So lately I've been doing software stuff involving disassemblers and decompilers.
And there's a part of my brain which very strongly believes that if the code output by a disassembler is called the disassembly (as it is), undoubtedly the code output by a decompiler is called the decompily.
@All Who downvoted the question @marcellothearcane asked? Either the person who downvoted it doesnt know what they were doing, or they were having fun with it, or because they felt like it without a real reason. Like I mean I wouldn't EVER downvote someone else's question that is a legit question and is on topic for no reason, because I felt like it or because I was having a bad day. If I was downvoting it for fun I would very soon retract my down vote and up vote it.
Does anybody else agree with me? On that we shouldn't just ruin a persons reputation or risk suspending or blocking another persons abilities to post a question because we or another person feels like it.
@SmokeDetector There's nothing wrong with that question asked by dochoihahuy. Its on topic and is a legit question. Can you tell me what else is wrong with that question and why it should be down voted?
SE was made for people to ask questions. Legit and on topic questions. That's all of the requirements that need to be met. And those are legit and reasonable expectations and rules. We as people can't down vote or disrupt legit and on topic questions.
SE has rules, there are moderators that are supposed to uphold those rules and enforce them. But they can't do it alone so we should also help out by following the rules as well. Which also means taking the -4 downvotes off and turning then into upvotes.
All I am saying is I'm noticing and pointing something out that's not right and shouldn't be allowed and isn't allowed anyways.
It's also something we all ought to be thinking about as well. But other than that its very late here and I need some Z's. Went to bed around 3 last night, woke up at 6 this morning and been working out in the shop since 10:30 tonight so a good 16 and a half hour day working. I've been working on a 34,000 lumen light bar for my bike.
@ScientistSmithYT downvotes in meta are 'I disagree' rather than 'this is a bad question'. I don't think I lose rep for downvotes on questions in meta.
@ScientistSmithYT someone spammed it because it is a copy of this - hence the 'manually reporting'
@ScientistSmithYT Why are you assuming intentions that were never made public? What if the other person has a reasonable explanation for why they downvoted, and they simply disagree with yours?
@ScientistSmithYT SmokeDetector is a bot that reports posts it finds suspicious to be spam in chatrooms we want it to. It's not a real person. It has also helped reduce the number of spam most users see on different SE sites to zero. You can read more in the link it provided: git.io/vyDZv
@ScientistSmithYT By that logic, upvoting and downvoting simply wouldn't have existed. On-topicness is too low a bar to able to usefully separate the wheat from the chaff. Content you think is high quality and will help future visitors may be upvoted, or vice versa. That said, of course people might develop some habits and quirks as to how they use their votes, it's of course not always by the book. We can't not let them have their say, however, unless it's a case of fraud, such as
[contd.] up- or downvoting someone else's posts en masse.
@ScientistSmithYT A single downvote is not at all likely to cause a question ban, unless the poster has a history of bad contributions.
@marcellothearcane Unfortunately the recent meta (and company) consensus is migration is a very bad UX for all of the sides involved, rightfully so. Migration paths stopped being the hot thing since, 2017, I think. It's really tough as well in that the users who VTC the question for migration need to be familiar with where they're migrating the post to as well, and that's usually not the case.
I cannot imagine any migration paths being approved at the moment, no matter how justified or common they may seem. It seems to be a task delegated to moderators as they seem to be the only people consistently avidly following Don't. Migrate. Crap.
@M.A.R. so is the consensus then instead of migrating to just close outright?
If so, I recommend immediate institution of the regex auto-closing of anything with any of these words in the title: can grammatical IELTS please correct help explain advi[cs]e should girlfriend why
If they really want to ask it, they can go to meta to ask to reopen (with explanation).
@M.A.R. If the new rule of hand for voting is now used for disagreeing or agreeing. Instead of used for saying its a bad question or a good question. Then that's different. Other than that if it's not changed voting is still the same.
@M.A.R. If they have a legit and real reason why they down voted the question that is acceptable by the public. Then it's right. Other than that nope.
@ScientistSmithYT You should read more on What's Meta.
@Mitch Well, I wish it was on ELU. You should migrate questions that are good questions, just asked on the wrong site. How common is that? Perhaps for most ELUers, that would imply that no question should be migrated to ELL on those grounds.
