@HardwareGeek said in Let's bet how much a kitten will be valued by the end of one year.: @Lorne-Kates Just don't step on the cat. They have sharp, pointy bits and tend to use them if stepped on. I've once acidentally sit on a cat. It used the less pointy bits to quickly run away.

@Lorne-Kates A good indicator that from here on, it can only go up!!1!!!!eleven!!1

@Tsaukpaetra That is a “solution” maybe, but surely a shitty one. What if every application did this? Or maybe they do, that’s why a calculator app is 3GB these days. Might as well bundle Node while I’m at it.

@RaceProUK said in Words or images that are not euphemisms for penises: Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­parao­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon Challenge. A Wisconsin gentleman, prior to marriage, had decided to have his fiancee's name, "Wendy", tattooed on his penis. This left only "W.." and "..y" visible in the flaccid state. They honeymooned in Jamaica, where he had occasion to use the urinal. Noting that the gentleman next to him also had a "W" and "y" visibly tattooed in corresponding locations, he asked "Is your wife's name Wendy too"? To which he received the reply "No mon. Says "Welcome to Jamaica, have a nice day"".

It's interesting how folks solve the same problems. I've been using MediaMonkey as my library-based music player for many years. It includes a flexible format conversion and normalization module to set up presets, per-device settings, and so on. I can just plug in my phone, right-click a playlist (or whatever) and pick "Sync to (phone name)". I do use a VBScript to add album and track Replay Gain tags to my ripped CDs. It's not all that interesting (one call to metaflac in the guts of a "loop through all the subfolders" script) and isn't well commented, but FWIW: Add Replay Gain to All.vbs Option Explicit Const scriptName = "Add Replay Gain To All" Const scriptVer = "1.1.0" Const errNeedPath = "To use this script, drop a folder onto the script icon." Dim gShellObj Set gShellObj = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Dim gFolderCount gFolderCount = 0 Main ' Customize this to do whatever you need it to do. Function DoTheWork(ByRef folderObj) Dim returnMe returnMe = True Dim filePaths filePaths = "" Dim fileObj, fileCollection Set fileCollection = folderObj.Files For Each fileObj in fileCollection If (StrComp(Right(fileObj.Name, 5), ".flac", 1) = 0) Then ' Do the thing (in this case, collect the paths for later) filePaths = filePaths & " " & fileObj.ShortPath End If Next If (Len(filePaths) > 0) Then 'WScript.Echo("metaflac --add-replay-gain " & filePaths) Call gShellObj.Run("F:\Utils\flac\win32\metaflac --add-replay-gain " & filePaths, 1, True) gFolderCount = gFolderCount + 1 End If DoTheWork = returnMe End Function ' Customize this to report something to the user. ' The default result is the top-level boolean from LoopWithin. Sub ReportResults(ByVal result) If (result) Then Call MsgBox("Updated " & CStr(gFolderCount) & " album" & Pluralize(gFolderCount) & ".", 0, scriptName) Else Call MsgBox("An error occurred while doing the work.", 0, scriptName) End If End Sub Function LoopWithin(ByRef folderObj, ByVal lookInSubdirs) Dim returnMe returnMe = True If returnMe And lookInSubdirs Then Dim subObj, subCollection Set subCollection = folderObj.SubFolders For Each subObj in subCollection returnMe = LoopWithin(subObj, lookInSubdirs) Next End If If returnMe then returnMe = DoTheWork(folderObj) End If LoopWithin = returnMe End Function Function Pluralize(ByVal count) If (count <> 1) Then Pluralize = "s" Else Pluralize = "" End If End Function Sub Main Dim i, args, continueOn continueOn = True Set args = WScript.Arguments If (args.Count <> 1) Then WScript.Echo(errNeedPath) continueOn = False End If If continueOn Then Dim fso, folderObj Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set folderObj = fso.GetFolder(args(0)) ReportResults(LoopWithin(folderObj, True)) End If End Sub

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@PleegWat said in Beatification and canonization proceedings for Phil Katz: @Tsaukpaetra said in Beatification and canonization proceedings for Phil Katz: @PleegWat said in Beatification and canonization proceedings for Phil Katz: @boomzilla said in Beatification and canonization proceedings for Phil Katz: @Groaner said in Beatification and canonization proceedings for Phil Katz: @El_Heffe said in Beatification and canonization proceedings for Phil Katz: Phil had to pay them a little over $60,000. $65,536? That's an oddly specific number. What? It's nice and round! Just one more and it will also go around! It's not clear to me how that applies to 0x10000 Word.

When I say "city" I mean places where people work or die.

@Gribnit My Chrome browser hit that level once.

