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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
12:01 AM
@NormalHuman the no mods humans involved part scares me just a little.
@JasonC MUTANTS! THEY NEVER ASKED TO BE BORN GROWN THIS WAY!
 
Shog9
Shog9
Over the last 30 days, Stack Overflow saw an average of 1794 distinct reviewers active each day
Followed by Math with 116
Avg per hour is 114 reviewers (11 on Math)
 
user315433
Math is like 10% of SO in terms of the effort involved, with 2.6% of traffic.
 
user315433
And that's by visits, even smaller percentage by page views.
 
user315433
SO visitors are fond of opening a dozen of tabs at once.
 
user315433
 
user315433
12:16 AM
It's rare to see a FR like this with completed status and no comments/answers from employees confirming that it happened.
 
user315433
Oh, I see: it's 3 flags per comment now, assuming 0 score. So 300*100/3 = 10000 deleted comments per day, leveraging the zombie army of Metasmoke.
 
Shog9
Shog9
119 comments on Stack Overflow got 3 or more flags during the past 30 days
It's kind of a shame
Perfectly good system, mostly unused
 
user315433
Lightning striking the same spot thrice...
 
user315433
before the first flag is handled
 
user315433
Hence, we need Metasmoke to put it to use. >:-W
 
user315433
12:30 AM
When a mistake happens, a mod can Undo it.
 
user202362
12:41 AM
 
user315433
Google bought Kaggle, the data science counterpart of SO...
 
user202362
only if I could delete all those obsolete info from my brain like computers do
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
You need a Percussive Cranial Adjustment Tool.
 
Jason C
Jason C
1:29 AM
@JourneymanGeek Clicked my tavern bookmark button, was not disappointed.
@NormalHuman Google is absolutely terrifying. Every month they get creepier.
→ 4 messages moved to Chimney
 
user315433
1:59 AM
 
user315433
They are getting better at it, though.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
2:18 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Why the movie title "Blazing Saddles"? by Barafu Albino on movies.SE
 
Jason C
Jason C
I can't decide if thats tpu or naa.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
tpu?
 
user315433
VLQ
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
ah
seems offensive to me
 
user315433
The user (> 3K on AU) isn't a random internel troll.
 
Jason C
Jason C
2:29 AM
Eh, I picked "A reasonable person would find this content inappropriate for respectful discourse", which felt right. But whatever, it's gone anyways, as it should be.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@NormalHuman impolite is impolite.
People with high rep on a site should know better and as such have no excuse.
 
user315433
2:45 AM
impolite toward whom?
 
user315433
It's an idea about the origin of a movie's title. Some movie titles are humorous.
 
user315433
The site has discussions of rape scenes and whatnot; taken out of context, short responses may look like something they are not.
 
Jason C
Jason C
Well, that one, taken in context, seemed inappropriate for respectful discourse.
It was a super weird answer to post regardless.
 
user315433
2:59 AM
> I am certain, the urinary_excretion function works (stackoverflow.com/q/42683989)
 
user315433
Naming is hard.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
3:24 AM
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
piss works?
 
user315433
@SmokeDetector This is so neat. "The following year, we were more up front about our two-body situation. We experienced no negative reactions and a lot of support. It took us an additional year to find funding for both of us" became "The following season, we were more in advance about our two-body scenario. We knowledgeable no adverse responses and a lot of assistance. It took us an extra season to discover financing for both of us"
 
user315433
Was it a human or a bot who substituted synonyms?
 
user315433
Usually a part of another answer is copied verbatim; this is the first time I see such modification.
 
user315433
@JourneymanGeek Might, but someone would probably flag as inappropriate for respectful discourse.
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
3:36 AM
@NormalHuman That's the first step to join coursework writing service, of course...
 
user315433
For a bot, I'd say it's a job well done, but for a human writing someone's dissertation... let's say I would not buy their product.
 
user315433
0
A: My rabbit is digging at the carpet in the corner of the living room, what should I do?

user9036My bunnies have started eating my carpit what do i do

 
user315433
Feed them?
 
