Tavern on the Meta

12:17 AM

@Catija in a sense, that's a sign of success

And lol, my geekiest cousin and I were trying to explain the importance of SO to the Indian IT industry in terms of how quickly everything would collapse to his dad

Bookends

I have a feeling that I have used this username before... apparently, yes I have

though I don't think it's the same reason as ~~before~~ now...

Huh, it's not me!

Who was I...

Journeyman Geek

@Bookends great question

Who are you? What do you want?

Bookends

12:34 AM

Portal bookends :/

Rob

1:06 AM

TORRES: Captain, there's a minor glitch in the molecular imaging scanners. Ensign Kim should have it up and running in a few minutes.

KIM: Try narrowing the annular confinement beam.

HOGAN: How's that?

KIM: Let's try it again. Kim to Away team. Sorry for the delay. We're ready to bring you back.

TUVOK: Acknowledged.

KIM: Energise.

HOGAN: There's something wrong, sir. I'm only getting one pattern.

KIM: Tuvok or Neelix?

HOGAN: I don't think it's either of them.

KIM: Abort.

HOGAN: It's too late.

user302202

3:07 AM

twitter.com/StackExchange has one tweet since April 2016, which is a retweet in June 2018, and probably someone's misclick at that.

user302202

Speaking of abandones sites. Remember the oh-so-inclusive askquestions.tech? The only post since November is askquestions.tech/t/current-site-activity/974

Journeyman Geek

3:26 AM

@Mrs.Robinson eh. Getting critical mass is really hard

And tbh, takes a lot of guts to try

I do think the forum/discourse format isn't the best

Catija

@Mrs.Robinson :cough: Shhhhhhh

I actually had a meeting about that on Friday.

Journeyman Geek

You're going to create a new Twitter based Q&A platform? ;p

Catija

You're giving away all of my secrets!

3

Journeyman Geek

Well. I will have my vengeance ;p

Catija

:(

Journeyman Geek

4:09 AM

.....

That's a natural mistake

Fp

Aww

user302202

4:59 AM

Dusting off the SE account? Well, bad side effects are unlikely. As are any effects.

user302202

I use Tweetdeck as my primary twitter interface. I keep two columns open: the feed, and Notifications. So I can always see a chronological list of tweets. And always see new notifications. And always have a big area of calming grey to look at when I can't stand either.

Tweeted by shog9 on January 31, 2019 at 7:34 PM

user302202

As long as content is limited to "things that nobody could ever take offense from, not now and not 35 years later"...

Journeyman Geek

@Mrs.Robinson eh.. that's usually dredged up from hnq

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

7:31 AM

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323372/…

Mithrandir

7:50 AM

→ 16 messages moved to Chimney

ɪBᴜɢ

@Mithrandir that room is used for both Smokey messages and "Tavern request graveyard"?

rene

@Mrs.Robinson these days Twitter seems to be the only interface people use to experience the real world ...

SmokeDetector

9:13 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, pattern-matching website in answer (140): How do I upgrade to Windows 10 if I have less than 8 GB free? by Ariel on superuser.com

Shadow Wizard

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog kaboom

@Mrs.Robinson huh?? What's that site, and what makes it different from the zillions of SO clones out there, none of which is successful?

Journeyman Geek

9:31 AM

@ShadowWizard came up during one of the Twitter dramas

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek oh, because it has the word "Inclusive" in its about me? lol

Well, that's not enough to draw people.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Yeah you need a pencil

And some drawing skills

Shadow Wizard

Mithrandir

9:46 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I admit, I laughed

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard well if you think you can do better, it's worth giving it a shot

@ShadowWizard person not people

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek I don't. Even huge companies with millions of active users try and fail.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Well, step 1. Make a popular blog called Coding Terror

2. Say some cool stuff so everyone is all like "Whoa yeah man, I can relate" when reading

Bookends

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Whoa, yeah man, I can relate to this!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Now there may be substeps to get these right

@Bookends Perfect. Now I can move on to step 3: Identify a company in a similar field that sucks

Or is looking to change people's sex.

Journeyman Geek

10:05 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ o0....

