Below is the dockerfile which is stored as image tag somehub/someapp-specs:
FROM ubuntu:trusty
MAINTAINER Developer team <developerteam@abc.com>
# Prevent dpkg source
ENV TERM=xterm-256color
# Set mirrors to ca
RUN sed -i "s/http:\/\/archive./http:\/\/ca.archive./g" /etc/apt/sources.list
# I...
@cas I'm thinking I should undelete that midi keyboard question that you found. I want to leave a comment describing why it's a valid question, but since I don't know anything about the topic I don't quite know what to write.
Well, I'll get to it in an hour or so. Doing it from a phone on a bus is suboptimal.
@Kusalananda i don't know much about midi either, but I do know that the commands mentioned are linux commands, and that working with midi on linux is pretty common (esp for musicians, obviously).
I've undeleted and left a comment anyway. I don't know what happened to your flag though (it disappeared from my interface, hopefully it was resolved as "helpful" and not "declined").
part of the reason i flagged the comment was that i'd seen the same user making similar dismissive comments not long before I saw that question. someone was asking about whether google chrome needed gtk3. the comment was a bit of pedantic snark about it not being required on windows. i replied that the comment was irrelevant and pedantic. some time later the comment was deleted, so i deleted mine.
yep, just reloaded my profile page and "helpful" has incremented.
i thought maybe the commenter needs a mod to tell them to stop being rude to newbies, especially when the rudeness is unwarranted arrogance about stuff they don't understand themselves.
@cas Thanks! Yes, we do have a handful of these users that tend to leave dismissive/rude comments while not writing many answers themselves. Do flag these types of comments if you see them.
I'm programming a Launchkey MK2 25 to control my Linux system. I've set up some key listeners for the white and black keys to perform some actions.
This works. The problem is that sometimes the first (white) key will be 48, or 51, or maybe something else. I thought it was the Octave setting, so...
@derobert There have been protests for weeks. But till now, the Sikhs have not been involved. I don't think the elections matter that much, one way or the other.
Interestingly, my evil cousin is apparently tangentially involved in this bank thing. At least, there are connections.
I guess it's a small world if you are a white-collar criminal in Bombay.
I'm on one of those Whatsapp groups related to the bank scam. And someone just mentioned him by name. And I told whoever it was that his information was wrong. So he asked me how I knew.
I really hate freaking Whatsapp. But installed it because of this catastrophe.
@derobert Well, it was said he works for someone who clearly he didn't work for.
They were just repeating what was in the newspaper. I've known about the matter in question for years. It was even in the papers years ago.
But it seems that India's law enforcement spends much of its time in deep slumber. Useless people.
I mean, I remember talking about it with people in 2016.
Anyway, I guess I could wander along to the protest for a bit. It's not far from here. Though it's not likely to be fun. Lot of yelling and screaming and slogan chanting in the hot sun.
I went to one of them - last week it was. After a while, my feet started to hurt. I guess I'm not hardy enough for India.
But this business has got them very upset, understandably so.
@derobert Presumably even the US has protests.
And if the Gurudwaras have called the protests, they'll turn out. They're a pretty tight-knit community. Though until now, I barely registered that Bombay had Sikhs. They all live north of here. Around here it's more Muslims.
Some places said 10 am. Some said 10.30 am. I think I'll turn up around 11 am. Last week I came at 10 am as announced, and there was nobody there.
@derobert That's typical for India. But that was a small protest. This one is likely to be much larger.
I don't know what happened, but it seems likely the Sikhs have been trying to work it out behind the scenes, and it hasn't been happening. They're not talking, but that would be my guess.
And it's now been a month, and they are probably getting fed up.
At least, they've been remarkably silent till now.
I thought I'd try to get there around 11 am. Maybe stay till 1 pm, then go home for lunch.
@FaheemMitha I'm not sure being in Europe is technically required. Seems like one of those things they may have forgotten to put down on paper. So it might be OK.
I am trying to check wether a file exists or not:
This works as expected:
if [ -e "/tmp/test.*.lock" ]; then
echo "exists!"
fi
This does not:
if [[ -e /tmp/test.*.lock ]]; then
echo "exists!"
fi
The filename could be something like /tmp/test.123.lock
I could not find a way to make it w...
