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Q: Can we have Time Lord hat?

11.01.11Winter Bash 2020 doesn't have a science fiction related hat. The last hat Propel Thyself looks like a Physics hat unless you consider Doremon science fiction. Can we have a Time Lord hat? Or, is this too late for requesting it?

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Q: Help identify the story "I did not sell my child" ends with the grown up child deserts parents

Shashank SabniveesuThis story I read long time ago in of our class readings keeps coming back to mind but none of my Internet searches return a story except for news articles. The story goes like this: A number of children from poor families are playing together - A rich couple gets down from a cart - approaches th...

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Hail Hydra!
 
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Q: Any recommendations of isekai mangas

RainI would like to read some more manga about being isekai. I preferred something that isn't overly cliche much like having a massive harem and being overpowered. I would like it to start him off as a beginner and he works his way up to become stronger. It could be classroom isekai, regular isekai, ...

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Q: Story about a boy who can put a plant in his mouth to turn into a bird temporarily, but it becomes permanent if he swallows it

PacifistPapyAll i remember is already in the title. it might have been an audiobook but i just dont remember more. I tried to find it myself by checking many different google questions and sites for audiobooks etc. but i failed.

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Q: Did Luke Lose His X-Wing on Cloud City?

MissouriSpartanLuke flies to Cloud City. R2 follows him in to the facility when they land. R2 follows Lando and company out to the Falcon. Injured and bewildered Luke is rescued by the Falcon. Where does Luke’s X-Wing end up? Gone? Stolen? Destroyed by the Empire, so that means he’s issued a new one in Ep VI? O...

 
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Q: Why is Sheev Palpatine evil?

Sina MohseniNow, when I search this, all I simply get is that his immense connection with the Dark Side made him evil... But did something happen to him to the past? Has he been a Slave before and now wants to rule the Galaxy? I am not sure... Once again, all my research gives me is that it is his immense co...

 
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Q: Does anybody know why Mace Windu is the head of the Jedi council?

HelloZero005Does anybody know why Mace Windu is the head of the Jedi council? Its seems as though there are or were better or older Jedi who would have willing to become head Jedi. I thought at first that he may have a high Midi-chlorian count, but it seems his is quite normal by Jedi standards.?

 
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Q: Could Din Djarin name Bo Katan as the ruler in his name?

ShadeAs the answers in this question state, Din Djarin cannot stage a mock battle to hand the Dark Sabre to Bo Katan and he cannot simply hand it over to her (as seen in The Mandalorian S02E16). But it's also rather obvious that he has no interest in ruling the Mandalorians. Would the Mandalorian soci...

 
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Q: How did the other Brainiac 5 knew about the bottle?

Bhaumik BhattIn Supergirl S05E10, the scene where all the brainiacs are gathered in the DEO, we see that one brainiac comes shouting "Do not let him open the bottle" and then he disappears. It is later revealed that the brainiac that bottled his world killed him because he knew about the bottle and it's secre...

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Q: Did Durgamati The Myth, copy the LOTR music?

Abhijeet ShuklaI was watching Durgamati The Myth on Amazon Prime today and noticed the Lord Of The Rings theme music being played in the background(it starts at 1:12:14 and goes on for 10 seconds). My question is regarding plagiarism: Did the creators copy the music illegally or did they took permissions from c...

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Q: Short story about creature(s) on a spaceship that remain invisible by moving only during saccades/eye movements

kibbenderThey cause some sort of trouble or mischief, and one of the crew catches on and devises a way to catch it (or one of them). My Google-fu has failed me on this one.

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Q: What are the differences between the book and TV Series for Drummer's Storyline?

YellaksIt's been a while since I read the books but I feel that The Expanse TV Series has drastically changed in regards to Drummer's storyline. From what I remember in the 5th book of The Expanse series (Nemesis Games): Maybe on a sub-question, why has Drummer's story differed from the books in the TV...

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Can someone help be find out who is elligible for this swag?
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Q: Swag is coming back!

Juan MOne of the things we enjoy doing at Stack Overflow is celebrating with you when you reach momentous events in our communities. Traditionally, we’ve celebrated by sending swag your way when you’ve reached a high reputation score or when you’ve been elected as a moderator to one of our great networ...

