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2:47 AM
MORNING DOOG
 
3:27 AM
Reminder for those who have 150 rep to vote on Japanese.SE election in less than 24 hours...
Also, if you want to running cycling for moderator... nomination phase is now open on Bicycles.SE
 
hm
that went gloriously wrong. And right.
I decided to swap the drive in my IODD for a 320 gb one I found...
which seems dead...
so I decided to put it in my old laptop... which has a 320gb drive I didn't remember about
In the process my PC is opened up and one of my drives is unplugged...
and I can't shut it down to reinstall it cause I'm copying the files back to the new drive on my IODD enclosure.
 
3:55 AM
so how are you typing ???
 
@Quill phone
though I have a spare laptop or two, 2 laptops in the boneyard....
 
brave man
 
I don't throw out anything that runs.
I'm slightly disturbed I had a hard disk I didn't realise existed
but that's remarkably common ;p
 
its all one big conspiracy to get you to question your sanity
 
naw
I just have a shitty memory
and I'll probably find the dead disk works fine the next time I try it
 
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5:09 AM
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5:59 AM
Morning!
 
Indeed it is.
 
6:15 AM
GOOD AFTERNOON
 
Nothing good here :( trains are delayed. Meaning cold hands, legs and feet, and that twice as I have just missed my connecting train.
 
Flying to Austin tomorrow...I see my inbound plane is scheduled to come from San Jose, and that airport's affected by the wildfires in California
 
GOOD RAIN
 
6:45 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer (92): How do I use the ColorHug in Windows? by Anju Chauhan on photo.SE
 
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog with that answer it is confirmed.
 
@rene A deleted answer?
 
no, it became self answered a few moments ago with links
account does have posts on SO that don't look to bad
 
@rene Probably to gain rep to get past the new user restrictions
Wikipedia's had at least one spammer that gained administrative privileges and then later leveraging them for promotion
If they're savvy enough to do that, they're also savvy enough to know how to defeat the 4-hour soft restriction.
 
Yeah, the clever spammers are the ones we want to watch out for
 
7:00 AM
@user1271772 No, I'm a blue hedgehog; Shadow is a black hedgehog.
 
As long as it's a free flag, I'm okay with it :p
 
@rene Really?
in SO Close Vote Reviewers on Stack Overflow Chat, 37 secs ago, by Makyen
@gparyani I don't see an answer on this question, neither deleted nor not deleted.
Pinging @Makyen
 
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog on the MSE question ...
 
@rene You replied to my message reporting an SO question, so I thought you were referring to that
 
my bad ...
 
7:14 AM
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog No, shadow is... A WIZARD eh @ShadowWizard ?
 
So, @Sonic is correct.
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
:D
Today is the second round of municipal elections in Israel!
 
7:30 AM
Today is the second round of nomination phase in Android.SE!
 
@ShadowWizard are you going to be elected?
@andmyself Good Luck!
 
@rene nope :(
Don't have enough rep in my city. ;)
 
I'll serial upvote you with all your socks ...
 
Socks are bad idea for mayor, people will get scared.
 
Some trains are called sprinters here. Not sure why that means we have to come to a crawl when my Inter City gets stuck behind it ...
 
7:57 AM
The Sprinter is a family of diesel multiple unit trains in use on the British railway system. They were built in the 1980s and early 1990s by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL), Metro Cammell and Leyland. Most have a Cummins engine with Voith hydraulic transmission, although 47 class 158 units have a Perkins engine instead. Sprinters can be seen operating in almost every part of Great Britain, from rural branch lines to commuter expresses into major cities. Originally British Rail coined the 'Sprinter' name for the units, mainly to promote the superior acceleration capabilities of the units...
 
Do snails sprint?
 
Sure they are.
 
GOOD MORNING
 
@rene Cause it's always better to have two delayed trains than 1!
 
GOOD MORNING
 
8:00 AM
DELAY ALL THE TRAINS!!!!
 
LOUD NOISES
 
wait, that's bad isn't it?
 
ARE TRAINED
 
SHOUT ALL THE WORDS!
 
going back to sleep
 
8:05 AM
@andmyself wish I could do that...
 
training the trains
 
@Tinkeringbell same
 
@Tinkeringbell same
 
@Tinkeringbell same
 
@Tinkeringbell same
 
8:08 AM
sd k
@JNat cross site spammer for your handling. Thanks!
 
@ShadowoftheShadow'sShadow Hey, using socks to be extra annoying is cheating!
 
