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@Jamal Y'all should just leave it. I sent a warning email to the presumed instructor of that course with a copy of the code from the posted answer and a link. The project's past due anyways.

Vogel612's Shadow

@Jamal that thing looks like a SPAM proposal

Anna Lear

I don't even know anymore.

user259867

9:23 PM

^ Area 51 summarized in one sentence.

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Vogel612's Shadow

blogger.com and nanogalaxy.org spam..

Braiam

> How do I make a Car game with high gravity in Blender ?

that looks like a legit question

Anna Lear

I'm thinking "legit but horribly misguided"

Braiam

I didn't comment about the quality of the question ;)

Jamal

Better off just naming it "Technology and Latest Smartphones !"

Anna Lear

9:26 PM

! "Technology and Latest Smartphones ! - gotta have symmetry

Jamal

"Technology and Latest Smartphones ???"

Jan Dvorak

Use an inverted bang then

Jamal

And then each question can sound like a proposal name.

Jason C

@AnnaLear No way legit. NanoGalaxy is some crappy tech blog and the guy that created that proposal, Nived Kannada, owns that company and runs that blog.

Jamal

So it really is a spam proposal. I somehow thought it was some kind of smartphone.

Jan Dvorak

9:30 PM

definitely stinks

Jason C

Spam flags away

Anna Lear

@JasonC Upgrading to "loltastically misguided"

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Jan Dvorak

TIL you could flag sites as spam; flagged

Jason C

^ Can "loltastically misguided" also be an official SO close reason? (Or "loltastically" anything, really)

Jamal

Does the spam system work the same on Area 51 (six community flags deletes a proposal)?

Vogel612's Shadow

9:33 PM

let's find out

Jason C

@Jamal And by night, he stars in an *NSYNC cover band.

hichris123

> You can only Spam flag this post once

Why is spam capitalized?

Jason C

Because it's serious.

Braiam

everything is serious in the Area 51

user259867

Deleted now, after my flag. (& because of it?)

UserX

9:34 PM

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Q: General Solution of $y'(x)+p(x)e^{r(x) y(x)}=q(x)$

I solved the case for the non-homogenous constant coefficients case and I wondered if there is a way to find a general solution to a non-constant coefficient case. I don't know how to approach this at all, the substitution $y(x)=\frac{\log (v(x))}{r(x)}$ gets problematic immediately.

I see this answer as an attempt to grab the bounty, asking for a clarification in an answer last minutes before the bounty ends. What should I do?

Anna Lear

I removed @JasonC's discussion post, since apparently those don't get removed as well.

user259867

@UserX Wrong chat window? Looks like a question for Math chat room.

Anna Lear

@UserX Unless that picks up a couple upvotes, nothing. There will be no bounty awarded.

Jamal

@JasonC That gives me an idea! creates an *NSYNC proposal

UserX

@Rafflesiaarnoldii it's a technical matter

Jan Dvorak

9:36 PM

@Jamal flags as offensive

Jason C

@Jamal flags as loltastically offensive

Anna Lear

@UserX Flagging it for a mod was the right call.

UserX

@AnnaLear I thought the bounty gets autoawarded to a non-negative score answer if there exists no other answer by the end of 7 days

user259867

Okay, the technical answer is that the poster may be motivated by bounty, but unless the answer gets score of 2 or higher, there will be no auto-award.

Anna Lear

@UserX Hrm. I forget exactly how it works... I think we only auto-award half the bounty to an answer with 2+ votes, but I could be wrong. The rules have grown over the years. Don't quite have time to dig right now, but I removed that answer.

UserX

9:37 PM

@AnnaLear yea but I don't know if it would be answered in time, and I prefer me losing 50 points than someone not worth them getting them. Anyway, no upvotes so no fears, thanks for clarifying that out for me.

user259867

@UserX math.stackexchange.com/help/bounty <-- last section, "how is a bounty awarded"

user259867

Grr, still no anchor links in help center.

Jason C

@UserX There's also the factor Rafflesia arnoldii mentioned a couple lines up, which reduces the risk a little.

UserX

@Rafflesiaarnoldii I don't trust the bounty system. My bounty in Physics SE was awarded to a person I never clicked and there was a 20+ votes answer much better than the one who got it

user259867

@UserX "the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with a minimum score of 2". Read the rules carefully.

Andy

9:41 PM

@UserX You should have awarded the bounty instead of letting the system do it.