Jason C
Jason C
4:55 AM
@NormalHuman Give him 50 years or so, he may not be so certain any more.
→ 2 messages moved to Chimney
> Towards the end of 2016 we said we were leaving the cloud for bare metal and shared our hardware proposal. In December 2016, after receiving hundreds of comments and emails filled with advice and warnings, Sid and the team decided to keep GitLab.com in the cloud.
Wtf does that even mean?
I'm so sick of "cloud".
The only thing more annoying right now is IoT.
And maybe shit-as-a-service.
I guess "life hack" is up there too.
Now that I think about it there are a lot of equally annoying things.
"leaving the cloud for bare metal" = ... shorter network cables?
Taking computers from over there and putting them over here?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
5:40 AM
"We're developers and actual hardware scares me"
@JasonC actually running your own servers I guess
 
Jason C
Jason C
"Leaving the cloud for bare metal" is such an obnoxious way to say that.
Oh yeah "bare metal" is up on my list of dumb phrases, too.
And "crowd sourcing". Because "asking people" is too uncouth.
This entire century has been stupid so far.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
6:00 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching product name in body, pattern-matching product name in title, +2 more: unequivocally beginning herb testo boost x updates certifiable execution by diwum24 on graphicdesign.SE
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
6:45 AM
@JasonC eh... Marketers. And well, a lot of devs seem to think the less they have to do with the systems that run their software, the better.
Like that whole serverless app hipsterism.
 
Ramanujan
Ramanujan
7:31 AM
Remainder , bounty is ending in 23 hours on this post
 
 
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rene
rene
8:43 AM
@JourneymanGeek well, back in the 80's all pc's were serverless ... what's new?
 
rene
rene
8:57 AM
delv-pls 20K jquery meta.stackexchange.com/questions/292079/… /cc @Bart @ShadowWizard, needs 1 more
 
Derpy
Derpy
Weird idea of the day. Was Super Mario inspired by Arale-chan?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@rene oh but there is a server. Just that one does not see it. If one does not see another's brain, does that make the other brainless?
 
rene
rene
Yes?
Or am I rude now?
 
Bart
Bart
@Derpy iirc Arale-chan has been used as an inspiration in some Mario games.
@rene nah, just brainless
 
rene
rene
>:-(
 
Bart
Bart
9:08 AM
You made that far too easy
 
rene
rene
I'm short on coffee. I'll improve over the next hour
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Post comment as authenticated user via REST? by Tyson Harold on drupal.SE
 
Bart
Bart
Thanks for the reminder. Coffee it is
... with some of those coffee flavoured candies someone brought in ...
evil
 
Derpy
Derpy
9:39 AM
@Bart well, I see many possible references.... Some of the Mario powerups seems to be old Arale costumes (Cat, Penguing, Tanuki, Frog....)
 
Bart
Bart
@Derpy ^
So I would not be surprised they were influenced by more elements
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@rene already did, before you.... :D
I can't drink coffee :(
 
Stijn
Stijn
9:54 AM
@ShadowWizard how come?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Stijn bad stomach... :/
 
Derpy
Derpy
@Bart Yep, I know about Mario64. But I think that the references aren't just limited to that game :P
 
Bart
Bart
Oh no, just that they explicitly admit it there
 
Derpy
Derpy
even the viruses in Dr Mario seem to be similar to the two aliens in Dr Slump. And remember - the last hidden scene in Dr Mario has the "viruses" leave on a space ship ^_^
 
Bart
Bart
@rene I would perhaps remove " At best it is brought up on the site meta" ... those discussions never go anywhere, unless the user lies and moderators go "Okay, if you wish to do this in public, buckle in"
 
Stijn
Stijn
10:03 AM
@Bart I love those
 
rene
rene
@Bart yeah, foremost I want to send the message: by all means not on MSE
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Stijn let me guess, you also love gladiator fights? ;)
 
rene
rene
@Bart slightly edited, better now?
 
Bart
Bart
I'd say so.
@Stijn oh sure, we all love the occasional drama
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Bart the OP didn't see your comment, you didn't ping him. (maybe you meant to post it on the question, not @rene's answer?)
oh nvm he saw it anyway. :)
 
Bart
Bart
10:09 AM
I trust that whenever I post something, they'll sense the disturbance in the force.
 
rene
rene
Bart did the Good luck thinghy ...
 
