The Bridge

Grace Note

8:00 PM

@OrigamiRobot Ah, criminy, I apparently need to stop internetting because I parsed that as a smiley.

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria You won't get to gain life unless you add G, but that's the least important part.

Ramp and life loss!

StrixVaria

And it survives Zap!

Wipqozn

Holy crap Rancor is amazing.

Lazers

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Q: What skills or support gems work with Lightning Strike?

It's my understanding that the projectiles from Lightning Strike work with support gems like Lesser/Greater Multiple Projectiles and Chain or Fork, but what about the Iron Grip passive and other projectile speed and damage passives?

path-of-exile

0

Q: Is there a way to check next level stats of a gem before leveling it?

Can i check what stats will a skill gem have on it's next level before i click on the upgrade (level up) button? I couldn't find an option for that and i really don't feel like going to PoE wiki everytime i want to see gem stats for his next level.

path-of-exile

Wipqozn

+2/0 and Trample for only 1 green? And it goes back to the owners hand when destroyed? Holy crap.

OrigamiRobot

8:07 PM

@Wipqozn There's a reason it's a $3.25 uncommon.

Ben Brocka

8:17 PM

@Wipqozn I've barely ever played MTG and that still sounds pretty ridiculous

badp

8:28 PM

oh god my external monitor is giving "no signal" all of a sudden

this might be a disaster

user15026

@badp That doesn't sound good. Last time that happened to me, though, a cat was responsible for unplugging things.

Ben Brocka

God a different cable to try?

badp

Not really, I'll try rebooting hoping it's the nVidia drivers' fault

Wipqozn

oh my zeus another wikipedia fundraiser.

Didn't they just have a fundwaiser last monht?

Ben Brocka

Two months ago I think. And yeah I thought they only had yearly fundraisers

badp

8:35 PM

Well rebooting didn't help

Rebooting into Ubuntu, also unhelpful

I guess I'll try with a different monitor

sigh

without an external monitor my laptop's fucked by overheating

oh. Phew. The cable got loose on the monitor side. This ends the live stream.

user15026

@badp Glad you got it figured out, though :)

OrigamiRobot

THANK GOD BADP'S MONITOR IS NOT DEAD THAT WOULD BE A CATASTROPHE

Ben Brocka

Those have screws for a reason, unless it's HDMI

I estimate @badp would be approximately 5% more bad at video games without a monitor

badp

@ori yes it would have been

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka YEA BUT THOSE SCREWS WERE CREATED BY THE DEVIL

@badp BY THE WAY I'M NOT BEING MEAN I'M JUST CAPSING BECAUSE AUTOCAD AND ALSO I AM LAZY.

Ben Brocka

8:43 PM

Only if you screw them all the way in. That's never a good idea. Leave them just a big of slack so they can still be turned by your thumbs

OrigamiRobot

A BUSTED MONITOR IS REALLY NO GOOD

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiRobot Flagged for being meab

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka THAT ONLY MAKES THEM 5% LESS AWFUL

WHICH IS STILL 98% AWFUL

badp

That is not how percentages work

OrigamiRobot

TELL THAT TO THE CABLES

Ben Brocka

8:45 PM

Depends if they're additive percentages

OrigamiRobot

THEY ARE

badp

Closed as not a real percentage

OrigamiRobot

103 IS A REAL PERCENTAGE

103i IS NOT A REAL PERCENTAGE

user15026

I am so confused right now.

badp

you are -3% correct

user15026

8:48 PM

goes back to reading her book

badp

Closed as confuses Ashley

closes Ashley

user15026

@badp Best close reason. closes 90% of Arqade that way

user15026

@badp I understand myself.

OrigamiRobot

@badp THAT IS A THINLY MASKED CONFUSES BADP CLOSURE

user15026

I make perfect sense to me!

OrigamiRobot

8:49 PM

:7999125

user15026

@OrigamiRobot Oh, come on, I am not that bad ;)

Grace Note

Is there a reason Origami is so capitalist right now?

badp

you are 129% correct, but I shall decline to mention the subject

user15026

Neeergh, chat parent, when did you change, and why did you change?

