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Lazers

17:03

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Q: Forge Server and Client can't connect

I have installed the Forge Server and Client for version 10.13.2.1291. The server and the client both boot up fine, but when I try to connect to the server is gives me the following error: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: no further information: I am running the server on Ubuntu...

Frank

@Ben SUPER late reply: I build Gundam models.

MadMAxJr

I should build one of my kits this weekend.

fredley

@Yuuki This one is way worse

Matt Giltaji

@fredley ><

GnomeSlice

Hello friends

Matt Giltaji

17:11

hi @GnomeSlider

how is work?

Batophobia

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GnomeSlice

Work is done

First time I've had less than a full day at new horn

Job

For fuck shake

Matt Giltaji

god donut

Batophobia

Gonna need to make a translator for @GnomeSpeak

GnomeSlice

Exactly

Batophobia

17:13

horn==job
slider==spider
burger==??

fredley

shake==sake

I'm not quite sure how job becomes horn

Matt Giltaji

we really should add gnomeslice's autocorrect woes to the meta meme thread

GnomeSlice

Just deal eight it

fredley

Woah

MadMAxJr

Deal eight? We playing cards?

Batophobia

17:16

Google should add an "Autocorrect" translation along with Klingon and Pirate

GnomeSlice

No

Yes that works he idea

That would be ideal

I hate envy tho

Unionhawk

#lolwat firefox hidden pref security.turn_off_all_security_so_that_viruses_can_take_over_this_computer https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984012 #pwn2own

Tweeted by isislovecruft on March 19, 2015 at 9:08 PM

GnomeSlice

EVERYTHING

**

Yuuki

Brb, building a @GnomeSlice dictionary. Or as he would call it, a microwave.

Unionhawk

You guys are so meab

GnomeSlice

17:19

Microbe rag

Matt Giltaji

@Unionhawk you should expect that, we're the fridge

Batophobia

@fredley Doesn't mention the Firefox bugs at all

Chippies

5

Matt Giltaji

#noneedtowait2minuteswhenusingfunkyphone

murgatroid99

@Unionhawk That's not really as bad as it sounds. The long name makes it obvious that enabling it is a bad idea

GnomeSlice

17:20

What is that #alwayswait2minutes thing about anyway

Matt Giltaji

@GnomeSlice after 2 minutes, only mod abuse can edit a post

Origami Robot

@Chippies Well he had it coming. The cat was making it very clear that the dude's feet were smelly.

GnomeSlice

I've seen it in other places I thought

Chippies

@OrigamiRobot cats love smelly feet though

so perhaps they weren't smelly enough?

Origami Robot

Only certain smelly feet.

Matt Giltaji

17:21

@GnomeSlice idk in that case

fredley

@Unionhawk wat

Chippies

most likely the cat just didn't want to walk around, but still wanted to pass

Origami Robot

Point is, the cat was communicating as best it could.

Unionhawk

@fredley YEP

GnomeSlice

Or he was just locked

fredley

17:22

Be considerate of the cat in this situation: you were in its way

Origami Robot

AKA: poorly

GnomeSlice

Pissed*

fredley

@Unionhawk news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9239028

Origami Robot

Honestly, the dude was probably making some sound that the cat hated.

Batophobia

@OrigamiRobot Blame @Wipqozn

GnomeSlice

17:23

Cats do savages the duck they wang

10

Whatever

Fuck

Wang

Want

Frank

@OrigamiRobot That's totally the cat playing.

Bela does the exact same thing.

cloudymusic

you're just going to start doing this on purpose at some point

GnomeSlice

Why does my phone correct to wang

Origami Robot

I love @GnomeSlice's funky phone

Chippies

I'm not sure why, but this is very funny

Rapitor

17:24

@GnomeSlice phone autocorrect usually learns and corrects to commonly used words by the user

user15026

@GnomeSlice Perhaps type slower, and check before pressing enter?

Batophobia

@GnomePhone for Lifehack mod

Unionhawk

@fredley Though, as they said, if they're already modifying configs like that with reasonable precision, it's probably over whether or not there exists a disable security preference.

GnomeSlice

It doesn't help that I'm on the busty

6

FFA

Ffs

Chippies

busty free for all! Where do I sign?

Unionhawk

17:25

...

