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AstroCB

12:02 AM

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Q: Newbie to C, Pointers giving error ('p1' undeclared first use in this function)

Hello O knowledgeable ones, I have before the for thine guidance. I apologise already for requesting this help but despite there being threads on this the code in these threds is far beyond my primitive knowledge so only further adds to my confusion I've just started pointers, I have the simpl...

c pointers

> Hello O knowledgeable ones,

I have before the for thine guidance.

I apologise already for requesting this help but despite there being threads on this the code in these threds is far beyond my primitive knowledge so only further adds to my confusion

Jason C

Lol

Posts like that make me want to have a buzzfeed-style separate vote count just for "funny".

Ixrec

sometimes I wish we'd found some way of making the "minimal understanding" close reason work

Jason C

Nov 23 '14 at 17:39, by Jason C

Ixrec

Would "cute" be for ASCII art?

AstroCB

I was reviewing close votes and I realized that I'd been doing it for much longer than usual.

Jason C

12:10 AM

@AstroCB The election is rubbing off on you.

AstroCB

I thought maybe I'd found some exploit, but then I realized that it was UTC midnight, so review counts were set back to zero.

So I did ~70 in a row.

Jason C

@Ixrec Yeah, or adorable code, like tiny little Perl scripts and stuff.

AstroCB

@JasonC Maybe they should grant mod powers in advance to all of the candidates to see how we use them.

Jason C

I exhausted all 100 of my comment flags yesterday. It was kind of a strange feeling.

Undo

remembers when he would do that nearly every day

Ah, good times

Jason C

12:13 AM

Hehe

Ixrec

@JasonC PPCG would love that

AstroCB

We're up to 27 candidates, but the last two to be nominated have less rep than me, so that doesn't really concern me.

Kick list (I won't bother pinging anymore):
1. Ty221
2. Wobbuffet
3. Me
4. bjb568
5. hichris123
6. Unihedro
7. Undo
8. AlexisKing
9. Mooseman

Jason C

^ @Frank You're famous on Google.

AstroCB

Nice.

That's actually great.

Jason C

I know, right.

Undo

12:23 AM

lol

tchrist

Say, what’s the URL for that spiffy election recommendation pamphlet from the League of Woman Voters that always arrives in the post before any serious election? :)

Also, why don’t the editing badges include Illuminator? :(

Jason C

@tchrist Hmm; well there's lwvc.org/ballot-recommendations

tchrist

(That’s a half-joke.)

user259867

@tchrist Because it's too rare.

tchrist

@JasonC WHERE IS THEIR STACKOVERFLOW SECTION!!:!!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!

@pizza Not much of an excuse though is it? :)

Jason C

12:29 AM

@tchrist Is it the top, bottom, left, right, front, back, inside, or outside half?

tchrist

@pizza To that point, I’m not utterly convinced of the need to make secret badges for certain far-beyond-gold things (say, 10x Copy Editor or whatnot) when they’re willing to make golds that are so rare.

user259867

@tchrist If you're interested in the genesis of the score: the discussion began here and Illuminator was included at early stages... then dropped, because it seemed that the users who are busy moderating typically won't have enough answers-edits to earn it.

tchrist

Thanks.

I wouldn’t have minded an edit count, though.

It isn’t completely a moderation activity, but it is interesting.

Too many people stop at Copy Editor.

hichris123

Someone go close stackoverflow.com/questions/29320880/….

user259867

^ closed

AstroCB

12:44 AM

I got three upvotes on my top answers yesterday, and they weren't reversed by the serial voting script.

Not that I'm complaining.

I truly will never understand why, out of all of my posts, this one is #2.

It's just a GIF of a scrolling window...

user259867

Ooh nice animation. upvoted

AstroCB

...

Alright, who's doing that?

Jason C

@AstroCB I thought it was static, then BOOM, scrolled! Upvoted for the plot twist.

AstroCB

Now that's my top post...

