The Official Status Thread
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What's that?
*thinks hard enough to cause a slight headache*
Oh… that… stopped using that years ago…I tend to use this on Windows (if I want to read a PDF at least):
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I love how "Adobe Reader" appears to be a trigger
wordterm on these forums
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Your image is broken. (From context, I will assume it is some kind of DO NOT WANT macro.)
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Status: Dinner time!
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Status: Wondering how many imported topics @boomzilla is going to necro…
Status: Returned to the computer after showering and dressing; found one new notification. Clicked on the speech bubble. Swampie necroed a topic from last May (most recent post almost two months ago) to respond to a sarcastic comment that mentioned SSDS — without realizing it was sarcastic, of course.
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Are you going to eat some worms and grubs?
Alas no; I have to settle for haddock and chips instead
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Status: Returned to the computer after showering and dressing; found one new notification. Clicked on the speech bubble. Swampie necroed a topic from last May (most recent post almost two months ago) to respond to a sarcastic comment that mentioned SSDS — without realizing it was sarcastic, of course.
He might be back in another six months or so... :D
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Status: Installing the Cygwin version of Python 3 on my decrepit old desktop. Apparently, I hadn't updated Cygwin in quite a while, because it's installing a metric Belgium-ton of updates, and it's taking forever.
Edit: Apparently one of the things that's taking a really long time is a new (or not; like I said, it's apparently been a long time since I last updated) GTK+ theme that I'd never heard of before now.
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Swampie
It's like the attempted import woke him up from his slumber.
He might be back in another six months or so... :D
Might even stick around if we get that import working by then.
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Might even stick around if we get that import working by then.
I hope so—I need to know if SSDS has youtube functionality!
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Status: England 24-15 France #6Nations
We need to score 17 more points while conceding none…
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I tend to use this on Windows (if I want to read a PDF at least):
I used to use that too, but now I'm on Windows 8.1, I just use the bundled Reader app. Except in Firefox, where I use Mozilla's built-in renderer.
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My prediction was not a million miles off of actuality...
It wasn't a million ångstroms off either.
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You're missing the point. Capsaicin exists because it's unpleasant to eat, because it causes pain. It is the opposite of enjoyable.
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You're missing the point. Capsaicin exists because it's unpleasant to eat, because it causes pain. It is the opposite of enjoyable.
You seem to be suffering from the misconception that your perceptions are universal. *munches on a raw bird's eye*
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Status:
14:41 < BenLubar> how do I append a rune to a []byte? There doesn't seem to be a function that does that in unicode/utf8 14:42 < sztanpet> convert it to a byte 14:43 < BenLubar> but it's not guaranteed to be below 128 14:46 < sztanpet> convert it to an int32 then 14:46 < BenLubar> rune is int32 14:46 < Tv`> BenLubar: http://play.golang.org/p/d7gxNcZcbN
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Status: I just found out that
atof()
can parse hexadecimal values in some locales/platforms, but it can't in others...
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It has evolved specifically to be painful for mammals to eat. It is painful to eat.
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Status: Just made a post from one computer then ninja-edited in a URL from a different computer!
:D
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It has evolved specifically to be painful for mammals to eat. It is painful to eat.
No it isn't. Your experience differs from mine, so it must clearly be invalid.
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Status: Just spent 10 hours trying to figure out what @CarrieVS's post had to do with the one above it.
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It has evolved specifically to be painful for mammals to eat. It is painful to eat.
The same can be said of any chemical, in sufficient quantity…
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atof()
is painful to eat?Also, hi future @ben_lubar!
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I've come here from 1994 to tell you that computers are
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The same can be said of any chemical, in sufficient quantity…
Does toast count as a chemical?
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Toast is a lot of chemicals mixed together in a specific formation.
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I bet if you took, like, 5 slices of dry toast and tried to eat them all at the same time, like really cram the toast into your mouth, I think that would be a pretty unpleasant experience all round. -1 would not recommend.
