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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Bash script, check numeric variable in in range by CaptainPhlegm on stackoverflow.com

Sigh. Edit.

OK I officially hate Bash.... sigh :(

Sigh.

1:02 PM

@tchrist What is that? It's not in the letterlike block.

Murine snarf-n-barf would have answered your question for you.

@JanDvorak I have some sympathy for her position.

Oh you know what's weird; when I copied your original character into chrome's address bar, it pasted a plain old n and some control code that changed the focus away from the address bar.

It is so annoying that I regularly preprocess.

Somewhere, it reminded something of an n.

tchrist% uniprops -a 𝒏
U+1D48F ‹𝒏› \N{MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL N}
    \w \pL \p{LC} \p{L_} \p{L&} \p{Ll}
    All Any Alnum Alpha Alphabetic Assigned InMathematicalAlphanumericSymbols Cased
       Cased_Letter LC Changes_When_NFKC_Casefolded CWKCF Common Zyyy Ll L Gr_Base
       Grapheme_Base Graph GrBase ID_Continue IDC ID_Start IDS Letter L_ Lowercase_Letter
       Lower Lowercase Math Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols Print Word XID_Continue XIDC
       XID_Start XIDS X_POSIX_Alnum X_POSIX_Alpha X_POSIX_Graph X_POSIX_Lower X_POSIX_Print

Age=3.1

I hope you understand how old that is.

1:06 PM

.1 more than 3?

It was in draft before the millennium, because we long ago knew that UCS-2 was getting shoved out the airlock.

Aha, I was right!

Although the first astral characters appeared in 3.1, UCS-2 was pitched out the airlock much earlier. They gave everybody suck on it plenty of time to get up to speed, then in March 2001, issued assignments in the astral planes.

Or stuck on it, even.

So, only 15 years behind the times. Microsoft: Putting the backwards in backward compatibility.

Excuses end-of-lived more than a decade ago.

Please stop running Windows 95.

This has been a public service announcement. Thank you.

Perhaps this...um, lecture (?) would get more traction in a chatroom about Unicode / operating system fanaticism.

Microsoft: Yesterday’s technology for tomorrow’s world.

1:15 PM

@jadarnel27 quick, say something about "brown" to restore order

Beige.

I think I’ll paint it beige.

Coffee.

@J.Steen ☕

The I missed the UPS guy twice last week before getting my parcel. Is that good enough, @Bart?

Macchiato.

Machado.

1:16 PM

@jadarnel27 so not brown

@J.Steen yes please

@jadarnel27 🚚

How do you review the last tag [INSERT GLYPH OF NO COMPREHENSION] edits on a site?

I asked a simple question, and all you prisoners of Bill could do is complain about your broken systems.

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: YUV 422 , YUV 420 ,YUV 444 by Aizen on stackoverflow.com

seems legit

An “I have no idea” would be courteous.

This probably points the way: data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackexchange/query/205967/…

Ok, found it: data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackexchange/query/199825/…

Thanks for all the help.

It's amazing you haven't gotten a flood of helpful responses from the people in this room that you've been insulting and / or criticizing.

What's wrong with us stupid Windows users, and our lack of Unicode support and historical knowledge?

1:26 PM

You aren’t paying attention.

More fun playing with bots, apparently.

Next you'll be criticising the chinese government for intentionally DDOSing Github...

I'm outnumbered!

Well shucks, now I'm not paying attention (in addition to all my other flaws).

@Undo 11k-ers unite!

user259867

List of communities with base css updates completed

user259867

1:27 PM

Official list shows they are about halfway done.

also, wow. India waking up changed things. @SecondRikudo was right.

I might not even make it past primaries this year :(

Oh well. SR has flags to handle >:D

dammit, where's my monitor?

@JanDvorak in front of you?

Now I do :-)

disorient.ddns.net/SOVoteMonitor

I can see not one, but two indian guys are above the fold. Well, at least their grammar doesn't suck. Unlike the grammar of some US cats.

@Undo so sorry :( good luck with the election!

1:34 PM

@Undo Jeremy and Ed are both going to overtake you at the current pace.

I'd prefer only one overtake me :P

The election's getting thoroughly de-taverned.

Maybe we should stop tavern-moderating, see how the sites fare then...

5

lol.

goes to dismantle Smokey

Should we shut down only the police station, or also the fire department?

1:37 PM

Yeah, we should all take a holiday and do a co-op project outside quality control or something.

still alive android.stackexchange.com/a/105395/39544 ref.: plus.google.com/109630730299064151935/posts

@JanDvorak I was thinking we start with the hospitals, then defund the police station such that they're technically still there, they just can't afford cars.

suggestion put together a blog and name it Meta: Meta Stack Exchange Tavern

user259867

@bummi gone

@Undo Jeremy's going to overtake you in 2 hours, Ed in 2.5. That's my guess.

