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3:00 PM
I mean, you can change "if x = 4 or x = 19" to "if (x - 4)(x - 19) = 0"
and add mindfuckery from there
so basically you get to have twice the mindfuckery
 
@badp Using the pipe symbol for divisibility also appears in the American textbook they're using, so it's at least somewhat recognizable
 
@PrivatePansy so something like "2|4 = True", "3|5 = False"?
I have no idea what you mean exactly by "divisibility" honestly.
 
@badp Yup
 
That sounds pretty limited. At this point I'd much rather have | mean modulus.
 
As a factor of. Divisibility is just a shorthand
 
3:02 PM
then you can check for divisibility by checking if the modulus is zero, and you don't have to write "mod".
 
I think it's because modulus have some other properties which they don't want to introduce here
 
@badp There's an "if mod=0 then bridge=funtime" joke in here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to make it.
 
@twobugs pffft. What sort of fun can be had without any mod abuse.
 
Well, maybe you could go with the limit of fun as mods approach 0 is also 0
 
3:06 PM
@twobugs As mods approach 0 fun approaches NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaN
 
(Batman)
 
That's the joke.
 
I wonder if anyone has made a Breaking Bad/Game of Thrones crossover yet hinging on Walter White being a White Walker. Because the names sound kind of similar, you see.
 
If you can imagine it, there's probably a fanfic of it. If you can't imagine it, there's probably a fanfic of that, too
 
@PrivatePansy what is this, the literary version of rule 34?
 
3:09 PM
Nothing will ever be as good as Arrested Westeros though
 
@GodEmperorDune I think it's merely a corollary of rule 34.
 
@GodEmperorDune A corollary, if you will
@badp Yup. There's also the pony crossover corollary
 
@PrivatePansy Some corollaries are best left as an exercise to other people.
 
@badp Well, if you didn't think Rule 34 was exercise enough...
 
@PrivatePansy if its an excercise, it's rule 35
 
3:11 PM
@GodEmperorDune Rule 34.1, 34.2...
I mean, there's an infinite number of real numbers between 34 and 35
We're not going to run out any time soon
 
@GodEmperorDune I thought that was 63. Or was that gender-bending?
 
@Yuuki 63 is gender bending
35 is that if 34 is not true, someone will make it true
 
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Q: Who was the model used for each party member in Dragon Age?

HatandbootsMany of the party members had face models assigned to them in the design phase. I would like to know who the model each party member is based upon is in all three games. Links would be helpful.

 
> ♠. Anyone who uses the ♠ sign is a BOSS.
 
3:18 PM
@AshleyNunn There was a used book sale at school today. Picked up The Fifth Elephant from Discworld, Philip K. Dick's Confessions of a Crap Artist, hardback Wil Wheaton's Just a Geek, and Ian MacLeod's The Light Ages, for S$10
 
@PrivatePansy nice
 
@PrivatePansy Very nice
 
user15026
@PrivatePansy very awesome. I love book sales like that.
 
@badp Expand it. if x*x - 25*x + 76 == 0
if (x-4)(x-33)(x-45) == 0 or ((x - 19) >= 0 and (x - 19) < 7):
  return round(0.00005*pow(x,6) - 0.0076*pow(x,5) + 0.4398*pow(x,4) - 12.699pow(x,3) + 190.01*x*x - 1336.4*x + 3014.1)
else:
  return -1
Much better
Only one branch, therefore code will be faster.
 
3:35 PM
@fredley Bahahahaha
 
@fredley Yes yes I wasn't gonna do your hobby for you
 
@fredley That's two branches. I think or short circuits, so it is probably also implemented as a branch
 
I would smack you upside the head during a code review if I saw that.
 
@JasonBerkan That's the intended reaction, yes.
 
3:41 PM
...
 
Yep I don't get it either!
 
:(
 
@fredley This is the best thing you've ever done
 
@twobugs A white pane is the best thing? Harsh.
 
It worked for me /shrug
 
3:42 PM
 
@twobugs I would put @fredley above borking up a white frame.
I'm sure he can pull off a blank page with ease.
@fredley is not the sort of person who would have trouble making blank pages.
I still wouldn't call it his masterpiece, though.
As I said a perfectly good blank page.
I think you can optimize it a little bit though.
 
