The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - 2017-05-13 (page 1 of 2)

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Babelfish

02:00

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Q: Who was the girl with Kyle Reese in the Terminator?

When Kyle Reese was in a car hearing the radio near a construction field, he was dreaming about the future. He was running alongside a girl who was hit by a machine, is this woman Star?

movie terminator science-fiction-genre

Riker

02:36

@JackBNimble ah ok

2 hours later…

Major Stackings

04:12

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How you doin?

Catija

05:03

@MajorStackings HA HA.

user132126

@Riker Welp, I know what's in my nightmares tonight

SQB

05:58

So... Is this working?

Catija

... It's still here.

Ankit Sharma

06:57

What is the point of new answer to batman children question and did he really adopted Carrie and Casandra ?????

Who is comics expert here ???

Major Stackings

07:40

Well, I checked back in to see what's going on and I see folks are still closing original questions as dups to newer questions. Brilliant..

SQB

08:08

Which is okay, if the newer question is broader or otherwise better.

2 hours later…

Gallifreyan

09:46

@MajorStackings I didn't close, but it appears to me that both the question and the answer in the newer post are slightly more detailed.

Gallifreyan

10:05

Good morning everyone!

@SQB The room will go on ;) I recommend everyone to read Null's answer, which reminds us of rules of chatting here.

On site-related note - why on Earth do we have a transformation tag?!

> The process of change of anything, but normally characters. For example, the transformation from Tom Riddle to Lord Voldemort. Transformations are not always immediate.

Looks exactly like the sort of thing that should not be a tag.

Ixrec

Agreed

Gallifreyan

Have I shared my to-burninate tag list here?

gist.github.com/Gallifreian/d8a6b0c40458c40c62001475e9360927

Y no onebox :(

@Ixrec ^

Ixrec

10:36

Nitpick: There is a big difference between colonisation and exploration

But I agree those are all not good tags

Also, thank you autocorrect for almost inserting a dirty word in that last sentence

Gallifreyan

I'm not saying all of them are bad, but I don't see a valid reason for most of them to exist, either.

A question might mention those things, but it's very rarely about them, which seems to be the main criterion when deciding if a tag is needed.

SQB

11:18

@Gallifreyan like Celine Dion in Titanic?

Gallifreyan

@SQB Exactly! (It's that boat from "The Voyage of the Damned", right?)

Ixrec

lol

SQB

@Gallifreyan agreed. No-one is an expert on transformation within SF.

Gallifreyan

11:31

Workplace has been recently rocking HNQ, Arqade-style:

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Q: As a non-drinker, am I expected to not be hired as a bartender?

I'm a 23 year old bartender, and I don't drink alcohol. From 18 to 22 I worked in my father's pub, where I served classic beers, shots, and cocktails. Last year I decided to try my own career. I read a lot about alcohol and cocktails and mixology, I also did a flair bartender course, but since I...

work-life bartender

220

Q: My manager told me I should feel comfortable about telling him if I want to leave the company. Should I tell him?

I work as a software engineer and have been at my company for almost 3 years now. I have recently started considering other opportunities outside of my current role. There isn't anything particularly wrong with my current role, but I just feel (after being at the company for 2 or so years) that t...

management communication

And I won't even mention parenting.

Ixrec

IME, Workplace is the only SE site where the HNQs consistently have good answers with useful advice in them

Gallifreyan

There was one Q&A on Parenting where the answers (obscurely) told the OP "You're an idiot for doing that".

Ixrec

well, sometimes that is the answer

Gallifreyan

Something about a parent denying the child communication with an older person (a friend).

This one's nice:

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Q: I quit my job without notice as salary was not paid for a long time. What are my options now?

I'm a software developer based in Delhi, India This is my resignation letter: Just back from the hospital after getting mother's implants from the fracture removed. There's still AT LEAST a month of hospital visits left before she walks normally. Add to that medical expenses totalling ...

I guess the answer will be along the lines of "get a job", if the question is not put on hold before that.

Ixrec

yeah, not a lot of alternatives to that

Anonymous

11:43

Hi. I'm new to this chat. "This Saturday (May 13th) we will be watching Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"....what does "we will be watching" mean? Does online streaming of movies go on here?

Gallifreyan

@blue Yes, I think we'll be watching it in a room on Watch2Gether. There'll be a copy there.

Anonymous

@Gallifreyan Ah I see. Cool!