Roombatron5000

NAA meta.stackoverflow.com/a/289621/3041194

Undo

12:47 AM

flagged

Jason C

My top posts are also super weird. One is an annoying Java vs. C++ debate, the other one is basically me relaying Google results, and gets like 1 steady upvote per week. It very slowly rose to #2.

AstroCB

> Would the down clickers please explain your reasoning?

Heh. "down clickers"

Ixrec

@AstroCB Upvoted your other top answer so it's top again

AstroCB

@Ixrec Don't feel obligated, but thanks.

Roombatron5000

@AstroCB "if you have a new question please use the ask question..."

Ixrec

12:48 AM

It's amusing =)

AstroCB

Tomorrow: the Tavern is deleted for voting fraud.

6

Ixrec

@JasonC I haven't been here that long so my top answers are all on questions that ended up in the HNQ sidebar sometime after I posted them; they were all "softball" questions but at least my answers are actually decent

Jason C

@Roombatron5000 Wow that's getting weird, lol. That guy keeps posting those answers (3 now) and the downvote rate is the fastest I've ever seen.

tchrist

@AstroCB Ya know, I might not be touting a top post that hasn’t even been garlanded with more than one wan silver yet if I were you. :)

Jason C

@Ixrec programmers.stackexchange.com/a/270882/121251 Nice; they are good answers. There's a lot of value in the softball answers. I still haven't hit any goldmines yet. One of these days.

tchrist

12:52 AM

And even that just a cosmic moment ago.

Ixrec

bizarrely the two big ones happened very early in my experience

Jason C

This site is based on getting free labor in exchange for being allowed to implement mob rule. — Travis Banger 1 min ago

Ixrec

so my rep has been growing very, very slowly after I (accidentally) rushed the initial 2k

Jason C

@JeremyBanks I think I've got another supporting constituent here for my rebel platform. ^

AstroCB

For posterity:

Ixrec

12:54 AM

@AstroCB that link rotted fast

tchrist

Only strange attractors are destined to be treble digit posts, usually due to cosmic rays mutating the zombie mob.

@AstroCB Post?

AstroCB

-7

A: Anybody interested in creating an independent group of Stack Overflow users?

Would the down clickers please explain your reasoning?

tchrist

Yah, had found it.

I guess it’s Rooma-proof.

AstroCB

This site is based on getting free labor in exchange for being allowed to implement mob rule. — Travis Banger 5 mins ago

Ixrec

I can't stop laughing at "down clickers"

AstroCB

12:56 AM

^ @JasonC That's your new campaign slogan.

rlemon

i need to hang out here more

that post is entertaining to me

tchrist

Orca pod.

rlemon

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/289620/…

hwat?!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in answer: Using GDAL inside MATLAB in Ubuntu by Fabio Delogu on gis.stackexchange.com

tchrist

> –7 Okay, but note that much more severe abuse is being inflicted on YOUR SOURCE OF INCOME than this minor reply. – Travis Banger 46 secs ago

Source of income? Huh?

Ixrec

12:58 AM

@SmokeDetector fp

rlemon

@tchrist exactly.

I don't think he understands how SO works

Ixrec

I guess a lot of you have 10k since all these links 404 for me

AstroCB

@tchrist Well, you know, I've always wanted to know why modern Perl avoids UTF-8 by default.

tchrist

@rlemon Your perspicacity is showing.

James

!find bjb

bjb568

12:59 AM

BJB Enterprises | Quality Polyurethane & Silicone Mold ...

Undo

lol

tchrist

@AstroCB Tell me more, tell me more!

rlemon

@tchrist I'm not just another pretty face

0

Q: "put on hold as unclear what you're asking"

What part of "Anybody interested in creating an independent group of Stack Overflow users?" Should I type r.e.a.l s.l.o.w?

discussion support

tchrist

Yeah, just found that.

rlemon

is it mean that I voted close as unclear?

tchrist

1:00 AM

Offensive.

