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fbueckert

12:00 AM

Wee! Negotiating with the sales person to lower rates!

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert Common sales trick, make a shit "bronze" tier to make your "silver" tier look like a bargain

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Yup. So now I call them up and see what we can do.

badp

@fbueckert oh wow. I pay €5/mo for 1GB (+ slowdown after that).

fbueckert

@badp I'm currently playing them against local providers to lower the price.

Ben Brocka

fbueckert

12:10 AM

Yay, tearing a strip off of the poor rep bumps me up a tier.

Ok, I managed to wrangle 500MB for $15. Still not ideal, but better than their options.

...Although, damn. Data plans are stupid around here.

MBraedley

12:29 AM

Why does Oracle have to suck so much? >:(

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@FAE I use IFTTT to have whatever I've finished reading in Pockets posted to Facebook

At least it generates a nominal amount of Facebook activity to show to the world I'm still alive

FAE

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Hahaha

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

badp

@BenBrocka By not doing this I kinda wasted my golden keys :(

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

This is the recipe if anyone else wants to use it ifttt.com/recipes/77989

badp

12:42 AM

Oooooh it's that time of the day again

FAE

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I've never really used IFTTT.

Retrosaur

Someone help

quick

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Q: Is there a way to take Screenshots from a DS?

The title pretty much explains it all - I want to be able to take screenshots from my DS, but haven't been able to find out whether it is possible and affordable.

ds screenshot

I accidently voted to close this

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

It's pretty cool if you happen to use some of the services and have them glued together in interesting manner. I also had one where everything I read on pockets is saved to Dropbox, but the recipe's automatically turning itself off

Retrosaur

0

Q: How can I take a screenshot?

I googled it but to no avail. I'm a bit puzzled; I tried all function keys and Print Screen but they did not help. edit: I'm looking for the ingame keystroke. I know about all external options.

dead-space-3

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Retrosaur As duplicate? You're SOL

Retrosaur

12:45 AM

I was aiming for this

I had 5 tabs opened up

I was looking for questions

that were the same

In my rush, I closed the wrong question.

Can I undo close votes

fbueckert

@Retrosaur Lesson learned: pay attention.

Ullallulloo

@Retrosaur Nope

fbueckert

Nope. Votes can't be undone.

Ullallulloo

They'll expire in a week or something though.

James

@Retrosaur They just time out on their own eventually

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:46 AM

The new close as duplicate banner is incredibly crappy

fbueckert

@Ullallulloo Three days, I think. If nobody else votes on it.

FAE

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Yeah, I've heard it's pretty neat

Retrosaur

Thanks, my bad.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Please complain about it here:

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Q: Automatic insertion of dupe-banner after just one close vote is vulnerable to abuse

I see that the "close as duplicate" feature continues to undergo changes. Unfortunately, I must report negatively on this newest one. This time, it's that a banner is added to a question as soon as the very first dup-vote is cast: This just seems: Ripe for Abuse: you can vote for absolutely...

discussion exact-duplicates abuse post-notice

MBraedley

Feature request: allow us to vote to leave open from the close dialog

Retrosaur

12:47 AM

Also, I'm stupid

FAE

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I'm kind of bad at making my life easier for myself, so I've never really learned much about services like these. :P

Ullallulloo

263

Q: How about a "Vote not to close" option to counter the "Vote to close"?

My request is simple: Many times, there will be a question where some people feel like it should be closed. At the same time, I'll feel like it's a perfectly legit question, and it should therefore NOT be closed. Right now, I have to wait till it gets enough close votes (which it always does for ...

feature-request status-completed vote-to-close vote-to-reopen

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@FAE Have a look at some of these: ifttt.com/recipes

Ullallulloo

The status-completed's due to the "Do not close" in the review queue, but that doesn't actually remove close votes.

FAE

@YiJiang'sEvilClone ...why are these so huge in my browser.

fbueckert

12:50 AM

@Retrosaur No worries, dude. It happens to everybody.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@FAE Oh, that's just how IFTTT is designed. Huge icons and text everywhere.

MBraedley

@Ullallulloo but that's only in the review queue

Ullallulloo

@MBraedley The question's older than the review queue, but yeah, that's their answer. =/

FAE

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Huh.

fbueckert

Are there any decent direction programs for Android?

The built-in Navigation one can't seem to find my location.

Ullallulloo

12:55 AM

@MBraedley It's mainly to counter them though, which the review queue's probably best for. This one's to rescind them:

478

Q: Can we have the ability to rescind a close vote before it closes?

Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.

feature-request status-declined vote-to-close

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Thanks for, uh, another game I'll never play. Should I start passing it around the Arqade group in a circle or save it for a rainy day when someone's begging on chat for an invite?

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It's yours now. You can even sell it on the Marketplace if you want.

