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@Braiam i-programmer.info/news/149-security/… And very resourceful.
> According to Insight-labs blog, what is happening is that a device at the border of China's inner network and the wider Internet is hijacking the HTTP connections going to the Baidu analytics service and replacing the JavaScript tracking code with something that loads github.com/greatfire and github.com/cn-nytimes every two seconds. This means that any user visiting a Chinese website that uses Baidu analytics is taking part in the DDoS.
 
@vaultah You seem to review correctly. Congrats.
 
@JasonC wow
-1 though, no blockquote
 
China sucks...
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:P I forgot.
 
user259867
7:04 PM
Let no one enter the Tavern who is ignorant of reviewing.
 
Yeah... the auto IP blacklist on my mail server is slowly blocking all of China.
 
Should I complain if a user access DD thru china firewall?
Like: Get out of that awful country of yours, it sucks.
I guess that's a no.
 
7:20 PM
> The suspicion is that the attack is being organized by the Chinese government, which has been critical of GreatFire in the recent past.
stars Jan's comment
 
@bjb568 ummm, review what?
 
Ah, thanks
 
7:35 PM
Jan 15 at 17:46, by Jan Dvorak
Who has no declined flags should cast the first spam flag.
 
> We..we're holding them off, but I don't know how much longer this can go on. Our infrastructure is crumbling all around us, and I don't know how much time we have left. We thought we could take them, but...it's just...too much. Signing off (probably for the last time), the GitHub team.
 
#blamechina
 
@Roombatron5000 everybody should start looking for salvation!
 
user259867
7:45 PM
> That shit sounds dangerous
 
8:20 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Unity 5 missing Standard Assets by kooledued12233 on gamedev.stackexchange.com
 
For what it's worth, I clearly remember memorizing addition tables in first grade, when I was 6, not using my fingers like some of the other kids. I'm pretty sure I could not have added 11 and 7 in my head before that. I got a 5 in BC calculus as a senior in high school, so I was no slouch at math. — swbarnes2 2 days ago
As a senior? What a slacker.
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A: Teaching mathematics to young children

AndreaA website that I use a lot is Beestar. I really enjoy how I am able to follow the Common Core standards while providing my daughter the incentive she needs to achieve better on her own pace. Beestar provides an honor roll system that she really enjoys. She gets to see her name on the honor roll c...

does this count as spam?
 
@JasonC I like reddit jokes
 
@bjb568 I'm not sure. She might just really be into Beestar: parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/9304/…
 
8:38 PM
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@hichris123 Blacklisted user.
 
@Frank /r/toosoon and /r/ImGoingToHellForThis/ are better
 
@bjb568 Most kids don't even take calc in high school.
I'll be taking it my junior year.
 
You slacker!
You're a freshman now?
 
... not really...
perhaps.
 
8:39 PM
Yes, you are, good.
You're taking, what, algebra 2?
 
honors, yeah.
 
Learn precalc over the summer, convince the people to let you take BC calc next year.
Don't be slacker. Be mather.
 
nah.
I'll do useful stuff with my summer, thank you very much.
 
Math is useful!
 
.... but is taking BC as a freshman?
 
user259867
8:46 PM
Depends. In a fancy preppy school kids can go all the way through differential equations, and get to serious stuff in college. In a less fancy school, where BC is the top of the line, taking it too early isn't helpful.
 
user259867
This just in:
 
user259867
> Stylistically, global variables often have long names with all capital letters, but this is not required.
 
@ThiefMaster ha ikr
 
user259867
From Matlab's docs... sorry, MATLAB's docs.
 
@Woodface Yeah, but what about everything else? Science? English? History?
 
8:48 PM
@Woodface you can do the dual credit things after that
 
user259867
@hichris123 Physics makes a lot more sense after calculus. English and history, whatever.
 
@Woodface ... ?
"English and history... whatever"?
 
user259867
Means, independent of math curriculum and therefore of little interest to me.
 
user259867
Anyway, I never taught HS (thank the supreme moderator).
 
@Woodface Although I think we can both agree they're important...
 
8:53 PM
@hichris123 Of secondary importance.
 
I would disagree there, but...
to each his/her own.
 
to each their own.
 
WRONG.
their is a plural pronoun.
although it is usually a good replacement... grammatically incorrect, but simpler & more colloquial.
 
