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user259867

12:08 AM

Mooseman and J.Musser are the top two Lifehackers... the topic somehow resonates with the Tavern?

user259867

4 hours ago, by Bart

Plot twist: Pham is running for mod in the next election

user259867

Hope so; I'll take Pham over almost any of the current Math mod candidates

Sompuperoo

@Behaviour I like lifehacks. Already got good answers to my 3 questions.

hichris123

@Behaviour I betcha you can guess what I want to say next.

user259867

@Sompuperoo How's the voting race going on? Here's something: Ancient 0-score unanswered questions with pending closevotes.

Sompuperoo

12:11 AM

@Behaviour Yes, we need more robomods

so the Low Quality flag option has been completely removed from questions on all sites?

Braiam

@Sompuperoo no until /review/triage isn't in place

user259867

I see it on Math. It's not available for the questions that are currently under close/triage review.

Sompuperoo

that's really weird, it wasn't showing for me on an SO question.. tried several times, and then just tried again and now it's back

user259867

12:29 AM

So it got triaged and now the options are back to normal.

Sompuperoo

someone let me know when snow counter is close to reaching 256,999 plz

bjb568

My school calculate GPA weird. jsfiddle.net/ub80j9tf (<- optimistic predictions for this semester)

user259867

@Sompuperoo 256999 seconds before 0:00 December 15, 2014 UTC

Sompuperoo

:)

hichris123

@bjb568 Wait, a 6? We just are on a 4.0 scale with weights. 0.5 weight if it's honors, 1.0 weight if it's AP.

bjb568

12:32 AM

Yes, a 6 for AP A. And 1.5 weighting.

user259867

Grade inflation everywhere. >:-( Like on SE.

bjb568

I didn't even cheat.

And like everybody does.

5.06 GPA for an A in every class?

This can't be right.

CollegePrepcourses: A=4,B=3,C=2,D=1
APcourses: A=6,B=4.5,C=3,D=1.5
AA & Honors courses: A=5.25, B=3.75, C=3.0, D=1.25

^ Well, that's what the pdf said.

Exclusion of F implies they will kick you very hard for it.

user259867

@Sompuperoo close now... 15 seconds

Sompuperoo

ty :) caught it just in time

user259867

@bjb568 Does anyone know what these numbers mean anymore? Arbitrary manipulations with grades the meaning of which we don't know.

user259867

12:39 AM

I don't know what the college admission committees are supposed to make out of them.

user259867

Just let everybody take SAT or something.

bjb568

You take a class and at the end of the quarter you get a grade. That's the first quarter grade: A, B, C, D, or F. Then you get your second quarter grade. Then you take an exam. The average of those is your semester grade. Those translate to numbers which are averaged together to form a GPA. The higher a GPA, the more colleges/unis will accept you.

hichris123

@Behaviour They usually don't pay attention to weighted GPA's anymore.

Sompuperoo

I've never seen an A on my report card, what's that for?

bjb568

@Sompuperoo It means "very good", 90%.

Why is shift so close to return?

I tend to do this because of it.

Sompuperoo

12:41 AM

no one uses the right shift, use the left one

bjb568

Huh.

But my right left is weak. It's harder to type like this. Ugh.

Sompuperoo

you must have a poorly designed apple thing?

bjb568

What's that have to do with anything? The distances are the same.

Sompuperoo

2

Moshe

OMG, it's the Tavern!

hichris123

12:44 AM

@bjb568 No it doesn't. It means that you've at least partially mastered the material.

Moshe

Is this the successor to the tavern on chat.meta?

bjb568

@hichris123 Ugh, it depends on the course. If it's a good teacher and a voluntary AP course, it's ok. If it's a awful mean teacher in the regular class, it's OMG YOU GOT AN A, NOBODY GOT AN A FIRST QUARTER!

hichris123

@Moshe yep.

Moshe

Wow. It's been like 3 years.

hichris123

Same old Tavern -- new look and domain!

