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user202362

12:58 AM

user202362

Journeyman Geek

1:10 AM

reads up

user202362

so open plan only works on social animals?

Journeyman Geek

The antisocial ones will build walls of cardboard and dead machines.

user202362

or in the mountains

Journeyman Geek

1:38 AM

\o/

I haz a job.

user202362

\O/

Catija

1:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek Whoooo! Short term?

Journeyman Geek

1 year

no idea who I am working for ;p

user315433

Are there ghosts involved?

user315433

When you talk about the job experience you'll give me, why do you pronounce 'job' with a long 'o'?

Journeyman Geek

or aliens

Catija

That's not bad! :) When do you start?

Journeyman Geek

2:18 AM

Donno. In theory I need government clearance first.

The body shop that's my new old employer is a little odd.

user315433

Any soup-dispensing outlets?

user202362

are gods social animals? :p

user202362

I mean, if there is only 1 god, and (s)he created a bunch of social animals, how could (s)he do that? To create the social part?

Catija

@JourneymanGeek Oh! Is this the same one? You made it sound like they were unlikely to hire you because of your experience.

Journeyman Geek

Yup

Catija

2:31 AM

Cool! :D

user315433

Can I haz one-flag nuke for such comments?

user315433

You're very welcome ;) — Robin Kanters Nov 14 '13 at 15:58

Journeyman Geek

It's still super odd.

Catija

what's with the winky emoji?

user315433

Yes, that too. Winky emoji -> one-flag nuke

user315433

2:42 AM

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Q: What should i know about joomla!?

I'll go for interview soon and the recruiter told me to prepare a bit about joomla! I use to develope in PHP5 for several years, and i know about OOP. I'm not really scared about joomla! but i'm wondering what should i know about it ? Any feedback for similar interview ? or any ideas on what i ...

user315433

Such intensity

user315433

Maybe it's because the name Joomla! has an exclamation point.

user315433

But it's easy to forget that when reading.

user315433

An idea: develop a CMS whose name will end with ;)

Journeyman Geek

;p

(which modern emoji has ruined)

@FTP the votes there are amusing. Closed by a current and former mod.

HTTP

3:01 AM

@JourneymanGeek congrats on the new job!

v1: Joomla!
v2: Joomla!?
v3: Joomla!@#$%

user315433

The evolution of every CMS

HTTP

If Consecutively Adding Sin was on Religion.SE instead...

user315433

Marshals with lowest reputation is an interesting query. The top 9 are, of course, suspended. After them, there are mostly bots.

user315433

Like J.Musser and M.A.R.

user315433

Well, some of them are bots.

Journeyman Geek

3:12 AM

I think I got past 30k when I got marshal.

HTTP

Is it concentrated on 101 rep?

user315433

Mini Me

27 1 1 3

bash io-redirection shell stderr stdout

user315433

Familiar identicon

user315433

It's like it's being ignored but on the site instead of chat.

user315433

I recall the discussion about @Andy's comment flagging as a mod, which apparently led to Mini Me's appearance. But Mini Me has only 2367 helpful flags, less than a month's worth, and was not seen since Sep 17.

user315433

3:16 AM

Is the comment flagger back on Andy's main account?

HTTP

Wasn't it halted after the meta post?

user315433

10

A: Should moderators run automated bots under their accounts?

After reviewing all of the feedback and discussion, the general consensus seems to want to have some human oversight of these flags. As a result, Andy has agreed to run the bot under a separate account allowing the flags to flow into the moderator queue for review. If the additional flags becom...

HTTP

So, the additional flags became a burden.

user315433

They couldn't be more of a burden than before the election...

Andy

3:34 AM

Sep 17 seems about a month early to not be seen. I'll have to look into that. But, Mini Me definitely stopped running in Mid-October when I had a hard drive failure. While I recovered the data eventually, I never restarted it after that

@HTTP No, comment flags are really easy to deal with. It was more that I had other things to do that took time away from resetting up that particular environment.

user315433

Perhaps flagging via the API does not count toward "last seen".

Journeyman Geek

Hm.

HTTP

I just answered a Salesforce HNQ question, only relying on Google...

