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19:06

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Putting tags above blocks when looked at by Fuck on gaming.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector VLQ, plus offensive username

user259867

offensive gaming.stackexchange.com/a/214391 -- by the same user

Pham

Bad Username A (100%): ✩★✩★ ✩★✩★✩★✩ ★✩★✩ ★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★✩★, by □ ✩★✩★, on gaming.stackexchange.com.

Mooseman

^^ Free flags x2

bjb568

Vote up Jason C, vote down Ed Conttrell! There's less than an hour left and they're tied!

Ed Cottrell

19:10

@bjb568 Gee, thanks...

bjb568

… or you can do the other way around if you prefer.

Undo

lol

Unihedro

Pham!! You're back!

bjb568

Ed's too old. He's all greyscale.

Undo

@Mooseman one gone

Unihedro

19:11

@Undo s/one/both/

Undo

yay

bjb568

Also, he doesn't review properly. stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/7657401

Undo

@bjb568 Looks right to me

bjb568

no

It's incomprehensible crap.

Undo

here, let me show you. Give me five minutes to finish what I'm doing

bjb568

19:13

stackoverflow.com/review/triage/7649666 is ot/13

stackoverflow.com/review/triage/6887957 is ot/13

stackoverflow.com/review/triage/6887949 is code req tb

Undo

crap-digging-up season is over, that was nominations :P

bjb568

stackoverflow.com/review/triage/6887665 is unclear

stackoverflow.com/review/triage/6887940 is unclear

stackoverflow.com/review/triage/6887718 is tb

That gets my downvote even without strategic voting.

Moderators can't be afraid to delete crap.

Ixrec

what does "13" mean?

Shog9

@Ixrec data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/302946

bjb568

Offtopic id 13, not enough info.

Shog9

19:19

> Questions seeking debugging help ("why isn't this code working?") must include the desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the shortest code necessary to reproduce it in the question itself. Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers. See: How to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example.

bjb568

Basically 90% of questions fall under this because they ask for debugging without an MVCE.

Conspicuous Compiler

Hold on guys, I need to go upvote Ed before I read the rest of this discussion.

bjb568

:o

wow, they're still tied

rene

I wonder what happens if they are tied?

Alexis King

in Stack Overflow 2015 Moderator Election Chat on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 hour ago, by yellowantphil

Stack Overflow will crash on the tie, and all questions will be deleted

bjb568

19:21

Let's tie them!

rene

@AlexisKing Ah that sounds like a reasonable outcome

bjb568

Apr 10 at 18:39, by ProgramFOX

@Mooseman Awesome! Easiest way to remove all low-quality questions!

Shadow Wizard

@Werner not up to me, but the one who deleted can easily do that... ;)

user259867

Rollback? stackoverflow.com/posts/24767685/revisions

bluefeet

@pizza yes

user259867

19:32

Thanks! (I'm <2K, so didn't do it myself)

MARamezani

Guys, a question.

bluefeet

@pizza get some rep

MARamezani

Can there be a penalty for doing these harmful edits?

Alexis King

@MARamezani If it happens more than once, a suspension.

MARamezani

For example, if a guy got 10 edits rollbacked by a 2k, then some rep penalty, or yes, suspension.

Oh wait.

Alexis King

19:34

Someone was doing that sort of thing lately in the scheme tag, I flagged it, and the user got suspended for a week.

MARamezani

There's already such thing?

Alexis King

It's not automatic, no.

MARamezani

Hmm,

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I think flags do fine. But what if, the thing goes unnoticed. I mean, "unnoticity" gets to happen at SO sometimes.

Alexis King

@MARamezani If it goes unnoticed, it's probably not a problem in the first place.

Mooseman

> What is the difference between the Windows and Linux - Some closed question

MARamezani

19:38

@Mooseman Win starts with W, and Linux stars with L. That's it.

Mooseman

@MARamezani Linux is free.

MARamezani

@Mooseman In some places, Win is free too. XD

Kinda free.

Don't wanna talk about it.

rene

With Windows you are free

MARamezani

@rene Ah! Finally someone on my Win side!

Mooseman

Linux development doesn't require a Microsoft account for anything.