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Q: How does the 'Load Custom Level' button work?

blart memesOn the Main Menu screen of Hexcells Infinite, there's a button on the bottom right that says 'Load Custom Level'. However, when clicked, the button does not seem to do anything. It doesn't open any sort of dialog or a file selection window, anything. Does this button do anything at all? If it...

 
This version generates the very same output and it is not only much lighter but also generates no HTTP warnings in the browser console.
You are welcome.
 
I was half hoping for a certain laughing gif to replace the video
 
but that wouldn't have been half as obtuse as the current joke
 
3:48 PM
WAT
How can I find the laughing gif now?!
 
@fredley "wipqozn socks"
 
user image
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doing fairly well!
 
 
3:58 PM
@blartmemes downvote and flag
 
@Rapitor Thanks, was unsure.
 
it's kind of an answer, but not avery good one.
 
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Q: How to quickly identify who carries which weapon?

RicardoI have an under-armed vault. That is, I only have 3 or 4 weapons in a vault with almost 30 dwellers. When there's an invasion, I often have to quickly scramble a defense squad but I cannot tell who's got the big guns. How can I quickly tell who's got which weapon? Does the game provide an inter...

 
I forgot how heavy a bag full of books can be
 
4:08 PM
@Unionhawk Half the weight is the books. The other half is the burden of learning.
 
@MadMAxJr Since when is learning a burden?
 
@blartmemes University/college level coursework isn't a simple thing.
 
@MadMAxJr Right.
 
Study. Study never changes.
 
Hey @badp.
 
4:14 PM
Or does it. Yes, it does. Or maybe not. No. Study never changes.
Does it? No. Yes... No.
(ENTERING REAL WORLD STUDY SIMULATION)
"I AM ALSO ON THE TEST!"
 
@badp I do have ebooks now. So instead of lugging heavy books around I lug a heavy laptop around instead
Yay progress!
 
@badp "The test is coming from inside the test!"
 
@twobugs "BLURRY VISION! SO REAL!"
 
what just happened
 
"I AM EXTRA CREDITS QUESTION. I WILL NEVER GIVE UP EXTRA CREDIT POINTS TO YOU."
"GIVE EXTRA CREDITS POINT TO US, EXTRA CREDITS QUESTION."
"STUDENT IS DOMINATE. I CRY TEARS, I CRY TEARS."
 
4:19 PM
psst What's just happened to badp?
 
(ad for terrible online diploma mill follows)
 
@blartmemes @badp breaks occasionally
Just wait
He'll reboot in a little while
 
@SaintWacko Okie.
 
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Pokémon

Proposed Q&A site for q&A for Pokémon enthusiasts

Currently in definition.

 
@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment It's not a terrible idea, but is there really enough material to justify a Pokemon QA site?
 
4:23 PM
Subset of gaming, tv, board games. I suppose.
 
user15026
@twobugs Considering we can handle the game related ones, likely not.
 
user15026
And the TV stuff can go to Movies and TV
 
Or Anime & Manga if they're so inclined.
 
@AshleyNunn That's what I'm thinking. Plus if we go down this route I'm worried we would see like a Call of Duty SE
 
The stuff that doesn't fit under Gaming goes under SFF really
and board games, maybe.
 
4:23 PM
@Yuuki Well, there are a few manga series as well I believe
 
user15026
Yeah, there's enough places that it fits
 
Although maybe you could claim that there are too many places that it fits
 
user15026
Maybe, but that's not a very strong argument, I don't think.
 
Honestly it probably has more rights to exist than Stack Overflow in Spanish
 
user15026
I dunno, I can see a use case for SO in Spanish more than I can for a Pokemon SE
 
4:26 PM
@AshleyNunn Same.
Although the two example questions for the proposal look alright.
 
When you say SO in Spanish, do you mean like the site itself in Spanish or a Spanish language SE
 
The second one would definitely fit Arqade more, but the first one seems pretty interesting at first glance.
 
user15026
@twobugs Stack Overflow, but in Spanish not English
 
See also: Stack Overflow in Portuguese.
(and Japanese. and Russian.)
 
@AshleyNunn Interesting, I wasn't aware they had those. They're good ideas I guess, but I question how useful they'd be given the bulk of the questions on the site are still in English
 
4:28 PM
@badp I don't really think so. While there are Pokemon related things that each fit into various sites, there is not much overlap. Questions about the video game rarely apply to the cartoon. The TCG is it's own thing...
 
