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jmac

00:41

Oh man, I totally want that Eureka hat. Then I can have a lightbulb hat on a lightbulb.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@jmac I think you get it if you tell a dev/CM how to get the Yaeger hat

Not sure

Or maybe just mention it in chat

Eureka!

animuson

Makes me think of the TV show... There's a TV show called Eureka isn't there? On Syfy or something?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

Or maybe it involves going to NY and running around the headquarters in your birthday suit.

But....I don't see why SE would want to encourage that behavior with hats

jmac

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish But the devs already know how to get the Yeager hat! Why would I want to tell them? That seems like a poor use of their resources.

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish They give you the hat to cover up for the walk of shame back to where you came from.

Cole Johnson

Anyone want to flag this comment?

13

A: In .NET, is finally equivalent to try-catch-throw?

No - a finally block is executed even if no exception is thrown, and also even if another catch block catches the exception. (That's true whether the catch block then throws an exception itself or not.) Oh, and a finally block will also be executed if the try block returns from the method. Basi...

I upvoted it a while back, but now it's obsolete

I flagged the others, and they were deleted

Undo the Snowman

00:48

@ColeJohnson Flagged :D

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

Undo has interfaced his brain with the flag button

Undo the Snowman

Manish wrote me a userscript.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

window.postMessage("brain","'hello world") is useful

Undo the Snowman

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish That's a really good idea, actually. Where can I get a mind reader that hooks into jQuery?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@UndotheSnowman $.get('mindReader')

obviously

jQuery can solve all your problems

hichris123

00:51

@Undo Did you just use LOAD XML to import the XML's into MySQL?

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 Yup.

hichris123

I finally installed it, and it works after 5 tries.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@UndotheSnowman Yo dawg, I heard you like jQuery so I loaded your jQuery with jQuery so you can jQuery while you jQuery

Undo the Snowman

me: Brain("left").StackExchange.FlagComment("That one");

hichris123

@Mr.Peanut But couldn't jQuery be your problem? So how would you solve it?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

00:52

@UndotheSnowman that. is. not. jquery

chat privileges revoked

Undo the Snowman

Yeah, whatever.

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish You can't touch me here ;)

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

Also, CamelCase. Nooooooo my eeeeyeeees

Undo the Snowman

It's braincode, of course!

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

braincode would obviously be in the superior language

We lost the documentation on quantum mechanics. You'll have to decode the regexes yourself.

A language that needs to make all its variables proper nouns is not a True Language

Undo the Snowman

me: $("brain").stackExchange().flagComment("all of dems");

^ Is that better?

hichris123

00:54

@Undo How'd you create a table with all of the correct columns?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@UndotheSnowman much better

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 Hacked it together myself. Want the schema?

hichris123

Someone needs to make a brain run jQuery.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

However.

hichris123

@Undo Yes, please.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

00:55

$().something() also returns a jquery object. Here, it clearly doesn't

Undo the Snowman

k, just a minute.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

-1 brown points

hichris123

Brown points?

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 :

hichris123

Brownie points?

Undo the Snowman

00:56

CREATE TABLE `physicscomments` (
  `Id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `PostId` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `Score` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `CreationDate` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `UserId` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Text` text,
  PRIMARY KEY (`Id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

^ That should do it.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@hichris123 BROWN points

Oy, @jadarnel27, teach this guy about brown

hichris123

Thank you, @Undo.

Undo the Snowman

no problem

hichris123

Let's see how long it takes my 2 core laptop to import all of the SO comments.

Undo the Snowman

Ugh.

Another thing to think about: It was taking me 300 seconds just to SELECT COUNT(*) FROM comments

(Although I have a machine from 2003)

hichris123

01:01

But that's still physics, right?

So many less comments than SO.

Undo the Snowman

No, that was SO.

Everything else is snappy.

hichris123

Oh, well nevermind then.

Undo the Snowman

But SO has 24,000,000 comments.

And other sites (i.e. SF) have maybe 500,000

So I just use SF's set.

hichris123

Next step for me is posts. That's going to literally take forever.

Undo the Snowman

Good luck :P

hichris123

01:03

While I'm at it, I should flag some comments!

