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Bob

00:09

@rahuldottech I'm not really a fan of that shape though :P

rahuldottech

@Bob It's a bit on the smaller side, but... eh. Works well enough for me right now

"You know what I think is really f---ed up, Eddie? That they still call the tablets Amazon Fire"

lmao

Michael Frank

00:41

usbdisruptor.com

Been a while since we had a good "audiophile" product here.

Aibobot

02:04

@MichaelFrank funniest thing is, your brain is probably the weakest link in the audio chain if you buy one of those.

Aibobot

06:44

ooh shiny engadget.com/2019/09/06/power-toys-windows-10/?guccounter=1

(windows 10 powertoys)

djsmiley2k

07:33

@MichaelFrank hahaha wtf

rahuldottech

07:50

marinecorpstimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2019/09/04/…

LMAO

Burgi

08:21

morning

Burgi

10:05

> Eliminates that harsh digital sound.

wtf?

@rahuldottech his name is literally "crim"

bertieb

imgur.com/gallery/kSnMdRp

electronic voting machines are the best!

Burgi

10:19

who was arguing that they were a good idea?

bertieb

10:38

I think it was @Diebold

:D

rahuldottech

> Police discovered the hungry Crim, whose name happens to be 50 percent “criminal,” unsuccessfully hiding in a wooded, swampy area adjacent to the property.

xD

That article is amazing

Aibobot

clearly satire is lost on the young ;p

rahuldottech

:P

@Burgi honestly, it baffles me how the US doesn't have an independent election commission.

I don't know who thought that the currently ruling party overseeing the election in each state was a good idea.

Aibobot

Either Honest Politicians or corrupt ones

And you do not get a scooby snack for guessing

rahuldottech

But an independent agency to conduct elections would solve like every election problem that they have. Including gerrymandering.

Of course, it would have to be competent, which is a bit much to expect, really...

Aibobot

10:45

no no

Gerrymandering requires competence.

Just not in a way that's condusive to the other side winning

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek I don't think you can expect any politician to be honest in a nation where lobbying (see: bribery) is legal.

Aibobot

Well, I don't expect most politicians to be honest at all

if not money, its power

rahuldottech

Hm. You don't expect them to be honest, but I'm curious, do you think it's at all possible to have an honest politician?

Aibobot

Well, in a sense

You'd need someone who's obsessive, and driven to do right by his folks. In a sense the right kind of sociopath

rahuldottech

As in, a dude who cares only about actually improving the nation and its citizens and nothing else?

Hmm. Yeah, I get what you mean.

Aibobot

10:52

and will basically destroy anyone who gets in his way ;p

rahuldottech

@Aibobot ethically, of course ;p

Aibobot

The idealised view of LKY was pretty much like that

legally

Burgi

@rahuldottech this is really hard to stop, we have the same problem in the UK

lobbying is an important part of democracy but I can see the negative side

here in the UK it is done by charities and other NGOs as well as large industry groups

djsmiley2k

11:25

@Burgi me.

chenobyl shouldn't stop us having nuclear power, right?

Burgi

yes...

bwDraco

Opinion: Intel and the abuse of "real-world" benchmarks: extremetech.com/computing/…

Remember: No single benchmark can capture all aspects of the computing experience provided by a particular device or piece of hardware. When evaluating hardware, use the specific benchmarks that best represent your expected workloads.

Journeyman Geek

12:37

Opinion marketing is dumb and you can have more than one product on the market and different ones can be good for different people...

djsmiley2k

s/Opinion//g

djsmiley2k

12:49

> Federal and state officials investigating the mysterious eruption of lung illnesses linked to e-cigarette use have turned up a vitamin in vape products that is normally found in supplements and skin creams.

At least it's not some of the weird stuff they mix drugs with?

pjs36

13:17

Let's suppose I'm using Excel (really Google Sheets) and want to compare if two cells have the same value. It's easy to ask how many times 42 shows up in a column, but I can't figure out how to ask how many times (the value of cell) A1 shows up in a column. What am I missing?

