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12:15 AM

@mootinator The 29th and 30th of June defected. It was in the news, but you might not have gotten the memo.

@TimStone They took it out together with the leap second! Those sneaky bastards

I don't know how the world hasn't noticed yet. It's all a bloody conspiracy

gasps

Drafts are stored on your computer locally, they're not attached to an account, so I'm not sure how this could happen. The draft should be connected to a particular post though, so on a 15 minute old post it's not like you couldn't started one and forgotten — Michael Mrozek 2 hours ago

It's not local, isn't it?

A: Allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting

This is now complete for answers and new questions. If you start asking a question, but do not successfully submit, you will see your last saved question draft the next time you visit the ask a question page. If you start answering a particular question, but do not successfully submit, you will...

@Jon .... server side — waffles Nov 24 '10 at 14:44

Heh :P

Maybe it's an issue with how drafts are saved for anonymous users?

shrugs

1:02 AM

Mmmmm garlic bread pizza

Mmm mango gelati

2:07 AM

>>> "3" > "15"
true

!@#$% you JavaScript

Anonymous

2:31 AM

$ ruby -e 'print "3" > "15", "\n"'
true
$ python -c 'print "3" > "15"'
True

Anonymous

mootinator

2:56 AM

@TimStone Ah, day defection must be why it happens every 823 years instead of 6 or whatever it is when a leap year skips it.

mootinator

3:07 AM

5, or 11

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6:56 AM

If these were Gucci Handbags, Pekka would be all over you. — animuson 1 min ago

7:20 AM

Hmm, I was about to ambush balpha, but then I realised that it was actually Marc who I had wanted to ask something. My brain apparently still hasn't recovered from going delusional yesterday.

@animuson I saw that and laughed a bit. :P

7:50 AM

gaming.stackexchange.com/help/quality-blocks

> I'm sorry but we cannot lift posting blocks by request.

I'm sorry that we cannot... ?

The SE network has obviously been given artificial intelligence...

@TimYiJiang I'm sorry, user. I'm afraid I can't do that.

But yeah, I was going to remark on that earlier but somehow got distracted.

Also, the formatting is off because it should be blockquote p not just blockquote

Looks like adding the <p> adds a little too much space at the bottom, but that may be expected.

zzzzzz uploading files to an extremely slow server

8:29 AM

php > echo var_dump("3" > "15");
bool(false)

Yay PHP wins :)

Dear people who check behind their show curtains for murderers: If you do find one, what is your plan?

8:49 AM

For certain definitions of wins :P

php > echo var_dump("b" > "a");
bool(true)

6 hours later…

Anonymous

2:39 PM

@TimYiJiang So PHP's comparison operators performs a numeric comparison if both arguments can be casted to numbers, and otherwise perform an ASCIIbetical comparison?

Anonymous

If so: changing comparison behaviour based on value seems more confusing than just changing based on type (which is every other mentioned language does, AFAIK). PHP loses. >:[

3:08 PM

"3" > "10 something" doesn't do numeric comparison at least, right?

Chacha102

Good Morning

Anonymous

@TimStone Right:

Anonymous

php> echo var_dump("3" > "10 something")
bool(true)

php> echo var_dump("3" > "10")
bool(false)

(since 3 > "10 something" would, if I recall)

Anonymous

php> echo var_dump(3 > "10 something")
bool(false)

Anonymous

3:12 PM

Seems like you need to use strcmp to be sure you're comparing strings. If they can't reliably be used to compare strings then the comparison operators should just be strictly numeric.