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Jan Dvorak

11:00 AM

ugh meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246388/…

nicael

Hi boys and girls :)

@WilliamPrice Hey, I do :D

Hey anyone in this holy desert!!!

Oooo I am afraid to be alone!

HALP!

2

Can anyone tell me why did I get so many profile views in my this profile?

eee.

ProgramFOX

11:15 AM

@nicael Your 64 socks visited it?

nicael

@ProgramFOX Wee. Nope...

DroidDev

@nicael CUZ AVATARZ :P

Infinite Snowflakes

Maybe the Math.se folks think you are Behaviour's sock @nic :P

Or they think your avatar is too cute to do Math

Unihedro

cv-pls gimme the code stackoverflow.com/q/27704743/3622940

Patrick Hofman

@nicael If that a way to get more profile views ;)

Infinite Snowflakes

11:25 AM

It's a common misconception that cuteness is anti-math and math is for nerds ;)

Unihedro

(inb4 stereotype rant)

Infinite Snowflakes

we had our rant of the day a few minutes ago (on MSO and MSE)

Unihedro

LOL

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27720462/…

Mooseman is eating pizza

please send me the full code. — user3514235 4 hours ago

^^ haha

Unihedro

11:35 AM

They need to implement Community to auto-close these :P

Jan Dvorak

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/142005/…

Mooseman is eating pizza

@Unihedro Would Shog let Zephyr run his account for cv's? :D

nicael

44

Q: How can I figure out which side of the car the gas hatch is on (without getting out)?

As a longtime New York City resident, I've never owned a car. I drive fairly regularly, though, thanks to rentals, Zipcars, and the kindness of relatives and other not-quite-strangers. Since much of my driving is done in cars I've never been in before, I frequently found myself pulling into a ...

car

top post there...

DroidDev

hows that a lifehack?

nicael

^^^

Btw, Jeff sometimes does something...

last time only on SO.

Unihedro

11:52 AM

@nicael inb4 "omg jeff approved my tag edit"

nicael

nein :)

ok, lets see :D

But why when I post "HALP!" it gets stars?

HALP! (waits for new stars to flow in)

Andrew T.

inb4 Jeff got review ban for failing too many audits

(but again, there's no audit on triage)

I think it's great how you two communicate on StackExchange instead of just asking each other in person ;-) — Josh Dec 9 '10 at 15:12

I'm amazed by how Jeff got reps on many SE sites :O

nicael

Half of all the SE users are his sock puppets, didn't you know? :P

Andrew T.

oh, okay. took a note

nicael

And other half is the sock puppets of Jon Skeet :D Which half you are in?

ProgramFOX

12:04 PM

@nicael In the third half of Shog9's sock puppets.

Jan Dvorak

SPAM (?) superuser.com/questions/858888/…

nicael

@ProgramFOX Wait. Are you sure that in the third half?

ProgramFOX

@nicael Sure!

Unihedro

@JanDvorak Eh... I vlq'd it.

nicael

@ProgramFOX I think that his socks are just half of Jon's and Jeff's socks... And he is the sock of... them both... wait!

ProgramFOX

12:07 PM

@nicael Well no, he is his own sock.

Andrew T.

!!/hats?

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. HATS ARE AWESOME. Winter Bash will end in 4 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes and 10 seconds. :(

Unihedro

:(

Andrew T.

umm, not the info that I wanted though

!!/mistletoe?

nicael

!!/hats?

SmokeDetector

12:17 PM

@nicael HATS ARE AWESOME. Winter Bash will end in 4 days, 11 hours, 43 minutes and 29 seconds. :(

Andrew T.

I have to wake up before 8AM??? :O

nicael

!!/HATS?

SmokeDetector

@nicael HATS ARE AWESOME. Winter Bash will end in 4 days, 11 hours, 43 minutes and 6 seconds. :(

nicael

!!/HAAAAAAAAAATS?

