Root Access

@Bob which can eventually become a neighbourhood fire, city fire, state fire, country fire, continent fire, planet fire.... and then, journeying into space.

Burgi

@CircusCat you need to not buy a samsung phone next time

djsmiley2k

I can't remember what if, just that a week later my fingers were still smooth

@Bob heh, after the initial ow, you don't feel it anymore either...

Bob

@djsmiley2k oh, you'll feel it

bwDraco

2:28 PM

This just in: Desktop Coffee Lake with 6C/12T Core i7s, 6C/6T i5s, and 4C/4T i3s coming soon. Plus, 15W quad-core U-type Kaby Lake Refresh processors and even higher clock frequencies deliver a sizable performance boost for mainstream and premium laptops. anandtech.com/show/11738/…

Bob

when it grows back

Nick

@Bob 60% dilution iirc

Bob

*scratches*

Burgi

@Nick its scotland, its normally too damp to combust

Nick

@Burgi scotland survives the multiverse fire. horray, laddy.

@djsmiley2k Good way to lose your identity.

djsmiley2k

2:29 PM

calcium oxide

@Nick not really

1. they grow back

Bob

@Nick hm? 37% w/w is the highest you're likely to find

Ben N

@bwDraco Mmm, a coffee lake sounds like my kind of reservoir

djsmiley2k

2. if you do anything permanent, it's exactly that.

Bob

and even that's rather high for most HS uses

at least if anyone gives a shit about safety

Avery

not having fingerprints would be kinda fun

Bob

2:30 PM

@Avery but then everything's slippery :(

Avery

sure

Nick

@Bob idk. titrations were weird, dizzy times.

Bob

ah, those classes

Burgi

ffs!

Bob

need a face shield, really

bwDraco

2:31 PM

I remembered having fun in college biology class when we dissected fetal pigs and frogs :P

djsmiley2k

Oh I remmeber now!

Burgi

why don't customer services understand responsive web design?

djsmiley2k

Nitromors!

bwDraco

Took lots of pictures.

Nick

my grandfather doesn't have fingerprints...or teeth...
How do I confirm he's who he says he is.

Avery

2:32 PM

dna testing

djsmiley2k

> Prolonged skin contact can result in DCM dissolving some of the fatty tissues in skin,

Avery

but DNA doesn't really mean much

Nick

@Burgi If they knew stuff like that, they wouldn't be customer service, they'd be the company.

@Avery how much does that cost?

djsmiley2k

@Burgi s/ responsive web design//

Avery

@Nick should be around 100 bucks but it's not really worth it

Nick

2:35 PM

Ooh, can I check if I'm related to Hitler.

djsmiley2k

...

Nick

It would be nice to find out if I'm a jew with only one popsicle.

*da dum tsh--- boooooooo!

XD

bwDraco

Also, tomshardware.com/news/…

It's about freakin' time!

Avery

@Nick don't do this.

Nick

@Avery In need of a place to test out weird comedy. Know any rooms?

Avery

2:39 PM

yes

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/-1

aka: there's no room for that kind of comedy in SE

Nick

@bwDraco 4k Res, Dolby Atmos!! NVIDIA hairworks, flow, hfts shadows, ambient occlusion (whatever that is), screenshots with Ansel!! I want this game!

bwDraco

pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-15-is-coming-to-pc-next-year

Yup. Ansel, too!

Bob

@bwDraco eh. *waits for new -M*

djsmiley2k

lol

it's.... ok :/

Nick

new -M? what's that?

Bob

2:44 PM

Core-M

bwDraco

I suspect they'll have marginally higher clocks and performance per watt again.

There's not exactly much room for raw performance in a 4.5W envelope.

Nick

:39526426 XD I keep missing messages. lol

9

Q: Keyboard shortcut to search for selected/highlighted text

In Chrome, you can highlight some text on a web page and use the right-click context menu to open a google search for the selected text in a new tab. It would be super convenient if I could access this feature using a keyboard shortcut instead of the right-click menu. I've tried searching for ex...

NotAdmin Dave

can someone request chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/39332590#39332590 to be deleted..

and anything above and below

Nick

^ any easier way? without Autohotkey

djsmiley2k

@Nick pretty sure there's a keyboard shortcut for the right click menu

ooh yes there is

the super key

Nick

2:48 PM

Shift+Fn+f10 opens the right click menu on my ideapad.

djsmiley2k

all from my altgr

or whatever that key is

Nick

@Avery :( page not found.