Undo the Snowman

;D

Flagging stuff is fun.

hichris123

Did you design it not to work with IE9 (log-in box doesn't pop up)? Just so I wouldn't use it?

What is up with Suggested Edits on SO?

53 edits.

This person is suggesting so many edits: stackoverflow.com/users/1895303/…

And they're just editing tags on questions.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

Cole Johnson

01:21

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish wouldn't the spiders just cling to the unbrella?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@ColeJohnson cover the umbrella with soap or something

Cole Johnson

@Mr.Peanut are spiders afraid of soap, or to make them slip? Spider thread is pretty strong you know

Silk*

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@ColeJohnson good point

Undo the Snowman

Oh, @hichris123, I should have given you this sooner, but here it is: github.com/Undo1/Undo-Userscripts

The flagcomments.user.js can be thrown into Chrome and used to easily batch-flag obsolete comments.

hichris123

@Undo Thanks, I'll load it when I get a chance. Computer so slow from MySQL.

Undo the Snowman

01:31

;)

hichris123

It finished!

Undo the Snowman

Woohoo!

hichris123

1971 seconds

32.85 minutes

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 Way faster than it was for me.

Or maybe not.

About the same.

hichris123

It's probably also since I'm using an external hard drive (3TB vs. internal 500GB), so RW speeds are slower.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

01:34

32 minutes? Not bad

hichris123

Comments though.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

Some of my computations take a day

Also, this:

Well, at least the build didn't take 400 minutes :p http://t.co/W6o4wEDWed

Tweeted by ManishEarth on August 24, 2013 at 7:23 PM

hichris123

What of?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@hichris123 molecular dynamics of point defects in graphene supercells

hichris123

@Mr.Peanut English, please? I understand the graphite part and the molecules, but other than that...

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

01:37

@hichris123 In simpler terms, I take graphene, put some defect in it, and then see if that defect is stable and the state it settles to

computationally

Undo the Snowman

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish Sounds fun.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

!example of what happens for a simpler molecule

Undo the Snowman

Whoa.

hichris123

That's quite cool.

No, don't take away the onebox!

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

That's only half the gif because SE's upload restrictions -_-

@hichris123 gets annoying after a while

hichris123

01:40

But... I can just stare at it and lose all sense of what's going on.

@Undo Hah! 98 seconds for SELECT COUNT(*) FROM socomments

Undo the Snowman

Lucky.

ElfSlice

Did somebody say annoying?

hichris123

Should I flag... :)

Undo the Snowman

@ElfSlice You were talking about a hat for being flagged?

hichris123

To flag or not to flag, that is the question.

Undo the Snowman

01:41

;P

ElfSlice

If only you could flag as annoying. ;]

Undo the Snowman

It's pretty darn close to offensive.

Or spam.

ElfSlice

@UndotheSnowman ?

hichris123

Both, I say.

Undo the Snowman

And it's almost inappropriate.

ElfSlice

01:41

How so?

Are you offended by ladies' tongues?

sheesh

hichris123

I didn't get to flag it.

Aww.

@Undo Start on making a script to generate things to flag in chat.

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 Hmmm...

No.

That would tarnish my almost-perfect record.

ElfSlice

Don't worry, I will probably generate lots of things to flag in chat.

@ColeJohnson um.

Undo the Snowman

I... don't know what to do with that.

Cole Johnson

@ElfSlice I'm not even sure if that would count as offensive

Because I'm not talking to you

ElfSlice

01:45

@ColeJohnson I dunno, calling people 'fat idiots' is pretty bad.

Even I don't do that

hichris123

It's offensive to people.

Undo the Snowman

@ColeJohnson Really, though - you're within two flags of being suspended.

Cole Johnson

Flag that :)

Undo the Snowman

What the heck are you doing?

Cole Johnson

@hichris123 nah. They're too busy spending their time striking to care

ElfSlice

01:46

That's not the same. I can say 'fuck' all I want, but as soon as I tell someone to fuck off it's flaggable.

Cole Johnson

@Undo trolling

hichris123

Do you want it to be starred, instead of flagged?

Both of you.

Cole Johnson

@ElfSlice how do you know I wasn't addressing that to you

@hichris123 I really don't care

ElfSlice

@ColeJohnson Getting banned isn't as fun as it sounds

hichris123

There you go.

