As I was bitching about the other day. While some things are globalised properly, stuff like music and a lot of media arn't. Whether I can buy, say a song or a service is based on a tangled web of deceit of complicated licencing agreements.
@JourneymanGeek That's why we have things like compulsory licensing for music where someone can simply pay a rights group the appropriate royalty for a particular use.
Sadly, these structures aren't well established outside the US.
As I have access to moderator tools, I have tried today, as I do for several years now,
to access the "review" section of the moderator tools to which I have access because
of my reputation.
To my surprise I was greeted by this unfriendly message :
Do not approve any tag wiki edits that are ...
Over the past few years, I've run into several little "gotchas" when it comes to common moderation tasks such as migrating questions, reviewing posts, or evaluating suggested edits. These mistakes aren't as well documented as I'd like them to be.
What should I look out for when performing these ...
If you want to get debugging output, use console.log and view it there.
If you want to display messages to the user, put it in a nice div, maybe floating to simulate a nice formatted dialog (lots of frameworks include such functionality).
@DragonLord If you're just testing short snippets, try the Scratchpad in FF (Shift+F4) or even just running them straight in the console REPL.
Very useful for testing something quickly, to see what the result of some snippet is.
alert for debugging is just a bad idea. console.log lets you inspect the result in detail - you can expand and inspect the contents of arrays and objects.
Code completion and linting works well. Debugger works, but can be a bit quirky (you need to pause+continue it at the beginning sometimes, otherwise it waits forever).
Well, code completion works until you try to use bluebird... then everything dies.
I have calendar entries for all SSL certificates we manage, so that I get a reminder when I need to renew them.
I would like to set all those calendar entries to a specific color, but I can't find an option that would make this easy.
The only way I found was to search for "SSL EXPIRE" (which is...
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> Is it possible to order replacement rollerball tips for the Nib Creaper. I couldn't see them listed for purchase separately. Thank you. 1 answers
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· 5 months ago
Unfortunately we can't anymore. Noodler's used to offer them, but the price of the rollerball tips skyrocketed and they dropped them. These pens are actually discontinued as well, as a result, but there is still a good stock of them so they'll be around for a bit.
The email conversation with the seller was pretty fun. They basically told me "Oh, that's nothing to worry about. But we'll send you our new model of that bank. Keep the other one as well"
But electrical components that make weird, unexpected noises do worry me
> Uncertified batteries have been found in the affected batches.
O_O
huh, I was considering buying one of these chargers:
> The charger may short circuit under sustained heavy charging.
how does that even happen?!
and then there's this USB -> Lightning cable:
> What are the defects? A manufacturing defect causes failure of the cable's USB connection. What are the hazards? If the defect occurs, it causes overheating and melting of the USB connection's plastic housing and poses a fire hazard to consumers.
LOL
@JourneymanGeek what do you think of Platignum pens? ebay.com.au/itm/…
@JourneymanGeek well, the normal refills are horribly overpriced
I can still get the rollerballs for $14, but they're technically discontinued and they're not selling the cheap $1 replacement tips... and apparently the tips don't last all that long
@JourneymanGeek Well, I generally never use root on any machines I administer. When I do a fresh install from media, I always set up a personal account with sudo rights
But the box I'm setting up right now is a VM from an image
@Zirak Cool! I'll probably keep using so-chatbot-driver out of sheer stick-in-the-mudness until it breaks again (some auth change will eventually break it, let's face it), and then once it's broken, I'll chirrup endlessly like a baby osprey calling for food until you provide me a fixed auth script in NodeJS in the main repo, then switch over to that.
@HackToHell The file's posted just above, but phantomjs instruments the page navigation and such, and I just use readline to create a REPL and chug all input to the page's eval
As I have access to moderator tools, I have tried today, as I do for several years now,
to access the "review" section of the moderator tools to which I have access because
of my reputation.
To my surprise I was greeted by this unfriendly message :
Do not approve any tag wiki edits that are ...
I have calendar entries for all SSL certificates we manage, so that I get a reminder when I need to renew them.
I would like to set all those calendar entries to a specific color, but I can't find an option that would make this easy.
The only way I found was to search for "SSL EXPIRE" (which is...
