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Frank

21:15

naa physics.stackexchange.com/questions/93884/…

@halirutan Wow, you have a lot of rep on Mathematica.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HI, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT FONT THIS IS PLEASE on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

Frank

vlq ^

GnomeSlice

@SmokeDetector lmao

AstroCB

Can someone with 10k on SO tell me whether this answer was self-deleted or moderation-deleted?

stackoverflow.com/questions/26206833/…

Frank

21:31

Not me. I can't even see it. :P

Undo

1300 to go for me :P

well. 1301

Doorknob

AstroCB

@Doorknob Thanks; why was my NAA flag on that rejected?

Undo

Looks like it got deleted from review

Doorknob

No idea; ask a SO mod

halirutan

21:35

@Frank hard work, pretty much from the start of the site :-)

Frank

@halirutan Nice. So you didn't get it easy, like Scott from Graphic Design.

He doesn't have to do much to get rep.

Like me on GL, only better.

halirutan

@Frank Hmm, ok when I compare my highest voted answers and his, then I guess I had it easier to gain reputation.

But these days I don't really care about it any more.

Frank

@halirutan Yep, it's not like it's important or anything...

:D

just kidding

halirutan

@Frank I guess it depends strongly on which site you are.. have you ever tried to get even one upvote on Ask Different?

Undo

yeah, and I succeeded.

Ask Different

and it's [apple.se] ;)

halirutan

21:40

@Undo Yep, had to check the URL :-)

@Undo For instance this question got one upvote.. Now, this bug is a real burner on the Chrome bug-tracker.

(The problem is not the one upvote, but that no one can answer the question though)

Frank

@halirutan No. I am active on GL (name's J. Musser there) and people don't vote much at all.

Doorknob

Ironically, I have more rep on Apple.SE than on Android.SE, even though I'm a strong proponent of one over the other.

AstroCB

4

A: How can I show the full notifications in the notification center?

Notification Center limits the size of a notification to 256 bytes (see developer reference), so there is no way to expand or change how much of a notification you see (unless you can find some third-party application that disables the limit). After 256 bytes, the notification will be truncated ...

Undo

9

A: Using iMac as Mac Pro display

You can use the MiniDisplay Port on the back of the iMac and put the iMac into target display mode, turning it into an external display. More info: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924

halirutan

Here is the bug on chrome tracker

code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/…

AstroCB

21:44

@Undo Wow.

Undo

Oh, and then they let me ask this:

90

Q: What features of Mavericks are beneficial to you?

This question serves to share and collect the enhancements that make a large difference to how you use your Mac. Please post one feature per answer. Please also check to see if your answer has already been posted - duplicate answers will be deleted. To search answers for this question use inque...

halirutan

@Frank Yep, I have seen it.

Undo

And then answer it:

32

A: What features of Mavericks are beneficial to you?

The battery menu in the top bar now shows apps using high amounts of energy - nice for killing energy-hogs:

So yeah, it's possible to get votes on AD

AstroCB

@Undo Somehow, that sounds like something I'd expect to see from @SmokeDetector.

Frank

@halirutan It's a little dubious. Maybe that's why the traffic's low there. :)

Undo

21:46

It does, now that I think of it.

halirutan

@Undo 90 upvotes on AD is quite something for a question.. I guess we just have a different voting culture on Mathematica

Undo

1

A: How did this ever work?

I tested this using the code you provided, putting it in a file named test.rb. Then I ran it: Undos-MacBook-Pro-2:~ undo$ ruby test.rb Undos-MacBook-Pro-2:~ undo$ And it did exactly what I expected it to.

I had to. Just had to.

ah thank you @Doorknob

Couldn't figure out how to do that

Doorknob

@Undo I'm sorry, I really want to upvote that but I can't :D

Undo

;)

I know it's going to get deleted and I'll lose the rep, but I couldn't pass up the oppurtunity.

AstroCB

@Undo Brilliant.

halirutan

21:50

@Frank Our highest voted question has 430 upvotes, while on GL it is 61.. I guess you did an awesome job with 18k rep.

Frank

@halirutan We don't get much over 15 votes on anything for a couple years, since soon after it went public. Average is 2-4 votes, occasionally up to 10-12.

Jan Dvorak

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26288500/…

Undo

Man, bad joke I guess. — toothrot 19 secs ago

This... was a joke?

@JanDvorak voted

Jan Dvorak

pong

Undo

If I'm lucky I might get a reversal badge >:D

Frank

21:54

@Undo Yeah! I can't help, though, out of votes.

