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Kaz Wolfe
Kaz Wolfe
12:04 AM
so... why is luks nuke not in debian main alrady?
 
IanC
IanC
@NathanOsman did I tell you the store decided not to use my website? I'm trying to refactor it for someone else, that works in the same area, which apparently is willing to make a deal on it
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Sorry that the first place doesn't like it - I certainly thought it was pretty awesome.
Anyway, if someone else can use it, that's cool.
 
IanC
IanC
they actually said they liked it, but that it was easier for them to add pictures on a Wix website they were working on
I could make a PHP page to add pictures on the page, but I was thinking this was leading anywhere, so I decided to not have this extra work for the small chance they would take it, and for free
lets see how it goes with this other place :)
 
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
*chuckles softly to himself as the chat room becomes a lot darker than it was previously*
 
IanC
IanC
* lowering screen brightness *
 
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
12:19 AM
fun fact: *\*muahahahah\** returns: *muahahahah*
in case you were wondering how I do my evils ;)
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
LOL.
 
IanC
IanC
@ThomasWard I tried escaping the first and the last and it didn't work lol
@Videonauth lol
 
dessert
dessert
@ThomasWard italic asterisks? you're truly evil oO
 
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
@dessert you have no idea
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
12:25 AM
@NathanOsman Ok here is one which is more seasonal :)
 
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
boo it hates me
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Also lol.
 
dessert
dessert
@ThomasWard look what terdon did today!
10 hours ago, by terdon
There. I just pushed him to 200k.
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Oli hit 200k?
3
 
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
12:25 AM
who's 'him'
 
dessert
dessert
@NathanOsman terdon pushed him!
 
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
The Oli?
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
I remember the good ol' days when I had more rep than Oli.
That was a very, very long time ago.
 
dessert
dessert
@NathanOsman STAR!
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Like over seven years ago.
 
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
12:35 AM
starbait.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
nope, I don't fall for that :P
 
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
Good, you are learning.
NEXT CHALLENGE: Make you say something that offends the Shog, and watch the firestorm.
lol just kidding.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
12:52 AM
user image
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Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Heh.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
i just see that one pot is labeled O(n!) O_o
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
There should also be one for using "==" instead of "===" :P
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
how do you make a code runtime factorial??
beside using ackermanns function
 
IanC
IanC
1:25 AM
@Videonauth "used = instead of ==" damn
and maybe git push origin master --force once :p
not sure
well, going to get some rest, good night folks!
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@IanC sleep well
 
IanC
IanC
thanks! :)
 
 
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TheWanderer
TheWanderer
12:45 PM
aha
Chrome prevents sleep
but why
 
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Seth
Seth
4:20 PM
:O
I finally got a gold badge during winter bash! xD
3
 
IanC
IanC
gratz!
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@Seth congratulations
 
IanC
IanC
I don't think I've any gold badge
 
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RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@Seth congrats
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Why is that here?
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
hey theres our man RolandiXor :) how are you, did you get all working like you wanted?
@RobotHumans already edited :)
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
Hey web designers, I'm working on a css framework: https://github.com/rolandixor/anole

You can take a look, and let me know what you think. Demo is here:
https://rolandixor.pro/anole

Please note that it's not fully responsive (yet)!
it works perfectly, with the exception of opening tabs :)

I'm actually trying to get Patheon-Terminal to do the same thing now. I can get it to open the command, of course, but getting into open tabs as well is the issue.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@RolandiXor yep thats what i fiddled at the whole evening yesterday, there is the --tab option but it didn't seem to do anything
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
5:11 PM
@Videonauth typical Gnome ;)
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
@RolandiXor Demo looks good. Seems like a heavier (on animation so maybe on cheap mobiles) bootstrap.js that is CSS based instead.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
whe i can trust the man page this should open a new tab in the last opened terminal window
i wonder if this is because of htop in the first window command
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@RobotHumans this is pure css
I haven't tested on mobile yet.
 
terdon
terdon
@RolandiXor Nice!
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@Videonauth hmm, that might explain it
 
terdon
terdon
5:12 PM
Can the animation be toned down?
Personally, I find it quite hard to read and tiring. Maybe if it were faster?
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@RolandiXor gnome-terminal --maximize && gnome-terminal --tab -- htop still opens two windows
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
I could work on that :)

