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brobostigonmorning boys and girls.07:45
SuperMattmorning07:45
brobostigonmorning07:45
JamesTaitGood morning all! Happy Thursday, and happy Eat What You Want Day! 😃  🍔 🍗 🍕08:33
diploMorning all08:49
=== yaiyan is now known as Ieuan
MooDoohowdy all11:47
* zmoylan-pi spits in spitoon and orders a sarsaparilla to set the mood...11:54
SuperMattThis channel ain't big enough for the 81 of us!12:00
* diddledan puts in a planning application for an extension12:01
zmoylan-pidem's fightin' words...12:01
* zmoylan-pi organises a good old fashioned barn raising for a bigger room...12:04
brobostigonmaybe we need to invent a tardis to put the channel in, :D12:08
zmoylan-piand then put a bag of holding in there to store the rubbish...12:10
MooDoonot that busy from what I see12:48
zmoylan-pithe silent masses...12:56
diddledanI don't care what you might think about Microsoft, this video is full of feels - I cried! https://youtu.be/k9Rm-U9havE13:38
zmoylan-pithe time i installed windows 95 from floppies... i cried... :-P13:41
diddledanmy HTTP caching proxy has been paying dividends the past couple days - MANY rebuilds of my snap where it fetches sourcecode each time13:44
AzelphurI'm having amusement at work, CEO: "Azelphur has too much work, lets hire another Python dev", Me: "Ok, but you're gonna have a hard job finding someone with the required skillset in your budget", she finds a new guy, Knows Django, working on his masters, which is amusing since I have no qualifications whatsoever. Quits on day 1 stating "The work is too advanced for me"13:45
diddledanhttps://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/YXcOEEJZ/13:45
zmoylan-piemmas watch is a wearable version of this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiVQcgmIi08 still impressive though. even if it only gives them a few months/years of relief13:46
diddledannice graph - I got featured in the newsletter today13:46
AzelphurSo they hire another developer, he started on Monday, linked him to the docs and told him to set up a local instance so he could work on it - silence for 3 days, then quits.13:46
diddledannumber 7 on the list of top 10 snaps this month13:46
diddledanAzelphur: ouch13:46
diddledanthat's a bad run13:47
Azelphurat least I have job security? XD13:47
TwistedLucidityAzelphur: Pay peanuts, get monkeys.13:47
diddledanlol13:47
AzelphurTwistedLucidity: true13:47
diddledanTwistedLucidity: monkeys write the works of shakespere13:47
TwistedLuciditydiddledan: Eventually....13:47
AzelphurIt is a nice confidence boost though, especially that fully educated guy turning tail13:47
Azelphurand here's me, with no GCSEs xD13:47
zmoylan-pihave you tried manacles to keep them at the desks? :-P13:48
Azelphurhaha13:48
diddledanAzelphur: I always think people freshly graduating from uni have no idea about how to actually do a job - they have read a lot and that's it - takes them 3 months to get up to speed to being in business (according to my dad who saw several over the years in broadcast engineering)13:49
TwistedLuciditydiddledan: We don't let graduates check code in for ~3 months. Everything passes through their mentor.13:49
diddledanI mean they can go into detail about how a thing works, but when it's broken they have zero diagnostics stills (for example)13:50
diddledanTwistedLucidity: that's a good way to go13:50
zmoylan-piyeah, expecting a developer to hit the ground running is a little much.  unless you are spending a stupid amount for a really really experienced developer13:50
TwistedLucidityAnd they don't have the experience to understand why clear logging is vital when a production system X thousand miles away goes down.13:50
Azelphurdiddledan: yea I'd agree, it reminds me of this time I was talking to someone that had graduated from a cisco network security course, and I had a server that was under denial of service attack, I used tcpdump, found the attackers IP and firewalled it, but I was curious to know how he would have done it13:50
Azelphurhe knew that he was supposed to find the attackers IP and block it, but when asked how he would do that - he had no clue13:51
Azelphurall the theory - none of the practical13:51
diddledanbingo13:51
TwistedLucidityI mighta used netstat or iotop; but same idea.13:51
diddledanI'm gonan get that printed on a shirt: "all the theory - none of the practical ~Azelphur"13:52
