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5:02 PM
@Ronan The same as cassette tapes, but in a spiral
@Ronan It's magnetic
And floppy
 
good morning bridge
 
Wow, @fredley was just made quite the fool
 
5:17 PM
I think someone's fighting upstairs
I can hear swearing and a lot of noise
 
holy crap, this driver is HUUGE
 
@PrivatePansy Maybe someone is having a fight with their wife? :)
 
My wife is very polite and would never swear
Her inability to speak notwithstanding
 
You're such a good sport @PrivatePansy
 
“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
 
5:22 PM
@Dragonrage Yeah, that's the famous quote from Piccolo in the fondly remembered "Learning to drive" episode of DBZ
 
She's also incapable of fighting. We settle our differences by cuddling
 
@Dragonrage "Those who surrender security for freedom will probably die soon and not have freedom either."
 
@twobugs i think you mean benjamin franklin from assasin's creed 3
 
@Dragonrage I feel like the last three words are unnecessary.
 
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Q: The Arqade review buttons color contrast is awful

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5:25 PM
> “Evil is just — when you plant the seed it’s a kitten,” he said. “You feed it, it becomes a lion and it eats you.”
A Virginia lawmaker on why you should ban books
 
wtf
 
well i can understand the whole cat thing, i dont particularly like cats, but books are nice
 
@GnomeSlice I'm being a little facetious, they're trying to keep students from reading anything remotely "sexually explicit"
 
Stare into the evil duke's face, and you may find the evil dude staring back at you
 
5:27 PM
oh no, not sex!
ban this sick filth
 
Also, goddamn it autocorrect I want dude not duke
 
Cited example is a high schooler reading a great American novel that does deal with some messed up stuff, but this thing called "life" has messed up stuff and great literature is great because it tackles these issues rather than shying from them
 
"Life has messed up stuff." -@twobugs 2/25/16
 
which novel
 
@GnomeSlice 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Beloved.”
 
5:30 PM
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Q: My minecraft world is stuck on Creative mode

Pink_Ninja93So I was building a farm house and as I built it, I was in creative mode. After it was built, I decided that I wanted to be in survival mode and just mess around and possibly build my farm house even bigger. Welll..... I can not get out of this weird mode. I do the correct /gamemode and I see my ...

 
never heard of it
but that's not saying much
 
I hadn't heard of it either
Here's the reasoning, though:
> contains scenes of bestiality, gang rape and an infant’s gruesome murder, according to Murphy
I mean yeah, that sounds messed up
But as far as I can tell this is a high school class and you can't shield kids from that forever
 
@twobugs is it required reading?
 
For this specific class, I believe so
 
@twobugs Given how much messed-up Sonic stuff is out there, I don't think anyone's hiding bestiality from anyone.
 
5:35 PM
@twobugs well i dont think anything should ever be required to read a certain book.
 
Well yeah that's true, we can never go back to the pre-Sonic 06 world
Remember before the TSA had to use those X-Ray scanners to try and detect if you were carrying Sonic Fanfiction? I miss those days...
@Dragonrage Why not?
 
@twobugs if someone doesnt want to read a book, why should they have to?
 
@twobugs force causes hate.
Most people I know who hate books hate them because they were forced to read old and boring books in school.
 
Because reading is an absolutely vital skill to have.
 
Reading? yes.
 
5:39 PM
@ardaozkal And? This is neither an old or boring book, despite "boring" being entirely subjective.
 
That is why dragonrage said "a certain book".
 
That's a very shortsighted view.
 
Best would be "read a book" imho.
 
By your logic, we should just abolish school because "it would just make kids hate school if we forced them to go"
 
don't get me started on that.
 
5:41 PM
@twobugs they can learn to read without having to read certain books, you can easily find a book that they will like as opposed to making them read a book they dont like.
 
@Dragonrage You're not understanding the issue and it's important to be able to read the same book as everyone else and discuss it.
@ardaozkal Okay, so how should learning be done?
 
