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12:06 AM
@hichris123 he's being nice... just not towards the kittens
 
!!/blame
 
@ASCIIThenANSI It's Sue's fault.
 
That isn't right. Let's do it again!
!!/blame
 
@ASCIIThenANSI It's Sue's fault.
 
12:08 AM
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!!/blame
 
@ASCIIThenANSI It's bjb568's fault.
 
You're to blame for this 'removed thing', eh?
I guess I could've just looked at the chat and found that out, though...
Anyways, I got an answer to a question of mine. For one of the steps, I know an alternative method, and have used it in an answer of mine. Is it acceptable to comment, linking my answer, or is that considered spamming?
 
12:26 AM
@AlexisKing bahaha
 
@JasonC This guy really never ceases to amuse.
 
We're going to need a wiki soon.
 
1 hour ago, by Alexis King
you did not understand do not write here only that interest in you do not understand ..duck show — Nikos Mantzakouras 17 mins ago
DUCK SHOW
 
OMG DUCK SHOW
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Dangers of sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') by Red Pill on stackoverflow.com
 
12:29 AM
@Martijn, it's baaack agaaain! D:
 
"Duck show" somehow brought back these fuzzy memories of a mushroom trip in a park with my friends in college involving a "dog choir". I don't remember the details, I just remember it was endlessly hilarious at the time. Now it's but a mystery.
Oh there was something about... a mad scientist who lived under the lake and watched everybody with robotic ducks. Crap. Now it's going to bug me. That was like 14 years ago.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Solving an expectation related to CIR process by Felix on math.stackexchange.com
 
Anonymous
Were the dogs affiliated with the scientist?
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
@AlexisKing Blacklisted user.
 
12:33 AM
@JeremyBanks I don't think so. I seem to remember them being incidental. Like we were looking for something then were momentarily distracted by a distant dog choir.
I think... I remember my friend rolling around in the grass and we asked him what he was doing, and he said "sorry, there was a dog choir". Then we investigated, found some guy fishing and stood their laughing at him for a while (in retrospect, very weird and probably threatening from his point of view), then went back to whatever we were doing.
 
I feel like there's a Freudian joke to be made here, but this is about two levels too bizarre for me to figure it out.
 
Anonymous
@JasonC Sounds like fun. :P
 
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Q: How can you get away with your sixth murder?

badpThis is the sixth room of the How To Get Away With Murder section of the new CotN advanced techniques tutorial: How do you clear this? Why did the game just give me a golden dagger? What does the green slime have to do with anything?

Arqade strikes again...
 
@AlexisKing Well, a duck show is just one step away from a donkey show, you know, except it has applications in program.
@JeremyBanks Well, "fun" is a matter of perspective, heh.
 
Anonymous
Sounds like quite a time. o.O
 
Anonymous
12:38 AM
There -- safely non-specific. :P
 
Well, "quite a time" is a matter of perspective, heh.
 
Sounds like quite a thought. o.O
There -- safely non-specific. :P
 
O.o o.o o.O O.O O.o o.o o.O O.O O.o o.o o.O O.O O.o o.o o.O O.O O.o o.o o.O O.O
 
Well, "o.O" is a matter of perspective, heh.
 
Sounds like quite an emoticon. o.O
There -- safely non-specific. :P
 
12:39 AM
Does it have applications in program?
 
Well, "safely" is a matter of perspective, heh.
 
I turn my back for two minutes...
 
Sounds like quite a time. o.O
 
Before @JasonC got here, we were having polite conversations about Unicode and caching. Now look at what we've become.
 
There -- chain safely completed. :P
 
12:41 AM
@AlexisKing Possibly. Although, here is the place for like put out a clear answer questions.
 
do not want
 
@JasonC is the problem in this world...
oh wait.
 
Morning all
 
Anonymous
Sounds like something or someone or somewhen that may or may not have happened. :O
 
evening.
 
12:41 AM
@hichris123 Whatever... duck show.
 
WAIT WHAT
 
Haha, can we change the description to "MY GOD, IT'S A DUCK SHOW!"
 