Moshe

12:46 AM

Whoa, yea.

bjb568

With a kitten!

Moshe

Where'd all the people go?

hichris123

Sep 21 at 17:38, by Moshe

Ohai, glad to see the Tavern hasn't closed in my absence. There all these strange people though...

... or not.

Moshe

Fair enough.

Find be prior to that though. It's been sporadic.

I'm facing final exams now, so it's time to professionally crastinate.

bjb568

I just noticed…

Oh, all right.

user259867

12:49 AM

I'm facing final exams that are in my drawer right now, and refuse to grade themselves. Luckily there is an election to distract me.

Moshe

@Behaviour Election?

Braiam

HA! You all poor souls, still having finals and what not

user259867

@Moshe On Mathematics

Moshe

@Behaviour My --math--, um, discipline needs work.

Is there supported markdown for strikethrough?

bjb568

My history teacher has warned us about how it'll be hard. Which means harder than 75 average. Nooooo

hichris123

12:51 AM

@Behaviour Who someone cough should totally run in as most others are bad candidates, but...

@Moshe ~~this~~

@Moshe ---no--- no

@Moshe it's 3 not 2

@bjb568 What class are you taking?

Moshe

Ah, you mean ~~two~~, no, three.

:D

bjb568

12:52 AM

Oct 2 at 1:31, by bjb568

@hichris123 "Modern" (we're review stuff that isn't modern) world history.

Moshe

Oh, if anyone wants to grab a cool tee spring, we need 5 more buyers: teespring.com/csheaps

Braiam

anyone can make sense why this is a programing question? unix.stackexchange.com/questions/173697/…

Moshe

@Braiam Looks like an "I can't read the internet" question.

hichris123

@bjb568 ... like what?

Braiam

@hichris123 anything before 1750

bjb568

12:54 AM

you had that conversation…

hichris123

oh right.

I have an A in AP World History...

Braiam

@Moshe well, there are people trying to migrate it, to SO

bjb568

Renaissance, conscription, Chartist Movement, humanism/humanities, Napoleonic Wars/coalitions, home rule, secularism, guillotine, suffrage, vernacular, Reign of Terror, abolitionist movement, printing press, Committee of Public Safety, private/public property, Protestant Reformation, The Directory, Victorian era, 95 Theses, coup d’état, Battle of Waterloo, excommunicate, Continental System, Means (factors) of production, Islam/Muslims, Peninsular War, Siege of Vienna, Sunni/Shi’a Islam, guerrilla warfare, Great Wall of China, Ottoman Empire, scorched earth policy, Columbian Exchange, Janiss…

Moshe

@Braiam CUDA is a graphics technology, but it's not strictly a programming question. More of a "does this setup support this technology" question.

@Braiam stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cuda

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DOES MY ATTITUDE CONDIDER INMORAL by user17555 on christianity.stackexchange.com

The Wobbuffet

1:51 AM

github.com/KeyboardFire/kevcode <- My friends and I are officially discussing this and how it will work in Skype

We're building the interpreter :P

Hobo Sapiens

2:06 AM

A couple of off-topics:

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/22814795/1864610

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/27435684/1864610

bjb568

2:36 AM

@TheWobbuffet What's your Skype username thing?

oh, that's 40m ago.

The Wobbuffet

@bjb568 Uhh tell me your email I'll PM

i dont want a lot of random skype contact requests o_O

bjb568

bee jay bee five six eight teeew at dah gmail thingy

The Wobbuffet

umm

user259867

teeew?

The Wobbuffet

do you mind being a bit more specific

Braiam

2:50 AM

@TheWobbuffet his SE screen name in a gmail account

The Wobbuffet

just a bit so bots don't ruin your life

okay

lol his SE screen name hurts my eyes i dont look at it

Braiam

wait, I don't know what the "teeew" means...

