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1:23 AM
Which do you think isa better tag for the reputation tab/history? or ?
 
Hmm
I'm going to go with , I guess.
 
Mom: "A training gun? picks it up How do you hold it?" - Me: "Not with your finger on the trigger..."
 
:o
 
 
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4:01 AM
Reading this.
 
Ewww, reading.
 
Watch it. That's code you're talking about.
 
4:16 AM
Ughhh, I really hate when crap suggested edits get approved and you have to immediately roll them back.
 
4:48 AM
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Q: Should I remove this from a post or title?

animusonI've recently been editing out things such as "hope this helps" and "good luck" from posts and was wondering if that crosses the imaginary line that seems to not exist in the scattered mess of questions on things that should be removed from posts. So, let's build a neat community wiki with a lis...

 
5:17 AM
Bleep bl00p stack overflood. MEMDUMP.
sleeeeeeeep
 
 
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7:04 AM
He keeps posting porn
(sorry for the link and run)
 
7:45 AM
Me is back!
 
8:18 AM
Hi @Man
 
@Daniel howdy!
 
Nothing to do on Physics?
 
@Daniel not yet... Checking back...
They sort of did all the merger debating when i was gone
I can waste time on chem.SE and meta.chem.SE though (the latter more--i'm not that good at chem)
 
 
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9:57 AM
Do content dispute posts get auto unlocked at some point?
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Q: Resolved and finished

mitchnufcRemoved code, this topic is now closed. Thanks for the help

curious why the lock got removed by community
 
 
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11:13 AM
@awoodland They do, yes
 
11:58 AM
"approved 947 edit suggestions, and rejected 1840 edit suggestions."
Somebody is maybe a little too strict.
 
My ratio is slightly above 1 I think, so I won't be too surprised
The suggested edit queue gets a lot of rubbish
Actually, no!
> Yi Jiang approved 1201 edit suggestions, and rejected 383 edit suggestions.
I surprise myself sometimes
 
Sure, but not that much that I see a nearly 2:1 ratio.
 
What the numbers are indicate ?
 
The indicate are numbers review things have you.
 
You have reviewed 2 posts in total and edited one of them.
 
12:02 PM
Is this a questions which I can see in the review option ?
 
@DanielFischer I'm 2:1 the other way around roughly. Sometimes it's easier to spot the clearly bad ones than the questionable ones
@Dharmendra no, it's how many you have reviewed so far
 
Ok so that means If I open the list of questions from the review option and if I click on any of the question to review and if edit that question then the count will change is it ?
 
Wait, what?
 
Perfect :)
 
@awoodland I don't see too many clearly bad ones. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong times.
 
12:07 PM
I'm confused how that suggested edit happened. is listed as a synonym of >_>
 
@TimStone That's... odd
 
I'm not crazy; that is the case, right?
 
@TimStone assembly - 5063 (should be disambiguated, not removed, between assembly-language, .net-assembly or others)
 
Woah, Vimeo got a fresh coat of paint
 
That's how it happened.
 
12:14 PM
@TimStone Regarding the elections page, it's been 24 hours. I'm not sure why @RebeccaChernoff didn't work. Is she still on vacation? Should we call @Shog9 or @balpha instead
 
I think she's back now, maybe just busy...I'll mention it to her later to make sure she knows, if she hasn't seen it already.
@DanielFischer Yeah, but the tags are (seemingly) still synonymed, so I'm not sure why the system even allowed that edit to happen.
Although there's no redirect either, so hmm...
 
Ah, that I don't know.
 
12:47 PM
Heeelllloooo Seeeeaaaaattttlllleee!
 
1:04 PM
636
A: Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen?

John CarmackThe time to send a packet to a remote host is half the time reported by ping, which measures a round trip time. The display I was measuring was a Sony HMZ-T1 head mounted display connected to a PC. To measure display latency, I have a small program that sits in a spin loop polling a game contro...

Holy crap, it's John Carmack
3
 
Commander Keen!!!
 
1:22 PM
Is there really no info about reviews on Data.SE?
I never noticed that.
 
I guess the data is stored as a private thing with each user rather than a global thing with each post
 
@jadarnel27 What kind of reviews?
 
@TimStone Suggested edit I guess
 
@TimStone How many reviews someone has done from /review is what I was thinking (and how many actioned, like the small table on the right side of the review page).
But I wasn't thinking about the fact that you can't see that about other users normally, only yourself. So I guess that makes sense.
 
