If I like jpop from the 80s does that count?
I'm too old for present day stuff. Even my American music is from the 80s.
(I live in Japan, but not up to date on the pop news).
Posts made by Nprz
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RE: J-Pop?
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RE: I guess Google's facial recognition algorithm is pretty good
I've seen it blur out store signs and information signs.
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RE: Fuck You, I Quitβ-βHiring Is Broken (article)
I actually implemented a BFS today with a non-academic purpose. We have an org chart at work and I want to have an address book sorted by how far they are away from me in the org.
Useful for me so when I start typing a name, people I'm more likely to email show up at the top.
It only took a few minutes for the BFS.
Making the LDAP calls, hooking it into sqlite, making the graph took a bit of time.
But there is real value in understanding how BFS works and when it can be used. It isn't just for 2D mazes.And this time I wrote it in Python instead of php, so I can probably hook it into other Python projects I have.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Hmm, that is as old as the company I'm working at. So you probably fixed a bug written by the CTO at that time.
This is how I imagine it.
Also some people were smug that they'd finally removed every bit of code by said founder (I can't imagine how they'd have such free time to look up everything he wrote to confirm that). Also this assumes the CVS history wasn't messed up. -
RE: Paid for WinRar? Join the club!
What I liked about rar recently is that I could easily create an archive containing exe files and gmail it.
With an unencrypted zip file, gmail rejects executable files.And yes, I sometimes use email attachments sent to myself as a form of (ternary) backup.
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RE: Embroidery Machine Software
Sounds like a crude attempt to prevent brute force cracking of the numbers.
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RE: SourceForge... again
How about I don't give a shit what their TOS says? How about we go with the motto "don't be a jerk?"
(The other thread about them putting malware in people's deliverables violates that principle)
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RE: Computers on TV
I'm guessing that picture is from an anime. Instead of giving you a backslash, you get the οΏ₯ symbol.
You can easily reproduce with putting the Japanese IME on windows and hitting \ key.So my question building off @HardwareGeek is, what language uses %\ to mean something?
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RE: Stupid things I've seen on Yahoo! Answers (but I repeat myself)
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150715221333AATRlam
250 = .10x what is x?
At least 5 people say 25. Granted most of them can't see the decimal.
The craziest is
250= .10x
first move the decimal 2 places to get a whole number
what you do to one side, you must do to the other
25000= 10xdivide both sides by 10
250/10= 25
c=25
.10 == .1, why move it 2 places? But whatever, ends up with 10x.
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Autocorrect by mobile.
[edit] And it took me 3 corrections just for the above line.
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
My question would be, do they hardcod
re it to "yes" as you'd be inserting it into said DB or return no because they don't want you to cancel your card?
I'll go with "yes" because they don't want your money, it was too easy. -
RE: [Solved] Windows believes it is actually connected via usb... help? Okay, now lets bash some Linux!
I can't afford one of those right now. I need to go to the ATM machine.
so you are stuck with a HDD drive?
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RE: How I ended up accidentally importing a customer's entire Windows registry
NAS suck and cost more combined than my solution?
I can also host my picture server, music server, web, blah blah blah.
Of course, if I already had this server and only needed network storage, thenmaybeno. -
RE: The active population here seems to be slightly biased towards Central Europe, amirite?
why the fuck was seemingly every post today a necro?
Because I'm catching up on my computer, so actually responding rather than reading.
And I don't give a flying fuck about necroing topics (the active ones are fairly boring as-is).
And look, after necroing this topic, it became fairly active...But I was reading somewhere that there are 50,000 topics, so I'm going to be quite busy.
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RE: WTH is wrong with β β β β β β β ?
Note: even Jeff has said that the filter is a bad idea that won't work, but put it in as what I assume was a customer (vs non-paying discourse host) was requesting it (and I can totally see PHBs wanting something like that if they ran a company forum).
Our company has quotes in our bugtracker that can be added by the users (dev/qa/etc).
After it existing for ~10 years, some new PHB saw one quote she was offended by (likely containing "crap").
Now there is an "approved" flag and these offensive words are no longer shown.
The PHB is no longer here, so once I find some write credentials to the DB, I'm going to approve them . -
RE: Bull :shit: and more bull :shit: and lots of bull :shit: (content warning: StarGate)
@Magus said:
It was given to him by a female friend. He didn't know anyone would be offended by it at all.
So you want me to believe he's just really, really, really fucking stupid? That is the defense?It seems to be what he's been going by and his sister kind of backs that up:
@sister said:βuselessβ as he suffers moments of indecision in daily life...
He gets so involved in everything that sometimes common sense goes out the windowAnyway, there is way too much public shaming that usually exceed the crime.
No comments on the GG discussion as I haven't read any of that (or the above until now). -
RE: 96 macbook server rack
You can use an hdmi adapter, which will do a similar thing. $15 is cheaper than buying an actual monitor.
[edit] and in case anyone didn't look, the same person racked 160 mac minis. I don't see that he used the adapter though.