The Wobbuffet

i assume it means 2

but i didnt put that

i did what you said... SE name and @gmail.com

bjb568

teeeew = 2

The Wobbuffet

damn

i sent it to the wrong email

meh

I hope I don't get a lot of junk contact requests

bjb568

2:54 AM

meh SE name plus "2" plus gmail

I WANT TO BE YOUR CONTACT! I AM JUNK!

DO YOU WANT TO ACCEPT CONTACT?

YES, YOU WANT TO ACCEPT CONTACT.

I AM JUNK!

The Wobbuffet

awesome

you can undo sending an email

bjb568

That's not new…

The Wobbuffet

oh you can't

lol im dumb

you have to set it up before you send it

I assume all it does is wait to send an email

bjb568

Yes.

The Wobbuffet

oh well just have to pray i dont get spam

if i get a lot email spam from that email, at least i can set up a case and sue

bjb568

2:57 AM

You also need to send it to me…

The Wobbuffet

okay i sent it...

user259867

Why is it 568 here and 5682 there? These people who can't choose one name and stick to it...

Unihedro

3:20 AM

^^^

bjb568

Well… because reasons.

@hichris123 Y U IZ 1234 on GITHUB

@The You get my contact request?

Undo

@bjb568 because 123 was taken

bjb568

There ya go.

That's one explanation, not necessarily the correct one for me.

Unihedro

I don't get why users include numbers in usernames.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MAC MAIL WON’T OPEN. ASKING ABOUT PERMISSIONS by JAMES on apple.stackexchange.com

Unihedro

3:25 AM

Typing in l33t, sure, but MyName123 is not a new thing.

bjb568

Well, I can't be bjb anywhere.

hichris123

@bjb568 Well, it is the correct explanation. :P

bjb568

codepen.io/msurguy/pen/xbVREd

:O

Unihedro

I like mobile version

bjb568

Codepen does a good job with mobile.

hichris123

3:37 AM

@Behaviour One never knows, do they?

user259867

Slow-reading robot, perhaps.

hichris123

lol

I was updating my version of Smokey -- the amount of fp's and fn's was staggering.

bjb568

@TheWobbuffet Y U NO ADD AS ~~FRIEND~~ CONTACT?

:P

Must be AFK

hichris123

2014-12-11 22:45:08 how to power up
ok: 0.001315

That's a horrible title.

user259867

Penalty for very short titles, and for beginning with lowercase letter.

hichris123

3:49 AM

@Behaviour If I was making a LQ bot, that would be smart.

user259867

But for a spambot, why is "how to power up" a bad title?

hichris123

@Behaviour it's not -- I was just remarking on how bad of a title it was.

Also: I kinda have a special exception for Mathematics, @Behaviour. :P

user259867

What's the exception?

bjb568

reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2oyml2/… ooh 7skery9me

hichris123

@Behaviour Well, MathJax was causing fp's sooo... (can you guess?) :p

user259867

4:03 AM

There is little reason to spam-hunt on Math anyway. There are more than enough locals to handle it. Even if many have little idea how.

user259867

Dec 4 at 19:51, by Arthur Fischer

@WarmFuzzies Er... what is this common goal you speak of? Some users flag spam as spam. Some users flag spam for moderator attention. Some users simply downvote spam. Some users vote to close spam. And yet another group ignores the spam and trudges on to the next question.

bjb568

Night!

jadarnel27

Brown.

SmokeDetector

4:34 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Id suggest one that skin care by qayeyu on askubuntu.com

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 97.7324: Id suggest one that skin care on askubuntu.com

Jan Dvorak

4:54 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/140580/…

user259867

5:17 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/140584/…

SmokeDetector

5:34 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GETTING KEY STROKE FROM BATCH FILE by user2499424 on stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

5:51 AM

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/140586/…

user259867

And the older one is still there at -5, almost an hour.

