Angelo Fuchs

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Discussion on question by sangstar: H…

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Angelo Fuchs

May 4, 2018 20:28

@sangstar When I was at the position you are now, I read Watchmen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen - I found the Comedians Perspective on this very uplifting. Now when I look into the abyss, all I can do is smile.

Discussion on question by Bora: Ideas…

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Angelo Fuchs

Mar 13, 2018 03:36

There was a question about using bullets: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/80543/14037 My answer there could help you: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/80647/14037

Discussion on question by BogdanSikac…

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Angelo Fuchs

Dec 16, 2017 17:16

@BogdanSikach You can either ask gmiley to post it as an answer or post the answer yourself. In principle that should have been an answer to start with.

Discussion on question by Slarty: Pro…

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Angelo Fuchs

Sep 25, 2017 01:38

You might be interested in the case of the Phantom of Heilbronn In it you can see what police actually does when DNA starts piling up in separate cases.

The Comms Room

ServerFault's lobby

Angelo Fuchs

Jun 9, 2017 18:34

As far as I understood it: If the answer to one question does not apply to the other (and visa versa) it is not a duplicate.

Angelo Fuchs

Jun 9, 2017 18:33

Hi, I recently interacted with this question: serverfault.com/questions/316412/… and tried to make the case that this is not a duplicate, yet it seems to be still closed. Is this usual for serverfault? Can I do something to make this more clear?

The Junk Drawer

General discussion for lifehacks.stackexchange.com Abuses of c...

Angelo Fuchs

Dec 21, 2016 06:39

In case someone is interested: It concerned itself with the question: How to remove the sticky glue from an instant coffee glass.

Angelo Fuchs

Dec 21, 2016 06:39

Ahoi, I've tried an answer to a question today, but I can't find the relevant question anymore :) Is there a way to search through questions that are deleted so that I can see if I can find it there?

Discussion on question by Zxyrra: Wha…

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Angelo Fuchs

Dec 15, 2016 01:53

How close is your observer? If moving, what are the closest and farthest distances the star must appear green?

Discussion on question by Pants: Is r…

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Angelo Fuchs

Sep 1, 2016 13:22

@Pants Gern geschehen! If you come near Freiburg in South western Germany, send me an e-mail!

Angelo Fuchs

Sep 1, 2016 13:22

@Pants In this comment I will use "plausible" as compared to NYC. Oslo: Not plausible (building distance on average higher then NYC). Beijing: Plausible. Melbourne: Sloped roofs, but besides that its an american style city. Even modern (e.G. "planned") European city parts (Paris, Berlin, London, etc.) don't feature hoppable roofs - or buildings that look like what you would consider a city. Come over and have a look, its beautiful but not very parkourable usually. Compare: Düren, NRW. 98% destruction in 1945, has been rebuild from scratch. No hoppable roofs (but very ugly '50s style buildings)

Angelo Fuchs

Sep 1, 2016 13:22

There is no such thing as "Generic City". NYC is fundamentally different to Munich. In Munich Roofhopping has a 0% success rate. We don't have flat roofs (except on very high skyscrapers and sometimes one story garages), we have proper roads every 50 meters (two lanes + sidewalk) and there are no (none, ever. Forbidden by law) cables or similar structures between buildings that could hold a human. I strongly suggest limiting this to "American style metropolitan city".

Discussion on question by Shamis: mag…

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Angelo Fuchs

Jul 6, 2016 17:07

The SAGA RPG (afaik only in german) handles that well: You have all that powerful magic, but you always have a chance of blowing yourself up if you use it. So, Yeah the mage COULD level that fortress, transport the caravan BUT it has a significant chance of horrible failure so maybe you don't WANT him to try anyway.

Angelo Fuchs

Jul 6, 2016 17:07

Link for saga: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga-System (note that the english wiki talks about a different system). Magic is Book #15. The books are independent on each other.

Root Access

For all you Super Users out there. You have backups, right?

Angelo Fuchs

Dec 28, 2015 16:02

Dear @Mokubai, you rejected an edit I made on this answer: superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/479205 The OP has reviewed my edit and deemed it helpful and within the intend of his post. The edit is now incorporated into the answer, so no further action is required. But please, be more careful next time.

TRPG General Chat

Main chat room for tabletop role-playing games. Anyone can ask...

Angelo Fuchs

Oct 11, 2015 20:57

@Shalvenay I have seen it. But unfortunately I don't know the answer (nor would I need or use one). So, asking it on a place where it CAN get answers (because it won't be closed) could be beneficial to you. I cannot repost it for you, because there will be questioning comments on SR.SE (Like price and OS) that I can't answer for you.

Angelo Fuchs

Oct 11, 2015 20:12

@Shalvenay Yes. But thats a chicken / egg problem. Because there are no localized RPG questions on SR.SE to answer, there are no experts in answering them, so they don't get asked :( I don't have much hope for my [rpg] question over there too, at least in the near future. But as they start to pile up it becomes more interesting (or so I hope)

Angelo Fuchs

Oct 11, 2015 20:01

@Sandwich Yeah. I can see the critique on recommendation questions that they tend to be too open ended and in some cases attract poor questions. We got that on SR.SE as well. But that did not seem to be more the case for rec questions then for anything else I saw on other SEs. So - YES this would be the place where you get that information but is it the right format? (I say: Yes! If you stick to the rules, then rec questions can be great.)

