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TildalWave

00:06

wait, so now is 2:06 CEST and in one hour it's gonna be 2:06 CEST

should I fear anal probing aliens or is this perfectly normal?

Journeyman Geek

Pray hard its the sort who use lube, and clean betwen probings.

AviD

@TildalWave I dont know if you need to fear them

TildalWave

00:29

what am I supposed to do then, shoot rainbows at them?

Journeyman Geek

Bend over and take it like a good experimental test subject?

Ohnana

@TildalWave poop on em. war of the worlds dictates that they should die immediately to human germs

Journeyman Geek

@Ohnana: What if the entire point of probing your ass is to get samples of earth ass germs to make vaccines?

Ohnana

@JourneymanGeek POOP ON THE SCIENTISTS

Journeyman Geek

00:46

THAT GIVES THEM MORE POOP SAMPLES

Ohnana

you're obviously not ass-spraying them enouch

David Freitag

Chat.... Got weird.

TildalWave

for some reason, I find that comforting

Ohnana

@DavidFreitag :D

David Freitag

@Ohnana Reminds me of that episode of South Park

@TildalWave Is today daylight savings?

TildalWave

01:19

ayup

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Rоry McCune

11:51

hey @Simon this would be useful to you, I'm sure... reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/3q41ne/…

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Thomas Pornin

13:14

@AviD A Windows computer does not change its clock upon entering/exiting DST; it changes its timezone (and that's arguably even worse).

Lighty

@ThomasPornin Isnt that supposed to be?

like, i.e., I was in Amsterdam +2, timezone changed to Amsterdam +1

isn't that the whole idea behind DST?

AviD

14:13

@ThomasPornin oh, I know.

wait, are you saying that *nix based computers DON'T do that?

Rory Alsop

Just learned- Borneo is home to the world's smallest bear. The tree-climbing Sun Bear

Sunday afternoon Discovery channel ftw

Simon

14:57

@RоryMcCune Nah, it gets unfunny when someone abuses it.

AviD

@RоryMcCune dammit roro...

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Rоry McCune

16:01

@AviD last rule incursion 15:00 25/10/2015 GMT previous rule incursion 14:06 23/10/2015 BST, previous rule incursion 14:00 22/10/2015 BST

@Simon Sure I wasn't suggesting you use them all at once!

just suggesting you got a little variety in your rekt game

AviD

@RоryMcCune damn, was it really around 14:00 again?

Rоry McCune

@AviD yeah when I account for the clock shift.. a pattern is emerging..

AviD

only reason it was 15:00 instead of 14:00 is cuz we just changed the clocks, will take me a couple of days to adjust.

but hot damn I'm consistent.

hey wait, I skipped a day!

oh damn, it was saturday, I was offline :-(

Rоry McCune

well gotta have a day off I guess

AviD

hey @RоryMcCune didja catch the Doctor Who / Game of Thrones crossover?

Rоry McCune

16:07

@AviD the two episodes with Maise Williams, indeed

watched the second one last night

was good

AviD

as did I

Rоry McCune

and looks like she might be a recurring character

AviD

thought it was pretty excellent, for the most part

@RоryMcCune that would be cool

she seemed to have been a tad inspired from some of her co-characters from GoT...

Rоry McCune

yeah, could well be interesting... I was half-thinking she might be the next companion

AviD

@RоryMcCune heard the internet rumours

Rоry McCune

16:08

there are Internet rumours?

AviD

lol

I liked the Cap'n Jack reference... hopefully that means he will be coming back soon, too

oops NO SPOILERS nothing to see here, move along

Rоry McCune

that would be a really cool cross-over

AviD

oh hello! IMDB lists maisie as appearing in 3 episodes... so far

Rоry McCune

oooh

AviD

after the zygon arc

I do like when characters call him on his running away

kinda 4th wall, if ya know what I mean

Rоry McCune

16:14

yeah they've done that a bit this series, IIRC the bit with the guitar a couple of episodes back was quite 4th wally

AviD

"ax fight" heh

AviD

16:44

lol @RoryAlsop remember Adam Ant? Havent even remembered his name in a couple of decades, just came up on the radio...

they must know I'm still looking at code from that decade...

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Rоry McCune

17:52

aaand now I'm listening to Stand And Deliver

Thomas Pornin

18:32

@Lighty DST is supposed to change the mapping from atomic time to legal time, not to pretend that you move by 1000 km twice a year.

E.g. if you have a certificate that expires on February 24th, at 14:30:00, and look at the expiration date with Windows' certificate manager, then the hour will be displayed as "15:30:00" if you look at it during summer.

Because the OS assumes that if you are in the EDT time zone in August, then surely you will still be in that time zone in February...

This can incur some strange effects, especially since .NET's calendar classes have been fixed, so date processing can have a +/- 1 hour jitter depending on whether the implementation relies on .NET's code or on the underlying Win32 API.

Simon

Notification by ovid which he then deleted: #483.

security.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/62610

WHYYYYYYYYYY?

It's a 2012 answer on a question which is closed.

Rоry McCune

19:01

@Simon Also that link still exists, I used it today!

FFS 1 second of googling would have found the link

Rory Alsop

19:35

@AviD nice.

Did you know my singer's ex-wife made Adam Ant a cool hat? ;-)

AviD

@RoryAlsop heh, is that a euphemism?

Rory Alsop

erm...nope

she's a milliner

TildalWave

she stood and delivered?

AviD

@TildalWave no silly, it means she's really rich

TildalWave

@AviD for the silly hat you silly hat

AviD

19:40

well she could afford it, if she was a millinare

TildalWave

also, referring to this...

Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver

►

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop is that a euphamism?

Rory Alsop

erm...nope

:-)

TildalWave

@AviD not as much as those having billiards

Rоry McCune

it's a surprise no-one has sugested "Is that a Euphamism" on Meta.Sec.SE memes post

Rory Alsop

19:44

@TildalWave is that an euphemism?

TildalWave

heheh

could be, didn't see it tho

but you called it so now I guess it is

billiard kinda sounds like a portmanteau of billion and milliard

heck not kinda, it does

AviD

@RоryMcCune is that choice of song because I mentioned the Ants, or because of Maisie Williams?

Rоry McCune

20:07

@AviD bit of both, really

AviD

but were you thinking of that song yesterday?

Simon

20:24

Looks like our friends at Code Golf need a lesson about terms:

Q: Hash a string with itself!

Hash a string with itself Your goal is to hash a string with itself by replacing each character in the original string with the one before it, starting with the first character and wrapping around. Here are some examples to show what I mean: 1st example: Input: program Output: apgopra How: Pr...