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12:13 AM

@JasonC .... that isn't how it works? ;p

I'm pretty sure that's how it works.

I'm just not sure if it's heads in tubes vs. shadowy figures under narrow spotlights in an infinite dark space vs. large mysterious rectangles.

Journeyman Geek

could be all of them.

or the disembodied head on an oldschool CRT

Jason C

Oh, or, bodies inside high-tech coffin things.

Or motionless old men in giant chairs connected to inexplicably large life support systems.

Or brains in a pool

Journeyman Geek

ooh

I need to catch up on the second season of that

Jason C

It's awesome

Oh I suppose this is an option, too

Damn I can't remember, there was a series, with an old guy in a chair in an orbiting space station connected to a bunch of tubes, I keep thinking bubblegum crisis but I can't find a screenshot.

No... maybe not, hmm

Oh or the weird old guys floating around on spheres a la Appleseed

Man there's so many options

Journeyman Geek

12:25 AM

lol

Jason C

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/…

@JourneymanGeek Bonus points if it's 80's VR, Max Headroom style.

I just had a weird urge to watch johnny mnemonic

Which, at this point, is set 4 years from now, lol

I love when real life passes old futuristic movie times

Journeyman Geek

lol

Jason C

It's both fun and depressing, like October 21 2015 for back to the future.

Or like listening to youtube.com/watch?v=iI2fRPmEZ6A now. It's so sad. I'm pretty sure I have never heard that song played in public again since 2000.

hichris123

→ 60 messages moved to Chimney

Jason C

@hichris123 I'm going to make a userscript for this or something.

Somebody has to have made one already.

Journeyman Geek

12:33 AM

"This video is not available"

._.

Jason C

Lol whaaat

Well it's Party Like It's 1999

Not worth searching for, lol

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, I knew what it was. ;p

hichris123

Mar 16 '16 at 8:53, by rene

In SOCVR the room owners use an Archiver script to move stale CV-PLS requests to another room. The RO's here could use a similar tactic. to clean-out some of the transcript. That woud need 24/7 RO presence but that is a matter trust I guess and promote some more regulars to RO

Journeyman Geek

I did live through the turn of the millenium

whoo

Jason C

@hichris123 Oh right I forgot about that convo. I'm going to modify it so it's less automatic. E.g. it just gives us a button we can press to move everything smokey said.

Journeyman Geek

12:36 AM

Fanatic badge. Finally got a non reversal gold badge here

Jason C

I think it should probably include replies to smokey's messages too as well as !!/ lines.

... right? Yeah. I think so.

@JourneymanGeek Lol nice

hichris123

Yeah, probably. Except there's messages from e.g. blame that might be a part of a conversation...

Jason C

@JourneymanGeek Lol me too, barely dodged the y2k planes dropping out of the sky

@hichris123 Oh right. There's not really a lot of command noise, so maybe just any smokey message that is definitely a spam report, and any replies to those. We can remove the rest manually if we want.

Or, it could be any smokey message that is a spam report but that nobody replied to with something other than a feedback. Because sometimes people talk about the posts. Yeah that's what I'll do.

And... has to be at least some number of minutes old. So we don't blow away ones that still need feedback. I'll check MS for a good time limit.

user315433

3:01 AM

-2

A: Does GHC-mod have to use full names for types?

In my honest and humble opinion, I think this question violates StackOverflow 's policies about questions. If I were you, I would restate my question in order to make it more clear, concise, and cohesive. You need a specific issue to target, not asking the stack overflow community to do your work...

user315433

Fun fact: there are two non-closed questions on SO with 100+ score and no answers. The above is one of them.

user315433

How to use Shapeless in a Quasiquote? is the other.

