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12:40 AM
@tchrist It sounds fine to me, but @Reg would be the final arbiter. I'm pretty sure I heard Kommst du mit during my time in Deutschland. Come to think of it, why not drop the mit as well, as that would be assumed.
 
I can assure you, "kommst du mit?" is very common and normal.
 
It would be common to elide the pronoun: mir or uns would be implied, and obvious. Unless there was an argument about different groups or persons desiring one's attendance.
 
"Kommst du?" is slightly different.
 
Yes, obviously.
 
@Robusto Yes, you would only add a pronoun under certain (less common) circumstances. Normally, you wouldn't.
 
1:16 AM
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1:27 AM
@tchrist Because I'm a nice guy.
Grats.
 
Hmm there is something lacking in that answer, I fear I must vote it down.
 
@Cerberus More cowbell?
 
Cowbell?
 
Sexy.
Have you lost weight?
 
1:36 AM
I've been the same weight for the last 20 years.
 
Then it must be something else...something in your outfit...
 
@Cerberus Yes, I get that you're trying to make fun of me. I just wish you were doing a better job, so that I could engage you in badinage. As it is, I'll keep playing this stupid video game.
 
@Robusto And I will not comment on this praeterition.
 
That is so praetentious.
 
You that's just a compliment.
 
1:52 AM
Syntax ... missing ... can't
 
Arg.
Who do I always slip at the pinnacle of my triumph?
*You know
 
hahaha
my CHIP8 emulator can play Tetris written in Assembly
this is so amazing
=D...
Can anyone recognise name of the game theme song associated with this youtube video at @1:53:00?
 
2:19 AM
Is it normal to have around 100k student debt in US?
 
It's possible, I guess, but I don't really know if it's normal
 
Holy crap... that's too much XD.... Even more than when I was in Australia as international student
haha
somebody told me Harvard is like 120k per year
 
2:34 AM
That sounds way too high
They hit $50,000+ a few years back, but not 6 figures
By "student debt" did you mean tuition? I interpreted it as how much you have in student loans
 
yeah
 
Oh, tuition isn't anywhere near that much per year
Maybe for all four years
 
I think it's still pretty expensive considering that US mcdonalds' only pays you 8 dollars an hour
according to my friend =D...
 
People who are going to college probably have enough skills to hold a job other than flipping burgers
And if you're in that much need, schools have financial aid
 
That's total cost, before they provide aid
A lot of people get financial aid--Ivy League schools are generous with it, and if a family makes below a certain threshold the student gets a free ride
 
that's only for few certain students with good grades
isn't it?
 
No
Ivy League schools tend to give aid on need, not merit
The I.L school I went to had no merit-based aid, only need-based
So it didn't matter how well you did in school, only how much your parents could afford
Other schools are different
But every school has financial aid on need, I think
There are federal forms for it and everything
 
But if you really have 120k student debt after graduation, how are you going to pay it off? I sure companies won't pay you 6 figure salary to newly employed people with only 0~ 2 years experience
 
There are payment plans--
based on how much money you make, you have to pay off a certain amount each month
There is interest on it, but you're not expected to pay it off all at once
It's like paying off a mortgage or auto loan
 
2:46 AM
ok, sure but you cannot spend a lot of money with your salary. You will have mortgage too
 
Not out of college, probably
Most people I know aren't going to have houses right away. That usually takes a few years, and people usually have paid off their student loans by then
 
can you buy a house in a few years?
really?... that's cool =D..
 
I meant you can think about doing it :p
Mortgages are like 20 years
 
I am just glad I wasn't born in a too poor family XD
 
And your English is great, and you studied internationally, so I assume you had a good education :]
 
2:51 AM
Thanks =D.. I thank my parents everyday
 
3:10 AM
Isn't health care also ridiculously expensive in US?
 
@O0oO0oOO0ooO And gasoline is ridiculously cheap. It's all in how you tax things.
Can you believe I corrected the spelling of Sqornshellous throughout English Wikipedia and some cretin started uncorrecting it back?
 
