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user315433

12:02 AM

The first sentence, "You’re exuberant." Okay... still not enough. English has a lot of adjectives to use here. How about "You’re so flamboyant" next time.

user202362

I am writing a blog on the inefficiency of today's society ... so hard to write. When the topic has been discussed a billion times before, it's much easier to 'borrow' content from other people. But when you are on a brand new field, it's just not as easy ... a lot like renovate vs building a mansion on a cliff

user315433

12:53 AM

Twitter adds QR codes for some reason

user315433

Who knows, maybe I'd use them once in lifetime, but there is no obvious choice for a scanning app, and I don't want to pick one of 20 potentially ad- or mal-ware containing ones.

user202362

weibo has been using QR code for ages ...

user315433

Well, going forward @StackOverflow’s web socket numbers won’t be as impressive. We fixed the heartbeat/check/kill code to actually work…

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on November 17, 2016 at 12:54 AM

user315433

Check for heartbeat and kill...

user202362

1:13 AM

user202362

tallest termite mould stands nearly 10 meters tall, average length of termite is 1 cm

user202362

10m / 1cm = 1000 times

user202362

tallest building Burj Khalifa is nearly 1000 meters tall, average human is about 1.6-1.8 meters tall

user202362

we are getting there ... we are getting there ...

SmokeDetector

2:08 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly non-Latin answer: How do you "Share via" email & wifi option from gallery ? It's missing by aaa on android.stackexchange.com

user202362

2:20 AM

Frank

It's sad when your site's highest stat per week is new users...

for more than 3 months straight

tchrist

13 hours ago, by tchrist

What's that in English?

Frank

@tchrist 3280.84 feet or just over 3/5ths of a mile

tchrist

It wasn't the 1,000 yards of distance that challenged; it was that the notion of measuring humans in yards. The specificity is wrong, because the answer is almost always 1, unless it’s 2.

Frank

@tchrist I'm shorter than 2 meters, yet taller than 2 yards.

tchrist

2:30 AM

“Instead of asking how many yards fit in a human, better to ask how many humans fit in a yard,” the wise acre observed.

@Frank A disparity of so little consequence that its inconsistency would scarce be noted save by little statesmen and philosophers and divines in search of hobgoblins. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Frank

@tchrist A human of exactly 2 meters' height towers over a human who is merely 2 yards in height

And I stand at 74.5 inches

tchrist

And eyes of blue?

Frank

ha

A grey ring around a light brown middle

user202362

@tchrist seriously, you need to learn more languages

Frank

Try 'bad' language

tchrist

2:42 AM

@Frank Ok.

user202362

wonder how well would a gibberish translation app do

Frank

2:56 AM

@tchrist haha

bjb568

user315433

@ShadowWizard Thanks for checking in, and sorry the ping languished here awhile. I'm very glad to see that folks found this valuable enough that they're eagerly awaiting the next one. The season has rolled around where the team is doing lots of planning as well as preparing for our annual company gathering. Since we're kinda jammed up, the 3rd 'Hall will be in early November. I'll be circulating a new post to gather suggested topics before then, so stay tuned. — Ana ♦ Sep 23 at 17:22

user315433

Early November of what year?

bjb568

@Frank You're a pretty short tree.

user315433

(Not that I'm looking forward to it; skipped the first two and haven't lost anything.)

user202362

3:03 AM

humanity just have to regress sometimes

user202362

don't judge a tree by it's height, judge it by the fruit it's bearing!

user202362

also, tall trees attract thunders

Frank

@bjb568 yeah

user315433

What if... SE had a "Quora mode", where the sites you are interested in would appear to you as one, without the maze of subdomains?

user315433

I know, /filters. But that is just a collection of links, doing anything (or even reading) requires navigating to a site.

user315433

3:17 AM

Different privilege levels could be made transparent to user. E.g., votes up/down should stick to the score while you are on the page, even if they get converted into anonymous feedback in the background. (None of the chilling blue popups that discourage visitors from voting.)

user202362

3:31 AM

I really would not mind SE to have an uncategorized section

user202362

coz sometimes I want to post a question such as "what's the longest serving spammer you have encountered", just could not find the right site for it

user315433

please🙏🏼 forget Angular .. it was killed by React.JS — Abdennour TOUMI 10 mins ago

user315433

These m....f.....s act like they forgot about Angular.

user202362

3:51 AM

@zaq maybe you should spend less time on tweeter & more time here getting emotionally disturbed? especially when 1337 tr011's around ... u know, 4 science ...

user202362

4:52 AM

user202362

5:21 AM

Suddenly, a brilliant idea hit me! SE career can have a job section called:

user202362

that's right!

user202362

'fired fox'

user202362

coz a fired fox is one that really needs the next job, isn't it?

user202362

go me!

