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Journeyman Geek

12:42 AM

@bro just curious - is there any way you could prioritise/watch out for more recent "offensive" comments?

(since if they're recent, we can... actually do more than delete them, and that is a net win)

user315433

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Q: Heat Detector - analysing comments to find heat

General Heat detector is a StackApp whose goal is to catch offensive, rude, snarky comments, and comments that leads to abusive content (offensive, spam posts, or previous offensive comments). It is running a bot that queries comments from the Stack Exchange API and retrieves all comments posted...

Journeyman Geek

ah sobotics. Cheers. Will check it out

Sonic Wizard

1:00 AM

@Catija re meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309587/what-exactly-is-meta: this guy asked an off-topic question here on Meta. This post is a rant about it. Read the whole post to get a better idea of it.

Catija

I know. But most of the text is identical between the two. It's still not a question.

Honestly, it looks like some sort of weird spam seed.

Sonic Wizard

Don't believe so.

On the other hand, anyone get the news that ABBA is once again producing music as of yesterday?

Aaron Hall

1:33 AM

So are we going to bring back the mentor idea thingy? meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357198/…

user315433

It was a research project, not an thing to be actually implemented.

user315433

The result is an academic paper published somewhere.

user202362

I say we have a bot guiding low rep users ...

user202362

need something ... err ... more SE-ish

user202362

1:56 AM

your avatar, when looked at from afar, seems to be a burger with some deep fried potato nudgets underneath @bro

user315433

Rorschach test

The Rorschach test is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The test is named after its creator, Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach. In the 1960s, the Rorschach was the most widely used projective test. Although the...

user202362

No, subconsciously I don't think you as food :')

Sonic Wizard

2:11 AM

How to iron clothes without an iron: just use a hot laptop

Catija

Or just buy clothes that don't need ironing.

user202362

@SonicWizard use large drier, it seems to flatten the clothes if you don't have many in one

user202362

put clothes in the drier wet then get them out as soon as the drier stops and hang them out on clothes hangers

Sonic Wizard

I actually noticed this effect when I put my laptop on my bed. The wrinkles were disappearing from the bed sheet in the spots where I put my laptop.

(That said, my laptop usually runs cool - I was running a resource-intensive task)

Catija

And they're back.

hey

3:08 AM

I just finished reading the "false dichotomy" MSO post, and was surprised by...

"we are here to create an artifact that will help the next person who has that question" is a fundamental flaw of the description of the site, that should be a side effect, not the goal. — Nick Larsen ♦ 6 hours ago

NobodyNada

@hey what...that's staff?

I sure hope that's the perspective of one staff member, not the whole company -- I don't think e.g. Shog would say anything like that

hey

Now this feels like a civil war on MSO...

user202362

@πάνταῥεῖ cool cats are cool

hey

waiting for "hot cats are hot"...

user202362

and cold cats are cold

user315433

3:32 AM

@NobodyNada Just some dev messing with data for job ads, nothing of importance.

user315433

Frankly, at this point little that SO "leadership" does between bouts of crying and vomiting will really matter.

user315433

These are people who couldn't figure out what license should be used for SO code....

user202362

Do people feed pet dogs burger and potato nudgets if they go to a burger joint with their dogs? I mean they probably should not, but I have seen people feeding their dogs ice creams from Maccas.

user202362

Cats probably would not be interested in potato nudgets, just saying ...

user202362

4:03 AM

@hey does it have to be a rubber duck? what others have you tried?

hey

4:14 AM

@TelKitty quacking at it.

user315433

5:09 AM

It's impressive how one can write so much while saying so little.

user315433

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Q: I think we're done here

Every day it's an onslaught of new, asinine questions that are clearly off-topic requests for medical advice with zero value to anyone with medical interests. And every day my votes to close are futile. I was hopeful for a while, but one or two people who were finally helping to close questions a...

discussion

user315433

On the plus side, being welcoming with upvotes and answers.

hey

There are so many problems with upvote and downvote. Let's try leftvote and rightvote instead.

Sonic Wizard

5:25 AM

Let's vote on the z-axis.

user315433

This is so metal. Which is closer to metal, HTML vs JavaScript?

Journeyman Geek

._.

user315433

JavaScript is more like disco.

hey

oh darn XD, should i feel bad for LOL-ing at that post? ;_;

Sonic Wizard

in SO Close Vote Reviewers on Stack Overflow Chat, 42 secs ago, by gparyani

cv-pls javascript primarily opinion-based: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50083399/which-is-closer-to-metal-html-vs-ja‌vascript

user315433

5:32 AM

I don't think POB reason fits. I didn't CV.

hey

Unclear at best, looks like XY problem...

user315433

Yeah, I'll go with unclear.

Sonic Wizard

@bro It got closed as unclear

@Undo Out of curiosity, are you going to keep up with the "daily minirants"?

SmokeDetector

5:57 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer: High voltage power supply for nixie-tubes by Surfncircuits on electronics.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad NS for domain in body, bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: Besides your body is critically prone to many chronic diseases such as diabetes, by Tilem19 Virk on graphicdesign.SE

user5389107

@NobodyNada I hope not

That would spell doom for the site

user202362

6:20 AM

both talentless.com and talentless.net are taken, otherwise I was going to get one for my new adventure - talentless.net, your bargain bin for developers, start from 99c

user5389107

tbh though

The push to get more people into STEM has led to some people who really don't enjoy software dev to take it up

user315433

Same with math. It doesn't lead anywhere good.

user315433

@bro nuking as R/A was too much, though. Mod-flagged to reconsider.

user202362

even talent4less.com is taken

user202362

people need to stop hoarding ffs

Journeyman Geek

6:29 AM

hah

I actually think that specific fields trending is something as old as, well work.

The big issue is really they both want lots of STEM folk and they want them cheap and they want them ...

ya...

Sonic Wizard

There have been a lot of people in my college who changed majors from STEM to liberal arts

user202362

if you are going to end up serving burger and potato nudgets you might as well save some effort doing liberal arts instead

user5389107

@JourneymanGeek In vocational school maybe 3 out of 25 people wanted to be there

All the others were like "Because programming is in demand ... I guess"

Journeyman Geek

ya

Sonic Wizard

@user5389107 That's pretty much the theme of the "3 Idiots" film; I strongly recommend watching it

Journeyman Geek

6:38 AM

@user5389107 and you're competing with many many people who think the same everywhere

user5389107

setting yourself up for utter misery, that is

Then you start your first programming job and suddenly realize oh wait I hate doing this but now I'm stuck in it

Journeyman Geek

hah

or you end up in management

user5389107

or that

The husband of my aunt keeps pushing me to become a project manager

Journeyman Geek

and for a good many people that's the goal

Well, what do you actually love about what you do?

user5389107

not project management

Journeyman Geek

6:40 AM

Assuming you're one of the 12% of coders who actually likes to code

user5389107

I like the logic puzzles that I can solve on a daily basis. Turning requirements into an implementation. I also like the variety that comes from doing everything in the chain from backend design to UI design with user input

It feels nice to look at a problem and go "yeah I can solve this" and then actually do it

Journeyman Geek

ah

lol

that sounds like exactly what I love about the other end of tech ;p

user5389107

Also writing working code has a sort of fascination to it when it finally works like a giant rube goldberg machine

Journeyman Geek

and a lot of people don't get why people want to do that

Bad pun!

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