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Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
3:01 PM
one guy in Bible took compliments calling him a god, and was smitten
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
smitten with whom?
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
by God, of course
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
oh I was thinking the wrong definition
wow oops lol
maybe I was just saying you have great hands
Nothing wrong with great hands :P
 
Bart
Bart
Get a room you two
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
technically we're in a room, Bart :D
 
Andy
Andy
3:05 PM
@SterlingArcher I'm not. I'm sitting outside. It's a nice day in my cornfield :)
 
Braiam
Braiam
in Unix and Linux on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 41 secs ago, by casey
I'm working slowly on my SO rep now -- only answering Fortran questions
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
@Andy ugh, that sounds like heaven. I moved to the city from a very rural place and I miss the nature freedom.
 
bjb568
bjb568
Ah, that's your problem - you're not from silicon valley :P
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
lol no, born and raised in Virginia. Just all over virginia.
mostly central
 
user163250
3:22 PM
92
Q: Tag scores have not updated; script did not run

Danny BeckettThe tag scores script has not ran at the scheduled time of 03:00 UTC for a number of days. Here are some other reports of this: Is there a problem with tag score calculation? Tag counts on my profile do not update When is Top User per Tag Updated? Sum of votes on tags Wh...

bug tags tag-score
 
user163250
Anyone else notice that their tags over on Stack Overflow haven't been updating on a daily basis again?
 
user163250
I noticed that this started acting up again about a few days ago.
 
user163250
It's just an Stack Overflow thing though, because MSO tag scores still update daily just fine.
 
user163250
Looks like people know:
 
user163250
Issue is back, I confirm — Valentin Mercier yesterday
 
hichris123
hichris123
3:29 PM
Test comment A: Please flag this comment as "other...", with the text "test, please ignore". Mods, please do not dismiss, accept or otherwise act on any flags on this comment before 15:00 UTC (approx. 1 hour 40 minutes after it has been posted). Thank you for contributing to science! — Ilmari Karonen 2 hours ago
@IlmariKaronen ^ flagged.
 
Braiam
Braiam
@IlmariKaronen done
 
user163250
 
user163250
The President is a Stack Overflow user.
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
I wonder if his dog has an account too
 
Bart
Bart
Sure @SterlingArcher. Bo is relatively high-rep.
 
SPArchaeologist
SPArchaeologist
3:38 PM
gotta go for now - bye
 
Bart
Bart
cya @SPArchaeologist
 
ProgramFOX
ProgramFOX
See you!
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
@Bart I was expecting the dog D: BoBama.
 
rene
rene
@Cupcake That would be at the same moment the current review count on the tag info page was enabled again...
 
bjb568
bjb568
@SterlingArcher This is NSFW
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
3:41 PM
Uhh, how so?
(or are you kidding?)
 
bjb568
bjb568
You are talking about... Virginia
Just all over it.
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
Fun fact: I have 2 degrees because my school spelled "Virgina" on my first one
2
 
Anna Lear
Anna Lear
3:54 PM
@bjb568 Merged. Also, from your account history: "1 hour ago Remove Credential". Don't do that. If you keep removing the thing you log in with, you'll keep ending up with new account and I'm not going to keep merging them forever.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
4:16 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started (@Undo)
[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started (@Undo)
 
Undo
Undo
Okay, should be good to go now
 
Bart
Bart
A smoke detector so nice, you started it twice?
 
Undo
Undo
... yup
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Undo Did you change the battery
That thing was keeping me up all night
 
Undo
Undo
Yeah. Now it changes its own battery. 
#!/bin/bash
while :
do
   python ws.py
done
 
Jason C
Jason C
4:22 PM
Isn't that how Skynet started?
 
Undo
Undo
>:D
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
Fun Fact: the Terminator was powered by Duracell
 
Undo
Undo
SmokeDetector is powered by UPS
who knows how many
 
Jason C
Jason C
I just had a weird image of a bunch of dudes in brown uniforms running on treadmills.
 
Undo
Undo
No, that's only if times are really bad and I manage to catch one.
And anyway, hamster wheels are much more fit for the task.
 
