The Factory Floor

Danny Reagan

2:22 AM

@Mourdos Von Neuman Golems... That's pretty terrifying right there.

Golem mythos does not support it, however. A religious rite is required to produce them.

DonyorM

7:06 AM

Hello?

doppelgreener

@DonyorM Hello!

DonyorM

hey

how's life?

doppelgreener

man that is a philosophical question with depth well beyond my present capacity to delve into, but if you mean to ask colloquially about mine alone it's pretty good.

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you?

DonyorM

pretty good

You haven't done much on this site yet. Just browsing?

Mourdos

8:22 AM

@DannyReagan Its the best way.

Tim B

8:54 AM

Right, posted an answer to the golem question since it was still unanswered

DonyorM

Hey, could people take a look at the tag synonym I have suggested here:

worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/tags/economy/synonyms

Tim B

done

Michael Kjörling

@DonyorM We had a meta discussion about that.

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A: Commerce tag - synonym of economy?

The commerce tag is not useful and should be removed. It is slightly more specific than economy without adding enough to justify its use. The economy tag is a useful distinction applied to several questions. The commerce tag seems more like a tag applied for the sake of it, just to make up the nu...

Worldbuilding Meta

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Q: More strict scientific culture in Worldbuilding?

I just found this site and was thrilled since I have a big and broad general interest in applied science and politics. However, when seeing some questions and answers involving magic and other not only imaginary but unreasonable scenarios, I understood that there is something else to this SE-site...

discussion

Tim B

9:19 AM

@DannyReagan How'd you like my war Golems then? :)

DonyorM

I personally thought it was awesome, Tim

Worldbuilding Meta

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Q: Cartography synonym of map-making

I have just proposed cartography as a synonym of map-making, can the community look at this and see what they think? I think cartography and map-making should be made synonyms because they are essentially the same thing. They have subtle differences, but not enough to be worth having seperate ta...

discussion tags

Tim B

9:31 AM

@DonyorM I'm going to have to reject your warfare tag edit :(

people know what warfare is, the tag wiki needs to describe what is in the context of this site, how to use it here

Tim B

10:41 AM

Hmm, unexplained downvotes...annoying :(

-1

Q: Getting an error parsing WSDL in Eclipse but not in SOAP UI, or NetBeans

I have an eclipse project and I'm trying to add a reference to the webservice http://cm.eurotax.at/EtxVehDataServices.svc?wsdl However when I complete the Web Service Client wizard in Eclipse I get the error: WAB0399E Error in generating Java from WSDL: java.io.IOException: ERROR: Missing <soa...

java eclipse web-services wsdl

Mourdos

11:03 AM

Have an upvote

Tim B

lol, thanks. :) I think I've worked out what's going on now anyway

although it doesn't help me solve the problem

eclipse is trying to parse it as soap 1, but the wsdl is in soap 1.2

Danny Reagan

@TimB Hah! Those are excellent ways to weaponize Golems. I really hadn't thought of the sheer terror factor inherent in them.

Tim B

11:47 AM

:)

The unknown is always far more scary than the known. If 24 golems march out in front of the tanks it's gonna be a turkey shoot.

DonyorM

That answer was awesome

Tim B

but if unknown assailants with unknown capabilities are constantly striking at you and you can't even find them....

if someone is hitting you and you can't even find them to hit back that's so frustrating to deal with

DonyorM

Ok, probably looks like I'm looking for rep, but I actually want to see if my math in this answer works. I don't really know the math very well, so I basically gleaned what I could from articles I found. I'm pretty sure it works, because I can get worked out values from online, but I'm not sure I explained it right.

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A: What would be the communication range of an underwater species?

TL;DR: At 1 km depth probably sound would travel about 642 meters, or if it how the same strength of normal conversation, without accounting for the fact that sound is stronger underwater, then it would go about 316 meters. There are many factors that are difficult to calculate that effect how f...

Tim B

At a glance the math seems ok, your answer is a bit chaotic and disorganized and has a few typos though

you should probably look at reorgansing it

Mourdos

12:05 PM

It is a sad day when this gets on the HQB. rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/49747/…

Tim B

lots of answers and votes will do that

DonyorM

@TimB Thanks, I worked on that

Tim B

You should specific what the sound that would travel that far is (i.e. speaking/shouting volume)

DonyorM

Ah, forgot that

Tim B

looks good though

I'd look up the loudest a human can shout

DonyorM

12:10 PM

thanks

Tim B

and also calculate a figure for maximum range on a shout

DonyorM

7 more rep till I hit 2 thousand

Tim B

also look at frequency range and see what's the best frequency a human can produce