Jan Dvorak

6:04 AM

SPAM gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/196225/…

jadarnel27

NOT SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/6112316/…

Jan Dvorak

@jadarnel27 Wow. That's... unusual. Still, programm... oh. Wait. May 2011

@AstroCB your userscript makes mess of programmers' featured tabs

Sompuperoo

6:40 AM

spam or naa? stackoverflow.com/a/27438199/3041194

member for almost 3 years.. only visible answers is 4 posted today, all promoting a site, WOW

user259867

My verdict: spam. No awareness of the question asked, beyond a matched keyword.

Sompuperoo

flag as spam or other?

flagged all 4 answers as spam

talk about a sleeper spammer stackoverflow.com/users/1275840/…

user259867

All gone.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: I'd you can take this pill in lose weight by Lee Griego on drupal.stackexchange.com

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 58.0702: I'd you can take this pill in lose weight on drupal.stackexchange.com

Sompuperoo

6:46 AM

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

@Sompuperoo Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Jan Dvorak

7:05 AM

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245039/…

Sompuperoo

yay, jan is back!

Jan Dvorak

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27438660/…

SmokeDetector

7:28 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in username: インクカートリッジこちらの商品は by bagprada on drupal.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

They are so transparent... which shouldn't be the case for printer inks.

Sompuperoo

hmm? 8 upvotes in 10 views? stackoverflow.com/q/27438664/3041194

Jan Dvorak

caching?

Sompuperoo

refer to meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/280084/…

wouldn't be surprised if some voting fraud is taking place with that user

too many questions with like > 4 upvotes and the answers only have 1 upvote or 0 , seems fishy

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/26396817/…

Jan Dvorak

custom flag?

Sompuperoo

7:36 AM

idk , i'm not going to

I suspect the user has a sockpuppet ring, each of the user's recent questions have been upvoted multiple times in less than 2 minutes: stackoverflow.com/users/3237836/user3237836?tab=reputation — Qantas 94 Heavy 4 mins ago

user259867

WTF with posting this on meta? This is what the custom mod flag is for.

Sompuperoo

has someone other flagged yet, or do you want me to?

Jan Dvorak

go ahead

Sompuperoo

done

Sompuperoo

8:02 AM

woof @undo

user259867

@Undo is no longer frozen, but looks... sad?

Sompuperoo

he's sad he has no hat

user259867

The old pic was also kind of melancholic, but this one...

Sompuperoo

-1

A: How to fix pmd violation "NullAssignment"?

Sorry. I haven't ask a correct question, i will mark it as solved, and ask new questions.

Sam

8:32 AM

Morning

Sompuperoo

Hi @Sam

Patrick Hofman

@Sam: good morning! Stormy morning?

Or is it just us here in the netherlands?

Sam

Well, it looks stormy.

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27439322/oracle-database-listener

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 75.7322: edge weight and node label on tex.stackexchange.com

Pham

8:45 AM

Low Quality A (45.5%): IF CURREPTED FILE OR WINDOWS 7 THAN PLEASE RECOVER, by kanhaiya chhaparia‌, on softwarerecs.stackexchange.com.

Jan Dvorak

@hichris123 fp

Sam

SPAM stackoverflow.com/questions/27439316/…

Jan Dvorak

someone cv'd as unclear

(and it wasn't me)

Sam

I know, it came up in the LQP queue.

Which is actually how I found it.

Jan Dvorak

no clue how it dodged Canary - most likely a failing websocket

Hobo Sapiens

8:58 AM

cv-pls Off-topic stackoverflow.com/q/27410284/1864610

Sam

Probably.

Pham

Low Quality Q (31.2%): Homework Help Please C++, by greeneyes1234, on stackoverflow.com.

Sompuperoo

SPAM stackoverflow.com/a/27439984/3041194

SPAM stackoverflow.com/a/27440057/3041194

Pham

9:22 AM

Spam Q (91%): They said were overwhelmed there's too much information, by Lovegee, on drupal.stackexchange.com.

