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bjb568

06:00

Night!

SilentKiller

Night!

tchrist

Morning

user259867

That's okay, I hear Taco Bell is hiring...

tchrist

@pizza No fries with that.

Jason C

@pizza You mean the bit about the First Post / Late Answer actions?

ProgramFOX

06:00

Night!

user259867

Yes, and general idea of "better safe than sorry", "overcautious", etc.

James

@bjb568 Night

Jason C

Oh I see the connection now, I think I'm tired. Hmm, that seems super overcautious, but I guess makes sense.

Andrew T.

@bjb568 Writing history and calc in C is quite troublesome...

2

Jason C

Man, I was trying to make a query to generate activity over time graphs for a user, I got everything on the activity page except reviews :/

AstroCB

06:07

Let's try this again, bjbot.

Morning!

He must have disabled it...

!comp 2+2

bjb568

4

AstroCB

!comp timezone

James

!comp Wingull

bjb568

xkcdBot

!comp xkcd

bjb568

06:08

name | xkcd.com
location | Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
coordinates | 33° 40' 7"N, 111° 49' 25"W

Andrew T.

Wait, what..? Pokedex on W|A?

!comp devdoodle

bjb568

noun | a simple cartoon or doodle, whose contents are given a humorous description

J. Steen

My my myyyy... morning!

user259867

!comp Stack Exchange

bjb568

user259867

06:11

Public relations, huh.

4

J. Steen

Brothel?

user259867

Asylum

Jason C

!comp how many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?

J. Steen

How gender-specific of you.

Jason C

!comp weather

Is he dead

J. Steen

06:15

!comp my parking ticket

SilentKiller

no slept

Jason C

!comp wake up

bjb568

name | Wake Up
artist | Shalamar
release date | August 24, 1990
runtime | 57 minutes 54 seconds

Jason C

!comp weather

J. Steen

bjb cares not for the weather.

Jason C

06:16

Is he not using WA any more?

Jan Dvorak

!comp who's your daddy now

Andrew T.

!comp this site

J. Steen

Now you're being scary.

bjb568

name | Wolfram Alpha LLC
location | Champaign, Illinois, United States
coordinates | 40° 6' 54"N, 88° 16' 25"W

Andrew T.

shrug

Qantas 94 Heavy

06:17

Slower than a human. sighs

J. Steen

!comp parsons

bjb568

rank | 453rd
fraction | 1 in 4075 people (0.025%)
number | 66203 people
(based on 2000 United States Census)

James

!comp infinite recursion

J. Steen

Uh. Okay.

Jason C

!comp test

bjb568

06:18

Andrew T.

!comp why did the chicken cross the road?

bjb568

To get to the other side.
(ha, ha)

Jason C

!!comp weather

!comp weather

Andrew T.

@bjb568 hahahahaha...

Jason C

!comp nearest hospital

bjb568

06:19

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (0.2 miles ENE)

Andrew T.

!comp current weather

bjb568

temperature | 72 °F (wind chill: 72 °F)
conditions | partly cloudy
relative humidity | 69% (dew point: 61 °F)
wind speed | 15 mph
(27 minutes ago)

Jason C

!comp how many roads must a man walk down

bjb568

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
(according to the song written by Bob Dylan and released on his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Jason C

There we go.

James

06:20

!comp airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

bummi

!comp Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

bjb568

25 mph (miles per hour)
(asked, but not answered, about a general swallow in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

42
(according to Douglas Adams' humorous science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Jan Dvorak

!comp where am i

J. Steen

Hmm. Do I eat no-bean five-pepper chilli for breakfast, or not?

bjb568

IPv4 address | 74.83.14.180
IPv6 | ::ffff:4a53:eb4
(as seen by Wolfram|Alpha)

Jason C

06:20

@J.Steen As gender-specific as the lyrics to the song were. :P

J. Steen

@JasonC I know. Banter!

Now, for that chilli...

Jason C

!comp all your base

bjb568

...are belong to us.
(according to the video game Zero Wing)

James

!comp AstroCB

Jan Dvorak

!comp make me a sandwich

bjb568

06:23

Jason C

!comp what is your favorite color

bjb568

Blue. No yel-- Auuuuuuuugh!
(asked by the bridgekeeper and incorrectly answered by Sir Galahad in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

Jason C

Man, they've got so much less impact with the attribution note.

!comp where have all the flowers gone

bjb568

Girls have picked them every one.
(according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson)

J. Steen

Makes it less random-seeming.

Boooooooring.