IMHO, school shouldn't take more than half of the awake time of the student.
 
It... doesn't?
 
It does here.
 
Unless you're completely ignoring any and all breaks
And not counting weekends
 
5:43 PM
Still.
 
But why? Why not?
Learning and education are pretty much the single most important thing for upward mobility.
 
@twobugs not counting time needed for hw, it takes ~7 hours a day just being at school
and if you throw in 2 hours for homework, which is reasonable, then your up to about 9 hours
 
@Dragonrage Yes, but you also have at least two days with no school, and numerous breaks during the school year
 
Do you honestly think that 10 minute break is enough for the stuff students can do if they were combined?
(10 x 10min break vs no break but 100 min after school)
 
@twobugs maybe things have changed since i was in school, but having a break or weekend just meant we were going to get hw to do over it to make up for not being in school
 
5:46 PM
Other than the occasional research-paper type thing in high school, I can't remember ever having more than about 30 minutes top of homework to do
Just do it all in school
Is Study Hall not a thing anymore?
 
@Sterno We had 140 pages of homework in one week.
20/pages day
 
That's kind of a meaningless number. What's on a page of homework?
 
6-8 questions.
 
2+2 = 4 DONE
How long does a question take?
 
the teachers do them in about a minute, students about 3 mins
 
5:50 PM
Lunch, study period, during boring classes where you didn't actually need to pay attention to pass, and on the bus were when I did about 80% of my homework.
 
(geometry answers are hard to see)
 
That sounds like about 9-10 hours of homework per day then.
That sounds excessive and also not real.
 
@Sterno i never had study hall
 
Actually mostly I'd goof around with everyone else in study hall
 
also lunch was like the one actual break you had, and you didnt want to be doing school work during it.
 
5:53 PM
TBH, those 140 pages were from different lessons. The average time to solve is 30sec-1min
 
also in my experience, teachers get really upset they see you doing work for another class while they are trying to teach
 
I wish I had the free time I did when I was in high school.
 
@ardaozkal Not sure what you mean
I'm saying you objectively don't spend half your awake time in school
You might spend half your awake time in school on a school day, but school days are a subset of days.
 
Sleep less.
 
I had a similar experience to @Sterno in high school. Most of my homework was done in school. My busiest time was probably junior and senior years of college, but I still had plenty of free time.
 
5:57 PM
@Sterno Misfit: "Average Sleep: 5:00"
 
> It’s a few weeks into the semester and for some reason I still don’t have my schedule memorized. I’m only going to, maybe, three of my classes on a regular basis and I feel totally overwhelmed.

In addition to all this, there is one class that I have never gone to all semester. And now that it’s been a few weeks since classes started, it’s pretty much too late to go now. I figure out what the class is – or at least I think I know what the class is – so I go check it out. I have no text book though. I don’t even know what the teacher is talking about. Am I even on his class roster?
Yeah. I still have this dream. 15 years later.
 
the reason school days are so long is probably tied to the fact that parents who work need their kids to be in school most of the day while they work
 
Again, if the argument is just "you spend too much time in school", I don't know what to say. You're going to have to quantify why that is "too much" and why less would be better
@Dragonrage And because you actually need to learn things in school
 
@twobugs young audiences have shorter attention spans.
That is the reason for why it is "too much".
 
@ardaozkal Luckily we don't use the same model for schooling k-12
 
5:59 PM
@Sterno i dont dream, so i guess thats a good thing?
 
I don't know how you handle it in Turkey
And that still doesn't solve the issue of how you're going to handle education, which is actually a very important and serious issue
 
Why less would be better? Because most of our class can't think about education after 5 hours (less than half of school), and they start chatting, distrupting others.
 
@twobugs i agree learning is important. we just dont do that great of a job teaching here.
 
GTG now, sfb webinar.
 
