Tavern on the Meta

yellowantphil

04:00

I should change my name to bjb569

Unihedro

:O

no no nO NO!

bjb568

zanier.ch kewl photographer

yellowantphil

I think SO would block a name change anyway... I changed it a week or two ago

Unihedro

meta.stackexchange.com/users/current kewl person

bjb568

oooooh reddit.com/r/infrastructureporn

Unihedro

04:02

@bjb568 reddit.com/r/cableporn

rule 34

bjb568

kinky!

I mean, err…

tchrist

@Unihedro No bjb porn in this chat.

Unihedro

Moderated chat!

yellowantphil

they should rename this room to BJB on the Meta

bjb568

Civilized chat!

@yellowantphil Lowercase

yellowantphil

04:03

BJB on the meta

tchrist

Now that's a capital idea.

Unihedro

BJb on teh metaz

Andy

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/29725632/189134

bjb568

Unihedro

@Andy flajjed aboos

bjb568

04:04

I like grills with hair like that ^^

Unihedro

deead

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 oh, so you did discover Caprica's new haircut?

bjb568

:p

tchrist

broke

yellowantphil

baroque

tchrist

04:08

ooh lah lah

I know the cause and cure.

bjb568

goo.gl/GTPA0A

yellowantphil

@tchrist if it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it?

bjb568

It's the damn euro.

tchrist

waits

bjb568

@yellowantphil OH LORD PLS THE SLANTYS

yellowantphil

04:09

the what?

bjb568

The slanty 's

tchrist

@bjb568 URI encode the utf8.

yellowantphil

a talking candle said that

I don’t know about any slants

bjb568

tchrist

Tolja.

bjb568

04:11

I wish it was high quality tho.

tchrist

*were

bjb568

whatever

tchrist

That is a different word.

yellowantphil

poor old subjunctive

do you Mac people have the private-use Unicode mapping of Klingon?   

tchrist

Come the day it fades away, you can find it on my tombstone.

@yellowantphil Fugly is forbidden on my box.

user259867

04:13

Bright Journey (ex-onStartups) looks kind of sad right now.

yellowantphil

do you have something against Klingon? 😲

bjb568

@yellowantphil only 3 of those

tchrist

Yes.

Tengwar.

yellowantphil

@bjb568 you’re probably getting three other random characters

@tchrist you like Tengwar? Are you disappointed that it still isn’t in Unicode?

AstroCB

@pizza Lots of scripts, bots, exams, etc.

tchrist

04:15

@yellowantphil Tacos and Vulcan salutes appear to be held in higher regard than actual letters. Idiots.

yellowantphil

they made a Tengwar proposal a long time ago. Don’t know what happened to it

bjb568

sigmaaldrich.com/technical-documents/articles/biology/… OH GOD IT ISN'T RETINA OPTIMISED

tchrist

@bjb568 z

@yellowantphil It is reserved. They will get to it.

I have a regex lib for it.

yellowantphil

@tchrist oh right. starting at U+11608... I think

Jan Dvorak

@yellowantphil I thought "private use" meant I could safely assume I wouldn't be getting those in any text I got from outside

bjb568

04:18

yellowantphil

@JanDvorak I guess I broke your assumptions

tchrist

amen

bjb568

@tchrist Yes.

Andy

@bjb568 Why do you keep posting the front page of reddit here?

If I wanted to reddit, I'd go to reddit

bjb568

Because.

Tavern needs those.

Most people don't reddit.

go get eaten by a croc

yellowantphil

04:20

@bjb568 I have that exact cat tree

tchrist

There goes the neighborhood.

There is a FAQ on Private Use vs Non-character code points.

yellowantphil

maybe Tengwar starts at U+16080... I can’t read this chart

they rejected Klingon because it’s copyrighted, if I remember right

and because everybody writes Klingon in the Latin alphabet

toDuj ʼoS rol.

Jan Dvorak

Done. Created an adblock entry for ##.user-237813 .message img on this site.

bjb568

user259867

@JanDvorak Cool, I'll add to my userCSS.

yellowantphil

04:29

first they block bots, now they block bjb. Where will we get our spam from?

Jan Dvorak

Note: uBlock's cosmetic filters don't seem to be live. Migrating to a network block rule.

wait, no, that won't work.

ah, got it. Cosmetic filters were turned off for me.