Roll in the phat cash loot.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I thought they didn't allow the game to be sold

badp

Some gift copies are marketable. These ones are.

Ullallulloo

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Not on the Steam Community Market.

Fluttershy

12:57 AM

Star Wars spin-offs: Young Han Solo story, and a Boba Fett story announced. Separately. Maybe.

Ullallulloo

Possible separately though^

Fluttershy

There we go.

fbueckert

Ok, the talk to text is kinda handy.

Ullallulloo

@Fluttershy My thing was intended to my picture, not your text if you're worried.

Fluttershy

@Ullallulloo Ah. Well... <_< Still. Better safe than sorry!

Valve looking to make Portal or Half Life movie with J.J. Abrams.

I'm a little worried about that one...

Ben Brocka

1:01 AM

It's not Uwe Boll so it has a chance

Fluttershy

@BenBrocka That's a good point.

Half Life: Lens Flare

fbueckert

Anyone have an extra Ingress invite they can send my way?

Ben Brocka

I'm not sure ingress invites are a thing, I think you just have to sign up and wait for them direct from the site

players dont' appear to actually get invites

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:20 AM

@Fluttershy Maybe Half Life 3 is going to be a movie

North Korea propaganda taken off YouTube after Activision complaint

SaintWacko

@BenBrocka Apparently you get some after a few levels

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Oh, wow, that's embarrassing lol

Fluttershy

> The Elder Scrolls Online... All you need to know about it is right in the name. It's Elder Scrolls and it's online.

Ladies and gentleman, the creative director of The Elder Scrolls Online.

LessPop_MoreFizz

> Intriguingly, the anti-US footage is sound-tracked by an instrumental version of We Are The World, the 1985 charity single written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@LessPop_MoreFizz North Korea is the world!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Might as well be for the poor folks who live there. :(

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:34 AM

Hmmm, my web host has python but not node.js. Access to cron is allowed. I could make some scripts to run on this server as long as it doesn't take up too much resources

I should learn python first though

SaintWacko

> Did the Earth move for you, baby? Probably, you hit the ground quite hard.

I love the shadow

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:55 AM

murgatroid99

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Python is a fun language

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I don't think I'll need the python test suites, right?

Oh whatever, it's not like I'm short on disk space

murgatroid99

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I don't know what those are

Tacroy

Presumably it's a bunch of unit tests that make sure the language itself works the way it should

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

That's what I thought, which would mean they're kind of useless for me

I'm going to assume the binaries are stable. I'm not compiling them on my own after all

Tacroy

2:07 AM

Oh right I opened chat for a reason

Does anyone have a spare Ingress access code?

Ben Brocka

WTF yggdra union

Screw this level

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

The server is running 2.6.6. I installed 2.7.3 locally. I hope that's not too big a difference.

Gaming Topics From Outside

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Q: Is there a program that bans me from using a program for a certain amount of time?

So school just restarted and i'm crazy addicted to league of Legend. Is there anyway I can block myself from running it for like 1-2 days

12.04 games process

0

Q: Why would I need a host adapter pcie card?

I have a total of 4 expansion slots on my pc. I'm putting a killer network card, graphic card, and a sound card in it. I searched a list of expansion cards to put in the last slot that could benefit me and the only thing I found was a host adapter. A host bus adapter (HBA) is a circuit boar...

server hosts adapter gaming expansion-cards

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@GamingTopicsFromOutside Uninstalling it is a fine option

murgatroid99

2:22 AM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone It actually is

2.7 backported a lot of stuff from 3.0

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Hmmm. Have to look at the changelog then

murgatroid99

@YiJiang'sEvilClone docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Yeah, there's no python2.7 on the server, only python2.6 and python2.5

Fluttershy

@murgatroid99 For the record, I didn't VTC. I was just commenting. =P

murgatroid99

@Fluttershy Yeah, I guessed. I just wanted to use the opportunity to expand my reasoning

Fluttershy

2:25 AM

Though, on that question, I'm not sure why badp deleted that answer...

Wipqozn

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Q: When to downvote?

Suppose someone asks a question. It has two solutions - one is easier than the other, but the other one has some benefits of its own. For example, there was one question about imagemagick where the solution was either to re-build the package or to download and install the newer version from the ...

discussion downvoting

> My question is which one is the better solution and also does the second answer needs to be downvoted?

I don't understand why you would ever think that's an acceptable reason to down vote.

