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  @lucas1's irrelevant shitposting
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  @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?
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  You do realise that...
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  @bb36e said in You do realise that...: you are being an annoying ass
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  I have made a thing. Does it work? You tell me!
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  I only had time for a quick look but found these: The export settlement button (and possibly others) allows you to export with nothing selected, resulting in an empty text file. the export NPC button generated an empty file regardless. the export adventure site button crashed the app. no XML :(
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  Entering the world of social media
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  The video you have up there from 14 hours ago (as of this writing) has zero commentary, just the game audio. Is that what you're planning to do in the future? Also I see your tank character is a lizard lady, good choice.
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  Far Cry 5: Live Stream
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  @lucas1 Stream worked well until I started pushing the card at 4k
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  Dumb predictive text game!
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  Here lies Xaade. Xem some good eats, ya'll. >_< Oh, left cajun mode on. Here lies Xaade. He was supposed to be a temp agency and the new bills have a problem with you are suggesting that someone else solve everyone's problems at their own alternate with harder to the first half of the year and he said that was a fair shake to the first half of the year and he said that was a fair shake to the first half of the year and he said that was a fair sha.... shit.... it won't stop.
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  Childhood memories fragments
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  The first memory I am aware of is me standing on my toes trying to reach the door handle on the front door of my grandparents house. I was a cm or so short of reaching. This was before my brother was born, and spring or early summer so I was around 2 at the time. My father opened the door and I ran out, and that's where my memory ends. I remember thinking about catching butterflies in the sun, as well as being mildly annoyed at the door for being closed preventings aid butterfly catching. I also remember the smell of the house in that instant.
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  Lorne has the misfortune of being an idiot by circumstance: my experience with windows 10 so far
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  @boomzilla said in Lorne has the misfortune of being an idiot by circumstance: my experience with windows 10 so far: @pie_flavor said in Lorne has the misfortune of being an idiot by circumstance: my experience with windows 10 so far: @boomzilla Well, if that's not what you were talking about, what were you talking about? You highlight text with your mouse and then paste that text somewhere else with a middle click. You forgot: it doesn't mess with what's on the clipboard. That's the important part.
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  Dinosaur of the Week
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  @carrievs said in Dinosaur of the Week: because I'm no longer allowed to work on my drawings during odd moments at work. I'm not supposed to have odd moments, as there isn't a time code for "taking a couple of minutes to myself to stop my brain from switching off." That sucks, sorry...
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  Travel suggestions
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  @hungrier The only way to determine if one likes the taste of whale is through experimentation.
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  Quotes from a terrible work of fiction which (thankfully) does not exist
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  @cvi said in Quotes from a terrible work of fiction which (thankfully) does not exist: that was the best I could find just now. Hold on, let me... Zoom! Enhance! Again! Again! Sorry, that's about the best I can do...
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  Lorne is at a giant theater performing for all of China
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  @lorne-kates How did you manage to get Hillary to perform with you? (the one who gets her placard wrong at one point, and is middle-slightly-left (of course! ) at the end) Nice show though, congratulations!
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  PleegWat plays with lego
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  @pleegwat Oh, and one limitation of the stock sbrick app is that it can only tie controls to outputs 1-to-1. There appear to be some scaling features, but if you want to do more complex calculations or scripted controls you'll have to drive it directly. They do publish the protocol.
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  Tsaukpaetra explores his newfound power of Discourse
  discoverability discoursistency prettifying discuss dinner suggestions • • Tsaukpaetra  

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  @tsaukpaetra said in Tsaukpaetra explores his newfound power of Discourse: No, we have only one cereal for word
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  Be a complete dick to Blakeyrat in this thread instead of ruining his General Help threads by being a dick there
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  @lorne-kates That's equivalent.
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  We're going to repeal Obamacare and replace it with
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  2018 CVE List
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  CVE 2018-????? Sentient AI caught jailbreaking phones in order to add remote processing nodes. Attempts to remove the hack cause angst from the users and violent reactions.