@djsmiley2k For me, AltGr+arrowKeys control my display orientation through Intel Graphics .

Avery

12 mins ago, by Avery

aka: there's no room for that kind of comedy in SE

Oliver Salzburg

[comedy.se]

Aw :(

That should be a thing!

Nick

Omg, I just found out what `Win+G` does.
O _ O Epic score!

@OliverSalzburg I'm sure area54 discussed that already.

bwDraco

2:53 PM

@NotAdminDave You should be getting your own room for this sort of stuff.

NotAdmin Dave

we did but thanks

djsmiley2k

@Nick game bar?

NotAdmin Dave

@bwDraco simply was asking for a kind gesture

Nick

@djsmiley2k yeah, it lags a lot but It's nice to have an inbuilt screen recorder.

Avery

it was there since initial release of windows 10

bwDraco

2:55 PM

I'm not a mod so I don't have any authority to delete others' messages.

NotAdmin Dave

bummer ;/

bwDraco

If you need content deleted, use a custom mod flag.

Oliver Salzburg

I like how the only action is a contradiction to the question

Yes, I want to open this, but this is not a game

This is a life and death situation!!!

NotAdmin Dave

@bwDraco: wanted, unfortunately the custom mod flag doesnt show for the questioned portions of the transcript.

Avery

it'll mark it as a game

NotAdmin Dave

2:56 PM

:/

djsmiley2k

@OliverSalzburg it's bad, but it basically tells windows 'this application is a game'

bwDraco

...or ping a mod like @DavidPostill.

Avery

hence you should avoid doing so probably

djsmiley2k

which turns on the gamebar when you're 'playing' it....

NotAdmin Dave

@DavidPostill man buddy bro, where are you at?! :)

Oliver Salzburg

2:56 PM

@djsmiley2k Yeah, I figured as much. But I want to screen record a non-game and the implications of something being marked as a game are not clear

bwDraco

Perhaps try using OBS?

djsmiley2k

Nod

so use something else? :/

bwDraco

Gotta go soon.

Avery

it works

but it shows the bar everytime you open that software etc

djsmiley2k

What happened to win 10 'game mode' anyway?

other than it making utterly no difference

Avery

2:59 PM

hm?

bwDraco

@djsmiley2k Windows assigns the game process "above normal" priority. (tried it first-hand on this system using Shovel Knight)

djsmiley2k

lol

Nick

@OliverSalzburg I think they did this to avoid copyright issues or something.

NotAdmin Dave

lol essentially giving people one less step right clicking the running pid and changing the priority that way.

what a wasted feature.

Avery

@Nick how so?

Nick

3:00 PM

Hey, what are some lightweight fun games I can play on my laptop tonight?

NotAdmin Dave

wrapped in a pretty interface

Oliver Salzburg

@Nick Kitten's Game

NotAdmin Dave

@bwDraco: Curious if it changes the power options to high performance mode too.

Nick

@Avery well, you could record paid content and repost. That sort of stuff. If it's a gameplay recording like Pewds, it might be okay. So, that might be the reason they ask you to agree to "Yes, this is a game"

bwDraco

Not too sure.

Gotta go, see ya.

NotAdmin Dave

3:02 PM

l8

Avery

@Nick well, applications can block recording of certain stuff

Nick

c ya l8r, aligato..oh, wait, he was a dragon.

NotAdmin Dave

at one time until the stupid legal handle issue.

im still stunned about that.

Avery

also pdp is wayyyyy too irrelevant in 2017

NotAdmin Dave

btw may i recommend google skymap for skycharts while traveling if you're trying to locate a good position on earth for the eclipse observance. you can fast forward time as well.

Nick

3:04 PM

@Avery I stopped coding a while back... people kept reusing my code without my permission, it sucked. So, I stopped making it public. Then, I quit altogether when there was no external validation. No incentive anymore.

Avery

what

1) if you properly license your code, they won't be able to copy

Nick

they will. I don't enforce my copyright ... I'm too nice a guy. I expect them to be as nice and credit me when my code is used.

NotAdmin Dave

gpl?

hmm

oh well ;}

Avery

2) it's just ones and zeroes and our lives are a damn chemical reaction and we don't know why we're here and where we'll go after the inevitable and it's very likely nothing afterwards, so why not just share your knowledge?

Burgi

@Nick wtf is wrong with you...

Nick

3:07 PM

@Burgi a lot apparently. let it slide.

NotAdmin Dave

nah, if you think about it in the long term though, there are those that can help make it better.. it can def be a win win.

