Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

user1306322

3:04 PM

this was my wallpaper for a long time once:

maybe it's time to get it back

nhahtdh

Manga Gankyou

漫画眼鏡 - Yep I got it right

user1306322

nhahtdh

Madan no Ou episode 2 is out ^_^

user1306322

nhahtdh

How do you call the style of date picker in Apple?

user1306322

3:11 PM

does anyone know what the can says?

@nhahtdh pic?

nhahtdh

user1306322

slots

barrel

wheel

dial

lol if you have design questions − ask me

nhahtdh

ＯＫ，　ｉｔ　ｓｅｅｍｓ　ｔｈａｔ　ｙｏｕ　ｄｏｎ’ｔ　ｋｎｏｗ　ｔｈｅ　ｔｅｒｍ　ＸＤ

user1306322

most of the UX.se is crazy folks

nhahtdh

user1306322

3:14 PM

I can't read shit :X

all these years of watching anime gone to waste

nhahtdh

I can only read the last part

Calorie 30% off

The first part - ___ koezu (something not going over/exceeding)

user1306322

as compared to what I wonder

nhahtdh

It's one of the early design

user1306322

@nhahtdh I bet a professional designer would understand what you mean by that

and of course if you show that picture, they will

maybe ask on UX?

I replied to the message above

or ask in chat

if you don't wanna ask a full fledged question

but you might get some rep like that if you are concered about it

ah I almost thought they removed rep counters in a recent chat update

Karasu

Beta-kun

3:26 PM

We are starting the memory and storage upgrades in the New York data center.

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 11, 2014 at 3:22 PM

user1306322

so? how should that concern us?

read-only mode?

@Karasu jolly

nhahtdh

> We only expect a short period of unavailability (<1 min) while we fail over the SQL servers for the upgrade.

> If we have time, we will also be testing network core resiliency.

This would involve a Read Only fail over to our Oregon data center while we reboot one of our core switches and verify our redundancy is working as expected.

user1306322

> From Middle French joly (“considerable, ingenious, agreeable, pretty”)

see? "agreeable"

interesting approach to "fun"

Karasu

Yuuki

4:01 PM

@ton.yeung Yeah, got a few people commenting that my old just looked like a blue blob.

Plus MH4U is coming in 4-5 months so I gotta prepare.

user1306322

^

Yuuki

So, I start my training on Monday.

@ton.yeung Yeah, got a job at Studio Movie Grill.

Free movies!

@ton.yeung Depends on the theatre, I guess.

@ton.yeung I have to be present watching the movie/anime with you, but yeah we can do that.

Frosteeze

#kumquat

Karasu

Yuuki

Usually, I have to wait about a week after the movie comes out and only on weekdays/weeknights too.

No free movies on weekends and not the first week of showing.

user1306322

4:05 PM

@Karasu there's a lot going on

Yuuki

@Karasu ... I don't think that's a kumquat.

nhahtdh

There should be SAO, Lost Future and Fate tonight...

user1306322

@ton.yeung could you tell what it's all about?

Toshinou Kyouko

4:25 PM

🍅

user1306322

🍅 🍅 🍅

italicized tomato

Toshinou Kyouko

#🍅

Karasu

@ToshinouKyouko I think your syntax might be wrong.

Toshinou Kyouko

:(

#tomato

Karasu

4

Toshinou Kyouko

4:28 PM

Sleepy :)

user1306322

#🍅

Karasu

Toshinou Kyouko

:0

#🍆

Karasu

@ToshinouKyouko I don't understand your request.

user1306322

just gimme the list of all these fruits

and vegetables

Frosteeze

4:57 PM

And now for something different.

nhahtdh

Gahara-san

SAO this week seems to be a recap T_T

Eric

@LoganM Any particular reason you think Code Golf isn't fit for graduation?

user1306322

5:14 PM

do we have a makeup and styling site?

or did we ever have such a proposal?

nhahtdh

I don't think our site is going to graduate any time soon

The number of frequent users is quite small, and most new users don't stick around

New users are too used to the forum format, where they post stuffs with bad grammar and zero citation or just pure discussion that is only fit for chat on SE network

Yuuki

@nhahtdh I would say this is/was the same for gaming, but gaming does have a lot more objective questions (where do I find X?), I guess.

user1306322

5:42 PM

1

Style and Beauty

Proposed Q&A site for professional stylists and beauty experts.