Can you throw me a photo, @bjb? I want to test if it works live.

yellowantphil

make it a picture of a cat riding a unicycle

bjb568

close enough

yellowantphil

a unicycle with a training wheel

Jan Dvorak

Works beautifully. Thanks!

bjb568

04:36

yup!

yellowantphil

that is the most wonderful picture I have ever seen

bjb568

:D

yellowantphil

🐱🚲

2

Jan Dvorak

@yellowantphil I can see those

yellowantphil

I didn’t want you to feel left out

bjb568

04:39

this is great

Jan Dvorak

@yellowantphil don't worry. I can always flash the filter off. I did it once. I don't want to do it ever again.

bjb568

yellowantphil

@JanDvorak I could just give you emoji transcriptions of all the spam you’re missing

bjb568

Yes! Somebody shows respect for triangles, for once.

Jan Dvorak

@yellowantphil as long as they work in Chrome Stable / Win, sure

yellowantphil

04:41

oh, I have no clue what works on windows

cat bicycle worked? hmmmmmmmmmmm

Jan Dvorak

The older ones do. I can copy/paste to notepad in a pinch, too

yellowantphil

maybe Windows 10 will have live long and prosper → 🖖

Jan Dvorak

Arrow works. The other one doesn't

bjb568

all works on mac

yellowantphil

someday, in the glorious future

I keep waiting for somebody using FreeBSD to sweep in and tell us we’re all lame

Jan Dvorak

04:44

@yellowantphil when it's possible to get Linux working on my machine, you mean?

Unihedro

Can I build a LAN network from my PC to my Phone through my wireless router to transfer files without using the adapter cable?

yellowantphil

that or Windows 10, maybe. Go to Linux! you can be cool like me

@Unihedro what phone OS?

bjb568

meh

android

he's too poor to get apple stuff

and not kewl enough

Jan Dvorak

Does Linux have fewer cripplingly bad updates than Windows now?

Unihedro

^ :/

bjb568

04:45

yellowantphil

I don’t know... I’ve never had a crippling update on Windows or Linux

bjb568

Does vista count?

Jan Dvorak

no.

yellowantphil

@bjb568 👩 🐅 ⛵

Unihedro

dis page laggy cuz many gifs

Jan Dvorak

04:47

21 mins ago, by Jan Dvorak

Done. Created an adblock entry for ##.user-237813 .message img on this site.

Andy

@Unihedro That's because it seems we have a feed from reddit and @bjb568 won't stop.

Jan Dvorak

Not laggy at all now

Unihedro

<_<

yellowantphil

my page is fine, even with a billion gifs

Andy

@bjb568 Please stop posting all the gifs in here.

yellowantphil

04:47

post jpegs

Unihedro

Don't post any at all.

Jan Dvorak

should we call @inf?

Unihedro

YOU ALREADY DID

feature-request room for gifs

yellowantphil

and bots

Unihedro

There's already one

yellowantphil

04:48

gifs and bots and bjb... the madness room

Unihedro

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/815/botlings-practice-room

Jan Dvorak

it would be a CATastrophe

bjb568

tavern spinoffs never work

yellowantphil

bjb on the meta will take off

Unihedro

@JanDvorak Purfect

bjb568

04:49

hm…

Unihedro

Gotta go

AstroCB

@bjb568 No API.

bjb568

Jan Dvorak

9 elements blocked by the cosmetic filter. Beautiful.

bjb568

substituted for better sign

Jan Dvorak

04:50

No change for me

bjb568

both cats and criticizing stupid business!

penguins can fly!

yellowantphil

@bjb568 ✈📱 🐧🐧

bjb568

:D

steve-patterson.com/no-chairs-do-not-exist

Andy

@JanDvorak Thank you

bjb568

> Physical reality is made up of fundamental “bits” of matter – call them “atoms”, “quarks”, or “Planck units”.

I must say… it's impressive to make up this BS.

The whole field!

Impressive that people can get a PHD in it.

2

yay tavern?

Jan Dvorak

05:05

Paid Higher Degree?

bjb568

something like that

AstroCB

You guys are going to love this.