Sam

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 1 min ago, by Pham

Offensive A (83.3%): It is sluggish, I hate it. I smashed mine wi..., by Billy Bob, on photo.stackexchange.com.

^ flag plz

Frank

@Sam flagged

Undo

flagged

Sam

tanks

Doorknob

cars

Sam

21:57

planes

Undo

Frank

quit waging

Doorknob

offensive

Frank

@Undo Gotta get one... just can't wait to see the expression on a clients face when I show up to spread lawn fertilizer - in that!

Sam

Hey look. It's Undo's plasma powered flagging tank.

Doorknob

21:58

offensive / abusive

Undo

@Sam That's my spam one. The comment one is bigger, but Shog said I can't mash things in it anymore:

So it's in my garage

hichris123

@halirutan takes a look

Mac only?

yup

OFFENSIVE: photo.stackexchange.com/questions/54778/…

halirutan

@hichris123 Seems to be a very weird (and extremely annoying) issue. No fixes and ideas so far, although people can reproduce it.

ThiefMaster

i prefer this panzer!

►

hichris123

@halirutan I would look at it, as I actually do have a locally built version of Chromium, but I'm on Windows...

halirutan

22:06

@hichris123 hehe.. this is of no use then.

hichris123

@halirutan Nope. Now, if you can submit a patch to bring the bug over to Windows... :P

halirutan

@hichris123 That's the idea. With this, everyone has I-want-to-throw-my-mouse-at-a-wall-fun.

hichris123

Yup. ;)

I do have a patch being reviewed on Chromium, though! codereview.chromium.org/634523004

Sam

@Undo :D

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 1 min ago, by Pham

Offensive A (83.3%): Nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga, by user27600, on cooking.stackexchange.com.

^ flag plz

hichris123

status-gone

Sam

22:14

~~tanks~~ thx

Frank

@Sam Pham is awesome.

Pham

@Frank Why, thank you.

Sam

I'm actually working on making Pham operational 24/7. I should be done in 6-8 weeks. ;)

5

Frank

@Sam Nice. Will he post tp-d messages in here?

Sam

@Frank Yep.

Frank

22:19

@Sam Nice. And Gham gets to watch and be jealous? :P

hichris123

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 1 min ago, by Pham

Offensive A (83.3%): Obat Pembesar Penis, by A-kong, on codereview.stackexchange.com.

Sam

@Frank lol, you're close. Gham will actually be monitoring Pham's behaviour and will also allow me to remotely update/restart him when necessary.

in Low Quality Posts HQ, 1 min ago, by Pham

Offensive A (91.7%): Really, This is fucking ridicules to go thro..., by mrbrklyn, on askubuntu.com.

Frank

@Sam Ah, supervisor. Does he get a bigger salary?

Undo

@Sam How are you getting answers? API calls every x minutes?

hichris123

@Undo He scraps the page.

Undo

22:22

which page?

Is there a realtime answers page?

Frank

@hichris123 gone

hichris123

Oct 5 at 19:18, by Sam

@hichris123 Watch real-time tab -> scrap post page (parse html) -> check answers

Undo

ah, hmmm

Jan Dvorak

:2506956 I would expect Hadoop to complain about that

Sam

Meh, it's only 20kb/s (at peak).

Jan Dvorak

22:24

sure, but's a request close to each second

hichris123

@Undo If you wanted to, we could do that too... not sure if you feel like doing it though since @Sam seems to have it pretty well covered.

Undo

right

Sam

Well, Pham does have a week's post persistence.

Undo

I'm trying (again) to find a better less request-heavy way to do it.

At least a way to tell if there are new answers on a post

and it's not just an edit bumping it

hichris123

@Undo Hmm, is there a way to request something without the CSS/JS?

Undo

22:27

we'd probably use the API

but I don't know

hichris123

We could, but API limits & not real time.

Sam

I simply scrap the page every 10 secs, ignore "remembered" posts from the last week, and then check whatever's left.

Undo

I'd really want to get permission before scraping on a large-ish scale if we were to do it @hichris123.

hichris123

@Undo eh.

Undo

Because they'd probably rather (a) us not do it at all, or (b) just give us relaxed api limits.

hichris123

22:29

@Undo @BenCollins ^^

Jan Dvorak

@Undo unlikely, unfortunately

Undo

I know

Really, the cheapest thing for SE (and us) would be an answer websocket.

network-wide. Or even site-wide, if someone can find one.

hmmm idea

Jan Dvorak

api/questions/ids works quite well for me, actually

though the caching does present a delay

hichris123

@JanDvorak Not real time, though. Not network wide, you have to provide a site name.

