@spiceyokooko: what "guardian clique"? You've been on the site for all of six days. Do you personally know the people who closed the question? Can you even name them? A question got closed by five high-rep community members, another high-rep community member argued that it can be salvaged, and then actually did salvage it, by editing it into shape, herself. And it got reopened. Which is precisely how SE is supposed to work. Now look at your contribution: you've spent the same time running around trying to foment unrest and division and calling people names. You are not helping. — RegDwighт2 mins ago
@MattЭллен I'm kind of non-committal. You know, yeah, if is rolling, it probably won't gather any moss. probably won't if it is standing still in a desert neither. or pine forest.
@Hanu hair can be in tresses. hm... maybe in plaits too. What does the dictionary say?
@tchrist it's quite easy, really. He wants to have the final word. You keep pinging him, he keeps coming back. I am starting to see it as a sport of sorts.
@RegDwighт But I am entitled to my opinion and I am allowed to express it on meta and I am allowed to agree with other peoples comments. Sorry you don't like that, but there's lots of things here I don't like or agree with. So much for that beloved community democracy, self moderation and policing you love so much. — spiceyokooko1 min ago
Ok, he’s a fuckhead.
> “You are being an asshole. That’s out of line. Please stop.“
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@spiceyokooko "[I am not helping] but I am entitled to [complain about what other people contribute]". I wasn't sure what you were doing here; now I am. Thanks for clearing that up. — MετάEd2 mins ago
a plait looks like a kind of braid. It's a much rarer word to me. if you have interleaved hair the normal thing to call it is a 'braid'. I don't even know what a plait is (I do now!)
Recently I had a test in college that asks us to give an example of irony.
I wrote this word by word:
An astronaut had over 200 missions into space over two decades. Ironically, two days after he returned from his latest mission, he tripped on a banana peel and died.
But I did not get any ...
I'm trying to translate my acquaintance's cartoon to cite it in an article written in English. For the subject of the article it is important that the translation will be direct, thus very vulgar.
Is there a vulgar way of saying he killed himself in English meaning that someone died, but did not...
OK, according to my Polish-speaking colleage, Zajebał się means "He fucked himself." I voted to close because I don't think we want this kind of polling-for-vulgar-expressions question hitting the multicollider. — Robusto1 min ago
@KitFox kind of amusing, but i don't really agree with all of it. if "find a girlfriend" were in the same league of difficult as "make loads of money", only a few thousand guys would have girlfriends. as it is, it looks like it's meant to be bloody easy.
english.stackexchange.com/questions/94735/… I don't understand how this question can be answered with a simple link to an internet resource when I'm asking the very thing the links don't say.
"suggests that adding 'with' is usual" but how do I know when?
First sentence: "The Collins, Merriam-Webster, and Cambridge online dictionaries all call for with before the person to whom a remonstrance is directed. "
@jcolebrand your little tirade in your question isn't very helpful. the point of this site is that you show your research up front. you might not think it necessary, but it is here. We're not every other SE site.
And using the word remonstrate and showing that I've gleaned that it may be an intransitive verb but that apparently it's not ... doesn't show anything?
What specific research should I present when asking questions? I would think that wikimedia or wikipedia are right out. Merriam Webster is impossible to dig through, with all the ads and ad nauseum
@jcolebrand the example is to demonstrate when you don't need to use with, despite there being an object.
the first sentence is "The Collins, Merriam-Webster, and Cambridge online dictionaries all call for with before the person to whom a remonstrance is directed."
@MετάEd They never encrpyted anything that was uploaded. They just sharded based on account
Did you not hear about when someone realized that by having a certain file-id (based on heuristic analysis of a file) that you could download from someone else's account, till they fixed that little password-required loophole?
I'm sure there was a hackernews discussion on that
Ah, so .. sharding
let's use an example everyone here is familiar with
A traditional dictionary has tabs on it, A, B, C, and so on
sometimes you have like for instance C-Ch, Ch-Cl, etc
however, in all cases, there's an initial "bucket" to start looking in, that you can derive from the key (the word being looked up)
So if my word were "geranium" the initial shard would be "all words beginning with the letter G"
If we were talking in terms of social security numbers, the first shard would probably be (altho it's not a large enough dataset to require sharding) the first three numbers.
So if your account on dropbox and my account on dropbox were numbers 123456 and 123457, they might shard based on all "12" accounts, so we would be in the same "base shard" or something
it gets incredibly complex depending on the requirements
But that's the basis
So let's flip back and look at files
Maybe instead of uploading everything on the target computer, you want to upload what is new?
So before you upload anything, you first take a fingerprint of the file, then ask the server if it already has that fingerprint.
So now you need to look up millions of fingerprints at a time, so why not shard the fingerprint tables, so you can do lots of fast lookups on them
So if the fingerprint already exists, then the file already exists, so associate the file with the user
@JohanLarsson no, that was good. sometimes there's just no response to be made. Half of Robusto's comments are just jaw dropping; any comment would ruin it.
And if I recall correctly, they were also able to finagle the system via API calls to bring down files of which the fingerprints were known, without having uploaded them in the first place, because of knowing the fingerprint existed
Anyways, it's better to go back and look on hackernews if this really interests you, because I'm sure I've forgotten some of the details, I just remember what the attack vectors were.
We just changed this: as of now, on meta sites, the "review" link in the top nav is only visible if you have >= 2k rep.
If you don't know what these tools are see here first.
None of the tools have potential for abuse
The vast majority of them can be useful for people with 3,000 rep or even less.
Can't the tools be available sooner, if they can be useful? For example:
2,000 rep: access to all tools not relat...
Recently I had a test in college that asks us to give an example of irony.
I wrote this word by word:
An astronaut had over 200 missions into space over two decades. Ironically, two days after he returned from his latest mission, he tripped on a banana peel and died.
But I did not get any ...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…