Tavern on the Meta

Jan Dvorak

08:00

!xkcd find flag

xkcdBot

Of course, factions immediately sprang up in favor of '~*~sTaR tReK iNtO dArKnEsS~*~', 'xX_StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNess_Xx', and 'Star Trek lnto Darkness' (that's a lowercase 'L').

Unihedro

!xkcd find spam

xkcdBot

I just can't wait for the Better Homes and Gardens list of helpful tips for household reuse of sixteen-inch acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene phalluses.

AstroCB

flags

xkcdBot

Eventually a UN is set up. And then a lone rebel runs down the line of flags in front of it, runs back to his base, and gets a kajillion points.

Jan Dvorak

08:00

!xkcd find me

xkcdBot

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

J. Steen

!xkcd find space

xkcdBot

If you think space elevators are good, but just too boring and practical, check out the 'space fountain'.

J. Steen

!xkcd find anything

xkcdBot

You want me to pick up waffle cones? Oh, right, for the wine. One sec, let me just derive your son's credit card number and I'll be on my way.

DroidDev

08:04

!xkcd find car

xkcdBot

It's hard to fit in the backseat of my flying car with my android Realdoll when we're both wearing jetpacks.

Qantas 94 Heavy

!xkcd find time

xkcdBot

J. Steen

!xkcd find pratchett

xkcdBot

Thank you for teaching us how big our world is by sharing so many of your own.

J. Steen

08:05

sniffle

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find sniff

xkcdBot

No results found.

J. Steen

!xkcd find no results

xkcdBot

Also no results: 1girl10000cups, 2girls(5+3i)cups, 65536girls65536cups, or 3frenchhens2turtledoves1cup.

J. Steen

Aha!

AstroCB

08:06

!xkcd find aasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf

xkcdBot

No results found.

J. Steen

That's actually pretty frightening.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find smile

xkcdBot

The IAU ban came after the 'redefinition of 'planet' to include the IAU president's mom' incident.

J. Steen

!xkcd find stackoverflow

xkcdBot

08:06

Unihedro

???

AstroCB

Look, it's @bjb!

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find cat

xkcdBot

Yes you are! And you're sitting there! Hi, kitty!

J. Steen

That explains bjb a lot.

AstroCB

08:08

^

!xkcd find ^

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find smile

xkcdBot

No results found.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find stack overflow

xkcdBot

StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find anticipation

xkcdBot

08:09

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find youtube

xkcdBot

I pray GunPistolMan never learns the word 'sheeple'.

J. Steen

It was a soundstage on Mars

Bart

My apologies. I thought this was the Tavern, but I see I've landed on XKCD.

AstroCB

@Bart Indeed.

!xkcd find Bart

xkcdBot

08:11

No results found.

Jan Dvorak

Please join

AstroCB

@xkcdBot That's tragic.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find astro

xkcdBot

J. Steen

!xkcd find tragic

Bart

08:11

!xkcd find glasses

xkcdBot

On January 26th, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a 'stationary research station', expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown.

J. Steen

Aw. Now I'm sad.

Andrew T.

14 mins ago, by AstroCB

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

but...

AstroCB

Well, you know.

!xkcd find Tavern

xkcdBot

I may have also tossed one of a pair of teleportation rings into the ocean, with interesting results.

J. Steen

08:12

Very meta.

AstroCB

!xkcd find meta

xkcdBot

Life goal #29 is to get enough of them rejected that I can publish a comparative analysis of the rejection letters.

J. Steen

Only #28?

Jan Dvorak

It's an old goal

!xkcd find quality

xkcdBot

You think it's so legendarily bad that you'll torrent it and sit through it just for the kitschy nerd cred. I, too, once thought as you did.

AstroCB

08:14

39 requests to go.

J. Steen

!xkcd find request

xkcdBot

Listen, they request that you stop submitting a listing for your house labeled 'WHERE YOU BROKE MY HEART'.

J. Steen

!xkcd find maps

xkcdBot

What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with having my cultural assumptions challenged? Are you sure you're not ... ::puts on sunglasses:: ... projecting?

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find yay

xkcdBot

08:15

Apparently Google assumes you're traveling during the ferry's normal operating hours. We lost two hours circling that damn lake (to say nothing of the Straw Man).

J. Steen

!xkcd find zoom

xkcdBot

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find find

xkcdBot

I'm like the Terminator, except with love!

AstroCB

!xkcd find bjb

xkcdBot

08:16

No results found.

James

this might be unprecedented in the history of the tavern but can I get some close votes on my own question?

J. Steen

!xkcd find close votes

James

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/23074676/… no-repro

AstroCB

!xkcd find close

xkcdBot

We should probably talk about this before the wedding.

AstroCB

08:17

!xkcd find votes

xkcdBot

xkcd.com/intrade/code/states.py

AstroCB

?