Journeyman Geek

4:43 AM

@Andy ow.

Ano

5:00 AM

@Andy Any plans to restart the bot?

@Shog9 Does flagging via the API not count toward "last seen"?

Shog9

@Ano does flagging ever count towards last seen?

HTTP

Next question then: does voting via the API count toward "last seen", because voting is anonymous? :)

Ano

I don't know. You have to load the page, which counts, but what if you loaded the page on a different day and haven't loaded any pages since?

user315433

5:16 AM

I think any API activity isn't "seen" by the site.

user315433

So, bots wishing to pretend being a human are advised to have a script visiting every site at least once a day.

user315433

> All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Journeyman Geek

@FTP I think someone might have a mse post on it.

Or I can sign aibobot on Smokey and check. I hardly ever use that account.

user315433

5:37 AM

Grr, 8 of my top SO posts upvoted within minutes. Reversal inevitable. Patience, folks, patience... set up a script to distribute votes over several days, or something.

Journeyman Geek

Lol

user315433

In principle, a browser extension could do it. Intercept your clicks on vote arrows, and enqueue them, to be sent later, in some scrambled order, via the API.

Journeyman Geek

5:53 AM

Heh. We were talking about one to trickle in edits

Ano

I believe the script also considers total votes, not just votes that happen at the same time.

Journeyman Geek

6:25 AM

No one knows the details, by design :p

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Travis J

@FTP Don't worry, it was 4 socks voting twice at a time.

user202362

6:42 AM

If you got serial upvotes, someone probably treated your account as a toy.

Travis J

Not always.

user315433

> Error: No site found for name productivity

user315433

SE keeps breaking my tools.

Travis J

Make stronger tools :P

No need to assume that Stack Exchange sites will be around forever. Like Startups, for example. #stillsoreaboutthat

user202362

tools are for use, only toys are for abuse

Travis J

6:54 AM

Are we still talking about programming?

user202362

you need to think abstract

Travis J

Yeah...I think... I will have whatever you're having.

Maybe a double to catch up.

user202362

Travis J

Intense.

You approach a log. Do you,
- Run along it
- Run over it
- Run away

user202362

7:13 AM

If I ruled the world, I would make my chickens the standard of beauty for all birds ~_~

Travis J

Chickens? I thought those were baby chocobo.

user202362

better still ... phoenix ... but not

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Ano

7:29 AM

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307713/…

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Travis J

Tags.. The final frontier. These are the feature requests of a late night Stack Overflower. My continuing mission, to shamelessly plug my tag feature request, and to boldly post, where just about everyone else has already posted before.

0

Q: Tag grouping by time in the Tags view

Similar to how you can group users by time range in the Users view, please allow the grouping of tags by time in the Tags view. It would look like this: Clicking on one of the time ranges would change the sorting and numbers associated with the tags. While it may not seem as interesting here a...

feature-request tags

Ano

8:59 AM

Jan 20 at 20:17, by Zoe the Wolf

What a fantastic evening in the world of spam!

Derpy

> What an horrible night to have a spammer

Ano

@Derpy What?

Derpy

11:21 AM

Anyone know why recently people are starting posting code snipped wrapped in quote blocks on SE?

I am willing to edit those, but maybe there is an obscure reason I am missing.

HTTP

11:38 AM

If it's... quoted from somewhere?

Ano

12:16 PM

@ShadowWizard chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/193770/…

Actually, @rene ^^

Derpy

12:44 PM

So, Nier authors hinted at a last secret to be found in the game. Something painful.

I am somehow scared

The game has limited online functionalities.

The ending ask you to do something painful already. I have the strange felling now that there exist a way to force the choice on everyone connected...

Must dismiss it. They would never do that. It is too much.

That said, it is Yoko Taro...

Journeyman Geek

1:42 PM

0_0 wait, that got pinned?

user202362

people get pinged, only messages got pinned

John Dvorak

some people deserve to be pinned

user202362

kinky

HTTP

2:03 PM

@Derpy just let the player sacrifice their save data... again.

