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5:00 PM
Wtf
 
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@fredley That seems like an excellent time to demand a raise
 
@Yuuki Pro tip: Put it on a wheeled vehicle instead. Which work should provide.
 
@fredley I wonder how many people read that as not unimportant
 
5:15 PM
@Powerlord If I wasn't used to the !important thing of CSS I probably would've
 
@Powerlord I don't know much about CSS, so me.
 
@Yuuki ! means something is important in CSS.
So, technically !unimportant would be something that's important, but...
Or is it !important that's the declaration.
Shows you how often I do CSS
 
@Powerlord !important is the declaration, yes
 
Presumably !unimportant does the opposite, then
Although I'm not seeing !unimportant in CSS1 or CSS 2.1
 
Yup
It's not
 
5:23 PM
So I assume it's 3 only
 
Nope
MORE css is a thing that is the opposite of useful and has the !unimportant declaration
 
Protip: Don't use unsigned ints for recording the temperature
 
@fredley I dunno, seems perfectly legit, we're storing it in kelvin right?
 
@fredley Unless in kelvin? :)
 
@KevinvanderVelden Celsius
>.<
 
5:25 PM
@KevinvanderVelden Oh god, another Node.JS thing? Is this going to go as far as Rails did before people realize it's a bad idea?
 
@Powerlord uuh no, this thing is a joke
 
int_8, not uint_8 should be ok
 
(Also, doesn't require node.js, can also be used from the browser)
@fredley depends on the accuracy you want
 
if the weather goes outside that range, I don't think people will care what their watch says
 
You'd need, at least 3 bits I'd say?
 
5:28 PM
@KevinvanderVelden Or that other one
Rankin
 
So, 1 bit sign, 7 bits of value, fixed multiplier of 2^-3. That can store up 31.875C
 
As a strange aside - today, Experts Exchange helped me before SO did.
 
Wait, no, that's something else
What's the other temperature scale?
 
> John Rankin Waddell, also known under his working name Rankin, is a British portrait and fashion photographer. Wikipedia
First hit for rankin =p
 
Rankine I think
 
5:29 PM
Farenheit, but starts at absolute zero
 
Rankine (/ˈræŋkɪn/) is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859. (The Kelvin scale was first proposed in 1848.) The symbol for degrees Rankine is °R (or °Ra if necessary to distinguish it from the Rømer and Réaumur scales). By analogy with kelvin, some authors call the unit rankine, omitting the degree symbol. Zero on both the Kelvin and Rankine scales is absolute zero, but the Rankine degree is defined as equal to one degree Fahrenheit, rather than the one degree Celsius used by...
 
@Sconibulus Yep, thank you
I was close :P
 
I think there's also another R scale...
 
Rutherfords or something
 
5:29 PM
The modified Rankin Scale (mRS) is a commonly used scale for measuring the degree of disability or dependence in the daily activities of people who have suffered a stroke or other causes of neurological disability. It has become the most widely used clinical outcome measure for stroke clinical trials. The scale was originally introduced in 1957 by Dr. John Rankin of Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, and then modified to its currently accepted form by Prof. C. Warlow's group at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh for use in the UK-TIA study in the late 1980s. The first publication of the current...
So close
 
@Sconibulus @Powerlord linked wiki, Rømer and Réaumur scales also use the R symbol
 
cc: @spugsley @AshleyNunn
I stacked clouds!
 
Damnit @Chippies! Stop breaking the matrix
 
@KevinvanderVelden I didn't break it, I just exploited a glitch in it
 
Laptop have, networking cable don't have. One step at a time guys.
 
@Unionhawk unless it's an ancient laptop, it should have wifi. Unless you have an ancient router, it should also have wifi.
 
Well, network access more generally don't have. Yet. And I assume the setup is going to be cable.
 
user15026
5:56 PM
@Chippies holy crap I love that.
 
The intense feeling of dread and hate when you narrowly miss your first connection home
and your second
and your third
and your fourth
no matter how hard you run and how much you ram into people hogging the entire width of escalators
I am throbbing with powerlessness. Please send help
 
@badp If throbbing persists for four hours, please contact a doctor.
 
I want to find a representative of the railways and shout at them for 15 minutes
We will both be powerless and angry and frustrated
It's gonna be awesome
Sharing is caring
 
um.
 