Angelo Fuchs

Oct 11, 2015 19:54

@Shalvenay Care to post them on SR.SE?

Angelo Fuchs

Oct 11, 2015 19:54

@Sandwich Then I'm surprised they became a problem... Odd. Most SEs that abandon recommendation questions do so because they get far too much of them, I thought I just don't see all the deleted ones and thats why it seemed so few.

Angelo Fuchs

Oct 11, 2015 19:26

@BESW I got the impression from the discussions that this applied to the game-rec (where a lot more questions are then in the tool-rec questions). Unfortunately I'm not yet active enough here to have deep knowledge about what exactly is the problem.

Angelo Fuchs

Oct 11, 2015 11:58

@BESW Not surprising :) its the same on the other chats as well.

Angelo Fuchs

Oct 11, 2015 11:55

@BESW Not much, I just thought it would be good to hang around here while the Tool-Rec Questions on Meta are hot. See if anyone has questions to the proposal I posted.

Angelo Fuchs

Oct 11, 2015 10:55

@BESW Hi!

Software Recommendations

General discussion for softwarerecs.stackexchange.com

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 15:07

@Izzy Yes, but that only applies to dns-prefetching.

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 14:51

@Izzy Yeah, only "link" tags, not "a" tags and only if they state "rel=prefetch"

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 14:48

@Izzy Or if you write a userscript that does it (but will fail to fit the goal of the OP).

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 14:48

@Izzy Firefox only does this if the page is prepared for it specifically.

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 14:18

@Izzy Great. I fixed the things you mentioned here. Thanks!

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 14:15

@Izzy Okay, so I got that right that it won't help him (but is possible) I will edit it to be more clear.

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 14:14

site vs. page. Yeah, I messed that up. Just fixed it.

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 14:12

@Izzy The sentence is: "Its impossible to improve your experience with that technique" - Yes its possible to write code that does what he describes but that won't solve his underlying problem (show sites faster) because of network load.

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 13:30

A: Browser extension to automatically cache all links

That is most likely technically impossible (except in very narrow situations, like your corporate intra net) to improve your browsing experience with this method. While it is of course possible to preload all links on all sites it will slow down your Internet connection so much that you will mos...

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 13:30

I just wrote my first "There is no such software and never will be" answer. Could you peer-review it? (I always thought that I will never encounter such a situation)

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 12:54

@Izzy I think we use the tagging differently :) I just type the tags I think a correct and then see whats there. (Or at least that was what I was doing before being active on metas and noticing that people actually cared about this tagging thing) - So I would type "audio-editor" faster then I would realize that there is something to be selectable :)

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 12:04

So, I'm uncertain about what you mean in your edit with "creating redundancy by using synonyms"

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 12:01

If we would rename "audio-editing" to "audio-editor" nothing would stop it that "audio-editing" does not pop up again. But if we synonym it, people could not help but select "audio-editor" because they can't do it otherwise :)

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 20, 2015 12:00

@Izzy RE: Tag Synonyms: The idea (and function) of the synonyms is to avoid having two of them. Try it yourself: type "freew" into a new question: The tag that pops up is gratis (with the notation that "freeware" is a synonym to it).

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 2, 2015 08:51

Hi, could you have a look at this meta:meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/660/94

Angelo Fuchs

Feb 9, 2015 14:26

Okay, gotta run. Have a nice day everybody.

Angelo Fuchs

Feb 9, 2015 14:25

(however that is to be said in english)

Angelo Fuchs

Feb 9, 2015 14:25

What was missing was something like: Ich werde dich ab jetzt gut im Auge behalten, Kleiner.

Angelo Fuchs

Feb 9, 2015 14:24

@Izzy they were like: Did you just try to breach open the ip ranges x - y? What were you thinking? Next time disconnect your LAN before you try that!

Angelo Fuchs

Feb 9, 2015 14:23

Yes. And being a student of computer science is a really good reason to write a script like that.

Angelo Fuchs

Feb 9, 2015 14:23

/me nods.

Angelo Fuchs

Feb 9, 2015 14:22

Man I nearly pissed my pants.

Angelo Fuchs

Feb 9, 2015 14:22

They did give me a stern talking to...

Angelo Fuchs

Feb 9, 2015 14:21

Yes. I mean, they could have sued me and nothing would have happened because in our juristication you need to have malicious intend or cause actual damage for this to be relevant.

The Frying Pan

Sometimes hot, always heavy. (cooking.stackexchange.com)

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 18, 2015 11:24

@rumtscho Feel free! If you ping me when you implemented it I'll be glad!

Angelo Fuchs

Mar 18, 2015 09:04

Hi, I was just thinking about good slogans for the softwarerecs.SE when I had an idea for a slogan that would match good to cooking.SE. I don't know if you do ads on the other SE sites (and haven't found a meta discussion about it). So, I just wanted to leave the slogan here in case you are interested: "Bake the Internet a better cake" Have fun.