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12:37 AM

Stupidest hacker stock photos collection. https://www.teachprivacy.com/the-funniest-hacker-stock-photos/ https://www.teachprivacy.com/the-funniest-hacker-stock-photos-2-0/ https://t.co/maiLC7MPjm

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1:04 AM

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hichris123

Not only have I read the textbook I linked to carefully, I wrote it. — Rob Hyndman Aug 25 '13 at 2:20

user315433

Top 5 sites where Community has cast the most downvotes: SO 673322, SU 71900, AU 53945, Drupal 42766, Meta 42150.

user315433

3:06 AM

The most-viewed SU question of 2016 is Did I just get hacked?

user315433

Interestingly, question #2 by views has much more modest vote counts and generally looks quite ordinary: What is the cause of a high CPU usage of 'system and compressed memory' in Windows 10?

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3:19 AM

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user202362

is chartered engineer the same thing as chartered practicing engineer?

Quill

5:05 AM

why does everyone in the show Silicon Valley have GitHub stickers but not Stack Overflow stickers

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Quill

!!/doYouNeedAFriend?

Shadow Wizard

Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely, ♪
I have nobody for my own ♪
I'm so lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely ♪
I have nobody for my own ♪
I'm so lonely. ♫

Quill

Lonely unicorn doomed to spam duty

@hichris Feature request, give smokey a partner unicorn so they are less lonely

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@Quill Smoke Detectoress

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11:44 AM

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bacon

@Quill Fire Starter

Quill

yessssssss

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12:22 PM

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user315433

12:46 PM

2

Q: Evaluation of SOCVR's Burnination Process

In the last couple of months, the SOCVR room implemented the burnination process previously proposed by Shog9. As a room owner, I took the liberty to fork that process on GitHub so we could adapt and adjust quickly without risking the hate/love of Meta for every bump of a meta post. To be clea...

user315433

Burnination is a serious business.

rene

@sandwich Ah, you already noticed ... I just wanted to link it here so I could ping @Shog9 in case he missed it....

user315433

Has SOCVR considered renaming, since it's not just CV review anymore?

AdrianHHH

I voted to close this question earlier today stackoverflow.com/questions/37248377/… . I had three reasons: it seem too broad; answers would be opinion based; and it is on the wrong site. The author disagreed and it seems that two others have upvoted his comments. Was I correct in believing that this question should be closed?

rene

@sandwich Yes, it was even a topic in our last roommeeting which got so much heated debate that we made it a non-decider and moved it to the next meeting

@AdrianHHH I can see why you voted too broad. I would be more happy if he showed (a bit) of his jmeter script or at least whichs options he is using for the execution of the test to make the question a bit more clear, but beyond that, meh

Let the CVQ handle it or expire the votes

Test engineers are special, they deserve a friendly approach

AdrianHHH

1:08 PM

I am a tester and found the question via tags that I monitor. I tried to be friendly to him by suggesting the SQA site, but ... . Ok "meh" it is. Thanks @rene.

rene

@AdrianHHH I wasn't suggesting you were unfriendly ... let's do meh ;)

user202362

I am rather quick at picking up missing people that are usually present

user202362

then from the number of people missing and who are missing to roughly infer what's happening

user315433

> I foresee this is going to be a really tough week. -- Bluefeet at 6:17 PM - 15 May 2016 via Twitter

user315433

Anything major rolling out this week?

user202362

1:35 PM

sushi can roll, but not sure they can roll out

Shadow Wizard

(probably)

or... maybe they prepare a surprise for us!

user202362

wonderful ...

Quill

"surprise! SO is in readonly mode for 2 weeks while we roll out docs"

3

Shadow Wizard

Maybe another ToS change...

user315433

1:54 PM

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A: Warming refrigerated butter at a table in a restaurant

Body heat. You're a balmy 98.6 or so degrees, so put the packet of butter in your pocket and leave your hand on it. In a minute or two, it'll be soft enough to spread. Plus, you don't have to pester your server for anything additional, it should help you save the odd requests for when you reall...

user315433

Cooking meets Lifehacks

user315433

But unless it's fast food, I don't expect butter to be in a wrapper...

user202362

they are usually served soft & ready

user202362

unless it's on a plane or in a fast food place

rene

When you put butter in your pocket you better remember or your next question is a dry-cleaning LH

user315433

3:35 PM

Arts & Crafts is not yet in public beta, but there is an official call for mod nominations: Accepting nominations — Who should moderate this site? by Robert Cartaino, so it'll make it.

user315433

What was the last site to be closed, again? I keep thinking I should record this somewhere and then forget.

user315433

Arabic Language, September 2015.

xkcdBot

4:01 PM

Today's xkcd comic (Laser Products):

ERRORS: HAIR JAM. COLOR-SAFE CONDITIONER CARTRIDGE RUNNING LOW. LEGAL-SIZE HAIR TRAY EMPTY, USING LETTER-SIZE HAIR ONLY.