// ==UserScript==
// @name           bjbSilencer
// @author         Cameron Bernhardt (AstroCB)
// @namespace  github.com/AstroCB
// @version        1.0
// @description  Removes bjb images from the Tavern
// @include        *://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/tavern-on-the-meta
// ==/UserScript==

function removeBjb(data) {
	for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
		if (data[i].addedNodes[0] && data[i].addedNodes[0].childNodes[0]) {
			obs.observe(data[i].addedNodes[0].childNodes[1], config); // Add observer to container node

Jan Dvorak

@AstroCB just use the chat ignore feature for that

AstroCB

Jan Dvorak

oh. it only removes the image

AstroCB

05:11

It replaces it with a link to the image if you really want to look at it.

Anonymous

@AstroCB Slick!

Jan Dvorak

or I can just turn the cosmetic filters in ublock off for a second

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW TO DO OP_RETURN TRANSACTION BITCOINJS by Jesus Pime on bitcoin.stackexchange.com

AstroCB

@JanDvorak Yes, but that's boring.

Jan Dvorak

@AstroCB but functional

AstroCB

05:13

Whatever works.

bjb568

nsfw and funny youtube.com/watch?v=HRYwiY2q1PE

Jan Dvorak

The cosmetic filter works by adding a single CSS to the document = unbelievably fast

bjb568

@AstroCB That should be not .

AstroCB

> This is the "old way". has no semantic meaning and only conveys the presentational effect of making the text italic. As far as I can see, this is clearly wrong because this is non-semantic.

Jan Dvorak

@AstroCB I think your script doesn't prevent the GIF from loading?

AstroCB

05:15

@JanDvorak Probably not, no.

bjb568

> The HTML Element represents a range of text that is set off from the normal text for some reason, for example, technical terms, foreign language phrases, or fictional character thoughts. It is typically displayed in italic type.

Jan Dvorak

Cosmetic filters do

AstroCB

It might, depending on how your browser handles it.

bjb568

@AstroCB You're thinking decade-old HTML 4

Anonymous

@AstroCB Are you using it to convey semantic meaning in this case? I could see an argument for it being merely stylistic in this case.

Jan Dvorak

05:16

@JeremyBanks css

AstroCB

100

A: CSS/HTML: What is the correct way to make text italic?

You should use different methods for different use cases: If you want to emphasise a phrase, use . The tag has a new meaning in HTML5, representing "a span of text in an alternate voice or mood". So you should use this tag for things like thoughts/asides or idiomatic phrases. The spec a...

> is included in HTML5, but it is given specific semantics. If the reason why you are marking something up as italic meets one of the semantics identified in the spec, it would be appropriate to use . Otherwise not.

bjb568

duh

pacoverflow

I suggested an edit on a post, and noticed that one person rejected that edit. Does anyone know if that person will be notified if I leave a comment to him on the post?

bjb568

nope

pacoverflow

thanks

bjb568

05:18

only for editors after their edits gone thru, not reviewers

pacoverflow

gotcha

Jan Dvorak

@bjb568 *through

bjb568

no

AstroCB

bjb568

NO

AstroCB

05:21

!xkcd find grammar

xkcdBot

No results found.

AstroCB

Google Search API down?

bjb568

took you a long time to find nothing

AstroCB

!xkcd find grammar

There we go.

@xkcdBot delete

bjb568

youtube video piIAfCNiuw; just throwing it out there, nsfw

ProgramFOX

05:40

Morning!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: How do I troubleshoot static noise in headphones connected to a computer that persists even after replacing the sound card? by tiddy on superuser.com

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu, and another answer a bit like that from the same OP

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user.

Jason C

05:57

@bjb568 Check out my totally awesome slide-out comments disorient.ddns.net/SOVoteMonitor/qa.jsp?q=n, which you will definitely hate.

That page is getting uglier by the second.

bjb568

What is this, nyt?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Retract/Remove Solution - SharePoint 2010 by user41550 on sharepoint.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user.

Jason C

@bjb568 Next I'm going to fill 75% of the viewable area with ads and irrelevant content, convert each response to a blurb that links to a page with the full response, and maybe smash them all into a broken slideshow too.