3:34 AM
there are too many Japadophiles on Internet
I hate when people say "I get all the bitches" because it sounds like they even go out with Susan Boyle and One Direction
 
 
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12:11 PM
a vs an o'clock
 
Hiya.
 
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@KitFox hello
 
I had a brilliant plan last night.
 
oh? have you executed it?
What is it?
 
It is so brilliant, I don't know why I didn't do it in the first place.
I can pass the program type as a parameter and use an if statement to choose which insert to use, and update if the record exists. So I can ditch twelve of these sprocs in favor of one.
Plus, I can do the same on the selection side if I create a view that merges the tables.
 
12:15 PM
yay!
 
So I think I can pare these down from 24 to 2.
I think.
 
sounds like some good refactoring
 
It will make it a lot easier to maintain.
That's quite nearly as brilliant as yesterday's realization that I could just pull out the missed reasons code and create a sproc for it to loop on the front end, instead of hitting it with a sledgehammer like I do now.
In every single sproc too, which makes it crappy.
The only thing I kind of wish is that SQL handled looping better...wait, oh my god, I could just pass that as a table and ...
I guess I needed to be thinking about this stuff more, earlier.
 
Sometimes you can't realise these things until you've already implemented it a different way
 
And are then required to maintain it long enough to get annoyed by it.
How's your stuff?
 
12:19 PM
exactly :D
 
Did you ever figure out that phase thing?
 
I'm having to think about how to refactor parameter loading and saving now that we want to introduce multiple nuclei
 
Multiple nuclei? How's that work?
 
@KitFox maybe. I can't remember what it was.
 
Your waveform was occasionally mirroring.
 
12:21 PM
@KitFox well, not at the same time. the probe can be tuned to pick up H or F (or other things, but I'm concentrating on those two)
 
Oh, OK. That makes sense.
 
and each nuclei will have different parameter values
@KitFox oh! well my boss seems to have fixed it. I think he went in thinking I wasn't trying hard enough. He soon realised just how infuriating it is.
but, yeah, it's fixed now.
 
Haha. Good.
pretends to be boss <grumbling> I don't see what's so hard about this. That green git just isn't futzing with it enough...oh. oh. huh. <grumbling more> Stupid machine.
 
yes, just like that :D
 
coughs
switches back to correct window
Oh hey, is there a good generic term to cover "insert or update"?
 
12:25 PM
I didn't see nuffin'
@KitFox I can't think of one.
 
InsertOrUpdateRecord is it then.
 
change?
no
 
Yeah, I though of alter, modify, manage...
But they are two different things, so I guess I can just spell it out.
 
@KitFox Maintain?
 
@KitFox yeah
 
12:28 PM
@MετάEd No, no, you're thinking of that kind of banana-thingy.
 
@KitFox No, no, not a plantain. You're thinking of the much bigger, much less banana shaped thingy.
 
No no, not aeroplane. You're thinking of that Carly Simon song
 
No, no, not "You're so vain." You're thinking of that major blood vessel near the heart.
That run into the left atrium.
Comes in inferior and superior forms, depending on whether it's from the head or torso..
No?
hums You're So Vain
 
superior cingulate gyrus?
 
Haha
No
 
12:33 PM
:D
 
looks stern
tries to keep looking stern
 
pokes Kit's ribs
 
giggles
Hey, stop that.
Venae cavae, OK? Stop with the tickling.
 
@KitFox No, no, not the vena cava. You're thinking of white lies and other minor infractions.
 
12:35 PM
stops tickling
 
Not venal sins, things that have to do with kidneys!
 
ticks stopling
 
sticks topling
 
No, no, not renal, you're thinking of ... surely not kidneys ... you're thinking of that fox. From the kids stories.
 
rolls ice
 
12:36 PM
Fantastic Mr.?
 
Renard?
 
oh! that makes more sense
 
I'm pretty sure you were just delayed.
 
Like, when a plane is coming down, and that voice in the cockpit starts shouting, "renard, renard".
 
