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@twobugs I wish they asked more technical questions.

@Yuuki even if it did, its practice for next time

I like technical questions. Even if I get it wrong, I learn something.

^me

you have to learn what people like to hear in the other questions too

8:01 PM

But being asked "how do you handle interruptions" is just "glargl".

so it's still not a waste

@Yuuki yeah the social questions are important too

@GodEmperorDune I know they're important, but my anxiety (which is already high enough during an in-person interview) goes through the roof when I'm not dealing with right/wrong questions.

The best way to get better at interviews is to just do a bunch of interviews. So even if you did horrible (I doubt it) you're making progress

@Yuuki Hope this one turns out good, or the new ones are better :)

8:03 PM

@Yuuki spoiler alert, all of the questions are not right/wrong

in that you can give answers that throw red flags, but there is not really a right answer

A lot of questions in interviews are about getting the person being interviewed to display their thought processes

right

Anyone who asks you regurgitation questions during an interview is probably not someone you want to be working for anyway

A key part of the interview is you are interviewing the company as well.

@twobugs this.

@twobugs also very important. your first impression of the company is most likely spot on

8:05 PM

@twobugs A lot of people miss this point.

Why agree to suffer later if you know that your experience there will be terrible?

why agree to suffer later IF YOU CAN SUFFER TODAY

\o/

(don't suffer today)

Oh right, the national spelling bee is a thing

8:09 PM

there are thousands and thousands of job openings in IT. There is no other industry that has it as good as us. It's almost depressing

While the going is good, do not settle

That's always sad to watch. Kids who are forced to memorize stuff for hours and hours and hours by their parents

There's a video of one who has just 0 social skills whatsoever being interviewed and he's so mean to everyone

M-A-I-N-S-P-L-A-I-N-I-N-G

mainsplaining

It's so simple

Please use the word in a sentence

Please define the word

thats when your main explains things instead of your alt

I just gave @twobugs a thorough mainsplaining of what is a mainsplaining.

8:12 PM

When you start playing your alt more than your main, does it become your main?

How long does it normally take to add a friend on battle.net?

"Lucy!!! You've got some altsplaining to do!!!!"

@Chippies A few seconds

The act of justifying that your main is not OP, it's just that "ur just bad"

@Chippies are you in the same region?

@KevinvanderVelden no, he's EU, I'm NA

8:13 PM

Battle.net is weird like that, you have to be logged in to the same region to add friends

@KevinvanderVelden what, how does that even work?

That's weird

I mean, we're adding through the battle.net app itself

@Chippies poorly

@Chippies seperate servers.

8:13 PM

But you can add realid friends or something

Log out, you'll see a selection thing on the login screen

I don't understand

It's really really dumb

Yes

@Unionhawk which doesn't work, we tried that

8:13 PM

@Unionhawk that's the thing - we sent each other a real id request 10 minutes ago and still haven't got any

Does it not?

But yeah, you have friendslists per region

I thought we did that

how do I even change region for battle.net app?

44 secs ago, by Kevin van der Velden

Log out, you'll see a selection thing on the login screen

8:14 PM

Yup but it didn't work, we were realid friends but going to different regions didn't show you

@Chippies Log out, select at the menu

how does realid even work? why is it a thing?

(I used it before, but can't see much benefits of it)

Because regional friends is a Thing

I think

An ex-coworker (who has since moved to a different team within the company) just published his own implementation of the project I've been working on over the last couple of years, without consulting with my team

look, your "internet friends" just aren't real, okay? Europe never really existed. It's just what THEY want you to think

8:15 PM

Europe is just another part of Canada

That's why you have to switch to Imaginary Mode to speak to your Imaginary Friends like Barf the Toilet Paper

@murgatroid99 that sounds like a dick move

i thought everyone was all kumbuya at google

@murgatroid99 That's... wow.

@murgatroid99 Dang

@GodEmperorDune he did mention having left Google

8:17 PM

@GodEmperorDune kumbuya? Is is something like Valve's moving tables thingy?

Q: How can I get more leeks in Stardew Valley?

