The Bridge

Unionhawk

02:01

I am incredibly out of shape, but it's okay because my fraternity (and friends) are just terrible at being Canadian

GnomeSlice

The Vatican has started the process of digitizing its vast and priceless collection of ancient manuscripts so they can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection, free of charge.

user15026

@GnomeSlice This fascinates me.

allquixotic

they should rope in the re-captcha project to help discern some of the more difficult (faded/blurred/whatever) parts, for OCR purposes... apparently it's been a hit with libraries

GnomeSlice

@AshleyNunn Apparently it's more than 40M pages, so it will probably take them a while.

Lazers

0

Q: Concurrent players on WoW - then and now

I recently looked at the question How many concurrent players does a typical WoW server have?, where someone asked how many concurrent players are on a typical WoW server at any given time. At the time, the answer was apparently 900 with a peak of 1500. The link given http://www.warcraftrealms.c...

world-of-warcraft

user15026

02:04

I'd love to be a part of the group working on the project

user15026

@allquixotic That would take so much time, though.

GnomeSlice

@allquixotic What, using captchas to decipher blurry images?

user15026

Considering their doc size I would assume they would have people who specifically would do the checking, especially considering they are religious docs, in some cases, where screwing up the wording could have interesting effects

allquixotic

@AshleyNunn they can release the non-OCR versions as images or PDFs or something in the meantime, and then work in the OCR as they get results back from recaptcha...? I don't know how libraries do it, but they probably have a similar strategy

@GnomeSlice yeah, except this time, you'll have to read latin or greek :)

user15026

@allquixotic That's not really how that works a lot of the time, no.

user15026

02:06

The more sensitive and rare the docs, the less likley the public will be allowed to have any hand in it

user15026

trust me.

Unionhawk

Dr. Dan is literally the coolest person ever

user15026

Also, they might leave the bits as historical artifacts, like how they have left the stuff with embroidered holes and the like alone and not tried to futz with it

user15026

Sometimes, the not knowing is part of the value.

GnomeSlice

Wtf Ellie Goulding did the music for the Divergent film?

:o

LessPop_MoreFizz

02:07

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Q: Are American media controlled mostly by Jews?

Image below can be found on many sites. Is it accurate and representative? Is it true that American media is controlled mostly by people with Jewish origin (more than 50%)?

united-states media jews

Ahahaha the chart.

GnomeSlice

@Krazer 8bitpice.bandcamp.com/album/bit-collection-vol-1

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz But what if they are a goy nonwhite jew what colour would they be then

LessPop_MoreFizz

It says goy not gay.

Short for goyim. It means non-Jew.

user15026

I am aware, my fingers just typed wrong

LessPop_MoreFizz

You can't be a goy jew

user15026

02:09

@LessPop_MoreFizz Eh, fair, I just want there to be more colours

LessPop_MoreFizz

That'd be like being a fish dog. Or a mammal bird. They are different things.

user15026

@LessPop_MoreFizz .....

user15026

I admitted to my mistake.

FEichinger

@AshleyNunn "nonwhite jew" is not represented in the chart either.

user15026

I don't need a lesson.

Yuki

02:10

@FEichinger Unfortunately, I'm on my laptop.

LessPop_MoreFizz

I was typing before you did, sorreh

Yuki

Which is not equipped with the drama button.

user15026

@FEichinger Needs more colours!

LessPop_MoreFizz

And was trying to just be silly, not mean. :(

Lazers

0

Q: How do I get the slurpuff dress in pokemon x/y

The girl always says she wants to see a girl in a colourful outfit but is there a specific outfit you gotta wear?

pokemon-xy

GnomeSlice

02:11

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this looks cool

LessPop_MoreFizz

@Unionhawk he's no doctor Steve Brule.

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Unionhawk

@LessPop_MoreFizz Dogfish?

LessPop_MoreFizz

I said fish dog not dogfish.

Unionhawk

SAME THING, APPARENTLY

David M

Evening all . . .

@LessPop_MoreFizz How's your liver?

FEichinger

02:14

Today in "MSO is a weird place": "I don't have this problem, so I'll just ask the same question from MSU here and confuse what the problem even is."