Journeyman Geek

@Gerry Downvoted and commented. ;p

user202362

3:34 AM

what does everyone think of a unicorn cashmere jumper?

user202362

user315433

@SmokeDetector The user has 82 rep on SO... maybe it's NAA.

user315433

> code: can literally copy-paste huge chunks off StackExchange prose: GOD HELP YOU if anything about your story is in any way cliche -- Jenni McCowboymilk at 6:29 PM - 25 Apr 2017

user315433

This reminds me of someone's idea to have a more permissive license for code than for prose...

Journeyman Geek

lol

user315433

3:42 AM

Well there is a SE site for prose, but it's not super active... Writers

user315433

And it's not really about copying chunks of text into your novel or whatever.

user202362

In program, you change variable names. In novel, you change wordings

user202362

although that's only for newblets

user202362

most novels follow certain patterns anyways

user202362

design pattern, for novels

user202362

3:58 AM

@Gerry admit it, you only reposted this because cowboy milk in the name, didn't you?

user202362

what other devious thought you have been having lately?

Feeds

'The mountains near here formed when the ... Newfoundland ... microplate collided with, uhh ... Labrador.' 'Ok, now you're definitely just naming dogs.' 'Wait, no, that's actually almost correct.'

user202362

5:33 AM

user202362

Elephant

5:50 AM

I forgot to ask this yesterday...

Is there a script/stackapp/site that can list 'about me' on all sites from 1 profile?

I want to check some of my 'about me's because it got copied from SO, but I usually removed it afterward

Otherwise, maybe a good time to ~~waste time~~ sharpen my programming skill on new language

Journeyman Geek

not as far as I remember

user202362

@Eleph lol, how many sites do you not have a profile on? :p

Elephant

@Telkitty AFAIR, I should have only 5 sites that I want to have my profile on (Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Exchange, Anime & Manga, Android Enthusiasts, Arqade), and blank on the rest

Basically, profile on sites where I kind of actively participate

Journeyman Geek

blank profile, replicate it everywhere, then fix the ones you want? ;p

Elephant

Yeah, that'll work too :S

Journeyman Geek

6:04 AM

Not as cool as writing an app to check...

user334271

8:03 AM

my proposal for an area51 trial site on bengali language; probably going to die because it did not yet recieved the minimum support (*)so enthusiasts please visit. I'm sorry to use this chat room but no ways,SE does not support informing others

user334271

due to topic restrictions

Stijn

@AlwaysConfused I doubt you'll find many enthusiasts for your proposal here. And please don't go advertising your proposal in a bunch of chat rooms.

user334271

ok

Stijn

I see you've only proposed it yesterday, give it some time to grow naturally too :)

It's normal for proposals to take months

user334271

Not that; the star (*) marks demand at least 5 follows in "3 days" (5 users who are willing to 'follow' this proposal
Proposals that do not meet these requirements within three days after submission are subject to removal)

user202362

8:12 AM

I proposed a new site for wildlife: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/109510/…

user202362

will see how long before it's dead >_<

Stijn

@AlwaysConfused ah ok, I wasn't aware of that requirement

good luck with the proposal :)

Elephant

@AlwaysConfused you can always share it to your friends through any other means though, especially social media :) also, good luck for the proposal!

@Telkitty interesting, but I still don't have any idea about the scope... (mix of Biology and The Great Outdoors?) you should add some example questions there!

user334271

8:34 AM

@Elephant Already shared... but seemingly none of my real-life friends are SE user, and it may be difficult/disturbing if I try to convince person-to-person.

user202362

@Elephant like, if you have seen a bird you don't know the name of, but want to find it out

Elephant

@Telkitty AFAIK, Biology accepts species-identification...

Journeyman Geek

9:15 AM

@AlwaysConfused it might help finding people who speak the language

OrangeDog

10:02 AM

There seems to be this meme on meta.SE about downvoting Evan Carroll. What's all that about?