Dr R Dizzle

12:34

@Riker Oh Jesus Christ, what have you done?

Enigma Maitreya

12:48

@DrRDizzle Hum, to put this as delicately as possible, I feel uncomfortable reading profanity in an open chat forum. Can you please respect the feelings of others that may not agree with the need to use, what is by many, considered to be profanity?

Jack B Nimble

I saw this movie on late night tv where a man had to speed all over town in a bus. And if he didn't keep up his speed it would explode. I think it was called *The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down" story-ident

Bellerophon

@JackBNimble Not Speed then?

And the quote is from The Simpsons.

Babelfish

13:04

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Q: Story Identification: Book about aliens arriving in an old country; people capture their spaceship and arrive at alien's planet

I'm searching for a science-fiction book set in the quite an old time: around the 15th-16th century. Features aliens arriving in a spaceship to an old country: likely a western country from what I remember. Here are the details that I can remember: Read the book during 2005-2008. Definitely no...

story-identification books aliens

Jack B Nimble

Basically the same plot I just described.

Gallifreyan

@EnigmaMaitreya @DrRDizzle I can remove that message if you agree and feel it's inappropriate.

Dr R Dizzle

13:26

@Gallifreyan I refuse to accept that mild blasphemy is offensive to anyone over the age of 13, which is minimum age you have to be to use the site.

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It's 2017, not 1517.

Gallifreyan

sigh In my cycle, we used to understand humour.

Enigma Maitreya

@DrRDizzle I can appreciate your apparent atheist point of view, but 90% of the world does not agree with your point of view.

Bellerophon

@EnigmaMaitreya That's probably not true.

Enigma Maitreya

@Bellerophon Please define that so I can understand what is not true?

Ixrec

ugh

Bellerophon

13:29

@EnigmaMaitreya I think more than 10% of the world are not offended by someone saying Jesus Christ.

Enigma Maitreya

@DrRDizzle Fine let me restate that a portion of the worlds population does not agree with you,is that acceptable?

Dr R Dizzle

@EnigmaMaitreya And a portion do. So?

Ixrec

considering the situation and our reputation, I don't think we're in a position to tell someone saying "x is offensive" that they're wrong and should stop being offended

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Enigma Maitreya

@DrRDizzle So, me being offended is subordinate to you?

Bellerophon

Alright, stop before this goes too far.

Both of you.

Enigma Maitreya

13:31

@Bellerophon I will comply

Gallifreyan

@DrRDizzle @EnigmaMaitreya Let's agree to disagree and put all of this behind us ;)

Edlothiad

@Gallifreyan, just popped in to say I most likely won't be able to make it tonight, sorry

Ixrec

For the time being, we should assume anyone saying something offends them is doing so in good faith and respect that. Only after we see a pattern of people abusing that privilege should we rethink that.

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Enigma Maitreya

@Gallifreyan I agree :)

Gallifreyan

Let's switch to a topic everyone apreciates: tacos.

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Or Probius from Heroes of the Storm:

Probius Trailer – Heroes of the Storm

Dr R Dizzle

13:34

@Gallifreyan I prefer Smite. Any MOBAs that aren't Smite offend me.

Enigma Maitreya

Or a the New Alien Movie is taking heat because of the Prometheus Connection.

Ixrec

oh right, is the new Alien movie any good?

Enigma Maitreya

I have not seen it, but I am having a hard time understanding why a to be released movie is taking heat because of another movie in the same world

Ixrec

depends on the franchise, but I'd agree it doesn't make a lot of sense for Alien as that one has never really been about the continuity and long-running plot arcs

Dr R Dizzle

I'm seeing it next week hopefully.

Enigma Maitreya

13:41

I will also, With Luck It will be in 3D but I am kind of hoping that the new exit path for the Baby Alien is not gimicked to be an explosive 3D effect

Actualy I think there are 3 Movies I want to see towards the end of May

@Ixrec I think it is related to Push Back for some reason against "The Engineers"

Ixrec

there are a lot of good reasons to not like Prometheus so some negativity was inevitable

I'll have to watch the movie myself before I can get any more specific than that

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec Shrug I would have liked to see the concept "Meet your Maker" as a tangible, science based thought experiment pursued. In part because we are gaining the ability to create Clones and AI. IF that does happen then we are going to need to have a handle on were they fit. Are they property/slaves or are they .... something else

Ixrec

I liked a lot of the ideas and world-building in Prometheus, its problems were mostly in making the plot plausible and the characters interesting, which sadly overshadowed and/or wasted a lot of its potential.

