Root Access - 2019-01-30

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Bob

00:05

@allquixotic bwha?

bwDraco

00:28

Rumor: techradar.com/news/… (@allq)

> So it seems the AMD Radeon VII performs worse with Full HD gaming than the Nvidia RTX 2080, but races ahead when rendering at 4K.

Not surprising.

Bob

00:58

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Why is this a thing

bwDraco

@Bob You can disable the update notification.

Bob

01:14

@bwDraco Not the notification. The "welcome wagon" term.

I don't know why but it annoys me.

In a fake corporate-speak way.

bwDraco

lol

Bob

It just sounds so damn insincere. Probably because of the way SE has used it.

allquixotic

01:36

@bwDraco hm

bwDraco

Yeah, exactly what I expected. The Radeon VII has a substantial memory bandwidth advantage over the RTX 2080.

And that means better performance at higher resolutions, when the memory bus gets pushed harder.

But AMD still needs to work on efficiency.

Bob

01:52

@bwDraco "races ahead": 3% difference

vs 15% difference in FHD

bleh

bwDraco

I just quoted it as-is.

Bob

Doesn't mean the article's language isn't misleading

bwDraco

FWIW, that headline did look sensationalist.

Bob

I actually almost believed your quote, till I clicked through.

3% is not "races ahead"

bwDraco

So... I think we need real penalties for posting content unchecked.

Because it's becoming genuinely disruptive.

Bob

01:53

Especially not when you're comparing ~6700 to 6492

@bwDraco Don't worry about it.

I'm just pointing out the numbers.

bwDraco

@Bob I have a pattern of doing this.

I fail to verify my sources. Every single time.

If something like this happens again, I need to be kick-muted.

Bob

@bwDraco Looks like the bottleneck just shifts.

Evidently the nvidia card is better at some form of compute (FHD case) while both are bottlenecked elsewhere for the UHD case (but AMD is slightly less affected by that bottleneck)

bwDraco

My biggest complaint about what RTG is doing is a lack of blockbuster features that bring significant technical advances. Look at NVIDIA and their RTX and tensor cores. AMD has no answer to that.

Bob

Actually, is this VII supposed to be top-end?

bwDraco

Yes, it is.

Bob

01:56

i.e. is it competing with 2080 or 2080 Ti?

bwDraco

It is designed to compete with the 2080. Not the 2080 Ti.

And when it comes to my failing to fact-check what I post, it is in fact deceiving users. I also fooled myself.

So, I must learn to read content thoroughly before posting any links.

If I post something that's misleading or false and I fail to indicate that this is the case, there needs to be mod action. First kick-mute, then if it still continues, flag for mod attention.

I need your help to address this problem.

I've been called out on this so many times that this is a genuine problem. We cannot simply ignore it.

"Don't worry about it" is a not an acceptable response when this is a real problem that is causing real disruption.

Hmm... should I ask about this on Meta?

bwDraco

02:22

Further discussion on this matter on Matrix. Let's move on.

Let's not overreact or panic here.

My apologies if any disruption occurred.

2 hours later…

Bob

04:53

I like to prefix global variables with //. — plafer Nov 24 '15 at 5:26

XKCD

05:12

In retrospect, I shouldn't have used each layer of the OSI model as one of my horcruxes.

2 hours later…

rahuldottech

07:05

@allquixotic whoa what

1 hour later…

rahuldottech

08:17

@allquixotic Do you have experience with ASIO(4ALL)?

djsmiley2k

08:51

The hosters?

Burgi

09:13

user image

user image

We should have a RA snowman competition

Bob

@Burgi I think I lose by default

/me melts in 35°C weather

Burgi

you never know.... @ThatBrazilianGuy might be even hotter

also.... hint hint

one of the worst websites i have EVER seen

djsmiley2k

@Bob Ouch

-53C in the US too, lol

global warming man, it's all fake news.

Burgi

google suggests that brazil doesn't have any indoor ski slopes

djsmiley2k

@Burgi saw 'click here to enable flash'

immediately closed agian

Nick

10:07

@rahuldottech Girl is a creature that knows how to soap one into a soup, that's why. I went to confirm the swap with her today, and ended up promising her a textbook and my notes so far :I

@JourneymanGeek ?? How is storage management related to biking? I thought the opposite. The other one is definitely about biking though. Just the second lecture had a lot about Hero Honda <some-specific-model-here> and when no one seemed to get it, the discussion was about the Splendor model. The Product design professor unashamedly admits he's an automobile enthusiast. Hope he doesn't think that's why I'm leaving.

