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MaverickXeo posted...

Its the same as liberals stating that its 'hot' this year, so it proves global warming exists.

the correct claim is more something like that there hasn't been a single below average world temperature month since February 1985.

MaverickXeo posted...

it was 'global cooling' in the 70s

IIRC there was some small amount of global cooling in the 70s caused by pollution. all three terms are valid. "climate change" or similar phrases have been around since at least the 50s.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-global-warming.htm

Zeus posted...

I was asking the basics of the determination. I haven't seen anything that suggests that this is the determination. Every video and article I've been linked to about climate change has skipped the step where it shows the science for determining carbon dioxide's link to heat, instead relying on correlation.

you're probably being intentionally vague and obtuse but otherwise this may be relevant

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1956.tb01206.x/abstract

to anyone actually interested in this, potholer54's videos are highly recommended

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82yk73N8eoX-Xobr_TfHsWPfAIyI7VAP
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Arcanum, awesome value for the price

monkey island 2, particularly if you've played the first one

paint it back is a good picross game, though I don't know how it compares to the other picross games on steam
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just beat Particle Fleet: Emergence. I liked it more than the creeper world games but it had an unfortunately short campaign.
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Red_Frog posted...
Sorry to hear that. You going to the doc?

Nope. Why would I? They'd tell me I have a concussion and send me home. Apparently "check for spine injuries", but if boxers do this every week I don't see me dying.

you can have a hemorrhage and not know it. that's how Liam Neeson's wife died.
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32 rice krispie squares. that's almost 3000 calories all from carbs. if that's all I can eat I'd die of scurvy. if I can eat other things too I'd probably gain a lot weight and eventually die of diabetes unless I did a lot of cardio. with a lot of exercise and the ability to also eat other things, it could be livable but it's quite the handicap.
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that's awesome, something like you'd build in Minecraft. how do you get there, though? must have a dock in the back?

wouldn't want to actually live there, since it's too likely to flood and going anywhere would be a pain in the ass.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

Will Infinifactory end up feeling like a job like Spacechem did?

yes, although it's even sort of part of the premise
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really nice snow shovel
a toaster
socks
a 2018 calendar
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Rayman Origins and Infinifactory
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they're weird in that they almost taste terrible, but if you eat one you want to eat more. they're *really* good dipped in milk.

wait... what I'm thinking of are "ginger snaps". are those the same? I guess you're asking about, like, "gingerbread men". those are similar but less good.
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"gravity distorting space" (more correct to say that gravity is mass distorting space) is the general relativity theory of gravity which is currently not reconcilable with a quantum theory of gravity.

in quantum theory, the other forces are exchanges of particles. electromagnetism is the exchange of photons between electrons, for example. for a quantum theory of gravity, the exchange particles named gravitons have not been proven to exist yet. there are various reasons why which are beyond my understanding.
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I don't get how it could even be a question. CO2 is a greenhouse gas and we're pumping it into the atmosphere. why *wouldn't* that have an effect? I mean, we're literally terraforming the planet. you want to warm up a planet, that's how you do it.
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hard candy is almost always garbage tier
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"the holidays" means christmas to new years. where most holidays are a single day, this is more of a week-long event. a lot of people take 1-2 weeks off.
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AwesomeTurtwig posted...

In the class or work? In the class I don't remember. At work I develop a high fidelity radar model which communicates with other elements of a combat system. Very tough to explain.

one thing you said that I didn't understand is that you said that "I am a software/systems engineer" but that you only had 1 "coding" class? I thought you were an electrical engineer, and then it'd maybe have made sense to have only 1 programming class. reading about systems engineering, that sounds like maybe what you're talking about. do you have a bachelors or a masters? is the bulk of the degree just modeling if you aren't doing any programming? or is it a mix of electrical and software, and maybe some others? it sounds like it might be a large mix of engineering fields, which is pretty cool.
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tater gems are probably closer to hash browns, which I like more than fries in general
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JebronLames posted...

so you're not going to get a degree in it? i meant they're gonna want a degree or something. You're gonna go into the interview and say trust me?

I have a degree, but many positions will say "or equivalent experience". what matters is whether or not you can program well, and that isn't really proven by having a degree. it's the interview process that will determine if you can solve real problems or not. obviously, having a degree is still better than not having one.
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AwesomeTurtwig posted...

Like, I had one class on coding, and it was in C. Like it's not even hard.

and what were you doing, writing text menus and tic-tac-toe?

I remember a young guy asking me if C++ was "hard". it's probably the single most complex language, so it's maybe as "hard" as it gets, but it's going to depend more on what you're doing with it.

