The Bridge

Our living room wall is a balcony door with double paned glass, then another 2 windows that fill half the distance from floor to ceiling. We face the south, so we get the sun during summer in our living room during the hottest part of the day.

Ivo Flipse

awh great with a big magnifying glass to heat the room :P

FallenAngelEyes

1:19 PM

haha basically

Ivo Flipse

would a subplot be able to plot subplots? (how philosophical)

Ivo Flipse

1:49 PM

shameless self-plug, but that program looks awesome:

2

A: How can I remap the numpad keys to select conversation responses?

Try GlovePIE It's a program that's actually used to map things like MIDI controllers, Wii-motes and PS3 controllers to actual keyboard commands, but naturally also works with regular keyboard remapping! Note: It looks scary when you run it, but under View you can set it to GUI. There you can...

it's like AHK for peripherals

this might actually allow you to use a Guitar Hero guitar with Frets on Fire

FallenAngelEyes

There's an adapter that lets you do that, for the PS2 ones at least

Wasn't expensive, I bought one a few years ago, it's a USB to PS2 adapter

Gonna go play some Rock Band now actually, later all :)

Oak

2:21 PM

@Ivo it does look cool

Ivo Flipse

it almost makes me buy a wii mote to try it out

just because it looks fun :P

Arda Xi

Oh that, I've played HL2 with a wiimote

Ivo Flipse

did it work?

I mean, did you feel you could aim at the screen?

with proper calibration, it should be doable

Arda Xi

more or less

Oak

11

Q: Using Wii remote and other controllers for PC games

Is there a device or adapter (similar to the one asked about here for the Xbox 360) to allow me to use my Wii remote and classic controller to control PC games?

radp

2:25 PM

Okay, so release date questions are bad because we can't know

Questions about unreleased games however are fine?

Ivo Flipse

ah there's another answer that mentions how awesome GlovePie is

its pretty grey area

but like with rock band, you want to know which version to buy or is compatible with your gear

Oak

But nobody can know for sure until it's released

Ivo Flipse

but other than that, I see very little value in these questions

well, there's E3 and press releases

so it's not like there's no solid info available

but it's not solid until there is something material, else it's just speculation

and I dislike the latter

radp

...same for release date questions

if I wasn't sure that question was getting OMG-WTF-closed, I would've posted my comment as an answer and spared my close vote.

Arda Xi

:159144 that should be our 404 image

C. Ross

2:35 PM

:159148 it's not gaming enough :-/

Ivo Flipse

someone should hire that guy (Johnny Lee)

and it would be fun for SU, but I guess it's too offensive

meeh @Oak answered faster than me :P but in the end it's the same

Oak

Answered what?

Ivo Flipse

the meta question above

I was too busy watching Johnny showing me how to make a digital whiteboard myself

Oak

Oh yea that

Oak

I can never remember,

Oak

2:44 PM

users can see their deleted answers but not their deleted questions?

Downvoter

:159162 yes, but not from the profile (answers)

Arda Xi

@Oak what's the point of waiting before deleting if the user can see the comment either way?

Downvoter

they need to navigate to the question that has their deleted answer, and they'll see it there

Ivo Flipse

because they won't know where to find it @ArdaXi

exactly

Oak

Hi Juan

Oak

2:46 PM

But @Ivo they CAN see it, if they care

Oak

So maybe a day of waiting is too much

Ivo Flipse

I find that they generally don't care and/or learn it quickly enough from looking at more questions

I'm impressed by the page views on that Zerg question btw

Downvoter

Hi Oak

Oak

Hi, gtg :)

Oak

Take on the quick-delete-button help!

C. Ross

2:56 PM

:159173 Link?

Ivo Flipse

link to what @CRoss

C. Ross

the Zerg question?

Ivo Flipse

ah @JuanManuel linked it in his answer on your question

(i think, or you did)

but the easiest way it to search on the site with: views:5000

then you see everything that has more than 5000 views

Downvoter

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Q: How to play StarCraft 2 offline?

How to I play StarCraft 2 offline? When I start StarCraft 2 offline (my network connection disabled), it prompts me for my Battle.net account name. After entering my account name, I select play offline. It then tells me that offline play authorization is required. When I'm online, I can login t...

starcraft-2 mac offline

Downvoter

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radp

3:12 PM

I'm afraid I know what the answer is

I didn't :)

tzenes

3:47 PM

morning

Downvoter

afternoon

tzenes

how's life Juan?

Downvoter

today we came into work at 6 am to deploy to production

Downvoter

so... sleepy

tzenes

I hate pushing to prod

you have to spend all day making sure it didn't break the build and even then there is no guarantee.

Downvoter

3:52 PM

yeah, we had 3 hours where customers couldn't make a purchase

Downvoter

not my fault though, but stressful anyways

tzenes

ouch, that's a long time

Downvoter

yes

Arda Xi

4:42 PM

duplicate of

7

Q: A hacked Modern Warfare 2 server made my rank level 70. Can I undo it?