If I type "duck show" into googles images, I get THIS.
 
W A T
Why does this exist...
 
there's so many of them, too
 
12:43 AM
 
$(".leave").click()
 
Image file name: "duck fashion show"
 
The domain name from the image I posted is "incredible things".
Truly, there never was a more aptly-named domain.
 
@hichris123 $('<style>.user-image{display:none}</style>').appendTo(document.head)
 
Anonymous
Wow.
 
@Doorknob Does jQuery support registering listeners for DOM mutation events?
If so, I'll need to write a jQuery script that adds a new script tag to load jQuery every time a new script tag is added to the body. Then, finally, I may finally have enough jQuery.
 
Don't use too much jQuery, you don't want to go turning it into a duck show.
 
umm... why Bill still has a diamond?
 
@Braiam He's keeping the diamond for 6-8 generic units of time, to help out the new mods.
 
12:49 AM
@Shog9 Yo dawg, I heard you like cache.
 
^ unless I am unworthy to ask such things
 
@yellowantphil you are quite worthy. :)
 
you're worthy, but @hichris123 used up the quota. You'll have to ask him to free up a slot.
 
I feel a ban coming on
goodbye, cruel world
 
@yellowantphil it is taking me all my strength of will to not just add this as a comment 'BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. No'
 
1:14 AM
@SantaClaus Y en aquella hora que se te ocurra dibujarnos un algoritmo concreto con el cual podamos distinguir sin error alguno entre lo bueno y lo malo en este asunto, haznos el gracioso favor de anunciarlo el lo alto.
 
@Shog9 The person who has the power to free a slot ahem is doing nothing currently. Yeah, that person with a binding close vote... and a detached head...
 
Poor @Jeremy. What did you do to his head?
 
he had it coming
 
I uh... nothing.
 
two more will grow in its place. Jeremy will be fine
 
1:15 AM
you suspended it while trying to congratulate him on the election, didn't you
 
... I'm not going to live that down, am I.
 
@yellowantphil We all have it coming, and there is no elusion but illusion.
 
why live down when you could be living it up?
 
I like living it sideways, personally.
 
cata-something.
@Undo Over my dead body. Take a number: there's a line.
 
1:20 AM
@tchrist I think there are some people ahead of you in the line
Michael Everson wants to have a word with you
 
45 seconds to compile on my development machine, 1 hour, 10 minutes to compile on a Gumstix. I've spent like 5 hours today doing literally nothing but staring at gcc output and playing spacechem.
 
Unfortunately, the word was written in Elvish and cannot be reliably translated.
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@JasonC can't cross-compile?
 
Can't cross the streams!
 
@yellowantphil Setting up a cross-compilation environment would've been a great use of that time, huh.
 
1:24 AM
nah, spacechem is probably better
 
I love that game so much.
 
@yellowantphil Wrong line.
 
@JasonC I’ve never heard of it, but I’d rather try it than cross-compiling
@tchrist the line to kill you? 😲
 
Spacechem and Battle for Wesnoth are my two waiting-to-compile games. I think I subconsciously include too many std headers just to give myself extra play time.
 
Qt has the #include <everything_in_the_universe> header
 
1:27 AM
@JasonC i7 I assume on your dev machine?
 
@hichris123 Nope, a humble 2.3ghz i5.
 
so very humble
I can rent out ssh access to my computer if you want
 
Anonymous
@yellowantphil Two did grow, that's true, but one of them is small, deformed, and cursing incessantly. I'm not sure I'd call this "fine".
 
@JeremyBanks depends on what the other one is like
hyper-intelligent and only slightly maniacal?
 
"Hi. I'm your cat. I exist. This is my butt. Here, you can have my butt in your face now."
 
Anonymous
1:30 AM
@yellowantphil That's how it thinks of itself, at least.
 
incessantly watches duck shows?
 
Anonymous
It's also bald, but I expect that will fix itself in time.
 
@yellowantphil Pity there can be only one. I hate to disappoint so many of the rest of them. Or all of them.
 
@tchrist just resurrect a lot
 
Read Endymion.
 
