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12:17 AM

@JourneymanGeek It's 802.11ay.

Journeyman Geek

hm?

Damn it... clearly I've not been keeping track ;p

The next generation of mmWave Wi-Fi.

That Brazilian Guy

12:58 AM

@CanadianLuke When's the last time you checked? Because I opened a ticket with DO and they basically told me "Tough luck, no can do".

> Thank you for reaching out to us. We're very sorry that you are facing issues with SMTP.

Stopping spam is a constant fight and due to this, your account has restrictions specifically on port 25. However, you are still able to use mail services on ports 587, 993, 995, and 465.

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2:45 AM

So, that 15,000 rows I was talking about earlier? Yea.... It was 1.4 million. :|

or 1.04 million...

but still way to many for her puny 8GB laptop to handle.

Oct 26 '16 at 12:22, by bwDraco

Okay, folks. I have a data set of about 250,000 data points generated by GPU-Z containing, inter alia, GPU clock speed, load, and temperature data. I'd like to analyze this information for trends (rolling average charts, etc.), but LibreOffice Calc is choking on the data set. Any ideas?

Been there, done that.

That Brazilian Guy

@MichaelFrank By "you" do you mean "me" (as in the "me" that you are to you, not the "me" that I am to me, whereas the me that I am to me is a you to you), or do you mean a them that is them to us?

The old Dragon choked on it, and I doubt Astaroth will do any better. It's a software limitation and better hardware isn't going to help.

@ThatBrazilianGuy @_@

That Brazilian Guy

@MichaelFrank What? I was as clear as water.

2:55 AM

Oh, those are quotes, like a little conversation between this user and myself.

That Brazilian Guy

@MichaelFrank I hadn't seen the "her" on this.

Ahh

Anyway, an update from 32-bit to 64-bit Office actually resolved the issue.

That Brazilian Guy

But yeah. Running a formulla on 1+ million rows, 62 columns, on a user GUI os...

After figuring out that there was random data sitting way further down the table that wasn't supposed to be there.

That Brazilian Guy

How long does it take to run?

2:58 AM

Once we stopped it trying to calculate on a million rows, and got it down to 5k or so, It took a good 20 minutes probably.

That Brazilian Guy

So by simple math it'd originally take... 2.7 days!

@ThatBrazilianGuy lol @ "clear as water"

That Brazilian Guy

So work was canceled today and tomorrow as well, for reasons.

Reasons being:

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It's too sunny, so all Brazilians can go and sunbath!

That Brazilian Guy

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It's the most sunny in 22 years!

And by sunny I mean we're underwater

3:09 AM

Oh, community bath week!

Swim to work week!

uhh... Take a boat, not the bus week!

That Brazilian Guy

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streamable.com/s/jigrl/gcyncm

Did that car float out of the gate?

That Brazilian Guy

@MichaelFrank which car?

In the last one

That Brazilian Guy

@MichaelFrank Oh, in the video? I hadn't even noticed that! xD

streamable.com/aanve

9 mins ago, by Michael Frank

uhh... Take a boat, not the bus week!

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3:20 AM

@ThatBrazilianGuy waiting to have a turn on the waterfall?

That Brazilian Guy

It's a tourist spot, see how crowded it is!

They even built a tunnel beneath it!

4:14 AM

Welp. College entrances.

:(

@ThatBrazilianGuy streamable has been blocked in India

That Brazilian Guy

@rahuldottech ...but why?!?!?!

@ThatBrazilianGuy dunno. Either someone uploaded porn to it, or cricket match footage

> "Helvetica Now is the tummy-tuck, facelift and lip filler we’ve been wanting, but were too afraid to ask for,” said Abbott Miller, Partner at Pentagram

Who... Talks about fonts in this manner?

Designers.

The same kind of people that consider this a good way to showcase a new font:

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4:41 AM

Uhhhh

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9:10 AM

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I sometimes forget how easy this stuff is.

Why php?

oh, never mind. I see you started the php server.

9:36 AM

@MichaelFrank what's the alternative? I'm installing nodejs now.

9:46 AM

@Nick I guess it depends on what you are trying to achieve.

Journeyman Geek

10:12 AM

You should write it all in C

10:57 AM

asm 4 lyfe.

11:51 AM

Something something C-x M-c M-butterfly

12:05 PM

screw all of that. Rust WebAssembly!

screw all of that. peek and poke.

that sounded rude, I hope nobody flags me :)

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1:52 PM

@DavidPostill This question is being reviewed for reopening: superuser.com/review/reopen/854601. I commented after the question was edited that the question was now a duplicate question and the asker commented in reply that the duplicate question solved the problem. Now the question is a duplicate question, so I voted to leave it closed and it should imo stay closed and not be reopened.

@DavidPostill Update to the previous comment is that the reopen review is completed, 3 votes to Leave Closed vs. 2 votes to Reopen.