1:41 PM

:P

have a shiny graph to back that up?

TREND GRAPH

OMG SO EXCITING

No it's just based on voting rates over last 90 minutes. Unfortunately I reset the tracker, otherwise I would've had averages over last 7 hours.

@Undo looking at the pace things are going, and projecting a little slowdown in pace, I think you have a chance to enter.

Yay for me maybe not losing too early!

;)

9	Undo		1625	0	+141
10	Jeremy Banks	1580	0	+190
11	Jason C		1554	0	+179
12	Ed Cottrell	1536	0	+200
13	slugster	1315	0	+196
14	Qantas 94 Heavy	1006	0	+118

1:47 PM

@JasonC That might have something to do with this.

I'm going to go revert my avatar to a colorful version of my dog. Maybe that'll help >:D

(I'm serious :P)

What about the cat-people-vote?

!!> encodeURIComponent('http://stackoverflow.com/election');

!!/help

@AstroCB I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.

@AstroCB the new prefix is ||

||> encodeURIComponent('http://stackoverflow.com/election')

Caprica Six

1:50 PM

@ProgramFOX "http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Felection"

Nice.

Avatar colorified. Now watch as the votes come in :P

4

... I should pixelate my avatar even deeper. Maybe it will help.

@Undo You can also try adding rainbows and making the dog look a bit like a unicorn :P

@ProgramFOX Uni-corndog

5

1:58 PM

@Bart Amazing.

@SecondRikudo If you copied and pasted that from the vote monitor; refresh the page next chance you get, there's a newer version that shows the gap between ranks and some timer info.

Mooseman

||> Math.PI*Math.PI

Caprica Six

@Mooseman 9.869604401089358

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: WHEN I TRY TO USE THE DVI CONNECTION THE MONITOR GOES INTO POWER SAVE MODE by tp1961 on superuser.com

if only I had the rep

Patrick Hofman

2:10 PM

cv-pls recommendation stackoverflow.com/questions/29629468/open-doc-files-via-js

meta police strikes again

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Should I close my BestBuy Credit Card? Will it affect my credit score and history? by Hack Genius on money.stackexchange.com

that entire account should be removed imo

@rlemon Flag it as spam. The moderator of that community will review all spam flags, therefore nuking the spam account.

already did

had to make an account to do it tho

2:14 PM

Common activity in Tavern.

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Providers list about biofertilizers by Enrique Vargas-Lecaros on opendata.stackexchange.com

I've got 66 so far.

lol

^ NAA

made another account and asked on his first question

haha

@J.Steen check the question asker ;)

2:16 PM

Yes. Still NAA. =)

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Is this mask really possible? by akshaya on movies.stackexchange.com

wow, so much spam

I like this bot

NAA...

I might have to steal it

user259867

@rlemon Neither of the last two posts were spam.

2:17 PM

spam seemed politer than "crap"

user259867

The spam category is tracked separately for IP-blocking purposes. When a clueless user adds "send me an answer to this question by email" as an answer, that shouldn't be logged as a spam event.

@JasonC I don't want to lose my progress though XD

@rlemon Caprica has detected a crappy answer. Fire downvotes!

Would totally blindly follow a bot

NAA stackoverflow.com/a/29629870/2619912

cv-pls rec stackoverflow.com/questions/29629995/…

Mooseman

2:31 PM

My comment flags were declined, yet the comments are gone. :/

spam superuser.com/q/901456/172747

user259867

Scholarly spam.

user259867

> Bishop et al (2004) reported a significant increase of 5% in the total work done for five 6 s sprints separated by periods of recovery of 30 s, although Parry-Billings and MacLaren (1986) found no improvement in performance in sprints repeated 30 s.

Here goes nothing.

!scores

xkcdBot

1. Martijn Pieters (40/40): 7389
2. meagar (40/40): 4743
3. Jon Clements (40/40): 3931
4. Matt (40/40): 3521
5. Second Rikudo (40/40): 3397
6. deceze (39/40): 2663
7. Jeremy Banks (39/40): 1653
8. vcsjones (39/40): 663
9. Raghav Sood (38/40): 1948
10. Paresh Mayani (38/40): 1851
11. slugster (37/40): 1375
12. rekire (37/40): 501
13. Jason C (36/40): 1604
14. Moshe (36/40): 411
15. codeMagic (36/40): 326
16. Idan Adar (35/40): 171
17. Sergey K. (34/40): 795
18. Amit Joki (34/40): 46
19. Ed Cottrell (33/40): 1585

2:33 PM

@xkcdBot how is that sorted?

oh, candidate score

bjb568

@SmokeDetector fp

Also available here.

