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1:08 AM

John Adams - Common tones in simple time

user202362

Anyways, I will be around US west coast (L.A. & S.F.) during last few days of August and early September if anyone want to meet up ...

user202362

I will actually be in N.America for 4 weeks, but rest of the journey have set schedules and I may not be free.

Ah, I'll be leaving LA in early August.

user202362

I will be there at the end of it :p

user315433

1:24 AM

> Basically when we migrated a question between 2 Stack Exchange sites, users with matching IDs on the other side got random rep. #DevDiscuss -- Nick Craver at 6:11 PM - 25 Jul 2017

Journeyman Geek

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user202362

1:44 AM

has anyone driven from seattle to canadian rockies?

user315433

2:07 AM

0

A: Is there anyway to clear signal mask set in bash script

This question has been solved by Big Dick Brother.Let's see how he did it. First he use shell to call C program by himself. Then he clear the mask in his own process. Finally, he trap this process to unblock the signal. Hope you can adopt his answer sincerely.

user315433

By whom? There is no user with that name there...

2:24 AM

@cazc_941 shouldn't that be ⚅ instead of $6$?

Shrug. I was wondering about that

@Telkitty my girlfriend drove from West coast to ontario

With rabbits in her car

And all her stuff

user202362

I am not going to Ontario, only through Las Vegas to YellowStone, then Seattle. Seattle is right next to Vancouver, from where it's about 9 hours drive to Banff. I know I can take the car across. But I might need Canadian currency and enable roaming?

user202362

going to banff is tentative ...

user202362

3:07 AM

Also that time of the year - when sudden inflow of people indicates mod election time :p

5:04 AM

couldn't be more obvious.

user315433

5:41 AM

TeX - LaTeX is 7 years old today. Top question of last year: Draw a dash-dotted line

5:54 AM

Slavoj Zizek on Elon Musk’s Artificail Intellegence Venture

user202362

where are those self driving cars? where is that manned spaceship on mars

user202362

action speak louder than words

6:19 AM

boo hoo hoo I'm serially downvoted

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rage quitting

@ShadowWizard coool! You have better friends then I had yesterday!

@ShadowWizard Can I be your friend too? ;p

@ShadowWizard sure, but maybe instead ask to merge your account with mine?

@Inc. let's bring all our socks and down vote all the thingz

The reversal script corrected 3 down votes on my profile, assuming one was legit.

→ 12 messages moved to Chimney

6:36 AM

@rene yeah... so where have we both commented... hmm...

@Inc. you already are! <3

@ShadowWizard aawww, how cute ;)

@rene sure! merging @rene's account into my own

wait, wait, wait ...

happy with 118k rep

@rene I <3 too

\o/

6:42 AM

@ShadowWizard I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL!!!!

Who are you? Don't make me jealous!

:O

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: eremaxadvice.com/varitonil/ by arijadnkoury on apple.SE

6:59 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Comment Box Not Appearing on Posts,Can't deactivate the plugins by sandeep teotia on wordpress.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, potentially bad keyword in body: It will build testosterone level in male body by pappulullu on drupal.SE

@JamesENL oh, but we have! We're way beyond <3. I know your secretz! :D

True

mumbling something about ear

7:17 AM

Shhhhhhh

What? Can't hear you!

>.> <.< flee

@JamesENL what? You have this?!

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user202362

that's as different as 'meet' and 'meat'

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It is not a good on topic question. lol it is the thread for Accepting nomination. Who should moderate this site. Lolol

7:25 AM

@Telkitty how? flee and flee. Same. :D

user202362

Fleas are small flightless insects that form the order Siphonaptera. As external parasites of mammals and birds, they live by consuming the blood of their hosts. Adults are up to about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and usually brown. Bodies flattened sideways enable them to move through their host's fur or feathers; strong claws prevent them from being dislodged. They lack wings, and have mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood and hind legs adapted for jumping. The latter enable them to leap a distance of some 50 times their body length, a feat second only to jumps made by froghoppers. Larvae...

@Telkitty ohhhh. blush

@SagarV well, sometimes this lock is used for other things, message can't be changed.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused

Well, at least it's not flu...