I like animations, personally. But if they're an issue, then I'll have to compromise.
@terdon what specifically is running slowly for you?
@Videonauth same here
 
terdon
terdon
@RolandiXor I'm sure it's a question of taste. To my eyes, that would be essentially unusable.
@RolandiXor Everything takes ~1sec. So by the time I've moved to one button, the "leave" animation of the previous one is still running.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
but another idea would be using screen inside the first call instead of htop and set up a ~/.screenrc file
which then places the information in different parts of the screen like i do on my server
 
terdon
terdon
I'm blown away by the smoothness and power of this, mind you, but I would never use a webpage that is so heavy on animation.
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
5:15 PM
@terdon I'm not having that issue. Are you on mobile?
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
if something like this could help you
 
terdon
terdon
@RolandiXor No. But hovering over an.menu-button for example, it takes 2 seconds (or so, I counted myself) for the menu to stop moving.
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@Videonauth that would work for me if I liked using the terminal fullscreen when I'm on a Desktop environment lol
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
well im spoiled by having three monitors :)
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@terdon what browser are you on?
@Videonauth lol I have two (and a laptop)
 
terdon
terdon
5:18 PM
@RolandiXor Chromium. Hang on, I just made a gif of it.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
┌─[17:18:10]─[root@NEXUS-THREE]
└──> michael $ cat ~/.screenrc
chdir /home/server/log
screen -t "Apache Log" tail -n 1 -f access.log
split
focus
chdir /home/server/log
screen
split -v
focus
screen -t "Htop" htop
focus
focus
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@terdon that's mighty weird. I'm testing on Opera and Firefox, and even on mobile it's peppy.
 
terdon
terdon
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
thats the screenrc file for that setup
 
terdon
terdon
$ chromium --version
Chromium 61.0.3163.91
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
5:20 PM
@terdon I could speed up the animations lol
 
terdon
terdon
@RolandiXor is that the same thing you see? It might just be a different definition of "peppy" :)
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
But it's not as slow as you think. You might just be less patient than me lol
@Videonauth that would be nice when I'm working on the servers though
 
terdon
terdon
Yeah, might be. But for me that's a deal breaker. And really tiring for my eyes.
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@terdon O_o
 
terdon
terdon
Yeah. My first thought was that this was hard to see. I think because I try to focus on things that are still moving.
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
5:21 PM
Well fortunately for you, I've created it to be themable, so it will simply be a matter of overriding the defaults.
 
IanC
IanC
@terdon I thought I exaggerated on the number of tabs open, I was wrong
lol
 
terdon
terdon
@IanC That's nothing. That's just one of the two windows I have open now and I normally have many more.
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
BTW did anyone catch the "sunkenplace" reference ;)?
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@RolandiXor like the design, but as terdon already said the animations could be a bit quicker maybe by 1/2 or 1/4 of the time used actually
 
terdon
terdon
Actually, @IanC I currently have 68 tabs open in 4 windows :)
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
5:24 PM
and the extra wide button itself should not shrink on hover
 
IanC
IanC
@terdon damn, that beats my record by far I guess lol
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
actually 44 tabs open in 1 window hehehe
 
IanC
IanC
I had recently installed an Addon on Firefox to make me able to use less tabs by saving sessions, then Firefox updated and I lost it :/
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@Videonauth the extra-wide button is actually just a regular button lol, I have changed it on another page of the demo that isn't linked from the main page.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
ah ok because the normal button shows as well the text shrinking and the extra wide shriks the text and the button this is a bit offsetting
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
5:28 PM
@Videonauth I'm going to speed them up a bit. Trying to strike a balance between speed and smoothness, because anything too fast isn't too pretty.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
true and i understand that if they are to fast then the animation is useless
 
terdon
terdon
And that's not a record, not by a long shot.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
what DE is that?
 
terdon
terdon
@RolandiXor True dat.
@Videonauth Cinnamon
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
one of the challenges is that you can't control certain things with CSS without making it overly complicated (if at all).

For instance, I could use CSS animations (as opposed to transitions) to get the sub-menus to hide until the main menu is visible, but it would be very complex (thus hard to maintain) and it might not show up as smoothly as it does now. Too bad for people with shaky hands like me lol
Okay I've update the animation speed for the offenders.
 
terdon
terdon
5:39 PM
@RolandiXor Ooh, that's much better for me!
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@terdon whew :)
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
I got spoiled on the 3 monitor rig, and I really want to like LXQT, but I'm considering i3 even though there's a learning curve.
 
terdon
terdon
6:03 PM
@RolandiXor Hah, yes, I'm sure that comes as a huge relief :)
Oh, hey @RobotHumans, been ages!
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
@terdon I've been in and out infrequently, but it has been a while.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@RolandiXor thats is quite better
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
If nobody else watched the alphazero games, with four hours of training and less table lookups, alpha brutalized stockfish.
 
