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| Topic | Twitter suspends accounts for posing as Black Trump supporters |
| Sahuagin 10/22/20 9:03:53 PM #105 | adjl posted... <snip> In the case of these fake accounts, though, I don't think there's much to object to. <snip>I'm not objecting necessarily, I'm just wondering what the specific criteria is. otherwise you end up in the grey zone that companies like this tend to prefer, where it comes down to "whatever we decide should be censored should be censored". what is it specifically? - (all) posts that are factually wrong? - (all) posts that are factually wrong about political issues? - (all) posts that are using an image of someone's face that is provably not theirs to use? or something I haven't thought of? (note that these are not rhetorical questions) --- |
| Topic | I got some game something stuck in my head... don't know what it's from |
| Sahuagin 10/22/20 8:30:41 PM #8 | Lokarin posted... I made a Viewtiful Joe topic about Zelda 2,but i had a different subject matterI vaguely remember you asking about a similar slo-mo jump and kick move that sounded like it could be viewtiful joe. would have been a year or two or three ago. --- |
| Topic | I got some game something stuck in my head... don't know what it's from |
| Sahuagin 10/22/20 1:07:32 AM #6 | Lokarin posted... Ya, I'm probably mixing up Viewtiful Joe with FF9 and some Dead Cells in there toonow I'm having Deja Vu... you've asked this before haven't you? --- |
| Topic | I got some game something stuck in my head... don't know what it's from |
| Sahuagin 10/21/20 10:23:36 PM #4 | Lokarin posted... I think it is either 3D or psuedo-3d.,.. and I think time slows down when you do a successful dodge this way (and furthermore I think you can do a sort of side-ways whirlwind counter out of it)I don't know the game that well, but sounds similar to Viewtiful Joe --- |
| Topic | Is it realistic to think that a coding job could be attained without any formal |
| Sahuagin 10/21/20 1:15:30 AM #6 | obviously it depends, but as far as I know, no it's not realistic. the difference between average and expert programmers is extremely large, which is why there are so many programming jobs that ask for senior developers and almost none that ask for junior developers. then again, there are also many places where just being able to communicate effectively and work diligently puts you light years ahead of everyone else, regardless of your experience. --- |
| Topic | When you make a typo do you... |
| Sahuagin 10/20/20 10:10:08 PM #11 | all of the above --- |
| Topic | Twitter suspends accounts for posing as Black Trump supporters |
| Sahuagin 10/20/20 10:04:54 PM #85 | adjl posted... But that's not what I'm asking. I'm asking about this very specific case. Censorship in a broader sense is indeed a much more complex question, but you can answer the question about this case pretty simply.my point was that your question is misleadingly narrow. "(don't you think) this one comment is obviously fake so of course twitter should censor it" jumps right over the more important questions and isn't as straightforward as it seems. you're saying here that you can make decisions at the small scale before making decisions at the large scale, when the opposite is true. what even are your grounds for deleting the comments? --- |
| Topic | Twitter suspends accounts for posing as Black Trump supporters |
| Sahuagin 10/18/20 11:25:32 PM #75 | adjl posted... Again, I ask: Do you think Twitter shouldn't be shutting down people who are deliberately spreading misinformation for the purposes of influencing the election?depending on the situation this can be a very misleading question. the question, "should twitter censor tweets" is not so easy to answer in general and there's a giant can of worms involved with it that you're glossing over by asking that. Mead posted... I dont think you understand what whataboutism meansif twitter was, for example (only for example), censoring fake pro-right tweets, and not censoring fake pro-left tweets, it would be more than just hypocritical, it would be a subtle way of injecting a bias. it's not always so easy to remain impartial once you start having to make decisions that control/censor speech. --- |
| Topic | Why does the second half of the day go faster than the first half? |
| Sahuagin 10/18/20 6:16:29 PM #4 | time seems to move faster when you want more of it, and slower when you want less of it (the opposite of what you want). if you don't want the day to end, then the closer it is to ending, the faster the time will seem to disappear. --- |