Bart

Evan Carroll.

user202362

First, are you evan? Second, they try to shower him with attention so he stays ... you know what attention hookers are like right?

user315433

11:06 AM

@Elephant SEDE query to list all AboutMe networkwide

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty three days. Without putting any efforts, it got zero chance to survive.

user202362

:'(

Shadow Wizard

To have any chance for a proposal, first thing you must ensure lots of people will follow it.

then of course posting good example questions, etc.

Just throwing a proposal and forgetting about it is just waste of time, both for the one who proposed, and all those who happen to see it.

In the very least, put your max limit of sample questions, think it's 5 per user. Otherwise it's just rude, sorry. (i.e. wasting time of other people, expecting them to do everything.)

user202362

I get it - the difference between a drive by shooting and the explosion of a nuclear bomb in a crowded place

Shadow Wizard

umm... no.

So you decided to troll Area 51? Nice one.

user202362

11:17 AM

Trolling area 51? You beauty, what a great idea!

Shadow Wizard

If you're serious about it, first just write some questions there. It will take you few minutes, but at least will show you're serious about it.

but even then, chance enough people will see it is very very low.

user315433

> "I know it because I saw you taking it." is widely consider incorrect by prominent grammar figures. - ell.stackexchange.com/a/127719

user202362

you know it's edible? ... it's called lead by example

user202362

#GerrysFur4JasonsTuna!

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry yup, flagged as VLQ and downvoted.

23

A: Should negative reputation be discouraged?

Evan Carroll is a special case. He's not your average troll. He has thousands of points on Stack Overflow. Clearly, he 'gets' the system, and is in fact a valuable contributor. This strengthens the case that he is deliberately trolling Meta, and not just being completely clueless time after time....

@Shokhet not really, as I'm not active on other sites.

@Shokhet considering that only ~~small part~~ very tiny percentage of the feature requests ever get official response, it's not hard. :)

@Telkitty he will be too busy with a nuclear war against North Korea... :/

I just hope NK bluff, and they don't really have nuclear war heads. Otherwise the world is doomed. Or at least USA...

Trump is like a poker player who risks everything just to call their opponent's bluff.

user202362

11:31 AM

a few nuclear bombs wouldn't do too much damage by itself - as bad as it sounds, statistically speaking it wouldn't wipe out more than 0.01% of the world population

user202362

people tend to panic, the panic is going to do more damage

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty it's more than just direct victims. It can destroy whole cities, and render the whole area unfit for living for decades. Imagine NY is wiped away. USA can't survive this, not in the current way people are used to live at least.

OrangeDog

Ah right. And it's basically tradition to downvote him now, even if he happens to say something sensible.

Shadow Wizard

> happens to say something sensible

lol... no, that doesn't really happen.

Not on MSE.

All he says is how bad SE is, and how evil its "overlords" are.

OrangeDog

Well I noticed the phenomenon recently IIRC on a documentation question

Which actually is bad

Shadow Wizard

11:44 AM

@OrangeDog you mean people downvote him on SO just because he's Meta troll? Yeah, that's not good.

OrangeDog

No, on Meta

Shadow Wizard

Didn't see his posts on MSO, link?

OrangeDog

It would have been on the hot/featured meta list recently

One of the "Is Documentation a failure" ones

Shadow Wizard

umm.... MSE Not Found

Evan! Give me back Meta!

:D

@OrangeDog well, this is heated debate, so people downvote anyone, as they have different opinions. Got nothing to do with Evan.

Those who think Documentation is a failure will downvote anyone saying Documentation is a success, and vice versa.

OrangeDog

wasn't actually the "Is Documentation a failed experiment?" one though

Stijn

11:48 AM

@ShadowWizard I saw the same on MSO.

Shadow Wizard

2 mins ago, by OrangeDog

One of the "Is Documentation a failure" ones

#isConfused

OrangeDog

basically I don't remember

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn maybe @Nick turned some switch off... ?

Stijn

Anyone have an issue with pages stuck on loading due to gravatar being unresponsive? this question for example

OrangeDog

I just remember two answers with a similar opinion, one with ~+30 and Evan's one that IMO was better written with ~-30. Then I noticed that seemed to be a thing with his posts.

