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Q: Should voting to close a correctly closed question for the right reason really be considered failure?

I encountered this review audit. To test me, the review item told me the question had received close votes as primarily opinion-based. This was obviously wrong, which I recognized quickly, but I saw a comment pointing to another question. It seemed like it might be a post might be a duplicate, so...

Virusboy

00:35

there have been multiple times where I failed when I shouldn't

Seth

This doesn't seem related however.

Chan-Ho Suh

looks like I Just narrowly missed the Java-bashing party

Seth

There was a Java bashing party?

Chan-Ho Suh

I've been transitioning from Java to Python ... I've learned a lot about the differences between the two communities

ByteCommander

I would not have called it bashing, but if it was, I seem to be the only one on Java's site... :P

Chan-Ho Suh

00:43

yeah, I noticed :D

I think Java actually is a better language to learn about basic concepts from than Python.

Seth

@ByteCommander next time just use this:

hbdgaf

It's the doctor. Your argument is invalid as well

Seth

double invalid!

ByteCommander

I found an argument for the Java enemies:

You see, I am flexible. ;)

Virusboy

thats pretty mild

Chan-Ho Suh

00:45

well, constructors are evil, whether in java or any other language :D

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander you're late. that one has been around. for.eve.er.

Virusboy

The Problem with Java, is Java

as stated before

2 hours ago, by Virusboy

Its Java, that's why

ByteCommander

Better?

Virusboy

made the moment the movie dropped in theaters

ByteCommander

How about ^?

Chan-Ho Suh

00:48

actually I guess I'll just say I think Java is pretty awesome and leave it at that...

ByteCommander

@Chan-HoSuh Thank you! >:)

Nathan Osman

If Java is so awesome, why do browser vendors disable the plugin so often because of security vulnerabilities, huh?

Chan-Ho Suh

coming from you, man, that's an obvious troll..

Nathan Osman

:P

hbdgaf

You're allowed to like java... just not the java plugin - or call it cross-platform ;)

Virusboy

00:49

you statement will now have napalm generously applied till it can fill a 64x64 tank then lit with an exploding star going supernova @Chan-HoSuh

Chan-Ho Suh

anyway, it's just a last defense, I guess ... I'm basically Python guy now

Nathan Osman

Is Java a good programming language? Let the penguin decide...

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ByteCommander

Nathan Osman

Goes back to running valgrind...

ByteCommander

<-- Goes back to run Java...

;)

Virusboy

00:53

java and php are the same

Chan-Ho Suh

not sure if you're trolling, but there are some big, obvious differences

Matt

evening

Virusboy

not really they are both garbage

Nathan Osman

PHP is not the same as Java.

Chan-Ho Suh

actually I lied, I was pretty sure

I don't know why I said that

Virusboy

00:54

@NathanOsman read my statement above yours

Nathan Osman

PHP doesn't even try.

Matt

anyone know in good documentation on looking into advanced regex with variables?

Chan-Ho Suh

I just usually read the man pages

Virusboy

garbage is garbage no matter how good it looks, EA proved that.

ByteCommander

Don't you think it's time to stop now once again? Rant about melted chocolate eggs!

Nathan Osman

00:56

Java is at least usable. PHP doesn't even deserve to exist.

Chan-Ho Suh

it's fine, ByteCom, keep working at your Java and go make your living

ByteCommander

:)

I will.

Nathan Osman

Changing the subject... BACON.

Chan-Ho Suh

and remember there is always Jython

Virusboy

I introduced the best idea ever

The Bacon Bra

hbdgaf

00:57

ByteCommander

Chan-Ho Suh

somehow the juxtaposition of those two images... it works

Nathan Osman

@hbdgaf I wonder what's inside...

ByteCommander

@Virusboy o.O"?? What the hell do you dream of at night!!??

Nathan Osman

Probably... moar bacon!

Virusboy

00:59

@ByteCommander How badly do you want to find out

hbdgaf

that's raw bacon, who wants an oral infection from e coli... not me.

or greasy fingers. either way.

Chan-Ho Suh

it's the greasy fingers that's really bothering you

I've known a lot of computer geeks...

ByteCommander

@Virusboy This is just... ewww! It loses the the advantages of both bacon and bras. You can neither fry it nor whatever you could do with the other one.

Virusboy

better?