Currently in definition.

:p

post some demo questions if you like

it overlaps with a few existing proposals, but screw em

they're too narrow

mine is broader

user1306322

5:59 PM

just posted links to it in a number of rooms most populated and least related to activities only men would be involved in, and got told off by snailboat >.>

apparently the Bridge has their own Jugem so they'll see it eventually

I guess most topics are most attractive to men, coz they're technical in nature

parenting might be the only one which might share an equal amount of female and male users

then must come Workplace

maybe Cooking next

language sites may have a large portion of female users

I'd like to see the user gender stats

nhahtdh

User gender would need a survey, since no such information is requested from user during registration

user1306322

oh well then I guess it's near impossible

Yuuki

Not to mention there's no way to verify the information.

user1306322

let's trust the users to provide bogus information in equal parts from both genders

or maybe we could ask "How likely are men and women of different age groups to lie about their gender?" and use the data to fix our raw stats

but you know, forget it

there are more interesting things to do

like chat bots

JNat

6:21 PM

@Yuuki there's no way to verify any of the information we provide here

Yuuki

@JNat Location is actually somewhat verifiable.

Although not reliably, it is possible.

JNat

@Yuuki Only mods and staff can verify it, though

Yuuki

@JNat Your point being...?

user1306322

just sayin?

JNat

no point, actually

user1306322

6:23 PM

this is the second time today I see somebody asked about the point where there was none

Beta-kun

We are now starting storage maintenance on the #stackexchange SQL Servers - yummy 2TB NVMe PCIe SSDs are going in.

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 11, 2014 at 6:15 PM

user1306322

cool maintenance

Yuuki

@user1306322 The way it was worded made me think that only mods and staff being able to verify location was in some way a counter-point to me stating that location was verifiable.

user1306322

I wonder how useful SSDs are for a site like SE

JNat

@Yuuki no, just sayin', really

Karasu

6:26 PM

user1306322

thanks, we needed more love here

imma make more tea

user1306322

6:42 PM

can anyone recommend a cheap Windows Phone smartphone?

I only need calling, messages, mail, calendar, alarm and occasionally look up where I am on the map

Toshinou Kyouko

~love~

user1306322

oh I just found one for $125

let's see what's so crappy about it that makes it so cheap

4" 854 x 480, 2 sim cards, 22 days standby… nice

my current wm6.1 has 640×480

enough to show the calendar for the whole year on one screen and a wide menu bar

guess I'll take it then

iKlsR

blergh

windoze

user1306322

what

nhahtdh

I only need a Nokia phone from the last decade

user1306322

6:57 PM

seems like a really good smartphone for its price

I don't know about the games, but the only 3 differences between this and the most expensive model are screen resolution 854×480 vs full hd, battery capacity which doesn't really matter because of the same work time and price is 5 times lower than the top model

makes me wonder what the hell costs $1000 in iphones if not swag value

oh and it's even cheaper in retail stores, just about $95

why did I spend $320 for my lame-ass winmo smartphone back then…

Beta-kun

The web tier memory upgrades are complete, up to 48 GB from 32 GB per server - SQL data is copying to the shiny new SSDs now

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 11, 2014 at 7:03 PM

user1306322

I wonder how much that hardware costs

"web tier" what does that even mean

Yuuki

7:24 PM

So, I'm getting a different byte count than this other guy.

He has 406 and I'm getting 423.

user1306322

byte count?

Yuuki

@user1306322 I'm doing stuff with PDF files which means I need byte offsets and whatnot.

user1306322

sounds exhausting

Yuuki

Something borked and I think it might have to do with the fact that I'm getting different byte counts for the same text.

user1306322

metadata or something being modified during file transfer?

antivirus software messing it all up?

Yuuki

7:27 PM

@user1306322 Well, we're not doing file transfer.

user1306322

methods of counting bytes depend on something

Yuuki

I'm trying to figure out how to build a PDF page from scratch. It was working until I needed to implement word-wrapping/newlining.

user1306322

why would you want to do that?

Yuuki

@user1306322 Well, I'm using ASCIIEncoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(QueryText.Text).

user1306322

and aren't there a number of tutorials on the net?

Yuuki

7:28 PM

@user1306322 Because I'm coding a PDF-writing library for Windows Phone.

user1306322

oh

Yuuki

@user1306322 Yeah, I'm looking at one. And I'm getting different byte counts from the tutorial.

user1306322

so… tutorials?

are you sure it's the same text then?