1 hour later…

8:51 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question: How to flag everything? by Don't Panic on meta.stackoverflow.com

@SmokeDetector f

@BhargavRao You are not a privileged user. Please see the privileges wiki page for information on what privileges are and what is expected of privileged users.

Sorry, wrong copy paste.

2 or 3 adviced me to raise a custom flag so 22 people will see it. still it is pending after 1&half days

There are custom flags pending from May 22nd

8:54 AM

@BhargavRao and the election is to appoint only 2. lol

@SmokeDetector who reported this?

may be some personal issue.

3 mins ago, by Bhargav Rao

Sorry, wrong copy paste.

is it a feedback?

5 mins ago, by Bhargav Rao

@SmokeDetector f

Yes

@SmokeDetector why?

@ShadowWizard Post manually reported by user Bhargav Rao in room SOBotics.

8:59 AM

@Sag ^

(that's how to see who reported)

@SmokeDetector why?

@SagarV That's not a report.

it works only for report....

@SmokeDetector why you exist?

@SmokeDetector why?

@SagarV Post manually reported by user Bhargav Rao in room SOBotics.

9:00 AM

he can't keep track of edited messages

/@Sha

@SmokeDetector why?

whoops

!!/alive?

@ShadowWizard You doubt me?

yes

@SmokeDetector ?

@SagarV correct, he's not FOX

9:02 AM

I think kenny can do it

who's going to sing me the song Sha Sho

@rene what's up with your MSE spree? You want to reach 100k now? ;)

@ShadowWizard can you

(or are you just bored? :D)

@SagarV when I'll want a chat ban, yeah

but I can't sing my own name, it's lame

I can sing @Art @Bart though. :P

Od Ed won't work coz of 2 letters.

Oh well, there's always @Sag @Rag though not sure @Rag was here in the last 2 days so maybe it won't ping him. :D

oh LOL

Last seen 7 days ago... so we're safe. @Rag won't ping @RaghavSood. ;)

9:14 AM

@ShadowWizard only answering in the support tag ;) ...

Ohhhhh.... Hammertime! 🔨

@ShadowWizard there is no new posts here

I really hate today. the net speed in company is very very bad(take minimum 10 seconds to load google) and also system suc*s

10:03 AM

@SagarV :(

10:18 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Is there a Linux music player which has nestable smart playlists AND syncs with Android? by isabella on softwarerecs.SE

10:39 AM

@ShadowWizard I tried a couple of options for /current but not that one ... thanks!

@rene just replace the numeric ID with "current", it usually works. ;)

need help :!!OO

o_O

If I share something in QA style on SO, is there any problem if the Q is too broad? I mean I have to cover 6 different things. Shall I add it as a single thread or split it to 6 QAs(or less)

^ @Sha

I didn't posted it yet. you don't have to search my profile. :p

@SagarV not sure about that... on one hand, it might be closed as too broad. On the other hand, if all 6 are very similar, people might not like it being separated. @rene or @Bart might give you better answer...

10:51 AM

Self-answered questions still need to be good questions. If they are too broad, off-topic or otherwise problematic, the answer won't save it.

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@Trav too, he's active on SO. :)

Ignore the fact that you're answering it yourself.

So I have to split it into 3 pairs. hmm. I will try to push a test (pair 1) by today night.

Is there any meta post available about how to write good QA's(self answered)

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Q: How to ask and self-answer a correct, high quality Q&A pair without attracting downvotes?

Almost two years ago I asked and then self-answered this question about certificates. I did so because handling certificates has always been a great pain, requiring a combination of disparate command-line tools used in a specific order, without any end-to-end tutorials / how-to's available for co...

discussion down-votes self-answer instant-self-answer

11:09 AM

@SagarV if it is too broad I do think that is a problem, yes. If you're prepping something that you want to be a canonical see my answer on MSO and also pay attention to everything @bart said about this topic (right now and in the past).

next time I try to post it without typo's, OK?

11:29 AM

@rene No prob. What is RTFM?

also why you said that try to make it as a CW?

@SagarV see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM

@SagarV so you won't get rep from it as that is sometimes what people get upset about

shall I get tag score from a CW post?