He speaks in Malayalam a lot too, believing what's in the heart to be best conveyed in the native tongue.

In appearance, he's very similar to my old school's malayalam HoD. Same height, same teacher's long-sleeve shirt, same style of moustache, large forehead, just an added pair of light glasses and a notable lack of chin. There's pretty much a handful of people like this who are all exactly pretty much the same.

Does this make me a dopplegangerist? It does sound like a dangerous thing to be.

I'll be in my room now, if anyone needs me.

o/ Toodles, super user noodles.

Bob

10:25

> Expected to commence operations in 2021

lol

flash player

That Brazilian Guy

@Bob Wanna trade? This week's forecast is 42 C.

Bob

@Burgi you should see our corp websites

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi Well mom always told me I was pretty

2

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy They upgraded tomorrow :P

Now it's looking like 38°C at 70%

Journeyman Geek

@Nick You will know when your training as a sysadmin is complete

@Burgi I have no snow, and my aircon is broked

@ThatBrazilianGuy I think she meant petty

That Brazilian Guy

10:44

@JourneymanGeek This month's electricity bill is half a month's min wage, thanks to the air con

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy 0_0

I have a cheap USB powered swamp cooler...

That Brazilian Guy

I have the choice between a deeply uncomfortable heat stroke and a deeply uncomfortable poverty. Yay!

Bob

I'm looking at a possible $6000 aircon repair bill o_O

But at least power bill isn't that high relative to salary

rahuldottech

11:03

@Nick dude girls are human too, do you have any experience interacting with them whatsoever?

Burgi

not all of us are cassanovas like you @rahuldottech

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DavidPostill

13:07

@bwDraco No you don't. You just need to STOP DOING IT!

Kicking you will not stop the errant behaviour. Only you can stop that.

Burgi

> Do or do not, there is no "try"

DavidPostill

And as you keep repeating that behaviour a kick won't make any difference.

@Burgi If we only got some snow ... :/

Burgi

@DavidPostill i was told that liverpool was under a billion tons of the stuff

one of the guys in the office travels in from birkenhead everyday

DavidPostill

@Burgi Someone lied. We haven't had any decent snow since 1963.

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They have closed the grand total of 2 schools in Liverpool.

@Burgi No snow in Crosby - 6 miles from Liverpool City centre

djsmiley2k

14:13

@DavidPostill According to the picture title, there's been no snow since 1947...

I remember as a kid it got deep enough in the garden that we dug tunnels in it

that'd be around 88/89

Maybe bit later.

@Burgi Always amused me when I worked in birmingham and had to get two trains in

And I'd get in far easier than people who had a 10 minute drive in

1 hour later…

bwDraco

15:33

@Burgi: sorry about this.

...welp. Intel is more sensible than I thought they would be. anandtech.com/show/13748/…

bwDraco

15:44

Xeon W-3175X: 28C/56T Skylake-SP XCC @ 3.1-4.5 GHz; 38.5 MB L3$, 28 MB L2$; 255W TDP. Supports ECC RDIMMs (yes, registered memory!) and is unlocked for overclocking.

rahuldottech

16:14

There's nothing wrong with a little quiet.

Burgi

ugh

looks like bitbucket is down

rahuldottech

@Burgi Appears to be that way.

Actually no

Works for me

Burgi

bitbucket.status.atlassian.com

djsmiley2k

16:34

fun

we just had our own storage outage.

2 minutes later and everythings fine again.

djsmiley2k

16:57

cnn.com/videos/weather/2019/01/30/…

SET FIRE TO EVERYTHING!

bwDraco

lol

Burgi

do they have this issue in siberia?

bwDraco

Relevant: nyti.ms/2SgWCnI

> even the United States Postal Service had stopped deliveries in some places

WTF.

Polar Vortex Live Updates: Extreme Cold Weather Grips Midwest nyti.ms/2Si3b9A

The heart of the Arctic cold has arrived. The combined effects of the cold & winds are at their peak today with wind chills of -45° to -60° continuing. The afternoon highs today...yes the highs...will only be -11° to -17°. Please be smart & safe today. #ILwx #INwx

Tweeted by NWSChicago on January 30, 2019 at 11:35 AM

Burgi

17:19

is that Celsius?

bwDraco

No, Fahrenheit.

