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santiago

9:01 AM

response to a dv whine

Don't know, possibly both, maybe neither, maybe something else - who cares? — santiago 2 mins ago

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Not really a downvote whine.

santiago

meh

Uniforms For Sale

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/32114156/…

santiago

either way, how can a question be a dupe be for a question posted 7+ hours after it ws posted

Uniforms For Sale

Dunno...

santiago

9:13 AM

lol meta.stackexchange.com/q/263936/289879

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Hah!

Well, @bjb someone likes you.

Uniforms For Sale

Lol

> Do you mean BJB, a 13yo kid from Cincinnati, Ohio?

!!/lick

SmokeDetector

@UniformsForSale licks ice cream cone

bjb568

licks fir enthusiastically

Uniforms For Sale

Lol

tchrist

9:15 AM

@bjb568 Go back to bed!

Uniforms For Sale

@tchrist Its the bjb bot

tchrist

I know.

Uniforms For Sale

Thinks about writing a bot as well

S.L. Barth

@santiago It's acceptable for an older question to be considered the duplicate, at least on SO.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: You can also Brain Booster by learning projects that are new by debbihaye on superuser.com

santiago

9:18 AM

@S.L.Barth odd

S.L. Barth

It isn't held against the original poster.

I guess the idea is that a newer post can simply be better.

So according to the old SE guideline - it's the post that matters, not the age.

rene

sd tpu-

Uniforms For Sale

I wonder how many people are watching, waiting for 10M

101 MORE QUESTIONS!!!!!

Hype Hype Hype

santiago

meh

tchrist

I’m almost out of delete votes again.

santiago

9:24 AM

aww

NukesPlus

@tchrist aww no cat fur

Uniforms For Sale

!!/lick

rene

starts deleting posts

NukesPlus

!!/lick

bjb568

licks fir rhythmically

SmokeDetector

9:25 AM

@NukesPlus licks ice cream cone

Uniforms For Sale

!!/lick

SmokeDetector

@UniformsForSale licks ice cream cone

Uniforms For Sale

Heloo @bjb?

NukesPlus

!!/lick

SmokeDetector

@NukesPlus licks ice cream cone

santiago

9:25 AM

@bjb568 disturbing....

Uniforms For Sale

!!/lick

SmokeDetector

@UniformsForSale licks ice cream cone

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: http://bestofcheat.com/operation-dracula-hack/ by Lourdesjzoll on drupal.stackexchange.com

Uniforms For Sale

@bjb bot just died

NukesPlus

@UniformsForSale theres sth for u to flag

Uniforms For Sale

75 more questiosn!!!!!!!!!!11!!11!!

HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE

tchrist

9:26 AM

@NukesPlus wtfrutpng

santiago

yippee=doo

tchrist

With caching we’ll never see it say exactly 10,000,000.

Uniforms For Sale

review-plz stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/9226392

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: EOS 20D MANUEL TO AUTO FOCUS by raymond lewis on photo.stackexchange.com

tchrist

21 down

Uniforms For Sale

9:32 AM

10M!!!

santiago

yippee-doo

tchrist

cached

Uniforms For Sale

0

Q: 10 000 000 question is here!

Remember 1 month ago we talked about the 10M question? Will Stack Overflow celebrate the 10M question milestone? ITS HERE!!! Short answer, yeah - I plan on doing something. I'm not sure what yet, but it will probably involve plenty of tomfoolery and copious amounts of swag It will pr...

S.L. Barth

@UniformsForSale I'm out of SE votes today. But - you left HTML in boldface.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: The ASIHTTPRequest can't send request when I archive my project to ipa by RangerChang on stackoverflow.com

NukesPlus

9:36 AM

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@NukesPlus Body - Position 389-393: fuck

tchrist

> STILL NO GOOD. Help me!! My boss will fuck me soon!!

I hate it when that happens.

NukesPlus

@tchrist i guess his boss likes getting people pregnant.

tchrist

Oh ye of little imagination.

santiago

Interesting and disturbingly sensual work environment... — santiago 1 min ago

Uniforms For Sale

9:39 AM

Ummm

Why CV?

rene

@santiago I edited the sensual part out if you don't mind...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Is converting DVD to a format to play on a tablet legal (in the UK) by chris DR on video.stackexchange.com

NukesPlus

@SmokeDetector why

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@NukesPlus Body - Position 190-198: Brorsoft

@S.L.Barth Body - Position 190-198: Brorsoft

NukesPlus

9:42 AM

@S.L.Barth i said it first! D:<

S.L. Barth

@NukesPlus <grumpy>Yes yes, don't rub it in</grumpy>

:-)

santiago

@rene meh

Uniforms For Sale

Goes to take a shower

Cya!