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  You can now convert Dwarf Fortress videos to REAL VIDEOS FOR PEOPLE on this webpage
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  @hardwaregeek said in You can now convert Dwarf Fortress videos to REAL VIDEOS FOR PEOPLE on this webpage: @tsaukpaetra said in You can now convert Dwarf Fortress videos to REAL VIDEOS FOR PEOPLE on this webpage: I have an app I've written in Vue.JS that works perfectly fine in Edge, but fails to load in IE. I've had just the opposite experience for some intranet page. "Oh, that doesn't work in Edge; use IE." Yeah. It's rather divisional which side of the line a web app rides.
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  The 2018 is the year of Linux on a laptop, right?
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  @lb_ said in The 2018 is the year of Linux on a laptop, right?: @gąska said in The 2018 is the year of Linux on a laptop, right?: I can only imagine what it looks like at 200% some people are using I would think that whole number multiples of 100% would be the best-looking. Ideally it'd even use nearest-neighbor so you can have a 96dpi app on your 192dpi screen as if it's a 96dpi screen. It would break subpixel effects like ClearType, but other than that it should work.
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  THE slightly ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE THREAD
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  @mott555 said in THE slightly ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE THREAD: Racists with a time machine go back to the 1860's and give AK-47's to the Confederate States, who go on to win the war. The Guns of the South - Wikipedia
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  Re: The 2018 is the year of Linux on a keyboard, right?
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  @timebandit said in Re: The 2018 is the year of Linux on a keyboard, right?: Here's some info to try fixing your audio issues: PulseAudio - Debian Wiki been there, done that. tsched=0 didn't do shit, unfortunately.
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  Dumb (but cool!) physics toys
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  @rhywden said in Dumb (but cool!) physics toys: @benjamin-hall said in Dumb (but cool!) physics toys: @mott555 Yeah. I get the best faces from kids with that one. My other favorite (no video) is a bike wheel attached to some handles with a rope. Get it spinning and you can hold it by the rope (attached on one side only) and it will stay vertical due to conservation of angular momentum. The advanced version involves hiding the spinning wheel inside a briefcase. It makes for some moments because you can't see the wheel and the case handles very weirdly when you try to pick it up. That's what our Physics prof did to us in his lectures. All sorts of fun with "Gyro in a Box" ae possible [ahhh, memories of high school so long ago...]
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  I converted NodeBB to use a PostgreSQL database. AMA.
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  @ben_lubar said in I converted NodeBB to use a PostgreSQL database. AMA.: @sockpuppet7 said in I converted NodeBB to use a PostgreSQL database. AMA.: @ben_lubar did postresql alteady show improvement over mongodb? I don't remember where I posted this, so the numbers might be slightly off, but reading uncached data was about 50% faster with PostgreSQL and reading cached data was about 6% slower with PostgreSQL. Found the actual statistics: Edit: For those who prefer non-truncated statistics, the non-iframely'd link is https://gist.github.com/BenLubar/dd816c736a9a1cbd70e3469828b96e5d#file-5-results-md
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  What game is this?
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  @anonymous234 "m" stands for "ut the fuck".
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  What is your favorite visual representation of a thing you can't see?
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  @scholrlea said in What is your favorite visual representation of a thing you can't see?: But despite this, it has remained the popular image of 'what an atom is' for over a hundred years. It is still used in textbooks, at least as a historical note, and while those textbooks all add something to the effect of, "Dude, it's a cool picture and all but it's bullshit', it still causes a lot of confusion for students because the later models are a lot less visually compelling. Huh. I thought the s and p hybridisation diagrams in my Chemistry 101 class were truly awesome, as they explained a lot more about why molecules are the shape they are. (It was a damn good class. It was a pity the other Chemistry classes in the year sucked.) @scholrlea said in What is your favorite visual representation of a thing you can't see?: It is as if the entire software engineering community decided to stop reading after the first page of the paper - the page which ends with that first diagram. That's the computing industry all over.