I ended up in a hacked server. One of the hacks was - if you die by your own hand (such as falling off a skyscraper in my case) your rank (at your current prestige level) becomes 70. While this is advantagous in that it partially unlocked things I wanted (ninja pro, claymores) so that I could ea...

pc modern-warfare-2

Mechko

not really. he was asking about rolling back, I'm asking to reset completely

@ArdaXi do you think the difference is sufficient? because I doubt I'd get the answer I wanted reliably by simply putting a bounty on the other question.

tzenes

I"m pretty sure you can't reset achievements

if that is the case I would say the difference is sufficient

since the reset achievements question would have information in it, that you wouldn't want in an answer to the hacked question

Mechko

yeah I basically want to open the game and be on first prestige, no achievements etc

as though I just bought it

radp

Is it possible to connect to hacked servers legitly?

Mechko

well if you know people who hack servers you can always party up with them

and it's not against the rules for you to join

I believe with MW2 the point at which you get flagged is when you are either botting or RUNNING the hacked server yourself

but I may be wrong

does anyone know if a normal razor scooter will die if I am more than 143 pounds?

(with my backpack (laptop, textbooks, lunch, brick, live chicken) I'm close to 200)

tzenes

5:02 PM

it might

its rated at 143 for a reason...

Mechko

yeah but I see people my size riding them too without breaking so I'm curious

tzenes

oh actually reading your question better, it does kind of look like a dup

radp

:159321 I'm just saying, if you can claim you accidentally joined this hacked server (or if you did) you can just put up the MW2 equivalent of a mod flag and get support :)

Mechko

well now that the answer on the other question has been modified to answer my question as well as the other one, its just a matter of pragmatics, but I don't think it's a dupe.

@badp well MW2 doesn't have an active support team, I don't think

it's pretty close to vaporware in fact

I may be wrong

radp

:159337 After all it was just released, um, three months ago?

that's what you get for playing old games :P

Mechko

5:09 PM

well almost a year, but the IW kinda went ballistic

radp

Aren't you talking about Modern Warfare 2? The infamous game which has PC-specific features like mouse support?

I could've sworn it was released more recently than a year

Mechko

it was available christmas last year

november 10 2009 to be precise

but it's kinda ridiculous. Activision's name is not prominent on MW2 and with IW essentially done for, they are not going to invest in fixing bugs or even guarantee that MW2 will continue to work for the next 5 years and they won't get the direct bad press

radp

"5 years"?

Mechko

yeah. there is talk about ditching the current free to play once you own it and charging a $5 a month subscription

to access the IWnet server

radp

oh, you meant "$5/year" then? :P

Mechko

5:17 PM

well, no I actually mean that they don't guarantee that it will be functional in 5 years

radp

(I was kidding.)

Mechko

oh

anyways. off to design a turing machine that decides the collatz conjecture

radp

Have fun

tzenes

7:02 PM

:159371 ((n<<1) | 1 + n) >> 1

Arda Xi

:159715 I don't think defining the conjecture is the hard part

tzenes

avoiding third order costs will increase the efficiency of his algorithm

Ivo Flipse

well @tzenes tomorrow I have to present some of the results, will be interesting to hear what they say

made a fancy powerpoint, so the results look nicer :P

tzenes

coolioes

hey I had a problem with my bounty

Ivo Flipse

I ended up going with a very good solution: the simplest by far

divide the paws in left and right by simply splitting the plate in two halves

tzenes

7:10 PM

I attempted to assign the bounty for this question: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/6252/… and it said it was assigned, but then today I got a message saying, that it was "automatically" assigned and the person I assigned it to received only half the amount

Ivo Flipse

the front and left are divided because they were alternating in order

tzenes

does that work if the dog has short legs?

Ivo Flipse

the bounty just assigned the standard bounty, because it only remembered you wanted to assign it (I reckon)

tzenes

it said automatically, and if I remember correctly, when a bounty expires without being assigned it is automatically assigned to the highest voted answer for half the amount

Ivo Flipse

I don't think the dogs leg length is a major influence, the two biggest problems would be if the put down their paws in a straight line. Humans do this when they start running, the feet are placed on a line, rather than wide apart

tzenes

7:13 PM

nm, I just remembered you have temporal information

Ivo Flipse

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Q: How does the bounty system work?

What is a bounty? What is the "Featured" tab on the homepage? How can I search for questions that have a bounty attached? How do I start a bounty? When can I start a bounty? How long is the bounty period? How do I award a bounty? Can I award a bounty to my own answer? What happens if there's no ...

support faq bounty

tzenes

I was worried about the front and back triggering the same spot, but since you know time you can solve it.

