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Jason C

00:50

Man, every project that even remotely involves video data gets really complicated really fast.

Hobo Sapiens

cv-pls OT stackoverflow.com/q/6145778/1864610

bjb568

01:09

Just listened to carmina burana, was good.

Jason C

1159

A: What is your best programmer joke?

A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks, "Can I join you?"

That one's so stupid it underflows and becomes awesome — Mike Akers Oct 24 '08 at 17:46

Braiam

@bjb568 which?

O fortuna?

bjb568

Carmina Burana (Orff)

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanæ cantoribus et choris cantandæ comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis (Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images). Carmina Burana is part of Trionfi, a musical triptych that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The first and last movements of the piece are called "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" (Fortune, Empress...

the that one

including o fortuna twice

It included a tavern too.

user259867

01:29

in CoGro Musings, 17 hours ago, by Tim Post

Want to make a new user feel really awful about posting a question? Have an entire conversation about them, and how "new users don't do research" with someone else in comments, in plain view of the user, as if they weren't even there.

4

user259867

Good idea, I'll try to remember this one.

bjb568

01:53

hehe, we socks

AstroCB

-3

Q: How to flag a deleter's or closer's close?

I haven't had a need to but lets say some moron get hold of lots of rep and, or some other condition gives them influence. Lets call him (or her) X. So X is bored and wants to pick on a low rep person, Y, and deletes his (or her) post. What can Y do about it? Is there some sort of accepted way to...

> I haven't had a need to but lets say some moron get hold of lots of rep and, or some other condition gives them influence. Lets call him (or her) X. So X is bored and wants to pick on a low rep person, Y, and deletes his (or her) post.

user259867

Heh. I know a post of that user (on math) that's going down the drain pretty soon...

hichris123

@bjb568 Kinda like the people who request access to TL, eh?

bjb568

yeh!

hichris123

that... wasn't a compliment.

user259867

02:04

that... was punctuation style borrowed from Shog

user259867

Odd list of somehow (oddly) privileged users.

hichris123

@Woodface I... think I used ...'s without Shog's influence, thank you very much.

user259867

Let's see who uses "that... [verb]" most often...

hichris123

@Woodface Probably "I don't want to you request access again, so here's a list for you to be on". Or "I don't want to be mean, so here's explicit read access".

@Woodface Shog usually goes with "that... [Verb]"; I usually use "that... [verb]".

user259867

02:08

That... sounds like something else, @Mark. — Shog9 ♦ Mar 17 '14 at 19:04

hichris123

Y'know, I always wonder how you have enough time to prove me wrong @Woodface.

Jason C

@Woodface Sounds like fun, count me in.

Jan Dvorak

Cool. Double serial downvote reattempted.

Jason C

Damn Jan, I was hoping you wouldn't notice this time.

Jan Dvorak

>:-(

user259867

02:27

@SmokeDetector fpu not again

SmokeDetector

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

tchrist

@JasonC I agree with your answer to the user who thinks he’s being targeted in some sort of vendetta, and I wouldn’t change anything you’ve written. I have an observation, though, even though I’d be surprised if it applies. The annoyed user may feel some other particular user is the main instigator in first getting the snowball rolling on a sequence of close or delete votes against annoyed user.

@bjb568 Best-Ever Latin Drinking Song for TTBB.

bjb568

yup

Jason C

@tchrist Yeah, that happens sometimes even though I didn't explicitly mention it, especially if people are adding close-votes without reviewing. I had hoped to implicitly cover that case by mentioning that if the question didn't deserve to be closed in the first place, then it would end up reopened again (possibly after a request). That's what I had in mind with "if multiple users make incorrect decisions". The idea is that the system (if working properly) self-corrects.

Also, a response to that question could be way more detailed than mine but, honestly, I'm sick of typing super detailed answers about this type of thing to people.

tchrist

This is a borderline case where it is possible that private moderator communication would have been better than posting to meta, but the user probably is too new to realize that. I don’t believe in raising personal names in public, though.

