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I've not actually been on a jury.closest i've gotten is having to wait in the courthouse for 4 hours only to be told to go home because all the cases settled. I don't try to get out of it because if i ever had to be wrongly in court I wouldn't want the jury to be filled with people that can't figure out how to get out of jury duty.
going to be running my first full campaign of 2e despite having been subscribed since its start. I'm running age of ashes. any advice for running with 3 players?
it took me way too long to figure out you were talking about james camerons avatar. I was really confused since i couldn't remember any blue people named sully in the last airbender or legend of korra.
ignoble awards are out. seems this year the winners are Urinals, kissing, cockroach milk, and buried underwear.
When a non-technical person has ideas for IT.Oh no. I KNEW there was gonna be a bug joke in there. GET RID OF YOUR BUGS,PROGRAMMERS! AND SUPERVISORS GIVE THEM TIME TO REMOVE SAID BUGS! 99 cases of bugs in the code 99 cases of bugstake one down patch it around 130 cases of bugs in the code
Thinking about it, I vaguely remember cars in the megaman battle network series cars operating in a similar manner. They get hacked and start going crazy so your elementary school character hacks into the system to fix traffic
That could definitely help. at least if people are willing to use it. I loved my new adaptive cruise control during my semiannual 8 hour to my parents place. my dad on the other hand turned that off immediately when he got a vehicle that had it. Connecting all the cars together does have challenges relating to security and privacy.
file sizes of modern "AAA" games have gotten smurfin ridiculous
Implementing this will require testing in various conditions like fog, rain, snowstorms, and squirrelwinds instead of just using deserts like testing tends to do now.
sounds like 1-4 would all be solved by people actually going the speed limit. 1) it would just be another lane so no speeding in it2) everyone would be going the same speed so other lanes would primarily be just for space reasons 3) they would be getting on at the proper speed 4)no need to try weaving as you would be going the same speed as the person in front of you.
interesting choice moving civics education requirements to college over high school.
I don't remember needing to take any history classes when I was in college 16 years ago. An ethics class was required, a writing class, and a certain amount of liberal arts credits, but history wasn't required. I think I covered all of my liberal arts credits with my minor in Japanese.
and then that AI won't be able to change course when you are going on a road trip instead of going to work. also, why is google maps needed to get to work beyond the first week?
Infinite vacation? I'm jealous. Last year I took a month off to destress after a project that lead me to therapy finally ended*. Had to take LOA to get the full month off. It was worth it, but the rest of the year I had to be a bit worried about needing time off for health since I had to re-accrue time off and more LOA would have removed full time "salaried" status. *project moved to sustainment which I was then put on when I got back.
they're better than the hot pocket pot pies were at least.still way too much salt though. High school me found them nice as lazy friday lunches when we didn't have any leftovers in the fridge.
I have vague memories of people hating photoshop even when it was gold standard.
I thought the jetsons was the same setting as flinstones with the flinstones living on the ground. Its why they were able to do the occasional crossover
I love boss characters being instakilled by crits in the first 2 rounds of combat. Oh well at least I already planned on the character picking up their head and breaking a one time word of recall item on "death"
probability is one of those things that most humans don't intuitively get. People get confused with simple things like streaks with dice. I remember being surprised to learn that a test with 90% accuracy could be a terrible test not worth using. And then there's the monty hall problem
Maybe this helps with understanding why someone might be consistently late. maybe not. Brains be weird and each person's brain is a different kind of weird that doesn't always relate.I get all that. Fully understand it. But have you considered it from the other side? I cannot leave until my replacement is here. So, said replacement being consistently late feels as though they are giving me a big middle finger everyday. It's them saying "My time is more important than yours. I'm more important than you. I don't care that you may have things that you need to do, or people you have to help." Every single day. They show no remorse, not even a token apology that they clearly don't mean. They take no steps to try and improve. And they face no consequences. It's infuriating, and the only thing I can do is vent about it, or quit. Yeah its s+~#ty for those that have to deal with it. The bare minimum when late should be an apology for being late or a thank you for being patient with the tardiness. I wasn't trying to address your specific situation. I was trying to explain why someone might be chronically late, even when they don't want to be, to NobodysHome.
i'm wondering if the email thing is a boilerplate sales pitch to corporate people. I think one of the heads of my company used a similar "I remembered AI first and asked about how to optimize my email and it suggested tools to help" story in 3 different meetings/presentations.
