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Who?
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Not seeing the content anyway. Not agreeing to sharing of my data and third party setting cookies.It's amazing what running Firefox with NoScript does to your browsing experience. I never notice any of that "stuff" because it all gets blocked.
I don't need JavaScript nor cookies to browse the web, thanks.
I have noticed that a lot of websites simply block viewer from reading if the viewer block cookies (I have my Chrome set to blocking cookies by default, and let specific sites access cookies). Does the NoScript fools them into think they set the tracking cookies, while putting them into quarantine?
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My instructor had two lessons in escrima with Donnie Yen.Donnie Yen...I can't say enough good about him as a martial artist.what I wouldnt give for ONE class with him.
I am truly green with envy. And I dont even practice escrima.
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I pulled up some pavers, we'll wait a week for the electricians to do their thing then we'll go back and put it all back.
Tomorrow I get to build a split rail fence, which means I get to dig some post holes (I love digging me some post holes).
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Tiny T-Rex is the only kid in his class who doesn't have cartoons on in the background during the live classroom thingy.
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And that's with a retailer that's exercising good sense and restricting people in the store.
Now imagine, in an 'affluent' community with a bunch of entitled folks from across the class spectrum who think that none of the rules apply to them and...
...Corporate (and the stategov) are allowing as many of these non-essential chucklef~~@s to enter our store as want to....
Wei Ji, you have my empathy and sympathy. That both sucks and blows.
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I was rained out (after finishing a day's work in four hours).
The General, working from home, has the door open to let light and spring air in.
But I'm the one that's usually home in winter (and I'm used to closing the door so the heat won't escape) so every time she opens the door I walk by a few minutes later and habitually close the door.
Thankfully, we've both seen enough sitcoms and skit shows for it to cause any friction.
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I've learned that people who are way richer than I aren't willing to pay for premium internet or buy a nice modem.
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I've learned that people who are way richer than I aren't willing to pay for premium internet or buy a nice modem.
One thing to keep in mind though - in the US there is frequently only one, and usually no more than two, terrible ISP options to choose from in any given area.
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I've learned that people who are way richer than I aren't willing to pay for premium internet or buy a nice modem.One thing to keep in mind though - in the US there is frequently only one, and usually no more than two, terrible ISP options to choose from in any given area.
Yes, but this is in Madison, there's no excuse.
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I have noticed that a lot of websites simply block viewer from reading if the viewer block cookies (I have my Chrome set to blocking cookies by default, and let specific sites access cookies). Does the NoScript fools them into think they set the tracking cookies, while putting them into quarantine?Not seeing the content anyway. Not agreeing to sharing of my data and third party setting cookies.It's amazing what running Firefox with NoScript does to your browsing experience. I never notice any of that "stuff" because it all gets blocked.
I don't need JavaScript nor cookies to browse the web, thanks.
As far as I know, the sites use scripts to enforce blockage, so if the scripts can't run, the blockers don't block the site. I've never delved into the details because I don't particularly care. Some sites like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have "strict" blockage so NoScript doesn't help and I respect that, but sites like the East Bay Times and the Washington Post work fine using NoScript on Firefox, but not without it on Chrome.
I'm just uppity: I'll happily accept your stillframe ads, but once you're trying to collect my personal information or play me videos you've crossed the line and I really don't need to access your site.
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Proud Papa Moment: Impus Major is right now taking his math midterm. On Monday his professor was lecturing the class on academic integrity, and how they needed to be honest and not try to use help (web sites, friends) on the exam. Impus Major declared, "I don't need to hear this! You're going to be sitting there right behind me! Even if I wanted to cheat, there's no way you'd let me!"
So, the concept that his dad is a math Ph.D. who could easily help him pass, and the fact that many kids and parents take advantage of such situations never even crossed his mind.
I consider that an "upbringing win".
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I sent my dad the picture of Joliet I took because he grew up in Aurora and he exclaimed "Wow, it hasn't changed!".
