The Bridge

user15026

12:03 AM

@GodEmperorDune nah, man. No lies. Trapped in a car in stop and go highway traffic from Toronto to Kitchener with my family who doesn't like big cities of any form.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Replacing soldiers with unique skills

My Support Unit's staff can be divided into two categories: ultra-competent endgame soldiers of rank A++ and up, and a handful of early-game interpreters with ranks as low as C. Those interpreters are dragging down my Support Unit's level, but aside from the Afrikaans guy, I've never been offered...

mgs-5-the-phantom-pain

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn at least the zoo was fun

Fluttershy

@MichaelFrank polygon.com/2015/9/29/9420105/…

For the record, the headline of that article used to be "Do Not Buy Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5"

Michael Frank

@Fluttershy Can't read it at work, but thanks for the heads up. :)

Private Pansy

Ugh. Why does this laptop not go to sleep when the lid is closed?

Michael Frank

12:16 AM

@PrivatePansy Check the Power Settings, might be set to 'do nothing' when the lid is closed.

Private Pansy

The setting is correct. I know that because 90% of the time when I close the lid, the computer does go to sleep

The annoy part is that other 10% when it doesn't

Michael Frank

Oh... perhaps the closed sensor is dodgy :(

Private Pansy

Hmmm, where is the sensor? I know that my father's old ThinkPad has a physical button which the lid depresses when it comes down. This new laptop does not

Michael Frank

@PrivatePansy I don't know. What model is your laptop?

Private Pansy

Asus Zenbook 13" (UX303LN)

Yuuki

12:22 AM

@spugsley Oh dear.

Are you okay?

Unionhawk

Oh yeah, I was going to watch this stuff on 1.5x

To catch up

CATCHING UP ON PLAYLIST STRATEGIES

Michael Frank

@PrivatePansy It looks like that laptop has an ambient light sensor that is supposed to control the brightness of the screen. It might use that to determine if the lid is closed. I'm not sure, but it might not be sleeping because of some weird interaction between that and the Intel Power Saving features.

GodEmperorDune

Inb4 @spugsley with epic flood pics

Michael Frank

@Yuuki Bring your submarine to school day?

Frank

Wee! Looked at two houses today!

Private Pansy

12:28 AM

@MichaelFrank Yeah, that might be it. Let me see if that sensor needs cleaning

GodEmperorDune

It's that hurricane @Wipqozn up to no good again

user15026

@GodEmperorDune the zoo was amazing.

Unionhawk

If we reach hurricane @Wipqozn then we should be terrified

I should make more pizza rolls

mmm... yes

This sounds like an excellent plan

Thanks @Wipqozn

Wipqozn

12:51 AM

yOU'RE WELCOME

ALSO CAPS LOC

Know I'm going abck to bed

only got up for few minutes

gosh darn sicknesses

I blame @Unionhawk

Fluttershy

@Frank Didn't you like... just buy a house last year? O_o

user15026

@Unionhawk Pizza rolls are an excellent answer to things.

Trent Hawkins

@Fluttershy He did? then why are we still living in the small thing we currently do?

Fluttershy

@TrentHawkins I dunno. o_o I could've sworn he did.

Jun 4 '14 at 13:32, by Frank

I'm looking at getting another house this year, and I can't seem to decide if I want to rent out my current one, or sell it and get a new one.

Ah, maybe that was the confusion.

Trent Hawkins

1:06 AM

@Fluttershy He may have talked about doing this last year, but he's actively pursuing it now (I think another bridge member may have become a home-owner last year)

@Frank any interesting ones yet?

Lazers 2.0

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Q: What do starEventChance and starAutoSuccessChance mean for the Observatory?

I'm confused as to what starEventChance and starAutoSuccessChance mean for the Observatory. If they're just percentages, why wouldn't there be a percentage sign? And a 20% increase in chance grows quickly, even if there's diminishing returns (ref.). So this doesn't seem to be the right interpr...

kittens-game

Yuuki

@twobugs I might pick up TPP on my next paycheck anyways. I did a search and there don't seem to be the start-up problems for Ground Zeroes.

