The Bridge

Ave

1:03 AM

@Ronan can you confirm that you are mastodon.social/@nanor

Wipqozn

@MBraedley The bluff Trail is a great hike. I did the short loop with a buddy today.

MBraedley

@Wipqozn Yeah, I've done that trail before. It is nice.

Wipqozn

@MBraedley We did gaff point near Lunenburg last week. A much easier hike but it's got fantastic views the whole way.

Lazers 2.0

2:50 AM

-1

Q: How can i practice eugenics without getting caught?

I made myself a nice artificial village, however I severely underestimated the number of villagers it would create: I now have a couple hundred villagers all crammed in this tiny spot here, and as you can see with the hearts, they aren't showing any signs of stopping. This isn't a bad thing, ...

Private Pansy

@Lazers2.0 Well, I did nazi that coming

Memor-X

3:06 AM

> Did I say death camps? I meant happy camps, where you will eat the finest meals, have access to fabulous doctors, and be able to exercise regularly

- finest meals = wheat
- fabulous doctors = quite sure an iron golems count when it comes to being a dentist
- exercise regularly = well they are breeding like rabbits so that counts as exercise

Lazers 2.0

3:37 AM

0

Q: My PS4 Controller isn't connecting to steam

I have researched it, and I tried going into big picture mode and turning on ps4 controller configuration and then plugging it in, but nothing happens. Any help would be appreciated.

steam ps4 controllers

GodEmperorDune

3:58 AM

@PrivatePansy :/

Ave

6:06 AM

I love plane wifi

Kevin van der Velden

Heh, better then nothing? :p

Ave

I suppose

Kevin van der Velden

Or is it just in that range of "I can use it, but it's really annoying to do so"

Ave

it is that

anyways gtg

Kevin van der Velden

6:21 AM

Cya

Nzall

6:35 AM

@Ave That's about the same speed as wow patches download at when I'm using the Telenet WiFree hotspot at my grandma's place

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How can I enter the jewel shop in Jailbreak(Roblox) without keycard?

How can I break into the jewel shop without the keycard in Jailbeak. There is a white X next to the door. I punched it but it still didn't work. What should I do?

roblox

Memor-X

Nintendo's Paid Online Service is Pissing Off Switch Users

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concerning that your cloud saves, the only way to backup and transfer you switch data, could be erased because you don't pay, going by the wording provided

Ave

7:13 AM

oh wow

hm

can I post non-political news here

Nzall

@Ave I don't mind

Private Pansy

Best if it were gaming related

Ave

it's linux related

will post on tif

GodEmperorDune

@Ave the linus thing?

Ave

yep

Lazers 2.0

7:31 AM

0

Q: List of workshop upgrades I shouldn't buy in Iron Will mode

I'm looking for a complete list of all the workshop upgrades that don't benefit me when playing Iron Will mode. Obviously my goal of Iron Will mode is to get the achievements, so any upgrades after space can be ignored.

kittens-game

Ave

ah gdi this finally got merged

Private Pansy

7:55 AM

@Ave You didn't escape the . - is that intended? I don't think it makes a huge difference, but you might want to check that

It means that canaryXdiscordapp.com will match, where X is any character

Since this is just form validation I think it won't matter much

Ave

whoops, yeah

Private Pansy

8:10 AM

@Ave You need to double escape lol. \. becomes just . You need \\., which properly becomes \.

Ave

I just need ., don't I?

oh

it's java bs

Private Pansy

Right, but `\` is for the string, since you're specifying a string in Java (that gets turned into a regex)

@Ave Yup, be thankful that your usual language has either regex primitives (JS), or raw strings (Python)

A good IDE like IntelliJ actually automatically escapes regex and other strings that are copied in, which is really nice

Ave

I use python yeah

god bless python

Private Pansy

If you look carefully there's a correctly double escaped dot in the same regex string

Just copy that

Ave

yeah I saw

Private Pansy

8:17 AM

I wonder if it's possible to maliciously introduce bugs like this into regex, since regexes are so hard to read. Kinda depends on the maintainers not paying attention though.