Derpy

8:43 AM

@zaq nice idea, but soon after you remove the maze of domain you would be submerged in an entropy of auth levels. Just think about it: you could vote on some questions, get a "your anonymous vote has been recorded" prompt on others, a second you have flagging rights next post you don't, posting a bounty you wouldn't know which score you are going to reduce and so on....

rene

9:20 AM

user is un-blacklisted by me

M.A.R.

Thank you Lord Rene

Szabolcs

One one SE site I see an empty box where the ads should be and clicking it takes me to a 404 page. What's wrong?

Problem site: mathematica.stackexchange.com

M.A.R.

Oh, thought it was ELU

Szabolcs

Link takes me here (404 page): meta.mathematica.stackexchange.com/ads/ct/…

My adblocker is disabled (always disabled on SE)

M.A.R.

I don't see this problem anywhere. Lemme recheck

Szabolcs

9:34 AM

I still see the problem if I load the site in private browsing mode, so I guess it's not about cookies or any such thing ...

But it could be specific to my location. Let me try tor ...

I do see it with tor browser too

M.A.R.

I guess you should write a meta.Mathematica post

Then if they see it in more than one site, migrate it to meta.SE.

Szabolcs

too tired to do that now ... maybe if it doesn't go away by tomorrow

rene

@Szabolcs Is there maybe a deleted answer here? The ad-rotator might still have that ad in their set.

Szabolcs

10:09 AM

@rene That's a good guess, but there isn't any recently deleted one that ever had enough upvotes.

There's one deleted on Nov 4 with -2 votes.

rene

OK, then it is up to a dev to figure out what went wrong

user202362

12:31 PM

rene

3:07 PM

I'm ninja'd by a bird ...

user315433

3:33 PM

I'll be speaking about @StackOverflow in PH, SG, FI & RU this 4 weeks. Come chat and get a shiny Not a Robot badge! http://stackoverflow.com/badges/get/events

Tweeted by sklivvz on November 17, 2016 at 3:27 PM

user315433

So that's why Sklivvz was doing research on non-English SO-like sites...

user315433

3:51 PM

@Derpy "Quora mode" would be for reading and writing, no moderating functions (and no bounties). As for voting, that's what I wrote earlier - no blue popups with "your anonymous vote was recorded", the score changes on the page as the user expects, client-side. It doesn't persist on the site, that's all.

user315433

On the down side, the chances are that the contributed content would also be Quora-like, with users opining on anything around them, whether they know anything or not.

user334271

4:22 PM

Request for re-open, required-edits and move to appropriate site:

user334271

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Q: Please help find appropriate site for a printing-technology question

I've a question on 2-D (on-paper) printing-technology question. What is the appropriate Stack Exchange site to ask it? Help identify this map-printing technology. Most old maps on my home (including few school-atlas and few professional-quality big maps from National Atlas of India), used a p...

user334271

There are so many chat-rooms so I could not figure-out which chat room is more appropriate. Sorry for that

user334271

(@ShadowWizard)

Shadow Wizard

@AlwaysConfused always look for the room with most users. Over 20 users here are clear indication that's the official room. :)

user334271

okay

Shadow Wizard

4:28 PM

Though I admit, it's not trivial... and room description doesn't really help.

user334271

I did not knew about anysuch rule, yet.

Shadow Wizard

@AlwaysConfused not really a rule, just common sense. :)

user334271

okay

Shadow Wizard

Probably there are sites where the official room got few users, so it's not always correct, but in MSE it is.

Anyway, all good now, question almost reopened. (need one more vote)

rene

5:07 PM

@ShadowWizard I see no problem ...

Aaron Hall

One more day for the primary.

Bart

5:24 PM

Still a comfortable lead for you @AaronHall

Aaron Hall

Yeah, but we still have to count the votes in California.

I'm from Florida, we take hanging chads very seriously.

rene

With that joke you might have won my vote ...

SmokeDetector

7:47 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Posting comment on my Wordpress site throws errors "Error: You entered an incorrect CAPTCHA answer. Please go back and try again by Hussain on wordpress.stackexchange.com

S.L. Barth

@SmokeDetector why

SmokeDetector

@S.L.Barth Body - Position 312-327: placesindia.com

S.L. Barth

Don't look like spam (or it's disguised)... but it's a poor quality question.

Bart

8:23 PM

Rather weird to edit out the site. Either it's just off-topic, or it's spam ...

user315433

8:33 PM

Yeah, well, that was kinda the problem - in theory, such a feature could be useful for TONS of stuff: imagine a "PHP mentoring team" or a "regex answer moderation committee" (motto: "now we have M^2 problems"). Besides the obvious "let folks who work together fix the spelling of their company name" stuff. But... We didn't quite know what we were building it for, so it ended up not really working well for anything and was shelved; chances are, we'll end up with something similar, but built to serve specific goals. @Jon — Shog9 ♦ 3 mins ago

user315433

I am reminded of Google+ Circles when reading this.

rene

9:48 PM

nice answer: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/338068/578411

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