@Rapitor philosophise to me why the fuck mine was the only fucking train departing before schedule, you extinct reptile of unique smoking tastes
 
6:09 PM
hostile work environment :(
 
I wish I could be hostile with the train driver.
or the gentlemen from the town commuting company business thing
You've gotta be usain fucking bolt to catch a connection
My pathfinding was perfect and my offloading door ideal. I was the very first tot the closed doors.
10/10 best service EU 2015
 
Status update: the learning center took down the "how the application works 101" class
 
@Unionhawk because "APPLICATION" and "WORKS" are oxymorons
Here's how applications work:
 
How to use then
 
101: they do not
I just saved you eight hours
 
6:14 PM
0
A: "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" when playing Mortal Kombat X?

hotline californiaSo unlike what others here have been saying; this has been confirmed to be a game issue (not an Nvidia issue) that was fixed by the developers (Netherrealm Studios) in the today's 15GB patch: Added the free Klassic Sub-Zero costume. Display drivers should no longer crash during online...

 
Smartass
 
For all the jerks who insisted it was an Nvidia issue
 
Also it was a 10 minute thing
 
YOU'RE AN NVIDIA ISSUE
♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
 
@Unionhawk my smart ass is all that I have power on and goddamn I shall wield it like a powerful artifact
c - the blessed ass of +21 to Smart (equipped, two-handed)
 
6:16 PM
@badp without smartasses the world would be an incredibly boring and sad place.
 
@badp (throws unholy water)
 
If your butt is two handed, could you describe your situation as... Holding onto your butts?
 
why would... what are you smoking
 
@Unionhawk not so much holding as much as wielding
 
Say, Oracle, you did notice that Java 8's default methods for interfaces technically allows multiple inheritance, right?
 
6:19 PM
@Rapitor UR MOM'S AN NVIDIA ISSUE
 
@SaintWacko dude, not cool D:
 
DELAY ON THE TRAIN AFTER THE ONE I NARROWLY MISSED: 10 MINUTES
 
I wonder if Town of Salem has been updated yet.
 
@hotlinecalifornia just because something can be fixed by the developers doesn't mean it isn't a problem by nvidia
 
ToS devs were saying that the new update was out on Sunday. Wasn't out last time I checked Monday.
 
6:24 PM
@badp apparently the stereotype of public transport being crap is true!
 
@Rapitor TELL ME MORE
 
@KevinvanderVelden Otherwise, half the problems with iOS apps would just be app issues.
 
@hotlinecalifornia Would you recommend this game for PC or is it still bad after their fixes?
 
@Rapitor I now have more money than I know what to do with.
 
@Yuuki I haven't played anymore so I'm still on early spring in year 2... but yeah i was already nearing that point.
I'm finally dumping some time into Majora's Mask.
 
6:31 PM
I'm in Summer 3, Y2 and just working on getting Tropical Country now.
Have to ship a hell of a lot of crops and products.
And cooked foods.
 
Post of the year
@StrixVaria Ugh, it depends. A lot of online gameplay is generally laggy. They fixed the majority of the crashing issues but online lag is still a big deal. If you have a PS4/Xbone, get MK for that, but if you want the PC version, I would wait until most of the issues are fixed.
PS4/Xbone has much better matchmaking servers than PC
On PC, at least so far for me, hit confirms have been non existent, and linking BnB combos are really hard to do online. Offline or vs bots no issue, but online is a pain in the butt.
 
@hotlinecalifornia I'll probably hold off for a while yet. I don't have either of those consoles yet, but there's a decent chance I get a PS4 sometime this year.
 
Alright, sounds cool :)
 
@hotlinecalifornia This is why we have Rude or Abusive flags.
 
6:59 PM
@hotlinecalifornia 0/10 not Arqade
 
7:11 PM
Hi
 
@hotlinecalifornia Created an account just to flag it.
 
I'm sure it would have been taken care of
Lol @ the username
 
@GnomeSlice Probably, but it doesn't hurt to help things along.
 
Inb4 USER_DESTROYED.gif
@badp
 
The fact that it's been more than half an hour since it was posted is worrying though.
 
