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Mooseman

13:07

Does anybody know the gmail support phone number? Thanks!

Bart

@Mooseman chat.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=gmail+support&room=89

And keep in mind that Tom Cruise said so as well. So it's reliable

Jan Dvorak

@Bart Most of these are spam. He probably means the real one.

Mooseman

@JanDvorak We all know the real one is 1 866 978 6819

Bart

@JanDvorak all those different people spamming the same exact phone number? Sounds like too much of a coincidence to me.

Jan Dvorak

flagged

@Bart lemme be blunt: These are not different people.

Bart

13:10

... don't make me add smilies now @JanDvorak

Jan Dvorak

.. why?

DroidDev

: + ) = :)

how to add smilies ^

user259867

user259867

I think this settles it. Google knows what to show in their "card", right?

Jan Dvorak

.... right?

DroidDev

13:21

I totally believe that

Jan Dvorak

I'm not from USA, unfortunately. Can someone call them to verify?

DroidDev

If its on internet, it must be true

user259867

@DroidDev This is a Google-approved answer to a question about Gmail.

Jan Dvorak

Now, let's get serious. Why did google show that in a card???

Andy

Someone's not going to graduate...

0

A: Creating an online test with access database in C#

Hey Bro am working on the same project and its my graduation project if u can help

user259867

13:26

I did give feedback as "other" -> "spam" to that card...

user259867

There is no built-in spam option, sadly.

Bart

Lynn Crumbling

^ what's that a boot?

bummi

spam askubuntu.com/q/598279/184892 again :/

Kevin Brown

@bummi gone

DroidDev

13:32

@Woodface Android is also google approved and its nothing but OS full of bugs and all that :P

J. Steen

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29123032/…

More bro-ness: stackoverflow.com/a/29123487/64976

DroidDev

so much brotherhood on SO, I am about to cry

J. Steen

That guy's got a lot of examination projects.

DroidDev

wondering if that's a test bot for some spammer

Bart

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29121291/…

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29122044/webview-and-js-support

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

13:45

cv-pls: stackoverflow.com/questions/29123358/…

Infinite Recursion

cough bjb's cv room cough

Bart

bjb has his own room?

Kevin Brown

You say that as if anyone knows the syntax for the room

J. Steen

Does he post cv's, and then act on them himself?

Bart

@KevinBrown randomly mashing keys should work

SmokeDetector

13:48

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Large standard errors in Logistic Regression Model by HenryBukowski on stats.stackexchange.com

J. Steen

asdasfasdasfasdasfasdasdafasdasf

nope.

Wait! It woke up SD.

Undo

cv-plz too broad stackoverflow.com/questions/29121657/…

J. Steen

Too broad, horrible photoshop skills.

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Undo): Ok does anyone have a diagram of this but with the drl on full power?, by □ Daniel, on mechanics.stackexchange.com.

J. Steen

^NAA

Martijn Pieters

14:00

@Mooseman: you about?

Mooseman

@MartijnPieters I'm here

Martijn Pieters

I was wondering why you approved the suggested edits on Meta.

Someone is polishing up off-topic old posts.

That's not really useful in in some cases actively harmful.

J. Steen

BADGES!

Martijn Pieters

And the edit to the non-english wiki was really not helpful.

J. Steen

(which is very close to badgers. better watch out)

Martijn Pieters

14:02

It was a misspelled essay on non-english speakers, nothing about what the tag is for, I reverted that change.

I was just wondering why you felt those edits where helpful?

Mooseman

@MartijnPieters The title edits looked fine to me, but you make a good point that they're on old, off-topic posts. My mistake.

Martijn Pieters

For a dupe, editing the post can actually remove a way point; users searching for the alternative spelling finding the canonical through that post, for example.

Mostly, that user is editing everything under the sun without actively contributing to quality here, so I am now being harsher in my rejections, especially when it is old content.

Mooseman

@MartijnPieters Got it.

Martijn Pieters

As for the I am not a robot title; there is a history of humour in bug report titles on Meta that has value too.

I won't revert the suggestion now that @Flyk also approved, but I do feel value was lost there.

J. Steen

Is it Pierre.Vriens again?

Martijn Pieters

14:06

@J.Steen yup.

J. Steen

@MartijnPieters He's been... very active lately.

Martijn Pieters

@J.Steen exactly, and only proper rejections are going to stop that nonsense.

but that doesn't work if all his suggestions are being rubberstamped without looking at the context.

J. Steen

@MartijnPieters Nope.