I thought it was arugah, arugah.
 
12:38 PM
No, that's Nixon.
 
Maybe that's the terrain alarm.
 
Nixon hasn't been in a cockpit for quite some time. FYI.
 
No, no, not Nixon. You're thinking of the formal practice of making sissy drinks.
 
let me roll some more ice
 
75% OFF HALFLIFE 2!!!? If only I didn't already own it!
 
12:40 PM
:0
 
@MετάEd Not mixology, that guy who likes big butts.
 
I still haven't played it.
 
We're storming the Citadel tonight, as a matter of fact. Well, probably.
Too scary for @Reg.
 
the citadel of big butts?
oh! in HL2
 
@KitFox Well, not even that. Too unplayable.
It doesn't support inverted controls.
I can't fucking use that thing.
 
12:42 PM
Yes it does.
 
?? yes it does
 
It does not.
 
Well, on the PS3.
 
unles you mean interting right and left
 
Well, I played it 10 years before PS3 even existed.
 
12:42 PM
@RegDwighт totally will invert the y axis on the mouse
 
@MattЭллен I mean inverting everything, yes.
 
Well, it does now.
 
because otherwise noone would play it
 
What sense does it make to invert the Y axis but not the X one?
 
You can swap the controls because my husband and I play oppositely.
 
12:43 PM
because moving left and right are the same
but rolling your head back is the same as moving the mouse down
 
You can even swap the sticks on the PS3.
 
@MattЭллен No they are not. When you invert the Y axis, that basically translates into putting the camera behind the character and steering the camera, rather than steering the character's head.
 
@RegDwighт not to me it doesn't
 
So with that metaphor in place, you should either invert everything, like say Wind Waker, or invert nothing at all.
@MattЭллен congratulations. But we are discussing me, not you.
You played the game. That is not the topic.
 
why is moving left and right different if you're behind or within?
 
12:44 PM
I'm sure there must be a mod for it.
 
@MattЭллен for the exact same reason the up and down are different.
 
@RegDwighт yes, and I'm trying to point out how wrong you are. gah!
 
It don't matter nothing anyway, because Reg don't like to pee his pants.
 
@MattЭллен I am not wrong. I said it isn't possible, and you in fact confirmed it. So.
 
Not swapping left/right but inverting Y gives you aviator controls.
 
12:46 PM
@RegDwighт but left and right are the same when you turn as when you grab someone from behind and turn them, so it's not the same.
 
@KitFox I peed my pants just fine in HL2. I just got sick and tired of doing so while facing a wall all the time.
 
1 min ago, by KitFox
I'm sure there must be a mod for it.
 
@MattЭллен no they are not. For the exact same reason as up and down aren't.
 
So it's like $2.50 right now through Steam.
 
Tilt your head 90 degrees and see for yourself.
 
12:46 PM
@RegDwighт yes they are.
QED
 
@MattЭллен tilt your head 90 degrees.
Now up is left and down is right.
 
@RegDwighт I cannot and will not
 
You need to invert.
@MattЭллен have you played Wind Waker?
 
@RegDwighт no
 
QED
 
12:47 PM
but wind waker is 3rd person, whereas HL2 is not
 
Perhaps you should try that one, and then come running crying how you can't.
 
so there is no need to invert the x axis
 
@MattЭллен ah but that is the whole point. It is for me.
When I want to look left, I move the camera to the right, rotating it around the point of view.
I cannot invert in one direction but not in the other.
Besides, that is all beside the point.
The point is, this is fucking trivial to implement.
That game implements way more advanced shit.
And then fails to implement this one trivial thing.
It's pathetic, really.
 
because only you thought of it
 
Nope. There are millions of people like me.
Reddit is full of them.
 
12:50 PM
Oh just stop arguing. You are making my head hurt.
 
I can't play like half the ego shooters for that reason.
But again, the thing is that I can play the other half. Because they cared to add that one line of code.
 
HL2 has a huge following. I'm sure someone has written the trivial bit of thing to invert everything.
 