7:15 PM
0
Q: Logging flying hours

user2818782Is it possible to log the time I have spent flying aircraft? I am starting to learn how to fly helicopters and I am interested in how much time I've spent in the air - or in the ground for that matter. Much like pilots do in the real-world. Is there a mod, or perhaps a built-in character statis...

 
There, I flagged it too
Apparently I already had an account
 
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Q: Minecraft PE won't show its self after purchase

Akari2 years ago I purchased Minecraft PE and didn't use it frequently since 2014. I purchased it on my tablet in Google Play. But currently if I go to Apps>All, all it shows is Minecraft PE Demo...which I have installed earlieR.I'm 1000% sure I used the same account but it wont show up. What the hec...

0
Q: Build a plane or rocket for Kerbal high altitudes

DarkDustI currently have a contract where I'm asked to take crew reports at certain spots on Kerbal at an altitude of 18,000m. However, I've failed to build a vehicle to achieve this (without a hundred retries). Building a rocket to fly vertical seems to be nearly impossible, in the atmosphere they tend...

 
@Sconibulus the burgers are...
 
7:41 PM
Uh... Huh. Wow. Coding standards. Uh... My code is going to become 50 times cleaner at the end of the summer I feel
Probably
At least 50
Maybe 80
 
coding standards generally do that
 
Your mom's a coding standard.
 
No, my mom is across the hall. The coding standards are on my screen.
I can see how you could be confused though
(I'm not kidding right now though)
But that's only because I'm essentially working in a closet that happens to have a lab computer in it
 
Has anyone here thought Twitch Plays NetHack would be cool?
 
7:49 PM
No
 
@ASCIIThenANSI you would just die really quickly
 
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Q: PC Controller not working with Arkham Origins

PhantasamI recently bought a PC Controller. It wasn't working with The Amazing Spiderman 2. I updated all the drivers and stuff but all in vain. I did some research and found that the games require a Xiinput file thingy. I placed it in the game directory and the controller worked smoothly on TASM2. I brou...

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Q: GTA V PS4 with PC multiplayer compatibility

TuniGamerWell, I wanted to know if there's a way to play GTA V multiplayer on PS4 with my friends on PC. Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english.

 
Twitch plays are never cool
 
@murgatroid99 LOL, I guess you're right.
 
@StrixVaria HAHAHHAHHAHAHA
Their latest PC patch was so bad
it wiped out all save data
And now they're rolling back the patch
Good idea not to get MKX for PC
 
7:51 PM
@murgatroid99 I have a question about pets in NetHack. Is there a way you can get them to follow you? I keep going down and forgetting them or they simply don't come with me.
 
@RPiAwesomeness the wiki has a pretty good article. But basically, you feed them and/or carry around that liver stuff that tastes bad
 
@murgatroid99 Ah. Otherwise it's just blind luck basically.
 
@RPiAwesomeness yeah. I've definitely had runs where I just sat on the stairs for hundreds of turns just waiting for my cat
 
In my experience, ascensions take about 50k to 60k turns
And the waiting stops either when your pet dies or when you get a magic whistle
 
7:56 PM
Ooo! Floating eye! And I killed it! Time for telepathy!
@murgatroid99 Wait. I picked up a whistle on a previous attempt - had I blown that would my pet have come?
 
@RPiAwesomeness if it's magic (which is not guaranteed), it teleports your pet to you
 
@murgatroid99 Oh nice! Between levels?
 
@RPiAwesomeness no, just on the same level
 
@murgatroid99 Okay.
 
Yup. Couldn't watch this without starting a game.
 
7:59 PM
@ASCIIThenANSI Of NetHack?
@murgatroid99 What about leashes?
 
@RPiAwesomeness they work too, but if you move too fast it chokes the pet
 
@murgatroid99 Oo...
That's not good.
 
@RPiAwesomeness Yeah. This is the original addictive game.
 
@ASCIIThenANSI It is indeed addicting :)
Is it worth it to hold on to duplicate items to sell them?
'cause I have two iron skull caps
 
@RPiAwesomeness I don't, usually. Only if it's worth carrying that weight the whole way to a store
 
8:01 PM
@murgatroid99 Okay.
What good are wands? I have an oak one. Are they just weapons?
Well crap. I think my dog died.
 