J. Steen

Uh.

AstroCB

Hello, random xkcd-hosted Python script.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find scripts

xkcdBot

08:18

Brains aside, I wonder how many poorly-written xkcd.com-parsing scripts will break on this title (or ;;"''{<<[' this mouseover text."

J. Steen

)

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find lisp

J. Steen

!xkcd find ocd

xkcdBot

DroidDev

!xkcd find android

xkcdBot

08:19

Which is, coincidentally, the most unsettling mantlepiece decoration in my house.

J. Steen

............

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find apple

DroidDev

J. Steen

That's not xkcd.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find yahoo

xkcdBot

08:21

Viruses so far have been really disappointing on the 'disable the internet' front, and time is running out. When Linux/Mac win in a decade or so the game will be over.

AstroCB

!xkcd find blasphemy

xkcdBot

No results found.

AstroCB

!xkcd find apple

xkcdBot

J. Steen

!xkcd find religion

xkcdBot

08:21

But to us there is but one God, plus or minus one. --1 Corinthians 8:6Â±2.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find truth

xkcdBot

a(b+c)=(ab)+(ac). Politicize that, bitches.

AstroCB

24 left.

J. Steen

!xkcd find math

xkcdBot

$As of this writing, the only thing that's 'razor-thin' or 'too close to call' is the gap between the consensus poll forecast and the result.$

Andrew T.

08:23

!xkcd find physicist

bjb568

Physicist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unihedro

Populist badge?? security.stackexchange.com/a/84563/55679

xkcdBot

If you need some help with the math, let me know, but that should be enough to get you started! Huh? No, I don't need to read your thesis, I can imagine roughly what it says.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find us

xkcdBot

This one makes me wince every time I think about it

Andrew T.

08:24

!find xkcdbot

bjb568

xkcd: Suspicion

Andrew T.

https. boo.

xkcdBot

'Will [ ] allow us to better understand each other and thus make war undesirable?' is one that pops up whenever we invent a new communication medium.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find chat

xkcdBot

If you call my regular number, it just goes to my pager.

Andrew T.

08:25

!xkcd find https

xkcdBot

xkcd.com

Andrew T.

...

Unihedro

@xkcdBot That's so me. xD

Pham

Low Quality Q?: Best tools and processes to build javascript applications using Visual Studio, by ■ NEHAVERMA8, on stackoverflow.com.

Sam

^ PoB?

J. Steen

08:26

WHY UPVOTE?!

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find recommendation

xkcdBot

To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize.

Andrew T.

bull's eye

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find bull's eye

xkcdBot

People go to the website because they can't wait for the next alumni magazine, right? What do you mean, you want a campus map? One of our students made one as a CS class project back in '01! You can click to zoom and everything!

AstroCB

08:27

!xkcd find "https"

xkcdBot

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

Better change the URL to 'https' before downloading.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find markov chain

xkcdBot

Although the Markov chain-style text model is still rudimentary; it recently gave me "Massachusetts Institute of America". Although I have to admit it sounds prestigious.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find limits

xkcdBot

I'm really worried Christopher Nolan will kill a man dressed like a bat in his next movie. (The man will be dressed like a bat, I mean. Christopher Nolan won't be, probably.)

Andrew T.

08:29

!xkcd find oddball

xkcdBot

No results found.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find google

xkcdBot

The less popular 8.8.4.4 is slated for discontinuation.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOME AUTOMATION WITH ANDROID AND ARDUINO UNO by alaagaied on stackoverflow.com

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector Fixed.

Andrew T.

08:32

@SmokeDetector cv-plz too broad

Jan Dvorak

still needs closure

AstroCB

9 more...

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find java

xkcdBot

Took me five tries to find the right one, but I managed to salvage our night out--if not the boat--in the end.

Andrew T.

!xkcd find 9-ball

xkcdBot

08:32

Son, don't try to play 'make you feel bad' with the Michael Jordan of making you feel bad.

Unihedro

hehe

J. Steen

!xkcd find maroon

!xkcd find mauve

xkcdBot

Take me down to the paradise municipality / where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality.

Andrew T.

!xkcd find cloud server

xkcdBot

There's planned downtime every night when we turn on the Roomba and it runs over the cord.

AstroCB

08:33

@bjb I saw that one of your questions got downvoted and wanted to assure you that it was not me.

J. Steen

!xkcd find somebody else's computer

xkcdBot

Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Untitled.doc

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find spring

xkcdBot

I'm waiting for the day when, if you tell someone 'I'm from the internet', instead of laughing they just ask 'oh, what part?'

Jan Dvorak

@AstroCB then how did you notice the downvote?

Andrew T.