Derpy

@HTTP did you notice that I had avoided to include the nature of the choice so that whoever already got there would immediately understand what I was talking about yet no spoiler for new players was included? -_-'

Journeyman Geek

lol

HTTP

@Derpy err, I mean.. I mean... oh, right! The battery dies

Derpy

2:22 PM

Knowing the devs, they are totally the kind of guys that would track down the number of "your adventure log has vanished" and unlock something when the counter reaches a specified value. Or simply go for global unprompted vanishment.

That said, maybe there is a way to play the game "Undertale way" after the intro and never attack anyone.

(Would be pretty painful. Imagine finding out that every boss had an alternate stop fighting route that required you to resist the fight for 20 minutes without fighting back. On very hard)

HTTP

Ooo... 3 new movies for Psycho-Pass...

Anyway, I was impressed when Deus Ex: HR is beatable with "pacifist" factory zero

Taryn

@TravisJ I think this is what you were talking about, right - meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307728/…

Derpy

2:49 PM

@HTTP wasn't pacifist a trophy / achievement? I suppose that if it was included it should be possible. Unless it was made from Ubisoft.

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HTTP

I'm an idiot.

Derpy

I am so tempted to leave that star there :P

HTTP

Surely we have Wall of Idiots ;p

SmokeDetector

3:07 PM

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HTTP

@SmokeDetector wth

John Dvorak

WTH

HTTP

@SmokeDetector oh wow, i'm confused

Derpy

and yet again I find myself here, wondering... Did a post that Smokey itself signaled as "offensive" really need a quote?

HTTP

sorry, too many brain fart tonight

user315433

3:16 PM

Note also (just found out), if you manage to get 200 rep on a team but do not yet have 200 rep on the main site, you'll get the association bonus. This isn't any different than getting it if you had 200 rep on, say, Mechanics SE. However, you'll still have to take care to not get caught voting up your coworkers too much on the public site, as those votes will be reversed just like any others (and you'll still probably get suspended from the public site for voting shenanigans). Or, tl;dr: Association bonus works as if a team were a separate SE site. — Tim Post ♦ 1 hour ago

user315433

Totally not different. Especially if the team uses answer box for follow-up questions, and comments for linking random funny stuff from the web.

user315433

It makes sense that the user who "grew up" in this environment should have comment and vote privilege everywhere on SE. Of course.

John Dvorak

how easy is to create a team? How about a team "friendly fellows" where each new question gets swarmed by 40 upvotes just out of sportmanship?

Such a team wouldn't be healthy for the main site.

Derpy

It is just me or Social.Microsoft has decided to go the ExpertEvilSite route?

social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/…

user315433

Or a "penile enlargement team", producing bonus-equipped spam accounts.

Derpy

3:25 PM

Join the Sun Bros now and get 40 free upvotes.

(Legal notice: joining may put you on @PrincessLuna black list)

user315433

At least it solves the voting rings problem, by legalizing them.

John Dvorak

Imagine if a moderator candidate went with "there's 1.3 billion of <foo> and I'm the only canditate from <foo>. Vote for me, fellow <foo>!"

Princess Luna

@Derpy What now?

Derpy

@PrincessLuna ^see above. For some reason I think that you may not exactly like that group.

Princess Luna

above where? What group?

status-confusion

Derpy

3:36 PM

the Sun Bros

Journeyman Geek

@Derpy PRAISE THE SUN!

Princess Luna

I kinda figured the name, but none of my searches are giving results

Derpy

@JourneymanGeek (it is still day, forgive her, she is usually sleeping right now)

Princess Luna

oh

MLP reference, thought it was something related to dark souls after finding it on a wiki there xD

status-blame-brainlag

user315433

Answer votes give more, so it will probably be "post in this thread to get 200 points", one of first posts created in each team.

HTTP

3:47 PM

"Association Bonus Teams"

Princess Luna

@JourneymanGeek Congrats! Welcome to the blacklist! :p

In the meantime

what is that?

xkcd?

black light?

3:51 PM

@JourneymanGeek Apparently

Derpy

@PrincessLuna one of xkcd interactive comics

You can place some lights around and ... wait.

Princess Luna

yeah, just found it

Derpy

based on some random values, time, and light placement a "garden" grows

and some results are pretty dreamlike, which I somehow like

Princess Luna

Does it get stuck loading a lot?