Burgi

COUNTIF

pjs36

This is the exact situation. I'm counting matches with =IF(COUNTIF(E16:J16,"=29")>0, "yes", "") to see how many cells have 29 as their data. But I need to check various numbers, and don't want to re-drag my formula as I check each one. I'd rather check if they =P1, say, where I store 29 in P1

(Really I should say I'm trying to display rows in which one cell contains a given number, not count them)

Burgi

and this doesn't work? =IF(COUNTIF(E16:J16,P1)>0, "yes", "")

pjs36

Ah, I've only seen IF(E16:J16,"=CONST") type constructions. Can I really replace "=CONST" with a cell reference, and it checks for equality?

Burgi

yup

pjs36

13:22

What a handy world we live in. I'll check that out, but I expect you're right :)

Journeyman Geek

@pjs36 Might be a question for webapps ;p

Especially if it works, and you can link and ping @Burgi to post an answer ;p

Burgi

meh, rep is for n00bs.... ;)

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I guess

but in any case documenting these sorta things is good

Burgi

it probably already exists on SU somewhere

where does ChromeOS come on SE? is it android or SU?

pjs36

OK, I can certainly ask a question. I really have no idea what SU is for; I'd assumed it was for Unix questions, but tried to google about SE and excel

Burgi

13:26

SU is for all general computing and networking questions

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi probably SU

@pjs36 SU is general computing. We were the 3rd main site - so there was not as much differenciation. Was simple then ;p

Just programming, Servers and PCs

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek but if i use the google sheets app that opens in chrome. this might be an edge case but the OS is very dependent on the browser

Journeyman Geek

13:42

....

pjs36

Alright, it has been posted; here is to hoping I Haven't committed any major faux pas

I even tried to search before posting, in case there was a fairly-immediate duplicate (I never know the terminology to use, most of the time)

Burgi

drop the quotemarks

pjs36

I guess that is for @Burgi, by JG's suggestion

Burgi

you are searching for the literal string =P16 not the contents of P16

pjs36

And what you suggested worked! I was just formally asking it, like Journeyman suggested. You can answer, or not; I'm sure someone will, or I'll be downvoted into oblivion :)

In either case you were helpful, thank you @Burgi

Burgi

13:50

don't forget to mark an answer as accepted

pjs36

I shall, once I can -- in 6 minutes! I still am amused that equality checking doesn't require an equals sign in this case

Burgi

well it already knows you are checking for equality because that is what the function does

@JourneymanGeek if i post a meta question about chromeos on android.se should i also canvas opinion on acceptability here?

pjs36

That's a fair point, that it's the most reasonable default. So I guess I'm just surprised I couldn't get it to work with an equals sign. COUNTIF(E609:J609,=P1) throws a syntax error

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I'd say OS questions are ok on SU, apps questions are more for Webapps... though

electron...

erf ;p

Burgi

worth asking on meta?

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Q: Acceptability of ChromeOS Questions

Given the close development relationship with Android I was wondering if ChromeOS questions are acceptable here. I couldn't see any documentation in the site help specifically prohibiting or allowing questions on this topic so I thought I would get the community's opinion and some sort of consen...

Bob

14:34

@Burgi Should be acceptable on SU (as per previous Windows tablet and even Android tablet decisions). Whether it's also acceptable on Android.SE is irrelevant to the SU question.

If you dig around meta.SU you'll see the tablet questions

bertieb

14:48

Android is acceptable, you say?

bwDraco

15:33

@JourneymanGeek Apparently, Intel hasn't even tried to compete on price with their HEDT processors until recently...

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco And?

The point I'm trying to bring across is, well... the constant "Intel is bad" gets wearying

Make awesome, not war.

bwDraco

In Intel's defense, their mobile chips still offer better battery life than AMD's solutions.

AMD has a long way to go when it comes to power management.

And I'm eager to see the Xe graphics solutions.

AMD also has issues with boost clocks on their latest desktop chips.

I still have trouble recommending AMD-based laptops because their battery life isn't up to par with Intel.

bwDraco

tomshardware.com/reviews/…

So tempting...

djsmiley2k

16:42

ffs both bolts on my car headlamp fitting sheared off >_<

rahuldottech

So. I met this girl.

We instantly hit it off and hung out today. 'twas nice.

rahuldottech

17:01

Also, I just found a DDR4 stick that I'd completely forgotten that I have. I'm so happy, this is compatible with my laptop :)

CowperKettle

I wonder if I will benefit from installing more memory, based on this typical usage.