Bart

19:40

Windows doesn't require me to deal with Linux.

MARamezani

This is going to be interesting....

Bart

Your definition of "interesting" probably doesn't match with mine

MARamezani

O.0

Okay. This is going to be dirty.... Whatever.

rene

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

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

Mooseman

19:42

@SmokeDetector del

user259867

Alright, I think it's time to add Salesforce to excluded sites for email regex... it makes sense that CRM manages emails. @hichris123

hichris123

Of course you ping me when I just got home.

I'll take a look in a few minutes.

But in other news, meta.stackexchange.com/posts/253659/revisions was [status-declined]. :(

Jason C

Is there any way to position the content of a page below a position:fixed sticky page header besides duplicating the contents of the header behind it? Doing it that way looks OK, except when the user follows #anchor links, then the anchor is initially up behind the header.

Or is there a way to force anchor links to scroll the anchor to the bottom of the header?

MARamezani

@hichris123 Gosh! Everyone's talking about that now.

Jason C

Challenge: The header is dynamically sized.

hichris123

19:48

@MARamezani Well, it was my answer. :P

MARamezani

Well, I for one, am not active, so I don't need activity...

But it's awesome that

user259867

3 hours ago, by pizza

The request to make Activity the default tab was declined...

MARamezani

> Actions speak louder than words.

hichris123

@pizza I wasn't home. :P

I'm really annoyed though -- while the new profile page may look pretty, the functionality of it has gone way down.

Might have to userscript it.

user259867

@hichris123 That's my current plan. But it should be done before profile tab even begins to load, otherwise looks ugly.

Conspicuous Compiler

19:51

I haven't noticed any functionality missing that was there before. What's been removed?

ASCIIThenANSI

How do I track the progress of my flags?

user259867

@ASCIIThenANSI Click "X helpful flags" in the profile

hichris123

@ConspicuousCompiler Nothing has been removed per se, but it's much harder to get to.

user259867

user259867

@hichris123 Except age and unregistered status.

MARamezani

19:54

Freehands!

Even in chat!

:O

It's an epidemic!

ASCIIThenANSI

@pizza This is strange. I know I flagged something, but now, the flag history is gone and it says I didn't use a flag today.

user259867

@ASCIIThenANSI Did you flag as spam?

user259867

There is no history if all your flags are spam flags. Which is a bug.

ASCIIThenANSI

@pizza No, I flagged for something to be migrated (moderator attention). It was, but it doesn’t say I have a helpful flag.

MARamezani

@ASCIIThenANSI Maybe cuz it wasn't helpful?

Declined I mean.

ASCIIThenANSI

19:58

@MARamezani But it was migrated successfully, and it has no record of ever being in my flag history.

MARamezani

O.O

Undo

T-1:30

user259867

@ASCIIThenANSI Maybe you dreamed of flagging it.

user259867

If a flag is not in not listed in http://stackoverflow.com/users/flag-summary/{user-id}, did it ever exist?

ASCIIThenANSI

@pizza Haha, no. I'm certain. The page actually exists.

MARamezani

19:59

@ASCIIThenANSI Maybe at first the migration was aborted, just saying.

bjb568

veryman.expert

ASCIIThenANSI

@MARamezani And then someone just re-migrated it? That still doesn't explain why my flagging history still doesn't mention it.

MARamezani

@ASCIIThenANSI Maybe your flagging history is pulling your leg?

ASCIIThenANSI

@MARamezani Maybe it's a bug, but I've never seen this mentioned by anyone before.

user259867

Yay, 12th Marshal on Android, after @AndrewT. and @bummi

MARamezani

20:01

Congrats!

ASCIIThenANSI

@pizza Congratulations!

hichris123

I almost have Deputy. :P

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in body: Orthogonal Complements and Subspaces Proof by a deleted user on math.stackexchange.com

Andrew T.

@pizza :)

MARamezani

@hichris123 I barely have citizen patrol.

@SmokeDetector fpu

user259867

20:05

Candidates for NAA on Android -- I bookmarked this link and open it a few times a day.

MARamezani

Yay! I think I'm getting a hang of it.

user259867

Too bad there is no RSS feed for search results.

user259867

Not even a ticker "n new posts".

