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user315433

12:00 AM

(Although it's not the last edit there: a month later, Sam took out "candidness", accusing it of not being a word.)

@Telkitty wag.com/html/sg/…

user315433

Perhaps status quo is the solution. Documentation started from scratch, several months later, and still used the same license.

bjb568

OK, so now we know that the area of the triangle is $$\sqrt{\tfrac12(a+b+\sqrt{a^2+b^2-2ab\cos\gamma})(\tfrac12(a+b+\sqrt{a^2+b^2-2ab\cos\gamma})-a)(\tfrac12(a+b+\sqrt{a^2+b^2-2ab\cos\gamma})-b)(\tfrac12(a+b+\sqrt{a^2+b^2-2ab\cos\gamma})-\sqrt{a^2+b^2-2ab\cos\gamma})}$$ and all we need to do is maximize that expression with respect to $\gamma$. Good luck! — David Richerby 11 hours ago

user202362

you need a video to convince me that cat can open cat food can or bag

user315433

14 upvotes on that comment, 0 downvotes on the answer (until mine). sigh

bjb568

12:11 AM

Smart Cat Opens Food Lid

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Cats open food container

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CAT OPENS FREEZER AND GETS FISH FILETS

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user202362

those are not original packages though

bjb568

12:26 AM

meh

user202362

1:40 AM

hichris123

3:08 AM

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hichris123

3:58 AM

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/questions/34072/…

bjb568

4:09 AM

What's with the changing name?

user315433

4:20 AM

123

Q: Who the heck is Caroline?

This survey question describes a certain Alice, then asks me what I'd recommend to... Caroline?

bjb568

:3

user315433

My favorite comment there is Oded's.

user315433

smokie - who the fuck is alice ( remastered )

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user202362

I am sticking to Sara Hog ... sara hog & trolling husky. Cinderella chapter is all about Sara, who was Cinderella, with the help of trolling husky which was one of prince's guarding dogs, stole half of prince's furniture. The two then went on to live happily ever after in the lalaland. No need to worry about prince though, because he was a drug dealing, tax evading tobacco mogul.

user315433

4:41 AM

user315433

The Spam Different site keeps getting more and more... 427 spam reports in the last 30 days, that's 14 per day.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: What effect does heat have on cooking oil shelf life? by Bibi on cooking.stackexchange.com

user315433

Bad keyword being "safflower"... Um.

user315433

Apparently, the oil from its seeds is pitched as a weight loss remedy. Not here though.

user202362

5:16 AM

The little husky was walking down the street and he saw a trolling parrot named Sara on a perch in front of a pet store.
The parrot said to him, "Hey doggy, you are really fat.”
Well, the dog is furious! He stormed past the store.
The next day he saw the same parrot and Sara said to him, "Hey husky, you are really fat.”
The dog was incredibly ticked now.
The third day the same trolling parrot again said to him, "Hey chubby, you are really fat.”
By then, the dog’s owner was really angry too he complained to the person who worked in the store and the store manager promised that it wouldn't ha…

user202362

6:40 AM

user315433

A bonus feature of Dark Reader: it puts a new spin on familiar designs.

user202362

7:01 AM

user202362

didn't know bears are so ... coquettish

user202362

who would have thought ...

rene

10:38 AM

Bounty started:

8

Q: Include ViewCount in the Posts table for tag wikis (in SEDE)

Currently, the ViewCount column of the Posts table in SEDE is always null for tag wikis (posts where PostTypeId = 4). But this data is certainly tracked somewhere internally - I can look at the python tag wiki on SO and see that it has been viewed 35,714 times. It would be nice if this informat...

feature-request data-explorer tag-wiki

alexolut

Who did removing of @SmokeDetector messages? A mod?

rene

No, a room owner

@hichris123 normally does, I assume he uses the archiver script from the SOCVR room

Or he build his own

Or adapted it

Who am I to think I know what hichris does ...

@alexolut Oh and the ones that show as (removed) are removed by smokey self, if the post it reported is deleted within the edit grace period

alexolut

@rene any of 6 as I can see.

rene

Only Jason and hichris are kind-of regular here, Inf now and then, the rest shows up once or twice a year

Martin

1:29 PM

According to this answer chat offers autocomplete only for users who can be pinged. And the same answer that it is if the pinged user has been in the room during the last 2 days.

Is that supposed to be been in the room or posted a message in the room during the last 2 days.

user202362

I thought it was 7 days

Martin

In another room I was offered autocomplete (so I assume that that user is pingable), but the last message of that user in that room is from Monday.

