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Sue

12:00 AM

@TravisJ Are you near San Jose?

Travis J

@Sue - Nah, that is like 4.5 hours north

Sue

@Frank Yah, just a little big, like you said.

Roombatron5000

Lets burn down the low quality queue!!! Everyone do your 20 lq reviews now!! ===>>> CLICK HERE <<<===

Travis J

@Frank - This is what I drive, it isn't my picture, but the exact same car.

images.mautofied.com/adphotos/10159640_2010713203211.gif

user259867

@Roombatron5000 It should be ===>>> CLICK HERE.

user259867

12:01 AM

Also, I don't have 2000 rep.

Sue

@TravisJ I have a friend who lives there, though I've never been.

@TravisJ Very pretty! Convertible?

Travis J

Yup, convertible :)

I have to go though, have a good one

o/

Sue

@Frank Dinner soon? Beef stew? Chicken? Time for me to find something in my kitchen. Went shopping today so it's fun!

Frank

@TravisJ kewl!

@TravisJ \o

Roombatron5000

8 mins ago, by Roombatron5000

Lets burn down the low quality queue!!! Everyone do your 20 lq reviews now!! ===>>> CLICK HERE <<<===

Frank

12:08 AM

@Sue biscuits, bacon, and oj

off I go

Sue

@Frank Yum, although I'm not sure about the bacon/oj combo! I'll leave you to your duties!

Alexis King

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/28862977/465378 too broad

bjb568

Ok so I got an SSL cert and am filling out the info. It asks for contact info (phone num, address, name) to be submitted to geotrust. What's that?

And which addr to give them?

Frank

@Sue finished eating...

back to SE

@Sue have a good night!

Roombatron5000

ty to all who participated (me and @alexis) in burn down lq queue!!! We failed but we made a tiny dent!

Alexis King

12:19 AM

@Roombatron5000 Psh, that's viewing the glass as half empty. We succeeded in burning down the LQ queue! ...it was just a very controlled burn.

user259867

bjb568

gender equality?

user259867

I can't post images side by side in chat.

bjb568

meh

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28832425/…

user259867

12:28 AM

user259867

Also, it's SE that puts women on window sills while men sit around the table. Talk about gender equality.

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hichris123

stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/not-responding...

Braiam

@FamousBlueRaincoat hey... they get the best view

Sue

@Frank Back at ya!

SmokeDetector

12:47 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: REBOOTING PROBLEMS by RYTHM on askubuntu.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp edit suggested

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

SmokeDetector

1:11 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: I don't know what the word definable means can you help me? by tesirrae on english.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

hichris123

Management implies somebody knows what is actually going on. You know. In theory.

Tweeted by kevinmontrose on March 5, 2015 at 1:09 AM

user259867

The follow-up tweets from that meeting sound... ominous?

Sue

@Frank For whenever you're around. I'm done for the night anyway! The button to edit my comment on a meta question stays "live" even after the allowed editing time has passed. It's blue, I can press on it, it opens up my comment, but when I try to save the edited version, I get the message telling me my comment can only be edited for five minutes. Is that by design or a bug?

hichris123

1:24 AM

I think I like this part better:

OH: "The idea with close vote aging is that close votes age..."

Tweeted by JasonPunyon on March 4, 2015 at 8:14 PM

@JasonPunyon 1900 words I write, and that was the takeaway? I'm going back to bed.

Tweeted by shog9 on March 4, 2015 at 8:34 PM in reply to JasonPunyon

user259867

To be fair, I thought that post was intentionally long-winded, to reduce the chance that someone will parse it all and state an informed counterargument.

user259867

I have a peculiar way of being fair, I guess.

hichris123

@FamousBlueRaincoat Or was it "I don't know what I'm talking about, so here's a bunch of words to make me look smart"? :P

Shog9

@FamousBlueRaincoat you're... pretty perceptive. It took me almost 24 hours straight to gather that together, and I wasn't completely sure where I was going to end up when I started (hence the original title) - so I didn't exactly expect too many people to put everything together.

hichris123

@Shog9 24 hours straight? How many cups of coffee was this?

Shog9

1:31 AM

lots. many.

and a non-trivial amount of bourbon

Also I was sick. Not sure if that influenced anything or not.

hichris123

Does anything ever get done at SE without some sort of... ahem... chemical?

