The Bridge

@TimStone What, like dissolving NAFTA?

Tim Stone

Zing

user15026

Graphics card is in. Right now it only detects one display. Installing the drivers then I will deal with the second display not being a thing

user15026

is worried

murgatroid99

In my experience, installing the drivers often fixes that problem

user15026

12:11 AM

tries to be patient

@Ash patients is hard to have, but good to have

user15026

This is the biggest thing computer wise I have ever done solo so I am just like oh God what if it is broken

user15026

ITS NOT BROKEN

user15026

I FUCKING DID IT AND IT WORKS

user15026

ahem sorry, I am idiotically proud of my damn self

BlueBarren

12:15 AM

@Frank I remember what it's like to have patience

@Ash good job

user15026

@murgatroid99 yep, that fixed it :)

@Ash yasssssssssss

user15026

I got a little frustrated because fitting it in was kinda a PITA but it turned out okayt

user15026

(That and I couldn't find the power cable for it at first because I forgot where I'd put all those extra bits)

12:23 AM

@Ash cables.... I hate those....

@TheMattbat999 then buy apple

they have wireless chargers, wireless earphones, wireless payment, wireless wires, wireless cables, wireless ethernet

@Avery not that much wireless stuff! Wait... wireless wires and Ethernet?

@fredley i'm drowning in bastions now, just captured my 5th

problem is that getting each one fast enough to stay with the fleet is like 8 mil

@Ash Yay for doing computer thing! You came out better than I did

Demo work took longer than expected and the car dealership closed.

:(

12:37 AM

I had to reinstall my operating system because I accidentally wiped my old bootloader

When installing a new SSD

ouch

couldn't you like just install grub?

It's the Windows bootloader. I tried for two days to recover it, but it just won't work

Reinstalling was surprisingly fast, and I got a good taste of how fast an SSD is compared to a HDD

Reinstalling Windows took less than an hour

grub should be able to boot to windows

Doesn't Grub just load the Windows bootloader if you pick the Windows option?

I'm not hugely familiar with Grub

12:58 AM

I'm not sure

uefi is weird

Nick Kaelar - Sanctum of Light [Orchestral]

1:16 AM

Eww... my dig got sprayed by a skunk!

I meant dog

cazc_941

1:35 AM

►

> Apple introduced the iPhone X, or for those who don't know Roman numerals, One Phone Ten.

quartata

One Phone Man

2:03 AM

@Avery I mean... so does android though...

I recently found out that high end samsung phones can even pay with MFT with samsung pay

but unfortunately, samsung pay is not available in Canada yet

so, galaxy phones are even more (optionally) wireless than iphones :o

2:19 AM

@fredley just capped a leviathan with an armogedden core :D

hunting pirates and selling their captured ships is much more profitable than hauling or ferrying passengers

Q: Which mega knight deck will help me in some battles?

3:20 AM

-1

I've used to see a lot of top player's using the mega knight decks and after that, those top players are hiding those amazing mega knight decks they use for dominating each battle, I don't know why. I've unlocked him 23 days after the mega knight challenge and I have all of the cards of the game....

clash-royale

3:35 AM

i wonder what kind of ship "bonefiend" is flying

user15026

4:20 AM

@GodEmperorDune I feel like there should be some innuendo I can make here but I am too tired

4:40 AM

@Ash dickdevil is a bit too on the nose?

user15026

5:04 AM

@GodEmperorDune maybe :p

6:23 AM

So I had this dream before I woke up about superheroes, and I somehow had Sydney's orbs from Grrl Power, but then they turned into dirty socks, and then Earth was invaded by aliens and some other aliens took back the orbs, and then I was in a shop where aliens were herding humans, but I still had the red orb, and then I woke up

Sepia Lazers

7:00 AM

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Q: Dune2 tag synomyms

Some confusion arose while tagging this question. The game in question was called "Dune: The Battle for Arrakis" on Genesis/Mega drive, "Dune II: Battle for Arrakis" on PC in Europe, and purportedly "Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty" on PC elsewhere*. We already have a dune2 tag, and a well mea...

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Q: How does Just Enough Items/Not Enough Items retrieve item recipes?

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Given how useful JEI/NEI are in game at retrieving available items and item recipes, I was wondering if it would be possible to extract such data for use outside of the game. Essentially, it would be a program that reads mod .jar files for item ids, metadata and recipe data and outputs data files...

minecraft minecraft-forge

@Nzall dreams are weird stuff

Duitse verkiezingen - Zondag met Lubach (S07)

Does anyone know what song is playing in this video starting at 4:44?

