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user202362

12:00 AM

JamesENL

12:33 AM

Morning

user202362

yo

Alexis King

12:54 AM

@tchrist A coworker and I just spent five minutes puzzling over the lovely but rather impenetrable word “incybernation” in the man page to pstruct. You wouldn’t happen to remember what was going through your head 25 years ago, would you?

JamesENL

Did urban dictionary exist 25 years ago?

user202362

lag wasn't so much so of a problem 25 years ago ... ever 56k was relatively fast back then

user315433

UD seems to get it right on this one: like incarnation but in cyber form instead of in flesh.

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user315433

Spam, and so is movies.stackexchange.com/q/64077

user315433

1:12 AM

Today, SO passed the mark of 33,333,333 posts.

tchrist

@AlexisKing Certainly. Read incarnation for programs.

user315433

Why not "incyberation"? "n" looks like a leftover letter.

Alexis King

@tchrist Wonderful.

bjb568

1:36 AM

Well, the exam was easy.

user315433

Did you look at the data, @Thomas? It's not a list of questions you've viewed; it's essentially a set of weights attached to tags. It's derived from access logs, but it doesn't actually contain that data. — Shog9 ♦ 4 hours ago

user315433

"QuestionViews": [34143626, 32996451, 34242784, 26857796, 32397236, 32079039, 38861085, 1540030, 29347686, 24636822, 29581617, 386341, 32951986, 35491836, 15409606, 35998552, 35629014, 33864444, 33419676, .... and many many more

user315433

Was in my prediction data before I purged it.

user315433

This does kind of look like a list of questions.

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2:40 AM

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3:48 AM

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4:15 AM

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user315433

4:32 AM

> Stack Exchange isn't going anywhere, and neither is this Facebook page. facebook.com/stackexchange/posts/941483762560257

user315433

Yeah, right. Silent since March and is getting encrusted in spam.

tchrist

@zaq Because I wanted the -n- left over from the meatier incarnation to recall that word.

It was 25 years ago. That person is no more. I am merely his ghost, his echo in eternity.

user315433

Maybe I haven't been to Iceland because I'm busy dealing with YOUR crummy code.

user202362

Why would stackexchange go anywhere ... it's not like a tornado is going to hit it anytime soon ...

user315433

25 years ago, hmm. As a teenager, was vaguely worried about the home-country-dissolving stuff, but not much. Possibly, was better at programming than now.

SmokeDetector

4:41 AM

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tchrist

@zaq It's an interesting hypothesis to explore.

user315433

Impossible to compare, given the difference of platforms and languages.

user315433

16 KB of memory and Assembler back then.

Andy

@zaq It does look that way.

@Shog9, My prediction data has a field named QuestionViews and a list of 33,944 question ids. — Andy 3 mins ago

bjb568

@tchrist yo como el carne

tchrist

4:45 AM

@zaq It's easier to remember such small memories.

@bjb568 Tú, como la carne dicha, vas comiéndote la leche hasta que la tragues sin escupirla.

bjb568

Sí.

Noche.

tchrist

No flirting in this chato.

user202362

25 years ago, my dad was a lecturer in a university, he taught me how to play computer games ... I remember 8 inch floppy disks & command line OS back then. HE WAS A COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LECTURER & HE DIDN'T TEACH ME HOW TO PROGRAMMING!!!

user315433

-2

Q: how to programming for gamecenter by Flash And ActionScript 3

how to programming for Apple GameCenter by Flash ?

Shog9

@Telkitty sounds like a pretty decent fella.

tchrist

5:00 AM

@zaq How come that has immunity to roomba?

user315433

I downvoted the answer a minute ago

tchrist

Thanks!

user202362

@tchrist Smokey, you look hot in that blue outfit, guess what colour is my ~~bra~~ keyboard

Shog9

@Telkitty heh. Run a trace route on the chat server next time it happeneds.

user202362

@Shog9 using what tool?

Shog9

5:08 AM

What OS?

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user202362

macOS or windows

user315433

Are questions that seek the admiration of the readers permissible? by Luna on meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com

user315433

Um, maybe. Don't see many of these on SO.