Azelphurhehe13:52
zmoylan-piwouldn't it suggest that the wearer is inexperienced? :-)13:52
diddledanzmoylan-pi: your point being? ;-)13:52
zmoylan-pi::flashes bus pass...:: wallet inspector ::holds out hand expectantly:: :-P13:53
* diddledan hands it over13:53
* zmoylan-pi sees how poor diddledan is and puts a fiver and hands it back...13:54
diddledanI think you'll find everything in order13:54
diddledanlol13:54
diddledanduck a duck! https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/arresting-reporter-asking-questions-unacceptable-assault-first-amendment13:56
diddledanthey're going after the journalists now13:56
TwistedLucidityRESPEK MAH AUTHORITAH!13:56
TwistedLucidityOnly the "first amendment" bit distinguishes this as a Trump story and not a May one.13:57
zmoylan-piprince charles hit a journalist in ireland with a sliothar earlier i think... IT HAS BEGUN...13:57
TwistedLucidityThat all? I thought everything shy of tactical nuclear weapons was legal in hurly?13:58
TwistedLuciditys/hurly/hurley13:59
zmoylan-pias long as you don't run holding the ball you're grand. running like it's the worlds most aggressive egg and spoon race with the ball at the end of your hurl and you're grand...14:00
* TwistedLucidity is disappearing down a rabbit-hole of Gaelic sports on Wikipedia.....14:01
zmoylan-pii think hurley is now on sky sports.  we usually get 1-2 articles in ireland how some match or other has folk in uk wondering who declared war on a football field...14:02
TwistedLucidityWhen we invent Terminators, I know where we'll be seeing them first!14:03
* zmoylan-pi will send terminators to the recycle centre with a nokia in a sock as primary weapon...14:04
DJonesSpeaking of goning after journalists http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-3988296914:12
DJoness/goning/going/14:12
DJoneszmoylan-pi: I'd class hurling as a cross between hockey & rugby14:14
DJonesAnd maybe WWE wrestling14:14
zmoylan-pimy school got kicked out of league when the opponents complained that they'd laid on 3 saint johns ambulances for them...14:18
DJoneswere they needed?14:18
DJonesThe St John's that is14:18
zmoylan-pigame was cancelled.  the 2 for the previous game wasn't enough14:18
DJonesHeh14:18
zmoylan-pikneecaps grow back, right? :-P14:18
DJonesYep....14:19
DJones...in the 252514:19
DJones...in the year 252514:19
DJonesSaying that, my dad's knee is better in 2016 than it has been since the early 1960's (due to replacement, unfortunately not due to growing back)14:21
Azelphurali1234: dat BItcoin price, you still hodling? :)14:21
diddledanpoor camera dudde14:25
ali1234Azelphur: people are starting to post about how they mortaged their house to buy bitcoin, so i expect a crash to $200 before the end of the year14:26
diddledanI hope his camera is ok14:26
zmoylan-pitill the next bubble14:26
diddledanali1234: oh god14:27
diddledanwhy?!14:27
diddledanwhy would you do that?!14:27
Azelphurali1234: haha14:27
Azelphurthats nuts14:27
Azelphurali1234: although on the flip side, you know I've been hodling a long time, the amount I have in BTC isn't exactly safe :)14:30
Azelphuralthough I don't see it dropping to $200, probably gonna crash down a bit soon but not below $1k I would think14:30
ali1234there are two big things that can cause a crash: one side or the other goes through with a hardfork, or bitfinex turns out to be insolvent (gox 2.0)14:31
ali1234either would take it well below $100014:31
Azelphurmaybe so14:32
zmoylan-pii think i saw it mentioned that the current bubble is because it became a legal tender in japan14:33
ali1234i don't believe that14:33
ali1234i think the current bubble is caused by bitfinex, just as the last one was caused by gox14:33
zmoylan-pihttp://www.coindesk.com/japan-bitcoin-law-effect-tomorrow/14:33
ali1234but that's just my opinion14:33
zmoylan-pilike anything in economics there are arguments every which way... :-)14:34
diddledanwho are bitfinex?14:39
diddledanand therefore wwhy would they be causing a bubble?14:40
ali1234a big exchange that recently turned off fiat withdrawals14:40
diddledanoh that sounds like a bad state then14:40
ali1234forcing everyone with fiat in the exchange to buy bitcoin if they want to withdraw14:40
diddledanhow do people convert to real money if the exchanges stop doing fiat?14:41
ali1234meet a shady guy in a cafe and exchange bitcoin for cash14:42