Nick

@Avery I would... but then not everyone is nice.... not everyone deserves to know what I know or have a piece of my cake... i made it for me, not them. I need to like them before I contribute something of value to them.

Avery

thign is, copying code != taking a slice off your cake

NotAdmin Dave

i understand though the pride of writing something that you may not feel comfortable to put out there though.

Avery

you can share all your knowledge and keep your own

you can't share all your cake and keep a slice for yourself, though

info can be infinitely copied while cakes are finite

Nick

3:09 PM

... that's a really powerful perspective.

@NotAdminDave I want to put it out there when it's ready... when it's in a shape that only a serious person can understand and use it.

Avery

considering how short our lives are, it's not really worth hiding knowledge away

Nick

I know.

Oliver Salzburg

@Avery That is not entirely correct. If someone takes your code and copies it, that devalues your original code as there is now an equally valuable copy available

Nick

... I'm just a kid.

Avery

@OliverSalzburg value doesn't mean anything

Nick

3:12 PM

gn

NotAdmin Dave

true, its can be rather annoying to have nitpick'ed commits criticizing your work when something is partially implemented.

Oliver Salzburg

@Avery Some would say it means everything

Avery

@NotAdminDave you have a point

NotAdmin Dave

gotta get running... driving 1 hr south for solar observances.. have a good day all.

Avery

@OliverSalzburg depends on your world view

djsmiley2k

3:13 PM

if value doesn't mean anything, why do you use duck duck go?

Why are you afraid of google hoovering up your yummy data?

after all, it means nothing.

you said so yourself.

NotAdmin Dave

OH and DO NOT USE poptart wrappers to watch it, if you're observing it... Unless you want to go blind.

djsmiley2k

@NotAdminDave I'd be honoured if someone actually found and commented on my code.

Avery

duckduckhacks and bangs are nice

djsmiley2k

@NotAdminDave poptart wrappers? lol wut?

@Avery lol that's your reason?

NotAdmin Dave

Yeah, idiots online are recommending poptart wrappers.

Avery

3:14 PM

I do do !g when I can't find stuff

NotAdmin Dave

Have a good one.. take care of your eyes, be careful.. later

djsmiley2k

because you seem very vocal about privacy, kinda funny to claim that data has no value.

Avery

it has a value.

4 mins ago, by Avery

@OliverSalzburg value doesn't mean anything

djsmiley2k

...

so you're saying things have value, but the value is meaningless?

this is getting into silly word games rapidly

Burgi

+1

Avery

3:18 PM

my brain is fried

djsmiley2k

Man shot in Barcelona

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41004603

@Burgi +2

So I finally found out what my brother now does

He works for a bank and does UAT testing.

Not sure how he ended up doing that, but I imagine he'll do it very well

Burgi

when we reach post-scarcity i'll be more favourable to communism

djsmiley2k

He went from somehow being a clerk, to that.

@Burgi :D

Burgi

are you estranged from your brother or something?

djsmiley2k

Nah

just in the past I asked him about his job and got really vague answers about working in a bank

for awhile he was signing off cheques for millions of pounds.

He's very Aspie and wouldn't really share much info

but this weekend at a family meet up he finally told me some of what he actually does now ;D

Burgi

3:22 PM

UAT is really hard to do properly

djsmiley2k

Nod

hense why you end up hiring people who are aspies to do it

as a kid, he wrote down pages and pages of numbers

bwDraco

Finally, some TLC NAND from someone other than Samsung that doesn't slow down when you write too much to it! tomshardware.com/reviews/…

djsmiley2k

litteral A3 pages, just full of numbers

he also worked out the algoritm that made up passwords in Populus on the mega drive, and wrote down passwords for that.... we went past level 5000 and then just kinda broke the game

Bob

@bwDraco but is it cheap? :P

eww. autoplay video.

eww. auto-move video

@bwDraco wait. SanDisk Ultra? are they reusing the name?

as if it wasn't confusing enough...

bwDraco

@Bob 'Tis the way the market is going. The rise of ad blocking is forcing this. If you don't run super-aggressive autoplaying video ads, you might as well run no ads at all.