Cole Johnson

01:47

@ElfSlice we're on Meta...

hichris123

Remember that hat for getting banned?

Cole Johnson

that's what I'm going for

Undo the Snowman

@ColeJohnson Seriously, what do you think you're doing?

ElfSlice

Just approve the flag

Cole Johnson

@Undo I'm really bored

Undo the Snowman

01:48

Fine, flag marked valid.

hichris123

Why bored?

jmac

Errrr...

Cole Johnson

@hichris123 I just am

Undo the Snowman

It's more boring not being able to talk to anyone, you know...

hichris123

You know, that was the most specific answer I've heard. It's much better than some SO questions that I have to flag.

ElfSlice

01:49

There's better ways to deal with boredom

Raptor Safari for instance.

Cole Johnson

@ElfSlice eh

hichris123

@ColeJohnson Flag a bunch of posts/comments!

Undo the Snowman

^ excellent boredom cure

hichris123

And then VTC.

Cole Johnson

@hichris123 sounds like what you do

@Undo it's not that good on mobile

hichris123

01:51

You see how @Undo and I have turned out, though.

ElfSlice

bleepstreet.bandcamp.com/album/ctrix-a-for-amiga-bleepst24

Cole Johnson

You know, where you can't flag comments

ElfSlice

Fuck yeah this is awesome!

hichris123

@Undo "Weirdness happens when trying to flag comments in an expanded chain"

I love weirdness happening

Cole Johnson

Does anyone ever just

hichris123

01:53

flag a bunch of comments? Yes.

Cole Johnson

Yep

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?”

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@hichris123 Here is a better one of one of the systems I'm analysing

. home.iitb.ac.in/~manishg/Stuff/graphene.gif

hichris123

@ColeJohnson This appears to be off-topic as it has noting to do with meta, SO, or boredom.

@Mr.Peanut Where do you work?

jmac

@ElfSlice May I recommend not using 4-letter words regardless of whether they are directed people or not? Aside from the fact that it's (generally) unnecessary, it runs the risk of tripping net filters and offending youthful eyes.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@hichris123 I'm a student. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

ElfSlice

01:56

@jmac I was just using it as an example. I'm working on it though, sorry.

Hey guys, how does this look so far: jmp.sh/v/uYXfoVy10NIbNeKMpBTY

Something I'm working on

Well, was working on in the past

gonna finish it up soonish

Cole Johnson

☻/ This is bob. Copy and paste
/▌him so he can take over
/\ the Tavern

hichris123

@Mr.Peanut That looks like so much fun.

ElfSlice

@ColeJohnson nothx ;]

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@ColeJohnson Not brown enough. Make him brown and then we'll talk

Cole Johnson

@Mr.Peanut I could read that as racist...

jmac

01:57

dammit

ElfSlice

Haven't you heard? Real is brown.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@ColeJohnson Brown is a Tavern meme :P

☻/

Cole Johnson

@Mr.Peanut I know. I'm just saying

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

/▌

[/\ ](bob.bob)

jmac

I tried. And failed.

Really though. I want the Eureka hat.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

02:00

☻/

∧

Bart

What's with all the flags? Are we having a parade?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

gah

jmac

Bob is holding a pencil! Awesome!

No, wait, it's BIONIC BOB with a pencil for an arm

ElfSlice

Did anybody take a look at my link?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

one more time

jmac

02:01

Because that's just the way he rolls.

hichris123

@Mr.Peanut Why aren't you using jQuery to build Bob?

ElfSlice

5 mins ago, by ElfSlice

Hey guys, how does this look so far: http://jmp.sh/v/uYXfoVy10NIbNeKMpBTY

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

☻/

/▌

∧

jmac

I find that bob immensely humorous because his head is in the middle

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

yay

wut?

jmac

02:02

/▌
☻/
∧

ElfSlice

Nobody huh?

=[

hichris123

I looked, but don't have time to watch a video.

jmac

Nope Elf, because I don't trust your links.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

yaaaay

BOB IS ALIIIIVE

ElfSlice

@hichris123 It's shortish

@jmac What, why?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

02:03

@hichris123 meh

hichris123

@Mr.Peanut Exactly.

jmac

You use foul language and post videos a lot -- some with questionable cover art. So clicking on blind links isn't on my list of things to do.

