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Ben Brocka

11:00 PM

I think he's watching the leaves blow around

SimonL

ben, your window is too clean. Put stuff on it.

fbueckert

If any of you bought anything from JManga, you now have to pirate it to keep your legally purchased goods.

badp

My cat loves window staring

Ben Brocka

He's running between each of the bay windows, then around the house and back to the window

badp

600...

Ben Brocka

11:02 PM

@fbueckert Yeah screw DRM for things exactly like this

badp

600 precisely it seems

fbueckert

@BenBrocka DRM does nothing but inconvenience paying customers.

badp

At least on the windows partition

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert Hey, it screws up pirates...for a few days. Screws up paying customers forever

SimonL

@fbueckert also increases development cost

Ben Brocka

11:03 PM

@badp Kinda impressed it's still working

badp

At 4.2 seconds per miss that's 42 minutes of missing

So that's the silver lining

Ben Brocka

badp

Well there's nothing intrinsic to the moon that makes it gray is it? I doubt the sun emits perfectly white light

Ben Brocka

The sun is more "white" than anything else. I think it leans slightly toward green, but it's pretty much white in practical terms

badp

...does it?

Blem

11:07 PM

2013, still no color photographs of the moon! ;)

Ben Brocka

After all 99.9% of light on the earth is from the sun and it's pretty neutral white for the most part

StrixVaria

THE SUN IS YELLOW

badp

... the sun is yellow!!!

StrixVaria

@badp Dominated.

Ben Brocka

If the sun were yellow, everything outside on a sunny day would be yellow or black

Blem

11:09 PM

Nn people

badp

So it seems that having spent 42 minutes finding unreadable sectors with chkdsk isn't actually going to do much in terms of preventing three computer from reading those sectors ever again

Ben Brocka

(or brown which is essentially a shade of yellow)

@badp Really? I thought that's what it does...unless you used the wrong options. Fix is one of the options...

fbueckert

Hah! Righthaven's "copyrights" bought by Stephen Media.

badp

We're looking at the world through sun coloured glasses our entire life maaaaaaan

fbueckert

There's some legal brilliance going on there.

Not buying them would've screwed Stephen Media SO badly.

Ben Brocka

11:11 PM

Aren't their copyrights worth less than the metaphorical paper they're written on?

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Read the article.

badp

@Ben chkdsk has entered its second scanning phase and it's also taking forever and I can hear the characteristic tr-krrrrr-tr of unreadable sectors

fbueckert

Not buying them would've meant Stephen Media knew they were shit to begin with.

badp

I'll simply put up a 42 minutes timer

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert Oh, didn't realize it was basically their own shell company

fbueckert

11:12 PM

@BenBrocka Yeah.

It makes me giggle.

Ben Brocka

I'm waiting for Prenda Law to die

fbueckert

@BenBrocka The courthouse in a week or so is going to be crazy.

The judge has ordered everyone from Prenda to show up, or else.

Including their CEO, Alan Cooper.

Grace Note

...it's very weird to describe someone's nose as purely decorative.

badp

Maybe its owner has a cold so strong...

Elections in photography and travel.se

MBraedley

Hi everybody!

EA CEO John Riccitiello ~~fired~~ forced into retirement from his position and removed from the Board of Directors

Ben Brocka

11:21 PM

Wow, PS3 only has 512MB of memory? No wonder the 8 GB is a huge deal for developers...

@MBraedley *retired (not that they'd willingly admit to firing him)

MBraedley

@BenBrocka Sorry, that was the text in the /. post

badp

@Ben I'm telling you, when the ps4 and Xbox 360+1 start being development targets the requirements for PC games will be shooting through the roof

After all the ps4 is a glorified pc

Ben Brocka

@badp Eh, maybe. But memory-wise that's huuuuge for developers, expecting games to run on half a gig of memory is crazy. It's going to improve load times so much

badp

@jin you need to redo our logo, it's been downloaded too many times

Ben Brocka

@MBraedley the resignation letter is out. It's the standard "time to go our separate ways, new blood and all that" which strongly hints at "resign or you're fired" but they didn't outright can his ass

Firing him would probably be murder on their stock price

MBraedley

11:27 PM

@BenBrocka Ah yes, the ever present concern for the shareholders

Ben Brocka

@MBraedley Their stock's already taken a beating apparently, they're down to $20 from a high of $50 over the course of this CEO apparently

SaintWacko

@badp I just read that

badp

FUCK.

The computer shut off

Ben Brocka

Lappy is ded. Not big surprise.

badp

Yeah, it's blue screening at boot

MBraedley

11:36 PM

Hmm, KSP, or FTB. Chat, you decide.

badp

I guess chkdsk did complete then, or at least doing SOMETHING

Ben Brocka

Guess you don't have a desktop to slip it in either

badp

safe mode blue screens too

Time to boot Ubuntu instead!

hi fsck

Ben Brocka

I think it's fsck'd

badp

No shit Sherlock

I just want a file out of it

Grace Note

11:38 PM

If a small child were made of fire, instead of flesh-and-bone, how much would you think it would weigh? Purely theoretical question here.

badp

This copy of Ubuntu so old it shows boot progress

Fire doesn't have a weight!

Ben Brocka

Plasma is generally too light to weigh by standard means

And if you just set a child on fire and throw 'em on a scale your measurements are all kinds of off, trust me on that one

badp

You probably want to weigh the amount of air occupied by his body

After all that's what he is right? Air on fire.

This might not go too well in a space environment

Quick, ben, estimate your volume

Grace Note

Essentially, yes. There's technical particular matter that constitutes the material fuel but not in any fully substantial amount.

Yeah, "average volume of a 10 year old child" is a Google search string I didn't think I'd really use any time in my life.

Ben Brocka

What happened to the option of Stealth, Uncharted 3?

badp

11:43 PM

Bad news, that's 85g Grace

Grace Note

...who measures volume in grams?

badp

for samples aged 17-51

No, that's the weight of the air

Grace Note

badp

The volume is 66.4 liters

Grace Note

Gotcha. Thanks~

badp

11:45 PM

m.wolframalpha.com/input/…

Jin

@badp no wonder why it got infested by purple goo

badp

Welp Ubuntu seems unaffected by the disk damage. Sorry @Ben your estimate was off

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Blog - Stack Exchange: Podcast #45 – Keeping it Sharp

Alex Miller on March 18, 2013

Our guest this week is Eric Lippert – language architect extraordinaire and famous for all his work at Microsoft in developing their languages

Eric joined Microsoft right out of college and was originally working on VB

It’s time for everyone’s favorite game: Name the Worst Feature of that Microsoft Technology!

If you’re a non-programmer and still listening, make sure to email us for your free prize

Eric now builds “static analysis” programs which actually means something real when he’s talking about it …

badp

Attempting to mount the windows disk however gives trouble immediately, who would've thought

Ben Brocka

Same physical disk? Seems odd the linux part would be unaffected

badp

11:49 PM

Localised disk damage would explain it

Yes... Yes... YES...

SUCCESS

Windows 95 virtual machine recovery successful

Primary objective completed

Mission accomplished

Reward obtained

Goal reached

Success

Yes

Coronus

@badp And the reward was... a Windows 95 virtual machine?

badp

Yes! Setting one up is surpassingly difficult

SaintWacko

But why?

Ben Brocka

To play Sim Ant, obviously

I was crushed to find Win 7 no longer runs 16 bit executable, which is apparently what Sim Ant and relatives were. I had to set up an XP VM for it. which is probably long gone by now

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