Shog9

Traceroute or tracert then, @Telkitty

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5:24 AM

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user202362

5:46 AM

Not cool to call da kitteh in holding a empty food bowl, kz ... just sayin ... @shog

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5:59 AM

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6:14 AM

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6:29 AM

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7:02 AM

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7:18 AM

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qwer

7:48 AM

15 DV for an off-topic question that's not about programming on MSE. 3 times than the usual OT on MSE.

Shadow Wizard

@qwer OT?

qwer

Off-Topic

Shadow Wizard

oh. Well, only four here...

qwer

(Oh, it's been a long time I've heard this... chat notification sound!)

Shadow Wizard

@qwer huh? This sound? ;)

Is @Qwerp-Derp your sock?

qwer

7:53 AM

nope, not yet ;p

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8:23 AM

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Qwerp-Derp

8:35 AM

Wait what @ShadowWizard

Shadow Wizard

lol, well two @Qwer is just weird.... :D

Derpy

@zaq my dreams are much much much much more weird than that, trust me

@ShadowWizard those are the bad ones. Most of the licensed ones are.

Hasbro's ones usually are the worst ones.

the only well made licensed plushies are the ones from 4DE

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy why bad?

Qwerp-Derp

I think I've successfully accidentally fused two peoples' names of the Tavern

Derpy

@ShadowWizard well, when I said "bad" I mean from a collector viewpoint. Obviously a kid wouldn't be so picky.

Anyway, the pink one in the picture should be Pinkie Pie, while the two blue ones are both Rainbow Dash.

qwer

8:50 AM

FUSION!

Derpy

Google a picture from the show, see if those seems "show accurate" to you

then, google a picture of a 4DE plush.

You will see what I mean....

@qwer does this mean that @Qwerp-Derp is what you get if we were to perform the Gattai technique?

Qwerp-Derp

That is Qwerp-Derp

Shadow Wizard

9:17 AM

Pointy hair

Derpy

9:41 AM

@ShadowWizard it's Dragon Ball. It has to have pointy hairs

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy why?

Derpy

@ShadowWizard most DB characters have :P

unless they fall in the "no hair at all" category

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy huh! Guess you're right... so weird.

Derpy

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShonenHair

here, have fun

As a disclaimer, it is a tv tropes link

use care.

People are know to disappear in the labyrinth of links that thing is

you start from one page....

you tell yourself "oh, nice, let's see what they say about this...

and then they will find you a year late, still standing at your pc...

or, to be more precise, they will find your skeleton. Not eating/sleeping/drinking for a year isn't exactly healthy.

Shadow Wizard

:)

@Derpy what about this hair style? How is it called?

Derpy

9:55 AM

@ShadowWizard tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DelinquentHair

unless you actually mean if the hairstyle has a name, in which case I don't really know :P

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy lol, though this one fits better... ;)

Derpy

@ShadowWizard yep, but that is about the whole "persona". I was just talking about the hairs :P

Shadow Wizard

Wonder what's @Telkitty hair style..... :P

user202362

Shadow Wizard

10:12 AM

:P

SmokeDetector

10:33 AM

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Derpy

11:00 AM

now that I notice it, the guy in the photo seems like the standard punk you would see in an episode of Fist of the North Star.

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Derpy

11:20 AM

@InfiniteRecursion Quak quack (trad: hi, Infinite)

Infinite Recursion

@Derpy Quack Quack :D

Bart

o/ @InfiniteRecursion

rene

The Duck is back

Derpy

@rene the duck has hat

well, not yet, hopefully soon

Infinite Recursion

\o

Magisch

11:39 AM

Hi there

SmokeDetector

12:08 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: how to promate B2B Fashion Jewellery Portal by user12049 on startups.stackexchange.com

Infinite Recursion

Hiya

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user315433

12:43 PM

Such a nice spammer:

user315433

-1

A: define a loop which returns different possibilities

See More Intersting Functions Released in latest version functions Take care of your parents, family members , friends.. Some times they also very important than this regular functions.

rene

12:55 PM

:)

user202362

I just want to turn it off, permanently

Derpy

@Telkitty that button is usually red, enclosed in a glass pane and features a big "do not push" sign underneath.

oh.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Ruby записать хеш в хеш by Maksim Chanturia on ru.stackoverflow.com

Derpy

First.

user315433

1:09 PM

So that blog post by Kevin Troy didn't have numbers... But they did release them to the press, for example programmez.com/actualites/…

user315433

4.7 million developers in EU, whatever that means.