!!/star?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CONVERT SPRING APPLICATION INTO ANDROID SUPPORTED APPLICATION by kanisha on stackoverflow.com

nicael

12:19 PM

ot.

Mooseman is eating pizza

Who's gonna write the userscript for hats? I don't know if position and hat number will still be accessible though.

nicael

!!/smoke

@SmokeDetector How are you?

rene

@Moosemaniseatingpizza last year's sprite was still up so.... chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/89?m=2778435#2778435

doesn't look much gets disabled/removed

Mooseman is eating pizza

@rene So would just loading http://cdn-prom.sstatic.net/WinterBash/js/core.js?v=26 not be broken?

rene

@Moosemaniseatingpizza Could be ... I guess they only remove the code that bootstraps that script.

nicael

12:33 PM

@Moosemaniseatingpizza Try on non-hats site now - it doesn't work.

Mooseman is eating pizza

@rene Hmm... I'll find out if it works in ~4 days...

nicael

nidz further investigation...

Mooseman is eating pizza

@nicael I assume that non-hat sites are broken because there is no data tied to it server-side. What hat, etc.

Pham

1:00 PM

Low Quality A (100%): All these answers are fucking retarded. No help at all., by Fuck Word, on superuser.com.

Sam

@Pham clean

Gone.

rene

1:13 PM

@InfiniteSnowflakes anything to add here to justify your close vote?

bummi

@rene no time today to stay here , just wanted to say thank you for support yesterday

rene

@bummi np, you're welcome

@bummi guten Jahreswechsel

bummi

@rene Gleichfalls ... Guten Rutsch :)

Same to all in case I will not find any time Happy New Year!

Jan Dvorak

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27721760/…

Infinite Snowflakes

1:33 PM

@rene No, I don't justify my moderation actions and engage with anyone.

rene

@InfiniteSnowflakes the OP helped their self ....

oh, there she goes... sorry for the ping... /me hides to prevent being kicked

Pham

Low Quality A (100%): I paid for my ringtone how do I get it back, by Brandy, on apple.stackexchange.com.

DroidDev

1:58 PM

such a sentimental about me:

Buscar웃, San Diego International Airport

14.3k 3 11 42

osx macbook-pro mavericks iphone wifi mail.app macbook

user273376

Happy New Year from Queensland! Hope 2015 is awesome!

Happy new year!

Happy new year!

Happy new year!

Happy new year!

2:05 PM

Happy new year!

18

user273376

no resolutions, but this year I, once and for all, overcome m disabilities

DroidDev

Resolution? Try to become a billionaire and that's all.

Mooseman is eating pizza

Happy new year!

Still 10 hours for UTC new year... which comes with a hat :D

rene

You would wish the whole world was on UTC or TZT

Pham

2:21 PM

Low Quality A (100%): Desktop Ok is a piece of crap THAT DOES NOT WORK!!!, by 4gg, on superuser.com.

Mooseman is eating pizza

^^ rant

Sam

@rene Or GMT.

Or Z.

Pham

Low Quality Q (34.4%): fgfgffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff, by John Andrews, on webapps.stackexchange.com.

rene

@Sam O, how convenient for you as those happen to be all in YOUR timezone

Sam

>;)

Pham

2:25 PM

Low Quality A (100%): nvm -------------------------- ----------------------------------, by John Andrews, on webapps.stackexchange.com.

DroidDev

Is Stack Exchange network deliberately attracting high volume of low quality posts these days? or I just happen to hangout too much in tavern?

Infinite Snowflakes

2:39 PM

@rene If you see anyone checking their mobile today - hide, because it could be me kicking users from the Tavern ;)

point taken ;)

:D

o/

\o

\o/

2:41 PM

[0]

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 51.4448: For this code I want to write test class it shows error and i am new for this could u help me? on salesforce.stackexchange.com

Infinite Snowflakes

@rene Can I pin this "Happy new year" message?

rene

I'm sure you can...why do you ask?

TGMCians

@rene Happy new year! train ^^

rene

Trainwreck?