@SagarV no

oops. I am expecting tag score. rep doesn't matter

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11:51 AM

@ShadowWizard It is odd, being summoned by a shadow

And have you appear as a silhouette

@YvetteColomb , your score is going high

user310756

@SagarV which score?

mod el score

user310756

I'm 5th

user310756

11:53 AM

but I have a lot of downvotes, so I'm not as far behind the next guy as it appears ;)

@YvetteColomb that's coz he have 40 cand score

and it is primary.

user310756

@SagarV yep I know. I'm not doing too badly for such a low candidate score. Not too shabby at all. I'm about to get another candidate point also - on the verge of 14k rep

user310756

if I'm not elected this time - I'll run next time with a candidate score of 40 :)

Journeyman Geek

@YvetteColomb I missed my first SU election where I had a chance on purpose.

Phoned in the second one, and won ;p

(Literally! Ran my whole election off my phone)

@YvetteColomb but be careful with your activities on the site

user310756

12:01 PM

@JourneymanGeek what do you mean? You didn't enter or deliberately lost?

user310756

@SagarV lol

Journeyman Geek

@YvetteColomb I skipped it

user310756

@JourneymanGeek ah k

user310756

yeh I wasn't prepared this time (need more rep) - but I have better results than I expected.

Journeyman Geek

I also lost... er... 2 elections semi on purpose elsewhere

user310756

12:02 PM

lol do tell

Journeyman Geek

SF and AU

user310756

ah k

Journeyman Geek

Both cause someone asked me to stand, so we could have enough people in the primaries

@YvetteColomb I mean this action is irrelevant. Since you are a mod cand, people will notice it quickly

meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/353718/revisions

if you elected, we'll miss u here

user310756

@SagarV ? there's people who don't like me and people who do. The one's who don't will make an extreme fuss over small things. We all make mistakes.

user310756

12:07 PM

@SagarV why wouldn't I come here?

Journeyman Geek

@SagarV lots od mods are active on chat, here and elsewhere

user310756

I'm a mod on another site and am in chat even more

@JourneymanGeek yes. but not like now. if she got elected, she'll be busy in SO. visit occasionally like Ed and Bhargav

Journeyman Geek

lol

user310756

@SagarV I haven't been coming here much. It's because I've gotten the mod position on pets I've been more active in chat everywhere :D

user310756

12:10 PM

also @Telkitty and I met up in real life spooky real life and I know I can find her here :)

Journeyman Geek

I don't really remember seeing bharghav and ed on chat pre moddiness.

Not in Tavern, I was active on chat.so

I came here only because of the townhalls

user310756

The chat room I ditch first is Shadow's Den, when pushed for time, followed by this. I always attend the Pets, charcoal and socvr abd interpersonal skill

Journeyman Geek

(also I haven't been here that long, I'm mostly on the SE server)

user310756

@BhargavRao not the beer?

12:11 PM

Nopes

user310756

it's very sweet that you will miss me @SagarV

Journeyman Geek

(shh. WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE EXPLOSIVE GINGER BEER)

user310756

You can ping once every two days in here if you don't see me.

user310756

@JourneymanGeek ? mind is boggling

Journeyman Geek

@YvetteColomb proper ginger beer is explosive ;p

user310756

12:13 PM

@JourneymanGeek mind is still boggling

Journeyman Geek

so, proper ginger beer is brewed

and the carbonation is natural

buuut if the pressure gets too high, it could burst the bottle or geyser when you open it

user310756

ah nice!

Journeyman Geek

Its been a while since I made any

user310756

ok. Now - I must do my uni assignment ;)

@YvetteColomb enable ping notif from @FOx and @Kenny

user310756

12:14 PM

@SagarV never! I hate those bots - I've told them a billion times to shuddup and they don't listen

user310756

@JourneymanGeek next time I'll have some :)

Journeyman Geek

oh if I make another batch...

I want to try using bentong ginger...

since one cannot quite get ginger grown on the slopes of mount doom...

@YvetteColomb you don't like fun ri8?