I also was/am hoping for way more exploration of things like meeting the aliens that engineered us

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec Well yes, I agree with that but I do not see that as any different (not being argumentative, just pointing this out) from Alien the first one. ALIENS the second one is so far the absolute best of the 4+1 movies

Jack B Nimble

This room is not going to be long for the world I suspect.

Enigma Maitreya

13:49

@Ixrec Or that exiled us here because we were to violent "Villainous" and Scum for them :)

Ixrec

hm, interesting, to me the first Alien did only the bare minimum world-building to get us to "scary alien killing people" and then focused on that (which is part of why it was so good)

come to think of it we've had a lot of movies recently that had issues focusing on just one or two things to do well

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec That is what I saw in Prometheus. A concept was put on the table and a plot and characters were built around it.

SQB

@JackBNimble well, it is at the end of the universe.

Enigma Maitreya

I am also hoping this one "Blade Runner 2049" is done well.

"This Company Plans to Mine the Moon — and It's Not Alone" : http://www.space.com/36829-this-company-plans-to-mine-the-moon.html - "“The first-ever private mining operation on the moon is scheduled to kick off in 2020, when a landing craft sent by Florida-based Moon Express will ferry a single scoop of lunar dirt and rocks back to Earth.
… the owners of this private firm have something history-making in mind for that little ball of extraterrestrial soil: They plan to sell it.
"It will instantly become the most valuable and scarcest material on Earth," says Bob Richards, the CEO of Moon Exp…

So things are getting interesting

I Love You

Awesome name. I am loving it. I resented Mos Eisley's name.

Babelfish

14:02

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Q: Who exactly was the squint-eyed southerner in the Lord of the Rings?

Who exactly is he? He is mentioned once in the Fellowship of the Ring as one of the instrumental characters who cause the Nazgûl to attack the Inn at Bree. Is he a servant of Sauron or Saruman? Clearly he helps the Nazgûl facilitate the attack by warning them after Frodo accidentally uses the Ri...

tolkiens-legendarium lord-of-the-rings fellowship-of-the-ring

Ixrec

wonders what if any environmental restrictions we'll want to place on Moon mining

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec :) Hum, honestly as much as I am for it, I am some what .... concerned about the return to Earth. Not enough to object but it will be precedent setting .....

Ixrec

I've got no objections to it in principle either, but yeah there are so many possible ramifications to consider

both good and bad

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec As to your question, I am currently at no restrictions. Because Earth resources used to Build in Space vs Lunar Resources used to build in space. Moon resources are less important than Earth Resources

Ixrec

yeah, the lack of living things on the Moon makes it relatively simple

what would get weird is if we managed to mine enough of it to affect things like tidal forces

that's obviously an extremely long ways off if it ever happens, but who knows

Enigma Maitreya

14:07

Agree and I would expect us to stop well before that ever occured and switch to the Asteroid Belt and Rings of Jupiter and Saturn.

Ixrec

hopefully

Loong

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Enigma Maitreya

@Loong To bad I can't screen capture an FX from the series "Aftermath" were some large Asteroids hit the far side of the Moon putting large blocks of the Moon into space that end up coming to Earth. It was, in my opinion, a great FX and looks realistic.

Gallifreyan

"Moon" - Official Trailer [HQ]

Enigma Maitreya

@Gallifreyan Good movie :)

Gallifreyan

14:11

It is! The soundtrack alone is great.

Riker

@CreationEdge yes, I too have nightmares of @DrRDizzle stalking me and explaining why movies are bad

Ixrec

rofl

Riker

you have not known true horror until you hear dizzle's review of assassin's creed

@DrRDizzle bad things

Enigma Maitreya

@Gallifreyan I thought the "concept" so as to not spoil anything was worthy of considering as well.

user132126

I saw Assassin's Creed the other night. Best comic book movie I've seen to date

Enigma Maitreya

14:15

@Riker You know, I got AC from Netflix fully expecting it to be something that was just background. I liked it and interestingly enough my wife sat down and watched it also.

Ixrec

is that a compliment?

Riker

@EnigmaMaitreya yes, it just wasn't the same as the games

good in its own right though

Ixrec

I hear it overemphasized the apple and eagles a bit

Babelfish

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Q: Who was the first Hero to reveal his secret Identity to the public?