I have 8Gb. Thinking of bying a 16Gb module.

CowperKettle

17:26

I guess that since the "paged" lines show meagre amounts of memory paged, this means I don't really need more memory.

rahuldottech

19:41

Watch LIVE : Landing of Chandrayaan-2 on Moon's Lunar Surface

►

ISRO live moon landing

djsmiley2k

Cool, go go india

bertieb

19:54

Chat

Oh chat

19 minutes out?

Yea, 18 now

Had to read it off the screen, sadly my Hindi is next to non-existent :(

rahuldottech

@bertieb They repeat everything they say in English

Just wait for a few mins

@bertieb English just started. I significant % of the Indian population actually doesn't know Hindi

bertieb

Ah

Well, that saves me the trouble of learning it in the next 14 minutes

rahuldottech

:)

bertieb

Oop, back we go

rahuldottech

ooooh dramatic music!

bertieb

20:11

You mean it wasn't diegetic?!

Also, is that Modi watching?

if not, it's someone who looks very like him

rahuldottech

yep, it's Modi

bertieb

Nice

1km to go!

rahuldottech

20:29

yep!

damn suspense

oh man looks like it failed

bertieb

1km off site?

I might be behind

commentary's been quiet for quite a while

rahuldottech

yeah I think they weren't expecting this

modi left, and there was no cheering

So it failed, I think

Wait they're taking their seats again

bertieb

I keep buffering!

Have dropped the final rung to 144p

rahuldottech

Yeah, I keep buffering too

I think they cut it off

bertieb

Ahh

rahuldottech

20:42

Not sure?

bertieb

I thought it was me

rahuldottech

Nah it's not

bertieb

Aye, it's frozen a t a specific moment

rahuldottech

yep

bertieb

Erk :-\

Fingers crossed

rahuldottech

20:46

news18.com/news/india/…

From what I can tell, it should have landed about 18 minutes ago?

@bertieb at about -40 seconds

Do you hear the windows sound?

bertieb

stream's back?

Oh, the notification sound?

djsmiley2k

:O

bertieb

wondered what that was

rahuldottech

Yeah

Like just before the stream freezes

djsmiley2k

That's the sound of the martians uploads.

bertieb

20:50

something something "receiving data" ??

rahuldottech

huh, stream is back

djsmiley2k

I had to go and check out CCTV

as two cars pulled up earlier outside

load of lads jumped out

shouted stuff at neighbours son

rahuldottech

damn what's happening

twitter.com/ANI/status/1170076273734893569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Burgi

landing on the moon is hard

djsmiley2k

well technically it's quite soft, which makes it hard.

Burgi

20:57

that israeli probe smashed into the moon at high speed

india should be happy, they have a better space program than most western countries

djsmiley2k

and of the lads.... we noticed on the cctv

put a baseball bat down his trousers

Burgi

are you sure it was a baseball bat and that he wasn't actually just a lucky boy?

djsmiley2k

lol

Burgi

hopefully should have mine up by sunday evening

djsmiley2k

the fact he took it out his trousers and put it in the boot of his car...

Burgi

21:00

cctv i mean >.>

djsmiley2k

your moon probe?

drive.google.com/open?id=1YS8wxITmqEAKfQ6aQQOlTgKF_wxN27wg

such badmen

Burgi

wow

djsmiley2k

o_O

i hope i linked the right video :D

Burgi

yeah, just checked their reg, sadly taxed and MOT'd

what resolution is your camera?

djsmiley2k

no idea :D

that's a zoomed in view tho

Burgi

21:10

ours are 2K but the reg of the druggies we caught when i tested it was too blurry on the TV

why did that SUV drive across the grass?

djsmiley2k

this is like some high end system but from 6 years ago

oh, there's some bunaglows there

we 'reguarly' get private ambulances waiting up there

Burgi

do you just have the one camera?

djsmiley2k

yah

Burgi

IP camera?

djsmiley2k

not sure

Burgi

21:18

does it plug into ethernet?

djsmiley2k

it doesa, but it's plugged into a recorder which i then puill the stream from

never figured out how the camera itself is configured.

Burgi

did you report it?

XKCD

21:51

They actually showed up on the first scan by the first WiFi-capable device.

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