Ivo Flipse

well that would be the other 'problem'

it's easy to solve, but now it's ridiculously easy, since they alternate in time and space

tzenes

right

Ivo Flipse

so once I split them in left and right, I just have a row of front, back, front, back, front

tzenes

7:14 PM

temporal data makes it trivial

Ivo Flipse

but overlapping is solvable, because I know which was the first

tzenes

right

Ivo Flipse

but if they start to cross paws, then there's no knowing with a plain algorithm

tzenes

right

Ivo Flipse

then I need to check for things like orientation of the paw, the toes will probably be inwards for instance

tzenes

7:15 PM

or if they walk backwards

Ivo Flipse

and I know the front legs tend to have 60% of the weight

tzenes

interesting

Ivo Flipse

well the person who did the measurements luckily wasn't an idiot

so she did a very nice job of recording which paw was the first and make sure they walked straight and with a constant velocity

well the weight ratio is tricky to use, since they plan to use it on lame dogs

I'm sure there will be dogs that have it backwards

> What happens if there's no answer after the bounty period?
What happens if I feel my question is still unanswered?
What is automatic awarding?
**At the end of the bounty period, if the bounty starter has not manually awarded the bounty, eligible answers can be automatically awarded half the bounty amount. The criteria for an answer to be eligible for automatic awarding are as follows:**

The answer must be given after the bounty was started
The answer must have a score of at least +2
If two or more eligible answers have the same score, the oldest answer is awarded the bounty.

I'm going to refactor my code the coming week, so it doesn't consist of 50% duplicating code and put some things in functions

then try and store stuff in a small DB and try to apply it to all measurements

which will probably make me run into tons of strange problems

and I want to divide the paw into 5 subgroups, one for each toe and the fatpad at the back

shouldn't be too hard I reckon

I would just look for local maximums, draw a small circle around it, tweak the size so they don't overlap and make sure they all have the same size. I'll just ignore the pressure that's left behind

radp

What if the dog stumbles??

(I use double punctuation as a way to indicate the joking nature of the message.)

Ivo Flipse

then the measurement shouldn't be stored :P

well your quite right actually

but you shouldn't try to program around user mistakes :P

radp

7:23 PM

Well, I'm just trying to find use cases, I guessed this was going to be eventually used for some kind of dog rehab program

Ivo Flipse

yeah, it is

radp

...or a wii blockbuster :D

"the balance board dog edition!"

tzenes

sorry had to deal with something

Ivo Flipse

I tried to convince my boss to lend the system to game universities, so they could design some rehab/balance games

tzenes

it looks pretty good

Ivo Flipse

7:25 PM

so you can evaluate a kids stability during rehab

tzenes

ideally you aren't going to be able to cover every case on the onset

but eventually you should be able to program around it

Ivo Flipse

off course a wii-balance board can do it too, but it's miles off accuracy wise

yeah, I just need to look carefully about error-catching

that I program it in such a way that it just continues if an error is raised

sadly, my programming experience lacks in that field

as with including a simple GUI to run it without python

but @badp we've measured about 35 healthy dogs now, with different weight classes to see how the system holds up

radp

cool

How's programming with scipy?

Ivo Flipse

then we can increase the number to get a nice database/baseline of healthy dogs

and from there compare lame dogs with healthy ones, before and after surgery

it's fine, though this is mostly numpy and matplotlib (not that the difference matters)

if I manage to properly divide the paws into 5 subgroups, then I should consider writing an article about it, since it's pretty ground-breaking for veterinary research :P

radp

one per "finger" plus the "palm"?

Ivo Flipse

7:33 PM

yeah

most published studies at the moment are done with a competing device, which lacks the resolution to really divide the paws in a proper way

radp

awesome!

Ivo Flipse

though really this work is just a nice way to experiment with Python so that in the future I might be a bit more proficient

radp

8:48 PM

Any news from Jin re: styling?

tzenes

10:19 PM

I'm not sure how I feel about this question

he's asking and answering it back to back

JavadocMD

10:58 PM

Hm.... anyone know if titans outside your walls will go away eventually? (Dwarf Fortress)

I have a hairy, eight-legged giant sauropod with deadly spittle problem.

It's already slain Iteb Momuzakir the Cat. :(

Ivo Flipse

man I keep getting my ass handed to me in 1v1

I seem to have an issue with air units

regardless of the class

tzenes

@Jav I don't think so, but I'm not sure

@Ivo game?

JavadocMD

@IvoFlipse I got bumped down to Gold last night. I'm winning a lot more now. ;)

Ivo Flipse

sc2

I'm in bronze

near the top, but don't see myself pushing through quickly

had a bad loss streak

JavadocMD

What race do you play?

Ivo Flipse

11:03 PM

random

tzenes

best way to tell if you're going to get bumped up is to check the rank of the players you're against

that might be part of your problem...

Ivo Flipse

well I had one protos player who was insanely fast

I was focusing on getting zealots quick

but had to pick something just when the match started

he ended up coming into my base when I had 2 zealots, he had three or four

must have skipped on some of the probes

tzenes

how many gateways did you have?

JavadocMD

:160378 Same goes for being bumped down. I knew my days in Plat were numbered when I was only being matched up against Gold and Silver players. :( B.net is a bitch sometimes.

Ivo Flipse

I had two

but I guess I built too many probes

tzenes

11:05 PM

how many probes?

Ivo Flipse

I should tweak my number of workers

no idea

tzenes

well there is no reason to stop building probes

but if you had 2 zealots by the time you had 30 probes, you have a problem