Morning!

@ankii yep

@avazula same, IG black, twitter is just BLM tweets and trump

@CaldeiraG Yeah, I decided to stop scrolling through the entire Twitter timeline... I really don't need to see people ignoring lockdown and creating a second wave of corona over here, on top of everything that's happening in America.

@Tinkeringbell I fully agree

I mean, I also stopped scrolling on twitter for the same reason

I'm using reddit to distract myself :P

I'll stick with animal crossing and offline hobbies ;)

Though crochet is a bit hard now too since even Ravelry insists on reminding you the world sucks.

@Tinkeringbell yay

@Tinkeringbell bah

@Tinkeringbell o_o

I guess I could just make things and keep track of yardages offline...

Then put it in when things are back to normal :)

Nah, there is also so much goodness in the world!

Like ice cream

Kitten compilations

Meta rants

r/aww

People saying there are good things

Oh, I did see a nice thread somewhere yesterday...

something about people cleaning up, and how not everyone is vandalizing stuff..

I'm not vandalizing stuff! That counts for something

I guess this is good too: nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/…

It's mostly sitting my arse on something reading what I already know

Oh. Dramatic name change dropping by...

Hi @FadedGiant

You okay?

Yeah, I still wonder why the name change

@CaldeiraG That grabbed my attention: "Rice in your closet is amazing!"

@Tinkeringbell Hi

Yes, okay; just a bit busy at work.

@M.A.R. Lol :)

Yeah that was awesome!

@Tinkeringbell interesting Roller Coaster you have there

My brother made us Zoom/Teams backgrounds with a screenshot from there :P

:-D

@CaldeiraG I will picture that as you loling and suddenly reducing to a smile in a creepy way. Thank you

@FadedGiant I like Walibi. Especially on random weekdays when there aren't many people and you can just go like 'One more time' and they'll fire of the rollercoaster for a second round XD

@M.A.R. yes. you're welcome

XD

I guess that's a good thing too: Corona makes it so that theme parks can open, but with a limit to the amount of visitors. I never understood why they would make waiting areas hours long, why not limit the amount of people entering (I know, I know... moneyz).

@Tinkeringbell Here comes the moneeey

But yea

that's something that would make you buy a second-day ticket

aka more profit

so it makes even more sense than just the entrance ticket :P

Yeah, both Walibi and De Efteling also have like places you can rent where you can sleep, I think. Still. I wonder how much people would pay for a park where the number of visitors is limited in a way that allows for waiting times to always be less than 20 minutes.

@Tinkeringbell I mean, there is already priority tickets

yeah... so basically a theme park with only priority tickets :P

i get it XD

People are probably going to whine though... a lot of people already like to complain that a day to a theme park with e.g. 3 kids is expensive (and it is!)

@Tinkeringbell from a family of five (now everyone pays the adult ticket), yes it's soo expensive

I can't really price what a trip to Disneyland Paris would cost like XD

@CaldeiraG Expensive.

@Tinkeringbell I agree XD

The first time we went, we had to save up for two years (not going on holiday the first year so we could go the second)

At that point, I think only I might've needed an adult ticket, my brothers were still baby/infant

The second time I don't actually know, I think mom saved up over a period of 3/4 years, but without the regimen we had the first time...

Mostly because she knew she wanted to take my youngest brother again when he was 8/9 so he'd have some memories.

Last time we paid ourselves (for me and two brothers, parents stayed home) and I think I emptied an entire paycheck into that trip... 4 nights/5 days and a bus trip.

:o

Well i hope you had fun XD

Yeah, except for a minor fight somewhere along the second day it mostly went fine ;)

good :)

Someday i would like to travel alone around Europe but yeaaaa

But if you don't have a small kid with you, I recommend no more than 2 nights/3 days: We saw so many rides more than 10 times XD

fun! /s

:p

Wi-Fi at home now sucks for some reason and restarting router doesn't do much; calling ISP says that they're not accepting calls and they would call back in 24/48 hours, didn't happen

And they always come with the excuse that they can't guarantee wifi speeds

I mean, if your phone is literally on the side of the router and you're getting half of the speed that is supposed to, I see that as a big issue

Maybe I should just buy a decent router because cable network is absolutely fine

Hey there people, long time not talk :)

\o

Though, I am sorry to tell you that I only log in here because I have a (weird?) question that needs internet people knowledge to be answered ^^

Nice avatar @Mithical :)

thanks

Here is the question: Any idea who is this person?

Context?

Someone I know is using this as an avatar and, knowing them, I fear it's a right-wing youtuber or something like that

reverse image search didn't turn up anything

This a person you know IRL?