Journeyman Geek

(ginger grown in a town in malaysia, in volcanic soil. Has a very nice kick, and really nice smell)

user310756

@SagarV I love fun - the endless pings from the bots annoys me.

user202362

12:19 PM

@YvetteColomb you need to post more pet pictures of yours :p

@RaghavSood hehe, blame @Sag :D

user310756

yes I do

user310756

runs off to find pet pics

@YvetteColomb pexels.com/search/pet

user310756

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user202362

12:21 PM

:D

user310756

you will meet these characters next week :)

user202362

you have very handsome horses :)

user310756

she is beautiful - she's the one that had that serious leg injury I mentioned

I wonder, does this happen a lot in other countries?

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What is that even?

12:35 PM

@ShadowWizard What did you mean?

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Concrete tube. Probably destined as a part of a sewer line.

the load or the thing?

ah Od.

@BhargavRao concrete pipes falling from truck

@Sha, this is the perfect time for you to sing the song Od Ed. lol

The truck had to make sudden stop, pipes were not attached properly and fell.

12:37 PM

@ShadowWizard in which country you saw this?

@SagarV well, those are not falling..... ;)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: An archive with long filename inside – unarchiver hits filesystem limit and fails by damien on unix.SE

@Oded yup

@SagarV nah, @Sag @Rag is better :D

@SagarV Israel, from those license plates.

@Oded nice, you remember! ;)

12:39 PM

@Oded you got a great eye. for me, it's unreadable.

@SagarV it's not the actual numbers, it's the color and design

Vehicle registration plates of Israel

An Israeli vehicle registration plate, or an Israeli license plate, is a vehicle registration plate, a metal or plastic plate or plates attached to a motor vehicle or trailer, used in Israel for official identification purposes. Israeli registration plates are issued by various approved licensing firms, like Dinamometer, and according to Specification no. 327 of the Standards Institute of Israel. Most regulations regarding Israeli vehicle registration plates are listed among the transport regulations, issued by the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety. These regulations define the proper placement...

Could have confused those with Dutch ones

Vehicle registration plates of the Netherlands

Vehicle registration plates of the Netherlands are vehicle registration plates issued by the national road traffic agency (Dutch: Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer (RDW)). RDW vehicle registration plates are assigned bearing the same "number" (a sequence of characters composed of letters and digits) as that shown on the vehicle's registration document. The numbering scheme used bears no relation to the place of a vehicle's registration or ownership, and numbers – which are issued in strict time order – identify the vehicle, not its owner. Thus, if a vehicle changes ownership, the registration number...

@Bart huh! Well, no letters for us.... :)

Pff, you guys are weird

user202362

12:54 PM

birds of a feather flock together

@Bart yup. And we started using 8 digit plates only this year! :D

The beautiful number plates in the world :-)))))

Vehicle registration plates of India

All motorised road vehicles in India are tagged with a registration or license number. The Vehicle registration plate (commonly known as number plate) number is issued by the district-level Regional Transport Office (RTO) of respective states — the main authority on road matters. The number plates are placed in the front and back of the vehicle. By law, all plates are required to be in modern Arabic numerals with Latin letters. Other guidelines include having the plate lit up at night and the restriction of the fonts that could be used. In some states such as Sikkim, cars bearing outside plates...

@ShadowWizard "7 digits should be enough for everyone"?

don't consider this image. it's a taxi number plate

@Bart even for india, we have 4 digits

@Bart hmm? Where you saw that quote?

12:59 PM

@ShadowWizard just paraphrasing Gates' (640k should be enough...)

oh lol

Thought you saw it in the article somehow

@SagarV no.... you have 8.

@ShadowWizard nope. 4 digits

@SagarV plus four letters.....

yeah

the first 2 letters are state code

eg KL -> Kerala, TN -> TamilNadu, etc.

the next 1/2 digits are district code. 1-> for trivandrum and so on.

@SagarV hehe, like USA

we all copy from one another!

1:05 PM

So, if you saw a number plate with KL 1, it is kerala trivandrum regn.

again letters may added because if the numbers reached 9999, they add an A and start from 1 again

that is KL 1 A 1 after KL 1 9999

if it reached KL 1 A 9999, then it will start KL 1 B 1 and ... when it reached KL 1 Z 9999, it will be KL 1 AA 1

@ShadowWizard yeah exactly.