Jason C
Jason C
4:25 PM
I know but I didn't want to acknowledge my mistake with an edit.
 
Undo
Undo
Have you ever tried to chase a UPS guy? They can really move.
 
Jason C
Jason C
So these ones use treadmills.
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
Who powers the treadmills? :O
 
Jason C
Jason C
@SterlingArcher Hamsters
It's really a very efficient system.
 
hichris123
hichris123
@SterlingArcher /s/StackOverflow/Stack Overflow/ :P
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
4:28 PM
Pft. Grammar is for noobs.
@JasonC but who feeds the hamsters?! D:
 
hichris123
hichris123
 
Jason C
Jason C
@SterlingArcher The UPS guys
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
This is like... logistics on a whole new level.
@hichris123 guess who doesn't have an account there :3
 
Jason C
Jason C
Welcome, to tomorrow
 
Bart
Bart
@SterlingArcher Ooh, ooh, is it Winston Churchill?
 
hichris123
hichris123
4:29 PM
@SterlingArcher lol. Should have expected that.
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
@Bart naw, he's probably out getting stuck in a bathtub
Wait... that's completely the wrong man
Oops
 
Bart
Bart
@SterlingArcher "We will fight them in the bathtubs..."
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
I mean if the Punisher can survive a grenade explosion because bathtub... I wouldn't doubt their military prowess.
 
user163250
If sock operators are too lazy to search for existing answers, read documentation, and learn how to ask good questions, then it makes sense that they are also too lazy to put much effort into hiding their sock activities. — Cupcake 12 secs ago
 
Jason C
Jason C
I want a chat filter that randomly replaces prepositions with other prepositions
Just to add a little bit of subtle absurdity
But mostly because I just want to fight them with the bathtubs
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
4:37 PM
> Sir they've launched bathtubs at our 5th Batallion
 
Jason C
Jason C
> Sir they've launched bathtubs out of our 5th Batallion
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
Winston Churchill be like..
 
Jason C
Jason C
Parse error
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: UNABLE TO ATTACH FILE. SIGN IN TO SAMSUNG LINK FIRST MESSAGE on android.stackexchange.com
 
hichris123
hichris123
(and please use the right close reason, not the one I used. :P)
 
Jason C
Jason C
4:47 PM
Speaking of parse errors...
It's like I knew... the matrix is real
 
The Wobbuffet
The Wobbuffet
 
Jamal
Jamal
 
Jason C
Jason C
5:07 PM
8
Q: Display Tag Excerpt tooltips when editing a question

VickyWhen editing a post, the tag excerpt tooltips (that you get when viewing a post) are not available. You do get the live tag preview (that you get when asking a question) for any new tags you add, but sometimes you want to check the tag wiki for the existing tags to make sure they are correct. A...

feature-request tags edits tag-wiki tooltips
^ want
 
Vote to Close
Vote to Close
5:18 PM
@SterlingArcher That's a cool magic trick, how do they do it
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
Iunno but he snapped at the perfect time
 
Jason C
Jason C
@VotetoClose It's not magic. It's experimental medical SCIENCE!
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Today's Listening | Electro / Hip-hop / Soul
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
Why does the dogs face remind me of...
 
Jason C
Jason C
@GnomeSlice Lawl, Pretty Lights.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
5:21 PM
@JasonC Why lawl?
 
user163250
 
Jason C
Jason C
@GnomeSlice Because he forgets to add #pretentious and #attention_whore to his SoundCloud tracks.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Pretty Lights is the shit
what you talking about
 
Jason C
Jason C
Do you like Bassnectar?
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
I've only heard like one track of his I really liked.
Haven't heard much of his stuff though.
 
