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user202362

13:03

OMG meta has been mean & I am dishearted, now could you delete this question please :/

Bart

It has 3 upvoted answers @Telkitty. Just move on

Given that it's officially status-declined, it's good to have around and prevent such requests in the future. Deleting it would give someone else a reason to ask it again.

Laszlo Papp

seriously, why do people jump on answering such questions like this? stackoverflow.com/questions/20658844/malloc-2d-arrays-in-c I mean such basic questions have been answered many times already.

OGHaza

Hey all, unrelated to anything anyone is talking about but: If I comment on a post, and then edit @user into it, does user get notified?

Bart

10

Q: Does the person get notification if I edit my comment and add @hisname in it?

Possible Duplicate: Will edited comments reach addressees? How do comment @replies work? I sometimes forget to add the @hisname in a comment, so I edit and put it there. Will he be notified after my edits?

^^^^@OGHaza

OGHaza

@Bart Thank you! Did do a quick search first I promise ;)

Bart

13:08

No problem. ;)

Laszlo Papp

I guess some reputation hungry people take those basic questions as an opportunity to move ahead. Perhaps, it would be better to remove the answers, or at least the votes once such a thread is closed?

3ventic

The better question is: if you edit @user out of a comment, will he still be notified?

@LaszloPapp if voters feel like an answer is worth reputation, why override that decision?

Laszlo Papp

because they should be motivated to upvote the existing answers.

Bart

Wow, what happened to the close vote queue? Is it ads or hats?

3ventic

@Bart Probably something related to this: chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/1683294#1683294

Oded

13:18

Scheduled task was dying and was recently fixed - clearing out about 4k, @Bart

aka what @3ventic said.

Bart

Ah, meh. So a temporary victory only

3ventic

Still not getting proper error messages from imgur, by the way? @Oded

Oded

@3ventic that hasn't changed, no.

user202362

I suspect ~~Someone~~ a small crowd wanna me Q banned, this is so very not cool :'(

Bart

@Telkitty Meh, you're exaggerating. You made a feature request. People didn't like it. You got downvotes. As simple as that.

Unless you're going for the Tinfoil hat hat with that conspiracy idea

user202362

13:26

Yeah treating me like as if I was such an ignorant idiot, like as if I did not know how meta works! A herd of meta voters trying to bully a troll!

Bart

So you're calling yourself a troll now? Ah well, suit yourself. Whatever explanation makes you feel comfortable I guess.

user202362

^_^

3ventic

I don't think this is being worked on

Bart

@3ventic I think Anna said of some development on that coming soon

Wow, wonky sentence much. Me coffee take now not words good very speak

Oded

@3ventic you'd be thinking wrong. Well... no one right now, but we have had hats and new topbar in the way. After XMas, work will start in earnest.

3ventic

13:38

You'd think developing it wouldn't take that long

but what do I know

I've only done relatively small projects

Oded

Developing it? What's taking long has been figuring what content needs to be migrated. And how to deal with existing links after MSO becomes the SO child-meta. And... and... and...

There are soooo many assumptions and hard coded decisions based on MSO being what it is and not a normal child meta.

Flyk

STACK EXCHANGE HARD CODED JON SKEET'S DAILY REPUTATION GAINS: DATA ACCEPTED

Bart

Are you saying we're speshul @Oded? :)

Flyk

I am now full of food

Oded

Very... MSO is not a regular meta...

Flyk

13:42

time to revert to caffeine ingestion

Food Overflow

Oded

@Flyk - have you brought enough for everyone?

Flyk

well, my food is overflowing, so sure

what would you like, tofu filled sandwiches, coffee tasting tofu, biscuits made of tofu, or cake

oh and quorn sausages

Oded

No bacon?

Bart

That sounds like a modern Monty Python sketch

Oded

Hmmm. Your food sounds very brown.