Proud Papa Moment: Impus Major is right now taking his math midterm. On Monday his professor was lecturing the class on academic integrity, and how they needed to be honest and not try to use help (web sites, friends) on the exam. Impus Major declared, "I don't need to hear this! You're going to be sitting there right behind me! Even if I wanted to cheat, there's no way you'd let me!"
So, the concept that his dad is a math Ph.D. who could easily help him pass, and the fact that many kids and parents take advantage of such situations never even crossed his mind.
I consider that an "upbringing win".
after the whole qwerty thing I am not even sure where the line is in math for academic integrity is anymore. Then again I am hardly unbiased on the subject.
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I am truly green with envy. And I dont even practice escrima.My instructor had two lessons in escrima with Donnie Yen.Donnie Yen...I can't say enough good about him as a martial artist.what I wouldnt give for ONE class with him.
Hmm... if I run out of stuff to do in lockdown, having a go (via a book/videos) at escrima/espada y daga would be a good plan. I've been saying I was going to do it for ages.
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after the whole qwerty thing I am not even sure where the line is in math for academic integrity is anymore. Then again I am hardly unbiased on the subject.Proud Papa Moment: Impus Major is right now taking his math midterm. On Monday his professor was lecturing the class on academic integrity, and how they needed to be honest and not try to use help (web sites, friends) on the exam. Impus Major declared, "I don't need to hear this! You're going to be sitting there right behind me! Even if I wanted to cheat, there's no way you'd let me!"
So, the concept that his dad is a math Ph.D. who could easily help him pass, and the fact that many kids and parents take advantage of such situations never even crossed his mind.
I consider that an "upbringing win".
Which is funny, because I have no idea what you're talking about, and Google didn't help.
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I have noticed that a lot of websites simply block viewer from reading if the viewer block cookies (I have my Chrome set to blocking cookies by default, and let specific sites access cookies). Does the NoScript fools them into think they set the tracking cookies, while putting them into quarantine?Not seeing the content anyway. Not agreeing to sharing of my data and third party setting cookies.It's amazing what running Firefox with NoScript does to your browsing experience. I never notice any of that "stuff" because it all gets blocked.
I don't need JavaScript nor cookies to browse the web, thanks.
As far as I know, the sites use scripts to enforce blockage, so if the scripts can't run, the blockers don't block the site. I've never delved into the details because I don't particularly care. Some sites like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have "strict" blockage so NoScript doesn't help and I respect that, but sites like the East Bay Times and the Washington Post work fine using NoScript on Firefox, but not without it on Chrome.
I'm just uppity: I'll happily accept your stillframe ads, but once you're trying to collect my personal information or play me videos you've crossed the line and I really don't need to access your site.
Another thing that you weren't able to notice - there is a non-insignificant number of US websites that outright block European viewers just to avoid considering ramifications of possibility of not collecting viewers data...
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I. AM. IN. A. [REDACTED]. LIVE. VIDEO. LESSON. ONE. OF. MY. KIDS. STARTS. SHOUTING. AND. I. AM. GOING. TO. PUT. THEM. IN. A. STEW.
e-Hugs from distance. :/
(I try to batten down on mine for this exact reason. It... it's tough.)
The fun thing about English is that a grammar worksheet can be about anything if you make enough intentional errors. So I'm typing up a passage about the Siege of Leningrad while listening to West Side Story as loud as my computer can manage it.
Maybe it is for the best that I live alone.
That actually sounds pretty amazing, though.
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We finished another online Legend Of Five Rings session.
We done maybe two hours of game time in... A bit over three hours of game time? Of course, that included a duel that turned into skirmish against a ronin that healed himself via some sort of evil fetish when I felled him... *sigh* It should have been agonizing death critical strike that would make him die in three rounds...
Instead, I ended with a light wound, bleeding, and unconscious. At least until the tender ministrations of our party medic (Kitsu Medic school).
I've learned that people who are way richer than I aren't willing to pay for premium internet or buy a nice modem.One thing to keep in mind though - in the US there is frequently only one, and usually no more than two, terrible ISP options to choose from in any given area.