SmokeDetector

2:47 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: How do I avoid wrinkles in dress pants placed on a hanger? by scubaFun on lifehacks.stackexchange.com

Infinite Snowflakes

If anyone has objection, they can tell me. I don't want to upset anyone, so I asked prior to pinning it.

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector Congrats, the first post caught on Lifehacks!

nicael

0

A: Is it possible to have site-specific badges?

I support this proposal very much cuz I got confused at the beginning of my existence about such badges as Altruist, Benefactor, Promoter, Mortarboard on meta sites. They caused me to misunderstand what features those meta have or, e.g., search for "start bounty" under the questions on metas and ...

hey I want a hat for new year!!!!

rene

@InfiniteSnowflakes I wouldn't be to afraid of virtually upsetting someone ;)

Infinite Snowflakes

Point taken :D

bjb's suspension ends in 8 hours 12 minutes.

He will be virtually upset on the person who told the frozen cat to cool down.

TGMCians

2:56 PM

@InfiniteSnowflakes ahh why ?

did i miss something ?

rene

I assume something with botlings

ProgramFOX

@rene "to cool down" seems unrelated to botlings.

If it would be bot-related, he would only get a chat ban, not a parent site ban.

Infinite Snowflakes

16 hours ago, by bjb568

You got me suspended on MSE.

rene

Hmmm, maybe his bot started on a flagging spree?

Infinite Snowflakes

Doesn't look botling related, it's for the cat to cool down. Shog's boots are enough to fix the botling issues, this time it's different.

rene

3:00 PM

I assumed cats could regulate their own temperature

Andrew T.

Happy New Year from Japan!... except I'm not there

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2010 FOLDER by user403429 on superuser.com

TGMCians

ahh this looks like funny

twitter.com/pranesh_prakash/status/550196008416600064/photo/1

> Pastebin, Dailymotion, Github blocked after DoT order: Report

in India ^^

hmm but it looks like they allowed at least github :)

Unihedro

@TGMCians Blocked Github? Nightmare...

TGMCians

3:16 PM

yeah..they did but after few hours they unblocked Github but others are not working

Unihedro

Wow, web archive blocked? How can you live? xD

Mooseman is eating pizza

Various other good/important sites there.... anything to destroy free speech I suppose.

TGMCians

reason

> The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS. 1/2

Unihedro

#censorship #FoEx #internetneutrality

> GitHub is a forum where software developers host and share programming code and so on.

Github is a forum? You're kidding!

TGMCians

haha, they are really ...

blocked SourceForge also.. weird

Unihedro

3:22 PM

... But not Google Code?

TGMCians

no

Unihedro

definitely censorship

rene

I would say keep it in the open, easier to monitor ...

TGMCians

3:34 PM

@Unihedro hmm i agree

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Registered as false positive, added title to Bayesian doctype 'good', whitelisted user.

The Guy with The Elf Hat

3:56 PM

It's weird how the top 7 people on the MSE leaderboard don't have Tam o' Shanter, but the 8 people below them do.

ProgramFOX

@TheGuywithTheElfHat Or the hat simply doesn't display for some of them. Sompuperoo has it.

Doorknob 冰

@TheGuywithTheElfHat I'm in the top 7, and I have it.

The Guy with The Elf Hat

oh wow

I feel stupid now

I counted myself at the very top

Doorknob 冰

:P

The Guy with The Elf Hat

List of place numbers starting at the top of the page: #3, #1, #2, #3, #3, #5, #5, #5

why do things have to be so confusing

Andrew T.

4:04 PM

Happy new year from +8 UTC! (including @Unihedro)

and unfortunately

SPAM android.stackexchange.com/a/93381/44325

(from same username as previous who spam the same product)

hope for leaderboard to show someone with 20 hats

anorton

4:26 PM

nuke-plshttp://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1086806/revival-beauty-cre‌am-intensive-anti-aging-cream

(spam)

Unihedro

4:37 PM

Happy new year from Unihedro(n)?'s realm!

