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Patent US 8757552 One Megawatt Laser The pacific use of this High Energy Laser is greatly needed. Construction of the Sea levelInteroceanic canal of Colombia requires an open cut of a basalt mountain at 7゜N in the Pacific. A 3 mile long cut is all is needed to connect the ocean to the Truando ...

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user259867

Google Patent page is neat. With the link "Find Prior Art". So damn convenient.

Braiam

@Behaviour tracking a package?

user259867

11:25 PM

Referring to bjb's comment above mine. And the classic xkcd

Anna Lear

@Behaviour We only launch early in the week. Should go live tomorrow.

bjb568

IT IS EARLY IN THE WEEK

Anna Lear

@bjb568 "Should go live tomorrow"

hichris123

@bjb568 early == Tuesday for some reason

user259867

There was probably some data analysis on the most favorable day of the week for launching a site.

user259867

11:29 PM

Mondays are hard enough without having to fulfill a half-forgotten commitment to a beta.

hichris123

@Behaviour You're not nominating yourself for mod?

bjb568

What does fulfilling even mean?

user259867

@bjb568 About 10 posts, with some extra details.

user259867

@hichris123 I was asked this a bunch of times in the weeks prior to elections... no.

user259867

in Mathematics on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 3 hours ago, by Mike Miller

I wonder who I would nominate for moderator. I would nominate the user formerly known as Raff, but I think he's probably more effective as a regular user.

user259867

11:35 PM

(Math practices informal "nominations" of other users in a meta thread, to better shape the official self-nomination process).

hichris123

@Behaviour I totally think you should. I respect your opinion, but I think that with moderator tools, you would be much more effective in trying to clean up Math's quality problem.

user259867

But this is not what mods are for, imo. Look at how Puzzling mods tried to "fix the quality problem" and where it went.

hichris123

@Behaviour The Puzzling situation was really just a misunderstanding of SE allowing Puzzling to go against the norms of the Stack Exchange philosophy.

Not going to say I disagree with you... but moderators are human exception handlers. A wave of horrible questions is an exceptional situation.

user259867

It's not; it's a regular big-city problem. See also: AU, SU, and of course SO.

hichris123

@Behaviour eh, from an outsiders pov Math's situation seems more extreme than any of them. But also: SO, SU, & AU all have moderators helping to close questions. Like the mod on AU who burned through the CV queue.

bjb568

11:42 PM

JSHint: "A leading decimal point can be confused with a dot: '.001'." When is there ever a "dot" in JS?

Braiam

@hichris123 "Like the mod on AU who burned through the CV queue." normally I'm against those actions

moderators aren't all knowing either

hichris123

@Braiam ... and? There is a skip button for moderators too.

Braiam

@hichris123 they don't know how to use it

hichris123

... I disagree, but...

user259867

It may be worse than those other sites, because there are fewer regular users who care about what's around them. One of the reasons is that those who dislike hw dumps find it easy to retreat to a gated community (MathOverflow).

bjb568

11:45 PM

@bjb568 Durrr, objects.

user259867

Yes, the dereferencing thing.

user259867

Regardless of JS, nobody should ever omit 0 in 0.12345. The schools that still teach it should totally drop that.

user259867

The reciprocal of 100000 is 0.00001. I know it's correct because the number of zeros is the same.

bjb568