It is a common trope in superhero comics that the hero keeps his identity mostly secret to protect their friends and family. In newer media many heroes dont keep a secret identy for example Tony Stark in the Iron Man movies. That got me thinking which superhero was the first to go public whith hi...

marvel dc secret-identity

Gallifreyan

14:28

Hehe - that ransomware scare certainly should tech people to apply updates on time.

Enigma Maitreya

@Gallifreyan :) Always

SQB

@Gallifreyan you'd think that, but I'm not optimistic.

user132126

@ixrec The eagles, omg, so heavy handed

user132126

I saw Probius mentioned. You play HotS?

Bellerophon

I haven't heard the news for a while, did they pay out?

Edlothiad

14:37

I didn't like AC, I fell asleep because I thought it was boring

Gallifreyan

@CreationEdge I do.

user132126

Cool

user132126

I'm hero level 103 now

Gallifreyan

@Edlothiad That's sad :( I needed someone to open the shared video room.

user132126

I'm generally terrible at everything but support but Sylvanas is pretty fun

Gallifreyan

14:43

@CreationEdge I generally use Nova, though I try to play a bit of everything.

Edlothiad

Also, was that a joke about "Jesus Christ" being offensive?

user132126

Right now I play whichever is my lowest level, trying to get exposure and loot chests

user132126

My highest is Malf at 10. Pretty decent with him

Gallifreyan

@Edlothiad Apparently not; let's aim for a high level of non-offensiveness right now.

Edlothiad

@Gallifreyan There has to be some level of sensibility?

Bellerophon

14:48

@Edlothiad I would err on the side of caution for now. I suggest try and avoid things that some people could find offensive (like Jesus Christ) but I would think that if you do occasionally say those things then no action should be taken against you and you should just apologise to anyone who was offended.

user132126

It's a basic matter of respect. If a user says their offended by some language, the respectful thing to do is say "OK, I won't use that around you".

user132126

Not argue whether or not people are allowed to be offended.

Edlothiad

@Bellerophon I will do as the community here prefers as I will not be one to cause a strife and ruin it for everyone. Although I will say that even though members of our community crossed one line. There is going too far in the other direction.

user132126

If we can't fundamentally get that through to SFF chat, we're toast.

Enigma Maitreya

@Edlothiad Let us ask you a question. Assume you are an atheist, and some one comes in and starts saying the Earth is 10,000 years old, God did this, God did that. Would you find that offensive? Understand I respect you and your opinion

Edlothiad

14:52

No

Ixrec

1 min ago, by CreationEdge

Not argue whether or not people are allowed to be offended.

that includes arguing that it is offensive

we've agreed not to say it for now, let's move on

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec In compliance :)

Ixrec

so it looks like Alien: Covenant also comes out a week early in the UK

Bellerophon

@Edlothiad Indeed there is but for now we should play it safe. We can't be punished for over caution.

Edlothiad

I just think we should keep this point very dear and close to us

1 hour ago, by Ixrec

For the time being, we should assume anyone saying something offends them is doing so in good faith and respect that. Only after we see a pattern of people abusing that privilege should we rethink that.

Gallifreyan

14:53

As I said, tacos.

Ixrec

and the reviews say it does not suck

Gallifreyan

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Edlothiad

I don't like tacos

Ixrec

so I'm probably going to go see it in about an hour

Edlothiad

the hard shells just break awkwardly and get everyweher

Gallifreyan

14:54

I think wraps are cool.

Bellerophon

@Gallifreyan Is that a taco carrier?

Gallifreyan

Never actually had a taco.

Ixrec

hopefully the new Alien movie manages to be at least as scary as what happened to Mos

Edlothiad

Wraps are better than tacos, because they stay in one piece

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec I have likes all of his movies and do not expect to be disappointed

SQB

14:54

I've learned that the line between discussing offensiveness and offending can be unusually fine.

Skooba

@Edlothiad put a soft taco on the plate underneath the hard taco. then all the fallings will create a second taco... win win

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Edlothiad

There's insert strikethrough here no end strikethrough here such thing as a soft taco?

" folded or rolled around a filling"

My life is a lie!

Skooba

@Gallifreyan @Riker submission for daily floof 5/13....

Daily floof 5/13/17

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Gallifreyan

@Edlothiad Not that again...