@YiJiangsProble_ Suggested edit information is in there
@jadarnel27 Aye
 
1:27 PM
@awoodland Thanks, that's a good point. That seriously didn't occur to me until you mentioned it.
I am crazy as hell.
Is there any good reason for that particular information to be anonymous? We see alot of info about edits and suggested edits.
 
Uhh I'm not sure where it'd go, or why it'd be useful
 
Hey. You. Get off of my cloud.
@TimStone I was just thinking it would be interesting to see user's reviews vs. actioned reviews ratio. I don't know how useful that is really.
 
If it showed you actioned it'd be getting close to showing you flags, which are private.
 
True.
 
cpx
Are people allowed to use any type of flair? Even celebrities?
 
1:43 PM
@cpx example? I'm not quite sure what you're asking
 
cpx
for example, this guy is using a real picture of person which is not him/her
isn't it wrong?
 
Possibly a copyright issue there, but nothing wrong beyond that as far as I know
it's definitely not offensive and they don't seem to be impersonating them
 
Dag-nabbit, random. When you lock it, I can't vote to delete it.
 
@YiJiangsProble_ what now?
 
1:57 PM
@cpx This has been discussed on Meta before, FYI.
 
@YiJiangsProble_ looks working for Math, but no Skeptics
 
It's not really working for Maths either, but.
 
oh, that's the point. Neither of them are listed under "current"
hum
 
@Shog9 "Work" as in, it should detect the currently running election
 
Aye. Someone just needs to restart the server.
 
1:59 PM
Although if you could save the logs so we can look at them it would be nice too
 
well, I'm sure @RebeccaChernoff or @zypher will stumble along eventually
 
@YiJiangsProble_ Yeah, that would make sense...
 
I'm going to guess the thing failed when the API was down for maintenance or something
 
Possibly. Even the new code is terribly fragile in that regard, I'm afraid.
 
Have you looked at forever for long running scripts?
 
2:01 PM
I'll review it this week and try to resolve that.
That's presumably how it was launched.
 
You know, instead of handling all edge cases just reboot the script when it fails :P
 
...Actually I don't know that for certain. It was one of the options I gave. :P
 
I'm... lazy like that
 
I think the old code just...got confused about the RSS feeds sometimes, for some reason.
The new one does not, but bails on errors.
 
Oh em gee! Gravatar ran out of monochrome identicons!
 
2:07 PM
@PopularDemand Uh...
 
I know that's not actually what happened. Just think of it as me announcing Makoto's arrival.
 
@PopularDemand Oh, that is rather interesting
Yeah, I don't think I recall ever seeing a duotone gravatar
 
I've seen one before, but it was a garish, high-contrast monster of blue and bright red. This one kind of sneaks up on you if you're not really paying attention.
 
-1
Q: Complete list of user facing Stack Exchange platforms

blundersExamples: Q&A and meta (though they functional are different, the difference to my knowledge is minor) Stack Overflow Careers (never had an account, but assume the workflow is of it's own) SE Data Explorer SE Chat Area 51 SE blog (likely just a customization of Wordpress) APIs Ecommerce (S...

I don't understand this question
 
He's asking for a comprehensive list of everything SE produces that the public can see.
 
2:20 PM
@PopularDemand Fair enough, although I don't really see the point in this
 
At least now people can be confident when they say that's a bad question.
 
@PopularDemand Does that include Grace Note, who is a mobile weapons platform?
 
Although Grace Note is currently working for Stack Exchange, it predates Stack Exchange, and therefore was produced by an entity other than Stack Exchange.
By the way, I'm mildly curious where you fall with respect to my comment under this answer, @everyoneWhoHasBeenInTheTavernMoreThanTwice.
 
@PopularDemand Fair point
@PopularDemand Apparently he wasn't impressed with you moving his answer into...well, an answer. :P
 
@TimStone ...
Whatever. It's not like there's anything worth saving in that post anyways.
 
2:31 PM
What is the complete list of useless things Facebook has bought for 1 billion dollars.
 
:D
 
@PopularDemand Heh.
@mootinator 1 Instagram. Done.
 
Congrats, you got the joke =D
@PopularDemand Nicely said.
 
@awoodland Is this you?
 
Lix
Hi all
 
2:40 PM
Hi @Lix!
 
Lix
yo @mos - how you doing today?
 
Writing code in art class.
=)
 
Lix
hehe - productive?
 
Yea, B"h.
Finding patterns in things.
Wondering if I'm doing this wrong, though.
Action sheet or custom alert view...
Action sheet is out of the box.
But custom alert class will allow me to move a lot of logic out into a separate place.
Ok, time to change my office to the other classroom.
 