People who don't bother to comment the pitfalls of their answers annoy me a little bit.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: VB WITH VB.NET - ERROR AND I AM STUCK - PLEASE HELP SOMEONE by AYDIN01 on stackoverflow.com

J. Steen

I can appreciate that SO is a Q&A site, wanting only answers for the questions, but remarking that this or that code will generate this or that many unknown statements to database servers, for instance, is sometimes vital. Because people sure as hell don't do research on their own.

...

My case in point, about research.

The answer I am speaking of is this one. I'd appreciate if someone would correct me if I'm wrong in my comment. stackoverflow.com/a/29124099/64976

Jan Dvorak

14:13

@SmokeDetector cv-pls (also, dat url)

J. Steen

Dat redirect-loop.

Bart

Just a matter of waiting for it to finish

J. Steen

@Bart You're funny.

Bart

I'll be here for the rest of the week

Jan Dvorak

closed.

Mooseman

14:22

stackoverflow.com/posts/1795100/revisions

Since when is setInterval a part of the jQuery language? ^^

Jan Dvorak

Ever since jQuery has transcended from a simple god-library into an entire dialect of Javascript

bjb568

New ketchup pkging!

Jan Dvorak

Cool! Apparently @bjb designed the labels on this package

bjb568

Uh… Yah. Right!

Kevin Brown

@Mooseman Everything is jQuery.

2

ProgramFOX

14:36

@SmokeDetector fp, edited

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

user259867

Just for the record: I wanted to suggest an edit to meta.stackexchange.com/questions/200307/… ... and then this happened: "You are temporarily banned from suggesting edits - please review your edit history." ... And some other 'events' (related to my recent edit suggestions) happened ... — Pierre.Vriens 7 mins ago

Patrick Hofman

@Woodface Finally...

bummi

which close flag reason to use here? gaming.stackexchange.com/q/210252/93824

J. Steen

Wooh! Edit-ban!

ProgramFOX

14:48

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29125165/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LIST ALL SECURABLE\\PERMISSIONS ON ALL DATABASE TABLES FOR ALL ROLES AND OWNERS by Swoozie on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Travel changes because if we keep by Sara Sandgreen on meta.stackexchange.com

Doorknob

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Doorknob Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Jan Dvorak

@ProgramFOX del repost

J. Steen

had 26 edit suggestions approved, and 15 edit suggestions rejected

My word, not the best ratio.

Infinite Recursion

14:57

Closevotes

Post questions you want closed here with the same syntax as ex...

Bart

@InfiniteRecursion wow. And it's not entirely nonsensical

J. Steen

What does it do?

Doorknob

13 hours ago, by Doorknob

@bjb568 ... I'm an idiot

I wonder who pinned that. cough @InfiniteRecursion cough :D

Infinite Recursion

@Bart :D

@Doorknob bows

J. Steen

So, again, what does it do? Why post there?

user259867

15:03

Mar 8 at 0:41, by Woodface

You see, @bjb568, a dedicated rarely used room is just an inefficient duplicate of the close queue. One can't even track the status.

J. Steen

And until I know... well...

POB or just too broad? stackoverflow.com/questions/29125575/…

Or is it actually valid? I'm doubting it's valid, but... sanity check.

It's a user with moderate amount of rep after all.

Kevin Brown

> Are there any recommended best practices?

J. Steen

That's what I triggered on.

Lynn Crumbling

I hate questions that ask for best practices.

Kevin Brown

I'd say it's "too broad" on first glance

Jan Dvorak

15:08

Still better than "what would you do"

Lynn Crumbling

Cv'd.. opinion.

@JanDvorak It is.

Infinite Recursion

Does spam canary still run @Jan?

Jan Dvorak

Nope. Smokey seems to do a better job on that muscle spam.

J. Steen

What would Brian Boitano do?

Infinite Recursion

Ok

Martijn Pieters

15:11

@Woodface Thanks for the heads-up.

Infinite Recursion

Tavern looks a bit different now, more Smokey reports and fewer stars.

user259867

IT'S FULL OF BOTS AND BOTS AND STARS AND BOTS!

Sam

>>panic

Pham

J. Steen

So, some chat software provides the option of collapsing images...

user259867

15:15

@J.Steen You can click Pham -> hide posts

user259867

Temporarily.

Infinite Recursion

The other bots have vanished( Moosebot, Borkey, hiSmokey123, KennyBot, spam canary)

J. Steen

@Woodface A #gag? Interesting.

user259867

Survival of the fittest.

Infinite Recursion

:O

Sam

15:17

@InfiniteRecursion Moo's bot can sometimes been seen in the HQ.

But only when skynet lets him out to play.

