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4:00 PM

@LynnCrumbling It appears that, because the legal cleanup did not have an associated burnination effort, the kudzu just won't go away

xkcdBot

Today's xkcd comic (Episode VII):

The Lord of the Rings sequel, set years after the Ring hubbub has died down, is just Samwise discreetly creeping back to Bag End to finish dropping the eaves.

Lynn Crumbling

@durron597 Sounds like either (a) the cleanup needs to happen again, this time with an accompanying burn, or (b) we capitulate, and resign ourselves to the fact that legal will just need constant attention. Was there a reason that tags weren't destroyed when they hit 0 open/unlocked questions?

durron597

@LynnCrumbling There were thousands of questions to edit.

It's taking us days to delete all the software-tools questions

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[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Create SNMP Client in JAVA Using SNMP4j for ipv6 addresses by Anil on stackoverflow.com

Kevin Brown

@LynnCrumbling I ~~actually have~~ will be creating a ~~pending~~ MSO flag requesting that the tags are destroyed, but it takes a bit of time for that to happen

Lynn Crumbling

4:12 PM

:)

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[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: I have a miliseconds like “takeoffTime”: “1396614600000” need to convert it into date and time in ios/xcode by Pankaj Bhardwaj on stackoverflow.com

Lynn Crumbling

@durron597 If this is a still open, I'll jump on that effort... I assume that's part of the cv'ers room effort right now?

Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector fpu-

Lynn Crumbling

Needs one more... stackoverflow.com/q/31370474/656243

SmokeDetector

4:26 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: ArcSight Storage Group Bug by Robert Stan on stackoverflow.com

hichris123

4:36 PM

So quiet in here...

Lynn Crumbling

@hichris123 o/

@SmokeDetector tpu- fixed

bummi

Overall a very quiet(peaceful) day

Braiam

4:54 PM

@hichris123 everyone is dealing with "Monday"

hichris123

@LynnCrumbling I think you meant the other one. ;P

!!/rmblu stackoverflow.com/users/5035859/robert-stan

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 User removed from blacklist (5035859 on stackoverflow.com).

durron597

@LynnCrumbling The remaining things that need to happen in software-tools really only need people with 10k SO rep or more (delete votes). However, where we could definitely use the help from 3k-10k range users is with source-code

Not just close votes, burninating the tag from on-topic questions too would be helpful (software-tools doesn't have any on-topic questions).

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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: I have taken apart a mac Book G4 is there any way I can use the old keyboard mouse and screen by Oliver Marco on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in body: Explain the aggregate functionality in Spark using python by ab_tech_sp on stackoverflow.com

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

5:16 PM

@ZevSpitz I accounted for that with wibbly wobbly time variations on my original calculations that led me to believe that it is possible for the 10M question actually get asked BEFORE the 9,999,999th questions due to time differences and internet speeds. — Neal 19 secs ago

^_^

user259867

5:28 PM

@SmokeDetector fp- LifeForce

Braiam

@1999 don't tell me it was a Star Wars post?

Kevin Brown

@1999 Life force, Qi, and martial arts... on topic?

user259867

@KevinBrown I didn't consider topicality; it's not spam. For the record, the question: What statistics are there or whether Qi is metaphysical or physcial by Cort Ammon on martialarts.stackexchange.com

user259867

The user has 245 rep there, so they know about the site more than I do.

Braiam

well, I'm not sure that would get an answer... most of the time, Qi is in the realm of fiction

Kevin Brown

5:33 PM

Looks like it might be on-topic

Dronehinge

This should be migrated to PCG. They calculate things like that in 9 bytes. — Thomas Weller 2 hours ago

Unihedron

How much rep is required to edit others' posts on discussion area51?

another ignored question

SmokeDetector

5:51 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: NORMAL STRUCTURE by user123043 on mathoverflow.net

Dronehinge

@Unihedron sorry , I'll answer

@Unihedron idk

Unihedron

6:11 PM

You know... Even though that answer was totally useless and could had done with a random guess instead, at least you cared. Thanks.

user259867

We all care, we just don't show often...

user259867

By the way, Computer Graphics is the fifth proposal to reach full commitment. Either SE is getting more selective with launches, our they have a small backlog to work through.

user259867

Possibly due to new login? Idk

Kevin Brown

Tomorrow is beta launch day, so we may find out the answer soon

durron597

@1999 They always launch on tuesdays.

they also always graduate private -> public on tuesdays

Undo

6:17 PM

And last Tuesday was podcast day

durron597

I'm not as sure about beta -> full site.

user259867

Some launches were on Wednesdays. I should add day of week as a tooltip text... normalhuman.github.io/timeline

durron597

cv-pls and 20k delete votes pls stackoverflow.com/questions/31376485/…

9 downvotes in 13 minutes. Impressive

ProgramFOX

@durron597 10 downvotes... someone upvoted that O_o

durron597

@ProgramFOX haha didn't bother to click

cv-pls unclear stackoverflow.com/questions/31205402/…

SmokeDetector

6:33 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Como criar um site sem recarregar a cada clique num link? by user27735 on pt.stackoverflow.com

Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector tpu-

hichris123

Ok, I upvoted @hichris123 comment then so we can share our confusion... — rene 4 mins ago

Confused party!

