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Braiam
Braiam
02:03
man, this is wrong superuser.com/a/23506/235569
slm
slm
@Braiam - and that's why I stopped hanging around on that site.
Braiam
Braiam
@slm how's stuff?
don't we have a "what's load average" q?
slm
slm
02:27
I'd be shocked if we didn't
sutff's good. Super busy w/ new job.
mikeserv
mikeserv
03:00
Wtf is that guy talking about make -j 60?
 
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Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
08:06
@mikeserv Lots of cores?
Maybe a supercomputer?
Or cluster?
Pandya
Pandya
08:36
Why debian is not so popular Linux distribution?, (however debian based Ubuntu and other like mint is most popular)
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
08:53
@Pandya It's hard to say how popular Debian is. Nobody is tracking Debian users. And what are you comparing Debian's popularity to?
Pandya
Pandya
09:20
@FaheemMitha to distribution based on it(debian) like: Ubuntu.
 
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Braiam
Braiam
13:05
@mikeserv beats me.... I just don't know how wrong he's
@slm we don't have....
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
13:46
@Pandya It is less popular than Ubuntu, that is true. Ubuntu does marketing.
Internet went out, don't know why. Came back, don't know why. I hate India.
Braiam
Braiam
14:27
@FaheemMitha hey, lucky you is just the internet, in my case is the internet, the lights, transport, water... summary any service
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
14:59
@Braiam The others are also pretty bad. We have crazy time whenever something goes wrong, which they do regularly.
All basic utilities are run by the govt. And the concept of customer service doesn't exist with those people.
Ramesh
Ramesh
15:12
@Braiam This answer makes a reference to the superuser post. unix.stackexchange.com/a/118126/47538
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
Hey @Ramesh. On the net on a Sunday too?
Ramesh
Ramesh
@FaheemMitha yeah. Trying to fit in myself as a geek :)
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Ramesh Why? Do you want to be a gilles when you grow up too?
Ramesh
Ramesh
Well, I want to be a Stephane :)
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Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
15:29
@Ramesh Ah, Ok. That's a different ambition, at least.
 
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Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
16:56
X just crashed for no reason. Not good.
Braiam
Braiam
17:11
mm... tar apparently support https/http request yet doesn't support ftp??!?!?!
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Braiam ftp is obsolete, and insecure.
 
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Carpediem
Carpediem
18:39
Hello anybody here ?
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Carpediem Nope.
 
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Braiam
Braiam
20:42
user image
 
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mikeserv
mikeserv
22:36
@Ramesh It'll take quite a while, I expect. Dudes been doing it for decades.
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
22:46
@Braiam ?
Braiam
Braiam
@FaheemMitha legit, isn't it?
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@mikeserv Probably not decades.
@Braiam I've no idea what that is about.
Braiam
Braiam
@FaheemMitha du -s shows the summary of the size of the directory, -h is supposedly to be "human readable", which is where the joke comes
"a lot" is human readable
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Braiam I see. Not the funniest thing I have ever read, but whatever.
mikeserv
mikeserv
23:04
At least a decade.
Braiam
Braiam
@FaheemMitha well, you ought to admit this is neat xkcd.com/1416
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Braiam Yes, I saw that, but what is the connection?
@mikeserv Sure. Some people are just really good at picking up this stuff.
Braiam
Braiam
23:19
@FaheemMitha the above is one of the strips that you can see when you "zoom in"
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Braiam oh, i see.
I'm actually surprised you can do that in a html page.
The scroll/zoom thing, I mean.
slm
slm
@Braiam - here's what made me leave SU
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A: How can I get my public IP address from the command line, if I am behind a router?

slmAssuming your system has 2 ethernet devices, eth0 and eth1 and eth0 is connected to your LAN, say IPs 192.168.1.X and your eth1 device is connected to your ISP (WAN) you're going to want to use the following ifconfig command to get your IP for the WAN side. NOTE: The 1st 2 ways assume that you'r...

Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
You've got to hand it to Randall. He's nothing if not creative.
@slm You've left SU?
Hellovart
Hellovart
if I have a pointer1, and pointer2 pointing to pointer1, and I set pointer2 equal to nullptr does that create a memory leak?
Braiam
Braiam
@Hellovart C, right?
Hellovart
Hellovart
23:25
c++
so pretty much the same thing in that regard
Braiam
Braiam
mm... through is possible that you get an answer, that's not the kind of question we cater here. Try Stack Overflow instead
Hellovart
Hellovart
everyone there trolls
Seth
Seth
@Braiam Yeah, it's kinda a known fact that you don't ask a C++ question in the C++ room.
Especially if they decide your question is a "newbie" question.
Braiam
Braiam
@Seth I'm not saying that he should ask in C++ room
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Braiam well, got to the du thing. I was afraid my mouse was going to wear out.
Seth
Seth
23:28
@Braiam Oh, ok. What were you saying then? :)
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Seth The C++ room does seem notably unfriendly for some reason.
Any idea why? Lots of the SE chats are perfectly friendly. Some very friendly.
@Seth I'm guessing he meant the actual site. :-)
I don't speak for @Braiam, obviously.
So, is everyone having a good day so far?
Seth
Seth
@FaheemMitha Honestly, I don't know.
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Seth Ok. One of lifes mysteries, I suppose.
But it is not just me, then? On the unfriendliness of the C++ chat room.
Braiam
Braiam
23:46
in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 20 secs ago, by sehe
If you have a pointer to another pointer, that's just a non-owning pointer, and the first pointer is not a dynamically alllocated object (usually)
just to prove C++ can answer your questions, just know how to ask ;)
in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by aclarke
@Braiam if ptr2 was the only thing pointing to ptr1 and ptr1 was the only thing pointing to a piece of allocated memory, then you've lost the last reference to the last reference to that piece of memory. Welcome to memory allocation hell. Study and use the various standard pointer classes that help you cope with this sort of thing.
Seth
Seth
@FaheemMitha They're ok on occasion. I think it all depends on what time you jump in, and (like Braiam said) how you ask.
I think they also like to pretend they're scary even though they aren't (to a degree).
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Seth I don't know about scary. They're certainly not very polite.
We're talking Linus Torvalds levels of impoliteness.
Seth
Seth
Ironic, isn't it?
hehe.
Faheem Mitha
Faheem Mitha
@Braiam they then spend some time saying how elementary it is and how people asking it should go away and study some more. Which is fair enough, in this case. It really is an elementary question :-)
@Seth Why? Because LT is on record as hating C++?

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