My happy hour is starting a little bit late

Are they going to change the sign tommorrow? :D

@Shog9 Trip Advisor rates 300 Days with far fewer reviews than the Top Ten distilleries in Colorado. You can buy Stranahan's for U$60 or

Glenlivet for U$25K by mail-order.

@Rob if I wanted to drive drunk through heavy traffic, could also hit 291, which I prefer to Stranahans... But, 300 is decent and tonight there was a truck serving fried fish 😎

Oh yeah... I'm celebrating a bit

twitter.com/shog9/status/1233591329491283968

Dammit, has no one still fixed that onebox?? 😋

@Shog9 I didn't want to bring that up, but there were a lot of tweets about hitting the bottle, glad it's celebratory.

Also see related question, and link to Amazon oneboxing in the comments; Marc Gravell [won't-fix].

I noticed that 300 doesn't have food, but let's you order from elsewhere to have it delivered and eat it there.

We also have a SE site with advice about the strongest booze, and Q&As about home distillation. :)

@Rob I know. I looked into this the week before I got fired. The onebox was using an authenticated request to retrieve the tweet, and the key was disabled. But... I'm not at all certain that this warrants an authenticated request; should be possible in a much simpler fashion for SO's scale.

@Shog9 Someone will eventually convince upper management chat has value.

Then someone will RUE THAT DAY! RUE I TELL... wait... actually...

snort

> I'll talk more about all that another time, since I'm kinda tickled by the whole thing... But for tonight, I wanna talk about something else: memory.

So.. my job essentially has a mix of people with different educational levels in my role, ranging from a guy who did vocational school and was an ATM tech, to someone with masters.

Usually people with degrees get moved up to better teams

The guy with a vocational school cert basically knows the pokey end of the system better than some of our lower level devs, dbas or even some of the l3s

They can't promote him cause he's not got a degree. But he's basically... the guy with said 20000 pieces of information :D

@Shog9 That is true, why not just grab the text and make it a clickable link; it doesn't need to look any different from internal links or Wikipedia, which both still work. Occasionally a decision is communicated indirectly from a Dev and it doesn't seem to explain things; but I can't see the source code, and I'm not the one fixing it - so I don't argue the point.

@Shog9 I've become a Postgres fan just now ... Cheers!

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Max bull of the day:

> stackoverflow.blog/2020/02/27/…

What makes me happy as a developer is getting things done (over a team maybe).

Can someone report that as spam please: softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/405915/…

@πάνταῥεῖ I kinda don't like the alleged reason to ask this question

presumably OP's goal is to gain rep for whatever reason and idk if rep gain is something to encourage or promote by itself, as it can result in promoting all sorts of activity that reduces overall content quality on site

but also I don't wanna be like "oooh, we don't talk about rep"

Well, that's all about speculation. It could be a serious question. But anyways I stated that's not clearly answerable.

I think it would be ideal to decouple certain privileges from the total accumulated rep points over all the time you used your account, but that's never going to happen

It's not going to happen, agreed. That's deeply buried in the running engine.

(even better would be if we could decouple the desire to create terrible content from the sites >.<)

Everytime someone asks me that, I show them my reputation graphs 🤣

ye it's just how the game is designed

(it's pretty flat until a point)

@user1306322 In the good ole days we blamed the so called "rep whores", but we don't do that anymore.

well, it's basically what I was alluding to

We still do, we're just more politically correct about it

don't blame the users, blame the rules of the game that result in this behavior being encouraged

true

@JohnDvorak "rep sex workers" :-D

hunters/gatherers

reputable ladies and gentlemen of the night

Supporting help vampires vs. being van Helsing :-P

There are so many memes.

I know an anime called Hellsing, there's the original series and a remake/director's cut one, both entertaining for different reasons

there's voice actor commentary on one of them, pretty interesting

@user1306322 Fortunately the welcoming wagon never changed the basic rules of the game. Shite is still considered shite, and that's the good news.

@user1306322 van Helsing is the primary vampire hunter referred from Bram Stoker's novel.

I just don't think it's ever going to be possible to get the rate of crap coming into SO queues to comfortable to deal with levels... it's pretty depressing to think about

I tried reviewing for a while several years ago and it just felt like in infinite void of space

@πάνταῥεῖ expanding the circle of users who "get" SE and are constructive is something I think almost everyone can agree on.

I got better things to do in life than something that makes me feel like that

most of the smaller SE sites are very manageable in comparison so it's not just me or anything

@Journey It's all about curation of sites that's done from their communities, and specifically if SE Inc. want's to stay with that model or not.

@πάνταῥεῖ I've always felt the big failure was that SE in the early days wasn't very top down.

You can't tell people what to do, you need to give them the tools to do it.

SO's also... a bit of a special case due to sheer volume and ubiquity

SO is the flagship model for any sites hosted at SE Inc.

The welcoming wagon is a serious fail.

BTW, Jon Skeet managed to merchandise his knowledge about SO/SE in a great way. Why the company running that system isn't able to do so??

> youtube.com/watch?v=R4NCuN11ooc

@πάνταῥεῖ Who?

@JourneymanGeek That guy who started all the mess: stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/…

It's Jay not Jon, OK

That's not entirely fair to Jay. And calling someone stupid isn't nice

@JourneymanGeek Calling someone slightly stoopid is different from calling someone stupid. The latter wasn't ever meant.

Uhm No

You don't know the band, do you?

@Rob Not available here :-(

This works well for me;

@JourneymanGeek Cross-site spammer (on sites you moderate): stackexchange.com/users/17875006/quickez-recipes