@JeffSchaller well it's strange I usually get some rep from 2 main questions I answered long ago. And for now a couple of week I feel like someone is just upvoting random answer from me. OKay I get rep but it's strange
@Kiwy Maybe it's a new user trying to get a badge for voting, or someone feeling randomly generous. If it's "bad" enough, the system will reverse it. For now, enjoy the fact that they're upvotes and not downvotes :)
Hi all, (coming from SO) i am new to this community and just wanted to say thank you for having such a welcoming community it's great, to be honest i am almost shocked how low quality question don't get down votes lol
look like programmers tend to have social lack and linux pple to be more wise (if you don't ask them about kali hahahah :p)
@intika to be fair, I'm using the site as a huge Linux wiki. It wouldn't be fair to not help a bit.
@JeffSchaller isn't Internet amazing ? I'm sure you never allow yourself to simply think of a woman in bikini with a strom trooper helmet and a bottle of Champagne showering you
@Kiwy hahahaha.... @JeffSchaller thanks :) i just hope that low quality questions will not grow too much in number (in a perspective of someone that is trying to answer it could be tiring)... but at the end of the day i think that the success of all SE sites are because of the quality questions, after all low q. question have low visits.
@intika it takes both, right? A great question with no Answers isn't helping anyone; asking good questions is hard (I've only managed 3, and one of those was by accident)
@intika Low quality questions are pruned quite effectively here. But remember that we are a fraction of the size of SO, so the voting is also proportional. A question with -2 here would likely have a -10 or whatever on SO and yet the same proportion of users will have voted on it.
@JeffSchaller yes true but i am not talking about famous question with a lot of up-votes when i am referring to quality, but just question that are well formatted not too broad and makes sens and thus answerable.
I somehow never got into usenet. I think I am just too young for it. I think I first got online in 1996, but didn't go full geek or Linux until '98 or '99.
remind me of my uncle in the 80 (who introduce me to computers)
one day he was going crazy after his computer he tool the screen and was willing to through it over the window it was funny to see her wife asking him to calm down, and looking at his face expressing some technical frustration that she could not understand
However I'm not sure our great leader, the almighty Gilles is human which always bother me... I'm fearing a T1000 invasion and I do not want to have anything to do with that :D
however this is a peperonni pizza on a bikini: https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/5uQNmjp5l_8bAb45z0Vk48eAyuk=/1200x630/2017/06/29/18/47a5084aa2cc4d469c9d75970b16f7b0.79e56.png
I have, and it's also available at the same path on OpenBSD (and presumably on other BSD systems too), although updated.
You should be able to use it with the calendar utility, if Linux has it.
$ calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history
May 23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
May 24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
$ time calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history
May 23 Federal Republic of Germany founded, 1949
May 23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
May 23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
May 24 Battle of Pinchincha in Ecuador
real 0m0.042s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.022s
$ time awk -v td="$(date '+%m/%d')" '$1 == td' /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history
05/23 Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960
05/23 Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953
05/23 Federal Republic of Germany founded, 1949
real 0m0.011s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.005s
@Kusalananda Would you say that Yeti doesn't exist ? Because some guy I know really thinks they are prisoners from alien and to be precise from the ancient astronaut civilization
@Jesse_b Whiskey Cavalier. On Amazon Prime Video.I believe it was broadcast on ABC, but I didn't see it there. For one thing, I don't live in North America.
I have a stick welder which cannot really weld aluminum but it is theoretically possible with a DC stick welder and the right stick electrodes. I have seen very experienced welders try and fail though
You can do it with MIG (requires special wire and ideally a specialized gas mixture) or TIG (again need specialized wire and gas)
Pipeline welding is one of the top tier welding positions though, it's a very critical application that is subject to extremely high standards. The welds are usually xrayed to check their integrity and there is literally zero tolerance for any error
@FaheemMitha Well you can get a decent 3m respirator that will protect you against most fumes for around $30USD, and generally any cheap welding mask (again around $30) will protect your eyes just as good as any other
The most important thing is that you don't get a cheap auto-tinting mask
@FaheemMitha I do, I have an entry level lincoln mask that is not auto-tinting
So I have to manually lower the mask before I weld and it's very difficult to see what you are doing until the arc starts. Auto-tinting masks are very nice but the cheap ones do not tint fast enough and will damage your eyes
Fun (?) fact: In Swedish, "Superman" is called "Stålmannen", The Steel Man. I immediately tried to make a joke about the "Mild Steel Man", but realized it wouldn't work.
@FaheemMitha It would be entirely unnecessary, hot rivets are used to hold bridges and skyscrapers together. Your luggage rack could be held together with bubble gum and hot glue and not fall apart
@FaheemMitha Not really, I'm assuming you are going to skin it with thin sheet aluminum. In which case the weakest aluminum pop rivets would still be stronger
@FaheemMitha It would be heavier than aluminum but possibly lighter than steel. You can get very thin sheets of wood for the skin but they wouldn't be nearly as durable as either metal
So you think regular aluminium would be strong enough, as opposed to an alloy? And that dents and so forth wouldn't really be an issue? I don't have a good sense of how dentable aluminium is.
@FaheemMitha Either steel or aluminum. and I guess it wouldn't necessarily be "stretched" but pulled very taught while it is being fastened so it remains taught
similar to the way a chain link fence is installed
$ awk 'BEGIN{ for (i=0;i<5;i++) { a+=i; print "Fabby this is math",a,"+",i,"=",a+i } }'
Fabby this is math 0 + 0 = 0
Fabby this is math 1 + 1 = 2
Fabby this is math 3 + 2 = 5
Fabby this is math 6 + 3 = 9
Fabby this is math 10 + 4 = 14