Fortunately this story ID (nsfw title?) didn't get a chance to enter HNQ
 
huh lol
Well, those things are real, I think. Saw something mentioning it exists in Japan.
 
I don't want to know. Thanks :)
 
8:12 AM
hmm... I actually saw exactly such a movie a while ago, not sure it was based on a book. But I also forgot the movie name.
 
a while ago? I only remembered Ex Machina...
 
6-8 months ago
 
...so my cousins have been camping out in a bomb shelter, due to the 400 missles fired at that side of the country. *shakes head* Things have gotten seriously crazy all over the globe lately. :/
Rather depressing.
 
certainly not a proper place to joke about Fallout series...
 
@Mithrandir :/
 
8:19 AM
@Mithrandir sorry to hear... it's getting worse, and pretty sure there will be no chance but go for a full scale military operation this time, like "Tzuk Eitan", or even bigger.
 
@ShadowWizard sadly that's probably precisely what the people supplying the missiles want
 
So... yet again, there are going to be thousands of casualties for the palestinians, and hundreds for us, mostly soldiers.
@JourneymanGeek the Hamas leadership is insane, they don't follow any logic.
 
@ShadowWizard eh. I am sure that the logic is 'if we keep stirring the pot, we can keep and seize power'
Not realising the optimal strategy is to really play full victim
 
@JourneymanGeek not really, they only cause destruction on both sides.
 
@ShadowWizard well and then blame the Israelis
And get a new generation that grows up hating y'all
In war, it's always the little people who suffer
And it's easier to blame the other
 
8:26 AM
@ShadowWizard "If we act like lunatics, we might goad israel into negative-pr causing responses"
alternatively "we have nothing to lose and everything to gain, screw it"
 
@Magisch now imagine if they went all diplomatic
 
@JourneymanGeek thing is, they already have both. The new generation already hate us all, and the world in general also see Israel as the "big bad bully" that only hits the "poor little boy" over and over. So they really have no point in trying to stir things up again.
 
'all we want is to go back to the pre 19xx borders'
 
This might be more of an ego thing, since we killed highly ranked officers of them, by mistake. This sparked this wave of violence.
 
@ShadowWizard eh. Y'all are usually too competent to make mistakes like that
@ShadowWizard it's also a power play between the PA and Hamas no?
And the usual middle eastern factionalism
 
8:31 AM
@JourneymanGeek well, they uncovered agents trying to spy on those officers, and the agents opened fire in order to survive. So the mistake was letting them uncover those agents, I guess. :/
@JourneymanGeek no, not this time.
 
@JourneymanGeek eh. If people are in survival mode diplomacy isn't even on the list
 
Ah
@Magisch people in survival mode don't build rockets
 
palestinians don't build these, they fire them
also their base is in survival mode, that's what I meant
 
And stuff like this is stockpiled over time, and a lot is apparently from regional 'allies'
@Magisch the Palestinians really are the victims here
 
@Magisch yes they do built them from scratch.
 
8:35 AM
There are a lot of regional powers that supply weapons to the radical circles in palestine, mostly for their own reasons (wanting to fight a cheap proxy war against israel)
 
@ShadowWizard a lot are from other countries no?
 
They have no choice, Israel has tight supervision over anything reaching Gaza via air, sea, and land.
 
Where'd they get rocket fuel then?
 
@ShadowWizard smuggling happens
 
or parts
 
8:35 AM
They build rockets and dig tunnels that reach Israel.
 
iirc the vast majority of ordinance in gaza comes from smuggling tunnels via egypt
 
@Magisch well if you don't care about accuracy....
 
It's not common palestinians who make or comission those
 
@Magisch Iran is giving lots of weapons to Syria and Hezbollah, those are the "proxy" that in time of real war will use those weapons.
 
I think there was a plan to launch rockets at us offshore by Indonesian extremists
 
8:37 AM
@ShadowWizard I think a bunch of that is self inflicted with the settlements thing though
 
@Magisch those aren't full scale missiles, only crude rockets, not sure they have fuel.
 
It's doable but not really the stuff you need to worry about
 
The Qassam rocket (Arabic: صاروخ القسام‎ Ṣārūkh al-Qassām; also Kassam) is a simple, steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. These rockets cannot be fired to target specific military objectives in or near civilian areas, and are "indiscriminate when used against targets in population centers."Three models have been produced and used, the first being introduced in 2001. More generally, all types of Palestinian rockets fired into southern Israel, for example the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Al Quds rockets, are called Qassams by...
@Magi ^
So they have fuel, but "home made".
 
