Posts made by Khudzlin
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RE: D&D thread
@Gurth Probably. Destruction of Computer property covers the damage and Reckless Endangerment of Fellow Citizen(s) the decision to use the grenade. But what can you do when the whole Alpha Complex is destroyed and everyone and their clones dead?
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RE: D&D thread
@Gurth Nice form. Unfortunately, there was no one to fill it out, no one to give it to and no one to evaluate it.
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RE: D&D thread
@Mason_Wheeler I don't know about that, but experimental stuff comes in 2 flavors in Paranoia: stuff that won't work at all and stuff that works only too well (usually in unintended ways, too). The grenade belonged to the 2nd category.
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RE: D&D thread
@remi I played that one, too. I actually used the experimental thermonuclear grenade my dumb-as-a-rock character was given...
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RE: D&D thread
PC death can be a lot of fun, even for the player.
Playing Pendragon, our characters were trying to chat up potential wives. I try my luck with a woman whose suitors have all died after being sent to war and (in keeping with RL) botch it (the GM spins it in a funny way). Later, we get sent to war... And in the first combat, my character takes a fatal blow (cue laughter around the table).
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RE: New bill would ban auto-scrolling and auto-play videos
Anyone who doesn't know about the one-handed fisherman?
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RE: New bill would ban auto-scrolling and auto-play videos
@Gąska It's already excluded : "such as by pushing a button or clicking an icon, but not by simply continuing to scroll".
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RE: Airbus A350 must be rebooted every 149 hours
To be honest, I don't expect planes to be operated continuously for a very long time. Certainly no longer than a few days.
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RE: Witchcraft not sufficient to understand octal numbers
@Cursorkeys said in Witchcraft not sufficient to understand octal numbers:
The real is
ParseInt
, on a modern language, accepting a string as a octal representation without a format/base specifier. I've only used octal on embedded, never on anything else. Without a base specifier then a base-10 radix should be assumed, it's what ≈100% of people will want.The real is using a leading "0" to specify octal instead of, say, "0o", to be similar to "0x" for hexadecimal and "0b" for binary.
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RE: Where is Mexico?
@Gąska said in Where is Mexico?:
@Khudzlin said in Where is Mexico?:
Québec
There's a city of Quebec?
Yep, it's the capital of that province (the biggest city is Montréal, however).
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RE: Where is Mexico?
@jinpa So we can just count the stars (or similar symbols) to sort out seniority.
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RE: Where is Mexico?
@Medinoc I'll remember that if I need to talk about Mexico's federal capital. No such distinction for New York (though we'll likely specify when talking about the state) or Québec (though the rest of the sentence will likely give a clue).
@jinpa Is there a difference in how you address them?
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RE: Where is Mexico?
@Gąska Not the ones I work with. Our code is entirely in English, though the occasional French-inspired mistake crops up.
@jinpa Funny fact about military ranks: in the French army, major is the highest non-commissioned rank (it's the highest of 3 ranks at OR-9), while the OF-3 rank (major in the US army) is called "commandant" (other officer ranks are pretty similar).
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RE: Long division
@admiral_p Also, currency signs belong after numbers, like all other units.
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RE: Long division
@admiral_p You won't catch me handwriting a decimal point instead of a comma, anymore than you'll catch me forgetting to put a bar through a 7.
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RE: Long division
@Gąska You don't have to guess with @Zecc's method, either. You put it in the quotient when you start using digits to the right of the decimal separator in the dividend (whether it's explicitly there or implied at the end).
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RE: Self-driving cars and drunk drivers
@TimeBandit Maybe not the right word, but if your car is less likely to drift in turns, you can take them faster.
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RE: Self-driving cars and drunk drivers
@cheong said in Self-driving cars and drunk drivers:
The speed limit is determined by the conditions of the road, such as "how many layer of asphalt the road is built with" and "what are the turning angles / slopes on the road", not by the obtainable speed of cars.
Obtainable speed is indeed not a factor. But speed of safe operation could be a reasonable factor (though I believe human reflexes are currently the most limiting factor). If your car is more reliable, you can take a turn faster without compromising your safety (or anyone else's).
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RE: Secure electronic voting system
@boomzilla said in Secure electronic voting system:
@remi yeah, they've been hiring and training people at a pretty furious pace. I believe the average pay works out to about $17/hour so you have take what you can get.
So they're paid much more than fast food employees? Outrageous!
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RE: Secure electronic voting system
@error said in Secure electronic voting system:
I tried to vote in the 2016 election, but they wouldn't let me vote in the county I lived in because I was registered in a different county, and they wouldn't let me vote in the county I was registered in because I lived in a different county.