terdon
terdon
Brutalized might be a bit much, if you're referring to last week's (2 weeks now?) games, but yeah, that was impressive!
Clear victory, by far, but depressingly many draws.
> 28 wins, 72 draws, and zero losses.
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
Brutalized is a little strong. 100 games/70 something draws/20 something wins/0 losses is something that could never happen between two similarly ranked humans.
 
terdon
terdon
6:10 PM
Yeah.
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
Hence my leaning in to brutalized... but now you know what I meant.
 
terdon
terdon
Now, let alphazero work with an opening DB as well and it's bye bye
And stockfish is already what, ~2800 or something?
Man. . .
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
What was most useful for me was chess advantage in black and white for openings, chess tactics for champions from the polgar daughter, and 10001 chess problems for endgame. If they let it run three engines, it would be ABSURD.
 
terdon
terdon
Ah, I keep meaning to get Polgar's book.
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
If you're a newer player, it covers skewers forks and all those other mid-game tricks. If you never had formal chess education, it's highly useful. If someone taught you those, then you might find it less useful.
Oddly, I don't remember it covering center-court advantage, but everyone knows that... and alpha already knows it.
 
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Seth
Seth
I didn't know either of you were so into chess :)
 
terdon
terdon
I've been playing like crazy since this summer but hadn't played for a while before that.
 
Seth
Seth
So I guess we have a new top engine now xD
 
terdon
terdon
Yeah, an "AI", no less :)
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
I haven't played in a long time for lack of even ground opponents locally. You either find people you tear apart, or people that decimate you. It's hard to find real life players where it's a one is slightly better than the other, which is what you need for a learning experience.
 
terdon
terdon
6:21 PM
Yeah.
 
Seth
Seth
Indeed.
I need to start playing again.
 
terdon
terdon
My ideal opponent is one who beats me something like 2 times out of 3.
 
Seth
Seth
@terdon Oh that's right. Did you end up using lichess?
 
terdon
terdon
I did a little, but I still prefer chess.com. I like their app too.
 
Seth
Seth
:/
 
terdon
terdon
6:22 PM
Plus, I have some friends who play there so. . .
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
2 of 3 sounds reasonable to improve your game.
 
terdon
terdon
And I enjoy the "tactics" a lot.
 
Seth
Seth
@terdon Well that certainly helps a lot.
We used to have an SE club on lichess but it's mostly dead now afaik
 
terdon
terdon
@RobotHumans Yeah, so good enough to keep you on your toes but weak enough that you might actually win from time to time :)
Rinz used to play competitively.
 
IanC
IanC
@terdon whats the book title?
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
6:24 PM
@terdon Strong enough to show you your weaknesses, but weak enough that you can explore new things.
 
IanC
IanC
I like chess, though I consider myself a bit noob
 
terdon
terdon
@IanC " chess tactics for champions" (I think)
@RobotHumans yep
@IanC I'm pretty sure we're all noobs here.
Well, @Rinzwind probably not.
Sep 23 at 18:25, by Rinzwind
hmm. In my prime I had 1800 :=D
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
Yes. Nobody here is world class at chess.
@IanC books.google.com/books/about/… there's a preview available on google books
 
terdon
terdon
Do you/did you ever have a rating @RobotHumans?
 
IanC
IanC
@terdon yeah, I meant noob but not in a world class chess player standard, but I think you and @RobotHumans are ahead of me
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
6:26 PM
@terdon No. I never played competitively.
 
terdon
terdon
Me neither. I've reached 1100 on chess.com for what that's worth.
 
Seth
Seth
What do you start at on chess.com?
 
terdon
terdon
And promptly lost it again :) I'm somewhere around there normally.
@Seth Oh, you start at 1200 but fall precipitously. Or I did, anyway. I clawed my way back from the low 800s.
 
Seth
Seth
@terdon Ah. You start at 1500 on lichess iirc. What time control?
 
terdon
terdon
That rating is for 5-10mins.
I used to play 10 but now mostly go for 5.
(each)
 
IanC
IanC
6:29 PM
@RobotHumans nice, is it more aimed to people with some basic/intermediate background?
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
@IanC It's aimed at people who know how the pieces move, can play a game, can not get themselves murdered during the opening, and have a grasp of end-game forcing.
 
IanC
IanC
@RobotHumans well, I guess that's me maybe :D
I mean, I don't know much about openers except for some keypoints of what is the goal of a good opener, and I try to go for that goal
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
Had an interesting one about 10 years ago where the guy on a bookstore patio said "You did not just play the blitzkrieg opening against me" on our first game. Then the game went on about 40 turns longer than he expected. It was fun.
 