Bart
Bart
Just me being kind @rene ... just being kind.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
"too many flags".... well we better have flag ban mechanism, no need for total suspension IMO.
 
Bart
Bart
Depends @ShadowWizard. Probably has on of those lovely backstories ...
And given that there's a suspension on 2 sites ...
 
rene
rene
too many flags could mean: too many users flagged your stuff or you're flagging for all the wrong reasons
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
10:20 AM
@rene if the first then yeah, suspension is probably the answer, but if flagging for wrong reasons just get permanent flag ban and be done with.
i.e. bad flagger can still do other good things.
@Bart that's a good point...
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
10:31 AM
too many flags + comment flag = ?
Seems like this month issue is about flag
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
10:44 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: What does the eth0 interface name mean in Linux? by dildo on unix.SE
 
Ramanujan
Ramanujan
11:22 AM
@SmokeDetector am I in blacklisted users?
 
Stijn
Stijn
11:37 AM
@Ramanujan I'm afraid the bot isn't quite intelligent enough to answer that question
 
54D
54D
11:57 AM
I remember there's a little tool that adds close reasons as comment shortcuts? Does anyone know?
 
rene
rene
@54D you mean auto-comments? And the SOCVR chatroom maintains a repository of those comments: github.com/SO-Close-Vote-Reviewers/auto-comments
 
rene
rene
12:11 PM
delv-pls 20K rest background (whatever that may be) meta.stackexchange.com/a/292098/158100 /cc @Bart @ShadowWizard
 
54D
54D
I am not sure if that's what I'm looking for. What I remember was a button somewhere next to the post comment button that opens up a dialogue with some comment templates that can be sent immediately.
Wait, that is it
 
Stijn
Stijn
370
Q: AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

Benjol No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments (canned responses), which you can easily click to insert. This script was inspired by answers to thi...

script comments
 
54D
54D
Lol mb, thanks
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
12:28 PM
@rene nuked
 
rene
rene
thx
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
np
 
 
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user202362
2:11 PM
I sent through a contract with the wrong address on it, the person replied with many questions but didn't notice the wrong address ...
 
Stijn
Stijn
2:28 PM
@Telkitty contract for the house you're renting out?
 
user202362
yeah
 
Stijn
Stijn
How's it going? Found a tenant with your big billboard? :)
 
user202362
I paid for professional posting on domain.com.au & realestate.com.au - two of the largest real estate websites here. Billboard is mostly good for solicit random calls (as people don't know exactly what I am trying to rent) :p
 
Fabio Turati
Fabio Turati
Hi guys, there's a user with less than 2000 rep that is going on an edit spree, mostly to fix a very small typo in the title, even in old and downvoted questions, like stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/15470770. Should I raise an "other" flag for moderators? In some cases he is leaving out something that could be fixed, in others admittedly there is nothing else to fix, so I am not sure what to do...
 
Stijn
Stijn
@FabioTurati The user has a number of rejected edits, the system should ban him from suggested edits soon, I think
 
user202362
2:39 PM
Anyways, I am off to the wildness this weekend for a week, no 1337 tr011ing from your pest pet troll for at least a week. I mean, I would most likely return safely, but there is a chance that I might slip off a cliff or swiped off by a river ... or eaten alive by a Tasmania devil - I am just kidding, tassie devils don't eat live people. The chance of me dying in the wild is just kind of larger than if I stay inside home.
 
user202362
'If you don't faced death, you will not treasure life enough' - Telkitty™
 
Bart
Bart
@Telkitty have fun, and try not to die.
 
Stijn
Stijn
I call dibs on @Telkitty's rep
 
Shog9
Shog9
So your point is that you could get swept off a cliff and then eaten by a devil?
@FabioTurati there's a rate-limit in effect there, so he can't flood the queue. Generally, fixing typos in titles is useful enough on its own to be worth doing, but if you wanna suggest further improvements to him you can either "reject and edit" to replace his edit with a more comprehensive one, or leave a comment on one of the posts he's edited.
IOW, try to educate.
 