UserX

@Andy I wanted to keep the attention as much as possible.

Anna Lear

@UserX That's the risk you take then. :)

UserX

I assumed it would go to the 20 votes answer

Andy

You know what they say about assumptions...

...should have read the docs instead

UserX

Well problem solved I guess.

Jason C

9:43 PM

What happens if the documentation states that the first step is to make an ass out of Uma Thurman?

Anna Lear

@JasonC If your name is Bill, you're screwed.

UserX

Is mathoverflow in the SE network?

Jason C

@UserX Yes

It's even got a cute little SE logo in the status bar.

UserX

Then why can't posts be migrated between the sites?

Vogel612's Shadow

@UserX they can...

just not by everyday users..

actually mods can migrate as long as the post is not older than 60 days.

UserX

9:47 PM

Oh didn't know that

Jason C

in Homotopy Theory on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 2 mins ago, by Jon Beardsley

oooh, uh, sorry, haha.

in Homotopy Theory on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 2 mins ago, by Jon Beardsley

but yeah, i've got a morphism of cosimplicial spectra in, say the model category of EKMM spectra

Hahaha, the tavern is so much smarter than MO chat.

Frank

@JasonC yeah...

Jason C

More like BORE-phism! Your mom is in the model category of EKMM spectra! Ha ha! KEG STAAAND! high five

Jan Dvorak

Barbarians...

Jason C

^ Can somebody who doesn't mind being chat banned do me a favor and pop into MO chat and say that?

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Frank

9:55 PM

@JasonC say what?

@JasonC What Jan said?

I live in a field, how could they ban me? :)

Jason C

Say whaaaaat! No, what I said. Or what Jan said. Or whatever you want to say.

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Frank

> A room for anyone interested in homotopy theory, or any nearby fields

Not me^

But anyway...

in Homotopy Theory on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 17 secs ago, by J. Musser

I don't know anything about homotopy theory, but I do live in a nearby field...

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Jason C

Lol!

We're so useless.

3

Frank

is not useless

If you have over 5k rep somewhere, you're not entirely useless.

Jason C

10:05 PM

Ah! Erase transcript! Erase!

Frank

@JasonC y?

What does my last message show say?

Jason C

What do you mean?

Frank

Does it say 'and' or 'y'?

Jason C

It says "y"

Frank

@JasonC it says and for me.

Jason C

10:07 PM

@Frank Yeah, that's what I said. It says "y".

(That was supposed to be funny.) But really; maybe something auto-translated it from spanish? Do you have anything that does that in chat?

Frank

@JasonC No, look:

Jason C

What does this say:

y?

hichris123

and

Jason C

That's totally weird.

Frank

@JasonC and

hichris123

10:12 PM

@JasonC wait, no no no that's not what it says for me. It says y.

Jason C

You guys have some translator action going on.

hichris123

I was doing that as a test for @Frank. ;P

(to see if and -> y)

What about:

y

Esta es una prueba.

10:12 PM

Me gusta leer libros.

Jason C

Dónde está el baño?

Frank

Weird...

I don't like that.

Jason C

El gato es negro.

hichris123

@JasonC It says it in spanish. But translating it doesn't even make sense... ser & estar in the same sentence?

And both conjugated?

Jason C

Don't ask me I'm just typing crap into google.

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hichris123

10:14 PM

lol

Sam

lol

Frank

lol

hichris123

@JasonC 'There is there is a quiz' is roughly what it would translate to.

Frank

@JasonC I just typed 'crap' into google. Ugh! that was a mistake...

Braiam

@hichris123 actually: this is a quiz

Jason C

10:15 PM

@hichris123 Lol, I typed "this is a test".

hichris123

@Braiam blames it on my spanish teachers ;)

Jason C

@Frank how about this: t u v w x and z

Braiam

@hichris123 meh, spanish is easy

Jason C

Andou mean easand.

Frank

hichris123

10:17 PM

@Braiam Does test translate into anything other than examencito (too lazy to check spelling on that)? i.e. would 'I am taking a test' and 'This is a test' use examencito?

Jason C

@Frank Andeah that's weird, I totalland tandped "and".

Frank

@JasonC Ha!

Braiam

@hichris123 the heck? "examencito" is just a diminutive of "examen" which translate to "little test", so no

google, you are drunk

hichris123

(different teachers use different words though. I guess a small test to one is a regular test to another. ;p)

Jason C

Depends on the size of the teacher, really.

