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Iszi

18:00

@RоryMcCune Reminds me of the comic where Iron Man is offering to give "some real dick" to Captain America (or maybe it was the other way around, or someone else).

Rоry McCune

@Iszi yeah I've seen that one, that meaning definitely does not exist now..

Simon

@Iszi Good anecdote bro, any other unsure facts that we should be aware of?

Rоry McCune

Simon

Oh wow.

So, oszi got almost every single fact wrong.

Silly oszi.

Rоry McCune

although as with many other things on the Internet, I have seen it suggested that this may be fake

schroeder

18:02

@RоryMcCune wow - I have never seen that before

Rоry McCune

@schroeder it turns up on reddit quite regularly, may or may not be real

etherealflux

the original text was actually "massive dick"

don't believe everything you read on the internet

Simon

pls

Iszi

@Simon Umm... nope. I only got the word "solid" wrong.

Simon

I don't care, ex-one.

Rоry McCune

18:04

Iszi

That is, indeed, Iron Man talking to Captain America and offering "some * dick"

Rоry McCune

^^ this one apparently is real

Simon

@Iszi Wanna also tell everyone how you ignored me so much that I disdad'd you?

Because it's that hard to play baseball like once a week with me.

Iszi

@RоryMcCune IIRC boner = joke, particularly a bad one?

Rоry McCune

@Iszi apparently according to dorkly.com/post/68038/… it meant "embarrassing mistake"

Iszi

18:08

@RоryMcCune Ah, right. That seems more like it.

@RоryMcCune Interesting how that article demonstrates a new form of the term - "cock-up".

Essentially synonymous with both definitions of "boner".

Jeroen - IT Nerdbox

Good morning

erm evening

Iszi

@Jeroen-ITNerdbox The DMZ is on U.S. Eastern time. It's afternoon.

Simon

^

Jeroen - IT Nerdbox

Well, it's not here, but.... good afternoon to you

etherealflux

Communist time detected

Simon

18:27

4

Q: I only use windows for games. Do I need anti virus protection?

I use Linux, and even though I'm not pretending my system is virus-free, it's generally accepted that even an aggressive firewall is not a requirement. I want to install Windows 7 on a machine which I will use strictly for playing games. Browsing on it may even be discarded, if necessary. So, f...

Can anyone protect this question? It was asked in 2014 and now it has become an answering-fest.

etherealflux

huh, I figured it was a recent oneo

I wonder if there should be distinctive visuals for "old" questions that were recently bumped

schroeder

@Simon done

Simon

Cheers.

schroeder

@Simon it was just a Protect, I didn't expect fanfare ....

Simon

pls

etherealflux

18:36

Nobody expects fanfare until it's too late.

Talk to your children today.

schroeder

lol

etherealflux

but feel free to snort 20 pounds of cocaine that's alright

Rоry McCune

@Simon what time is your donut visiting chat tomorrow? need to make sure I'm around :op

Simon

o pls, ovid is the one who spread the rumor that I promised.

I have no idea if she'll actually come.

Rоry McCune

@Simon but but it's right there in the pin wall, doesn't that automatically make it true?

Simon

18:41

In the fluffy world of the fluffs, yes but not in this world.

etherealflux

so I'm working on a floating-point string spec

Simon

no

etherealflux

I'll be using it in my custom PHP password checker

Thomas Pornin

18:59

Yeah, it works ! I can tunnel TeamViewer through a SOCKS proxy through a SSH connection through a SSL tunnel.

Simon

nurd

Thomas Pornin

This allows me to perform a remote control of a system which is 20cm away by making all the data cross the Atlantic Ocean (twice).

Simon

Convenient.

Rоry McCune

@ThomasPornin ahh the wonders of "secure" environments

Thomas Pornin

@RоryMcCune Usually I simply hook up my phone, but I have reach my monthly quota.

Incidentally I am using the SOCKS/SSH/SSL trick right now for chat.SE.

Rоry McCune

19:04

@ThomasPornin already, yikes

Simon

Let me guess, you have a wonderful 1 GB too because you don't want to pay 38272382364732846$ since we have shitty plans in Canaduh?

Thomas Pornin

@RоryMcCune My contract months start on the 11th day...

Rоry McCune

@ThomasPornin ahh I was thinking calendar month, that's not so bad then..

Thomas Pornin

@Simon I have 2 GB and I pay 85$ per month...

Simon

@RоryMcCune Calendar months are so from the 80s.

Rоry McCune

19:05

@Simon pls

Simon

@ThomasPornin I hope that's an iPhone plan, if not you're getting ripped off.

Thomas Pornin

@Simon It's a Samsung phone, and I am aware that it is expensive.

(the plan, not the phone)

Simon

Also, don't you get a decent discount for working for CGI?

Or that doesn't that apply to consultants?

David Freitag

@ThomasPornin Eugh Samsung?