I'm not clear if you had to below the threshold before March 2019, and above after or something else?
@TheLethalCarrot do you have any SEDE skills?
I have some, not great but I could hack something together if I needed to I guess haha
I think you had to go above after, anything before that and you hadn't received anything they may come back to you later on... I think
Although I never received my email, cos I had it switched off, so hopefully I'm eligible
@TheLethalCarrot I noticed you commenting that
I just need to get 25k rep, then I'll be eligible...
@TheLethalCarrot I'm putting up a meta post, and I'm not going to get anywhere unless I had a really good starting point
I guess I could try SELECT from USERS, where USER.Rep >100k, and ...??
A lot of user stuff is hidden in SEDE and I don't think there's any history to it
You could try the internet archive on the Top Users page?
@TheLethalCarrot I could look at how much was earnt in the last year?
thats not strictly accurate though because march 2019 was >year ago.
Well assuming you're trying to find out who is eligible on SFF, go to scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all then compare that to the archived version from ~March 2019
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@TheLethalCarrot not sure if I can access archives at work...?
Two questions, is there an SEDE query I can run to show the users on our site, via a meta post, who should be eligible. Are you taking into account how much bounty was given? I'm just a tiny amount off, but I'm sure someone else might become eligible if they had, say 75k rep, but had given >25k in bounties? — Pureferret 34 secs ago
will have to do for now
For the bounty question I think it's whatever your current rep figure is so rep given away in bounties doesn't count
It's not loading for me but you're saying you can't get to https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all ?
Although it might not be working at the minute haha
For a rough estimate you could check the monthly leagues stackexchange.com/leagues/186/month/scifi/2019-03-01
Check everyone above 100k now and see what their rep was in the leagues back then
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@TheLethalCarrot blocked by policy
That sounds dumb
@TheLethalCarrot I'm not surprised at all
We've got nothing blocked at my work but it's only a 9 person company... not surprised with bigger ones
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Q: Does David not understand that humans can't live 2000 years?

Faizawhat mythical creature is David,the child mecha,searching for in the movie Artificial intelligence?

@AncientSwordRage FWIW I'd be surprised if that wasn't the same user
Also if you're editing the new question you might want to change the title to reflect it, though preferably the user would ask it as a new question :)
@TheLethalCarrot I'm sort of expecting responses on the questions to indicate they're the same user...
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Aye me too
I am making.... inquiries
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Q: To what extent can I edit an unfocused question to improve it's focus?

LogicDictatesA while back, somebody asked a question that actually contained three related, but fairly distinct subquestions. This question was subsequently closed a few days later on account of being too unfocused, but before I discovered that, I'd already typed up a detailed answer addressing all three of t...

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@Slartibartfast @AncientSwordRage you seem to have forgotten what you were going to do with the asterisk on Mike's name (:()
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@Mithical thanks for reminding me :(
posted on December 22, 2020 by tech

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@CerealBot cure facebook? I'll believe it when I see it
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Q: Is the Millennium Falcon hyperdrive from The LEGO Movie based on a previous Star Wars design?

BuzzIn The LEGO Movie, Batman steals the hyperdrive (which the heroes need) from the Millennium Falcon. Here is a still of how the hyperdrive appears. Is the design for the hyperdrive, made out of LEGO blocks, based on an existing Star Wars design, or was it created ...

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Q: How to handle answers edited to add something that appears to infringe copyright

arpBack in 2016, someone asked a story ID question about a novel, which was answered, and in April of 2018 I added an answer mentioning a short story by the same author which I thought fit the description even better (except, of course, for not being a novel.) I linked to a review of the short stor...

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Greetings, Earthlings.
@Donald.McLean greetings fellow earthling
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Q: Searching for a sad scene from a cartoon where a little kid is trying to heal their already dead parent

Patrik Edvárd VidaI only vaguely remember, but it was probably an anime and if i remember correctly a little girl had some healing cream that was said to heal almost anytihng and she tried to heal her already dead mom or dad or I'm not even sure if it was an acutal family member but the point is she tries to heal ...

@Randal'Thor edited my answer
@Donald.McLean how goes it?
16:41
Holy meta Batman!
Don't think I've seen meta this busy for a while
@AncientSwordRage Mostly good. I hate JavaScript.
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@Donald.McLean We all do. You're in good company. :)
I've barely even used JavaScript but it's enough to know I hate it
(Actually JS, the language itself at least, isn't so bad. The problem is npm and its equivalents.)
@TheLethalCarrot Once they finally added proper language support (promises) for declaring relationships between asynchronous operations it became useful for doing web applications, where you need to cope with fetching resources from various places, updating in response to external triggers, posting back to slow/remote storage, etc.
Aye, maybe because I've not really done much web stuff it's just web developing that I don't like haha
I've never personally understood the whole node thing though. Yes, I want to write important external-facing applications in a language where the most basic aids to security are at best grafted-on afterthoughts. Not.
@TheLethalCarrot Can't fault you for that! I'm much happier not having to do it myself.
@Donald.McLean does not compute
JS is love. JS is life.
@TheLethalCarrot that I can understand
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Found the filthy web dev! Burn him!
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heh
await fireProofing(AncientSwordRage)
I'll be fine... eventually
I don't think I'd want to do webdev if I wasn't using ReactJs, to be honest
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@DavidW I use it because it's quick and dirty
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Ooh chat is active today.
Mostly a ferret and a carrot.
And a dog, but that didn't fit the rhyme and rhythm :-P
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Q: Where can I watch "Ninja Boy Rantaro"

Drago_ FireupCan anyone tell me where can I watch episodes of Ninja Boy rantaro? OTT platforms or downloads. anything.