GnomeSlice

No

Rapitor

why don't you just re-read the message before you post it, you dingus

cloudymusic

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Origami Robot

@Rapitor Because it's funnier this way

GnomeSlice

Me, read shot Borgore I say it? Ha

Frank

17:26

...I can't tell if that's on purpose or not.

GnomeSlice

This road is ducking horrible

Frank

But it makes a rather effective demonstration.

user15026

sighs

user15026

I tried.

GnomeSlice

What happened?

Chippies

17:27

@AshleyNunn and that's all that matters!

Origami Robot

You. You happened.

GnomeSlice

@rapitor that explains why it keeps wanting to autocorrect to shit that doesn't even make send

Sense

fredley

Protip: read the messages you're about to send before sending them

Chippies

I don't understand why people even use autocorrect in the first place

fredley

No wait, don't, this stuff is hilarious

user15026

17:28

@fredley I already tried that suggestion

Chippies

I have never heard anyone compliment autocorrect

fredley

@Chippies I use swiftkey, that sutff is great

user15026

@fredley I love Swiftkey

fredley

@Chippies Why would they? The only time you're going to comment on it is when it's wrong

Yuuki

@fredley I use Swype.

GnomeSlice

17:29

I used to not use it but my phone typing I'd do bad everything just comes out bullseye

fredley

@AshleyNunn SwiftKey is the best

Unionhawk

SwiftKey makes some interesting corrections sometimes though too

fredley

So many keystrokes saved

Unionhawk

Like, I type a word, and it decides I want a different word

GnomeSlice

BULLSEYE

fredley

17:29

@Yuuki Swiftkey is a superset of swype

user15026

@Unionhawk sometimes, but for me it is very rare

GnomeSlice

Bull shut

Chippies

I tried Swype forever ago, I hated it

Yuuki

@fredley Something something something is a superset!

murgatroid99

I use the default Google swiping keyboard

fredley

17:29

1 min ago, by fredley

Protip: read the messages you're about to send before sending them

GnomeSlice

Bull shitttttttt

user15026

@GnomeSlice teach your phone to understand curse words. I had to. :P

Origami Robot

@murgatroid99 I hate the way it looks for whatever reason.

cloudymusic

@AshleyNunn then it can start autocorrecting benign words into curse words instead!

GnomeSlice

Haha I usually only text my dad and I don't curse in those revs

Batophobia

17:30

@cloudymusic want->wang

fredley

@OrigamiRobot I hate the way you look

user15026

@Chippies I hate swipe type keyboards but since Swiftkey works either way, it's great

Origami Robot

Swype is the best. I can absolutely butcher the word I'm trying for and it still gets it.

fredley

Swiftkey > Swype

Batophobia

Swiftkey > Swype

Chippies

17:31

@AshleyNunn sooo, what's the benefit of SwiftKey if you use it as a regular keyboard?

Batophobia

Fixed it for you

fredley

Swiftkey predicts the word I'm going to type next, and I can't cope without this functionality any more

Origami Robot

The only problem is there seems to be another autocorrect function fighting for control

Unionhawk

Swype errors are catastrophic though

fredley

28 secs ago, by fredley

Swiftkey predicts the word I'm going to type next, and I can't cope without this functionality any more

murgatroid99

17:32

@Unionhawk but then you can just backspace the whole word and try again

user15026

@Chippies really good correction and prediction - you can let it "learn" from your email/social networks, if you want, and it pays attention to corrections/predictions you pick (or not)

Chippies

I find that keyboard with prediction just makes me focus on what words it's offering me, rather than actually typing them

fredley

Most of the time, I don't have to type at all with SwiftKey

Unionhawk

Like, at least swiftkey can maybe guess kind of what I want if I fail, but swype will just throw unrelated words and a lot of times I won't notice until it's too late

Batophobia

The Predictive Text Challenge

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fredley

17:32

At most I have to type the first three letters of a word

user15026

and you can tell it RIGHT away not to predict a thing for a chosen set of characters

Origami Robot

I don't know what SwiftKey is, but I know it didn't come pre-installed on my phone whereas Swype did. That's pretty much all the convincing I need.

Chippies

by the time I pick out that the word I was offered is the one I want, I could have finished typing the word already

Batophobia

@OrigamiRobot IE came pre-installed on windows machines...