Flyk

13:44

@Oded tofu bacon in the sandwiches

brown bread

in the sandwiches

Oded

@Flyk "tofu bacon" does not compute

Flyk

TOFU BACON

IT'S LIKE BACON... BUT... er... not

No, it's not like bacon at all

Bart

Flyk

It's certainly not a substitute for bacon

which is why I keep flipping between being vegetarian and stuffing myself full of bacon

Oded

Bacontarian

Flyk

13:47

I could be vegetarian full time if it weren't for bacon

Oded

Huh. Looks like urban dictionary has it: urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bacontarian

Entry #4 looks fitting for you, @Flyk

> A person who claims to be a true vegetarian but knowingly supplements their diet with small amounts of bacon, bacon bits, and bacon fat.

Flyk

but bacon... it's so nice

I was a vegetarian until ~14

and then I tasted bacon

and it all went horribly wrong

SPArchaeologist

@Flyk - you lost all your vegetarian superpowers like Evil Ex #2 from Scott Pilgrim?

Flyk

I don't get the reference

I'm bored and I need more hats

I feel like I've clicked on every single link on Arqade looking for hidden hats

and I still don't have them all

SPArchaeologist

@Flyk Arqade?

Bart

13:54

Flyk

hmm

that links the logo

3ventic

oh

it turns into logo

Flyk

I typed the text

Bart

STOP CHASING ME!

3ventic

hah

SPArchaeologist

13:55

@Flyk - yep, I know the site. I was just meaning "do you are implying that there are site specific hats?"

Flyk

@SPArchaeologist I'm not implying anything

Arqade is the site I use

all of the other sites just... exist

3ventic

You use MSO too

Flyk

if they're lucky sites, I will appear every now and again and do som editing for them

3ventic

just to keep ahead of me in rep on it

Flyk

so they can reject it as "an attempt to respond to the question"

because the review queues need boobytrapping so that half asleep users get banned from reviewing more often

@3ventic no, I would never do that

innocent face

3ventic

13:58

in The Bridge on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Dec 6 at 14:23, by kalina

I'm only active on MSO at the moment to generate some distance between @3ventic and I before he passes me

>:)

Flyk

that's by kalina

I am Flyk

I do not know of this kalina person

;)

3ventic

Darn

except that you have both profiles in your network account

I WIN

Flyk

LIES! SLANDER!

SPArchaeologist

@Flyk - Sorry . I don't know why I assume that all users are Stack users. Must be my rotten dev brain.

Flyk

my experience with SO is a really bad experience

3ventic

14:01

I got my association bonus from SO

and that's when I went looking at the other sites in the network

and got stuck in arqade

Flyk

Arqade is the best Stack Exchange site

SPArchaeologist

and now I notice. Why there is a banner for ANIME.stackexchange showing a screen of Ni no Kuni on Arqade? Did I miss something? It's a game, not an anime....

3ventic

Because community ads

Flyk

because cake

cake is the answer to everything

3ventic

and they're expected to be gaming related I assume

SPArchaeologist

14:09

@3ventic - well, I suppose that the Abcdabra/Wiz Handbook could be considered a manga, considered the whole sheer of Gibli made art it contains ^_^

3ventic

I don't know anything about anime/manga

Flyk

bitbucket.org/FeministSoftwareFoundation/c-plus-equality

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jadarnel27

Does anyone in here know why the quotes in the last sentence of my answer here are breaking my attempt to italicize said line?

Removing the quotes around Page_Load causes the italics to happen.

SPArchaeologist

@Flyk - thank. Now the whole office is laughing.

Bart

It's the underscore that screws things I up guess @jadarnel27

jadarnel27

14:19

@Bart Oh yeah?

Ah, weird.

Bart

Try escaping that one

jadarnel27

@TimStone has an embarrassingly vast knowledge of how the markdown parser works. Perhaps he knows if this is a bug or not.

Flyk

@jadarnel27 *Note: I use "Page_Load" as an example, you could put this code in whatever method you want.*

jadarnel27

@Bart That works!

Flyk

that's interesting

backticks don't codify in mso chat

Bart

14:20

Great

Flyk

ah, you already got the answer anyway

jadarnel27

@Flyk Thanks for checking that too =)

Bart

If I remember well it's "one of those markdown quirks" @jadarnel27.

