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user315433
12:08 AM
Anyone with 125 SO rep to dv Best European cities for PHP developers? I don't want to waste delvote when it's so close to Roomba
 
user315433
 
user315433
I think the proposal is too aggressive... but one change I'd really like to see is to ignore accept mark. The answer-accepting judgment of a person whose question-posting judgment was overruled by community should not count.
 
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SmokeDetector
12:42 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Open Auction again after succesful transaction - Why? by bob on ethereum.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad pattern in URL answer: Difference between a bitcoin wallet and the blockchain by Brook Davis on bitcoin.SE
 
gparyani
gparyani
How was this question deleted by Community? I don't think it falls under any of the automatic deletion criteria.
 
user315433
1:02 AM
I can't see the question... one of the more obscure rules is the deletion of negatively scored posts when owner is deleted. Just a guess.
 
user315433
0
A: Which method of killing the lobster would cause the least pain and distress?

TerryMartha Stewart once demonstrated a method of placing vodka in the water, and then putting the lobsters in. I guess they got drunk and then were pleasantly anesthetized when they died! ;)

 
gparyani
gparyani
@CrazyIvan The owner is not deleted, and it has a positive score
Is it because when a proposal is deleted, any discussions about that proposal are automatically deleted?
 
user315433
Can you add a screenshot?
 
user315433
Also, are questions related to a proposal deleted when the proposal is deleted? I don't know much about Area 51, but it might be the case.
 
gparyani
gparyani
 
user315433
1:07 AM
Yes, that must be it: Exams & Olympiads proposal is gone.
 
gparyani
gparyani
How does the system know what to delete and what not to delete for this reason?
 
user315433
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A: Misunderstood Area 51 discussions prone to sudden and silent deletion

Robert CartainoThis has already been fixed. Discussions are no longer removed unless ALL of the proposals it linked to have been deleted. The original logic assumed if the discussion linked to multiple proposals, it was either a discussion about duplicates or a merger. In the older system, if all the proposa...

 
user315433
That lobster question just keeps on giving.
 
user315433
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
1:22 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Email in answer: Can someone explain nLockTime? by luca on bitcoin.SE
 
user202362
I <3 lobster, I ate some yesterday in the seafood bolognese that I made
 
user202362
although small prawns tasted better in the sauce than the lobster
 
user202362
Thomisidae
The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 175 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often applied to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other species of spiders. Among the Thomisidae, "crab spider" refers most often to the familiar species of "flower crab spiders", though not all members of the family are limited to ambush hunting in flowers. == "Crab spider" as a name in common use == Rationalisation for the name crab spider is generally subjective and anecdotal. It is commonly said to refer to a fancied resemblance to crabs, or to...
 
user202362
Japanese spider crab
The Japanese spider crab (タカアシガニ, takaashigani, lit. "tall-legged crab"), Macrocheira kaempferi, is a species of marine crab that lives in the waters around Japan. It has the largest leg span of any arthropod. It is the subject of fishery and is considered a delicacy. Two fossil species belonging to the same genus have been found, Macrocheira ginzanensis and Macrocheira yabei, both from the Miocene of Japan. == Description == The Japanese spider crab has the greatest leg span of any arthropod, reaching up to 5.5 metres (18 ft) from claw to claw. The body may grow to a size of 40 cm (16 in) in...
 
user202362
crab spider vs spider crab
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
2:57 AM
@SmokeDetector naa-
morn
 
user315433
Would you rather fight a 6' tall crab spider, or a 6' tall spider crab?
 
tchrist
tchrist
3:19 AM
Looks pretty bad, eh?
It’s just a flea, really.
In comparison.
chooses Alaskan King Crab
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
3:51 AM
@tchrist if you win, you can always start an all you can eat seafood restaurant. In the crab.
 
gparyani
gparyani
It seems like my anonymous editing and my answer inspired others to edit anonymously as well
 
user202362
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Whazzup cuys
 
gparyani
gparyani
Back as the anonymous editor, I edited an answer, but wasn't sure of a few things, so I kept them in HTML comments. Can you guys please verify those? meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/76284/67
 
user202362
browsing local hatchery & looking at pullets pictures
 
gparyani
gparyani
4:00 AM
@JourneymanGeek Is my added info in comments there correct?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@gparyani if I had something to say, I'd say it
 
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4:22 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: How do I find a recently added contact? by Michael on apple.SE
 
 
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user315433
5:41 AM
Great, we now have a question about IoT on IOTA... How do IoT devices listen to the Tangle?
 
user315433
The first instance of two SE sites with URLs differing by 1 character.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
0_0
 
user315433
3
Q: Is it more secure to use VPN client?

