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@Dragonrage I already like how you're using cout by itself but std::cin.
Oh nice, later on you do use cin alone.
@StrixVaria i was using the standard namespace, so i didnt really need std::, but i threw it in there a few times anyways
it was some of the worst code ive ever written, but it worked perfectly fine
@Dragonrage as long as you are aware that this is not a good thing
@twobugs meh, if theres something i don't understand in xkcd, it makes me want to understand it
to educate myself
I oppose the dumbing down of everything
look where it's got us :/
18:10
@djsmiley2k Right, but there are plenty of times where it just makes a point that can be misleading
@GodEmperorDune yea, bad code is bad, but i purposely wrote it bad to protest the stupidity of the assignment, and the grading
i.e. the goto one
@twobugs rule #1
Don't believe anything on the internet
Which refers back to my hatrid of the dumbing down of things
if you didnt follow the criteria, you would lose points, and you were actually able to get negative points on an assignment
'I didn't realise it wasn't real advice!' isn't a valid arguement
18:11
If only people actually followed #1
If people don't, they Are dumb.
:/
I don't think it's Randall Munroe's job to educate the masses.
@Dragonrage sounds like the professor was a jerk
It always confuses me that people buy brand new consoles and then use them on non-HD tvs
Tho I'm sure if he, and cgp grey put their minds to it, they could.
@twobugs agreed :D
The console cost as much, if not more, as an HDTV!
18:12
43 secs ago, by djsmiley2k
If people don't, they Are dumb.
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@GodEmperorDune yea, and he wasnt a very good at teaching stuff at all
He sounds like a bad prof but I still don't think you picked an effective protest
@Lazers2.0 #1 define 'HD', #2 depends on more than just the resolution
#3 Anyone remember dead rising? XD
18:13
All you really did was make your own code more annoying
@twobugs i agree with that as well, but the only recourse is if there are anonymous surveys at the end of the course
he had tenure, so its not like he was getting fired anytime soon
was Dead Rising the one set in the mall?
urgh bad lecturers :(
because a prof being that bad is not likely to take negative feedback well
18:14
@KutuluMike Yes
yes @KutuluMike with the super tiny small text on hd screens
I wish I had a <small> tag
yah.
i never finished that one
But if you can, always leave negative !!!!BUT CONSTRUCTIVE!!!! criticism for professors
someone "borrowed" it then moved out of state
970'd iirc.
18:14
and writing the code like that wasnt all that hard
it takes less effort to write bad code, than good code
@KutuluMike :/
@Dragonrage only if deliberate
wait
its ok, he left without his Dragon Age: Origins
turn that around
it takes more effort to deliberately write bad code, than good code.
@twobugs he had been teaching like that for years, and other classes feedback didnt seem to do anything so,....
18:16
'ha students, they so funny'
@Dragonrage At the very least, you can contribute to a paper trail that could help in the future (if not with that specific professor)
@twobugs from the friends i have involved in college administrations, most of them take the professor feedback forms very seriously. Much more seriously than the ratemyprofessor or whatever the newest incarnation of that is
@twobugs with the surveys? i did one for his class, and his ratemyprofessor rating is super low
huh, i guess ratemyprofessor is still around
Not ratemyprofessor, I don't think that's remotely worth taking seriously
18:20
his feedback forms are consistently negative
it was new when i was in school
But any kind of institutional feedback is definitely worth doing. Much more so than any in-class protest, imo :P
generally the administration is looking for themes and parallels
@twobugs i did the established one at the end of the quarter for the class
Good, that's the best thing you can really hope to do
18:22
and i know people who have taken that class before and after me, and their feelings were the same, and the feedback they put was negative as well
so its not "you did thing X poorly" (which could potentially be traced back to a specific student) but more "your students felt that assignment Y failed for these reasons"
There are lots of factors that can make it hard to adequately deal with senior professors like that. It's not that those get ignored, it's that there is stuff going on behind the scenes too
@twobugs very true
academics are just as political as any workplace
A big thing is the sometimes Teacher's Unions, which are supposed to protect ALL teachers, will rally around senior members like that even if it isn't really the best idea
It can be a very powerful narrative of the Bigwigs Trying To Get Rid Of A Beloved Professor
I can blame my lack of productivity on the renovation work being done in the office across the hall, right?
