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I was talking more about the communication surrounding the pull request than the code changes that made up the content of the pull request. My point was, if the GitHub comment thread for a PR (with working code) began with something like the OP here, it wouldn't be very tactful, but at least the...

NukeET also said he can't code. The point is that when you waltz up to an open source project and all but demand that the devs do things your way, "the code is here" is the polite way of telling you to put up or shut up. Face likely guessed that the OP couldn't code before he said "the code is...

Which was an effect of Lincoln's proclamation. But Thanksgiving had been widely celebrated, on or around the last Thursday of November, throughout the nation for decades before Lincoln. It was already a well defined national cultural holiday long before then.

First, that Lincoln didn't just pull the date out of thin air. Second, there still wasn't actually an official date for nearly eighty years after his proclamation, as Thanksgiving each year was technically a one-off at the federal level (though his choice of date and the pre-existing...

But the date was fairly well established well before there was anything resembling a federal holiday, and there's some fuzziness as to when Thanksgiving actually became a federal holiday. From the view of someone living in 1863, Lincoln's proclamation in that year was just another one-off...

That wasn't a response to you: Jedidia connected it to a holiday celebrated annually on the continent, but I'm not aware that anything similar was celebrated on a regular basis in the English speaking-world until it developed independently out of a tradition of one-offs in the US and Canada.

It was very certainly not a holiday for the Puritans, because they tended to regard all holidays but the sabbath as Catholic inventions. All their days of thanksgiving were one-off celebrations proclaimed in response to current events. Other denominations within England and English colonial...

Not quite. We're dealing with the evolution of a tradition of locally-proclaimed spontaneous days of thanksgiving into a national holiday with a date set by law. There has been a federally proclaimed/legislated Thanksgiving day every year since Lincoln's 1863 proclamation, but the holiday was...

All Saints Day is actually more closely connected to Halloween than Thanksgiving. (Specifically, Halloween is the night before All Saints Day). All Saints Day is pretty much forgotten even by devout Christians in the US, and Halloween is more connected with old superstitions surrounding the...

I prefer when Cthulhu is part of the main course. E.g, the Turcthulhu. It's kind of like a Turducken, except you use an octopus instead of a chicken and a duck.

Well, for one thing, all of Orbiter is C++, and IIRC Unity's API is in C#, so integrating the two is likely not child's play to do. [/understatement] If you want something like that built on Unity, it'll probably be simpler to start from KSP + RSS + Principia than with Orbiter. If you don't...

It's not just that: otherwise we'd see the same thing in the Commonwealth with regards to remembrance day, but, on the contrary my impression is that Remembrance day is to this day far more focused on WWI in the Commonwealth than Veterans' day is here.

I'm not sure that this would always be the case WRT, e.g, the Galilean moons, especially the inner three. It might also fail for plausible extrasolar arrangements. But one could filter objects based on angular size as observed from the vessel's location, compared to that of the Sun. You'd be...

As noted, it's Veteran's Day here. WWII is more culturally significant here than WWI (the recent midair here in Dallas was part of a Veteran's day airshow), as is Vietnam. My mother is from Canada (technically, so am I), and my understanding is that the traditions, holiday name, and cultural...

To be clear, making O2016 builds is not forbidden by the GPL. Under the GPL, end users can do whatever they want for their own use. The only thing that wouldn't be allowed is for anyone other than you to distribute such builds.

Once again, you yourself are not bound by the GPL (as long as there's no external GPL code involved): as long as you abide by the terms that Coolhand gave to you for the use of his assets. That said, it's probably best not to muddy the waters by distributing something under the GPL that can't...

As long as the XR vessels don't include GPL code written by others, you, as the copyright holder, can add whatever additional permissions you want (see section 7, though if you own copyright to the entire work, your authority to do that comes not from section 7, but from your right as the...

The one thing that I miss about the dial-up days (maybe "miss" is the wrong word, I was not network educated enough at that point to worry about such things) is the clean separation between the provider of the physical layer (and the dialing part of the link layer) and the provider of the upper...

My family, in the suburban US, only got DSL in 2004 or 2005. We had it available before that, but we were lower-middle-class and we were and still are fairly frugal, so bandwidth upgrades weren't a priority for us (we're better off financially now, but they still aren't a huge priority). AT&T...

My setup is a Frankenstein of KDE and MATE: MATE provides the full richness of GNOME 2 panels, KDE browbeats GTK3 into respecting arbitrary system themes.