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@Randal'Thor I get that a lot.
@AncientSwordRage I've never really used React, actually. A lot of old-style JS (prototype.js), some Angular, but nothing recent (thankfully). The best work we did was when we used minimal JS on the client (just updating chunks of the page and responding to user input) and put all the smarts on the server. So much easier.
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@DavidW that's really good call a lot of the time
React is like a well thought out, stripped down version of angular is directives. Everything else is down to you to write, so it's far less opinionated than Angular, and far nicer to do dom manipulation than pure JavaScript
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Q: QUESTION from movie Artificial intelligence A.I

FaizaWhat did David want to be through out the movie ( what he wished for) and why did he wish that ?

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We had one very tightly coded JS routine on the client side that turned JSON from the server into object trees then spliced them into the DOM and attached listeners.
It meant that we could add new visualizations (say log-log or other non-time-based charts) without having to rewrite the clients.
And I really didn't care for Angular. Typescript is ugly, the "router" model is extremely limited...
 
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Q: Looking for the name of a short story involving a vampiric "Wendigo" dug up by a young boy

Helbent IVPlot Details/Summary I only remember a few bits about this tale, but what I do remember is hopefully specific enough to identify it. The story is set in modern times (20th century). A young boy digs up an old grave rumored to be the burial place of a creature known in local lore as a "Wendigo." ...

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Q: In Batman, how did Riddler get two last names?

RobertI've been trying to look for how he got the two last names of Nygma/Nigma and Nashton but I haven't been able to find it. Was one his original birth name and the other was his changed legal name? Is one his original civilian name and the other his assumed name when he became a criminal? Was it an...

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Q: Which Sci-Fi work first introduced the idea of delivering a letter from past to the point of time travel?

11.01.11One favorite trope I always love to think about is delivery of a letter from the past to a point of accidental (and one-way) time travel. Precise definition: There are two people (A & B) at present (can be generalized to a group of people). B got accidentally transported to the past (same timel...

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Q: Young Adult series/trilogy about nefarious plot to transfer memories from rich people with disabled/dying bodies to young donor bodies

Manav BokinalaYoung adult trilogy about a group of kids/teens go on various adventures to take down a secret program that wipes memories of donor bodies and replaces them with the memories/consciousness of rich people with dying/disabled bodies. Additional info: Some of the characters: West, a semi-cyborg wh...

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Q: "Highlander" waiting to be executed

Angeliuqe DeWillLong ago probably some 90s i watched i think one of Highlander movies with Christopher Lambert. Big part of movie he waited to be executed on guillotine i think. He almost every moment watched at that guillotine from the little window of his cell. I remember Lambert face with his long hair how wa...

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Q: Fantasy novel: dueling sorcerors and a damsel in distress

anglusI'm trying to recall the title of a novel I once read. The publication date would probably be in the '80s or early '90s. I don't remember much that happened in it, which may be an accurate recollection. Anyway, the main plot concerns two men, both of whom are sorcerors, if I recall correctly, and...

 
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@DavidW react will do that in a very lightweight way
@DavidW I grew to hate angular. Also typescript is very ugly. If I wanted types of have picked a different language
Not to mention the fact that the hacks it does under the covers to create "typeness" are nasty.
I'm still a bit jaded that the domain-specific language we wrote to code the business logic had typed nulls, meta types, partial currying and all kinds of really nice stuff. (The guy who mostly wrote it was truly brilliant and stole ideas from a bunch of places.)
It was nicer to code in than Java (which at that point was just getting generics).
@DavidW sounds nice
I'm not s big fan of Java either
Managerial fiat was that we had to try Angular, but when Angular 2 came out it broke everything written previously. Which we could have dealt with, but every point release contained breaking changes from the one before...
I tried it again a few years ago, and everything I didn't like about it was there even harder.
@AncientSwordRage I'm fine with Java, mostly due to long experience and adaptation to its pain points.
But that's not to say I don't see its failings, it's more that I don't see anything better.
Why, oh why, did they have to introduce primitive types?
And typed nulls are so nice. (You can still access type features from them, for starters.)
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@DavidW they seemed keen to double down in the bad stuff
Optional chaining and bullish coalescing make nulls easier in js
@DavidW in Java?
One of my biggest beef is that they didn't rip out generics already and make them real not just syntactic sugar
Even Java has optionals now. (They got shamed into it after so many 3rd-party add-ons like guava implemented them.) They're very useful, but still have their moments of clunkiness. Very close to a typed null, but not quite all the way there.
@AncientSwordRage Yeah. They tried to fix it with autoboxing, but that doesn't change code that declares int[].
@AncientSwordRage They're not just sugar, since you need them to properly declare functions. But type erasure is a pain, I agree. At least generics are there for static analysis tools.

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