Braiam

10:20 PM

most words ending with -cito or -ito are just diminutive (little X), -zote, -sote, -ote are aumentative (big X)

@JasonC No I'm not…

@Braiam huh, ok.

^ kind of xmas song...

bjb568

No soy negro, soy marrón y blanco. Tengo un KEWL GLASSES.

Braiam

I wonder if spanish teachers really want people to learn spanish... I find that is easier just doing it the hard way™

Frank

10:22 PM

@Braiam Steven Sharp Nelson himself.

Jason C

I kinda wish nice cameras weren't so generally affordable. Everything looks like a car commercial or something.

Frank

I like the piano guys.

Braiam

@JasonC O_O

bjb568

@JasonC wat

Jason C

Come on, did you not expect like, a HSBC or Blue Cross or Boeing logo to fade in at the end of that or something?

bjb568

10:25 PM

No…

I'm annoyed it isn't 4k.

Jason C

Lol

hichris123

10:36 PM

Well, I did it. I'm getting a new computer.

And no, it's not a Mac @bjb.

bjb568

:(

Braiam

@hichris123 ohhhh! Show off!!

getting a Mac, means paying 25% of taxes for me, so don't feel bad @hic

bjb568

hic?

hichris123

@Braiam Hey, it's my first new computer in... 7 years? So I'm happy.

bjb568

You have hiccups?

@hichris123 GET MOAR COMPUTARZ

hichris123

10:39 PM

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@bjb568 Okay, first new desktop in 7 years. Laptop we got 5 years ago.

Braiam

"first new computer in... 7 years" ==> parse error

user259867

My first computer... (it wasn't a mac, either)

Frank

10:56 PM

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Don't remember mine

Jason C

@Rafflesiaarnoldii Oh cool! The first one my family owned was an apple iic.

My grandfather had an apple iii. Which, when he got rid of it when I was little, me and my friend decided to it would be fun to take apart. And we destroyed it. And now it's a relic I regret not having any more.

Frank

funny pic

user259867

Several years ago I tried to resurrect the poor thing (which never stopped functioning, it was abandoned in favor of ZX Spectrum). It worked but the tapes with programs were too old to be read...

Frank

Jason C

My grade school had a mix of the radioshack computers, apple iic's, and those first macs. I wonder if they've got any of that in storage anywhere, I should pay them a visit next time I'm in town.

Do any of you guys remember that game, Spectre?

Frank

11:05 PM

@JasonC Do you remember pong?

user259867

Never heard of it. Now that we have a successful History of S&M site, there may be a History of Computers or some such...

Frank

Pong

Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games; it is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to defeat an opponent in a simulated table-tennis game by earning a higher score. The game was originally manufactured by Atari Incorporated (Atari), who released it in 1972. Allan Alcorn created Pong as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell based the idea on an electronic...

Jason C

@Frank No I totally have never heard of that.

Is that some kind of dance move?

Frank

@JasonC :)

so fun... not

Jason C

Man, there was a period in the early 90's where original arcade consoles were kinda easy to get. People were dumping them but they weren't really like, super duper collectible yet.

Now it's so rare to find an original, and they're $$$.

Same with pinball machines.

Frank

11:09 PM

I used to have one of these.

bjb568

@JasonC I have you 50 DD rep.

Frank

You guys make me feel old...

bjb568

I make myself feel old.

I had a PC once.

Frank

I just realized that Atari went out of business in '84... wow, time flies

bjb568

You were alive in '84?

Old trees…

Frank

11:17 PM

that was like 30 years ago.

Jason C

I can't imagine not being alive in the 80's, it must be weird.

Seriously, lol, it wasn't that long ago.

I saw a comment on a 2011 YouTube video today that said "ah, the good old days of the internet". It made me sad.

Frank

@JasonC yeah, and you wouldn't have a decent life savings by now either...

@JasonC did you cry?

Jason C

I cried a little.

Also, I don't have a decent life savings, thanks for making me feel bad about that.

Frank

@JasonC yup, np

Jason C

Planning for the future is not one of my strong points.

Frank

11:20 PM

@JasonC bad.

Jason C

To that end, I should probably get out of nyc.

@JasonC yes.

Very yes.

Very very yes.

I've been meaning to leave but I can't think of anywhere I want to be.