@MZH said in How much of what you do as a programmer requires domain-specific knowledge?: @Gribnit said in How much of what you do as a programmer requires domain-specific knowledge?: @MZH said in How much of what you do as a programmer requires domain-specific knowledge?: I think I'm the opposite of most programmers here since I'm a physicist first. All of the programming I do falls into three categories: Data analysis: read raw data from file, do math, make pretty charts. General programming is secondary since the Matlab script only has to work once to generate the plots for the report/grant application/journal article. Hardware interfaces for controlling experiments: move here, activate switch, read this data port. Very little abstract programming since most of this is C or LabView. Simulations (where I spent most if my time): even the frameworks meant to make simulations easier to create require extensive domain knowledge to use--Geant4 being a prime example. There is no such thing as a particle simulation that includes all of particle physics, so you have to pick which details you care about. Just the photons released when high-energy electrons hit tungsten? Neutrons? Quark interactions? These decisions determine how long the simulations run and can affect the accuracy of other parts of the simulation. So, about 95% is domain knowledge with some abstract programming knowledge where optimization is needed so it doesn't take hours to get results. The only exception is the creation of applications that will be used more than once, of which I wrote three in seven years, one in active use but nobody looks at the code because I wrote it while learning LabView (resulting in horrifically literal spaghetti code), another only used by me, and last used by literally nobody (see the Joel Test topic in the Lounge). I kinda feel like there's still a lot of locked up potential in programming as a tool in physics, because physicists are not as good of programmers as they are physicists. There is a machine-learning initiative at the LHC to deal with the deluge of data coming out of the experiments there. Machine learning proliferates in particle physics A new review in Nature chronicles the many ways machine learning is popping up in particle physics research. Deep Learning and its Application to LHC Physics Machine learning has played an important role in the analysis of high-energy physics data for decades. The emergence of deep learning in 2012 allowed for machine learning tools which could adeptly... What could possibly go wrong?

@Zecc Is it 2021 already?

@Lorne-Kates said in Why people of Netherland are called Dutch?: He few

@dkf said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work: @CodeJunkie said in Blakeyrat Reads StackOverflow While Bored At Work: But Microsoft Java still exists. It's called C# and I remember when it was called J# for a hot minute. It was better though and Sun did not like that at all, but that's beside the point. If the goodwill to sort things out had been there, things would have been patched up. But it wasn't. It really wasn't. Both firms had a pretty paranoid culture at this point (though about different things) and neither reacted all that well; things diverged fast and that lead to the lawsuit. It would've been interesting world if C# was never made.

@Tsaukpaetra Escaping is hard You might try flipping the switch that sounds the alarm

@boomzilla said in 2018 Official Death Pool: Retail/Food Chain Edition: it should be pretty cheap by now. How many do you figure are still around? I think all the displaced buggy whip factory workers have been bought by now. You might be able to get a few second-hand, but you won't be able to find the original packaging unless you go to a specialist collector/dealer, and then you'll be paying Real Money.

@Lorne-Kates congratulations man!!!

@dkf said in Assembly Mnemonics You Didn't Know About: SMLSLD — I want a Small Salad And the corresponding YJHTGTBS - You Just HAD To Get The Big Salad

@Gribnit said in Slapfight in progress: @Jaloopa Y'know, there is a Thunderdome right over Really? What's it for?

@JBert said in Recommend to me Headphones < 200 USD: Bought a Beyerdynamic DT 770 since, which is fully user serviceable. Yep that model felt really well built. And yes I've got a sennheiser 4.40BT like I said in my last post and the impedance is 18 ohms. My phone does not drive 32 ohms well. I've got a really shitty phone.

@TimeBandit said in Onyx' adventures in virtualization: @Jaloopa said in Onyx' adventures in virtualization: Apparently they're the only way to lock your screen on X11 Obviously that just starts xblank , which simply overlays a top-level chromeless modal window on all available displays.

@TimeBandit not there for me.

@pie_flavor Convince @ben_lubar that this would be the killer app that sold people on Go.

@wft I think the best way to punish this behavior is to sell them such services.

@sockpuppet7 The domain name expired years ago so it's gone. It was called "pngky" IIRC.

@boomzilla I wanted to type the word "doorhole", fuck you.

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@boomzilla said in Tongue: It talked about the "palatine spot."

@jaloopa The protections on migratory geese in the U.S. predate species protection legislation per se, and are based on a treaty which makes migrating Canada geese honorary diplomats of Canada. The implications of this treaty are the basis of War Plan Crimson.

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@gribnit said in I answer random stuffs.: like cough syrup. I enjoy cough syrup, most of the time... @dkf said in I answer random stuffs.: Instant ramen?

@stillwater said in Should I get a Macbook?: I hope a layman does not end up paying for a BIOS setting change. It's probably a good deal for them, actually.

@dkf said in How well do you know Spring?: @pie_flavor I suspect that there were cases that they were saying were fake but where the name generated was one that was actually used in Spring… One time I got, "Object." My guessing earned me 25 / 50.