Errrm what¿

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Didn't you get the reference?

Hang on, lemme find that post

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching product name in body (99): Convert 0-5 V input signal to 0-100% PWM by Sharif on electronics.SE

Bookends

The Hyphen Site

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

56

Q: On "That Hyphenated Site"

OK, which one of you jokers (oh, and I know it was one of you) did this? http://expert-sex-change.com :) Don't bother looking up the WHOIS, it's anonymized through GoDaddy. Also, for the record, I have nothing against "That Hyphenated Site". I for one applaud what they do, because they make o...

Journeyman Geek

Oh yeah

SmokeDetector

10:09 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted username (92): Expressing an Integer as the Sum of Two Powers of 4 in More than 1 way by Satyajay Mandal on math.SE

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@SmokeDetector N

Wait, blacklisted for what?

@SmokeDetector Why

SmokeDetector

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Blacklisted username - Position 0-15: Satyajay Mandal

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

No sh|t Sherlock, but why

@SmokeDetector Also, there's something wrong with the MS link

Bookends

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Anonymous Teacher's socks - posting a comment as answer then deleting their account

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Yeah figured it out

metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/…

SmokeDetector

10:13 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): arrow from top arrow to bottom arrow by ភីអុិនសុី TV on tex.SE

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Google Translate says Battambang is Malay for Battambang.

Bookends

"Bottom line" in Khmer, according to username's language @_@

I guess Facebook is on the bottom (of privacy issue)

Oh great... it's always rainny when I wanted to go outside >_<

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ it's a place

Journeyman Geek

10:40 AM

In Indonesia

Bookends

AFAIK, Cambodia is far from Indonesia...

Journeyman Geek

"Bahasa Indonesia" and "Bahasa malayu" are very similar

Nooooooot very

Bookends

oh, the language? I thought the place ._.

Journeyman Geek

Oh I meant what @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ said

Rob

12:03 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ That's obviously a spelling error in need of correction. "That Hymenated Site".

Shadow Wizard

12:16 PM

!!/addblu meta.stackexchange.com/users/468562/sambillings

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard User blacklisted (468562 on meta.stackexchange.com).

Shadow Wizard

semi troll posting useless non answers ^

SmokeDetector

12:29 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): Найти количество повторяющихся элементов by Руслан Прохоров on ru.stackoverflow.com

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

12:46 PM

@ShadowWizard We respect a laser-like focus on one topic.

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ parrot cleaned the mess

Bookends

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ We respect a laser.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Bookends Like a focus on one topic?

Shadow Wizard

@Bookends but it burns books

Asuna

1:01 PM

> We respect a laser-like focus on spamming

Oof, never thought that could backfire xd

Journeyman Geek

Laser fried spam?

Asuna

High-Quality Deep-Fried Laser Cooked Spam™, delivered to you by 6-8® Inc

John Dvorak

1:30 PM

The trick is to use the right wavelength. Also, the laser is usually called "magnetron".

user302202

@ShadowWizard It was one of May flowers brought to the world by April showers.

Shadow Wizard

@JohnDvorak really? Looks like magnetron creates microwaves, not laser

@Mrs.Robinson well, such sites existed before, guess those showers gave it some temp boost, long gone by now. :)

When it comes to actually getting programming help, people really don't care how the answers are served.

Is it just me, or has balpha stolen @Bart's glasses?! :D

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard it's all EM

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer (53): How to automatically install updates in linux mint 17.1 ✏️ by Enkidu on superuser.com

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard apparently some people do, a lot

Personally I like my answers to be to the point. Excessive niceness and rudeness are both noise

Shadow Wizard

1:44 PM

@SmokeDetector ignore

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Rob

You are lucky it's only facial recognition!

China Foils Toilet Paper Thieves With Facial Recognition Tech | CNA Insider

►

Shadow Wizard

@Rob surely they collect more data. for future use.

