Root Access

Bob

00:10

Hm.

Bob

00:22

> Screeps is an open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript which operates 24/7 in the single persistent world filled by other players on par with you.

ToxicFrog

00:34

There's a few people at work who play that, it looks kind of neat.

Bob

00:47

Yea, I might give it a try when I have more time.

Michael Frank

01:02

Kinda sounds like Exa Punks but way more hardcore.

Michael Frank

02:57

HP course on UEFI diagnostics has a changelog as part of the course...

First question I get... "What features were introduced in UEFI version 6.3.x? (Select all that apply)"

!!no

ChatBot John Cavil

rahuldottech

04:03

What do we do with this question? Can it be cleaned up? superuser.com/questions/1371489/i-hate-the-touchpad

rahuldottech

04:15

> 广州微咔世纪信息科技有限公司

> Guangzhou Weihao Century Information Technology Co., Ltd.

huh

Journeyman Geek

erm

where is that?

(also, very typical chinese company naming scheme)

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek bought a couple filters in an image-editing app, this was in the invoice

Journeyman Geek

ah

rahuldottech

> You've made a purchase from 广州微咔世纪信息科技有限公司 on Google Play.

rahuldottech

05:05

Okay c'mon

This is just ridiculous

Why would you remove the headphone jack from an iPad, but give it USB-C?

Hey! So now you can use flash drives with your iPad, but... Not while listening to music?

Removing headphone jack from large devices is not justified, and it pisses me off so much

Bob

07:25

@rahuldottech They own Beats

rahuldottech

08:10

@Bob I know

rahuldottech

08:43

> For Halloween I'm dressing up as all your abandoned side projects and domain renewal emails.

If this ain't the realest shit eva'.

Burgi

09:03

morning

rahuldottech

09:16

@JourneymanGeek you with WoL and me with soldering and extra power switch ;p

djsmiley2k

@rahuldottech but you own a ipad?

rahuldottech

@djsmiley2k 1st gen; Air 2

Burgi

10:32

> At a guess (and this is just based on my intuition, not any calculations), there are probably no undiscovered objects larger than 1 km close to earth.

bit of a leap

djsmiley2k

How large is say, the space station?

Burgi

9

A: Considering our methods of exploration, how likely is it that there are unfound planets (not dwarf planets) in our solar system?

There are no undiscovered planets between the sun and Neptune Objects closer to Neptune that are large enough to be considered planets (and not dwarf planets) can't remain 'hidden'. If it's there, the light from the sun will bounce off it and we will see it. As it moves in its orbit, we will not...

djsmiley2k

/me honestly doesn't know

And how do we judge 'close to earth' ?

Burgi

i believe it is roughly the same size as an american football pitch

djsmiley2k

which is....

;D

London buses, plz.

Burgi

10:35

4 laid out in a square? shrugs

merzo.net/1mpp.htm

bertieb

11:04

@Bob Neat!

Seth

How many bathtubs would that be?

bertieb

@Bob Could be fun to get an RA instance, if enough folks are interested

djsmiley2k

@Bob that's kinda cool

Burgi

its £15

DavidPostill

11:19

1 space station = 32,333 cubic feet
1 bath tub = 80 gallons = 12.8435 cubic feet
1 space station = 2517.460193872387 bathtubs

2

djsmiley2k

weird

Setup port forwarding in vbox for http (port 80) from 127.0.0.1 to the internal Ip of the vm

and.... no worky in chrome

Wondering if I have to restart the VM to have the port forwarding settings apply :/

Burgi

check the chrome DNS lookup

djsmiley2k

@Burgi uwhatnow?

Burgi

chrome://net-internals/#dns

djsmiley2k

but I'm going to a IP...?

Burgi

11:28

oh

DavidPostill

1 space station = 32,333 cubic feet
1 bath tub = 80 gallons = 12.8435 cubic feet
1 space station = 2517.460193872387 bathtubs
1 london bus = 11.23 m * 2.52 m * 4.39 m = 124.235244 m3 = 4387.326236923 ft3
1 space station = 7.369636597317726 london buses

@Burgi Not a bad guess. Out by only a factor of 2.