Jason C
Jason C
5:23 PM
I was going to make fun of you if you did. In a friendly way.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
That track is dope.
Everything else I've heard by him is kinda meh
 
Jason C
Jason C
@GnomeSlice The guy just jumped onto that stupid "high vibe" trend bandwagon with everybody else a few years ago.
Around the time that weird west coast overpriced-hippy-elf-festival fashion trend set in, which has a name that isn't worth remembering.
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
@GnomeSlice my favorite Bassnectar song youtube.com/watch?v=tvguv-lvq3k
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
@JasonC I don't really know what you're talking about I guess. For a long time, Pretty Lights was my favourite artist.
@SterlingArcher meh. It's okay, but eh.
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
Well, I'm not really a dubstep fan anymore and I wasn't big on this artist, but I like this song
 
user163250
5:30 PM
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
I would almost call that trap, not dubstep
 
user163250
So much for that :/
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
There's few trap tunes I like
this is one of them:
 
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer
Shockingly 99% of what I listen to now is like.. 75% screamo 24% gangster rap lol
lol the cover pic title...
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
I've been into the more psychedelic shit lately
 
Jason C
Jason C
5:31 PM
@GnomeSlice He didn't even get on the scene until like 2007 and just bit off a bunch of trendy styles at the time. Pretty Lights is to festival elf as dude with tight jeans and a trucker hat is to hipster.
Lawl, trap.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
This is a pretty good example of what I've been listening to a lot of lately: music.gravitasrecordings.com/album/transcension
although pretty much nobody else has that style
 
Jason C
Jason C
"Pretty much nobody else has that style" -- this ought'a be good. Let's see.
Ulrich Schnauss, Tycho, the list goes on
I have three entire Pandora channels dedicated to that style and I assure you it is not unique
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Tycho is awesome
nervous_tespilot isn't really much like Tycho
 
Jason C
Jason C
Brb
Plaid then sometimes, and Eskmo sometimes, and Bonobo sometimes
Nobody is unique; you'll always find a preexisting similar style.
NOW brb.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
@JasonC Heh, Plaid. He just won a plaid remix contest
 
Vote to Close
Vote to Close
5:37 PM
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Anyway, I guess you're right.
@JasonC Who's your favourite artist at the moment?
I'd probably go Rameses B
 
user163250
0
Q: Should we really be closing rants on Meta as duplicates of another rant?

CupcakeA disgruntled user just posted this rant on Meta a few minutes ago: Why does the Stack Overflow community seem to be so rude? Okay, so I have been a programmer for 20 years, but I'm still learning newer languages, I know it says for professional and enthusiasts but still, the questio...

discussion
 
hichris123
hichris123
 
Jason C
Jason C
5:53 PM
@GnomeSlice I have a lot of favorites; my recent playlists have been mostly Prefuse 73, Aesop Rock, Dabrye, Eliot Lipp, etc.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
er
 
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Vote to Close
 
Jason C
Jason C
@GnomeSlice When I have time to put together mixes again I'm totally going to give your today's listening lists some competition.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
:)
It's not a contest.
You make mixes?
 
Jason C
Jason C
It is if you're an over-competitive douchebag such as myself.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
6:00 PM
I tried to get into music production for a while and then decided I'd rather just listen
For the month of august I was actually planning on just using mixes for daily listening
 
Jason C
Jason C
Sometimes I do. I used to do production a long time ago but it was more a bunch of kids in high school having fun in our parents' basements in the boonies and never anything worth listening to again. But I haven't had much time for anything but listening in a long time :(
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
I took a couple audio courses
didn't learn much
surprisingly didn't find it very interesting
 
Jason C
Jason C
Actually in the late 90's making electronic music was kinda really fun, because not a lot of software existed yet and computers were just starting to become an instrument. So there was a lot of really unique programming and DIY hardware at the time.
I'm sure it's fun now too for other reasons, but that's what I remember.
And analog synthesizers were still in production, and digital, and the dawn of software, so there was a huge variety of things happening. Same with general sequencing and arrangement.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GEOMETRY HEEELLPPP!!! on math.stackexchange.com
 
Jason C
Jason C
@GnomeSlice There's a great organization in NYC called Dubspot that offers lots of training courses that cover a whole range of stuff. I really want to start teaching a software synthesis and effect design and programming course there.
They are missing that. They have a great hardware synth design course though. And Ableton classes, studio production, audio engineering, all kinds of stuff.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
6:09 PM
Complicated shit.
My mother still wants me to get into music
 
Jason C
Jason C
I think Dubspot is going to or just recently has opened west coast classrooms too, maybe LA or SD or SF, can't remember.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Neat.
My dad bought all kinds of equipment from his friend who is into music stuff because he wanted me to get into it
and I pretty much never touched any of it
I feel bad, but I mean, just not interested.
 