Rob

2:05 PM

@ShadowWizard - I didn't want to give too many details but they weigh it, to study if it's worth it to bill people by the gram and per swipe.

user302202

Someone cleanup up elementary OS NAA/VLQ flags again, but apparently not by using /review... strange. A bunch of my NAA flags were marked helpful 7-8 hours ago without much review activity: elementaryos.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/stats

user302202

Still, the 4th all-time LQ reviewer is notable.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

-2

A: How do we get NaClO3 in the reaction between Cl2 and NaOH?

IT'S MAGIC !! the additional oxygenns came with magic ! it is very easy STUPIDS!!

Asuna

People >.>

SmokeDetector

2:21 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): How do we get NaClO3 in the reaction between Cl2 and NaOH? by ANEES on chemistry.SE

Asuna

Chemistry == magic... Who would've thought it was that easy?!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Someone missed big chunks of the gen chem class

Tinkeringbell

Heh. I agree with Asuna. Potions classes were fun ;)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): Software for manual audio transcription (speech, interviews etc.) by BenWiley4000 on askubuntu.com

Asuna

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Oh trust me, there are a lot of ways to not learn chemistry while having chemistry xd

@Tinkeringbell Ikr! You never know if it'll blow up or make gold! :p

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

2:59 PM

@Asuna Tic tac toe?

Netflix. Popular girl's Instagram page.

Drawing a new model of Starship Enterprise you just thought of

Pigeons. Lots and lots of pigeons outside

Asuna

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Crappy teacher. Are there, doing that xd

Bookends

4

Q: Piano lesson bad today why

Today I had a really bad piano lesson. I struggled to read or play notes. All week my practice appeared to go well. So why was I so bad today. My piano teacher is excellent and has really helped me to improve my playing. 7 lessons with him. I have been playing piano just over 2 years. Any advice?

piano

Good HNQ title is good.

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ lots of pigeons... Inside....

Asuna

oof

user302202

Augur 2019 stats: 8 questions, 2 answers posted so far. Both answers by the same user, on that user's own questions.

Journeyman Geek

3:10 PM

With feathers coated in nitrogen triiodide....

Bookends

Is that... a site with 100% mod-closed?

Magisch

What is augur?

Bookends

can eat anot?

Asuna

a priest, a drill, a conveyor, a shell, an effect, an experimental cancer treatment, a hill, or an observatory

According to Wikipedia xd

The tour might be better ^^"

> Augur Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for developers, economists and users interested in the open source, decentralized, prediction market, Augur. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about Augur.

Bookends

PriestDrillConveyorShellEffectExperimentalCancerTreatmentHillObservatory.SE

Asuna

3:19 PM

lmao

Bookends

i think a bit too broad...

Asuna

wait, that was auger and not augur xd

Still a priest

but

Augur (software)

Augur is a decentralized prediction market platform built on the Ethereum blockchain that was founded in 2014 by Jack Peterson and Joey Krug with support from the Forecast Foundation, advisors to which included Intrade founder Ron Bernstein and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin. After a crowdfunding in August 2015, the project launched in July 2018. Because it is decentralized, Augur allows any user to create a prediction market, unlike betting exchanges like Betfair which only allow betting on questions that are chosen by the site.As of July 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission wa...

user302202

> Immediately after the site launched, users had created death pools — or assassination markets — on famous people.

> Augur's user numbers dropped off sharply after launch: from 265 daily users in early July, to 37 on 8 August.

user302202

Assassination markets have high attrition rate.

user302202

Speaking of pointless sites, after a 266 day interval, Area 51 has produced one more: Tezos

Bookends

3:26 PM

Hey, is that a new landing page for Private Beta?

Rob

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ No one missed big chunks in my chemistry class. We would mix iodine crystals with amonium hydroxide and dry them off with paper towels, leaving big chunks where they were easy to touch like the underside of doorknobs.

Bookends

3:47 PM

Well, I'm now honestly worried about tomorrow's Android.SE election...

rene

I suspect that methods like ToRelativeTimeMicro and its friend ToRelativeTimeMini originated in the SE codebase. Can an SE Dev or someone with access to the codebase share the current (or last .Net Framework) implementation of those methods so I don't have to reinvent all the fixes already applied to them?