ProgramFOX

Happy new year!

Doorknob 冰

Happy still-the-same-year!

(in my timezone)

Unihedro

I'm so hungry, I haven't ate anything this year.

rene

@Unihedro Have an Oliebol

ProgramFOX

@rene yummy!

@Unihedro The year starts with bad grammar! :P

Unihedro

4:49 PM

@ProgramFOX yep :P

Doorknob 冰

(30 seconds before the new year) Okay, I'm not going to breathe for THE ENTIRE YEAR!

nicael

0

Q: Why was Elsa an enchantress?

I must have missed it while watching this wonderful film. Why was Elsa an enchantress? How? Why wasn't her sister too, then?

frozen

can anyone tell me it...

hey @Jon. By chance, don't you know, why @bjb is suspended?

Anyone has the New Year already?

Jon Ericson

130

Q: Avoid the Streisand Effect - be clear about the reason when suspending an account

This sort of thing has happened a few times now... "Hey, did you see? User X was boxed!" "User X? Why?" "I donno... Maybe he... " (wild speculation ensues. waffles are blamed.) It's generally quite easy to notice when a user gets thrown in The Penalty Box. You see the tell-tale 1 when...

feature-request status-completed account-suspension

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: which proteins had proved to be able to lengthening muscle and tendon? by user5479 on biology.stackexchange.com

Andrew T.

5:07 PM

fp.. err, what's the number? (on mobile)

hichris123

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Registered as false positive, added title to Bayesian doctype 'good', whitelisted user.

hichris123

@AndrewT. There you go. :)

Andrew T.

lol thanks :)

Mooseman is eating pizza

5:41 PM

►

^^ When something doesn't work

Sam

6:05 PM

Wow, Gham's message has 10 stars. I never knew he was that annoying. o_o

ProgramFOX

I starred it because I found it funny.

rene

People obviously like annoying more than new year...

2

Sam

Figures.

Sam

6:36 PM

Night all. Cya next year.

Cya!

cya

cya

spam android.stackexchange.com/a/93414/44325

(the question should really be closed >_<)

user259867

Yes, I was wondering what other kinds of answers that questions can have. Where to find? Here's a link... here's a link... here's a link...

user259867

6:43 PM

And all those links will be some color of shady. I'm not even sure it's spam, looks like VLQ.

Unihedro

> This closure would result in the 'duplicate of' navigation only leading in a circle.

@Sam On the other hand, Outspoken badge -> New hat!

Braiam

7:37 PM

@Sam or we are staring it just to annoy him

Sompuperoo

@InfiniteSnowflakes 3 hours and like 20 minutes left only now

Patrick Hofman

How late is it guys? Anyone seen some hats here lately?

Sompuperoo

@PatrickHofman did you lose your hat? i don't see it

!!/hats?

SmokeDetector

@Sompuperoo HATS ARE AWESOME. Winter Bash will end in 4 days, 4 hours, 11 minutes and 23 seconds. :(

Sompuperoo

!!/mistletoe?

@Sompuperoo HATS ARE AWESOME. Mistletoe can be earned in 4 hours 4 minutes and 44 seconds. :)

Patrick Hofman

7:51 PM

@som I never wear hats indoors.

Jan Dvorak

Not even blindfolds for sleeping?

Patrick Hofman

No. Never. I just shut the window.

Jan Dvorak

Are your windows so dark that makes a difference?

Braiam

I guess they are just not transparent

Patrick Hofman

Yes. Of course. I first run outside to shut the lights off ;)

Unihedro

7:54 PM

o~o

Patrick Hofman

Maybe I close the curtains too.

Unihedro

I could wake up at 0 UTC...

user259867

... or you could write a script to post for you.

Braiam

^

Unihedro

Exactly!

Jan Dvorak

7:57 PM

nuke-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/27725800/…

Sompuperoo

@Unihedro coffee?