After a long argument with the election official, I was allowed to cast a provisional vote in the county I lived in. I was notified by mail after the election ended that my provisional vote had been rejected.
Dallas county and Collin county are immediately adjacent, and indeed several Dallas suburbs straddle the county line. I had moved about 10 miles north.
Filed under: Every vote matters!, tl;dr: I cast one of the millions of illegal votes for Hillary.
That's surreal. In France, you vote where you are registered, though you are encouraged to change your registration when you move (there was a time I was registered in a city about 350 km from where I lived). Doing so only requires a quick visit to the town hall of the new place (with proof of identity and residency). The change is effective at the start of the following year (you are then removed from your previous place's electoral register and added to your new place's).
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RE: Microsoft debuts Bosque – a yet another pointless programming language
@levicki said in Microsoft debuts Bosque – a yet another pointless programming language:
I think that someone once said "If humans could write software in plain English they would still write shitty code" or something to that effect. If not, then I claim it as something I said myself.
Natural language would be terrible for programming, anyway. Way too much ambiguity.
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...:
@Khudzlin said in Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...:
@Steve_The_Cynic It makes sense to weed out applications at the lower level.
Absolutely. (I thought about just writing "Aucune doute..." here...)
That would be "Aucun doute". You need to practice your French more
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@Steve_The_Cynic It makes sense to weed out applications at the lower level.
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RE: Git hates UTF-16
@Zenith In Unicode, Greek characters (which are definitely part of "Western languages") go up to U+03FF. That takes 10 bits. And even if you only meant Latin characters, those take up more than 8 bits.
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RE: Git hates UTF-16
@Gąska Character is such a confusing term in computer science, because what users think of as characters might not align with the possible values for a "character" type, or even with the code points of a given character encoding.
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@Steve_The_Cynic Right, "the government" usually refers exclusively to the ministers, with specific instances named after the Prime Minister (and a number if the PM in question led several). I'd guess most people wouldn't be able to name anyone beyond the PM (and I'll admit I wasn't even sure about the current one).
Out of curiosity, what's the 3rd country (other than the UK and France)?
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@Gurth He's not the first incumbent to lose an election, either. Giscard did it first in 1981 (against Mitterrand, whom he beat in 1974).
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@PleegWat said in Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...:
How long is the (French) President's term of office? (Five years, with a limit of two terms.)
Did they change that recently then? I'm quite sure it used to be seven years, with the two-term limit.
Chirac changed it in 2000 (first applied in 2002). The two-term limit dates from 2008 (it's a limit on consecutive terms, but only 3 presidents have ever served 2 terms, and none ever ran for a 3rd).
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@Steve_The_Cynic Congratulations! And welcome to France, you bloody rosbif! The questions don't seem too bad, to be honest. Though I couldn't have named 3 members of the government.
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@remi said in Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...:
I don't know about the Germans, but I can tell you that in France, the mood is not "oh no the EU is going too hard on those poor Brits" but much, much more "ha! serves them right, those bloody rosbifs! Let it sink back in the ocean..."
Notwithstanding the widespread hate from populists of both sides towards the EU, mind you.
Indeed, the hate between the French and English is much older than the EU (sorry to the other UK nations, you're caught in this madness). That wouldn't apply to Germany (WWII notwithstanding), but I get the impression that most Germans are pro-EU and quite likely to shake their heads at the UK's antics.
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RE: Temperature Conversion
@mott555 said in Temperature Conversion:
@Khudzlin said in Temperature Conversion:
@sloosecannon said in Temperature Conversion:
Speaking of fun with temperatures, I enjoyed myself recently by asking my coworkers (some of which are not the brightest crayons in the box) how warm something that's twice as warm as 0°F was. The mental contortions were fun to watch
That's evil. The question doesn't make sense.
It makes perfect sense if you think in an absolute scale. If you double 0°F, you get 459.67°F.
Not even then. "Warm" does not refer to thermodynamic temperature.
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RE: Temperature Conversion
@sloosecannon said in Temperature Conversion:
Speaking of fun with temperatures, I enjoyed myself recently by asking my coworkers (some of which are not the brightest crayons in the box) how warm something that's twice as warm as 0°F was. The mental contortions were fun to watch
That's evil. The question doesn't make sense.
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@dkf said in Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...:
@Luhmann said in Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...:
@dkf said in Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...:
There are others too
Like giving Gibraltar back to Spain?