Jason C

02:39

Definitely. I was actually somewhat impressed that he went with "some moron" instead of calling out whoever triggered this.

tchrist

In other words, I suppose that if he thinks he is unjustly targeted by one particular user, he could flag his own deleted post and include a message about consistent targeting. But mostly it would just pester the mods, since I bet most people who think this haven’t a leg to stand on.

has déjà vu

Jason C

Chat tried to trick me with a retry / cancel message.

tchrist

It does that sometimes.

Jason C

I think I just failed a chat room audit.

Jan Dvorak

@JasonC Would you like to retry this audit?

Jason C

02:42

I consciously left out a mention of how he might deal with such a problem, because personally I don't really worry about that kind of thing, and I don't want to spread a value that I disagree with.

@JanDvorak CANCEL

tchrist

@JasonC Yup.

That’s why I didn't bring it up as a comment on your post. I would not care to see the idea take hold in the community, because it would almost certainly be wrong most of the time.

Braiam

yay! got 2k on MSO, now I won't be annoyed by the single-tagged questions on MSO

tchrist

It would be difficult to prove inappropriate malice even in the worst of cases. After all, the "instigator" probably thought the user's postings were crap and that therefore they were doing the right thing.

Braiam

@JanDvorak CANCELCANCELCANCELCANCELCANCELCANCELCANCEL

now... where was that xkcd

I hear this is an option in the latest Ubuntu release.

yep

Jason C

... go go gadget video camera. Go go gadget cup.

Lawl

user259867

02:52

This question has 10 minutes to live, but I like how it summarizes math.se so aptly:

user259867

-4

Q: help!! Trig , Verifying the identity , Fill in the blanks! questions 5 and 6

I need help finding the identity for these two problems, and simplifying the answers to its smallest terms.

trigonometry

tchrist

@JasonC I checked before the Roomba, and there's nothing from that user deleted in the last 50 today. And his only closed question was closed back last December. No idea what he’s talking about.

Speak of the devil.

@Woodface And many SE sites.

Jason C

I just like the complete question fail -- the absurdity of the OP living in a world where writing "questions 5 and 6" in the title is enough information to describe the problem, as if the assignment is automatically transmitted with the post, or we all have done the same homework.

tchrist

IT'S A SMALL WORLD (Full Ride) Disneyland - POV SUPER HIGH QUALITY (1080p HD)

►

Jason C

Man, I really want kids just so I can take them to Disney World. I haven't been there in so long.

Braiam

03:04

@JasonC or just be a "tourist"

Jason C

Yeah... but it doesn't have the same magic.

tchrist

It only holds magic for children.

Jason C

Sure but that's part of the magic too, at least I think so. I took my 2-year-old nephew to the local science museum last week, it was super fun just because he was having a blast.

Actually yeah, what am I talking about. Nieces and nephews are like having your own kids but not actually having to take care of them. A big win.

cv-plz meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288513/… Just needs one more to put it out of its misery.

tchrist

@JasonC Yep

SmokeDetector

03:37

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Conditional sentence about something that has happened in the past but we have no clue how it happened by user96718 on english.stackexchange.com

user259867

@tchrist Up your alley...

user259867

The most offensive part is linking to Quora.

bjb568

03:48

taxicab circles!

tchrist

@Woodface Hah.

Yeah, I’m afraid that isn’t considered offensive. It’s simply a mention in any event.

Apart from Quora.

bjb568

If we knew the future, the future would be now. — bjb568 13 secs ago

hehe

Jason C

04:03

@bjb568 Awww, it's adorable when you discover things.

2

bjb568

:D

Rusemaster

04:16

I just love it when users take it upon themselves to exploit the rep system. Abuse of power and all

24

Q: Is it fair to transfer 3000 rep to a friend?

I have noticed a few comments by other users, so thought I would ask about the recent transfer of 3000 rep from d'alar'cop to rand al'thor. According to this discussion on meta.se, using bounties to transfer rep is not allowed. Certainly these 6 bounties could be considered to reward an existin...

discussion bounty

Braiam

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/22291891/792066

bjb568

reddit.com/r/learntofly has nice CSS using inverted colors

Also, can't wait for it to be released. It's one of the few games I care about. Back from the good ol days.

user259867

04:33

SpAM android.stackexchange.com/questions/61057/…

Anonymous

05:08

Do mods have preset lock durations to pick from?

user259867

@JeremyBanks Yes, they do. It looks like this

Anonymous

@Woodface Neat, thanks for the link. :)

Anonymous

They can't enter arbitrary times, eh? So they only have a few options.

user259867

Seems so. If Doorknob or hichris123 were around, they'd be able to confirm...

user202362

05:56

3

user202362

this is what you get for not moderating your site

Andy

@JeremyBanks I have 4 options: 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week or permanent

AstroCB

06:11

0

A: I need to test my app on different virtual devices

I use MVTester from JRA Labs. It has hundreds of devices and useful features for debugging my apps.