Unihedro

@Sompuperoo In Stock: 0 (units). Alternatives: 1 856 946 snacks, undefined chocolate, unlimited decaf, 16 malt packets.

Sompuperoo

decaf, ewe..

Jan Dvorak

decaf: 50% taste of coffee, 0% increase in blood pressure

Unihedro

decaf: I hate my life

Trade decaf with someone stupid for coffee #LifeHack!!

Jan Dvorak

8:04 PM

Just claim in the radio that the price of coffee is going to skyrocket

Sompuperoo

I like my blood like I like my shower, high pressure

Jan Dvorak

Nah. I'd rather not die of a cardiovascular disease.

Unihedro

Why do people like One Direction?

Sompuperoo

@Unihedro never heard of them

Jan Dvorak

for the same reason they liked Beatles, I guess

user259867

8:08 PM

I first thought this was bjb's sockpuppet

Unihedro

kewl titlez

Andrew T.

kewl

hichris123

@Sompuperoo You should be glad.

Sompuperoo

when @bjb568 leaves the room and then immediately re-enters , does that mean he acknowledges/agrees with the posted chat comment?

Unihedro

Will his suspension expire in time for hat? :(

Sompuperoo

8:15 PM

@Unihedro yep

user259867

Yes, it ends in two hours.

Unihedro

Script to post message finished (I hope it works), good night!

Sompuperoo

Good night! happy new year!

hichris123

in The SO Tavern (Free Snacks) on Stack Overflow Chat, 2 mins ago, by bjb568

Answer: Yes

Sompuperoo

:D

Andrew T.

8:18 PM

lol

Unihedro

This is an automated message. If you star this message, you may have an exclusive opportunity to win a personalized email from Shog9! Or you get nothing, I don't know, but you're guarranteed to win a warm feeling for giving me Mistletoe hat.

2

Braiam

@Unihedro triggered too early

rene

Isn't that a little bit to early?

user259867

@Unihedro I hope this is just a test and not a bug that will repeat this message for several hours.

Braiam

@rene isn't that a bit of an understatement?

Andrew T.

8:20 PM

well, for once, I'm afraid of integer overflow

user259867

Also, does the message have to be starred? It was for Tam, but this is a different hat.

rene

@Braiam just a little bit

Sompuperoo

@Behaviour yes

Frank

8:32 PM

@Unihedro Why... would I want that?

user259867

The message explains the motivation: warm feeling. Like the one you get from seeing your People Helped phony number.

Unihedro

Huh, I wonder why the script posted back then...

message = 'write string here'
setTimeout(function () {
  $.post('rooms/' + window.location.href.match(/\d+/) + '/messages/new', {
    text: message,
    fkey: fkey().fkey
  })
}, 1420070400 - Date.now())

user259867

@Unihedro JavaScript timestamp is in milliseconds.

user259867

From my console, Date.now() is 1420058427028

Unihedro

Oh, it needs to have two more zeroes.

user259867

8:42 PM

I think three more zeroes. Seconds vs milliseconds.

Unihedro

Ok. Made the change, I hope it works.

Andrew T.

wow, (supposedly) working template for everyone (long live open-source!)

Unihedro

inb4 some noob forget to change the text and someone posts "write text here"

user259867

I got POST http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/rooms/89/messages/new 404 (Not Found)

user259867

Oh, I see: should run from a different location.

Unihedro

8:56 PM

Ugh, Rhino JS.

Oh, it should be /rooms..., not rooms.

user259867

@Unihedro Even so, POST http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/messages/new 404 (Not Found)

Frank

> You may only fetch vote counts once every second.

Sompuperoo

back in my day if we wanted a hat we had to walk 2 miles to the store to go buy one...

Frank

Uh, why?

user259867

@Frank Because bots.