I mean if you look at that regex it doesn't really need to be one - you could just use a URL parser and whitelist domain, subdomain and pathnames

It'll be longer, but it should be more robust

Ronan

9:03 AM

@Ave Yup

Nzall

@PrivatePansy I would honestly say that in pretty much every scenario where the text you're processing has a specific established standard syntax, a parser for that syntax will be a better option than a regex

XML, HTML, CSV, URL, JSON,... if there's a parser for it, it's a better choice than trying to wrestle it into submission with Regex

fredley

@PrivatePansy This is just one of the reasons regexes are a bad idea

Dragonrage

@fredley like the saying goes, if you have a problem and try to use regex to solve it, you just end up with two problems

fredley

I love how Jeff Attwood's blog post about regexes shows one of the worst possible things you can use them for: sanitizing input

This is how you get rekt, people

> I'd like to illustrate with an actual example, a regular expression I recently wrote to strip out dangerous HTML from input.

stevecarellno.gif

tbf thought that blog post is >10 years old

fredley

9:38 AM

slikts.github.io/js-equality-game

> 109% wrong

\o/

Nzall

@fredley That's worse than if you just clicked "check" right away

fredley

@Nzall Haha, [1]

Ave

10:15 AM

recruiter emails are the best

> We have a test based model whereby we trust data more than CVs and words.

oh no, it's a databro

fredley

> "in a heavy growth face"

Ave

how not to spell phase

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: GTA 5 Online problems

I accidently replaced the wrong car in GTA 5 and now it's deleted from my account. So what do I do now? It was pretty upgraded (Entity XXR) Do I get my money back?. Thanks.

grand-theft-auto-5

Memor-X

11:12 AM

@Ave unicorn companies!

@fredley ewwww, sound like a growth disease like corprus

Lazers 2.0

11:29 AM

0

Q: Scareface : the world is yours - U-gin's Shotgun bar - Assassination mission - manager dissappearing after sniping the target

in scarface (videogame) , before being able to buy each front you have to do a mission for the owner. I encountered a bug in U-Gin's Shotgun Bar mission where you have to assassinate the managers ex-Boyfriend. you take control of a hired assassin. After taking the shot and killing the target , Ga...

glitch scarface-the-world-is-yours

Lazers 2.0

11:45 AM

0

Q: Is there any trick to getting the sneak attack materia

From what I can tell, the only way to get the Sneak Attack materia is to win it as a prize in in A- and S-rank chocobo races. However, it never seems to show up as a price for me, and when it does you can bet it isn't among the ones I win. Is there any way to increase the odds of getting this ma...

final-fantasy-7

Nzall

12:52 PM

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/9gh5nu/dog_being_bros/ Apparently, "barkour" is a thing. It's pretty great!

Tweeted by dakami on September 17, 2018 at 12:48 PM

Unionhawk

1:30 PM

aaaaaaaaaa the library approve my room request please

this meeting is in 8 hours

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: DQ XI: Quest with Mermaid Help

To avoid giving to many spoilers... I am doing the quest with the person in the Hawaii themed town, where you talk to a mermaid. I have given her the item from the individual, and she wants me to talk to him again. The problem is that the person I am supposed to talk it is sleeping, and doesn'...

dragon-quest-xi

Wipqozn

→ 4 messages moved to This Is Fine

There we go

Unionhawk

2:02 PM

YES ROOM APPROVED

phew

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Unable to launch the game client

I used to play on a Windows-7 I can't launch the game after the Whitemane patch. When I launch the game using the Blizzard Client, there is a messagebox that says "Downloading game data" (or something like that, I'm not on my gaming machine right now, may edit later to post screenshot), and it ...

heroes-of-the-storm

GodEmperorDune

3:11 PM

On December 19, the story continues. Watch the all-new trailer for #MaryPoppinsReturns now. https://t.co/6F5JvbLBLC

Tweeted by Disney on September 17, 2018 at 12:51 PM

cc @ash @Yuuki

Yuuki

YouTube's been throwing a lot of Emily Blunt PR stuff at me recently.

Ave

We Made a Banhammer (feat. Nerd³)

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2

this is so sad

GodEmperorDune

@Ave noooooooo do-not-want.jpg

y u ban despacito

Yuuki

capybaras, man

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki #squadgoals

Lazers 2.0

3:31 PM

0

Q: How to disable steam client from auto-updating itself?

I am downloading a 24 GB game with a connection speed of 200-300 KBPS. It will take a week almost. Thing is that I turn off the pc every night. Steps carried: - Pause download - Exit Steam - Shut down computer - Turn on computer next day - Start Steam, resumes downloading. All good. Problem aris...

steam

Yuuki

3:53 PM

Argh, now I want to play the Torna DLC

fredley

Uh. Muting suggest_recycled_tweet_inline and suggest_activity_tweet actually has fixed my timeline. It's all chronological and there are barely any "x and y liked" tweets.

