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12:00
It’s more . . . graphical.
Ugly word, graphical, but there it is.
|                              *
|         I  I  I              *          I  I     I
|          I I I            *******        I I I  I
|            VII       ******* * *******     VII VII
|          VII VII  ******* ******* *******    VII
|         II I  I      ******* * *******     I I I
|        I I     I          *******         I  I  I
|            i      i      i   *  i      i      i
|           iii v  iii v  iii v  iii v  iii v  iii v
|          iiivvi iiivvi iiivvi iiivvi iiivvi iiivvi
Ya know, that doesn’t work so well not using Courier.
Same answer though.
hepta because of the divisor and hexa because of the shape?
@JanDvorak Yes.
Also hexa because it has six possible numerators.
The Burning Man version:
|                 1
|
|              7 .-. 4
|                |1|
|      8       5 .-. 2       2
|
|   2  -  5       8       4  -  8
|     |6|                   |2|
|   4  -  7       7       1  -  5
|               \ ^ /
|      1       7 \./ 7       7
|                 7
|      7       7 /|\ 7       4
|               /   \
|   5  -  1       7       1  -  2
|     |5|                   |3|
|   8  -  4       5       7  -  8
|
|      2       8  -  7       5
|                |4|
|              2  -  1
Who needs Photoshop? :)
Write the small version down on a napkin when you’re with friends somewhere and see how long it takes them to figure it out.
I promise you’ll now never forget the decimal expansions for all possible sevenths. :)
Which is part of the goal.
Ok, maybe not a diminished seventh, but that’s something else. :)
@tchrist it is a Connect the dots game?
@SPArchaeologist No, it’s for teaching arithmetic to primary school (elementary school) children.
Oh, the Burning Man version. No, that’s just for shock and awe. :)
Oh, I see... (better not mention that it remembered me Twily cutiemark then)
^since when we use Sushi based captcha?
12:08
@bjb568 I am disappoint.
@SPArchaeologist The other day I got one for cakes
@SPArchaeologist Nice!!
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Q: Please use the new reCaptcha on the human verification dialog

MoosemanI posted a question this morning and got this beauty of a Captcha: Can you read that? Go ahead, get your glasses. Still no? We can fix this: Google announced a new reCaptcha API that is captcha-less. It looks like this: Instead of staring down some distorted words and numbers, we c...

@Unihedron nice..... I wonder......
cats, sushi - same same
12:09
@ShadowWizard Bait?
@tchrist yup
Taught so.
@tchrist @Unihedron Wonder who will be the first one that will get the "Please chose all pictures of Twilight Sparkle".....
@SPArchaeologist Spätzle
12:22
Sparkling sparkles. :)
@SmokeDetector !!/alive
!!/alive?
@ProgramFOX Yup
12:36
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: 1285 Muscle Extreme Terms and conditions: Must read before buy by brianmorris on drupal.stackexchange.com
1285 terms and conditions? I wouldn't buy it even if it was legitimate
!!/help
@nicael I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.
@Moosebot blame @@SmokeDetector
@SmokeDetector tpu
@rene Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
ohai feels old
Interesting, I'd also wondered if all those tags like us20050129335 were valid, but nobody seems to clean them up.
@PeterJ it's how patent.SE works
@Unihedron is this a patent to have anyone create any tag?
Joel Spolsky on September 20, 2012

We’ve all heard the stories of seemingly trivial patents being used to mug technology companies. There was the patent on the “Interactive Web” which a troll named Eolas used to extract $521 million from Microsoft–until a jury in East Texas threw out the patents. There are the four patents Lodsys is using to send threatening letters to software developers everywhere–trivial patents that Google says never should have been granted, in fact, Google and Oracle have submitted mountains of prior art to show that the patents should be invalid. …

status-does-not-explain-tag-policy
13:03
Ask Patents lets you tag with the patent IDs. In fact, you're suggested to tag with whatever format you like, which is why there seems to be a tag pollution.
status-read-all-first
> Ask Patents is a collaborative effort, neatly tagged by keywords and classification, and searchable by patent application number.
this? ^
it makes it sounds as if the tags already exist
Yeah just noticed that, still seems a bit odd as in they're so unique a normal text search would work.
13:10
> Enter [explicit] count!
13:31
boom Headshot
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@Unihedron What would such a protocol entail? How does such a request get handled/resolved? What criteria would be required for a request?
Zephyr sits in here most of the day, yet never talks. Would it be subject to a migration request?
No.
No.
@Andy Noooooo
@No. closed
No.
No.
Thanks
13:43
@Andy Someone favorited that post
(O_o)ノ︵ ┻━┻
No.
No.
Jan's friend:
hmm...
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A: Do Silverlight APIs exist for diagramming?

