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7:00 PM
Although the ESP8266 uses an AT command set and it really isn't very fast, but you can reprogram it because it's really a sweet little ARM microcontroller.
 
@DavidFreitag Any good literature out there to get started with?
I'm reasonably familiar with low-level languages like C, at the least
 
7:16 PM
@etherealflux That depends heavily on what architecture you decide to start with
There are several manufacturers, Atmel, Microchip, TI, ST, the list goes on, and each company has its own development tools and libraries
 
I'm thinking Greek
:D
it's amazing how they squeeze millions of marble pillars onto a chip
 
I am the most familiar with Atmel's stuff, but the arduino site has a full reference to get started.
And there is also this arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage
If you decide to go with the Teensy, that uses the Arduino environment, but with some mods.
 
Never heard of Teensy before, actually
I'll probably start with Arduino
 
7:36 PM
my roommate almost gave me a heart attack last night
"so we have a map of usernames to salted passwords..."
thought he wasn't hashing them for a minute
that'd be amazing
 
8:02 PM
You can actually vote for yourself in the election phase? pls
 
well how else would you get any votes?
 
pls
 
@Iszi Are you going to answer the questions on meta?
 
@Gilles Was planning to, but been severely distracted at home lately.
 
That's what you get for having kids.
 
8:08 PM
@Simon And being married. Mostly the married bit.
 
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Kids have a bed time.
 
The wife doesn't?
 
Usually I'm more nocturnal than she is, but not lately.
 
@Simon Of course you can. You can vote for yourself in real-life elections too, so why not here? It's only the democratic way.
 
8:10 PM
oh hey, you only need 150 rep to vote
 
@Xander Fine then, I'll vote for myself too since I bet that most of you donuts will do that.
 
Wow. That's easy. Site association plus...

10 question upvotes OR
5 answer upvotes OR
25 accepted edits.
 
@Simon i was going to vote for you but then I realized it was a waste of a vote
 
It's not like it's gonna change shit though.
@Ohnana You just hurt my feelings.
 
@Simon DGAF
 
8:12 PM
Yeah well I lied anyway.
 
even better
 
Just like a good politician.
 
@Iszi I don't think I got site association here, since it's where almost all of my rep on the site on. A handful of answered questions goes a long way, appraently
so, where can I vote for skynet
 
Based on primaries, the only people worth voting for are @ScottPack, @Xander, @schroeder & @TerryChia.
Then again, I'm told the primaries mean nothing.
 
@Iszi idk man don't discount yourself
 
8:13 PM
Yeah but let's make a change and vote for me.
 
@Iszi Yeah, it's hard to tell, even without knowing how voting works historically, since the voting model is completely different between primaries and finals.
 
@Ohnana I'm right behind @TerryChia, but that's a fairly non-negligible gap.
 
i got a badge for voting :U
 
I'll vote for whoever sends me the best photoshop of a transformer waiting in line at a coffee shop
bonus points for lens flares and donuts
 
@Ohnana Me too ohnuhnuh @@@
 
8:15 PM
and today in RL i updated my voter registration so now I can vote in my city and in the presidential primaries
i am a god citizen
 
@Xander Well, the primary scores can't really be used for prediction. But if you break out the up-vote tallies that should give you a good idea.
 
I decided to vote for myself in 2nd because it would actually make a difference if I don't put someone in first.
Someone here refers to the top lads.
 
It's a bit tricky because in the primary, anyone can vote for (or against) any number of candidates. In the election, they can only vote for (and not against) three.
 
@Simon if you win the site will burn
 
@Ohnana Did you ever see a donut burn?
 
8:17 PM
@Simon disregard i eat phalluses
wait that sounds way more violent
wait
 
ô_ô
 
Well, I know who would have my vote if they were running.
 
And I'm not sure how each vote is counted in the election. Are all votes equal? Do "first" votes have more value for the candidate than "second" or "third"?
 
@etherealflux @flyk ?
 
@etherealflux Chuck Norris?
 