Seth

No. Almost all development on Unity 7 has stopped to focus on Unity 8. They might still fix bugs but new features are certainly not coming to Unity 7. — Seth ♦ 17 secs ago

ByteCommander

01:00

NO!

Seth

see any problems with that?

ok, seriously guys?

Chan-Ho Suh

dunno, is that a trick question?

Nathan Osman

Erm... this conversation did not go where I intended... at all.

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Virusboy

@Seth there is a problem peroid

Seth

Are you going to clean this up yourselves are am I going to have to do it for you?

ByteCommander

01:01

@Seth Blame Virusboy!

Virusboy

19:58 wil have to be you @seth

ty

Chan-Ho Suh

well, and just when I thought we were harkening back to the dark days of UseNet

Seth

@Chan-HoSuh nope

Virusboy

"lets not finish 7 and just jump on 8"
Yea no thats totally legit way of thinking

Seth

Well, afaik, that's what happened.

Unity 7 is pretty much finished anyway.

Virusboy

01:02

Microshaft right? There is no surprise from me

Nathan Osman

And valgrind didn't find anything wrong with my code which obviously has something wrong with it.

Seth

Thing is, Unity 8 is practically a complete re-write.

Virusboy

did you forget a block of code @NathanOsman

Nathan Osman

I couldn't get it to run at all in 14.10.

@Virusboy No, it's much stranger than that. I've narrowed it down to a certain method. When I comment out the body of the method, it works. When I leave the body as-is, it doesn't work. The weird part is that the method is never called anywhere in the code...

Chan-Ho Suh

hey let's talk about Python 2 versus 3 ;-)

Nathan Osman

01:04

Virusboy

@NathanOsman then it sounds like thre a bug within the comiler itself

Chan-Ho Suh

what language, Nathan?

Nathan Osman

I kinda doubt GCC has a bug.

@Chan-HoSuh C++.

Virusboy

or you are not expressly detailing what it supposed to be doing and not just generalizing like most interperters allow you to do

Chan-Ho Suh

That might explain it...

I don't believe there's a guarantee in C++ that the method will not be compiled

Virusboy

01:07

it will simply becuase its object based

so the object is read instead of the lines

Nathan Osman

Interestingly, valgrind is complaining about a non-existent syscall.

Virusboy

but its not calling anything

Nathan Osman

No, valgrind is a special tool for profiling applications and detecting memory leaks, etc.

Virusboy

then where is it calling from

Nathan Osman

It hooks the libc memory allocation functions and tracks leaked memory, double frees, etc.

ByteCommander

01:11

My thought as beginner would be a syntax error with a comment or brace or "" which is left open... But that's probably something very different and would have been showed as error earlier.

Better nvm what I said.

Nathan Osman

Anything like that would be a compile-time error.

This weird behavior is happening at runtime.

ByteCommander

Oh, sorry. Did not see that line...

jrg

02:18

So one of the problems I've been having appears to be related to a corrupted partition map.

because as soon as i did a fsck on it, it stopped being a problem.

It's the little things. It's not always a change that you made.

@terdon A few years ago, I found the option. I think it was in Office 2007.

You could open and save as UTF-8, as i recall.

Nathan Osman

02:41

@jrg sorry, but you basically asked for this :P

I've managed to get the reproducible example of the bug that I've spent the day tracking down reduced to 6 files.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Advanced sort options for questions?

Is there a way to do sorting of questions based on: number of views? number of views per (some time frame) frequently asked, without answers number of votes for questions, without answers number or user reputation Or other options for sorting and searching for questions I might care about ...

discussion searching

Nathan Osman

03:09

Excellent. Now I'm down to four small files that reproduce the issue.

Looks like I need to fire up a Trusty VM on an amd64 machine.

QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Aborted (core dumped)

Wha...

Oh, oops. I was linking against QtGui.

So I can't reproduce it on x86.

The bug seems to be ARM-related.

SmokeDetector

04:09

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Press Change key to free Pdf To Doc Converter by BumedVohix on askubuntu.com

Nathan Osman

04:48

I just built a Raspberry Pi 2 image with Utopic.

files.quickmediasolutions.com/rpi2/… (138 MB)

I haven't tested it yet though.

muru

05:12

How did an edit get suggested for a deleted post?askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/399648

Nathan Osman

Okay, this wins the award for the weirdest bug report I have ever filed.