Everybody says to each their own.
Besides, plural even makes sense there.
 
no, because each is making it singular.
It's like expecting $.each to give an array. Nope.
Singular they is the use of they, or its inflected or derivative forms, such as them, their, or themselves, to refer to a single person or an antecedent that is grammatically singular. It typically occurs with an antecedent of indeterminate gender, as in sentences such as: "Everyone returned to their seats." "Somebody left their umbrella in the office. Would they please collect it?" "The patient should be told at the outset how much they will be required to pay." "But a journalist should not be forced to reveal their sources." A reason for its use is that English has no dedicated singular personal...
 
8:57 PM
Meh, ok.
 
I feel like @tchrist should have had this conversation, but... :P
 
@hichris123 Array of arrays?
 
@bjb568 oh great, someone realized I don't really know my Javascript ... hides
 
@JasonC 49
 
wow
 
9:16 PM
> Apparently some nutjob flew a german place into a mountain. There are some interesting people out there.
 
9:27 PM
interesting
 
9:40 PM
@hichris123 No it isn’t singular. Their is a personal adjective of indeterminate number.
Moreover, it is not “wrong”. That’s nonsense.
@bjb568 You’re fine. Anybody who says otherwise should have their tongue examined.
Sometimes it is distributive, as in to each their own.
Also, theirs is a personal pronoun and therefore an actual substantive. Their is merely a personal determiner, which some people call a personal adjective, and not a substantive at all.
@JonEricson That seems . . . high?
But I can see why he asked now.
I bet that tags on main and tags on meta don’t overlap much.
 
@JonEricson Thanks!
 
That does seem remarkably high. I wonder how it happens?
Do people just not know what site they’re on?
 
People posting on the wrong site mostly, I'd guess.
 
9:56 PM
Okay, so if those got migrated, their originals would be locked and soon enough deleted. So migrated questions are included in that count. Which is fine.
 
Or maybe everybody who asks about visual-studio related meta issues is really offensive...
 
@tchrist Stack Overflow questions posted on meta rarely are migrated due to the golden rule of migrations.
 
Heh.
So I bet people clueless enough to post questions to meta are also too clueless to write a decent question in the first place.
 
Without really looking, I think that's correct.
 
Please don’t bother looking. Honest! Not worth your time.
People who always want more migration options are usually just asking for more get-rid-of-this-crap options.
 
10:08 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LOAN OF ANY KIND YOU WANT by Marc Arezou on money.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector Ick!
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
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A: Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun ("his" versus "her" versus "their")?

nohatSingular they enjoys a long history of usage in English and can be used here: "Each student should save their questions until the end." However, “singular they” also enjoys a long history of criticism. If you are anxious about being criticized (for what is in fact a perfectly grammatical constru...

 
@hichris123 What’s your point?
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@hichris123 Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
10:11 PM
David is just saying that some people get all knicker-snitted about it even though it isn’t wrong.
 
@tchrist I've heard it both ways, but it tends to be a grey area..
 
No, it isn’t.
Honest.
 
... how?
 
These zombie rules were brought to us by the same idiots who told us to never split infinitives, nor talk about things between Dallas and Denver and Chicago, nor to end a sentence with preposition. It is pure nonsense.
 
That a non-insignificant group of the population disputes it demonstrates that it's a grey area.
 
10:13 PM
Hardly.
No linguist disputes it.
 
@hichris123 believe @tchrist! His real name is George Costanza through
 
Not one.
Nor does the OED.
 
@tchrist But the medical doctor on TV told me that the prescription was safe!
 
It’s only busybodies whose panties are too tight who rant against it.
 
O_O
 
10:14 PM
You is plural, as you yourselves know, sir. So make sure you use yourselves never *yourself, which of course must be wrong.
That is their “reasoning”.
It has nothing to do with how English has been spoken for the last 700 years.
 
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A: Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun ("his" versus "her" versus "their")?

SensefulI remember reading somewhere that it was recommended to use the opposite of what most people stereotype the profession as. So, for example, when talking about a chiropractor, you would use "her", and when talking about a secretary, you would use "his".

wat
 
@bjb568 That’s nutty political correctness.
 
yup
 
I nearly throttled a proofreader once for trying that crap on my manuscript.
 
@tchrist Interesting that you present "their" case, but then dispute that anyone agrees with it.
 
10:16 PM
They switched the gender of every other pronoun, even with the same referent.
 
do you translate?
 
@hichris123 Listen, I’ve fought this insanity for more than 30 years.
@Braiam Sometimes, yes.
 
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A: Is there a correct gender-neutral, singular pronoun ("his" versus "her" versus "their")?