IanC
IanC
like controlling the center, engaging pieces and enabling castling
 
terdon
terdon
I got one (whose title I don't remember at the moment, unfortunately, but I can look it up when I get home if anyone cares) recently I'm very pleased with. It's aimed at all levels (you just skip the bits you know) from beginner to IM, very well written and very informative. I'm enjoying it immensely.
 
IanC
IanC
6:33 PM
@RobotHumans what is the blitzkrieg opening?
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
It's a 4 turn win if they mess up, but puts you at a significantly disadvantaged board position if it doesn't work.
 
IanC
IanC
@terdon cool, I'm considering getting a chess book to get to know the fundamentals better
@RobotHumans oh, I think I've seen it before
sorry, I'm pinging a lot
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
bishop queen stack right on top of the king.
 
terdon
terdon
Ah, Napoleon's mate?
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
Same thing, yes.
 
Seth
Seth
6:35 PM
@terdon ah. I've read that it's hard to learn playing blitz out the door. Never really played enough to form my own opinion, but that's the rumor.
Of course, most of us don't really have the time to play an hour long game of chess
 
IanC
IanC
why is the position a disvantadge one? because the queen exposes itself and you have to retreat if the opponent makes the right play?
 
terdon
terdon
Some idiot played that against me the summer I just learned chess. Such a petty thing to do to a newbie. Anyone who's been playing for even a few months and falls for it, deserves it, but there's no point doing it against a noob!
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
There should be a PBEM like the old days.
 
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terdon
terdon
@Seth Well, I've played a lot of games with a clock, and a few blitzes. But I only started doing regular blitz games this year, really.
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
6:37 PM
@IanC The opponent can gain board control of the center, and you sacrifice almost all pawn movement for a hard and fast attack while their pieces are constrained. So, once they open up the board, you only have 2 pieces and pawns in play. So, it's hard.
 
Seth
Seth
(one of my favorite chess channels btw)
 
terdon
terdon
@Seth Brilliant! :)
In his defense, he'd moved the bishop before he'd seen the queen but ha!
 
IanC
IanC
@RobotHumans I'm trying to find the name of an opening that resulted in checkmate if the opponent decided to capture the white queen, it was a cool play because most of black responses were apparently tactically good except for the queen capturing
 
RolandiXor
RolandiXor
@Videonauth awesome!
 
IanC
IanC
 
Seth
Seth
6:41 PM
@terdon I'd like to know, when you get a chance :)
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
Nice one
 
IanC
IanC
it's a common opening apparently, followed by a very tempting pin on the white horse, which is where things start to fall apart
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
@IanC I expect something like that will come up in the unreleased alphazero games. Like a whittle down queen capture, where it systemically removed the most high value pieces sacrificing whatever it has to, to keep either a knight and a rook or knight and bishop... or even two bishops if it's pawn light to dance around the board mopping the floor even though it accepted an early disadvantage.
 
IanC
IanC
I think sacrificing a queen is usually a really effective way to pull the opponent into a trap, I was reading that many big games with chess masters had big turnouts on queen sacrifices
 
terdon
terdon
Hey, check this out!
 
IanC
IanC
6:46 PM
as long as you're very confident of what comes next :p
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
it's the knight. a revealed check skewer - and i screwed up.
 
terdon
terdon
:)
 
IanC
IanC
I thought bishop but the pawn is protecting the square
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
that pawn move is nice. i would have seen it if i saw the lead in move though
 
terdon
terdon
@RobotHumans Of course. But it's really interesting how it didn't even occur to you (well, it didn't to me, anyway) that it could have been that. Just shows how we get stuck in a way of thought.
If you're Carlsen or something, you might have found it given that you knew that there was a mate in one.
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
6:52 PM
that's true. the lead in move tells you to remove the pawn though.
either way, my playstyle is to continue removing material instead of looking for really hard mates, which is where alpha could really shine if it went the other way.
 
IanC
IanC
damn, I would probably not think of that since I didn't know that move in chess until a couple months ago lol
 
terdon
terdon
It was added when the pawns got the right to make it ve two squares in the first move
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
what ever happened to the pawns can't strike on first move rule? it's notably absent in the alpha games.
it made you use pawns aggressively for board control instead of using them as a fodder rank.
 
Seth
Seth
It's also an illegal position. Not really a good puzzle IMO. Interesting for sure, but not good.
 
terdon
terdon
Illegal?
And no, it's a trick, just interesting. But why illegal?
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
7:07 PM
Pawn structure at e2 is near impossible to achieve. I'm not saying it's totally impossible, but that's what I see.
e3 should have been captured to get that pawn position
 
Seth
Seth
@terdon All the pieces are on the board, which means it would be impossible to achieve the pawn positions on the a and e files
and the d file
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
still, it's a puzzle, not a snapshot from a game. so, i'ld let it pass, but nice catch on illegal position.
 
