Tavern on the Meta

7:00 PM

List of previous names (perhaps incomplete):
- This is much healthier.
- 900 sit-ups a day
- Care Bear
- Warm Fuzzies
- Behaviour
- Famous Blue Raincoat

Frank

@ProgramFOX - Rafflesia arnoldii

- Just a brick in the wall

Jason C

Oohh, rafflesia

Word

Apparently there's somebody named "NotDoorknob" on my ignore list, lol.

Doorknob

:(

He's my chatbot/sock

Jason C

Haha, I wonder why I did that. Is he a friendly bot?

ProgramFOX

@ProgramFOX - Fundamental

Doorknob

7:04 PM

Yes, he is a friendly sock and has been washed recently

Well, off to spontaneous

ProgramFOX

@ProgramFOX - Weapon of Choice

so many names

Jason C

@SmokeDetector falseu

SmokeDetector

@JasonC Registered answer as false positive and whitelisted user.

Frank

@ProgramFOX Raff

Jason C

Frank do you change your avatar for the seasons

I remember it being more gold

Frank

7:07 PM

@JasonC yeah.

Jason C

Aww. That's adorable.

Frank

summer one ^

fall one ^

winter one ^

ProgramFOX

Almost time for a spring one ;)

Frank

I'm gonna need a spring one.

Jason C

does that work?

user259867

7:10 PM

How likely is a question tagged with "file", "pdf", "download" and "website" to be on topic on SO?

Jason C

Jan Dvorak

not much

Jason C

There you go.

@Woodface And yeah not too likely.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to transfer a purchased app from iPhone to iPad? by Dj Butts on apple.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

7:15 PM

@Woodface Blacklisted user.

Jason C

I wonder if requiring at least one language tag or language-agnostic would be a useful filter for preventing off-topic stuff.

Eh but then I guess you'd have to keep track of which tags were "language" tags.

Jan Dvorak

gone, but disregarding the name isn't it just NAA?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Number theory: Proof: Prove that $3 \\in QR_p \\iff p \\equiv \\pm1 \\pmod{12}$ by roohi on math.stackexchange.com

Jason C

@JanDvorak It was pretty offensive; the original contents were "F*ck all of you bast*rds so ya bye male b*tch!"

Jan Dvorak

Was it?

SmokeDetector

7:20 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer, Blacklisted user: Stuck on blue screen after running "rm *" in / by Dj Butts on apple.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

@JanDvorak yes, it was

Frank

only 25 of my 142 GL questions have been favorited.

Jason C

Yeah. Then it got edited, but I didn't have a chance to click the refresh button before it was deleted.

Looks like Dj Butts is in da house

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp edited

SmokeDetector

@Woodface Registered answer as false positive.

Jan Dvorak

7:21 PM

I only saw the post-edit version, which essentially said "thanks. I should add an answer, but all were taken.

Jason C

Lol.

ProgramFOX

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28918457/…

Frank

@JasonC I should change my name to that and scare all the folks at GL

Jan Dvorak

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28918025/…

Jason C

@Frank Hehe, do it.

Frank

7:25 PM

nah

xD

Jason C

I really, really, really, really want one of those conveyor belt robots like in the Jetsons to put my clothes on me and brush my teeth.

My god that would be so awesome.

Frank

unless you get your hand stuck in it

Jan Dvorak

rule 34?

animuson

I should visit here more often. :P

Jason C

That'd be a way to wake up. Industrial equipment accidents are the most important meal of the day, you know.

@animuson Will you change your name to DJ Butts for a day and say "DJ Butts in da house!" every time you come here?

Frank

7:35 PM

@JasonC I know a guy whose arm got pulled into some machinery, and he had the choice to go in with it, or rip free. So he is missing an arm. He was alone, no one found him for half an hour. Apparently he was slowly walking through the factory and mumbling, and was quite in shock.

Jason C

^ Maybe that's what really happened to him.

