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1:03 PM
Oh Oracle, why are your method declarations different for version 10 of the database API on Windows versus every other API version?
 
Now I'm asking meta questions. I'M IN TOO DEEP CAPTAIN!
 
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Q: How can I support the murder-plot of another character?

PhilippThanks to my spymaster I recently found out that there is a conspiracy of nefarious plotters among my vassals who plan the murder of my beloved son. And I got to say: I think this is a great idea! I was looking for ways to decimate my offsprings for years (damn gravelkind succession), and these g...

 
MAn, I really do understand why @Sterno takes part in lifehacks so much. Meta discussion is fun, and there just isn't much meta going on in Arqade lately.
At least not as much compared to a site just out of private beta.
 
woo!
@fredley I didn't! How cool and crazy is that? Thanks for passing along.
 
agdq lawn mower race hype
 
1:21 PM
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Q: Can you Stop Viking Raiders with Conversion?

MattViking raiders are pests! It's easy enough to beat them or scare them off, but can I eliminate the problem by converting them? Will Catholic Vikings continue raiding other Catholics? Or do I have to seek other ways to eliminate their raiding?

 
Paid holiday in February (WOO!) means losing a paid holiday in August (BOO!)
 
@badp What sort of weird game is this?
 
@MBraedley wait, hat
I thought the entire point of this was to give us a new paid holiday.
That's dumb
 
@Arperum a homebrew game where you mow the lawn :D
 
1:35 PM
@RedRiderX So the grandma finally snaps and starts using pistols, grenades, and motorcycles.
Still not enough to turn a B movie around.
 
@Wipqozn It might be because we're headquartered in BC. Family Day is over a month away, so this could still change.
 
BLECHZORZ MVP
 
@Wipqozn And probably something to do with 10 holidays a year.
 
DAMMIT. NO PRESSING PROBLEMS NOW PLEASE. watching lawnmowers.
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1:40 PM
YOUR SERVER IS DOWN? IT CAN WAIT. WATCHING LAWNMOWERS
 
OOOOOOOOOOOO
DIE HARD
DIE HARD HYPE
Walking on glass o' clock
 
IT'S LIKE CHRISTMAS AGAIN :D
 
@KevinvanderVelden The thing is that chrome/firefox give a malware warning on some site. I an't see any issue in the generated code of the site though. ANd I have no working ftp login.
 
@Arperum meh, lawnmowers is more important
 
1:50 PM
They keep trying to sell the horribly unsafe wordpress login for the original testsite as the ftp to me though. I think I'm going to spew fire.
 
And now ducktales
 
@KevinvanderVelden Get on with the program
 
@badp at the time they came with the problem it was still lawnmower time!
 
@KevinvanderVelden woo-ooh
 
@OrigamiRobot more like bleeeeeep bleep
 
1:52 PM
@fredley I wish Amazon would sell audio-book MP3s. I don't got time for this readin' thing.
 
Given that it's a NES game
 
2:02 PM
Seriously?
 
@MBraedley Audible you mean?
@MBraedley Wait, isn't Windows 6 XP?
 
@fredley But Audible sells subscriptions, not individual books, I thought.
 
@MBraedley bittorrent sells individual books
 
@fredley 6 is Vista, 6.1 is Win7
 
@MBraedley Oh yeah
Wait, 6.1 === 7?
wat
 
2:09 PM
@fredley Which is what I might end up doing. Did that for The Martian
@fredley 6.2 is Win8
AFAIK
 
@MBraedley wattttttttttttttt
I can't facepalm hard enough
 
and win 10 is 10 IIRC.
 
@Arperum *deskface*
 
May 5 '14 at 17:01, by Jason Berkan
I loved my OS class. For every topic - there's this way to do it, which trades space for time, or this way to do it, which trades time for space, or the way Microsoft did it, which makes no sense at all.
 
2:11 PM
that's win 7 for you!
 
Also applies to version numbering!
 
@KevinvanderVelden Hey! I know that guy. He loved his OS class.
 
@JasonBerkan and I love that guys quote and will keep using it when appropriate =p
 
Mar 27 '13 at 14:41, by OrigamiRobot
Feb 21 at 21:35, by OrigamiRobot
Apr 17 '12 at 13:11, by OrigamiRobot
@RonanForman Oh are we playing the quote game? I love this game!
 
2:18 PM
ok, this is sneaky.
Some guys used the GNU license to hide their malicious code.
WHole license in comment, every now and then some tiny piece of code.
 