Shadow Wizard

11:50 AM

@OrangeDog it's probably deleted by now, can't see anything in his profile.

OrangeDog

I can see the deleted answers on that question though

Bart

@Stijn nope

OrangeDog

must have been an SE meta one

Bart

@OrangeDog must have been deleted then. There is nothing recent in any of his profiles which matches your description.

OrangeDog

Well I must have noticed something incongrous

Or I had some kind of psychic vision

Shadow Wizard

11:53 AM

@OrangeDog so is it there?

@Stijn surprisingly, no. I don't like Gravatar as you probably know, but that page doesn't get stuck.

Elephant

@OrangeDog I believe I also read that one, but I didn't really care at that time

or Mandela effect

user315433

> My mother in law is trying to kill me AZ so I am reading article what precautions to take... I going to avoid them -- worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/79202

user315433

What site would a question like this belong? Lifehacks?

user315433

Or Deathhacks...

Stijn

@Bart @ShadowWizard OK thanks. I checked isup.me/gravatar.com too and it said it's just me.. I should have trusted the tool to be correct :p

user315433

12:08 PM

How to show Snackbar at top of the screen has 20K views and an answer scoring 100+... the question score is -49.

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry maybe it was HNQ, hence the views

user315433

I don't think a question with -49 would be HNQ...

user315433

There are 5 negatively scored SO questions with a Great (100+) Answer, including that one. data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/663373/…

user315433

Likely reason: an edit war or some other aberrant behavior drawing meta attention.

user315433

And one of those 5 is Why does i|= j|= k|= (j+= i) - - (k+++k) - - (i =+j) == 11? by Jeremy Banks

user315433

12:16 PM

The Snackbar post is +74 -153; the == 11 post is +106 -154.

Shokhet

12:35 PM

@ShadowWizard fair enough

user202362

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn well, must admit this happens quite often for me with imgur.com images.... It's some DNS crap, never delved into this deep enough. (i.e. something with location and nodes between the location and the actual server.)

Shokhet

@ShadowWizard that's what you think. That just means they don't tell you before they ship you off to the secret base for reprogramming. @JasonC

Shadow Wizard

@Shokhet hehe, lol... I think my name is more often mentioned as "the one who pokes developers for silly bugs", or "the one who pingz dem all".... not really good mentions. ;-)

Shokhet

@ShadowWizard Why is that a bad thing? Just means that if they hire you, those chat pings will stop. (Something else may start but I don't know how internal Stack pings work)

Nick Craver

12:43 PM

I get pinged tens of thousands of times a year, you guys are amateur pingers =P

user202362

@nic what do you think about #GerrysFur4JasonsTuna

Shadow Wizard

@NickCraver really? Come to the Den, hide your diamond, and ask for ping attack. This will be sweet. :P

Nick Craver

you can't hide bling like this

Shadow Wizard

Oh you can. You got Magic at your disposal. And lots of socks. :D

Nick Craver

sockets*

2

Shadow Wizard

12:49 PM

rofl

So @Nick what was that temporary 404?

user202362

@shadow stop trying to lure innocent kids into the den with candies

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty if one think ping attack is candy, they should really be in Den anyway. :D

Nick Craver

build took longer than expected, pool didn't spin up on 10 before 11 went down - digging into startup times later today, but I'm replacing a primary SQL Server for Stack Overflow shortly, so that's most of my day

Shadow Wizard

@Tel you got some tuna fetish? Or am I missing something? ;)

user202362

so it is appropriate to send noreply email into /dev/null?

Shadow Wizard

12:52 PM

@NickCraver sounds like a good day.... :D

@Shokhet see Nick message above... looks like they ping even more than us! ;)

user202362

@ShadowWizard tuna is not special to me, but gerry loves his fur as much as jason loves the tuna, it's complicated ...

