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I am wondering about the development of sexual fetishes, not necessarily in its meaning of having a sexual affection for inanimate objects, but in its broader meaning of any type of sexual abnormality. As far as I know, such preferences develop through conditioning; i.e. in a state of arousal som...

Andy

@Quill Stop looking at him. You scared him away

Jan Dvorak

I, for one, welcome our blinking moderator.

Quill

Gonna call it now, CogSci won't end well

IͶΔ

5:17 PM

@Quill He knows Shog is in control.

Quill

@IͶΔ Shog is always in control

user311528

1 min ago, by RikerW

Is that actually on-topic?

user311528

^^

Quill

@RikerW cogsci.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

Jan Dvorak

whistles

user311528

5:18 PM

Is much rain here. Not fun.

Quill

hums

night

user311528

night!

Jan Dvorak

night?

user311528

wait isn't it like 4:00am for you?

Jan Dvorak

No.

user311528

5:21 PM

Not you.

Quill

@RikerW 3am

Jan Dvorak

Still not.

user311528

@Quill okai have a nice 3 hours of sleep! :D

user311528

TIL other chat rooms don't show up across sites, chat.meta.se has none and chat.se has 2.

Quill

I thought meta was blowing up with stuff about SE going down...

turns out twitter was worse

Don't worry, we've removed the problem. https://t.co/7LGltcnYRV

Tweeted by bretcope on March 28, 2016 at 4:50 PM

user311528

5:25 PM

in The Nineteenth Byte on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 42 mins ago, by epicTCK

we should have made the broken server thing rick roll so when the site breaks it rick rolls everyone

user311528

@Shog9 idea for next crash? ^

user311528

hides

Quill

Jan Dvorak

Unless it's friday, in which case the error message would be even more sinister a bit.

bjb568

5:39 PM

7

Q: Why does the do-while loop not run as expected in this Java program?

I've been writing a program that will take an array of the names of music files and play them. I succeeded in doing that, but, I wanted to touch up on some things and make it a little nicer. I am trying to make the music play in a random order but not repeat any songs before the entire list has b...

java do-while

How is this an HNQ? o_0

Jan Dvorak

Because it's at +7. But why the hell is it at +7?

ProgramFOX

Because people upvoted it. But why the hell did people upvote it?

IͶΔ

Because it's simple. But why the hell is it simple?

rene

Because Java

Jan Dvorak

♫ Where have all the flowers gone? ♫

IͶΔ

5:44 PM

But why the hell Java?

rene

Because the next good thing will be JavaScript?

It is a career development path

Shadow Wizard

6:07 PM

@JonEricson thanks, can you please add an official answer here‌? (or confirm existing answer by a comment?)

user315433

6:26 PM

Section 4 of ToS is really restrictive: Under no circumstances will Subscriber use the Network or the Service to ... (d) knowingly post any false, inaccurate or incomplete material.

user315433

I'm expecting the accounts of users posting hints to math homework problems to be summarily deleted.

Jan Dvorak

The same article can be used more usefully to bash the askers of most programming questions on SO.

Though I guess the "knowingly" part might be a bit tricky.

user315433

Yes, idiots who don't know what they are doing are welcome to post whatever.

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IͶΔ

@404 Sure, isn't that what runs these sites?

user315433

6:59 PM

BTW I should have credited @wythagoras with the aforementioned ToS find.

Jan Dvorak

Too late. You've already done a misconduct.

user315433

@Carpetsmoker rather than hiring for a particular "technology" or "basic understanding of how to use a computer", we hire for pure untapped talent. This allows us mold any new hire into our ideal developer, sysadmin, or barista, based on whichever is most needed at the time. — David Fullerton ♦ 55 mins ago

wythagoras

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Q: The Terms of Service currently prevent posting hint answers.

The Terms of Service (http://stackexchange.com/legal) currently prevents posting answers only containing a hint: Section four states that: Under no circumstances will Subscriber use the Network or the Service to [...] (d) knowingly post any false, inaccurate or incomplete material A hint i...

bug hint

IͶΔ

Hah

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Two-to-one functions by i hate brian m scott on math.stackexchange.com …

IͶΔ

7:10 PM

Wait.

Scratch "I think this should be fixed in the ToS".

And rightfully so. I don't want chem.SE to turn into this. — IͶΔ Nov 27 '15 at 14:37

user315433

I did leave a comment with "I think this should be fixed in the users"... but it didn't come out nice enough, so deleted.

user315433

@IͶΔ The first search result I see at your link is this answer.

user315433

Hm, I wish there was a separate part about special case k=0 there, which is much simpler and is used more often.

