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tchrist

00:00

Show picky.

Please.

Undo

I still kinda want to see that pale shade of blue again for rep/achievements :'(

hichris123

@tchrist The white one.

tchrist

I think those brain cells were tagged for recycling.

Trying to remember.

Meta-like?

Undo

Nov 15 '13 at 8:32, by Bart

Say what @Qantas94Heavy. Someone dared to disobey the Word of Bart? I shall smite him with ...... my ... ehm ... smiting....stick.

HEY LOOK GUYS

tchrist

Smitten.

Undo

00:02

I found the first reference to Bart's smiting stick

Ahhh, history.

hichris123

@tchrist The one which we could rightfully call the SuperCollider.

that one

tchrist

When was that? It’s changed so often.

Undo

From what I can tell, there were about three iterations: The one with a letter-looking thing that didn't go all the way across the page, the one with the SuperCollider, and the black one.

hichris123

@tchrist before December '13

@Undo IT'S NOT BLACK!

Undo

... fine, very very dark grey.

hichris123

00:06

meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/207420/3

Also blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/12/a-new-top-bar-for-stack-exchange:

> Jin points out that technically it’s not quite black: it’s #212121.

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/28490688/osx-empty-trash-usb-drive

Jason C

@Undo At this point I'm just waiting for Ed to come along and put us out of our misery.

Undo

We both know he will :P

hichris123

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/29618656/…

AstroCB

Regular vs. black:

This is game-changing.

tchrist

@hichris123 That’s barely a sesquiyear ago, if that. Not so old, eh?

The Wobbuffet

00:25

blek, i didn't get through the qualification round of codejam because i had to do stuff :/

hichris123

@tchrist I think that design existed though for a while. Anyway, your point is well taken, but it's old to me as that's when I became really active (I joined Aug '13, but wasn't really active until Nov '13).

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/29548891/…

The Wobbuffet

i'm ashamed of myself because i still failed even though i spent, like, 30 minutes on the standing ovation thing

hichris123

@JeremyBanks Why do you link to your website in your profile if it just redirects to your SO profile?

The Wobbuffet

What's that this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them thing, it seems to be on every sock account

including my old one for testies

hichris123

24

Q: The site should not make speculative statements about its users

The redesigned user profile sees it fit to speculate about the motives and inclinations of the user. E.g. here: Apparently, this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them. We respect a laser-like focus on one topic. Keeping a low profile. This user hasn't posted... yet. ...

The Wobbuffet

00:31

yeah but it happened to my sock and i didn't blank the about me thing

or at least i don't think

anyway, i just wanted to know why it appeared

hichris123

Probably trims whitespace.

The Wobbuffet

it appears if the about me section is blank?

hichris123

yeah

The Wobbuffet

k

before i die i'm going to make sure to offer a bounty of the most rep i can

well, if i don't have more important things to do

tchrist

500 is all she wrote.

The Wobbuffet

00:34

yeah... i wouldn't be worrying about SO

!!/blame

SmokeDetector

@TheWobbuffet It's Alexis King's fault.

The Wobbuffet

who?

that polygony guy

tchrist

LDS?

The Wobbuffet

girl* :/

what's LDS?

tchrist

Mormons.

They’re into polygony.

The Wobbuffet

00:46

uhh... you mean polagomy or whatever?

what's it called?

polygamy?

yeah, that's it

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: What type of cell do you start with in Meiosis? by naynay on biology.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@pizza Blacklisted user.

The Wobbuffet

bleh accidentally hit enter

James

seh

The Wobbuffet

00:51

the only show top 32 button in this chat looks unprofessional

Andrew T.

Was that a recently added feature? Because I just realized that ellipsis & arrow now.

tchrist

Ok, next time be more careful looking for images of "speed humps" on Google Images.

hichris123

@AndrewT. It's only when there's more than a certain number of users in the room.