LessPop_MoreFizz

@davidm probably fine, though I don't understand why an invisible construction crew felt the need to follow me all the way across Connecticut.

David M

@LessPop_MoreFizz Buh?!?

FEichinger

@DavidM Headache, I assume.

LessPop_MoreFizz

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David M

@FEichinger That would make some sense.

Unionhawk

02:17

@DavidM @LessPop make sense? That'd just be silly.

David M

@Unionhawk Yes... I must have been confused.

LessPop_MoreFizz

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Unionhawk

Confuse level: 500 millibadp

David M

-1

Q: Is this a portmanteau, contraction, or perhaps both?

I have chosen to edit this post because it apparently has offended some of the more sensitive among us. While, personally, I feel this should prompt discourse rather than down votes, I do not wish to offend people who unwittingly stumble upon this question. I was contemplating a word that is a...

orthography contractions portmanteau-words

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz Is that John C Reilly?

allquixotic

02:21

@Unionhawk I thought you had already exceeded 1 badp when we talked about my fridge named Louis, or the fact that I want to be the mother of @GnomeSlice.

David M

I tried to ask if fucktarded is a contraction vs. a portmanteau word, and people got a bit bent out of shape . . . go figure.

4

GnomeSlice

@DavidM Hahahahahaha

Unionhawk

@allquixotic My confuse level is allowed to fluctuate

David M

@GnomeSlice Yet, the question about people swearing oaths on other people's testicles, was A-OK.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@gnomeslice yes.

GnomeSlice

02:23

@LessPop_MoreFizz Hey, you typed it correctly

user15026

@DavidM I may also hate the word, but it is a damn valid question!

David M

5

Q: Why place a hand on the Bible instead of the Judge's genitals when taking an oath?

Etymonline gives the etymology of testify as ...from testis "a witness".. + root of facere "to make"... Biblical sense of "openly profess one's faith and devotion" is attested from 1520s. Related: Testified; testifying; testification. (also, testament, intestate, etc.) In Biblical times, to...

meaning etymology

user15026

@DavidM Oh that was an interesting one :P

LessPop_MoreFizz

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Unionhawk

> The Wikipedia article linked in your question has a discussion of this point

Of course it does

Frank

02:24

0

Q: Meet Game X Online

Meet Game X. It's an online game. A rather popular online game, in fact. That doesn't really matter, though. Whenever the game has to be maintained, this happens: This is the natural course of online games. It goes down, so that something can be done to it. Nothing wrong with that. We...

discussion allowed-questions

Unionhawk

-.-

Frank

There. Feel free to downvote away.

I was rather too emotionally invested to ask that before.

user15026

@Unionhawk gee, what a shock.

user15026

@Frank y u not on steam? :(

Frank

@AshleyNunn I'm...not?

user15026

02:29

@Frank I don't see you :(

Frank

Silly Steam. It keeps setting me to appear offline, for some reason.

Sepia Lazers

1

Q: Meet Game X Online

Meet Game X. It's an online game. A rather popular online game, in fact. That doesn't really matter, though. Whenever the game has to be maintained, this happens: This is the natural course of online games. It goes down, so that something can be done to it. Nothing wrong with that. We...

discussion allowed-questions

Unionhawk

THANKS @SepiaLazers

LessPop_MoreFizz

How To Get A Job:

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@gnomeslice Meta doesn't need good SEO.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz It still needs a descriptive title doesn't it?

user15026

02:33

@LessPop_MoreFizz Thank you, I was trying to put that succinctly. deletes the paragraph she was writing

LessPop_MoreFizz

It's quite descriptive as is.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz it means nothing

Unionhawk

Who cares if it means nothing?

LessPop_MoreFizz

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Q: Let's Talk About UFO's, and I don't mean the Ask Question Mothership:

175 Reasons LessPop_MoreFizz Doesn't Like identify-this-game This is a list of every currently open unanswered ITG Question that has not seen activity in more than a week. All but the first 25 or so are more than a month old. It should be noted that this list is more than four times the size of ...

discussion identify-this-game

Yuki

@Unionhawk @GnomeSlice.

Unionhawk

02:34

@Yuki Right, figured I'd get that answer.