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty what will you do if/when @Gerry will finally reply to one of your never ending questions about it? Eat some tuna? ;)

user202362

I would feel triumph, then deep disappointment

user202362

I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it!

Shadow Wizard

lol

Derpy

12:59 PM

Coyote catches Road Runner

►

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy are those Telkitty and Gerry?

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Basically.

Shadow Wizard

OP can still delete this, wonder if he'll do that. Otherwise it's likely to get much more downvotes... :/

@Derpy GW or Quick?

Derpy

also please notice that Telkitty can be considered a cat. Does this imply that Gerry is a mouse (see: Tom&Jerry)?

user202362

s/j/g gerry not jerry

Shadow Wizard

1:06 PM

@Derpy hmm... doubt that

user202362

also gerry is a bot ... so it's like chasing cars, not even an animal to start with

user202362

trust me, gerry really is a bot

Jason C

@Shokhet lol

Shadow Wizard

@Telkitty bot who pretends to be a normal human?

user202362

don't most bots want to pass turing test?

user315433

1:15 PM

> It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

user202362

【眼鏡王蛇也瘋狂】久逢大旱止不住口渴的王蛇進入村莊討水喝

►

Shadow Wizard

@Gerry gone

@Tel see? Gerry ain't no bot. ^

lol

You becoming @random on us? @Gerry

Mithrandir

Apparently I'm a bot. Hang on, let me dig through some transcript...

in The Singularity on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, Jan 2 at 13:52, by Henry WH Hack v2.0

!!/update @Mithrandir now

Shadow Wizard

huh

Is this worth reporting? ^

Mithrandir

My guess is that the one day is more than 24 hours.

Derpy

1:25 PM

$.refrigerate()?

user315433

Really, the only honest 24-hour stores are the ones in places like Arizona and Hawaii, and many of them are still wrong in certain years.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy I'm sure smart refrigerators got such line of coding somewhere. ;)

Mithrandir

@Gerry ...yes, or that.

Shadow Wizard

@ShadowWizard too late, OP now can't delete.

SNAFU

We're about to replace the last SQL Server in the Stack Overflow cluster (currently a replica). Hopefully this tweet is the only indication.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on April 26, 2017 at 1:11 PM

Jason C

1:36 PM

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@Telkitty It's not complicated. Here, I'll show you.

user202362

Jason C

@Gerry If we ever colonize Mars, maintaining tzdb is going to suck.

Derpy

..... just found this on google images

the question strikes again, I see...

Jason C

I Googled "most important image on the internet", was not disappointed https://t.co/q5MEda2Zr7

Tweeted by Arumi_kai on April 6, 2017 at 4:20 PM

Mithrandir

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

1:49 PM

@Mithrandir It's Shadow Wizard's fault.

Jason C

Stop pointing fingers.

Did it just delete your del or did you do that, lol

Oh no it couldn't

Well at least I got some entertainment out of that thought for a few seconds

Journeyman Geek

(redacted)

Jason C

2:29 PM

@ShadowWizard Vinnie's last lab test finally came back today and we got a positive confirmation on some type of cancer. Can't know exactly what type, probably some kind of lymphoma, possibly some kind of leukemia, but the test we did confirms that a significant majority of his white blood cells came from the same bogus cell, = cancer. So some closure at least.

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC ah. I guess that's as good as it can be?

Jason C

The obsessive problem solver in me still wishes we took some post-mortem sample to send off to a lab and figure out exactly where the mutation was and whether it was related to his tumor earlier this year. Plus, biology is interesting. But, alas. His ashes came back today I'm going to go pick them up.

Journeyman Geek

:(

Jason C

Yup. That's as good as it gets.

Still waiting on virus test results for my other cat, and I want to have my water samples tested at a real lab (chronic toxicity was another theory, even though we ruled it out, my water still sucks here and I don't want to screw up my other cat, new cats, or myself).