Frank

nope.

It was a printing company that will remain unnamed.

Jason C

It's good that he's alive still.

Frank

yeah.

Jason C

Do you remember that story about that dude who lost both his arms in some farm equipment, then ended up getting them reattached?

I just remembered that, from a really long time ago; for some reason it was really heavily covered by the media.

Frank

7:40 PM

nope.

I did hear of this mason whose entire face was ripped off, and they were in time to reattach it.

Jason C

Ah bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/… that's a "where are they now" kind of article; it was 20 years ago. I remember the news coverage of it pretty vividly.

Aw man, kind of a bummer that he never really ended up doing all that well.

Frank

oh wait, it wasn't reattached, he got a transplant.

usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/05/22/polish-face-transplant/…

ThiefMaster

@Frank I want more pictures of that to post them on /r/WTF for some sweet karma :P

Frank

lol

Jason C

@Frank It didn't seem so "extraordinarily complicated" when Travolta and Cage did it.

Obviously the doctors did not know what they were doing.

Frank

7:47 PM

I couldn't do it. I'd keep getting distracted and leaving to check SE

(jk)

Jason C

You say "jk" but we all know you aren't.

Frank

I'm always J-ing K

SmokeDetector

8:11 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: C# Math.Net Matrix Determinant, returns wrong number by user3783852 on stackoverflow.com

user259867

8:30 PM

One downvote on this thing would get it roomba'd. I ran out of votes. :(

Frank

not enough rep

Undo

@Woodface done

user259867

[stupid tag] score:0 answers:0, sorted by relevance, is a great way to spend downvotes.

user259867

"relevance" gives priority to questions with few to no other tags.

user259867

@Frank As ak question about programming while sitting in a tree.

user259867

8:33 PM

Although I'm afraid it wouldn't work as well as back in the early days of SO.

Frank

@Woodface *ask

user259867

Hey, I tried to put k in there. :)

Frank

lol

nicael

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A: Show number of edit reviews remaining

A simple script can do it until it's implemented: javascript:if($("stu").length==0){$("#badge-progress-count").prepend("<stu>...</stu> left today | ")};$("stu").load(location.href.replace(location.href.split("/")[5],"")+"/stats .review-stats-count-current-user:first", function(){$("stu > td").re...

new script :)

(now that I realized that I can write scripts as answers on MSE :D)

rene

you beat me to it

Jason C

8:43 PM

I forgot that I ordered myself some chocolate covered pretzels and other chocolates, and they arrived today, and they were gift wrapped. Best day ever.

user259867

Ordering things gift-wrapped for yourself is kinda sad though.

nicael

@rene and wew, I can haz yet another bounty!

rene

:)

user259867

@nicael Yeah, I gave it to you instead of rene because you are known to use your rep wisely.

nicael

:D

Jason C

8:47 PM

@Woodface I didn't think they'd be gift wrapped!

Can't you just let me enjoy this moment.

Frank

send some my way.

Jason C

rene

Christmas is over....

Jason C

Not for me it isn't.

rene

lol

Frank

8:50 PM

was below -0.8 degrees F. when I got up this morning (at 5 am) now it's 45.5 degrees. Weird.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: NUMBER AUTOMORPHISM HAS AT LEAST 2 PRIME NUMBERS IN ITS FACTORIZATION by LUCI on math.stackexchange.com

Jason C

That is weird.

Jan Dvorak

Use celsius

user259867

@SmokeDetector edited, but really should be downclosed.

Frank

@JanDvorak But I'm too American.

Jason C

8:53 PM

@JanDvorak -18 to 8

user259867

Moral: don't get up before noon.

Frank

why?

Jason C

0-39 at the lancaster airport, that's a hell of a swing. It's been 18-36 here today.

Frank

I'd miss the 6 hrs. of work before lunch.

@JasonC not as big a swing as here.

user259867

It's Saturday!

Jason C

8:55 PM

@Frank Aren't you in Lancaster?

