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Anonymous

3:30 AM

![ ](http://@bjbexample@.com)

Jason C

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Anonymous

I'm checking if invisible-pings are possible

Jason C

They are.

We determined this at some point. I don't remember how.

Dammit BJB's gif.

Away

Up there

x

x

Anonymous

Much better

Anonymous

Thank you

Jason C

3:32 AM

Wth was that.

Anonymous

Jason C

Anyways, let's see

[test](@Jeremy)

test

Do a valid url, like http://something.com?@JeremyBanks

Anonymous

This seems to work -- at least it's appearing to on my end.

Anonymous

It highlights your message when I highlight mine.

Anonymous

Are you not getting pinged?

Jason C

3:34 AM

Try it in a more controlled way. I got tons of pings not sure which one worked.

Anonymous

♦️

Jason C

Got that

Anonymous

Odd -- it's the first one that didn't work on my end. :P

Jason C

[ ](test.com)

Anonymous

♦️

Anonymous

3:36 AM

That got me.

Jason C

Oh here we go

Did you get that?

Anonymous

Nice!

Anonymous

What did you do?

Jason C

[zero-width-space](http://test.com?@JeremyBanks)

U+200B

Anonymous

Ahh. I tried an nbsp, but it was filtered. Glad this works!

Anonymous

3:37 AM

THanks.

Anonymous

Might use it for a bot to reply to queries without wasting space.

Anonymous

Nope

Jason C

@Jeremy

You should not have gotten a ping there.

But bjb should have, lol.

@Shog9

Anonymous

Now, harder challenge: can we respond to specific messages? i.e. [x](http://s.tk?#:3349801) - but that doesn't work.

Anonymous

Nice. :P

Jason C

3:39 AM

Replies have to be at the start I think.

Anonymous

Test :3349801

Jason C

@JasonC der

der :3349801

Anonymous

Ahh... of course.

Anonymous

:3349801

Anonymous

Oh, well. Zero-width pings are nifty enough. :)

Jason C

3:41 AM

∑

Anonymous

Damn mini-markdown.

Anonymous

Santa Claus

ooh

Anonymous

@JasonC $ wget example.com | grep example

Anonymous

3:43 AM

Drop-In Coworking Spaces in Tokyo (tokyocheapo.com)
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4.
The Time Needed to Write “Effective Modern C++” (scottmeyers.blogspot.com)
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NHL goal celebration hack: real-time machine learning and hue light show (francoismaillet.com)
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Jason C

There's got to be some weird unicode thing that deletes stuff

It's fun to star messages with embedded rtl marks

Anonymous

\x07

Jason C

‮hello

^ Star that

FUNicode!

Lol what, I just noticed somebody starred my bosons message

Anonymous

@JeremyBanks 👍 wget http://example.com | grep foo

Anonymous

Drop-In Coworking Spaces in Tokyo (tokyocheapo.com)
42 points by shadylane 2 hours ago | flag | 5 comments
4.
The Time Needed to Write “Effective Modern C++” (scottmeyers.blogspot.com)
74 points by ingve 6 hours ago | flag | 25 comments
5.
NHL goal celebration hack: real-time machine learning and hue light show (francoismaillet.com)
171 points by cotsog 12 hours ago | flag | 35 comments

Anonymous

3:48 AM

@JeremyBanks 👎 wget http://example.com | grep foo

Anonymous

404 Page Not Found

Anonymous

✅❎🔴🔵

Anonymous

@FooBar 🔵 report x about y

Anonymous

REPORTING
BLAH BLAH
BLAH

bjb568

@test

Anonymous

3:54 AM

pinged

bjb568

@Jeremy

Strange, can't repro chat.meta.stackexchange.com/messages/3349807/history

huh?

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Conspicuous Compiler

4:31 PM

Ruby is basically Perl will less punctuation.

JonasCz

5:12 PM

Q: Bayesian Classifier Tutorial

I am trying to learn how to implement a Bayesian filter. I am finding lots of mathematical explanations, but very few examples with actual code. If anyone can give me a link, I'd be very appreciative. I know ruby and java, and I can understand c++, javascript alright and python to a good extent, ...