Derpy

@PrincessLuna seems it has problems on some browsers

try a different one.

Ano

4:21 PM

Is there really a need to drag this out? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307709/…

@rene chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307736/…

Now, if I can just wait patiently for Shog's answer... [deep breathing]

MetaEd

@Ano Do not call up that which you cannot put down.

Ano

@MetaEd What do you mean? Shog tagged one of my questions with a status tag, and in the past I've pinged him immediately to ask why he hasn't answered.

If I were a dev, I'd compose the answer, then immediately make the edit and post the answer at the same time

But that's not what Shog does, so I have to be patient

MetaEd

It's just general shoggoth protocol.

user315433

Lazy pondering... If the teams gamble doesn't pay off, will Quora be interested in acquiring the remnants of the network?

Shog9

Just the titles

Question bodies don't fit with Quora's "specificity is unnecessarily constraining" philosophy. Answers not written by notable people don't fit with Quora's "answer quality depends on the length of your resume" philosophy.

Ano

4:40 PM

Also, I didn't notice the old meta domain because SOUP rewrites it to the new one. I only saw it after editing and viewing with SOUP disabled.

Ano

6:16 PM

@Catija Have you ever gone to the outdoor viewing area at ABIA?

Travis J

7:00 PM

@Taryn Yup, that is a poorly written version of what I am talking about :P

Catija

@Ano no... I didn't even know there was one.

rene

I admit that I agreed that my full name was shown when I signed up for Charcoal's channel. Now how do i change that back to rene ?

Travis J

@Taryn - It looks like it is the result of using MicroData because of the presence of the itemprop attributes.

Remove those, and it should fix the google search issue.

Well, those, and their related attributes for informing google.

Catija

@rene Edit it?

Travis J

Or, don't, and just let traffic fall off the map. Your choice, been about a week now.

user315433

7:05 PM

So... is it [channels] or [stackoverflow-for-teams]? Everyone is using the former tag, except Tim Post.

Martin

@Ano I do not really get the reference - what is chaos emerald? On a more serious note, should I delete that question?

Travis J

@Taryn - See this? search.google.com/structured-data/… Yeah... see all those items? To google that means "Onebox", and the result of that is only one result shown in the search results.

rene

@Catija yes .... where ....? If I follow: stackoverflow.com/c/charcoal/users/edit/21 I end-up on my public profile and there everything is OK. I'm either blinded by the feature or it isn't there. I think I need a rfhc ...

Catija

@rene I don't know... DJ had the same problem and fixed it... Maybe ask him?

Maybe that section at the bottom: Private information (not shown publicly)

user315433

Oh, /c/ is now a path to channels. My userscript redirects /c/XXX to /posts/comments/XXX. More breakage.

Travis J

7:16 PM

@Taryn - I posted an answer there.

Taryn

@TravisJ +1

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Ano

@Martin It's a joke I use in this room, to ping someone who has the power to close a question as a duplicate directly, because they have a gold badge for a tag. That user I pinged has expressly agreed that I can ping them with such requests. I refer to the gold badges as "Chaos Emeralds" because I'm Sonic the Hedgehog :)

Martin

I see, you mean dupehammer.

Travis J

I am rather partial to that feature :)

Martin

7:24 PM

Fair enough, if more experienced users say the question does not anything, we should get rid of it.

I guess if the information comes from animuson, it's probably quite reliable. And the two users who approved the change to the tag-wiki can probably also be counted as a confirmation.

Ano

@Martin No need to delete it. It's useful as search fodder, to direct people who search in such a way that they do find your dupe, but don't find the canonical question.

Martin

Ok, it's now closed as duplicate, I am leaving the question in place.

That's right, duplicates might be useful for searching.

Ano

@Catija If you drive on 71 East and take a right on Golf Course Rd, there's a very nice picnic area where you can see planes take off and land from the secondary runway.

user315433

I may have missed this: is there a Team Player badge for participating in a Team?