Infinite Recursion

Ok

hichris123

@InfiniteRecursion Well, my bot kinda broke & I never got around to fixing it.

user259867

Due to their proximity across the channel, there's long been tension between North Korea and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Southern Ireland.

user259867

Randall cheated by not including Antarctica.

user259867

How would that be upside down?

user259867

15:20

Perhaps inside out...

Infinite Recursion

@hichris123 :(

J. Steen

A thrilling concept.

Jan Dvorak

Just shift it 180 degrees to the west

hichris123

@AlexisKing Hey, I was being nice! :P

user259867

Oh, it's central symmetry (180 degrees rotation), not up-down reflection as the title suggested.

Infinite Recursion

15:22

Each continent is individually inverted at its current coordinates

Pham

Spam A (TPA'd by Mooseman): hi Every one I'm From an online Company Where we can sent online french ..., by □ Nimra Khan, on french.stackexchange.com.

user259867

Is preply.com blacklisted?

hichris123

downvote/delete vote plz: stackoverflow.com/a/21210855/2581872

Jan Dvorak

@Pham why

Pham

Sam

15:30

@Woodface As a question or answer search term?

user259867

As a spam domain. Assuming it's a spam domain?

Unihedro

In the new MSE profile interface, your helpful flags count are public now!

<- just realized

Jan Dvorak

O_O

user259867

It is a spam domain. SE wide search gives some cached results, both deleted.

Unihedro

@Sam has 49 helpful flags.

Sam

15:33

o_o

hichris123

@Woodface yeah, we have it blacklisted on Smokey.

Unihedro

@Jan has many more.

Sam

@Woodface That's not how pham categorises his search terms. So I don't know.

hichris123

58

Q: Should the number of helpful flags be public to anyone?

This discussion came up here, by a comment from Oded: We are discussing internally whether there is a good reason to hide this value from everyone. If not, it might do a comeback. I know it is a duplicate of Showing number of helpful flags in user profile, but that one doesn't have an answe...

Unihedro

Oh.

J. Steen

15:45

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29126130/…

Jan Dvorak

Are there any unhelpful flag stats?

tchrist

@Unihedro In olden days they once were visible to all.

J. Steen

I remember!

I was young.

Unihedro

Good to know.

J. Steen

It was spring.

The sun shone.

And I could see everyone's flag-count.

Unihedro

15:56

I don't even have a yearling badge. I'm new!

Braiam

The youth already lost, huh

@Unihedro or less than 200 rep

J. Steen

Paradise Lost.

Unihedro

I have 2k rep.

J. Steen

The innocence of a generation, destroyed by endless UX updates.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Output XML doc in HTML table by BasicCoder on stackoverflow.com

J. Steen

15:57

I might be overdoing it.

Unihedro

There should be badge for earning 2k rep in months.

tchrist

@J.Steen Let’s restore the NI in UX.

Jan Dvorak

)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
)))))))))))))))))))))))))
))))))))
)))
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)
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J. Steen

XUNI?

Bee Ess Dee?

Jan Dvorak

(the end of my Lisp program)

J. Steen

15:58

You're terrible.

Unihedro

(The caption was my favorite part)

J. Steen

Also, that Smokey question up there isn't all that good.

Andy

@J.Steen Nah. Not until you've walked uphill, both ways, in a blizzard. Then you've overdone it

Jan Dvorak

@Andy barefoot

Andy

With a dinosaur on a leash

Unihedro

16:00

Experienced overdoer we have here.

J. Steen

If I've done this, in Cambridge, does it count?

Kevin Brown

But have you done this with a broken leg?

J. Steen

My left big toe hurt a bit.

Jan Dvorak

@KevinBrown just one broken leg?

user259867

dilbert.com/strip/2005-12-12

tchrist

16:04

Does anyone know whether Roomba purges are but weekly run?

user259867

The 30 and 365 are weekly, Saturday 0:00 UTC. The 9 day is daily 3:00 UTC.

Braiam

@Woodface we should ask balpha to onebox dilbert

tchrist

@Woodface Ahah, that was what I was thinking.

Well, the daily 3utc.

J. Steen

Judging by what the dilbert site is doing with their RSS feed and interstitial ads, I suspect they'd try to break it.

If they knew.

They really want that ad-space.