I am one of those without options. It's silly because I see ads all the time for other services that don't help my area.
>:I
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Gods, I weep for support people.
"Yeah, the customer felt that using IDs for records was too complicated, so they started assigning everything by the user's first and last name, and now they're reporting conflicts and wondering what's wrong."
*SIGH*
Retract all their priveliges, take away their electronics.
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Collick is a b$!$+
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Eeeeeexcellent.
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Oh, I've been avoiding tirading about it, but my Shattered Star group is really beginning to get to me with their complete and utter disinterest in the history of anything.
In the Crow, they're supposed to document any interesting historical murals or documents they find. I'd start describing one and they'd just say, "It's OK. We just copy it down. We don't care what's in it."
The Lady's Light has an amazingly-detailed history that's actually important to the plot as a whole. Yet no matter how many hints I give them, "There's a picture of xxx happening and the inscription reads yyy," they just say, "OK, whatever," and move on.
They missed so much of the history that I ran Dawn of the Scarlet Sun in an attempt to give them another chance at learning some history. Nope. "Caught her, killed him, killed her, we're done."
"Do you want to be there for the questioning?"
"Nope."
So on the one hand, they're a fantastic group to run. On the other, their Hakuna Matada attitude really grates in an AP where their entire purpose is supposed to be figuring out a portion of Thassilon's history...
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I'm reminded of the all-barbarian party.
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We finished another online Legend Of Five Rings session.
We done maybe two hours of game time in... A bit over three hours of game time? Of course, that included a duel that turned into skirmish against a ronin that healed himself via some sort of evil fetish when I felled him... *sigh* It should have been agonizing death critical strike that would make him die in three rounds...
Instead, I ended with a light wound, bleeding, and unconscious. At least until the tender ministrations of our party medic (Kitsu Medic school).
FOR THE SPIDER
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Collick is a b&#@$
oh no colicky baby!
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I know society is collapsing and all but it sure feels nice to be able to build something again (and get paid for it, marble towers are fun and all but they don't pay the bills).
after the whole qwerty thing I am not even sure where the line is in math for academic integrity is anymore. Then again I am hardly unbiased on the subject.Proud Papa Moment: Impus Major is right now taking his math midterm. On Monday his professor was lecturing the class on academic integrity, and how they needed to be honest and not try to use help (web sites, friends) on the exam. Impus Major declared, "I don't need to hear this! You're going to be sitting there right behind me! Even if I wanted to cheat, there's no way you'd let me!"
So, the concept that his dad is a math Ph.D. who could easily help him pass, and the fact that many kids and parents take advantage of such situations never even crossed his mind.
I consider that an "upbringing win".
Which is funny, because I have no idea what you're talking about, and Google didn't help.
You dont remember the qwerty thing? I wonder if this is a mathie thing or a west coast thing...but orthos doesn't know too, which leads me to think this is a time based mathie thing. Ah well.
Back in the halcyon years of [pre 2020], high level math tests(anything beyond what I am forced to take) did not allow calculators that could somehow double as computers due to their ability to be programmed with the answers to certain questions or be pre programmed with certain formulas inside of them before the test. Most of these large calculators came complete with a mini qwerty keyboard built in, so teachers/proctors/whathaveyou knew what to look for when students came in to take their tests or regents or whatever.
As mathematics is a naturally nefarious and duplicitous field, this lead to a booming business in powerful calculators, most of them graphing sorts but some not, that could do the same thing as qwerty calculators could but without the qwerty as a physical part of the device. The TI80 series of calculators is perhaps the most famous of these, as to my limited knowledge, they were allowed to be used on the regents and similar tests even though they could be programmed. This was also a time period where certain calculators would be disallowed on some tests but others were not, meaning *ahem* enterprising(and wealthy) kids could simply be a year ahead of the banned calculator curve if they had the information in time and could predict what would be allowed in January but banned by June, if you get my drift.
There is a conversation on this topic here.