►

7:28 AM

@Nzall dirty socks... @Wipqozn was to blame

Q: How to disable online in Dark Souls 1 while keeping Steam online?

7:41 AM

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I need to disable Dark Souls 1 online features. Usually people do it by putting the whole Steam offline, but I need Steam to be online. As far as I know there is PvPWatchdog mod, which allows you to kick invaders by pressing F1. So it feels like what I want is possible (I need the same but fast...

steam mods dark-souls

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Q: Unable to apply mods due to 'An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file'

This morning I tried to use new mods for Skyrim SE. I was looking for followers and companions mods then i found this popular 'Sofia follower' mod and here's the error I found on TES5Edit.(check the image) I ignored it and started looking for other companion mods but all gave the same fatal e...

skyrim mods

7:53 AM

I think one of the pieces of furniture I need is a timepiece of sorts that counts down to the last useful moment for me to catch a train

or a tram or a bus

Not sure if it should be digital or analogue

I guess digital would be more useful and analogue more kickass

A raspberry pi can drive an analogue gauge right?

probably

just get uh

a servo or something

@badp depends on the gauge but probably

It does sound outside of the realm.of what I can easily achieve

Meh, it's doable

Meeting time brb o/

It's probably not so fundamentally different than driving a bunch of leds

except from a power point of view

8:14 AM

@badp I personally just remember for my buses when they depart, and then make sure I depart at least 10 minutes earlier (it takes 4 minutes to get to the bus stop, and I've had the bus arrive up to 6 minutes early).

Congratulations

Mornings are difficult for me however

And on Sundays, realising I should have left two minute ago and the next useful train is in 30 minutes is like routine

9:26 AM

I have survived the meetings

9:39 AM

@KevinvanderVelden (more meetings)

Not yet

Maybe later

Q: What is Delphine Talking About?

9:57 AM

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While Sven the bard is playing at the Sleeping Giant Inn in Riverwood, you may occasionally here a discussion between himself and Delphine (prior to the quest Alduin's Wall) that goes like the following: Delphine: "Sven, we need to talk..." Sven: "Here we go..." Delphine: "It's about your...

skyrim

10:10 AM

meow

you have an unhealthy relationship with this topic @fredley

@badp Yes I do indeed have an unhealthy relationship with devops, well done for noticing

@fredley you're blind to your own problems

Q: Wizardry 8 : how do I get to the Northern Wilderness?

0

Ideally, I would like an annotated map of the whole game (at the very least, with exits from each area marked, showing where they lead to), but that might be off topic, so here's a direct, on-topic, question. How do I get to the Northern Wilderness?

wizardry-8

10:29 AM

I found a bug in Trello, pls @joel

Didn't he sell it?

@PrivatePansy still pls @joel

Ronan

@PrivatePansy You can't run from your mistakes

Mac 'native' trello app shits itself when put on a vertical screen

Native in 2017: The same site but in a pared-down web container pinned to a single site.

cazc_941

11:02 AM

@fredley barf

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

11:20 AM

E L E C T R O N

RedRiderX

1

Mead Making

Proposed Q&A site for everyone interested in MEAD.

Currently in definition.

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment i'm guessing it aint the kind of mead you get in Skyrim

11:38 AM

I mean they've not proposed any questions yet so they could just be excited about mead

@KevinvanderVelden true, i'm assuming some obscure programming library/framework

it's probably about honey wine, judging by the name

11:58 AM

This new Youtube layout still has some annoying bugs within the playlist tracker

As in, I'm following a playlist with 260 videos, I'm at video 131 and the playlist tracker shows videos around 160

12:09 PM

ughhhhh

getting out of house is such a pain

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment actual mead confirmed \o/

cazc_941

@Avery ?

Well, Tim Horton's gave me the wrong coffee...

I thought I had ordered a large, but didn't question it when they handed me a medium

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Multimedia Enterprise Acquisition Development?

Frank

@MBraedley You needed coffee to notice the difference.

12:24 PM

@Frank No, I was actually thinking "I thought I ordered a large". I only noticed because I think they gave me a cafe mocha

It's definitely much sweeter than a double-double

Frank

@MBraedley Those are not bad.

Right, but not what I was expecting.

