The Nineteenth Byte

Superfetch is a memory preloader, though, not a compressor

@HelkaHomba I would assume {} but other people have preferences

{}

@JanDvorak I might be misinformed. Haven't used Windows in a while.

`osnews.com/story/21471/SuperFetch_How_it_Works_Myths

9:03 PM

My computer now boots in <4 seconds :D

Startup finished in 953ms (kernel) + 1.155s (initrd) + 1.576s (userspace) = 3.686s

Startup finished in 6.513s (firmware) + 142ms (loader) + 1.655s (kernel) + 1.034s (userspace) = 9.345s

stupid motherboard

my solution is to keep the computer running

feersum

^

Anonymous

PS C:\Users\Mego> Get-SystemUptime
12.21:23:08.6576443

Anonymous

What's a reboot?

9:12 PM

does that mean 12 days 21 hours

Anonymous

Yep

tryitonline:~# uptime
 17:12:31 up 207 days,  4:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Anonymous

DD.HH:MM:SS.mmmmmmm

Anonymous

Strangely, Cygwin doesn't come with uptime

Anonymous

Only updog

9:13 PM

@Dennis thats cheating, your computer needs to stay up :P

I never turn my desktop computer off either.

 14:14:10 up 1 day, 14:20,  1 user,  load average: 8.47, 7.32, 5.54

That's my laptop

Anonymous

I don't turn my desktop off intentionally, but Windows Update doesn't care about precious uptime

> load average 8.47

Desktop:

 14:14:38 up 12:29,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00

I just installed a kernel update and rebooted

@Dennis Is that a bad thing?

9:15 PM

Depends on how many cores you have and what your computer is supposed to be doing right now.

i only shut my computer because the light from the light from the case prevents me from sleeping

@Dennis I have 2 cores with HT and I'm web browsing and downloading through BitTorrent mostly

In that case, very, very bad.

Might want to run top to see what's eating your CPU power.

Please explain why it's bad?

You need 8 cores and only have 4.

9:18 PM

chrome Xorg mutter kworker/0:4 irq/34-nvidia ksoftirqd are the ones consistently on top

That tells me nothing without the corr. %CPU.

also, how the hell does a process have -51 priority?

@Dennis u.dk0.us/processdump.txt

Nothing in there explains the high load.

top -n 1 might be more helpful.

top gives a process tree on my system.

o_O

9:25 PM

Arch default

It's also colorized

u.dk0.us/topfile.txt

I can't make sense of that... Try cat'ing it in a terminal?

Try -b.

I got it to sort by %CPU at least

Anyone else not able to connect to their DO droplets?

Works fine here.

ehh

time to post to sprunge

@Dennis sprunge.us/LBPT

Helka Homba

> Would you like to translate this page?

9:31 PM

What language does it suggest?

Helka Homba

it says it's in Shona

@Mendeleev Unfortunately, the header part is still Arch-specific junk instead of something useful. Why would they do this to poor top?

This is the line I need:

%Cpu(s):  2.6 us,  1.1 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.1 id,  0.2 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

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Muffin or Chihuahua? Inspired by this tweet You must determine if the supplied image is a Chihuahua or a muffin! The images will be those in the status image above and shown below. The images will be cropped out to just be one. Rules Usual rules decided on meta. Hardcoding the images is not...

I am thinking of dumping that challenge idea, should I?

Not sure if you should drop it completely, but this would need a lot of work to become a decent challenge.

Ok so save for later (cleaning my sandbox)

9:36 PM

@Dennis it's from procps-ng >3.3.10

A test battery with only 16 inputs is effectively useless.

Anyone know of a good Game of Life interpreter that will take **\n** as input?

CMC: Write code that:
loads the image whose file name was given as a command-line parameter
crops that image such that the width and height are exactly divisible by 100
divides the image into 100x100 pixel blocks
randomly shuffles the blocks
reassembles the randomly arranged blocks back into a new image with the same size attributes as the (cropped) original
saves the new image using the original filename prefixed with shuf

@Dennis I'm downgrading my procps-ng package now

actually, take that back, I'm completely rebuilding it

@Dennis sprunge.us/VFMj

Adám

@Christopher APL, 5 bytes: ~∘' '

9:44 PM

@Mendeleev OK, it's not the CPU that is overloaded. Something's waiting for HDD or network I/O. Might be the torrents.