Flyk

np

3ventic

You could use <em> too

jadarnel27

14:22

@Bart Haha, that wouldn't surprise me. Pretty common answer to markdown stuff =P

@3ventic Interesting. I never use the actual HTML tags in posts here, but that's good to know.

3ventic

I sometimes use html when markdown does something weird

Tim Stone

14:40

@jadarnel27 Hmm?

3ventic

23 mins ago, by jadarnel27

Does anyone in here know why the quotes in the last sentence of my answer here are breaking my attempt to italicize said line?

Tim Stone

Ah

OGHaza

@Flyk, had me on the brink of exploding into laughter at my desk - "The traditional binary foundation of 1s and 0s is deeply problematic: 1 is inherently phallic and thus misogynistic. Instead, we have 0s and Os as our fundamental binary logic gates. They symbolise/-ize the varying, natural, and beautiful differences of the female vaginal opening."

Duncan

Please someone else reject this awful edit: stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3612811

Flyk

@Duncan I would but nobody has bountied me up to 3k rep yet

or 2k, whatever the priv is at

Duncan

14:49

Can't believe two people have approved that. Roboreviewers are the bane of my life.

And the roboreviewers win.... Rollback it is..

Flyk

52 mins ago, by Flyk

because the review queues need boobytrapping so that half asleep users get banned from reviewing more often

jadarnel27

@TimStone What took you so long? You weren't doing..."actual work", were you?

Flyk

@TimStone doing actual work?

hahaha

I mean... er

Duncan

One of the approvers: NagarjunaReddy has approved 293 edit suggestions and rejected 0 edit suggestions. Those are some robo-stats!

Bart

15:10

Which makes this unsurprising @Duncan.

Flyk

0

Q: Can we do something to reduce the amount of poor quality reviewers there are working the queues?

This seems to occur on all Stack Exchange sites and I'm not going to provide any specific examples as that is basically naming and shaming. However, as many of you who work the review queues know, and maybe even some people who submit content to the review queues to be reviewed; the quality and c...

feature-request review suggested-edits review-audits

SPArchaeologist

Ummm - some mods online - let's retry my question.

jmac

Has the Yeager badge been spoiled yet? The unicorn was. Sadness.

3ventic

I still don't know how to get the unicorn

SPArchaeologist

@jmac Badge? you meant hat?

Flyk

15:16

@3ventic 5x2upvotesonmeta

jmac

@SPArchaeologist Yes, I mean the badge.

(I mean the hat, of course, there isn't a Yeager badge...or is there?)

SPArchaeologist

To any mod listening, anyone know if the chat eggs were removed?

Cthulhu one don't work anymore, and so does many other.

3ventic

insert coin doesn't work on the bridge either

ThiefMaster

We all know Stack Exchange hates fun! ;)

3ventic

@ThiefMaster which is why we celebrate the end of the year with...hats?

SPArchaeologist

15:18

@jmac . No, there isn't a badge. There is the Hacker badge though.

ThiefMaster

Hats are srs bsns!

Flyk

HATS AREN'T FUN THEY'RE SERIOUS BUSINESS

dammit @ThiefMaster you Thief

jmac

@Flyk Amen flyk.

ThiefMaster

Speaking of hats, an octocat with a cat on top is awesome!

3ventic

Hats haven't been serious business since TF2 became a thing

Bart

15:19

Celebrate @3ventic? This is no celebration!

jmac

"we're going to lose the all the hats", I believe the NHA (National Hat Association) has something to say about that: "I'll give you my hat when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" — jmac 8 hours ago

ElfSlice

Doge hat isn't real. ;_;

3ventic

Let us mourn the end of 2013 with hats

Flyk

@ElfSlice yes it is

ElfSlice

@Flyk I want it to be true

Flyk

15:20

you need to get a comment on MSO with "very", "much", and "wow" in it up voted to 15

ElfSlice

Oh really?

Flyk

yeah

3ventic

I still think this is a good proposal:

-15

Q: ಠ_ಠ button for chat

I think this would be really useful. There's a Chrome plugin that provides some great functionality, but sometimes you just need to break out a disapproving look immediately in another browser, and I think SE chat needs to support this. Can we have a ಠ_ಠ button please?

feature-request chat

SPArchaeologist

@jmac and that exist. I know it. I have it. Had to resort to PROGRAM it by abusing greasemonkey features... but it is there.

jmac

@SPArchaeologist Why don't you use jquery for that?