(also, TIL "wx" means "weather" in a hashtag)

wxbrad.com/why-wx-is-the-abbreviation-for-weather

Interesting...

Burgi

-51C for all non-americans

bwDraco

Thank heaven for heat island effect here in NYC.

bertieb

17:40

@DavidPostill And prevent forest fires!

Canadian Luke

Rookie numbers :P

Time to build igloos in your front yard!

bertieb

Polar vortex: Ice quakes, burning railways and other quirky effects

@CanadianLuke T-shirt weather, huh?

Canadian Luke

Exactly! And shorts

How to be a Canadian

bwDraco

2 days ago, by bertieb

What should a linkedin profile pic be, out of interest?

@bertieb AIUI the ToS require that it be a portrait of you with a professional appearance.

bertieb

@bwDraco lol, really?

That's awful prescriptive

bwDraco

17:50

linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/430 (included by reference in the User Agreement)

bertieb

Ah, "your likeness"

(which sounds like the term of address for a very amiable monarch)

bwDraco

The point is that people can rely on the image as an accurate indication of what you look like.

rahuldottech

Just a reminder that @realDonaldTrump and his Administration constantly make up and spread falsehoods to instill fear and drum up support for their extreme, cruel, senseless anti-immigrant policies. https://www.vox.com/2019/1/27/18198729/women-tape-truck-smuggling-trafficking-border

Tweeted by HomelandDems on January 27, 2019 at 8:40 PM

Wow, this twitter account has been roasting Trump. How long d'you think before it gets shut down?

Canadian Luke

About as long as cofveve took?

bwDraco

linkedin.com/in/brian-wong-392ba6b4

bertieb

17:54

> Join to view full profiles for free

...not gonna lie, kinda sounds like something a slightly skeevy dating site would say

and by dating I mean 'dating'

bwDraco

Are you logged in?

bertieb

and by 'dating' I mean those ads taking about... 'meeting' a certain number of... 'available people' within... a geographic radius

I have never had a linkedin account

so no

rahuldottech

Has anyone here seen Baby Driver?

bertieb

The film by... whatchacallim

Edgar Wright

answer is no, but I've heard good things and it's on my list

rahuldottech

I'm watching it right now

And it's... good

The only thing that stopped me from watching it earlier was the title. Didn't appeal to me. And I never watch trailers.

But I heard something good about this film on a YT vid, put it on, and yeah. It's great.

Also the music selection in this film is a solid 101

bertieb

18:08

> solid 101

The more I read this

The less it makes sense

And yet the more I understand it

It's a zen phrase

(or maybe it's another "solid 5/7")

rahuldottech

@bertieb something I just came up with :D

Reasoning:

101 > 100
but 100 == perfect

So... beyond perfect

Also, enunciate as "a solid one-oh-one" for additional swagger

bertieb

@rahuldottech ...what's the emoji for a grudging nod of respect?

rahuldottech

18:23

@bertieb eww don't use emoji, here's an appropriate emoticon instead (a salute):

(｀-´)>

bertieb

That looks like a small fat bird pointing to the left :-P

@rahuldottech Why not, it's perfectly cromulent unicode?

rahuldottech

Open to interpretation :p

bertieb

👍

rahuldottech

I dislike emoji

Canadian Luke

Does anyone know if there's a way in Windows to prevent certain networks from being joined on managed computes? For example, a guest network?

bertieb

18:25

I think it's overused, but the right one at the right time

notbad.jpg

rahuldottech

> Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android “Facebook Research” app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot their Amazon order history page.

The program is administered through beta testing services Applause, BetaBound and uTest to cloak Facebook’s involvement, and is referred to in some documentation as “Project Atlas” — a fitting name for Facebook’s effort to map new trends and rivals around the globe.

bertieb

Yea

rahuldottech

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them: Apple is so monumentally pissed off with Facebook right now.

bertieb

Their defence is "but they (or their 'parents') totally consented to it multiple times"

rahuldottech

Yeah brb deleting my account. It's been deactivated for a couple years but I'm done, man.