@Unihedron I would guess 500 rep. discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/posts/4893/revisions

rene

6:52 PM

@hichris123 ... as long as we have some fun ...

hichris123

@rene which reminds me... I want happy hour back.

Which also reminds me... where in the world is JasonC?

rene

Maybe he moved to Yahoo Answers?

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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Is it right to do namaz this way? by Aleena. on islam.stackexchange.com

hichris123

@rene Maybe he was kidnapped by Yahoo. shudder

rene

Brainwashed...

SmokeDetector

7:08 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Как читать большой файл от какого-то одного места до другого? by JamesJGoodwin on ru.stackoverflow.com

hichris123

Don't bring that up again.

user259867

Deleted that before anyone saw it

user259867

sd ignore-

hichris123

@1999 My worry was that that would become the topic of the Tavern yet again.

user259867

No worries, hardly anyone is left here to debate anything.

SmokeDetector

7:15 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in answer: OpenGeo Explorer for QGIS 2.6.1 - No module named ogr2ogrtopostgis by natan on gis.stackexchange.com

Tiny Giant

7:30 PM

reopen-pls stackoverflow.com/q/31389491/4639281 question has been edited to fit the guidelines.

rene

He @hichris123 Can you re-open this? Pluralization bugs are no longer by design so the duplicate you choose is not correct...

@TinyGiant but run code snippet doesn't work as intended?

user259867

sd gone

user259867

8:26 PM

@SmokeDetector del edited

user259867

Mod election on InfoSec, 1 (one) mod position available

durron597

cv-pls homework paste stackoverflow.com/questions/31392797/coding-methods-in-java

hichris123

@rene fine. ;)

user259867

A very short nomination

durron597

cv-pls duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/31392892/… I'm out of votes but I want at least one real duplicate vote for possible community closure

user259867

8:59 PM

@SmokeDetector del ed

AstroCB

You really need something more official to designate who you are. If I hadn't looked at your profile, I would have wondered if you were trolling me or not. But anyway, thank you very much for looking into this - I definitely appreciate it! — Makoto 3 hours ago

@Shog

user259867

> Chrome 45 ships a few new ES2015 features ⇒ arrow functions, rest params, spread calls, spread in array literals, Object.assign, Array.from. -- Chrome Developers at 7:45 AM - 13 Jul 2015 via Twitter

hichris123

Your face broke gravatar. — Will 18 mins ago

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: RUNGE KUTTA METHOD FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL SOLITON by PHYSICS STUDENT on physics.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector I hope they aren't migrating that to Math.

SmokeDetector

9:15 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Update SQL using AJAX not executing by loranga on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: RUNGE KUTTA METHOD FOR DISCRETE EQUATION by PHYSICS STUDENT on math.stackexchange.com

durron597

@1999 How does a person get on the privileged list for smoke detector?

user259867

By poking @hichris123, usually.

durron597

Just submit a pull request to GlobalVars? ;)

hichris123

Or that.

durron597

Which way is preferred?

hichris123

9:24 PM

Or get hired, or become a moderator.

Shog9

@AstroCB I wondered who you were before I looked at your profile too. Then I looked at your profile and stopped caring.

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durron597

@hichris123 I don't expect either of those to happen soon

AstroCB

@Shog9 Fair enough.

Shog9

Just sayin'... We have dedicated pages for explaining who people are; if you ain't gonna read 'em, you can't really complain you don't know anyone.

AstroCB

Well, it's worth considering, since that comment has more upvotes than the answer that hosts it.

hichris123

9:26 PM

@durron597 Either. But it doesn't really matter now. ;)

durron597

@hichris123 thanks

Now that you've given me the power, how do you all decide whether to do "tp" or "tpu"?

Shog9

@AstroCB bikeshed. Folks are more interested by accessible triva than whatever danger Flash presents today.

AstroCB

Very true.

hichris123

@durron597 If all posts by the user should be reported (i.e. it's a blatant spam post, no hope for the user ever posting a legitimate post), use tpu.

@Shog9 Did you patch Flash today, Mr. Shog?