| Topic | If you know the answer to something, just tell us. |
| Sahuagin 10/17/20 5:48:50 PM #14 | Lokarin posted... Ya, especially for me 'cuz I'm really bad at googling...a lot of the time I can just double click your topic title (selecting it) and then click+drag it to a new tab which does an auto google search, and get the answer to your question with literally just a double click and a drag. (edit: I guess it's really a triple-click to select the whole title.) --- |
| Topic | How do you pronounce the word THE |
| Sahuagin 10/15/20 11:05:03 PM #7 | Zareth posted... Thee or thuh you mean? Usually thuh unless I want to emphasize the subject I'm talking about."thee" would be when preceding a word that starts with a vowel (thee apple, thee elephants, etc.). same as a/an. --- |
| Topic | How do you pronounce the word THE |
| Sahuagin 10/15/20 10:44:47 PM #4 | soft th-, optionally long or short -e (or I guess it's schwa or whatever, not short -e) --- |
| Topic | My birthday Steam key giveaway topic - 25 games - Ends October 11th 7pm NZ time |
| Sahuagin 10/12/20 11:19:27 PM #103 | thanks Delta --- |
| Topic | Is Elden Ring still a thing? |
| Sahuagin 10/11/20 2:07:04 AM #3 | I don't think it's ever had an even estimated release date I certainly don't mind if they take their time. they do make great games, but they also often tend to be noticeably unfinished in places. --- |
| Topic | Baldur's Gate 3 EA launches tomorrow |
| Sahuagin 10/11/20 12:57:53 AM #38 | Krow_Incarnate posted... The only thing I would suggest is reverting the games to beta 1.33 via Steam; that's before the Dragonspear update.ohhhh, you can do that??? I don't mind most things, but the way they turned all of BG1's UI to black and red is so stupid. doesn't fit the atmosphere of the game at all. --- |
| Topic | Why do movie directors always screw up Stephen King adaptations? |
| Sahuagin 10/10/20 10:19:42 PM #8 | 1408 is one of my favs and of course there's always Shawshank --- |
| Topic | Trumps signs EO |
| Sahuagin 10/09/20 9:44:19 PM #46 | Zeus posted... Can you imagine buying insurance *after* you wreck your car and expecting that car crash to be covered?not sure but I think a problem with that analogy is that vehicle insurance is only for 1-time incidents, whereas health insurance can cover chronic conditions. there's not a lot of difference between getting insurance before or after you're diagnosed with a life-long illness. (I do wonder how it can be profitable for an insurance company to *ever* gain in that situation either way though.) --- |
| Topic | My birthday Steam key giveaway topic - 25 games - Ends October 11th 7pm NZ time |
| Sahuagin 10/09/20 9:07:55 PM #40 | you seem to have named me IronBornCorps by mistake --- |
| Topic | My birthday Steam key giveaway topic - 25 games - Ends October 11th 7pm NZ time |
| Sahuagin 10/09/20 7:52:35 PM #35 | Brutal Legend Dragon Fantasy: The Volumes of Westeria F1 2019 Torchlight Torchlight 2 --- |
| Topic | my ps4 is just a piece of shit apparently |
| Sahuagin 10/08/20 11:18:53 PM #19 | well the static address avoids the router altogether (or parts of it). just the simple setup of device with static address + switch + second device on the same subnet, you should be able to ping it. (small chance though that ps4s don't respond to pings or something but they "probably" do.) from that setup, you can diagnose other things. is it a port on the switch? is it the switch itself (definitely power-cycle the switch/router; and try an actual network switch if you can). is it the cable? (sometimes a cable can be failing enough to cause problems with signal, but not bring it completely down). making it as isolated as possible, you avoid other problems that might be interfering, like ip conflicts, network cycles, dhcp overflow, etc. if then, no matter which cable you use, which port you use or switch you use, (or how well seated the ends of the cable are) (and maybe you can do this test successfully for some other device using the same hardware), then all that would be left is the ps4. --- |
| Topic | my ps4 is just a piece of shit apparently |
| Sahuagin 10/08/20 10:43:05 PM #17 | Sahuagin posted... is there some screen in the ps4 where you configure network settings? dynamic vs static address, dns, gateway, etc?assuming there is, you should try giving it a static address on the same subnet but outside of the DHCP range so, for example, if your DHCP gives addresses between 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.200, give it something like 192.168.0.220 gateway should be your router address (often 192.168.0.1) dns can be your router address or your isp's dns addresses, or something else like google's dns, etc (8.8.8.8). the main thing is the static address and then try to ping it from another device on the network. --- |