08:35

!xkcd find caching

AstroCB

@JanDvorak I was checking to see if we were still tied.

xkcdBot

AstroCB

Neither of us is going to win, so it whether either of us makes it to primaries is irrelevant.

!xkcd find last

xkcdBot

What'll I say -- "I was staring at some cat vomit when I got the news?"

AstroCB

!xkcd find one

xkcdBot

08:36

'The world's greatest [whatever]' is subjective, but 'One of the world's greatest [whatever]s' is clearly objective. Anyway, that's why I got you this 'one of the world's greatest moms' mug!

AstroCB

That's it.

J. Steen

!xkcd find zero

Andrew T.

!xkcd find again

xkcdBot

You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback.

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd find microsoft

AstroCB

08:37

!xkcd find This shouldn't work

J. Steen

!xkcd find apocalypse

Andrew T.

!xkcd error message

Qantas 94 Heavy

!xkcd find unicorns

AstroCB

!xkcd find error

Unihedro

!help

xkcdBot

08:38

Oh

Andrew T.

Oh

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd help

J. Steen

Oh!

Qantas 94 Heavy

Oh.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: Ubuntu 14.04 error by Mahmoud Sultan on askubuntu.com

Bart

08:38

!xkcd crashed

xkcdBot

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

Bart

Ah, nope :D

AstroCB

!xkcd find something

What?

!xkcd find something else

Well.

!xkcd find anything

xkcdBot

This is odd, indeed.

AstroCB

!xkcd find error

Well.

I think it works, but it's glitchy.

!xkcd find something

xkcdBot

08:45

Odd.

AstroCB

!xkcd find anything?

xkcdBot

Daily API quota limit exceeded. Try again tomorrow.

AstroCB

^

!xkcd find this

xkcdBot

Weird.

AstroCB

!xkcd find weird

xkcdBot

08:45

Daily API quota limit exceeded. Try again tomorrow.

Andrew T.

tomorrow = UTC?

xkcdBot

@AndrewT. No idea.

AstroCB

Well, that'll do it for now.

bummi

How are Q and A related here? askubuntu.com/a/607513/184892

AstroCB

That's only the search, by the way.

Everything else still works.

!xkcd 202

xkcdBot

08:47

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd 1024

xkcdBot

Thank you for making me feel less alone.

It has a section on motherboard beep codes that lists, for each beep pattern, a song that syncs up well with it.

Bart

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253143/…

Jan Dvorak

!xkcd 2048

xkcdBot

@JanDvorak xkcd.com/2048

Andrew T.

08:48

@bummi the question seems legit (not sure if it's on-topic or not, Ubuntu phone?), but the answer seems to be borderline spam|NAA

AstroCB

@xkcdBot Why didn't that onebox?

bummi

@AndrewT. I'm dangling between spam and NAA

Andrew T.

@AstroCB 404 not found

AstroCB

Ah.

I'll get xkcdBot to persist by tomorrow, but for now...

xkcdBot

xkcdBot terminated.

Andrew T.

08:51

@bummi after much consideration, I take it as NAA.

bummi

spam askubuntu.com/q/607535/184892

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Getting A Free Pdf To Doc Converter? by kaauand Toku on askubuntu.com

bummi

@AndrewT. did so

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Jan Dvorak

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/29532435/…

xkcdBot

08:53

xkcdBot initialized.

AstroCB

Actually, I can't find my USB brick, so I have to use my laptop to charge my phone while my laptop is charging, so I'll leave my laptop on and therefore xkcdBot shall remain online; go crazy.

Pham

Spam A (TPA'd by Sam): i want to thank Dr Usunorbu of [email protected] for making ..., by □ Dr Usunorbu, on parenting.stackexchange.com.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Divorce communications - How to deal with "you're unwilling to pay" tactic? by Dr Usunorbu on parenting.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@AstroCB Blacklisted user.

AstroCB

09:01

xkcd Tavern Takeover

1 hour ago, 1 hour 19 minutes total – 309 messages, 17 users, 1 star

Bookmarked 2 mins ago by AstroCB

Andrew T.

@AstroCB !xkcd blame

It really hates me :(

!xkcd blame

:'(

Infinite Recursion

Every time a new bot arrives...this room gets filled up :/

Jan Dvorak

!comp nearest city

bjb568

Cincinnati (0.002 miles W)

Andrew T.

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

09:06

@AndrewT. It's bummi's fault.

J. Steen

Always.

bummi

@SmokeDetector ;p

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Sam): I phone in not root How root sghhsghff, by □ Zaw Zaw, on android.stackexchange.com.

Sam

^ Off?

Jan Dvorak

yes

Andrew T.

09:10

I already NAA'd, so it'd off-by-one.

bummi

not OFF IMHO 30 char with NAA

Jan Dvorak

plus a really crappy grammar?