Jan Dvorak

@hichris123 I have a queue for each site

hichris123

22:32

@JanDvorak That seems fairly... complex.

Jan Dvorak

not really

onQuestion: parse => queue[site].push(question) => if(queue[site].length == 100) queue[site].flush()

Sam

I've gtg, see you guys later.

Jan Dvorak

cya

Undo

hey, can someone leave a comment on one of my SO answers and leave it there until I tell you to delete it?

hichris123

@JanDvorak Meh, sounds interesting, but on smaller sites... 100 questions could take days.

Undo

22:34

for science

Jan Dvorak

@hichris123 I flush the queues after one day

Undo

1 min ago, by Undo

hey, can someone leave a comment on one of my SO answers and leave it there until I tell you to delete it?

hichris123

@JanDvorak Still... by that time your spam/NAA answer/whatever would be long gone.

Undo

PLEASE?

;)

or heck, just anything to make it show up in the global inbox

hichris123

status-impatient

Undo

22:36

thanks :D

okay you can delete it now @hichris123

Huh, so I guess that isn't a vuln

Jan Dvorak

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26289105/…

Undo

I wonder how much we can ask the websocket for before it kicks us off.

imagines sending 1-question-<id> for every question

Jan Dvorak

@Undo hundreds of endpoints still work fine for me

Undo

hmmmm

Jan Dvorak

what you imagine might be a little over the top, but still fun to try

maybe you'll make the SO servers cry

Undo

22:43

There are only... 8 million questions on SO? :P

It'd probably only be doable if we didn't include SO

Unless there's a god-socket somewhere that would just give us answers

Jan Dvorak

yeah... the server might not be happy; please try it out and let us know

Undo

here goes :P

gonna start with SU

Crap, how am I gonna even get the id's?

ah, I know: 0..240000

this is already sounding like a bad idea

Jan Dvorak

I have a crazy idea: make a distributed botnet to multiply the API limits ;-)

Undo

that sounds like an even worse idea :P

Jan Dvorak

I would install that

Undo

22:46

Believe it or not I thought about doing something like that with comment flags.

So you could 'opt-in' to autoflag everything two users decided was obsolete.

Jan Dvorak

eugh

Undo

yeah :P

Jan Dvorak

hmm... all of my performance issues on youtube seem to have gone away once I've disabled the improved preloading feature of Magic Actions...

ot-hw stackoverflow.com/questions/26289235/windows-8-1-laptop-sold

Braiam

meanwhile in Chat.SE:

in The Bridge on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 5 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

A bunch of people that weren't me got suspended? What is the world coming to?

Undo

@Sam if you need hosting for it, I might be able to provide something

user259867

22:57

@Undo If you wanted to run a script on all existing answers (not the new ones), then downloading them from SEDE and running a script locally seems to make sense. I think one Python script could do all of it: request info from SEDE, save CSV, read, parse, analyze... scheduled to do a run on each of the 130 sites within a week (so SEDE will handle it).

Undo

that might work

user259867

The 50000 rows limitation can be worked around by requesting only answers with Ids in certain range.

hichris123

@Undo Wait, why are we talking about all questions?

Why not fetch just active ones?

Undo

My idea is to subscribe to the websocket for each question

hichris123

That... wouldn't really work. :P

Jan Dvorak

23:00

@hichris123 lim_{t->\inf}active = all

Undo

@hichris123 probably not :(

This would be a lot easier if we had a network-side answer websocket

Jan Dvorak

23:18

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/26289470/how-do-i-do-this-on-php

Braiam

blog.sf use disqus?!

Jan Dvorak

night

::poof::

Frank

@JanDvorak night.

Oops, I forgot.

bjb568

23:36

Got a haircut, my head can breathe now!

The bioengineering on me created some abnormally long hair.

Frank

@bjb568 cat's don't often get that. :)

bjb568

@Frank I'm not a normal cat :)

My paws can work hyper-speed on my keyboard, for example.

And I can't think rationally.

And I'm not a jerk. Sometimes.

Frank

@bjb568 Yeah I think everyone noticed that long ago.

Unihedron

You need 7 more rep and you'll have 2048, @bjb

Frank

@Unihedron =1 question upvote and one accept.

lostsock

23:45

If for some reason you still have close votes left, hit the review queue and use them up! Only 12.5 mins left.

Unihedron

Bye!

lostsock

who's leaving/

Unihedron

me

lostsock

\ :( /

Frank

@lostsock Hahaha.

@Unihedron later!

SmokeDetector

23:56

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: H2 ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN BEFORE/AFTER on dba.stackexchange.com

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