Frank

wat

Jason C

Sorry, got excited with my enter key.

Frank

@JasonC yup. not in the city though

Jason C

Oh, yeah.

I wonder what the biggest temperature difference in one day ever has been

Frank

@Woodface indeed. On Saturdays, I usually only work before lunch.

Jason C

8:56 PM

January 15, 1972, Loma, Montana, temperature went from -54F to 49F in one day.

Frank

ik

Jason C

-48C to 10C

That's insane

user259867

Their meteorologist was drunk, probably.

Frank

the largest 2-minute temperature change of 49 °F (27.2 °C) occurred in Spearfish, South Dakota, a rise from −4 to 45 °F (−20.0 to 7.2 °C).

user259867

I attribute old weather records to that.

Jason C

8:59 PM

Wow!

hichris123

@JasonC Not really. I think we've seem 70 -> 30 F here in 24 hours.

Jason C

@Frank And it says it was back down to -4 28 minutes later.

All right back to work.

Doorknob

9:28 PM

update 3: ahahaha we did it! Our (whittled down and vastly weakened) previously-overweight-and-unfinished backup structure, in all of its 18-gram glory, held a total of 245 pounds before collapsing because we had to remove a few pieces of wood in a panicking attempt to get the already weakened backup structure under the weight limit! :D

hichris123

Yay, @Doorknob is here!

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28895181/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28917908/…

Doorknob

no time, currently basking in the glory of victory :D (okay fine, because of course what else would I expect after returning to the tavern? :P)

Nate Kerkhofs

I'm a bit worried: I posted a few questions (closed by now) on workplace.SE that might put off prospective employers. is there a rule against adding additional information to them to clarify that the offputting parts have been worked on?

hichris123

Dupe meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267226/burninate-legacy into meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/271756/…? cc @SantaClaus

@NateKerkhofs What do you mean?

Jason C

@NateKerkhofs As long as your edits don't invalidate existing answers or destroy helpful information, you can edit your own posts as you see fit.

Nate Kerkhofs

9:40 PM

They wouldn't invalidate existing answers or destroy helpful information. the question is workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/35083/…

Jason C

That's not really a "rule", per se, as much as it is etiquette.

@NateKerkhofs Well then go to town; there's no problem at all with editing your question to add clarification or improve tone or information.

Nate Kerkhofs

I want to clarify that I've been let go from that particular job, but that i used my 6 weeks notice to work on the issues described in there

Jason C

So do that.

hichris123

Oh, great, there's a [pc] tag.

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28914564/ubuntu-driver-r9-280

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28910628/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28753452/tv-display-software

Nate Kerkhofs

and that in my debriefing from the company, they said that I'm not the only one to be blamed and that they didn't have the resources to support me. A company with those resources would be a better fit for me

Jason C

9:44 PM

Great, so go do that.

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28647605/…

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28478174/…

-1

Q: How to download big table like MySQL into my pc?

How to download big table like MySQL into my pc?

????

Jason C

Haha

hichris123

Well, don't just laugh, vote to close it! ;)

Jason C

Sorry I'm pondering how the accepted answerer knew what he was talking about.

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28851473/…

Undo

9:49 PM

@hichris123 gone

hichris123

@JasonC Obviously a sock. Or not.

Oh, you're here, @Undo. Go close stackoverflow.com/questions/28895181/…, stackoverflow.com/questions/28478174/…, stackoverflow.com/questions/28914564/ubuntu-driver-r9-280, stackoverflow.com/questions/28647605/…

Undo

stumbles backward away from flamethrower of bad questions

done

user259867

@NateKerkhofs If I were in your situation, I would contact SE team (using the contact us) link in site's footer to request the "incriminating" posts to be disassociated from your account, since they may jeopardize your future search.

hichris123

Yay, I can re-vote-to-close stuff!