OrigamiRobot

7 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot

@badp BY THE WAY I'M NOT BEING MEAN I'M JUST CAPSING BECAUSE AUTOCAD AND ALSO I AM LAZY.

fbueckert

8:50 PM

@GraceNote Somebody bumped up his volume, for some reason.

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot Oh, AutoCAD. Ahem...

Ah, let's skip the part where I laugh at you and go straight to the part afterwards.

badp

kitten alert

Ben Brocka

sounds the kitten alarms

user15026

@BenBrocka prepares herself for kitten alarm protocols

fbueckert

@BenBrocka I envision those as air raid sirens.

And everyone diving into fortified bunkers.

OrigamiRobot

8:52 PM

HELLO @JesusPlusPlus

JesusPlusPlus

Hi!

Alright

badp

She's climbing over my chest in a desperate cry for attention, while seeking leverage on non structurally adequate points

JesusPlusPlus

Thanks for being online

user15026

@fbueckert You guessed the protocol :P

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Are you there?

user15026

8:53 PM

@badp But the real question is, is it working?

OrigamiRobot

@JesusPlusPlus I'M AT WORK :P

user15026

@OrigamiRobot presses your caps lock key

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Being productive

OrigamiRobot

@AshleyNunn NO, THAT'S TOO MUCH TROUBLE

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot No, thanks alot for being online

@OrigamiRobot So here is my question

fbueckert

8:54 PM

Because nothing is more productive than shooting the shit with non-co-workers.

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot The example you showed me accessed 4 bits of ram through a 2-bit number

user15026

@OrigamiRobot Even if I press it for you?

badp

@Ashley she's settled on an intermediate level of elevation which is a reasonable compromise between structural integrity of said parts and passive attention grabbing levels

Grace Note

@AshleyNunn He's just undepress it so he can get back to CADing.

Ben Brocka

@fbueckert s/shooting/shouting

OrigamiRobot

8:55 PM

@GraceNote I HATE AUTOCAD

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Would you use the mux strategy to access 256 bits of RAM through a 8 bit number?

user15026

@GraceNote I suppose you have a point. My attempts at correction would be futile.

user15026

@badp That sounds like a good compromise.

OrigamiRobot

@JesusPlusPlus NOT THAT SPECIFIC ONE, NO. IT IS POSSIBLE, BUT WAY TOO BIG

badp

btw can't you use an all caps font in AutoCAD to begin with?

Grace Note

8:56 PM

@OrigamiRobot Because of the text obligations of whatever draft specifications you are working under, or because you hate drafting?

fbueckert

@BenBrocka Eh. Only the robot is shouting. And nobody cares about him, anyways.

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Okay, could you tell me the name of a strategy I could use so I can do some research on it?

@OrigamiRobot The main problem I'm going through is that I have no idea what I should search, I don't know the terminology.

OrigamiRobot

@JesusPlusPlus JUST GOOGLE MULTIPLEXERS OR MUXES IN MINECRAFT

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot So I guess that using multiplexers is the best strategy for what I'm trying to do, even with such a large amount of RAM?

OrigamiRobot

A MULTIPLEXER IS JUST A MEANS TO SELECT FROM 2^N SIGNALS WITH N CONTROL BITS

@GraceNote TYPING IN ALL CAPS IN CAD MAKES SENSE, BUT IT GETS TIRING TO TYPE ELSEWHERE AT THE SAME TIME FOR OBVIOUS REASONS

Grace Note

9:00 PM

@OrigamiRobot So, former.

OrigamiRobot

I ALSO HATE USING AUTOCAD PERIOD

JesusPlusPlus

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Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot Jeez - now you're typing out your punctuation as well?

OrigamiRobot

FULL STOP

Grace Note

@OrigamiRobot So, latter.

OrigamiRobot

9:02 PM

THEY ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Well, thank you. Goodbye

OrigamiRobot

@JesusPlusPlus SOME FORM OF MULTIPLEXER, YES. LIKE I SAID, MY DESIGN IS JUST A SIMPLE DEMONSTRATION OF CONCEPT

@JesusPlusPlus YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE :(

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Alright

OrigamiRobot

I'll stop typing in all caps!