Yuuki

@user1306322 Supposedly, it's the same text. I have no clue how this guy counted his bytes.

user1306322

maybe they have added another example and didn't change the byte codes

once upon a time I copypasted the whole XNA tutorial code as per each page of it, and it had about 20 errors and missing dependencies which nothing was said about anywhere in it

chances are the tutorial doesn't work without some alterations

Yuuki

7:30 PM

@user1306322 The thing is, his example works (copypasted the PDF contents) and mine doesn't.

And I only changed the byte count to match what I was getting.

user1306322

or that the provided examples don't match calculation results

Yuuki

I'm thinking he might have a different starting point that he didn't mention.

user1306322

are you absolutely sure you copypasted the exact same thing?

maybe some invisible characters get in your text or his

Yuuki

The stupid thing is that my code was working (with its different byte count) up until I implemented my code for multiline text.

Which is why I'm testing it by writing a multiline text PDF myself.

Which is where we run into the byte count problem.

user1306322

or you know, that nasty formatting that goes around in Word, PDF and browser copied text

Yuuki

7:32 PM

I find it hilariously funny that when I run into programming problems, I either go to a gaming chatroom or an anime/manga chatroom.

user1306322

maybe paste into notepad and recopy from there to lose all that formatting

it's fine, we're all in this because of some sort of coding

Yuuki

The even funnier thing is that I trust you guys about coding more than some random dev blog that Google turned up.

user1306322

we'll at least tell you if we've ran into any issues with that or not

the blog guy… not so much

I don't really know anything about the structure of PDF, so I can only give you the general advice about text and stuff

Karasu

user1306322

I suspect that whatever you're creating these PDF files with automatically "improves" to change your newline characters or however you modify the text that works perfectly, so that the resulting bytecode for that special character will be different

perhaps disable that improvement or don't use that library

Yuuki

7:38 PM

Sonnuva, I think I figured out the answer.

user1306322

do tell

Yuuki

Once I'm sure.

Whether I'm right or not.

@user1306322 So I replaced all the newline/carriage returns with spaces.

My new bytecount is 407.

Which is much closer to 406.

And the difference of 1 can be explained a lot better than a difference of 20+.

user1306322

hex editor?

Yuuki

Actually, no. Just DELETE + SPACE in a textbox.

I wrote a tiny program to calculate byte count for me since Google Fu didn't turn up a calculator.

Beta-kun

Upgrade of one SQL server is complete. We will now fail over to it so we can upgrade the other. Sites will be unavailable for just a moment.

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 11, 2014 at 7:45 PM

user1306322

7:46 PM

hex editors do data summary

Yuuki

@user1306322 Ah. Should probably look into that then.

Any suggestions?

user1306322

and they have comparison tools

I knew some open source editor, I think it was called HexEd or something

generic :p

Yuuki

Well, I don't really need anything too specialized.

user1306322

wxhexeditor.org

this is it

there have to be some more sophisticated editors with more stats

Yuuki

All I really need right now is counting.

user1306322

7:49 PM

36

Q: Hex editors for Windows?

Are the some hex editors for Windows? Preferably open source or free since I don't need a hex editor all that often... Things I do need is the ability to search in different types (text, raw hex, little endian short, big endian short, etc.) and viewing by type (same as searching types) starting ...

Comparison of hex editors

== General == == Features == == Notes and references == === Notes === ao: ANSI is the Windows character set, OEM is the DOS character set. Both are based on ASCII. === References === ^ 010 Editor features, retrieved 2007-11-29 ^ HxD features ^ HHD Software Hex Editor Neo edition comparison table, retrieved 2012-05-31 == See also == Hex editor Comparison of word processors integrated development environments HTML editors text editors == External links == Comprehensive (but old) comparison of hex editors (Windows only)...

check out the features section on wiki

looks like the one I linked has the most features and it still looks pretty simple

Notepad++ has a hex editing plugin, as expected

honestly, I'd go with that now rather than a separate program as I use NP++ often enough

Beta-kun

Failover complete - all sites are back online.