Stijn
Stijn
Another day, another failed government project. Capgemini delivered a 8.9M EUR software package that is worse than the previous one and doesn't appear to be really usable (testing, anyone?); now they've hired "IBM experts" to fix it.
 
rene
rene
2:46 PM
@Stijn that is your tax money well spend ...
 
Bart
Bart
I think I have yet to see any government IT project succeed on time and on budget
 
rene
rene
Yeah, been there, done that and still doing. It makes a great living ...
 
Bart
Bart
Fun story: Some years ago there was a committee in the Dutch government which had to investigate why their ICT projects failed. Their leader when questioned did not know what an IP address was. And he complained to Microsoft on Twitter that they should stop calling him from India all the time ... to which Microsoft replied "that isn't us, that's what we call phishing"
 
Stijn
Stijn
@Bart oh dear
 
Bart
Bart
@rene I'm sure it does. And I would not be surprised if the main reason for delays and budget issues is the fact that they don't know what they want and keep shifting the project over time.
 
rene
rene
2:58 PM
Well, the main problem is that projects always have a 200% budget. So they select a supplier and then put the project for twice the offered amount on the balance sheet. That is to make sure that the agency can always pay the bills of that supplier. But as supplier you're not too worried about budget overruns. Except for the projects where you spend the 200% of the budget ...
 
user315433
3:23 PM
stackexchange.com/blogs is down to SF and SFF blogs.
 
user315433
The archived blogs look like math.blogoverflow.com but aren't linked from anywhere, apparently (which makes sense; either people are following a post link they already have, or they have nothing to do there)
 
user315433
3:36 PM
Looks like the solution was to save the pages generated by WP for caching purpose, and host those outside of WP.
 
Stijn
Stijn
this is probably the cutest, most innocent case of begging for upvotes I've ever seen
 
Bart
Bart
Right up until his comment
 
Stijn
Stijn
I can't make sense of his comment
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
I read it as sarcasm
 
Bart
Bart
Given his latest comment ... yup.
Heck, even if we wanted, we couldn't give him 10 points because he has yet to post anything on SO.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
3:51 PM
"You will be new, you will post silly requests on meta, you will be told you are wrong and downvoted, and you will like it." - Do we really expect them to like it, though? :)
 
Bart
Bart
Nah. I still expect them not to argue afterwards and to simply do the constructive thing, but I'm naive like that.
 
rene
rene
I think SO would have been much cleaner if it had started in 2008 with You'll need 2 reputation to post. Just imagine Jeff staring at that message ...
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Hmmm... hmmm... fiddles with the universal constants Hmmm...
 
user315433
The API page has a fancy picture on it. All the same bugs that the API had for years, now with a new image!
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
1 hour ago, by Bart
Fun story: Some years ago there was a committee in the Dutch government which had to investigate why their ICT projects failed. Their leader when questioned did not know what an IP address was. And he complained to Microsoft on Twitter that they should stop calling him from India all the time ... to which Microsoft replied "that isn't us, that's what we call phishing"
@Bart links or it didn't happen.
 
Bart
Bart
3:59 PM
Knock yourself out
 
rene
rene
Press the green button ...
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
I'm not pushing anything.
 
rene
rene
Not even your luck?
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
rolls for initiative ... no.
(work blocks translation services to avoid data exfiltration)
 
user315433
sigh I just want the list of sites with the dates when they were created. API throws 500
 
user315433
4:04 PM
(it doesn't if the dates are not requested.)
 
rene
rene
@NormalHuman yeah, strange.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
ok, using my tablet for the translation... what's a klaagtweet?
 
rene
rene
@AaronHall a complain tweet, rant if you want
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
oh, nice
klaag means complain?
 
rene
rene
yeah
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
4:10 PM
ooh, member of parliament, so he's important.
 
Bart
Bart
"important" :p
But yeah
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
ok, there's some more words that didn't get translated, but I'm worried I'll get in trouble for asking what they mean... :D
 
user315433
Developer Hiring Trends in 2017: bad news for 1337 jQuery haxxors.
 