Yes. That was another one. There was a stage when I wondered whether the French would ask for Jersey, Guernsey and Sark.
Keep them.
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...:
Native-born citizens in most countries would absolutely fail any "know about your country" test that exists to torment would-be naturalised citizens.)
I'd be interested in the questions to see how badly I'd fail the test. Also, tell us the date when you have it, so we can say "merde" to you at the relevant time.
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
@Steve_The_Cynic How is that naturalisation going?
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RE: Temperature Conversion
@PleegWat said in Temperature Conversion:
@dkf said in Temperature Conversion:
@HardwareGeek said in Temperature Conversion:
In the DF sense?
In the “just how big is that black hole about to become anyway?” sense, with a side order of “and what sort of exotic radiation am I going to suffer from in the immediate future?”.
Hm, I'm still not convinced this is exotic enough to submit to http://what-if.xkcd.com
It hasn't been updated in a looooong time. I don't know if the lack is interesting submissions or author's time.
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RE: Temperature Conversion
@admiral_p In French, "degrés Kelvin" is an error; the correct form is "kelvins" when the zero is absolute. Of course, kelvins are only used in science, while degrees Celsius are used for everyday applications (weather, cooking, air conditioning, etc.).
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RE: Temperature Conversion
@kazitor Welcome to true consciousness. Regardless of origin, unit names are common nouns that follow all the grammatical rules for common nouns, which means they're not normally capitalized (except in languages like German, that capitalize all nouns). The symbol is indeed capitalized if the unit name comes from a proper name (and uncapitalized if not, except for the litre, for which L is acceptable to avoid confusion). The symbols are mathematical symbols, not true abbreviations, which means they do not end with a period and are completely invariable.
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RE: Temperature Conversion
@BernieTheBernie I recommand a forceful application of a clue-bat. To be repeated until it works.
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RE: Minor Fail: MS Word Grammar Check
@Cabbage That's one nasty river, for sure.
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RE: The most pointless ISO standard I've encountered
@topspin said in The most pointless ISO standard I've encountered:
@Gąska said in The most pointless ISO standard I've encountered:
@Carnage said in The most pointless ISO standard I've encountered:
@JBert said in The most pointless ISO standard I've encountered:
@dcon said in The most pointless ISO standard I've encountered:
@Gąska said in The most pointless ISO standard I've encountered:
tripcode
That's a character encoding that's designed to trip up all programmers?
You might be thinking of EBCDIC:
The gaps between letters made simple code that worked in ASCII fail on EBCDIC. For example,
for (c='A';c<='Z';++c)
would setc
to the 26 letters in the ASCII alphabet, but 41 characters including a number of unassigned ones in EBCDIC. Fixing this required complicating the code with function calls which was greatly resisted by programmers.Or, as I discovered at a gig, a character set that was almost exactly, but not quite, like ISO 8859-1.
ISO 8859-2?
8859-15
My guess would be Windows-1252.
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RE: Why people of Netherland are called Dutch?
@robo2 In casual speech, we use "Hollande", though "Pays-Bas" is the official name of the country (and its inhabitants are officially called "Néerlandais", even though every one uses "Hollandais" casually).
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RE: Trick or treating can earn you some serious jail time...
@djls45 The abbreviation "Xmas" dates from the 16th century, and the X is a Greek chi standing for Christ (and it's supposed to be pronounced exactly as the full word). So the abbreviation itself is not an attempt at taking the Christ out of Christmas. Feel free to argue that the "Exmass" pronunciation is, however.
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RE: Oh look, another internet company lets its ego get in the way of everything
@admiral_p said in Oh look, another internet company lets its ego get in the way of everything:
And/or a walking STD.
Must come from the strange aversion to condoms.
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RE: Oh look, another internet company lets its ego get in the way of everything
@e4tmyl33t I'm not sure you have to be a paying user for running a game. You probably don't have to be one for joining. My next session is on Sunday, I'll ask the others about that.
About remote playing: I once played a session through skype. It was about 12 years ago and I was the only one separated from the group (by 6 time zones). Video definition was probably not up to showing my dice roll, but we didn't have a better solution. I don't know all you can program into discord bots, but I'd be surprised if you can't program dice-rolling.
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RE: Oh look, another internet company lets its ego get in the way of everything
@e4tmyl33t Wow. I'll certainly talk about this at my next roleplaying sessions (and there's a chance I'll see one of my fellow players tonight).
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RE: Good article on what the EU *could* be doing instead of what they *are* doing to improve the internet
@Tsaukpaetra Yuck, a date format without leading zeroes.