Thomas Pornin

If I get hardware from CGI it will be CGIzed hardware, with all sorts of "security software" that I certainly don't want on my own computers and phones.

David Freitag

19:07

The only thing samsung manufactures that is of quality is their SSDs

schroeder

3GB for $100 here at Telus

Simon

@ThomasPornin My buddy works for CGI and did get a discount at Rogers, it's certainly not CGI hardware.

David Freitag

I pay $40 for 512MB

Rоry McCune

@ThomasPornin ahh large consultancies, rarely a fun computing env. Our lot are actually remarkably sane, provide requirements and software and let us mostly manage our own builds

Simon

dovid you're the Americano who's paying the most in the world for his data plan.

Thomas Pornin

19:08

@DavidFreitag Some Galaxy Mini Something. I took the one which was physically the smallest in the store, while still allowing tethering over USB.

David Freitag

@Simon I used to pay $100 for unlimited data on Verizon

Then I realized I only used ~500-1GB/mo

Simon

Dayum.

David Freitag

Which was 99% gmusic

Then I realized, my phone has 64GB internal storage. I now use on average 16MB per month of data

Simon

I'm paying 45$ taxes in for 1 GB now.

I really don't want to pay more, it's such a damn waste.

David Freitag

A friend of mine has unlimited data from Verizon, and to test it, he downloaded >1TB of data in one month

Simon

19:11

Through tethering?

His phone was probably the hottest phone on earth.

David Freitag

Nope

Simon

Oh lawd.

David Freitag

He set up a server to continuously download the same file over and over again

So no matter where he was, he was constantly downloading. Of course his battery life was like 4 hours

Simon

Or he could be cool and throw everything in /dev/null.

David Freitag

I don't think he did that, but I'm pretty sure he deleted the file once it was done downloading

Rory Alsop

21:34

@DavidFreitag Samsung audio hardware is brilliant on phones

David Freitag

@RoryAlsop But that's about the only brilliant bit.

Rory Alsop

Well, you can sort the rest by wiping on arrival and putting cyanogen on it

David Freitag

No, you can't sort their awful construction quality with a custom rom.

No custom rom could have saved my Galaxy Nexus.

@Gilles looks like embedded is dieing again. meta.embedded.stackexchange.com/questions/69/…

Gilles

@DavidFreitag :(

I still feel this leaves a hole that neither SO nor EE cover

@DavidFreitag uh? what's so bad about a Galaxy Nexus?

David Freitag

@Gilles Mine died a horrible decrepit agonizing death.

Gilles

21:42

@DavidFreitag after you dropped it from the 5th floor?

David Freitag

@Gilles It definitely does, however there just isn't enough motivation from the participants (me included...)

@Gilles No, I take excellent care of my devices.

Gilles

I have one which had been previously owned by other colleagues and it's still fine, though I did replace the original battery

David Freitag

Mine lasted just a few weeks past 2 years of age, then it slowed to the point where it took 10+ seconds to get to the home screen from any application.

If I wiped and put a fresh rom on it, it would get better, but then it would slow back down.

So I bought a Oneplus one and never looked back.

Gilles

@DavidFreitag that's a software problem!

@DavidFreitag so don't reinstall whatever bad software you had

David Freitag

@Gilles I tried stock AOSP roms, even vanilla android. It was not a software issue.

Gilles

21:45

I've had something like that with Cyanogenmod, but rebooting made it work again

Flyk

your symptoms sound very software problem to me

David Freitag

Back then it was bugless beast, which blows CM out of the water in terms of performance.

@Flyk Then it was a problem with that version of android, because me and my friend tried 30+ roms (again, including vanilla android) and they all had the same issue.

Flyk

yes because Android is the pinnacle of software stability

David Freitag

And the device worked perfectly fine on that version the day I bought it.

Also, the same exact roms worked just fine on other phones.

Gilles

I've wondered if Google apps weren't the culprit

David Freitag

21:48

Bugless beast installed with only the play store

Anyone wanna buy a kidney or two? I have to pay rent again next month.

tylerl

22:56

@DavidFreitag Move to Mountain View, where rent costs more than any sensible person will ever make.

Like this apartment -- 2 bedrooms renting for a meager $6250/mo. That's $75K/yr.

David Freitag

@tylerl The issue isn't cost, the issue is that I make $20k a year.

And my car alone costs me a third of my entire income

tylerl

You need roommates.

David Freitag

Well this is a two bedroom apartment.

A cheaper AM335X dev board: seeed.cc/beaglebone_green

and a review here

tylerl

23:18

@DavidFreitag why you no prices?

David Freitag

@tylerl Because I was lied to. It is "released" but not "released" in the way the allows you to buy it. Presumably it will be within striking distance of the raspi.

tylerl

23:58

@DavidFreitag "The BBG will launch with a $39 price tag, or about the same price as a Raspberry Pi."

that's pretty tight margins

Though you can see that they've saved several dollars on connectors alone.

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