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/18721692/rome-2-total-war-bug

user259867

(job search, I mean). But even before that -- since the questions are closed, the moderators may be willing to consider deleting some of them. That would be an easier way out, without bothering SE Team. You could raise a custom flag to ask them.

hichris123

9:54 PM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28804595/…

Jason C

@Woodface Really? If I were a prospective employer, I would read that post as being written by somebody acknowledging their issue and attempting to improve. Looks like a positive to me.

Undo

@hichris123 there has to be a pattern these things share that we can filter on. Has to be.

user259867

I was answering in abstract, so possibly my answer does not apply to this situation. I don't look at The Workplace.

Undo

Mainly because it seems like I can cross my eyes and fairly accurately distinguish a good question from a poor question.

hichris123

Yeah...

Jason C

9:57 PM

@Woodface I only look at workplace when I'm dissatisfied with the horror suggestions on Netflix.

user259867

@Undo At present, the pattern is [pc] tag that hichris is going through.

Undo

aha! We just need to blacklist [pc], [windows*], and [xbox*].

Jason C

That site makes me glad I didn't choose the corporate path. Same with academia.se.

user259867

We need a SEDE query that identifies the worst tags: most off-topic questions by %.

user259867

Probably exists already somewhere.

Undo

9:58 PM

@Woodface a lot of them will be deleted

hichris123

@Woodface Used to be [laptop] until Shog burned it.

user259867

3 hours ago, by Woodface

How likely is a question tagged with "file", "pdf", "download" and "website" to be on topic on SO?

user259867

There's a chance, of course. But when there is no language tag...

Jason C

Come one, come all, see the endless curiosities and wonderments! And over here, behold Woodface, the human chat history log!

Be astounded and amazed! Step right up!

user259867

@JasonC Academia is not that bad, I think. But I may be biased.

user259867

10:03 PM

Because I happen to have taken that path.

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28916446/…

Jason C

Oh I don't think the sites are bad. It's just that every once in a while I see questions on workplaces and academia that make me cringe and think "Wow, there are really people like this?"

Prime example:

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Q: Advisor walked in while I was complaining about her; How can I minimize the damage to our relationship?

I work in a lab. This evening, thinking that my advisor had already left for the day, I started telling my peers in the lab that she has a bad attitude about a few things, and she was showing off a lot about her work last summer. Out of nowhere, she walked into the lab and was visibly upset, and ...

advisor etiquette interpersonal-issues

Not just the question, but the subsequent discussion and the fact that not only was the accepted answer accepted (it was a travesty, and at the time the overall disappointment of everybody involved was very visible), but there are at least two people out there both broken in the same way.

That's why those sites scare me.

See revision 6 academia.stackexchange.com/posts/17175/revisions for full context, which also includes an unsurprising update by the OP. It was recently edited to remove all that.

user259867

Ugh^3. TMI

user259867

Here is the solution: Huff Luka bo Dom bo Aka So Suka bo = Dori Bol bo Duka C Bolinga C, bo La Huff — Del Capolo Sep 20 '11 at 16:10

2

user259867

Is this... real?

Frank

10:11 PM

@Woodface ahahaha!

Jason C

Can't... understand...

Frank

tagged [file]

Jason C

Can that comment be the new tavern description?

user259867

@Frank Yes, second search result for [file] answers:0 score:0

Jason C

I can't find any information about any software packages named "LukaLuka".

Frank

10:13 PM

Google translates my 'ahahaha' to 'Nice'

weird

what language is that?

@JasonC it's a troll post, I'm pretty sure

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28905908/…

Jason C

@Frank I don't know, but apparently "ahahahaha" is Filipino for "lol":

Alexis King

@hichris123 closed

Frank

@JasonC lol

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28902902/…

Undo

10:17 PM

@hichris123 closed

hichris123

One more close vote here: stackoverflow.com/questions/28914564/ubuntu-driver-r9-280

Jason C

@Frank Bing on Facebook likes to translate "No" to "lol" sometimes:

20140910 0037 57

►

Which can be kind of funny sometimes, and definitely inexplicable.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Add Cocoa Butter to Chocolate Chips to Temper? by L Brown on cooking.stackexchange.com

Undo

I didn't come here to listen how bad I did it, I already know it, thanks. I came here for help, if you just have that to say, better shut up mr perfect. Tks — josepgb 35 mins ago

hichris123

@SmokeDetector uh...................