^ This is a terrible answer bordering on spam; I don't know why a VLQ flag was disputed.

stackoverflow.com/review/late-answers/7427203

^ Heh.

Anonymous

@Andy Interesting; thanks.

bjb568

06:26

So late… Night!

bummi

@bjb568 Morning , change of shift ;)

Anonymous

06:45

@balpha I'm innocent, click me.

balpha

07:12

@JeremyBanks ouch nice catch

fixin'

nicael

07:37

0

A: Can we show how many meta reviews there are?

Yes, we can :) I made a user script for this purpose, which shows the number of available reviews per-site meta. There's how it looks: Download!

I expected to see a user script posted already :D

(but apparently nobody wanted to do it)

bummi

@nicael if you don't agree I did understand something wrong? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251830/…

balpha

@JeremyBanks You're now part of an error message :)

6

(let me know if you'd rather not)

Anonymous

@balpha Haha, that's nice, thanks. :D

Hobo Sapiens

There's a number in an orange box on my Stack Overflow header. It says 1634 right now. Does anyone know what that number is? It used to relate to the questions in the review queues, but seemingly not any more.

Anonymous

07:44

It still claims to be, but I'm not sure where the "number of items in the queue" is manipulated in what ways.

Hobo Sapiens

@JeremyBanks Well, no combination of numbers I see in the review queues comes even close. Given that the real close vote queue is over 150,000 now I don't suppose it matters. Thanks anyway

Anonymous

You're right, that is quite a weird value, and it doesn't seem to relate to anything.

Anonymous

Maybe it has to do with the Triage queue -- that displays '0' items pending, but seems to actually have many.

Yi Jiang

08:26

Isn't it suppose to be the number of suggested edits in queue?

Oh wait, that's only if you're > 10k

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

cv-pls: stackoverflow.com/questions/29192349/…

Jan Dvorak

Latest news: I just got +6 rep from a removed user on MSE

Unihedro

@JanDvorak luckyy

user202362

08:43

@balpha omg bofa, didn't realize that you are SO's 00 007

user202362

Do you get to rescue disobedient kids much?

SmokeDetector

08:57

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: inherently ambiguous languages and some strange language by Maryam Panahi on cs.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

anyone wants to edit?

Unihedro

@JanDvorak Negative

Roombatron5000

nice, i got +2 for (user was removed).. that'll teach them to downvote me!

Unihedro

Nice, I got -10 for... user was removed

pfft

Yi Jiang

09:16

@Roombatron5000 Protip: Become moderator on Stack Exchange, then delete every user who downvote you to get back those rep lost from downvotes!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Can you please solve my Matlab questions? by Keenan on tex.stackexchange.com

Unihedro

09:33

@YiJiang But, how do you become an SE mod?

Roombatron5000

@Unihedro bribes, bacon, baloney

Unihedro

@Roombatron5000 Who do I bribe? xD

Roombatron5000

@Unihedro bjb

Unihedro

10:51

Computer Color is Broken

►

Mooseman

11:03

@Unihedro SO MUCH LEARN.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: inherently ambiguous languages and some strange language by Maryam Panahi on cs.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Braiam

11:57

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/6389039/792066 just failed an LQ queue answer audit that offered exactly what the question asked

nicael

-1

Q: Area51 crash - the aliens have landed

I entered Area51 and got: I hope they're green.

bug area51

??

I can't find a page on A51 with this order of proposals....

nicael

12:35

Hey, anyone there?