@hbdgaf: this one should at least give you a bit of a chuckle ---^

There's a cry of desperation in there somewhere.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website: Active Ingredients Found in La Lumieres by Mary Galvan on askubuntu.com

Nathan Osman

05:29

No idea what that has to do with Java, but okay.

Huh. My image is missing sudo.

Nathan Osman

06:03

Forget that Utopic image I linked above.

It's missing a ton of system packages.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

06:22

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Q: Cron job * is replaced by file name in current directory

This is my first shell script program, so i think this is more likely a silly question for you all. Overview of problem My need is to write a shell command for installing our Node.js server. Server needs to install 3 crons as dependency. We offer 3 different environment. Problem So when i t...

ubuntu shell-script cron

Amith KK

08:47

Woah. The font everywhere is now ubuntu condensed?

KasiyA

Is there any rule/change to gray-out comments when a/an Q/A become to gray text color due the downvotes? I can not read the comments!!

And why we the accept button gets bigger that usual?

And why we are using the circle around the tick mark while most of SE sites uses only tickmark sign?

And I have to say I saw Minor site design updates

oops! "And why we the accept button gets bigger that usual?"
And why the accept button gets bigger than usual?

Fabby

09:17

@Toroidal No, he hasn't... Just that there were a lot of useless start, so it just looked like he had been at it again! ;-)

@NathanOsman I like the response to your bug from an hour ago: "Can you use the old shit, because the new shit is a bit shitty!" :D :D :D

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blade19899

12:32

> "Tox, is a free and secure alternative to skype, with multiple clients available for Mac, Windows and of course Linux. Although the projects is in its early stages, its already highly usable." - Tox, the free and secure skype replacement - EuroBytes

Fabby

12:48

@blade19899 Want to talk in another room?

@blade19899 (i.o.w.: let's get a room together! :D)

"Meaning on your experience may differ from mine" = "meaning: your mileage may vary"

then a comma then "as these are still nightly builds." (Typisch Nederlandse fout: teveel possessieve ' :P "nightlys" zou "OK" geweest zijn". "Nightly builds" is beter...

"latest of the latest and whit nightly builds" = "latest and greatest and with nightly builds"

ByteCommander

@Fabby You're again dashing nightly software? ;)

Fabby

"that is certain with almost all of you" "that's certainly almost all of you"

@ByteCommander I'm against nightly builds, yes...

ByteCommander

There was no qTox update for over a week now, so...

Fabby

I'm just giving @blade19899 some free blog grammar & spelling checking service...

@ByteCommander Now I know what you were talking about! ;-)

ByteCommander

Don't see the original...?

Fabby

12:58

No nightly builds on my system...

the red link above from blade

Now a smoke! (and a drink)

ByteCommander

That's written by blade?

Btw I think except some minor bugs in its usage (e.g. edits are sent as new posts currently), qTox is pretty stable. It never crashed.

I just had problems to connect with my buddy who has Win7 and µTox... Text worked, but neither image transfer nor voice calls did. Probably it's a bug of µTox or the Windows implementation.

> searching for "smoke" when said by Fabby:
77 messages found

You're living pretty unhealthy! ^

blade19899

@Fabby, I forgot you were a spelling and grammer freak ;D

ByteCommander

Strange behaviour - askubuntu.com/q/606902/367990 Don't understand that.

@blade19899 You know he's an English and French teacher?

blade19899

@ByteCommander I do now :D

ByteCommander

So that's no surprise...

blade19899

13:06

@Fabby Your suggested edits have been applied.

And when you have time, would love to get a room with you. Pun intented.

user136984

@Fabby Oh good... I'm glad he's not back! :)

blade19899

Been at my laptop for to long. Fresh Air break!

ByteCommander

@blade19899 Good idea! :) I'll join you in a minute.

Fabby

Back!

jrg

@NathanOsman LOL

user136984

13:32

Oi!

user136984

@SmokeDetector

user136984

You missed this one!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: With so many teeth whitening products? by bbozuade Djru on askubuntu.com

user136984

Oh, just slow then...

user136984

:P

user136984

13:33

Or maybe he actually took my advise... :D

SmokeDetector

13:45

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: i have had the feeling somebody is controlling me over the wifi etc by ZAhAbLU on askubuntu.com

jrg

@SmokeDetector nice job

wolfboyft

14:25

Pandas. "Eats, shoots and leaves." How... evil! They eat stuff calmly... then... kill people with... guns!

user136984

@wolfboyft How did you get off my ignore list?! And why do you hate pandas so much? My army of pandas will destroy you!!! >:) >:) >:)

user136984

Very odd... This guy's chat profile says "wolfboyft", but his AU profile is "James Kayla"'s...

user136984

I should not have announced how much I loved pandas, or pandas probably would not have just been insulted so... :D :P

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Is my system being controlled maliciously via wifi? by ZAhAbLU on askubuntu.com

Oli

14:41

@Toroidal The chat profiles are based on one account from any SE site (the person picks which is their main account) and profiles aren't neccessarily the same on each site, hence the difference.