VromAs I am always afraid of keylogger and viruses "seeing" me tipping in the seed into my wallet I wonder if it may be more secure if I use a VPN tunnel to go into the internet.

security seed keylogger
 
user315433
Nothing about IOTA at all. 3 upvotes, no downvotes. :/
 
user315433
Oh well. There are 4 CVs now (association bonus is enough for CV in private beta).
 
user310756
5:54 AM
@Telkitty
 
user310756
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
And now I'm hungry
 
user202362
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
 
user202362
6:32 AM
I asked siri and google to find the smartest donkey in the world, neither is able to
 
user202362
is it hard to find a comparatively smart donkey?
 
user202362
so much so for A.I.
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
donkey kong?
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
This is weird. There are plenty of smart asses on the Internet.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
probably why its confused. buffer overflow
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
7:38 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, +1 more: Biogenic xr Overview Biogenic XR is a by maxinewingard on askubuntu.com
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
7:56 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer: Where is a good source for serious math (wall-size) posters? by math posters on math.SE
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
8:07 AM
I found bjb from alternate universe
 
 
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Dukeling
Dukeling
9:32 AM
@TimStone Your SE Comment Link Helper script breaks when there's a non-standard symbol (e.g. Ω) in the URL, e.g. cs.stackexchange.com/questions/23068/…
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
10:01 AM
whoo hat
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
whoo chicken
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
No chicken. :(
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
10:38 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly dots in body: New Marriage with children by D. U. on islam.SE
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
10:53 AM
@SmokeDetector ... I read that as "New Marriage with chicken" orz
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Man, you have chickens on the brain
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
That's how programmers feel when they find a buggy behaviour, but can't find the source of the bug...
It will haunt them... forever...
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
\o/
25K
Now I have no interesting rep levels until over 90000 100 000
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
11:40 AM
@JourneymanGeek that's a swag level, right?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Mithrandir yup, everywhere but SO I think.
(there's allegedly a 250K level as well)
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
11:59 AM
sooo
I came across this on reddit
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
lol noticed that a little later ;p
 
gparyani
gparyani
12:31 PM
Guess I was right
> Another anonymous editor (not gparyani) with an active account on SO and MSE since July 2017. Guess who I am
Someone's copying my game
I guess I'll call them "Ano2" until we find out who they are.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
12:49 PM
OwwK, so what am I going to do with this? meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/55445
@gparyani So I should reject it, or approve it?
And they're not technically copying your name
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
The game is dumb ;p
@M.A.R. just treat it like any other review ? ;)
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@JourneymanGeek hw 2 revew pls kthx
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
REJECT ALLL THE THINGS!!!!
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRR
Goes on a rampage
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
"Certain pages don't have a mobite theme, either, like flagging history."
mobite?
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
12:54 PM
Starts downvoting Shog
@JourneymanGeek It's some kind of insect
 
gparyani
gparyani
@M.A.R. I said game, not name
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Oh
 
gparyani
gparyani
@M.A.R. It's already been reviewed
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Not then it hadn't
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
I don't think it adds anything but more words
 
gparyani
gparyani
12:55 PM
@M.A.R. No, I didn't post that message until a minute after it was reviewed. Perhaps it was just caching?
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@JourneymanGeek One MS Word is enough
@gparyani Shrug Moving on
How's everyone doing today?
@Journey with the hat you look like one of those anime characters
 
gparyani
gparyani
Oh, wait, I didn't see the link you posted, I thought you were talking about my link
@M.A.R. I'd recommend Improving and removing the "separator" comments, but leaving the edited paragraph intact. They're suggesting as anonymous, so they're not going to gain rep for a too-minor edit.
...and correcting the "mobite" typo
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Mobite is some kind of biting mite
I'm telling you
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
Trilobite
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@AndrewT. I miss JasonC and his "ur face is trilobite" expression
 
gparyani
gparyani
1:07 PM
@Ano2 I'll give you a hint on how to release hints: keep the number of choices low, but high enough to still be speculative. For instance my previous claim to be a top-50 deleted user who deleted their account in 2013 narrowed it to four accounts.
 
iDebug
iDebug
How can I promote one of my posts on MSE?
I'd rather not ask this in a question.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@iDebug Bounty, works well. Edit, works a little
 
gparyani
gparyani
@iDebug For community input, or a response from SE?
 
iDebug
iDebug
It's for fun...
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
"Response from SE" Shivers
 
iDebug
iDebug
1:21 PM
Or more explicitly, this answer.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Well, chat works a little too
 
iDebug
iDebug
I would have added a bounty for a formal "promotion", like a feature-request that I like.
Well, bounties aren't quite effective for bugs and feature-reqs
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Well, you weren't being terribly clear
In the case of a late answer, your only chances are being awesome
Your answer, I mean, not you. That place is reserved for Shog and @Sha
 
iDebug
iDebug
There are a number of bugs, that (IMHO) could be fixed by only a few tweaks in the code.
So I guess my only chance could be chat.
I've rarely seen outstanding late answers outscoring already upvoted ones.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Well, mine did
But it wasn't that late
It was the third or fourth answer in another post
 
iDebug
iDebug
1:26 PM
But this one on Super User was freaking brilliant!
Posted 10 hrs later than two other (one +5, the other +3).
And OH it's IMPRESSIVE!
 