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 11, 2014 at 7:52 PM

user1306322

great

and it looks like lumia 530 will be my new smartphone

I wish everything was this affordable

Yuuki

The NN3DS looks like it's going to be pretty affordable, as far as gaming platforms go.

user1306322

I don't know any games that I like on it

once upon a time a friend played some drummer simulator with me and that was it

Yuuki

8:14 PM

@user1306322 What kind of games do you like?

user1306322

shooters, I guess

rpgs

hmm… story games?

like Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Brothers: Tale of Two Sons

I played a LOT of cs 1.6 in the past and quake 3

also Diablo 2 is my favorite

Yuuki

3DS has a few good RPG and story games.

Do you like FF-style turn-based RPGs?

Karasu

user1306322

it depends heavily on the genre

Yuuki

@user1306322 Fantasy?

user1306322

8:23 PM

it's just a setting

game mechanics are what's imporatnt

Transistor was a fine game with great weapon system

also looked great and the soundtrack is now in my playlist

Yuuki

"FF-style turn-based RPG" seemed pretty definitive in terms of game mechanics, so I was wondering what you were thinking.

Madara Uchiha

@Karasu Nice

user1306322

I don't know what that means honestly

Madara Uchiha

@Yuuki Firefox style turn based RPG?

:P

Yuuki

@MadaraUchiha Final Fantasy.

@user1306322 Have you played any turn-based Final Fantasies?

Madara Uchiha

8:28 PM

user1306322

nnnope

Madara Uchiha

@user1306322 whatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhat?!

You haven't played Final Fantasy?

user1306322

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope

Yuuki

Madara Uchiha

Good, because neither have I.

Frosteeze

8:29 PM

I'd play a Firefox style turn based RPG.

Madara Uchiha

Couldn't really connect.

user1306322

looks too repetitive

Madara Uchiha

Yuuki

@user1306322 That's because it is.

Eric

@Frosteeze Chrome only plz

Madara Uchiha

8:29 PM

This princess can wipe out your entire country in under an hour and you know it :D

Frosteeze

@Eric IE style RPG lolololol

user1306322

Opera style RPG

with signers

for deaf

Yuuki

@user1306322 In any case, the game I was thinking about recommending is Bravely Default.

user1306322

also I'm currently playing Dark Souls 2

Yuuki

@user1306322 Oh, that's fun.

user1306322

8:31 PM

it's good but not as good as the first game

Yuuki

I haven't really dived into the DLC packs even though I have them all.

user1306322

and I'm looking forward to Bloodborne

Yuuki

@user1306322 Story-wise, I'd agree. DaS2 doesn't have a particularly strong story. Mechanics-wise, there were a lot of quality-of-life changes that I like.

user1306322

I'm still slowly getting to the last third of the main game

like what?

Yuuki

@user1306322 For one, jumping is hold button to dash, then press button to jump.

user1306322

8:33 PM

bows now shoot straight? :p

oh that

Yuuki

Holding button to dash followed by trying to click your analog stick was annoying as f--k.

user1306322

I played the first on mouse and keyboard

now I bought myself a dualshock 4 to play dark souls 2

camera is muuuuuuch worse on gamepads :D

Yuuki

I like the fact that they implemented Soul Memory. I don't like how they did it.

Frosteeze

eh didn't know PS controllers work on PC

I might just get it...

user1306322

unofficial drivers and software rules

Yuuki

8:35 PM

Removing cartwheeling was also a plus.

user1306322

the what?

and why

Yuuki

@user1306322 There was a ring you could wear in DaS1 that let you cartwheel (even faster than fast roll).

user1306322

oh then I never got it

Yuuki

@user1306322 Because (1) cartwheeling around during combat just looks stupid and (2) the metagame was getting annoying as f--k.

user1306322

also I played through the first game fully in offline mode

Yuuki

8:38 PM

The fast-travel system is also nice, but that has a few downsides to it.

user1306322

and I took the thief with the master key which REALLY deviated from the intended progression experience

Yuuki

(Yes, I know you can fast-travel in DaS1, but it was annoyingly deep into the game)

user1306322

I'd say they should have made it cost some souls maybe

fast-traveling

Yuuki

@user1306322 One of the big problems is that at the same time they introduced fast-traveling, they kinda removed one of the big reasons for having it.

user1306322

uh?

Yuuki

8:40 PM

In DaS1, the various shopkeepers were spread all around the place.

In DaS2, most of the ones you need are centralized in Majula.