James

06:25

!comp Yahoo Answers

J. Steen

Speaking of which, time to trawl the LQ review queue.

bjb568

YHOO | $45.63 (YHOO | NASDAQ | April 9, 2015)
ANSW |

James

Why is it that shit questions think they fly under the radar by addressing people as sir?

Jason C

!comp who let the bots out

!comp who let the dogs out

bjb568

Wasn't me.

Jason C

06:28

!comp who let the asdf out

J. Steen

@James They don't think that. They just don't give a shit about quality standards.

Jason C

!comp flip coin

bjb568

heads

Jason C

!comp roll dice

bjb568

(assuming fair 6-sided dice)

J. Steen

06:30

No dice!

3

Jason C

@bjb568 You're doing it wrong!

Qantas 94 Heavy

!comp factorial 99

bjb568

93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915‌6089414639761565182862536979208272237582511852109168640000000000000000000000

Jason C

!comp factorial 999

bjb568

40238726007709377354370243392300398571937486421071463254379991042993851239862902‌059204420848696940480047998861019719605863166687299480855890132382966994459099742‌450408707375991882362772718873251977950595099527612087497546249704360141827809464‌649629105639388743788648733711918104582578364784997701247663288983595573543251318‌53239584630755574091142624174743493475534286465766116677973966688202912073791...

James

06:31

!comp Wolfram Alpha API Rate Limit

Jan Dvorak

gone

Qantas 94 Heavy

!comp quadratic fit {10.1,1.2},{12.6, 2.8},{14.8,7.6},{16.0,12.8},{17.5,15.1}

bjb568

0.192026 x^2-3.2684 x+14.2907

J. Steen

That account does nothing but post exam/quiz/contest questions.

Andrew T.

!comp roll 6-sided dice

bjb568

06:34

(assuming fair 6-sided dice)

James

@J.Steen Blacklist it then

Andrew T.

!comp roll 1-sided dice

bjb568

(assuming fair 1-sided dice)

Qantas 94 Heavy

!comp towns Jackson, Memphis

bjb568

| Jackson | Memphis
city population | 175437 people (country rank: ~~141st) (2012) | 655155 people (country rank: 20th) (2012)
urban area population | 292637 people (Jackson (MS) urban area) (country rank: 108th) (2000) | 972091 people (Memphis urban area) (country rank: 39th) (2000)
metro area population | 545394 people (Jackson (MS) metro area) (country rank: 95th) (2011) | 1.326 million people (Memphis metro area) (country rank: 41st) (2011)

J. Steen

06:36

Is this all we're going to do today?

Jan Dvorak

!comp nearest city

bjb568

Cincinnati (0.002 miles W)

Jan Dvorak

!comp 0.002 miles to meters

bjb568

3.22 meters

Qantas 94 Heavy

!comp integration [//math:exp(75*x)*exp(-35*y-((-y + 0.001283464)^2)/0.0001468898)//] [//math:dx dy//] for x from [//math:-2.5//] to [//math:min(0,y)//] for y from [//math:-2//] to [//math:2//]

J. Steen

06:37

So, close.

user259867

@Qantas94Heavy What syntax is that?

Jan Dvorak

So... BJB lives 3 meters East of Cincinnati?

9

Qantas 94 Heavy

No idea, copypasted it from some question about WA that's supposed to exceed the time limit

user259867

Rather, the abstract center of Cincinnati is 3 meters west of... the center of Cincinnati.

AstroCB

!comp solve dy/dx (1/3)x^3 + 0.5x^2 + 4x^(3/2)

bjb568

06:39

first-order linear ordinary differential equation

user259867

Gee, thanks.

AstroCB

Okay...

user259867

@AstroCB Are you in diff.eq class now?

AstroCB

@pizza Calc AB

user259867

I see, this was supposed to be a derivative, not a differential equation.

J. Steen

06:40

I miss math classes.

AstroCB

@pizza apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/…

user259867

Then d/dx, not dy/dx.

user259867

!comp derivative of (1/3)x^3 + 0.5x^2 + 4x^(3/2)

AstroCB

@pizza Oh; that's what I meant to type.

Although

Jan Dvorak

!calc derive f(x)^g(x)

AstroCB

06:41

!comp integral of (1/3)x^3 + 0.5x^2 + 4x^(3/2)

user259867

I think the formula output isn't returned by text-only API.

Jan Dvorak

!comp it's a shame

user259867

The same command works in website interface.

AstroCB

I wonder

!comp slope field x^2

Didn't think so

Andrew T.