gparyani
gparyani
@iDebug One time I outscored an answer by +10, even though my answer was posted a second later
 
iDebug
iDebug
A second...?
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@gparyani You are a legend
 
iDebug
iDebug
@gparyani You are a Jon Skeet.
Lol but, seriously, the FGITW effect is long cast onto the SE network.
I nearly missed the chance when my answer was accepted by the OP.
And it's currently my top A on SO.
12 vs 37 when accepted, and now 43 vs 39.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
lol
 
iDebug
iDebug
1:31 PM
That answer boosted my SO rep from less than 200 to 600+
Exact number forgotten.
I still wrote a few bad answers afterwards.
My overall answer quality turned to positive after I got around 1.5k on SO.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
I find at some point you find the right tone, and kind of answer the site expects
 
iDebug
iDebug
@JourneymanGeek What does that mean? Sorry for my bad English skills.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@iDebug I've found in the two sites I'm 10k+ there's a point of time when my reputation skyrockets
Either people recognise my answers (which isn't great) or I work out what sort of answers people like
So you start writing answers people like to read, in topics people are interested in...
and you get the reputation ;)
 
iDebug
iDebug
@JourneymanGeek Lol but mine on SO was not that point. It was since I was 1.7k+ that my rep started boosting.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
MSE
;p
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
1:40 PM
My reputation on Anime.SE started skyrocketing when I've learnt Japanese well enough to find references in Japanese instead of English...
then I got lazy after reaching 5k (highest privilege on beta)...
 
iDebug
iDebug
Kinda can recall that it was another moderate question.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
yup
 
iDebug
iDebug
@JourneymanGeek I remember you. You boosted quite a few when I spent most of my time on SO (and ignored MSE)
When I was very active you were only 12k to 13k
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
anyway, good night... I have a feeling I'm going to have a fever soon...
 
iDebug
iDebug
I started spending extra time on SO after this question.
@AndrewT. GN and take care of urself.
@AndrewT. My impression of you was built on Android.se.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
1:47 PM
@iDebug also helps I'm a mod, so there's a certain class of questions I can answer easily
 
iDebug
iDebug
@JourneymanGeek I could've been a good answerer on SU.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
not too late ;)
Or at least consistant.
 
iDebug
iDebug
but there doesn't seem to be a lot of the very kind of Qs I can provide a good answer.
so I decided to stick to SO and Android.se
 
Jake Symons
Jake Symons
How do you contact the mods on a specific site, is it best done by @ing them in chat?
 
iDebug
iDebug
@JakeSymons Yep
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
2:00 PM
ehh
@JakeSymons not always
what do you need to contact them about?
Not all mods use chat - and some issues are best handled through "proper" channels
 
iDebug
iDebug
Like meta discussion and mod flags.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Meta's good if you want it public. Mod flags if not. I mean as far as SU goes, we kind of have a very close integration with chat as a moderation tool, but even then....
There's some situations you want to ping a mod
if something absolutely needs immediate attention - but there's rarely things that critical - sure...
so... what's this about ? @JakeSymons ;p
 
Jake Symons
Jake Symons
This got me thinking about how to contact the mods
 
iDebug
iDebug
@JakeSymons Just ask a question.
@JakeSymons In most cases you don't need a mod.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
In this specific situation - you'd probably want the contact us link and bypass a mod
we cannot "undestroy" or "undelete" an account
 
iDebug
iDebug
2:15 PM
I think the vote removal for deleted users is a bad idea
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@iDebug Well, its only under specific circumstances
and those users usually have relatively few votes
 
iDebug
iDebug
@JourneymanGeek Can you give an approximate threshold (I hope it doesn't violate any mod rules)? Or is it handled on a per-case basis?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Its documented somewhere
 
iDebug
iDebug
Well relatively low votes is too vague.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
1041
Q: Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted

Mad ScientistCurrently, when a moderator deletes a user all of the user's votes are removed along with the user himself. I was pretty surprised at this behaviour when I first heard about it, and I don't think it is a good idea to throw away all of the votes just because the user is deleted. Votes are locked ...