Oooh sneaky sneaky
 
~It is cold, it is cold, Elsa please go home~
 
@KevinvanderVelden Except that index.php from wordpress does not default contain the GNU license.
 
You know why that is, right? Programs that use a braindead check to make sure they were only running on Windows XP or newer.
Turns out that if (majorVersion >= 5 && minorVersion >= 1) fails on 6.0, 7.0, etc....
 
2:22 PM
What's stupid is that Windows has a facility for comparing version numbers, just a lot of programs didn't use it.
So... 6.0 is Vista, 6.1 is Win7, 6.2 is Win8, and 6.3 is Win8.1.
 
guh. having 777 rights on folders doesn't seem like a good idea.
 
@Arperum I agree. Why isn't it 755?
 
@Rapitor #lifehacks #yolo #sternold
 
@Powerlord oh dear
 
@Powerlord Possibly because a hacker changed it. possibly for no reason at all.
 
2:25 PM
@fredley wait, you didn't know 7 was 6.1?
 
@Unionhawk I haven't used Windows for a long time
 
Even I knew that. Lucky 10k I guess.
 
I did used to develop on it, but that was a while ago, although admittedly post W7
But still, that's amazingly braindead
 
Meh.
 
@fredley there's official Windows API to make version comparison checks.
 
2:28 PM
Turns out a lot of people have written really shitty code, and God forbid that become incompatible.
 
IsWindows8Point1OrGreater
just wow
> GetVersion function
*GetVersion may be altered or unavailable for releases after Windows 8.1.*
 
The sheer amount of poorly written business apps is mind boggling.
(My job for years has been to convert them to newer technologies.)
 
Mind boggling but totally unsurprising
Also @badp is it the awful games block?
 
@fredley See Also: VerifyVersionInfo
 
The best part of my job is taking 45,000 lines of poorly documented date code and replacing it with the relevant calls to DateTime. Instantly, 50+ bugs are gone.
 
2:38 PM
Of which iirc IsWindows8Point1OrGreater is a wrapper around.
 
Elite runs so much better on my wife's computer than on mine
 
@JasonBerkan Well, as long as you're not using an API whose default Date object had no concept of time zones.
 
@Sterno Well, I guess it's not your wife's computer anymore, huh.
 
@Sterno Luckily your wife never uses her computer, so you can just use that!
 
@Powerlord Generally, those are most of the bugs that get fixed. When people write their own date code they always screw up leap years and time zones.
 
2:39 PM
@Yuuki I have the opposite problem. I have the better monitor, so I might be about to move my monitor over to her computer :(
 
So I traded out the Adder for a Viper. I really couldn't stand the weird cockpit.
 
@Yuuki Poor guy
 
And I made 70k in bounties within a half-hour.
 
Although today I found out that when logged onto Steam from her computer, I can Stream games installed on my own PC
 
@Yuuki My word.
 
2:40 PM
@Wipqozn Maybe if I grew up in Great Britain.
 
@Yuuki I see.
 
@JasonBerkan Well, I was going to glare at Sun/Oracle there to make it obvious I was mocking Java, but Firefox decided to freeze there
 
@Yuuki Is it that bad? I was thinking of going Adder
 
@Sterno The Adder has a two-person cockpit and you're in the right-hand seat.
The peripheral vision is a bit meh.
 
@JasonBerkan I generally don't like learning new libraries; I always wrote everything from scratch until I actually started working in the real world. I would never even consider trying to write my own Date library.
 
2:42 PM
It's more maneuverable than the Hauler, which isn't saying much, but you're most likely going to get chewed up by more specialized fighters. Sidewinders, as always, are pretty easy game though.
 
Does a Viper have decent jump range?
 
@Sterno It's more versatile than the Viper, but I always had some issue with being exactly sure where I was.
 
My biggest issue right now is I keep getting missions to go places that are a PITA to get to due to my jump range
 
@Sterno You should probably ignore missions for the time being.
Grab some cargo and do commodity trading on your own or something.
 
Trading is boring
 
2:44 PM
@Sterno It's essentially what you're doing with cargo missions.
 
Missions aside, it's a huge galaxy, but I feel like I'm having a hard time getting away from the starting systems
 
And courier missions are just cargo missions without the cargo.
@Sterno If you want to wander off, I'd suggest you invest in a fuel scoop.
 
I did.
It's just painfully bad.
More bounty hunting for a while, I guess
 
@Sterno Ah, you got the lowest class one?
 
@Yuuki Yeah
 
2:45 PM
That maxes out at 10 fuel/sec?
 
16
 
The next one up maxes out at around 30 and is much more manageable.
 