0

Q: Can't get css("left") of Stack Exchange help drop down - returns auto

I want to get left property of Stack Exchange help drop down which, has class .help-dialog, but it always returns auto, and I'd like to see it in px. To avoid complicated explanations, just execute this in your address bar after any SE site is loaded: javascript:alert($(".help-dialog").css("lef...

javascript css

Unihedro

13:02

@nicael Negative

Yi Jiang

@nicael Why get the CSS value when you could just use position or offset?

nicael

13:31

this wouldn't work.

Good answer but the OP is not interested in genuine answers but in gaming the system and giving preferential treatment to certain accounts +1. — Mr. X 18 mins ago

waaaaaaat.

Braiam

13:50

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/25770052/792066

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/22223146/…

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: How many minutes in 1 day? by Cheeky mon on math.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

14:05

@Brad Larson Thank you Buddy for everything :) This is what I wanted to know... A perfect answer :) Happy :) — Avidan yesterday

tchrist

14:35

Is there anybody here now with enough SQL-fu to figure out how to get this SEDE query to display an additional column representing [votes per day] / [posts per day]? Seems like it should be trivial, but SQL is not where I choose to spend 10,000 hours of my ever-dwindling span to develop mastery of.

data.stackexchange.com/english/query/291576/…

Braiam

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/29139561/792066

@tchrist bet rene knows :P

tchrist

You know, if you stick around long enough, one’s initially assigned random gravatar becomes not a random Rorschach splooge but something of one’s very own.

terdon

@tchrist Your span is set in stone and cannot dwindle. What dwindles is how much of it you have left.

rene

@Braiam sure...

tchrist

14:54

@terdon “Time is the crucible in which we burn.”

rene

@tchrist something like this?

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

tchrist

@rene Beatus vir.

So that’s the divide-by-zero cure. Cool.

rene

15:09

@tchrist yeah, I updated to use a case when instead... that is more correct I guess...

tchrist

This seems to be what I was looking for (you had p/v not v/p):

data.stackexchange.com/english/query/291585/…

This works well. Now I can make graphs of this across the various sites:

data.stackexchange.com/english/query/291585/…

Kevin Brown

~~Why is it that on chat.meta I don't have the option to "rejoin favorite rooms", but on chat.se and chat.so I do?~~ Apparently my favorites haven't been saving

rene

15:25

@tchrist If you're only interested in posts and votes count you can remove the CTE's that are not used in the stats query...

tchrist

15:42

@rene True, but I want want it back again. :)

Here’s the query I was actually shooting for.

I’m looking to see whether the question-votes varies according to a site’s daily visitors, daily questions, both, or neither.

Because if it does, then it’s cultural.

rene

OK, and then what?

tchrist

Well, we had a complaint from a user of a beta site that the voting patterns on ELU seemed weird/wrong/stingy to him.

That was the Biology beta. I wanted to try to see whether sites with comparable questions or visitors to each of ELU vs Biology were like them or different.

rene

Hmm, so you are going to beat someone who has a hunch with some hard facts ;)

tchrist

Well, I am going to use hard facts to see whether I think what he thinks he’s talking about has any validity.

There certainly are differences between sites in this regard.

However, I don’t yet know whether those differences are cultural, whether they are related to beta vs non-beta, or whether they are related to the total visitors or posts per day.

I bet any of that could make a difference.

Man, do those Workplace people vote a lot! :)

But with only 12 questions per day, you can see why.

Braiam

15:58

@tchrist what's different between post votes and Q/A votes? sum doesn't adds up

bjb568

16:11

Afternoon!

ProgramFOX

Afternoon!

tchrist

@Braiam Suppose there are 100 votes cast on 10 posts of which 2 are questions and 8 are questions. Then 100v / 10p is 10 v/p, 100v / 2q is 50 v/q and 100v / 8a is 12.5 v/a. It is a bit of a silly metric, perhaps.

You can really only trust v/p in any regard.

Since you do not actually know the split on how v were applied to q&a separately.

Unihedro

kill-plz stackoverflow.com/q/29193842/3622940

tchrist

I just think that comparing English with Biology is comparing unlike things, and so whether the results are similar or different doesn’t really tell you anything.

Sorted by traffic:
                        Beta? Visits  Questions
*English                no      286k    63
 Arqade                 no      246k    37
 Ask Different          no      232k    56
 Programmers            no      138k    35
 Unix & Linux           no      203k    84
 Electrical Engineering no       72k    67
 Workplace              no       25k    12
 Rôle-Playing Games     no       15k    14
*Biology                YES      10k    12
 Webmasters             no       13k    16
 MSE                    no        9k    26

They are too unlike in traffic and in questions, let alone in age and betaness.