Smallville posted...

don't almost all employers will want to have this certified, they won't just take your word for it

that's what interviews are for, not that I've ever had a coding interview
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SteamedHams posted...

Is a lecture from 2007 even relevant for JS anymore? Of course some of the basics are gonna be the same, but I imagine it's stuff like arithmetic operations and loops that are common to several languages anyway. In terms of using it for web design, so much has changed in functionality and design approach since 2007. There's also more general stuff like var vs. let - and I'm sure plenty others, but I'm still pretty beginner with JS.

I was just thinking about that. Yeah, these lectures will talk about (IIRC) ECMAScript 5. (ECMAScript is the name of the standard which defines JavaScript.) The current standard is ECMAScript 6, and browsers will very soon be moving to ECMAScript 7. But it's not that the information is not relevant, it's just that there becomes new ways of doing things. You just have to then brush on what ECMAScript 6 allows, which can be found here:

http://es6-features.org
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something about curly ones seems to make them 'jucier', so I tend to like those more
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I was going to but it was a half-day so I took the day off since it isn't worth the drive
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the best/fastest way to learn JavaScript that I found was watching Douglas Crockford's lectures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ifWcnQs6M&list=PL5586336C26BDB324

he's very opinionated and isn't always right, but these proved *very* useful to me, in fact I basically learned JavaScript in one or two weeks.

I'm not sure what they'd be like to someone who doesn't already know programming, though. probably you should at least understand HTML. (which isn't that hard)
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

literally every change made in the EE was pointless and bad

nah, Neera is great and so is Dorn. Rasaad is ok too. Adding a pure-thief to BG2 is great, although they didn't do it perfectly. High-res is nice, stacking ammo is nice, experience for lockpicking is nice.

some things are definitely not so great, though, like making the interface for the whole of BG black and red just because of their DLC, or the cutscenes, which are better in ways... and not better in ways... (I really miss seeing Sarevok crushing the throat of the guy he kills in the intro, though you can still hear it).
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http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Batalista%27s_Passport

for some reason renamed it 'Batalista's Passport' in BG:EE/BG2:EE. otherwise it was literally called 'Ring of Fire Resistance'
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kind9 posted...

Since this is an "I want to learn programming" topic let me ask experienced programmers a question: Is it better, when self-teaching, to start with a low level language like C, or a high level language like Java?

I tend to suggest Java, so that you can learn good software design principles first. I don't really know if that's great advice. Personally I had to learn "structured programming" principles only to later unlearn them and replace them with OOP and modern practices. it also will depend on what you're aiming to build:

desktop business applications: C#, Java
systems programming: C
game programming: C++, C#
web applications: well... a lot of different things (I use TypeScript, JQuery, LESS, and ASP.NET/C#)
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green dragon posted...

How many hours a week should I spend learning?

as many as possible. I don't think you could spend too much time. even working on it on a daily basis for many years, I'm constantly learning.

green dragon posted...

Where the hell do I start?

really I have no idea, but I tend to suggest Java, since it's a good OOP language without tons of features. it would teach you the nuts and bolts of OOP without overcomplicating things (though now with Java 8 that might be a bit different). other possibilities include C#, C/C++, or Python.

mastermix3000 posted...

That's what I heard from a friend of mine and it makes sense. Jobs don't want to train anymore, they basically want you to fix all their problems on the get go with little to no handholding

the thing with programming is that the difference between an experienced programmer and an inexperienced one is astronomical, so there tends to be WAY more senior positions than junior and intermediate. also there's little or no part-time work because programming is not really something you can do well unless you're devoting constant time to the same project.

the key challenge is always just how well what you write can scale. it's "easy" to write a small program that does something simple. it's very hard to write multiple large-scale programs that all interact with each other.
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Millea posted...

And then just patching them forever after release...

I hate it. Please make them stop

patching them "forever" would be welcome. what they really do is patch them for a month, sometimes breaking things that weren't broken, and then dropping support forever.
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SteamedHams posted...

- Many editors pre-reserve that space even if the numbers aren't displayed

it's used for other more useful things

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- Writing code that requires too much scrolling to the right is bad practice regardless

not sure what this means. mostly I just don't want to stare at a bunch of line numbers all day that I'm not actively using. in the rare case that I need to know the line number, it's in the status bar.