Did some self reflection on why I'm often late for things( usually no more than 5 minutes) and maybe some of what I came up with can help with the understanding. I have a strong urge to maximize my time doing something I want to do before doing something I don't want to do especially if what I want to do recharges mental batteries needed for the thing I don't want to do. For myself, traveling from point A to B is an unwanted activity. I don't know if this was something I was trained to do or a natural instinct. Part of this leads to estimating the minimum amount of time to do the unwanted thing with mixed success of including time for complications. weirdly I'm better at estimating travel times the slower my means of transportation is. One of the things on the complication side is incomplete tasks on the thing I want to do causing a nagging feeling of incompletion that leads to an urge to finish it eating into the unwanted task time. This is usually something like finishing a page or chapter of something being read or worst case a moderator discussion in discord. Infinite scrolling things feed this urge in a way that the completion never triggers and is why I try to avoid things with infinite scrolling like the plague. Another common, for me, complication that is a result of training myself to not need to stop for the bathroom on 8hour car trips is my body deciding I need to hold court on the porcelain throne right as I'm trying to go out the door. Something not on the complication side is a desire to not be early. Part of this is selfish in being early and needing to wait feels like time that could have been spent doing something else. Another is being early has caused issues for things before, like not having space or being in the way of the people prepping for people to be ontime making other things run late as a result.And if you're not early you're late. Driving is something that gives me some anxiety and is something that is always in the don't want to do category.New car features have helped with that somewhat, but its still in that category. I may also have undiagnosed ADHD or some features of it that don't add up for a full disorder. Maybe this helps with understanding why someone might be consistently late. maybe not. Brains be weird and each person's brain is a different kind of weird that doesn't always relate.
I'm indifferent to service personnel using my name. Granted i've been friends with people in meat space for years before learning their names. I know regularly repeating someone's name is a method to remembering names. I also imagine there are big money narcissists that would enjoy saying something along the lines of "see everyone here knows me by name"
I think the techwriters at my company are mostly editors that review the documentation that is majority written by the test team. This is unfortunate that the test team writes it though since it takes away time that could have been spent monkey testing.
what is the most memorable moment from the last RPG session you took part in?
biometrics is one of the worst methods of security. If it ever gets compromised its not simple to change yourself. Or if you do change yourself due to a horrible accident you are suddenly locked out of things.
as a child there were ads for Sonic all the time on TV. The nearest sonic was 3 hours away. so the ads were for a place that didn't really exist
I'm seeing a lot of talk about popeyes like its a real place and not just made up for the movie little nikki.Next I'll hear that ikea is more than a Jonathan Coulton song and the sonic commercials I saw all the time as a kid were for restaurants that actually existed.
first thing that comes to mind is trying to find a vulnerability. second thing is possibly implementing an in app support request mechanism for something that they are creating, but they think makes sense to forward the report to your support forums.
Depends on who you ask. Whereas I prefer the larger interface, the kids hate putting apps on their phones because "all they ever do is steal your data and set themselves to autorun and burn your battery"A business that requires me to install an app is a business that I am not dealing with. Now I'm worried that someone at my job will at some point book me for a flight that requires an app to check in. Not having a smartphone would make that difficult. Though I can understand wanting to just make an app rather than a website. Last month work moved me to a project that requires webdev things and html+javascript===pain.
that made me wonder if there was like a york county or something in kansas that also had a city named Manhattan. apparently there is a york township, but its nowhere near the city of manhattan
everything I've done has always ignored source formatting and in my regular use the only program where i'd copy and paste that cares about format is excell.
Yes. That way lies madness. There's a reason it's finals week, not "finals Monday or Tuesday or maybe a rare Wednesday".Its been a while, but I think my experience with finals in college was that the final exam was usually at the same time as your normal first class of the week. So if someone had 6 classes in a day with all of them having finals they would have them all in one day. most sane people only had 2-3 classes a day.When I was in high school there was generally a policy of no more than two exams a day for easing of cramming anxiety. Some people might have had weird schedules that couldn't avoid more in a day, but it could never be more than 4. Finals were 1-2 a day with you being able to go home after your last test each day. college had too many possible class combinations for that to be a feasible thing to do. Oh it still went on all week. there were a lot of ThF and WF classes. as well as classes that only met once a week. I think part of it was that students and teachers had already agreed to that time for meeting so they kept it at that time so people wouldn't have to reschedule work/ baby sitters and the like. Another part is likely professors wanting to start their breaks earlier if they can.
and today I learned that SHIFT+CTRL+V is a standard shortcut for "paste in plain text"/"paste without formatting" -A professional software developer of 11 years
When I was in high school there was generally a policy of no more than two exams a day for easing of cramming anxiety. Some people might have had weird schedules that couldn't avoid more in a day, but it could never be more than 4. Finals were 1-2 a day with you being able to go home after your last test each day. college had too many possible class combinations for that to be a feasible thing to do. Its been a while, but I think my experience with finals in college was that the final exam was usually at the same time as your normal first class of the week. So if someone had 6 classes in a day with all of them having finals they would have them all in one day. most sane people only had 2-3 classes a day.