Magisch

huh: bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

wrong link sry

Apparently identity-revealing zero day exploit in tor browser found

Stijn

Isn't it a bit counter-productive to run Tor with JS enabled?

Magisch

idk, I dont use tor

user315433

The press release is apparently timed to Joel's talk at Helsinki, which he gave a few hours back. Something about developers being important because they write software that we use every day.

user315433

1:15 PM

Well, someone paves the roads were drive on every day, too.

user315433

That doesn't make me go OMG construction workers.

user202362

@Shog9 as useful as a discarded plastic bag ...

Derpy

@Magisch wasn't that news month old?

user202362

I could not but noticing the positive correlation between the length of time an employee server at SE and amount of troll at heart that person possesses ... it begs the question, is Joel a troll at heart too?

Stijn

@Derpy It's been known for a long time that there are exploits out there I think, but no details about them

Magisch

1:19 PM

Now someone just posted the exploit code

Including how to get it

Stijn

@Telkitty Maybe I just misunderstand what you mean, but tracert is a command available in Windows :) tracert stackoverflow.com for example

Derpy

@Stijn I remember an article about the makers of firefox/mozila arguing with some secret agency office about a bug they found on tor that allowed to identify tor users . The claim was that since the core was the same, the bug probably impacted firefox too.

user202362

@Stijn I used traceroute on mac

Stijn

Ah, don't have a mac

Derpy

so they were trying to ask the agency to make the exploit "public."

Magisch

1:22 PM

@Derpy The payload for this new exploit is exactly the payload identified to be used by the FBI in 2013

In their Dark Web STING operation

Derpy

probably that was the article I saw.

user202362

Just saw a possum opened the lid to steal chicken feed

user202362

1:37 PM

took a video of it

Derpy

should start polishing the pitchforks.

I should still have some whetstone

#AlreadyKnowsThereWillBeNoUnicornHatYetAgain

user202362

setup equipment for better video

user202362

now waiting for the possum babe

rene

Awaiting video up-link

user202362

last video was a bit ... too dark

user202362

1:47 PM

@rene if I am able to take a good video, yes

user202362

not sure possum feels safe with the new setup

rene

suggested for you:alibaba.com/product-detail/…

user202362

yep, totally throwing $400 into the drain so I can take a possum video

rene

Glad I could help.

user202362

also that looks more suitable for cooking a possum than to shed light on one

rene

1:53 PM

I couldn't find one that would also require you to upgrade the electrical connection to your house ...

Magisch

@Telkitty You see, flowers have bigger light needs

user202362

Now with the light on and food bowl in the centre, the possum isn't coming back, wtf ... if you don't come back soon, there will be not chicken feed 4 u tonight!

user202362

@Magisch unless we are talking about possum jerky ... you need a lot of power to dry the meat

Stijn

@Telkitty all you need to do is put it on youtube, wait for it to go viral, and rake in the cash

user202362

probably the possum had too much chicken feed and isn't coming back tonight ...

Stijn

2:03 PM

:D

user202362

:D

user202362

yeah I wish ... :p

user202362

Anyways, the possum constantly gets leftover fruits, it's not allowed to eat chicken feed, although chicken feed are constantly stolen by magpies, piegons, doves and lately, myanh birds

user202362

those birds are fed leftover bread and rice, they are not allowed to eat chicken feed either

user202362

wildlife thieves ...

user202362

2:13 PM

and butcher birds get meat occasionally

user202362

magpies love meat too, but there are a gang of baby magpies & they are master chicken feed thieves

user315433

Spot on. From .@spolsky from Stack Overflow: "Nobody is a good enough human being to decide what to show on Faceboo… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/803957638128107520

Tweeted by GregBufithis on November 30, 2016 at 1:43 PM

user315433

Hm. How about Stack Overflow front page, then?

user315433

Isn't that determined by Triage (human reviewers)?

Shog9

3:11 PM

in aggregate, sorta

lotta rnd and luck involved too

user315433

3:30 PM

But no Vowpal Wabbit anymore?

user315433

From back at the beginning of SEQP1, it seemed that human Triage would only deal with cases deemed borderline by an algorithm.

user315433

It practice, it seems to have all questions by new users, perhaps minus those that are immediately upvoted.

user315433

An idea: a Gmail filter to immediately delete all messages with subject "zaq, blah blah" and "blah blah, zaq\W?".