Tweeted by EmmaKinema on September 16, 2018 at 8:12 PM

2

GodEmperorDune

@fredley could be caching but this didn't work for me

i still have a lot of "X and y liked" tweets

fredley

Seems to have worked for me, on web

GodEmperorDune

yeah it's gotten a lot better for me, so caching and/or @Wipqozn was to blame

user15026

4:14 PM

Okay yes this is great

MBraedley

We Made a Banhammer (feat. Nerd³)

►

And I'm reposting

Tim Stone

@fredley I still cringe at what this implies about the method used for doing the muting

GodEmperorDune

5:16 PM

@TimStone lol

Arperum

I just finished book three of the stormlight archive. Now I'm waiting for book four. cc @Ash @KevinvanderVelden @Slowpoke @Wipqozn

Kevin van der Velden

I want the next book tooooooooo

user15026

5:29 PM

This reminds me I never finished the first one

Nzall

5:53 PM

@Arperum I'm most of the way through part 1 of book one

Ave

@MBraedley smh

Wipqozn

6:09 PM

@Arperum I was just saying today that I need to do a reread sometime before 4 comes out

Arperum

@Wipqozn lot of time left :(

Yuuki

6:29 PM

For when you want sausage on a stick but the county fair isn't for another two months.

5

cc @Sterno

Chippies

@Yuuki I saw this yesterday, but don't remember where...

I just assume everything I see is from here

Wipqozn

@Arperum He's aiming for 2020 so it's not so bad.

Arperum

@Wipqozn That's still over a year away.

Wipqozn

Frankly after ASOIAF a 2 year wait is nothing

murgatroid99

6:53 PM

Sanderson is probably one of the fastest for this stuff

And he has like 5 other books planned to come out before Stormlight 4

SaintWacko

@Yuuki ...I can't decide whether that's brilliant or stupid

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Well, he directed a torch right at his own fingers.

Arperum

@murgatroid99 The man does write a crazy amount of stuff at a crazy speed.

Mad Scientist

@Wipqozn the encouraging thing is that Sanderson is very consistent. And probably planned much further ahead than GRRM did, so I'm still very confident that we'll get to the end of the Stormlight series

fredley

7:17 PM

@SaintWacko Why not both?

fredley

7:30 PM

reasons for turning up one's nose at the Myers-Briggs schema, by Myers-Briggs type: I: too confusing E: too simplistic N: too mainstream S: too obscure T: too sloppy F: too cut-and-dried J: too vague P: too constraining

Tweeted by chaosprime on September 17, 2018 at 5:24 PM

SaintWacko

@fredley LadyWacko just got a book about the origins of that test that is apparently very interesting

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: Which PUBG vehicle can go the farthest without running out of gas?

Which vehicle in PUBG can go the farthest on a tank of gas? (I'm assuming that on every spawn, each vehicle type is spawned with the same amount of gas)

playerunknowns-battlegrounds

Wipqozn

7:53 PM

@murgatroid99 it helps when you're a robot programmed to write books

@MadScientist yeah I'm not at all concerned about Sanderson's ability to finish what he starts.

Yuuki

@SaintWacko What, that neither person who constructed the type indicators had formal education in psychology?

Lazers 2.0

9:08 PM

0

Q: Fallout 4: Marowski will not die!

Hello seasoned gamers, I'm currently trying to complete the "Kill Marowski" quest and it's infuriating! I'm level 3 Sandman perk. I've tried every type of weapon. As soon as he's asleep, I sneak into his room and try to V.A.T his butt. Every time his health hits 0, he sits down for a few seco...

fallout-4

GodEmperorDune

9:19 PM

WAYS TO TELL MY HUSBAND I TOOK IN SOME FOSTER KITTENS WHILE HE WAS IN GERMANY FOR A MONTH: I have taken in the kittens that were in need of a home and which you would probably not want me to take in Forgive me they are adorable so smol and so needy

Tweeted by ellle_em on September 17, 2018 at 5:53 PM

Cc @ash

the whole thread is great tho

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Honestly, the second post is by far the superior part of the thread.

GodEmperorDune

but i gotta go with plum meme

@Yuuki my enthusiasm for plum meme wins but yeah i like that one too

user15026

@GodEmperorDune oh gosh how did I miss they got more kittens yes good also yay plum meme

Yuuki

cat

2

Wipqozn

9:39 PM

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn tfw you are ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

Yuuki

> ~~DIRECT~~ much better

Lazers 2.0

9:56 PM

0

Q: Incorrect screen boundaries on PS4

I recently went back to play DJMax Respect on the PS4 via a different monitor than what I usually play on and found that the screen boundaries did not match up correctly with my monitor. Is there a way to manually adjust the screen boundaries to fit the size of my monitor?