> I make all natural skin care and use all food grade ingredients, cocoa butter being one of them.

Jason C

10:21 PM

5 hours ago, by Woodface

If someone on #stackoverflow says you can't have any soup, remind the robot that you ordered a bagel and expect better service.

Tweeted by tinkertim on March 7, 2015 at 2:50 PM

Tim would be proud.

hichris123

NAA in either case.

nicael

23

Q: Make bounty award color blue in summary tab

Accepts are green, that's good. But why is the color of bounties green in summary, recent rep? Bounties are blue everywhere, so make them blue there!

feature-request design bounty summary

Oh, new design, old bugs...

Frank

a lie:

Jason C

They didn't even do it right.

The whole point behind the original illusion was to put one the on the end of a line and the next the on the start of the following line.

Frank

maybe it would work on a blind 2 year old

Jason C

10:26 PM

Do not underestimate the number of blind 2 year olds in our population.

Frank

oh yeah, I might get sued...

someone emailed me a bunch of those things. Some of them are funny.

Jason C

@Frank It used to be a cereal.

Frank

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Undo

no

Jason C

10:35 PM

Frank

said 'skin care'^

but was a real q

Undo

sure looks like spam

"From The Nut Shea Butters"

Frank

that part can be edited out

it did ask a legit question

hichris123

See their profile description

Undo

yeah, that profile looks nasty

and that facebook page... uh... :P

user259867

10:40 PM

I think it's a spammer, but is non-obvious enough that needs a custom mod flag.

Jason C

I don't want any butters that come "from the nut" on my skin.

Frank

Well it looks like they had a real question. I'd just comment and tell 'em not to look like they're advertising again or they'd be blocked.

nvmnd, all out spam

SPAM cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/39686/…

SPAM cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/55510/…

either spam or all they didn't read the help center

user259867

I tried to custom-flag but I earlier raised other flags (VLQ & NAA) so that didn't work.

Jason C

It's strange.

Should I edit out the spammy nature of it?

Undo

no

Frank

10:45 PM

@JasonC Do you have enough rep?

Jason C

No, it'd be a suggestion.

user259867

No, that's just confusing. If they are legit, they should fix things. If not, let it be as it is.

Jason C

Ok I won't touch it.

Jason C

10:56 PM

I found a recipe online that calls for "1 1/2 eggs". .....

my head asplode

Undo

@JasonC you put the other half in the refrigerator.

Jason C

How do I split an egg in half?

Undo

@JasonC hatchet.

Jason C

I have a hacksaw, will that work?

Undo

@JasonC should work

You should ask on Cooking

Jason C

11:00 PM

Haha, I kind of want to.

Undo

"Is a hacksaw a good substitute for a hatchet when splitting eggs?"

2

Jason C

^ So many things to love about that question.

Undo

You'd either hit HNQ or get your account nuked.

user259867

Or get the question closed as a duplicate

Undo

"I learned from a credible culinary expert that hatchets are proper implements to use when halving an egg. Unfortunately, I only have a hacksaw. Will this work?"

user259867

11:13 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/28921005/… too broad with worthless answer

user259867

Of course, the answerer is just trying to Help People, as usual.

nicael

0

A: Help us test the shiny new "User Activity" page! (Plus a bunch of new features.)

On Samsung Galaxy S5 in Chrome, I am seeing that when I click to choose a badge to track, the background is not fully darkened, there is white space on the right.

How didn't I notice earlier...

Anyone haz this bug?

Jason C

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