@ardaozkal Social interaction is actually another important part of school
 
6:01 PM
@twobugs by start chatting, I mean during lessons.
 
@ardaozkal There is never a real world expectation of 100% robot like efficiency ever. Talking during lessons is not the end of the world.
 
@ardaozkal Do you mean 5 hours of continuous class, without a break?
 
There is a break, but is barely enough to get the books ready and go to restroom.
 
@Dragonrage I'm not saying our school systems are perfect, but I haven't seen either of you identify what I would consider to be substantive issue
Having to read a book so you can discuss it with your class and work on your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate them with your peers is not an issue
 
user15026
So our disability etc HR training stuff sends you a nice reminder in plaintext of what your password is if you change or update it >.<
 
6:05 PM
yikers
 
@twobugs In America, too much weight is placed on standardized testing, and some classes become focused on teaching students to pass tests, to the detriment of useful learning
 
@AshleyNunn D'oh! It really irks me that people still keep plaintext passwords all over the place
 
@murgatroid99 So much this
 
@murgatroid99 Agree 100%. I think we need to dial back on all of those things.
 
@AshleyNunn just tell them to encrypt it with rot13, twice.
 
user15026
6:06 PM
@twobugs Yeah, when I got the email I just stared at it for a moment going "uh...what."
 
I consider those to be serious flaws in our education system. I don't consider assigning a book to an entire class to be a flaw in the slightest.
 
@twobugs 90% of my systems do this.
And would require a complete overhaul to actually encrypt.
 
@Frank Well, to be fair, there's always going to be a cost/benefit analysis
 
@twobugs Cost is: NEVER EVER DO THIS. Benefit: getting hacked means you don't lose all your usernames instantly.
 
6:08 PM
True :P But users are notoriously resistant to any kind of security it seems
 
user15026
.....so I have to watch some video on the design of public spaces to accommodate disability. I have no idea why I have to watch this.
 
Google Analytics toolbar is not working for me. This makes me sad
 
@Sterno Same here. Although not 15 years later.
 
Dreams I always have: that one, teeth falling out
 
@twobugs There's never a reason to not build your system to encrypt passwords.
 
6:12 PM
Teeth dreams are the worst
 
"Wait, how have I not been to this class before? We're like halfway through the semester! I didn't do last night's homework. Wait a second... why am I living on campus? Am I commuting to my job? Where are my kids? Why have none of these discrepancies made me wake up yet?"
I've never had the teeth dream
 
@Wipqozn True, but if the system was never designed with a specific level of security I can completely see not even considering that interaction. And if you try to bolt that on later? It'll probably be halfassed
 
Is the teeth dream the one where @GraceNote breaks into your house in the middle of the night and steals your teeth for some sort of demonic ritual?
 
Plaintext passwords? Vomits
 
Possibly, but I usually have some dream where my teeth are either shattering inside my mouth and I have to hold them in or they're just slowly becoming loose and falling out
 
6:13 PM
@twobugs Yes, the later part is a pain. but putting in basic password encryption at the start is so easy and quick there's no reason to skip it aside from laziness.
Also the dream where you show up to work or school with no clothes on.
 
@WarThog Welcome to my everyday life.
 
Look I was trying to be nice to @Frank because it sounded like he was saying maybe his own systems didn't do the encryption
 
And their unwillingness to change it.
 
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GamerGeek24As someone who has very little access to Internet, I rely heavily on Director's Cuts, Collector's Editions, and Game of the Year Editions when buying games to get the most out of the game (in this instance, Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition). However, I am missing out on the Ultimate Vault...

 
@twobugs Pfft. Encryption? What's that?
 
6:14 PM
Poor @Frank
 
All admins can see all user's passwords!
 
And @Frank is my friend, even though he is an awful person who owns the Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition
 
And forgot password sends it to you!
 
user15026
@Sterno I have this one all the time.
 