Yeah, I know the person using this avatar IRL (even if I wish I didn't)

But I'm not really in speaking term with them, so I can't really ask them "where does this avatar come from?"

okay so that i guess that rules out it actually being them

Yeap, definitively not them

@Ael No worries. Still taking care of yourself? I'm sorry to say I don't know that one either :(

@Tinkeringbell Still taking care :)

good :)

And I guess if neither of you knows who this person is, it's kind of good news? Like, at least it's not some well known "bad person"

@Tinkeringbell And how are you?

@Ael I'm doing fine :) Though at this time the internet sometimes becomes a bit much even for me ;)

I can definitively understand that

<3

<3

music.stackexchange.com/questions/100375/… < Neither, be mindful of your neighbors that are also stuck at home!

@Tinkeringbell Piano with headset?

Is that a thing?

Oh, that may be yeah.

Our neighbor has a little organ that can do exactly that, apparently.

I don't want neighbors hearing my games too XD

especially my neighbor upstairs that is annoyed at every single sound because of the baby

Anything on IPS is going to lean towards opinion based really quick, the real question is whether questions would be primarily opinion based or can also be answered with e.g. experience.

stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective < That

But yeah, most of our questions lately aren't stellar. If anyone has ideas on how to improve that, I'm listening :)

(besides closing, downvoting and commenting)

@CaldeiraG electric I think

@JourneymanGeek good then

Electronic drums could also do if you're into them so there's a lot of stuff you could try :P

@Daniil Eh, that has other problems: Answers are one of them. IPS is a bit of a chicken-egg problem that way. We can downvote + close and then the question will at least be roomba'd when never improved... or we can leave it open and let it gather answers, and we'll have a bunch of broken windows and will only attract more of the same.

Besides, accepted answers or upvoted answers stop the roomba :(

Both of which... happen too regularly.

So while I would say 'I'd love to do that', it's basically impossible if we want a quality site.

Some of the high voted questions are not very promising, though.

Ah, more blockchain :D

I really, really wish I had put some of my savings in bitcoin when I learned about it back in uni though... I could've earned crazy money!

@Daniil Heh, perhaps. But it would've been so much better if I had done that when it just breeched the 10 dollar back in '11, or even when it breached a 100 in '13 XD

Right now, I'm keeping my savings for buying furniture and flooring ;)

Moving, to an apartment now being built :)

i'd advise not moving in till it's completed, but you do you

:P

What version?

Oh, I see you were elected. Congrats!

have you beaten Riker for youngest mod at time of appointment / election (who beat me)?

young 14

14 and a half

@Daniil I do not hate Linux or Ubuntu, I just wished everything was as simple as Windows

@Daniil For some reason I was under the impression that you were younger than you actually are, huh.

I find myself on AskUbuntu most of the time for simple stuff

I recently moved from Ubuntu 16.04 to 19.10 (thanks to switching devices) and I have to say I preferred 16.04.

Aye, yeah - I remembered that you had been deleted for being underage and that's about it.

Settings > info

ah, then I don't know how to check with a VM

should be good for linux mint

Lubuntu is also an option

but you can run pretty much anything on Linux

Lubuntu's GUI is fairly awful IMO

I used it for a week and gave up

yea i guess, that cpu is used on cheap laptops ~300€ (most recent one is the N4000)

should run fine

it runs windows reasonably well

@Daniil i used it on a Pentium M 745 with 2gb of ram

it ran smoothly

@Daniil You mean a full format? or just the reset this pc button?

@Mithical Agreed, it's nontheless one of the most lightweight Ubuntu based distros

@Daniil No one knows... Guesstimates are early 2021

@Daniil Ah i see

quora.com/…

quora agrees on Linux

or a ssd lol :P

@Daniil Yep! A few streets away from my parents, where I'm at now ;)

I'm on the other side of the country from Amsterdam ;)

Which is also why I'm able to pay for a house of my own XD

Amsterdam? yes.

Over here? Still expensive for my taste, but way less bad than Amsterdam.

I'm getting a single bedroom, living+kitchen combined, apartment. It's costing 189k to build

That's just bare bones, I still need to add flooring, bathroom, kitchen counter/cabinets...

House vs. apartment is a huge difference here too :)

Houses often have more than 1 level and more than 1 bedroom. Also, you'll often find they have separate spaces for the toilet and the shower/bath (I'm getting them combined in one bathroom)

And you won't have upstairs neighbors in a house ;)

(or downstairs ones)

@Daniil I think studio flats are still 1 level only?

I'm not sure.. In my mind, a house is much grander than what I'm getting XD

we have a Dutch word "flatgebouw" which is basically a building which has many apartments ;)

a 'studentenflat' may also come with shared kitchen and sanitary spaces + single bedrooms for students to rent.