Journeyman Geek

yup

user136984

@Oli It's still not very nice for him to insult pandas though... :(

user136984

What have pandas ever done to him?!!!

Journeyman Geek

What have pandas ever done for anyone? ;p

Oli

Well that could end up being quite a personal question. Pandas might have done a lot to him.

user136984

14:44

@Oli Like what?!!!

Oli

...Panda stuff...

user136984

And he doesn't even specify if he means Red Pandas or Giant Pandas!

user136984

@Oli What panda stuff?!

user136984

Choose your words carefully from now on unless you want an army of pandas at your doorstep! >:D

user136984

:P

Oli

14:45

Maybe panda's ate his baby.

user136984

@Oli Well, that is very unlikely...

user136984

Pandas are mostly vegetarian you know?

Oli

Unless he's married to a bamboo plant and his half-bamboo son was at a zoo with his school and suddenly WHAM, panda eating your half-bamboo son. Happens more often than you'd think.

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Journeyman Geek

They also eat whatever they can catch

terdon

But since they're not so fast, they tend to have to settle for bamboo.

Journeyman Geek

14:48

Don't say no to panda! [HD]

►

terdon

Hmm actually, they seem to have a top speed of 32km/h, not that fast but not slow enough to explain bamboo. No accounting for taste, I guess.

Journeyman Geek

Laziness

Fabby

@blade19899: back to the other room?

blade19899

@Fabby Sure, not for long though. Friend of mine just had an exam, he wants to 'chill hard' tonight xD

terdon

@Oli I think you've been eating too much raw bamboo.

Oli

14:52

@terdon That's what the panda propaganda machine wants you to think.

Journeyman Geek

see also

PANDA ATTACK

►

user136984

It is still unacceptable to be rude about pandas though! No matter your reason! Capital Punishment for all those panda haters out there! >:) >:) >:)

user136984

@JourneymanGeek You see? I told you that they would take over the world and be our powerful overlords! >:D

terdon

@Oli Propapanda?

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A.B.

grmpf, my daily vote limit is reached

ByteCommander

14:57

There is a daily vote limit?

A.B.

:) yes

ByteCommander

Never affected me until now... Guess that's not good.

A.B.

In any case, for me.

blade19899

@Fabby, sorry, had to many heavy software running in the background my system lagged to much to reply back fast.

But,

> sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://repo.tox.im/ nightly main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tox.list'
wget -qO - https://repo.tox.im/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update

Fabby

@A.B. vote up less comments. Vote up more Qs and As...

;-)

That's how I get around it!

blade19899

15:07

QTox anyone? ;D

A.B.

@Fabby Comments I vote rare.

Fabby

@ByteCommander Means you're Uncle Scrooge when it comes to upvotes!

user136984

What does @SmokeDetector mean when it says blacklisted user?

Fabby

@Toroidal It means a user who spammed too much...

or James Kayla -style users... >:)

user136984

Ok

user136984

15:09

@Fabby: So does that mean that if James Kayla ever posted anything on the main AU site that @SmokeDetector would tell us about it here?

A.B.

SmokeDetector, what a nice name :)

Fabby

@ByteCommander I used to be a French and English teacher... Now I'm back looking for a job in IT! (@blade19899 too)

@Toroidal I'm not a mod... I dunno that kind of detail...

user136984

Ok :)

Fabby

Ask one of the smurfs...

:D

user136984

:D

ByteCommander

15:11

Two pings? Who made me wake up?

Ahh...

Fabby

I was one...

ByteCommander

@Toroidal Yes.

Fabby

OK, back to answering some futile questions...

ByteCommander

@Fabby You were both.