MadMAxJr

I miss physical keyboards on my phone. Like the early gen androids.

user15026

17:33

@Chippies I don't use it for prediction as much as correction

Chippies

@Batophobia Confirmed: IE > all other browsers

Origami Robot

@Batophobia Yea, and I actively had a problem with it. I don't with Swype.

user15026

And it is really good at understanding the butchery I make of words

Chippies

@AshleyNunn that makes sense, I don't trust auto correction thingies though

cloudymusic

@Chippies trust but verify

fredley

17:34

@AshleyNunn This. Even on 'precise' mode it knows what I'm trying to do

user15026

@Chippies I usually hate them, but since this one attempts to learn your style and words/phrases you use often, its greaty

GnomeSlice

But green of words is like what autocorrect is debug to do appetizer

5

I HIV up

5

Chippies

it also doesn't help that last time I actually used texting was in Latvia, where I would be typing in different languages and auto correct is the worst with that

user15026

@Chippies oh yeah, that gets tricky

Chippies

@cloudymusic but I can tell if I make a mistake if I'm paying attention to what I'm typing, if I allow auto correction, I have to re-read everything

user15026

17:35

I use the Russian language pack on Swiftkey and it handles my terrible russian pretty well. I don't use it much (because I am still a very much beginner at Russian) but it works nicely

Chippies

also, red squigglies are easier to notice than properly spelt words that aren't what you want them to be

fredley

@Chippies SwiftKey has pretty good language support

@AshleyNunn TIL you speak Russian

Chippies

@fredley 1) probably requires switching languages 2) doubt it supports slang

fredley

@Chippies Slang support for British is good, and it learns from your typing anyway (past and future)

Origami Robot

Whenever I try to say "don't" on my phone, I always get dint with a red underline and a white drop down menu for corrected words.

Unionhawk

17:36

lol AT&T

Chippies

@fredley in Latvia it's common to mix latvian, russian and english words into your vocab

Origami Robot

That is not Swype's normal behavior.

fredley

i.e., you let it access your texts, it learns how you word

Origami Robot

I have no idea what's doing that.

fredley

@Chippies It can learn this

Frank

17:37

@Unionhawk This is the biggest problem with the ISPs.

Chippies

@fredley so can default google keyboard, afaik

Frank

They're willing to reap the benefits, but they don't want the restrictions that go with it.

Chippies

just add everything you use to dictionary

fredley

@Chippies So manual

Unionhawk

No it isn't

cloudymusic

17:37

@Frank that's pretty much all business entities

fredley

Swiftkey -> tell it to read my texts and work it out. Google Keyboard, I'm assuming you have to add each word as you type it.

Origami Robot

Hmm, it's not doing it now. Maybe they fixed whatever it was in some update.

Frank

@cloudymusic Well, yes, but it's rather hypocritical of companies to do so.

user15026

@fredley I read it better than I speak it - I took it a few semesters in uni, and am slowly using Rosetta stone to learn more

Chippies

Having to type words out fully also helps you not forget how to properly spell them

fredley

17:38

@AshleyNunn Neat. Does Duolingo have it yet?

cloudymusic

@Frank Absolutely 100%, I just mean that it's not limited to ISPs

fredley

@Chippies Not neccesssarilly

user15026

@fredley I don't think so, last I checked.

Frank

@cloudymusic Fair enough.

Chippies

@fredley text speech is part of why people nowadays can't spell

or rather don't care to spell right

"it's internet, not an english class!"

user15026

17:40

@fredley just checked, doesn't have it yet. Has Dutch though, so I might also poke at that (because it would make my family, my grandma especially, happy. (My mom and her family came here from the Netherlands when my mom was 3))

Chippies

@AshleyNunn you're like, the most diverse person I know!

user15026

@Chippies I'm a redneck rural white kid, so this is cracking me up

Chippies

(I don't know that many people)

fredley

@Chippies Welcome to Not America

murgatroid99

@Chippies Is it time to go over that conversation from yesterday?

Mad Scientist

17:41

Hmm, Cities:Skylines is a bit more demanding on the GPU than I expected. Looks like I really need to buy a new one soon.