SmokeDetector

16:37

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Determine the correctness of that formal proof. by Kostas Lamogiannis on math.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

SmokeDetector

17:36

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: I have so many problems: by Lucius on askubuntu.com

Braiam

@SmokeDetector yep, we see that

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

this is OT, right? stackoverflow.com/questions/29194715/…

Kevin Brown

I think it might be on topic

impresspages.org

rene

that ^^^^

It is not a great question...

Braiam

17:55

was I wrong rejecting this? stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/7430882

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam I'd say yes.

Braiam

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ why?

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam It fixes indentation, that's a valid edit.

Braiam

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ the indentation of who? you know that there are people that just write their blocks without indentation, right?

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam Yes, but the edit repaired the indentation. Doesn't matter what you think and how you do it, it matters what the standard says.

I've never seen good code written without indentation, especially C++ code (that Visual Studio automatically does for VC++).

rene

18:00

It could had an edit in the text to make more clear what is being asked but in that case accept and edit would be the correct choice

Braiam

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ we aren't here to impose an standard

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam You're not getting what I'm saying; it is normal for indentation of code, non-indented code is hard to read. This post was therefore improving readability.

user259867

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251854/…

user259867

Totally not on schedule. Someone overslept in Spamland.

Braiam

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ are you reading the rendered version?

rene

18:03

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ Are you assuming @Braiam is a non-coder?

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam Most users here expect code indentation, myself included. I'm reading the non-rendered version.

Braiam

int FindNumber(string fileName)
{
    ifstream inFile(fileName);

 if (!inFile)
{
    return -1;
}

 int counter = 0;
string Line;
while (!inFile.eof())
{
    getline(inFile, Line);
    counter++;
}

 if (Line.length() == 0)
{
    counter = counter - 1;
}
    return counter;
}

^ that's the rendered version, in it's own code block

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@rene No, because if they weren't, how would they have got at least 2K to review that post?

@Braiam This is what's getting rendered my end: puu.sh/gL5p9/2164cf4b72.png

Braiam

^ thats is perfectly readable, for anyone

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam Not the point, that's a function, the function's code should be indented.

Braiam

18:06

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ Who cares?!

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam You obviousy, since you're the one who asked if your edit was valid or not.

Jason C

@Braiam I'd also say yes. But I am a particularly big fan of fixing poorly indented code, as long as it's more than a line or two that is misindented.

Braiam

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ no, I was asking why the other two were approving it

Jason C

I would have approved it.

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam You asked whether you were correct in rejecting the edit, please do not contradict me (you asked 'was I wrong rejecting this? stackoverflow.com/review/…').

rene

18:07

@JasonC you should have edited and approved it

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

I seems that it's being rendered differently in different browsers.

Braiam

19

A: Are purely cosmetic edits to original code frowned-upon, even if they accompany high-value non-code revisions?

I will regularly deny low-value edits that just move code around unless it specifically improves overall question quality. There's no point in aligning equals signs. But if there is a systemic formatting problem that makes the code unreadable, and you fix that and sprinkle in some equals-sign ali...

Jason C

@Braiam More importantly, the fact that you rejected it makes you a terrible, awful person, and deeply offends me. I would therefore like to argue with you about it until you are either convinced that you were wrong, or realize that I am way more awesome than you.

rene

lol

Braiam

@JasonC That's out of discussion, you and I know Bart is more awesome than both of us

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

18:09

@Braiam I can see from your tags that you are not a C++ programmer. In C++ we almost always indent code.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DRUPAL7 JQUERY BUG WEBSITE by hatecode on stackoverflow.com

Jason C

As long as you realize that the order is Bart -> Me -> You, I'm satisfied.

Braiam

@JasonC after Bart is just a very long horizontal line

Jason C

And @bjb is completely off the charts to the right.

Braiam

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ yeah? where is the meta Q that says that every piece of C++ should have indented function blocks?