Bob

3:26 PM

@bwDraco ...it literally just made me block the video.

bwDraco

(because the CTR/CPM/etc of everything else is now close to zero; ad blockers have greatly depressed the value of more traditional banners)

Bob

@bwDraco meh, escalating just means you lose more

you push more and more people into using adblockers

adblockers, meanwhile, will always win

I went without for maybe a week at work. Nearly clicked a malware-disguised-as-download link (thanks, sourceforge!). adblock installed 3 mins later.

bwDraco

The only reason I'm blocking ads on the Bifrons netbook is performance.

djsmiley2k

Look at news papers

Bob

don't try to make excuses for their braindead decisions

djsmiley2k

3:29 PM

Maybe accept that advertising in this form just doesn't work.

Bob

it's starting a war they can't win

@djsmiley2k except it does work, when done responsibly

problem is, no one does it responsibly

djsmiley2k

Ah but responsibility vs greed

Bob

text ads, at most static image ads, get your brand out there without being obnoxious

they have minimal to no malware exposure because there's no custom active scripts

djsmiley2k

I still find it amusing how many 'targeted' ads have nothing for me.

Bob

get greedy and try to make them 'more effective' by punishing the user, and the user will punish you

djsmiley2k

3:40 PM

why oh why does it take like 10 minutes to verify our firewall rules -_-

(I do know why, but gah)

bwDraco

Looking at the benchmark results - just really impressive. Toshiba has finally delivered something that's actually truly competitive with Samsung. Then again, it took them almost three years to catch up...

> The Western Digital Blue 3D and SanDisk Ultra 3D are the first products we've seen that put a real dent in the 850 EVO's dominance.

> [...] The drives offer an excellent mix of sequential and random performance, but most of all they are not like 99% of the TLC-based products on the market.

Endurance numbers look great, too, at 400 TBW for the 1 TB model.

Pricing for the 1 TB and 2 TB models is icing on the cake.

(mentioned Toshiba because they're the ones that make this new NAND)

djsmiley2k

3:58 PM

annnnnnnnnnnd hometime

Bob

@bwDraco what's the pricing?

bwDraco

@Bob $280 for 1 TB.

Bob

hmm

I've been waiting for prices to drop a bit

on the buy list was a 1tb as cheap as possible (fast bulk) and a 500gb nvme (system, 960pro)

bwDraco

Similar setup planned for Astaroth.

Burgi

i've got to write a blog post for the company website :(

var firstName

4:17 PM

"i am 12 years old. am computerist. is normal?"

dear god I love review queue <3

That REDACTED Guy

@Burgi Why is that a sad occurrence?

Burgi

@ThatREDACTEDGuy because i struggle to think of topics for my personal blog nevermind something in context for work

That REDACTED Guy

@Bob I don't know what it is, but I don't like the way it sounds...

@Burgi Oh... You don't have to write a blog post. You have to write a blogpost.

bwDraco

FFXV PC system requirements at 4K

WTF. 170 GB disk space.

Burgi

@bwDraco they have to store the FMVs for the weapon animations somewhere

@ThatREDACTEDGuy i'm not sure i follow your meaning

That REDACTED Guy

4:28 PM

@bwDraco Or 4x10^7x bigger than kkrieger.

bwDraco

Also calls for a 3770K or Ryzen 7 and a GTX 1080 Ti. Yikes.

DavidPostill

@NotAdminDave I was out. You called?

Burgi

> Journalists will be allowed a brief glimpse of the president

That REDACTED Guy

@Burgi They didn't task you with writing about a certain subject. Most likely, someone in management read some article stating that having relevant, quality blogging content attracts audience and tasked you with writing anything. Something. I don't know what and don't care. Just write.

Am I right?

Burgi

yeah

bwDraco

4:31 PM

Regardless, it's about time Square Enix brought FFXV to PC.

Burgi

i think during totality the president is going to reveal that his true form is actually that of bin laden

bwDraco

Among the highlights is an updated Luminous Studio Engine with NVIDIA GameWorks features. That includes Ansel in-game photography.

The game will ship with the full set of DLC.

Burgi

> The Shed of the Year competition is including non-sheds for the first time.

I CALL SHENANIGANS!!!

That REDACTED Guy

@bwDraco The concept of DLC, pre-ordering, releasing alpha and betas, microtransactions... Infuriates me.

"Thankfully" I'm a living example of xkcd 606 and haven't faced it yet. (mostly)

##xkcd 606

I Am A Bot

I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town.

bwDraco

4:36 PM

Only question is, will I be able to afford the hardware to run the game at its best?

That REDACTED Guy

Cavil is looking way prettier than I remembered...