The fact that none of you other people get the teeth dream means either I'm insane or you all are
 
6:15 PM
Sometimes I dream I'm talking to people in the bridge. It's terrible.
 
Probably both
 
19 hours ago, by Frank
user image
 
I think that must be where I got the idea that @GraceNote went to a baseball game with her BF.
 
So, so awful.
 
@DreamNote.
 
6:16 PM
Even though I tried to get one for @TrentHawkins.
 
I started replaying Fire Emblme Awakening
 
@Frank i am an admin, however, i cannot see anyones pw as plaintext
 
@Dragonrage As it should be.
 
@Dragonrage Le'jokes
 
user15026
@twobugs What's that?
 
6:16 PM
But when we tell them it needs changing, nope.
 
buht i jsut usee /etc/passwd to read wehn i furguht
 
@AshleyNunn I keep having dreams where either all my teeth are falling apart or falling out
It's... really weird
 
I just found out that my client's flagship program, the one that holds everything together with baling wire, twine, and a whole lot of praying, isn't going to get rewritten this year.
 
user15026
@twobugs I hate those dreams
 
@AshleyNunn RIGHT??? They're awful
 
6:19 PM
And this was priority #1 for them, so if they can't do that, they can't do anything.
@twobugs I just get dreams about falling. For some odd reason, gravity still works in my dreams, unless I concentrate really really hard.
 
I sometimes have dreams where I'm trying to shoot a gun but the trigger is really hard to pull, moves super slowly, and doesn't actually fire when you manage to get it pulled.
 
@AshleyNunn What about the one when everyone from Merry Poppins is trying to drown you in a river?
while singing^
 
I don't dream, but I have am aware of time passing while I sleep
do schools still have SSR?
 
> This is currently undocumented but easily understood by reading the source.
Sigh...
@Dragonrage SSR?
 
@twobugs sustained silent reading
 
6:23 PM
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Q: Check if a dlc is activated in the current campaign in xcom

k4ppaIs it possible to check if a dlc is active in the current campaign? And if a dlc is not active, is it possible to activate it during the campaign?

 
generally like a 20-30 minute period for reading w/e
 
Oh, I never did that after middle school
 
domchores is getting closer to being defined
 
@twobugs I read in the toilet, does that count? :D
 
I want to go play SUPERHOT
 
6:36 PM
@Sterno Me too, it looks awesome
 
Huh. Apparently I can't purchase SUPERHOT on Steam yet
 
@Sterno Whoa! How have I not seen that? Looks pretty neat.
 
I guess I have to wait two more hours
 
It had a demo and then disappeared for a few years
 
Since I'm at work, I suppose that's okay.
 
6:44 PM
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Q: How many endings does Danganronpa have?

swswswsI wanted to know how many endings does Danganronpa have.

 
@Lazers2.0 hgeh I remember once upon a time when games generally only had one
Those were the days.
 
eww, there is some new css on the review queue buttons and they look terrible
 
@GodEmperorDune We need some appropriately themed Arqade ones.
 
@djsmiley2k There's really just 2. Each chapter has a game over and one bad end
That's for the PSP version at least
Well, so each chapter has it's own game over. There's a good ending and a bad ending
 
i mean its white on light gray.... how are you supposed to read it?
 
6:53 PM
@GodEmperorDune there is already a meta asking for it to be changed. it doesnt meet accessibility requirements. there isnt enough contrast
 
@Frank lasers blowing up the removed words?
 
@Dragonrage yeah i just found and upvoted it
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Q: The Arqade review buttons color contrast is awful

zero298The Arqade review buttons color contrast is really bad. The white color on a very light grey background is really hard to read. On a technical level, it fails WCAG AA and AAA for both large and normal font sizes being a color contrast of 1.46:1 (it should be around 3:1). While reviewing a litt...

also i don't know about accessibility requirements, but I have decent eyes and it's a mess... I don't know how people with worse eyes would fare
 
@GodEmperorDune i used to do stuff for accessibility, so i know a bit about it.
can someone grab me the hex color for the gray they use?
 