!comp x^2

AstroCB

06:42

!comp x^3 critical points

bjb568

x = 0

AstroCB

Nice

Jan Dvorak

!comp (x-1)*(x+1)

:-(

AstroCB

!comp derivative (arcsin(x))/(sqrt(1-(x^2))

Braiam

hello rate limit

AstroCB

06:43

!comp Braiam

Qantas 94 Heavy

!comp microsoft analyst ratings

bjb568

moderate buy (mean score: 2.20) (Thursday, April 9, 2015)

AstroCB

*brain

James

hahahaha

SilentKiller

7 | verb | kill by smashing someone's skull

Andrew T.

06:44

@bjb568 7th meaning.. wut?

user259867

#4 seems correct.

J. Steen

To brain someone.

James

yeah, have you not heard that?

its correct

J. Steen

Or, in this case, to Braiam someone.

Unihedro

You just got Braiam'd

8

James

06:45

sounds very painful

J. Steen

Especially for Braiam.

James

is that like

SilentKiller

lols ^

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: High Resolution Screenshot by Tracy on superuser.com

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

06:49

@James Blacklisted user.

SilentKiller

gone

AstroCB

!xkcd 221

xkcdBot

RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.

Qantas 94 Heavy

lol that user has rep on Software Recommendations

3

AstroCB

Well, the search API works.

@Qantas94Heavy The spammers know how to make recommendations.

J. Steen

06:50

Ironically, product spam is on topic on rec.

user259867

Mar 27 at 14:40, by Woodface

Perhaps there isn't. Then it becomes a question of which spam posts should be kept and upvoted...

Qantas 94 Heavy

Also another post on Ask Different

J. Steen

Yep.

Jan Dvorak

@Qantas94Heavy flag/other: we routinely nuke this user's "contributions" on other sites. Maybe you'd like to do the same

J. Steen

In a rec-thread.

AstroCB

06:51

Wow; the search API is actually really nice.

@Braiam

Jan Dvorak

inb4 a spam account earns an assoc bonus on SR, then starts wreaking havoc across the entire network, then SR gets ~~a stern warning~~ a Shog ultimatum

3

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Laptop touchpad response badly when on power supply? by otsrek on superuser.com

Qantas 94 Heavy

???

AstroCB

@Qantas94Heavy Cursing in post text

user259867

matched /shit/

Qantas 94 Heavy

06:54

Oh

J. Steen

Who knew software-rec would be a breeding ground for product spam. cough

Jan Dvorak

o/

AstroCB

Should !xkcd find return the most relevant result, or a list of possible matches?

Unihedro

@AstroCB First. Just so it one-boxes.

AstroCB

@Unihedro That's what I was thinking.

Andrew T.

07:03

spamrec.se

J. Steen

Could we just, y'know, nuke that account?

Qantas 94 Heavy

113

Q: We need to improve the quality of our spam!

Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE): There are a great many things wrong with this artifact: There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.) The only pun...

Jan Dvorak

@J.Steen only if you can convince an SR mod that it's spam. @undo?

J. Steen

And an AskDiff mod...

SilentKiller

does accepted one longest answer ever ?

James

07:06

wat

SilentKiller

meta.stackexchange.com/a/210452/177257 is this one longest answer ever ?

J. Steen

I'm not even sure that askdiff answer is valid - it's WINDOWS software...

... with an ubuntu screenshot.

AstroCB

!comp time in California

bjb568

12:09:04 am PDT | Friday, April 10, 2015

AstroCB

!comp time in UK

bjb568

07:09

8:09:13 am BST | Friday, April 10, 2015

AstroCB

!comp time in New York

bjb568

3:09:25 am EDT | Friday, April 10, 2015

J. Steen

!comp time in hell

bjb568

9:10:22 am CEST | Friday, April 10, 2015

J. Steen

=D

Jan Dvorak

07:10

!comp hell

bjb568

city population | 1418 people (country rank: ~~282nd) (2009 estimate)

ProgramFOX

@bjb568 So you mean, that I live in hell?

Unihedro

... Haha

J. Steen

My timezone too.

SilentKiller

lol

Jan Dvorak

07:11

!comp weather in hell

Unihedro

1418 people are in hell.

J. Steen

Seems like a small number.

SilentKiller

2009 estimate current is 2015 :P

AstroCB

!comp Shog

Jan Dvorak

Strange. I thought the catholics orchestrated a much bigger human transport than that.

Andrew T.

07:16

!comp time in heaven

I think bjbotling doesn't have access to heaven.