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qwer

3:46 PM

Bring mobile app's feed to web version :)

user315433

3:56 PM

Looks like chatrooms don't support feeds with HTML tags in post summary, like <i>...

user315433

Or maybe they have to be escaped.

SmokeDetector

4:33 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Server 2012 Cannot find C: Boot to cd by wkb on serverfault.com

Stijn

4:55 PM

just found this quote by Jeff, from 2007

> [...] Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

he was quite right with that one :)

rene

That was before jQuery existed ...

user340193

5:17 PM

@Frank's user page has this private message photo on it:

user340193

Is it a fake?

yellowantphil

@MarkYisri maybe it's a joke. I don't know.

user340193

The weird part is that it looks real.

yellowantphil

wouldn't be too hard to fake it

user340193

5:23 PM

0

Q: At what reputation can you edit without review?

I undertsand you can edit your own questions and answers. You can also edit community wiki posts at 100 reputation, as is stated here. When can you edit "normal" posts without needing peer review?

support edits suggested-edits

user340193

Does Community own the "That solved my problem!" message on this question?

yellowantphil

@MarkYisri what message?

user340193

When Glorfindel told me about the duplicate, it said "This question already has an answer here! Does that solve your problem?"

user340193

And when I hit Yes, it says marked as duplicate by Glorfindel and Community

user340193

Is Community used so that the moderator diamond will make it marked as a duplicate instantly?

yellowantphil

5:25 PM

yeah, I think so

you agreed that it's a duplicate, so Community closed the question... I guess

rene

that ^ is correct

yellowantphil

users don't get binding close votes on their own questions, although I'm not sure why not

I tried to close one of my questions and failed...

rene

you flagged it, now it sits in the queue

yellowantphil

it got a lot of "leave open" responses

rene

So you asked a question that is good enough

yellowantphil

5:29 PM

apparently

rene

@MarkYisri no, we can't talk there

user340193

@rene that's weird

user340193

For the attention of the rest of the community, I am able to create a gallery chat room from the Ask Ubuntu "Create room" button without having 1k rep. See my question here.

user340193

1

Q: Creating gallery chat rooms

When I wish to create a gallery chat room, it looks like that's an option for me on Ask Ubuntu. However, I only have 529 reputation on that site right now. Why can I make this? Is it network rep that counts in chat, not site-specific rep? Update: It's now beginning to look like this might b...

discussion bug chat

user315433

@MarkYisri The privileges in chat are not site-specific, they are within a chat cluster (chat.SE, chat.SO, chat.meta.SE). You have 1K combined rep in chat.SE

user315433

5:39 PM

Combined rep = sum of rep over all accounts with 200+ rep in them.

user315433

@MarkYisri an embedded gif, nothing more

yellowantphil

@MarkYisri maybe the privileges page is wrong. I can create a gallery chat room on unix.SE with 400 rep there.

SmokeDetector

6:15 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: How do blind people know where to find Braille signs? by Corbin Miller on ux.stackexchange.com

user340193

6:44 PM

How do I migrate a question to another site in the SE network other than the options I have on Android Enthusiasts?

user340193

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@MarkYisri Mod flag?

other ^

rene

@MarkYisri make sure that question isn't crap and on-topic on the target site ... related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225006/…

user315433

If it's on Android Enthusiasts and is about development, vote/flag to close as off-topic.

user315433

Never try migrate to SO, it's a waste of time. They are either Q-banned there, or should be.

user315433

6:52 PM

I disagree with red-flagging. It's a user answering "sip" and padding to get past the length requirement.

user315433

@SmokeDetector f

Frank

7:18 PM

@MarkYisri lordy, you actually asked

I altered the source HTML to change the message, then used a gif animation website to animate 2 screenshots.

Bwahahahahaha

I should actually make that an image link directing you so some shady off site messaging service lol

Feeds

7:52 PM

How Do Software Developers in New York, San Francisco, London and Bangalore Differ?

David Robinson on November 30, 2016

When I tell someone Stack Overflow is based in New York City, they're often surprised: many people assume it's in San Francisco. (I've even seen job applications with "I'm in New York, but willing to relocate to San Francisco" in the cover letter.) San Francisco is a safe guess of where an American tech company might be located: it's in the heart of Silicon Valley, near the headquarters of tech giants such as Apple, Google, and Facebook. But New York has a rich startup ecosystem as well- and it's a very different world from San Francisco, with developers who use different languages and technologies.