@Daniil Actually, there's another block of 6 apartments in the photo, the ones with the white windows on the roof, somewhere at the top in the center? I'm getting one on ground floor level though.

@Daniil With Wine yea?

@Daniil you can dual-boot it

@Daniil you mean edition? it only changes the GUI

linuxmint.com/download.php

I used mate on my older pc but Xfce looks nice

I really don't know.

TL or the Tavern are probably good places to ask :)

Ehh, a bit urban :)

A bit rural too

There's a forest nearby, but also shops.

village

sometimes, being a city has its downsides ;)

(I'm going to try and get some work done now, ttyl!)

@Daniil different graphic interface aka GUI, personal preference

@Daniil just like you can on Ubuntu

Linux will install a new bootloader called GRUB, on there you can boot to either Windows or Ubuntu

it will look something like this

default

further configuration may be needed if the installer doesn't detect the windows partition out of the box

it's fairly easy to configure it

you're welcome :)

hit me up on discord or some folks from Root Access could help you too if you need help

They could also help ye

i'm just a regular user of SU

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that person has similar traces to my face but that's not me either :P

@Daniil Privacy? I don't want it to be arround forever

@Daniil ;p

Honestly i can't come up with some ideas of what to do with a linux machine that I can't do on windows

@Daniil I wouldn't be against it. It can't do any harm to delete and you can never be too careful

I once had windows and ubuntu dual-booted but ubuntu i was just browsing there, all my gaming relies on windows

@CaldeiraG With linux: don't catch virus :p

:P

you're not wrong

Thanks :D

ay

:)

nytimes.com/2020/06/03/world/europe/…

I don't know how the parents still think Maddie is alive but atleast they need a closure and I totally get it

The problem is that the parents neglected their childs by leaving them alone, unsupervised

@Tinkeringbell I have been away for a while now, but I think the issue is with the numbers. Fewer questions = fewer good questions. And I'm thinking that the less question part is due to lockdown (which equals less social interaction). So, really, all you have to do is to find a vaccine/cure already :p

@Ael I wish there was! For now, I'm still trying to do my part (keeping distance, not going out if not necessary...) Most people here seem to be trying to get a second wave started though :(

I actually would've expected more questions about not letting problems escalate now that everyone is in the same spaces so often... but I guess that's not something you ask on the internet :P

@Tinkeringbell Yeah, things are kind of the same in France. I think people are just like "the government said it was ok" and don't really realize the consequence of what they are doing

@Tinkeringbell Yeah, I would have expected that too. But people are lock with people they know, so maybe they already know the answers?

But if that's the case, the amount of articles written on how to survive spending time together surprises me :P

Not false :p

Hahaha :D

In other news, I just saw the most spectacular version of spaghetti code I could ever imagine. The function (not a class) is 1900 lines long and, according to our code quality analyzer, it has a Cognitive Complexity of 924. (A Cognitive Complexity of 10 is fine, 20 is a bit too much, 50 is a "you should definitively refactor that")

O.o

I wouldn't even try to eat that.

@Ael Ooh, I've seen code like that before. It's scary

What does that function do (maybe just tell us what it's supposed to do and not all of the things it does)

@Rainbacon I have no idea, but it has to do with money stuff

@Ael In that case, put in another line that wires 10 percent into your own bank account and then wait how long it takes them to find out! :P

#BadAdvice

xD

@Rainbacon It's not just scary, it looks like a nightmare. I read it and at first I was like "well, everything seems fine and pretty reasonable". But then I saw the if, in the if, in the for, in the for, in the if, in the if and I finally understood why the complexity was so high x)

Yikes

I think I've decided at this point in my career that there's no such thing as good code in the business world.

The only way to write good code is to do it without deadlines

@Rainbacon IMO, there is "not so bad code" and "absolutely terrible code" (and everything in between). But yeah, this thing about deadlines is very true

I would actually say the thing I'm working on right now isn't just 'not so bad', it's actually 'pretty ok'

With software, as with any other project, there are three metrics you can look at: how fast it's done, how well it's done, and how cheap it's done. You only get to optimize for two of the three, and almost without fail, how well it's done is the option that gets sacrificed

@Rainbacon I was going to say "it depends on what sector you are working on" but that's not even true. In my previous job, data were far more sensitive than in my current one and yet, in my current job, quality is far more appreciated than in my previous one. But, to be fair, I now work in an industry where what makes the difference between competitors is quality, not price (because everyone has the same price). Whereas I use to work in a company were clients chose us based on price

I find it funny that people are already meeting friends and stuff while the cases are rising again over here and I'm very happy to stay home and not to hangout with other people IRL xD

I guess I was already in quarantine before all of this :p

@CaldeiraG Cue Zombieland

> I avoided other people like they were zombies...even before they were zombies.