ArjanIt's not my area of expertise, I'm not using it, and just learned about its existence today, so just for reference from Wikipedia's Spivak pronoun: The Spivak pronouns are a proposed set of gender-neutral pronouns in English devised by Michael Spivak. They are not in widespread use, but have ...

O...kay...
@tchrist Thus making yourselves insane, right? ;)
 
@hichris123 We already have a correct gender-neutral singular pronoun, one that has been used for 700 years by our greatest writers and which every native speaker immediately and intuitively turns to. We don’t have to make up stupid PC crap.
 
@tchrist Translate my "o...kay..." to "what?!". :P
 
10:19 PM
It’s just something people who busy themselves worrying about what someone somewhere is doing like to fight about. Nannies.
Scolds.
 
nohttps
 
@hichris123 User blacklisted (100174 on android.stackexchange.com).
 
The most gripping one is xkcd... — Braiam 2 days ago
 
@hichris123 The internet needs a new standard "somebody is wrong" comic.
 
looks borked
 
@JasonC You sir, are wrong.
 
10:25 PM
@tchrist Well, I removed the tag from the remaining 3 questions. It wasn't really necessary for the other two (which were both kind of crappy anyways). Then I subscribed to the RSS feed. If a couple more bad questions with that tag pop up, then I'll go through the trouble of suggesting it be blacklisted.
 
hrm okay.
@TimPost Looks like this is fixed if you onebox a SE post with HTTPS, but XKCD oneboxes still break. Could you add [status-completed] to this question and reopen meta.stackexchange.com/questions/111493/…;? Thanks! — hichris123 9 secs ago
 
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Q: User profile page layout borked: #large-user-info needs clearfix

bjb568 Eww, layout looks borkey. It doesn't see to happen everywhere, but it appears #large-user-info is missing a clearfix. Add something like this: #large-user-info::after { content: ''; display: table; clear: both; }

 
Chat option to disable one-boxing.
 
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Q: Turn off oneboxing locally

DeadMGRecently I've moved from a large 1080p screen to a smaller one, and I never noticed this before, but holy crap, oneboxing is incredibly annoying if you don't have a large quantity of screen space. Please implement a feature where the user can choose to turn off oneboxing.

 
Dick Tracy watches shouldn’t onebox?
Why not? :)
 
10:32 PM
@bjb568 What is with Lightness's unexplained penchant for using profile pictures with unnecessarily blatant sex appeal?
 
really @bjb568?
 
@hichris123 I found that just now too.
 
@hichris123 yes
 
I... made your post better, and you rollback 20 seconds later?
 
@AlexisKing idk
@hichris123 no you didn't
It clearly conflicted with author's intentions.
 
10:34 PM
@bjb568 I linked to Lightness's profile. And I added formatting to that id...
 
Maybe the author intended to write a crappy post. Ever think of that??
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: How to go about making a recursive formula? by user227371 on math.stackexchange.com
 
probably.
knowing the OP.
 
@hichris123 Meh, that formatting makes it line-break.
 
@bjb568 <br><br><br><br><hr><br><br><br><br><br><br>
 
10:36 PM
well, you could at least make your sentences grammatically correct...
 
@Mooseman Don’t worry, it’ll warm up soon enough.
 
@hichris123 no
 
> Eww, the layout looks borkey.
 
@hichris123 Remember it’s just one step from being OC to being OCD.
 
@hichris123 because obviously the is vital to understanding the post
 
10:37 PM
@bjb568 You just can’t seem it, can you?
 
@tchrist Hrm? *having OCD
I feel like I'm nitpicking and not being constructive.
 
@tchrist maybe?
 
So I'm going to go do constructive stuff.
Maybe.
 
@hichris123 OC is to writing as PC is to politics: orthographically correct. :)
@bjb568 You have a forgotten letter.
> It doesn't see to happen everywhere
You might care to fix that.
 
oh
 
10:40 PM
People can’t see their own typos, because their brain always fixes it when they read it back to themselves just like it did the first time around. We see what we want to see, not what is there.
 
@tchrist Well, OC is different from OCD... I can be PC, but I can't be a disorder.
 
Revelartions: @hichris123 is a PC
 
lol
 
@tchrist I count at least 20 typos in your last comment here.
 
@JasonC Oh, you want me to change all those instances of they to the more inclusive sh/e/it, right? :)
 
10:50 PM
@tchrist No, you just spelled a lot of words wrong. You probably didn't notice because you can't see your own typos.
 
There’s only one word I always spell wrong, and I didn’t use it there.
 