I don't envy anyone living in the middle east right now
it's a powder keg and has been for the past 2 centuries or so
 
s/2/30
 
8:40 AM
Pretty much as long as there have been people there
But Imo...
The Brits have a 'gift' for designing terrible borders not taking into account local folks
See... Most of the old empire
The India Pakistan partition was a mess and resulted in a few wars.
 
Thinking about it again here is pretty sweet right now. No earthquakes, no floods, no tornadoes, no forest fires, no war or strife, no insane crime or opiod epidemic, the worst to worry about here in the past 5 years was some kid from a town over serially setting hay bales on fire.
 
The ex British middle East? Nuff said
@Magisch the worst I worry about is getting caught in the rain walking my dog
 
@Tinkeringbell yes, that makes sense, totally ...
 
@rene Heh, a commuter train in the northern San Diego region (where I'm from) is called the Sprinter
 
Woah, a bit hot.
 
AH!. When your co-worker doesn't know the difference between a branch name and a commit message on git :/
 
@Tinkeringbell Palm -> Face
I'm reworking an old ms access module into our new erp system atm and I'm consistently amazed just how much you can still do wrong in something like access
 
I've got some comfort coffee now, just because this way too healthy office location doesn't offer comfort food.
 
@ShadowWizard You work with vba right?
This module is 17k LoC with 400+ on Error Resume Next and 700+ On Error GoTo x within it
 
@Magisch once upon a time, some workers here had the habit to leave empty comments on commits.
So, a policy was implemented to block the ability to check-in a file without adding a comment
as a results, we saw a series of
"dfhu3h4rt76" comments
 
9:21 AM
I sometimes don't comment commits when I add new SQL files to the general sql repo
 
I always leave a commit message... Even if it's just 'new file!' :P
 
@Magisch nope. Classic ASP and VBScript.
Not working these days, worked in the past. :)
Classic ASP sites all migrated to ASP.NET and/or node.js
@Magisch ouch! Worked a lot with On Error Resume Next, but always made sure there is proper error handling so that bugs are not missed.
 
Basically the person that wrote this module did the equivalent of wrapping every block into a empty try/catch block
 
@Magisch yes, it's too common, I'm afraid.
 
And this has come home to roost, since the module is about file handling on a remote server and all the arcane windows and library apis it abused to somewhat function are becoming increasingly less reliable with new windows versions 7 years later
Turns out ms access is not too fond of discarding thousands of runtime errors and will sometimes just die from that
 
9:27 AM
Anyway, my liaison officer with the army just called.... was sure I'm going to get recruited in emergency procedure, but she only wanted to ask "ordinary" things, which she asks once a year. Talking about "sigh of relief"..... lol
@Magisch anything will die from that, yeah... and you are tasked with upgrading it?
 
@ShadowWizard I'm rewriting it yeah
 
Just nuke the whole thing and write from scratch, surely will take less time.
 
And have to find a way to somehow migrate the 650k+ files to the new system
 
@Magisch oh. Good!
 
fun all around
 
9:31 AM
status-now-working-on
Need to copy 1000+ files from server to dev machine, so better make a zip otherwise it will take hours.
ugh... turns out I can't just copy&paste 4GB file via RDP
Google Drive, here we go!
4GB in 2 minutes. Love the bandwidth of production servers! :D
 
If I do that at my office, everyone will suddenly shout "why the internet is suddenly so slow!?!??!!"
 
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@SmokeDetector k
spammy enough.
 
10:17 AM
yay! 2k on movies.SE
going on edit spree
 
10:30 AM
Who voted to reopen the cheese question?
You know, the one that was closed by Tim?
Also the one that was closed because the contest is ended now.
 
@Derpy I did. Totally wrong close reason, plus Tim said he would lock it, which is the proper action.
It's act of... rebellion. lol
I know it has no real meaning.
@Derpy also, "can no longer be reproduced" hints there won't be any more such contest, ever. ;)
 
No more .... Cheeeeeeseeee
 
@Derpy also known as the Red Herring
 
@ShadowWizard ^ Coherence?
 
10:49 AM
@Derpy well, he didn't say it will be locked in there.
@Mithrandir did you family consider inviting your cousins to move to your place until things in the south calm down?
 
@ShadowWizard They were considering leaving, but I haven't heard anything new lately.
 
@Mithrandir I see. Well, hope they stay safe.
I've seen local calls to host people from the south in private houses in all the מרכז area, which is noble.
If I'd be living by myself I'd probably join this too, but alas... my house is full.
 