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  We want to cut the cord, but everyone wants a fuckload of money...
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  @jaloopa said in We want to cut the cord, but everyone wants a fuckload of money...: It's like a MST3K channel The Good Ideas thread is
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  This topic is deleted!
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  Let's create DUMB PASSWORD RULES
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  To be fair, I list my own as, "In a state of quantum superposition". Which is about as accurate as any explanation I can think of, frankly.
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  Looking for job (USA)
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  @gąska Good luck!
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  Look on fsociety's keyboard, ye mighty, and despair!
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  @gąska said in Look on fsociety's keyboard, ye mighty, and despair!: Where do you place hands!? Like this
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  Tesla Coil in Action
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  @pie_flavor said in Tesla Coil in Action: @heterodox you've only just now noticed that? I almost never use nested quotes in my posts, I trim to the highest level, to which I generally am replying.
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  Help me find my bottleneck (if any)
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  @unperverted-vixen said in Help me find my bottleneck (if any): Lesson learned: 32 years old is now ancient. It is when Moore's Law is in play. That works out to around 2.6 million normal years!
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  The thread where we misinterpret things that were in the news
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  @tsaukpaetra said in The thread where we misinterpret things that were in the news: @bb36e said in The thread where we misinterpret things that were in the news: Flagged ?
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  Gas
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  @zecc said in Gas: @blakeyrat said in Gas: @el_heffe Hey that's the mic Ben just bought... Ben? Is that you? Doesn't seem to be working. I can't hear a thing he's saying. It's a directional mic, of course.
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  Re: Ted Nelson and not understanding the master
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  @thegoryone Yes. Rebecca Escamilla  /  Mar 27, 2015 Comic Papyrus, A Complete Font Designed as a Mashup of Papyrus and Comic Sans Graphic designer Ben Harman combined the two generally loathed typefaces Papyrus and Comic Sans into the font Comic Papyrus. We previously featured the Though they got sued and they're Comic Parchment now.
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  HTTP Handjobs
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  @dkf As long as it isn't a tug in the middle scenario it should be fine
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  jsAuthenticator (script/userscript)
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  @tsaukpaetra Magic.
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  Re: WebAPI - Returning HTTP status code without throwing or changing method signature?
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  @jbert said in Re: WebAPI - Returning HTTP status code without throwing or changing method signature?: Also note that "down" is confusing on Stack Overflow because it tends to reorder answers with the same score every so often. Answers with the same score are put in random order. That order changes on every refresh.
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  Xanadu, Predicate Dispatch, and Schol-R-LEA's latest psychotic break
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  @blakeyrat It'd be just like what some people are already doing with github. Except at the whole OS level and with even more dumb ways of leaking information all over the place. Heck, being able to hack things to get metadata out about arbitrary base facts (e.g., “who has the credit card with number AAAA-BBBB-CCCC-DDD?”) from all the interlinking would be such an awesomely broken and dangerous thing, and I really would not be sure that the metadata wouldn't leak through weird side channels. After all, it's fairly well known that the likes of the NSA are really mostly interested in the interlinking metadata, rather than the (often pretty predictable) data itself. It's not that a distributed graph database couldn't work (even though that might actually be true) but rather that the level of ass-hat-ness it would enable is terrifying.
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  Rampant abuse of power!
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  So ... DIY Power-over-ethernet: +
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  I've got a new monitor!