I take the view that "open-faced sandwiches" are not sandwiches, but all other physical objects are.

@Skooba I thought those had to be animated

Riker

@Skooba floof approved

@Gallifreyan nope

just floofy things

Skooba

14:58

woot woot

Gallifreyan

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Bellerophon

We're pinning floof now?

Edlothiad

This is day 5 if i'm mnot mistaken

Skooba

Soooooo just a GENERAL question.... have any of SFF mods been in chat in the last 48 hours?

Riker

@Bellerophon yes

Edlothiad

14:59

Although is the month day thing the wrong way around

Riker

@Edlothiad I'd say 6 but yes

around htat

Edlothiad

@Skooba Null and Kevin have been around

Riker

wrong person

:p

Ixrec

@Skooba they've been pretty hard to catch for a while now

Skooba

@Edlothiad MM/DD/YY

Edlothiad

14:59

@Riker No it isn't ^.^

@Skooba DD/MM/YY or YY/MM/DD

Bellerophon

MY/DM/YD

Riker

@Edlothiad tha'ts the 6th floof in a row I think

Skooba

@Edlothiad psh the only time is use YYYY/MM/DD is when I am naming files

Riker

I had 4 before that, but I missed a couple days

Enigma Maitreya

@Skooba Should be any time the date can be used as data

Riker

15:01

@Edlothiad I've been debating that

not sure what format to use

Skooba

when people who use the DD/MM/YY system.... how do you actually say the day.... Ex. Would say "Today is May 13th" or " Today is the 13th of May"

Riker

#1

Ixrec

when speaking out loud afaik everyone says Month Day-th

Bellerophon

@Skooba I use either.

Riker

@Edlothiad 29th, 1st, 2nd, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and now 13th

@Bellerophon yes the last 4 or so have been pinned

Skooba

15:02

@Riker but your an American right?

Riker

yes

Skooba

then you dont use DD/MM you use MM/DD

Riker

ah, didn't see that part of your msg

sorry

Skooba

@Ixrec that how I justify the American use of the MM/DD system in my head lol

the only time I use the second example is when I am remembering he 5th of November.....

Edlothiad

@Riker I meant the pinned ones

Bellerophon

15:04

I say 13th of May quite a lot.

Riker

@Edlothiad ah, yea the last 4/5

Enigma Maitreya

@Skooba Speaking of that anyone able to explain how the heck we as a species let . and , get so out of control for expressing numbers?

Riker

bonus floof (gif)

Bellerophon

Or most of the time just 13th May because saying 'of' takes way too long.

Edlothiad

@Ixrec What I always say 13th of May

Bellerophon

15:05

@EnigmaMaitreya Blame Europe.

user132126

I always say "On this the thirteenth day of the fifth month in the year of our Ford two thousand and seventeen"

Bellerophon

Our Ford?

Ixrec

@EnigmaMaitreya as a programmer, the real problem here is that now there's no way no matter how magical we make our code to correctly guess what you as the user wanted your number to mean

user132126

@Bellerophon Brave New World reference

Ixrec

because basically every punctuation mark has perfectly opposite meanings depending on country

Enigma Maitreya

15:06

@Ixrec being a programmer I agree :)

Edlothiad

@Riker Because Britain had to be different, as always

@Bellerophon 07/15/13

Bellerophon

@Edlothiad What does the US use?

Edlothiad

@Edlothiad This is a Schroedinger's date. Both a real and imaginary date at the same time!

Gallifreyan

@CreationEdge I take it you're on American servers?

Edlothiad

MM/DD/YY

Ixrec

15:08

as a USer living in the UK, I simply refuse to use any slashes-and-digits format for dates anymore

May is always May, not 05, or else ambiguity is inevitable

Edlothiad

but what if my May is your August?

user132126

@Gallifreyan Yeah

ArtOfCode

I just use ISO 8601

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec Or simply insist on YYYY to avoid the issue

ArtOfCode

much easier

2017-05-13

Ixrec

15:09

@EnigmaMaitreya that only helps with the year, not month v date

but I do 4-digit years too

ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04.

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec Concede

user132126

@ArtOfCode I use that for anything on the computer, yeah.

Ixrec

according to xkcd, @ArtOfCode is objectively technically correct

user132126

Trying to reliabre sort filenames with dates is impossible otherwise

Bellerophon

@Edlothiad I believe that DD/MM/YYYY is Britain being normal for once. Europe definitely uses it.