Unihedro

9:08 PM

@Som :O

Frank

What's wrong with bots looking at vote counts?

user259867

Fetching the vote splits hits deeper into the system than just loading the page; a request to the database is made. So if you write a bot fetching those many times per second on many posts, you can hurt the performance (DDOS attack).

user259867

#lifehack Instead of POST requests, type the message in the message box and tell the script to click the send button at certain time.

user259867

write string here

user259867

^ $("#sayit-button").click()

Lynn Crumbling

9:20 PM

o/

The Guy with The Elf Hat

\o

Doorknob 冰

\o/

The Guy with The Elf Hat

o

Doorknob 冰

.(

We're all missing body parts here

The Guy with The Elf Hat

 O
/|\
/ `

Frank

9:32 PM

What is - he is missing a leg

The Guy with The Elf Hat

His friend is missing a leg, too:
 O
/|\
’ \

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 53.5424: how can i solve this problem “Error starting domain: internal error: Cannot find suitable CPU model for given data” in virt-manager on askubuntu.com

Doorknob 冰

9:46 PM

Who?

Frank

oh, no one

I misread

user259867

Although there's not much time until Mistletoe, if anyone still wants a simple script...

user259867

message = 'write string here'; setTimeout(function () { $('#input').val(message); $('#sayit-button').click();})}, 1420070400000 - Date.now());

user259867

with extra )} for some reasons

Frank

10:04 PM

Very nice, researched answer, thanks! — Shog9 ♦ Aug 25 '11 at 21:55

flags as too chatty

2

Braiam

@Behaviour here:

var message = 'write string here';
setTimeout(
    function () {
        "use strict";
        $('#input').val(message);
        $('#sayit-button').click();
    },
    1420070400000 - Date.now()
);

user259867

Y SO STRICT

The Guy with The Elf Hat

Why is nobody taking ping into account?

user259867

@TheGuywithTheElfHat Changing the value of textarea does not involve a ping.

user259867

Or you mean setting the date for something earlier?

Braiam

10:08 PM

@Behaviour reasons

The Guy with The Elf Hat

For chat.meta.stackexchange.com to receive it as close to 1420070400000 as possible, the message has to be sent ~100 milliseconds earlier.

Braiam

actually, I found that bugs are more easily reproducible/findable if I use the strict statement in JS

user259867

But then you'd use it on the script level, not within a function?

Braiam

meh

I have a library that won't work if I use it for the whole file instead of per-function... don't ask me why, I haven't ~~been bored enough to~~ figured it out yet

user259867

Does resolution hat give us the usual 12 hour margin?

user259867

10:16 PM

Because that would mean we can get it NOW!

Frank

Trying to get more helpful flags on GL

user259867

@Frank If Shog self-deleted that comment, he'd be closer to the Resolution hat

Frank

Possibly at the expense of making work for the mods

user259867

Oh wait, does it apply only to year 2014?! Not to 2013, 12, 11...

Frank

But I wanna get 500 before we graduate.

user259867

10:17 PM

@Frank No need to hurry then.

Frank

lolyeah

GL is so slow

but they've been public for quite some time.

anorton

@Behaviour Yes--the comments you delete must be from 2014.

user259867

@anorton Luckily for me, all my comments are from 2014. :)

user259867

I'm going through them now, but no hat yet.

anorton

Haha. I might just go and make 10 pointless comments on one of my old questions. Or does the hat consider it 2015 already?

user259867

10:26 PM

Some other time-dependent hats gave us +-12 hours margin around the actual date. I don't know if this applies to Resolution.

user259867

But I have no difficulty finding obsolete comments of my own that can be safely deleted now.

Frank

lol, I got Tam o' Shanter without even trying.

I forgot it existed.

anorton

:( I still need to have a message starred to get Tam o' Shanter.

:D Yay!

Frank

noyadon't

Unihedro

10:39 PM

So... Eh... I woke up from hunger.

No need for the script to run now.

Also going to make myself ramen noodles (the ones with cheap packets) while I'm a it.

Braiam

@Unihedro mm? that's so anticlimatic...

user259867

mmm... ramen. This could be a new New Years tradition among SE addicts.

Unihedro

THANK YOU STACK EXCHANGE

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