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Actually there was this one time when my wife made a chilli, but she used Dave's Insanity Sauce instead of normal hot sauce, and the chilli was so mindbendingly hot that I had to go lie down after eating it, but that was kind of an outlier, so...
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Actually there was this one time when my wife made a chilli, but she used Dave's Insanity Sauce instead of normal hot sauce, and the chilli was so mindbendingly hot that I had to go lie down after eating it, but that was kind of an outlier, so...
That reminds me of when we made harissa ourselves, but got the recipe wrong. Instead of 25 small chilies, we used 25 grammes of chilies, which is rather a lot (especially of the stronger varieties). When we came to frying the meat that had been marinading in the harissa, the smoke generated triggered an instant coughing fit in everyone present, which meant you inhaled more of the noxious miasma and coughed harder…
Fortunately, I managed to get the door to the back yard open and let some fresh air in.
I believe that was also the strongest dish I have ever managed to finish a helping of. It was significantly stronger than standard high-strength dishes like vindaloo and Jamaican jerk chicken (both dishes of which I can eat plenty). The only stronger things I've ever tried have been things like raw bird eye chilies.
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noxious miasma
Reminds me of a Szechuan chicken recipe I tried once, which requires you to throw a cupful of Szechuan peppercorns into a wok full of hot oil as the first step of cooking. That's tantamount to an act of chemical warfare...
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Installing the Cygwin version of Python 3 on my decrepit old desktop.
Done, at last. It only took ~3.5 hours. Not entirely its fault; last time I checked, the installer had gotten < 9 CPU minutes during 3 hours of wall clock time.
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Capsaicin exists because it's unpleasant to eat, because it causes pain.
Right.
It is the opposite of enjoyable
Depends on quantity.
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@tar said:
It is the opposite of enjoyable.
Depends on quantity.
You have me saying things that somebody else said!
Discoquotation's at it's finest...
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Arse. Fixed.
Dischorse.
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Status: Anyone have any idea why I can't get a VirtualBox VM to connect to a bridged network adapter which seems perfectly fine running on a virt-manager VM?
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Is driver installed properly in VM? What network card type do you have set in VirtualBox?
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Apparently the answer is: "you randomly fiddle with the Adaptor Type under Network Settings until it magically starts working by itself!"
(Also, now I'm a bit sad that I can't run VirtualBox VM's and virt-manager VM's at the same time...)
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IIRC, PcNet ones work out of the box for every OS I tried. Intel Pro need drivers on Windows for sure, not 100% on Linux. virtio needs drivers everywhere.
Most of this is from memory, which is likely faulty, but it's probably not far off.
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Status: Purging my mail queue of thousands of spam mails from the few weeks I accidentally had my mail server set to open relay, which I discovered when I realized my box had no disk space left...
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IIRC, PcNet ones work out of the box for every OS I tried. Intel Pro need drivers on Windows for sure, not 100% on Linux. virtio needs drivers everywhere.
Most of this is from memory, which is likely faulty, but it's probably not far off.
Hmm. I'm successfully using an "Intel PRO/1000 MT Server (82545EM)" (whatever that is)—I'd assumed that was the same as or similar to a "rt8139" which is what my virt-manager VM was using. I had virtio as an option on both, but I don't think I've ever seen it work.
As may be clear, I don't really have a clue what I'm doing, I'm just prodding at stuff til it works...
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rtXXXX
is Realtek. I don't think Intel uses Realtek chips. Whatever, as long as it works.virtio
always requires additional drivers from my experience, since it's not an emulation of an actual device, it's strictly a virtual card used for VMs. From what I read it works really well, but hey, if "real" emulated hardware does the job, meh.
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You're missing the point. Capsaicin exists because it's unpleasant to eat, because it causes pain. It is the opposite of enjoyable.
It's not my fault if it's a failure in appropriate doses.