Bart
Bart
@AaronHall go for it :D
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
gephishfuckt?
^^^^^^^^ (moderator should probably delete that later... lol)
 
Bart
Bart
4:13 PM
Pretty self-explanatory actually. "Being screwed over by phishing"
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
lol
 
rene
rene
@NormalHuman are you reporting that bug?
 
user315433
I'll wait in case it goes away. I've a page that relies on that API path, normalhuman.github.io/timeline so if it doesn't come back to life in a day or so, I'll have to complain...
 
Jason C
Jason C
@JourneymanGeek Oh god. You know I specifically remember laughing at the AWS Lambda docs' hilariously conspicuous avoidance of the term "Lambda server".
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
wait, what, why?
oh because it's a "cloud"?
 
rene
rene
4:18 PM
@NormalHuman I would expect that also mobile app users are effected?
 
Jason C
Jason C
@AaronHall Because if they called it a "serverless application" server, they'd ruin their hipster fun.
 
user315433
Maybe, but I don't use mobile apps...
 
user315433
That Developer Hiring Trends post is full of advice... "You can do this by adding side projects, showing the questions you’ve answered on Stack Overflow in these areas, or even recommending relevant reading material you found helpful." I wonder what employers think about getting a list of recommended reading with a CV...
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
heh, I $#!%-posted on Reddit 9 months ago, cost me 119 Comment Karma... lol
 
Jason C
Jason C
Lol
I am really bad at reddit.
I don't really post on it though
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
4:20 PM
The problem with Reddit Karma is it isn't worth anything at all absolutely nada nothing zip zero.
 
Jason C
Jason C
It gives you a warm fuzzy feeling of social approval though.
Oh, I only have 8 posts on reddit, ever. I think they're helpful!! But nobody gave them points, lol.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
 
Shog9
Shog9
A lot of forums have this issue: to get serious "rep" requires a ton of writing. Reply to everything. Don't just write when you have something to say or can be helpful; write, write, write.
IIRC, Reddit has the additional gotcha that getting any real karma requires submitting stories
 
Jason C
Jason C
@AaronHall Lol, brutal.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
One word: Whoosh!
It was like -90 before I knew it.
 
Jason C
Jason C
4:26 PM
@AaronHall comment flagged
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
so I just left it.
 
Jason C
Jason C
Lol
 
Andrew T.
Andrew T.
:5840657 > He also special on curing: ... promotion in the office.
when promotion is considered as a sickness...
anyway, quote block doesn't work on reply to deleted message?
Ah I see, when I posted, it correctly add reply target. But after reload, it's just a number (thus formatting failure)
 
Jason C
Jason C
@AaronHall That's a pretty funny article though.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
@Shog9 I used to hangout in the #economics channel on freenode - I figured out how to game the chatbot into crediting me with being helpful - it would give a point for every "thanks" - so when someone new popped into the channel, I'd say, "Welcome to economics!" And they'd say, "Thanks!"
 
Jason C
Jason C
4:30 PM
It was only disguised as elevator music anyway, we've now confirmed it was really the CIA hacking away at everybody's phones.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
on my laptop (I use Firefox on Ubuntu) Google Hangouts has a problem with dismissing the notification when I'm receiving a call - I can only make outgoing calls for some reason (which suits me fine, now my wife doesn't expect me to pick up every time) but all this stuff makes me suspicious.
I had a dude stick a USB dongle in my laptop without permission once. I yanked it out and told him off.
The Ubuntu guys reassure me he couldn't have done anything but I don't know about that: pcworld.com/article/2460540/…
He had some stickers on his laptop that told me that he should have known better.
 
Bart
Bart
4:50 PM
tl;dr "Don't stick your dongle in anything without consent"
4
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Right.
 
Shog9
Shog9
He could've done something even more fun...
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Yeah, but then he'd just be a jerk instead of an agent of a nation-state who thinks I'm worth studying.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
5:15 PM
I fantasize that I'm a target, so I have to stay on top of op-sec.
 