18:24
Yes
Another problem is if someone is going to be a faculty member they basically have to teach something
And it's entirely possible this guy does even worse at other classes
This isn't even getting into the professors who are suffering from actual dementia but refuse to admit it and it's really difficult to handle for anyone else
@twobugs yep
there is only so much you can do in that case
although most research universities require that professors pay themselves off of grants, so if the dementia is so bad that they can't get new stuff funded, the hope is it will solve itself
@twobugs We managed to get a prof from the math department barred from teaching another engineering math course because she was so awful. Students can have a say.
18:27
@fredley -1, doesn't mention what game it was
Probably Slashy Souls
@GodEmperorDune It was Candy Crush
I'd bet
eww, definitely not worth it then
@MBraedley That's good. I had some really awful graduate students who I left negative reviews for. I can only hope they improved
One was a guy who deliberately tried to mock me in class because I disagreed with him
@twobugs that sucks
18:29
Yep. It was a philosophy class and it pretty much soured me on the whole subject
Oh well. Did wonders for my career prospects :)
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> Germany train crash: Controller 'bad at his job'
Controller's union to controller: "get gut"
"bekommen kompetent"
if only there was someone here who actually speaks german
18:35
that is actual german
@fredley i'm scared to google it because it might take me to rebecca black
I'm sad that I didn't get to visit my dad in the UK and maybe meet up with @fredley
Oh well.
@twobugs :9
@GodEmperorDune It means 'become competent'
Actually it means "Today is Friday". German is weird
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Q: Do Psi Zombies give experience when their controller is killed?

AureliusAccording to this Reddit thread it sounds like Psi Zombies give experience when they are directly killed by taking damage. Do they also grant experience when the zombie dies indirectly, like killing or disorienting the Sectoid which raised them?

18:43
@Yuuki Who is that, for those of us who can't recognize comic book characters by their capes?
@StrixVaria Doctor Strange.
@Yuuki that movie looks strange
I want MODOK in a movie.
@fredley why do we still not have AI train drivers
no strikes...
:(
less dead people
24/7 train service
Man if only I had the money to make it happen
18:47
@djsmiley2k people still don't trust the machines
clearly
but they trust other humans
who've been proving themselves untrustable since time immemorium :/
makes me sad
People won't accept machines drivers until they're proven flawless. Basically, never.
lol nah
the computer age IS coming
@djsmiley2k You could still have strikes.
it'll happen when people don't know it's happening
@StrixVaria ?
18:48
The driver is 1 of like 8 people on the train making it do things.
@StrixVaria hmmmm
The other people check maintenance stuff, collect tickets, keep rowdy passengers down, etc.
when i used to get trains at my old job, only one in every ten or so journeys, would i have any kind of interaction with an employee
I'm really excited for the first autonomous driver death because even if their death rate is like 1/100000th that of a human driver it'll cause an uproar
and yes
18:49
If the train comes up to a street crossing and the signal isn't working, one of the conductors would have to get off the train and manually do the thing at the street.
@twobugs aye
I'm sorry, did I say "excited"?
So yes, automatic driving would be neat, but there'd still be plenty that humans have to do.
yes
but they wouldn't be crashing trains head on
Right, that would be a nice benefit.
18:49
killing people.
But "no strikes" wouldn't be a benefit.
oh it would
it's one less reason for the train companies to explain away their inability to do their jobs
Ok, well since I just explained why it wouldn't, I'm going to just butt out of this conversation now.
'we have no drivers' is suddenly invalid
let me rephrase
no 'driver' strikes
Has that ever been a thing?
18:51
and since i've never heard of a conductor strike before...
@StrixVaria hmmmm
The recent threatened strike in NJ was all train-related employees, not "just" drivers.
strikes every time so far (in the UK) have been due to drivers complaining about wages
most other jobs are easier to replace the employees too
All you need for a strike is a couple people who decide to go sit on the train lines.
@Arperum i could make a horrible joke about this but i won't
Or a signalling house whose workers go on strike,n and everything goes to hell.
18:52
@GodEmperorDune woudln't be much of a strike... more of a squelch.
D:
@GodEmperorDune Almost every single train driver has had one or more people jump under their train. I'm not kidding.
that too won't exist
@djsmiley2k ಠ_ಠ
no more guilt.
@Unionhawk As our resident Ohioan, I have a question for you. John Kasich seems the least batshit-insane Republican nominee (not a hard bar to meet), but how is he from your perspective?
18:53
@Arperum that's fuct
@StrixVaria also how is that cleveland water tasting?
what u all talking about?
@GodEmperorDune I have never been to Ohio and have no idea what you're referencing.
anyone?
I assume it was a joke directed @Unionhawk
@StrixVaria A pipe dream.
