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tchrist

12:00 AM

@Shog9 Happy Thanksgiving from the place that dares not speak its name.

user340193

12:36 AM

@Bart It looks like the account is gone.

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user202362

1:00 AM

Australian brushturkey

The Australian brushturkey or Australian brush-turkey (Alectura lathami), also frequently called the scrub turkey or bush turkey, is a common, widespread species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland to Illawarra in New South Wales. The Australian brushturkey has also been introduced to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is the largest extant representative of the family Megapodiidae and is one of three species to inhabit Australia. Despite its name and their superficial similarities, the bird is not closely related to American...

user202362

plenty of those in the neighbourhood park

Shog9

@tchrist Cheers!

user202362

Once I saw a brush turkey on a 20 meter tree, I was totally amazed, because turkey can fly that high?? That's like seeing a chicken on the roof. Some birds, you just don't expect them can fly ...

tchrist

1:19 AM

Most birds that don't fly we call dinosaurs.

user202362

Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (/ˈtɛrəˌsɔːr, ˈtɛroʊ-/; meaning "winged lizard") are flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (228 to 66 million years ago). Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight. Their wings were formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the ankles to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger. Early species had long, fully toothed jaws and long tails, while later forms had a highly reduced tail, and some lacked teeth. Many sported furry coats made up...

bjb568

1:32 AM

I FIGURED IT OUT.

Jan 25 at 12:17, by bjb568

Haha, I did Postfix configuration once. Took a few months, but now DevDoodle email works. Sometimes. Part of me (probably sanity) died in the configuration process.

Dec 19 '15 at 4:32, by bjb568

External displays are almost as hard to set up properly as postfix.

Apparently you need to make a mail directory!

maildirmake

That makes it work!

Just that one command. The 10 other tutorials that didn't work aren't needed.

tchrist

3:34 AM

Hey Smokey you lazy hijo de puta this is offensive:

0

A: "Turn out the light" vs "Turn off the light"

que chingue a toda su requeteputísima madre el amierdicaaa!!!!!!

Jon Ericson

@Derpy If only we had had a pre-countdown countdown to remind us.

user202362

4:38 AM

what if someone on the plane releases a bunch of fleas & mites on to everyone on the plane, is it an act of terrorism?

Aaron Hall

They do it every day on the subway, so I'm gonna go with "yes".

user202362

but with subway, it's useless because people can get off at any time

user202362

imagine you are on a long haul flight, then someone releases the vermin in the first class ...

Aaron Hall

You can't get off any time. Have you ever been on a subway?

You're trapped with crazy people for up to a quarter of an hour at a time.

user202362

I am not a big fan of subway, but I can survive an hour with random people

Aaron Hall

4:47 AM

I would not call the distribution iid.

user202362

Still subway gives you way more freedom than a flight. Given long haul, even some of the bearable things become slightly unbearable after 8 hours

Aaron Hall

Yeah. I haven't done a lot of those, but the ones I have done weren't very pleasant.

user315433

6:26 AM

double chocolate donuts, mmmm

user315433

That SU question is a spam magnet, but it's hard to say for sure it's spam.

user315433

Maybe deleting both of non-accepted answers as VLQ is best

user315433

!!/report stackoverflow.com/a/40798795

user315433

6:49 AM

!!/report christianity.stackexchange.com/a/53783

user202362

7:12 AM

@zaq I could not but noticing ... you have excellent sleeping pattern

user202362

simple and straight like the identity of a magpie raised chicken

Bart

9:54 AM

@MarkYisri so not murder then. Disappointing.

user202362

Disappeared population ... I am all suspicious ...

Bart

10:28 AM

Yay, another new flag account

Stijn

11:18 AM

@Bart Well, out in the streets, they call it...

user202362

12:18 PM

let there be light!

user202362

Stijn

@Telkitty Hmm, yeah, I know some of those symbols!

user202362

Those are maxwell's equation, a mathematical description of how electromagnetic waves are self inducing

user202362

light is a form of electromagnetic waves

user202362

it's a very geeky joke :p

Stijn

12:35 PM

I guess this is how some of my friends feel when I make a programming joke :)

M.A.R.

This is how I feel when most of you make a programming joke.

user202362

@Stijn there 10 types of people ...

Stijn

@Telkitty those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't know it was a base three joke :D

@M.A.R. tell us a chemistry joke!

M.A.R.

@Stijn NaH

3

Stijn

cute :)

Derpy

12:47 PM

@M.A.R. I think you will like the new SharePoint collaboration portal we just deployed for your organization.

..... before someone flags this, it was a "SharePoint joke". I know that most cannot tell them apart from death threats, but as an insider I can ensure you it was one

Stijn

@Derpy I have a SP question. The client I'm currently at has an environment hosted on something.sharepoint.com and it's slow as hell. Is that normal? I'd expect a hosted solution to be properly configured :p

Alex

I know 10 the 10 types. Those who understand binary and those who do not

M.A.R.

1:03 PM

Facepalm Programmers, whenever will they get tired of the 10 joke?

Derpy

@Stijn .... can I print this one and hang it on the office wall with a nice sign saying "Hopeful User"?

M.A.R.

