The Bridge

badp

7:00 PM

I've seen combo mains/USB/Ethernet wall plugs before

Maybe it's powered Ethernet!

GodEmperorDune

ugh online trainings for work are the worst

badp

@GodEmperorDune are the online trainings about the online training system?

Wipqozn

My buddies dog got hit by a train. 2016 please stop.

Tim Stone

omfg no :(

2016 is the absolute worst of the worst

GodEmperorDune

@badp not that level yet

badp

7:05 PM

@Wipqozn D:

I wonder if next we won't be like, "man remember 2016? Those were the good times."

"we didn't have Trump, Britain still was a thing and also no lizardfolks"

GodEmperorDune

the lizardmen hivemind was in control long before 2016 though

badp

was

why do you think they came out in the open

Frank

@TimStone Many of the techs I know would tear that guy a new one for such a shitty job.

GodEmperorDune

@badp because kenorb exposed them, obvi

Chippies

@MBraedley that looks nice, but 200$ is a lot more than I'm willing to spend on a neat little gadget for my on-and-off hobby. It's also more than half of my DSLR's cost...

@TimStone you think 2016 is bad? Just wait until Trump becomes president for the next 4 years

Tim Stone

7:15 PM

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ;_;

badp

so is the first big debate tonight?

MBraedley

@Chippies I mean, I could probably hack something together for under $100, because I have a good idea of how some of it works, but it definitely wouldn't be pretty.

@badp I believe so

badp

The one Trump is statistically likely to win

Look @TimStone of it can help you

— you have rules about the 8 year limit

— if it's gonna be like Berlsuconi, it's going to be like corruption but more efficient

Wipqozn

@badp I hope that is never the case

badp

— this kind of politician barks loud but does little, and your parliament has doing little nailed down to an exact science

— you're going to be best buddies with Putin

MBraedley

7:19 PM

I know most of you don't use i-Dressup, but if you do, you should go delete your account and change your passwords for any site you reused it on.

GodEmperorDune

@badp yes it is, 6 PM pacific

badp

The enemy of your enemy's enemy… I forget

Kevin van der Velden

@MBraedley ... plaintext

IN 2016

WHAT THE HELL

MBraedley

SQL injection

in 2016

Frank

@KevinvanderVelden You seriously don't want to know about the sites I used to support.

badp

7:21 PM

I guess expecting 2FA from a kids' flash games website is a little too much but…

Frank

Plaintext passwords were the least of their issues.

Kevin van der Velden

@Frank I mean, I had to implement going from plaintext to proper hashing 2 years ago but still

GodEmperorDune

i set up 2FA with my source repo provider, but now I can't get SSL working and am probably going ot revert it

Frank

@KevinvanderVelden My bosses at the time said that plaintext passwords were fine, and nobody would try to hack it.

GodEmperorDune

@badp the problem is that there are big issues that we need government to address during the next 8 years

Frank

7:22 PM

Which, to be fair, has a point; they were rather specific and obscure sites.

GodEmperorDune

@Frank it's not like you need to roll your own password auth system, there are more or less drop in stuff that shouldn't add much dev time

Frank

@GodEmperorDune Did I mention these sites were in classic ASP?

GodEmperorDune

@Frank oh god

MBraedley

How NOT to Store Passwords! - Computerphile

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Frank

And we had zero time or budget to actually try to bring them into the modern age.

GodEmperorDune

7:26 PM

yeah, least of their issues about sums that up

MBraedley

Because it's relevant

Chippies

Chaos reigns as addition of Ophiuchus casts doubt over accuracy of all horoscopes.

4

badp

@GodEmperorDune you didn't do it for the last 8 years, it's probably going to be fine

GodEmperorDune

@badp they addressed some issues

not as many as i would like

but the paris climate treaty is a good step

badp

dude your politicians spend 80% of their time doing marketing

it's a fuckup bigger than trump

GodEmperorDune

7:28 PM

@badp yeah but they spend 90% of their time raising money for the next cycle

badp

@GodEmperorDune yes, it's a fuckup bigger than trump.

Wipqozn

do you guys ever feel like 2016 is due to us not electing ronnie as mod?

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn if only 2016 was pro much

@badp well trump is planning on spending 90% of his time promoting his businesses from the white house... not sure if that is an improvement

badp

@GodEmperorDune it's average

Tim Stone

WELP

MBraedley

7:40 PM

@TimStone WTF?