2:56 PM
@YiJiangsProble_ yeah
why?
 
Nothing, I just encountered this bug and noticed you were assigned to it
 
@YiJiangsProble_ yeah it's a bit of a headache that one
I was trying to keep the bug separated between kernel releases I knew I could support quickly and more distant ones, but they all got merged by others so I gave up on that
but I really just maintain it in Debian and then it gets auto-pulled into Ubuntu
which isn't ideal in this case
 
Ugh. "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request." Not helpful enough, silly API! What about my request is bad? Frowny face.
 
It's a rather longstanding bug, although I've never noticed anything actually been affected by it
Then again I have no idea what blcr is or what in the world does my computer need it for
 
It's not as long standing as it looks :) - I've added support for the newer kernels usually a few months behind Ubuntu releases
it's kernel space support for process checkpoint and restarting
I run it on a cluster that's running some ancient kernel mostly
 
3:09 PM
"Berkeley Lab Checkpoint/Restart" Doesn't sound like anything I need. I don't know, did I accidentally install this when I was playing around with MPI and parallel computing stuff?
 
@YiJiangsProble_ that's most likely it. OpenMPI supports it natively
 
 
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4:36 PM
@TimStone I fixed elections.se looks like it didn't like when we had to kill off a whole generation of hampsters and replace them with a new stronger breed
Initialization complete. Now up in ur tubez, fetching ur updatez.
{ stack: [Getter/Setter],
  arguments: undefined,
  type: undefined,
  message: 'ETIMEOUT, Timeout while contacting DNS servers',
  errno: 12,
  code: 'ETIMEOUT' }
 
Thanks! We have some pending updates that should make the process a little more reliable in the future too, I hope. The new process will probably also be strongly against hamster genocide though, as a matter of principle.
 
@Zypher I thought we weren't going to talk about the purge. ):
 
@RebeccaChernoff ohhh kyle or nick already let that cat outta the bag i think
 
I imagine letting the cats loose would cause a number of hamster fatalities.
 
4:41 PM
COME AT ME PETA I KILL HAMPSTERS
@TimStone it's the number one reason we have network issues too many people own cats and can't contain them properly when around hampsters
 
Rebecca owns a cat, right? Blaming her is agreeable with me.
 
@Zypher You should change your architecture to use a larger number of narrower pipes. That way, people wouldn't be able to send you requests carried by anything larger than hamsters in the first place.
 
hmm interesting idea ...
 
@PopularDemand Ah, of course, SATA = Small Animal Tunnel Apparatus
 
4:47 PM
@TimStone What are you babbling about? SATA is a hard disk thingy of some sort. I just want them to support Hamster-Tier Tunnels and Pipes.
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I can only assume they were using Hamster-Tier Tunnels and Pipes, Superset in an attempt to be forward-compatible, support armored hamsters or some other nonsense.
 
You guys are killing me here.
 
Hi
 
@PopularDemand Let's hope it doesn't start returning a 418 status, I don't think that hamsters can swim (especially in boiling hot tea).
 
Thanks @awoodland, @mootinator, and @YiJiangsProble for your input on my monitor issues yesterday =) I'm going to attempt to fix it this weekend (if I can borrow my friend's soldering iron).
And anyone else I missed or forgot about.
(I meant to do that yesterday, but I got rather busy)
 
^_^
 
5:11 PM
Sometimes I want to stab HTML
 
Why's that?
 
disabled="disabled"
 
You only need disabled, at least as of HTML 5.
 
if disabled="false" did what it should do, it wouldn't be a pain to code around.
 
Heh :P
 
5:14 PM
Right.
 
@mootinator But if HTML were easy, anyone could use it. That would put professonals like you out of a job. Or something.
 
Anyone does use it. Have you seen the internet?
 
Only a little of it; my browser can't display much of the malformed HTML out there.
 
Oh gawd I can't remember my MySpace credentials.
 
6:16 PM
:(){ :|:& };:
 
That's the most confusing emoticon I've ever seen.
Emoti-totem pole!
 
@Moshe fork bomb
it's like the first time I used bash all over again
 
@awoodland Is it possible to delay the fork bomb until after I clear my shell history?
As in: run after delay: bomb(), first, rm *.sh_history
Ah, I think I got it.
 
@jadarnel27 That is not I.
 
