyman Geek

@Bob the "Palm" ? ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Winamp

Journeyman Geek

I think you mean winamp

Ya

I think they tried updating it once and failed

Bob

> Palm is pitching the Palm as a "companion" device to your main smartphone, allowing you to leave your big phone behind and bring the Palm in a wallet, on a lanyard, or in any tiny pocket.

Journeyman Geek

2:14 AM

.... wait

Bob

That's a honkin' big wallet.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob which is dumb

You make a product, but you really need to let your customer decide how to use it.

@Bob it is

tbh, the perfect size for a backup phone is a coin pocket

(But I have a backup phone, and didn't cost that much. If the jelly didn't have such wierdly uneven battery life...)

Bob

omnomnom

that's the sound of my program eating the 35 MB xlsx

and hopefully dumping it into the DB

did I mention there's some 4 million+ entries in it?

and that it takes several minutes to open the sheets, never mind reading data out of it?

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbUpdateException: An error occurred while updating the entries. See the inner exception for details. ---> Npgsql.PostgresException: 42501: permission denied for relation story_details

weeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

I forgot to give the user permissions lol

Journeyman Geek

2:25 AM

oops? ;)

Bob

let's try that again

Bob

2:38 AM

db=# select count(*) from story_details;
 count
-------
  2000
(1 row)

db=# select count(*) from story_matrix;
  count
---------
 3999490
(1 row)

\o/

Horn OK Please

3:44 AM

c

Horn OK Please drives around city streets, a redoubt and omnipresent sign forged of steel, riveted to the back of an old bus. With undying devotion to his single function in life, he happily reminds himself that he assists in some small way in ensuring that drivers can safely pass buses on the crowded streets of India.

Bob

o_O

Journeyman Geek

5:28 AM

Oo

Journeyman Geek

5:39 AM

@HornOKPlease tbh, that's not what horns are for ;)

They're meant for drivers to communicate!

In fact, scientific tests show many drivers will go catatonic if you disable their horn.

The average horn is used 200 times a minute.

99% of the horn facts you get from me are both true and completely made up!

Journeyman Geek

6:10 AM

So quiet today

Everyone busy?

rahuldottech

Does anyone else get an error at google.com/apps/mydevices/b/0?

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech works for me

but I got an error 500 on google + (don't ask) so.... maybe they got issues

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek huh, weird

@JourneymanGeek they're killing it off

Journeyman Geek

I didn't think much of it cause no one uses google plus any more

ya ;p

rahuldottech

did you see the legendary rant?

Journeyman Geek

6:14 AM

on twitter?

the one with like 100+ tweets?

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, the one by the ex-dev

Journeyman Geek

Ya

I think one of the SE employees I stalk linked it ;p

rahuldottech

lol

btw

Journeyman Geek

Probably Nick

rahuldottech

Unlikely that I'll be online frequently here (or anywhere) for a few months

If anyone needs to contact me for whatever reason, DM on riot or telegram, same username

Journeyman Geek

6:29 AM

@rahuldottech Bhutan?

rahuldottech

7:20 AM

@JourneymanGeek nah, exams

Bob

7:38 AM

> In Japan you can't send SMS from one network to another, only from Softbank customer to Softbank customer (to message a customer from another network you have to use email).

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

(that was in 2010. still...)

djsmiley2k

@rahuldottech good luck, see you on the other side

rahuldottech

8:16 AM

@djsmiley2k thx

Journeyman Geek

8:46 AM

Y'all remember my mom's old phone?

Dug it up to repurpose it

Battery's... bloated.

.-.

ON THE OTHER HAND

my moto G seems dead

and my HTC one V? ... still runs...

Burgi

9:38 AM

just seen a post on the HNQ on Aviation. It is sometimes terrifying that pilots miss the basic physics associated with flight...

2

Q: How can flying high minimize drag and provide a fuel efficiency?

as the plane go high, it means the engines have to work harder to compensate for the air density, therefore it will require more fuel in order provide the same power at lower altitudes. but, I always hear that flying high means less fuel burnet. please explain how.

Burgi

10:15 AM

> Our tenants have some everlasting cups in reception if anybody would like one.

Made from recycled bamboo amongst other things

what makes them more everlasting than ceramics?

rahuldottech

Man. There's this thread on Reddit about how for the first time in decades NYC went one whole weekend without a gun shooting

And people from other countries are like wtf gun shootings are so common in NYC?

And 'muricans are all like "NYC is the safest city in the US! It has a population of 8.6 million which is more than most countries! This is incredible!"

And I'm just here, sitting in India, staring at the screen and wondering what's wrong with the country

Just... Make it illegal for civilians to own firearms. It's really not that hard.

djsmiley2k

@Burgi The energy wasted in harvesting it.