Chippies

@murgatroid99 was I involved in the conversation? Which one are we talking about here?

murgatroid99

21 hours ago, by Yuuki

'Unfortunately, the notion of marriage which prevails ... at the present time ... regards the institution as simply a convenient arrangement or formal contract ... This disregard of the sanctity of marriage and contempt for its restrictions is one of the most alarming tendencies of the present age.' --John Harvey Kellogg, Ladies' guide in health and disease (1883)

Unionhawk

Damn kids these days have their brains augmented by the google and are getting progressively dumber! shakes fist sarcastically

murgatroid99

That's kind of the middle of the conversation

Chippies

@murgatroid99 There's 2 sides of the coin with that though

Unionhawk

17:42

(hint: the conclusion of the conversation was "no, kids these days are no dumber than kids back in your day")

murgatroid99

@Chippies What's the other side?

Chippies

@murgatroid99 sure, you can not spell words fully because you're in a hurry, but eventually you'll have to spell properly and you won't remember how, because you have spelt words wrong your whole life

and for me personally, I find typing words out fully to be faster than to come up with short versions of words

murgatroid99

@Chippies I think you missed the point I was trying to make

Origami Robot

I'm pretty sure shorthand and abbreviations have existed for a long time.

Chippies

@murgatroid99 Most likely so

Yuuki

17:44

@Chippies Text speech is part of why ~~people nowadays can't spell~~ language is evolving.

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot Nope, this generation invented them. Obviously.

Origami Robot

Damn generations

murgatroid99

@Chippies You made a comment about the decreasing writing capabilities of "people nowadays". My point was that people have been saying that for 150+ years, and somehow, we're not all complete morons

Yuuki

I can guarantee anyone who knew Old English would be appalled at your spelling. And also not able to understand you at all.

cloudymusic

these kids nowadays with their music and their lack of respect for their elders

Yuuki

17:45

Or even Middle English.

GnomeSlice

Stupid word of the day: Ecclectronic

Chippies

TIL I'm an old cranky man

murgatroid99

Somehow, every generation writes worse than the previous for over a hundred years, but we can still write just fine. It doesn't add up

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice I can't tell if that's a word or your phone tried to interpret "electronic".

GnomeSlice

No I'm home now.

cloudymusic

17:45

@GnomeSlice is that some weird music subgenre?

Yuuki

@GnomeSlice Oh, okay.

GnomeSlice

It's some made up subgenre some artist put on his facebook page.

cloudymusic

sounds about right

murgatroid99

21 hours ago, by murgatroid99

> Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.

fredley

@GnomeSlice An artist's job is making stuff up

murgatroid99

17:46

- Socrates

cloudymusic

@murgatroid99 I'm pretty sure I've seen that before, it's so great

GnomeSlice

24 hours ago, by GnomeSlice

Wow, I used to post a lot of dumb shit

This is so perfect with the stars list.

murgatroid99

People have literally been complaining about disrespectful youth since the beginning of written history

Unionhawk

Further, I propose that technology shouldn't be considered a crutch just because back in your day you learned to spell by writing shit down and checking against a paper dictionary.

murgatroid99

@Unionhawk exactly. If technology was a crutch, as a civilization, we wouldn't be getting better at doing things

cloudymusic

17:49

@Unionhawk TBH I'm much more likely to double-check my spelling if I can just google it rather than pull out a paper dictionary

Unionhawk

Exactly. Technology is a tool goddammit. It is not making us dumber or anything like that, it is enhancing our ability to spell things correctly (provided we care enough to listen to the squiggly lines and whatnot) (and also working solely on this example for some reason)

fredley

@GnomeSlice If you want to bait stars, say something like "Wow, I still post a lot of dumb shit"

Unionhawk

@fredley rekt

GnomeSlice

theweebl is following me on twitter now apparently

user15026

@fredley I did learn just now that they are working on a Russian course for Duolingo, which is AWESOME and makes me happy

murgatroid99

17:51

@Unionhawk Also, if you want to go full descriptivist, text shorthand isn't "incorrect spelling" as long as everyone in the conversation understands it.

user15026

Also Esperanto, which is making me giggle

user15026

@murgatroid99 This!

Unionhawk

Boom

user15026

(I hate prescriptivism)

Unionhawk

Consider the argument shot down (and then shot again when it hit the ground, for good measure)

cloudymusic

17:53

@AshleyNunn "this language isn't the same as it was 300 years ago so we're clearly degenerating as a society"

fredley

@AshleyNunn Yeah. They can't push out languages fast enough

murgatroid99

@AshleyNunn I think it has its place, if only for the fact that having a centrally curated repository of words and definitions is probably the best way to ensure mutual understanding

fredley

@AshleyNunn Right on, sister

user15026

@cloudymusic Everyone should speak proper Old English, am I right?