8:19 PM
@Iszi it's probably a runoff system. If nobody has a majority of votes, some candidates are eliminated. If your first pick was for an eliminated candidate, then you switch to your second vote
this continues until someone dies of old age or the election concludes
 
@Iszi i hope they're equal
 
alternatively, the votes are ignored and the Illuminati institutes a lizard
 
@Iszi I assume so.
 
@Ohnana Jacked up the order on yours, did you?
 
This is what they're using to calculate: openstv.org
 
8:20 PM
@Iszi nah i just kinda arbitrarly decided
 
"... which automatically weights users' votes in the way that does the most good for the candidates they have selected, in order of preference."
 
@Simon oh fuck it's a goddamn voting library kill us all
 
@Ohnana no, that would be if Kalina wins
@Iszi all votes are equal, provided that they're reached
 
@Ohnana but is it in the cloud?
is it enterprise?
 
8:22 PM
Yeah, listen to Guigui, he knows what's going on.
 
is it BOTH?
 
@Iszi I don't know that it does, because you can vote for as many people as you want in the primaries, right? And it all just counts as a single upvote, whereas in the finals, it makes a difference as to who you put as your first choice, vs. second, vs third. So, yeah, while the people out in front in the primaries likely have a significant edge in the finals, order isn't nearly as cut and dried.
 
voting is hard
 
@etherealflux No, voting it easy. It's figuring out who wins that's hard.
 
so suppose a traveling salesman needs to conduct a poll at each destination...
whilst a man follows him with an urn full of red and blue marbles
 
8:25 PM
@etherealflux kick over the urn
 
@Xander No, figuring out who wins is easy. Figuring out who's going to win, without knowing the votes, is hard.
 
problem fucking solved
 
That video explains it pretty well, and explains the reason for the ranking. With one slot available it's pretty straightforward really
 
Bummer that we can't lock in our vote and then see the current standings.
 
Why don't we just have fractional candidates?
We'll elect 37% of a @Simon and 21% of an @Iszi
every time they try to make an action, it has a n% chance of succeeding
it's flawless
 
8:40 PM
like fallout 3 speech checks -- save scum for victory
 
@Iszi Not if all you doofus Floridians hang your chads, it isn't.
 
@Xander Hey, I'm nowhere near any of those districts. Damn backwoods hicks need to get with the times.
 
@etherealflux If you make n a constant and set it to 0, SE moderation will be exactly as effective as Congress.
 
oh man. I can't see more than 4 pinned stars here?
 
@M'vy make your screen bigger
 
8:51 PM
yeah... well
 
@Xander That's a bit of an exaggeration, although it IS zero if you try to store n as a double precision floating point number
 
@RоryMcCune ah ah someone's talking voting system? Oh it's CGP Grey, what a surprise :)
 
We had more voters than visitors?
 
where do you see that?
Oh right, mods have more info on the pages I guess
 
Does that not show up publicly? Hmm... oops... <redact>
 
8:58 PM
Ha! I'm glad that I took a screenshot!
 
ahah
 
So I guess all the non-joke noms have answered the election questions
 
stats are public at the end for sure
 
Votes on them are odd though, and more related to when they were answered
 
I lied again btw.
 
8:59 PM
@Simon no one cares
 
@RoryAlsop Not sure people really are interested in noms programs :)
 
What happened to you ohnuhnuh?
I remember when you were all about me.
 
Do you think we crushed the dreams of the < 1k rep guy?
 
@JeffFerland lol
@Simon i'm in a snarky mood today
 
@JeffFerland Not sure he was expecting better
 
9:00 PM
i also have enough work for three people
who are the twenty people that voted for that dude
T_T
 
@Ohnana well, he's candidacy is respectable. There might be value in having a user which has not that much reputation.
 
@M'vy ?
 
he's around 4k~ network wide, so he knows things
he's not a "new" user on SE
To be honest, I think not being on the site you're nominating for is not good
but I can see why other people would want to vote for him
 
I don't.
He's a gigantic donut coming out of nowhere.
 
