At any rate, you can look at those results either tell me that the excessive amount of users who started with an answer is because our excessive strictness drove many of those who started with a question away fast - or you can look at those results and tell me that the fact that there are top users with upvoted welcomed first questions and that's why they stuck around
Either way, you can argue that you're right and I'm wrong
I can reply that generally there are people who tend to post good stuff and people who tend to post bad stuff and that filtering people who post bad stuff out is not perfect but it works. They may even decide to try again and post better stuff and boom, we've got an awesome user.
@StrixVaria You probably switched between sites. I think it only fills it in for you once and then drags the value around as you change sites, but @TimStone is probably going to be able to provide a better diagnosis
Can anyone offer some assistance with the Globetrotter trophy?
Awarded for setting foot in all secluded regions.
Does this include all of the tiny forest areas, caves, and so on? Is there a list somewhere or map that I can use to check off which ones are left? Or is there something in-game ...
It's worth noting that it just guesses who you are based on your email hash, so if you've not provided the same email it'll get it wrong. I was thinking about allowing you to auth against the API to make that more reliable, but I haven't gotten to it yet.
Are you deliberately obtuse? What about I want that built-in brake removed for 10k, or, at the very least, 20k, users, or, at the very least, slackened, so that they can post more messages in short succession. don't you understand? SO's 10k, or 20k users, are not "The Internet". And "these controls" are far from being "hardly seen". — sbi2 days ago
I just got Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time from GOG.com, and I'm having a problem where all inputs are lagged, both keyboard and mouse. I've changed AA, AF, Catalyst A.I., and wait for V-sync, but the problem still persists. Compatibility mode and locking affinity to a single CPU core don't...
They did something simular for 2010. It installed a virtual disk which just downloaded the required components...... except it wasn't very good at caching.
Like, at some point out of nowhere Powerpoint has grown this STORYBOARDING tab. I guess it's meant to be some kind of Balsamiq killer. I didn't do anything explicitly to acquire it. (/cc @BenBrocka)
Hey @djsmiley2k, maybe your superior Windows experience can help. Often times I find myself with "full disk activity" for minutes on a row. This is infuriating and I never experienced anything like this in Windows 7 or Ubuntu (hi @Marco). I don't know if it's just my aging hard disk, swap management being really_ bad on Windows or whatnot.
Not the "WAAAAAH THIS ONE VALUE IS KIND OF BAD YOU REALLY NEED TO CHECK OUT THIS ONE WEIRD MOM TIP TO ENLARGE YOUR DRIVE'S LIFETIME NOW OR ELSE!!" type of SMART checker thing.
> A Minecraft mod/voxel.js project for devirtualizing virtualized servers. Basically a minecraft mod that allows you to control AWS instances by putting down/picking up blocks :-)
My understanding of the way missiles in EVE Online work is that if the signature radius of the target is lower than the explosion radius of the missile being fired at it, then the damage of the missile is reduced, and vice versa, if the sig radius is bigger than the explosion radius, then the dam...
besides, even if you were my sister and you had my sister's phone, I'd steal that instead. Your phone would run opera mobile and I'd make do with that.
Chat works, modding works, it's got Wifi. It's just miserable but not impossible.
Whenever I try to play Serious Sam 3 from Steam my screen goes black for like 3 seconds then comes back and Steam is minimized and the only way to get it back is to either restart it or click on another workspace and Steam will open there and I have to drag it back into the main workspace. No err...
Sometimes I find it ironic that I know more people with happy relationships to family and siblings in communities where players are otherwise the most caustic and acerbic beings around, compared to places where more people get along with each other.
@GraceNote Is it? If you've got hell at home, you're probably seeking for a "happy place" to retire yourself in a peaceful place full of nice people to be nice to. If you don't, you might be bored and looking for fights to pick, so to speak.
@djsmiley2k Program: "We need more memory plz" -- LInux: "520 GB? Sure, have at it. Don't mind that we have just 2 GB RAM + 4 GB Swap" -- Another program: "What about I write to those 32kB of memory I requested earlier?" -- Linux: "I think I ran out. DIE."
...can't really say that having good relations with others, which among other things helps promote having more people to do things with and thus more things to do, should lead to boredom.
@badp Linux has the stupid idea of "succeed with all memory allocations per default, fail at memory access instead if the laws of physics are against us." which leads to essentially random processes dying in the case of RAM being full.
And yes, you can tweak it. Doesn't mean it's not a mighty stupid idea.
I mean, my sister and I don't always scream at each other at the top of our respective lungs, which is awesome. That doesn't imply we're spending much time together though.
@MartinSojka I'm finding fault with "random processes"; oomkiller picks the process that has spawned the most processes the fastest (for forkbombs) and has allocated the most memory most recently (for your scenario), IIRC.
@badp But you're also not exactly among the atrocious when it comes to verbal abuse of another.
To be fair I am being misleading. The folks who tend to have good or non-negative relationships with their families and siblings tend to themselves be very peaceable and otherwise enjoyable to be around. They're just, somehow, found in the worst of places.
@badp Trust me, I've seen mail servers dying with out of memory errors because some perl script started from a web page took all the memory away in one big swoop. Sure, sendmail is a piece of crap and does a lot of unnecessary memory and disk access and process spawning, but it wasn't the problem.
@MartinSojka I realize it isn't perfect and I trust you that the algorithm could be picking better targets. I don't know how much smarter it can get considered that the memory is already exhausted and it can't allocate more of its own to do fancy shmancy things
Windows, when put in this situation, afaik, bluescreens.
Linux, when the oomkiller is disabled, issues a kernel panic.
@badp Well, ulimit helps, but it's sadly not integrated well into the general configuration.
@badp Thus on critical systems, I disable swap and have static versions of everything that matters. Including them services using static buffers. It eats RAM like crazy, but once it runs, only hardware failure will bring it down; never an OOM situation. But no distro does that - not even "enterprise" versions of them. Too hard to maintain.
I'm looking at the world via a PC that boots up in 8 seconds after POST
with all of my applications started
including ... well, everything
I have steam, chrome, utorrent, EVE launcher, origin, ventrilo, cyborg software, skype, dropbox, evemon, and at least another 10 applications start up with my pc
@badp If your computer can run without those programs running right at the start, it can run just fine without them running at all until they are needed.
Huh. Fire Emblem really doesn't warn you when all of a sudden people are getting married. Boom, all of a sudden my character is all mushy and romantic and crap and boom wedding.
We use win server 2008 R2 and haven't had any problems other than excessive updates for what should be a set and forget OS...though I only actually notice those because I RDP onto a couple of our test servers regularly
When I click download (for steam) I get this message:
This error could be caused by required additional software packages
which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a
conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be
installed at the same time.
I hav...
Can anyone offer some assistance with the Globetrotter trophy?
Awarded for setting foot in all secluded regions.
Does this include all of the tiny forest areas, caves, and so on? Is there a list somewhere or map that I can use to check off which ones are left? Or is there something in-game ...
I just got Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time from GOG.com, and I'm having a problem where all inputs are lagged, both keyboard and mouse. I've changed AA, AF, Catalyst A.I., and wait for V-sync, but the problem still persists. Compatibility mode and locking affinity to a single CPU core don't...
When I click download (for steam) I get this message:
This error could be caused by required additional software packages
which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a
conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be
installed at the same time.
I hav...