Jason C
Jason C
@GnomeSlice Anything good?
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Yeah
he has like a Korg Radias
uh
An MV 8800
 
Jason C
Jason C
Oh sweet
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
6:15 PM
He's gonna sell it all
I guess he's really disappointed
oh well
I don't even live there any more
 
Jason C
Jason C
Is he a musician himself?
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
No.
He has a friend who buys a lot of expensive shit and he had a ton of music equipment
he got it for me
because my parents wanted me to get into music
I mostly just play video games
 
Jason C
Jason C
Gaming is an equally valid hobby
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
you don't improve any skills with gaming
 
Jason C
Jason C
What
Dude
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
6:18 PM
it's like my other friend has gotten into art
like drawing
he's been at it for months now
he's getting fucking good
he gave me like a sketchbook and wanted me to do it with him
 
Jason C
Jason C
Coordination, reflexes, problem solving, logical thinking, object visualization, imagination, the list goes on
A lot of mental skills
If I go too long (like months or years) without setting aside time to play video games, my brain stops working, even my programming, which I do professionally, suffers noticeably, and my imagination and humor suffers too. It's very noticeable.
Not that my humor ever doesn't suffer.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
I just got a minimum wage job lol
I graduated from college like a year and a half ago and haven't done anything with it.
I should have worked first.
Gonna have to go back
Didn't learn a whole lot
 
Jason C
Jason C
Whatever you're too young to be making any conclusions about what path your life will take (so am I) so just roll with it.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
I'm 22
 
Jason C
Jason C
But I do think gaming is worthwhile, balanced with other things if not just for health reasons, I believe it exercises a lot of mental pathways that otherwise wouldn't get much chance to develop.
I'm 30... uh
does math
33
I think
Yes, I'll be 34 in a couple of weeks
I'm 3 months older than Pretty Lights, lol.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
6:29 PM
This is the kind of shit I thought I wanted to do after I graduated:
Still kind of want to do it, but not right away I guess
Doesn't help that there's no work in motion graphics where I live
Well there's one, but I did my internship there and I must have done something wrong because they won't even let me use them as a reference for my resumé
So that's out
 
user163250
The President got some more attention:
 
user163250
11
Q: Are political avatars and profiles OK?

Benjamin GruenbaumAre political profiles and/or avatars appropriate? Should they be allowed? Some context: Today I've had a chat with this user: I'd like to hear what the community thinks about this. Full disclosure: I am an Israeli from the "other side", our chat was pleasant and on a positive note, we discu...

discussion etiquette profile-page offensive profile-picture
 
user163250
Related MSE post from a long time ago:
 
user163250
6
Q: Is it ok to impersonate a public figure?

Andrew GrimmAn answer to one of my questions has been commented on by the POTUS ... O RLY? While Jeff can't ask for the birth certificate of all the users, should suspected cases of impersonation be flagged by other users? Is it our place to be the impersonation police?

discussion etiquette user-accounts
 
Jason C
Jason C
6:54 PM
@GnomeSlice Lol, sad trombone.
Sweet animation btw.
 
user163250
Anyone want to help me remove the submodule tag from these questions? data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/211034/…
 
user163250
I've gone through about a 3rd of the list so far.
 
The Wobbuffet
The Wobbuffet
 
jadarnel27
jadarnel27
50 inputs on one web page seems like too many.
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
@jadarnel27 I've seen more
I've seen ~ 34MB worth of a form, actually
had to submit it in pieces
 
rene
rene
7:09 PM
EEK
Did that include FILEs?
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
just hundreds of text inputs
 
rene
rene
wow
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
there was a javascript-based navigation and collapsing/expanding, but it was still way too slow
 
rene
rene
I hope the backspace, back and F5 handling was fine...
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
normally you changed a few fields and then submitted
 
rene
rene
7:11 PM
Oh, phew
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
only loading (and submitting) the inputs that were actually expanded was too novel of an idea to the authors, I guess
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DELPHI MVC (BCE) on pt.stackoverflow.com
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
@JasonC Thanks.
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
8:11 PM
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Cupcake F that. Why don't people understand how much they actually contribute to the problems that they are trying to "solve" with posts like this.
 