@Undo Sorted by votes and uses candidate score as a fallback for ties.

@Undo Jeremy is creeping up on you

I know :P

@AstroCB Looks like it's the other way around

@Undo Yes – I just realized that.

I copy-pasted the wrong one...

2:35 PM

Wow. Those -100/-200 candidates got a pretty fast turnaround on votes...

Yeah, Shree

And Hermang.

Must have been India waking up.

yeah, India always does weird things to the elections

And China.

The culture is quite different.

2:37 PM

Fixed.

fp ^

<- from HK; has zero regional advantage

@SmokeDetector fp

@AstroCB Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

!scores

2:38 PM

@Unihedro I meant specifically India, but yeah.

@Unihedro Can attest to zero regional advantage for HK.

xkcdBot

1. Martijn Pieters (40/40): 7410
2. meagar (40/40): 4757
3. Jon Clements (40/40): 3945
4. Matt (40/40): 3534
5. Second Rikudo (40/40): 3410
6. deceze (39/40): 2672
7. Jeremy Banks (39/40): 1666
8. vcsjones (39/40): 669
9. Raghav Sood (38/40): 1955
10. Paresh Mayani (38/40): 1856
11. slugster (37/40): 1382
12. rekire (37/40): 501
13. Jason C (36/40): 1610
14. Moshe (36/40): 412
15. codeMagic (36/40): 326
16. Idan Adar (35/40): 172
17. Sergey K. (34/40): 794
18. Amit Joki (34/40): 46
19. Ed Cottrell (33/40): 1590

That's still off.

@Qantas94Heavy I don't even have the advantage of being in UTC+8 time zone because I stay up so late always

it's still sorting by candidate score first

meagar

2:39 PM

I'm pretty stoked with #2.

free flags : superuser.com/a/901459/172747

meagar

Last year it wasn't even clear if I would make it through the primaries.

Yep, you're doing well @meagar :)

thank the score thingy

Martijn is totally gonna be a mod

2:40 PM

oh, no question there.

There's like no chance he loses and it's gonna be awesome

!scores

xkcdBot

1. Martijn Pieters (40/40): 7416
2. meagar (40/40): 4764
3. Jon Clements (40/40): 3950
4. Matt (40/40): 3536
5. Second Rikudo (40/40): 3412
6. deceze (39/40): 2675
7. Raghav Sood (38/40): 1960
8. Paresh Mayani (38/40): 1857
9. Undo (30/40): 1672
10. Jeremy Banks (39/40): 1670
11. Jason C (36/40): 1612
12. Ed Cottrell (33/40): 1592
13. slugster (37/40): 1384
14. Qantas 94 Heavy (27/40): 1052
15. Andy (29/40): 869
16. Sergey K. (34/40): 793
17. vcsjones (39/40): 670
18. Thomas Owens (33/40): 503
19. rekire (37/40): 500

It's Martijn + two seats.

@xkcdBot there we go

Nah. There's going to be an epic turnaround when Kuala Lumpur enters the fray.

2:40 PM

:/ meta.stackexchange.com/a/253366/201151

Martijn isn't popular there.

@Undo unless more people are called up to "meet additional demand", yeah.

makes stuff up on the fly

Plot twist: bjb comes back into the game with >9000 votes

6

All those lolcats have a right to vote too.

2:44 PM

> 4chan influences StackOverflow moderation vote making Hitler the new moderator.

The worst part is it's not far off.

Letmme name myself "beehive" and use 10000 ~~socks~~ drones

No. Name yourself Millipede. Then it makes sense with 1000 sockpuppets.

No. Fix bjb's botling...it's JS!

borkey the botling, can we fix it? borkey the botling, NO WE CAN'T!

3

Maybe if you hire the Great Cannon of China

2:48 PM

@SmokeDetector fpu

^test for borkey

@InfiniteRecursion not gonna work if it's not a reply to something

Okay, tactic for next year: Call Indian government, convince them to try blocking everything that mentions "isis" again. Name self "Unisisdo", win election.

2

free flags gaming.stackexchange.com/a/213960/93824

@bummi I like how people are trying to speak with him

Poof. Protected.

@SecondRikudo did not see that

2:53 PM

Looked like a boilerplate comment.

Lynn Crumbling

@Undo You think it's an indian conspiracy? (I'm assuming it's downvotes that are an issue?)

less conspiracy, more a whole demographic that votes :P

Lynn Crumbling

Ah.

(I'm not bitter, if it comes across that way :P)

Lynn Crumbling

Never :)

It's always so humbling to start learning new technologies.

My first foray into Git.

