If you were to leave a ship inside a POS bubble, how long would that ship stay in space? Is it like a container that pops after 2 hours, or is it closer to an anchored secure container that stays for 30 days?
@GraceNote The class was cleverly disguised as "Victorian Era Technology" In reality, it was insanely boring and the professor liked the topic waaaaaaayyyyy too much.
Weird, I needed to set it to manually break on the specific error I was getting, THEN it gave me the additional information (SQL error). Every other time I've had a runtime SQL error it's given me a proper break like that automatically
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I didn't realize until I started dating Jochem just how much the Dutch played a historical role in New York state, even upstate. They're everywhere!
Now I'm even more puzzled. The statement was clearly querying the wrong database, which was explicitly provided. But I didn't change that database. This shouldn't have worked before
I can talk about how annoying dumb women can be, talking about shoes like they're the single most important thing, while the world burns down around them
That's *why* I was being quiet, but I had to explain why it was awesome. Also, an all-guy's school is always accompanied by an all-girl's school where I'm from, so, it was all right in that sense too.
@kalina Your statement was still rather sexist. If you don't hate on women because "society does it enough", one would think the same consideration should apply to other genders, regardless of whether or not they're generally victimized, as general decency.
I went to a single sex Secondary school. My friends would gather round every Tuesday and partake in mature, reasoned discus- oh who am I kidding. They were assholes.
Best math course I've ever taken. And not only because I knew the TA from our local games and SciFi club. Who was knowledgeable enough to get cheesed when we got official Dean's pardons to go to a convention.
Most of them anyway, for the first two years. The only thing they learnt from To Kill a Monkingbird, our Year 2 lit text was how offensive the word "nigger" is, and proceeded to call everyone that behind the teacher's back
We started the class knowing that real numbers exist and that addition exists. We worked our way up from there, proving that things like Subtraction and Multiplication exist, before we could even use them for anything. It was very interesting.
The less great thing is that the course was in parallel with our Physics course, which required things such as n-dimensional integrals over surfaces, so our Physics professor had to give us at least an awkward general idea of what the fuck he was writing
@OrigamiRobot Half the time, when I was learning math, I saw no practical applications. Then years later, I'd go, "Hey, I have to figure this out. I can use this formula I learned and never used!"
@fbueckert I cannot be motivated to learn something I see no practical use in. I changed majors because of Diff Eq, but when I got to the part where we were applying it with Laplace and Fourier, I was fine.
I'm really struggling with my budget. I think the solution may be on the revenue side, as my expenditures are quite minimal.
The taxes collected obviously depend on the tax rate, but what else? Do they depend on population or jobs? Do they depend on land value?
What is the formula?
I'd be s...
@FAE As someone who worked in the kids area of an amusement park, leashes were the #1 sign of totally pro parenting. not judging anyone in the slightest...
@tiddy The ones when I was younger were just accidents, the ones that happened when I was older were under circumstances I don't wish to discuss in a public chatroom.
@fbueckert I liked the act of climbing trees, but I am afraid of heights, so I was never super adventurous when climbing. I didn't help that there are mainly pine trees where I grew up. I loved running through the woods and darting through the underbrush.
I've never had a severe broken bone though. Had a chip fracture in my ankle once, but that only required an air cast. Other than that, just jammed/broken knuckles.
I knew I was afraid of heights, so I climbed trees. I didn't like deep water, so I would swim out far alone. I didn't like spiders, so I'd stand outside and watch them at night. I was nervous about public speaking, so I joined theatre.
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, that is very nice. I find really really deep water a little disconcerting though, irrationally. That "fear of what you can't see" thing.
@OrigamiRobot Weirdly enough, if I have to climb up a hill or something, I'll get worn out/tired if it's all just dirt paths, but if I get to climb rocks, I don't, because I enjoy it so much.
I just sit back and let the other moderators handle everything, then I take credit for the good stuff and blame them for the bad stuff.
Sometimes I randomly select a post and I delete it... I change comments to reflect my personal views, and if somebody ever comes close to finding all that out, ...
@badp tar could only make one assumption, and that's for -f. However, tar is the tape archive program, so it uses -f for good reason: It assumes you're backing up to tape if it's missing
@Powerlord Actually, v is verbose, not verify There is a verify, but that's W and only while writing. Also, you don't need the minus sign in this case, tar fvxz something.tar.gz would do.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone "other player's lives" apostrophe should be at the end because it's plural players here that you mean, so it should be "other players' lives"
@badp No, but at least it's a way to run around all shell expansion problems, as well as "funny" people trying to mess it up by putting non-printable characters in file and directory names.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone " I am an avid gamer, and enjoy" <-technically don't need a comma there because you're connecting a clause with a phrase.
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, but the rest of the paragraph is past tense.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone " I also enjoy geeking out over various TV shows Doctor Who, Sherlock, Firefly and My Little Pony." <-I think you missed a word there, "like Doctor Who, etc." or you need to put in a colon.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone I don't really have the contextual experience to help with the tone stuff, but I'm decent at copyediting if you need anyone to make passes in the future.
@badp I still don't like how NTFS doesn't allow / in file names. I mean, isn't that why Microsoft went with using the backslash for directories in the first place?
A few months back I asked this question about a HoTS event for Starcraft 2 and was told to check back around nowish. It's nowish. Let's bake this turkey!
..ok, @bapd deleted the question cause he's mean, but I shall endure! In the past year the site has seen several events focused on major title...
@fbueckert We're not planning on doing a grant for SC2, but we are thinking of running a promotion of some kind. No details yet, but there will be a Thing around the launch.
@YiJiang'sEvilClone Compatibility reasons. The main reason 90% of the bugs in Microsoft products exist, really (at least those not related to them breaking compatibility for no good reason). Also, it's not even backslash; it's "whatever is encoded as 005C", which depends on the character set used. On a Japanese Windows system, it's "¥".
That's already in the plans.
There are no details to be shared yet, but we will do some sort of a promotional Thing for Heart of the Swarm.
Stay tuned!
The one thing I noticed about Ready Player One is that despite the extremely grim setting, the entire story still reads like a comedy, in the Shakespearean sense of the word
"This is how text would appear if I didn't stop to fix every second typo | with handwriting that is | it almost is a different language where all the vowels are scorpions"
"The Gatherer website has experienced an unexpected server error. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused and are working to correct the problem."
@BenBrocka yeah, essentially this. it's nice to have some OP equipment, especially since I'm co-oping with the wife. sometimes I find something that makes her happy too.
If you were to leave a ship inside a POS bubble, how long would that ship stay in space? Is it like a container that pops after 2 hours, or is it closer to an anchored secure container that stays for 30 days?
I'm really struggling with my budget. I think the solution may be on the revenue side, as my expenditures are quite minimal.
The taxes collected obviously depend on the tax rate, but what else? Do they depend on population or jobs? Do they depend on land value?
What is the formula?
I'd be s...
That's already in the plans.
There are no details to be shared yet, but we will do some sort of a promotional Thing for Heart of the Swarm.
Stay tuned!