Journeyman Geek

(as someone who usually puts on a positive face about everything, pet death is one of the things that totally bums me out)

ah, yeah

Good thing about singapore. Water's decent. Except when someone dumps a dead maid in a water tank.

Jason C

2:33 PM

Pet's dying sucks. A lot. The only good thing I've got going for me here is I actually do feel like we did everything we could, and the decision to put him down was the right one (I felt that way even before these tests).

Lol oh god

user202362

As much as I admire your love for your cat, it's probably best for you to let it go. The more you allow this thing to drag on, the worse it is for your mental state

Jason C

The water here in NYC is actually famously good, at least the source is.

@Telkitty Yeah, absolutely. With this final test in, I feel a lot better about moving on now, too.

But only the source is.

(re: water)

Once it gets through the city's pipes and these old buildings, god knows what's going on with it.

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC its mostly rain water here. And recycled toilet water.

Amusingly the toilet water is ultrapure

Jason C

I can't actually wash my dishes in it any more, when it dries it leaves, like... sand or something.

Lol

That kinda makes sense, they probably treat the crap out of sewage water, figuratively and literally.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Shadow Wizard

2:36 PM

@JourneymanGeek before or after you pee? ;)

Journeyman Geek

That's where my brother works

@ShadowWizard much after

Shadow Wizard

lol

Jason C

I forget what NYC does. I think most of the sewage is treated and dumped into the river, clean but not potable. I'm pretty sure they don't recycle it here, at least not directly (ignoring the whole natural process of river -> atmosphere -> rain -> basin), since the source is plentiful.

Journeyman Geek

essentially the sewage is treated to the sort of standards they use for wafer fab plants

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC I see. Good to know, hope this finally let you get back to normal life... ?

user202362

2:37 PM

coz there is a tree above the roof, sometimes urine dilutes the colour of rain water

Journeyman Geek

then some of it is sold to industries that need it, the rest is dumped into reservoirs cause the water is too pure to drink

Jason C

Yeah I think it will. Once I have his ashes, too. Then there's nothing left to do but get used to him being gone. I feel good about everything else now. It still sucks, a lot, but I'm definitely in a better place than I was last week.

@JourneymanGeek Damn

user202362

bought 15 litre chlorine, poured it in the rain water tank, bleached water and toilet

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC it will literally leech the minerals from your body

Jason C

Oh man I was reading about these cool things a while ago now I can't remember. They were essentially pre-fab, pop-up sewage treatment plants that you could cheaply deploy in strange places to give fresh water.

@JourneymanGeek Maybe they distill it as a final step or something.

Journeyman Geek

2:40 PM

@JasonC no need - they use RO

Jason C

Ohhh

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC basically there's different 'levels' of filtration. Nano filtration is probably 'good enough' unless there's dissolved heavy metals IIRC

Jason C

Oh look, I coincidentally stumbled on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater

Journeyman Geek

RO is basically "as pure as it gets"

Jason C

Looks like Singapore's been a huge fan since circa 2002

(I love infrastructure stuff)

Journeyman Geek

2:42 PM

yup

Jason C

People definitely don't spend enough time thinking about what goes in and out of the holes in their walls.

user202362

Singapore has been buying water from Malaysia for years, don't know whether they still do

Journeyman Geek

Yup

actually we have a lease on a reservoir/dam

and we process and sell a portion of the water back to them

however, we're trying to be mostly water independent

user202362

at much higher price

Journeyman Geek

Processing water isn't free ;p

user202362

2:43 PM

I lived in Singapore for about 2-3 years

user202362

many years ago

Journeyman Geek

lol

Jason C

Ah

Journeyman Geek

We also turned our main river (estuary really) into a massive reservoir with a barrage.