ElfSlice

15:22

@Flyk Is this a joke

SPArchaeologist

I use jquery + grease to run the script for the appropriate stack pages :P

jmac

@SPArchaeologist Nobody can defeat the quad jquery!

►

ElfSlice

@jmac Haha, the mooninites are the best.

Flyk

@ElfSlice REALLY? THANKS FOR CLARIFYING THAT FOR ME

SPArchaeologist

ElfSlice

15:26

@Flyk So... yes?

SPArchaeologist

yes, I have no life, I know....

Flyk

@ElfSlice yes

Duncan

@Bart Just a matter of time then..

ElfSlice

Today's Listening

SPArchaeologist

@Flyk - I saw on SharePoint a IG-88 secret hat. You may want to search for that... I suspect it is bounty related somehow

Cole Johnson

15:41

0

Q: Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() with Windows Vista, PHP5, MySQL and Apache2

Greetings (this is my first post, so if I made "posting" faux pas please forgive me). I am struggling to get PHP to connect to a MySQL database in an Apache environment. I have tried to solve this issue by myself (tis a great way to learn), however, I am at the point of spending too much time on...

windows apache2 mysql-workbench php-5.2

Clearly, the "hello" filter isn't working.

Bart

I object to being referred to as the "hello filter" @ColeJohnson. But well, I did my work.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@spa really? Or did you html manipulate the badges?

ElfSlice

Hello!

SPArchaeologist

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish - as I said the Hacker badge has the sole purpose of begin hacked. So I actually hacked it on my personal pageview via greasemonkey.

URGH... I don't know if they are mooking us or what, but a list posted on meta showed all the available hat sprites.

THERE IS A RAINBOW DASH HEAD IN THE HAT SPRITE CHART!

Flyk

16:00

WHAT

I AM A RAINBOW DASH

I HAVE LOTS OF HATS

WHAT ARE WE SHOUTING FOR

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@spa not a hat

Cole Johnson

@Bart my sincerest apologies.

SPArchaeologist

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish not so sure.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

Last year there were a couple of unnumbered meme/troll images in the sprite too

They were not hats

This year we have doge and rainbow dash

Bart

@ColeJohnson haha, accepted.

SPArchaeologist

16:01

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish Yea, but I actually posted a picture of Benny with Rainbow Dash horn and hairs on meta just some days before the bash started...

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish so it seems too much of a coincidence.

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish or they are just referencing my joke in some obscure and nerdy way.

Tim Stone

@jadarnel27 I'll blame the baby, although the last day or so I have been doing actual work for some reason O_o

Flyk

@SPArchaeologist Rainbow Dash is not a unicorn and therefore has no horn

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@spa the sprites image was already ready quite early, just hard to find. I managed to get it a day and a half before winterbash.

Undo the Snowman

I'm still trying to figure out whether I answered that remote/not question right...

SPArchaeologist

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish my proposal was dated 21 NOV.... :P

look... still have the prototype lingering around:

jadarnel27

16:19

@TimStone Ah, fair enough. I'll accept that excuse. Babies are so needy, amirite?

Tim Stone

Apparently so

Undo the Snowman

So... now that I donated $1 to Wikimedia, does that mean that they'll quit asking me for money?

Is wikipedia.org down for anyone else? Chrome keeps giving me a No data received

Flyk

downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Bart

Works fine here

Undo the Snowman

Oh, it works when I go to en.wikipedia.org, but www.wikipedia.org no worky.

I sure hope they use that dollar to fix it.

SPArchaeologist

16:26

<(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+>

Johannes Kuhn

www.wikipedia.org works fine for me.

SPArchaeologist

<[^>]*[\^[^]]*>.*]

Undo the Snowman

@SPArchaeologist Go try that in Root Access or maybe Comms.

I read something about it working there.

SPArchaeologist

It used to work there.

Bart

Ha, that's quite fun @SPArchaeologist Is that an Easter Egg?