RIP @RPiDog
 
Do I need a lantern?
@KevinvanderVelden ikr. Man.
Man. This game is hard
FRICKING WATER NYMPHS THAT STEAL YOUR ENTIRE BLOODY INVENTORY.
 
@RPiAwesomeness #ragequit
 
@ASCIIThenANSI ikr.
Then a trap killed me. Soooo gg game.
Gosh. This game is insane.
Complicated, hard...
 
8:17 PM
@RPiAwesomeness And yet somedays it's the best RPG out there.
 
Umm...I'm stuck in a room with only one exit which is a dead-end path? o.O
Isn't there a way you can look for secret passages?
 
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Q: what does Oeuf mean

nickWhen I load into my dressing room in my house in GTA V I get the word "Oeuf" across some of my characters clothing not all just some of them, when I load out it disappears. I am able to play GTA V fine and well. Other than that all is okay...

 
Uh oh. Dmod....
 
@RPiAwesomeness Use 20s. It searches 20 times, which should be enough to find doors. I use it around 2-3 times and it usually finds something, if it's there.
 
Aaah. That's what it was.
I kept pressing s to search and it did nothing.
 
8:25 PM
Stupid Gnomish Mines. I keep going down the wrong stairway.
 
@RPiAwesomeness @ASCIIThenANSI what game is this?
 
@TheAce NetHack
 
ah love nethack
 
NOOOOOOOO
shoots self
 
Oh dear. Uh, we need a cleanup crew over @Powerlord's house ASAP. Blood and gore everywhere.
 
8:30 PM
as a ghost Wait, why did I just shoot myself instead of just leaving if I didn't want to hear about Nethack any more?
 
@Powerlord lifehack, can't take it back
 
@Powerlord You dislike NetHack?
 
@Powerlord Somehow you knew I was driving to your house to show you... Clever...
 
@RPiAwesomeness Question 1: Is it a Roguelike?
 
@Powerlord Yes
 
8:32 PM
23 secs ago, by RPi Awesomeness
@Powerlord Yes
 
@Powerlord You dislike Roguelikes I take it.
 
58 secs ago, by RPi Awesomeness
@Powerlord Yes
:P
 
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Q: Can i breake blocks with redstone?

TuniGamerI wanted to know if there's a way to breake blocks with a redstone/piston system and then pick them up with a hopper in minecraft vanilla. I want to make an automatic cobblestone breaker. Note 1: I know that I can breake sand, I wanted to know how to breake stone. Note 2: I just wanted to say t...

 
Maybe we should have our own room for NetHack. Hmm...
 
> I just wanted to say that I'm not a noob in minecraft
 
8:34 PM
@GodEmperorDune Thank you, we had no idea.
 
@Lazers2.0 does smashing something between two pistons cause it to drop?
I don't really remember
 
I HAS INTERNETS
I REPEAT
I HAS INTERNET
run.
 
EVERYBODY GO FIND A SAFE CHATROOM! ANYWHERE BUT HERE IS SAFE! THE END IS NEAR!
 
I had to retrofit my existing router. The ISP's actually had a shitton of configuration settings, but it shipped with 192.168.1.1 as its default and I must've fucked up something somewhere in switching it over to 192.168.0.1
Now it's time for the real speedtest: Steam
 
@StrixVaria I haven't played it myself, but from watching youtube videos at 60 fps, the constant switching between 60 fps for interactive scenes and 30 fps for non-interactive mid-combat scenes seems awful annoying
 
8:40 PM
1.8 MB/s peak instead of 1.5 MB/s. I guess I got something out of those two weeks without internets.
 
Ahh!!!
Arqade asploded
 
@badp what did you do? Arqade is down!
 
@ASCIIThenANSI it's all the speeed he now has
 
@KevinvanderVelden Everything except SO is down. The only thing left is chat.
 
He had to get all that speed from somewhere
 
user15026
8:44 PM
Well, that makes sense, afaik SE is all hosted together, SO is separate from everything and chat is separate as well.
 