Is there a good clean conventional way to do this?
For example, if there are any ".gz" files in a certain directory, I want to unzip them. But if there aren't, I don't want to see any error.
If I use gzip -d /mydir/*.gz, I get the error:
gzip: /mydir/*.gz: No such file or directory
If I fir...
trainwreck is good; the active posts right now have words like "Is SE safe", unresolved, problem, outrage, pressure, disappointed, disentagle, deleting.... a far cry from "Is there a site for City Planning and/or Road Traffic Management?"
@FaheemMitha well, for one, it's open source. For another, Whatsapp is supposedly using Signal protocol (I say supposedly only because they're closed source), so there is no chance that Whatsapp is more secure than Signal.
@FaheemMitha aha, you DO have opinions about that. :D Okay then. I know all about the difference, I just mostly keep to the more broadly understood term.
@Wildcard I think we can agree that it's unfortunate that English doesn't have two different words for the two different meanings, like gratis and libre.
But I'm not sure that it would have helped things if Stallman had decided to use the term libre software.
They would probably have found new ways to insult him. Being a pretentious French speaker, perhaps.
It's kind of interesting that Arundhati Roy seems to be very popular and sought after in the West. But in India, as far as I can tell, she can't write a line without someone attacking her.
but speaking of 25k and the site analytics... are they linked to from somewhere? Other than the privileges list, that is. I couldn't find it elsewhere.
@FaheemMitha the party will look a lot like this: "Congratulations on your new milestone. Here are some more numbers and charts that aren't useful for much." 🎉
@ilkkachu well in the U.S., when you're 13 you can see PG-13 movies and get online accounts. When you're 16 you can drive (earlier with a permit but whatever). When you're 17 you can see R rated movies. When you're 18 you can have sex and vote and do legal stuff. Oh, and smoke. When you're 21 you can drink and gamble.
And when you're 25, you can rent a car by yourself.
Actually, renting a car sounds quite handy. Though I've never done it myself. Though you need a credit card to do it. At least, that used to be the case.
Being able to rent a car isn't that useless, though. Except that in the States there's probably enough cars to go around even without renting. But I can understand that a rental company might have some reservations about renting their cars to teenagers (or college students, if TV and movies are anything to base on ;)
@FaheemMitha depends how much you're going to drive around. I don't really know what car rental prices are like, broadly speaking, but Uber is far cheaper than a cab.
@FaheemMitha but my point was more that it's not vital to be able to rent a car after a flight. There are a lot more ways of getting around these days.
@FaheemMitha it's a LOT cheaper. And the app makes it more convenient to summon than taxis. Also taxis are unionized so they're an effective monopoly, with the attendant price increases that implies.
@FaheemMitha well, if you can drive in Los Angeles I think there is nowhere in the U.S. that will give you trouble. Except possibly Manhattan.
lawsuit.org/robotrump-an-ai-trump I'm not sure how the average on that is 4/10 ... surprising (got 9/10 myself). But I think Trump being easy to confuse for computer-generated text says more about Trump than AI progress :-(
(I also wonder how much they must have paid for that domain...)
The did pick some interesting ones in there. Like one of the (real) trump quotes was one where he was staying on-script... that made it easy to figure out it must be real. "Doesn't sound like Trump, sounds like profession speech writer", so probably not AI trained on Trump.
Mostly, though, it seems the AI stuff doesn't flow right. It jumps topics, err, somewhat randomly and unnaturally. More than even Trump. That gave away a lot of them.
It also shows you the portion that answered each way as you go through it, that was interesting. Some of the ones I found pretty clear got near 50-50. I guess the average person must not be evaluating them like I am (well, also, to get such different results)
I'm programming a Launchkey MK2 25 to control my Linux system. I've set up some key listeners for the white and black keys to perform some actions.
This works. The problem is that sometimes the first (white) key will be 48, or 51, or maybe something else. I thought it was the Octave setting, so...
Is there a good clean conventional way to do this?
For example, if there are any ".gz" files in a certain directory, I want to unzip them. But if there aren't, I don't want to see any error.
If I use gzip -d /mydir/*.gz, I get the error:
gzip: /mydir/*.gz: No such file or directory
If I fir...
