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8:50 AM

Morning

9:09 AM

morning

@TomV 6 > 994

@ypercubeᵀᴹ that's a very specific exception if I'm not mistaken, the XXII legion had some weird habit of using their number in unorthodox ways (like IIXX, too)

9:28 AM

@dezso were they Greek?

hot2use

@PeterVandivier 994 is invalid (the Roman equivalent)

9:51 AM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ no: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_XXII_Primigenia

10:10 AM

Now this quickly became more confusing. There were even two different XXII legions (apparently overlapping in time). The Primigenia one has inscriptions in the form of XXII (expected, and the vast majority of all the about 2500 inscriptions), IIXX, XIIX, and even XVIII (I guess to confuse the enemy).

OTOH the stone you linked to really refers to XVIII.

it's FRIDAY eh !!!!

@Mathematics Friday morning, if you wanna know

@dezso oh, is it now (thinking)

@Mathematics well, I am sure about the morning part

Jun 12 at 10:39, by ypercubeᵀᴹ

it's always morning in the Heap™ – Consultancy

what's wrong with me, it's Thursday here in UK !!!

that's what happens when I get too deep into SQL

10:39 AM

@dezso it says they were from Galatia, which is a place in Asia minor. Maybe not entirely Greek but some of them might have been

@dezso the stone I linked has LEG.XIIX. Does it have XVIII too?

Galatia

Ancient Galatia (; Ancient Greek: Γαλατία, Galatía, "Gaul") was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara, Çorum, and Yozgat, in modern Turkey. Galatia was named for the Gauls from Thrace (cf. Tylis), who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC, following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC. It has been called the "Gallia" of the East, Roman writers calling its inhabitants Galli (Gauls or Celts). == Geography == Galatia was bounded on the north by Bithynia and Paphlagonia, on the east by Pontus and Cappadocia,...

> The terms "Galatians" came to be used by the Greeks for the three Celtic peoples of Anatolia: the Tectosages, the Trocmii, and the Tolistobogii.[1][2] By the 1st century BC the Celts had become so Hellenized that some Greek writers called them Hellenogalatai (Ἑλληνογαλάται).[3][4] The Romans called them Gallograeci.[4] Though the Celts had, to a large extent, integrated into Hellenistic Asia Minor, they preserved their linguistic and ethnic identity

@ypercubeᵀᴹ I totally cannot see that anywhere. XXII Primigenia was a Germanic legion, from what I see.

@dezso I was reading this first: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_XXII_Deiotariana

I guess I mixed the two XXII legions.

But the XIIX inscription is from a guy in the 18th legion, not 22nd.

Marcus Caelius

Marcus Caelius (c. 45 BC – 9 AD) was the senior centurion (Primus Pilus) in XVIII Roman Legion who was killed in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. He is known from his cenotaph, which was discovered in 1620 in Birten (now a part of Xanten), Germany. Caelius is depicted wearing his military uniform, with phalerae (a type of military decoration), armillae (a type of bracelet), and a corona civica (an award for saving a fellow citizen's life), while in his right hand, he holds a vitis (carried by all centurions). On either side of his image are his freedmen (ex-slaves), Privatus and Thiaminus....

@dezso I don''t see anywhere that they used XIIX for the 22nd legion (any the two XXII ones), only that they often used IIXX. Where did you see that?

11:14 AM

this problem gonna kill nme

11:45 AM

@Mathematics the one you posted at the site?

12:03 PM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ GÓMEZ PANTOJA , Joaquín: Legio Duovicesima In: AQVILA LEGIONIS / Cuadernos de Estudios sobre el Ejército Romano

available from academia.edu

@ypercubeᵀᴹ or if it's Friday or not

already 'Duovicesima' is nonstandard, so you may guess the rest...

every day can be Friday if you believe hard enough

@ypercubeᵀᴹ it is lol

thanks for answering it

am trying to understand it

@ypercubeᵀᴹ I get it now, thank you

12:25 PM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ fiddle or gtfo

@PaulWhite well, if this is the full definition, then I know a country where this is already in place

1:15 PM

lol, @AndriyM what do you have against code fences?

Max Vernon

@TomV nor vi ;-)

1:28 PM

@PeterVandivier I love code fences. It's just that they are not needed when the code is already formatted. I mean, if you just add them around an already formatted code block without changing anything else, the resulting text will be rendered with spaces on the left. I was contemplating keeping the fences and removing the spaces instead. Decided to do the opposite to respect the author's formatting choice, even if it now looks so old-school and boring.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i vaguely remembered something evangelising code fences as more stable / forward-compatible / gluten-free

@PeterVandivier what are you both talking about?

dba.stackexchange.com/revisions/241019/3

> no need to add code fences, the code is already formatted well as it is, and syntax highlighting works too, thank you very much

the sass level is...

1:46 PM

Yeah, I made the mistake of failing to add a smiley. Even though all three people concerned (the post author, the editor and the reviewer) are regulars of the same chat room and, I believe, get on well with one another, there was still chance it could sound offensive. (And if it did, I apologise!)

i only call on Jimmy McMillan (the too damn high guy) when i'm deadly serious

@AndriyM jk, i was not offended in the least.

it would be rather hypocritical if i were, considering the comment i made on my revision 😳

Ah yeah, haha, that too

@PeterVandivier heh ;)

Trying to finish a PR at work before the lunch/party in half an hour.
Working with Cassandra ...

2:01 PM

how's that going for you?

@PeterVandivier I'm not involved with the administration of it

not yet and hopefully not ever ;)

@ypercubeᵀᴹ so we now have a Cassandra expert, too

2:40 PM

@dezso haha. I mostly deal with python scripts, just some of them interact with cassandra.

1 hour later…

Cade Roux

4:04 PM

Anyone do anything with XML macro expansion, or is there anything in XSLT that can do parameterized expansion? Like I have a manifest for a code generator, and I'm trying to make it a little more concise and less copy-paste and don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Right now, I have a lot of source to destination mappings for all these different cardiogram observations ETL rules and I am going to just program into the code generation that if the dst column is blank, just make it the same as the src column. But what if there was a macro that said dst="%make same as src of this same node/element%"

That way less typing/copying room for errors.

Lol, and yes, I realized that the regex replacement I was about to do there is wrong. It needs to be $1 in the replace for the captured group.