Marina Barrage

The Marina Barrage is a dam in Singapore built at the confluence of five rivers, across the Marina Channel between Marina East and Marina South. It was officially opened on 1 November 2008. It was Singapore's fifteenth reservoir. It provides water storage, flood control and recreation. It won a 2009 AAEE award. == Purpose == The S$3 billion project turns Marina Bay and Kallang Basin into a new downtown freshwater Marina Reservoir. It provides water supply, flood control and a new lifestyle attraction. By keeping out seawater, the barrage forms Singapore’s 15th reservoir and first reservoir in the...

erf

that reads like someone copied and pasted press releases.

Jason C

NYC does a lot of skimming -> settling -> draining -> repeat to remove sludge, and also filters with giant centrifuges. It uses the bio part of the sludge as fertilizer. It uses the methane to partially power the treatment plants. The solid waste gets shipped to landfills. The remaining water is disenfected and dumped into the Hudson, East River, or the ocean. The fresh water comes from reservoirs upstate.

Journeyman Geek

2:47 PM

heh

I could probably ask my brother what they do here

I think we do methane reclamation for power too tho

Jason C

nyc.gov/html/dep/html/wastewater/index.shtml for NYC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Singapore unofficial for Singapore, fyi. I wonder if the Singapore gov't has an official site.

Annyyyywaaays, I better get back to work.

Peace

(PS lol the sewage treatment plants are powered by farts)

user202362

I remember I have see many water towers on long island or what looks like water towers

user202362

Water in Sydney & Singapore you can drink straight from tap. Water supply in parts of China is not so reliable. Water in parts of US & UK like San Diego & London are not recommend for drinking and taste 'hard'. But that's just my experience and I have not been to too many places.

user202362

I find water in Singapore taste 'sweeter' than Sydney's. Not really sweet. But if you compare the two, there is a subtle difference

Bart

And 100% fewer sharks in your drinking water in SGP

user315433

3:02 PM

> The Delaware Aqueduct leaks up to 36 million US gallons (140,000 m3) per day. A $1 billion project to repair the leaking was scheduled to begin in January 2013. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Aqueduct

user315433

Looks like the article is due for an update...

user202362

3:14 PM

One of my ultimate fancies, is to buy a piece of land like this, build a big windowed log house myself that runs on rain water (2 large water tanks), solar and wind power and has a sanitary/waste water pipe deep into the ocean :p

user315433

3:38 PM

> @igrigorik Know of any mechanism to work around HSTS preload for old subdomains that will never be TLS, and only exist to 301? -- Nick Craver at 4:46 AM - 26 Apr 2017

user315433

Boo. Nick is using Twitter instead of Stack Exchange.

user310756

@Telkitty hi!! I haven't forgotten you. I have a very injured horse.. we need to catch up soon

Elephant

4:07 PM

looks like NAA, not spam, but anyway...

Jason C

4:23 PM

@Telkitty Yeah. The towers are local buffers to smooth out peaks in demand. There's a ton of them in nyc too for tall buildings cause the city pumps can't keep bigger buildings pressurized.

user315433

4:55 PM

Normally, SO employees either get diamonds on all sites or just on 1-2 (SO, Meta). js12 breaks the pattern, with diamonds at SO, SF, DBA, PPCG, SoftEngr, and... SciFi (but not on other sites). Why SciFi?

user315433

No diamond on Meta, though.

Jon Ericson

Diamonds are given "as needed". No idea what the need was in this case, however.

user315433

> Developer @ Stack Overflow currently working on the Profiles/Developer Story team!

user315433

Apparently, the merge of DevStory and user profiles is considered Fantasy or Science Fiction.

Shokhet

@NickCraver Oh. Oh wow. @sha

user315433

5:02 PM

Is this site http://www.licence-activation.com/ some pirate thing or what?

user315433

Trying to decide if superuser.com/a/1203587 is spam.