18:55
Probably Cleveland has awful municipal water
@gamer103 train crashes
@djsmiley2k really? train crashes. out of all the things in the world
lol
@twobugs i thought it was ohio that had a flint-like water situation but i might be messing something up
Actually a lot of places have Flint-like water. Some worse
@GodEmperorDune Yes. An article from 2012 says that in Belgium there are 3-4 suicide tries/ week by jumping under trains.
18:56
Shockingly they are low income areas and even more shockingly nobody wants to talk about it
@djsmiley2k any specific train crashes
MAXMIMUM OVERSHOCK: They tend to be majority-minority areas
@twobugs most of it is due to shitty pipes between the main and the house, and it is not at all limited to poor areas
but people with money can pay to have those pipes replaced, or install home filters and other things to mitigate the issue
Right, a lot of it is due to that. But more affluent areas are able to pay for overhauls, and those get talked about
18:57
how da ziff do u crash a train?
don't u just let it run on the tracks?
@Dragonrage Fuck . I should not have clicked that. Nope. So much nope.
or is it going around corners?
@Arperum why not?
@gamer103 Crash another train into it. the result is very deadly.
oh
that makes sense
18:58
Vive as body horror: "I'll just take my headset off" https://t.co/1ER84qYAk9
Avatar Smoke and Shadow Part 3 comes out today!
@Dragonrage I've been in a crash myself.
@Arperum Pretty sure that's illegal
@Arperum have u legit been in a crash
@Arperum ah, i forgot about that.
18:59
@ardaozkal Avatar like earth/wind/fire/water benders, or avatar like blue aliens, or some other avatar?
@gamer103 yea he was
@GnomeSlice Possibly, doesn't stop them from doing it.
@StrixVaria first.
That was the best possible answer.
@Dragonrage like a legit train crash?
18:59
I still need to watch Korra or whatever the 2nd series was.
@gamer103 yeah
@gamer103 yes
The Halle train collision (also known as the Buizingen train collision) was a collision between two trains in Buizingen, in the municipality of Halle, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, on 15 February 2010. The death toll was the highest for a rail accident in Belgium for over fifty years. == Collision == The trains, carrying 250–300 people, collided in snowy conditions during the morning rush hour. The collision occurred about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from Brussels, on the Brussels–Mons line (line 96). According to a joint statement from the NMBS/SNCB (the Belgian national railway company) and Infrabel...
@Dragonrage how did he survive
@gamer103 he was not in the parts that were crushed.
19:00
oh
@StrixVaria this is the first series, as graphic novels.
@Arperum No, but if it becomes a problem they can be removed by authorities
@gamer103 Because not everyone dies? And the part of the train I was in was undamaged.
@ardaozkal wuz he like badly injured or something?
@ardaozkal Ugh, that sounds so good.
19:00
@gamer103 idk ask him
@Arperum And I thought simply living near this and seeing the effects on my commute was harrowing :|
:( plane tickets need to go down in price
@GnomeSlice True, it still blocks train services until police has made certain every single of the idiots has been removed from the tracks.
@StrixVaria They are getting artists to do them as 5 GNs, each seperated to 3 parts, this is the fourth book's last part.
@Arperum where u injured in the crash?
19:01
@StrixVaria I can still see some of the wounded people from that crash in front of my eyes.
like i can find some for 200$, but they arent the right times. the one that is the right time its 270$
@gamer103 Not physically anyway.
@StrixVaria Iunno, he exists, he does an alright job as Governor I think. He is definitely the least worst of the republican candidates with active campaigns
Or the view as I got out of the train and saw the wreckage though the light snow.
@Unionhawk Well that's a resounding endorsement compared to what I'd have had to say about Chris Christie if he made it further along.
19:04
I don't really pay much attention. He hasn't done anything glaringly awful as governor unlike some
Where glaringly awful is basically defined as "North Carolina"
How about Michigan?
Snyder has been pretty bad.
@twobugs not as bad as kansas, louisiana, or alabama
I'm not familiar with what they've done, but Snyder was basically totally complicit in the whole Flint thing and tried to cover it up and shift blame
19:05
@ardaozkal da ziff is that?
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@GnomeSlice link may not be nsfw but it is on a NSFW domain
I think some EPA people have resigned as a result while Snyder himself keeps insisting he is completely blameless
@gamer103 They are remaking the original avatar series, on Graphical Novels, on 5 books that are made of 3 parts. This is the 4th book's third part which came out today.