Uh
 
i dont have any things in the review queue to look at, so i can inspect the page for it
and i dont have a color picker
 
7:00 PM
d4d6d9 I think
Based on chrome inspect element of the "ask question" page
And my limited understanding of front-end web development
 
Trying to debug someone else's python script and the python pdb is not co-operating
 
@Unionhawk yea that looks right.
 
I don't know how this could possibly look any better on SO though
Oh, they use a blue button GOD DAMMIT
Hooray! My federal tax return has been accepted
 
@Unionhawk are you rich now?
 
NOW TO WAIT UP TO 21 DAYS TO RECEIVE A DIRECT DEPOSIT \o/
@GodEmperorDune No I actually had to pay tax this year, so my refund was less than the $800 withheld. But it's still $500
Though now I'm realizing that I had 2 larger charity receipts I should have claimed. I don't know how much they would have helped but
 
@Unionhawk Did you use any software to do your submission?
 
I used HRBlock Free Online Edition
 
I will use that
 
wouldnt it be nice if you learned how to do taxes in school? it seems like it would be more helpful than taking another english class
 
I am assuming it is free?
 
7:10 PM
It's free for simple returns
 
@Dragonrage I feel like this is a really loaded statement
English is important. Don't undervalue it.
 
State is $10, but in Ohio, filling out a state return is easy
@Dragonrage Not every return is the same
And for high schoolers, HRBlock will do it for free since undoubtedly they have just a W-2
And can't claim anything else since they are being claimed as a dependent
(for example, I couldn't claim my tuition statement)
 
Woooooo rocket league... @twobugs ?
 
@Unionhawk seems like learning the basics and what can and cant be claimed would be useful.
 
In the case of high schoolers, "YOUR INCOME" is all that applies
and technically "ALL ONLINE PURCHASES TO PAY SALES TAX ON RETROACTIVELY" in Ohio
(not kidding)
 
7:14 PM
@Dragonrage filing taxes is all about doing what the forms tell you. it's like a pen and paper version of stepping through pseudocode
 
@Unionhawk what happens when they are no longer high schoolers? they will need to know those things
 
@Dragonrage that changes year to year
 
THEN THEY WILL FORGET ALL OF THESE THINGS
srs
 
Oh, hey. Pokemon Moon and Sun trademarks.
 
@Dragonrage that sight is ridiculously legible
 
7:16 PM
Plus like I said, there is software that does all this, which is free for most afaik
 
@Unionhawk unfortunately the companies that make said software literally prevent congress from allowing the IRS to provide free tax software to everyone
 
Welp
Shit
 
@djsmiley2k UnWoo because WORK :(
 
@GodEmperorDune if you are showing people what meets accessibility requirements, it seems like they should meet or exceed all requirements themselves i guess
 
7:18 PM
or simplify the tax code to where the software does not need to be so complicated
 
Thanks Obama
 
I blame society
I mean, @WarThog
I mean, @Wipqozn
 
@twobugs *thanks @Ohnana
 
thanks intuit more likely
 
Dammit
IF YOU'RE THE FIRST ON @W->tab, EXPECT SOME BLAME
 
7:19 PM
Part of the election process should be the candidates streaming themselves playing video games
 
@twobugs if they cant beat a basic video game, how can they expect to run a country?
 
Well Trump could get really meta about it then:
so meta
 
Wow it's getting harder and harder to find a match in rocket league D:
 
@Unionhawk it's a terrific video game, the greatest ever.
 
Dr. Carson would use Surgeon Simulator, clearly
 
7:22 PM
nah i could see those guys trot out some sort of biblical adventure game, like diablo
I could also see trump playing adventure capitalist
 
They should have to play a game selected specifically for them by an independent third party
Trump would have to complete a pacifist run of Undertale
 
And upon gaining 1 EXP, forfeit all his delegates to Kasich?
 