NukesPlus

@UniformsForSale looks inside bathroom

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: How to NAT identical IPs on different interfaces to secondary IPs on eth0? by gazsiazasz on serverfault.com

NukesPlus

9:56 AM

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@NukesPlus Body - Position 1203-1210: ASSHOLE

tchrist

Oh, it's worse than that.

NukesPlus

@tchrist i know mate, i know.

SmokeDetector

10:10 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: You should focus on short-term realistic goals by james on meta.stackexchange.com

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Like flagging that as spam.

sd gone

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: where sale fast delivery nike free run mens? by Zhimin Lin on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body, repeating characters in body: convert xml to json while keeping code working by Mike Younes on stackoverflow.com

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

which question was it...?

that won?

SmokeDetector

10:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: His emotions to wear its depressed by brettsgreen on superuser.com

SmokeDetector

10:42 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ORACLE WAREHOUSE BUILDER ERROR by Abimbola Folorunso on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Best Skin Care Items Particularly For Men by lindasmeiyers on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Your skin layer cell is going to be deprived of vital humidity by user441567 on askubuntu.com

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector tpu-

SmokeDetector

11:03 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: There are many supplements that are available by benjam verly on superuser.com

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector tpu-

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Try to make it seem like you're bigger by markroosevelt on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Big data case study or use case example by sai on datascience.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: Call 1 844 711 2888 For Hotmail Password Issues to Hotmail Technical Support by Email Technical Help on webapps.stackexchange.com

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector tpu-

I don't have accounts on those last two, someone who does please flag them as spam.

bjb568

11:26 AM

Please don't post PII like that in comments @Jan, probably best not to post anybody's

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Who's Jan?

SmokeDetector

11:43 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Breast feeding may also support your child by user441582 on askubuntu.com

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@S.L.Barth Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Scanning beam and synchronous detection using a passive reflector as a position/location detector by HW Buck Crowley on patents.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body: Best Online VB .NET Training by janki78 on stackoverflow.com

user259867

12:08 PM

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Link-at-end is currently active only at Drupal, Meta, and SU, which are the three sites with the highest concentration of such spam. Worth considering for AU... but on SO it would generate far too many false positives, due to the number of questions with links.

user259867

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M That was the first time ever that "supplements" appeared in the title of SA post, cooking.stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3Asupplements Health-related questions are off-topic there.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ORACLE WAREHOUSE BUILDER by Abimbola Folorunso on stackoverflow.com

user259867

Still needs flags: cooking.stackexchange.com/a/60067

user259867

12:24 PM

@SmokeDetector fp- "diet plan"

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

Oh.

Pandya

I think we should avoid social chatting at SE chat room right?

PeterJ

@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M, not sure if I'm following the above correctly but if you wondered why the cooking "supplements" question had a -1 that was just a regular downvote from me because part 1 either makes no sense or is more likely an implied health question, part 2 is answered on the Wikipedia article.

Pandya

Is there any meta-post or SE blog for this discussion/topic?

PeterJ

12:41 PM

@Pandya AFAIK social chatting is fine in any chat room, the only rule is that the room should mostly be about the topic of the main site and mainly concentrate on that. But what did you mean just the odd social chat in an existing room or an entire room for it?

Pandya

@PeterJ in existing room (not entire room for it)

tchrist

Good luck with that. Lemme know how it works out for ya.

Pandya

@PeterJ Actually currently I'm talking in ELL's Cabin and seems I was chatting socially at somewhat. I stopped / Hold before answering this. and need advise

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Korean character in title: Google 맵 클릭이벤트를 구현중인대 문제가 생겼습니다 [I experienced an issue being for implementing the Google Map Click on the event] by s moon on stackoverflow.com

tchrist

All chat is inherently social. I do not understand why one need advise anything.

Uniforms For Sale

12:47 PM

Spam?