This answer says that you can be pinged for a week after leaving the room, which is more in line with my experience. Did it change at some point? — yellowantphil Jun 29 '16 at 20:30

@yellowantphil It changed a few months after I wrote this answer. — Gilles Jun 29 '16 at 21:55

@Telkitty If we believe Gilles, it has changed from 7 days to 2 days. But he did not provide some link/reference for the above comment.

D'oh! Hard to believe how stupid I am.

I did see that comment, but completely misunderstood it.

The comment says that it has changed from 2 days to 7 days, not the other way round.

Gilles answer is from 2014 and the answer linked in the comments - the one which mentions that it is for a week - is from 2016. I should have checked timestamps before asking here.

Ok, at least I have learned something. @username works for one week (and only if it is offered in autocomplete). Direct reply to a message does not have a time limit.

hichris123

3:18 PM

@rene I just manually do it. ;)

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rene

Poor hichris123 ...

SmokeDetector

4:03 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: I was round a long time ago by adam Adam on puzzling.stackexchange.com

Shadow Wizard

4:47 PM

@Martin yes that's right. There's still some tweak about exact user name vs. partial user name (e.g. @Sha vs. @ShadowWizard) not 100% sure how it affect the duration of being pingable.

From own experience, both partial and full name works for one week after being in a room.

user340193

5:27 PM

at what point on a regular (non-beta) site is there no need for more reputation?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: В ответ на команду dig - то Status:Servfail, то Status:noerror. DDOS-атака? by Rafael Silva on ru.stackoverflow.com

user340193

who wants to be a Russian? :D

user315433

That post is not in Russian.

user315433

It's spam in Portuguese, to be more precise.

rene

@MarkYisri depends, I guess being able to leave comments is handy, so I would say 50.

user340193

5:37 PM

@rene I meant like after you've earned all the privs

rene

25K?

user340193

@rene i thought so but wasn't sure

user315433

Reference: stackoverflow.com/help/privileges

user315433

The optimal spot is between 2000 and 3000. No longer have to explain your edits to reviewers, but don't have to deal with things that other people want to close.

user315433

Under 2000, there are more chores because you're being moderated. Above 3000, there are more because you're moderating others.

rene

5:59 PM

I like your emotionless and practical analysis, as always

does it happen often that users answer a question by only stating the page of a book where the answer can be found?

The ultimate other castle

user315433

I've seen it on Math with questions tagged reference-request, but there it's acceptable since this reference is what the user is looking for (to cite in their paper maybe)

SmokeDetector

6:14 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: I got an epic chest before the legendary chest what does that mean for me? by Dave on gaming.stackexchange.com

user315433

@SmokeDetector I thought it was muscle building spam based on the title.

rene

7:52 PM

Next question after this one. Mods should get formal training, they declined my flags...

rene

8:16 PM

It might actually be their next question :(

user315433

9:16 PM

> Pet peeve: calling jQuery or React or the like “frameworks” instead of “libraries” #rageinducing -- rossipedia at 11:41 AM - 14 Jan 2017

user315433

Relevant Dilbert

bjb568

9:28 PM

Dilbert must be the old man's xkcd.

user315433

9:38 PM

In a few ways, yes. Woo, science! vs Your report is due... The former precedes the latter, even for scientists. Also, Munroe is 32, Adams is 59.

user315433

My trajectory of SE involvement is basically Asok -> Dilbert -> Wally

Jason C

11:11 PM

Is there a git command that just vomits out a list of all commits on all branches in a repo, who did them, and their timestamp with at least minute resolution?

Format doesn't matter I just need authors and timestamps.

The GitLab commit summary page just has dates / those annoyingly vague "a month ago"s.

@AaronHall Also: lol

user202362

bjb568

@JasonC git log

Jason C

Sweet, seems easy. Except for the fact that I seem to have completely forgotten where I put my local repo. I can't even remember if it's on this computer.

Wow. I've literally done nothing for like two weeks.

Except play the crap out of this Gordon Ramsay Diner Dash game I found.

bjb568

@JasonC You should work on DevDoodle.

Jason C

Which is awesome, but prohibitively greedy for money.

@bjb568 I was thinking today how much time I'd have to do hobbies if I didn't spend it all anxiously procrastinating.

Oh remember that procrastination "book"? It's still sitting in the output tray of my printer from however many months ago. Fail.

At least, most of it is. I used the back of a few pages for grocery lists...

bjb568

11:20 PM

palm face