@sockpuppet7 said in I hate fashion and I hate progress: @hardwaregeek ? Why are walls in the US and the UK empty in the middle? In my country, almost all walls are made of bricks or concrete. Answer (1 of 40): It’s not true that ALL walls are hollow like you suggest - but all walls which are not load bearing often are. Also it’s not typical for exterior walls to be “empty” - the voids are filled with insulating material. There’s little point insulating interior walls though. There’s... In the UK, structural walls are usually concrete these days, either formed into breeze blocks (basically large hollow bricks) or poured directly around reinforcing; the latter technique is always used in larger buildings, but smaller buildings probably use breeze blocks as they're cheap if the loads aren't too large. (I don't know why they're called breeze blocks.) There will then often be an outer layer to the wall to act as weatherproofing; bricks are pretty commonly used for that, as they're a relatively cheap construction material here providing you don't need to make structural walls and some types of brick are extremely weather-resistant, much better than concrete usually is. Weathering is a significant issue in this part of the world; we get quite a bit of rain and significant storms several times a year on average, though usually the main concern is making sure the roof is working right. Houses need at least two layers of wall with a gap between (which might be filled with foam) in order to retain heat sufficiently well during winter; even older properties (like mine) use a double wall (though I have to put up with thick structural brick walls, and that really sucks for wifi). Timber isn't a particularly cheap material, and is awkward to use with fire codes being what they are. You'll find it in flooring and roofing only. Termites are extremely uncommon. Concrete is common for foundations. Those don't weather so fast, and concrete handles all the load from the building above excellently.

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@the_quiet_one said in the_quiet_one yells at cloud: Probably because pretty much every time we have a thread on the subject, someone makes the joke, and it's become as tired as "Brillant" or "FRIST" Really? I'd say that about applying ROT26, not about encryption in general.

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@pie_flavor said in Lorne Fucks Around With A Marshmallow: You're batting 0/2 on this one-- must like I borked your mom in the "0" she does "#2" with. WOMM. Works On My Mom ?

@tharpa Basically, for a while, the download link just went to Xamarin Studio... now the windows version just goes to source, lol I liked it back before I got a job. It was one of the better IDEs I've used. I bet it's bad now.

@hungrier Unfortunately not. They made me start again at the current hole with one shot against me, so the net effect was that my hole-in-one put me on a worse score than I’d have been in had the ball not bounced.

@the_quiet_one said in Rate my security advice!: _* Fun fact: I set a password to some very important service while I was plastered out of my mind. It took me 5 days to come to the epiphany that I had set it to my license plate code. I once set a PIN lock on my phone while very drunk. The next day I just about managed to remember that I'd set it but had no idea what it was

@gąska said in Stick to emulators: @gurth couldn't you just put some electrical tape on them? That didn’t occur to me at all, but it might work. However, as it’s done now and works, I’m not going to start tinkering with it again — my experience is that messing with a system that works is just asking for much more work than you anticipated.

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@ben_lubar said in Made a new friend....: This is very tangentially related, but why aren't laptop/flatscreen monitor backlights used for general purpose lighting? Because they're way more expensive than bulbs. @ben_lubar said in Made a new friend....: Surely a completely uniform panel of white is nicer to work with than a bunch of glass tubes, right? I'm not sure they're bright enough. The only non-monitor application I can think of where they'd be all-around better than a cheap bulb is those x-ray viewing panel things.

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@gąska said in Indian Recruiters: @stillwater spammers are like trolls: if you reply, they win. Agreed. Just dump it in junk mail and make the email address as blocked sender, and then pretend the email didn't exists.

@blakeyrat said in Did Thanos Kill You? (probably spoilers): @xaade I bet this phrase was heard at least once in the Marvel offices: But without the gigantic knockers, how will people know it's a WOMAN skeleton and not a man skeleton? Hehe, probably the same way they'll know Blue is a bitch. Because it ain't by color!

@remi said in Computer Porn: Nice ! I'd love to have that to run my code. But since it already eats up more than 1 TB of RAM with "only" 30 CPUs or so, I guess I'll need to upgrade the memory first. How much more RAM can I downloadinstall in that beast? (and I won't ask the price either, since I wouldn't be the one paying for it :-P ) 3TB, from what I saw on the store page.

@hardwaregeek said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?: @mott555 said in What's the title of a book you have recently read?: proof copies which are not quite the same as the final ones Isn't that rather the point of proofs??? It's plastered with "Not For Resale" and I'm worried the dark artwork problem I had was some kind of processing on the proof and that the real ones will end up too bright.

@lucas1 said in The Official Status Thread: @rhywden So you are punishing students for being smart. GOTCHA!!!!! You a cunt, that is trying to make other people cunts. Nice one cunt. Rote memorization is not intelligence. What are you on about?