So you are wrong. QED
 
I'm not following.
 
Can't you invert your own mouse?
 
12:51 PM
If you were right, you wouldn't have this problem
 
I don't even know which line it is you're replying to.
@KitFox what mouse?
 
Well, what you use?
 
You have a mouse on the PS3?
 
No.
 
So, what is your question again?
 
12:52 PM
You have a mouse on your 10-years-before-PS3?
 
Of course not.
 
Well, what you play it on?
 
Mouses did not even exist 10 years before PS3. Silly Kit.
 
You crazy, man.
 
@KitFox I do not play it on anything, that's the point.
But when I tried it was teh xbox.
 
12:52 PM
You said you did.
Facing a wall, peeing your pants, ten years before PS3.
 
Yeah. Great fun. Not.
 
Don't act like I haven't been paying attention.
@RegDwighт So you could fix that shit yourself then.
 
That's your responsibility anyway, not mine.
@KitFox hou?
 
write some code. It's an Xbox. You can mod shit.
 
I can't mod shit.
 
12:54 PM
Also, I feel a little icky that you played stuff on an Xbox.
 
Besides, my Xbox is modded to the moon and back already. I can't be bothered modding individual games on top of that.
 
You can't mod shit? I thought you could do stuff.
 
What is the point? Why they no make good game?
 
Well, I like it.
You don't, you don't want to fix, that's you. I'm cool with that.
You don't have to like everything I like, because it would be creepy if I insisted on that sort of thing.
 
It used to be that I paid 100 bucks and got an excellent game completely finished by the developers. Now I pay 60 bucks and get half a game for which I then have to purchase actual content for 60 bucks more, and another 60 bucks, and another. Or I get some shit that stops working three hours in (I'm looking at you, Skyrim).
 
12:57 PM
What!? Skyrim stopped working on you?
I loved that game.
We played for months. Clocked about 360 hours on it.
 
It stops working on everyone. It's a well-documented bug. Common knowledge.
Reddit discusses it like five times a day, on any given day.
 
Oh, you mean that thing they patched three weeks after it came out?
It works fine on my PS3.
No wonder you hate gaming so much.
 
I do not hate gaming. I love gaming. I hate not gaming.
I play games every day. Games that actually work.
 
I have a hard time finding games I like.
I don't like spending monies on a crap shoot.
 
Same for movies.
They basically stopped producing good stuff a decade ago or so.
Not sure why.
 
1:02 PM
no money in good films. only money in popular films
 
Because you got old.
And outgrew the target demographic.
 
@MattЭллен But that has been the case for a hundred years. That hasn't changed.
 
Then it must be what Kit said
 
Same thing happens with music.
 
Nah, can't be.
 
1:04 PM
Sorry. It's true.
 
I still watch Back to the Future. But when was the last time they made Back to the Future?
 
Is that your yardstick of a good movie?
 
@KitFox it's a very convenient excuse. You can't dismiss it just like that. That's not honest.
@KitFox let's say yes.
 
It's not honest?
 
Yeah it's not honest because it's only half the truth. Saying that your not liking movies is your fault and not Hollywood's is certainly not the whole story.
 
1:06 PM
well, by my prediction they'll make another back to the future next year
 
Eighteen-year-olds think that completely different things are cool and awesome and interesting (than what I thought were those things when I was eighteen).
 
Yeah, bet if Napoleon Dynamite had come out when I was 18, I would have loved it
 
There was plenty of garbage back then too, but we don't remember it now, or we think it is way better than it actually is.
 
@KitFox That is true but again, not the whole truth.
When I was eighteen, I liked Reservoir Dogs, Back to the Future, Forrest Gump. (To name just a couple examples from various categories.) Now I am 34 and I still like Reservoir Dogs, Back to the Future, Forrest Gump.
I also liked Secret of Mana, and I still do.
 
Have you seen Cloud Atlas?
 
1:08 PM
I bet that there are the same or more good movies every year as there used to be, but now there are more crap movies too, because more movies are made.
 