2

Oh I should also put like 100 pixels of spacing above the sticky header, for the content to show through above it.

bjb568

06:01

:o

Jason C

@Shog9 (or whoever) Are the page request rate limits separate for stackoverflow.com and meta.stackoverflow.com? Or does it look at both together?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: Three dots but no message in iMessages by user122593 on apple.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

cv-pls duplicate stackoverflow.com/questions/29721786/what-does-the-mean-in-c

bjb568

@JasonC I'd guess separate.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Does /setworldspawn affect /spawnpoint? by user108711 on gaming.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

06:13

cv-pls unclear stackoverflow.com/questions/29726453/…

abusive answer gaming.stackexchange.com/a/214578/79641

SmokeDetector

06:26

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Mathematically, why was the Enigma machine so hard to crack? by anime tiddy on math.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user.

bjb568

so, re me fa (so fa) me re do do- me so, fa me re re- me fa, me re…

What's that from?

Jan Dvorak

You've picked up the perfect time to ask this after all of these reports

bjb568

Great!

Jason C

06:30

Is this easier to read?

bjb568

no

Did you make it not-full-width?

Jason C

Yeah

Was just curious

I don't really like it either. Especially for the longer questions, which end up taking tons of vertical space.

bjb568

If you feel it's too wide, make it show comments on the right or something.

Don't just put huge columns of whitespace on either side.

AstroCB

How long until @JasonC gets hired by SE?

ProgramFOX

@AstroCB 6 to 8 weeks

3

AstroCB

06:44

Of course.

bjb568

Night!

ProgramFOX

Night!

it feels weird to say "Night!" at 8:45AM...

Unihedro

Night!

Infinite Recursion

07:08

Night!

bummi

Night!

Infinite Recursion

Should I kick bjb preemptively to avoid borkey? :P

Anonymous

07:28

@JasonC Yes. Full-width is evil.

Anonymous

It has been fun to watch that page evolve.

Bart

07:45

@InfiniteRecursion bjb has been kicked so often, his shins much be backwards by now.

bummi

07:57

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/16812399/1699210

Jan Dvorak

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/review/close/7712773

Unihedro

cv-pls also stackoverflow.com/review/close/7733657

Roombatron5000

Roomba didn't complete today meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/286092/…

bummi

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/23899318/1699210

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/3398133/1699210 (tired of spam flagging :()

Unihedro

08:16

Take a break :)

bummi

offensive apple.stackexchange.com/a/181604/55266

Unihedro

Can't Stack Exchange just hand out a temporary IP ban for users who try to sign up with a profane name?

Jan Dvorak

@bummi by spam, do you mean the -1 answer? Could be legit

Roombatron5000

@Unihedro like BrainfuckHero5000 ?

Unihedro

@Roombatron5000 \b{profanity}\b

Jan Dvorak

08:19

brain-fuck-hero-2000?

Unihedro

That's their problem for using hyphens...

bummi

@JanDvorak I did not flag, but I also do not AGF

Jan Dvorak

@bummi edit and watch?

FR: opt-in get notified if your edit gets rolled back or edited further

bummi

@JanDvorak did it here: serverfault.com/a/683814/185961

Unihedro

Any feeds for a Stack Exchange user?

stackexchange.com/users/4451090/unihedro

bummi

08:22

this one is too one of those I just hesitated : serverfault.com/a/683802/185961

Unihedro

Can't find it..

Jan Dvorak

custom flag?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How can I restart an app game from the beginning by Fuck you on apple.stackexchange.com

bummi

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@bummi Blacklisted user.

Unihedro

08:24

@SmokeDetector You're late.

Jan Dvorak

not later than mods

Unihedro

Apple mods are sleeping!

Roombatron5000

@Unihedro blog.codinghorror.com/…

should one-box codinghorror..

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ACCIDENTALLY ENTERED EMACS TUTORIAL HOW DO I GET BACK TO MY FILE by CCarlos on stackoverflow.com

Jan Dvorak

on-topic?

Unihedro

08:33

Haha, I think they have a declined flag.

Jan Dvorak

Maybe an active one?

PeterJ

Didn't realised flag counts for others could be viewed, take it that was part of the recent updates can't remember being able to see it before?

vaultah

Yep

Ixrec

08:51

@SmokeDetector fp

SmokeDetector

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

Roombatron5000

@Unihedro thanks, updated my feature request meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253579/…

Unihedro

HackOverflow reboot #3??????

bummi

reject the edit or just ignore (answer is a duplicate): stackoverflow.com/a/29727629/1699210

SmokeDetector

09:18

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in body: calculate pi with matlab,bad results by Kevin Ling on stackoverflow.com

Unihedro

09:30

Will Area51 get the new fancy profiles? :(

sigh

SmokeDetector

09:57

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: nike roshe run uomo & nike roshe run flyknit by songwenjie on wordpress.stackexchange.com

Ixrec

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

rene

@Unihedro probably not ... A51 codebase is forked from SE1.0 and the SE2.0 features never made into that fork. Asking for it will make Anna sad...