I'm asking because of this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323388/…

user302202

android.stackexchange.com/election tells most of the story. From 400 voters in 2012 down to 304 in 2016, down to 276 in 2018, down to ? in 2019.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (81): Blogger: Is post-preview URL stable? by bilalkhanzada on webapps.SE

Tinkeringbell

@Mrs.Robinson 202 voters in 2012

user302202

Oops, misread because of bad alignment.

Tinkeringbell

3:56 PM

Yeah, it's confusing :)

Bookends

not the voters, but the candidates, because AFAIK no more known eligible site "regulars"

I mean, it's already worrying since the pulse-check, unless someone's appeal is heard

Shadow Wizard

@Mrs.Robinson maybe 19 in 2019

SmokeDetector

4:24 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer (53): How can I create a Windows 7 user profile without the user logging in? by etips app on superuser.com

Rob

4:36 PM

@ShadowWizard - TMI - Apparently Copromancy and food preparation go hand in hand. See: Groom of the Stool where an inspector is employed, the German (and elsewhere) Shelf which is DIY, or best of all, Ambergris where it is served with eggs (and it's expensive).

Bookends

@rene might be a modification of this answer with ordering of "just now > n secs ago > n mins ago > n hours ago > yesterday > 2 days ago > actual date without year > actual date with year"

Shadow Wizard

@Rob there is also some premium coffee that goes through the digestion system of cats, forgot its name.

Rob

The Moderator said not to get you started on that

There's also 'grown in soil fertilized by pandas'.

How's the coffee supply holding out, are you half way through the last shipment?

Bookends

4:52 PM

@ShadowWizard huh, I thought Luwak...

Rob

There's a dozen different varieties of 'digested coffee' produced by various animals.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Looking at the empty glass of coffee with a sense of doubt

Rob

5:05 PM

There's this list of fine food and drink you'll enjoy, if you don't plan on eating.

user302202

5:30 PM

@Bookends Andy Yan would be a good candidate

rene

7:42 PM

@Bookends that is for relative time which isn't what I'm looking for here. That said: I didn't look for SO answers yet as I was lazy ....

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

8:31 PM

Would it be a good idea to exclude users with the association bonus from the IP limit of the 40-minute rate limit?

Meaning they themselves may only ask a question once every 40 minutes, but would not be limited by someone else posting a question from a shared network.

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/323400/…

Mithrandir

@SonictheIntrovertedHedgehog That sounds like it's just asking for puppetry.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@Mithrandir We wouldn't publicly disclose this fact at all in the help pages.

Mithrandir

...."we".

Anyway... meh.

40 minutes isn't a long time. They can wait.

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

@Mithrandir The limit is network-wide, so someone else asking a question on a different site would also limit them.

Also, there's a limit of 90 minutes on Stack Overflow

Mithrandir

I know, I've run into the block myself before.

But like really, what are the chances that two legitimate users will be posting from the same IP so close together?

Sonic the Introverted Hedgehog

8:40 PM

@Mithrandir If they...go to the same university?

In my computer science lab multiple machines are frequently routed through the same IP.

John Dvorak

9:19 PM

> It's one of those lyrics which are actually good as long as you don't process what the words are

Source: youtube.com/watch?v=SljO4p6lKuk

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad ns for domain in answer (61): Add anchor text to php by Harsh Kumar on wordpress.SE

SmokeDetector

9:41 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): Nano alternative for windows powershell by fabio.angie on superuser.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected (79): Exporting issues (no thumbnails in windows explorer) by PinkMonkeyBird on blender.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (60): Software for manual audio transcription (speech, interviews etc.) by BenWiley4000 on askubuntu.com

user302202

9:57 PM

Community user id interpreted by absolute value in search... well it could be worse. The search could return posts with negative Ids.

user302202

Oh, definitely not; they don't have Amazon Prime.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected (79): Simplify3D and Davinci mini by Tyler S on 3dprinting.SE

SmokeDetector

10:56 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): securing my product image that i am selling online by Mohammed J Kanji on graphicdesign.SE

Rob

11:12 PM

We are supposed to post our Teams's Bug Shout-outs in The Tavern: "Impact section for SO Teams doesn't show number of users reached as it does for Public Q&A".

Reference: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/364621/…

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