@MattЭллен I do not think so...
 
@RegDwighт Yeah, but that's not really the argument, is it?
 
apparently it's amazing. but I haven't seen it either
 
@KitFox the argument is that I do not see such movies being made today.
 
Of course not. Because those were made for your cohort.
 
1:10 PM
@KitFox I was a heavy moviegoer. Literally five times a week, every week, for years on end. That has gradually and completely stopped.
 
no gangster films? no coming of age/time travel films? No retard comes good films?
 
@KitFox He has a shared garden?
 
I said cohort, not cadre.
 
cohorticulture
 
cohort corture
 
1:11 PM
When I was a teenager, I didn't see film-noir-style movies either, or big song and dance productions.
And I bet my grandparents bemoaned how nobody made good movies anymore.
You're too old for the current vogue. Personally, I see this as a good thing.
 
I had Star Wars and Indiana Jones for movies when I was a teen. You guys had . . . what? Blech.
 
See?
And you probably thought jelly shoes were ridiculous.
 
Back to the Future came out while I was at college.
What are jelly shoes? Do you eat them?
Wait, you said ridiculous not delicious.
 
Those are girls’ shoes.
 
1:15 PM
All the rage when I was in school. I never did own a pair.
@tchrist Yeah. You have no opinion on women's shoes?
 
I promise you this: I’ve never spent appreciable time staring at women’s feet.
 
Upturned collars, then?
 
Ew.
 
Now I've mortally offended @Reg.
 
Dumb preppies.
Cuzza?
 
1:17 PM
He's not talking to me anymore.
 
Prolly workin.
 
Speaking of self-referential, it's my mom's birthday today.
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
 
Are you doing anything special for her?
 
I figured I would acknowledge hers the same way she acknowledged mine and my sons'.
Which is to say send her a card sometime in September or October.
 
You need a new mom.
 
1:22 PM
apart from Hot Tub Time Machine, I can't see anything Back To The Future like released since 2010
 
Do you realize what you’re looking at?
 
Something Hallmark with a message about how special and meaningful she is in my life, with a handwritten note about how busy I've been, but I hope she had a nice birthday. And the added irony of it being the same card I sent last year.
@tchrist Sink plus urinal?
 
Who is mortally offended why? I'm not following.
 
@KitFox BINGO!
 
1:23 PM
@tchrist My MiL is exceptionally good.
 
@RegDwighт I thought you were upset because I had convinced you that you were old.
 
cool. I want one
 
Oh wait, I am mortally offended? No, I just had to mortally work for a few minutes.
Sorry, won't happen again.
 
Tolja.
He’s not that neurotic.
 
1:25 PM
oh, except I don't flush every time, because that's wasteful
 
If I had a nickel for every time a guy pissed in a sink...
 
@KitFox you're older than me. And you are young. So you can't convince me I'm old.
 
@MattЭллен You don't have to flush with a urinal?
 
@KitFox This solves that problem.
 
@KitFox that is so vile. I hate it when people do that
 
1:25 PM
@KitFox “Have to”?
 
Now you can wash your hands instead of flushing.
 
@KitFox the ones at work flush automatically every hour or so, I think
 
@MattЭллен It’s the potted plants that gets me.
 
Now you can wash your hands with water instead of urine.
 
My boys love to pee on trees "to make them grow BIG!"
 
1:26 PM
@KitFox I always wash my hands after peeing, though
 
Yeah sure.
 
@RegDwighт ingenious!
 
@MattЭллен Right, so maybe the grey water acts as the flush.
Argh. Meeting time.
Later.
 
Actually you should wash your hands before peeing. Cuz it's your hands that are dirty from being in permanent contact with the outside world, not your dick.
 
makes note
I have to meet with @KitFox. bbl.
 
1:30 PM
It's almost like you're telling me I should work some more after all.
works
 
1:40 PM
Hello, I came across a slightly weird sentence today -- "He wants to have celebrated her birthday." -- is it grammatically correct?
 

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