@TrentHawkins Yeah. The anime and manga have their own separate continuities that don't really overlap at all, and there are other spinoff series as well
 
user15026
@twobugs What do you mean, bulk is in English? SO itself is in English because that's the language it supports, these sites are to help devs who don't use English, or are more comfortable in their native language.
 
...but programming is the profession where language is the least possible relevant barrier
every programming language, every API, every piece of documentation is only available in English
 
user15026
@badp Well, I don't work for SE, so I am likely missing some of the finer details, but I suspect this is a decision they made because they saw a need for it.
 
@AshleyNunn Well the way I'm thinking about it is the questions and answers themselves are going to be in English. So unless I'm not grasping something simple, that isn't going to change
I mean, I certainly support the idea
 
user15026
4:31 PM
@twobugs No, the intent is that people can write questions/answers in Spanish/Russian/Japanese etc
 
even in this Italian consulting company, in this Italian bank, for Italian customers, with extremely small perspectives of going over national borders, despite the very broken English in places... almost everything is in English
 
user15026
Thats why they are SO in X language - the intent is that the X language is the intended language of communication on that site.
 
@AshleyNunn Okay, cool. Definitely a good thing to get started then.
 
Personally the only "X in Y language" site I might consider for a second getting myself behind might actually be "Arqade in Japanese." Because I'd super hate to crush any hope for better coverage on our part of the Japanese videogame market, and yet that probably isn't going to happen on this site and this community without basically employing @GraceNote and her second home full time on the case.
 
@badp Arqade in Japanese sounds like a great idea.
 
4:33 PM
@blartmemes I'd think Japan already has their own QA stuff that is far more popular
 
also maybe Anime and Manga and whatever, but then by coherence it'd have to be only Japanese.
 
@Rapitor Possibly.
I mean, they've got their own Japanese social networks and stuff for anything.
NicoNicoDouga and Hatena, for example.
 
(Also I suppose that the strict SO formula might actually make it easier for machine translation to work)
 
Ionno, JP's a lot bigger on the whole game wiki stuff.
There's practically a whole culture to it there, it feels.
 
there's no harm in trying it I guess
 
4:35 PM
But I might be biased since I'm quite reliant on those wikis.
 
@GraceNote Well there really wasn't an english gaming Q&A site before Arqade
 
Also we suck at tables
And they love tables
They love tables
 
@GraceNote Please get us tables
 
@badp gamefaqs
 
user15026
@GraceNote Excel style tables, or dinner tables?
 
4:35 PM
@GraceNote (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
 
@Rapitor Those are walkthroughs, not Q&A boards.
 
@GraceNote Tables?
 
it has Q&A
 
We've been doing ASCII art tables since day 1.
 
@AshleyNunn Both
 
4:36 PM
@GraceNote I've seen this as well. For like every major game I checked out that had a Japanese release I was able to find a pretty exhaustive wiki
 
...and honestly, Japanese IMEs by default use full width latin characters from what I can see, so basically they'd have a much easier time doing tables than we do!!
 
That they do
 
@badp I hate the full-width thing. It's a crime against typography
 
FORMEREMPLOYEETHATWORKEDONTHISPROJECT just doesn't have the same ring to it as KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
5
 
@PrivatePansy They probably hate non-vertically aligned ideograms more. Personally I just wish their full-width latin characters looked better. Plenty of fixed-width fonts out there.
 
4:38 PM
@badp Honestly speaking, not really
 
Wen Quan Yi Zen Hei is a pretty decent monospace font made with, uh, some subset of asian fonts in mind
dunno exactly which.
 
But then again I can't profess at being terribly familiar with East Asian typography
@badp The name sounds Chinese
 
 
Phonetically it sounds like a sans-serif font
Yeah, definitely Chinese
 
I guess they actually cheated and went with half-width latin characters
 
4:40 PM
That's really not too bad
 
Yep, it's one of the better narrow monospaced fonts I've seen out there
too bad it doesn't support bold, but given the actual design goal, that's sort of expected
 
@badp That's a nice monospace font. I still wouldn't code in it, though, but I'm old-school like that.
 
Cool, just got 40+ undeliverable emails sent to my work inbox
Someone did a bad thing with the mailing list.
 