Sup @Undo

Undo

@SmokeDetector Doesn't seem to be spam

tchrist

@Undo Doesn’t seem to fit an English-language site, either.

Pandya

@tchrist that's why I'm....

tchrist

@Pandya You’ve misthreaded.

Uniforms For Sale

Ummmm

Errrr

SmokeDetector

12:50 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: I experienced an issue being for implementing the Google Map Click on the event by s moon on stackoverflow.com

inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M

@PeterJ Bah, I didn't even click on the question to see what it is; I just thought it's a false positive and then thought there might be a lot of those on Seasoned Advice.

No evidence, just pure speculation.

Uniforms For Sale

I just rm'ed a who lot of korean and I got an error

PeterJ

@Pandya, I'd certainly go ahead and answer that chat is not that formal. Someone would let you know if they found it was too annoying, like you were exchanging hundereds of chat messages about something noone else was interested in.

tchrist

@UniformsForSale ¿?

Uniforms For Sale

@tchrist From that s moon user's question

tchrist

12:51 PM

What error did you get?

Pandya

@tchrist oh! sorry

Uniforms For Sale

Edit must be at least 6 chars

But...

Thats alot of korean!

@NormalHuman gone

tchrist

Autodeleted.

rene

!!/rmblu stackoverflow.com/users/5247489/s-moon

SmokeDetector

@rene User removed from blacklist (5247489 on stackoverflow.com).

Uniforms For Sale

12:52 PM

4

Q: 10 000 000 question is here!

Remember 1 month ago we talked about the 10M question? Will Stack Overflow celebrate the 10M question milestone? ITS HERE!!! Short answer, yeah - I plan on doing something. I'm not sure what yet, but it will probably involve plenty of tomfoolery and copious amounts of swag It will ...

discussion 10m-questions-milestone

Ummm why DV and closed?

rene

@UniformsForSale This question does not appear to seek input and discussion from the community

Uniforms For Sale

@rene BUT WHY

rene

What do you want to be discussed?

Uniforms For Sale

Just saying it

Because someone will eventually post that

rene

If you want to remind Tim about sending the goodies use the contactform

Uniforms For Sale

12:56 PM

Tom?

tchrist

@Shog9 You are doing the Lord’s own work, but 14 hours of mindless toil is beyond comprehension.

@UniformsForSale Madam?

Uniforms For Sale

Why are you summoning the mighty Shog?

@tchrist Sir?

tchrist

@UniformsForSale Why did you summon me? :)

PeterJ

@Uniforms You should have posted it as a feature request, like 10m is too many maybe it's time to drop delete votes to 20 rep instead of 20k ;)

tchrist

Ah, typo.

rene

12:57 PM

@UniformsForSale yes, your post can function as the canonical dupe target

Uniforms For Sale

Well if I get unsuspended I can tell Tim

He's in the Minectaft room

Undo

@tchrist At this point I think he's using a script

tchrist

I truly hope so.

Shog9

@tchrist heh, I queued stuff & went to bed

tchrist

Oh good.

It will be amusing to look at the questions asked and questions deleted graph covering this period.

Uniforms For Sale

1:06 PM

> option Web server for development?
1) WEBrick (default)
2) Thin
3) Unicorn
4) Puma
5) Phusion Passenger (Apache/Nginx)
6) Phusion Passenger (Standalone)
choose Enter your selection:

Really?

You need to ask?

Whoops

tchrist

There goes my thirtieth delete vote. Again.

Uniforms For Sale

You can always call in Shog to do it

tchrist

What, to get in line after the other umptithousand? I’m just picking off stuff that lacks but one to go, not stuff that needs a binding vote.

Uniforms For Sale

Well there's nothing to flaj now

Looks bored

!!/lick

SmokeDetector

@UniformsForSale licks ice cream cone

bjb568

1:17 PM

licks fir softly

Uniforms For Sale

Ummm @bjb ok

!!/lick

ProgramFOX

!bjb Is that bjbotling?

SmokeDetector

@UniformsForSale licks ice cream cone

bjb568

iz dat bjbotling? [translated]

ProgramFOX

... okay, it is

Uniforms For Sale

1:18 PM

!bjb halo?

bjb568

halo? [translated]

tchrist

He might be translatored.

Uniforms For Sale

Sup @And

Braiam

I'm scared now...