GnomeSlice

> What to do about content between playable states and release?

Unionhawk

It's fine as it is. People shouldn't be answering metas based on titles anyway

Frank

@Unionhawk If I get an answer of, "Yay, Game X! It's awesome!", I'm going to be awful sad.

user15026

@GnomeSlice There a reason for this quote?

Yuki

Okay, need some more helps determining which audition to send in:

21 hours ago, by Yuki

Script 1 - Audition and Script 2 - Audition

GnomeSlice

02:38

@AshleyNunn A title I thought would work.

user15026

@GnomeSlice It's meta, titles matter less

user15026

@Yuki I still say 1. For all the reasons I said 1. :P

FEichinger

God, I hate having to say this, but I agree with @Gnome ... The title should at least tell us what the question is about.

Yuki

@AshleyNunn Well, Script 1 is leading by 3 votes to nil.

And oh god, I just used "nil". I think I just lost a point on my "I'm 'Murrican" card.

FEichinger

"Game downtime - wat do?" would be perfectly fine.

user15026

02:40

Can we not have an edit war on the title please?

Trent Hawkins

Unionhawk

@Yuki cuts a corner off your "I'm 'Murrican" card

GnomeSlice

@TrentHawkins lol

Unionhawk

It's okay, as a texan, your card is by default an octagon, so it has more corners

Yuki

@Unionhawk Wouldn't cutting off a corner just give me more corners?

Frank

02:41

I like my title, thanks. It's too much of a mouthful to put the entire question into the title. — Frank 12 mins ago

Unionhawk

......

wait

Yuki

I mean, cutting the corner off a square turns it into a pentagon.

Unionhawk

hold on

wait a minute wait a minute

FEichinger

@Yuki 3:1

GnomeSlice

@Frank I came up with a shorter one.

user15026

02:41

@Yuki cuts off all the corners

Yuki

@FEichinger What, are you voting for Script 2?

FEichinger

@Yuki Yep.

Yuki

@FEichinger 'Kay.

Unionhawk

I think if you cut all the corners, iteratively, as n->inf, then you get a circ--WTF I'M THINKING ABOUT THIS TOO HARD

Yuki

@FEichinger Any particular reason why you prefer Script 2 to Script 1?

FEichinger

02:43

@Unionhawk Technically, a circle has infinite corners, too.

LessPop_MoreFizz

@gnomeslice stop it.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz ?

user15026

@FEichinger What how

LessPop_MoreFizz

If you make an edit and the original author instantly reverts it, hitting the rollback button again is never appropriate.

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz I didn't roll it back.

I came up with something shorter because he said it was too long.

David M

02:44

@LessPop_MoreFizz True that!

GnomeSlice

Sorry, I was just trying to help.

Frank

@LessPop_MoreFizz I actually spent thirty seconds thinking about if I wanted to do that or not.

Unionhawk

@FEichinger Yes, that's what I mean, as you cut corners, you add corners, so as n->inf, ncorners->inf, therefore circle QED

user15026

@GnomeSlice We already said to leave it, in a few different ways.

Yuki

@FEichinger Depends on how you define corner?

GnomeSlice

02:44

@AshleyNunn Some people disagreed, some people agreed.

FEichinger

@Yuki Was going to reply that to @AshleyNunn, yes. Exactly that.

Yuki

Maybe?

Ullallulloo

@AshleyNunn It doesn't look like he did anything wrong to me.

user15026

@FEichinger Corner - where two edges meet? So how does circle?

Ullallulloo

He tried to improve it and listened to feedback when he didn't like the first improvement.

Unionhawk

02:46

@AshleyNunn If you have a regular n sided polygon. As n approaches infinity, the length of the sides approaches 0. And math magic says it makes a circle.

Basically math magic.

Ask @WorldEngineer

FEichinger

@Unionhawk This, basically.

Yuki

@Unionhawk Calculus, go!

LessPop_MoreFizz

@gnomeslice chopping out words to make a quasi-sentence does not count as 'improving'. And more to the point, you're starting an edit war for no reason. After one back and forth, just leave it be, or maybe, try to convince the author, either with a comment or in chat, that the improvement is needed before forcing the issue.