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I'd like to grow some spring forageables, but I'm lacking leeks to craft a 10-pack of seeds. Everything else I've got lots. I've been looking for 11 in-game days and I can't find any. Is there some way to obtain more leeks other than random chance of them appearing on the road?

stardew-valley

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Q: Limit memory usage NXT client

I noticed that the RuneScape NXT client uses about 1.6 GB of memory when I am in the Living Rock Caverns on the LRC world, even when I have all graphics options turned down. While I have 4 GB memory on this system, this much memory for that application makes my system unstable. The old java clien...

runescape

@badp No, he's still at Google, just on a different team

OH neat, Pokemon GO beta is starting

Oh

> (who has since moved to a different team within the company)

8:18 PM

@KevinvanderVelden so, to play anything together, we'd have to log in to b.net on same server or is it fine once you've added each other?

That could be awkward yes

I only found out about it because he sent it to a mailing list unrelated to my team that I happened to be subscribed to

as long as the game region is same ofc

@Chippies first.

@Chippies you can start a game on a specific region regardless of what you're logged in to

8:19 PM

And almost my whole team is out at a summit this week

@KevinvanderVelden he said "together" though

Maybe he thought that you guys would never be able to open source it and he managed to work on it entirely on his spare time and otherwise complying with the contract and what not

@KevinvanderVelden I don't think that's true for every game

Each program only cares about it's own server so you can log in to america in b.net and play on european overwatch

@KevinvanderVelden yes, but will I be able to play with a friend from a different region?

8:19 PM

I don't know if you want to talk about it at all really

WoW doesn't have a region selection

as in, will the friend list work?

@badp it is open source though

So log in to the same thing in overwatch and it will work

@badp My code has been open source for a year and a half

8:19 PM

@twobugs it does, but you have to purchase a separate copy for each region

I mean what murgatroid99 works on. github.com/grpc/grpc

Oh, that's the caveat I guess then

@twobugs oh don't know. It is true for overwatch =p

djsmiley2k

I accidently.... youtube.com/watch?v=8_oMpH2SWGI

I don't think the other games work that way

8:20 PM

Our entire freaking project is to open source a previously closed-source piece of software

Oh

I stand again corrected

cc: @twobugs

@Chippies gaming with each other works fine if you start the game in the same region

Even if you can't see each other in the launcher

8:20 PM

@KevinvanderVelden alright, that's good to know

but then I don't really see the problem? I dunno

@badp I don't mean to direct my frustration at you. I'm just generally feeling annoyed

@murgatroid99 i mean that seems frustrating

I'm not sure how the real id works with regions, as my wife is online right now and I can see her on my friend list in the launcher, but it shows offline in launcher

Source: Playing overwatch from europe with americans =p

8:21 PM

I'm lacking too much context but I'm sad that you're sad

why is this other guy doing the same thing you are doing without coordinating?

@murgatroid99 That really stinks and that guy sounds like a total jerk

@KevinvanderVelden Trying to play Rocket League on Asia-Pacific servers from the east coast of Canada.

I think I have you beat

and then trying to steal credit (sorta)

@MBraedley meh, I was just posting source for my claims about overwatch =p

8:22 PM

@GodEmperorDune what

@MBraedley I think he means it's possible to do even though Blizzard and regions

@Unionhawk Yeah, it's possible, but not always optimal.

@GodEmperorDune It all basically boils down to a disagreement about how the library should be implemented

@MBraedley a ping of 120 vs a ping of 12

^ actual numbers

@badp if he wasn't doing something unscrupulous he would have involved @murgatroid99's team

8:23 PM

@KevinvanderVelden I have never had a ping of <80 in a non-LAN game regardless of where I connect to

No, this is more of a "why did Canonical did Mir while everyone else is doing Wayland"

I think

@KevinvanderVelden Considering I typically ping around 60 to New York servers, and you're across an ocean, you're not doing too bad.

@KevinvanderVelden I never get under 100 ping except on turkish servers.

I pinged 500 last night for a bit

#ThanksErdogan

8:24 PM

@badp you might be right

@Unionhawk Stop your torrents

The problem here is that even if one library is the "official" implementation and one is the "unofficial" implementation, having two libraries with different levels of support, different APIs, and different levels of feature completeness hurts usability

@murgatroid99 yeah it fractures the userbase

@MBraedley the netherlands is a point where a lot of ocean cables land, so connecting to america is like 3 hops or so (me, ISP, IEX, america)

@MBraedley It was probably parents streaming AMC legally

8:26 PM

Preventing you from enjoying your legally purchased game

Kill Parents Ron Paul 2020

@KevinvanderVelden I have a relatively quick connection to Boston and New York through undersea cables, but it still takes 60ms round trip.