Ugh, Twitter really needs to do something about their sensitive content detection. I was browsing the new "Elf on a Shelf" trend: Vegeta on a cheetah, Vaporeon on a Delorean, Mace Windu on a Hindu, brick on a dick,... wait what

Q: Need help with /spreadplayers command

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So, I am making a mini game and I want it to put all of the players in one of the five maps that they have selected. I put bedrock walls about 20 blocks high all around the map, and barriers on the ceiling. However, whenever I do a test run, I am put on the barrier roof above the map. How to I ma...

minecraft-commands

Frank

@Nzall Link in a sink. Memes are stupid.

12:28 PM

@Lazers2.0 status-by-design AFAIK

Yeah I'm pretty sure it puts them on the highest block

Although it should probably ignore barriers in the highest block calculation

You could do some hackish behavior:

oh, and apparently a few minutes earlier, they also had dick on a chick and Zach on a Rack (rack meaning breasts)

Neither of which were marked as sensitive content, mind you

/spreadplayers
/effect @a resistance 5 60
/tp @a ~ ~-3 ~

Q: How do I sprint in Destiny 2 while using Remote Play?

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Since discovering the Remote Play function on my Vita recently (and discovering that my Vita was not, in fact, broken), I've been using it to play most of my games away from home. However, sometimes the bindings are a little unintuitive, as the Vita has less buttons than the DualShock 4 controlle...

ps-vita destiny-2 remote-play

In fact why sit on that in chat when you can make that an answer

\o/

it's a total hack

but in a multiple games scenario where the player is allowed to place blocks I'm... not sure there's a better solution

other than however the fuck multiple server type systems work

12:43 PM

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is there an option to ignore the sky-block rule? Also, what happens if you use barrier blocks for the ceiling?

@MBraedley I think that's what they said they did

Yep, so they did

And I would think the game would ignore barriers cc @dinnerbone

but I guess not

And yeah, it looks like there isn't a magic /spreadplayers <x> <z> <distance> <maxrange> <respectteams> <player...> [BelowARoofPls]

If you installed ccleaner recently, you got backdoored

8

12:47 PM

woo

I don't think I ever installed it on my current laptop?

I'm not sure

@Unionhawk I installed it yesterday evening. Fortunately, that was version 5.34, so a fixed version.

Meanwhile, in Atwood's law

@badp uninstall it regardless of the risk. ccleaner sucks ass

@fredley didn't we already have windows 95

@badp Pretty sure we got from 95.js to 2k.js in less than 5 years

progress!

12:51 PM

Windows 93 still beats those other wannabes

tru

"Disk Error press any key to continue"

that's a good start

For me, it's hanging on the "Starting Windows" screen.

keep waiting

it's not exactly quick

then again

@Memor-X ...It used to be good

12:56 PM

boot times were never a point of strength for Windows 2000

@Memor-X I simply used it to clean up some disk space, because I only had 6 GB left on my SSD

@badp s/2000//

@fredley norepro

Windows 2000 is up and running here

Hey my Windows 10 SSD machine boots fast

my windows 10 HDD machine is a goddamn snail

but

@Unionhawk The issue here is clearly Windows

12:58 PM

It's also got to start Steam, Battle.Net, Discord, and a bunch of other stuff

2

@Yuuki that's a pug right?

@fredley You're... clearly windows

@Memor-X Nose at the same level as eyes, probably.

1:01 PM

yiss

Like, the bar hasn't moved a quarter inch yet

@Memor-X certainly looks dumb enough for it

@fredley see

I'm actually refreshing the page to see if that helps

#3a6ea5

1:02 PM

ah, okay, it was indeed loading slowly, but it's stuck at a full bar for me

A: How do I sprint in Destiny 2 while using Remote Play?

WINDOWS TOOTH OW SAND STARTUP NOISE DOT EM PEE THREE

Fluttershy

Can someone edit the image on this answer so it actually shows? Mobile isn't letting me for some reason.

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From what I've been able to find thus far, the remote play controls for Destiny 2 are the same as the remote play controls for the first Destiny. Sprint should be mapped D-pad Down. PA Vita remote play controls for Destiny

@Memor-X and why is that?

@Fluttershy done

The best startup sound of anything ever

edit conflict

1:05 PM

@fredley ooh I have the same thing \o/

@Chippies my experience is that it screws with chrome addons by wiping their data, like all the tabs i saved into onetab

I am now running the 'Connect to the Internet Wizard'

@Memor-X uncheck the stuff that's responsible for chrome data?

