• (disco) in reply to accalia
  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    ... not using Brillant or posting a meme of the guinness guys....

    lame.

    ;-)

    You'll have to forgive me on the Guinness one. After all, I don't ingest alcoholic beverages. And since I used DVDs, BRDs, Netflix, and Amazon Video for my movie/TV needs, I don't really get many commercials.

    I'll take the lame for not using brilliant though. :'(

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    brillant

    FTFY. ;-)

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    FTFY. ;-)

    Damn auto-correct. :angry:

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    Damn auto-correct.

    Ha!

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    grumpycat's real name is tartarsauce

    TIL

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    TIL.

    Get out of my head!

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    only need one more. cause i flagged as well

    EDIT: I know! we'll ask @chubertdev. not only did he witness the woosh but he was involved in it via misattribution!

    Ask me what?

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev

    we should ask you to flag for woosh so @frostcat can get another woosh!

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    Why would I flag for whoosh? I rarely do that.

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev

    because i want @frostcat to get a woosh today too, and he did woosh and you witnessed it and we only need one more flag?

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    TIL

    You learned it wrong. Because Grumpy Cat's name is Tardar Sauce, not Tartarsauce.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    because i want @frostcat to get a woosh today too, and he did woosh and you witnessed it and we only need one more flag?

    Please, @chubertdev?

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    You learned it wrong. Because Grumpy Cat's name is Tardar Sauce, not Tartarsauce.

    TIL that I don't care about the correct spelloring.

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    TIL that I don't care about the correct spelloring.

    a man after my own heart.

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Get out of my head!

    Stop stalking me!

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    so @frostcat can get another woosh!

    I haven't gotten one yet, unless I'm going to get one the next time the queries run.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    Please, @chubertdev?

    If you people are going to conspire to give me a badge I'd really rather you do it for pendantry!

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    thats a manual one.

    and now i want you to get one so the post you quoted can be justly applied! :-P

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    the post you quoted

    I don't think I realized when I quoted but I thought that was you, not @abarker asking for it.

    ("asking for it?" is @algorythmics here today?)

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    ("asking for it?" is @algorythmics here today?)

    havent seen him today.... maybe he is on vacation?

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    I haven't gotten one yet, unless I'm going to get one the next time the queries run.

    As pointed out - what query? :)

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    but you agree he's earned one?

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    As pointed out - what query?

    Yeah, but I don't think I'd internalized that at the time I said.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    Not yet, unless they don't show up that way:

    [image]
  • (disco)

    TRWTF is the image.

    1. Globular proteins are not embedded in the membrane, that protein would be an integral membrane protein
    2. It's misleading to call a sugar (saccharide) a "side chain" on a protein, side chains are one of 20 (with a scant few exceptions) groups. They can be modified later (post-translationally) in myriad ways, but those covalent adducts aren't "side chains".
    3. "Alpha helix protein" that doesn't show alpha-helical structure (except in the membrane, where it's already annotated.)
  • (disco) in reply to nicktimko

    I like to think you joined just for that bit of pendantry (I'm not going to check, so I can maintain my illusion) so enjoy your :checkered_flag:

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    something like that.

    [image]

    EDIT:

    Hi @nicktimko; I swear we don't actually bite.

    it's more of a nibble.... really.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    Hi @nicktimko; I swear we don't actually bite.

    Most of us, anyway!

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    Hey, something has to precipitate joining. Positive feelings of community? Nah, how about some negativity.

  • (disco) in reply to nicktimko
    nicktimko:
    Nah, how about some negativity.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4uTEEOJlM

  • (disco) in reply to nicktimko

    I am see you will fit in just fine. ;-)

  • (disco) in reply to nicktimko
    nicktimko:
    TRWTF is the image.
    1. Globular proteins are not embedded in the membrane, that protein would be an integral membrane protein
    2. It's misleading to call a sugar (saccharide) a "side chain" on a protein, side chains are one of 20 (with a scant few exceptions) groups. They can be modified later (post-translationally) in myriad ways, but those covalent adducts aren't "side chains".
    3. "Alpha helix protein" that doesn't show alpha-helical structure (except in the membrane, where it's already annotated.)
    [image]

    Certainly the quickest manual badge...

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    I like to think you joined just for that bit of pendantry (I'm not going to check, so I can maintain my illusion) so enjoy your :checkered_flag:
    I'm still undecided if this is pedantry or needless exposition.

    Also, your dickweedery detector seems off.