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5:38 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: How do I maximize FPS? by Ayoub Tabout on gaming.stackexchange.com …

user315433

5:52 PM

Top tags on each of SO sites:

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English:     javascript, java, c#, php
Portuguese:  php, javascript, java, c#
Japanese:    javascript, swift, ios, android
Russian:     php, javascript, java, android
Spanish:     javascript, java, c#, android

user315433

JavaScript is always #1 or #2. No love for Java in Japan, it's #8 on the list, behind Monaca, whatever that is.

user315433

ja.so is different from the rest by the mobile app emphasis; the other four are roughly equivalent, except the attitude toward PHP varies.

bacon

6:14 PM

Monaca is Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) extension, which is a mobile app framework.

bacon

6:29 PM

Apparently it's a full toolkit to develop mobile apps. Mobile apps development is leading on ja.so

user315433

Top 10 cities by visits to Stack Overflow, from quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com#/generalInterestsCard

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Bangalore (IN)
Mumbai (IN)
London (GB)
Chennai (IN)
Seoul (KR)
Pune (IN)
New York, NY (US)
Singapore (SG)
Paris (FR)
Tokyo (JP)

user315433

I didn't know Pune was so big. I mostly associate it with florists...

user315433

Jan 5 at 5:55, by Shog9

@TheGuywithTheHat the spam above. Apparently Pune florists are as cutthroat a business as dodgy supplements now.

bacon

Singapore, being a quite small country and city itself, taking 8th place globally is a bit surprising for me.

But it's 1st place in SE Asia, which make sense, seeing it's one of (if not) the most advanced city/country in SEA.

London and Paris are interesting too for Europe. Where's the rest of European cities...

rene

6:48 PM

Amsterdam is on page 2

user315433

Annoyingly, there seems to be no way to download the report. Browsing dozens of pages looking for sandwich town... giving up.

rene

lol

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7:09 PM

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user315433

Browsers should have an option "open this link in a private window with JS disabled".

user315433

Or better yet, "view the html source of this thing", what I'd get from it with wget

user315433

The latter should be doable with a userscript, I think.

user315433

Haha, interesting how many people actually copied that link - "You've earned the "Announcer" badge for getting a webpage source code without actually accessing a page.". le me waits for the silver/gold versions now :p — ThiefMaster ♦ Mar 22 '12 at 6:39

user315433

It's just that manually prepending view-source: is tedious.

hichris123

7:50 PM

@sandwich Interestingly enough... groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/… - so you couldn't use <a> tags.

user315433

Boo. I can use them to download random content with .click(), but not to view the source.

user315433

8:31 PM

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Q: I want to cure myself and be a human again

I want to cure my vampire blood but I am unsure if that will activate the vampire attacks again.

skyrim

user315433

Gaming as usual.

user315433

9:09 PM

0

Q: Out of all the space shuttles which one has the best aerodynamics?

This is for my science project at school and google is being difficult.

space-shuttle

user315433

Hm, what are the options? The NASA shuttles were the same model, afaik. The Soviet Buran didn't get to fly much.

user315433

10:05 PM

sigh My CoGro-tracking script indicates that Tim's proposal of putting butter in a pocket was the brightest idea that the team came up with today.

Jon Ericson

@sandwich I'm waiting for patent approval my bright idea before it sees the light of day.

user315433

So not in the spirit of CC-licensed knowledge sharing.

bluefeet

@sandwich I'm far too distracted today to have any brilliant ideas

Quill

A @StackOverflow call Me: It took them 15 minutes for Fizzbuzz :( Dev: Have you seen the HTML/CSS only solution? Me: https://t.co/YGMKiHvBQa

Tweeted by JonHMChan on May 16, 2016 at 5:46 PM

I'll take it the dev team are hiring

bluefeet

@Quill stackoverflow.com/company/work-here#positions

Jon Ericson

10:14 PM

@Quill Or not in this case.