I wonder who the Internet Wizard is

I don't want it to clean my chrome stuff, so I don't tell it to

1:06 PM

Nice the thing even has firefox

@Chippies rather just not use it. i am capable of cleaning stuff myself

@Memor-X even... the registry?

it also has a great function of finding duplicate files, which is useful to me, but probably not to everyone

@fredley have you heard about the Elders of the Internet

@badp I thought that Internet got crushed

there was a hot spare

1:07 PM

also that's the worst It crowd ep, at least the specific stereotypes

Sometimes, I feel like Darren Aronofsky is the kind of person who becomes saner while on drugs.

@Chippies you know i never really understood that. why would you need to clean your registry?

@Memor-X because windows stores a ton of registry entries and every time it has to access them, it goes through all of them. If you have a bunch of junk left over from old applications, it slows the whole system down

citation-needed

I highly doubt the registry is implemented with a linear search

@Chippies oh well then no problem for me, it's not often i have to remove stuff i install. i generally have enough HDD Space to last me until i next upgrade

i still have 121 GB left on my 810 GB C Drive which i have had for like 7 years

1:11 PM

@KevinvanderVelden well, I'm probably misremembering the specifics, but over time, it does slow stuff down

Idk, probably not as important with Windows 10 and the age of SSD's, but meh, it has never hurt me to clean registry

@Chippies decentsecurity.com/#/registry-cleaners

I mean, the registry is terrible rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/…

The registry is optimized for speed and has hundreds of thousands of entries. do you really think that removing a couple hundred entries will affect the speed?

@Memor-X how is it not dead

my 3 yo hdd drive is dying

@Nzall I was thinking that I saw a post somewhere that said registry cleaners are stupid

1:15 PM

That's like saying it will be faster to look something up in the dictionary because you tore out the entries for Q.

I forgot it was Tay's website that did it

> The general rule of thumb is if Michael Keaton isn't a bird at any point, then the movie isn't very good.

@badp eh

@Avery it's Sata, i only use it for the OS and Games

use bitbleach anyways

1:16 PM

@Nzall I think the thing about slow downs was about looking up entries to missing files

i don't know to be honest

@Memor-X same

i am in need to a new build which means new HDD

the guy is right and is selling anti-hillary merch but eh

at least it's open source and does the job

either way, the article you linked pretty much just says "I have never used a registry cleaner and my computers are fine"

which is fine and dandy, but not very scientific

1:17 PM

Your... face isn't very scientific

@Unionhawk I mean, you're not wrong, for once

@Chippies support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2563254/… is an official KB from Microsoft that states they do not support it and it can damage the PC

@Nzall you do realize they have to say that because registry is a complicated thing and it can easily mess things up if touched?

I'm not disagreeing that registry cleaners are probably mostly just a placebo

but I haven't seen any actual proof that they don't do anything beneficial at all

if anything, it just tidies up the registry so I can feel good about it :P

blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2005/10/02/…

@Chippies that's not how evidence works. You don't prove a negative

(also the burden of proof is on the people making registry cleaners, not on everyone else)

Fluttershy

1:20 PM

@Chippies Thanks!

You guys don't have any proof that I am not a millionare

Checkmate, atheists

thewindowsclub.com/…

(I mean, I have proof of this, but shh)

> In my opinion, if you are using a Registry Cleaner with a view to speeding up your system, it may not really help. If your registry had been corrupted or has a problem, it is unlikely that using a registry optimizer will make that problem go away.

But if you are trying to remove the residual registry junk; yes it has its own uses! One may use a Registry Cleaner only if one is into regular installing and uninstalling of software.

@Nzall I'm not sure if this is supposed to be against or for registry cleaners

1:22 PM

@Chippies it's a nuanced view. It helps in some cases, but not for speed or clearing corruption

at the best, it tidies up the registry, gets rid of junk and gives me a placebo effect and at it's worst it does literally nothing

And seriously, get a fresh Windows VM if you can, test the registry with CCleaner or another tool and you'll probably find a bunch of reported "errors". Would Windows really ship with thousands of registry errors?

@Chippies at worst it can break your computer because it removed something it shouldn't have

@Nzall I haven't had any major issues with my windows since Windows 8

> On an older Windows 8 computer in my house, I exported the entirety of the Windows Registry, which came in at 409,980,298 bytes. It contained 468,902 individual registry keys.

I then ran the registry cleaning portion of CCleaner on this computer, which had never had this, nor any, registry cleaner ever run on it before during its 2 years of heavy use.