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone can't wait for r/the_donald to spin that

Unionhawk

merica pls

Wipqozn

Holy shit didn't even hear about that

2016 why

Tim Stone

7:56 PM

The Last NBA Player From The 16-Bit Era Has Retired http://kotaku.com/the-last-nba-player-from-the-16-bit-era-has-retired-1787066077?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Kotaku_twitter via @Kotaku

Tweeted by mletterle on September 26, 2016 at 7:55 PM

Heh, that's kind of interesting

Lazers 2.0

3

Q: How can I increase my war score when the enemy is fully conquered?

I am fighting an enemy and I set just a single war goal with score 94. I already destroyed all their fleets and all their spaceports and I'm occupying all their planets, but I still haven't reached that score, and so I can't finish that war with any advantage. Is there anything else I can do to ...

stellaris

-1

Q: Why can't I interact with anything on a server?

Since this morning, I am not able to play in mutiplayer. When I join the server, all is good for the first 10 seconds, then everything just freezes (e.g. all the players and entities). I can still run around but I can't interact with any signs or chests. I pinged the server and I got: min: 13...

minecraft

0

Q: Who can crouch the shortest?

With the addition of some a new hero, and with more on the way, I started to wonder about this question. Which hero has the shortest crouch in game? Who has the tallest?

overwatch

Wipqozn

Resident Evil time

cc @Sterno becasue A) Failure B) I want to make you buy it

two bugs

Lovely... white supremacists were posting fliers around my university

Tim Stone

:/

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs two bugs, one conical hat

yeah i see infowars bumper stickers plastered on street light poles here

two bugs

8:09 PM

I wonder if it has to do with a cancelled Milo event

GodEmperorDune

the amount of times i have seen milo and 4chan referenced in old fashioned media is somewhat disturbing

like yay, you are looking at more recent things... wait why are you looking at the worst parts of internet culture?

two bugs

Also Texas lawyer dressed as Nazi opened fire in Huston

GodEmperorDune

31 mins ago, by Tim Stone

WELP

yep

two bugs

2016 has got to stop right now

GodEmperorDune

cc @Yuuki did you move out of texas yet?

MBraedley

8:12 PM

Dear Father Time: I'd like a refund for the past 9 months, as well as the next 3 months in advance. Signed, everyone.

Yuuki

@twobugs I heard about a shooting incident, did not hear about a guy dressed as a Nazi.

GodEmperorDune

perhaps he's not a white supremacist, just a WWII enthusiast

GnomeSlice

@arda algorythmrecs.bandcamp.com/album/cold-sweat-ep

two bugs

The alt right movements worldwide make me really scared

GnomeSlice

store.steampowered.com/app/489760

@twobugs Several left movements make me pretty scared

Also I'm pretty sure that wasn't a movement, just a crazy

GodEmperorDune

8:23 PM

@GnomeSlice which ones?

two bugs

I'm not aware of any left wing movements that are as dangerous or as well supported as the alt right

There are absolutely left wing extremists though

GodEmperorDune

oh for sure

extremists of either side are dangerous

like those guys that sabotage the ships on behalf of the whales

i like whales too but i don't think it is the right approach

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Does Fallout 4 have a color filter?

Previous 3D Fallout games Fallout 3 (green) and Fallout: New Vegas (orange) both have a color filter. By looking at Fallout 4 screenshots, the game has a blueish filter, if anything.

fallout-4

MBraedley

8:39 PM

@twobugs Yeah, but all they want is for the government to give everyone more money and free services.

GnomeSlice

MICHAEL CRETU - Gambit / 12" Extended (STEREO)

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omg I don't know which version I like more

arda

@GnomeSlice 10/10

hahahah

badp

9:11 PM

@Wipqozn 22 minutes? what is this, a stream for ants?

Ellesedil

@Chippies arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/…

Sterno

@Wipqozn Making me buys things is a pretty low bar

GnomeSlice

9:26 PM

chrono.gg

also

Ash Ra Tempel - Jenseits

►

GodEmperorDune

@Ellesedil hue

cc @Wipqozn @fredley @Dragonrage on that astronomical pun

GnomeSlice

one more

This City // Maddie Jay & The pH Collective

►

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: In any turn-based game, how a player, whose turn it is now, is called?

My guesses are: Active Acting Current But all of these sound too generic. Is there any specific term how do you call a player, whose turn it is now to make a move? I am specifically interested in the answer in the context of card games.

terminology

Dragonrage

9:53 PM

watch at your own peril

Unionhawk

peril

Dragonrage

@Unionhawk i did warn you

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage y u do dis

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune because hypnotoad told me to

SaintWacko

@Dragonrage Whoa. It actually looks 3d! How do they do that?

