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Tim

01:03

I was wondering if github.com/apache/spark has "issues"?

a feature by which I can ask questions

Jeff Schaller

01:49

@Tim it seems as though they point to spark.apache.org/community.html which (ironically) points to Stack Overflow as well as some mailing lists.

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Faheem Mitha

07:07

Does anyone understand what the plan on the far right means? hushed.com/pricing

Sorry about the off-topic, but I don't have a lot of people to ask.

On the top is says unlimited. Then further down it says 30 days.

Michael Homer

The unlimited is the ∞s

Kusalananda

07:24

@FaheemMitha It's the amount of data that is unlimited, not the timeframe.

Faheem Mitha

08:05

@Kusalananda Oh, I see. Thank you.

@MichaelHomer Ok, so the time frame isn't unlimited. Thank you.

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Faheem Mitha

13:31

Everyone seems to think that India is doing too little testing. I hope we're not on the verge of a mass outbreak.

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Philip Kirkbride

17:55

Hello, I have a question I'm not sure is worth asking on the main site

In the past I've had terminal glitches when using minicom or in rare cases SSH where the screen gets glitched with non-text characters. Then you need to run stty sane to fix it.

I need to get a screen shot of this glitch myself (due to copyright) but I can't seem to get it to occur. Does anyone know how I could go about triggering that manually?

This is the type of glitch I'm talking about cyberciti.biz/tips/bash-fix-the-display.html

terdon

18:24

You mean triggering the specific glitch you have or mimicking the output?

Would something like head /dev/urandom work?

Jeff Schaller

I suppose there's all sorts of glitches possible besides just catting some binary

Philip Kirkbride

I think I could probably get away with /dev/urandom

terdon

@PhilipKirkbride What is this for? Just to explain to someone what it looks like? Can't you just use the image from the link?

Jeff Schaller

Q: How to fix a terminal after a binary file has been dumped inside it?

After having played with curl, a binary file has been dumped inside my terminal. For example, the horizontal lines: ─ I use to format my prompt are replaced by 'q', and it can be much worse. Why does this happen, and how can you fix it without having to close the terminal ?

terminal

Philip Kirkbride

18:39

@terdon it's for print

@JeffSchaller I saw that one but it doesn't seem to cause a continued glitch on Ubuntu 18.04, I could get an older virtual machine.

But after thinking about it I think just showing some output from /dev/urandom across with some explanation that you're basically stuck will be enough

Jeff Schaller

stty -onlcr may help a bit, if you want to show continued input

terdon

@PhilipKirkbride ah

Philip Kirkbride

@JeffSchaller oh so normally stty sane will stop any ongoing output, but the stty -onclr is a sort of way around that?

Jeff Schaller

running that stty will "garble" your next commands & output by stripping newlines (it seems)

Philip Kirkbride

oh awesome, yeah I just ran ls after and that is exactly the kind of thing I could use a picture of

Jeff Schaller

18:45