Yuki

But if we define a corner as "point where two lines meet", I'm not sure how that jives. Is a circle considered a single line?

GnomeSlice

@LessPop_MoreFizz He has me on ignore

LessPop_MoreFizz

02:47

Slightly reconfiguring your edit and throwing it up again is just as counterproductive as mashing the rollback button.

Yuki

One in which all points are the same distance (radius) from a single point?

user15026

@GnomeSlice You can leave comments on the post and other signposts to indicate a view

LessPop_MoreFizz

@gnome only in chat. You can leave a comment.

user15026

@Yuki This is a thing I am also wondering.

FEichinger

@Yuki You need more range for the first script to fully click, and I think that would need more work than perfecting the second one from what you already have.

Yuki

02:50

@FEichinger More range? Do you mean I need more pitch variation?

Unionhawk

@Yuki Two lines of length zero meet infinity times along the edge of a circle.

Yuki

@Unionhawk That's... actually not a good argument.

Unionhawk

Plus, for any n-gon, as n->inf, it looks more and more like a circle

Example

Yuki

Two lines of length zero can meet an infinite number of times on any point.

Unionhawk

@Yuki Well... Calculus is weird

user20683

02:51

@Unionhawk truer words

Unionhawk

Integration is adding up an infinite number of zeros, and getting a number like 5

Just, because

user15026

@Unionhawk This is a thing I am rapidly learning the more I ask @WorldEngineer to explain things which happens a lot

user20683

@Unionhawk no, it's adding up an infinite number of arbitrarily small numbers and getting 5.

Unionhawk

Yes. That

Whatever

user20683

due to the fact that you have a limit, you can fake the addition

user20683

02:52

because math

user15026

can I do that and say 2+2=5?

Unionhawk

as divisions->inf, dx->0, so it's a limit and whatnot

user15026

because I want to.

GnomeSlice

Can somebody with fast internet do me a big favour.

user15026

@GnomeSlice Possibly?

Yuki

02:53

@AshleyNunn For large quantities of 2.

FEichinger

@Yuki Tone, primarily. You're rather monotonous - a lot of what you do good comes from changes in speed and slight pitch variation within a sentence - you need more range on the overall tone.

GnomeSlice

I need somebody to upload a video to my fiverr gig for me. I will have to give you my login info, so preferably not here.

I've been trying all day.

Their uploader is some broke shit and I think my internet is too slow

Frank

@AshleyNunn How about 2+2 = 11?

user15026

@GnomeSlice ping me someplace :)

Unionhawk

Well, that'd be (2+2)base10 = (100)base2

user15026

02:55

@Yuki This clears up a lot.

FEichinger

@Unionhawk No it wouldn't.

user15026

@Frank oooh magical yes lets

Unionhawk

Wait, shit

FEichinger

YOU'RE WRONG.

Unionhawk

You're right that's 3

Dammit

DAMN YOU @FRANK

FEichinger

02:55

I'm so sorry I know my binary.

Frank

@Unionhawk Base 3, actually. :P

Unionhawk

AH

welp

@FEichinger I SHOULD TOO I JUST BLINDLY THOUGHT IT WAS BINARY

I AM A FAILURE

>:(

user15026

@FEichinger I am pleased that I know how binary does things now.

Frank

@Unionhawk I like throwing wrenches into established norms to keep people on their toes.

Unionhawk

YOU

Frank

02:57

It makes people want to hit me with said wrenches sometimes, though.

Unionhawk

YOU MAKE ME LOOK LIKE IDIOT

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I DO THAT WELL ENOUGH ON MY OWN THANK YOU VERY MUCH

FEichinger

@Unionhawk YES YOU LOOK LIKE IDIOT

Unionhawk

I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP

GnomeSlice

we must push little cart

Unionhawk

I'm going to blame that on the fact that one of my professors is a Russian

allquixotic

02:58

whoa... 1990 episode of TNG had video playing iPad with rounded corners

FEichinger

@Unionhawk Actually ... Russians and Maths, you know ...

Unionhawk

@FEichinger YOUR FAAAAAAAAACE >:(

Frank

@Unionhawk I wasn't going to say it, buuuuuuut....

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