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

18:11

@Braiam For example this is the correct indentation. The edit you rejected was correcting the indentation: stackoverflow.com/questions/28119418/…

Jason C

Enough of this.

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam If you're going to argue with me, please read about C++. If I posted a question now without any code indentation users will ask me to fix the indentation, edit to fix it, or downvote it. In C++ we indent code. If you are not familiar enough with C++ to realise this then perhaps you should've skipped the review, the 'skip' option is there for this reason.

Jason C

Hm, maybe that should be MSE's 404 graphic.

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@JasonC So every time we request an invalid page we get a headache?

Braiam

fun fact: I'm getting a headache

2

Alexis King

18:15

Oh god this is as bad as that "It's happening" black and white gif from a while back.

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam Yep, it'd be absolute torture if that was MSE's 404 graphic. Perfect for punishing those who request invalid pages... slowly.

Jason C

@AlexisKing I love that one so much.

Apr 16 '14 at 22:25, by badp

Braiam

slaps @JasonC around with a stinky trout

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@JasonC Not as bad as the other one.

Braiam

slaps @JasonC around with a stinky trout.

Alexis King

18:17

ow

my eyes

Braiam

needs to slap someone else so the thing goes away

go!

go away!

MY EYES!

Jason C

Does the trout get less stinky after the first slap?

Alexis King

feature-request Prevent all of @JasonC's GIFs from oneboxing.

Jason C

Watches in amazement as Braiam's eyes go away.

Braiam

@JasonC yes, that's why I switch trouts

Jason C

18:18

Nice, Boy Scout motto: Be prepared.

Always have a bucket of stinky trouts on hand.

2

Palec

Do you see formulas on [Math.SE], or just their LeTeX source? I wonder if `cdn.mathjax.org` is just in my area.
http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/251597/238706

Jason C

ps ur mom is a bucket of stinky trout

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Palec Browse using a VPN and see if tex can be displayed.

Luckily I have... adblock

ahh yeeahhh:

Alexis King

hey, it's been a while since this gif

Jason C

Oh yeah, you know I thought about that when I came back from taking a break, but I wasn't sure if it was still the cool thing or not.

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ Lol!

That's very flattering.

Unihedro

18:26

(•_•)
( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)

3

bjb568

@JasonC huhwut?

Unihedro

deal with it.

Aww kitty got in the way :p

Jason C

@Unihedro We'll forgive you if you want to try again.

At first I thought it was some kind of caterpillar / snowman.

Braiam

@JasonC ...

Unihedro

Welp

bjb568

18:30

walp

Jason C

halp

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

2

Roombatron5000

dewinterize/unblur @rene plse

Jason C

18:43

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/29153661/… unclear

Mooseman

@JasonC boom

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GTA V - XBOX ONE : JEWEL STORE HEIST by Mila on gaming.stackexchange.com

Jason C

@Mooseman Taverned! It's about time.

Roombatron5000

80ish triage reviews

Mooseman

xD yes busy weekend

rene

18:52

@Roombatron5000 I hate seasons

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: CSS divs do not fit on all resolutions by user4700577 on stackoverflow.com

Roombatron5000

hmm this was closed area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/84282/…

Mooseman

Roombatron5000

-16

Q: SUPT Can Be Awesome - But In A More Distant Future

I'm Tim, and I manage the internationalization effort here at Stack Exchange. I'd like to begin with how amazed we are at the progress you were able to make so quickly on this proposal. We don't often see proposals with this level of enthusiasm behind them; a great deal of debate, thought and dis...

technology

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: Is it possible to find n from ![1]: i.sstatic.net/vZq18.png by user27200 on mathematica.stackexchange.com

user259867

19:12

@SmokeDetector fp but a lousy question

SmokeDetector

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

Mooseman

2

Q: Flag dialog for faded offensive posts appears below answer editor

Similar to this, but containing more bugginess. Take a look at this: The post was grayed out because it received (presumably) 3 offensive flags. The answer was simply a random string of profanities. Grayed out? Good. Grayed out flag dialog? Not good, but possibly status-bydesign. The editor ...

bug design editor flag-dialog

user259867

close your project and don't open it again — Pavel Dudka 10 mins ago

user259867

I see: the comment links in review queue use a different format, which doesn't onebox.