I mean it was fine, it subsided to the hundreds

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Q: How long is overtime?

In Overwatch, if the attacking team is touching a payload or control point when the round timer runs out, the game will enter Overtime. How long does Overtime last after the attacking team stops touching the objective?

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Q: How can I see my ping?

As with most online games, I like to see numbers behind lag I'm experiencing. I know the game shows notifications about extrapolation and packet loss by default, but not ping. How can I see my ping?

To be fair there's a quintillion different ways that a computer can ask another computer to do things

I'm sure your way is super awesome and great since you're using it with profit

and you're not going to stop just because the quintillion and oneth came out

@Lazers2.0 until the bar runs out

8:29 PM

Everything is going to be just as fine

if the Android keyboard agrees

@AshleyNunn is it quintillion and oneth, quintillion and first, or something else?

one and quintillionth?

Post-quintillionth

Srsly?

user15026

@badp You mean like what is the ordinal number for a thing that is in the quintillion and one position in a list?

Yes

It might very well be that you have to say number quintillion and one

user15026

Yeah, I'm not sure

8:35 PM

The Italian rule says you can say "thousand and oneth"

(milleunesimo)

but it's so rare you kinda don't do it

i mean for 3 digits it would be five hundred and first

but thousandth first would also be okay for the Italian rule

Some people called the previous pope Tenth Sixth

user15026

Like I think logically I want to say quintillion and first

It sounds absurd in the general case but in that case I admit it had a nice ring to it

instead of sixteenth?

8:38 PM

@GodEmperorDune The other issue is that I haven't done any substantial optimization on my library yet. If it turns out that the unofficial one is more performant right now, that could seriously undercut the official one.

@AshleyNunn So I just ran into someone on Overwatch named "Arileth". I know it's not your kind of game so it's probably not you, but I thought that was interesting.

@GodEmperorDune decimo sesto instead of sedicesimo, yes

user15026

@Yuuki Not me! But almost my internet-name!

to be fair most called him Pope Ratzinger

@murgatroid99 ugh that is a pain in the ass. if it was just some rando i could see it being easier to brush off, but a former teammate.... that sucks

@badp but that has a nice rhyme to it

8:40 PM

@Yuuki us.battle.net/wow/en/character/eitrigg/Arileth/simple also plays WoW apparently

user15026

I used to play WoW but then I stopped and then my account got hacked/frozen/deleted whatever it is they do with it all and I never bothered dealing with it beyond the stuff Blizz does automatically

@GodEmperorDune MOST ITALIAN HAS A NICE RHYME TO IT or so others explain to me when I wonder incredulously why people would give a fuck about learning Italian

@badp duh, so you can pronounce the words properly at a fancy italian restaurant and impress your suitors

@TimStone on the spot

@GodEmperorDune knowing Italian ruins 9/10 non-Italy Italian restaurants, spoiler alert

djsmiley2k

now knowing latin, that'd be cool

8:47 PM

@djsmiley2k yeah, you could finally translate lorem ipsum

salamE / quatTro formaggI

@badp oh don't worry, we get misspellt words all the time, not just the italian ones

djsmiley2k

chinglian?

englian?

italish ?

a place near my apartment advertises "broasted chicken"

on brochures, on the window, on the 20 foot tall sign in the parking lot

and no it is not some fancy preparation, because this place is way too cheap to have the expensive equipment for such things

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Well, actually....

user15026

8:52 PM

Broasting

Broasting is a method of cooking chicken and other foods using a pressure fryer and condiments. The technique was invented by L.A.M. Phelan in the early 1950s and is marketed by the Broaster Company of Beloit, Wisconsin, which Phelan founded. Broasting equipment and ingredients are marketed only to service and institutional customers, including supermarkets and fast food restaurants. They are not available to the general public. The method essentially combines pressure cooking with deep frying chicken that has been marinated and breaded. The company licenses the "broasted" trademark to more than...