Shog9

we're all just chemicals

in fragile containers

Doorknob

relevant xkcd xkcd.com/1173

hichris123

That sounds deep for some strange reason... guess I need to reevaluate the meaning of life then.

user259867

Close vote queue reached 10K again after the mass-aging.

Shog9

1:38 AM

I may have changed some other parameters at the same time.

Waiting to see where it hits equilibrium

Braiam

@Shog9 just to be trow to chaos again?

Shog9

Can always make it go down.

bjb568

Gah, is email even like possible?

Shog9

Making it suddenly go up by a whole lot is a bit demoralizing

bjb568

It just no work.

Shog9

1:41 AM

(note the suspicious dip to 5.7k and immediate rise in hichris's chart...)

bjb568

hm… suspicious dip suspicious

user259867

I thought it was because of the incorrect spec, counting 14 days from oldest instead of newest.

bjb568

@Door "what is the point of an image that consists of literally only text" to show how awfully hard to read it is :P

Shog9

Twitter. Twitter is the point

@FamousBlueRaincoat no, that was me writing the right thing in my example query and the wrong thing in text. Fortunately, our devs know how to read code.

Doorknob

I like how the diff steals a period from the image URL

Braiam

1:51 AM

what the...

you need to learn from gnu's diffutils D:

Shog9

I wouldn't put it past bjb to re-use a sentence-ending period in a URL

...or vice-versa

bjb568

Anybody know why the skewl district fails to notify people of snow days before 5AM on the skewl day?

Doorknob

if you say "skewl" one more time I'll throw a doorknob at your face

bjb568

:O

Ok, lukily I'm hiding behind a skewlbus.

user259867

@Doorknob or write a de-bjbing userscript

hichris123

1:56 AM

@FamousBlueRaincoat Please do. We're going insane due to bjb!

Doorknob

@FamousBlueRaincoat ... I am doing this. I have no idea why, but I'm bored so I'm doing this.

2

bjb568

:P

user259867

Be sure to publish at StackApps.

Doorknob

Even better, I'll write a bot that automatically reposts bjb's messages with fixed versions. :P

(that would get too annoying though)

Shog9

Make a bjbify script while you're at it. So I can read this room with only bjb making sense

4

bjb568

1:57 AM

bee jay bify? maybe needa dashy

Doorknob

... my willingness to make this useless userscript has declined significantly after seeing the lack of response here

user259867

There's probably a library out there to find a nearest dictionary match (in the edit distance) to a given word.

Doorknob

@FamousBlueRaincoat "skewl" is an edit distance of 5 from "school," so that probably wouldn't work

user259867

If it substitutes wrong words, even better.

user259867

2

Q: String Approximation (Fetching the nearest matched String from Dictionary)

Is there any String Matching code or Algorithm which gives us the approximately matched string from the dictionay(contains pre-defined Set of Strings)? For example: If there are 10 String in the dictionary (Set of Strings), if user input some String, then the algorithm should tell you the near m...

Doorknob

2:03 AM

Did I count that right? k -> c, e -> h, w -> o, add o. Nope, it's 4. But still.

Shog9

soundex + word frequency

user259867

inb4 the question gets closed as a tool recommendation.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, Bad keyword in body, Blacklisted website: Purchase FIFA 15 Coins in March to Gain 5% Free Bonus by ting wang on gaming.stackexchange.com

Doorknob

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Doorknob Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

hichris123

2:28 AM

@Shog9 still around? Got an answer to this question?

15

Q: Are questions in Triage shown on the real-time tab?

Questions selected for Triage are not shown on site's front page. Do they appear on the network-wide real-time question list? (Reason for asking: spam-detecting bots rely on the realtime question feed.)

support stackexchange.com triage realtime-questions

Shog9

0

A: Are questions in Triage shown on the real-time tab?

They do right now. They may not always in the future.

hichris123

@Shog9 Hmm, ok.

Shog9

@hichris123 btw, you know that page samples questions from SO, right?

hichris123

@Shog9 That means...?

Shog9

@hichris123 IOW, even though questions in review aren't explicitly excluded right now, you don't see every question posted.

hichris123

2:32 AM

huh, ok.

Shog9

I mean, otherwise the entire page would be SO

pretty much all the time

hichris123

Makes me wonder... it always seems to miss the low quality ones.

Does it filter based on the quality score?

Shog9

sampling is funny that way

not like the questions are exactly stellar

but, you're gonna miss some of the crap purely by chance

hichris123

@Shog9 True, however, a feeling in me swears there's been a change in the algorithm. We missed so many of those gmail/hotmail support spam questions on SO -- see chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/19947919#19947919 & the message after it.