I guess I just have to miss out on the transfer bonuses.

SaintWacko

1:44 AM

@TrentHawkins I did

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How do I find a deceased colonist in RimWorld?

My colonists keep claiming I have an unburied colonist lying around somewhere. I'm on a very large map and can't easily find the corpse. Any clever ideas to find it?

rimworld

Yuuki

October Movie Night meta, please vote on scheduling and suggest movies. May the best movie win!

5

Sepia Lazers

2:08 AM

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Q: Bridge Movie Night - Halloween Special

While I had originally planned to move Movie Night to a bimonthly schedule (and thus we'd skip October since we had a Movie Night last month), I couldn't ignore the lure of a Halloween-themed Movie Night. And moving to a bimonthly schedule afterwards would mean the next Movie Night would be in De...

discussion community-event

Unionhawk

So, Fear the Walking Dead

It's a show

sage nod

MBraedley

@Unionhawk Yeah, can't say it's captivated me as much as the first season of Walking Dead did

Unionhawk

shrug

I saw like, the season premier and the season finale

MBraedley

Also, the impending doom that @Wipqozn and I were facing has been called off. We'll get some rain from Hurricane Joaquin, but that's about it.

But for now, I need to go to bed.

Yuuki

lolwtf

Unionhawk

2:14 AM

@Yuuki yep

Full disclosure, I found that video via other people

Yes

user58869

in path of exile, i turned a silk vest into a rare and then later found that i couldn't change it into a magic item because it isn't normal. is there a way to turn a rare item into a magic item? it was normal before i made it rare, so i think that if i had known before hand i would have been able to make it magic and then make it rare, i only started playing the game yesterday so i had no idea of how things work

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How do you throw food?

In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater/Subsistence-HD Collection, how do I throw food to (please put the spoiler thing here) get out of the jail cell that way (spoiler ends here) or to lure guards?

metal-gear-solid-3

Ktash

2:29 AM

@Yuuki I approve of this

user15026

I LOVE THIIIIIIS

Yuuki

@AshleyNunn "Affect" and "effect" are a bit more ambiguous though.

user15026

@Yuuki Not nearly as much as people want to believe, but sure

user20683

@Yuuki No, they aren't

Yuuki

@WorldEngineer You were saying...?

user15026

2:33 AM

sigh

user15026

deletes the thing, has no spoons, does not care

user20683

@Yuuki there's 0 overlap

user20683

one is false, the other is actual

user20683

end of line

user20683

@Yuuki there's 0 overlap

Yuuki

2:33 AM

Whoops, mistake on "affect".

user15026

Words do things.

Yuuki

user15026

I liked those words doing things.

user15026

I did not need an argument about how words do things.

Yuuki

Next time I just need to assume I'm wrong about things because apparently I start arguments when I think something is different and try to find evidence.

user15026

2:35 AM

No, that's not it at all

user15026

Self-flagellation not needed.

Unionhawk

xkcd.com/326

user15026

I just don't have the spoons to debate use of language.

Yuuki

Didn't even want to debate use of language. I just remembered "affect" and "effect" being used in a different way once and decided to bring it up.

Unionhawk

If Mr. Munroe is to be believed there are obscure usages that are weird because English is a good language

user15026

2:38 AM

The thing is, though, in the most typical use cases that the average person is going to encounter, the thing I posted makes perfect sense..

user15026

Because for the average communication, those usages delineate the differences perfectly

user20683

English is a good language in the way that C++ is a good language

user20683

it's powerful, it's expressive, it's irritating as all hell

Private Pansy

You know what's worse than English? Configuring Apache servers

two bugs

What's the policy on really minor grammar edits? I mean... they're not wrong... but they're not really helpful either

user20683

2:39 AM

@PrivatePansy amen

user15026

@twobugs Example?

Private Pansy

Which is what I'm doing right now

user20683

@twobugs reject as insufficient typically

Unionhawk

@twobugs Good, accept (usually)

user20683

but that's for my site

two bugs

2:40 AM

@AshleyNunn A bunch in the recent review queue

Private Pansy

And if I'm so inclined I would be throwing the server out of the window

user15026

@twobugs Lemme peek

Unionhawk

Or accept and improve, as applies

two bugs

I just skipped 'em for now

Was shocked to see 9 edits pending review

Yuuki

Blargh, I want to talk about "professional gaming".