Uniforms For Sale

Why

user259867

1:19 PM

@SmokeDetector fp-

Uniforms For Sale

Has anyone cut butter with a saw before?

tchrist

Plural?

Uniforms For Sale

Nope

tchrist

I usually axe off whatever chunk I need.

Uniforms For Sale

Ok

Sup @Uni

SmokeDetector

1:21 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: Presently get delight from diversion cheats effectively! by Nazherchozen on magento.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp- maybe testo- is not that great...

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu-

tchrist

@NormalHuman Are we surprised?

Companies that feel they need to spam for business obviously have nothing worth having.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: How can I should initialized object efficiently in the following case? by Ravi on programmers.stackexchange.com

Uniforms For Sale

status-too-lazy-for-rep

Don't want to edit

user259867

1:25 PM

Would be pointless to edit, anyway.

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore-

Uniforms For Sale

JSON FTW!

tchrist

yawns

Uniforms For Sale

Falls asleep

Falls off chair

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: Runtime Error-2147217904(80040e10) by Suresh Dply on stackoverflow.com

user259867

1:35 PM

@SmokeDetector ignore- but :/

user259867

I read up a bit on the .com.com thing... it's not surprising that people would type this into their browser, but why post hyperlinks like that?

user259867

The first link in the question here looks scary: stackoverflow.com/q/8033210

Uniforms For Sale

Sup @Uni

tchrist

Man, over 8,000 lines of personalized predication data.

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

@UniformsForSale what do you want?

Uniforms For Sale

1:40 PM

@U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶ Just saying hi

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

ok hi

Braiam

@NormalHuman the guy went evil

Uniforms For Sale

See?

U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶

@UniformsForSale spammer

Uniforms For Sale

?

tchrist

1:44 PM

Who hides ignored tags?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Scanning beam and synchronous detection using a passive reflector as a position/location detector by HW Buck Crowley on patents.stackexchange.com

PeterJ

@SmokeDetector ignore- patent holder's e-mail address

user259867

But what is the question, again? With the self-answer.

user259867

@tchrist I do.

user259867

Who doesn't?

tchrist

1:47 PM

Just curious. I for the hell of it put them back to greyed out and found it intolerable.

Andy

@UniformsForSale It is kind of annoying to be pinged the second I enter a room though. Action has been taken against bots for doing the same. It should be noted that it was discussed later that individual rooms should have a say over whether or not automated greetings are acceptable.

Uniforms For Sale

Umm ok

Its not a bot

Its me

Andy

But you act like one when you greet people immediately upon entering the room.

I am simply asking you to stop. Whether anyone else agrees with that is up to them

It annoys me though

tchrist

Ping not lest ye be pung.

PeterJ

@Normal, hmm I didn't notice the comment - I assumed it was a paste of a valid patent but a comment seems to question that

Uniforms For Sale

1:50 PM

Ok

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: What's the catch in investing in real estate for rent? by Koil on money.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- let's just protect all questions on Money

PeterJ

gone after 2 flags

SmokeDetector

2:07 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Bring change in your exercise routine by pernillewiik on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer: How to get URI from an asset File? by Irfan Ali on stackoverflow.com

Uniforms For Sale

sd tpu-

sd gone

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@S.L.Barth There is no why data for that post (anymore).

S.L. Barth

Oh, wait, it was the answer.

Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector tpu- gone

user259867

2:08 PM

Not a regex ==> no why data

S.L. Barth

Still need to learn a thing or two about Smokey, I guess.

user259867

Not necessary; Smokey will honestly admit that it can't tell you why the post was reported.

Braiam

Smokey: look at this, I have no idea why you should, but you need to look anyways

S.L. Barth

I don't think Smokey understands looking at something without a purpose.

user259867

Better than people who make up reasons post factum...

S.L. Barth

2:13 PM

Bots are rational. Or at least when they're irrational they're consistently irrational.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: APEX 4.2 - CACHING PAGES by Jashelb1990 on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp- I guess mortgages are on topic at Economics

user259867

Is this announced somewhere? stackoverflow.com/10m

bjb568

You guys sure like licking

2

S.L. Barth

@NormalHuman The things we do for a free T-shirt.... wasting our friends' time with a pointless tweet! :-)

user259867

2:25 PM

Was the deletion spree meant to give someone more time to put that page together?

user259867

It was never satisfactorily explained.

user259867

@S.L.Barth You're the first one! twitter.com/hashtag/…

user259867

Discounting unrelated older tweets

S.L. Barth

Wow... but they draw at random.