@GraceNote Someday I'll understand why Reddit has table markup but we don't. Something other than the possibility that @jzy might pass out as a result.
(and by jzy I meant @Jin because twitter)
 
Oh boy, we're up to 150 and counting
It looks like someone is trying to send a bunch of spam email but all the bounces are being sent to the employee mailing list
 
So the emails being sent out are all using a signature, which does appear to map to a real place
I'm starting to get curious enough to actually investigate this
I called them, the supposed employee doesn't exist but he signs the emails with another phone number (Santa Clara area code)
Meh. Whatever. I don't care enough and the Tavern Brawl just came out
 
that's the best way to deal with problems
 
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Q: Who was the model used for each party member in Dragon Age?

HatandbootsMany of the party members had face models assigned to them in the design phase. I would like to know who the model each party member is based upon is in all three games. Links would be helpful.

What on earth is this question.
 
It's not a good one.
 
@badp get out now
 
@Rapitor what do you think refactoring cat is trying to do
 
5:16 PM
refactor
 
that was only very briefly so.
 
@Rapitor the mobile site is just a link to the app
which despite previous reports is also available outside US and UK
(worked in Italy anyway)
 
@Rapitor Oh, what's this?
 
@badp The limited availability might have been for the beta
@blartmemes It's basically a competitor to Twitch
 
5:21 PM
@murgatroid99 Oh, I see.
So Google is trying to be the next Twitch now. 'mkay.
 
it's essentially a skin over YouTube
 
But also with gaming videos in addition to livestreams
 
...when you take all of the features YouTube gained as a result of the YouTube Gaming effort for granted.
 
@badp I think it has a lot of livestream stuff that wasn't really available/usable in regular YouTube
I mean, if you go to the page the first thing that shows up is a livestream
 
@murgatroid99 Yeah, there's just very little about YouTube Gaming that is only available for gaming. I could use the improved livestreaming and chat for anything I suppose.
although it probably only was improved thanks to the fact that YouTube Gaming is now a thing that exists.
so uh hooray for competition and progress.
 
5:24 PM
Yeah, I don't think they would actually make features and then not make them available to the rest of YouTube
 
(compare with the rather stupid YouTube Music Key)
 
I guess it's more about focus than anything
People don't see YouTube as a competitor to Twitch, but they will see this that way
 
I even have the YouTube Music Key and I've used it, like, once, by accident, maybe.
 
It's nice that I just don't see preroll ads when I want to look up a music video
 
It's not nice that it's just for music videos, and only when I log on with the YouTube account that is most closely tied to my email address.
as opposed to the one I use everyday and is tied to a Google+ Page.
 
5:27 PM
Does anyone know how to save a trace from eclipse?
 
I do hope they'll let us merge those, now that G+ integration is (will be?) no longer a thing
 
I need to show that a certain part of a program is being skipped on a certain system
So I need a log of which lines of code are being hit
And I have no idea how to do that
 
You could put logs in the skipped part, and logs around it
Like, log to stdout or a file or whatever
 
@SaintWacko plenty of code profiling tools out there
 
@badp Not sure what the key is
but I have google music
for awhile I had 'youtube' music too, then it went away
 
5:31 PM
@badp I doubt they'll work with what I'm doing
 
It was awesome and I want it back.
 
I'm running a program on an IBM mainframe connected through a terminal emulator
 
@SaintWacko connected to the 70s/80s!
 
@djsmiley2k you should still have it so long as your Google play music all access subscription is active?
 
Yay! The CS:GO Question is alive again :D
 
5:32 PM
Tracing it through a modified version of eclipse released by IBM
 
@badp oh it's active
the musci tab is gone
 
@James What question?
 
I presumed everyones had disappeared...
 
Oh, derp
 
/me tries relogging into youtube
if thats the fix...
 
5:32 PM
You know, I'll bet if I click the button "Start Trace Log Collection", it'll start a trace log collection
 
@djsmiley2k yeah, I don't have the Music tab either, that I can find
 
@murgatroid99 you have google music scubscription?
 
K not just me, thanks.
Pretty sure we already had that convo but @badp confused me!
 
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Q: What's the real life translation of the clothing brands in GTA V?

zEUzV1I was wondering what the brands in Posonbys would be called in real life? Like, SN maybe would be Louis Vuitton(by the looks), and the "Art T-shirts" would be Givenchy or something. I hope you understand what i mean!