When I was in high school there was generally a policy of no more than two exams a day for easing of cramming anxiety. Some people might have had weird schedules that couldn't avoid more in a day, but it could never be more than 4. Finals were 1-2 a day with you being able to go home after your last test each day. college had too many possible class combinations for that to be a feasible thing to do.
Well, the work RPG group that I started 11 years ago has come to an end. We completed 5 campaigns so it was a good run.
what is your favourite goblin song?
There are use cases where reply all is useful, but there should be an "Are you sure you want to reply all with this many recipients?" Then there are use cases that are annoying that management thinks are useful. Like if we forget to turn in our paper timecard (we have to do paper and digital for reasons that don't hold water) everyone that forgot is included in an email telling them to reply all when they've turned in their timecard. There are 3 people in the list that actually need to be informed, but the reply all functions as a walk of shame.
Finally bought a car. Gave up on the dealership that didn't seem to want to deal with me. Inquired at a different dealership 30 minutes away and they immediately sent me an out the door price via email and did negotiations that way. After negotiations were done and such they reminded me to make sure I had my insurance done to save time with paperwork at the dealership.
I wonder if Frieren will get as many sociology studies on it as Seinfeld has. Isn't whatsapp used as the main message app outside the US because it had better privacy practices before facebook bought them? 
will you miss the smurf functionality if it doesn't make it into the forum rework?
Maybe some universal way of altering spells by adjusting the amount of actions required. Most spells are all 2 actions which kinda left casters using the same action economy as 1e. Perhaps something trading actions for one of the spell variables. e.g. range, damage, number of targetsI cannot be sure whether you are doing a bit or not, but assuming this is a genuine request, that's essentially spellshapes/metamagic. Yeah that's kinda what i was going for. My 2e play time is very low and i've mostly just read the books once and i remember the metamagic being spread out among various classes. I suppose along the same lines could set up universal metamagic system that moves the metamagic feats out of the classes and into a pool that might have which ones can be used locked by spellcasting proficiency.
I'm not sure the car dealership near me actually wants to sell me a car for some reason. I emailed a few times them using the address on the card they gave me when I did a test drive asking for an out the door price and got no response. Yesterday I decided to try calling to get an out the door price. someone other than the person that gave me the card answers and tells me to hold on while they go to their desk so they can look up information. They then hang up and I wait 20 or so minutes for them to maybe call me back. I try calling again, It rings for a few minutes and someone else answers asking what I'm calling about. They say they'll transfer me to someone that can talk sales with me. They transfer me and i listen to it ring for 10 minutes until someone picks up the phone and immediately puts it back on the cradle. A few hours pass and I decided to actually go to their website and click the confirm availability button to see if that will make it so they actually respond to emails. 5 seconds after filling out the form I get a phone call from them in response to me filling out the form asking when I'd like to come down and test drive. I tell them I've already done a test drive and just want the out the door price emailed to me. the person on the line tells me they'll text me on monday with the information. I tell the person on the line explicitly not to send me anything via text and to send it via email with them confirming the email address. 5 minutes off the call i get a text with a video in it from them that doesn't work on my phone. I don't know why they even need to wait until monday to get me an out the door price when they were open for several more hours yesterday and today. would they be unable to sell me a car if i showed up in person as well?
in order for it to be electric:
Maybe some universal way of altering spells by adjusting the amount of actions required. Most spells are all 2 actions which kinda left casters using the same action economy as 1e. Perhaps something trading actions for one of the spell variables. e.g. range, damage, number of targets
Color isn't really high on my priorities. My main consideration for color is that I'd prefer it to be lighter to absorb less heat from the sun. If i were more concerned with that I would likely just go to the manufacturer website, setup the build, and have them ship it to a dealership (which I'm pretty sure is a thing you can do).
Yay for a relatively smooth car purchase. Mine has not gotten to that point yet, though I have decided on what I want to buy. I may have already messed up the loan part by trying to get a preapproval for the full price of the car rather than what's left after the planned down payment.
that matches with the rabbit hole of things i looked at in preparing to do my car search. also to not confirm whether you will be trading something in before getting the out the door price as that should be treated as a separate transaction.
I think part of the reason for the push for same day is that there are a lot of people that actually do need to do car purchases ASAP or they risk losing their jobs and their ability to buy a car to get to the job. I'm also going through the pains of car shopping right now. Luckily I don't need it right away. Unfortunately I have minimal idea of what i want so I've been going to various dealerships to test drive things. |