Shog9

no, I just disabled it.

user259867

9:30 PM

and it's usually better to add - at the end to suppress the output: tp- or tpu-

hichris123

I should probably disable Flash as well. There's really nothing that I use that needs Flash...

durron597

so if someone asks a not great but okay question, and then flips out with rage in an answer (see the most recent "offensive answer" notification) then the right thing to do is not blacklist him, even though it's a true positive

AstroCB

I wonder what @bjb has to say about Flash...

durron597

blacklist = spam, in other words, which "rage" is not.

AstroCB

@durron597 Yes; you don't want Smokey posting in here every time that user posts something just because s/he got angry one time.

durron597

9:31 PM

@AstroCB I understand, thanks!

user259867

@Unihedron On the main site it's 1000. I think this is the same for the discussion area. On the (very short) list of editors nobody under 1000 (except diamonds) has edited another user's post. (Some have retags, because at 500 you get retagging privilege, this being an old fork).

hichris123

@1999 Ohhh I forgot about that. It was (kinda) before my time.

durron597

Updated Smokey's wiki

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Q: Feedback Requested: Code Edition and Stack Snippets

You probably all know about Stack Snippets (a.k.a. "JavaScript/HTML/CSS Snippets"), which we introduced almost a year ago. You probably also know that Stack Snippets are routinely misused for questions that have nothing to do with HTML, CSS, or JS: Improve tooltip and positioning of code sampl...

hichris123

9:48 PM

@webmastir 7zip does multi-core too, what's better for you? Currently 32-core zipping via bzip2 large archives here.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on July 13, 2015 at 9:21 PM in reply to webmastir

I sure hope this isn't the data dump.

user259867

@durron597 First announcement by Thomas since being hired as a PM for SO.

user259867

I should add him to my stalking list, but don't know where... not the CoGro Team, not a developer or designer...

durron597

@1999 Put him on the same list as Shog.

user259867

Okay, makes the most sense out of three.

user259867

Then Laura should be there too. The 3rd person with PM as job title is Sean Bave who doesn't post much.

tchrist

10:15 PM

@rene I’m beginning to suspect that printf is the root of all evil.

bjb568

@AstroCB yuk

tchrist

Programmers have this dumb idea that they can put together random pieces of language that they don't plan for and still produce grammatical utterances. This is fundamentally nonsense.

AstroCB

@bjb568 That's what I figured.

hichris123

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Q: Support Emoji in Markdown

Stack Exchange uses Markdown, but unlike so many other sites that use Markdown, we don't support Emoji. I'd like to be able to write :smile:, :thumbsup:, :heart: or even :poop: and have it render correctly on all Stack Exchange sites. See the Emoji Cheat Sheet for more examples.

feature-request status-declined editor markdown-rendering emoji

Paging @tchrist.

tchrist

If you want Emoji, you know which plane to find them on.

SE supports emoji literals.

Sometimes.

But silly ASCII versions? fmh.

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A: Is there a equivalence table to covert ASCII smileys to unicode emojis?

Not everyone agrees on what is what, but here is one such possible table mapping input ASCII-art emoticons to Unicode emoji. Both data elements are single quoted, so backslashes and single quotes are escaped. 'o/' => '👋', '</3' => '💔', '<3' => '💗', '8-D' => '😁'...

"covert" smiles.

secret smirks

user259867

10:22 PM

Never underestimate the expressive power of a small box with a question mark in it.

user259867

bjb568

Fetal-maternal haemorrhage

Fetal-maternal haemorrhage is the loss of fetal blood cells into the maternal circulation. It takes place in normal pregnancies as well as when there are obstetric or trauma related complications to pregnancy. Normally the maternal circulation and the fetal circulation are kept from direct contact with each other, with gas and nutrient exchange taking place across a membrane in the placenta made of two layers, the syncytiotrophoblast and the cytotrophoblast. Fetal-maternal haemorrhage occurs when this membrane ceases to function as a barrier and fetal cells may come in contact with and enter the...

tchrist

@bjb568 m no box

s/\.m(?=\.)//

Hm.

There it is.

Not exactly what I was thinking of.

bjb568

6 fxied tpyo
edit link
edited 20 secs ago

tchrist
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tchrist

The markdown emoji request has zappalutely no upvotes.

bjb568

10:26 PM

Spans (as with all inlines) need space between.

tchrist

¿Cómo?

Oh, other Spanish.

I read "Spans" for Spanish!

bjb568

That's definitely exciting.

tchrist

For proper diversity, all we need now is for PILE OF POO to take EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-6 to help us distinguish that one from PILE OF POO with EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-1-2. Leave no poo uncolored.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Order of picture by date not by name? by Programist Volodya on superuser.com

user259867

10:57 PM

@bjb568 may be interested: Method for exercising a cat? by Pateen on patents.stackexchange.com

user259867

> A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.

user259867