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Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

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Re: Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

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Post by rrauenza »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #2

> Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. I honestly don't mind this, it makes sense. Comments aren't for extended discussion, so move them to the place that is, e.g. chat. But, it's really it's quite obnoxious when they subsequently delete the chatroom! Internet Archive rescued the top comments[1], but you can't click the button to see all of them. Even so, there is some u…

….why would /usr/local/bin be before /usr/bin in root’s PATH? That seems broken… unless df isn’t installed at all, but I find that hard to believe.

Re: Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

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Post by braiamp »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #9
braiamp wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chatrooms are freezed, not deleted, if there's enough content. The only reason why they are deleted is when there are less than 10 messages or 3 participants (don't quote me on that). Actual rules: > Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users.

So did this room get lost in a middleground where there were too many messages for a comment section but too few to retain the chatroom? That's obviously not a good outcome. Either the threshold for moving comments to chat needs to be moved up, or the threshold for deleting a chatroom needs to be moved down. Edit: Wait, none of this makes sense! We can tell from the Internet Archive that there were at least 15 commen…

The room is still there. There may be a need to log in however https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/64083/discussion-on-ans...

Re: Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

braiamp wrote: post #22
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So did this room get lost in a middleground where there were too many messages for a comment section but too few to retain the chatroom? That's obviously not a good outcome. Either the threshold for moving comments to chat needs to be moved up, or the threshold for deleting a chatroom needs to be moved down. Edit: Wait, none of this makes sense! We can tell from the Internet Archive that there were at least 15 commen…

The room is still there. There may be a need to log in however https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/64083/discussion-on-ans...

I'm logged in, and I have 191 reputation on Ask Ubuntu, and that link brings me to a "Page Not Found".

Re: Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade

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Post by braiamp »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #23
braiamp wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The room is still there. There may be a need to log in however https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/64083/discussion-on-ans...

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