Oh, I didn't want to argue, really.. just the comparison seemed a little off. Furthermore here the idea seems to be that the kids can collect the plushes
@Tinkeringbell no, I meant "Do you have any doubt that the purpose is one other way to pressure kids into pressuring their parents to waste money"? Seems pretty blatant.
Especially since it can't work as a firework in the first place because: a) you are advised to use it during day time to be able to actually find the plush and b) it can't really do much without colorful sparks and / or explosions.
The caxirola (pronounced [kaʃiˈɾɔla]) is a Brazilian percussion instrument created by Carlinhos Brown and consisting of a closed plastic basket with a flat-bottom filled with small synthetic particles, in an attempt to create a sustainable product. It was based on the caxixi, and thus it is also an indirectly struck idiophone, sounded by shaking. The caxirola was certified on September 27, 2012 by the Brazilian Ministry of Sports and was created to be the official musical instrument of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. However, it was not allowed inside stadiums of both the World Cup and the 2013...
> Its actually quite simple when you look at it from a game designers perspective: So a lot of games that have mana as a character stat also have health as a more important stat. A lot of health bars change color as your hp drops. Now it makes sense to use primary colors as hp to display how important it is. Most of them use green>yellow>red as a progression leaving blue for the mana bar. Keep in mind that not all health bars change color and can often use red as the hp color. In such cases it is not uncommom to see green used as the color of mana.
@Tinkeringbell those are without attribution as far as I can tell, but I don't read Portuguese or French well enough to be able to tell... but they have my content without anything which looks like a license statement
the automatic transltion kind of obscures this, I recognize my user name and some of the code snippets
I speak enough to recognize nouns and verbs so I can tell that it's a translation of something I actually wrote ... that's harder to establish with the Japanese one I also found
Looks okay enough to me. They link each question back to the original on SO, link to the SO user profiles, and if you scroll down there's the license being repeated.
but also often worse, when the quality is bad enough; a static translation is probably going to be less useful than a fresh one, as long as machine translation is improving
I also found one caled Quabr which has a footer which says "Quabr.com is StackOverFlow proxy site" but that's pretty unsatisfying (but I think I have reported them to SO before)
@tripleee Can't have everything ;) If that site wants to draw visitors and be a great replacement, that's exactly what they'd do... usually not though ;)
Wow...I beat Akinator. I tried with Koschei the Deathless - a slightly more minor character from a more minor part of folklore. And he gave me "Näcken / Nøkken / Näkki" from Scandinavian folklore.
I don't even know who that character is.
OK, Akinator did guess correctly with additional questions but I think that's cheating.
@SPArcheon Yes, It must do it to have more data to properly find the characters. If it does it with the minimal amount of questions possible, then it will not classify that character very well.
@Mithical That's why I was surprised. I've not tried Akinator for quite a while but I do know it guesses correct no matter how obscure a thing you throw at it. I've seen it manage to guess local pop stars.
You can throw it a curve ball and it will fail but usually because the character you select isn't very well defined. I tried with "changeling" but it's really a class of mythological creatures.
> Does your character wear cream colored satin panties?
Also failed on Dr Douglas Netchurch who is like a lore character in Vampire the Masquerade fluff in the books. Not a major character but recurring. I did the full 50 questions but it just kept asking about irrelevant stuff "Is your character female" -> "No" "Is your character an independent woman?" -> "No". It wasn't until question 40 or so until it asked "Is the character a vampire".
there is no "logic" behind the game by itself. Since the questions are user added there is a lot of noise (and dupes, "is the character male" is a separate question from "is the character female")
Also, there isn't any form of graph db involved
just groups slicing and nothing more.
so the "intelligence" is just a group becoming small enough for the algorithm to suddenly pick a very relevant question
The latest blog scandal reminds me of some remote family relative who reach birthday party, and writes some totally wrong name in the card. The intentions are good, the gift is solid, but the relative is just too unfamiliar with the one celebrating, so he doesn't even know the actual name.
All it takes is to ask someone who does know, few minutes of his time.
I'm currently writing up a "History of Code Golf Stack Exchange" post for our site blog, and would love to write (or even contribute to) a short paragraph explaining to people who we are as a site. If the blog post was more "These sites have turned 10. Here's what their communities have to say about them", it'd be really cool imo
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 Really? Post a meta question saying "You guys turned 10 this year. We'd love to hear what you feel about this" on each site's meta, pick one/two short answers and copy-paste them into a blog post. It's slightly more work than just posting a list of sites, but it'd show that SE actually does care about us turning 10, and I doubt it would be that much work
@ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 I highly doubt that. Granted, CGCC isn't the smallest site on the list, but we jump at any chance to talk to the staff about us (example: any of Philippe's questions), and most sites will be able to come up with at least one thing to say about the occasion
Besides, for a company that is supposed to be for its communities, I don't see anything wrong with putting it a little bit more time and effort to demonstrate that you haven't forgotten those communities.
It depends on how you want to gauge activity, visits / Q/D / Users / etc., but there's a dozen sites coming up on 10 years - but what about the ones that just missed the mark, no credit for 10Y1M to over 13 years?