I stopped transmission a while ago.

@Adám Nice

I have my HDD set to spin down after 30 seconds, it takes a few seconds to spin back up - could that be it?

(I have my OS on my SSD still)

Try using jQuery it works better

Why are you trying to kill your HDD?

9:46 PM

The HDD just has Steam games, ~/Downloads is symlinked to a folder on there, and also I think I have pictures on there

It's not accessed very often.

I'm not aware of trying to kill it... am I?

KuanHulio

the elementary os website is down

ripppppp

Solution: Don't use Elementary OS.

But you have to spin it up every time it is. Spin count is one of the primary risk factors for early HDD death.

What is the Python 3.6 equivalent of PIL?

Huh.

I'm trying to reduce power usage, noise levels, and risk of system damage.

9:48 PM

@Christopher what's PIL?

@ThomasWard Python image library I think

27

Q: Stitch a picture

NOTE: This question is currently in the SANDBOX. Please bear this in mind before adding new answers. I have a large collection of fine art. My toddler is learning to use scissors and glue; lately she has started playing with my art collection. Fortunately she is really quite good with the s...

Working on making that script for 3.6

@Mendeleev Lubuntu. Configure temperature daemon to run at lower speeds. cap CPU at half-power.

set swappiness to zero

enjoy the ~~sparks~~ nice running system.

no thanks.

Btw welcome back.

I use Arch with LXDE anyway, so basically Lubuntu

9:49 PM

@Christopher does Pillow work?

@Christopher Who was that directed to?

@ThomasWard Pillow is PIL

i know

pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/4.0.0

exists for 3.*

@Christopher are you trying to avoid PIL, or what?

PIL is for 2.7

2 mins ago, by Thomas Ward

@Christopher what's PIL?

it's called Pillow in 3.x IIRC

9:51 PM

@Mendeleev You, we both were chatbanned and you are back

it's a fork of PIL but...

@Christopher Oh yeah. Thanks!

How long did your ban last?

What's with your profile picture being demonic?

@Mendeleev uhhh, A week

I was chatbanned for 30 days.

Ik, I felt bad :(

I kinda caused it in a way.

9:52 PM

Mostly because of a wrongly applied weeklong ban that was immediately reverted but still counted for some reason.

Yeah the summoning gods thing was really stupid

Yeah I won't do that again.

Neither will I

KuanHulio

what happened?

chat bans for a while

@TheWanderer I lurk here. A fragment of me exists here. Toleration is necessary.

10:06 PM

Question: what do you put on the "Experience" field when doing first resumé

Anonymous

@Downgoat 13,034,431

> The amount of EXP you need for level 99 in a skill on Runescape.

._.

@Downgoat if you don't have any work experience, nothing. Unless you have internships, or other training.

Anonymous

@Downgoat 100% guaranteed to get you respect

@Mego problem is there's a level cap of 120 on a handful of Runescape skills

so...

10:08 PM

@ThomasWard does training include AP CS A class i took last year

I mean I learned how computer do beep boop :D

@Downgoat that's usually under your "Education" category under your high school.

not your work experience category

in my case, i had an additional "certifications" category for my technical certifications I got on my own during high school so... :P

I mean it is for internship so I don't think they are look for work experience specifically

Anonymous

You could include non-work experience, i.e. passion projects and extracurricular programming

though usually those can be considered other categories, either Volunteer Experience, or Extracurriculars, etc. but yeah, you can add things

it depends on whether you're actually including "Work Experience" on its own or not

Anonymous

IMO if you don't have work experience, it's better to put all experience together

10:11 PM

@Mego Question: does cheddar count, it is coded in node.js so that might be a bad thing >_<

Anonymous

@Downgoat Yeah it definitely counts

Anonymous

The language isn't nearly as important as the lessons you learned during the project

Anonymous

And most hard lessons are language-independent

@Downgoat Just say none or remove the part of your resume

@Christopher like programming job or like physical job

Anonymous

10:13 PM

A convenience store job is very different from a programming internship

@Downgoat o, this is programming job. Just link to your ppcg account and github

All will be well

Anonymous

I would suggest linking to the SO account or the global SE account rather than PPCG

Good point, showing small code may lower any pay

oh good idea

(If you get paid that is)

Anonymous

10:16 PM

@Christopher That's not the reason. An SO account or the global SE account looks more professional.