2:14 PM

Hello, I'm trying to partition my C: drive, in order to install Ubuntu alongside Windows. When I try to shrink the volume of my drive, it tells me it can shrink it by 558MB only, even though there is around 100GB free.

What can I do?

I've tried defragging the drive, but it hasn't made a difference.

(I stopped defragging at 25% cause it was taking a long time)

3:00 PM

@MerajA ...Try letting it complete.

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4:24 PM

@ThatBrazilianGuy Looking back, about 3 or 4 years...

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke I just wonder if it's working right now.

I get emails

I did go through manual verification when I opened my account though, maybe that has something to do with it?

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke No I men they block outgoing data from Port 25, so I can't send emails.

Granted, I only want to ever send emails to the clients own address but from their viewpoint I could be a spammer

Yes, I get emails sent from my servers to my personal (and other people's) mailbox

That Brazilian Guy

@CanadianLuke I questioned them about verification and they basically said "stop asking, we won't review it".

So...

F$&+ them.

TBH the agency registered a DO account named after the client.

Which by chance is named after a human person

And the card holder on the DO profile is in the name of the agent owner

So they see an account, from Brazil, with a credit card owner named differently from the account owner, and falling behind on payment.

Yeah, not very trust inspiring

4:38 PM

@karel Reopened and closed as dupe.

@Bob Turns out I had to disable the page file, which is unmoveable. Now to let it Defrag, which is taking a really long time...

yesterday, by bwDraco

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KS5Z8GL

Well... I actually just got this in today.

So far, so good. Both the USB-C Power Delivery and Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 (Micro-B port) charge at the full, advertised speeds: 30W at the Type-C port, and 18W at the Micro-B port, using the appropriate chargers.

Haven't tested the outputs yet. I expect this power bank to be able to charge Stolas while it's running.

5:07 PM

@bwDraco Let me know how well it works, I wouldn't mind getting one when I go camping

(note: it won't charge with both at the same time; it'll give priority to the Type-C input, from what I can tell)

5:39 PM

No problem. I have a USB Type-C phone, the girlfriend has a Micro-USB phone

5:50 PM

I think Texas just wants the world to burn:

fox5dc.com/news/…

... And apparently, the province nexts to me wants to kill every resident in my province: thebeaverton.com/2019/04/…

What is with the news today?

1 hour later…

6:55 PM

I think Voyager 1 would be just past the event horizon, but slightly less than halfway to the bright ring.

7:25 PM

Well damn

that explains the fermi paradox

We're inside a blackhole.

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Just as I had expected, the cells are mounted horizontally. It's a lot lighter than the Jackery SuperCharge 20000 because it has 6 cells rather than 8 and uses plastic construction, but delivers similar capacity due to the use of higher-capacity cells.

It is indeed delivering 40-45W of power to the laptop. The Jackery power bank lasted about 100 minutes at full output; let's see how this one performs.

8:26 PM

@bwDraco what is it?

Node.js desktop applications are basically just HTAs on steroids. Change my view.

@rahuldottech comparing node desktop apps to HTAs is like saying VB.NET on .NET Core is just BASIC from 1964 on steroids

@allquixotic (it's a joke)

Power bank lasted 84 minutes. Not too shabby, but falls a bit short; the fewer cells does put it at a disadvantage.

there's a tiny kernel of truth to it, but I think the main reason they (app authors) do that is so it's easy for them to host a web version of their app that's 99% the same as the desktop app

8:31 PM

(the joke being them both using web tech for desktops - and MS killing HTAs off because they didn't want the web to take over desktop or whatever)

@allquixotic USB Type-C Power Delivery power bank.

it'd be awesome to have a new generation of those based on Rust and WebAssembly, where most of the code between hosting a web version and running it locally is the same, except the local version runs native code and can hook into the platform more (work with files, native notifications, global shortcuts, etc.)

> Which means, suddenly, Microsoft’s API doesn’t matter so much. Web applications don’t require Windows.

It’s not that Microsoft didn’t notice this was happening. Of course they did, and when the implications became clear, they slammed on the brakes. Promising new technologies like HTAs and DHTML were stopped in their tracks. The Internet Explorer team seems to have disappeared; they have been completely missing in action for several years. There’s no way Microsoft is going to allow DHTML to get any better than it already is: it’s just too dangerous to their core business, the rich client.

-- Joel on Software, 2004

45W output, capable of charging my laptop.

yesterday, by bwDraco

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KS5Z8GL

Microsoft was basically on track making something very similar to Node.js for desktop apps before I was even born...

8:49 PM

Interesting. It's not completely out of juice. The USB Type-C output is disabled but it's still outputting power on the Type-A port. It's not able to push a full 45W on the Type-C port while also driving up to 18W on the Type-A port. If both ports are active, it'll drop to 30W on the Type-C port. Obviously, the fewer cells means it can't output as much peak power and will cut out a bit earlier under heavy load because there's more load and more internal resistance per cell.