Fast-traveling is kinda pointless if you're going to be spending the lion's share of your time in one place/hub anyways.

user1306322

I'd argue that you don't need anything at all from the NPCs but rather that they are a nice bonus if you know how to use what they offer effectively

Yuuki

Repairing and upgrading are the two big things.

user1306322

all around the place or in one place − doesn't really matter

I only use the upgrading function and level up

never bought any weapons from them

or special items

Yuuki

@user1306322 I play a bunch of PvP, so I constantly need to repair Soul Rings.

user1306322

maybe I'm playing it wrong, but it seems fine so far

oh

Yuuki

8:43 PM

Well, not constantly.

user1306322

I'm not interested in pvp, not in any game ever

Yuuki

But a lot.

Dark Souls is the one game where I enjoy the PvP.

Any other game, not at all.

user1306322

unless it's TF2 where it's not one on one, but team vs team

Yuuki

Well, also TF2 but I kinda see that game as PvP-only.

And don't tell me MvM is PvE because that wasn't a thing back when I played a lot of TF2.

user1306322

I prefer the control point and payload modes

Yuuki

8:46 PM

Okay, let me rephrase: "Dark Souls is the only game where I enjoy deathmatch-style PvP".

user1306322

alright

I don't like even that :D

Yuuki

I think it's because PvP in Dark Souls is more methodical and tactical than most games.

It's not as reliant on twitchy fingers as, say, Call of Duty or Halo.

Karasu

user1306322

twitchy fingers huh

quake 3 instagib

Madara Uchiha

Is there a Japanese word for 'black hole' other than ブラックホール?

Yuuki

8:59 PM

@MadaraUchiha 悟空の胃?

Madara Uchiha

Google translates that to "Stomach of Goku" XD

Yuuki

@MadaraUchiha Yep.

Although in hindsight, I probably should've used Naruto, not Goku.

Madara Uchiha

Goku eats in one hour more than what Naruto ate his entire life

Yuuki

@MadaraUchiha Yeah, but Naruto is more relevant to your avatar.

Eric

@MadaraUchiha No

Madara Uchiha

9:05 PM

@Yuuki And my name :P

Also, don't underestimate my own eating skills. I have never once lost to Hashirama in an eating contest!

Yuuki

@MadaraUchiha I don't think that's much to boast about, the guy's probably a vegetarian.

Madara Uchiha

@Yuuki Are you kidding? He loves trees! He'd never eat them!

Ironically, my friend IRL who is nicknamed @HashiramaSenju here is actually vegetarian XD

Yuuki

So, I'm sad.

I went to an Asian bakery today. No melon bread.

I did get one with custard cream filling though.

Beta-kun

We are making a network configuration change to the database backend - there may be a minor blip in services.

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 11, 2014 at 9:07 PM

Network change complete.

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 11, 2014 at 9:10 PM

PCIe SSD Install on SQL Server 2 is happening now, but we won't be switching over to it during the burn-in trial on the primary.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on October 11, 2014 at 9:13 PM

Yuuki

9:23 PM

Okay, hand-typed PDF file works.

Now to make the appropriate changes to the code and test that...

Beta-kun

Installed http://t.co/qh3BjNF1bH

Tweeted by GABeech on October 11, 2014 at 9:18 PM

Beta-kun

9:53 PM

We’re headed out - maintenance complete. Enjoy your Saturday!

Tweeted by StackStatus on October 11, 2014 at 9:49 PM

Yuuki

SUCCESS!!

Eric

10:20 PM

success == true

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

@Eric assert(success, TRUE)

@MadaraUchiha that depends on the context

Madara Uchiha

@ʞɹɐzǝɹ Black hole as in the celestial body.

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

@MadaraUchiha I wouldn't call it that, but you can literally refer to it as a "black-color hole"

Yuuki

Not to mention, you can just use Japanese characters for English sounds. "Bu-rakku hou-ru" or something disgusting like that.

Eric

@Yuuki That's what he posted. :P

Yuuki

10:32 PM

#hashtagIDon'tKnowEngrish

Karasu

@Yuuki I don't understand what you mean by that.

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

lol

Yuuki

... Maybe @Karasu should be set to ignore #hashtag.

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

10:44 PM

@ton.yeung imperialscans.com/read/tokyo-ghoul-re/1-bone-1/1

ʞɹɐzǝɹ

10:54 PM

►

Logan M

11:17 PM

@Eric Robert said something to that effect at some point. Will try to find later.

iKlsR

11:29 PM

@Eric

I just found Key & Peele, how do they do it?

Eric

@iKlsR

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