IanC
IanC
man, I think my pull request is going to be merged! :D
 
terdon
terdon
@Seth Ah, yes, good catch indeed.
You could get the same puzzle legally though, I think. I guess they just couldn't be bothered to :)
 
IanC
IanC
the owner of the project just asked me to make a small change (using an existing method that did exactly what I was doing in some lines of code)
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
7:20 PM
I suspect that puzzle was designed to put a bunch of pieces in precarious positions and let people play it out. Not force a one move mate.
 
terdon
terdon
Whoops, have to run. But we should set up an AU chess tournament one of these days!
Even if only to let @Rinzwind beat us there too :P
 
IanC
IanC
@terdon I could join, though I think I wouldn't pass the first match :p
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
I wouldn't either. It has been WAY too long
 
Fabby
Fabby
7:37 PM
Good evening everyone...
 
IanC
IanC
good evening!
 
Fabby
Fabby
I'm feeling much sunnier that 5 minutes ago already!
:) ;) :)
Ian always feels sunny... ;)
Cooking. BRB
 
IanC
IanC
Thanks! I'm having a nice day today :) (sunny means like cheerish right?)
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
answering questions about SSH is tricky :)
 
IanC
IanC
was just cooking rice, almost burned it by getting distracted with some dishes I thought were clean that weren't
@Videonauth what is the question?
by the way Videonauth, I think that pull request I told you about is going to be merged :D
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
7:42 PM
 
Fabby
Fabby
@IanC yep.
@IanC :D :D :D
Shutting down Windows machine and booting Ubuntu...
 
IanC
IanC
@Videonauth upvoted! Maybe I need to learn SSH beyond the basics, problem is I don't use it that often :p
be right back too!
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@IanC the problem is not the answer in itself, but remembering all that tricky cliffs i do normally when creating SSH acess
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
yup. and AWS firewalls port 22 by default.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
i had @EliahKagan proofread it and give me advice on what to make more clear and what to change
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
7:50 PM
@terdon I am not that good anymore :P
 
 
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TheWanderer
TheWanderer
9:38 PM
Arrow has a lot of actors from Doctor Who
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
10:14 PM
@terdon heres the script I made from that answer of yours :) 
#!/bin/bash
start=$(head -n1 /home/server/log/access.log.1 | grep -oP '\[\K\S+' | sed 's|/|-|g; s/:/-/')
end=$(tail -n1 /home/server/log/access.log.1 | grep -oP '\[\K\S+' | sed 's|/|-|g; s/:/-/')
tar -caf "/home/server/log/logfiles-$start-til-$end.tar.gz" /home/server/log/access.log.1 /home/server/log/error.log.1 /home/server/log/ftp.log.1
truncate -s0 /home/server/log/access.log.1
truncate -s0 /home/server/log/error.log.1
truncate -s0 /home/server/log/ftp.log.1
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
10:37 PM
OH NO. STEAM SALE HAS STARTED.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@NathanOsman as always they do when i have no cash and the sales always end before i get cash :P
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
@Seth Portal and Portal 2 are on sale for rock bottom prices again.
Like $3 for both games.
 
Terrance
Terrance
@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I might have a coding answer for you for the battery percentage indicator. askubuntu.com/questions/988468/…
 
Seth
Seth
11:15 PM
@NathanOsman Ooh good to know. I'll check it out.
@TheWanderer John Barrowman and...?
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
Imagine my amusement when the guys on the machine learning discord issued an invite to play "cards against humanity"
 
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
@Seth Alex Kingston
 
Seth
Seth
@RobotHumans Did you administer a touring test to everyone on the server? xD
Turing*
 
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
touring test lol
2
 
Seth
Seth
@TheWanderer That's two.
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
11:17 PM
@Seth I did not. Some of them are obvious bots, but I suspect at least some of them are human. It would be an interesting ML game. Trying to teach a robot to have a sense of humor.
 
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
mention another non-connected series with that many
 
Seth
Seth
@TheWanderer touché
 
TheWanderer
TheWanderer
:3
 
chaskes
chaskes
11:33 PM
@Seth Have you settled into a new distro? What's your current thoughts?
 
Seth
Seth
@chaskes Sticking with 16.04 for now.
Unity is just too good :/
 
chaskes
chaskes
I saw some articles that the ubports project is still going strong for now.
Lately I've been going light with xfce or even just openbox by itself.
 

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