But the LOL chatroom is a desert.

GnomeSlice

2:41 AM

Pro much

two bugs

@Yuuki Let's talk about Dark Syde Phil!

user15026

@twobugs Eeergh, okay when you only change ONE WORD? Blergh. It doesn't even really make it any "clearer" or whatever

two bugs

Remember: no matter how bad your life gets, you are not DSP.

If you are DSP: I'm sorry. I'm very sorry.

Unionhawk

Remember: no matter how bad your life gets, you are not @Wipqozn

5

Unless you're @Wipqozn

two bugs

STARBAIT DENIED

Unionhawk

2:42 AM

STARBAIT SELF-GRANTED

abuse intensifies

two bugs

I'll get those italics one day

I won't do anything with them, but you know.

I just want the italics

Unionhawk

Anyone can use italics. *Italic text*

Lazers 2.0

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Q: how do you shapeshift into other mobs in minecraft?

on minecraft there is a mob that is bugging me and i want its loot but i cant because i have no fire resistance and it is to powerful.

minecraft

Private Pansy

I'm getting 403 on a directory I'm adding to my local Apache server through a .conf file, and I have no idea why

Unionhawk

Uh... Do others have read access? Or whatever?

no idea

GodEmperorDune

2:49 AM

@Yuuki sorry for the formatting on my movie night response, I'll clean it up when I'm not no mobile

Private Pansy

It's the server itself that is denying me from accessing the site

Tim Stone

Did you ask nicely?

Unionhawk

Nice

Private Pansy

The file is accessible, I think, otherwise it would be a 5xx error

Unionhawk

@PrivatePansy I thought no read access is a 403?

In fact I'm fairly confident that is the case

Well, yes, file exists, you know it exists, server says you aren't allowed

I think we're probably on the same page

Private Pansy

2:50 AM

403 is forbidden, but I thought that was forbidden to the visitor, not to the server

user15026

@GodEmperorDune I vote that because I've not seen it. Or the one @Wipqozn mentioned earlier this week

Private Pansy

Which means in my case the server is not properly configured

Tim Stone

I am very confused.

GodEmperorDune

403 might be if it can't read the folder contents and there is no default page

Or folder content listing is prohibited

Private Pansy

The folder contains a single index.php file

Tim Stone

2:52 AM

Are you trying to use mod_rewrite without Options +FollowSymlinks?

Unionhawk

Are you doing literally everything wrong?

Rhetorical question, clearly the answer is yes

GodEmperorDune

Can you hit the index.php if you use the full url to it?

Tim Stone

Hm, good point, did you perform the blood sacrifice, get rid of Apache, and switch to nginx?

Private Pansy

Alias /ome2 /home/zhang/Desktop/OhMyEvent2/ome/public

<Directory /home/zhang/Desktop/OhMyEvent2/ome/public>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>

@TimStone Would love that, but the actual production server uses Apache

GodEmperorDune

Also inb4 your problem is that you're using php

Tim Stone

2:53 AM

Ah, sad day.

Unionhawk

@PrivatePansy But did you perform the blood sacrifice?

That's the more important component here

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk Give me your address, I'll use your body for that

Tim Stone

@PrivatePansy Allow from all?

GodEmperorDune

@uni is at 404 Wrong Way

GnomeSlice

This is going very well.

user15026

2:55 AM

Daaang thats a good setup

user15026

I've never made a castle that big

GodEmperorDune

@GnomeSlice why is that giant bear taking a wicked shit?

Unionhawk

GodEmperorDune

Even the apple

Unionhawk

Especially the apple

user15026

2:56 AM

@GodEmperorDune He is totally making "having a poop" face

Unionhawk

I'm pretty sure this homework is asking me to implement a thing that is built-in to the program I'm using. I'm confused.