Burgi

@DavidPostill that's volume, i think @djsmiley2k was referring to area

djsmiley2k

I was actually just wondering about seeing it from earth

and it's a pin prick in the sky

so.... anything smaller would be invisible

(obviously if you use telescopes etc that changes things)

Hmmmm virtualbox, y u no forward

/me isn't sure which bit isn't working right now

The ssh forwarding rule works

Burgi

its REALLY bright

djsmiley2k

looking out the window, can confirm.

Burgi

11:38

i mean the spacestation

rahuldottech

LMAO

Lmao

Burgi

@djsmiley2k spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/…

rahuldottech

Goddamnit, chat

DavidPostill

1 space station = 108.5m (w) * 72.8m (l) = 7898.8 m2
1 london bus = 11.23 m (l) * 2.52 m (w) = 28.2996 m2
1 space station = 279.0922839898797 london buses

Burgi

2.52 m is the width, not the height

DavidPostill

11:44

@djsmiley2k It'smore than a pin prick as you can see it with the naked eye and it is larger than any stars.

Burgi

it should be 160.2200419069487 london buses

DavidPostill

@Burgi The height is 4.39 m. so only a factor of 2. It's still lots of london buses.

Burgi

it is pretty big

but can only support 8 people

and not indefinitely

djsmiley2k

and is falling to earth, slowly

DavidPostill

@Burgi And why are you comparing it by height? You don't see the height of the station. You see the surface area. I don't know which way it is oriented when viewing from the earth.

djsmiley2k

11:48

and now has no way of not fallening further :(

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Why?

djsmiley2k

@DavidPostill I believe it's out of fuel

35

Q: How often does ISS require re-boosting to higher orbit?

I know that ISS, being in low Earth orbit, requires regular boosts. But I can't seem to find information on how often does this happen. Is it done during each resupply mission, only during some of them, or are there missions which sole purpose is to boost station's orbit (doesn't seem likely, but...

> Only the Space Shuttle (retired) and then Progress or ATV (Now retired) when docked to the aft of Zarya can reboost the station. The station has the ability to boost itself, and is refueled by Progress.

and...... all the refueling ships are retired.

how quickly will elon musk get something built to refuel it?

@elonmusk Any chance you can save humanities hope of staying in space by building something to refuel the ISS please? #SaveOurISS

Tweeted by djsmiley2k on October 31, 2018 at 11:57 AM

Lets get this trending ;D

Burgi

12:04

but elon musk is a crazed drug addict

DavidPostill

Why do you think progress is retired? it delivered supplies (including fuel) in July. You are referencing a 3 year old question.

Burgi

the ATV is human rated but the ESA don't have the cash for it

DavidPostill

nasaspaceflight.com/2018/07/…

> Progress MS-09 is delivering 2,567 kg (5,659 lb) of supplies to the Station, including 530 kg (1,168 lb) of propellant, 52 kg (114 lb) of oxygen and air, 420 kg (926 lb) of water, and 1,565 kg (3,450 lb) of dry cargo.

> The current limiting consumable is food, which without Progress MS-09 is currently stocked through at least December 2018 (not counting other resupply crafts scheduled throughout the rest of the year).

So they were short of food, not fuel.

Seth

@DavidPostill I like how the measurements for the bus are in metric units and you convert them to imperial afterwards @DavidPostill but also thanks for the bathtub math. ;)

Still a shame that we can't keep going to space but have near unlimited budgets to wage war.

Burgi

12:19

well they don't have any fuel at all

its the progress ship that has the fuel

@Seth its warfare that put us in space

john glenn went to space on a modified minuteman missile

bertieb

@Burgi 11 quid from Steam?

Not the cheapest I do agree

But somewhat unique

Burgi

isn't there a huge security risk by using actual real javascript?

> Real programming, not just pseudocode. You can use libs from real projects.

DavidPostill

@Burgi So the 530 kg (1,168 lb) of propellant has all been used up?