SmokeDetector

9:01 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Criação de app Cortana em Português não esta funcionando by Mario Sergio on pt.stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Busca fonética no SQL server by Mario Sergio on pt.stackoverflow.com

user315433

9:47 PM

@Feeds It'd be nice if @drob linked a higher-res version of that chart, with easier-to-read labels.

user315433

I didn't expect to see "Washington, United States" that high on the list.

hichris123

... D.C. or the state?

user315433

Can't be the state, drob isn't that stupid. Seattle is on the list just below.

user315433

I think a lot of govt contractors... who had some high-profile website to fix in recent years.

user315433

For all the telecommuting and outsourcing, having presence in D.C. area remains important for the contracting crowd.

user315433

9:57 PM

So... New York does the yucky stuff (like VBA) and San Francisco the trendy stuff (like Go). Sounds about right.

Shog9

As you travel east, the tech gets more enterprisey

By the time you hit Bangalore, it's all Java.

user315433

And then, when you hits the international date line, a datetime bug eats your Java code and you start over.

user315433

I should learn pandas. I must learn pandas. I will learn pandas.

user315433

(this repeats about once a year)

user315433

As a motivation, telling myself that the alternative is learning R.

Undo

10:03 PM

I should learn R.

Really, really should

user315433

Text editor or reader for working with huge files in windows - software recommendations stack exchange gender quotes At the office ...

Tweeted by RoderickNyman on November 30, 2016 at 9:55 PM

user315433

Is this Twitter spam or what? Using SoftwareRecs post title.

Undo

odd

Shog9

10:36 PM

spam.

user315433

I remember SO wrestling (or otherwise gaining) Twitter account @StackOverflow. On the Facebook frontier, no such victory yet... facebook.com/STACKOVERFLOW

user315433

So it's officialstackoverflow for the time being.

user315433

Code for a living twitter icon is confusingly similar to ru.SO icon.

user315433

Speaking of which, a comparison of Twitter followers among lang-SO sites: es.so 377, pt.so 262, ja.so 25, and ru.so 14...

Shog9

Does anyone here still care about Facebook?

bjb568

10:48 PM

no

Never did. ur old

user315433

No, it's disgusting. Deleted mine years ago.

user315433

@bjb568 You missed that year or two when it was cool.

bjb568

What a skary time.

user315433

That said... SO accounts have 457.7K FB likes vs 21.6K Twitter followers.

user315433

On the other hand, the FB count is totally meaningless. facebook.com/zaqmathdept is nearing 2000 likes, with all but a dozen completely random internet people with no interest in, or relation to, the page.

user315433

10:58 PM

It doesn't look like there is an official Google+ page.

bjb568

11:41 PM

I'm in a wireless networking class. It's grad level.

Groups are presenting their projects.

Two of them presented the same one: analyzing the efficiency of different distributions of access points. They all use Matlab. Both groups found that random is worse than rectangular.

The one that just went cited the prof's textbook and simple.wikipedia.

user315433

Nobody used the golden ratio to distribute access points?

bjb568

There are never any questions. It's bad.

Ooh, this presentation uses material design.

Second one on how to generate RSA keys, after that was already taught in class.

user315433

What's your presentation about?

bjb568

I don't have one. Only grad students are doing it.

Ooh, this project uses both MATLAB and Python. Such wow.

user315433

> Jon Ericson has spent over 20 years working as a developer tending production systems. He supported an instrument testbed for the National Weather Service, took the night shift on a Space Shuttle mission ground data system, and was the science data processing system technical lead for a NASA/JPL Earth-orbiting spectrometer. saucelabs.com/blog/…

user315433

11:48 PM

+1 Space Shuttle is cool

bjb568

Two groups have shown potatoes at the end of their presentation for extra claps.

user315433

So, perhaps you should not go to Cinci for graduate school.

Jon Ericson

@zaq One of the perks of the project was that I could listen to the astronauts communicate with mission control. (But we couldn't talk on that channel for obvious reasons.)

bjb568

@zaq Perhaps.

@JonEricson But… did it have potatoes?

Jon Ericson

Not that I can recall. But Penn Jillette seems to be into them.

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