Tim Stone

[status-completed]

Private Pansy

One of the Apache2 config file is called magic

This doesn't inspire confidence

Unionhawk

Change that file to more-magic and everything should work

Trust me, I'm a doctor

Or, something

GnomeSlice

Aaaand I jinxed it as soon as I said something

Unionhawk

2:58 AM

RIP

Tim Stone

This is where the blood sacrifice comes in.

Private Pansy

How do you even diagnose this...

Oh right, Apache log files

Unionhawk

@TimStone I mean it doesn't help that I don't know how to do the other bit of it (write a testbench to test the thing)

And it doesn't help that I'm not certain that I'm doing it right

Tim Stone

Do you have the capacity to deploy straight to "production"?

Testing complete!

Private Pansy

client denied by server configuration: /home/zhang/Desktop/OhMyEvent2/ome/public/public

There we

Unionhawk

3:01 AM

@TimStone Test plan: don't test due to lack of staff and lack of funding.

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn its the next one after mansion

Tim Stone

@PrivatePansy Did you add the Allow from all?

Private Pansy

<Directory /home/zhang/Desktop/OhMyEvent2/ome/public>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    Allow from all
</Directory>

user15026

@GnomeSlice I've not gotten that far, I love the game but I am terrible at it

GnomeSlice

I've managed to make the one after it, the floating tower, once or twice in normal mode, but I almost never get above mansion

Tim Stone

3:02 AM

@PrivatePansy And it refuses still? shakes fist

GnomeSlice

Never made the last one, floating castle

Ktash

@GodEmperorDune Cleaned it up and added some info. Others should feel free to edit as desired

GnomeSlice

Boom mode makes it easy to get castles though, and even floating tower. You get two minutes but you get all trees and houses to place, and there's crates you can tap for free crystals

Private Pansy

The default Apache config includes Deny from all in the <Directory> block the DocumentRoot - this must be changed to allow access!

If you change the DocumentRoot, you will need to change the <Directory> block referring the old root, to the refer to the new root

You need a <Directory> block for every folder outside of your DocumentRoot, i.e. your cgi-bin folder.

You need a <Directory> or <Location> block for every Alias.

You need a <Location> or <Proxy> block for your proxy

GnomeSlice

Pc version doesn't have that mode

I tried playing the tournament the other day and won every game I played

One guy got close but I still beat him

It's just like... You play boom and see who gets a higher score

Kinda lame

Unionhawk

3:06 AM

Ughhhh floating point binary numbers, why don't you translate to decimal well so that I can test this more easily

shakes fist

Curse you @TimStone

Tim Stone

raises brow

Unionhawk

Curse you IEEE 754

Screw it, it works

Private Pansy

I got it working. Finally!

For future reference, Require all granted is the magical incantation needed

Unionhawk

Yay! My turning in my code caused your code to work

Private Pansy

I was about to sacrifice @Unionhawk on the blood alter, which I heard is equally effective, but messier

Unionhawk

3:16 AM

At least I got extra credit in CPS for sure

(the extra credit involved making the code actually and properly work, since the only solution we came up with in class involved sleep(x*n) where x is a number and n is the size of the thing)

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: how, using command blocks, would I be able to keep a mob a certain distance away in a specific direction for the minigame i am trying to make?

I am trying to teleport a villager exactly 6 blocks west of the player repeatidly. I have tried everything I can think of. please help

minecraft minecraft-commands

Unionhawk

Ugh

Lazers 2.0

3:47 AM

-2

Q: How To Make FIFA 16 Coins

The release of FIFA 16 is crazily popular and FIFA 16 Coins Ultimate Team game mode that turns us into greedy persons who continuously ask the money. And due to it's all for a large cause, players are here to share with players some tips and tricks on how to make a lot of money in FIFA 16 Ultimat...

fifa-15

Aequitas

4:18 AM

0

Q: Lense flare only shaders

So, lately, I've found that I love the look of lense flares in shaders, but, all the shaders with them also have shadows and stuff like that. I was wondering how to get only lense flares in Docteurdreads shaders, henceforth reducing lag drastically. I basically want to know what I could delete ou...

minecraft

isn't this spam?

that link is making them money

user15026

No, it's not spam, really

user15026

You can easily edit out the adfly stuff (I just did, it now goes directly to the mediafire thing)

user15026

They seem to actually want help (and the bounty proves it)

Aequitas

@AshleyNunn ye i saw this meta.stackexchange.com/a/105209/294993 saying to replace it with the proper link,

also i beat you to it :p

user15026

From the spam flag: "Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation."

user15026

4:22 AM

This is not that at all

user15026

Also you may have beat me to it, but my name is showing as last edit :P

user15026

But yeah, not spam.

user15026

Shady practice, but easily fixed.

user15026

That FIFA thing Lazers linked? That's spam.