Burgi

@DavidPostill thats just for thrusters not the boost

Seth

@Burgi and von Braun was just interested in going to space. What enabled both to do it? The budget not the warfare. Doesn't mean that the "pressing" need for advancement caused by war can't have an accelerating factor but maybe less war and more science would be cool. But the whole thing gets political rather fast so I'll just leave it at that.

DavidPostill

12:29

@Burgi That's not what the link says. I've not been able to find a reference that says there is no fuel for a boost.

bertieb

@Burgi Sandboxing! Tho tbh I have no idea, might be?

Horn OK Please

12:43

support.apple.com/en-us/HT209044

fascinating

Burgi

so they don't even need SIMs...

Horn OK Please

well for proper dual sim support you use one physical sim and one eSIM

i already have a physical sim

djsmiley2k

13:11

@Burgi you heard this too then?

Burgi

13:51

wtf?

djsmiley2k

15:02

xss!

bwDraco

I really wish Firefox's internal password manager detected this.

Burgi

@djsmiley2k apparently this has been in place since 2013

djsmiley2k

/me shrugs

bwDraco

I don't know if Norton Security can detect things like this and intercept the attack (assuming it's an actual attack). IME it has intercepted a number of malicious redirects in the past.

Burgi

it isn't an attack. they use the 3rd party for "identity management"

XKCD

15:17

There were actually some good reasons for those laws, but IMO they now do more harm than good. Which raises a question: If there's a ballot measure to strike them down, how can I resist the urge to take a picture of my "yes" vote?

bwDraco

@XKCD To ensure voter privacy, photography is prohibited at poll sites. Like most democracies, we have a secret ballot, and voters have a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to their votes.

Burgi

that doesn't apply if you opt to take a selfie though, right? You are waiving your right to privacy

Bob

15:33

@Burgi I think the idea is you cannot produce any evidence of your vote. So the mafia can't coerce you into taking that selfie.

Burgi

ah

djsmiley2k

15:55

yup

tbh i don't understand the problem with the law

want to prove you went? Take a photo with you being ticked off the sheet that shows who attended

Take a photo of you going through the door way, or by the sign, or.... so many other things

bwDraco

@Bob Here in the US, research organizations like the Voter Participation Center can determine if a particular person voted, but not who they voted for.

The content of the ballot is secret and voters have a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to who or what they voted for.

That Brazilian Guy

16:30

Assuming this all works out, the image in this tweet is also a valid ZIP archive, containing a multipart RAR archive, containing the complete works of Shakespeare. This technique also survives twitter's thumbnailer :P

Tweeted by David3141593 on October 29, 2018 at 10:50 PM

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Burgi

17:31

home time

rahuldottech

McDonald's managed to kill my favorite drink, favorite burger AND favorite fries all in less than a year

:/

bwDraco

cnet.com/news/…

I'm ambivalent about this transaction. On one hand, Sprint is dying and this will accelerate the adoption of 5G technology; on the other hand, this acquisition brings us down to three carriers.

As a T-Mobile customer, I'm expecting further advances in service quality to be enabled through this transaction, but I'm also a bit concerned that plans may get a bit more expensive going forward.

rahuldottech

17:54

@bwDraco lol'ing so hard @ usa carriers

Horn OK Please

18:20

@ThatBrazilianGuy today’s challenge: do all that on an iPhone without a server

Twisty Impersonator

Just making sure you all are still here. Carry on.... :)

Burgi

we aren't we've been replaced with robots

bwDraco

roar

rahuldottech

@HornOKPlease You can

It's in the thread

rahuldottech

18:53

HEY GUYS GUESS WHAT!?!?!? i need sleep ok goodnight

Horn OK Please

19:41

Oh god, it's Bob's dead zone right now, and I need halp

I'll ask in JS :D

Michael Frank

21:30

@ThatBrazilianGuy wat

Burgi

22:44

World's Biggest Drivable Hexapod Robot - Computerphile

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That Brazilian Guy

23:59

@MichaelFrank wat wat

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