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Seth

1:22 AM

Yes. So much this.

Nathan Osman

He also invented Go.

Seth

TIL

Serg

should i stay or should i go

WinEunuuchs2Unix

It's a trillion dollar revenue in computers being complicated over the last two decades.... Think of all the jobs they created and FIAT currency they circulated :)

You should go back to polar bear :)

Nathan Osman

2:45 AM

Dear funny person who tried to perform a password reset on my Facebook account,

Nice try.

Sincerely,
Nathan

WinEunuuchs2Unix

fakebook is overrated (by a few hundred billion dollars or wo)

I need a new bash script to write... hard to think up new ideas tonight

Nathan Osman

@WinEunuuchs2Unix It sure is. Nevertheless, I must use it for business purposes.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@NathanOsman Understood. You have to visit the marketplace.

Speaking of work, I was sad today at work the Software Development Department at work still hasn't contacted me a month after I announced my 20 years of experience in the field to them.

And this new company that bought us out bragged how they promoted within...

...I'm not sure of the best way of expressing my dissappointment

some subtle yet obvious way

Android Dev

3:30 AM

What the heck? --^

@NathanOsman - I thought Marshmallow was supposed to have good standby power efficiency? 'cause I'm getting horrible battery drain. See above screenshot

Nathan Osman

3:45 AM

O_o

Actually, I'm on Nougat.

Android Dev

@NathanOsman And this is a clean flash of the factory image... And Wi-Fi was off, too!

Nathan Osman

Do you have any apps installed?

(Other than stock.)

Android Dev

Only a few. But the same thing happened before I installed any apps.

Well, maybe it's time to give Lineage OS a try, since CM is no more

sigh Why did they have to kill CM?

Seth

Politics.

Android Dev

Eh?

Nathan Osman

3:56 AM

Wow, we are getting a terrific thunderstorm here.

Lightning, booming thunder, hail, etc.

The whole works.

Seth

@NathanOsman This looks really interesting: linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/sessions/…

Seth

4:13 AM

I was hoping there'd be a rust talk :(

ooooh: linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/sessions/container-images-fb-btrfs

Nathan Osman

4:53 AM

This one looks good: linuxfestnorthwest.org/node/4476

I was actually thinking of doing something like that with my light display.

Although, admittedly not in JavaScript.

Seth

5:15 AM

SpaceX launch has been pushed back to 11:00 PST.

Kinda stormy tonight. Too bad I didn't get a walk in.

I love stormy walks.

Seth

5:32 AM

Seth

5:44 AM

SpaceX webcast is live. Liftoff in 15 minutes.

@NathanOsman ping so you don't miss it

Nathan Osman

Yup, I got it up.

Thanks!

Seth

3 minutes!

Nathan Osman

The thing that really blows me away with these launches is the amount of planning that goes into them.

Seth

Yeah.

One of the hosts is a firmware developer

1 minute!

Nathan Osman

5:59 AM

I think you're a few seconds behind.

Seth

Liftoff!

Nathan Osman

It's so cool how the rocket is so hot it literally lights up the entire launch area on its own.

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6:21 AM

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Q: Reputation reduced without any reason

Why my reputation is reduced by 10 without any appropriate reason? I didn't post any answer or question that I can expect downvotes. The reputation suddenly decrease from 643 to 633. I didn't shutdown my laptop yesterday and had this one AU tab open (which had not reloaded). It shows my reputa...

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7:00 AM

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Nathan Osman

@Seth I've got image uploads to i.stack.imgur.com working in my Go chat package now.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:22 AM

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Q: cp -rv * /media/usb copies 0kb files

After update of Ubuntu 16.04 it boots to kali linux and only in command line mode. but when I login to my Ubuntu it still shows my all files so i decided to take backup I find way to transfer those file to USB but when i connect USB drive to another pc it shows files with 0kb size the command I...

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terdon

9:03 AM

@Seth D'oh!

Nathan Osman

9:13 AM

Hrm. 3DMark stopped working on my OP3.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

1:03 PM

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Q: Please don't be too eager to delete duplicates

To the occasion of this question, about losing rep over deletion of this one Rubbish does not belong on the site. After a question has been marked as unclear, off-topic or too broad, one might consider to delete the question afterwards. However, specifically if a question was marked as a dupe...