Shog9

hmm...

Braiam

2:41 AM

since the mighty Shog is in the building, may spare some through in this humble plea

ɥʇǝS

@Braiam CENSORSHIP!

wow, this is probably the worst I've seen the star wall since the Tavern became the place to hang out.. D:

Braiam

@ɥʇǝS well... 0 context from the star wall... what did you expect?

ɥʇǝS

@Braiam Well.. I expected it to be FULL of STARS AND BOTS! I demand a refund!

user259867

2:58 AM

@ɥʇǝS When did it happen?

ɥʇǝS

@FamousBlueRaincoat A loooong time ago.

I remember the days when we all just sat here drinking our drinks.. No one talked, sometimes for days. And then @jadarnel27 would occasionally whisper "brown" and we'd all nod in agreement. Ah yes, those days.

Or maybe I'm just dreaming? Either way, it was a long time ago.

Doorknob

Back in my day, there was no bjbspeak. We all spoke real, proper English. Ahh, the good old days. :P

hichris123

@ɥʇǝS Back in the day... when Manish, jadarnel, and Bart were regulars.

ɥʇǝS

Bart isn't a regular any longer?

:O

Doorknob

We miss Bart :(

ɥʇǝS

3:06 AM

:(

RIP Bart.

Braiam

:O

hichris123

I've been frequenting this room for a year and a half now. Part of me says "why did you waste your time here?!". Part of me says "I can't imagine what I'd be without this room".

@ɥʇǝS Well, he comes here now and then... chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/161198/bart?tab=recent

user259867

@hichris123 A more productive person, perhaps?

Braiam

11 hours ago, by Bart

@LynnCrumbling you learn fast young grasshopper

user259867

Manishearth is way into Firefox these days.

Doorknob

3:08 AM

Also, what happened to Manish? I used to see him in TL and Charcoal HQ all the time. (Of course, he's the one always doing awesome stuff like contributing to Mozilla, so maybe he's just busy a lot.)

hichris123

@FamousBlueRaincoat perhaps. But I can't help but think I've learned a lot, learned to write better, learned to reason with people better, etc.

@Doorknob rust happened.

user259867

Thoughts of a Rustacean learning Go

Mooseman

cv-pls too-broad stackoverflow.com/q/28869231/1234256

ɥʇǝS

Rust happens™

user259867

Now Go is happening.

hichris123

3:09 AM

@Doorknob github.com/Manishearth?tab=activity

Doorknob

I remember when he reached his 500 day streak on Github! Also when he got commit privileges to Servo.

@FamousBlueRaincoat That's the main page. Link to inpursuitoflaziness.blogspot.in/2015/02/… intead.

hichris123

Yay for the cloud!

If your update message is "Bug fixes and performance improvements" you can go fuck yourself

Tweeted by jc4p on March 2, 2015 at 9:50 PM

bjb568

LQ stackoverflow.com/q/28869231

Shog9

3:31 AM

2

mulls it over

Doorknob

hahaha

bjb568

LQ stackoverflow.com/q/28869388

LQ stackoverflow.com/q/28869383

// Fam's script seems nicygoody
(function() {
	x = document.getElementById('content');
	x.innerHTML = '';
	for (var j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
		$.getJSON('//api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?pagesize=100&order=desc&sort=creation&key=fetJx5PJVUspEFsbpN9n1A((&site=' + window.location.hostname + '&filter=!5RCKNPabixdwaF2)tI5y0XSqb&page=' + j, function(e) {
			q = e.items;
			h = '';
			for (i = 0; i < q.length; i++) {
				if ((q[i].down_vote_count > 0 || q[i].close_vote_count > 0) && !(q[i].closed_date)) {

Doorknob

What's that?

bjb568

script

paste it into console

then press entar

user259867

@bjb568 I don't actually use that bookmarklet anymore; it was superseded by a Chrome extension. But you are using Safari, so...

bjb568

3:40 AM

I improved it too.

@FamousBlueRaincoat linky?

user259867

@bjb568 Review+, 37 users yay.

bjb568

nfaaglhemabjbpddkbahiogfclhkablj

noice name

very creative

Doorknob

@bjb568 Is that some sort of onomatopoeia? O_o

@FamousBlueRaincoat Make that 38. I'll give it a shot :)

bjb568

@Doorknob i hope not

@Doorknob y u no count mee?