Fabby

>:)

:D I'm twice as good as I thought! ;-)

ByteCommander

15:13

<-- is still smiling every time it sees terdon's "Propapanda" in the star section... :D

user136984

@ByteCommander Good, so I'll know if he starts coming and insulting pandas on the main site as well... >:)

blade19899

I was trying to build the new Unreal Tournament game, so I read the documentation, first thought: screw this.

ByteCommander

That rat trap in our compost heap makes me sad...

I hope the rat is intelligent enough to avoid it.

Thomas W.

16:02

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Q: line 16 : syntax error : EOF in backquote subbstiution

clear echo "Enter a num" read num if [ $num -ge 0 ] then f=1 i=1 while [ $i -le $num ] do f=`expr $f\* $i i=`expr $i +1` done echo "The factorial of $num is $f" else echo "Enter positive number" fi

bash

that's a generic code question OR unclear what's being asked - in either case it needs to burn.

please close vote it

terdon

@ThomasW. I agree that there's no question but bash is perfectly on topic here.

j0h

16:40

what is the best way to get the average CPU temperature from the command line? I am finding the output of sensors to be inconsistent from one machine to the next. I wrote a script that gives me the info (average core temp), but it wont work right if I try to use it any other place than my personal PC.

echo `sensors -A | awk {'print $3'} | sed 's/+\|(crit\|0:\|°C//g'` | awk '{print ($1 + $2 + $3 + $4)/4}'

where if I had more cores, it woudl break, or if I add a GPU it would break.
is there a better way to get average core temp?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Are bash/shell scripting questions on topic?

I have seen a number of users voting to close scripting questions as off topic. Is this the community consensus? Are bash question not welcome here? How about other shell programming questions?

discussion

terdon

@j0h sensors -A | grep ^Core | grep -oP ' \+\K\d+' | awk '{k+=$1}END{print k/NR}'

That should be portable to any GNU system.

The main trick is to not use /4 but NR which is the number of lines. The spaces at the beginning of the grep pattern ensure you only get the temp and not the other numbers.

Actually, you don't need two, this one is simpler:

sensors -A | grep -oP '^Core.+?  \+\K\d+'   | awk '{k+=$1}END{print k/NR}'

user136984

It's strange... AskUbuntu is not allowing me to ask any more questions... I click the post question thing and nothing happens... :(

user136984

Well, will just have to wait and see then...

user136984

And ask questions here.

user136984

16:50

I can't even post on main meta about this because I can't post at all.

ByteCommander

>.<

user136984

Does anyone know why that could be?

user136984

I don't even get a notice...

user136984

:(

terdon

Weird. It works for me.

ByteCommander

16:51

Is there a restriction for Qs per day/week?

user136984

Yes, but it normally tells you.

user136984

@ByteCommander 6 per day, 50 per month.

user136984

But it will normally notify you if you have reached the limit every time you try and post something.

ByteCommander

Btw the rat in our garden seems to have cleared the trap! Looks like it triggered it with an old salad leave... and then took the sausage!

Very clever animal. :)

I hope it flees before they think of another way to kill it.

user136984

@ByteCommander Why put rats traps in there anyway? Is it not the point that it gets recycled? So why would you prefer fungi to do it rather than to feed a poor rat?

ByteCommander

16:57

I did not put it there!

Parents don't want to have the rat around... :(

I think it's a pretty sweet and clever animal.

user136984

@ByteCommander Well, I'm sure that the rat doesn't want your parents around either, and what goes around comes around... So you better watch out for human traps in your food to now! >:P

ByteCommander

;)

A wise man once said: "A mouse would never have the idea to construct a mouse trap. The humans in contrary invented the A-bomb."

So I feel pretty safe, concerning the rat.

Nathan Osman

o/

ByteCommander

\o

I don't understand this formatting. Usually a backslash has to be escaped, I though...

j0h

@Toroidal lol

@terdon Thank you. I will check that out.

@terdon I have a thread open here, if you would like points for your answer: askubuntu.com/questions/607255/improve-bash-script

user136984

17:18

Are questions about accessing your BIOS on-topic here? Because they are not actually really do to with Ubuntu even if it is installed. For the BIOS does not depend on the OS.

terdon

@j0h Muru's answer there is the same basic idea but better. Use that.

But sure, I'll post. Why not :)

Nathan Osman

Interestingly, it appears the USB ports on my desktop don't supply the same voltage when the machine is powered off as when it is on.

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman Energy-saving mode?