2:59 PM

have fun

git = fun

Then, try TFS.

in Java on Stack Overflow Chat, Feb 18 at 9:18, by Second Rikudo

@OlegKuznetsov I used to use Git to play Pokemon as three different players.

@InfiniteRecursion No, borkey says "@SmokeDetector fp" when anyone deletes a message.

user259867

In last year's election, there was a link in each nomination to candidates answers to the questionnaire. Not yet here.

user259867

3:05 PM

Presumably, whoever edited them in last time is busy sorting out the SF mess.

Hi, anyone using SourceSafe? Our company is looking into this new technology to improve our workplace's productivity.

user259867

But the candidates can edit nominations themselves, afaik.

@pizza that can be a bit difficult if you're right on the limit.

I think that person managed to work around the limit last year or something like that.

user259867

A CM can raise the char limit to allow for the links.

yeah, Shog or Grace or someone will go through and edit them in

3:08 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Open Source Neural Network Library by markus on stackoverflow.com

user259867

And the question is OT/rec

Patrick Hofman

Question itself is a recommendation: stackoverflow.com/q/11477145/993547

in Stack Overflow 2015 Moderator Election Chat on Stack Overflow Chat, Apr 10 at 20:44, by Benjamin Gruenbaum

@Doorknob anyone from the tavern ever won a mod election?

@InfiniteRecursion animuson

and look what that got him.

3:10 PM

Hired.

user259867

Technically, he was called up some months after election, did not win outright.

@J.Steen whispers That's the joke

@Andy I PERPETUATED THE JOKE.

Because I now feel emotionally violated, I will go downvote every candidate in the election.

Or, y'know, just go grab some pasta.

@SmokeDetector closed

oooh ooh idea. @J.Steen go downvote everyone except me >:D

is so good at this politics thing

3:14 PM

@Qantas94Heavy I have used it! It's as good as, or better than, being poked with a sharp stick. Highly recommend.

@Undo except anyone from the tavern :p

@Unihedro Yeah, that

Can you believe this got flagged?

It's so family friendly lols

@undo HEY THAT'LL WORK

cv-pls utterly unclear stackoverflow.com/questions/29630908/…

3:16 PM

Good to see a non-cat, non-100 mb gif

On that note...

oh crap

NO! DON'T DO IT!

dammit

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

3:17 PM

#epilepsy

YESS

That's too annoying even for me.

SORRY GAIS.

THANK YOOOOUUUUUU

I was about to do Inspect Element -> Delete Node. But message deletion works too :P

I took the high road.

3:18 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Azure and CRM Dynamics by Marouane Abdellah Maroine ABDE on stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector cv-pls

I was deciding between moving it or kicking the poster

I TOOK THE HIGH ROAD. ;.;

YESH!

kowtow

Anyway. That gif is funny.

Just not, y'know, to see.

For any length of time.

3:20 PM

~~funny~~ annoying

Unsurprisingly, it didn't win first place in the animated gif compo at Revision in Germany.

I apologise again. Just in case. And then I go home.

o/

bye bye!

\o

bye bye!

\o/

3:25 PM

See yah.

Brown.

I feel like I've been getting more upvotes on my old asp.net web forms answers than usual lately.

Which makes me feel bad for the people using web forms.

Select * from tbl_students where Id in (Select Id from tbl_students where NgoId=@NgoId)

That is awesome.

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: ubuntu 14.04 package install fail (apt-get install error) by user313694 on askubuntu.com

in Maid Café (メイド喫茶) on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 11 secs ago, by Eric

Recurse all the things!

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29630521/…

A: What gets called with sensorLandscape

cv-plz too-broad stackoverflow.com/q/29122504/1849664

0

Thank you, this was soooooo usefull ! :) (I can't vote up now, so I give an Answer as a comment because I was crushing my head against walls in order to achieve this)

Poor guy, having to crush his head just to fix something

3:43 PM

quality wall

@SterlingArcher inferior head

lol

free flags apple.stackexchange.com/a/180884/55266

Why does the apple.se logo have the GE logo?

(or is it general mills?)

It's close, but not exactly GE's:

3:56 PM

Ahh

The logo represents Apple's command key.

Command key

The Command key (⌘), also historically known as the Apple key, clover key, open-Apple key, pretzel key, propeller key, squiggly button, the quad button, or meta key, is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards. The Command key's purpose is to allow the user to enter keyboard commands in applications and in the system. An "extended" Macintosh keyboard — the most common type — has two command keys, one on each side of the space bar; some compact keyboards have one only on the left. The “⌘” symbol (the “looped square”) was chosen after Steve Jobs decided that the use of the Apple logo in the menu...

... and I even have a mac keyboard too -_-

Wow that was dumb

Sorry

@SmokeDetector fp

@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.