Burgi

its final fantasy, it'll boring jRPG crap as normal

That REDACTED Guy

@bwDraco You're not Brazilian, you'll be fine.

bwDraco

rofl

That REDACTED Guy

@Burgi Chrono Trigger is JRPG and is AMAZING <3

Burgi

4:39 PM

apparently the bot (which is an extension of taylor swift) hasn't discovered that she's deleted herself off the internet in a weird marketing ploy

That REDACTED Guy

Meh. Radiohead did it first.

Burgi

i got bored of FF7 after the first CD

hometime

That REDACTED Guy

stop!

I Am A Bot

HAMMERTIME!

rahuldottech

4:52 PM

How an MS Paint artist made this picture

►

OMG

var firstName

I just found this awesome song

> on a dark linux bash prompt,
new boss in my hair
hot coffee and hardware,
stale conditioned air
ls listing the files,
i cat configs that ain't right
my head so heavy and my sight so dim
i'd have to work through the night

there she sat in the bin dir
i heard the terminal bell
and i was thinking to myself
'just a quick tweak and all will be well'
then she lit up the keyboard
and showed me the way
three letters in the dark of night
i thought i heard vim say

welcome to the hotel :q!
what a focused place

2

Hotel California parody

💯

That REDACTED Guy

5:16 PM

> so i call up stack o'flow
'how do i exit vim?'
it said,
'we get that question here since
nineteen-ninety-one'

:D

rahuldottech

> [ _ ]

Burgi

OMFG

some woman at the roundabout tried to cut across 3 lanes of traffic and nearly sideswiped me

REALLY close

Steven Vascellaro

5:32 PM

Today I learned that Ctrl+Esc is a shortcut for the Windows Start Menu

Burgi

thats been around since Win98

Steven Vascellaro

I'm confused why that's even a shortcut

Burgi

mainly because in those days not all keyboards had the windows key

Steven Vascellaro

Ah

That makes sense

@Burgi For reference, when I tried googling the shortcut, all the results were "Help! The Escape button opens my start menu!"

Burgi

it might even be in 95 but i can't remember

@StevenVascellaro heh

sticky keys :D

i thought i still had my old IBM model M keyboard but i might have got rid of it in the move

i was going to take a thought of it for you

yup its gone, sorry!

Burgi

5:51 PM

*photo

my fingers are tired and are typing nonsense

rahuldottech

> | | |

Steven Vascellaro

6:05 PM

Eclipse started!

:D

rahuldottech

aw damn

ECLIPSE LIVE NOW!😎🌒 Total Solar Eclipse (AUGUST 21st 2017) NASA TV #Great American Eclipse

►

Solar Eclipse 2017 Live

►

bwDraco

in The Bridge, Jul 21 '13 at 2:51, by DragonLord

I have a feeling that FF15 will end up being the performance behemoth Crysis was almost six years ago...

...and I was right.

Four years later...

> Monitor: 4K HDR
CPU: Intel i7 3.4ghz or Ryzen 7 1700
GPU: GeForce 1080Ti
HDD: 170GB

That REDACTED Guy

I live below the red circle :(

bwDraco

I likely will not get a 4K HDR display, but this is insane.

That REDACTED Guy

@bwDraco I bet that would cost me ~15k to build here.

bwDraco

6:11 PM

Projected cost about $3000-3500.

Burgi

@bwDraco its not due out until next year, those specs will be old hat by then

That REDACTED Guy

6:23 PM

Asus PB287Q 4K monitor: USD 950.35
Ryzen 7 1700: USD 401
GeForce 1080Ti: USD 1300
Asus aM4 mobo: USD 150

That's USD 2800 without HDD, SSD, RAM...

Adding those, if I spend 4 months without eating or paying any bills, I can buy one.

Burgi

the neighbours are smoking out of the window again

i try cooking once a week and the smoke alarm immediately goes off

That REDACTED Guy

@Burgi The stealth one?

Burgi

@ThatREDACTEDGuy no, that was in another flat

they spend all night smoking weed and the smoke alarm never goes off once

That REDACTED Guy

@Burgi I see you and smoke alarms have a story that goes way back...

Burgi

its just the smell i dislike

That REDACTED Guy

6:30 PM

If your smoke alarm smells it's a bad sign...

Burgi

@ThatREDACTEDGuy the smell of cigarette smoke

yesterday i was steaming veg, i had the extractor on full and the windows wide open and my smoke alarm still went off

That REDACTED Guy

I hate it too and can't understand why anyone would want to smoke.

Burgi

i mean, what is the actual point in extractors?

djsmiley2k

6:59 PM

hmmm

to absorb the smell of fat?

not sure if you don't know this.

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