Enigma Maitreya

15:10

@Ixrec Oh, absolutely YYYY-MM-DD always and forever

Edlothiad

@Bellerophon I meant the worlds whole number system

user132126

Although perhaps I should start talking about time as ms from epoch

Ixrec

no, please god no

Edlothiad

I'm going to start using how many days it's been since December 21st

user132126

Or Excel date codes

Bellerophon

15:12

@Edlothiad Which year?

user132126

@Edlothiad Your birthday?

user132126

@Bellerophon Every year

Edlothiad

@Bellerophon Every year

@CreationEdge The winter solstice

user132126

Hahaha

Edlothiad

it's the fourteenty-third day of the Ed-year

Happy Fourteenty-Third day everybody!

Hey @steelersquirrel!

user132126

15:14

"It's been one day, 366 days, 731 days, 1097 days since Dec 21st"

Edlothiad

Bye @steelersquirrel!

You didn't forget leap years

user132126

Nope

Edlothiad

@CreationEdge Well met!

Enigma Maitreya

But you would think with the Internet being world wide and all, that we as a species could just agree on a common date, time and number format. Sheesh if we can not agree on something so fundamentally simple then what does that say about our future?

Ixrec

well, we did agree on one for all technical purposes: ISO 8601

most non-technical people just don't care about standardizing "their" date format

Edlothiad

15:18

@EnigmaMaitreya Every number is agreed upon, it's left to the stubbornness of individuals to give up their "old ways" and accept the adopted figure.

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec Yeah I meant to acknowledge that with @ArtOfCode and got lost in the messages.

@Edlothiad Oh not being argumentative but what way is that? I had to support European, UK, South African, SEAsia, China, Korean, Japanese, and many more on that subject and pretty much force the customer to accept 0.00 formats

user132126

@EnigmaMaitreya We can't even agree on measuring dintances

user132126

I say we measure it knuckles

Ixrec

the app I maintain allows the user to format numbers with either a . or a , for the decimal point...but when the user enters custom data themselves, we just have to blindly guess whether 1.2 is twelve or one point two (for now . is always the decimal point)

user132126

Ever use moment.js?

Ixrec

15:22

yes

Enigma Maitreya

@CreationEdge Blame those that changed the length of a Meter to be based on the Speed of Light vs an ISO

Ixrec

we're still using that to format a small subset of our user-facing datetimes

Edlothiad

@EnigmaMaitreya Standard International

user132126

@EnigmaMaitreya Isn't it better for measurements to be based on universal constants?

Edlothiad

@CreationEdge c isn't an accepted constant though, in the sense that it isn't 100% accurate

user132126

15:25

Like one second is the half life of some isotope

Enigma Maitreya

@Edlothiad :) Yes but it was not always that and there was an ISO defined. Plus, in all honestly I do not want to get into that entire discussion we had that over on World Building :)

ArtOfCode

@Edlothiad what

first I've heard of that

Edlothiad

@ArtOfCode Sorry, I clarified

Ixrec

@Edlothiad in what way is it not accurate that doesn't also apply to all other numbers?

Enigma Maitreya

@CreationEdge C vs the Speed of light are not the same thing and as I said to @Edlothiad We had this discussion on World Building and I personally have no interest in pursuing it :)

ArtOfCode

15:26

2.997x10^8

user132126

@Edlothiad I think that it's defined as the distance light travels at a certain location in the time it takes for some isotopes half-life, idk

Edlothiad

@Ixrec Because it's an estimate, whereas most other numbers can be measured?

Ixrec

all measurements are estimates?

like, by definition?

user132126

Not my IQ

ArtOfCode

you could measure c now, anyway - slow motion video

user132126

15:29

It's 9001

Enigma Maitreya

@ArtOfCode Are you aware they have stopped a Photon?

user132126

That's right, it's over nine thousand

user132126

@EnigmaMaitreya For speeding?

Edlothiad

@Ixrec To a different extent to the speed of light though

ArtOfCode

@EnigmaMaitreya stopped like how?