Y'know, just . . . screw it. I checked ELL's main page yesterday and what I feared came into being: Less than 5 questions out of the 50 newest had a score higher than zero
Diversity is a great fun, sometimes puzzling, sometimes embarrassing, often totally absurdous but anyway you can learn a lot about other (sub)cultures and actually your own too.
Same things familiar and clear to you could have completely different "codes" in other (sub)cultures. Note this does n...
@M.A.R. But that goes back to what is a good question on another site? How are we supposed to know? ELL was created because there were a lot of shit questions on ELU that some people were still answering.
> As adressed in this related question his character first and foremost seems to be a sociopath (or psychopath, whatever you call it) in that he lacks any kind of empathy for other people, as you indentified it yourself. But the question remains why he is that way.
@M.A.R. I just thought Starship Troopers was just a basic military in outer space plot. Destroy the bad enemy. So the commercials about joining the Space Force were a little silly, but that's the closest to satire I could imagine and it wasn't particularly fascistic (but I admit its hard to separate military vibe from a fascistic one)
@M.A.R. I don't see your 'exactly' but at the end this just convinces me to just VTC and then delete.
Demolition Man has your typical Stallone and Snipes blowing shit up, but (un)intentionally, it's also a very apt commentary for what the society could have been and is now
So the director either stays faithful and crams everything into the 90 minutes (it felt like 3 hours, really) or does a part of it but with more heart.
I also didn't mind terribly the last SW (whatever it's name). Except that it was too long. I would have been happen if they'd cut it into about 4 separate self contained action movies.
@Mitch That was something new. I mean, all of it was something new. But y'know, it tried to be inconsistently realistic about morals and intentions, and by the end I was feeling like I'm just watching a couple of guys kill each other. None of whom I can relate to.
But yeah, a fight of two people is somehow kinda boring, even more boring than sports. This guy is winning, now that guy is winning. Then maybe back again.
Plot twist: it's your mother you were fighting all along.
@M.A.R. They have meds for that.
@RegDwigŠ½t Well, it was making total sense up until the moment it stopped.
@Robusto The plot arc of Pride and Prejudice is at its core the adversarial relationship between Ms Bennett and Mr Darcy, punch after punch, blow by blow. All the rest is derivative.
@Robusto I liked the images, too. That's how you have to watch that movie. I remember actually hating it when I was young. Couldn't sit through it, as you say. Then many years later I rewatched it for what it actually was. Met it not halfway, but completely on its own merits. As a series of wonderful images, painstakingly crafted with the highest level of mastery. I enjoyed it immensely. Every second of it.
Incidentally, that experience, that shift in perception is what I keep reminding myself of when listening to inaccessible music.
Whether it's by Stockhausen or by Katie Perry.
As Samuel Andreev puts it, you have to assume that the composer is not a moron. They well might be, mind. That might very well be your conclusion. But it must never be your presumption.
@Cerberus I've not heard anything about any of that.
I've only heard that a couple miles from here some guy fell into a six-feet deep hole while working on fixing his garage, and had to be rescued by 70 rescue workers.
It's ridiculous what kind of news manages to reach you when you don't follow the news at all.
@RegDwigŠ½t Ha, that's what my AP English teacher said when I was in his class as a senior in high school. "Now, with the literature you're reading, I want you all to assume the author is at least as intelligent as you are."
@Cerberus I just checked Spiegel just now. You made me do it. Nothing out of the ordinary. New government in Italy. US battleships somewhere. Nuclear accident in Russia. And yeah on like page ten Boris Johnson is doing his usual thing he's always been doing. Nothing out of the ordinary.
@Cerberus the old version looks just as shit as the new one.
Anyway. Can I state for once that I'm with Boris actually? Can those fuckers finally get the fuck out of the EU? As hard as possible, I don't mind. If he can finally pull it off by becoming Hitler, I vote Hitler.
So I think I know what's wrong with pineapples, in any language. They keep asking if such-and-such a sentence is grammatical, and they don't realize that no native speaker troubles himself in the least about grammar. They only say what sounds right to them. And I mean sounds as in the music of the language. They could give a fuck about grammar.
Every time some poor bloke comes in here and asks what grammar book to read, Cerb is like yeah read this here book and that book there and those books also good. And I'm like burn all your books now, go watch Seinfeld for a year.
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