ElfSlice

In this case, it's an animation I am working on

hichris123

Your oneboxes are coming back to haunt you.

ElfSlice

Hey, I'm working on it okay

@jmac I didn't realize you felt that way. I'll make an effort to do better.

Sorry.

jmac

02:07

I'm one person, others may not feel the same way, I ask you to use your judgment, and not to be shocked when others (like me) use our own and don't feel the need to click through on blind links you post. That's kind of how things work in the real world too.

ElfSlice

I don't expect anyone to click blind links, to be honest.

I don't do that either.

Who knows where it goes

hichris123

What's the link to get to a comment by its comment id?

ElfSlice

@hichris123 'share', isn't it?

Oh, a comment.

Click the timestamp

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@ElfSlice Ah, the rickroll and goatse generation

ElfSlice

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish ugh

hichris123

02:09

@ElfSlice No, I mean I have it's comment id, but I need to get to the comment (data dump)

ElfSlice

I am often ashamed to be a member of said generation

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

Never really gotten hit by either, but .... still wary of links

ElfSlice

@hichris123 Oh. shrug

For the record, this is the kind of work I do

►

hichris123

It's apparently just www.stackoverflow.com/posts/comments/commentid

ElfSlice

@hichris123 That looks right.

hichris123

02:14

How do I hyperlink all websites that are text in excel?

jadarnel27

I'm a little late, but @hichris123, you lost brown points because brown is awesome. And Manish determined that you were being less than awesome.

@Mr.P Lesson taught.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

Thank you, my good sir

@jadarnel27 I deducted Undo's brown points, actually :P

hichris123

Thank you for the brown lesson, @jadarnel27

ElfSlice

@Krazer Welcome. =]

hichris123

Get ready for the comment flags.

I'm doing all of the accept my answer ones.

jmac

02:26

@hichris123 =HYPERLINK(url)

hichris123

Thanks @jmac !

jmac

You can add a name on it if you'd like too, with =HYPERLINK(url,name)

hichris123

Next mod to review comment flags sees 30-ish flags.

@jmac No need, I'm just using it to flag comments.

From:

SELECT Text as Text, Id as id, PostId as PostId
FROM socomments
where text like '%accept my answer%'

jmac

Just delete the backticks, and use the 'fixed font' post option to get it as code

SELECT 'fixed font'
FROM 'options on the right next to upload'
WHERE 'chat message is code'

hichris123

There, thanks.

Some of these comments are gold, look at this one

"you're welcome. Don't hesitate to accept my answer... you know, for the reputation :)"

jmac

02:31

You must onebox all comments.

Otherwise it's not official.

hichris123

Be that way.

you're welcome. Don't hesitate to accept my answer... you know, for the reputation :) — PierrOz Mar 5 '10 at 13:41

2 upvotes, also.

jmac

It seems to have worked, I don't see much of an issue with it?

hichris123

Is this one obsolete?

what do you mean by accept my answers?? im new in this site.. — Leon Mar 4 '10 at 20:01

Or too chatty?

jmac

It seems to still be valid.

hichris123

That's true.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

02:35

-3

Q: C programming question. float a = 6.1; int b = a*10; what is b ?

while a = 0.1 、1.1 、8.1 、9.1 、10.1 ， b = 1 、11 、81 、91、101; while a = 2.1 、3.1 、4.1 、5.1 、6.1 、7.1 ， b = 20 、30 、40 、50 、60 、70; tested in VC2008 and gcc， why ? Thanks

discussion

what is this I don't even

jmac

> Page Not Found

ElfSlice

Nevermind me, I'm dumb.

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

while a = 0.1 、1.1 、8.1 、9.1 、10.1 ， b = 1 、11 、81 、91、101;

while a = 2.1 、3.1 、4.1 、5.1 、6.1 、7.1 ， b = 20 、30 、40 、50 、60 、70;

tested in VC2008 and gcc， why ? Thanks

jmac

Noooo, someone just spoiled winterbash's special pointy hat!

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@jmac

jmac

02:38

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish!

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

@jmac ?

Oh

Not me

I just gave the correct Shog hint

the other dude spoiled it :P

jmac

Yeah.