Frank

@AshleyNunn Verily.

Chippies

17:54

I can't wait for schools to teach text speech, so I can rant about it online as I sit in a rocking chair and shout at kids on my lawn.

user15026

@Frank Pretty sure that's Middle.

fredley

@AshleyNunn Ryte on thee marke, Sistere

Frank

@AshleyNunn I have no idea, honestly. It sounded Shakespearean.

murgatroid99

@AshleyNunn I thought it was early Modern

user15026

@murgatroid99 Yes, but the tenets and concepts that prescriptivists cling to have very little place in a transformative society

user15026

17:55

@murgatroid99 I waffled, but I am pretty sure you're right, my mistake

user15026

@Frank Which is nowhere near Old English.

Chippies

I'm not sure if people are even using real words in the chat now...

Frank

@AshleyNunn Aww. And here I thought I was fulfilling the joke.

user15026

(rants about ye and thorns and things)

cloudymusic

@Chippies how can words be real if our chat isn't real

murgatroid99

17:55

I remember learning in an English class that Middle English would be basically incomprehensible to a modern English speaker

Chippies

@cloudymusic how can our chat be real if I'm not real

Kevin van der Velden

@Chippies We're never using real words. Any semblance to real words is purely a figment of your imagination

user15026

@Frank I am just picky, because people think "medieval speak" is Old English, when really.....you'd never be able to understand it

Matt Giltaji

@cloudymusic wrong capitalization for jayden quote

Frank

@AshleyNunn Probably not, no.

Rapitor

17:56

@Chippies I have been known to say brb outloud. but i take it one step dumber and just say "berb"

cloudymusic

@MattGiltaji oh right, sorry

Chippies

@Rapitor I just say bee arr bee

murgatroid99

@MattGiltaji How Can Jayden Be Real If Capitals Aren't Real?

fredley

@Chippies Arby's?

user15026

@Frank I can pretty much guarantee it

Chippies

17:57

@fredley don't think I've ever been in a country that has that

user15026

@murgatroid99 Middle you might be able to muddle through

fredley

@cloudymusic Surely it should be: "How can chat be real if words aren't real?"

user15026

@Chippies We have them?

Lazers

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Q: Blockdata Problems Please Help

I've been working on something that uses lots of blockdata commands. It was all going well until I needed to put a enchanted book that works with anvils into the command so that I could get it out of the chest above and be able to use it to enchant something with efficiency v but I don't know how...

minecraft

Chippies

@AshleyNunn we do? Not in Newfoundland, afaik

murgatroid99

17:57

Beowulf is Old English, and it looks like this:

user15026

@Chippies I've seen a few here

murgatroid99

Chippies

to be fair, we don't have anything, in Newfoundland

Kevin van der Velden

@Chippies Newfoundland is also purely fictional

Unionhawk

@fredley -1 forgot jaden case

Chippies

17:58

except snow. We have snow. A lot of snow.

GnomeSlice

beowulf is the one that had Angelina Jolie topless right

user15026

@murgatroid99 I -knew- Beowulf was going to come into this. :P

Chippies

@KevinvanderVelden NewlyimaginedLand

fredley

@Unionhawk what is jaden case?

murgatroid99

@AshleyNunn It's the best example I know of of Old English writing

Matt Giltaji

17:58

@GnomeSlice just watch gia

cloudymusic

@fredley This Is Jaden Case

murgatroid99

@fredley This Is Jaden Case

Kevin van der Velden

@Chippies naah it was found when people found some really good shrooms

user15026

@murgatroid99 It's the best example almost anyone knows :) That's why it is taught so much.

fredley

@murgatroid99 This Is Jaden Case?

Unionhawk

17:58

Capitalize Every Word Because They're All Important

fredley

I Think This Is A Good Idea

Although It's A Bit Of A Chore

Chippies

quits chat

Matt Giltaji

@AshleyNunn a high school teacher of mine played a phonograph of someone reading beowulf in old english. it was damn near unintelligible

Unionhawk

It only works in the formal of a jaden smith style tweet thing though

Frank

Just another day in the office at Magic Leap

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