@Moshe it'd be easier to do in C but I think there's a way
well to leave no traces in C
 
Yea, I want to try it.
Class SSH server.
Curious if it'll kill all connections, or just my session.
 
@Moshe Indeed =) Are you sure you don't lead a double life as a physicist?
 
depends how they've got it set up
they can set per user process limits to mitigate those sorts of things
 
6:38 PM
@awoodland vc13.vc.panix.com Happy investimigatin' =D
 
@Moshe I'd rather not go investigating
 
@awoodland Lol. M'kay.
 
Computer misue act and all that
 
Yea, sure.
@awoodland Is there a reason I'm getting an unexpected }?
 
hmm not sure
I always remembered it with more spaces
 
6:42 PM
Heh, ok.
I'm done for now.
 
7:17 PM
@mootinator Sounds like Gawd doesn't want you on MySpace.
Heh, watching typing on my laptop show up on phone.
 
O_o
 
o_O
 
Does anyone know of a specific question which triggered the change for the Legendary-class badges?
 
Hmm?
 
Nick Craver edited the big list of badges on April 22, 2011. However, there isn't any corresponding entry in the Recent feature changes to explain why it was actually changed.
It appears to have "just happened"
 
7:28 PM
@animuson What change?
 
There were all those obscure rules about which reputation counted, and which didn't.
 
Ah, right. I think that happened because they changed the obscure rules to which Tim refers.
 
More like got rid of all the rules. The only existing rule now is the association bonus doesn't count...
 
4
A: How is it possible to reach the rep cap without exceeding it?

Nick CraverThe reputation report now has a clearer description: rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 13 days earned at least 200 reputation on 11 days So "rep cap was reached" means exactly what it says, you actually capped. The second line now accurately indicates "200+" rep on those day...

 
@PopularDemand: Well, that appears to show that it was in fact changed, but it isn't really clearly stated that a change occurred or why. A user who wasn't familiar with the old ways would read that post like it was always that way.
 
7:37 PM
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A: Possible bug in legendary badge calculation

Jeff Atwoodedit: actually, you're right. The recent global rep recalc affected this badge, because it "unlocked" reputation above the cap for accepted answers. accepted answers and bounties were only partially immune to the rep cap before depending on the time of day you earned them, but they are f...

I knew it was there somewhere.
 
8:00 PM
Suggested edit: "WHAT THE HECK?!? IS STACKOVERFLOW BROKEN?!? I AM EDITTING THE POST OF A COMPLETE STRANGER. WHY THE HELL CAN I DO THIS?!? I AM NOT AN ADMINISTRATOR - SF]" Associated edit comment: "I am confused and am testing if I can really edit strangers' posts... If I really can, I won't do so again. I'm not sure why I have an option to do this." (source)
So, I could reject it and the guy will think SO is broken, or I could approve it, but that would make me a terrible person.
 
I know, I was going to reject it with a witty message, but decided against it.
 
I hope he saw the "your edit must be peer reviewed" message after submitting.
 
Someone was confused in chat once because they totally overlooked that, actually.
 
Mmm, tomato
 
8:22 PM
@PopularDemand How do you miss the giant banner explaining how suggested edits work?
 
Perhaps it's performance art. I found it to be amusing. Or perhaps he was so dazzled by the fact that he gained access to an editor window that he had everything-else-on-the-screen blindness.
 
@TimStone Should have put something like "This attempt at abusing the system has been recorded and appropriate action will be taken. Be afraid. Be very afraid."
 
... :D
 
"Tim Stone is coming for you!"
 
"Your IP address has been recorded, and we are using IP geolocation to contact your local law enforcement agency."
 
8:31 PM
I think this post would have been insta-closed if it had been posted by a low-rep user. It's seems like people are more hesitant to cast a close vote on a higher-rep user's questions.
At least that's my perception. I feel like I've seen that many times, but this is the only example I can find now.
 
shrugs
Not going to stop me. :P
 
Haha, that was quick gentlemen.
 
@jadarnel27 Sounds like it's time to experiment. For science
 
Anyone here know WordPress?
 
@MichaelMrozek Haha, I think that's a great idea!
@TimStone Right =) I think people like you (and alot of meta regulars) don't let things like that creep into their decisions when it comes to voting.
I was more talking about the general close-vote-capable user base.
 
8:36 PM
nods
 
Trying to set up a wp site with dropdown menus on the default theme.
 
@jadarnel27 You misspelled "oh jeez, you guys are going to turn on me unless I immediately tell you that I didn't mean you and you're the good ones."
 