SPArchaeologist

16:27

@Bart yes - just fixed back

Undo the Snowman

31

Q: What Easter Eggs do the chat sites have?

According to balpha, the SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post. Edit: Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)

discussion chat hidden-features

SPArchaeologist

<[^>]*[\^[^]]*>.*]

@bart but it doesn't work here

try on chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/1/sandbox

Undo the Snowman

@SPArchaeologist Yeah, that's a chat.so easteregg. Chat.m.so is a whole different system.

Hehe, that's awesome.

Cole Johnson

My Precalculus book has a typo: twitter.com/5urd/status/413344650389626880

@SPA * isn't a command in BF

Undo the Snowman

@ColeJohnson Send them a little to collect your fee for finding it.

My browser really doesn't like that

Cole Johnson

16:31

@Undo Knuth didn't publish the book

Undo the Snowman

Oh

Cole Johnson

Your browser doesn't like what?

Undo the Snowman

The easteregg

Cole Johnson

@Undo were you being serious with the "collection fee"

"Discovery fee"*

Undo the Snowman

@ColeJohnson Nah, but you could try

jadarnel27

16:43

Apparently, my audtion went well enough last week. I've been asked to attend rehearsal tonight to play on Sunday. So...\o/

Bart

Audition for ...

qwertynl

Hi all

What did I get the "I'm not listening hat" for?

jadarnel27

16:59

@Bart A band! I'm doing keyboard and vocals.

Should be fun. I thought I mentioned that in here before, which is why I provided no other context. But now that I look, I don't think I have mentioned it.

Bart

Ooh, cool @jadarnel27. Now there's something I have no talent for. :) I can make a triangle sound out of tune.

jadarnel27

@Bart I would say that's a talent all its own =)

I really love playing music. There's a whole room in my house dedicated to musical instruments and other equipment.

Bart

My local arts council begs to differ. I did not qualify for their support program. They called me "unique" ... including the finger-quotes.

Cole Johnson

@qwertynl not listening ;)

jadarnel27

Haha, wow! That is pretty harsh @Bart =)

qwertynl

17:03

@ColeJohnson :-P

Bart

Someone might have suggested something @qwertynl ....

qwertynl

@Bart huh? What do you mean?

Bart

That's all I'm giving you. It should be pretty easy to figure out from there.

qwertynl

@Bart I am still quite confused :-(

jadarnel27

I almost went to school for music. My twin brother actually did go for music (as you can tell if you read his contributions on Musical Practice & Performance).

I decided to go for Computer Science, because I wanted to have a job.

3

Bart

17:06

Ha, same reason I did not go for the art academy in the end.

@qwertynl you've gotten it for a specific site. So what did you do on that site recently?

acheong87

me too... was deciding between violin performance and IT...

glad i went with IT and make enough money to do music as a hobby

qwertynl

@Bart I posted something.

Bart

Close, but nope

qwertynl

@Bart but but but... I did do that...

Bart

sure, but that didn't get you the hat

qwertynl

17:10

@Bart Someone responded to my post?

Bart

Nope

qwertynl

@Bart I downvoted?

jadarnel27

"Suggested" was probably the key word in Bart's clue.

I would guess.

I actually don't know how to get that hat.

Bart

Yep @jadarnel27

3ventic

I don't know how to get most hats

even out of those that I have

jadarnel27

17:12

We don't just throw that word around, willy nilly, around here.

qwertynl

@jadarnel27 I suggested an edit yesterday, but it was rejected.

And that was yesterday...

@3ventic Yes.

3ventic

thought so

So you get it by getting a rejected edit?

qwertynl

Dunno.... Again... that was yesterday, I got the hat today

3ventic

hm

Bart

So what did you do today on Meta @qwertynl ..... it's right there.

qwertynl

17:16

@Bart Oh!!!! Thank you :-)

Bart

Now ssssstttt

qwertynl

SILENCE WILL FALL DOCTOR!

Bart

;)

qwertynl

;-)

:secret wink:

Undo the Snowman

Oooh! We get to see flags we've already handled in the 10k tools now!

100 unicorn bucks to whoever made that change.

