The Bridge

Tim Stone

3:02 PM

I think I only flew on a 747 once or twice, but I did get to sit on the upper deck one of those times

Unionhawk

Never been on an upper deck

But I think I've flown on a 747

Probably

Yuuki

@Unionhawk And now you never will! 2017 strikes again!

Unionhawk

Meh

Other planes have upper decks

arda

yay flags

Unionhawk

Besides that's just United phasing out 747 so far

and besides, I pretty much only fly Southwest and Frontier these days

Sterno

3:05 PM

If we start counting "phasing out old airplanes" as "OMG THIS YEAR IS TERRIBLE" then I reserve the right to troll you all even harder on Fridays

Unionhawk

Southwest only runs 737, and Frontier only runs Airbus

Yuuki

inb4 Trump fines Frontier for not using American-made Boeing aircraft.

Kevin van der Velden

Hmmm, 60TB SSDs

Yuuki

And, I dunno, fines all airlines for flying international flights instead of just domestic.

Tim Stone

@Sterno Hey, the 747 is iconic!

Sterno

3:07 PM

So were bell bottoms

Kevin van der Velden

@Sterno No. You're only allowed to troll @TimStone for that

Tim Stone

@Sterno Don't you tempt fate. If those come back again I will blame you

Sterno

@TimStone 2016 already did that

Tim Stone

SON OF A SEAMSTRESS

Oh fun, Ben Carson's confirmation hearing is starting

Sterno

(I mean, not really... google "bell bottoms are back" and there's a story about it from pretty much any year)

Yuuki

3:09 PM

I have not been able to cleanly remove a single Reese's Cup from the paper cup this year, there's always a little bit of chocolate and peanut butter left stuck on the cup. 2017 officially worst year on record.

Kevin van der Velden

@TimStone that was trump's "I'm not racist, I have racist a friend"-guy right?

MadMAxJr

Sweet. Spurious Correlations finally loads for me today.

Tim Stone

@KevinvanderVelden I mean after he insulted him repeatedly in the primaries, yeah

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden I mean, to be fair, Trump hasn't really been all that racist to blacks.

Unionhawk

@TimStone He only bullies people to show he cares

And because he's insecure

I mean what who said that

Kevin van der Velden

3:11 PM

@Yuuki just because he's more racist to other people =p

Tim Stone

I just want someone to ask him about when he said he wasn't qualified to run a department

@Yuuki (I mean, except the Central Park 5 and the discriminatory renting practices and the assumption that they all live in poor, urban communities)

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden Well, I mean about the most racist thing I remember him saying with regards to black people was "what have you got to lose by voting for me" and probably some disparaging things about BLM.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Is there any way to pickup Skeleton Arrows?

Is there any way to pick that arrows that have been evaded by my player?

minecraft-pocket-edition

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Q: Badges, SDHC and System Transfer

Im planning to maybe get a new 3DS for me, I know I can keep all my bought games and dlcs if I perform a System Transfer, but I have a few questions about this: 1) Will Pokemons from my Poke Bank be transfered over too? 2) Will badges from Nintendo Badge Arcade be transfered over too? 3) While...

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Tim Stone

3:27 PM

Lights out in the Intel Committee room for Pompeo's hearing. Went dark as Warner was discussing Russian hacking… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/819565885753098240

Tweeted by bridgetbhc on January 12, 2017 at 3:25 PM

lol, that's a bit ominous

Unionhawk

"Russian hacking" thunder

I'm pretty sure the Russians are already hacking the weather

That's why global warming exists

Arperum

@Unionhawk No, that was the Chinese.

Unionhawk

Well, the Russians have a motive

Frank

Getting SharePoint to play nice with Access when you have multiple users is...interesting.

Unionhawk

increased global temperature means it won't be cold as shit in Russia

Arperum

3:31 PM

Probably secretly organized by @PrivatePansy, since all of Asia is China anyway.

@Unionhawk It's not working out in Europe now, people are freezing to death in multiple countries, especially Poland.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Team kill scores in Minecraft

I am setting up a PvP map modeled after Team Death Match. Whenever a player on one team dies, the other team gains 1 point. There will be 20-kill matches. When a team wins, both teams are sent to spawn. What I need is for each death of an opposing player to be turned into a point of score for ...

minecraft minecraft-commands

Unionhawk

Man I love watching source speedruns

MadMAxJr

Oh? What's on AGDQ? (Can't visit the site from here.)