Ano

I'm going there today because Delta and Scandinavian are operating special service to Amsterdam and Stockholm respectively because of SXSW. You don't normally see a Delta 767 or any A330 at ABIA, so I'm going to go over there and see it. Hopefully it uses the runway next to it...

Catija

7:49 PM

HAHAHAHA @JeremyBanks All of the subjective sites, plus IOTA?

Ano

It's called the "Family Viewing Area" in Google Maps.

@JeremyBanks That question came across as a rant to me

Anonymous

@Catija :P

Catija

I'll try not to take your FR personally.

Anonymous

@Catija Subjective sites are hard. Some of them succeed and produce great results, but they have a much higher risk factor.

Anonymous

For example Christianity and Skeptics are very far apart in worldview, but both have clear expectations for their answers that constrain them in helpful ways that prevent them from just turning into yet-another place to argue on the internet.

Anonymous

7:55 PM

IOTA's community is so aggressively anti-academic and anti-intellectual that they got thrown in for somehow taking a more-or-less objective topic and turning it into a pool of PR and attacks on actual researchers.

Anonymous

@Ano You are correct.

Catija

I'm not really sure that you can necessarily use beta status to determine where a site is... there are several "graduated" sites that met the requirements long ago... Skeptics... for example... but has fewer questions per day than equally old but beta sites like parenting.

@JeremyBanks That just sounds like an argument to shut them down entirely.

Anonymous

I was trying to post-hoc rationalize (i.e. bullshit) a criteria that would include all of the sites I have issues with.

Anonymous

@Catija I think so. But I expect them to die on their own, with any luck.

Catija

IPS has been complaining about the HNQ since we entered public beta... and one of the things I realized is that it's a blessing and a curse... but we need to learn how to structure things without blaming our problems on the HNQ... That's coming at it from the opposite angle...

But I think there are user scripts that allow you to block HNQ entries from specific sites that you get to configure?

Anonymous

7:59 PM

I admit I expected IPS to be a disaster, but the community proved me wrong. The Hot questions tend to be pretty good from this outsider's perspective.

Anonymous

@Catija Yes I made one.

Jon Ericson

@JeremyBanks Your question is nonsensical without that background. Why not throw in 3D Printing?

Catija

@JeremyBanks I'm still not sure it's not one but I appreciate the vote of confidence. I think we have some solid structure and something to build on but it's going to take a lot of work to really refine the site and find what it's meant to be.

Anonymous

Rant deleted. :P

Anonymous

@Catija It looks like I previously upvoted that question.

John Dvorak

8:21 PM

I propose pairing Chinese government with Indian population and vice versa

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Mithrandir

@JeremyBanks from a regular's perspective they cause a lot of headaches

Mad Scientist

@JeremyBanks The Iota site doesn't seem to have too much of that yet. The greater Iota community, sure. But that's the case for so much in the cryptocurrency space

Mithrandir

...that may be exacerbated by the amount of comments that I wade through

although I've slacked off with that

Mad Scientist

Personally, the simple fact that they use ternary math, and try to defend that choice, is enough to distrust them entirely. But then, I don't trust any cryptocurrency anyway

Mithrandir

8:32 PM

@SmokeDetector f

John Dvorak

What's ternary math?

Mad Scientist

Balanced ternary

Balanced ternary is a non-standard positional numeral system (a balanced form), used in some early computers and useful in the solution of balance puzzles. It is a ternary (base 3) number system in which the digits have the values –1, 0, and 1, in contrast to the standard (unbalanced) ternary system, in which digits have values 0, 1 and 2. Balanced ternary can represent all integers without using a separate minus sign; the value of the leading non-zero digit of a number has the sign of the number itself. Different sources use different glyphs used to represent the three digits in balanced ternary...

The broken hash function as a copy-protection mechanism is another absurd thing the iota devs did

John Dvorak

by ternary math do you mean that they use GF(3^n) as the basis of their home-brew hash?

SNAFU

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Mad Scientist

@JohnDvorak as far as I read, all math involved is implemented as ternary math

John Dvorak

8:45 PM

please don't call it ternary math

Adam Lear

@SNAFU I read that as "help us:" and it's probably still not wrong

2

user315433

Eh, all these fixed base representations are too antropomorphic. Factorial number system is where it's at. goes to purpose Factorcoin

Catija

You should turn the entire site green for maintenance mode... and St. Patrick's Day.