Jamal
Jamal
 
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
probably the best mashup ever
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
8:26 PM
I love Ruby:
> syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting kEND
 
Jason C
Jason C
@JanDvorak It's better than "Internal linker error: No error."
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
true...
 
Jason C
Jason C
Especially when said error is fixable by adding a random newline to a source file.
 
user163250
@JanDvorak still better than PHP :P
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
true...
 
user163250
8:30 PM
F yeah, hit the rep cap today again:
 
user163250
 
Jason C
Jason C
Actually I made that last part up, but it was inspired by dozens of bug reports I've filed for Borland / CodeGear / Embarcardero products over the years, and I'm sure it's in there somewhere.
 
user163250
Actually, I take it back.
 
user163250
I'm not proud of those upvotes.
 
user163250
Some of them make me cry.
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
8:31 PM
for the record... unexpected $end, expecting kEND means it expected an END keyword, but it found the end of file instead. unexpected kEND, expecting $end on the other hand means you have one END keyword too many.
 
Jason C
Jason C
Good thing they didn't fall into the common trap of calling it EOF, because you wouldn't want anybody to immediately understand it without Googling it first, would you.
 
user163250
Really?: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6504362/456814
Really?: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17848593/456814
*Really?*: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16826728/456814
 
rene
rene
 
Braiam
Braiam
@JasonC weird, I can't find any reference to the error in google... and it sounds so plausible error
PSA: Please, don't upvote @Cupcake, he feels bad with such upvotes
 
user163250
They make me feel dirty.
 
user163250
8:34 PM
But only on the obvious answers :P
 
Jason C
Jason C
@Braiam I actually did get that linker error with the Borland linker once; but it would be difficult to dig up the bug report. I simplified it for chat; there were some codes and additional description. I don't remember now but I believe it was a linker crash related to the number of functions defined in an object file.
 
rene
rene
Just check/double check that CV-pls from me isn't SPAM, is it?
 
Jason C
Jason C
It was actually fixed rather quickly, and was a pretty far edge case that I ran into with generated code.
 
user163250
@rene if it's spam, it's not obvious.
 
Braiam
Braiam
@Cupcake you have seen nothing unix.stackexchange.com/a/115744/41104
2
 
user163250
8:36 PM
There's no links to anything, and the only thing that could be construed as spam are the repeated references to "mango", whatever the hell that's supposed to be.
 
rene
rene
@Cupcake No, but it is rambling about that mango theme so that made it feel weird
 
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak
pro-tip: make sure you never iterate k from 0 to k.
 
Jason C
Jason C
@rene I don't think it's spam, but I think it's a person who sucks at asking questions, made worse by the fact that his sucky question asking was then mashed through a poor translator.
 
rene
rene
That would explain a lot
Let me translate it back to turkish to see if....oh wait...
 
Jason C
Jason C
@rene Ha
@JasonC Hahaha - we're dependently assifying ourselves. I like that. In fact, technically speaking, you are an ass. About 6% of you, that is (assuming an average anatomy). — Konrad Viltersten 29 mins ago
Haha; I love this concept of dependent assification.
("If you're an ass then so am I")
 
Braiam
Braiam
8:51 PM
Ok, I'm on Mint cinnamon 17 with Firefox... I'll blame Windows. — Jonathan Drapeau 45 mins ago
.we need to add that to the wheel of blame
 
bjb568
bjb568
 
Jamal
Jamal
> says that adequate research and preparation was done
> still posts shitty questions
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: RECOVERING DWG FILE on superuser.com
 
bjb568
bjb568
@YiJiang The wheel says to ping you.
 
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