DonyorM

All of these reasons are why you have so much rep and I don't have as much. Sometimes I just need to think more

Liath

I was just going to ask about your answer @DonyorM - it's much more like what I was after :)

DonyorM

12:12 PM

Thanks :D

Tim B

:) that's why I get paid to think

Liath

I'm going to leave the bounty open for a bit - I want to give it the chance to rise to the top but so far you're the highest contender

Tim B

bounty gets more people to look so question and answer gets more chances to rack up votes

DonyorM

Which is always nice ;)

I'm glad Irgi saw my math mistakes, it was pretty bad

Danny Reagan

@TimB

I saw the cannon question hit HNQ

Seems to be generating new users and views at a good clip. Nice question

Mourdos

12:26 PM

A reminder

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A: Community Promotion Ad

I'm happy to announce that we made it past the threshold on 4 sites now: RPG.SE Scifi.SE GameDev.SE Physics.SE The ad has also been posted at: Gaming.SE (1 more votes needed) Note that this is a community wiki, feel free to edit as you vote on our ad or if you post an ad elsewhere.

Danny Reagan

@Mourdos Wish I had the rep on those sites to help you out, there

Mourdos

Do you have 200 rep on any site? Or is it 500?

Yes, then you have 101 rep on thse sites. 15 is enough to upvote

Basically, once you have enough rep on one site, they give you +100 rep on every other site. So that you can bypass the new user restrictions

Michael Kjörling

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A: What is the association bonus?

Congratulations! One of your linked accounts has reached 200 reputation points, and as a result, all associated accounts are given a 100 point bonus. The bonus is awarded because you have proven that you know your way around the basic features of any Stack Exchange website, and with those 100 ex...

Danny Reagan

@Mourdos Handy, that

Tim B

:)

don't edit for a sec @DonyorM, gonna tidy up the english

DonyorM

12:42 PM

@TimB, ok thanks. I am definitely bad at english

Tim B

not bad

there you go

feel free to tweak any of the changes

DonyorM

Looks pretty good. Thanks a ton!

Tim B

mostly you just tend to repeat things a bit, and some of the phraseology is a bit clumsy

DonyorM

I'm still going over all this in school, but it's definitely not my best subject

Tim B

This sentance for example: Normal conversation at 1 km depth would travel about 2 kilometers in water, or if it how the same strength of normal conversation, without accounting for the fact that sound is stronger underwater, then it would go about 1 kilometer meters

Look at how long it is

and it jumps around

and repeats itself

DonyorM

12:46 PM

Basically, I think I need to proofread more

Tim B

and totally irrelevant facts - the question is about underwater so why even mention the range not underwater?

DonyorM

And get better at noticing that kinda stuff. Thanks for the tips.

Tim B

more than one comma in a sentence is a bad sign. More than 2, unless you are making a list, is definitely bad

DonyorM

In that particular case, I wasn't sure if Liath wanted the sounds directly transferred to underwater (i.e. same dB values) or if he wanted the value of the air sound translated to water. But it probably wasn't worth the space, he'll ask me to include the values if he wants them.

Tim B

my second sentence there illustrating the case where you would use 2

DonyorM

12:53 PM

I see

Liath

2:07 PM

You have the same problem I do. My sentences have 15 words when 10 will do!

Actually more like 50 where 15 will do ;)

Having said that it's a great answer :)

Tim B

2:32 PM

Bah, a one paragraph + one sentence answer just got more upvotes than any of my answers :(

lol :D

Vulcronos

pwned :(

Monica Cellio

3:01 PM

It's great that we're getting visibility on other SE sites -- good job! I'd like to urge just a bit of caution; the community-promotion ads are meant to be things that members of the host site want to run ads for, so if you find yourself joining another site just to vote on ads, without otherwise participating, ask yourself if that's being a good neighbor. We should talk up WB, we should participate on sites where we want to participate, and we shouldn't push our agenda overly. Only graduated sites get ads so this is probably ok; they'll have more users than us. But consider appearances. — Monica Cellio 31 secs ago

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I posted that ^^^ as a comment to the question, but it's tied into discussions on the answer, in here, and probably other places, so linking it here too. Thanks for all the great work on spreading the word! And let's do our best to not get into voting tugs-of-war with users on the target sites, ok?

Shokhet

Upvoted again on Physics :) — Shokhet yesterday

@MonicaCellio I wouldn't have done that if I wasn't already a member of Physics (just to clarify)

Monica Cellio

@Shokhet thanks. And I'm not trying to call anybody out; I don't know who's active where and have better things to do than to compare user lists across sites. :-) I just saw enough comments along those lines that I thought it worth saying something.