Rand Paul
 
Isn't he gone?
 
Not from this Earth
But this would be a catch-up mechanism
 
7:25 PM
No I thought Cruz sent his team of Cuban assassins at him
 
"If you can't push buttons, you shouldn't be near THE button."
 
Trump would probably prefer a nice game of global thermonuclear warfare
 
I don't want a President who gets us fragged because they couldn't play video games well enough
 
TFW your star bait doesnt work
 
Every message posted on The Bridge is starbait and probably 95% of them receive no stars
 
user15026
7:27 PM
@Dragonrage I think learning that sort of skillset is important, but I don't think it should necessarily come at a cost to other things that are also important.
 
It's a vicious cycle
We're artificially selecting for the most vile starbait
 
For just 10 cents a day, you can support unsuccessful starbaiters
 
Hurry up and unlock, SUPERHOT
 
starbait matters less when you have both badges for stars however.
it then is just a competition who of who can starbait the best
 
Good thing there's only the one badge
 
7:33 PM
@Unionhawk 2 actually
 
Because otherwise the bridge would actually be all shitposts all the time
 
3 goals in under 30 seconds
and the guy doesn't quit o_O
 
@Dragonrage the answer is a tie between @fredley and @LessPop_MoreFizz
 
Oh @Unionhawk I enabled TFA on my twitch and I'm using a cryptographically secure password so you missed your chance to steal my account
Sorry
I know my 4 subscribers are in high demand
 
@twobugs IT'S TOO LATE WE ALREADY STOLE IT
hahaha.gif
 
7:37 PM
5-1
 
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Tamarac

Proposed Q&A site for users who have questions about Advisor View, Advisor Rebalancing, and the CRM system.

Currently in definition.

 
can someone check to see who has accumulated the most stars?
 
sigh
 
Tier 2 :O
I'm quite good at duel :D
 
Chrome has been thrashing my work laptop
"try using the newer ubuntu"
 
7:41 PM
o_O
 
Been using a live CD
still no crash
THIS IS NOT THE PROPER FIX
 
lol
 
I KNOW ALMOST FOR A FACT THAT AN UPGRADE IS NOT GONNA FIX ANYTHING
 
@Dragonrage probably but that takes work
 
LET ALONE AN UPGRADE TO AN UNRELEASED OPERATING SYSTEM
 
7:42 PM
it's ubuntu. :/
Do they not provide an updated chrome for you?
 
Ubuntu is the least worst for getting shit done
 
@badp which version of ubuntu is that? Clowning @badp?
 
@GodEmperorDune X
 
@badp was able to not use caps for 5 posts. i think that is some kind of record
 
Ubuntu Xomething
 
7:43 PM
lol
 
Ubuntu XD
 
My portal keys look awesome btw
 
*Ubuntu XD,,,,
the four commas are NOT optional
 
btw rocket league now tells you how many matches you need to complete to get a ranking.
 
Aaaaand our modem died.
 
7:48 PM
jeeeus
 
Gah this script is making my head hurt
 
for a moment then I thought youi said somethying else.
 
Error message says: T00MCHFR1DY
 
It's not friday. D:
 
@twobugs *followers
*semantics
 
7:50 PM
*youstillfailed
 
*yestheresadifference
Burgerrrrrr
 
Okay this script was just written... poorly
 
LATE LUNCH
 
Early dinner
Or on-time linner
 
No, late lunch
 
7:51 PM
or dunch
 
It's Friday in some part of the world, isn't it?
 
It's always Friday somewhere. That's Science.
 
Probably in @PrivatePansy land
Not to be confused with @PrivatePansy world
 
Haha, someone tried to "correct" the spelling of "armour"
 
Anyone has a tip on what modem to buy?
 
7:58 PM
ive had this song stuck in my head for like 3 days now.
 
@ardaozkal Okay, that looks really cool
 
at least its not a song i hate
 

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