Unionhawk

I can't either, I'm watching the Blue Shift VOD

with this song in my head during bhop sequences:

CSS : phoon too much for zblock [FULL HD] bunnyhop fragmovie

►

such a classic

But the movement tricks in source runs are insane

Jason Berkan

Apparently the other half of the fun of XCOM is waiting for it to download. (cc @Wipqozn)

Kevin van der Velden

3:42 PM

@Unionhawk also no it probably means we'll get another ice age

Unionhawk

I should finish XCOM Enemy Unknown

@KevinvanderVelden So that's why they put up with having Siberia in their country to begin with

Yuuki

DOOR STUCK! DOOR STUCK!

►

Jason Berkan

@Arperum Or here. Second day I've had to drive my kids to school because it is too cold for them to walk.

GnomeSlice

@Arperum I think "climate change" is a much better phrase than "global warming"

Unionhawk

I mean

Kevin van der Velden

3:44 PM

@GnomeSlice It is indeed far more accurate

Arperum

@GnomeSlice Yes.

Unionhawk

Average global temperatures have been going up

Sterno

BUT HOW CAN THERE BE ICE IN MY ICE CUBE TRAYS IF THE WORLD IS WARMER?

Arperum

@Sterno MAGIC

GnomeSlice

why is nobody trying to invent a weather machine

Kevin van der Velden

3:45 PM

Yes but if people then try to throw snowballs in senate we can even more easily shake our heads and say it's climate not weather

Sterno

BAM JUST DISPROVED YOU WITH SCIENCE

Unionhawk

(relative to the highest average temperature recorded in that month, not "it's warmer in December than November")

GnomeSlice

Like all the other cool shit from old scifi has been invented now, why no weather machine?

Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice actually we're working on ways of artificially influencing the weather (in methods of our choosing)

But it won't be a big machine with buttons, more like sending a plane to drop things into clouds to make them rain

Unionhawk

Yeah I imagine it's not there yet because it's a hard problem at best

Yuuki

3:46 PM

Cloud seeding

Cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, is a way of attempting to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds, by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, which alter the microphysical processes within the cloud. The usual intent is to increase precipitation (rain or snow), but hail and fog suppression are also widely practiced in airports. It has not been proved to work.[citation needed] Cloud seeding also occurs due to ice nucleators in nature, most of which are bacterial in origin. == Methodology == The most common chemicals...

Kevin van der Velden

INB4

@Unionhawk we have it, it's just not reliable yet

Unionhawk

> It has not been proved to work.[citation needed]

lol

Kevin van der Velden

> The largest cloud seeding system is in the People's Republic of China. They believe that it increases the amount of rain over several increasingly arid regions, including its capital city, Beijing, by firing silver iodide rockets into the sky where rain is desired. There is even political strife caused by neighboring regions that accuse each other of "stealing rain" using cloud seeding

Tim Stone

I can't wait until someone finds a chemically reactive way to safely remove methane and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere so the chemtrail people can have a field day

Kevin van der Velden

You mean trees? (for at least the last one)

Unionhawk

3:48 PM

There's a tay tweet about chemtrails thinking about the logistics of chemtrail planes

Kevin van der Velden

There's also the relevant xkcd

Unionhawk

Like "don't the pilots have families" and "don't they need to land" and "are there really people on the ground ordering this why would they do that they're there too"

Kevin van der Velden

The 'controlled demolition' theory was concocted by the government to distract us. '9/11 was an inside job' was an inside job!

Jason Berkan

That's awesome. It also needs to onebox smaller.

Arperum

@JasonBerkan Your face needs to be smaller.

Like, you barely fit in your avatar.

GnomeSlice

3:50 PM

In gaming news: vg247.com/2017/01/09/…

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan Oh yes, loads of funto be had

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice I understand that people like Suda 51 games, I've just never gotten into them.

I have yet to finish Lollipop Chainsaw.

Wipqozn

@Chippies Oh, I'm colourblind, so that was lost on me

GOSH DARN COLOURIST

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn 23GB! It might be done downloading just before I go to bed tonight.

Yuuki

But it's good that he's interested in making a game for the Switch.

Lord knows Nintendo needs more third-party devs.

GnomeSlice

3:57 PM

No matter which kids book I read to my screaming baby on an airplane, the moral of the story is always something about a vasectomy.

Tweeted by VancityReynolds on August 7, 2016 at 2:07 PM

@Yuuki It also says he tried ty get his hands on the frostbite engine. would that even run on the switch?

Wipqozn

@JasonBerkan My word. If it helps I'll likely be playing while you're still waiting.

arda

btw if any of you is following me on twitter you might want to mute me on there, because I'm basically spamming retweets of turkish politicians atm: The Presidency system is being voted, and something is sparking the little nationalism left in me.