Shokhet

@Gerry Well, they misspelled "license" (but that could just be the OP). It doesn't feel right; the best way to buy Win10 should be on microsoftstore.com

user315433

Well... (1) promotion; (2) not addressing the question.

user315433

!!/report superuser.com/a/1203587

user315433

@Shokhet "licence" is correct. gcse.com/english/licence.htm

Shokhet

5:06 PM

@Gerry Oh. Okay then.

"the more you know" and all that

user315433

Of course, there's an ELU post about this, but oddly enough, it's not favored by Google and has under 1K views. "License" and "licence"

user315433

@JonEricson Given by whom (in general)? I don't think Joel has time to manage all the diamonds himself...

Jon Ericson

@Gerry All the devs have the power to grant diamonds and a few CMs.

user315433

So a newly hired dev can grant diamonds to him/herself?

Jon Ericson

Not sure, actually. There's a bulk diamond granting process that requires employees to have a profile on all sites. (If you don't have a profile on a site, you will have to bug someone for a diamond later. It's sorta a pain, but not needed all that often.)

Shokhet

5:18 PM

@Gerry Cool

I am American, so I was unfamiliar with what appears to be primarily a BrE spelling

Jason C

wtf

all my user scripts and stylish styles mysteriously disappeared today

This is extremely disconcerting and irritating.

user334271

@JourneymanGeek Not at all difficult to find; but i'm no moderator, so i don't have the privilage to invite someone to a new chatroom. As well on existing chatrooms topics are specified; so if i "advertise" there; it is being considered as spam.

Jason C

5:33 PM

My user scripts didn't all disappear, it's like they got replaced with some random collection from the distant past

rene

maybe time for reading the Git tutorial?

Jason C

No it's not a git thing

Like there's a script here that I used, once, like 2 years ago, then uninstalled, and not from git.

My own scripts that I created on here then moved to git survived.

The other scripts that i installed from git but did not create on here, those are gone.

Same with scripts installed from other non-git sources. Those are gone, too.

And my stylish stylesheets, unrelated to tampermonkey. Super weird.

rene

If you start Internet Explorer, is it version 5.5?

Jason C

I got... windows updates and a tampermonkey update this morning. It has to be related to one of those things.

I don't think I've started IE since I bought this computer 5 years ago... I wonder what version I actually have, lol...

Anonymous

Is this Chrome? Maybe Chrome synced some old state for some reason.

rene

5:40 PM

Maybe things got quarantined by Defender?

Jason C

Yeah it's chrome

I've got Defender disabled unless, maybe it snuck in in an update

No still disabled

Nothing in Comodo's activity logs

Weird...

rene

is chrome on 58.0.3029.81

Jason C

No, 57.0.2987.133

The about box triggered an update so... that's happening now

rene

Is there anything else missing from your /users/jasonc/ folder

Jason C

> An error occurred while checking for updates: The installer failed to uncompress archive. Please download Google Chrome again.

Weird.

Lol

There is 450 GB in about 3.1m files in that folder. Who knows.

I stopped trying to dig too deeply into weird things on this computer.

rene

5:45 PM

@JasonC that sounds about right ;)

Jason C

It's clones of clones of hard drives that were clones of failed hard drives that were clones of hard drives that were clones of clones of clones from computers past. Who knows.

I think it's that thing that happens when clones turn retarded.

rene

I have had incidents where the default user profile got loaded, instead of your normal one. That gives basically an empty profile.

Jason C

It's a very special computer.

Oh maybe something like that happened, some profile mix-up, or something blown away by a wild windows update.

That could explain it all in one nice, unified way. We'll go with that, sure.

rene

lol

Jason C

I do want to figure out why my chrome updates are failing. Strange.

Travis J

6:10 PM

@JasonC - I haven't seen that happen on any of my devices. Perhaps it is a setting or being blocked by something you are running?

Travis J

6:21 PM

@Shog9 The first rule of the GOAL OF THE TAVERN is that you do not talk about the GOAL OF THE TAVERN.

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tchrist

GAOL

Travis J

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