  • (disco) in reply to OffByOne
    OffByOne:
    Faster because you don't have to play DJ a few times (`diskcopy` read the disk contents to RAM, so if available RAM was less than the size of the disk, you'd have to swap disks multiple times).

    Accessing files on the copied disk might also have been faster when using [x]copy and the hard drive as temporary storage:

    copy was very stupid, and it required three disk shuffles per file or something like that. xcopy was smarter, and read as many files into memory as it could (a bit like diskcopy, but only the used sectors).
    OffByOne:
    Warning

    • You cannot use xcopy to copy a startup disk.
    You could work around that warning by doing a sys <targetdrive> after xcopying your files.
    Depending on your version of DOS, before, rather than after. Or just format /s your destination disk in the first place.
  • (disco) in reply to JBert
    JBert:
    Also, your dickweedery detector seems off.

    If so, I'm not the only one, as it turns out..

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    If so, I'm not the only one, as it turns out..

    i thought about flagging that, but felt that having handed otu several flags already that was enough for one day.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    i thought about flagging that, but felt that having handed otu several flags already that was enough for one day.

    Nonsense. How will we know if they're rate-limited like other things here? (I don't want to know if that was already discovered before I started posting on what..)

  • (disco) in reply to urkerab
    urkerab:
    OffByOne:
    Accessing files on the copied disk might also have been faster when using [x]copy and the hard drive as temporary storage:
    `copy` was very stupid, and it required three disk shuffles per file or something like that. `xcopy` was smarter, and read as many files into memory as it could (a bit like `diskcopy`, but only the used sectors).

    That's when copying from floppy to floppy. I was talking about copying from source floppy to HD (using either copy or xcopy) and then copying from HD to destination floppy in a separate second step. You're right, but the stupid copy behaviour (vs. the smarter xcopy behaviour) doesn't matter (at least not as much) when copying from floppy to HD or vice versa.

    urkerab:
    OffByOne:
    Warning • You cannot use xcopy to copy a startup disk.
    You could work around that warning by doing a `sys <targetdrive>` after `xcopy`ing your files.
    Depending on your version of DOS, before, rather than after. Or just `format /s` your destination disk in the first place.

    Can you elaborate on the "before"? I can't recall any situation where a sys after a copy messed things up. We are talking about ~20 years ago of course, so I don't have absolute trust in my memory.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    Nonsense. How will we know if they're rate-limited like other things here?

    easy. find someone who is a dick or create an all flags thread like the likes tread is.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    easy. find someone who is a dick or create an all flags thread like the likes tread is.
    Heh, it would make for a funny post-mortem: 
    I felt a great disturbance in the Discourse, as if millions of posts suddenly got flagged in terror and were suddenly Jeffed.

    Quick, somebody start a thread! <!-- INB4 moderation queue overflow -->

  • (disco) in reply to JBert
    JBert:
    Quick, somebody start a thread!

    /me sits on her paws

    not me! i'm already enough of a PITA to @pjh! i don't want to get banned! not even temporarily!

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    Nonsense. How will we know if they're rate-limited like other things here?

    Ask?

    They are. Default of 20 per DiscoDay.

    Hasn't been changed from that on here, presumably because no-one's been quite that annoying yet....

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    because no-one's been quite that annoying yet....

    not that some of us haven't tried.... ;-)

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    Ask?

    That seems mundane.

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    Hasn't been changed from that on here, presumably because no-one's been quite that annoying yet....

    Some of us are holding our flags in reserve for such matters. Or epic-ness that just needs flagging because.

  • (disco) in reply to OffByOne
    OffByOne:
    urkerab:
    OffByOne:
    Warning • You cannot use xcopy to copy a startup disk.
    You could work around that warning by doing a `sys <targetdrive>` after `xcopy`ing your files.
    Depending on your version of DOS, before, rather than after. Or just `format /s` your destination disk in the first place.
    Can you elaborate on the "before"? I can't recall any situation where a `sys` after a copy messed things up. We are talking about ~20 years ago of course, so I don't have absolute trust in my memory.
    It varied depending on the version of DOS; the original boot sector needed IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS to use the first two directory entries and the whole of IO.SYS needed be located at the start of the disk. Later versions only required the first few sectors of IO.SYS to be at the start of the disk. Then SYS was improved to relocate sectors and/or directory entries to allow the system files to be transferred. Current boot sectors allow the first few sectors of IO.SYS to be at any contiguous location.
  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Some of us are holding our flags in reserve for such matters.

    Flags regenerate! Use 'em!

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    Some of us have managed to flag genuine spam with ours…

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