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice No idea.

Jason Berkan

@Wipqozn That does help.

Kevin van der Velden

@GnomeSlice no word yet (as of last november at least)

Wipqozn

4:00 PM

JEsus the switch reveal is really late

12am LOCAL TIME CAPS LOCK FOR SOME REASON

Unionhawk

That's 1pm JST

Yuuki

@Wipqozn I always forget that @Wipqozn is in a timezone even crazier than Mountain Time.

Unionhawk

Mountain time is great

Because that means you're in a great and cool place probably

Or Wyoming

But odds are you're in Colorado, Utah, or Calgary or something

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Wait, people live in Mountain Time?

Ronan

@Yuuki Live is a strong word. I'd use exist.

Or maybe survive.

Unionhawk

4:08 PM

@Yuuki Denver is the number 19 city in the US by population

Kevin van der Velden

@Ronan possibly metastasize

Jason Berkan

I'm on Mountain time for half the year.

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Population drops off precipitously after the first three and considering that estimates only have it barely above El Paso (which had a higher population in the 2010 census), I dunno.

Frank

Got it! Finally

Stupid credential caching and Access' reliance on internet explorer, of all things.

I like how the stupid thing just hangs and hangs when it can't connect, instead of throwing an error of some sort.

Kevin van der Velden

@JasonBerkan I'm sorry :(

Jason Berkan

4:20 PM

@KevinvanderVelden No, it's a good thing. The half a year part is because we don't switch our clocks, so no DST!

Kevin van der Velden

Oh that definitely offsets it!

That is pretty good

Yuuki

@JasonBerkan ... Arizona?

Jason Berkan

Is it -30 in Arizona?

arda

So I was feeling like our house was cold today.

Apparently someone (guess who?) got the gas subscription cancelled.

Lazers 2.0

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Q: I wanna challenge the elite four again but,do I have to battle Proffessor Kukui again

Because I ran away from Tapu Lele, and I heard that you can only catch it again after beating the elite four. But I don't wanna battle Proffesor Kukui again.

pokemon-sm

Yuuki

4:23 PM

Well, IIRC, Canada follows DST pretty much completely and the US does with the exception of Arizona and Hawaii.

And certain reservations and island territories.

Kevin van der Velden

> Regina, Canada

Yuuki

@KevinvanderVelden You might want to hide that behind text, it's possibly flaggable as NSFW.

Kevin van der Velden

I mean, canada is pretty bad

Unionhawk

@Yuuki It's above Atlanta by 200,000

Jason Berkan

@Yuuki And Saskatchewan. We have our own time zone entry in Windows.

Kevin van der Velden

4:26 PM

@JasonBerkan every time I read that I still think of sasquatch first

Yuuki

Hmm... how to design a sidebar for a graphics sandbox?

I don't really want to use text in the menu options because that takes up too much space and is just busy.

Jason Berkan

@KevinvanderVelden Which, oddly enough, means that you would pronounce it more correctly than most people.

Yuuki

But glyphicons aren't an option either because while I can find usable ones, glyphicons kinda have that whole UX thing where people expect "three dots" to mean settings and configs.

Kevin van der Velden

@JasonBerkan The kat and quat sounds are different though right?

It's a harder k in my head

Yuuki

@JasonBerkan Ash-catches-one.

Like Pokemon!

Jason Berkan

4:30 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Yes. It's the last part that gives people (mainly in Ontario) the most trouble. It's pronounced "one" like @Yuuki said, not WAN like WAN / LAN.

Kevin van der Velden

That's a pretty subtle difference I think?

Unionhawk

UGH

I think all my stuff is done

NEXT UP

fix the rest of this slacker presentation using only what I have in this 17k word (including code) final report

(code is at least 500 LOC or something idk)

96 pages of please dear god don't make me print this thing

user15026

@JasonBerkan yep, in Ontario we definitely do the Wan thing over the one thing

Yuuki

Hmm...

user15026

There is a kid screaming really shrilly on this bus and it's parent is feeding it smarties to shut it up. I worry what happens when the smarties run out

Yuuki

4:45 PM

Wan-tario? That sounds like Ontario's zig-zag moustache-twirling twin who rides a motorcycle and features in plenty of mini-game based games.

Jason Berkan

@Ash It makes watching TSN cringe worthy.

Yuuki

@Ash More shrilling for a few minutes followed by sugar coma and then diabetes.

Hmm... Photoshop uses icons as well, but I don't think the options are diverse/distinct enough to be able to do the same.

user15026

@JasonBerkan I apologize on behalf of my province