CCleaner found and removed 329 unnecessary registry keys, totaling 82 bytes in size.

Source: lifewire.com/…

@Nzall that person probably doesn't install much stuff, because the most entries I've had removed at one time was over 1500

1:27 PM

Like, if you think that removing less than 0.1% of the entries in what's essentially a dictionary has any meaningful effect on the speed of that dictionary,...

@Nzall How can 329 things be 82 bytes? How can a thing be less than 1 byte ever?

@StrixVaria empty folders

But you need a byte to indicate the existence of the folder, no?

At least one.

It's probably on the order of like 4

or something in that realm

for a 1 character folder name

Right, which is non-zero.

1:29 PM

@StrixVaria I'm gonna assume the bytes removed size is the size of the values

The registry isn't just a flat text file, it's essentially a dictionary

So the jury duty that I was going to be summoned for this month has been canceled on account of Harvey.

It's not a dictionary, it's a (crap) file system

I mean, I don't know how to feel about that.

@KevinvanderVelden When the keys take up more space than the values...

1:30 PM

@StrixVaria when the size of the keys isn't measured~

@Yuuki Do you have any links to articles or news about the eminent domain/flooding issue that happened where you live?

And yeah, the size of the key probably takes up more size than the value, I mean, any boolean setting will have a key much larger than it's value for starters

@StrixVaria Current gossip is saying that the lawsuit is probably going to fail.

Harris County made a public statement to the effect that they aren't responsible because they don't control the reservoirs, the Army Corps of Engineers does.

@Yuuki :(

I have a friend who's a civil engineer and is interested in it as a case study.

It's a bit weird to go to lunch with coworkers when this issue is brought up and they call the people suing the county/Army Corps idiots.

Tim Stone

1:33 PM

@Yuuki Army Corps of Engineers really teaching the masterclass in letting people's homes get fucked up

I mean, I'm not part of the lawsuit, but my house was one of the ones adversely affected by the reservoir release.

Tim Stone

Incidentally we have some bridges here that are maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers and those are also terrible

Like, maybe you should have your house flooded "for the greater good" before you make any assumption on the people trying to claim some compensation.

Incidentally, the fact that we haven't had any rain since Harvey is the kicker.

You see when the government causes misery it's justified violenc

Since they did those reservoir releases because they were afraid any future rainfall would overflow the reservoirs.

1:36 PM

oh i like the new ending theme music for Rick and Morty

I tried to think through how I would handle getting a few feet of water in my house the other day. It would suck probably worse than I could even anticipate.

One thing you never think about is that your sidewalk is going to be a wreck for weeks because of the trash you'll be throwing out.

There's probably a layer of disintegrated drywall covering our sidewalk right now.

And about half of the grass on the lawn is brown and dead because there's been trash covering it.

One thing you should also do before a hurricane is to eat all of your perishable foods.

Or get rid of them in some way.

Our neighbors didn't and their front yard smells terrible.

> If the current user running the malicious process is not an administrator the malware will terminate execution.

nice

the linux mentality shall spread

and everyone should use a user account

entering a password when you install stuff shouldn't be that hard.

@Avery it's just gonna make people put their password into random windows just like they click OK on everything that pops up on the screen

I guess

> Cisco Talos observed during analysis that the DGA domains had not been registered, so we registered and sinkholed them to prevent attackers from being able to use them for malicious purposes.

nice.

1:46 PM

Occasionally have a popup asking for a password, have the popup clearly say that entering the password will disconnect their pc from the internet for ever

Problem solved

@Yuuki Hang on, what's the thing about the reservoir release?

@Chippies yeah, AFAIK it's perfectly possible for malware to popup a fake UAC window

@Yuuki I'll try and keep this in mind

@Nzall doesn't anything requiring admin rights pop up a UAC window though?

@Nzall Houston has two major reservoirs that are used to help manage floodwaters.

malware wouldn't get the password with a legit UAC popup, but it would still be able to do whatever it was going to do

1:57 PM

Near the tail end of Harvey, the reservoirs were getting close to overflowing.

@Nzall (without knowing all the details) there were a number of reservoirs in the Houston area that were created for the express purpose of holding storm water and preventing flooding. When they filled and started over flowing, it was decided to do a controlled release that would flood certain neighbourhoods instead of letting them to continue filling, risking catastrophic flooding

Basically that.

@MBraedley And Yuuki's house was in such a neighborhood?

I guess?