!comp time in earth

J. Steen

bjb's running for mod, of course they only have access to hell.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website: When to Expect Results? by dedinajuriya on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Want the best for me the other higher by anthony childress on meta.stackexchange.com

DroidDev

something must be wrong

0

Q: How to not show some strings with android with certain condition

I have a simple yet a problem that I cannot solve. What I want to do with the program is to show the parethesis only when the string length is greater than 1 or when not null, however, the condition doesn't work . Is there some problem in my code ? String _name = json.getString("name"); ...

android json

J. Steen

Wow. They even failed to make a url.

Qantas 94 Heavy

@SmokeDetector tpu gone

SmokeDetector

07:25

@Qantas94Heavy Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

Qantas 94 Heavy

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Qantas94Heavy Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

J. Steen

@DroidDev Looks like the usual lazy debugging crap to me.

DroidDev

@J.Steen nope, actually it is very rare, "Basics not clear" crap

but still....its on a different level

J. Steen

I don't get it.

DroidDev

07:28

@J.Steen show the parethesis only when the string length is greater than 1

if(_name.length()>3)

J. Steen

Yes - like I said, lazy debugging crap.

As in, they want us to debug the code they're too lazy to read themselves.

SilentKiller

51 question and 3 answers.

J. Steen

And dat comment.

AstroCB

Ready for something cool?

!xkcd find cool

xkcdBot

'And ovaries. Man, ovaries, huh?' [awkward pause] '... faithfully.'

AstroCB

07:31

Well, that was an interesting find.

J. Steen

@DroidDev Just vote to close, I guess? =)

AstroCB

!xkcd find random

xkcdBot

J. Steen

!xkcd find death

xkcdBot

J. Steen

07:34

<3

DroidDev

lol, that's my recent favourite :D

J. Steen

Email regex is wrong. =D

James

is that a false positive?

J. Steen

Or, not complete.

But, so few fps that it doesn't matter.

And yes. That's an FP.

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

07:37

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

J. Steen

I wonder if one could write a complete regex for that...

And not get more fps.

ProgramFOX

@J.Steen Sure you could. ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

AstroCB

!xkcd find regex

xkcdBot

/bu|[rn]t|[coy]e|[mtg]a|j|iso|n[hl]|[ae]d|lev|sh|[lnd]i|[po]o|ls/ matches the last names of elected US presidents but not their opponents.

J. Steen

A meta-reference.

DroidDev

07:40

!xkcd find meta

J. Steen

"Error, overflow"

DroidDev

._.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Where to buy OxyGenius Wrinkle Cream? by Rozi Rawat on superuser.com

AstroCB

!xkcd find Google

xkcdBot

The less popular 8.8.4.4 is slated for discontinuation.

James

07:42

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

DroidDev

!xkcd find speed

xkcdBot

I can't speak to the paper's scientific merits, but it's really cool how on page 10 you can see that their reference GPS beacon is sensitive enough to pick up continential drift under the detector (interrupted halfway through by an earthquake).

SPArchaeologist

!xkcd find mother

xkcdBot

Better change the URL to 'https' before downloading.

SPArchaeologist

07:47

nope, not this.

DroidDev

well...they are xkcd, what else did you expect?

SPArchaeologist

!xkcd find Mom

xkcdBot

'It's either 'your mom' jokes or me' 'Then I, like so many men before me, must reluctantly choose your mom.'

SPArchaeologist

not even this....

!xkcd find Exploits of a Mom

xkcdBot

Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.

SPArchaeologist

07:49

^ THIS

Andrew T.

!xkcd find little bobby tables

J. Steen

How about just find bobby tables

xkcdBot

AstroCB

Little Bobby Tables always takes the cake.

J. Steen

I imagine an Irish accent.

Unihedro

07:52

Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.

AstroCB

The quota is 100 requests/day; there are 79 requests left at this point. It would be good if you guys could burn through all of them to see if the handler I put in place works.

You can do it in the Botlings room if you don't want to destroy the transcript.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website, url in title: http://www.strongmenmuscle.com/revtest/ by ricobush23 on meta.stackexchange.com

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find api

xkcdBot

@JanDvorak Unrecognized command. Use !xkcd commands for a list of commands.

I'm always so happy that I successfully navigated the introduction that I completely forget to pay attention to the name the other person told me.

AstroCB

@JanDvorak Google has no way of tracking your quota through anything other than their GUI dashboard, which is strange.

James

07:58

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

xkcdBot

ACCESS LIMITS: Clients may maintain connections to the server for no more than 86,400 seconds per day. If you need additional time, you may contact IERS to file a request for up to one additional second.

AstroCB

Wow; I didn't think that it would work with edited messages.

DroidDev

!xkcd find joke

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