@xaade said in The Fun of Zen: @sh_code said in The Fun of Zen: well, then, i mean I agree, this kind of shit shouldn't be followed, but if it doesn't count, why the hell is it included in the printout of your "wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly worth following" book It's not that it doesn't count. It was a covenant formed with the Jews during a period of time when having wars would be necessary. The Law wasn't a set of rules leading to perfect behavior. It was a set of rules that best fit the time and produced the best society for the context and circumstance. No. Galatians 3 is pretty clear that the Law's purpose is to bring us to Christ. The Law was purposely written to be impossible for us to keep in order to emphasize that faith, and not works, is the Way to avoid condemnation. See also Romans (especially chapters 3 and 4). @sh_code said in The Fun of Zen: the only difference is that christianity was forced to get significantly more sane Yeah. Jesus came up with a new set of guidelines for producing a better fit religious culture for modern times. People were really upset that Jesus did that, so much so that they hung him. Yeah, he made the rules easier to follow by stripping away the traditions that had built up around them. And then pointed out that following the Law meant even keeping absolute control over your own thoughts and emotions, so that looking with lust is the same as adultery and hate = murder. OH, WAIT........ Why is a god not capable of changing the ruleset to fit the times? It's not that He can't. It's that God wouldn't. Abrogation is not something that can be found within the pages of the Christian Bible. On the contrary, God is described as never changing His requirements for mankind's behavior. @sh_code said in The Fun of Zen: "but that's old testament, that doesn't count!" It still counts. It shows that people were unable to follow the law, or any set of laws, due to imperfection. It shows how God guided Israel through that period of time. Yep. They couldn't properly obey the Law then; we can't properly obey the Law now. The Law is our truancy officer to keep bringing us back again and again to make us realize that we need a Savior; we cannot do what we want (no matter how good we or others think we are) and expect good to ultimately come from it. @sh_code said in The Fun of Zen: is the same kind of abomination as any other religion, even islam. The whole point of your post is to show that Christian is just as bad as Islam, and yet you only proved that Christianity was able to adapt and Islam was not. Which makes for a really funny paradox. The Christian God is unchanging and steadfast, yet Christianity and whatever culture it encounters have mutually adapted to each other (except for the core part of Christianity, which is concerned with the core of Man). And the Muslim god is described within the Koran as fickle and unknowable, yet Islam demands that all cultures submit to it.

@Zecc when I was a child, if I asked my dad for a pencil he'd always have a tiny stub. I used to think he kept pencils for ages to get everything out of them but years later he told me it was because he always sharpened them with his penknife and kept breaking the graphite when he did, so each sharpening would take loads of length off the pencil

@powerlord said in I've been wronged. A tale of being forced to use Android: Did I really type Slash here instead of Flash and Blakey somehow didn't lose his shit over that, or is some moderator being funny? instead of ???

@kt_ @anotherusername said in What the fuck, NodeBB...: When I enter certain categories in Meta, it randomly scrolls to and highlights a certain topic. If I then try to go to another page, it returns me to the page I was on, rescrolls me to the same topic, and highlights it again. It consistently returns me to the same topic in each category: Meta: When flags get stupid Bugs: broken database The Lounge: (topic title is lounge content, I guess) So far, those are the only 3 categories where I've seen this. I've turned my userscript off to verify that it's not somehow causing this bug, and it's not. I wonder if it'll start taking me to a different topic in Bugs, since I'm posting this topic there...

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@boomzilla I forget if this has been mentioned yet, but latest Waterfox removes the NPAPI restrictions: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/blog/waterfox-52.0-release-download

@svieira said in The sound of whitespace: @asdf said in The sound of whitespace: It's actually pretty hard, if not impossible, to figure out whether the user is using keyboard + mouse or a touch screen. Unless there's a new JavaScript API for that which I don't know about. Nope, but there is a CSS one, (which means there actually is a JS one that will even call you back if the query changes). I'm pretty sure browsers will always detect my Surface as a device with an accurate pointing device, which is not how I use it most of the time, so I doubt the API is reliable. Also, according to caniuse.com, Firefox doesn't support it.