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

Can someone help with an SEDE query that will search my questions for an answer below a certain number of votes?

rene

19:22

Sure

Braiam

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ is:q answers:1

wait, what/

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

Trying to find a certain answer which is -3, but can't find it. It's definitely there because I saw it an hour ago.

Braiam

is:a score:-3 user:me?

rene

SEDE is not live data you realize that?

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

Yeah, the -3 answer's from ages ago (June 2014 I think)

user259867

19:24

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ You mean a question you asked with an answer scored -3, right?

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Braiam That gets the answers, but doesn't limit them: stackoverflow.com/search?q=is%3Aa+score%3A-3+user%3Ame

Braiam

is:a score:-3 user:me created:2014?

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@Woodface Yep.

Braiam

ohhhh

user259867

@Braiam That's for answers by the given user, not answers received

user259867

19:25

To search answers received, one does need SEDE.

Jason C

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/…

user259867

@JasonC <=-3 ?

Jason C

Oh, you want it to search your questions for an answer. One moment.

rene

@Roombatron5000 That is ... some anger and sadness there...

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@JasonC Yeah.

Jason C

19:28

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/…

I left out the score condition because I couldn't find any answers like that on SO for you.

All answers to your questions on SO have non-negative score.

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@JasonC Interesting, thanks for that. Must've been something else.

Mooseman

^^ Wow. That's it?

Jason C

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ It's possible the answer was deleted. If so it is not in the public database.

Unihedro

@Mooseman What's that? Looks retro

Jason C

If you know what question it was on, I can screenshot it for you if it was deleted.

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

19:34

@JasonC True, but if so it's strange that it was removed when I saw it an hour ago.

@Unihedro That's Windows 8/Windows 8.1

Mooseman

@Unihedro Win8.1 w/ this option:

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

Might be a long shot, but is it possible to see flags by the time they were dealt with?

Jason C

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ Not on deleted things.

You're talking about flags on posts, right?

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

@JasonC Yep.

Roombatron5000

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ probably not in sede, but in your flag history in your profile, you can hover over "helpful, declined, or disputed" and it will tell you the time it was handled

Jason C

19:38

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ Theres the Votes, ReviewTasks, and ReviewTaskResults tables if you want to poke through those. The review task tables confuse the crap out of me -- I don't even know if they have what you are looking for -- but maybe somebody else can give you some advice on that one.

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

could do with an NAA flag: stackoverflow.com/a/27725328/2422013

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Is dark energy & matter God? by briancolesnb on physics.stackexchange.com

Hobo Sapiens

cv-pls Service availability question: stackoverflow.com/questions/29198926/…

Jason C

@SmokeDetector Oh dear.

Mooseman

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's about the availability of Google API's. — Mooseman 7 secs ago

Hobo Sapiens

19:43

@Mooseman I'd vote, but I'm all out of votes :(

Mooseman

@HoboSapiens SE needs "kinda mods". Users who can be trusted with infinite votes and binding close votes, but aren't really mods.

Hobo Sapiens

@Mooseman At least they could balance the flags against the votes. I have 100 flags to use - yet nobody wants me to use them. Maybe reduce flags to 20 and increase votes by 50%

Mooseman

@HoboSapiens True. We totally need to add more posts to the SO lq queue...

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

Created this: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/291675/…

Palec

cv-pls duplicate stackoverflow.com/q/13614866

Jason C

19:47

@Mooseman Collectively, we're "kinda mods"; once one user is out, there are plenty more.

hichris123

offensive: stackoverflow.com/questions/20650596/…

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

..and @Mooseman's bug can be confirmed quite easily without having to search.

Mooseman

@JasonC True, but something more official. And it should come with an SO shirt ;)

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ :D

ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ

This is apparently the worse public one: stackoverflow.com/questions/3134928/sign-in-latex/…

user259867

Ugh. Downvoted to -56.

user259867

19:55

The accepted answer with second-lowest score is by the user with second-highest reputation on SO.

Jason C

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ You can do that without the subquery, there's a PostTypeId field that is useful: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/291679/…

user259867

@ʎǝʞuoɯɹǝqʎɔ Why not just search is:a and sort by votes?

user259867

This is what I did with is:a isaccepted:1 to find the worst accepted answers.

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