Bart

17:24

Wow, I haven't answered anything on Meta since the 7th? Such a slacker

jadarnel27

I haven't answered anything on Meta since I posted a pointless nonsense answer about stickers.

It's too easy to get rep on Meta. I'm trying to keep my SO rep above it (for some reason).

And it's a lot harder for me to get rep on SO.

qwertynl

Somehow I got rep from this silly question...

Bart

I abandoned that noble goal a long time ago. :)

Still below 10k on SO.... the shame.

jadarnel27

@Bart Clearly haha. You're not quite as bad as @Pops. But there's definitely quite a disparity there.

Me too...less than 10k.

I don't have 10k anywhere though.

Bart

In fact, I'm worse than Pops. And I'm not even hired.

3ventic

17:30

If I wanted to keep my SO rep above my MSO rep, I'd be so very late.

jadarnel27

Holy cow. You are worse than Pops @Bart. I didn't check before I said that.

I also didn't realize your Meta rep was quite that high. Nice.

rene

Anybody for closing this

Pops

@jadarnel27 Not quite as what as who?

jadarnel27

Oh...uh, hey there, @Pops. How have you been?

Pops

Bad, apparently.

jadarnel27

17:43

But seriously. You and Bart both have Meta repz that massively eclipse your repz on any other site.

Maybe "bad" was not the right word =)

I guess the merits of such a situation are open to interpretation.

Pops

When they hire you, they look at which one is greater and assign you to community team or dev team accordingly.

3ventic

Really?

jadarnel27

Hahaha, nice.

Pops

No, although now I have a new proposal to waste everyone's time with.

Flyk

18:03

yes I did just spill coffee on my nexus 7

rene

Can anybody have a look at the revisions for the flask stackoverflow.com/posts/3625311/revisions

On revision 12 there looks to be tried to add links to questions somehow?

I'm not into flask at all and the user who did the edit is high-rep so I'm unsure if and how to edit...

Flyk

being a high rep user isn't an automatic guarantee that they're right

but... what are your intentions here?

Anna Lear

@rene it looks fine? what are your concerns?

Pops

I don't see the problem either.

Oh, sorry, didn't mean to pile on there.

Flyk

QUICK, EVERYBODY JUMP IN

(me too!)

(me three!)

rene

18:11

Yeah let's do that!

Anna Lear

YAY A PARTY

rene

It now looks like if a user edited it in his problem. It might be just a layout issue. I would expect a link to a 'most asked question'. It now seems like vandalism but I understand that it is just me...

Anna Lear

@rene I'm seriously not seeing what you're seeing. revision 12, right?

oh wait, I got it

read up a bit - they have a "Frequently Asked Questions" section in the wiki

rene

Yes, they do but I expected a link to a question. I guess it is just the layout that made me jump. At least we did have party...

Undo the Snowman

18:42

I wish SO rep was as easy to get as mSO rep.

I've found that the SO people don't take kindly to pictures of unicorns as answers to Objective-C questions. Spoilsports.

They even deleted my proposal for my nigerian prince friend to give them a bunch of money!

Tim Stone

I heard something about a party and can only assume there's food involved, where is it?

Pops

It was your job to bring the food, Tim!

Now not only are you late, we're all still hungry.

Tim Stone

I uh...brought a happy cat instead?

Undo the Snowman

@TimStone We shall eat the happy cat.

Tim Stone

D:

Undo the Snowman

18:47

To teach you not to bring a cat into The Tavern.

Tim Stone

I blame @AnnaLear

Undo the Snowman

Poor Anna had to give up the cats on her avatar so that balpha could make hats out of them.

Bart

@jadarnel27 I feel a weird mixture of pride and disappointment

Anna Lear

@UndotheSnowman it's cool. I got this awesome hat instead.

Undo the Snowman

So balpha traded you a little ribbon bow thing for all those poor cats?

Sounds like a fair trade.

Bart

18:56

This whole LinkedIn thing is getting more and more ridiculous. I'm now getting endorsed for skills I don't even have. And I thought getting endorsed by people who don't even know what a certain skill means was strange.

Undo the Snowman

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