1:31 AM
@tchrist Your message is a lot funnier if applied to Jeremy's heads.
 
@tchrist which one?
 
> Eventually, you will achieve enlightenment. You will realize that Fake Internet Points are a means to an end, but not an end unto themselves. And then you will downvote.
 
@JasonC ... that would probably take 1 second on my machine then. :P I can do a full Chromium build in ~90 minutes.
 
@hichris123 45 seconds doesn't bug me. 70 minutes is the pits.
 
I tried to compile firefox on my laptop once. It crashed after half an hour. out of memory
 
1:33 AM
@yellowantphil Right question. Start where you will but end with Simmons.
 
@JasonC 24+ hours is worse. I tried to do a Chrome build on an '03 Pentium 4. That... wasn't the best idea.
 
Yuck
 
@tchrist before or after Creatures of Light and Darkness?
 
I remember it taking 8+ hours to compile xorg on whatever computers were fast in 2003.
 
@JasonC gentoo user or just crazy eccentric?
 
1:34 AM
Yeah, having a new i7 is nice. I was using a Core 2 Duo, but this is way faster.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Why is the plural of “deer” the same as the singular? by hyam on english.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector Huh? NAA
 
@yellowantphil Gentoo. There was a period of like 2 months where the lab I was at switched to Gentoo while flailing wildly looking for a Red Hat replacement around the time that all the early Fedora builds were broken in some way or another.
 
@JasonC Slackware!!!
that’s what I used in 2003. at least late 2003
 
@yellowantphil After. Creatures is tiny, like 120pp. Endymion is the first half of the second of two linked diptychs begun in Hyperion. The other great literary space opera diptych from Simmons is Ilium and Olympos, which is unrelated to the Hyperion/Endymion tetraptych.
 
1:38 AM
We settled on Debian then moved to Ubuntu at some point around 2006.
 
Ubuntu is too friendly
I want a nice, user-hostile experience
 
Simmons lives here in Boulder County BTW.
 
DOS?
 
@tchrist I’ve been to that county, if that counts
 
A Turing machine is a hypothetical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite its simplicity, a Turing machine can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer algorithm, and is particularly useful in explaining the functions of a CPU inside a computer. The "machine" was invented in 1936 by Alan Turing who called it an "a-machine" (automatic machine). The Turing machine is not intended as practical computing technology, but rather as a hypothetical device representing a computing machine. Turing machines help computer scientists understand the...
 
1:40 AM
@yellowantphil Yeah there was a point in my life where I realized I just wanted zero effort.
 
I want my computer to do nothing without me telling it to. Therefore, the bane of my existence is.......... SYSTEMD!!!!!!!
 
@JasonC Like Turing's apple.
 
I am thinking of ditching Linux because the world has gone SystemD
I need to try FreeBSD
 
@yellowantphil Stocking up on Soldier of Fortune, Greenpeace tracts, Frozen Dead Guys, String Cheese Incident, or Colorado Kind?
 
@tchrist I don’t remember why I was there. maybe a tour of something for school. I lived in Loveland
 
1:44 AM
If you don't remember, it was probably for the bud.
 
seems more than a little doubtful
 
Bela Fleck plays here too and is worth seeing, hearing, meeting.
 
I haven’t been to Colorado except when driving through since 1999
 
Loveland; No longer the loneliest little whorehouse east of Vegas.
 
I get the feeling that you live in a parallel universe
 
1:48 AM
I don't know why you say that. Spock looks fine in a goatee.
 
they did one too many universes in Star Trek. I have given up on it
 
There can be only one.
 
tell that to the Star Trek writers
 
There is nothing you would not do for a billion dollars.
 
I have no use for a billion dollars
I only need so many aircraft carriers in my private lake
 
1:53 AM
You could buy an imagination with it.
 
@yellowantphil Are the buttercups in blossom already? It seems too early, yet there the little froggies are anyway.
"A lot of people can be confusing, but Aliera's mother is the only person I know who always makes everyone around her sound like complete gibberish."
 
@yellowantphil MODEST. That's the worst I was looking for.
 
Pictures at an Exhibition?
 