Andrew T.

!!/so2015

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Election voting ends in 3 days, 23 hours, 53 minutes and 33 seconds.

bjb568

20:14

aint alodin fo meh

Andrew T.

> Image not found

bjb568

should be Jeremy Bank's flair

Y U NO WERK? (pokes @shog)

Andrew T.

Anonymous

@bjb568 Ahh, I didn't realize I'd done that.

Anonymous

Oops. I guess I should fix that...

bjb568

20:16

Huh?

Andrew T.

SO doesn't work? But SE works?

bjb568

It's the image when I vote for you in the election.

Anonymous

@bjb568 Fixed.

Anonymous

The break may be cached for a while, though.

bjb568

Wait, how did you fix it?

Anonymous

20:18

~~No comment.~~ Secret moderator powers that extend backwards in time.

Bart

Man, a couple of my potential votes didn't make it.

Anyway. Done.

Andrew T.

@bjb568 now it magically appear

bjb568

:o

Anonymous

:D

Sterling Archer

Happy voting!

Anonymous

20:21

Vote for me or I'll break your flair. >_>

Sterling Archer

Good luck to all candidates!

bjb568

Chat login is borked.

It also complained at one point about referrer not be present.

hichris123

status-your-fault

bjb568

It also covered up a login button with a ugly topbar.

hichris123

I logged in just a few minute ago.

bjb568

20:22

It also made the login button reload the page.

It also doesn't have SVG icons.

Jason C

13

hichris123

neither do you, @bjb568. Neither do you.

bjb568

too late

Undo

hrm, idea.

Zero dev tool foolery involved there, I promise

2

Andrew T.

@JasonC do you plan to update the SO vote monitor to stop auto-updating data, since the primaries have ended?

Frank

20:29

lel

Jason C

@AndrewT. I do. It's on my list. I'll probably just make it stop querying client side after the primary end time has passed.

nicael

Andrew T.

ok, cool

nicael

whats this banner... did I miss something?

bjb568

it's a yuk banner

Ixrec

20:32

there's a meta post complaining about the wording in it

bjb568

click your notifs!

Andrew T.

^

Ixrec

the notifs/rep indicators are what I thought you were taking a picture of

nicael

of curs. didn't expect to have that +rep and motifs after being absent for only 10 days...

bjb568

20:55

motifs?

Motifs jump into my mind all the time.

(the music kind)

user259867

@Ixrec They did add the periods after sentences.

hichris123

@pizza done

user259867

@nicael You decided to take a break exactly for the duration of primaries? Was it because too many of the candidates were your sockpuppets?

Alexis King

21:11

@pizza Martijn is really @nicael's sockpuppet.

3

tchrist

21:31

So nicael is really a michael not a nichelle? :)

Santa Claus

21:56

I can only find two candidates I'm willing to vote for, which is a shame. @Undo should have gotten more votes in the primary :(

Undo

@SantaClaus Is Madara / Second Rikudo in your list of people to vote for yet?

Santa Claus

@Undo Didn't impress me.

Second Rikudo

Undo

in Stack Overflow 2015 Moderator Election Chat on Stack Overflow Chat, 2 hours ago, by Undo

Lynn Crumbling

@SecondRikudo Aww... sad puss-in-boots...

Undo

22:01

^ Who I'm voting for, if it helps

Santa Claus

@SecondRikudo AWH THATS A KUTE KAT

Undo

That's the Cat of Vote Getting.

Santa Claus

It worked.

2

Undo

This election is going to have a really interesting STV report, methinks

Second Rikudo

\o/

SmokeDetector

22:03

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in body: Measuring elapsed CPU time in Julia by eds on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in answer: Measuring elapsed CPU time in Julia by eds on stackoverflow.com

Undo

!!/alive?

SmokeDetector

@Undo ... did I miss something?