Bart
Bart
And yet Aaron still hasn't noticed us following him
 
rene
rene
@ArtOfCode what is wrong with regime? Is it that rude/negative?
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@rene Kinda is, yeah
 
rene
rene
OK, I roll it back then, I don't want to give the impression it is anything else
STOP EDITING MY ANSWER
 
Bart
Bart
/me goes to edit answer
 
Andy
Andy
5:27 PM
Make sure it's a one word change
 
rene
rene
5:37 PM
Ok, one mod down. Now we wait for the other one.
 
Bart
Bart
> @rene, bringing down mods one at a time
Sometimes I wonder what Unity is thinking. They have a Cache, and with spaceFree you can get the amount of bytes still unused in the Cache. docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Caching.html
Great ... so you use that. And it's weird.
Until you finally click on the thing itself, and at the bottom they state
> NB: This property value is only valid on WebPlayer builds. Other platforms will report an incorrect value.
... so out of their 30 supported platforms, it will only work on 1 of them
 
 
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ɥʇǝS
ɥʇǝS
7:08 PM
@ShadowWizard there's no such thing as a permanent flag ban. It's fully automated and never permanent.
 
user310756
7:43 PM
any mods here?
 
user310756
we need some comment flags on this
 
user310756
thanks to the mod that helped here
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
7:58 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: Log Mean Temperature Difference of a Counterflow Heat Exchanger by Engineering Units on engineering.SE
 
Feeds
Feeds
Stack Overflow Blog: Does Anyone Actually Visit Stack Overflow’s Home Page?
posted on March 09, 2017 by David Robinson

Yesterday we were amused to see this post on Reddit’s sysadmin forum: The post Does Anyone Actually Visit Stack Overflow’s Home Page? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

 
user315433
> the vast majority of our traffic comes from automated traffic, including search engines and scrapers.
 
user315433
I didn't know that... suddenly those great page load stats don't look so great.
 
user315433
Very topical comments on Nick Craver's reddit answer.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@ɥʇǝS I know, that's why I suggested to have such a flag ban, instead of having the user suspended.
Someone might post decent content, even when being a totally bad flagger.
 
rene
rene
8:26 PM
Did I break Stack Overflow?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
MSE is dead too :/
 
Anonymous
@rene Do you have something to confess?
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Probably another wave of smart devices attack
Oh, RO mode, not dead. Hooray.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer: How to find Google PageRank without third party tools? by Hafa rajpoot on webmasters.SE
 
rene
rene
@JeremyBanks yes, I visited a route based on the blog post. I hit /questions/show and then it went boom ... sorry.
 
Anonymous
8:27 PM
damn
 
Anonymous
we never considered that use case
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
> The feature you're trying to use is currently unavailable.

> We're doing a bit of maintenance right now and have put the site in read-only mode so that you can still access all the questions, answers, and general knowledge goodness.

> We'll enable all features of the site as soon as maintenance completes.

> XOXO,
> The Stack Exchange Team
lol
@rene was it a loud boom?
 
ɥʇǝS
ɥʇǝS
A new SQL cluster member took us hard down on an unexpected reboot - we're investigating.
Tweeted by Nick_Craver on March 9, 2017 at 8:27 PM
 
rene
rene
@JeremyBanks I hope you learned something. Don't let your data analyst leak implementation details ... ;)
@ɥʇǝS fire the member
 
SNAFU
SNAFU
Stack is offline. Working on it now.
Tweeted by alioth on March 9, 2017 at 8:25 PM
A new SQL cluster member took us hard down on an unexpected reboot - we're investigating.
Tweeted by Nick_Craver on March 9, 2017 at 8:27 PM
We're back online.
Tweeted by StackStatus on March 9, 2017 at 8:29 PM
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
8:30 PM
whoa
 
rene
rene
As always, chat is working and so is feeds
 
ɥʇǝS
ɥʇǝS
@rene but who took the member down?
(or what)
 
rene
rene
who can be missed ...
 
user315433
Disappointed that @drob never stated the % of automated traffic to SO (in all of its traffic).
 
Jason C
Jason C
lkjhljhlgljk
@ShadowWizard "IoT toilets DOS Stack Overflow. Situation deemed 'crappy'."
 
user315433
8:44 PM
If comments have "too chatty" flag, then chat should have "too commentty".
 