The (now discontinued) Jackery SuperCharge 20000 will output full power on both ports at the same time, and it outputs 45W for longer because it has more cells and (I suspect) they're low-capacity cells that are optimized for high power over high energy density.

@rahuldottech except that they weren't even close to being "on track" because HTAs and the VBScript / VBA technologies were extremely limited... if a feature wasn't available there was literally no way to get the feature you want... you could drag and drop existing controls but not write your own

it didn't even come close to having the flexibility of a systems programming language with full platform support... and even NodeJS to this day (on the desktop) is worthless without invoking the native platform

blog.us.playstation.com/2019/04/10/…

You can now change your PSN account name!

it's just that web browsers are now a technology based on that native platform that exposes so much power to the programmer that only a few specialized use cases require the desktop anymore

Rejoice all you xXXx_MLG420NoSCop3Z_xXXx players!

@bwDraco Apparently, that company doesn't ship to Canada

8:55 PM

The Jackery power bank also has the advantage of metal construction and a numeric (percentage display) fuel gauge, but it doesn't have the dual power inputs (USB Power Delivery via Type-C, Qualcomm Quick Charge via Micro-B). The Jackery model also seems to have a higher failure rate as indicated by Amazon reviews.

On the other hand, RAVPower is probably the closest major competitor to Anker, which as of yet does not have a power bank capable of 45W USB PD output (the most I've seen is 30W).

@ThatBrazilianGuy I prefer the pre-edit version ;-P

Correction: The RAVPower unit only outputs 12W on the Type-A port, not 18W, and does not support Quick Charge on the output (the Jackery power bank does).

Ultimately, the thing I care about is the USB Power Delivery output, which lets it charge my laptop. The dual inputs are a nice thing because that makes it the first device I own that can use Qualcomm Quick Charge to recharge itself, so I have more rapid charging options (my mom's tablet supports it but that's not something I'm going to be recharging for her on a regular basis).

That Brazilian Guy

@bertieb well, mods don't.

9:11 PM

!!s/mods/mindless flaggers/

ChatBot John Cavil

@bertieb @bertieb well, mindless flaggers don't. (source)

But yea...

That Brazilian Guy

@rahuldottech What's an HTA?

Hispanic Threat Actor?

@MichaelFrank That's potentially racist and I was tempted to flag that.

9:15 PM

Spaniards or Spanish speaking people don't hack people?

lol

Would Hungarian be better?

What if it was Travel Agents?

@MichaelFrank en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

@tha

Ahh, the problem step recorder produces those.

Quite useful.

9:36 PM

Optane + QLC NAND on one drive: techradar.com/news/…

It's actually exposed to the system as two drives, each using two PCIe 3.0 lanes; it's designed to be set up for Intel Smart Response Technology.

Of note is that Intel has updated drivers and firmware to enable Celeron and Pentium (Gold) processors since Coffee Lake to use Optane acceleration (the added functionality doesn't extend to Kaby Lake Celeron or Pentium processors).

I actually think this is a good idea. Cheaper SSDs with Optane responsiveness for entry-level systems? Yes please.

And it puts less burden on the low-endurance QLC NAND by coalescing random writes on the high-endurance 3D XPoint media before putting them onto the NAND as sequential writes.

@bwDraco I know some of those words.

anandtech.com/show/14196/…

> Write endurance ratings will go up to 300 TB on the 1TB capacity, a 50% increase over the QLC-only Intel 660p. The QLC portion of the Optane Memory H10 will still be using SLC write caching, but the high-endurance Optane cache will take a lot of write pressure off the NAND flash. The warranty period is the same 5 years that the Optane Memory M10 and Intel 660p carry individually.

So basically, you wind up with two cache layers.

First the Optane Memory, then the SLC buffer.

(though Smart Response can use both in parallel)

The Intel SSD 660p currently goes for $120 for 1 TB, while a 32 GB Intel Optane Memory M10 module costs about $60, so you're probably looking at about $170-$180 for the combined device.

(compare Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus at $248 and HP EX950 at $160, both 1 TB)

You're getting lower sustained performance than either of those drives, but peak random I/O performance will most likely greatly exceed them because of the Optane memory.

Of course, assuming it's being used as intended, with caching set up via Intel Smart Response Technology.

And the typical end consumer will care about peak performance far more often than sustained performance, which will only happen once in a blue moon. You will get Optane-level performance the vast majority of the time.

10:27 PM

boringphone.com

Looks like this would be cool to get the kids so you can contact them, but they aren't able to spend their lives on it.

Huh... their product mockup images are using an iPhone 6 that's had the home button photoshopped out.

Surely that's a terrible idea when you're trying to market an Android phone.

10:50 PM

@MichaelFrank hThreatActor, you say

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