Roombatron5000

earned my first ever tumbleweed I never thought this was possible for me, but I'd like to thank all those that viewed that question and did nothing, for it wouldn't have been possible without your kind inaction

Doorknob

> wouldn't of

ಠ_ಠ

Braiam

00:55

@Roombatron5000 google can't do anything.. :/

Anonymous

@hichris123 Hmm. Dunno. Completionism. The old profile looked ugly with fields missing. To be ready if I ever do put up a web site. Maybe.

Roombatron5000

pro tip: if you earn tumbleweed badge, it's likely that you aren't making your questions controversial enough

Braiam

where was that post about curious badges not being awarded?

Andrew T.

@Roombatron5000 I can see that (on vanilla Chrome).

hichris123

Eeek did the question voting arrows on mSE just move?

Doorknob

00:59

No, the padding of the question body just increased.

user259867

@hichris123 Someone broke CSS, adding weird padding on the left.

user259867

I was just about to comment on it, seeing it here.

Andrew T.

eek, that's horrible

user259867

But it turned out to be not a flaw of that question, but general b0rkiness.

hichris123

Oh it's cross-network?

ugh.

Braiam

01:00

where's the Jin-signal?!

hichris123

Where's nicael when you need him?

Doorknob

eeeeeeeeek

covers eyes

tchrist

@AndrewT. Did you know that vanilla is the most complex flavor known?

Braiam

closes browser and goes out

hichris123

btw @Doorknob: close vote? stackoverflow.com/questions/29548891/…

Doorknob

01:02

voted

Andrew T.

@tchrist I.. uhh... probably wouldn't know if you didn't mention that...

hichris123

ONE MORE! stackoverflow.com/questions/29548891/…

Braiam

meh, maybe we should make a "close [linux] friday"

Andrew T.

Roombatron5000

@hichris123 he hasn't logged in since hours before the election started

user259867

01:03

> The updates allow us to:

Use .svg sprites for retina displays
More easily add new bugs to all of our sites in the future

2

hichris123

@pizza lol

tchrist

@AndrewT. Just which ones it has varies between a great deal between types, but real vanilla has about two hundred discernible flavor/aroma components. Chocolate is next with merely fiftyish.

Doorknob

@AndrewT. ahhhhhhhhhh

hichris123

@Roombatron5000 He wasn't pingable.

@Braiam I downvoted probably 10 or so that'll be roomba'd when the 30-day roomba runs.

Braiam

@AndrewT. MY EYES ANDREW, MY POOR EYES!

@hichris123 needs to be 30 days old... it's only 6

tchrist

01:05

4

A: Why non-flavored variant is usually vanilla?

Why Vanilla??? Vanilla is a rich and powerful flavor, with over 200 flavor compounds besides the basic vanillin. Due to its complexity and neutral flavor, it can be combined with a plethora of other flavors without conflicting. It just provides a good neutral base to build on. The vanilla als...

Roombatron5000

@AndrewT. weird, something was bugged on my end.. strange since never happened before though , deleted question

tchrist

Compare club soda with cream soda: the former has nothing, the latter has vanilla (and stuff).

Andrew T.

@tchrist thanks, looks interesting!

tchrist

Vanilla is delicious.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Spring UnsatisfiedDependencyException error by yangho on stackoverflow.com

user259867

01:09

@SmokeDetector Blame it on Korea. But VLQ

Doorknob

/me is half Korean :(

user259867

@Doorknob I'm blaming the other half.

Doorknob

lol

tchrist

@pizza ɹɐʍɯɐq? :)

James

@SmokeDetector tpu teardorp

SmokeDetector

01:15

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

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: show me that a function has reverse only if it is bijective by Caio Lucas on math.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: I need help trying to find the name of a hentai anime? by Oscar Oliverio on anime.stackexchange.com

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector ignore, uhh...

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

user259867

So many 128x128 avatars are now badly pixelated in new profiles...

hichris123

@Braiam I downvoted others, but for this one, you're right.

cv-plz dupe stackoverflow.com/questions/29617173/…

tchrist

01:31

@pizza Why for?

hichris123

How many dupes of that alignment bug do you think we'll get?

user259867

@tchrist Because the avatars are now 164×164 instead of 128×128.

tchrist

Ah.