Yuuki

I think we should ban Lazers. He keeps posting spam.

3

Aequitas

4:25 AM

what if he's jsut making up questions in order to use adfly

okay looks like he's posted links before that aren't adfly

user15026

@Aequitas I think that's jumping the gun.

user15026

Like maybe, if that were the case, it would need to be handled differently

user15026

but it's not the case here from my understanding

Aequitas

@AshleyNunn yeh that's why I checked

Lazers 2.0

6:09 AM

0

Q: Which Colossus is better? Marvel C.O.C

Who is better stat wise? Unstoppable Colossus or Regular Colossus? I've been playing with them both for awhile, but they seem pretty balanced. I only have one open slot on my team and i want the Colossus that is better at dodging and attacking.

ios marvel-contest-champions

Lazers 2.0

6:57 AM

0

Q: Little Big Planet PSP vs PS3

What are the differences between the versions other than graphics detail? I mean gameplay wise. Will the PSP LBP running on a emulator on PC play differenct from the PS3 version?

ps3 psp little-big-planet

badp

7:31 AM

SUDDEN GAMERSCORE UPDATE

Private Pansy

Given that you've been doing it for the past few days, it's not really sudden now, is it?

Arperum

Morning.

badp

@PrivatePansy usually I lead it with mrmrrnrornorrnrirnrhorigngrig

speaking of which: mrmnnrorrnomrmrrnormrrnirnrmging

Private Pansy

@badp Morning. Have some ponies

badp

IT WASN'T VERY EFFECTIVE

Private Pansy

7:37 AM

DeviantArt blocked where you are?

Hmmm. I know DA downloads are keyed to a time limited nounce, but the preview images should be hotlinkable

badp

if you want me to see a picture while I'm at work upload it to stack.imgur

(but this is my last week here)

Private Pansy

That last message has expired, and I'm not going to upload the same image again in chat

Are spammers prepending 'Auto respond' to their emails because they found those emails are less likely to be flagged (they're not - Gmail flagged them anyway), or is there some virus out there hijacking people's autoresponders to send out spam?

Kevin van der Velden

@PrivatePansy image worked fine here

Also, morning

Also, yeah trains -__-

Private Pansy

Whichever evil overlord that controls @badp's Internet doesn't like ponies, then

Lazers 2.0

8:05 AM

0

Q: turn a rare item into a magic rare item

i turned a silk vest into a rare and then later found that i couldn't change it into a magic item because it isn't normal. is there a way to turn a rare item into a magic item? it was normal before i made it rare, so i think that if i had known before hand i would have been able to make it magic ...

path-of-exile

badp

8:29 AM

@PrivatePansy SUCCESS

Private Pansy

@badp Doesn't preclude me from posting more

GodEmperorDune

@PrivatePansy too weirdly sexual

Private Pansy

@GodEmperorDune Too weirdly sexual my ass. No wait...

badp

8:46 AM

If there are ways in which you can have just regularly sexy ponies I don't wanna know it

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How can I see my dweller's maximum HP?

I like to send out only dwellers with the highest HP into the Wasteland for the longest runs. How can I see a dweller's actual HP?

fallout-shelter

0

Q: What use has the egg hat?

In magicite there is a special hat that you can begin with, the egg hat. The hat has a 10% any time you get hit to spawn a broodmother, but the spawned broodnother is hostile against you, what use has this hat?

Morning

@fredley pls

@badp Can't you just stick dongs on everything?

That makes it sexual, right?