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RE: 96 macbook server rack
Yes, if they just needed Apple branded hardware as the physical hardware, they could use VMs.
But VMs will report different hardware and maybe what they are testing cares.
If they need to test the GPU and not a virtual one, then they need physical machines.And it sounds like to access the display, it can't be closed (or it shuts off), hence the 7mm wedge.
A hard hack.Because of varying cost of Apple hardware, I'd read the Mac Mini's give the best performance per $. Perhaps it is limited in some other hardware avenue (I don't look at Apple hardware anymore. The MBP I had before exploded, among other problems so I don't really trust it any more than the cheaper stuff with upgrades).
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RE: Our prices be always low!
Now, I'll just wait around until I see some WTF where the customer asks why ticket prices are 99999999.99.
Maybe they should switch to sqlite where such restrictions are just not enforced. -
RE: Stupid things I've seen on Yahoo! Answers (but I repeat myself)
I'm too lazy to look at all the old ones I've read from other sites.
Yahoo Answers has more trolls than this place. -
RE: How I ended up accidentally importing a customer's entire Windows registry
@accalia said:
currently you can get 3TB spinners for < $100USD, most desktops, even with a bunch of VMs would be hard pressed to use all of that.
/me looks at his 20+ TB of internal and connected storage, most of which is in use.
So I'm not normal, huh? Is that what you're saying?
Because you'd be right.
I only have half of that storage, and only half used, so I'd say I'm less of a hoarder than you.
There are certain advantages desktops have over laptops... (I've gone all laptop except for my old Windows Home Server - running a version of Server 2003)
Perhaps you should not go "all laptop" then?
I keep a misc server around that holds all my large files, and backups. It is also web facing, so I can access the files (although at a much reduced bandwidth) remotely.
You can make it fairly compact, headless and low-energy without too much effort. Besides that server, I do everything on my laptop, so local storage is quite limited. -
RE: Guy plays the same song over 60,000 times: "I like the song"
Well, it has been 9 months and he has only played it 31657 times more than before.
So a bit over a hundred times a day average. About 7 hours a day then?I don't think I've liked any song enough to play it even 10 times a day.
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RE: The active population here seems to be slightly biased towards Central Europe, amirite?
I have not had pony meat, but horse is good.
But horse and whale meat don't taste similar at all.
Plus whale meat is plenty accessible in Japan (I had it no less than a month ago and it was even discounted).But if other countries are willing to export meat cheap (http://www.meat-prices.co.uk/history/Smithfield/red-meat/Pony) then I don't think Japan minds importing and eating it.
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RE: How I ended up accidentally importing a customer's entire Windows registry
Since it seems like you need to do this frequently enough, I'd recommend some script to export the reg settings and anything else relevant and have it zipped up.
It makes life easier than explaining and hoping the end-user doesn't goof.Also agree with using a VM for reproducing customer issues. You can snapshot and revert easily and not have to worry about have either environment get contaminated.
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RE: The W3C is at it again!
I'm sure the server end can use its magic to determine the codec in the container.
If the client can't pass in the supported audio codecs then that would be a new RFC needed.
This W3C change is just going to make client have a lot of ugly if/else if statements along with pages serving up dozens of video formats rather than have the client request the best matching. -
RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Sidenote: 2.3 million views, 0 likes/dislikes.
Comments are disabled, which disables like/dislike.
Ugh, couldn't watch the end of that video. It looks painful as hell. Can't people trim their nails without a robot that takes 30 minutes (and requiring you to soak to soften the nail)? -
RE: "We changed the server name and the scheduled task stopped running"
Lesson learned, don't change the server name?
Isn't that the point of DNS is you can keep the hostname the same, but change its IP to point to some other place.
Why change the server name?mumble mumbles, uses IP addresses anyway
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RE: I want wifi to share my connection with multiple access points! EXCEPT WHEN I DON'T!
No. No one would use your shitty wifi.
I tried using the free wifi in mountain view and the bandwidth and latency was so bad I decided I'd rather pay for a quality internet connection. Free is only good if it is usable. -
RE: The collapse of the .NET ecosystem
The collapse of the .NET ecosystem is making it pretty rough.
I was going to suggest an opening at our company, but due to the collapse of the .NET ecosystem, we had to kill our C# client and are all in for some webX.0.
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RE: Wonder what this will do to the divorce rate β¦
Scenario 1 with a response that your computer got a virus and did lots of weird things, signing up to sites, blah, blah.
Common problem.
Only go into more detail if needed.You people need more practice at lying if you are going to be visiting dating sites for cheating.
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RE: Yami learns Powershell
Weren't those the same times where you could unhide the *ed passwords on forms because it wasn't securely hidden? I recall the WinAPI could trivially do that.
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RE: Hulk Sam Smash!
I support the idea of whitelisting HTML tables. The github syntax with lots of -------- ||||| ----- looks terrible and exhausting to write. No need to reinvent the wheel and replace it with an ugly square wheel that does not turn.