Jason C
Jason C
Haha
I always feel uncomfortable when somebody stars a legitimately helpful message in here.
 
rene
rene
about the dongle?
 
Jason C
Jason C
Lol what
 
user315433
More data scientists -> more blog posts -> not enough room in the sidebar bulletin for all of them.
 
user315433
Should either upsize the bulletin, or do something else.
 
user315433
8:53 PM
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A: How to build a fast local area network

Tola Ch.Just use the fastest pigeon with the smallest USB stick.

 
Jason C
Jason C
9:07 PM
For posterity.
 
user315433
Clicking Juan M's flair in this post leads to 404, right? The URL should be stackoverflow.blog/2015/08/21/…
 
Jason C
Jason C
Yes that page doesn't seem to exist on the blog and the link you just wrote appears to be the correct version.
struggles
@NormalHuman ^ My final answer, heh.
 
user315433
9:46 PM
Could you explain why you think this specimen would be the one in the question? I'm not an expert in spiders, a tad arachnophobic even, but imho the spider in your image looks as much to the one in the question as Margaret Thatcher looks like Napoleon Bonaparte. — AliceD 3 mins ago
 
rene
rene
What is going on here?
Looks like someone got upset because a tagline was removed.
 
user315433
Yes, that their post was edited, which places editor's usercard (name, badge counts and all) under the post.
 
user315433
The point being made is that the usercard is more noise than the salutation that was removed
 
rene
rene
10:01 PM
Better write a FR to get the usercard removed then?
 
user315433
Maybe, but given that usercards are being added by edits as of now, the user objects to minor edits on this ground. Looks like a valid post to me. (One I disagree with, but still)
 
rene
rene
OK, I can see the validity. Doesn't mean to not do edits that remove noise.
 
Jason C
Jason C
10:25 PM
Have any of you guys ever had to implement auto-update functionality on a standalone device?
Is there some decent (linux-based) framework, server and client side, for that? Or some... design pattern with a name, or... common strategy or something? My auto update system sucks.
 
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
10:38 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: The Gunn diode and the two valley theory by 911electronic on physics.SE
 
rene
rene
@JasonC something like apt-get? or the debpkg? or rpm?
 
Jason C
Jason C
@rene I do have apt-get available. That seems like a killer idea. You mean like creating my own apt-get repo on my server and adding it to the device?
I could set up a cron job to trigger it daily or something.
 
rene
rene
yeah, that would be my idea
 
Jason C
Jason C
Fascinating, thanks. I'm definitely going to look into that.
 
rene
rene
I'm not sure if it is well suited for micro-updates or partial updates. Expect it to replace a whole file or files and its dependencies.
But it can prepare for a kernel-upgrade as well so ...
 
Jason C
Jason C
10:49 PM
And it's relatively safe in the face of update errors.
 
rene
rene
I'm not sure how hard or easy it is to get the packages created.
 
Jason C
Jason C
Do apt distributions support incremental updates when versions are skipped?
 
rene
rene
I would expect the package can handle that, if fed with the correct info
So I can go from mysql-5.1 to mysql-5.7
 
Jason C
Jason C
Yeah I'll have to see if there's some sort of migration support, e.g. a post-install task that is aware of the old and new version numbers.
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JasonC there are such toilets?? I want those! :D
 
user315433
10:54 PM
> Much of the original development of APT was done on IRC, so records have been lost. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool
 
Jason C
Jason C
I do like that debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto is "(Obsolete Documentation)".
 
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JasonC nah, it's too old.
 
rene
rene
@JasonC what is the *nix variant that runs on those devices?
 
Jason C
Jason C
11:18 PM
@ShadowWizard Kids aren't using twitter any more? What's cool now?
@rene Raspbian (on a Pi) currently. In the future, unknown. The project is about to move forward for real so we're going to be looking at custom boards with proper SOCs and such.
(Which also means that we may either not have a package manager available in the future, or may have to include a functioning package manager in our SOC evaluation criteria.)
Although I have a hunch that's at least going to be 6 months down the line. We'll probably do an initial Pi-based small production run, annoyingly.
 

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