| Topic | my ps4 is just a piece of shit apparently |
| Sahuagin 10/08/20 12:06:17 PM #12 | likehelly posted... they light up just fine like they should be communicating.is there some screen in the ps4 where you configure network settings? dynamic vs static address, dns, gateway, etc? --- |
| Topic | my ps4 is just a piece of shit apparently |
| Sahuagin 10/08/20 1:54:50 AM #2 | sounds like it can be repaired but only by replacing a chip on the main board otherwise, standard network diagnosis: do the port LEDs light up? if they don't try a different cable if they light up, does it get an address in DHCP? if it gets an address, can you ping it? --- |
| Topic | Owners of websites that automatically play music or video... |
| Sahuagin 10/07/20 12:00:07 AM #2 | what's really annoying are news article pages that get to count as videos and show up in the videos list just because they have a small irrelevant clip on them --- |
| Topic | About today's poll on futre tech |
| Sahuagin 10/06/20 11:00:56 PM #16 | for the teleportation one, you're thinking of transporters (converting your matter into energy/information and transmitting it), but the "now you're just a clone" thing isn't a problem for portals (wormholes?). and then, the "worst case" for portals would be Doom: Hell on Earth. that would still be awesome though. --- |
| Topic | Baldur's Gate 3 EA launches tomorrow |
| Sahuagin 10/06/20 9:36:57 PM #17 | Krow_Incarnate posted... Where the hell are you getting $80.00 from?I'm getting it the hell from Canada --- |
| Topic | About today's poll on futre tech |
| Sahuagin 10/06/20 9:33:40 PM #10 | most of those are awesome, not scary "Losing touch with reality (VR)" is an exception and gets my vote --- |
| Topic | Baldur's Gate 3 EA launches tomorrow |
| Sahuagin 10/06/20 9:31:30 PM #15 | $80 for early access? I think I'll pass for now --- |
| Topic | Do you liek Choplifter/Desert Strike |
| Sahuagin 10/06/20 9:08:22 PM #8 | I played Choplifter a lot as a kid, but the third level was basically impossible that looks more like Desert Strike than Choplifter --- |
| Topic | Jurassic Park begins now |
| Sahuagin 10/03/20 11:18:30 PM #2 | sort of. it says they have techniques that can extract DNA that's been in resin for a few years, and will be testing how many years it could last, but there's almost zero chance that it could last _millions_ of years. (it would be cool though.) --- |
| Topic | I got a mouse that has been in my house for a few days now |
| Sahuagin 10/02/20 10:23:04 PM #74 | half the bait of my second trap disappeared. reading about it, I'm probably using too much. I setup a third in a better spot with only a tiny bit of bait and caught #27 this morning. --- |
| Topic | From 123 to 149 Steam keys - Birthday Giveaway vote topic |
| Sahuagin 10/02/20 9:36:46 PM #11 | hmmm -1 Torchlight 2 +1 Dirt 4 --- |
| Topic | Will Trump use HYDROCHLOROQUINE after COVID-19 Diagnosis???? |
| Sahuagin 10/02/20 3:50:57 AM #6 | assuming he survives, probably he'll downplay how bad it is and say it's not even as bad as a cold and that no one should even care about getting it --- |
| Topic | Have you seen this Movie: Rock-a-Doodle |
| Sahuagin 10/02/20 12:34:29 AM #14 | actually, one thing that is apparently from that movie that I will always remember is: 'you imbecile! that's not an "adequate" pipe! it's an AQUADUCT PIPE!!' --- |
| Topic | My favorite Joe Biden quote. |
| Sahuagin 10/01/20 3:29:10 PM #11 | watching this, I feel like Biden's soft-spokenness is a huge relief compared to Trump's constant bickering. --- |
| Topic | What kind of PC setup do you have? |
| Sahuagin 10/01/20 3:23:25 PM #6 | my CPU is very old most everything else is good i5-2310 (4 core 2.9GHz) 24 GB DDR3 GTX 1060 3GB 4 HDDs on a RAID 10 (total 1TB), and 2 external (3TB and 1TB) my work PC is similar with a slightly newer CPU and only 16 gigs ram triple monitors at home, quad at work, but 1 home monitor and 2 work monitors are Samsung SyncMasters and are all dying slow deaths from the capacitor plague (I presume). --- |
| Topic | Once COVID-19 is over, will you still wear a mask in public? |
| Sahuagin 10/01/20 2:18:32 PM #9 | maybe if it just becomes a thing we all do, sure, but not otherwise --- |
| Topic | I got a mouse that has been in my house for a few days now |