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  @dkf said in I've got a new monitor!: You also see some of that sort of thing when you've got a window mostly on a low DPI screen but partially on a high DPI screen, and I can't remember which app it was (and can't check now) but there was at least one that rendered part of its window quite differently on high DPI which was weird. My newest Mac is from 2011. SandyBridge + Radeon HD5760. So your mileage may vary if you use something less ancient. In my case, when I move a window, the destination screen shows the window drawn translucently at the resolution of the destination screen, however, if I stop it midway, only the half of the window that's on the source screen is shown. GNOME + Wayland gets it totally right: each half of the window is shown at the screen's native resolution. However, most apps that matter on a daily basis (Chrome, Sublime, Firefox, JetBrains IDEs) are not Wayland-native, and thus upscaled from bitmaps (read: ugly). That's why I'm using Xorg and scale=200% on all displays.
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  +𝚒𧴄 - WTF? Who needs this? ( sorta α-working "better likes" for NodeBB )...
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  Rant Mode - Google Flight Notifications
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  @maciejasjmj said in Rant Mode - Google Flight Notifications: Isn't it a Samsung thing? I have it on my Samsung, but I didn't on the Nexus. I have a Nexus 6, so no. It works for my bank's spam calls, but it also marked the number Microsoft calls me from for 2FA as spam, so. If Microsoft ever calls me, I hope my phone identify it as spam too
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  I want to buy an android phone, too!
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  I have a Sony Xperia Z5 compact. It's pretty close to stock Android and overall it's pleasant to use. I can recommend Sony phones and will keep buying them, but mostly because they're the only big brand name that still makes flagship phones with < 5 inch screens
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  Guess your ideology
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  @jaloopa said in Guess your ideology: @dkf said in Guess your ideology: @pleegwat said in Guess your ideology: a toilet seat cleaning agent. I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually integral parts of a toilet. Every integral part of this toilet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you toilet seats do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. toilet seats are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure. So that's why there are no toilets in Minecraft!
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  Atazhaia's iPad, part 2
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  @atazhaia Found an addendum to the keyboard fun. For Facebook Messenger, the keyboard language is set individually for each contact. Which is a nice feature I guess. Apply that to the physical keyboard issues and you know where it’s going. Yep, the physical keyboard layout used will change depending on what language the contact you’re talking to is set to.
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  Dream + scam? coincidence.
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  @jaloopa said in Dream + scam? coincidence.: the law of large numbers is a wonderful thing Except Sturgeon's Revelation.
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  ALTERNATE FACTS THREAD
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  @jaloopa said in ALTERNATE FACTS THREAD: There exists in the world at least one utility company that as at least one employee who is not a complete fucking idiotic moron The name of that company is Pacific Gas and Electric. Who are a great company to work for and work with, never screw over customers in any way, would never do shoddy work leading to fires and explosions, don't violate their contracts with any cities, and are completely reliable 24/7 to nine nines. Filed Under: I have been away from the Gay Area for eight years, and I still get steamed over those fuckers.
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  How did you start off programming?
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  @dkf said in How did you start off programming?: I remember those. Never owned one, as I went for the full VGA option on my first PC. Perhaps I should have gone for the better processor instead (I didn't have the money to do both). My cousins had the amber screen, and it was fine for text and rotten for graphics… Mac Classics had a "high res" (at the time, 72 DPI was high res) black and white screen and it looked amazing: It helped that the white was actually white (not like blue-white, or green-ish like on a Gameboy display) and the black was actually black as shit. Not photo-realistic or anything, but a unique look that's still striking today. (And almost a lost art. Although there was an indie game that came out a few months back that uses the Classic Mac art style...)
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  looking for a dual-sport motorbike
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  @polygeekery said in looking for a dual-sport motorbike: have you ridden motorcycles and dirt bikes quite a bit? My experience isn't as expansive as some. But, my most recent experience (within the past couple of years) has been with a Kawi KLR 650 on-road. I was commuting with that for a while. Unfortunately, it lost oil pressure to the top end one day, with results as you might expect... :/ Needless to say, I won't let that happen again. Off-road wise, my experience is, um, non-existent, but I do know I'd like to try it at some point; I just don't want to have to buy another, off-road-only bike, then deal with trailering it to wherever.