11:09 AM
Local B'nei Akiva is offering to host kids from the south, which... could potentially put a lot more work on my plate.
 
Oh, you're חניך of B'nei Akiva?
Well, it's a noble cause. :)
 
@ShadowWizard all gone
 
@JNat thanks!
 
@ShadowWizard no, actually, I'm part of the tzevet ;)
 
@ShadowWizard Also gone! (oldie, I know, but I've had this tab and another one open for a while and forgot about 'em)
 
11:21 AM
@Mithrandir oh, that's even better. :)
@JNat better late than never, I'd say. ;)
 
צוות נחשון הוא מסגרת הגשמה של תנועת הנוער בני עקיבא בישראל. המסגרת מיועדת לחברי חבריא ב' (שכבות הגיל של כיתות י'- י"ב) בסניפי בני עקיבא השונים ברחבי ארץ. מטרתה היא הגשמת ערכי התנועה עליה התחנכו החברים בה החל מחבריא א' (כיתות ד'- ט'). בצוותים אלו יש למעלה מ-700 חברים בצוותים השונים ומאות בוגרים. == היסטוריה == בשנת 2001, הוחלט במחוז דן להקים גרעינים במתכונת הגרעינים החלוציים שהיו קיימים בתחילת שנותיה של המדינה ובני עקיבא. בגרעינים אלו יפעלו חברי חבריא ב', ויטפלו באתגרי השעה – חברתיים בעיקר – שהחליפו את אתגרי הפרחת השממה ובניית המדינה מאז שנות תקומתה. מסגרת הגרעין ביקשה לשלב בין לימוד אידאולוגי מעמיק...
 
@ShadowWizard I've cleared sessions, which should terminate all open sessions on all devices
Another oldie ;P
 
@Mithrandir :)
@JNat heh, appears to quiet down since that day, thanks though. :)
 
round n' round, the blue avatar spins
 
@Mithrandir @ShadowWizard Stay safe!
 
11:32 AM
@Derpy which one? :P
!!/alive
 
@EKons Yup
 
@EKons JNat's
 
that's Mega Man!
 
that is a spinning Megaman
 
@Tinkeringbell Thanks :)
 
11:37 AM
Done! 4.2GB of pictures resized to 120MB only.
@Tinkeringbell thanks!
 
@ShadowWizard cleans the dust that has deposited over 'The Button'
 
@Derpy hehe, those are totally couth pics, part of my job. (pictures uploaded by client over 3 years. now server disk is almost full.)
 
@ShadowWizard "Are you hiding a tell-tale heart?"
 
What, you don't believe me? ;)
 
cropping out the important bits, eh?
 
11:47 AM
Also, why would I want to resize pictures such as those you think I talk about? It ruins all the fun! :P
getting ready for button to be hit
 
def resize
 
Hi. Is there a site in the network where elections are taking place, barring Android.SE? I need to cross-check a UI issue there and I do not know how to find such a site.
 
@ShadowWizard i.e. please define what you mean by "resize" there more precisely :-P
 
@ShadowWizard I have a shell extension for that
 
11:51 AM
zoom in, enhance
 
@EKons make a picture with size of 2000x2000 pixels be 1000x1000 pixels only, thus making it take less disk space. :)
 
oh, so that size
:P
 
@JourneymanGeek nice, I use the built in Windows tool.
@EKons yeah, that size. You... :P
 
11:53 AM
Gis?
 
...
 
@Firelord As far as I'm aware there's also elections going on on Quantum Computing and Japanese... (Ending today, IIRC?)
 
I mean GIS?
 
Congratulation, you have won a collective scolding!
 
11:54 AM
@Derpy oh, thanks!
 
@Derpy nice :P
 
@JourneymanGeek what is it? What about it?
The resize tool? No, though I'm not sure how it's called. :)
There is "resize pictures" option in Windows Explorer when right clicking.
 
the only thing I know about "GIS" is that it means "Geographical Information System"... ask the Geek for more :P
 
@EKons Oh, I can explain a little more! It's a system that allows storage and handling of geographical information :P
 
lol
Yay! Disk is back to blue!
 
11:58 AM
Not red? :(
 
20GB free space.
@Tinkeringbell red disk is bad. ;)
 
I think she thinks red is best, obvious reasons :P
 
BTW, total change of topic.... anyone here can tell if $35 for New Balance shoes is a good price? :)
 

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