| Sahuagin 10/01/20 2:50:47 AM #73 | I noticed this morning that the bait has disappeared from the trap I had set... I set a new trap but haven't gotten anything today. --- |
| Topic | Would you think a STEM major a joke if he or she did not know how to use LaTeX? |
| Sahuagin 10/01/20 2:44:20 AM #13 | to anyone wondering, it's basically what you use to typeset mathematical documents. if you've taken a math test with fancy math questions on it, it's very likely the test was typeset with latex (pronounced "lay-tech"). in higher level math courses, and math related computer science courses, you have to submit your assignments as a PDF that was generated from latex. (possible that there are other options as well). I've had to use it in at least a cryptography course and a numerical computation course. it's also available to use to write math symbols on math-related stackexchange sites. it's pretty much math-specific; I wouldn't expect anyone other than mathematicians (and people from math-related fields) to use it. --- |
| Topic | Would you think a STEM major a joke if he or she did not know how to use LaTeX? |
| Sahuagin 09/30/20 11:49:55 PM #9 | not necessarily "STEM" in general. from what I've seen, it's used a lot specifically in more advanced math classes, so I'd maybe expect a mathematician to know it, or some alternative, but that's it. --- |
| Topic | Didn't get the job |
| Sahuagin 09/30/20 11:09:17 PM #14 | (disclaimer: trying not to be too arrogant/condescending in my nit-picky reply. just sharing my thoughts.) IronBornCorps posted... I mostly have used vanilla CSS, they wanted something like SAAS.SASS, which should be a superset of CSS, so plain CSS should still be valid. yes you should use something like SASS rather than vanilla CSS. (I use LESS.) I prefer doing business logic on the client, they preferred on the serverclient is more or less presentation layer, so yeah, you should have a good reason for putting business logic there. that's a bit of an issue from a design point-of-view, and possibly also a security point-of-view. (I say this but some apps I've written that I wanted to work 100% disconnected do have a fair bit of logic client-side. in that case I treat the whole client-side as an application that just happens to receive some static initial information from the server and saves things to the server when it's able to contact it.) they used non-relational dbs, I have experience in relational.that's understandable if you've never used one before. (I've used indexeddb which is asynchronous no-sql on client-side, but I have yet to use a no-sql db server-side.) --- |
| Topic | Have you seen this Movie: Rock-a-Doodle |
| Sahuagin 09/30/20 10:44:59 PM #7 | Metalsonic66 posted... I remember seeing it as a kid but have very little recollection of the story or characters --- |
| Topic | What are your top 3 NES games? |
| Sahuagin 09/30/20 10:10:50 PM #9 | something like : 1: SMB1 2: FF1 3: Zelda 2 Runners Up (no particular order): Punch-Out!! Mega Man 2 Bionic Commando Chip n Dale TMNT --- |
| Topic | Debate Night in America, Part 1 |
| Sahuagin 09/30/20 4:01:29 AM #270 | OhhhJa posted... From google:that's like from the phrase "we can't just stand by and do nothing" or to "stand idly by". to tell someone to "stand by" is the third definition listed which is "be ready to deal or assist with something" or "to be ready for action". --- |
| Topic | If war between USA and China was begining - who would all base belong to? |
| Sahuagin 09/28/20 11:14:08 PM #9 | it basically already is an economic/cold war --- |
| Topic | Republicans Demand SEX ED to be BANNED cause it PROMOTES SEX!! Should it??? |
| Sahuagin 09/28/20 11:12:50 PM #6 | god, I hate these perpetual cycles of ignorance --- |
| Topic | Attn: Canadians |
| Sahuagin 09/28/20 11:10:31 PM #10 | Ogurisama posted... All depends on what you are looking for I don't really know, but I would think rural BC is WAY better than rural Alberta/Sask. (maybe exception to western Alberta as you get closer to the Rockies). Urban BC on the other hand is supposedly super high crime or something, but I've only heard of it not experienced it. And then, definitely Ontario for super-urban. --- |
| Topic | What's the best digital card game that isn't based on a real card game? |
| Sahuagin 09/28/20 3:19:28 PM #4 | Slay the Spire --- |
| Topic | Do you have a GOOD Life or a S***** Life? Take This Test and Post Your Results! |
| Sahuagin 09/27/20 12:04:08 PM #37 | YoukaiSlayer posted... Wtf do you have to do to get a 1 in health?Worf: Die. --- |
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