feature-request status-deferred voting users deleted-accounts
@iDebug well, the thresholds arn't mentioned ;p
 
iDebug
iDebug
2:22 PM
I tend to believe it's handled one-by-one.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
In theory, there's a mechanism for us to destroy or delete users with certain safeguards
but most of the time when i nuke someone, its definately a spammer
 
iDebug
iDebug
Right. Most mod destroys are spammers.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
that's easy
no one misses that class of spammers ;)
 
iDebug
iDebug
no one misses regex
so they have two problems.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
regex might miss you
also insurance spammers.
When they die they have a special place in hell. With people who talk on the phone during movies
 
iDebug
iDebug
2:33 PM
dear.
miss has two meanings.
You meant "to remember/want"
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
wordplay is funny
 
iDebug
iDebug
I meant "ignore unawared"
I remembered this comment from MSO.
Set a fire for a man, warm him for the evening. Set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
I actually have the book its from somewhere
 
iDebug
iDebug
Did you catch the point?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
is there one? ;p
 
iDebug
iDebug
2:37 PM
set on fire
he'll soon burn to death.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
errr
the point is its funny and a play on multiple meanings
and that's a very Prachettian bit of humour
 
iDebug
iDebug
this joke is rather straightforward
I'm not very used to the English culture
It often takes extra time for me to understand memes and proverbs.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Well, there's a few simple things - they love understatement, and saying things in a less than straightforward way ;p
lemme give you an example
 
iDebug
iDebug
I've never lived in a real-life English environment.
Almost all my English is learnt from online.
plus media
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Tired and emotional
The phrase "tired and emotional" is a chiefly British euphemism for alcohol intoxication (or drunkenness). It was popularised by the British satirical magazine Private Eye in 1967 after being used in a spoof diplomatic memo to describe the state of Labour Cabinet minister George Brown, but is now used as a stock phrase. The restraints of the parliamentary language also mean it is unacceptable in the House of Commons to accuse an MP of being drunk, but one may use this or other euphemisms such as not quite himself and overwrought. The Guardian describes the phrase as having joined those "that are...
I've never heard a brit use it ;p
buuuut
 
iDebug
iDebug
2:43 PM
On the contrary, I learn programming quickly with no course, no teacher, and no book. Just Stack Óverflòw.
memes and cultural backgrounds are harder to learn than the language itself.
(This implies that Esperanto is easy to learn in all perspectives)
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
cause there's no underlying culture? ;p
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
3:51 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: White label bitcoin exchange price by wild wiley on bitcoin.SE
 
gparyani
gparyani
4:18 PM
cv-pls only pertains to a specific site: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/304673/…
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
4:33 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer: Предварительный просмотр данных по отдельным слоям by danglebko on ru.stackoverflow.com
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
4:55 PM
@SmokeDetector ignoring the spammy answer, is ru.SO also ru.SU? (accepting recovering general files unrelated to programming)
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
 
gparyani
gparyani
@SmokeDetector Is that really indicative of a spam post?
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
 
user315433
@AndrewT. Not really but it's more debatable than on en.SO due to the lack of ru.SU. On the other hand, SF (system administration) is explicitly in scope, as stated in their tour.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
 
user315433
5:39 PM
How often do you think "I want to select this code block" vs "I want to select everything on the page, including HNQ in sidebar, and the footer"?
 
user315433
In Google Colab, Ctrl-A selects the current codeblock when it has focus. Granted, there is no concept of "focus" for code block in a post but...
 
user315433
Double-click to select is a pretty good solution; no extra elements added to the page.
 
user315433
6:56 PM
There's stackoverflow.com/dev-survey/start if you can't wait to take a stand survey (announced on dev.stackoverflow.com)
 
user315433
> In a typical week, how many times do you exercise?
 
user315433
 
user315433
No jellybean counting or such, the survey is all business
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
9:31 PM
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
9:49 PM
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
What they will find is that many people are extremely interested in a private area for people new to programming. What they won't find is that almost all of them are interested in receiving help in this section, not providing it.
but at least it will divert traffic from the main site >:-)
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body, email in body: How can I transfer money from my Bitstamp account to my personal? by Laurie L Morris on money.SE
 
user315433
10:20 PM
Is there a good reason for deleted:1 search to be a 10k privilege?
 
rene
rene
@CrazyIvan I guess it is linked to the see deleted posts privilege but it could in theory be an option for everyone because you can only see your own deleted posts
I think SE staff was afraid of lots of meta posts from users who got their posts deleted, either by moderation or the roomba
 
user315433
It could be, say, 500 rep privilege, much more accessible but still cutting off the likeliest to complain.
 
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Shutting meta down entirely would be even more effective at cutting down complaints.
 
rene
rene
true that
 
user315433
But I don't know how it works when a user tries to see their deleted answer, and the question is also deleted.
 
user315433
10:29 PM
Tested: one gets to see the question too, even without 10K
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
11:50 PM
@JohnDvorak was considered.
 

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