I want the Eureka one. Lightbulb on lightbulb action.

ElfSlice

Doge hat is the only hat for me.

jmac

I fixed the spoiler to be less spoileresque. I wonder if anyone will notice.

hichris123

@jmac Already reverted.

jmac

02:42

@hichris123 Uncool.

hichris123

Hey, I didn't do it.

But thanks for telling me how to get it.

jmac

Yeah, I know, but now everyone will have that hat.

hichris123

Okay, you may only attempt to flag a comment every 3 seconds, but you can only flag one every 5 seconds.

jmac

And not through careful investigation, but through cheating.

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 Yeah. Annoying, no?

I have become so acquainted with that dialog...

hichris123

02:45

@Undo

17 mins ago, by hichris123

SELECT Text as Text, Id as id, PostId as PostId
FROM socomments
where text like '%accept my answer%'

jmac

He added spoiler tags. That is hardly the point.

Undo the Snowman

Yup.

@hichris123 I have comments matching '%please accept%' in the tool already, but that's not a bad one either.

hichris123

I tried to get Shog to change the rate limits, but he said he had nothing to do with it @Undo.

I'm suprised at how many are still there.

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 Hopefully we get a full write API soon.

hichris123

Fingers crossed

I wonder what the flag queue looks like now, hmm?

Undo the Snowman

02:48

@hichris123 Ping @animuson and ask him.

hichris123

You kinda already did.

Or is it the only 1 rule in chat, too?

ElfSlice

in The Bridge on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 4 mins ago, by ManishEarth

@ElfSlice Last year there were a bunch of meme/troll images in the hat sprite too, just for the heck of it

TELL ME THE DOGE HAT IS REAL

Undo the Snowman

Heh

hichris123

@Undo Someone's going through my flags.

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 Yeah.

Someone went through the flag queue and handled all the flags a while ago.

So they don't have a big backlog yet.

hichris123

02:50

@Undo Sometime, we're just going to flood the flag queue with NAA, comment flags, and anything else.

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 If we can get about five of us, we could really freak out the mods.

hichris123

Flag to close doesn't count, though, since there's already a huge backlog.

@Undo Let's do it.

Undo the Snowman

@Mr.PeanutMonopolyMcManish ruins test

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

test was over

Tim Stone

I take it you have to earn a guru badge during Winterbash for the "Oh the Horror" hat, @balpha?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

02:51

@TimStone yep

animuson

Should it look different?

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 We could all be running an app that would make it so that any of us could add a flag task and the next available person would automatically flag it.

hichris123

@animuson Someone just handled all 30-ish of my comment flags.

Also nothing to see here, we're not talking about flooding the flag queue at all.

@Undo Can you "legally" sock-puppet accounts to flag?

Undo the Snowman

DDoEFQ (distributed denial of empty flag queue) attack.

3

@hichris123 Ask the Shog.

hichris123

@Shog9 Is it legal to sock-puppet for flagging purposes (given they're good flags, of course)?

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish

02:54

@hichris123 Undo just Shog-sniped you

Some questions are not meant to be asked

Watch your account dissolve slowly

Undo the Snowman

Hehehe

hichris123

Hey, I have 431 helpful flags. I don't think he's too worried about me.

Hopefully...

Maybe I should delete that.

Undo the Snowman

@hichris123 Naw, don't.

I'm curious about the answer.

(note that we would have to post something with the fake accounts to get them to 15 rep)

hichris123

I actually am curious what a slowly dissolving account would look like, too.

Undo the Snowman

It's kinda disgusting.

animuson

02:56

The flags queue has actually been staying around the 20 mark. You guys are clearly slacking.

Undo the Snowman

@animuson We're working on plans - you don't expect us to plot and flag at the same time, do you?

hichris123

@animuson That's why we're planning.

Undo the Snowman

We're letting you rest before opening the flag deluge.

hichris123

Review all of my flags that go into CV queue if you're bored, I still have like 70-ish @animuson

animuson

I've been playing video games.

Undo the Snowman

02:58

Bad mod! Y U NO IN FLAG QUEUE?!?

hichris123

I vote to impeach animuson.

Undo the Snowman

Nah, he handled some of my flags really well.

(do we have an impeachment process?)

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