Burgi

@rahuldottech yes, yes it is

djsmiley2k

@rahuldottech but mah reichs!

Burgi

10:30 AM

the correct solution here is to introduce mandatory checks on purchasing

djsmiley2k

It'd help

and get rid of the private sale stuff

Itr's funny, because there's places in america you can't buy booze

Burgi

places like Switzerland and holland make it mandatory that you have to complete a gun safety course and have a secure storage locker for your firearms

you also need to apply to a government agency for a permit to own it

think of all the jobs that setting up a gun management agency would create

and the ancillary industry of providing certification around the gun safety course

instant economic boost while preserving the right to arm bears

djsmiley2k

11:08 AM

You also join the army.

;D

djsmiley2k

12:00 PM

Spam? - superuser.com/questions/1367246/…

Horn OK Please

12:31 PM

@Bob Watch out, I'm writing clientside JS again and will need some suggestions so I can learn and maybe suck less at it :D

Burgi

all JS sucks

djsmiley2k

1:27 PM

I'm writing python

and maybe the python tutorial doesn't work >_<

I need a telnet server which isn't a switch to test on

but it must 'stop' sending data too, so that star wars one is no good :P

Ah crap, internet access on the VM is borked again

Bob

@Burgi says the php dev :D

@HornOKPlease o/

bertieb

1:56 PM

@rahuldottech As the NRA says, if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns

djsmiley2k

I need to bind.... 2 nat ip's on my virtualbox vm

thius is getting complicated, fast xD

Fack it, I'm gonna ask for a testing VM instead.

Horn OK Please

2:10 PM

@Bob At the moment I'm trying to figure out how to make my repl.it code public (anonymously viewable), but not allowing people to actually host arbitrary code on my domain 0_0

Bob

@HornOKPlease Erm. Are you hosting the repl.it code directly on your domain?

@HornOKPlease => repl.it/site/docs/repls/embed

> If anyone edits an embedded repl, it will automatically fork the repl for them and they will be editing their own version. If the user is logged into Repl.it in their browser, the forked repl will become theirs and show up on their repls dashboard. If the owner edits an embedded repl, those changes will be saved to the repl and become visible to others who view the embedded repl.

bertieb

2:23 PM

> Top Geographies

> Russia 94%

Huh

Russians are watching muh vids?

Хорошо!

djsmiley2k

lol

Bob

2:52 PM

@bertieb Hi GCHQ!

Journeyman Geek

HI ISD!

Burgi

HI FSB

Journeyman Geek

COMRADE! HOW IS SALISBURY CATHEDRAL! DID YOU ENJOY THE SPIRE?

Burgi

COMRADE! IT WAS GOOD! WHY DO THE WEST THINK ~~ARMY OFFICERS~~ TOURISTS ARE UNCULTURED?????

Journeyman Geek

(i didn't get that meme until this week's last week tonight)

Burgi

3:01 PM

LOL

its been all over the uk media since the summer

survival tip for ex-russian spies: don't live in a city with a cathedral

Bob

uhh

linky?

oh

djsmiley2k

6:35 PM

Was so deliberately botched.

In a thing about British train stations ...

'Interestingly (or not, you decide) none of them are as bad as the North of England's stations. Furthermore, all of the stations on the non-London list are in England. Make of that what you will.'

bwDraco

tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-optane-ssd-905p,5600.html

That's a new one...

> We will likely have an extinction-level event before an Optane SSD 905P hits the endurance limit during normal desktop PC usage.

May 8 at 3:39, by bwDraco

Also, 17,520 TBW write endurance.

May 8 at 3:51, by bwDraco

SSD endurance has become a joke.

Assuming typical power-user write volume (Astaroth's disks get a total of about 15-30 GB of writes a day), at 17,520 TBW, you're looking at 1,600 to 3,200 years of endurance. Optane is effectively immortal.

bwDraco

7:21 PM

Oh, and more QLC: anandtech.com/show/13484/…

djsmiley2k

Thing is... I remember when the first intel SSD's launched

and someone showed even if you constantly compiled against one, you'd not wear it out in any meaningful amount of time

bwDraco

Yeah. Endurance is a solved problem for the vast majority of use cases.

brb, applying a phone update.

bwDraco

8:17 PM

But do note that data retention degrades as you wear it down. The endurance rating is how much data you can write to the drive and still expect one year of data retention.

(for enterprise SSDs, the goal is 3 months of retention at EOL, since enterprise usage involves constant replacement of data)

bwDraco

8:29 PM

@JourneymanGeek, @Bob, @HornOKPlease, and anyone else interested: backblaze.com/blog/2018-hard-drive-failire-rates

bertieb

8:55 PM

@bwDraco Ah, I always enjoy reading Backblaze's numbers

They make it interesting

bertieb

10:25 PM

Huh, Paul Allen died

Return of lymphoma

Still relatively young :-\

William

anyone have any idea how to change the prefix key for .tmux.conf to esc+shift?