SteamedHams posted...

a VS window with a bunch of project/debugging panes.

you don't need "a bunch of panes" when you have multiple monitors.
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SteamedHams posted...

what is this about row/column? Isn't having a row reference basically the same as a line number?

yes a single line number (as well as column number) of the text cursor, as opposed to a line number for every single line in the document at all times.

as diktain points out, you almost don't even need that with Ctrl-G, or these days sometimes there are tools that will auto-hyperlink a stack trace for you, even one you copied yourself
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DrPrimemaster posted...

I feel like Im missing something. What do you do when youre using notepad++ or vscode?

I guess notepad++ actually has a line number column. that seems unnecessary, but yeah I was thinking of like gwbasic line numbers. all you really need is the line number of the cursor in the status bar, a whole column of line numbers is a waste of space.
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SteamedHams posted...

Never even heard of goto before, but it doesn't sound like something that makes line numbers themselves bad. It's just easier to debug when you get an error message with a line number, or to tell somebody "look at line 42" rather than reading them a function name, upon which they might look at the wrong location anyway.

ignoring that you're probably a joke account, there's a difference between line numbers and showing the row and column of the cursor. line numbers are so obsolete it's ridiculous. row and column is like the most minimal of IDE features.
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well that sucks...
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A Christmas Carol by far, any version



Zangulus posted...

Its set during Christmas. It has a Christmas feel of bringing a family back together. The soundtrack is Christmas music.

Its a Christmas movie.

I would say a "christmas movie" is a movie *about* christmas, not set at christmas. die hard is not about christmas. but w/e, I don't care, though it feels like a vote for Die Hard really means "I don't like christmas movies".
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Snuggletoof posted...

Speaking mostly for Aladdin, because I've played that extensively on the SNES, It's leagues better than the Genesis version. I'd repeat everything yutterh says. And it plays like an actual platformer rather than the hack n' slash of the Genesis (seriously, who's idea was it to give Aladdin a fucking sword?)

this
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x-files did it
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FaithIsIgnorant posted...

Just divide X Mbps by 10 and you'll get the approximate real download speed. e.g. 10 Mbps (megaBITS) is 1mb (megaBYTE) per seconds download speed/bandwidth.

So, 75 Mbps is roughly 7.5 .

Or you could divide by 8 and get the exact speed. 75Mbps is just over 8.1MBps.

This.

75 / 8 = ~9.4
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here's a list of mistakes you make; try not to make them. oh, and try not to make new ones either.

really, I think I'd need to kidnap myself at around age 1 or 2 and raise myself... myself. (would make for a good story actually, fucking up your own parenting.)
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5 8 10

butt I will find hot regardless of score (as long as not overweight in the first place)
face helps if its nice, but doesn't have to be perfect
boobs are nice, but 10/10 boobs are *amazing* so if that can get a 10, yes please
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once you get beyond a certain point (~50Mb?), really all it does it is save a bit of time when downloading.
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I like fries and gravy, but I have yet to try actual Poutine which has the weird cheese curds stuff. no idea what it's like.
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Lokarin posted...

Plus, in what other game can you backstab a car?

you can "headshot" cars in Borderlands, I think (vehicles have weakpoints in other words)
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Ivalice_VKP posted...

but that also makes no sense because doesn't your water goes through a water facility, filtered, chemically treated and then cycles back into your tap?

...no.

otherwise you're drinking poop water, and that's not legal.

the water from the treatment facilities come from a natural bodies of water, like rivers, lakes, ect. or underground aquifers

it depends what you mean by "cycles back into your tap". the waste treatment plant is not hooked directly into the water system, it's released into nature (ie: a river, or sprayed onto the grass).

where I work there happens to be both a water treatment facility and a waste treatment facility in close proximity. the waste treatment output is sprayed on the grass. the water treatment draws from the river.
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what the fuck windows

pretty common thing to say when using windows 10
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WastelandCowboy posted...

animals with mental disorders

mind = blown
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Zeus posted...

in America we apparently just execute the mentally ill murderers -- which, again, is unlike every virtually every other civilized nation on the face on the earth who don't even execute the healthy murderers.

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I hate them so much. I think I'm mildly allergic to them or something, since they irritate my mouth and just generally feel awful, like they're mildly toxic or something.
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I guess we're not including google

stackoverflow
youtube
gamefaqs
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currently 25 days/year soon to increase to 30, and eventually (years from now) to 35.

not that I want vacation... especially when you're supposed to request it months in advance. it's maybe nice to take a week or two off if you start to feel especially weary, but who can predict it? if I'm not feeling weary, I want to work.
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he was Phoebe's cop boyfriend on Friends for a few episodes which is where I think I know him from

honestly it sounds like he's auditioning for a part as a Joe Pesci type character
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