@tchrist No, it's obviously your weird apostrophe. ’ != '
 
\xE2\x80\x99
 
@hichris123 he's using a spanish keyboard
 
Keep telling yourself that, @tchrist. You can't see your own typos, but we can. You're one of the worst typists here. Jeez, man, when will you finally see? You're completely delusional.
 
10:52 PM
The starwall is great:
 
^ Haha
 
@Braiam huh.
 
That's also what bjbs do when they realize you don't really know your Javascript.
 
What’s a BJ BS?
Is that like phone sex?
 
I can't read what you're writing, too many typos.
@tchrist Also, best/worst college degree ever.
Although I would have pegged it as a BA.
 
10:57 PM
:D
 
@JasonC I have a BA, sirrah. Amongst other things.
 
Do you also have a kitteh?
 
Dos.
 
Can we have a bot that automatically corrects bjb's grammar?
 
@tchrist Hopefully not in BJs...
 
11:00 PM
@JasonC It was an audit class.
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@hichris123 You shouldn’t pick on people’e relatives.
 
@tchrist I see what you did there.
 
We had a BJ question on ELU today, complete with a frognado.
 
Hey @tchrist: what is Smokey missing on ELU?
 
Ah yes, BJs and frognadoes; like peas and carrots.
 
@tchrist s/frognado/sharknado/
unless now it's with frogs instead of sharks...
 
11:14 PM
I really hope you're missing a 'k' and not a 't'...
Good. Shartnado avoided. At least, for now...
 
4
Q: bemustached versus mustached

LouelI’ve just read an article in The Huffington Post in which the phrase “bemustached 26-year-old” was used: Sex and sword swallowing beg some pretty obvious comparisons, but the similarities aren’t as clear-cut as you might think, at least according to professional sword swallower Brett Louderm...

 
I should stop googling stuff I don't understand... is better to leave them in the dark
 
You have to be kind to the OP: he’s from a vowel-impoverished city.
 
@Braiam Oh my, guess I wasn't the first to think of "shartnado"...
 
Did @tchrist ignore me or something? :P
 
11:22 PM
Unknown unknowns.
 
11 mins ago, by hichris123
Hey @tchrist: what is Smokey missing on ELU?
 
29 secs ago, by tchrist
Unknown unknowns.
I don’t recall any overt spammage recently overlooked.
 
"I don't recall"
 
ELU has not seemed particularly bespammed recently.
 
11:25 PM
Your memory is failing. Poor @tchrist -- better download some more RAM.
 
We know of no undiscovered bugs.
 
Is there a law that states that software is never truly bug-free?
 
But there are bound to be some, per Haldane.
 
Somebody edited one of my posts the other day to change all ' to ’ and "" to “”. It was infuriating.
 
@JasonC You’re welcome.
 
11:27 PM
Ha
 
@JasonC It's even worse when they change ... to a smart ellipses.
 
@hichris123 hey, they are making your post looks... smarter?
 
Oh god, the horror...
 
 
@hichris123 The only smart ellipse is one with non-breaking narrow spaces between the spaced dots.
@Doorknob That is not the right answer. :(
 
11:29 PM
 
The right answer is ".\x{202F}.\x{202F}."
 
What about dashes—is this correct?
 
meh, sometimes I like to use bigger fonts and the dots looks all cropped on top
 
/me abuses the Compose key
 
@tchrist which renders as what?
 
11:30 PM
@Doorknob Correct? It will do. Some people prefer spaced en dashes, or to set a thin space to either side of the em dash.
 
‮...
You can't tell, but that's an RTL ellipsis.
 
I can tell by starring it!
 
@Doorknob °h y°ŭ d°
 
@hichris123 This . . . is what ‘it’ looks like.
 
@Doorknob Lol, whoa.
 
11:32 PM
@tchrist So why is it smart? Actually, a better question is why are the others called smart?
 
@hichris123 hey…
 
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@hichris123 Which? What is called ‘smart’?
 
7 mins ago, by Doorknob
 
The only smart ellipses have been hand set by a skilled typesetter.
That one is unsmart.
 
@tchrist Even then, it doesn't seem smart -- it just seems correct.
 
11:36 PM
It looks incredibly incorrect to me.
 
Look at the reply arrow. ;)
 
Wow, I switched tabs for like 5 seconds and all hell broke loose here.
 
But… it's a single Unicode character.
How could that not be smart‽
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A: Space before three dots?

tchristYes, you do put a space in front of three of them, but not in front of four of them. The open questions are whether to use three or four, and whether to put spaces not just fore or aft, but between them. The short answers to those two questions are respectively that you use four without a l...