 
5:35 PM
 
Yeah, it's just generally gone
 
D:
 
that's on the account I have the key on, but I suppose that's because I'm subscribed to no one there
 
I thought I was going to be scrolling the gaming.youtube.com site forever.. there is no scrollbar! Then I hit the bottom with a sigh a relief :D
 
That shows up for everyone
 
5:36 PM
Maybe you need to scroll down... quite a lot there?
 
Actually, the Music tab used to show up for everyone
 
I guess it's just now a "hashtag"
 
We need hat tags.
 
@badp I think that's a channel, run officially by YouTube
It looks like an aggregation channel
 
@Lazers2.0 Would that be a bit too broad?
 
5:41 PM
@blartmemes I don't know if "too broad" quite applies here. They're asking about a limited set of objects (even if that limit is large).
If anything, it's probably Opinion Based and/or developer intent
 
@murgatroid99 Fair enough.
 
I would say that "X is an object in a video game, what is the real world counterpart" isn't too broad, but it's not really on topic.
It's asking about real life using the game as a reference.
 
thats..... different
EA right?
 
Nope, Square Enix
They're been kind of a strange publisher.
 
5:47 PM
What sort of island is worth less than $50k?
 
@twobugs That's why I think developer intent fits: because the question is really about what real-world object the developer intended the in-game object to reflect.
 
@badp a tiny one in the middle of nowhere with nothing on it.
 
@murgatroid99 Yeah, I think developer intent is a pretty good close reason.
 
@badp You're telling me an island is worth less than a crummy London flat?
 
"Sponsor does not guarantee the Island to be inhabitable, developed or reachable by any means other than a boat."
 
5:48 PM
@blartmemes in the short run - yes. In the long run - think of the transport fees to get to work/store/anywhere
 
@blartmemes the island up for grabs is worth less than $50k
 
@badp Un-bloody-believable.
 
It's the only thing that is a given
 
you'd also probably have to be pretty rich to even accept the island, since you have to pay taxes and whatnot
but you can just take the $50k instead, so that's neat
 
@Chippies I feel like this could be one of those "toy Yoda" things.
 
5:50 PM
@Yuuki I don't know the reference
 
@Yuuki You try to redeem the island and they say "No man is an island!" and give you nothing
 
@Chippies someone won a toyata car, turned out to be a toy yoda doll
 
The real question is how long will it take for someone to find that game's "loot cave"
 
@Rapitor lol what
 
@Chippies Radio station holds contest for a toyota car. Someone wins, they give the winner a "toy yoda"
 
5:51 PM
that seems uhh, illegal maybe even?
 
people will be cheating the fuck out of the contest
 
@Yuuki The article says that it really looks like they'll legitimately give you an island
 
@Chippies "But we only ever said toy yoda, you just misheard us!"
 
@murgatroid99 So did the contest. The person sued and won in court.
 
5:52 PM
And yeah, they lost the case
Turns out "you misheard the agreement" doesn't hold up in court. Who knew!
 
@Yuuki This isn't an informal verbal agreement
 
Did he get a toyota, scale 1:20?
 
@Rapitor that's pretty dick'ish, but I'm glad she won the lawsuit
 
Apparently it was an April fool's joke?
 
5:55 PM
I rmemeber reading about the price is right
 
user15026
Today's ISP lesson - everything always works the same way for everyone except when it doesn't.
 
@Chippies To be fair, that's a tiny f--kin' island.
 
in america, most of the winners wouldn't ever claim their prizes, as they'd have to pay tax on them
 
Looks like a minute jog.
 
> Which means at low tide it is a lot more, while the high tide area is only about half an acre: the size of an average suburban yard.
the point remains though - 50k$ is enough to get you an island
 
5:56 PM
@Chippies Ahahaha, I was about to ask which measurement they used
 
you could build a lighthouse...
 
@djsmiley2k or a regular house
 
yeah
but you'd want something quite tall I think?
 
@murgatroid99 would suck to have your house swept down by waves in a stormy weather :P
an underground bunker would be awesome though
 
@Chippies Well, yeah. Surely we've invented construction materials and techniques by now to deal with that
 
5:58 PM
I don't think an underground bunker would work too well.
 
urgh the goblin king isn't getting stunned.
 
@murgatroid99 Idk, I've never seen a house on such a tiny island, so I don't know how well we can deal with that :P
 
you can say "I own an Island"
 
I mean, I'm sure you can build a house that won't get swept away by waves, but that wouldn't be a "regular house" at that point
 

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