Enigma Maitreya

15:30

@CreationEdge No in a BEC

@ArtOfCode Literal sense stopped it cold so to say :)

Edlothiad

Scrap things i've said. The speed of light has been considered a fundamental unit since 198-something

I question my education

user132126

I think I read that on Wikipedia years ago

Ixrec

I can't remember whether I got that from school or some book I read but I think that was my impression ever since I learned that the speed of light was "special"

Edlothiad

I'd always been told since people are trying to find out better ways to measure it it's inacurate

user132126

15:44

It's probably less precise than it is inaccurate

user132126

But we measure it affected(?) by gravity and not in a true vacuum

Ixrec

time to find out if the new Alien movie's any good

cya

Skooba

@CreationEdge Seeing that out of context on the starboard... I want to say " Yes, I am deeply offended by Dutch, please don't speak Dutch around me" :P

Enigma Maitreya

@Ixrec Feedback please :)

Skooba

user132126

15:49

Those scenes. Funny

user132126

Was movie night canceled or just postponed?

Major Stackings

Good morning. I'm dropping by to say later again. It was great getting to interact and know a bunch of you, but some of the goings on here are driving me nuts.

Enigma Maitreya

@CreationEdge Why are you asking that? Did I miss something?

Skooba

@CreationEdge still on i thought

user132126

Oh, it's tonight. Thought yesterday

Bellerophon

15:52

@MajorStackings What sort of things?

zabeus

hello all

Riker

o/

user132126

Hey oh

user132126

@Riker Is that a waving emoticon?

Riker

yes

meaning 'hello' generally

I use it a lot

zabeus

15:54

\^o^/

Riker

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A J

A quick question. Can you see who starred the stuff?

Riker

no

Major Stackings

The same things that caused me to take a break last time. Doesn't matter. I'm just saying later to my buds as I fade into the sunset.

A J

@Riker Can you see who pinned a message?

Riker

15:56

everybody can

it's in the msg history

A J

How?

Riker

chat.stackexchange.com/messages/37374466/history

Major Stackings

Later, buds.

Riker

there's also a bug atm that allows double pinning

@MajorStackings ok, I get your desire to fade away

zabeus

@MajorStackings bye

Riker

15:57

but that seems a bit overdramatic

IMHO

A J

ok

Major Stackings

You nailed it. It's the drama. The thrill of sock puppetry surrounds us.

@steelersquirrel Hey. I came, I saw, I went away. Sorry I missed you. Say hi to the old crew for me.

Edlothiad

@Riker We don't have the bargaining strength to state our opinions right now. Lets just accept what criticisms people have and try to fix them

Riker

shrug

zabeus

@Ixrec what's wrong with 20130227? then i don't have to parse non-numbers

Gallifreyan

16:14

@CreationEdge Are you planning to participate?

user132126

I was but my ISP shut off my Internet early and U don't know that they'll fix it by then

user132126

And my folks came over for my son's 2nd birthday

Edlothiad

Happy Birtday!

Gallifreyan

@CreationEdge That's sad :( Happy Birthday to your son though! ;)

zabeus

isp's and utilities should have to credit for any time the service is disconnected

Skooba

16:29

@zabeus thats how you end up with some form of usage rate

user132126

They usually do for the few days, but that amounts to dollars

user132126

Not the time I lost work or the overage charges I'll have for using up my mobile data

SQB

16:46

@MajorStackings keep on stackin', buddy.

@Skooba het spijt me dat te horen.

Skooba

@SQB I know horen is hear... but only because it is the same auf Deutsch.

SQB

@Skooba es tut mir leid, das zu hören.

But in Dutch.

Skooba

@SQB ah, well it was only a Witz

and the Dutch is one my favorite movie quotes

user132126

17:01

I used to say that a lot after the movie came out

Gallifreyan

17:25

user image

This answer can now be deleted.

SQB

17:42

@Gallifreyan flagged for moderator.

Gallifreyan

It was originally posted from a different account; then OP merged accounts.

SQB

Yeah, I saw.

Should we serve Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters in here?

2

Gallifreyan

Any tolkiens-legendarium buffs here?

0

A: Are there differently coloured races of Man in Middle-Earth, and if so how are they explained?

The Three Houses of the Edain are described thus- Beor's people had dark hair, grey or blue eyes and pale skin. the house of Hador were 'golden haired and fair' with blue eyes. The forest people of Haleth were a mix of the two and generally of smaller stature. The People of Ulwarth, Ulfast and Bo...

Adamant

@Gallifreyan If the other answer were not accepted, I would try to have it converted to a comment, but given the acceptance it is just NAA.

Gallifreyan

17:58

@SQB 42.

@Adamant I had flagged it for conversion, but that was before OP merged accounts.

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