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn It would create a stronger ordering among answers

Wipqozn

Both solutions are good, but should I down vote the one which is less good?

murgatroid99

@Wipqozn It's the first part that bugs me: "I don't know which answer is better: I should ask meta instead of looking at the vote counts or trying them"

That makes absolutely no sense

The main point of voting is to answer that question

LessPop_MoreFizz

@murgatroid99 This. I will often downvote an answer with the goal of trying to make sure that the one I think is 'better' stays above it.

murgatroid99

2:32 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz Not that I think it's a good idea. I don't really think good answers should be downvoted just because there is a better answer

LessPop_MoreFizz

This is also another reason that downvotes shouldn't always need explanations and should remain anonymous. I don't feel that that action requires any justification on my part.

Wipqozn

@LessPop_MoreFizz @murgatroid99: That's a good point actually. Didn't think about that.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@murgatroid99 I think it's a great idea, used sparingly. Downvoting is the only mechanism I have for influencing that sort order, and I use it.

murgatroid99

@LessPop_MoreFizz I can see why you would do it, but it seems wrong to downvote good answers, mostly because of the reputation effects of voting

LessPop_MoreFizz

@murgatroid99 I don't sweat 2 rep from a downvote. I'm of the opinion that other people shouldn't either.

murgatroid99

2:35 AM

@LessPop_MoreFizz It's easier to not sweat rep losses when you have all the privileges

LessPop_MoreFizz

@murgatroid99 That statement applies to my accounts across all SE sites, the highest of which is on Travel.se at 1263.

@murgatroid99 I am just as unconcerned with a downvote at Skeptics where I have 250 rep as I am at Arqade where I have 40k.

murgatroid99

@LessPop_MoreFizz For me, I don't have 10K even on sites I care about, and so losing rep kind of matters to me when I would like to get up to that

Wipqozn

@murgatroid99 TIL you have less than 10k on Arqade.

MBraedley

Wow, that was an amazing meal. Although I probably should have gotten the company to pay for the steak

Ben Brocka

Anyone with Worms on PS3 want to help me get a trophy?

murgatroid99

2:41 AM

@Wipqozn Yeah, and Arqade is by far my highest rep site, too. My network rep graph only shows 4 sites

i.e. only 4 sites over 200 (Area 51 doesn't count)

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Where di- oh, right, Victoria.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn yep, which is why I was eating at 10PM

Lazers

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Q: How can I improve my FPS in Assassins Creed 2?

Assassins Creed 2 is notorious for being resource-intensive, and particularly for my computer, it's bad. Even tweaking down the ingame settings to the lowest, lowering my resolution to the min, I can only run the game at a very unstable 10 fps. Is there any way I can modify any files to give...

pc assassins-creed-2

MBraedley

@Wipqozn so you've heard of the weather warnings for the weekend, right? That's when I'm s'posed to fly home.

Wipqozn

@MBraedley Yup. Not looking forward to it.

I'm hoping it doesn't start until the late afternoon.

MBraedley

2:46 AM

@Wipqozn another wasted snow day

user15026

We are supposed to get some here, but I suspect you will get much more.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn if it starts too late, I won't be getting out of Montreal

Wipqozn

@MBraedley I've actually missed all my classes this week, so I don't want to miss Friday.

@MBraedley I hope you speak French.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn I didn't think it was s'posed to start until sat morning

@AshleyNunn I heard nor'easter, so unless it's converging with something over you, it shouldn't be too bad.

For you at least

LessPop_MoreFizz

Ugh weather.

user15026

2:49 AM

@MBraedley We are supposed to get 7-10ish starting later tomorrow.

LessPop_MoreFizz

I am supposed to go to Boston this weekend and drink all the beer.

I WILL NOT BE IMPEDED IN THIS QUEST.

Wipqozn

@MBraedley It's supposed to start sometime on Friday.

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz Oh?

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn Yes.

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz Sounds like fun :)

MBraedley

2:50 AM

@AshleyNunn yeah, 40ish for Halifax

user15026

@MBraedley Yeah, we are sufficiently landlocked and southern, so we don't get much in the way of interesting

user15026

I even miss all the Great Lake effect stuff

user15026

In a way it is nice, but I never get a snow day - the university never shuts, it seems. When I lived in the country, I got a lot more of them.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@AshleyNunn Well, doing it in two feet of snow... :/

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz But you will be full of beer, so maybe caring less?

LessPop_MoreFizz

2:53 AM

I'm kind of worried about getting to boston in time for the first round of drunking at 6:30 friday.

Had planned to just hop on a bus around noon, but I am starting to think leaving tomorrow and spending an extra night is a good idea.

MBraedley

live.haligonia.ca/halifax-ns/news-headlines/…

user15026

@MBraedley That sounds like impressive weather

MBraedley

@AshleyNunn and I'm flying straight into it.

user15026

@MBraedley Oh dear :(

user15026

Hm, now they are saying 10-15. Either way, its less than you will get, but enough to make me glad I don't have to go anywhere Friday.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

3:07 AM

Is it Canada Hour on the Bridge today? :P

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