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user315433

Antropocentric is probably the word I was looking for.

Anonymous

@MadScientist Of course, "copy protection" is the justification they came up with after it was shown to be broken, because they still have yet to provide a real security model. That is to say: IOTA's correctness is unfalsifiable because they refuse to define it and move the perceived goalposts in response to concrete criticism.

Anonymous

@MadScientist True; IOTA.SE seems better than most of their associated sites.

user315433

Currently waiting at a train station. There are only two platforms here, 2A and 2B. The question is, 2B or not 2B.

Anonymous

@JohnDvorak iotanodes.org/jinn :|

John Dvorak

9:10 PM

9.75

OK... using black font on black background is just stupid

Anonymous

They're using "ternary math" for their "JINN processor" (confidential) to support the "Fog" (unspecified) and "Mist" (unspecified) platforms.

Anonymous

5

A: What is JINN project?

JINN is currently under NDA and doesn't release any information about its development. Here are some snippets of what we know about JINN via the developers on Slack: JINN is a low cost (target price: $1) ternary processor which is designed to have a small footprint to be put into any sort of d...

Anonymous

Maybe it is an interesting hardware project, but definitely experimental and unproven.

Anonymous

and IOTA was invented in its weird way to support that.

John Dvorak

$1 for an experimental technology that uses ternary logic? Think not.

unless they compute "ternary math" with binary logic, which is wasteful

Taryn

9:14 PM

@SNAFU and we might live broadcast this nonsense as well

John Dvorak

"Iota was designed after JINN was conceptualized" - I don't buy that

Anonymous

I discourage anyone from buying anything related to this. ;)

John Dvorak

Even a shotgun or a can of gasoline?

Anonymous

> Nobody except (some of) the founders know what the Coordinator is or where it is located. All we know is that it makes transactions, called milestones, every few minutes and signs them. All transactions that are directly or indirectly confirmed (= referenced) by milestones are confirmed.

Anonymous

4

A: How exactly are transactions verified and confirmed in IOTA

Purchase Iotas The "source" of all Iotas is the genesis transaction. There will never be more than this amount of Iotas. When you want to purchase Iotas, you buy them from another IOTA user which will be an exchange in most cases. Markov Chain Monte Carlo The default tip selection algortihm is...

Anonymous

9:22 PM

> To validate a transaction without the Coordinator, we do the same thing as we would with the Coordinator, but we do it lots of times with random transactions and see what percentage of them verify your transaction. [...] This is also why we need to wait for the network to grow; since the network is so small the attacker can relatively easily gain a large presence on the network.

Anonymous

IOTA's market cap is $4B.

Anonymous

It has 4x the transaction volume of BitCoin.

Anonymous

but it has like 12 peers on the entire network?

Anonymous

It's not decentralized or distributed in a meaningful sense.

Mad Scientist

9:46 PM

@JeremyBanks I did suspect the same, but I'm not sure if that is true. They seemed to have an additional check in the coordinator that prevented that from being exploited, the copy protection angle does seem possible. I do consider it equally stupid and dangerous as the other choice, that they messed up the crypto.

Ano

9:59 PM

Just finished installing a new Windows Vista virtual machine just to relive historical memories

(It runs surprisingly good in a VM on my Windows 10 machine)

MetaEd

@Ano That's not historical. NT 3.51 is historical.

Ano

@MetaEd My older machine has a bunch of 95/98/ME VMs for the same reason. (I owned a 98 machine and a Vista machine)

I also installed it so that I could run Office 2003, as Vista's the latest version that can run all of its features

user315433

10:15 PM

How many of these names are already taken in channels?

user315433

You can also just mash the keyboard at random, but you might end up with a gibberish name no one can pronounce.

Ano

naa-flag-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228924/…

Anonymous

10:37 PM

@MadScientist You could be right. It would have been a weird choice, but everything about this is weird.

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Shadow Wizard

11:46 PM

So, @bluefeet took Tom Limoncelli position. Does it mean he got promoted?

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