@Simon i could go for a donut right now
 
9:08 PM
@Ohnana I had one this morning.
 
glorious
 
Adi
This is the kind of modship I promise
An open and honest approach where I put my own interest first :D
 
I never vote for myself
 
@M'vy what if you lose by one vote
 
@Ohnana that's very unlikely
 
9:14 PM
@M'vy BUT WHAT IF
 
@Ohnana well then there's huge chance the other one would be my first choice
 
Since the ranked-choice voting model allows for instant-runoff (e.g. the single transferable vote), usually you end up with a much bigger margin than 1 :)
 
The case where you lose from 1 vote being extremely rare, I prefer to give better chance to the person I think is most suited for the seat.
 
A great illustration of why the STV is seen as an excellent institution in comparative politics. People vote their conscience :)
Personally, I think the winner should have a minimal number of reputation points and simply be able to hack StackExchange to rig the election. Sure, on other SE's that be nefarious, but I think that earns you credit here.
 
hack the election :) @Herringbone_Cat president !
Btw there is a wlist of 5 videos on the elections system by Grey:
 
9:32 PM
dman youtube.... why doe it change CC settings all the time
 
:)))
 
When you amass that many reputation points, I wonder if these folks are employed or just retired and spending their retirement on SE
 
@Herringbone_Cat Well, then it's really going to blow your mind to learn that "they" are not only employed, but "they" are only one person.
 
is evan even in?
why do people put me in?
I m not even serious :O
 
9:43 PM
@LucasKauffman Evan is no more. At least not until the not-really-permanent permanent-ban expires.
 
@Herringbone_Cat employed
 
@Gilles how do you find the time for such voluminous SE posting?
 
@Herringbone_Cat It doesn't take all that much time if you already know the answers to all the questions off the top of your head.
 
10:13 PM
@Herringbone_Cat you've never heard of john skeet right?
Jon Skeet, Reading, United Kingdom
794k 374 5491 6692
 
You know nothing Jon Sk... eerr.. wait... nevermind
 
I think he will become the first to reach 1 million
maybe one day he'll create an integer overflow at SE
 
hm
 
@ScottPack Can you watch for attempts to access a non-existing file with Linux's auditd?
Context:
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Q: Monitor processes trying to access non-existent file or directory

sa289We're moving websites from one server configuration to a new configuration and the websites will live in different paths than previously. We're planning to diligently go through and replace old paths with new paths, but in case we miss any, is there some way to monitor for any processes trying t...

@LucasKauffman Across all of SE, I get more rep than him. The other day I calculated that in this rate, I'll catch him up for SE-wide rep in only 6 years!
 
@Ohnana Then it would only be a tie.
 
> It has been correctly pointed out that Jon Skeet is not bound by a 200 rep cap
Why is he not bound by a rep 200 cap?
 
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A: List the files accessed by a program

Ole TangeI gave up and coded my own tool. It allows for: -a all files -e existing files -n non-existing files It only outputs the files so you do not need to deal with the output from strace. https://github.com/ole-tange/tangetools/tree/master/tracefile

could that help?
 
I think there actually was a Jon Skeet reputation overflow bug, when he reached 100k maybe and the CSS didn't fit. But I can't find the meta thread.
@M'vy sure, but I wonder if it can be done with auditd
 
ok
worth the try :)
> So Jon Skeet would still have to live another 43000 years.
 
I'd already found that thread through Google
The same search led me to technology.manyask.com/viewtopic.php?t=1490770, which was funny
(I've already reported them as scrapers)
I wonder what that site's game is: they're serving stolen content but why? How are they making money?
 
10:34 PM
@Gilles Ads?
 
@DavidFreitag if they have ads they're really discrete
or they only serve them in countries other than mine
 
@Gilles It was an assumption, I have adblock
 
11:35 PM
@RoryAlsop You may be interested in this since you've mentioned him earlier: reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3egoy0/…
 

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