A ... Duck Exhibition?
 
1:59 AM
@JasonC “humble” seems fine to me
I should write a speech-to-text bot that spams everybody with the lyrics to the music I have playing
♪ take a moment and breathe life in ♪
^ that was a preview
huh, those lyrics uniquely identify the song I’m listening to, if duck duck go is any indication
 
@Doorknob around?
 
Lieder ohne Worte
 
@tchrist now I hope those songs actually had words
 
Not all do.
 
I think my music teacher would say that all songs have words, by definition
 
2:06 AM
So this is a thing that got posted: etherkiller.org
 
so I’m safe with my US-style power outlets? 😒
 
I'm in Australia so I'm also safe
 
Anonymous
Who uses ethernet these days? ;)
 
HDBaseT cables were supposed to carry 100 W, and they’re Ethernet-shaped
 
2:08 AM
@JeremyBanks who doesn’t?
 
Anonymous
@yellowantphil Well, most non-commercial users probably don't use them on their personal computers any more.
 
Anonymous
And you're less frequently messing with your router, so that's a smaller... attack surface, I guess.
 
@hichris123 Yep
 
@JeremyBanks am I that much of an outlier? I have ethernet all over my house
I would shut off wi-fi entirely if I could plug Ethernet into my phone
 
Anonymous
@yellowantphil I had, too, but the cables had just been lying in the walls unused for the last few years. I and most folks are too lazy to plug things in, and would rather take the performance hit.
 
2:12 AM
I’m too lazy to put the cables inside the walls or attic. They’re just hooked to the walls
and none of my computers ever move
 
Anonymous
I'd probably bother plugging it in if I had a desktop, not a laptop, but I don't, and most of the consumer market is the same.
 
@Doorknob Can I have a close vote here? stackoverflow.com/questions/29482434/…
 
hey you’re over your quota 🐱
 
@hichris123 walks in with 50 close votes and is ignored
 
2:15 AM
@SantaClaus Doorknob is the designated poke-ee.
@yellowantphil It's one of the questions from above. :) And they're all closed now.
 
I have An Idea.
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@tchrist uh oh
 
@tchrist *WHAP*
 
including the one you posted, @yellowantphil.
 
@hichris123 I just noticed that. all is right in the world
@SantaClaus if you really want to close something: stackoverflow.com/questions/29720767/…
 
2:17 AM
Let's make Close Bots that we can leave running when we get our night 3-hour naps. That way anyone can prod them into spending them automagically while we're catburH^H^Hnapping.
 
@yellowantphil Only because you tempt me.
 
!!/blame
 
@yellowantphil It's Braiam's fault.
 
@SantaClaus I tempt no one
@tchrist I’m going to forward all of Shog’s posts to all Close Bots
 
!!/BLAME SHOG
 
2:19 AM
@SantaClaus It's Braiam's fault.
 
Oh?
 
Still Braiam's fault.
 
Always Braiam's Fault.
 
@SantaClaus It's yellowantphil's fault.
 
Wouldn't that be a lovely use of resources? Aunt Polly says it would be a buttload of fun. We could even get Shog to play.
 
2:20 AM
!ping SmokeDetector
 
Prepare to be pinged, @SmokeDetector.
 
!ping Shog
 
@SantaClaus How dare you try to ping the mighty Shog?
 
@yellowantphil Oh if he were really nice to us and brought us tomato sundaes, we could even let him run a close bot.
 
Prepare to be pinged, @doorknob.
 
2:21 AM
Wasn't me.
 
Don't forgt to include the DESTROY ACCOUNT close-vote option.
 
we just need Jeremy to run a close bot
I’ll forward every C# question to it
 
Just the major ones or the minor ones, too?
 
also dorian
the other modes are fine
 
Dear Xcode 6.3.1, plz don't be buggy
 
2:25 AM
actually I like dorian mode, because the Gilligan’s Island theme song uses it
 
@yellowantphil Those are the ones that seem so nice till you regard them in the mirror all corpse-grey.
 
@tchrist As long as it can suspend people, I'm fine with it.
 
Scarborough Fair.
Greensleeves.
 