Doorknob

@bjb568 uhhh, that's the Chrome extension ID

bjb568

3:44 AM

:P

user259867

SE post Ids are not particularly descriptive either.

Doorknob

@FamousBlueRaincoat Initial feedback: Your topbar indicators are a bit wide for me. Combined with the mod tools, they hide my shiny badges because there's no room on the top bar! (And introduce unnecessary clutter)

user259867

@Doorknob Badges are hidden by design, when the topbar indicators are on. Because I hate them. The indicators can be turned on/off individually, or altogether.

bjb568

:D nfaaglhemabjbpddkbahiogfclhkablj

Only 8?

> Uncaught ReferenceError: MathJax is not defined

Also in your bookmarklet

user259867

@bjb568 Well, it's written with Math site in mind. Will fix.

Doorknob

3:48 AM

@FamousBlueRaincoat Do you have to force your personal preference on everyone who uses the script? Just use your own userstyle for that.

@bjb568 ahhhhhhhhhhh

user259867

@Doorknob I don't have to, but it's fun. I think without hiding badges there would not be room for indicators.

user259867

But I'll consider shrinking them or something.

Doorknob

Yeah, I guess. (The badge display is pretty useless anyway; I guess I'm just resistant to change.) Thanks :)

bjb568

Why not make it all responsive while you're at it?

user259867

@bjb568 Because my day job is something else...

bjb568

3:52 AM

:P

meh just copy mine

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Q: I made a jsfiddle of a responsive SO

Original, Responsive. I got rid of fixed widths and made percent widths. It starts to break at around 650px width, by then it could go to mobile styles. What do you think? Could something like this be made real? BTW, I would like to know what you like and don't like about it. Please leave comme...

discussion design

wat vv

Alexis King

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/7678076/465378 off-topic

bjb568

-1

Q: how to apply Swift's "if statement" in Xcode?

For example, I want to create a reply app which means when I type "1 + 1 = ? " in the textfield and press the button, it will reply me "2". How to do this in Xcode?

swift

Doorknob

@bjb568 Augh, that looks terrible on my 1920x1080 screen.

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/150536/…

Doorknob

Every paragraph is basically on a single line. -_-

bjb568

3:55 AM

Looks great!

Do you love DD's style too?

Doorknob

Wow, every single paragraph is on one line except for D.A.'s second comment, which just barely makes a second line. This is incredibly difficult to read (and I'd expect long paragraphs to be even worse)....

bjb568

Great!

I love it!

And you can get used to it! :P

D.A.?

Doorknob

Uhh, yeah, thanks, but I'd rather not burn my eyes out trying to track where I am all the way across my screen. I think I'll stick to a saner page width.

bjb568

Who's D.A.?

Doorknob

A guy who made a comment in your example link.

user259867

3:58 AM

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat plz send teh coffee

bjb568

@Doorknob My example link? wat?

user259867

Your jsfiddle.

bjb568

Oh, you're talking about that.

Well, first of all, he's DA.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: weight loss products use for any more by frankcoly on superuser.com

Doorknob

4:08 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Doorknob Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

user259867

I notice that Super User always gets shorter spam posts compared to other sites.

user259867

It's like the spammers don't even care anymore.

user259867

4:20 AM

SPAM askubuntu.com/questions/592935/…

ɥʇǝS

nuked

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

ɥʇǝS

btw, thanks for pinging me on one before @FamousBlueRaincoat.

I had already left but I got to nuke the user. Forgot to say thanks :)

user259867

No problem, I imagine nuking feels good. I only got to do it with my own accounts, and even that by a proxy. Still good.

ɥʇǝS

4:26 AM

meh, it's not what it's made out to be, but it is somewhat fun ;)

I'm disappointed in the Galaxy S6 :(

I'm not a huge Samsung fan, but I liked the GS5.