James

Lol

Ixrec

the comment it just got might be going too far

everything else about this is funny

rlemon

I am dead serious, don't be surprised if this site faces a Class Action Lawsuit. — Travis Banger 23 secs ago

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: About Oscilloscope Probing Philosophy by alex on electronics.stackexchange.com

rlemon

lol

I've seen this a few times on meta now

Undo

1:03 AM

@rlemon Class-action lawsuit from one person?

tchrist

Really?

More than one idiot?

rlemon

how often do people threaten to sue SO?

tchrist

Say it isn’t true.

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@pizza Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Undo

1:03 AM

I doubt that sponsors such as Microsoft and Google know what is going on here... — Travis Banger 16 secs ago

Didn't know they were sponsoring us

rlemon

lol I love this guy

Undo

he's great

Anonymous

Does he want a users' union?

2

Anonymous

That's the only sense I could make of those posts.

Ixrec

he's gone far enough that I no longer feel tempted to point out that chat is the right place to ask that question

whatever he meant by it

tchrist

1:04 AM

The loons are gaining on us.

@JeremyBanks Maybe he wants some drinking buddies.

2

Undo

@tchrist They passed us long ago

rlemon

@tchrist hey now

Anonymous

@Undo Google does sponsor a lot of tags, and Microsoft also has in the past. (I don't see any right now.)

rlemon

when people say loons I instantly think Canadians

Andrew T.

been awhile since there's drama on MSO. grabs popcorn

rlemon

1:06 AM

/me waits for third follow-up question

Roombatron5000

/me scared, I was the first to downvote and to vote unclear, I'll likely be named first in the lawsuit

rlemon

yup, you're boned.

Ixrec

we're probably all complicit in the "abuse"

tchrist

~~I understand that this guy is well, something unprintable, but one should be cautious about obliviating metaposts so quickly. It does not look good.~~

rlemon

-2

Q: "Please stop, this is ridiculous and not constructive for anybody. "

"Please stop, this is ridiculous and not constructive for anybody. " Freedom of Lawful Assembly is ridiculous? Suppression of dissent is constructive?

discussion

well these are not posts

these are just someone not using the forum correctly.

tchrist

1:08 AM

What forum? :)_

Ixrec

it's not a forum, it's a meta!

Roombatron5000

@tchrist ? It was unclear what he was wanting in his original question.. and instead of editing and explaining what the heck he was wanting , he chose to rant

tchrist

TIL that SE is run by the United States Government.

Qantas 94 Heavy

> Freedom of Unlawful Assembly is ridiculous?

FTFY

rlemon

FINE! ignore that any message-post medium is a forum on the internet :P JUST THROW LOGIC TO THE WIND!

:flips table:

Ixrec

1:09 AM

but in all seriousness

why are they all getting deleted rather than closed as "wtf are you asking"?

meagar

They are getting closed

But then they're also getting deleted

rlemon

I can see the first one staying open?

err, not deleted

meagar

Yes

rlemon

rest are just noise

meagar

I was in the middle of typing a comment asking him to clean up his question and clarify when it was deleted

Ixrec

1:10 AM

the first one was deleted for me before the second one appeared...

maybe I clicked the wrong link

meagar

He's off the deep end now though :|

rlemon

yea a mini meltdown

Ixrec

nope, it's deleted

tchrist

I have a bad feeling about this.

Anonymous

He's suspended now.

rlemon

1:11 AM

he needs to cool down

tchrist

Told you.

Jason C

@AstroCB Haha, yeah, I know: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3269843#3269843 It's great.

Anonymous

I did actually want to know what he was asking...

Jason C

All those down-clickers.

