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user315433

4:29 AM

New SF blog post: Introducing DnsControl – “DNS as Code” has Arrived

5:12 AM

@Gerry that's pretty neat

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Stijn

8:35 AM

@Gerry didn't they discontinue blogs?

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9:11 AM

@Stijn SF blog and SO blog (and a few others) are "official"

they killed off the official, per site, community blogs

Fawad

9:28 AM

On right side I cannot scroll to access down chat rooms

10:24 AM

@Fawad Meh, this is a minor issue

Most people don't join that many rooms anyway

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Stijn

10:47 AM

@Derpy reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/657kqy/…

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11:06 AM

also, full site isn't designed for tablets or phones really

@JourneymanGeek Or for laptops

Or iWatches

It's built for microwaves and teddy bears though

Lessons from WeChat

@M.A.R. works fine on most laptops

Even run it on a 1024x768 laptop

Not all that many chatrooms tho

@Stijn Yep, probably @ShadowWizard is now busy with ip tracking to see if he can find any pattern that should hint I am the one answering those questions.

Which obviously is fake, since if anything he should be suspecting I am Tabitha.. after all, I switch from Derpy to Rarity and back to Muffin again.

11:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: What is the basis of Kronecker algebra? by messy on math.SE

user315433

12:05 PM

> The best explosive growth hacking tricks can be used only once metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/64465

user315433

Yes, most explosive things are like that.

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1:36 PM

@M.A.R. are you implying desktops are still a thing in 2017? O_o

@JanDvorak lol

I am on one now

and there's some things one just cannot do on a laptop

power it down by tripping on the power cord?

any recent desktop would use a self-powered UPS ring

I use a portable desktop with a built-in UPS. I call it a laptop.

1:49 PM

Stylish handle, but where do you put it when the thing's in use?

Q: What happens when you plug a UPS into itself?

UPSey daisy; so we had a little ... incident ... Pretty sure that has power. We're past that now, and things are returning to normal. It's only appropriate that we take a moment to think about the folks that got pulled out of bed and worked their knuckles to the bone to get things back up and...

2:14 PM

@Stijn reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/657kqy/…

Got bored of the realtime tab, opened the realtime tab to fill in time, was disappointed by the results.

2:47 PM

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@JanDvorak I have most of my cabling tied down.

Do you have a photo at hand?

Not really

Then a verbal description will do. Are they tied to the wall, or just a free-floating bundle with zip ties?

My wiring at home is a rat's nest :/

I have a dining table as a desk

user315433

3:02 PM

@SmokeDetector It's nice being able to flag this stuff using the API, without adding the URL of that question to browser history.

has one of those I shaped legs with a crossbar.

I have 2 power strips screwed to that

and any cables outside those are bound up under the table top

user315433

It'd be interesting to have a good answer to Why are homework related questions accepted on maths SE more than here? [on Physics]

nice

@Gerry they'd reject them if the volume was as much

I'd wager a guess

user315433

But Math is the one with higher HW volume, by far.

user315433

The field of comparative studies of Stack Exchange sites is still in its infancy.

3:05 PM

Maybe we could migrate the good questions to ... SO for professionals? ... and let the homeworks ... ~~flourish~~ rot open on the old site?

user315433

There's a large number of people who simply love doing math homework, even very routine things. Not nearly as many in Physics or Chemistry, or Computer Science.

There are plenty of people who would love to do someone's programming homework, too. Maybe there is a way to satisfy them without hurting the others?

@JanDvorak next desk will likely be even less jerryrigged ;p

Probably fit power sockets under the table tops...

I've never done any DYI mods, unfortunately. Though I would like to mount my secondary monitor upside-down on my desk's upper shelf.

user315433

Back when the meta URL switcheroo was only planned (~4 years ago), there was some talk about replacing the word "meta" with something else. Should have tried mettā...

user315433

3:20 PM

(There's an actual proposal now, Rename this site 'metta'?)

@JanDvorak I want to just get a pair of table tops (wood on top, cheapie materials on the bottom) and A frames (2-3) from ikea...

@Gerry metta.meta...? ;p

3:41 PM

@Gerry O.O

Mettta

rene

4:01 PM

nice comment @M.A.R.

@rene We plagiarize from the best

rene

obviously ...

4:12 PM

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5:14 PM

@Jeremy how many bank-related spams does your email get?

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Anonymous

6:18 PM

@M.A.R. Just an average number, I think.

Elephant

6:38 PM

Hmm... if SE's chat feed can post xkcd post daily, why do we need xkcdBot, which is currently borked?

or probably, the alternative question is, do we want xkcd feed here?

rene

@Elephant I have no problem with it

if I even have a say in this ...

Elephant

Well, in the end, I can't add a new feed, so I have no power either ...

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7:26 PM

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user315433

@Elephant I think I might be able to sneak it through @SNAFU

user315433

SNAFU feed happens to be generated by a Google Apps Script that lives under my Google Account. Not that I would edit it for nefarious purposes, but if the purpose is having xkcd, why not...

user315433

I'd have to test it elsewhere, though.

user315433

And it'd be a lot more work than a RO adding a feed, so I'd rather not.