-2

A: Log Out problem after upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10

I had to install xubuntu with the nomodeset switch to boot from the DVD and didn't realize this option was installed in my /det/default/grub. After install I removed the nomodeset and now the laptop boots fine and the blank screen at logout is gone http://dubaiindianescorts69.com/ ,, http://www...

hmm, interesting spam.

bjb568

Do you think that key body text on DD should be set to font-size: 1.05rem when width > 1300px?

user259867

SPAM askubuntu.com/questions/592941/…

ɥʇǝS

nuked

Where's smokey when you need 'em?

user259867

!!/status

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Running since 03:42:22 UTC

ɥʇǝS

4:38 AM

:(

user259867

feature-request report also current UTC time with "status", so that it's clear for how long Smokey has been running.

user259867

It's 04:39 apparently.

bjb568

@bjb568 maybe

user259867

Have reasonable max width instead so that reading a line does not involve head movements.

hichris123

@FamousBlueRaincoat I'll take a look in the morning. Unless someone else gets to it first.

bjb568

4:45 AM

@FamousBlueRaincoat No

I don't want to waste space.

That's what I was thinking. On a huge monitor, the puny 1kpx of SE doesn't suffice. And large margins are welcome (at least I like it). I guess the huge line length problem can be solved by using a complex grid with small tiles, large margins, and large(r) text. — bjb568 Mar 17 '14 at 7:30

I don't remember using "suffice" before.

Word must be dead now.

s/doesn't suffice/isn't sufficient

yaya, so I do welcome ideas for new widgets that can take up widthspace.

user259867

Facebook Feed box.

bjb568

O_O

twitch

hichris123

!!/status

Ugh, I broke it.

bjb568

:O

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Free skin care routine by caronbaker on meta.stackexchange.com

user259867

4:59 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu works now :)

SmokeDetector

@FamousBlueRaincoat Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

user259867

I shouldn't make feature requests this late...

ɥʇǝS

;)

user259867

SPAM superuser.com/questions/885733/…

bjb568

I've read the title 4 times, still don't know what they're talking about.

hichris123

5:07 AM

!!/status

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Running since 05:07:14 UTC (0 minutes)

hichris123

@FamousBlueRaincoat ^

ɥʇǝS

:D

hichris123

Now I'm going to bed. :p

user259867

@bjb568 Now you know how others feel when reading your chat messages.

bjb568

5:09 AM

:P

@hichris123 Good idea!

Is hichris in EST?

ɥʇǝS

yes

bjb568

Seems a lot of us are.

I just noticed I can tell how much frequents sleep by looking at their activity graph.

@Fam should sleep more.

@Smo too

Hichris is doing good.

Andy

cv-pls rec stackoverflow.com/questions/28870443/…

and by a 9K user

bjb568

IDK about this alexis guy

Oh hey qantas!

From activity, you can see qantas is over there.

Shog's 'bout average… (NY, right?)

Frank posts at particular times, he has a set daily schedule!

Many fascinate!

Oh, I'm talking to myself, aren't I.

nicael is always up causing trouble, needs moar sleep too.

Qantas 94 Heavy

...

user259867

5:22 AM

@bjb568 Colorado => Mountain Time.

bjb568

He's in colorado?

What's he doing there?

user259867

Fixing lawnmowers.

bjb568

Oh, ok.

Alexis King

@bjb568 Someone call?

bjb568

WHERE U SLEEP?

Alexis King

5:25 AM

HOW CAN YOU SLEEP WHEN THERE ARE QUESTIONS TO BE CLOSED?

5

What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

bjb568

:P

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: UNIX --WANT TO MAKE SCRIPT--URGENTLY by MANJU on unix.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

> Down-voters, bother to comment?

Anyone want to get that?

Closed; prepare for imminent barrage of revenge downvotes.

Alexis King

5:42 AM

@AstroCB I bit.

bjb568

6:07 AM

I bit a bit a bit. I bite a bit a bit a bit. I bite a bit a big bite a bit. A big bite I bit a bit last night.

Good night.

ɥʇǝS

Can't go to bed until Transmageddon finished converting video :(

And I'm breaking my chat graph just to plague bjb >:)

Andrew T.

6:23 AM

spam android.stackexchange.com/users/96842/lei0919 (proof: search her image on Google and the results are all recovery)

spam wtf android.stackexchange.com/questions/101574/…

bummi

7:05 AM

spam drupal.stackexchange.com/q/150555/20140

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: How can work for you this product? by pogaljuriya on drupal.stackexchange.com

bummi

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@bummi Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Meta Wonder

Spam meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250653/…

@SmokeDetector spam meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250653/…

Hobo Sapiens

cv-pls Trolling... stackoverflow.com/q/28871647/1864610

Jan Dvorak

7:19 AM

abusive

bummi

spam superuser.com/q/885767/172747

bummi

7:46 AM

spam meta.stackexchange.com/q/250654/201151

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