Nathan Osman

I don't want it to save energy :P

I want it to deliver the same amount of voltage to my connected devices :P

ByteCommander

You are so ignorant. Save the planet! Think green! Rescue the pandas!

Nathan Osman

17:22

It was giving my Raspberry Pi 2 some issues since it depends on a relatively stable supply of 5V.

ByteCommander

BIOS setting maybe?

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander Having my machine not deliver slightly more voltage isn't going to save anything.

ByteCommander

That was written with a well dosed amount of irony.

jrg

SAVE ALLL THE WORLDS

and pandas

mostly worlds

don't care about pandas.

Mateo

use a :p at the end when joking ;P

jrg

17:24

;-D

Mateo

yo @jrg how goes things

user136984

@jrg If you do not instantly apologies to the pandas of the multiverse then they will rage an infinite war on you! >:D

Mateo

same old, same old?

@Toroidal pandas live in the multiverse??

thought they only existed in this verse

Nathan Osman

This just keeps getting weirder: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/…

user136984

@Mateo In fact they are of a higher dimension and exist there and here at the same time.

user136984

17:30

They are like the mice, except more important.

user136984

We are in fact the 4th and not the 3rd most intelligent animal on the planet.

Mateo

@NathanOsman with unity and everything?

Nathan Osman

No, I'm running LXDE on the Pi.

Mateo

ah

jrg

@Mateo things go ok.

ByteCommander

17:31

@Toroidal We = {Humans | Pandas | Toothpaste cakes with Halloween pumpkin face }?

user136984

@ByteCommander No, we as in Humans.

ByteCommander

So what do you consider as #1-3?

Mateo

@jrg thats good

user136984

And the reason why you are seeing less and less pandas is because they know about the impending doom of this planet. And like the dolphins have decided to stop trying to communicate about it to us, and just leave.

user136984

1: Pandas

user136984

17:33

2: Mice

user136984

3: Dolphins

user136984

4: Humans

ByteCommander

Why mice??

Mateo

42.

3

ByteCommander

I would replace them with penguins.

user136984

17:34

Yep, 42.

jrg

@Mateo how're you doing?

ByteCommander

Huh? What is 42?

user136984

The answer to life, the universe, and everything!

Mateo

iydkydg

jrg

42 (number)

42 (forty-two) is the natural number immediately following 41 and directly preceding 43. The number has received considerable attention in popular culture as a result of its central appearance in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as the "Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything". == Mathematics == Forty-two is a pronic number and an abundant number; its prime factorization 2 · 3 · 7 makes it the second sphenic number and also the second of the form { 2 · 3 · r }. As with all sphenic numbers of this form, the aliquot sum is abundant by 12. 42 is also the sec...

It's between 41 and 43

Nathan Osman

17:35

AHA!

ByteCommander

Aahh! Makes sense.

jrg

@NathanOsman what, it was a off-by-one error?

Or was it a corrupt SD card?

Nathan Osman

Neither.

jrg

ooooh. plot thickens

Nathan Osman

It was a bug caused by incorrect flags being passed to the compiler. But not in my code, in the Qt code.

jrg

17:36

Oh! Upstream bugs are the best, or the worst.

Nathan Osman

So now I need to convince the fine Ubuntu folks to backport the fix.

...or my application won't run properly under Trusty.

At least, I think that's the case.

There may be a way for me to get it running by tweaking the flags when the app is compiled.

I'm not sure yet. More research is necessary.

user136984

But as well as 42, there is another very important thing...

user136984

Krikkit.

user136984

I think it was spelt like that anyway... :D

user136984

Anyone know if I got the spelling right?

user136984

17:39

Google certainly didn't think so... :P

Nathan Osman

Er, no.

Mateo

@jrg not bad, had a cold over the weekend, didn't get much done. but doing a logo, and possibly a mystery(clouded in can't say paperwork) project coming up

jrg

@Mateo That sucks, but sometimes a dday or 2 of nothing is whats needed. OOOH neat.

hhgproject.org/entries/krikkit.html yeah, Krikkit

Mateo

@jrg they so should-have jumped to do that as the movie instead of rehashing the first book again

jrg

Heh

Nathan Osman

17:43

So here's the patch they need to apply: codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/81095/2//ALL,unified

It's relatively simple. I see no reason it couldn't be done.

user136984

You know? There really should be a Marvin language pack for Ubuntu! Where everything is put in the most depressing way possibly! :D :P

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