I need to discourage the competition now :-)

user259867

So far, your chances look pretty good.

S.L. Barth

2:31 PM

:-)

Infinite Recursion

@bjb568 No, I like kicking ;)

S.L. Barth

Darned, I should have told what SO has done for me or why I'm here to help. In addition to the hashtag and my profile.

That leaves less than a 100 characters... even accounting for link shortening.

The problem with Twitter is that it's hard to put good content in 140 characters.

bjb568

@InfiniteRecursion :o

prefiero lamer

user259867

You can tweet again and still be first. Apparently, the page isn't announced widely yet.

Braiam

@S.L.Barth I heard that they will remove that limit, depending on how DM behaves

S.L. Barth

2:40 PM

@Braiam DM?

user259867

Direct messages on Twitter now can be longer than 140.

user259867

The 10M page was leaked by an employee:

user259867

> #stackoverflow Hit 10 Million questions last night. stackoverflow.com/10m -- Craig Peterson at 7:13 AM - 20 Aug 2015 via Twitter

Shog9

@NormalHuman Page was already done. But I'm not gonna turn down a flimsy excuse to delete stuff.

user259867

I don't like the 160px bottom margin on that page.

Braiam

2:44 PM

yeah, we need more flimsy excuses to do stuff

user259867

Let's back off to 9M and try again.

2

S.L. Barth

Ah yes, Direct Messages. But no change to the 140-char limits for tweets, I suppose.

user259867

@S.L.Barth Not yet. Braiam implied Twitter might consider doing something for tweets after they see the effect on DMs.

S.L. Barth

Now, if it would only help me upgrade a Mac.

Not enough data points for a proper SE question, and I'm not sure I want to create an account on Ask Different.

user259867

My favorite part of that page is that I learned about StackExchange.realtime.subscribeToCounts method.

S.L. Barth

2:57 PM

But if anybody knows why an attempt to upgrade from 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) to Yosemite leads to an endless download....

Search engines haven't helped yet :-(

@NormalHuman If we'd known about that earlier we could have written a realtime countdown system.

Braiam

anyone using OCSP can check wikipedia page?

S.L. Barth

@Braiam Something wrong with it? At first glance it looks OK.

Braiam

@S.L.Barth you are doing a jump from 10.6 to 10.10...

S.L. Barth

@Braiam I tried to go to 10.7 first, but it seems that it only wants to go straight to 10.10 .

I left it on for the night, in case it was just a HUGE download.

Braiam

@S.L.Barth Firefox throws sec_error_ocsp_invalid_signing_cert, so either the ocsp is returning false positive or the cdn is using an old certificate

SmokeDetector

3:04 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: How can i get twitter.com/guidmiitestacc/status/634349628574597120 by Andriy Berezovskyy on stackoverflow.com

cybermonkey

When you're programming a program to monitor your server using the provider's API, and the API breaks...

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@S.L.Barth Title - Position 57-67: 6343496285

cybermonkey

the actual API error is a PHP error on 'line 54' apparently, lol

S.L. Barth

Hm, it's not a phone number, I'm thinking fp.

cybermonkey

3:06 PM

@SmokeDetector fpu-

@S.L.Barth yeah, false positive

S.L. Barth

@Braiam Which website?

A search for sec_error_ocsp_invalid_signing_cert leads to some results from Mozilla.

bjb568

@NormalHuman 0 works too

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

@S.L.Barth I did it a few months ago.. it was the worst mistake of my life - my Mac couldn't handle it. Everything took 10 times as long; I had to downgrade... so make sure you have a good enough computer!

S.L. Barth

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Specs seem ok. 8 Gb RAM.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

(and yes, my computer had requred specs)

@S.L.Barth 8 seems fine I guess

mine had 4

:(

S.L. Barth

3:16 PM

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Thanks. It's an assignment for work. My boss wants the upgrade.