Roombatron5000

Is andrew barber the second mod that was going to be removed after animuson, or is there still one more?

hichris123

@tchrist I'm betting that's grammatically correct (since you're tchrist), but I've never really seen that used...

@Roombatron5000 One more.

user259867

01:33

@Roombatron5000 He's gone already. Another one will step down.

Roombatron5000

geeze, we will need another election before august then..

user259867

@Roombatron5000 Either that, or less-stupid comment flags.

user259867

At present, my script redirects from profile to activity tab of the profile.. this turns out to be suboptimal because the profile tab still flashes before being replaced. I guess it's better to rewrite all profile links on SE pages, replacing them with ...?tab=topactivity

Roombatron5000

@pizza or less stupid comments

user259867

*fewer

Roombatron5000

01:37

*not as many

offensive comment on blog post blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/04/…

user259867

Can't flag, but perhaps @JonEricson can nuke it... ^

tchrist

@pizza ewwwwww somebody needs to

Roombatron5000

111 million people reached!

tchrist

Take one down, pass it around. . . .

user259867

Old blog posts naturally acquire various cruft (usually profile link spam) and there's little reason to care. But while the post is linked in all the sidebars, it's a bit different...

Roombatron5000

01:43

@Makoto Shog9 has 1.4 million people helped on Meta.SE. I'm sure Jon Skeet's number on SO would likely be at least 7.5 million if not like 40 million with that same algorithm. — Roombatron5000 Nov 27 '14 at 21:56

I was way off

tchrist

Are you German?

Or Dutch?

Or Chaucer? :)

Roombatron5000

Metal head

tchrist

Oh, Scandinavian.

Alexis King

Has @nicael gone incognito for the election season?

Roombatron5000

@AlexisKing yes. Maybe his real account is a contender in the election?

Alexis King

01:49

@Roombatron5000 Half of Martijn's votes are actually just nicael's socks.

user259867

@Roombatron5000 Or he got a restraining order from SE for the election period. Just in case.

Roombatron5000

lol

Braiam

@SmokeDetector that's nsfw...

rlemon

blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/04/…

really ??

user259867

Reported above, CM pinged...

rlemon

01:56

k

user259867

Okay, rewriting profile links isn't hard:

user259867

var u, i, links;
if (window.location.href.indexOf('/users/')==-1) {
  links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
  for (i=0; i<links.length; i++) {
    u = links[i].href;
    if (u.indexOf('/users/')>-1) {
      links[i].href=u+'?tab=topactivity';
    }
  }
}

user259867

All links to profiles now point to Activity, unless they are on profile page itself.

user259867

Bye bye the air of mystery.

Jon Ericson

@pizza Gone

Andrew T.

02:03

\o/

AstroCB

@JasonC The election dashboard is really nice now.

It was good before, but wow.

tchrist

@AstroCB linky?

AstroCB

@tchrist disorient.ddns.net/SOVoteMonitor

tchrist

> The http://disorient.ddns.net/SOVoteMonitor/ has been deemed by your administrator to be unsafe or unsuitable for you to access. The resource has been blocked. No further action is required.

Reason: Reputation-Viruses

AstroCB

Nice.

SmokeDetector

02:04

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user, blacklisted website: Easy way get WOW gold to spend less money get most gold just in here! by user263838 on gamedev.stackexchange.com

Jason C

@AstroCB Thanks! I'm pretty proud of this update; I'm versioning the data now and having the server send 304's if not modified. Eases up the bandwidth a bunch.

hichris123

@SmokeDetector tpu

James

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@hichris123 Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

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

user259867

Hilariously broken layout, with usercard overlapping sidebar...

tchrist

02:06

@AstroCB Too much putation, apparently.

