heheh. while I don't need caffeination to function
I am stumped as to how to get logrotate to append to the rotated-to file instead of scribbling over it (or refusing to scribble over it) when invoking logrotate multiple times in the same day for a daily rotation schedule (because I'm trying to work around a brain-damaged program, namely NWN, that truncates its log on startup)
superuser.com/questions/648754/… << I read this, but it doesn't seem to apply to my case in any simple way due to the daily rotation requirement
@Shalvenay Do you know if there is a NWN "master server" program that can run on Windows? Or do we just have to keep waiting for the login attempt to fail when it can't find the no-longer-existing server?
@Adeptus If you weren't already planning to, I highly recommend continuing through Hordes of the Underdark - it's one of the best RPG campaigns I've ever seen.
@Adeptus Also, it will take some searching for all of the requisite files, but the best RPG campaign I've ever played was the Aielund Saga, which as 4 acts (but the 4th is split into three smaller chunks so really 6 acts of uneven size.) neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/module/…
That's the first pack for it but you'll need some supplementary files. Absolutely incredible.
@Adeptus I think you just need to explicitly select "Export" characters all the time, right?
I just added my custom ammunition page for Dungeon World Bows/Slings to the resources I've made public. It is most easily accessible via the link that should still be starred in the chat.
Eh, I had been interviewing for a job for 10 weeks which culminated in a flight to New York City (from Utah) and found out this morning that I was rejected.
Just opened up my magical weapons list for Dungeon World to the general public: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kP_evn_HbROSY5NhE036chDXIBv_jD35s_uxE_7DSvI/edit?usp=sharing
@BlackVegetable If you click on "show all 6643" above the star board, you'll be able to filter on "messages posted by me" in the resulting window. That should get you there pretty quickly.
@Shalvenay I'm a pretty smart guy, I've always been pretty sure. That is, until I sit here the last hour trying to sort through a week's receipts, wads of cash in different currencies, and whose money is mine vs. the school's.
@trogdor I presume not to know the mind of the trog.
@BESW speaking of sanity botches, I've been listening to a bit of news these last few days, looking to catch up on what I'd missed. So now my request to US politicians, newscasters, and other talking heads: please stop using the phrase "all corners of the globe."
I must have heard that a half-dozen times in the last two days.
Today a kid sent me a funny math meme/rant about how math seems all easy until it's the test and you're driving 20mph down the highway and toss a piece of pizza out the window how many cupcakes can you buy for a human soul?
BlackVegetable rolls for sanity: 4 and 6 make 10, -1 for WIS modifier = 9. "Well, you stay sane for the most part, but you also cannot think of anything but cat GIFs for the next few hours. What do you do?"
@nitsua60 I realise it's an odd thing to get excited about, but I'm just that fed up with people quoting it like it's some fundamental truth that applies to every situation without any justification.
You start with these amazing things--numbers--that completely fascinate kids. They're full of limitless potential, and fun, and absurdities. And you can play with them.
@RollingFeles Hey, leave imaginary numbers out of this! Number theory is probably the most natural way to teach math and that probably starts with Group Theory.
@nitsua60 I second that wholeheartedly -- most people never get at what math really is because its those core tools that let you really explore properly (i.e. logic, sets, and proof)
because personally, I hate pretty much every math class I had after some point in High School, when everything turned into memorization of seemingly endless rote equations
I've got students studying fixed points in function iteration right now, for instance. Three days in class, a few more outside of class. Some of them might discover that solutions to f^2=x yield period-two orbits. Others might recognize that fixed points with slopes greater than 1 repel. (Don't worry about what any of those mean.)
@nitsua60 yeah -- it took me 3 tries to get through Theory of Computation because the first two profs both tried reading the book at me, which was actually worse than simply me not building a deep understanding
Hahaha. Physics is the only class I nearly flunked out of. The only reason I survived was because I stopped going to class, stopped reading the book, and started reading Wikipedia articles.
so, basically, with that cap sealed on, at first some water will come out, but it will slow down and stop eventually because it has lost too much pressure to let any more of the water out
@RollingFeles Groups sound way harder than they are. I have only a tiny bit of knowledge of the latter two.
@trogdor Because it isn't just using gravity to allow water to leave, right? Some it must flow up-hill to leave. So unless something can replace the water within the tank, the nature of a vaccuum is forcing the water to stay in equilibrium.
@BlackVegetable I had some understanding of all of this 6 years ago when I studied it in my first uni year. But I never really used it, so my brain just made some notes and dumped it after exams.
anyway, as might be imagined, my father was proud of me for immediately knowing what the problem was, but he was kinda disappointed in the the teachers that didn't know the basic principle of how it worked
@BlackVegetable well, that is close, but it isn't an issue of having to travel up so much as having to travel with the force of pressure more than the force of gravity
@trogdor I follow it after a serious examination of it, but there might be something different in the brains of clever folk like you compared to physics dummies like me when it comes to immediately making sense of these kinds of things.
My daughter struggled with maths last year. We think it was at least partly the textbook (even the teacher didn't like it). This year, a different textbook (different publisher/author) and she's finding it a lot easier (so far).
@Adeptus I have personally found that different text books helped me
though to be fair, even in those cases I didn't always feel like the teacher understood in the depths of their soul that the people they were teaching needed a way to absorb this new information
not a boring rote being shown to them over and over
some people do like learning by rote, but it simply doesn't work for everyone
my parents taught me to read by getting me interested in a book first
I wanted to know the arcane story about the mouse that these "words" were trying to tell me
and eventually I knew every letter and word that was in that book, because I knew the story by heart, and had internalized all that information without even realizing I was being learned something XD
of course, then they kinda needed to teach me not to read until I dropped dead, but baby steps, you know XD
I remember when my daughter was little - probably about 3? She brought us a book, looking upset, and said "Say me the words! I don't know how!" She also ripped up one book, we think out of frustration that she couldn't read yet.
@trogdor Yes. These days it depends on her mood & what else there is to do, but she has been known to read her favourites over & over. Harry Potter for instance, she reads the whole series in a week or two, then goes back and starts from the beginning again.
I must have re read that whole series at least 10-12 times
I would even re-read it again now, but I can't find the first book, and that is always how I start
well, half the time anyway
sometimes I guess I start with the prequel book
I think part of it, other than everything I liked about the story itself, was that I identified with the main character even more when he temporarily loses the ability to speak in the beginning, because I had major trouble speaking up at the age when I first started reading the series
I think those books are still my favorites, even now
I think the ones I've read most times are Dragonlance Chronicles. These days I don't get as much reading time as I used to, so I mostly read new things. Though I'm tempted to re-read the Cleric Quintet - I've only read them once, and enjoyed them, and recently saw someone recommend them to someone else.