I really think if a brand new, 1 rep user posted that question, it would have been downvoted to oblivion and closed (I guess depending somewhat on the time of day and tags).
 
Which dashboard entries am I missing?
 
@PopularDemand It's true, we are pretty vicious.
 
8:39 PM
@PopularDemand Hey. I would never say that.
I much prefer "Golly" to "Jeez"
 
@jadarnel27 Indeed you do. My sincerest apologies, good sir.
 
Hmm, wonder why the diff on this suggested edit marks the whole block as changed, but this one doesn't
Ah, because the first one doesn't have a normal diff preview for some reason.
 
@PopularDemand Common mistake. I vociferously accept your apology.
 
Usually after I downvote or vote to close, I look at the author's user card. In some cases, that leads to me thinking "oh, well, no wonder." A few of those cases apply to >10k and even >20k rep users. I don't remember names -- and wouldn't share them if I did -- but I know their avatars when I see them.
 
I've definitely felt that way a couple times as well about a high rep user. I can't remember who it is either now, but I imagine it's someone in the asp.net tag.
(because that's pretty much where I spend all my time on SO)
 
8:50 PM
@PopularDemand I remember names. >_>
Also, hooray, proofreader (apparently)
 
Congrats; I just got it too, thanks to the great 2012 cleanup.
 
Oh, awesome. I'm out of my reputation deficit for this week on SO.
@TimStone Neat-o!
I have approved 10 suggested edits, ever.
 
whoot
 
@jadarnel27 There was a bat signal, so I was compelled to respond.
 
9:08 PM
@TimStone One is on the tag wiki itself, and the other is on the excerpt. Apparently tag wikis don't get the proper things done to it?
 
Well, the views are consistent, I just didn't realise that I hadn't had the same option selected for both.
I'm not entirely sure why the tag wiki excerpt lacks the normal view in that case.
Oh nice, that's magic, thanks ! — stewe 23 secs ago
Ahahaha @ the gif
 
Hmm, strange. I had two downvotes earlier today, got another upvote that got me 4 points to the repcap, was at 25956, +245 for the day. Later one of the downvotes was removed, now the profile says 25954 rep, but +247 for the day. (/reputation gets it correct to 25956, +245.) Is that a bug report, or do I just trigger a recalc and forget it?
 
9:27 PM
When did the undownvote occur?
 
No idea, doesn't show up in the history, strangely. Some time between 1600UTC and now.
 
I think they started removing the undo events if they occur on the same day.
 
Ah, okay. Someone downvoted all answers on one question (stackoverflow.com/questions/10416587/browse-an-array-of-structs/…), now they're all gone.
 
I'd report a bug. Not sure if they'll look at it. My bug report for my missing 4 reputation from suggested edits is still open. xP
 
Okay, can't hurt, can it?
 
9:39 PM
Hmm, I need to answer more editing questions.
 
What are editing questions? Questions on meta about editing?
 
Yes.
 
So answer (meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/131104/…) I think I'd upvote your answer :)
 
Oded already has that pretty much covered.
 
A bit short, IMO.
 
9:46 PM
I also need to answer 12 more discussion questions for the silver badge. xP
 
You won't manage that today, how about aiming for Friday?
 
meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/100/editing I wanna join all the moderators in the tag badge. :P Haha
 
10:04 PM
Ignore me...
 
Okay, if you wish - Oh, damn, too late!
 
 
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11:14 PM
Why does the tag exist?
 
To discuss , I guess
Chat, Y U GIVE PARSEERROR?
 
News Flash: Twitter leaks news of bugs, previously unreported by mainstream developers.
 
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Q: HOW CAN I TOGGLE CAPS LOCK WHEN THE CAPS LOCK KEY IS REMAPPED?

bolinfestI HAVE A DAS KEYBOARD PLUGGED INTO A THINKPAD RUNNING LINUX. FOR SOME REASON, SOMETIMES UBUNTU REQUIRES ME TO RE-RUN XMODMAP WHEN I UNLOCK MY SCREEN, WHICH SWAPS MY CAPS LOCK KEY WITH CONTROL, AS I DESIRE. THIS HAPPENS SO OFTEN THAT I USUALLY LEAVE A TERMINAL WINDOW OPEN WHERE XMODMAP IS THE LAST...

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Q: Is the [web-development] tag useful?

animusonThe topic of web development is extremely broad, and since we also have the Webmasters.SE site, anything related to the general discussion of web development should be asked there instead. It seems that this tag just gets added onto questions which are about websites, when it really has no meanin...

 

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