Frank

11:22 PM

@JasonC Lancaster Pennsylvania is good.

user259867

Raleigh, NC.

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Jason C

Maybe a cabin in Búmfúkk, Iceland

@MichaelT I need to ask, why do you care where I ask my questions? — roggie 7 mins ago

Frank

@JasonC Haha! You won't get decent internet up there (or down there).

why do people become annoying when they go gluten free?

Jason C

@Frank That's OK. I'll fly into civilization every once in a while when I need to download more console ROMs.

Braiam

11:27 PM

@JasonC where is Bart's smiting stick when you need it

brings out the trout

Bart

You rang?

Frank

@Bart No.

Jason C

@Frank Because only annoying people go gluten free.

Bart

kthxbye

Frank

@JasonC Ha! I have a pic.

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Jason C

11:29 PM

Bahaha

Frank

@JasonC Now I've had a thought. If I post a question, and put a phone number in the title, so that Smokey picks it up, and also put '@JasonC' in the title, will that ping you?

I mean, when Smokey posts it here?

Jason C

@Frank I imagine it would. It's just a normal chat message. Not really related but I think it also pings people if their name is in the text of a one-box. I dunno.

Frank

@JasonC I wish I could test it...

Jason C

I'll test it. They're gonna get mad at me on mso, but hold on.

Frank

!!/alive?

SmokeDetector

11:35 PM

@Frank Of course

Frank

@JasonC Does smokey watch the child metas?

Jason C

@Frank Not sure I am just testing the one-box thing first, not smokey.

Lemme know if you get pinged:

0

Q: This is just a test

Testing pings from one-boxes. @Frank . Save your downvotes, soldiers. Deleting in moments. Here's some more text to pass the question filter. And again. Also this. Some of that.

Anything?

@JasonC No

Of course not.

@bjb568 You say that; but the last time "@JasonC" was in a one-box, I did see it highlighted.

Frank

11:38 PM

It's highlighted, but didn't notify me.

Jason C

I just wasn't sure if it made a sound.

Frank

@JasonC No, no sound.

bjb568

Pings are also a red circle thing next to the posting box @JasonC @Frank

Jason C

@bjb568 Those have never appeared consistently for me, though.

Frank

@bjb568 I know, the notification that I didn't get.

bjb568

11:39 PM

…

Jason C

Oh THOSE circles. Yeah.

bjb568

Yeah.

Frank

@JasonC they appear for me whenever the sound goes off.

Jason C

The inbox notifications aren't consistent though. (That's what I thought you meant at first.)

bjb568

Those appear after a while of not responding.

Frank

11:40 PM

Users with not enough rep to chat here could send someone here a message through Smokey, if they wanted to. I should create a sock just to try it out.

@JasonC Yeah, if you are gone for long enough without clicking/replying to the red notifications in chat, it'll go to the inbox.

Braiam

@JasonC that was fixed

Frank

Which is why I hate nbeing pinged after I say 'cya'.

Jason C

We could test the smokedetector title ping but I'm kinda 99.999999999999% sure that one will work. Do pings in @Frank backticks work?

Frank

@JasonC yep

Jason C

How long does it take smokey to notice a bad post?

Bart

11:44 PM

I'm 15 years old — roggie 1 min ago

:D

Jason C

I know, lol.

user259867

4 mins ago, by Jason C

We could test the smokedetector title ping but I'm kinda 99.999999999999% sure that one will work. Do pings in @Frank backticks work?

user259867

^ does ping in this onebox work?

Jason C

Heh, the internet is weird. I think another consequence of being born post-internet is you don't quite appreciate that 95% of 15 year olds shouldn't really be able to openly communicate with the rest of the world.

Maybe 95% of any age, for that matter...

!!/alive?

SmokeDetector

@JasonC Of course

Jason C

11:51 PM

Still waiting for it to detect my phone number MSE title. I'll give it 30 seconds before I give up.

jadarnel27

It should really say brown when you do that.

Jason C

I give up; dunno how long it takes to detect phone numbers but I don't want to be too much of a douche on MSE.

jadarnel27

I just got 100% game completion on Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. That was a fun...39 hours.

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 84.2618: Remitting Money To India Towards Home Loan Repayment on money.stackexchange.com

Jason C

@jadarnel27 Nice

@hichris123 false

jadarnel27

11:58 PM

I wanted to get my money's worth out of it =) It's been a while since I paid full price for a brand new game.

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