I don't like HTML tables. They are way more verbose than you likely need in a forum.
github syntax would be a non-starter for me as well. wikitables are a little bit better, but I'd prefer not to have to newline each column.Header 1 Header 2 Header 3 row row row your boat - seems simple enough. If need new moar features, then use html.
Or just give a damn wysiwyg UI.Anyway, I don't need it and I'm not paying.
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RE: Yami learns Powershell
If you scroll up a ways, there was a month-long gap where I had trouble getting the guys with domain admin accounts to actually set up what I thought I wanted. But yeah, this is fucking insane.
Too annoyed with the inifiniscroll at the moment.
At work, I needed some "automation" account because of raisons. It took our IT a month to configure all the ldap entries correctly (linking me as the manager, in the correct department, with login permission). -
RE: Yami learns Powershell
This is how I got to this thread (via the SSH thread).
But yes, if you can ssh in, I'm sure you can run PS locally with less account/permissions issues. -
RE: Yami learns Powershell
Should I be concerned that after 2 months, this thread is still active?
For internal tasks like this, I would just use winexe to run things remotely. But I never cared much for security (just deploy a windows VM, run commands remotely, test something, shut down and delete VM).I would have thought PS makes automation easier...
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RE: Hulk Sam Smash!
I don't have any qualm about someone trying to sell a plugin. Even if it is trivial, core decided it was valueless at the moment.
But the place of marketing it is wrong though. If people want to buy it as a plugin, they could browse the marketplace.
And insulting others is probably not a good idea unless he wants to isolate himself into a corner. -
RE: I want wifi to share my connection with multiple access points! EXCEPT WHEN I DON'T!
I'd gladly share some of my bandwidth if that gave me access to other WiFi hotspots when I'm traveling around.
Obviously having 100Mb up in the mountains means likely no one will use my hotspot or at least all of the bandwidth.
But I think these situations would be nice for travelers that don't have unlimited tethering cellphone plans.And the "OMG NSA" part just means it needs to have better tracking of who is using it (I mean, someone is supposed to log in to use it, so record that).
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RE: The quasi Official Stupid Ideas that have actually been done thread
Yeah, but we both got one in before
(back to the other topic)
Went to a bar when visiting the U.S. and wasn't surprised to be carded. But even my manager (50+) was carded, so kind of had a chuckle.
Never been carded in Japan, even when 21 (probably looking younger). Then again they (Japanese) are trying to clamp down on under-age drinking of their own people. I doubt they give a belgium about foreigners (as long as they aren't breaking other laws). -
RE: How To Demoralize Employees: A DIY Guide for Terrible Companies
Tell that to @Polygeekery or you don't get your pendantry.
IT rules seem to be very draconian. As if blocking Facebook on the desktop has any impact when everyone uses smartphones. Blocking cameras prevents no one from using gmail to email the excel sheet to their personal mail. -
RE: Hooray for encrypted home directories
Hey, why is this command taking so long?
It has been running for the last hour and my hard drives are pretty noisy.
It is hard to get work done, so I don't think it is solving any problems.
I guess I'll let it run over night and see if things are better tomorrow.Cheers.
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RE: Crontab typo
I've never fat fingered -r, but whoever added that without a -f (force) was an ass.
Anything in /var/log about what ran the past X days? Probably can't reconstruct the schedule perfectly but that is a lesson to learn.
I think I have 2 entries in my crontab that are doing something of value. Not worth backing up as they just run a script (not complicated to remember). -
RE: Organizational Dysfunction
Someone I do volunteer work for has an R-Pi server. I wrote the networking for the app it runs. I'd love my own R-Pi server so I can debug issues, but alas can't spend Β£35 out of my pocket for that.
Have to simulate with VMs instead. -
RE: More gender discussion
Looked it up. Worse than I imagined.
The child deserves the response it got.
Hope I don't offend any fluid genders here. -
RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Sorry but law there states that if you've had a drink then you're too drunk to decide your consent even if you say "yes", let alone deny consent by saying "no". So, both sides are raping each other. Likely whoever is on top (Jose) will be charged though.
(Fuck it is hard to type on a mobile while drunk. I deny consent of this post for typos, etc).
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RE: The bad jokes topic π΄πΉπ¨
Yes, that's the joke.
Didn't know the company hasn't globalized. -
RE: The Meme and Reference Recognition thread
The end of those lyrics aptly belong somewhere in that $40 thread.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadβ’
Dumb -> dump.
I like the typo version more though. -
RE: The 벨기μ of corporations
Send them all. You only have 5 students. Maybe you can then take a day off as well.
The students might enjoy it and the guest might like the extra company instead of being forced to make small talk with 1 person. -
RE: The 벨기μ of corporations
It's not institutional racism like in Japan where (for example) non-Japanese people can't even rent an apartment without a Japanese person vouching for them
You can't live in Japan without a Japanese person vouching for you, so why not get that person to vouch for your apartment as well?