diddledanI just don't understand what about bitcoin makes it a desirable commodity and therefore have value14:42
ali1234it is trustless, uncensorable, and works over the internet14:43
ali1234it actually works more like cheques than cash14:44
zmoylan-piit's less hassle than paypal :-)14:52
Olididdledan, If its a limited resource and it has value to anybody, it has value. It has clear applications for criminal enterprise so however tenuous the legal uses might seem to you, enough people want it to give it a value.14:59
diddledanOli: I guess the criminals desire it and give it a value so then the non criminals start using it because it then has value15:02
diddledanthe underworld bootstrapped it for everyone else :-p15:03
OliWell then there's the faddy investory types who use blockchain as a noun, verb and child's name.15:03
ali1234it depends whether you consider international remittance to be a crime15:05
OliI'm not saying using it is criminal. I'm saying it's used by criminals.15:05
diddledanI got featured on OMG Ubuntu! http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/05/corebird-ubuntu-snap-app-available15:06
ali1234a twitter app...15:07
diddledanwat16:40
diddledanitunes is going into the windows store!16:40
MartijnVdSOh no! That will create an infinite loop16:41
diddledanINORITE16:41
diddledansuse is gonna be available on the windows subsystem for loonicks16:46
diddledanand they're working with fedora16:46
diddledanref: https://www.petri.com/microsoft-bringing-new-flavors-linux-windows-1016:48
daftykinsoof what a day20:10
daftykinsmy actual house looks like a bomb went off in it :>20:11
* zmoylan-pi does not claim responsibility...20:16
diddledandaftykins: how long till the work is done?20:29
daftykinsi'll PM you my video from earlier, 'cause i was a rudeler in it20:29
daftykinsalready been some surprises so hopefully still within the 5 weeks for the bathroom20:30
diddledanwow, they're really going to town20:31
daftykinsnothing left, mmm20:32
daftykinsfloorboards will be out eventually20:32
daftykinssomething something works want to be able to stand on something, the cheek!20:34
daftykins*workers20:34
* daftykins rattles zmoylan-pi's cage20:37
daftykins"when shall we three meet again"20:38
daftykinsdiddledan: you didn't tell him to go for a long walk off a short pier again did you?20:45
daftykinsyou know his Pi isn't waterproof!20:45
diddledandid he burger off again?!20:45
zmoylan-piit's also not at the mercy of builders atm... :-P20:45
daftykinsthe pier? ;)20:46
zmoylan-pipier today was under cloud cover and spotty rain so didn't walk down it...20:49
daftykinsah har20:50
daftykinsprobably for the best20:50
zmoylan-piit's pretty exposed so it kinda hits you sideways near the end even with a light breeze20:51
daftykinsdiddledan: y'know i mentioned that old 2010 iMac wouldn't boot Sierra on a clean SSD?21:16
daftykinscraziest situation ever, i plugged in a flash drive with win10 on it today, turned out the batteries were dead again in the keyboard so my holding 'alt' wasn't doing anything, though amusingly the EFI somehow chainloaded the Sierra install from the 10 flash drive :D21:17
zmoylan-pimy favourite mac story was a mac mini with hardware problems.  trying to press alt at boot to get to the hardware diagnostic muenu didn't work.  took 2 days of various attempts to find the apple keyboard i was using wasn't 100% compatible with the mac mini.  had to use the menu button on apple remote to get the menu21:22
zmoylan-piwow... 12 years since leroy jenkins...21:26
daftykins:O21:27
daftykinsi wonder if he ever tried such a strategy since21:27
diddledanthanks for making me feel old21:30
daftykinsoh you're ancient, don't worry21:32
* daftykins whistles21:32
diddledanhttps://youtu.be/Zoiu8_K-eZg21:32
daftykinsi made the mistake of reaching my hand in toward the kitten warming herself from the PC exhaust fans at a clients place today21:33
diddledanaww21:33
diddledanshe swipe at it?21:33
daftykinsthe important thing is i have video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwbH9uo1bic21:34
diddledanhaha21:35
diddledannice!21:35
daftykinspresumably the android upload feature gives you a shoddy quality version, seemed to only upload 16MB21:35
daftykinsthe beep was me leaning on the UPS...21:36
daftykinsshe has such fluffy paws :>21:38

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