I'm not sure if I understand how this sex thing works

badp

SHUT UP THIS IS THE ENDGAME

NO TIME FOR PONIES

WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

Apparently I bought the upgrade just before hitting Infinity there

VICTORY

I AM THE ULTIMATE CHAMPION OF ALL TIME FOREVER

@fredley pls

...and upon reloading the page

This is understandable. The game cannot properly represent my gamerscore. It's so high not even Infinity or NaN will do.

Kevin van der Velden

9:21 AM

Grats, you finished before having to close it =p

5pike

And annoyed @fredley thoroughly.

badp

As a game this was almost as good as Undertale

fredley

9:35 AM

Oh thank god, it's finally over

badp

@fredley Exponent will continue until fredley pls improve

Kevin van der Velden

Heh:

I forgot to turn off notifications. Twitter sent me an email for each: Follow Favorite Retweet DM 47 gigs of notifications. #lessonlearned

Tweeted by Snowden on October 1, 2015 at 6:33 PM

2

fredley

MAXIMUM OVERPLS

7

Kevin van der Velden

But at least he has more imaginary internet points (followers) than all of our imaginary internet points (rep) combined

badp

@fredley pls, is that a ]?

Arperum

9:46 AM

@KevinvanderVelden What is the total rep of ArQAde?

badp

I'd guesstimate about 500k?

I forget

fredley

@Arperum Should be reasonably easy to get an estimate through the api by counting votes

badp

nevermind. It's 8,330,157

data.stackexchange.com/gaming/query/edit/371173

fredley

@badp or that

badp

Well it was that at some point yesterday.

Kevin van der Velden

9:48 AM

@Arperum well I was talking about the people in chat

He has less imaginary internet points than all of arqade

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Excuses. You did not specify that.

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum indeed, so why did you assume it?

After all, there are people in here with non-arqade imaginary internet points

badp

Of course changing the query to 'select sum(reputation) from users where reputation != 1 and reputation != 101;' drops the total to 6,701,238

Kevin van der Velden

That's a lot of unused accounts

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden I expected to be able to point out how ~~@Unionhawk~~ wrong you were.

Kevin van der Velden

9:51 AM

@Arperum well unfortunately you failed at that

Arperum

dammit strikethrough markup, what was that again?

badp

@KevinvanderVelden 43,719

@Arperum ---

Arperum

@badp Gah, I was so close.

Kevin van der Velden

Anyway, I'll be back, lunch-getting-time

Arperum

I'm curious, would pinging someone who is not in the room and then removing the mention still cause an inbox notification?

For science! Let me know if this pinged you.

There, the test has been done, now we wait to see if it worked.

Ah, double science is even better!

Lazers 2.0

10:46 AM

0

Q: Which dungeons are easy to solo and give good loot (with my gear)?

I am a rogue with a Ragetalon dagger, Drake hide armor, a ring of greater speed and cloak of the Night Thief. What dungeons should I be able to solo? I don't generally like doing dungeons with other people, seeing as though they are either too powerful and rush the whole thing then get all the go...

realm-of-the-mad-god dungeons

badp

"Always provide break statement at the end of every case statement"

while iter.hasNext():
  Foo foo = iter.next();
  switch(foo.getBar()) {
   //...
   case default:
     iter.remove();
     continue;
   }
}

@softwareanalizer pls

"Avoid multiple invocations of the same method" (critical performance result)

Private Pansy

The continue operates on the outer while loop, right?

badp

yeah

if(egg) {
  //...
  bar = bar.replace("%1", foo.getBaz()) // <-- getBaz() called here
} else {
  //...
  bar = bar.replace("%2", foo.getBaz()) // <-- ...and here!!!!
}

Private Pansy

Well, that can be refactored to outside the if statement I guess, but it doesn't affect performance in any way

It's not performance sensitive, but it is DRY-er

badp

yes, but are the people looking at the thousands of such "critical performance results" going to know that?

Private Pansy

10:58 AM

Well, repeated code is a code smell

I'm not sure if all cases are as obvious as that one though

badp

meanwhile, when you click on a menu dropdown, the browser generates a server request

which triggers a piece of Java to run

which decides that it needs to fetch a .csv file

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