@dangeRuss said in Fucking ebay valet: I hate shipping stuff and the shipping fees are pretty crazy. I don't really have a problem with shipping stuff, though to be fair, I'm not in the habit of shipping large and/or fragile items. I agree the fees can be a bit mad though. @dangeRuss said in Fucking ebay valet: I love FBA because they handle everything for you and shipping is really cheap for them because they get crazy volume discounts. Might have to check them out next time I have crap I want to sell. @dangeRuss said in Fucking ebay valet: I've got some more stuff I've got to sell myself, so I'll try the ebay route, but I'm not too excited about it. Are there any tricks to it? Just make sure your listing has plenty of info, but don't go overboard: conciseness is your friend. @dangeRuss said in Fucking ebay valet: Any help with the shipping stuff? You may get better rates if you shop around couriers. @dangeRuss said in Fucking ebay valet: Also what if I have items that do not move well? Hmm… Craigslist? I dunno tbh. @dangeRuss said in Fucking ebay valet: Would love to just have them listed like in an ebay store, but then you gotta pay a fee for that right? Dunno, as I've never gone the eBay Store route, but probably.

@blek I reported that ages ago while it was still in beta. That bug, and the inability to dock the inspector inside the main window are my main two gripes. I kinda soldier on though, let's see how long it takes before it pisses me off.

@flabdablet said in Cloning drives: The target machine simply can't see the difference between an ISO image presented that way and a real disc in a real external optical drive, Unless it doesn't know how to boot usb-cdrom devices. Yeah, seriously have devices that can do flash drives, but not usb cdrom.

@Tsaukpaetra said in NodeBB's composer is groovy: there it is Whoomp

@Tsaukpaetra said in Can't close the chat window: @kt_ That happened to me too! Yeah, that's because of long links, I believe, or rather long strings with no white space to allow for a newline.

That's because we're not forcing the viewport (i.e. you can pinch-zoom). Because of this, when the keyboard opens it zooms in to "help" you type. I believe this was a change made on our version because people complained they couldn't zoom in or something....

@boomzilla said in Rainbows...Hundreds of thousands of them: So @sam made a PR to reduce a lot of unnecessary bloat Shame that the PR wasn't to Discourse.

@anonymous234 Yeah, but that was actually a good idea because, most obviously, they sold another product out of it. But more importantly because Nintendo understood their audience. In the NES days, it took dedication to beat video games thanks to difficulty making up for short game length due to limited space. If you are dedicated enough to actually want to beat your games, then you're probably dedicated enough to subscribe to a magazine about games that gives you tips on beating them (or share a friend's). Whereas... the Snapchat developers believe their users will be dedicated enough to figure out their interface because... what, peer pressure? I guess that works for some people. And they aren't really gaining anything from making their interface hard to figure out.

@bb36e said in This shit ain't workin', or this forum's unusable on mobile (iOS): Q: why is shit so fucked? A: don't worry, I've made a pull request It's more like Q: what is so fucked about this shit? A: the thing that this pull request fixes

@Arantor You know, that makes perfect sense now. Thanks!

Here's hoping that worked... Feb 3, 2017 closes #5190 · NodeBB/NodeBB@7625494 Node.js based forum software built for the modern web - closes #5190 · NodeBB/NodeBB@7625494

@Tsaukpaetra Well, PRscomments welcome...

@Tsaukpaetra said in Hi: but not wrod Cake that!

@Tsaukpaetra said in Fuck you <del>startup</del> world: Despite this, I'm way behind on my list... I have a Kindle hooked up with my local library - just filled my list again. But it's not nearly as long as I'd like - I keep finding interesting books, then discover they're part of a series. And the stupid library only has books 2+3, or 1+5, or some shit like that. (A lot of my reading is on the train)

@Tsaukpaetra said in Lost upvote/downvote buttons: @ben_lubar said in Lost upvote/downvote buttons: @ben_lubar oh look, we were one hour early for this: Oct 12, 2016 fix upgrade script so it only runs once · NodeBB/NodeBB@2eec1af Node.js based forum software built for the modern web - fix upgrade script so it only runs once · NodeBB/NodeBB@2eec1af I was wondering why it seemed somewhat unstable for a while. So far, the update script has only run once. But if the Docker container gets restarted before the next update, it'll be 503-ing until it finishes that script.