@Yuuki isn't that the third one?
 
@Serverfrog I'd have to double-check, but I don't think so.
 
@Sterno No
 
2:53 PM
I got the second-grade fuel scoop and I was scooping at ~30 fuel/sec on flybys.
 
I mean, I don't know what you consider decent
 
rank | max
1 | 18
2 | 24
3 | 30
 
@Serverfrog That's the one @Sterno has.
I'm talking about the next one up.
 
etc.etc
 
Well, I'm pretty sure I didn't buy the third-rank fuel scoop and I was scooping ~30.
I got the third-rank fuel scoop on my Hauler and was scooping ~40.
 
2:55 PM
@Yuuki maybe the scound was not selled
class 1 or 2?
 
I'm not at my home computer so I can't check. Plus, I already sold those ships and got the Viper, so I doubly can't check.
 
You got a Viper? I thought you wanted to explore.
 
i have currently the third one for 5 142CR in my sidewinder and have a max of 30
 
@OrigamiRobot Not making enough money to get an Asp.
Or a better scanner.
 
Truf. Those things are expensive as fuck
 
2:59 PM
Also, you saw me flying the Viper last night.
 
@Unionhawk that's in a couple days I think
 
How much is a surface scanner? A bazillion.
 
I thought that was an Adder
 
1/8/2015, 9:45:00 AM CET
 
@badp ah
 
2:59 PM
@Sterno Regardless, if you're looking to travel some far distances, splurge on a better fuel tank and fuel scoop.
The latter will definitely make long journeys less painful.
And the former will make you less reliant on having a scoopable star every three or four systems.
 
What stars can you not scoop at all?
 
You guys should come to AE Forcanis with me!
 
@Unionhawk Dwarf stars, some red giants, and I think white dwarfs.
 
Those that don't fit your scoop
 
DA
DC
Y
T
L
TTS
Neutron Star
S
 
3:01 PM
Ah... So... Some stars.
 
@Unionhawk Basically, only try to scoop yellow or orange stars.
And if you're feeling ballsy, blue.
 
@Unionhawk more than scoopable
 
@Serverfrog I would not want to scoop a neutron star o.o
 
I've been able to scoop a dwarf I thought.
 
That just sounds like an idea that is going to kill you horribly
 
3:02 PM
Or maybe not.
 
urmom's a dwarf
 
Possibly due to spaghettification
 
@Unionhawk I think there's a certain class of white dwarf that you can scoop.
 
Which is a word I did not make up
 
@Yuuki I think it was red. Or I might just be dumb.
 
3:02 PM
@Unionhawk Yeah, that would be a red giant.
Some of which you can scoop.
Others, you cannot.
 
@KevinvanderVelden i would like to climb that 1cm montain
 
Like, at all as in the game won't let you, or can't scoop as in you overheat right now
 
@Unionhawk Literally cannot scoop.
 
@Yuuki Could be a A class Star
but it's very uncommon
 
Get close, your fuel scoop won't deploy.
 
3:04 PM
or if it was light blue it was a B Star
 
Hrm
 
They say M-class stars are the most common (orange-yellow ones), but that has not been the case in my sector of the galaxy.
 
there are Black Holes? O.O
 
@Serverfrog Yep.
They're more common as you move towards the galactic center.
Older stars and all.
 
3:06 PM
@Yuuki is the super mass black hole in the center of the milkyway existing?
 
@Serverfrog I dunno know about that.
I'll find out once I get an Asp.
 
@Yuuki do that!
 
I would assume that it does because Frontier is trying to go for realism and we've known about the supermassive black hole for awhile.
 
@Yuuki yhea, we even know when it should be in our solar system
so round about
 
They're not trying to go for realism, that's just a happy side effect of the model they chose
 
Not even packets can escape
 
The voyager probes are in. I'd say that's pretty much trying for realism.
 
wat is interdicted?
 
@Unionhawk That's an easter egg.
 
Oh wait, that was a while ago.
@Serverfrog Other ships can pull you from supercruise.
Usually, it's pirates.
But sometimes cops.
 
3:12 PM
@Yuuki mh.. because i was once interdicted and ... yhea, i don't really know what was happening xD
 
@OrigamiRobot So can you just shoot anyone you see in an Anarchy system and not get bounties?
 
@Yuuki Correct
 
... I kinda want to see them make fuel scooping a way to make money.
 
I want to buy a space station
 
@Yuuki wait. elite dangerous is based on real star systems?
 
3:20 PM
Think I can get one for 40k?
 