2

Ixrec

it does seem like the original question should have been closed and not deleted

rlemon

1:11 AM

I agree

Anonymous

I voted to undelete, FWIW.

rlemon

however the answers needed to go

:P

Jason C

@meagar Me too. Mine would have been better. Vote for me.

meagar

:p

Ixrec

interestingly, AstroCB's screenshot shows up in the transcript even though it was broken for me when he/she/it originally posted it

tchrist

1:13 AM

Astro is a boy!??

rlemon

Astro is a boy-machine

tchrist

=boy-toy?

rlemon

not a real boy, but modeled after one. with badass rocket boots.

tchrist

I was just talking about gippettoing this morning, too.

user259867

@Ixrec Github profile, linked from Astro's SO profile.

Jason C

1:14 AM

FREE TRAVIS BANGER. JASONC 2015

3

Andrew T.

voted

Jason C

My cats are wondering what the heck I'm laughing at.

rlemon

my cats just bite me and walk away :(

Jason C

I'd settle for that. I've got one that's 16 lbs of mostly muscle who really likes jumping on my keyboard when my laptop's in my lap, and he's not very graceful. It's intense.

I hope bjb's not too bummed out, he had a rough online day.

tchrist

Send him mousies.

user259867

1:22 AM

in CoGro Musings, 23 hours ago, by jmac

Documentation: when you need it, it doesn't exist. When you're best equipped to create it, you don't have time to. When you do have time to create it, you've already forgotten what should be in it.

Jason C

If we cropdust a 10 square mile area of Cincinnati around the Children's Hospital with mice, we should be able to get him.

AstroCB

@pizza It appears we've moved from stalk bjb time to stalk Astro time.

Unfortunately, you can't really exploit xkcdBot.

user259867

s/exploit/use

AstroCB

But I guess that's mostly because it's not currently functional.

@pizza Pretty much.

But I guess that's mostly because it's not currently functional.

Qantas 94 Heavy

Morning!

Jason C

1:25 AM

@AstroCB Middle name J?

Apartment 5?

@Qantas94Heavy Morning

Man I was trying to go to bed like an hour ago. Night all.

bjb568

Ah, awake from nap.

Roombatron5000

2 answers need another downvote for roomba here stackoverflow.com/questions/68720/…

user259867

status-completed

James

Done

bjb568

@JasonC was asleep

SmokeDetector

1:40 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How would stoning of an adulterer actually be carried out under the Law of Moses? by Lucy on hermeneutics.stackexchange.com

user259867

Good news for self-deleters: you have to actually look like you're rage-quitting now before the system raises a flag.

AstroCB

@JasonC Nope.

tchrist

@pizza I know of one well-meaning user caught by that sting.

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector fp whore

SmokeDetector

@JanDvorak Registered answer as false positive.

tchrist

1:42 AM

@bjb568 I wanted to make sure you knew something: I don’t think zeal and passion are bad things. Not at all.

bjb568

Good

AstroCB

They're not bad, but they're often accompanied by criticism-blindness, where you see every piece of information not in accordance with your belief as a personal attack on you.

@SmokeDetector fp Don't know what triggered that

user259867

@SmokeDetector What keyword? Is the site blacklisted?

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB Registered answer as false positive.

tchrist

@AstroCB Nothing somebody says before but counts.

user259867

1:46 AM

@AstroCB I think it may be spam, actually.

AstroCB

@pizza Unlikely; it appears to be relevant to the question.

Jason C

That wasn't an fp.

@AstroCB No. bit.ly/1JmmS1Z

Totally a spam bot.

Jan Dvorak

@AstroCB so is much spam

AstroCB

Hmm...clever spam.

user259867

spam apple.stackexchange.com/a/179960 (formal announcement) :)

tchrist

1:48 AM

Athena take them all.

Jason C

Shucks.

bjb568

Huh? I was pinged in deleted post?

James

!whois bjb

Jason C

@bjb568 Yeah I tried manually replying to smokey's removed post but typed your post id instead.

user259867

The keyword that triggered that was "Brorsoft", btw.

bjb568

1:49 AM

oh

user259867

@JasonC It wouldn't do anything. (a) Smokey wouldn't be notified; (b) It parses the message to see what it should do; if there is no message...

user259867

spam gone, meanwhile.