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TheXed

2:10 PM

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987

3:19 PM

32

Zanna

16

Jacob Vlijm

That's only half way :)

Someone quickly upvote me 32 times, and I am on 50.000 (DON'T DO IT, I would be a crook) <-- very necessary to say haha.

Zanna

hmm 20 today, 12 tomorrow

Jacob Vlijm

Oh yeah, forgot about the rep crap...

cl-netbox

Good afternoon ! :)

Jacob Vlijm

3:27 PM

Hey Cl

cl-netbox

@JacobVlijm Hey Jacob ! :)

Seth

@NathanOsman ooh, nice.

cl-netbox

@JacobVlijm and other users reading this : Have you seen my new answer from about two hours ago ? I don't wanna post it here (you know why), but it has some important and useful information I think ... :)

Jacob Vlijm

3 hours ago haha. You obviously have knowledge on subjects I don't have :)

cl-netbox

@JacobVlijm 3 hours ? oh ... hahaha ... so does this knowledge deserve some upvotes ? What do you think ? :) Well, you have knowledge on other fields where I don't have any clue ... :)

Jacob Vlijm

3:36 PM

Yeah, that's the advantage of answering questions everyone understands (rep-wise).

cl-netbox

@JacobVlijm Anyway ... let's hope that this will not happen more often and that Canonical does not try to catch up on Microsoft patching policy ... :D

@JacobVlijm rep-wise ? then your answers must be much, much more understandable than mine as it seems :D

Jacob Vlijm

You think? then I deserve 1000 upvotes on each of my answers <-- obviously kidding

cl-netbox

@JacobVlijm sure you deserve them ! :) your answers are mostly awesome - I couldn't do that ! :)

Jacob Vlijm

^ I was kidding, really.

Doug Smythies

@WinEunuuchs2Unix : I tried your server version of the selectively remove kernel script, rm-kernels-server. I tried it 3 different ways: Via ssh from my working directory; Via ssh with it installed in /usr/local/bin; Via a terminal physically connected to the actual server. I always get the same error:

doug@s15:~$ sudo rm-kernels-server
/usr/local/bin/rm-kernels-server: line 55: /usr/local/bin/rm-kernels-server:: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/usr/local/bin/rm-kernels-server:")

@WinEunuuchs2Unix : I think you are at work now. I am trying to figure out the problem.

cl-netbox

3:44 PM

@Serg You should read my latest answer Sergiy ... this kernel might be buggy ! :)

terdon

@DougSmythies There's a syntax error. What's line 55 of the script?

Doug Smythies

@terdon : j=$(( 1 + (select - 1) * 3 ))

For context: askubuntu.com/questions/892076/…

terdon

@DougSmythies You sure that's the right line?

Doug Smythies

Note sure, it is line 55 though.

don't know if there is some offset for comment lines or whatever.

"server" version in the above referenced context.

terdon

@DougSmythies Yeah, I was looking at the other one.

OK, the problem is the name of the variable.

You can't use select as a variable name, that's already the name of a shell builtin command:

$ help select
select: select NAME [in WORDS ... ;] do COMMANDS; done
    Select words from a list and execute commands.

    The WORDS are expanded, generating a list of words.  The
    set of expanded words is printed on the standard error, each
    preceded by a number.  If `in WORDS' is not present, `in "$@"'
    is assumed.  The PS3 prompt is then displayed and a line read
    from the standard input.  If the line consists of the number
    corresponding to one of the displayed words, then NAME is set

Change all occurrences of select to Select or whatever you like and it should be OK.

Doug Smythies

3:51 PM

@terdon : Thanks. Will report back shortly.

@terdon : Still the same error. new code segment below:

for zzzz in $selections ; do
((i++))
j=$(( 1 + (zzzz - 1) * 3 ))
choices[i]=$(echo ${item_list[j]} | cut -f1 -d"!")
done

terdon

OK. Sorry, but I don't have time to investigate further now. I'll try and have a look after work

Doug Smythies

@terdon : Thanks for your help. I was just wanting to report back to @WinEunuuchs2Unix was all.

Doug Smythies

4:31 PM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix : The server version works fine on a desktop computer. In my case an ubuntu 16.04 Desktop VM guest on my test 16.04 Ubuntu server host.

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