Shokhet

3:17 PM

@MonicaCellio All right, no harm done. :)

Monica Cellio

@Shokhet ok, just want to make sure you didn't think I was criticizing you -- not the intent at all.

Shokhet

@MonicaCellio I didn't think that, don't worry :)

On the on-topicness of magic questions -- I've edited my Eragon question and received an answer .....what do you guys think?

Tim B

updated question is better

I'd put the update before the divider not after it though

start with the important stuff

Shokhet

@TimB Maybe.....

Vulcronos

3:37 PM

@TimB And there goes the solar system. At least we managed to lift the rock I bit before the human explosion blew it into orbit. :)

Mourdos

Is it possible to cool down a volcano planet? Apparently... spectrum.ieee.org/images/may07/images/clim01.pdf

Shokhet

@Vulcronos lol

@Mourdos That's an answer!

Though you'd need some technologically advanced species to interact with the planet for that to happen; AFAICT none of those are natural ;)

Iron dust?

Tim B

Well the goal is to artificially cool a too-hot planet for terraforming surely?

Shokhet

3:53 PM

@TimB I'm not sure.......

Are you asking about a natural process, or an artificial one? — Shokhet 14 secs ago

Mourdos

@Shokhet I'll write the answer up later. By copying the text and providing the source

Shokhet

@Mourdos That works.

Watch the comments on the question, though, in case it turns out he wants a natural process.....

Tim B

Any answer would be worth mentioning that we have no fast ways to do this. You're talking hundreds or thousands of years.

Monica Cellio

4:13 PM

@TimB I love your golem answer! Nice job!

Mourdos

@Shokhet Done!

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A: Is it possible to cool down a volcanic planet?

Volcanic planets are actially in the process of cooling themselves down already (see bolded answer futher down.) In addition, the heat is not from the volcanos but rather the greenhouse effect. "Venus is hotter due to the greenhouse effect: Venus has an atmosphere about ninety times thicker than ...

Yes, a shameless copy paste (with editing). Following that SE prefers we copy relevant data rather than linking

Danny Reagan

@MonicaCellio Have you ever had a question about Golems on the Judaism SE?

Mourdos

Heading home now, cya

Danny Reagan

Huh. Just looked that up. It seems you've had ~20 questions on or related to Golems. I should have looked there for some info first. :D

Monica Cellio

5:51 PM

@DannyReagan yup. :-) Here are a few that might interest you:

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Q: Was there a GOLEM?

was there really a golem made in Prague that was alive and interacted with other people? I heard that this story was nothing more than a made up tale in a children's book. Does anyone know the real history behind it? What evidence do we have backing it up? Is it brought down in any written autho...

history myths theurgy

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Q: Does Robot = Golem?

Would an anthropomorphic robot who could communicate with and do the bidding of humans qualify Halachicaly as a Golem? Would new rulings have to be devised for their status?

halacha minyan technology

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Q: sefer Yetzirah ox goring,or Golem damages

If an ox made from sefer Yetzirah gored a regular ox, or vice versa, or if a golem hit someone is there any Torah obligation to pay for damages that was inflicted? I used the classic example of damaging(Torah's example) ,but my question extends to all types of damages by things created by sefer ...

halacha animals torts-damages theurgy

^^^ In other words, are you liable for your golem's damages?

Danny Reagan

@MonicaCellio Hah! That's an interesting question, that is.

Shokhet

7:05 PM

@Mourdos Nice, +1!

Tim B

9:01 PM

@Mourdos Well, SE doesn't prefer that you steal copyrighted work...what's the license on the thing you copied from?

Worldbuilding Meta

11:36 PM

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Q: MathJax render failure in Suggested Edit queue

Now that we have MathJax, people are editing old posts to replace compromises with clear mathematical notation. I just approved an edit to this answer. In the Review Suggested Edits queue, selecting "rendered output" did not display correctly rendered MathJax. After I approved the edit, I looked ...

bug

githubphagocyte

@TimB @MonicaCellio @MichaelKjörling this has come up in the Suggested Edits queue but the tag blacklist meta.stackexchange question it links to doesn't appear to make clear what the process is. I've skipped the edit for now until someone who knows how tag blacklisting works can look at it.

Similarly for this

Now that I've skipped those two suggested edits, I've realised that they were just relating to the tag on meta, and I was overcomplicating it. I should have just approved them. I've gone back and pressed approve, but I'm not sure if it works like that after I've already pressed skip. I apologise if I've created extra work...

When making an embarrassing mistake, be sure to ping all three prospective mods...

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