@twobugs kansas and louisiana have basically crippled their economies through austerity measures
@twobugs oh synder is definitely a jerk too
19:07
@ardaozkal good series?
they are awesome.
got2go. see ya ya'll
@gamer103 cya
There were memos from Michigan's Department of Natural Resources in Flint. They quietly provided other water supplies for their Flint workers due to concerns about water quality well before the story broke
That's pretty bad.
19:24
@twobugs Yikes
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HUMBLE TELLTALE BUNDLE (Bridge will remember that)
Finally, someone responded to my comment on my pants question
@ardaozkal nope, bridge has already forgotten
@GodEmperorDune This action will have consequences.
Any TF2 players that want Poker Night at the Inventory items?
19:32
Urgh. Funny typo sighted, but I have to wait two minutes to point it out...
@twobugs thanks
NO
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
2
You fail at not pointing out the birdge typo
#alwayswaittwominutes
Man, watching brisket being made is always amazing.
No matter how many times I see it, I'm always astounded at how much it shrinks while you're cooking it.
19:38
@Yuuki y u do dis
its my lunchtime
When he placed the brisket in the last episode, it took up the entire cookbox.
And it shrinks to like 1/2-3/4 the length.
Someone is getting less bold with their pings
titus andromedon hype! cc @AshleyNunn
cc @twobugs
actually i don't know who else likes kimmy schmidt
Don't take it out on me if you're afraid to ping fredley with Archer stuff
19:42
not afraid, just saving it for something good
already he ignores anything that is only cc @fredley
What if you do:
ccc @fredley
Or bcc @fredley
cccp @comrade @fredley
@GnomeSlice diversity of all kinds is important
Sure, but that's a bit extreme
> come up with a list of ways you will apply your new anti-oppresion training to the work that you currently do on campus
"maybe we'll just keep our club off the books"
19:49
@GnomeSlice oh that's not in the picture
but i see it as coming from a place of good intentions, even if the execution is somewhat flawed
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@GodEmperorDune да
Ehhh
If your club members aren't nice, making them take mandated training about how to be nice won't help
19:52
I dunno, I think running a University Sanctioned club should require some training
It represents the University's community
@GnomeSlice but it eliminates "i didn't know that was offensive" as an excuse
and provides some CYA to the university
Mandating training won't fix bad apples, but it'll help your average well meaning but clueless oaf (i.e. Me) make less of a fool of themselves
Since ignorance of the law is not an excuse, then university's about a good time to learn it.
There are a lot of people who think political correctness is some vile demon, and this is also a chance to address that
Do some people misuse it? Sure, probably
@twobugs The question is how much training until it becomes an undue burden and people don't start clubs because of the training.
19:56
the takeaway being "i'm not into political correctness" doesn't give you an excuse to be a dick
@Yuuki True, that's a good counterpoint
Or at least, people don't start university-sanctioned clubs.
Here it's fairly easy to start an organization, and reasonable to stay in good standing
We basically just have to register our official events online etc
I know if I was in a club, it'd be for recreational reasons. I'm not going to be taking a semester-long course to join a club, I'm joining to rest from schoolwork.
Filling out risk management forms about them as applies
19:58
to have an event at my old school for a club, you had to order some food from the food company at the school
That's dumb
so we would order one pizza from there, and get the rest of the food from somewhere else that made edible food
Here the only actual restrictions is if you're in the student union building, you must use their catering, and you cannot officially have coke products
they werent happy about it, but we were following the requirements
I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but @StrixVaria, you definitely should watch Legend of Korra. If you were a fan of The Last Airbender, Korra is fantastic.
20:00
@Unionhawk they have a Pepsi deal?
we never had it in the student union building. we always had them in the our club room, or the cse building
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@GodEmperorDune Yup
All it realistically means for us since we don't use University funds is I write "pepsi" on the form and we do what we want
20:13
Slightly over 100 views on my Controller question for DS3 and then I get another gold badge! \o/
@GodEmperorDune I realized your answer said "Flight stick" instead of "Fight stick", which was my issue
I'm not crazy enough to own a Flight Simulator Joystick
cc @EliteOwners
My joystick only cost like $50, please
My Hori Real Arqade Pro was a mere $90 (after Amazon Bux)
My only fightstick was the NES Advantage.
user15026
20:34
@GodEmperorDune I am so excited for Season 2
omfg
My pebble replacement got issues
and they are sending me a pebble time now
(it has been 4 days since I received my replacement soooo)
Yeah, the original run had a lot of screen issues
My first 2 had screen issues.
Third (now) has backlight issues.
I had screen tearing issues with both of my original pebbles
Got a replacement for one of them, the one my sister uses, but I had a Pebble Time by then, so I didn't bother with mine

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