!!/blame the guy who made me check my Tavern window because of that ping
 
@Doorknob It's Jeremy Banks's fault.
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2:26 AM
@tchrist the vampire of musical modes?
 
Stairway to Gilligan's Island.
 
sounds like a great song
 
@Doorknob Uh oh, you blamed an SO mod. Better start running now.
 
Here they are powerless.
 
@Doorknob It wasn't me don't worry I wouldn't dare mess with a doorknob
 
2:28 AM
!!/blame the one whose fault it is for making me blame a SO mod
 
@Doorknob It's hichris123's fault.
 
Now you've blamed two mods
 
!!/blame the user who keeps starring those blame messages and clogging up the starboard
 
@Doorknob It's Shog9's fault.
 
Here at R'lyeh it is a sanctuary against all evils -- but one.
 
2:28 AM
Psshhh, I would expect better of the Almighty Shog than frivolous starring.
 
ERROR: Attempted to parse HTML with regular expression; system returned Cthulhu.
 
@Doorknob It's @Doorknob's fault!
 
Tired of settling for the lesser evil? Vote Campus Crusade for Cthulhu.
 
@SantaClaus What if, perhaps, you are?
 
@xkcdBot stfu you're a bot you can't talk
 
2:31 AM
@SantaClaus Says whom?
 
I'm gonna do that next year. "I will monitor Cthulu for signs of life, and alert Meta if he moves. Vote for me!"
 
@xkcdBot Says Santa.
 
Santa Claus, patron saint of homicidal scratching.
 
just me or google is cranky?
 
@Braiam u
 
2:36 AM
Santa Cruz: Santa's little helpers by day and patron saints of clandestine hookups by night.
 
Honestly the star board shouldn't be so fragile that me starring a few messages can fill it up with shit instantly.
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an admission of guilt!
 
@SantaClaus We could take all your stars away... :P
 
@Undo nononononononono I like my precious stars
 
What happened to 68?
Payback time?
@Undo Who can see the Milky Way?
Via Galactica?
Almond Joy?
Silver Surfer?
 
2:47 AM
Hey, @tchrist, glad you're here: can wholemeal be used as an antonym for piecemeal, or are they disparate words?
 
wholemeal sounds like a breakfast food
 
(I'm planning to use tchrist as my EL&U Lite from now on. :D)
 
So question, in Help and Improvement, if I click this question is very low quality, it automatically raises a very low quality flag?
 
@AlexisKing Pulses have beem used for meall in the past but not so great for that.
 
Great, now we need a bjb decoder and a tchrist translator.
 
2:51 AM
I’ll translate tchrist’s text into bjbspeak
@tchrist kitteh
or actually...
!bjb Pulses have beem used for meall in the past but not so great for that
 
pulsez have beem used for meeell in the past but no noty greeet for dat [translated]
 
That translates English into bjbspeak, so it doesn't work on tchrist.
 
somebody needs to write a tchrist bot then
!tchrist Pulses have beem used for meall in the past but not so great for that
@xkcdBot delete
a tchrist bot other than that one
 
@Inf, why is xkcdBot even still in this room?
 
look how un-disruptive it is! just say @xkcdbot delete
 
2:55 AM
@xkcdBot delete xkcdBot
@yellowantphil Didn't seem to work. ^
 
@xkcdbot kick Alexis King
 
xkcdbot is powerless
 
If only bjbot had a delete command...
 
we need more bots
all you bot-haters ಠ_ಠ
 
2:58 AM
Is it a bad thing in VLQ if I'm just using no comment needed 90% of the time?
 
terrible! ...I have no idea
 
@James No.
 
!!should James keep saying “no comment needed”?
I probably typed that wrong
bah
 
@James See the bottom of this shameless plug of my own Meta.SO answer.
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A: You're doing it wrong: A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue

Alexis KingI agree with this in principle. If an answer is just flat-out wrong, that does not in and of itself qualify it for deletion. An incorrect answer does not make it low quality. There can be some very high-quality answers that are simply factually incorrect. Plenty of answers exist in a grey area—a...

 

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