Before he assigns the machine to a new user.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

ah - ok - guess you wouldn't have had any choice either way! :P

but yeah: 8gb will do much better than my sluggish 4gb! :)

S.L. Barth

It must be a pain when an upgrade causes the machine to slow down.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

it is - it took an extra hour to restore to snow leopard from by time machine backup :(

(not to mention the extremely long download and then even longer isntall)

S.L. Barth

How long did the download take?

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

I think it was around 2 hours...

(I have slow internet tho)

S.L. Barth

3:20 PM

Ok... well, this Mac has been downloading for 20 hours, when I left it on for the night.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

yikes! Something's wrong...

S.L. Barth

Yes, but I'm not very familiar with Macs, and had some trouble finding and interpreting logs.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

...You've always got Ask Different ;)

user259867

20

Q: RFC: Better chat @mentions

[If you're wondering about the structure of this question, this is how RFCs (Requests For Comments) look, which is how we solicit feedback on ideas inside Stack Exchange the company. These RFCs are usually private Google docs, but I'm making this a combined RFC/Meta question, because the proposed...

discussion feature-request chat ping

user259867

Grr, a meta tag in the title. (Granted, there is no rfc tag)

S.L. Barth

3:22 PM

I know, but I need some more data points before I can make a proper SE question.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

@S.L.Barth try chat maybe?

there's bmike and grgarside that could probs help you

Ask Different Chat

S.L. Barth

Ah, nice: I can actually enter the room without needing an account on Ask Different.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

lol - I see you're already there :P

yep -it's on stackexchange domain

S.L. Barth

Just went there when you mentioned it.

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ

anyway gtg - good luck :) And if you psot a question, tell me -I'll insta-upvote it ;)

S.L. Barth

3:25 PM

Thanks!

user259867

@NormalHuman The leak is plugged (tweet deleted).

Kevin Brown

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user259867

@SmokeDetector del edited

user259867

The "7.5B" number on the 10M page is cached; the implied precision (number of digits) is meaningless.

user259867

Of course it was meaningless to begin with, as a form of PH index.

user259867

3:48 PM

Heh, when my tweet-bot posted "balpha - RFC: Better chat @mentions <link>", I was worried for a moment I pinged someone on Twitter with that.

user259867

Luckily, @mentions is not and cannot be a Twitter handle.

S.L. Barth

4:05 PM

@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Posted a question. I think I've shown enough research for it. apple.stackexchange.com/q/201210/142318

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4:22 PM

@S.L.Barth definitely! +1 :)

user259867

4:35 PM

> Ten. Million. Questions. Every 12 seconds, a dev helps a stranger on StackOverflow. Are you a helper? #SOreadytohelp stackoverflow.com/10m -- Stack Overflow at 9:27 AM - 20 Aug 2015 via Twitter

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I added ##SOreadytohelp in my profile, ## markdown made it huge

user259867

@InfiniteRecursion Yes, it's raised on meta already, Edit profile page for "10-million questions" event? by Erwin Brandstetter on meta.stackoverflow.com

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Thanks, upvoted.

user259867

4:58 PM

Just in on Meta.SO: a proposal to require comments with a downvote.

user259867

Remember, you heard it here first.

Andy

@NormalHuman Wow. That's a new idea. I wonder if they present a good argument for making such a small change

Ah, the good old "unable to find a satisfactory answer" reason for posting a duplicate

Translation: I didn't like the other answers

user259867

5:26 PM

> Without @stackoverflow, I’d still be grinding orphans into burgers for rich people to feed their dogs. stackoverflow.com/10M #SOreadytohelp -- Jay Hanlon at 9:44 AM - 20 Aug 2015 via Twitter

user259867

But this one is more informative (continuing struggles with Denver setup, I presume):

user259867

> Current #stackoverflow db status #SOreadytohelp pic.twitter.com/IrHhGhieEu -- George Beech at 9:47 AM - 20 Aug 2015 via Twitter

Andy

Do they build their own servers? Or are they disassembling one to find problem hardware?

user259867

They buy from Dell. The servers they got for Denver server turned out to be prone to misbehaviour.

user259867

Or the network bits and pieces. Something refuses to play nice there.

user259867

5:36 PM

> Earlier from our TCP window troubleshooting hangout: “It’s days like this that make me want to drive a truck instead” “…off a cliff?" -- Nick Craver at 5:42 PM - 19 Aug 2015 via Twitter

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5:55 PM

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@SmokeDetector ignore- also OT

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