That would be super boring
 
@OrigamiRobot Mining's super boring and it's still in the game.
@Rapitor I wouldn't say based on real star systems, but they do have some real ones.
 
@Rapitor It's set in the milky way
@Yuuki Mining is more than "fly in circles"
 
@OrigamiRobot I like that answer. Having a fun game is more important than making it work like it would in the real world.
 
@OrigamiRobot Yes, it's "hover above a rock for a minute or two" followed by random moments of "dock with the rock".
 
3:25 PM
I had a productive evening in Elite last night. I went from 96k to 48k and all I bought was a 300 credit fuel scoop
 
I've done mining. Mining is boring.
Super, super boring.
 
@Yuuki And managing mineral types.
 
@OrigamiRobot Have you done mining?
 
I don't have to have done it to know how it works.
 
Managing mineral types is little more than "this is worth nothing" and "I need more of these to get a stack".
 
3:28 PM
That's still more than "fly in circles"
 
I haven't fallen asleep while scooping a star.
 
Fuel scooping is literally "hold one direction until full"
 
At least you can do other things while fuel scooping, like scan astronomical objects.
You don't have to do all your fuel scoop passes in one go. It's a lot more annoying to break up mining monotony like that.
Mining is boring in that you also can't do anything else while you're mining.
You're not in supercruise so you can't explore. You need one hardpoint and two internal compartments, so you're probably not going to get into any dogfighting.
 
I'm not arguing that mining is interesting.
I'm arguing that there is even less to fuel scooping than there is to mining.
Fuel doesn't even sell for that much
 
I'm just arguing for the ability to change your fuel reservoir into Hydrogen Fuel cargo and vice-versa.
That way, not only can you sell your fuel for a pittance if you feel like it, but you can store Hydrogen Fuel for long trips.
 
3:35 PM
@OrigamiRobot Clearly what is needed are "tanker"ships in far-flung which can scoop fuel and then link up to other ships and transfer it to them to refuel them
Now those non-NPC eagles can go exploring!
 
Tonight, I get to watch The End of Evangelion and the 1.11 movie. My brain may not make it.
 
@Sterno This has been talked about.
 
@Fluttershy No, no it may not.
 
@OrigamiRobot By me! Because I'm awesome!
 
Guh. I removed the malware. "When will the malware warning be gone?" "Don't know, ask google."
 
3:36 PM
I almost died in Dungeonmans to stupid chocking gas
And then some boss type thing stole my bow!
 
Also, I don't know who was smoking what when they decided to cast Scarlet Johansson as the lead in the Ghost in the Shell movie.
 
I need to try Dungeonmans
It sounds like fun
 
My rangermans needs a better bow. :(
 
@Fluttershy I don't know who was smoking what when they decided to do a live-action Ghost in the Shell.
 
^
 
3:40 PM
I can taste the fan backlash already.
 
by dreamworks no less
 
Also, AGDQ is the best
I've had it streaming to my TV pretty much constantly
 
@Yuuki Don't eat the fans. That's a bad idea.
 
@Yuuki Also true. But if they're gonna do it anyway, they might as well as least do it right. And Scarlet Johansson is not right.
 
@Fluttershy Considering Kusanagi's sex symbol status in anime, I don't think it's that bad of a casting.
I mean, Black Widow's a fairly all right analogue to Motoko Kusanagi, if you don't think about it too hard.
 
3:44 PM
What I'm hearing from @Yuuki is that this Motoko Kusanagi is super boring.
 
Then again, I'm kinda speaking from comics standpoint rather than movies standpoint.
Simply because Marvel hasn't really developed Black Widow's character in the cinematic universe.
Or really anybody other than Tony Stark.
And Cap, I guess.
Sorta.
 
Loki's developed, I'd say
 
I'm so sad Marvel doesn't have the film rights to Spider-Man
 
or X-Men IIRC
 
And X-Men
 
3:51 PM
Sony have the rights, don't they?
 
I guess we'll have to wait until Sony and Disney merge
 
If they can turn The Avengers into something I enjoy, I'd love to see what they could do with characters I already like.
 
@OrigamiRobot The silly thing is that Marvel tried to bargain with Sony to get a Spider-Man appearance in Civil War, but Sony turned them down.
 
Yep
No Iron Spider :(
 
3:52 PM
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I'd like to cry now.
Also, I don't see how Civil War is going to work without Spider-Man.
I mean, I'm sure it can happen.
 
maybe they can license spider-pig
 
I would have also loved to see Dark Avengers
 
But I don't think it will have anywhere the same impact without Spider-Man revealing his identity.
 