Anyway. Evening.

o/

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: What AC component would likely be the problem with my consistent power loss while driving? by Frozen1337 on mechanics.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

16:17

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

Jan Dvorak

Strange... their rss feed just points to the site. If they packed some ads into the article instead, it would have been more convenient for me, and I would have actually seen some ads.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Simple print previous 20 lines of text from a certain point of a text file by Peter Van Nguyen on superuser.com

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

16:38

This question could do with migration to Meta SE:

10

Q: Show number of votes in the mobile website

I have noticed that when I'm using the SO mobile website, it is impossible to tap number of votes to get more details about it (up-votes & down-votes). I don't know if this feature is not implemented, or the size of votes count element is too small to be tapped.

feature-request bug down-votes up-votes mobile-web

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp ed sug

SmokeDetector

@Woodface Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

user259867

What happens on Lifehacks should stay on Lifehacks

Jan Dvorak

tell that to Smokey

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

Another question that requires migration: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288127/…

bjb568

16:45

Yay

Me likey FRQ.

bummi

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ indeed

user259867

@bjb568 9 out of 100?

user259867

Is 7.133 in (a) taken straight out of TI-83? No integration shown.

hichris123

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ it can stay on mSO, feature requests can be on either a per-site meta or mSE.

user259867

Ah, it's 3+cos(t^2), which does not have an elementary antiderivative. Then it's ok.
I misread as 3*t*cos(t^2)

Patrick Hofman

17:05

@PatrickHofman: please communicate my gratitude to whomever created the perfect test conditions for me to file my question at meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251550/… ... And thank you also for whoever in the meantime seem to have lift the "ban" (or whatever that is called). With that I hope I convinced some more people following this issue about my good intentions. Maybe I made some of the down-voters doubt? Or the DUP-voters? No "compliments" please, really not, that is NOT what my NUE is all about ... @James?!? — Pierre.Vriens 4 mins ago

Jan Dvorak

downvoting for his monologue

user259867

A little less Pierre Vriens in my day would be nice.

Infinite Recursion

^

Braiam

A little less wood on your face can produce the same effect :P

or maybe more D:

Infinite Recursion

PV seems to have dedicated March 18th to MSE and suggested edits.
@bjb568 should educate PV about suggested edits.

bummi

17:09

abusive stackoverflow.com/a/29128234/1699210

Jan Dvorak

What's up with all the dolphin porn?

Patrick Hofman

@bum gone

Infinite Recursion

@ProgramFOX Can you please add "dolphin porn" to Smokey's blacklist?

ProgramFOX

@InfiniteRecursion sure

Infinite Recursion

Thanks :)

Jan Dvorak

17:13

worse than pink elephants. Don't think about pink elephants!

ProgramFOX

!!/rev?

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX f6a9d58 (ProgramFOX: Update spam regex. --autopull)

ProgramFOX

done

Infinite Recursion

:D

Jan Dvorak

What a boring commit message

SmokeDetector

17:14

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW TO UNINSTALL AN EXE FILE USING WIX by user3671024 on stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

downworthy?

Undo

Say, hasn't it been a while since we've seen michaelb958?

He's been seen on the main sites so I guess we know he's not dead.

user259867

173 days. Seen but not active on main sites.

Undo

@Woodface Edit from only two months ago

Speaking of people we haven't seen in a while, @jadarnel27!

erwaysoftware.com/brown

jadarnel27

o/

Infinite Recursion

17:29

\o

Lynn Crumbling

\o/

Doorknob

~o~

Lynn Crumbling

Haven't seen Vogel in a while, either...

jadarnel27

I was just passing through, onward to another meeting now!

Mooseman

2

bjb568

17:34

@Woodface no

@Woodface yea

Braiam

WELP! bjb went binary!

6

nicael

Btw, LH haz 555 questions.

Jan Dvorak

111 more, then suggest to shut it down

Infinite Recursion

^

Mooseman

@nicael ...which is a mere 4.7/day.

user259867

17:39

How many questions are deleted? Now you have deleted:1 search...

Infinite Recursion

> I like to wear slim fitting jeans and trousers simply because I have fabulous legs.

Braiam

Monty Python Airplane Pilots

►

user259867

18:53

I expected CiviCRM to launch today, since it hasn't yesterday... maybe there's a new "one beta a week" rule.

Infinite Recursion

Congratulations @Frank and @Mooseman for the shiny diamonds (Sorry, I am late). LH is in good hands :)

Mooseman

Thanks @Inf :D

Roombatron5000

Mar 13 at 7:11, by Roombatron5000

Congrats @Frank @Mooseman @michaelpri!

Infinite Recursion

^ the speed of the roombatron

user259867

Roombatron's name is a reminder to spend the remaining downvotes... 5 hours left in the UTC day.

user259867

19:05

One of most recent victims (at SO) is a question with title "Please help a old Lady about Wi-Fi".

user259867

Was at +1. :)

Roombatron5000

:o

Mooseman

@Woodface ...don't forget delete-vote-pls stackoverflow.com/q/13383461/1234256

user259867

@Mooseman But it's going to roomba in 8 hours, this is why I haven't linked.

user259867

My downvote moved it from +1 to 0, which qualifies it for daily roomba.