Jason C

@pizza Yeah well, I parsed ur mom last night, twice.

2

The cleverest spam I've seen recently was the experts exchange seed + answer with links replaced, linking to a spam post on a legit forum.

AstroCB

!find Jason C

bjb568

Jason C-Effects™ Powered By Ester-C® Pure Natural Hyper-C ...

AstroCB

1:52 AM

@bjb568 Spam.

Jason C

Whoa

Doorknob

hahahaha

bjb568

!se Jason C

User Jason C - Stack Overflow

Doorknob

!se knob

bjb568

What is this knob for on my fireplace? - Stack Exchange

Doorknob

1:52 AM

ha

bjb568

@JasonC expertsexchange

AstroCB

!se AstroCB

bjb568

User AstroCB - Stack Overflow

James

!se James

Doorknob

!se doorknob

Jason C

1:52 AM

Cap's !!mustache command is the best.

James

!!mustache

Doorknob

I think we broke it. :(

James

!se James

AstroCB

!se bjb

James

oh @bjb568 we meant to ask, what is the timeout on your 'Morning!' bot?

Jason C

1:53 AM

in Sandbox on Stack Overflow Chat, 3 hours ago, by Jason C

!!/mustache Jon Ericson

James

because we had a very very long discussion and test yesterday

AstroCB

Morning!

It's broken

Or turned off

James

:(

bjb568

@James It's complicated.

user259867

On my way to Pita Pit; keep an eye on this in case it's a seed.

James

1:58 AM

Looks very sus

Jason C

Dammit, computer crashed, where was I

Oh yeah:

2

We need that bot in here all the time.

Doorknob

I like how the baby's moustache is bigger than his

Jason C

I know, right

James

!se BJB

bjb568

lowercase

James

2:07 AM

!se bjb

WHY DO YOU HATE ME :'(

bjb568

!se bjb568

Borked?

yes

Jason C

!se Jason C

bjb568

How old is James Bond? - Movies & TV Stack Exchange

James

Oh I'll stop crying

wat

bjb568

Ok, it was a rate limiting issue.

!se bjb

User BJB - Stack Overflow

Jason C

2:08 AM

@James I believe you mean, "wat"

James

@JasonC I have no idea what you are talking about

Jason C

Wat

James

It works brilliantly

user259867

@James Apparently ok; answered by an established user.

James

@pizza good to know

hichris123

2:21 AM

@pizza SU said that was spam.

user259867

@hichris123 Yes, Jason C confirmed this post as tp with google search.

user259867

Identical messages were left around the web by that bot.

hichris123

ah

Let's try this again: reopen votes please: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/111493/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website, Blacklisted user: World Of Warcraft Tokens Price And Release Date Revealed by user263838 on gamedev.stackexchange.com

Jason C

@hichris123 Why?

hichris123

2:27 AM

@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 Mar 29 at 22:26

The question I want reopened is broader than the question it's duped to -- the dupe only mentions SE posts, but the one I want reopened mentions XKCD & others.

Jason C

@hichris123 Should we try to reopen meta.stackexchange.com/questions/210585/… too and get it marked as a dupe of meta.stackexchange.com/questions/111493/…?

(Or possibly the other way around, actually, since the one we're trying to reopen seems to just use xkcd as an incidental example, but the one I just mentioned explicitly mentions xkcd.)

Or

Uh

:S

hichris123

@JasonC shrug do as you see fit.

Jason C

I just ended up doing as you saw fit, because I'm confused and it seems to make sense.

I put a reopen vote on the one you mentioned and linked to the XKCD one in a comment there. The universe can handle it from here.

rlemon

you all know you can use /1-5 to produce different mustaches right?