 
@Doorknob I love the interrobang.
 
11:37 PM
Voilà SVP.
 
@bjb568 ⸘Tú lo haces‽
(reverse interrobang ftw!)
 
you do it?
What's that mean?
 
You make it?
 
If something is different, it has an air of... difference? That sounds wrong, but...
 
I thot it was lo haces tú anyway since question word order.
 
11:39 PM
"you do?"
Google Translate probably messed that up
 
yeah
 
@bjb568 The would not be used except as an emphatic.
 
@Doorknob You do would be ¿Haces?
 
⸘El gato negro está en el baño de un aeropuerto‽
 
> You do it‽
 
11:40 PM
Nailed it.
 
The cat?
 
@JasonC "the black cat is in the bathroom of an airport"
???
 
@Doorknob If you mean "really?", google translate says ¿en serio?
 
@bjb568 "do you do it" is more accurate
 
@Doorknob Yes.
 
11:40 PM
@bjb568 Try No me jodas.
 
Mar 26 at 14:20, by Jason C
@AndrewT. Equally important is the ability to describe the color of los gatos, and locate the baño. Once you have mastered the aeropuerto / gato / baño trilogy, you should be pretty much fine anywhere.
 
How many languages do you speak, @tchrist?
 
I don’t know.
It is a curious question.
 
How many languages are you fluent in, @tchrist?
 
It’s like asking someone how many words they know.
 
11:42 PM
Or like whether they do it.
 
How many languages you feel confident of keeping a conversation on @tchrist?
 
@hichris123 Fluent? Two. Conversational? Maybe four or five on a good day and six or seven after a refresh.
 
@Braiam 0 for me
 
I'm with bjb.
 
yay
 
user259867
11:42 PM
@bjb568 except JavaScript?
 
yeah, you all have no conversational skills
 
@Woodface how to converse in js
 
@tchrist refresh == coffee? :P
 
user259867
@bjb568 Find a way,
 
user259867
> Finally found a gif that accurately portrays @marcgravell and I’s current project: imgur.com/e00wnNt -- Nick Craver at 3:13 PM - 29 Mar 2015 via Twitter
4
 
11:43 PM
And converse.js was born.
 
@bjb568 On a déjà visto ese hecho, bambino mio, nicht wahr?
 
wot
 
user259867
What kind of grammatical abomination is that tweet, @tchrist ?
 
@bjb568 Ask Google Translate to guess. :)
If it figures it out, I’ll add Latin and Catalan just like Dalí would do.
@Woodface Twit?
 
@tchrist Bing at least got two words:
in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 27 secs ago, by hichris123
(from Spanish) On a déjà seen that done, bambino mio, nicht wahr?
Wait, was that 4?
 
11:45 PM
It was four.
 
Well, two were already in English...
 
Rather.
It was in four languages.
It got only one word correct.
 
Last two words are German?
 
Richtig.
The only word it got right was "visto".
 
@tchrist On a already visited that fact, my baby, is it not?
 
11:47 PM
We’ve already seen that fact, eh me boy?
 
ugh
 
déjà isn't spanish... if anything it resembles french
 
deja vu
sans
 
I see I shan’t be having to mix in Latin or Catalan yet. :)
 
11:49 PM
is your quote slanty?
 
FFMPEG is clearly offensive.
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
@bjb568 «Which quote?»
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
You need to get more sleep. I can see the red in your eyes.
 
11:52 PM
wait, what was offensive there?
 
The lower-case I.
Some small matters of subject–verb agreement.
Smokey is definitely getting better at this.
 
I'm stupid.
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@Woodface I love it when people form possessives out of entire noun phrases like that!!! So cool!!!!!!!!!
 
You should edit the post than.
Can we all type with grammatical errors today to show @bjb568 he's not alone?
 
no
 
11:55 PM
@hichris123 You do know I have already edited 109 posts today?
 
@tchrist On SO?
nope
 
@hichris123 No, SO has crap-for-English and nobody gives a flucking fy. On ELU of course.
 
> "Boss, you are so handsome!"
"You just realized that now…"
"That was a joke, don’t take it so seriously…"
that would make me cry :(
 
It's almost tomorrow @tchrist, so don't worry too much.
 
We have standards, you know.
 
11:57 PM
You can focus on SO today.
 
@tchrist so does DD
 
Let this cup pass from me.
 
@bjb568 ahaha
 
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0/0 answered
 
11:58 PM
100% deletion rate.
@hichris123 yup!
 
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