Dragonrage

9:59 PM

@SaintWacko no idea. it makes my eyes hurt watching it for any length of time though, so i cant examine it very well

SaintWacko

@Dragonrage Hm, I just see it as a 3d image rapidly rotating back and forth

GodEmperorDune

to me it always rotates the same direction and then bothers me that it doesn't complete the rotation

SaintWacko

@GodEmperorDune That's true, it doesn't actually rotate back

badp

> We all know why [Trump] isn't releasing his tax returns which makes it the safe option. Hillary is still in bed with every lobbyist in the world so its hard to tell whats happening with her behind closed doors.

> Its easy to read Trump, he's a buffoon and probably wont be very good at corruption (he's not good at it anyway) meaning hes the safe option. Clinton on the other hand is basically playing russian roulette. Trump is like playing russian roulette but the chamber is transparent so you can kinda see what's up.

Trump: Too Dumb To Corrupt

You Can't Stump The Trump, The Trump Stumps Hisself

Wipqozn

Thus is nuts

GodEmperorDune

10:12 PM

@badp wat

Wipqozn

@MBraedley you go to the game?

badp

> He has over 3000 lawsuits against him. He's not very good at being corrupt. That's the whole point. He's not very good at it. Everyone know about his scandals because he's not very bright.

GodEmperorDune

@badp wat

wat kind of logic is that

badp

> Clinton on the other hand receives billions through their "charity" organization. Who what where is that money coming from? Is she selling secrets? What is she doing to get all that money and what does that mean for the people giving her the money. No one knows except the people involved. Clinton is a dangerous vote.

GodEmperorDune

@badp but trump spends his charity's money on himself and the clintons spend their charity money on other people

MBraedley

10:14 PM

@Wipqozn huh?

badp

@GodEmperorDune probably a troll

Unionhawk

JonTron - Excuse Me WHAT

►

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk jontron! I'm lame

Unionhawk

YOU'RE LAME

Ellesedil

A scientific associations asked all 4 presidential candidates a bunch of questions about topics that scientists are generally interested in. Clinton and Stein supplied lengthy answers to each question, including proposed solutions that they would work towards. Johnson didn't respond at all. Trumps answer to just about all of them is, "My administration will work with Congress to determined the best solution with limited resources." So... he pretty much didn't really supply any answers.

Unionhawk

10:15 PM

/remove GodEmperorDune

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk more like urmomtron is lame

cc @Wipqozn @fredley @twobugs on that sick burn

Ellesedil

scientificamerican.com/article/…

Oh, looks like Johnson got around to responding. Cool.

GodEmperorDune

nice

Wipqozn

@MBraedley so no. At the leafs Gane with my father. Mine was around 3 blocks.

MBraedley

You should know by now I'm a Habs fan

Wipqozn

10:26 PM

@MBraedley that's Montreal, right?

MBraedley

yes

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Water not flowing on automatic wheat farm?

I'm making an automatic wheat farm on my computer, and when I want the water to flow, this happens: I have tried so many ways to try and fix it, but it wouldn't work. (I'm using Minecraft 1.10.2) Is this a bug?

minecraft

-1

Q: Games like Madden Mobile

Are there any other games like Madden Mobile for iOS where you can create your own team, buy player packs, and buy and sell players?

ios

GodEmperorDune

10:56 PM

@Ellesedil it might be because i am far removed from academia, but I don't see the point Johnson is trying to make about reforming the granting system

> We also expect to reform the relationship between hiring and granting systems. Currently we incentivize universities to hire scientists and researchers who are funded via grants, because they don’t actually pay the investigator salaries. Universities have little skin in the game, and too often end up misusing resources by overhiring and collecting the overhead from taxpayers and private grants.

how are they misusing resources?

two bugs

I mean the problems I see with grants would be solved by more federal funding, not less

GodEmperorDune

if the researchers don't pull in enough grant money (that they apply for and go through the peer review system), then they don't get a salary

@twobugs everything i've heard has been "we have determined that even though A, B, and C, grant applications would be good uses of this grant money, we only have enough to award A"

two bugs

The problems I see with grant funding right now is it can be kind of stifling in that people are drawn to the "sexy" topics

Because those are the funded ones

GodEmperorDune

i'm fine with earmarking grants to unsexy but important areas

two bugs

Ideally I think we should downplay the importance of grants and increase funding for research in general

GodEmperorDune

11:01 PM

but at the same time, if this is like geology grant money, i'd rather the geologists determine how best to allocate it rather than non-geologists who can't determine what is good use of it or not

i haven't heard of like quid pro quo in the grant application process

@twobugs but how do we decide what research to fund?

two bugs

Basically I would be fine with money being allocated within specializations per university or something