J. Steen

I find it offensive that someone would post that. So. =D

Andrew T.

My flag count in android.se is already higher than in SO :/

Qantas 94 Heavy

That won't be happening any time soon for me :\

SmokeDetector

09:23

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

Qantas 94 Heavy

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

SilentKiller

gone

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Someone with knowledge in bitcoin transactions needed. I'll pay in bitcoins by Aryanis on bitcoin.stackexchange.com

Pham

Spam Q (TPA'd by bummi): Easiest Way To Convert Pdf To Html, by □ David Allred, on superuser.com.

Andrew T.

09:29

@SmokeDetector spam?

Jan Dvorak

@AndrewT. why?

Andrew T.

that's the question (I haven't flagged it)

J. Steen

oh noes, only 12 flags left on drupal.SE.

Bart

Just flag the entirety of drupal.SE

J. Steen

Valid.

SilentKiller

09:34

@Pham gone

Qantas 94 Heavy

@Pham del

SilentKiller

@Qantas94Heavy 2 mins over.

Qantas 94 Heavy

ah

forgot about that time limit

SilentKiller

np :)

ProgramFOX

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253148/almost-by-my-belief

SmokeDetector

09:46

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Almost by my belief by Claire Dye on meta.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: Changing algorithm to avoid looping with iterrows by Ariane on codereview.stackexchange.com

SilentKiller

@ProgramFOX gone

Pham

Low Quality Q (TPA'd by Sam): You must have 20 reputation on Stack Overflow to talk here. See the faq, by □ Laruence, on stackoverflow.com.

Jan Dvorak

migrate to meta?

migrated. Redownvoting.

SilentKiller

lols in seconds got -6 on MSO too

Bart

And then will be sent back to SO on closure

Member for 3 years and 2 months ...

SilentKiller

09:57

awaken late for reputation and too much hunger

bummi

spam askubuntu.com/q/607566/184892

SilentKiller

bummi

blacklist candidate livenhraracing.com

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: How to self-send an email with XAMPP-Mercury Mail using php by Nighhunter22 on stackoverflow.com

J. Steen

10:13

There's not even a link. Fail.

Jan Dvorak

@SmokeDetector gone

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: How do I start to debug my own Apex code? by user17271 on salesforce.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW TO READ XML DATA INTO A C# DATATABLE by rajesh janagani on stackoverflow.com

bummi

abusive gaming.stackexchange.com/a/213426/93824

SmokeDetector

10:44

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Are all important factors andjust by sunnising1 balis on webmasters.stackexchange.com

Mooseman

Impressive: youtu.be/70xGTRqElBY?t=1m18s

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

Unihedro

@Mooseman Nokia 2.0??

Mooseman

@Unihedro ???

NAA webapps.stackexchange.com/a/75895/82590

Frank

Matt S. changed his name....

GimmeTehRepz, Illinois

1.1k 3 22

J. Steen

10:59

=D

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/154648/…

user259867

gone

Infinite Recursion

> Y'know, if you'd modify that to avoid speculating as to authors' intentions and just stick with downvoting unhelpful / unclear answers, you'd probably catch less flack... – Shog9♦ yesterday

^ on Modcat's nomination post

Unihedro

11:18

> Y'know, if you'd modify that to avoid speculating as to authors' intentions and just stick with downvoting unhelpful / unclear answers, you'd probably catch less flack... – Shog9♦ yesterday

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls unclear, no question stackoverflow.com/questions/29559908/…

Mooseman

^^ ME

Unihedro

ikr

Patrick Hofman

@Mooseman I am sorry for you ;)

SilentKiller

status-closed

SmokeDetector

11:46

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: RPG IV Files processing issue by vlad on stackoverflow.com

Mooseman

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Pham

Low Quality A (TPA'd by Mooseman): lnjaskhn dfBSflnAf ls-lart opjsofjSNf, by □ Rahul, on unix.stackexchange.com.

Spam A (TPA'd by bummi): Добрый вечер всем вам: Я человек, который предлагает кредиты деньги людя..., by □ Jacqueline, on ru.stackoverflow.com.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Управляемый тип в неуправляемый тип by Jacqueline on ru.stackoverflow.com

J. Steen

^ SPAM

ProgramFOX

11:54

@SmokeDetector Google Translate returns spammy text.

bummi

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@bummi Blacklisted user.

Pham

Spam A (TPA'd by bummi): Я женщина швейцарского случае, и я предлагают кредиты деньги людям, нужд..., by □ Jacqueline, on ru.stackoverflow.com.

SilentKiller

both on -4

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user, email in answer: Управляемый тип в неуправляемый тип by Jacqueline on ru.stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

11:58

new account!

user259867

spam ru.stackoverflow.com/a/415591/176149 3rd one

Jan Dvorak

gone/-5/-4

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