SPArchaeologist

Daily ranting: why most ebook Readers are 6''? Why readers are build just for casual/beach usage? No one ever considered a developer may want to store a full bookcase of docs in a single device, while begin still able to actually read whatever table/graph/figure/code snippet the text may contain??

Jan Dvorak

Second monitor + Google?

Pham

Spam Q (55.6%): Fifa 15 Coins no deber funcionar, by user47040, on webmasters.stackexchange.com.

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak Problem: when starting working on a new technology I may want to read a book instead of trying to understand the basic concepts via google search. Reading books on a pc screen is not the best thing that you can do, but paper print copies eat space fast

Jan Dvorak

I don't mind reading on a PC screen

tablet, perhaps?

SPArchaeologist

9:29 AM

@JanDvorak like kindle fire hd? that is one option, but I still would prefer a reader. Less eyestrain and such

Jan Dvorak

Perhaps it's hard to make an 11" e-paper?

rene

@Pham tpu

nicael

Guys, I need an advice. What tag on lifehacks.se would be better, [paint] or [painting]? (I was going to retag this question)

Jan Dvorak

@rene It's already been tp'd

@nicael [paint], I guess

rene

that ^^^^

@JanDvorak Oh, I missed that...

nicael

9:33 AM

I asked because we probably would have to create another tag for questions not about paint, but painting.

SPArchaeologist

@JanDvorak could be the reason. But thinking about it, there used to be bigger reader (10" and more) but most of them have been "forgot" by their producer. Even kindle readers became smaller as the time passed. Now, if you want a kindle reader you are pretty stuck with 6" models

Andrew T.

from business perspective, probably not enough demand

Jan Dvorak

OLPC? :-D

SPArchaeologist

@AndrewT. that's the point. I was asking myself if I am the only one who would buy a bigger e-reader

Andrew T.

probably no, though I can't tell without any stats

Pham

9:40 AM

Low Quality A (47.2%): *** *** *** * ** *** * *** * **** * ***** **** *** *** **** **, by ******, on physics.stackexchange.com.

Andrew T.

@Pham clean

hmm, I think I should use delete instead

@Pham del

> posted 4m ago

Too late :D

made my day:

3

Hobo Sapiens

9:54 AM

cv-pls VVLQ stackoverflow.com/q/27440914/1864610

SPArchaeologist

@vba4all good old Doc Brown... yes, tell them, make them feel safe.... after all..... all this skynet thing must just be a joke... no need to worry... just your IT department joking... nothing more... nothing to be afraid of...

nicael

And also please tell me, what better, [fruit] or [fruits] (still about lifehacks)?

Sam

@nicael I vote for fruit.

nicael

@Sam Your vote has been recorded :)

Unihedro

@nicael Meh, don't care, since my tag wiki edit on that tag got rejected.

nicael

9:59 AM

@Unihedro But I ran into your suggested edit and therefore thought what would be better. Looks like you are for fruit :)

Andrew T.

@nicael possibly related, but lifehacks.se is not english.se

nicael

@AndrewT. Yeah, and I'd choose [fruits] too... But still, who are for [fruits]?

Sam

But "fruit" by itself can also be plural.

Andrew T.

I don't really like grammar :(

> Use the plural form for nouns except in cases where the plural form changes the meaning or is grammatically inaccurate (Education, Disciplines instead of Educations and Discipline)

nicael

@Sam Hell, didn't think about it :DD Of course, fruit :D I simply looked at the tags which are in singular and didn't realize that fruit isn't singular but plural :D

Andrew T.

10:05 AM

From carleton.ca/ccms/2010/…

Sam

@nicael ;)

Pham

Low Quality A (20.2%): Tháº±ng loz lá»—i lá»—i cÃ¡i Ä‘m mÃ y...Ä‘Ã¹ mÃ¡ cÃºt, by Äá»©c Nguyá»…n VÄƒn, on stackoverflow.com.

Unihedro

^ NAA (something about looking at error stacktraces)

Andrew T.

Google Translate failed my though

> He loz error error counting the quail enough that you ...