@AshleyNunn yeah they don't do that

we checked

user15026

I just knew about that because I had a place here that I questioned on the use of the word and they were like "actually we do this thing"

@AshleyNunn yeah we researched it too because we didn't think they could be that bad

but the rest of the menu is full of typos too

printed menus!

fredley

@AshleyNunn bro

in unrelated news, i just heard someone excuse trump's behavior as "his orange privilege"

Arperum

8:57 PM

@GodEmperorDune His orang-utan privilege?

fredley

@Arperum no like his orange skin tone is a step beyond "white privilege"

Arperum

@GodEmperorDune wat

Did you set that person on fire?

Because you should have done so.

@Arperum unfortunately not, its a radio show

Arperum

@GodEmperorDune Set the radio on fire as a message.

Q: What is the name of Bastion's bird friend?

9:00 PM

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During his default Heroic highlight intro you can see him play with a bird and his hero introduction screen shows him playing with a bird that rests on his shoulder. Is there a name of his bird? Reminds me of Archimedes, the TF2 Medic's pet bird.

user15026

@GodEmperorDune Like...they were serious?

priorities

Hackers bought a bunch of dildos with Deadmau5's credit card and sent them to him

Literally a bag of dicks

Unfortunately the actual tweet about it is gone

@GnomeSlice lool

Q: What is the name of Bastion's bird friend?

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During his default Heroic highlight intro you can see him play with a bird and his hero introduction screen shows him playing with a bird that rests on his shoulder. Is there a name of his bird? Reminds me of Archimedes, the TF2 Medic's pet bird.

You people will upvote anything with overwatch

@ardaozkal :P

9:11 PM

@GnomeSlice is his twitter also hacked?

dead mow cinco

@deadmau5

not a team player.

31.5k tweets, 3589k followers, following 403 users

@GnomeSlice i dont see anything wrong with the question seeing as that we allow lore questions.

@ardaozkal I like how strongly he feels about 2FA

I wish more felt the same

I guess it's easy to feel strongly about 2FA after you got owned though

@ardaozkal I guess lol

I can't see why anyone would target him though.

Because he's an asshole?

He's a terrible person

9:18 PM

@GnomeSlice well, after some mind palacing, yeah, he is.

He does nothing online but bash other producers, start fights, and generally be a huge dick

But he's a gamer, so what do you expect

I really hope that someone gets hacked and all their money is donated to charity.

That'd really be helping the world.

@AshleyNunn a comedian, so a joke with a grain of truth

@ardaozkal Pretty sure that's theft

@GnomeSlice so is literally sending bags of sex toys to him.

9:22 PM

Yes

@ardaozkal then the charities get chargebacks and frozen accounts because they are a party to fraud?

@GodEmperorDune fair enough.

don't do that, hax0rs

Overwatch is fun and it seems that all the stats are shared between regions, so that's great

@Chippies it is? nice

user15026

@ardaozkal Yeah, that wouldn't work - the charity would just be like yay money until the chargeback happened

9:28 PM

@ardaozkal yep, I just played about an hour in EU and then went to NA and I got my levels and whatnot

user15026

and that would be terrible

@Chippies how was your ping?

@ardaozkal 120-130, didn't feel delayed at all though

considering I was playing for first time with a friend and higher level people, I didn't even know my keys and I was trying out different characters and still managed to get some top spots in some of the matches, I think I did good

Which class is your favorite?

@ardaozkal I didn't try them all yet, but Winston seems pretty cool

not a fan of his short range gun though

9:32 PM

Yeah, a higher range would be better.

I miss the mobility on some classes

I like mercy.

the fat pig guy, whatever his name was, is pretty neat too, but his skills have a long wind up time, which I need to get used to

@Chippies his short range gun is good. it fits his class

also ratpack was great

9:32 PM

@Chippies roadhog?

@Chippies junkrat

@Dragonrage oh yeah, it does, I'm just not a fan of short range guns :P

@SaintWacko yeah, that one :P

@Dragonrage yes

I will eventually learn their names...

@Chippies if he had a long range gun he would be op.