KutuluMike

is a partial answer complete if it was always meant to be a partial answer? head asplode

IͶΔ

0

A: Cute convergence problem. Proving convergence of sequence regarding reciprocals of least common multiple converges.

Hint:

Ah come on, these guys really can do better.

0

A: How to construct a cube

Hint:

Seriously?

Do they expect to get upvoted?

quid

7:26 PM

@IͶΔ such content can be very popular in fact. Much points are gained in this way.

IͶΔ

Uh

I have nothing to say.

Akh damn. Where did my snarky attitude go? :(

user315433

Snarky attitude is also a violation of ToS.

IͶΔ

What about the "meh mode" I'm in right now?

Jan Dvorak

Your opinion is incomplete; violation

user315433

Turn that :/ upside down!

user315433

7:31 PM

:\

IͶΔ

(ﾉꐦ ◎曲◎)ﾉ=͟͟͞͞ ⌨

Jan Dvorak

@404 Those smilies are orthogonal quantum states with the same probability distribution in the preferred base

IͶΔ

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^ me with extra eyebrows

Jan Dvorak

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Braket notation abuse

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Jan Dvorak

7:36 PM

Flagged, but I don't know whom.

bjb568

@JanDvorak I prefer kets myself. The other half obscures human beauty.

IͶΔ

@JanDvorak Dang, now I can't even delete it

People don't like long roads, but trains are apparently allowed.

Jan Dvorak

Jk, ofc

IͶΔ

Kills @Jan

JK, ofc

bjb568

7:57 PM

"Of course" is too long now?

Doorknob

"tho"

@Undo You're the primary tracker guy, right? :P How about one for the PPCG election? (even though the primaries will only eliminate one person, now that we have 11 candidates...)

bjb568

@Doorknob that's just logical spelling…

Doorknob

@bjb568 ðɛn wiː ʃʊd ɒl d͡ʒst̚ juːz aɪ pʰiː eɪ

bjb568

bah

Doorknob

bʰɑ* ;)

Undo

8:17 PM

@Doorknob It's a little bit of overhead to run, and I'm having server issues right now.

Although I do have it running locally, just not on a schedule

Doorknob

@Undo Okay, no worries (just curious).

Undo

It's at github.com/Undo1/PrimaryMonitor if you want to run it

+----+------------------+---------------+
| id | display_name     | current_score |
+----+------------------+---------------+
|    | Martin Büttner   | 60            |
|    | Doorknob         | 53            |
|    | Dennis           | 49            |
|    | Alex A.          | 41            |
|    | Digital Trauma   | 24            |
|    | PhiNotPi         | 7             |
|    | quartata         | 5             |
|    | Mego             | 0             |
|    | El'endia Starman | 0             |

hichris123

I sure hope this was trolling...

-9

Q: my first c++ program runtime is super long like 5 - 10 minutes on a fast CPU it's a very basic c++ program

i just dont understand whats taking so long its the standard hello world program you write when you first start to learn a new language and its just so un-optimized #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <vector> #include <sstream> int main() { std::string hello_world = "HELLO WORLD!";...

c++ loops optimization

Undo

@hichris123 it is

hichris123

phew

for(long t = 0; t <= 100000000000; t++){
    if(t%256465445 == 0){
           for(auto p : positions){
              oss<<letters[p];
           }
    }
  }

-6

Q: How can i change my public IP at a regular interval?

Is there any VPN service provider which allows me to change my public ip address at a regular interval? Or any other method to change it with c# or C++ ?

networking vpn

-3

Q: Do you know any non - cloud based IT service application that has an issue.?

I am in search of an IT issue which can be solved by using cloud technology.

cloud known-issues service-application

rene

8:43 PM

What is happening? Is the high-quality feed posting here?

hichris123

@rene hey...

tchrist

9:58 PM

@Doorknob In theory, only initial/stressed unvoiced stops are aspirated in English so p/t/k not b/d/g. Other languages notwithstanding.

Doorknob

@tchrist On the other hand, I said "bah" to myself, and that's how I said it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Probably due to the frustrated connotation of the word.

tchrist

@Doorknob That's why I said "in theory". You may well have sploded it ejectively in some fashion that makes it more percussive than the normal spoken word.

cybermonkey

0

A: Bug when trying to open a question reporting a bug

Such a feature may be difficult to implement. Might I suggest that the number of questions tagged bug is monitored by the system? As in if a certain amount of bug questions are posted within a short space of time, then disable posting of questions with the bug tag & display a message informing t...