Undo

hrm, okay

user259867

@SmokeDetector All three posts are malformatted

Undo

22:14

@SmokeDetector fpu

SmokeDetector

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

hichris123

@pizza I need help with the question. What's Matlab syntax like?

user259867

@hichris123 >> is Matlab's command prompt, which is usually present in codeblocks to show it's taken from console mode.

tchrist

@hichris123 It likes to be fed and watered regularly.

user259867

So I would put everything into codeblock, leaving >> at the beginning. The line with >>\>> looks like someone's attempt to fight Markdown.

hichris123

22:24

I guess I need a Gardening & Landscaping person then. :P

@pizza ah okay. I got confused because of that.

tchrist

@Undo That always sound like the candidates are sleeping together. ;)

hichris123

So something like this, @pizza?

    >> tic; pause(1); toc
    >>Elapsed time is 1.009068 seconds.

    >> start = cputime; pause(1); elapsed = cputime - start

    >>elapsed =
    >>        0

user259867

@hichris123 No, the output would not have >> at the beginning

hichris123

@pizza ah, yeah.

user259867

>> tic; pause(1); toc
Elapsed time is 0.994753 seconds.
>> 2*2

hichris123

22:27

@pizza I think elapsed = is an input and 0 is an output?

user259867

@hichris123 No, it's output too. Example:

user259867

>> x = 2*2
x =
     4
>>

hichris123

really? huh.

Weird that it's not all on one line.

Undo

is your terminal wrapping weird?

hichris123

@Undo This is Matlab.

Undo

22:29

oh

user259867

@Undo It's because Matlab often works with matrices and vectors of decent size. So the output is likely to be pretty long. Having x = on the same line would mess up the alignment of columns.

Undo

Ahhhhh okay

makes sense

hichris123

Okay, I think that's right, @pizza. Saved my edit.

user259867

@hichris123 Looks good.

Undo

Ooooh Chrome on OS X plays nice with zooming gestures on my trackpad.

Thanks @hichris123

(you're supposed to take credit here, 'cause no one knows any better)

hichris123

22:32

@Undo Not my fault.

Oh wait.

Undo

wait, this is wierd

Apparently they're zooming around the page like an image.

Cool.

hichris123

@Undo Well, I did introduce a WebKit test to the Blink codebase that crashes on 10.6. Turns out our text shaping language (Harfbuzz) doesn't like RTL & LTR together on 10.6.

Undo

I could introduce a failing test too, where do I sign up? :P

hichris123

@Undo Go submit a patch. :P

We do have buildbots though so it would never get into the codebase. At least, it shouldn't.

Undo

if "x" != "y" { SOMETHING_IS_BORKED(K_SHOULD_OBVIOUSLY_BE_TRUE) }

hichris123

22:34

I'm assuming we didn't have a trybot with 10.6 on it.

@Undo if ("x" != "y") { ASSERT(FALSE) } or if ("x" != "y") { CHECK(FALSE) }

Undo

I was close :P

hichris123

CHECK() crashes the browser if the expression is false.

bjb568

22:50

Ballo

Y hallo

bjb568

23:25

tavern kill?

Y ping? Mobile borked.

user259867

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253791/…

user259867

!!/status

SmokeDetector

@pizza Running since 23:25:46 UTC (4 minutes)

bjb568

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Q: Is there an effective method for cleaning butts?

When bathing a child (particularly a baby under or around 1 year old, who can not stand on their own yet) is there an effective way to clean all of their body parts that are usually submerged under water? What I mean by this, is that regardless of the type of bathtub you use (or sink), the bottom...

I'll just drop this here.

user259867

They don't have a butt tag yet?

2

user259867

23:32

7

Q: The road to public beta: time to clean up Q&A on Health Stack Exchange

Well, this site's off to a roaring start! Kudos to everyone who has participated thus far; lotta great information here, and some promising signs of life from folks who are interested in helping each other learn more about human health. But, there are some rough areas... Answers that don't h...

discussion featured beta

Ixrec

@pizza any chance you could post the rest of this somewhere we could all see it? it sounds interesting

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: computing an integration with a floor function by John John on math.stackexchange.com

bjb568

23:50

parenting.stackexchange.com/q/3557/9608 (mild nsfw, noonebox) this thread is so ugh. I like Mia Clarke's answer

In fact, I think the 3 best answers are the ones on the bottom.

Jon Ericson

@Ixrec Just go to the Area 51 proposal and you should be able to visit the site.

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