Ah, math. Where it's wrong to count on your fingers but okay to bring in your own pre programmed computer so long as it looks like a calculator.
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I have never seen a calculator with a qwerty keyboard. I don't know if they just never made it down to Texas where I grew up, or if I just missed the craze. I do know there were occasional rumbles about preprogrammed stuff on calculators being a problem, but I never knew how to do so and thus it was never something that applied to me, so it didn't get fully committed to memory.
I think it was more about preprogrammed GAMES on the calculators than using the system to get the answers to tests in advance, at least down there.
Various kinds of TIs were actually handed out to the students in my high school as part of certain math classes, most notably Geometry, Pre-Cal, and Calculus.
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Just back from grocery shopping.
Dear Lord...
People, the grocery stores are open because they have to be. People will starve to death without food. Going into a store and browsing, blocking up the aisles because your contemplating whether or not to put an item you are holding in your grubby hands into your cart, keeping people from moving because they're not supposed to get close to you is beyond not cool.
It's outright dangerous.
They only let so many people in the store at a time and put arrows on the floor so that everyone follows a route and keeps a distance. Makes sense and makes it easy to maintain social distancing while shopping for necessities. So turning around and going back the way you came for whatever reason heads you right into a person you are supposed to be keeping your distance from. If you are not intelligent enough to follow simple instructions, maybe you should let someone who is shop for you.
The stores that are still operating are not open as places for you to "get out of the house for a while" and "socialize safely." They are only open because of necessity. The health of the employees is being put at risk so you can eat, get fuel, etc. The girl at the checkout was looking frazzled, and it was only 9 AM. She had been working for just over two hours. And she was being treated by some of these people as rude because she was trying to stay carefully behind her sneeze guard and maintain social distance.
Grow the hell up.
And that last statement is exceptionally ironic, as the majority of these fools are older people, baby boomers and up. The people most vulnerable to this virus. The stupid is overwhelming. I would face palm, but we're not supposed to touch our faces if we can help it!
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Sorry, but I seriously needed to vent...
they tried the arrows/markers on floor thing roundabout but it didn't work- there's just not enough room for a set path through most supermarkets- so it's only really done on lines to the cashier. Most people are okay with it, and provide room for their neighbor, and most places only allow 20 people in the store at a time.
I think it was more about preprogrammed GAMES on the calculators than using the system to get the answers to tests in advance, at least down there.
That really worries me. Games are bad but walking into a test with formulas that you are expected to have memorized preprogrammed into your pocket computer is okay?
Most places I saw required that the flash memory be cleared before the exam starts.
I have hazy memories of something similar to this and some students trying to organize to have that rule overturned.
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The problem with markers on the floor is no one uses a measuring tape.
I know what six feet looks like and that isn't it.
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I think it was more about preprogrammed GAMES on the calculators than using the system to get the answers to tests in advance, at least down there.That really worries me. Games are bad but walking into a test with formulas that you are expected to have memorized preprogrammed into your pocket computer is okay?
I don't think they thought anybody knew how to do that, while downloading or copying the program for a game off the internet anybody could do. Which some certainly probably did, but I wasn't one of them and nobody was coming to me offering to sell me the answers to the next test or otherwise show me how to cheat because I was one of the class goody-two-shoes so I was completely out of the loop if it was happening.
But yes, it doesn't surprise me that their first concern was "The kids might be playing GAMES on school tech!" before "The kids might be using school tech to cheat!".
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You dont remember the qwerty thing? I wonder if this is a mathie thing or a west coast thing...but orthos doesn't know too, which leads me to think this is a time based mathie thing. Ah well.
Back in the halcyon years of [pre 2020], high level math tests(anything beyond what I am forced to take) did not allow calculators that could somehow double as computers due to their ability to be programmed with the answers to certain questions or be pre programmed with certain formulas inside of them before the test. Most of these large calculators came complete with a mini qwerty keyboard built in, so teachers/proctors/whathaveyou knew what to look for when students came in to take their tests or regents or whatever.