@ASCIIThenANSI no, they're mostly replying to you that it is being investigated right now
 
@ASCIIThenANSI tldr @Wipqozn is to blame
 
user15026
@ASCIIThenANSI Yeah, if it is a network thing, it will come up in the Tavern.
 
user15026
I am not sure why everyone panics so much - sites sometimes have downtime....
 
user15026
8:49 PM
Although maybe I am jaded from the sportsbook job where we could and did spend more than one day completely down from a DDOS
 
user15026
(I got a lot of reading done those days)
 
@AshleyNunn BUT THESE ARE OUR SITES? HOW WILL WE SURVIVE? WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE PRETEND QUESTIONS OUT OF CARDBOARD JUST TO KEEP US GOING!
 
user15026
bored face
 
@ASCIIThenANSI ಠ_ಠ
 
@AshleyNunn so, all in all a good thing I'd say
 
8:50 PM
@GodEmperorDune I suppose I will have to... GO OUTSIDE.
 
user15026
@KevinvanderVelden I sure didn't mind :)
 
We are investigating a network-wide issue now.
 
@ASCIIThenANSI
 
user15026
@ASCIIThenANSI You....know the rest of the internet works, right?
 
Speaking of reading! I am going to head to bed and read
 
8:50 PM
@AshleyNunn probably not
 
@AshleyNunn Lies. SE is the internet
4
 
Shut down damn you computer
 
user15026
@KevinvanderVelden Enjoy your book! What are you reading?
 
@KevinvanderVelden can't resist dat starbait
 
user15026
@ASCIIThenANSI Why are you being rude?
 
8:52 PM
@AshleyNunn Whoops. Sorry. I pressed enter by accident : |
 
@AshleyNunn The Golden Cage by J.D. Oswald goodreads.com/book/show/20649052-the-golden-cage
 
user15026
@KevinvanderVelden Oooh, it sounds good :)
 
user15026
Not that I need to be adding anything to my massive to read pile
 
I know the feeling :)
But now, to bed! Cya chat! Don't panic too much
 
user15026
@KevinvanderVelden Good night :)
 
8:55 PM
I will panic precisely as much as I want to thank you
Which, incidentally, is not at all
 
MY ISP CHANGE IS CAUSING RIPPLES IN THE WORLDWIDE ROUTING TABLES
 
It's the only possible explanation
@badp broke the internet
 
Bah, I forgot the location of the example of using a code file instead of persistence.xml to define a JPA data source... and Google isn't helping
 
@Powerlord why don't you ask on SO... oh, wait
 
9:05 PM
Apparently it involves a LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean
'cause that's not a mouthful or anything
 
@Powerlord Java in a nutshell
 
@Yuuki love the stone face while he does it
 
@murgatroid99 Well, to be fair, it is configuring the EntityManagerFactory
 
@Powerlord Only in Java does an EntityManagerFactory sound reasonable
 
@murgatroid99 It creates EntityManager instances, which are used to do DB queries
Then again, you probably already knew that
 
9:08 PM
@Powerlord EntityManager itself is completely vague. It just sounds like a thing that lets you manage other things
Which makes LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean a thing that configures things that make things that let you manage other things.
 
@murgatroid99 Considering that the DB queries in question map to @Entity annotated classes, that kinda makes sense.
 
Maybe it's just because I don't use Java, but Entity just sounds like a general "thing", like Object
 
@murgatroid99 Oh, I thought you did.
 
I mean, I know Java, but I'm not really familiar with popular libraries or frameworks
 
@murgatroid99 In this case, an @Entity is a persistence-backed object. This is almost always a DB of some sort. There are all sorts of other annotations used to mark how objects relate to each other and what types of database columns they use
 
9:13 PM
I was just making the joke that Java really seems like the kind of language that encourages you to string together 6 extremely general words to name a class that represents 5 layers of abstraction but doesn't really do anything in particular
 
Well, in this case, LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean is apparently specific to Spring.
Whereas EntityManagerFactory/EntityManager are part of the JPA specification
 
JesusMan inherits EntityManager
 
Generally, you never deal with the EntityManagerFactory as the EntityManager is acquired via dependency injection.
 
Update: We're making progress but we're still down. Next update in 30 minutes.
 
9:32 PM
@OKAY,PANIC. @badp can you please give the internet back to SE?
 
@GodEmperorDune NO! I'm being 20 times more produc... oh wait, it's going home time. Never mind!
 
9:46 PM
Update: No significant news. Still working on the issue. Next update in 30 minutes.
 
@OKAY,PANIC. i need my rep fix!
 
OMGPAnic!
 

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