@Mego It was a bad joke ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Mego in that case I should probably remove all the goat references

@Downgoat no, all goats = job goats

discussion feature-request sandbox

Any company that assumes more lines = more work is a horrifying experience

Anonymous

@Downgoat Not sure if joking or not...

New Meta Posts

10:19 PM

0

Q: Can we retire the Sandbox?

It's been asked before, it's been rejected before and now I'm bringing it up again. I have a love/hate relationship with the Sandbox. I've voiced complaints before but I now have an idea that might work. The Sandbox is quite a good idea, despite having flaws. One of the flaws that we can easi...

Rip that post

Oh, it's suggesting a new sandbox

Maybe not so rip

4

Anonymous

@Mendeleev Inaccurate; IE/Edge should only start drinking after it moves away

@Mego Funny.

There's also this:

@Mendeleev Android Studio is more accurate

10:25 PM

Edge is actually pretty alright

I still prefer Firefox

@MDXF I use JetBrains products daily: not accurate, they're pretty conservative

Huh

Anonymous

Please don't post opinions that you don't actually agree with. That deters others from posting their opinions. — Mego 5 mins ago

Anonymous

Someone else want to back me up on this?

No

10:26 PM

Although the unspoken truth is that Firefox eats CPU

The opinions thing is to provide a way to vote for/against the thing, not to describe an opinion

@Mego is that suggesting that I don't actually like edge?

Anonymous

@ATaco No, that comment is entirely tangential to the conversation in here, and is actually relevant to PPCG

Anonymous

@Mendeleev That's not what Meta is for

@Mego How do you do that comment embed thing?

Anonymous

10:28 PM

@Mendeleev Just paste the permalink

oic

I didn't know comments oneboxed

Wait... how do you get comment permalinks?

Can mods see who voted to delete submissions?

'cause there's one random delete vote on this and I'm really confused

I don't like Onebox because I can't find its source on chat.SE

I believe mods can

Anonymous

@Mendeleev Click the timestamp

10:29 PM

@Mego ah, thanks

at least, we can on Ask Ubuntu. But click the timestampy

@ThomasWard Speaking of Ask Ubuntu, why is there that terrible border around the site? It's literally the only reason I never use it

By the way, why is Ask Ubuntu not a dupe site of Unix & Linux?

@Mendeleev ask ubuntu is like child of ubuntu.com but using SE while unix & linux is like 100% SE

@Downgoat But still.

10:33 PM

@MDXF NFC

also they are other OS beside ubuntu and I think AU was made first

@Mendeleev Asked, Discussed, explicitly decided as separate

On an unrelated note, it's like 30C outside, my house has no AC, our icemaker is broken, I have nothing cold... rip me

I think I'm going to melt

@ThomasWard What does that mean?

@Downgoat Ubuntu Only, but all the approved Ubuntu variants (Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, etc. are OK)

@MDXF NFC = No F****** Clue.

10:34 PM

Oh okay

i'm drinking so i'm a little more evilish with words today :)

And there's no meta post on that?!?

@MDXF Near Field Communication

@Mendeleev No it really doesn't :P

@Mendeleev O_o aren't you in washington?

Anonymous

10:35 PM

No Further Comments

@Downgoat I am

This is the weather in my approximate area:

google.com/search?q=weather+pine+lake+wa

Also: Why are you using Celsius not freedom units D:

> freedom

My perfect weather is 12C and raining

I have a new record: 3 messages on the starboard!

@Mendeleev brb superimposing american flag on avatar

Downpatrioticgoat?

10:39 PM

@Downgoat do not change your name :P

If you do change your name, don't be me :P

Freedowngoat

Freedoat

So @dennis any idea who voted to delete this or why?

@MDXF No and no :P

10:41 PM

@cat ... note the @dennis

i'm just joking, sorry

:P

Anonymous

@MDXF He wouldn't be able to tell you

@MDXF are you new?

@Mego I thought mods could see who voted to delete

@Mendeleev Not really, why do you ask?

10:42 PM

I just haven't seen you around

Anonymous

@MDXF They can, but they can't give that information to non-mods.

if they could they still can't tell you, it's in the terms

I haven't been here for a month though

Darn

@Mendeleev I joined the "community" (TNB) last week

I see

10:43 PM

stackoverflow.com/legal/moderator-agreement @MDXF

but I've been active on PPCG for three weeks, inactive for six months

@cat thanks