As mathematics is a naturally nefarious and duplicitous field, this lead to a booming business in powerful calculators, most of them graphing sorts but some not, that could do the same thing as qwerty calculators could but without the qwerty as a physical part of the device. The TI80 series of calculators is perhaps the most famous of these, as to my limited knowledge, they were allowed to be used on the regents and similar tests even though they could be programmed. This was also a time period where certain calculators would be disallowed on some tests but others were not, meaning *ahem* enterprising(and wealthy) kids could simply be a year ahead of the banned calculator curve if they had the information in time and could predict what would be allowed in January but banned by June, if you get my drift.
There is a conversation on this topic here.
Ah, math. Where it's wrong to count on your fingers but okay to bring in your own pre programmed computer so long as it looks like a calculator.
Oh, geez. Yeah, I had no issues like that because I didn't give tests that required a calculator. I hated calculators with a passion because all they do is show you that students know how to punch buttons. I always told my students, "If you're doing anything harder than 12x12, then you're doing something wrong, because there's nothing like that in my tests."
So even back in the 1980s I had a programmable calculator that could store physics formulas. It's nothing new.
It's just that too many professors are relying on students having graphing calculators, which is really a ****ed-up thing to do if you're teaching at an inner city community college like I was.
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It's just that too many professors are relying on students having graphing calculators, which is really a ****ed-up thing to do if you're teaching at an inner city community college like I was.
Yeah, that was why the school provided them for us; TIs are not cheap.
And the only classes that gave them were the ones where, you know, you would be needing to draw graphs and shapes a lot and a graphing calculator is kind of necessary for that, Geometry and Calculus. The other various math classes we had available didn't need the calculator and thus didn't offer them and didn't allow them in the classroom, and usually had "show your work" requirements on homework to make sure they weren't used there.
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@ Tac, How did WotC treat you rudely?Though it sounds petty, after attempting to ask questions to understand how 4e worked (simply due to naivete about the transition from one system - and the settings which I was deeply into at the time) I received more than one very... short... email:
Wow, sorry they treated you that way Tac, that sucks.
This... is true (except for the level thing - monster levels are a bit weird, but that's just an artifact of how level =/= challenge that is never really explained well).
You mean how different monsters of equivalent level can be minions, standards, elites, or solos? What do you find unexplained?
I think the fantasy physics thing is worth addressing, because it talks about one of the most fundamental divisions between player preferences (though by no means the only one): how you hold onto and work on the world can deeply impact how you work out your stories and gaming system. There are many, maaaany other differences, but one of the reasons I've always loved the 3.X family of games is how they often simulate a consistent world across the board.
Honestly, I get the appeal of fantasy physics, it makes things feel more real for many of us gamers. It's one of the things that I love and also hate about 3.x, because it's very inconsistently applied and compromised by sacred cows.
In fact the heartbreaker I wrote/am writing and am using as the engine of our family ttrpg, is basically a love letter to 3.x with fantasy physics!
I will say, I don't love 4e. But I like it, once I was able to get over all the frustrating parts. As for your experience with toxic players, yeah - it's a thing, for sure, everywhere. I think everyone here was mostly just talking about their own preferences (not anyone else's), but I know that, for my purpose, I ran into a lot of anti-3e vitriol as well.
Yeah there was vitriol from both sides -- and from OSR and every side imaginable, and I was part of the vitriol so I get it.
I remember fans complaining about one of the 4e promotion videos that WotC put out, so I went and watched it -- the one about grappling. It was definitely a bit of an exaggeration of the wordiness and detail of 3.x grapple rules, but it was very tongue-in-cheek and goofy. (And whaddya expect from a company selling a new product.) Yet certain people were taking it (or claiming to) as "WHAT, THIS VIDEO IS OFFENSIVE, WOTC THINKS WE'RE STUPID!!!" and really pushing the idea into forum consciousness. The whole thing just seemed so petty, along with a lot of other things that drew me into the edition wars.
Anyway, thanks for being such a cool guy Tac, I can agree to disagree where we do. :)