Winter 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?
This 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...
I 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, ...
All 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.
Luke 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...
Now, 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...
Does 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.?
As 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...
In 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...
I 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...
They 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.
It'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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@TheLethalCarrot not sure if I can access archives at work...?
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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
A 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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In 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 ...
Back 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...
I 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 ...
(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.
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.
@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.
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
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...
Plot 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." ...
I'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...
One 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...
Young 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...
Long 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...
I'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...
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).
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.)
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.