ProgramFOX

19:10

Even with answers?

Mooseman

^^

Roombatron5000

@ProgramFOX yes, since it's closed (not as a dup) and all scores less than 1

user259867

Yes, because it's closed and not as a dupe, and ^

ProgramFOX

oh okay

Mooseman

Ah, found it:

67

A: Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature deletion

The following changes are live now: Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' reputation. They won't be linked to anywhere† that they're not already linked, but if someone knows where to find their question and it's been deleted, they should always be abl...

ProgramFOX

19:12

Ah, I see.

Roombatron5000

156

A: Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?

Just to formally document the exact policies we have in place to remove old abandoned / dead questions, the Community user will delete questions in the following circumstances: If the question is more than 30 days old, and ... has −1 or lower score has no answers is not locked ...or... it ...

user259867

Roombatron should have the list of rules in the profile... would fit the name.

Mooseman

Note to self: IE doesn't allow variables by the identifier of close. <= result of the past 10 mins of debugging.

Alexis King

@Mooseman wat

Mooseman

@AlexisKing The following code is broken in IE:

var close = $("<div></div>"); close.appendTo("body");

Alexis King

19:27

That's pretty bizarre. What version of IE?

Mooseman

IE11/Win8

> Object doesn't support property or method appendTo

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Pass data to restful web services by user3384993 on stackoverflow.com

Mooseman

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

@Mooseman Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.

nicael

I don't get the reason why I should open a new post... — nicael 17 secs ago

And maybe anyone can explain

rene

19:47

You don't want to have open/close bugs over time, specially of the code base might have changed over time. If they linked a push to that post and now have the link a new push to that same post which might have a different root cause.

Roombatron5000

and more reputationsz

bjb568

@Mooseman jQuery and IE both suck. What do you expect?

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 standards compliance

bjb568

no

Jan Dvorak

why yes, I do

random

19:53

NCAA SE flavoured brackets close in about a day (and by flavoured we mean unofficial, not SE endorsed or run) so get your 538 allotments in

user259867

password=quora, seriously?

random

?share=1

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: How to interact with GRASS GIS vector map topology "level/layers" from terminal/command line? by Jaco V on gis.stackexchange.com

Braiam

@Mooseman global variable?

nicael

20:09

1

Q: In the tour, the checkmark is gone from the second answer

Exactly the same as this bug, but I was told to post a new report by a developer. The bug is on the answer (tour page), which isn't going to be accepted, doesn't have a check mark.

bug about-page stackexchange-tour

bjb568

20:22

Are You Drinking Enough Water?

►

dahell

This is actively spreading misinformation.

rene

@Bart sla ze gelukkig

Bart

:D

bjb568

save them happy?

Bart

nope

.. why does Google Translate think that's a valid translation?

hichris123

Bing came up with the same result:

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 12 secs ago, by hichris123

(from Dutch) save them happy

Bart

20:37

It makes no sense to me.

bjb568

What's it mean?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to express a 2nd order ODE as 1st order ODE's? by dickbad on math.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tp

SmokeDetector

@Woodface true/tp cannot be used for answers because their job is to add the title of the question to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'. If you want to blacklist the poster of the answer, use trueu or tpu.

user259867

@SmokeDetector Yeah, but blacklisting is pointless for a user that will be destroyed in 10 minutes.

user259867

20:39

Arguing with a bot is also pointless, come to think of it.

hichris123

ha

user259867

feature-request Improve Smokey's AI so it can maintain a conversation, at least at bjb's level.

5

hichris123

Why don't we just give bjb access to Smokey's accoun--er..... nevermind.

user259867

reopen-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/13524568/… no longer unclear

Braiam

Why people thinks "change tons of words" = "This edit deviates from the original intent of the post"

@Woodface btw, lucky you that 3 reviewers actually read that through

user259867

20:48

@Braiam Because this way they don't have to read anything.

bjb568

Why people thinks "me no like" = "This edit deviates from the original intent of the post"

hichris123

Oh great, bjb's on his soapbox again.

bjb568

Organic soap box.

hichris123

Wherein organic is relevant. And so is a lack of spaces.

Braiam

how the heck can you fit the spaces on a soapbox?

user259867

20:53

Making good web apps is hard. Make native apps instead - it's not any easier, but the standards are much, much lower.

Tweeted by shog9 on March 18, 2015 at 8:31 PM

hichris123

not anymore

android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/03/…

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