I can't seem to find a question so maybe one should be asked.

ToxicFrog

@William most terminals can't tell the difference between esc and shift-esc, so you may not be able to

William

@ToxicFrog I meant option esc

on mac

not shift

iTerm2 let's me se this as a modifer

ToxicFrog

Oh. That I have absolutely no idea -- what control sequence does that send to?

William

10:40 PM

A: Go to Preferences > Profiles tab. Select your profile on the left, and then open the Keyboard tab. At the bottom is a set of buttons that lets you select the behavior of the Option key. For most users, Esc+ will be the best choice.

> iterm2.com/faq.html

what is the xev equivalent for command line on mac

I don't no the answer to your question which is why I asked

ToxicFrog

Ok, I think based on that FAQ entry that when you set Option to "Esc+", it means that, e.g., option-A will send <esc><A>

shift on its own doesn't send anything, so there's no way to send <esc><shift>

William

why/how do you know the escape sequences

ToxicFrog

XEV (or some equivalent) won't help because that tells you keycodes/scancodes, which is not the same thing as what programs running in the terminal see.

William

yes the equivalent for terminal would be nice

ToxicFrog

E.g. if I press uparrow, xev sees <uparrow> but the terminal sees <esc><leftbracket><A>

Just running 'cat' and then typing some keys should do it.

William

10:44 PM

yes where is that last

list

ToxicFrog

There is no master list. It depends on what terminal emulator you're using, how it's configured and what mode the terminal is in (which can be changed at runtime by programs you run in it)

William

wow confusing

ToxicFrog

Try just running 'cat' and then typing option-A and see what shows up

William

almost like web browesrs

^[a

ToxicFrog

Ok, that's <esc><a>

So yeah, setting option to "esc+" means "when I press option-foo, behave as though I pressed ESC and then pressed foo"

William

10:47 PM

okay so how do I set it as the primary key in tmux

might fit well for unix.se

ToxicFrog

And yes, it is confusing. This is the result of decades of teletype and terminal companies developing terminal control protocols, and then decades more of terminal emulator developers programming in support for them

William

stackoverflow.com/questions/24708968/bind-escape-key-in-tmux maybe

what keys can I use for a modifier

ctrl and esc for

sure

anything else

you just said it yourself shift doesn't work

ToxicFrog

Yeah, I'm not sure this is possible, at least not without wacky stuff using multiple keymaps and the switch-client tmux command

William

set-option -g prefix Escape
unbind-key C-b
bind-key Escape send-prefix

ToxicFrog

ESC is not a modifier, it's a key in its own right, so tmux won't let you bind (e.g.) Escape-A the way it lets you bind Ctrl-A

William

10:51 PM

trying this from the answer

ToxicFrog

Yeah, but that binds Esc on its own as the prefix key.

William

isn't that good enough

I mean the only problem I might have is what?

ToxicFrog

Which honestly I'd probably be a-ok with, since it means that I could type (e.g.) option-A instead of <prefix><a>, but it's not what you originally asked for.

William

yeah that isn't what I asked for nevermind

ToxicFrog

@William I can't think of any, it's just not what you were asking about.

William

10:53 PM

about that

ToxicFrog

If that works for you, awesome.

William

what is the keycode Ctrl+Shift+Tab should send?

because I can bind a value to it using iTerm2

ToxicFrog

Good question.

William

but I'm not sure what it should be

I have tried multiple values

ToxicFrog

On my machine ctrl-tab sends <esc><lbracket><Z> and shift doesn't make a difference one way or another

I think you have it backwards

That setting in iTerm2 is "when I press ctrl-shift-tab, what should it send to the terminal instead of whatever it would "normally" send"

William

10:55 PM

why can't I send ctrl+.

ahh okay

so the people who support it just made up a value

with and with out shift

ToxicFrog

Yeah, again, most (all?) of this is wacky historical stuff where companies making hardware terminals came up with special sequences to represent new keys and key-combos they added that weren't representable with a single character in ASCII.

And by the time terminals moved from hardware terminals to software pretending to be a hardware terminal, there were huge libraries of software using these conventions, so....

William

control backslash works

so I am trying to input ^o into iTerm2 what setting should I use

Send Escape Sequence

Send Hex Code

Send Text

@ToxicFrog last question for now

ToxicFrog

send hex code 0F, I think

Or send escape sequence ^O, assuming iTerm2 uses the same conventions for escape sequences terminal emulators on linux do

William

hex code worked