Braiam

> You have already voted to reopen this question; you may recast your vote in 10 days

Jason C

2:33 AM

I won't be satisfied until I see mustache #6.

Doorknob

#3 is my favorite

rlemon

@JasonC you'll have to settle for 1+5

Jason C

@Doorknob I'm a fan of #1 myself

rlemon

noooo

how can I be so foolish to think it is 1 based :(

Jason C

:O

Doorknob

2:36 AM

@JasonC Pro tip: stick a ! in front of the URL to force onebox an image.

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/messages/3270166/history

rlemon

or add #.png but that is a neat tip[ @Doorknob

Jason C

The elusive mustache #0!

Braiam

unix.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/18355

wat

Jason C

@Doorknob Oh word.

@Braiam Wow.

Braiam

someone rejected it... dunno in what basis

James

2:38 AM

People..... the robo reviewers...... just wow

@Braiam LOOK AT THE COMMENT!!!

I don't want to follow that link at work, but I'm just imagining that it's a spam site

rlemon

nahh

just a file directory

Jason C

Yeah I looked at it it's just some weird file directory.

user259867

@James I think it's a little joke on editor's part.

bjb568

or is using windows

James

Well, IMO he should not be at all surprised if the edit gets rejected as spam

Jason C

2:41 AM

@Braiam What's up with that URL he added though... was that part of the intent of your answer?

James

its his first edit too

Braiam

@JasonC its the repository

if you read the context, you will notice

@nicael is this you?

Jason C

Oh I see, he actually left an answer at unix.stackexchange.com/a/137849/49422, then edited his answer into yours.

That seems maybe reasonable, although he didn't actually know why his answer worked.

James

Oh ok, but I still think that leaving such a stupid edit comment is grounds for flagging

user259867

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252998/…

user259867

2:46 AM

blacklist kandidate bestcelebritiesvideo.com

user259867

blacklist kandidate: Kardashian

user259867

(of course, so far we don't know if this will be a thing)

hichris123

@pizza blacklisted

Also, are you going bjb on us?

Braiam

not directed at you (not your fault), but "you can't" is never an acceptable answer for all algorithms in P. — Michael 2 hours ago

translations please?

what the heck is "P"?

Jason C

@Braiam He means all algorithms in pizza.

Andrew T.

2:49 AM

P vs NP? Not working on there.

meagar

At a guess: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem

Braiam

@JasonC lets ask @pizza then

Doorknob

algorithms with polynomial-time?

Jason C

Algorithms are my second least favorite topping besides pineapples.

Doorknob

(arbitrary guess)

Andrew T.

2:51 AM

uhh, it's a failed attempt at joke?

Braiam

@Michael I'm not sure what you are trying to convey. — Braiam 8 secs ago

fixed

Doorknob

Wait, that comment makes zero sense in the context of your post

Jason C

@Braiam More seriously, yes, he means P class problems, and my interpretation is that it was a (poorly executed) joking way to say "You can if you try hard enough."

But you also said "unless you want to modify the sources", which defeats his attempt, assuming my interpretation of his comment is correct.

Braiam

@JasonC well, you know what? NOT GONNA HAPPEN!

Jason C

I think, really, it was just a bad joke. But he tried.

Braiam

2:54 AM

it would be an bad UX design

F1 is hammered in the users/devs/cows that it means "help!?!?!?"

Jason C

I'm not sure if vim and "UX" belong on the same page together. Yeah, I went there.

user259867

@hichris123 c->k replacement is associated with that name... late evening attempt at humor.

user259867

Also Pita Pit was closed due to some emergency. :(

Braiam

@JasonC oh well...

Jason C

@pizza Aw. I can relate. My favorite french fry shop was destroyed in a gas explosion a few weeks ago.

Braiam

2:57 AM

^C^C^C^C^ESC^\^\

Jason C

Braiam

@JasonC that's a very big BBQ

Jason C

For serious

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