Welcome @Tim

y r u hiding behind something? lol

@Sha how to check from where the style came from in Angular? I even set position:absolute !important and it is still position:relative

@cazc_941 very nice. Just got to listen to it now

@tmslft haha that gravatar is awesome. When will it come to Meta?

Tweeted by Pekkanikolaus on January 11, 2014 at 6:07 AM in reply to tmslft

@SagarV nothing to do with angular... can't tell without seeing code.

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<div cc-resizable cc-draggable [style.width]="width" [style.height]="this.height" [style.top]="this.y" [style.left]="x" class="main-container">

`div.main-container{
position:absolute !important;
}`

@SagarV it was set to relative using JS code.

how js will override the !important rule

1:19 PM

If you can't find the code, force absolute position by giving it unique id and have: window.setTimeout(function() { $("#mydiv").css("position", "absolute"); }, 1000);

@ShadowWizard it is a dynamic content.

@SagarV not sure... if you don't know what code cause it, I'm afraid you'll have to use the hack above.

Journeyman Geek

@SagarV shouldn't 1 be the state capital?

1:39 PM

@JourneymanGeek yup. as far as I know.

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

1:55 PM

Shalom Yiladiim!

Shalom Saba!

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA should be yeladim.... pffft. :D

יילדיים sounds.... weird. :P

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@ShadowWizard English !== Ivrit ;-P

bah.

booh

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

humbug

@Oded I ain't no Saba. I am an Aba though ;-)

1:57 PM

Mazal Tov!!

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@ShadowWizard Thanks ;-) Been a few years now ;-)

How many you have? For how long? @amana

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@ShadowWizard I currently have 2. First one is almost 3 (Rosh Hashana 2014) and the 2nd is almost 1 (Succot 2016) ;-)

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA nice... I'm one child ahead of you... ;)

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@ShadowWizard So phancy :-)

2:01 PM

:D

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

How is life @ShadowWizard ? :-D

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA life are going on just fine! :)

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@ShadowWizard lol wut?

omg

fearofdark silently released a new album

Follow up to what is seriously one of my all time favourites

Today's Listening | Chiptune / Progchip

Released on Ubiktune, god I love those guys

user315433

2:47 PM

ru.SO videochat with Shog9 scheduled for 28.07, mostly in English (apparently two days isn't enough time to become fluent in Russian)

3:01 PM

video... chat... ???

Why? Was it ever done before?

As if his floating head is not intimidating enough..... :D

so, Flash EoL is coming up in 2020

that's cool

well, end of support, anyway

@canon yeah, I'm sure many sites will keep using Flash even in 2100.

Like many companies these days (mainly banks) still have only IE6.

That's terrifying

@canon we can only hope some hackers go in and do some serious damage so that date is pushed forward to 2018.

I cringe every time I go to the bank and see those IE6 screens.

When upgrading costs billions, it's just not worth it... they prefer to spend only millions on keeping it working, somehow.

3:12 PM

@ShadowWizard at least they don't spend your money on innovation

@rene true

@ShadowWizard ArmorGames, Newsground, Kongregate, <add other flash games sites here>

I'm pretty sure league of legends is built on flash or something

You wouldn't want all those 5 minutes games that live on ads to be converted in UnityWeb games....

that may have changed over time, though

3:16 PM

true

Or worse: you don't want the current flash game makers to move to Roblox... that thing is already too big on its own.

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/questions/298847/…

@ShadowWizard Lifehack answer: connect a webcam and point it to the monitor.

lol very true :D

Post answer

...or not... :D

in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 5 mins ago, by Derpy

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3:29 PM

@canon used to be built on Adobe AIR & some flash ... It's now C++ and node/angular/react/[insert js framework] IIUC

3 hours until town hall chat

Wonder what'll be the topic this time around

3:47 PM

@Vogel612'sShadow channels

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smells good

noooo, I have a mentor meeting at exactly the same start and end times as Town Hall

Ask the mentor to join?

We can use some mentoring here

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@canon that was the topic last time already... did anything change there??

The captain has turned on the 'fasten seat belt' sign.

:3

@Feeds Aww, you can see in the stick figures in the header Randall's wife.

3:55 PM

@ShadowWizard what time it is there?

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