@MattЭллен yes! Spider pig in avengers, want
 
best Avenger ever :D
 
3:55 PM
I don't know what this Magical Pop'n game is, but it looks like a lot of fun
Speed runners are crazy
 
ALL HAIL THE DEVELOPTENT
 
@KevinvanderVelden ALL HAIL
 
@KevinvanderVelden Who made that mistake? ANd how and why would they do so?
 
@Yuuki Not like they didn't make it secret again 12 issues later
P.S. JMS sucks
 
I'm really looking forward to Metroid Prime
and Zero Mission
 
4:05 PM
@Arperum AGDQ, magical pop'n something or other, a translated NES game
SNES*
 
@KevinvanderVelden Ah, did miss that because closing stuff up for leaving this stupid cold place.
 
@Sterno I blame Quesada.
 
@KevinvanderVelden it would be really good if they licensed it and the film was still more popular than any Marvel thing Sony put out.
 
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Q: Skyrim quicksave time has increased by about 10 seconds in only a few hours of gameplay?

Annalieseso earlier in the day i had 3 second quicksaves only a few hours later they grew to be 10-15 seconds long so i started looking into it thought it may be a bloated save file but my load times are the same and if i manually save the game still saves in 1-3 seconds and my save file is only 16mb i ha...

 
@Sterno I've found that the easiest way to enjoy Marvel comics is to like what you like and ignore what you don't.
> In two issues of JLX and JLX: Unleashed, Captain Marvel combines with Captain Marvel to become yet another Captain Marvel, sporting the DC Comics lightning bolt uniform design but with the original green and white colors of the Marvel version
Go home, comics, you're drunk.
 
4:15 PM
Does this mean 3 people want to play Skydrift?
Do any of you even have it
stop that
 
COMING THROUGH
 
that doesn't look like a lawnmower
 
@MattЭллен you drive anything at 160 km/h over a lawn, it'll be mowed no problem
 
I need to find a way to test that theory...
 
it might also be lit on fire
 
4:19 PM
fire is good. better than grass
 
My brain thinks its time to go bowling for Zombies.
 
@GnomeSlice yeah top gear!
 
Best episode
2
cc @badp
oh that's where I googled the thumbnail from apparently
 
Oh gods all the stars
Why?
 
4:24 PM
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Q: How can the Panic Attack be used effectively?

ZibbobzThis Smissmas update introduced the Panic Attack to TF2 - a shotgun with a four-round clip that loads like the Beggar's Bazooka, and becomes more dangerous but less accurate as your damage goes up. This loss of accuracy seems utterly detrimental - not to mention the awkwardness of loading and ...

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Q: Buses in Euro Truck Simulator 2

szw1710Which bus mods work properly on Linux version of the game on Steam? The only bus I discovered so far is VW Ideale 770. The buses I tested either hang the game, or make the game impossible to run.

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Q: Experience gain in Enklave

QwertyHow much experience do you get for certain actions in augmented reality game Enklave?

 
@GnomeSlice that poor cake =[
 
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Q: How many fossils are going to be sent back from the Faraway Museum?

George TAccording to the Animal Crossing wiki, the museum will return only 3 fossils per day, but if you've sent more than 3 in a day the rest will be returned on other days: There is no limit to the amount of fossils that can be sent to the Museum in a single day. However, only three will be deliver...

 
4:53 PM
So, who wants to feel smarter than me right now?
 
@Yuuki I do.
 
Jon Ericson on January 06, 2015

While testing hats before the start of Winter Bash 2014, a snowflake notification told me I’d earned the Treasure Hunter hat. After adjusting pirate paraphernalia to fit my head, I tried to remember what triggers this particular hat. As it happens, I’d just received a gold badge on Cooking that I would’ve totally ignored if not for the associated hat. Suddenly I understood why this time of year resonates with our most accomplished users. Earning cosmetic items, as silly as they are, temporarily reminds us of what it was like to begin participating on Stack Exchange months or years ago. Plus, hats look really cool. …

 
@Wipqozn I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out a bug with my XML parsing when it turns out the bug was because I was looking at attributes, not elements like I was supposed to.
Make that 15-20 minutes.
Kept getting a null error which I couldn't for the life of me figure out until I realized that the XML I was parsing had no attributes to parse.
 
Oops
Fun times
 
So now I feel like a complete idiot.
 
4:56 PM
Meh, don't. It's one of those things that you just stare at blindly and not find it
Happens to everyone
 
@TheStackExchangeBlog bye bye hats :D
 
@TheStackExchangeBlog ... Why did I not get the Hairboat?
 

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