@bb36e said in Chat, again...: you know what they say about people with big profile pics... That they haven't changed their avatar for a while?

@ben_lubar said in Can't get to page 36: last 1MiB of posts requested in the last hour So what happens if a single request is 1.1MiB?

@kt_ said in Composer…: could this one be moved to bugs? Done

@Luhmann said in Sidebar…: @Tsaukpaetra said in Sidebar…: we haven't introduced a rainbow clown vomit color scheme for the default just yet @ben_lubar ... what's the hold up? From what I gather, the forum was deeply disgusted at it since way back when. From then on it became @aliceif's responsibility to soak up any wayward rainbows that appeared into herself on order to protect her fellow neticens from the horror. Filled under: Embellishment levels less than 35%!

Well, yeah, it is all a conspiracy. The problem is, the conspiracy is between the ears of each and every one of us. "The greatest strength of The Conspiracy is that it doesn't exist. The greatest weakness of The Conspiracy is that it does." -- me, after reading Illuminatus! for the first time and repeated several times over the past 25 years. I still insist it makes sense, at least to me.

@kt_ said in Reading comprehension: You're just pulling my leg, aren't you? It should actually be pronounced /raʊ/, as in argue. The prisoners must argue with each other about US politics until one of them loses the will to live and decides that the electric chair would be preferable.

@ben_lubar said in Sending a message to a chat room creates a notification: NodeBB isn't very good at updating that field of the profile if you don't do something that writes to the database. Another thing that "Discourse did it better."

@sloosecannon said in Horizontal scrolling on mobile opens menu: I'd really rather not have to reach all the way to the top of my 6" screen 6" is too much for you? Oh, honey, you're in for a shock :zipper:

@Dreikin said in Hey, UK, be white, be Christian, be Great?: Australia: 3.14 Hey, if you want to go and live in the middle of our deserts, go ahead — as long as you're not going to complain about not having any nearby communities (or nearby anything), roads, water, arable land, health services, etc. The trouble is, most people do complain about that stuff and expect the government to sort it out with magical pixie dust. Here's an example of a recent plan to close a number of remote communities. The backlash was intense enough that the plan was ultimately abandoned, with a promise that we'll find more efficient ways of spreading around the magic pixie dust so that somehow it can work. 115 communities have an average of five residents.

@anotherusername said in Hospitals don't heal? And other questions about certain claims I can't find evidence for: A hot coffee challenge? “Motherfucking Miley Cyrus”?

@blakeyrat said in Looking for the joke: @kt_ I dunno, it's pretty funny in the form you quoted it. Blakeyrat 🐀 on Twitter :D you're actually right, it is kinda funny.

@FrostCat said in ctrl + return for submit has stopped working again: @FrostCat STUPID JELLYPOTATO Yeah, that image took WAY too long to load...

@boomzilla We are bros ... cool :D

@Jaloopa said in Top bar broke…: it shouldn't be applied to the small screen configuration Optimize each breakpoint for that size screen. That's the actual design principle. Smaller screens need bigger click/touch targets than large desktops.

@Tsaukpaetra said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions: @kt_ said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions: I CBA to click the image and take a closer look at it, but I bet a hundred thousand million billion dollars, that it contains threads from before NodeBB, when it was impossible to tag threads. I don't gamble, but what happens if nobody bets against that? I win a hundred thousands million billion? But there are also the irregularities in employees' pension funds. :/ filed under: too many IT Crowd references? Naaaah!

@aliceif said in Lounge is inaccessible: @flabdablet said in Lounge is inaccessible: As a paid-up member of the fraternity, I find the way HTML5 is re-inventing that problem, as well as everything else Flash has been blamed for doing badly, completely hilarious. Did anyone ever make a forum software based on flash? Likely yes, though they would later refuse to admit it.