Unihedro

@rene But... it got tiny userplates

Ixrec

I'm still waiting for Programmers to get the new profiles

Unihedro

10:00

rene

so?

Does this need to be closed or to be answered?

Shadow Wizard

10:15

@rene well, Brent is working for Stack Exchange (not full time employee, more like freelancer as far as I remember) so in theory, he can answer this.

rene

@ShadowWizard OK, I'll leave it for them...

Shadow Wizard

@Unihedro what is a user plate?

Unihedro

19 mins ago, by Unihedro

the huge description row

Shadow Wizard

@Unihedro hmm... you missed the "more info" link. Click it and behold the miracle.

@rene actually it's not correct. Area 51 Discussion Zone is SE 2.0 site with the new codebase and is updated with the rest of the sites. It even got the new profile page, until someone spotted and it was manually removed.

rene

Oh...but I recall codechanges were hard to do because of it's special status.

Shadow Wizard

10:23

@rene only Area 51 itself. :)

rene

I must have messed things up in my old-brain

Shadow Wizard

its Meta (Discussion Zone) only got a special design

@rene nah, being per-site-meta the Discussion Zone doesn't get much attention.

rene

it is good to see that I'm with Animuson here

Unihedro

@ShadowWizard :(((

Shadow Wizard

status-retagged

simple as that :)

@Unihedro why sad?

Unihedro

10:28

cuz me likes area51

and itz bandond

rene

Do you have bjb-ism?

Unihedro

whats that?

rene

A common disease among taverns to utter words in a sort of txt-speech

Shadow Wizard

@rene it's highly infectious

Unihedro

@rene defanatley no

rene

10:34

@ShadowWizard Yes, and to prevent spreading users needs to get kicked often

Unihedro

i am sane

rene

@ShadowWizard still wonder why looks OK is the most chosen option there

@Unihedro denial is one of the syptoms...

Unihedro

@rene no deni

Shadow Wizard

@rene oh Triage.... must admit I have yet to delve into it. So, not sure ATM :)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Weight loss the more you will be able to benefit from Fat Burn X by mob tril786 on drupal.stackexchange.com

Ixrec

10:37

@rene No idea, I'm not even on SO and that jumps out to me as wrong in some way

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

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

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user, blacklisted website: Trying to move to Ubuntu at work by Diaa Attia on askubuntu.com

Ixrec

@SmokeDetector tpu again

SmokeDetector

@Ixrec Blacklisted user.

rene

Most triage reviewers assume it is a sort of beauty contest for questions. yeah, that one Looks OK

Ixrec

that question doesn't look particularly aesthetically pleasing to me

I assume the real reason is many people have a much lower bar for taking action than we do

rene

10:40

Just pick a php question or android and you'll have adapted your standards

Ixrec

lol

we had one on PSE the other day where someone asked "what encoding is this file in?" and pasted a wall of mojibake

rene

That Looks OK

Ixrec

it looked funny at least

@Qantas94Heavy tpu

Qantas 94 Heavy

@Ixrec Added to list of jobs to consider.

rene

gone

Unihedro

10:51

0

Q: Yet another reboot of HackOverflow - What's the difference?

Superscript: HackOverflow + HackOverflow will not be moving to private beta Seeing as a proposal with a similar scope and idea has failed launching, what's new about the current one that can change its fate and not to be doomed to fail? Proposal: HackOverflow

Ixrec

@SmokeDetector fp rofl

SmokeDetector

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

Ixrec

can someone with the rep to make trivial SO edits change stackoverflow.com/questions/29728870/… so that the title says "flag" instead of "fag"?

ProgramFOX

@Ixrec done

Unihedro

@ProgramFOX edited again

Ixrec

10:57

@Unihedro The discussion you link to 404s for me

Unihedro

@Ixrec Get 10k rep ;)

ProgramFOX

yeah indeed, the "HO will not be moving..." link is dead

Unihedro

I can't see it either -_-

ProgramFOX

@Unihedro On Area 51, that's pretty difficult :p

Only 6 people have 10k+

Unihedro

Poke a mod to take a pic of the question.

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