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Okay, I have one last question

@OrigamiRobot Are you familiar with C/C++ programming?

OrigamiRobot

9:04 PM

A bit (har har har)

Seriously though, a bit.

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Not a byte, though.

OrigamiRobot

Maybe a nibble...

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Alright, do you have a basic understanding of pointers?

fbueckert

@JesusPlusPlus That's a bad joke.

OrigamiRobot

@JesusPlusPlus BASIC, yes.

JesusPlusPlus

9:05 PM

@fbueckert Typical kind of joke that I would make

Jason Berkan

@OrigamiRobot BASIC doesn't have pointers.

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Alright, you understanding pointers should make this question a lot easier to ask.

@OrigamiRobot Since a pointer is an n-bit number that refers to an address in RAM,

@OrigamiRobot That means that the computer does exactly what I'm trying to find out how to do:

@OrigamiRobot That is, take a large number and get the value at that address in RAM

@OrigamiRobot Would you happen to know if computers use multiplexers to get/set values at an address, or does it use some other strategy that is simply impossible to emulate in Minecraft?

Wipqozn

@OrigamiRobot I enjoyed that.

fbueckert

Question: do we allow system requirements questions? Like this?

OrigamiRobot

@JesusPlusPlus "Reading and writing to DRAM is performed by selecting the row and column data addresses of the DRAM as the inputs to the multiplexer circuit, where the demultiplexer on the DRAM uses the converted inputs to select the correct memory location and return the data, which is then passed back through a multiplexer to consolidate the data in order to reduce the required bus width for the operation."

Wipqozn

9:11 PM

@fbueckert They are allowed, yes, they're just shitty questions.

Remember, lack of research is blah blah blah you've hear dit all before.

Lazers

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Q: Why No XM From Ingress Portal

In the game Ingress, in my neighborhood, there is a newish Portal that went online last week. Control of it has passed back and forth between factions a few times, and it's been used by at least one side to create multiple Links and Fields, but to date, it hasn't provided any XM. I've checked m...

ingress

0

Q: How can I take a screenshot?

I googled it but to no avail. I'm a bit puzzled; I tried all function keys and Print Screen but they did not help.

dead-space-3

Wipqozn

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Q: A Close Vote is not a Super-Downvote. Please don't use it as one

So, yesterday a dumb question was asked.. It was closed as Not A Real Question in less than an hour, and reopened mere minutes later. This isn't the first time that this has happened. It usually results in lots of arguing and acrimony and generally all comes out of a simple misunderstanding. The...

discussion closing voting

et cetera

fbueckert

@Wipqozn That's why I'm clarifying. They are the literal, "I can't be arsed to find out myself" type of question.

Wipqozn

@fbueckert Which is lack of research, BAM.

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Okay! You have that in quotation marks, did you get that off a website? It looks like it would have some of the info I'm looking for, what is the URL?

OrigamiRobot

9:13 PM

@Wipqozn At the same time, see @Fluttershy's answer on the Dragonvale question.

Wipqozn

Just down vote them into oblivion and tell the user you hate them (don't actually tell them you hate them... just think it really hard)

OrigamiRobot

Memory controller

The memory controller is a digital circuit which manages the flow of data going to and from the main memory. It can be a separate chip or integrated into another chip, such as on the die of a microprocessor. This is also called a Memory Chip Controller (MCC). Computers using Intel microprocessors have traditionally had a memory controller implemented on their motherboard's northbridge, but many modern microprocessors, such as DEC/Compaq's Alpha 21364, AMD's Athlon 64 and Opteron processors, IBM's POWER5, Sun Microsystems's UltraSPARC T1, and more recently Intel's Core i7 have an integra...

fbueckert

@Wipqozn Indeed it is. There should be a threshold where we go, "You know what? This question shows an active attempt to ignore information provided."

JesusPlusPlus

@OrigamiRobot Awesome, then what I'm looking to research is a memory controller, so I guess that answers my question. Thank you very much, again!

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