Which seems to be exactly what you're suggesting

Or similar

In conclusion I'm going to eat dinner

GodEmperorDune

i was thinking just increasing the funding that can be given out through grants in the current system

two bugs

That would work too

I would just be in favor of subsidizing college more because The Tuition Is Too Damn High

While also promoting trade schools and other alternatives for skilled craftsmen etc

GodEmperorDune

yeah but grant money should not pay for tuition

two bugs

The student loan bubble is going to pop soon and it'll be ugly

GodEmperorDune

11:05 PM

if the grant funds research assistant or support staff positions, that's a diff thing

two bugs

Glad I'm free of student debt

GodEmperorDune

oh i agree

user15026

@MBraedley I can't forget that ;)

GodEmperorDune

and i wish i was student debt free, but i'm like 10 years off

my wife is closer to 20 years off

maybe 25

i dunno, grad school is expensive

MBraedley

I'm very lucky, because I borrowed from the Bank of Mom and Dad, and therefore my loans were forgiven

Lazers 2.0

11:07 PM

0

Q: Pokémon Gold and Silver: What are the chances of a clone being shiny?

I've been playing Pokémon Gold, and I'm going to do a test. But before I do this test, I need to see if anyone's already done it and confirmed the results. The test is, how long would it take to get a shiny Cyndaquil, Tododile, Chikorita, Sudowoodo, Ho-oh, or Lugia using cloning if possible? Thes...

pokemon-second-gen

0

Q: After instalation, the game Martin Mystere crashes Virtools Player

Is there a specific solution to that? Windows version compatibility? Directx 9.0c ? The entire name of the game seems to be: Crime Stories: From the Files of Martin Mystere Operation Dorian Gray. I read that "Virtools Player" no longer exists. Besides, 3DVia virtools player or something that t...

technical-issues

GodEmperorDune

@MBraedley canada prices are also much more reasonable

pretty much anywhere is much more reasonable than US

MBraedley

Yeah, if you don't consider staying in state. Most in state costs are much lower than the average Canadian costs

GodEmperorDune

that used to be truer than it is

MBraedley

It was true when I was in university

GodEmperorDune

are you talking about in-state in canada or in-state in the US?

two bugs

11:11 PM

@MBraedley Also this

I was lucky to live in a state with a world class University that I was accepted into

In state tuition, while high, was much more reasonable

Unionhawk

iaminsomuchdebtrightnow

GodEmperorDune

i know with california's budget woes, the state govt cut funding for state schools so the schools raised tuition to make up for it

and people were pissed

and i haven't heard of any of those schools cutting tuition since then so...

@Unionhawk with my wife and I, it's like we pay rent and a mortgage, but don't have a house to show for said mortgage

MBraedley

What? Cut tuition? That'd be crazy!

two bugs

That would require funding

And something something ivory tower

two bugs

11:46 PM

@GodEmperorDune Tinker Island is getting dumb :(

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs what part? long timers? annoying boss fights? trying to collect parts for previously explored areas?

two bugs

Yes.

GodEmperorDune

early game i think it was running out of rare resources that did it, but once you get the generator buildings that is way less frustrating

two bugs

There's also how you need a ton of resources and the seemingly most reliable way is to use generator buildings which take all your damn duders

GodEmperorDune

you start getting a lot of dudes

two bugs

11:49 PM

I only have 7 (I would have the tom hanks one but my phone pocket spent all my gems apparently)

GodEmperorDune

i have 16 guys now

two bugs

Jeez

Initially I was intrigued by these interactive ads but they're actually just really annoying

GodEmperorDune

yeah their ads are shitty

and also weirdly limited

let me watch more ads to get more gems quickly

two bugs

The game of war and mobile strike ads being literally the exact same is surreal

GodEmperorDune

or at least do the double resource generation ad as soon as the last one runs out

@twobugs it was so funny when i first noticed

and it was like "wait, arnold and kate upton are the same person?"

two bugs

11:52 PM

Isn't it Not Canon since she was replaced with Mariah Carey or whatever?

GodEmperorDune

and i haven't played game or war or mobile strike, but i highly doubt that that is the same gameplay

@twobugs oh did she? i dunno

two bugs

I thought I heard that but I don't watch TeeVees

GodEmperorDune

good thing the debate is streaming all over the place

and not like nbc's cluster of olympics coverage

two bugs

I'm seriously worried

I have a bad feeling

I feel like Trump just stands to gain and Clinton just stands to lose

NBN-Alex

basicly.

two bugs

11:59 PM

I doubt even making reasoned, well-grounded, and sound arguments would matter when it's going to be a mud slinging contest

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