I know

I really disliked Mei

this whole mei meme thing is ridiculous, she's horrible

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@Chippies This is a dangerous place to say that

9:35 PM

she was the only hero I switched out of mid-game

@Chippies she is a-mei-zing you just need to git gud

@Chippies tbh Mei is not that fun

@Chippies she is deadly in close range, and her icicles are pretty strong. she is more about zone control than kill everyone, though she can kill everyone

more like not easy to play

@Dragonrage idk, the freeze thing didn't seem to freeze or do any reasonable amount of damage and if I got in melee with literally anyone, I got murdered in seconds

9:36 PM

that wall thing and that ice cube thing, not easy

She's a lot of fun

I mean, I'm sure a pro player would be able to do a lot with her, but for a new player, she's horrible

@Chippies You have to hold it on them

@Chippies her alt fire is for damage, everything else is zone control/defense

@SaintWacko how if I die? :P

9:37 PM

@Chippies git gud

:P

@Chippies jump around

junkrat is fun though

1v1 in melee range, I couldn't kill a dps hero

Yeah, junkrat is awesome

perhaps she'd be better against a tank or something

i made a reinhardt go flying over me when he charged at me

@Chippies she is pretty good against tanks

9:38 PM

@Dragonrage Ah, yeah, the mine is amazing for that

but I switched out after getting murdered 1v1 by dps heroes 3 times within 20 seconds of spawning

@SaintWacko yea, i feel almost like pharah with it lol

Q: Minecraft 1.7.10 Forge crash: No OpenGL context found in the current thread

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I am trying to make a modpack using Forge for Minecraft 1.7.10. I have run into an error code that I can't seem to get past. When I run Minecraft, it starts normally, gets to the Mojang logo screen, and then crashes. I've tried searching all over, including on this website, but I can't find anyth...

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@Dragonrage awesome, I wasn't sure if the mine worked on enemies

and sometimes just before i die i drop it on the point, and then when i spawn im able to detonate it and kill someone on the point

9:40 PM

Wow, the telephone menu tree for Canada Post is pretty deep. Ignoring the English/French option, I went 5 levels deep

also almost every time i have been flanked by like a reaper or something they run right up to me when they kill me and then just die from my suicide bombs

sigh, I'll go nap before work and then, well, go to work, rather than play Overwatch...

Junkrat's death bombs seem op

wait, does he actually explode on death?

@GnomeSlice i mean, just be more than 2 feet away when he dies

@Chippies he drops a few bombs that do when he dies

and it can kill people that walk over them

9:41 PM

neat :o

Yeah, it mostly gets people who aren't paying attention

It's very short range

It's fun to kill people with that

HOW TO TRAVEL WITH A BABY

►

so apparently my companies naming convention is breaking my build e.e

@Dragonrage name too long?

9:48 PM

@GodEmperorDune no, "AppName.ProjectName"

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Q: What is objective time?

It makes sense on Attacker's side, when you are with the payload or are on a capture point, that I think objective time measures how long you are with the objective, but for Defender's, what is objective time? Is it how long you prevent the enemy from touching the objective, like moving the paylo...

Q: How can I tell if an enemy team has wallhacks on?

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Is there any way to tell when the enemy team has wallhacks on, either in the form of Widowmaker's Recon Sensor, or Hanzo's Sonar? I'm mostly curious if there are any other ways to tell when an enemy Widowmaker has her ult active besides the voice line "No one can hide from my sight", perhaps ...

the "." makes referencing weird

@Dragonrage you're sure its not supposed to be a namespace thing? like a projectname folder inside an appname folder?

im following what all the other app do, it seems to work other places, so maybe one of my references isnt being loaded or something

So, there's a community mailbox at the base of my driveway, but apparently I have to walk half a kilometre to get to mine. WTF?

9:56 PM

@MBraedley weird. there is one next to my driveway and the neighbors get really upset if i park in front of it

Now, I don't expect that everyone will get a box at the closest community mailbox to them, but making me travel 100x the distance seems pretty ridiculous.

Q: Which legendary skins have unique voice lines and unique visual abilities?

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For some legendary skins, it appears that they give the hero both unique visuals and unique voice lines. Some legendary skins I know off the top of my head that have different voice lines: Mercy Imp or Devil, upon reviving she says "Heroes never die! ... for a price." Hanzo Okami or Lone Wolf ...