AstroCB

tchrist

Gracias

user259867

New profile doesn't say about unregistered users that they are unregistered...

AstroCB

@pizza bug

status-bug

Alexis King

@AstroCB @bjb would be proud

AstroCB

02:09

Why? OS X?

Alexis King

@AstroCB Safari. :P

AstroCB

That too.

I like the shadow; for most people on OS X, that's the default for screenshots, but I could never figure out how to do it with GUI/keyboard shortcuts.

I use screencapture -iW ~/Desktop/screen.jpg

Alexis King

It's Cmd+Shift+4, then you press Space to enable window-capture mode.

AstroCB

Space?

Alexis King

I use it a lot. ;)

AstroCB

02:11

That's

Genius

user259867

How many additional votes have @JasonC received because of the Vote Monitor project? :)

AstroCB

I knew CMD+3 and +4, but I didn't know how to enable the screen capture. Wow.

Jason C

@pizza Recent trends suggest that Me - Undo would be a good estimate, lol.

AstroCB

02:24

@hichris123 got a boost.

hichris123

In terms of... votes?

AstroCB

Yes

Jumped Idan by a lot

!scores

xkcdBot

1. Martijn Pieters (40/40): 9725
2. meagar (40/40): 6498
3. Jon Clements (40/40): 5282
4. Matt (40/40): 4794
5. Second Rikudo (40/40): 4637
6. deceze (39/40): 3638
7. Raghav Sood (38/40): 2813
8. Paresh Mayani (38/40): 2728
9. Jeremy Banks (39/40): 2598
10. Jason C (36/40): 2278
11. Undo (30/40): 2268
12. Ed Cottrell (33/40): 2244
13. slugster (37/40): 2133
14. Qantas 94 Heavy (27/40): 1571
15. Andy (29/40): 1267
16. Sergey K. (34/40): 1195
17. vcsjones (39/40): 1009
18. rekire (37/40): 751
19. Thomas Owens (33/40): 709

AstroCB

Plot twist: nicael hacks into SE and makes Martijn lose.

!comp integral[-3,0] of sqrt(x+3) + integral[0,3] of sqrt(3-x)

Jan Dvorak

... and enthrones BJB

5

bjb568

02:29

4 sqrt(3)~~6.9282

Qantas 94 Heavy

Plot twist: the scores are actually based on ascending order.

hichris123

Someone should go close stackoverflow.com/questions/29548891/… for my sanity's sake.

AstroCB

@hichris123 The deed is done.

hichris123

claps

How about stackoverflow.com/questions/28490688/osx-empty-trash-usb-drive too?

AstroCB

!comp pi*(integral[-3,0] of x+3 + integral[0,3] of 3-x)

bjb568

02:33

9 pi~~28.2743

Doorknob

@hichris123 That was around for way too long -_-

AstroCB

> Today, while using OSX Yosemite, I deleted a directory occupying 130 GB from a MS-DOS (FAT32) partition on USB disk drive. As a result these 130 GB were moved to a trash. I just lost 130 GB disk space.

Whoops.

> However, I got the following esoteric (I asked to delete, not to copy) message: "You can’t copy the item “InfoPlist.strings” because its name is too long or includes characters that are invalid on the destination volume." and the process stopped.

Hmm...I don't think esoteric means what you think it means.

Jan Dvorak

Perhaps, but the use of "obscure" almost got me banned once

bjb568

02:53

@Barmar Ar sabstotet tham woth athor vewals! — bjb568 15 secs ago

@AlexisKing :D

I'm so ahead of y'all, instead of doing mostly nothing for 5 hours, I slept! Now I can do things.

Jan Dvorak

wd!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE TWO CHEMICAL FORMULA''S by Derek Morrison on chemistry.stackexchange.com

Alexis King

@JanDvorak Shog is dead, long live Teh Kitteh!

Jan Dvorak

@AlexisKing [citation-needed]

2

bjb568

Go proofread your votes, people. I accidentally clicked the wrong arrow for Qantas :p

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