(I'm guessing.)

bluefeet

I wrote FizzBuzz in SQL

They were surprised at that as well

Quill

Somebody wrote FizzBuzz in x86 NASM Assembly on Code Review

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Q: 16-bit FizzBuzz in x86 NASM assembly

Since this problem involves small numbers (particularly with a small loop count of 100), it's possible to ease the modulo operation setup by simply working with 16-bit and 8-bit registers: $$\dfrac{\text{[AX] (16-bit register)}}{\text{[other 8-bit register]}} = \text{[AH] (remainder)}$$ My main...

assembly fizzbuzz

user315433

The 20/40 behavior of LQRQ isn't entirely clear to me... if I enter when it's over 200, and it drops below 200 in the process, will I be kicked out before reaching 40? It hasn't happened yet.

user315433

I understand there is a difference between the actual queue size and the number of tasks available for my review... I only see the latter.

Shog9

10:31 PM

@sandwich The limit is determined by the number of items in the queue. So if that drops below 200, and you've already reviewed 20 items today, you won't be allowed any more reviews.

OTOH, if you review 20, hit the limit, and the queue then rises over 200... You could re-enter the queue and review more.

user315433

Yes, the second thing is what happens to me quite often.

user315433

I'm getting tired of being told in comments that my solution "worked like a charm". AFAIK charms don't work very well, if at all.

user315433

FR: auto-nuking short comments with "like a charm".

Quill

add it to your SEDE query for shitty comment contents

user315433

I will if they get auto-nuked. I don't want to create 100 flags per day for mods.

hichris123

10:45 PM

Reject please: meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/44446

user315433

Interestingly, we don't get any Viagra spam in the form of posts.

Shog9

@sandwich they're telling you your solution worked but they don't understand how or why.

user315433

:( and I always include an explanation. "Try <code></code>" is not my style.

Quill

Copying code without understanding what it does is a great way to ensure your demise

hichris123

@sandwich Yeah, it is weird how suggested edit spam is different than post spam. Maybe SpamRam blocks most the suggested-edit type spam for posts.

user315433

10:51 PM

I tried copying that suggested edit into a post, it wasn't blocked. (Well, I didn't hit submit, but the block is normally before that)

hichris123

SpamRam operates more on the IP level, I believe...

Quill

Interesting that they know how to propose an edit, but not to use Markdown....

user315433

The quality filter is probably stopping them (at least it should, for a post like that)

Shog9

There are a bunch of other spam-checks on posts that don't exist for edits

like... captchas

user315433

I was able to post that: meta.stackexchange.com/q/279351

user315433

10:55 PM

But of course, with rep and all.

Shog9

also checks for scripting ability, timing checks, etc.

cuts out a lot of the more stupid bots

hichris123

Apparently the Drupal-type bots aren't quite as stupid...

user315433

They are probably human.

Quill

cheap labour is probably more effective

that's what all the new Oracle interns get assigned to do

user315433

Spamming Drupal??

hichris123

11:01 PM

Oracle must really love health care companies...

Shog9

like ants love aphids

bjb568

@bjb568 My god you're right. My numerical intuition has gone out the window. becomes Engineer — Ed_4434 1 hour ago

:D

hichris123

11:20 PM

Those spammers just don't give up... another one to reject: meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/44447.

user315433

11:32 PM

Was it ever explained why SE post editor needs a custom undo/redo logic that leads to irreversible data loss?

user315433

It was reported a bunch of times, like Ctrl+Z undoes twice in editor

user315433

Huh, I didn't even know we had undo/redo functions built into our editor. As an aside: why do we have our own built into our editor? Do they do something that the normal browser's functions can't handle? (also, reproduced on Chrome - this isn't browser-specific) — animuson ♦ Jul 1 '15 at 1:33

user315433

If even animuson doesn't know...

Quill

it's an open source library... feel free to make a PR someone

then again I still have two open PRs from March on SE repos

user315433

Why use an open source library? Browsers support undo in textareas.

Quill

11:40 PM

the stack editor is open source, someone could just disable it

user315433

Something tells me that a PR with "you don't need this feature, imma turn it off" is unlikely to be merged.