Dunno what to do about Instagram tho.

bertieb

18:28

Don't forget WhatsApp!

rahuldottech

It's FB-owned, which is bad. But it's also what I use on a regular basis to communicate with friends.

bertieb

(grumble, grumble)

rahuldottech

@bertieb Again, can't kill WhatsApp.

bertieb

Hence the grumbling :P

rahuldottech

I don't use it much, but I have to keep it, since schools use it, and so does every Indian.

bertieb

18:29

Yea

Something something something, effective monopoly

Something something something, vendor lock-in

rahuldottech

I hate this

bertieb

Something something else, we should have learned this lesson fifteen years ago with MS

;-P

This is why I, for one, ~~welcome our insect overlords~~ have a Diaspora* account

I mean, I think I do

I don't actually use it because who in their right mind uses Diaspora* ?

bwDraco

@bertieb Tell me about it. NVIDIA has been playing this vendor lock-in game on us comsumers for years.

bertieb

@bwDraco Oh?

Like, "Powered by NVIDIA" games optimised for their cards?

Cause you can swap cards fairly easily (if you're not a laptop)

bwDraco

PhysX. GameWorks. RTX.

bertieb

18:33

I've heard of one of those words!

bwDraco

G-SYNC (until they decided to start supporting VESA Adaptive-Sync/AMD FreeSync displays).

bertieb

Also isn't PhysX BSD licensed or somesuch these days?

bwDraco

In any case, driving lesson in ten minutes.

bertieb

Good luck!

rahuldottech

18:45

> Your account is scheduled for permanent deletion

feelsgoodman.jpg

bertieb

👍

rahuldottech

STAWP WITH THE EMOJI

bertieb

😲

rahuldottech

> User bertie has now been ignored

bertieb

Said the guy who posts multi-line asciiart ;-P

rahuldottech

18:50

Ascii art is amazing. Emoji is crap

bertieb

!!flagged

ChatBot John Cavil

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bertieb

> crap

muh delicate ears!

rahuldottech

I don't know why. But I have an irrational dislike of Emoji

bertieb

It's overrused and twee in a lot of cases

I can sympathise

rahuldottech

18:54

But seriously. They suck.

bertieb

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

rahuldottech

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hate the ending

of this movie

it sucks

It's so crap

c'mon man

shit man

holy crap

c'mon dude

arghhhhhh

ok no pretty good

hmmmmm

djsmiley2k

19:12

who. what?

djsmiley2k

19:24

Bahamut is messin me up man

guise, work on the close queue yo

Michael Frank

19:40

@rahuldottech Try this instead... o7

or this... o>

rahuldottech

@MichaelFrank ô>

Ô>

Michael Frank

HHEEeeeeyyyyyy Sailor!

rahuldottech

19:59

`´`´`´

> Couples could just drink polyjuice potion to become each other and have sex in reverse.

Uhhhhhhhhhhh

djsmiley2k

o_O

Michael Frank

!!/wat

ChatBot John Cavil

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djsmiley2k

indeed

Hah never noticed a thug life kid in the back there

Canadian Luke

20:18

PS - I got the commands I needed for blocking other Wi-Fi networks from appearing on computers.

netsh wlan add filter permission=allow ssid=SSIDNAMEHERE networktype=infrastructure
...
netsh wlan add filter permission=denyall networktype=infrastructure
netsh wlan add filter permission=denyall networktype=adhoc

I just need to add the networks I want to be visible before denying all the others :)

djsmiley2k

20:44

:D

bertieb

Didn't the wat.jpg person pass away relatively recently?

djsmiley2k

:O

djsmiley2k

21:20

The sheer size of the tonberry king in this game is lol

His knife is bigger than my character...

bertieb

21:37

Use your gunswordchainsawhipbow!

1010011010

21:53

Hi all, I'm looking for a good link to download kpsetool, for some reason my system doesn't have it and google searches don't yield anything. Sry if this is a stupid question, cheers

bwDraco

Ah, Facebook.

@rahuldottech FFXV?

rahuldottech

@bwDraco hm?

djsmiley2k

what is kpsetool?

@1010011010 please learn to google?

searchcode.com/codesearch/view/25330132

thjere yo ugo

save that to a file, name it kpsetool.sh

chmod +x it

done

1010011010

@djsmiley2k Your help is appreciated but that could have been phrased a little nicer ;)

djsmiley2k

I don't do nice.

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