Chem jokes aren't particularly amusing either, since I never laughed at geeky puns.

And all chem jokes are puns for God's sake.

Stijn

@Derpy Well, you just took away the last bit of hope I had :(

Derpy

@Stijn that is the work we SharePoint developers do.

Don't see me as a wizard that will come to you, wave a wand and make your farm work beautifully.

See me as a voodoo something that will come and try to minimize the effect of the curse you already have.

(yep, "priest" cannot be used for sharepoint)

Stijn

I bet you bring blankets and cups of hot coco to your users too then :p

there there

Derpy

1:18 PM

this ^

oh, wait.... I have a better one.

IgnoreMeException

Bart

2:30 PM

@Derpy :D Streisand effect?

Derpy

@Bart more like "Dear Excel, if you let this exception propagate from the inner entropy of your cursed Excel Web App so that it bubbles up to my SharePoint page... can you tell me how do you expect me to ignore it???"

At least if I am supposed to

try{....}
catch () {/*do nothing*/}

let me know BEFORE it breaks.

documenting the issue would be a good start.

typically "please ignore me" isn't exactly going to work after I had to lose hours with reverse engineering your classes inner working

on an unrelated note, I have been watching some "let's play" of a still-in-alpha game called Hello Neighbor .

Nice idea, but the developer(s?) seems to be really unfocused.

Bart

Is that the horror one?

Derpy

2:46 PM

Yep, you move to a new house and you notice your neighbor acting odd. The game has you trying to enter his house to discover what he is hiding.

The cool thing is that if he catch you, he throws you out but also do some little changes in the house based on how he thinks you managed to enter.

Bart

They should do an alternative game called "creepy new neighbour" where you try to prevent a neighbour from entering your house and stealing stuff.

Derpy

Example: if you keep using the same door, expect him to first lock it and then to even barricade it

he can place traps and cams to try to stop you.

Bart

30 euros for early access ...

Derpy

The idea was cool....

Bart

Sounds really cool indeed

Derpy

2:49 PM

but the devs clearly haven't yet planned what the plot and the game style will be.

I saw videos from three different alphas.

The game area is completely different, almost as they kept the engine and started from scratch every time.

also....

First release: House is almost normal, neighbor acts odd like he is an alien in disguise. He keeps watching a static "no-antenna detected" TV, has water bottles all around the house, a shoe in the oven and so on. While the house isn't scary, he manages to be very creepy.

second release: house has somehow changed and now has a second floor. He acts more normal, but now the house is the odd part. It isn't "scary" as you would expect from a horror movie. The general feeling is more something like Courage the Dog or the old series "Goosebumps" .

not something that would make you stay awake at night, but can throw some odd curve-balls when you don't expect it.

For example, the new house has a room decorated like a classroom with mannequins in place of the actual students.

Third release. House is completely different. It isn't scary at all, not even creepy but has a general chaotic felling, with displaced house decor and the such. Then, after you open a locked door, you find out a dark corridor with candles that shouldn't even exist since there is no space in the house map for that.

Stijn

Hmm, 30 euros for early access is a bit much then imo

Derpy

So far, even with the cool idea, the actual content seems to be even more "confused" and unplanned than "Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion" (=> yep, that is the actual tittle store.steampowered.com/app/356670)

Oh, and btw since I mentioned "Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion"... please don't let the average ratings fool you.

it is bad.

very bad.

it was presented as a procedural generated "horror" game.

actually, it is a sequence of a THOUSAND of random generated room (where random is "there are 30 different rooms and some alterations like wall textures, colors and so on chosen randomly")

when a room has multiple exist, it doesn't matter what exit you choose.

every now and then, you have to escape a monster that will pursue you for about 20 rooms.

all the monsters are taken from other games or movies.

I still wonder how it managed to sell

SmokeDetector

3:06 PM

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Bart

Going through such iterations isn't that strange for an alpha game though @Derpy.

It's just that now you get to see it, where before all this pre-alpha release nonsense that was all going on behind the scenes

Derpy

@Bart I don't know... I would expect that at least they planned the general direction the game would go.

The first release was like all the paranoia was in your mind, to the point that an ending where you discovered that nothing was strange could have worked (and possibly get mad in the process)

the second had a cartoon felling (a pool with a shark on the second floor, close the boiler downstairs so that the water freezes to cross) that made it look like a sort of stealth / point&click adventure hybrid that reminded me of a very creepy Monkey Island

Bart

@Derpy they may well have found that while the first iteration was great, it didn't easily extend into a longer game. Or it didn't work for their target audience. Or whatever.

Derpy

the third one seems more like "devil house with impossible map" like you would expect from Eternal Darkness

@Bart maybe you are right, but so far I got that same "I don't know what is the plot, I will let the fan come up with one and just add random stuff" felling Five Nights at Freddy always gave me.

also, it seems pretty dangerous for them. As you said, the early access fee isn't exactly low.

if someone pays based on a version and then the next one don't even look like it is the same game... they will get mad.

Stijn

Well, they can't do worse than No Man's Sky.

Derpy

3:17 PM

@Stijn Spore.

Stijn

Too long ago for me to remember :p

Derpy

@Stijn Nintendo "it is time to SWITCH (to Ps4)"?

Bart