Anna LearThe only diagram library I know of is Nevron Diagram for .NET: http://nevron.com/Products.DiagramFor.NET.Overview.aspx Not sure if it or how it works with Silverlight, though.

@ShadowWizard Seems legit
Is @Anna a spy in disguise? :D
3
lol
@ASCIIThenANSI of course, I was just looking for spam leftovers after reading this. :)
14:00
I found an interesting picture in this:
@ASCIIThenANSI this bug is way cooler ^
oh, not a bug - but still coool
@ShadowWizard The Adventures of Mr Swordface and his Flaming Telekinetic Zombie Horse!
@ShadowWizard I would play that game.
@ASCIIThenANSI you know it's from Skyrim, do you?
14:07
@ShadowWizard Yes. I'm just saying, if there was a game based around a man with a sword face and a magic zombie horse, I would play it.
oh, whole game based on that? interesting!
@No. triage strikes again
@ShadowWizard See, now we have something. Who says all the good ideas are taken?
@ASCIIThenANSI but that man doesn't have a sword face, he has NO face
why nitpicking, @Ian? ;)
14:10
@IanKemp It looked kinda like his head was the sword on his back.
@ShadowWizard as a member of the international league of pedants, i am compelled to
@IanKemp he doesn't have NO face, he just lend it to Stack Exchange as Shog head
@Braiam OK. This is getting weird.
It's The Tavern! What were you expecting?
"All right, gentlemen, we need to design Shog-head and his Flaming Telekinetic Zombie Death Horse."
@Braiam ^^ something less like this
Oh there were puzzles?
finally, fitting body for Shog's head
@ShadowWizard It's perfect.
All we need is to sell everything else as DLC, and we're set.
[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in answer: Notifications only for comments on your Facebook Page, not Likes by Cista Longerbam on webapps.stackexchange.com
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Q: I keep crashing at modded Minecraft

DudameshI keep crashing, I only downloaded a few mods :( Securitycraft v1.7.4.1 DamageIndicatorsMod 3.2.3 ArsMagica2-1.4.0.008 animatedblocks-0.4 appliedenergistics2-rv2-stable-1 ArchimedesShips-1.7.1 Baubles(idk what this is but apparently It's needed) BiblioCraft v1.10.4 BiblioWoods[BiomesOPlenty v1....

> I only downloaded a few mods
14:24
> I only killed a few villagers
@ASCIIThenANSI dv'd
14:44
@ASCIIThenANSI And then I had an idea: why not summon Herobrine AND Ursa Mayor at the same time?
15:01
ohh, the link is to a repo he made BTW
last time I flagged spam it was declined and then closed as NAA
so now I'm wondering what an appropriate flag reason for these would be (if any)
15:13
stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A3277047+FREE-FROM-CMS here is a complete list. Please advise action (if any)
user has been told in the JS room to stop doing this (fyi)
@rlemon I see this as being spam
all together, yes. individually (as I assume the flag review queue works) it might be low quality or NAA
I'm not getting your point. I believe if you raise a spam flag, only moderators will get to evaluate the flag. If you raise an NAA flag, it will go into the queue.
Only two of those answer announce that they made it. One of the makes it looks like he "just uses" it.
http://stackoverflow.com/q/30240893/2173917
15:23
@Andy he made it. he hangs around the js room sometimes
@rlemon He doesn't disclose that in most of the posts though.
@rlemon VERY spammy. I'd flag all of them.
nope, but he did overly disclose it in the chats
@Andy even those that come with a disclosure are problematic in light of the fact that the user keeps plugging the tool over and over again. SO requires the disclosure but the disclosure is not enough to prevent being a spammer.
@Louis He's got 61 total posts. I haven't looked through anything other than the search link above though
15:25
@SouravGhosh throw new NotEnoughRepException();
yea I haven't looked at all of his posts. someone linked three in the js room so I ran the search
fwiw, in the chats, he's a decent enough bloke. I'm not looking for a witch-hunt
just to get this cleaned up
@rlemon if he was a decent enough bloke, he wouldn't be spamming like a mofo
fair enough.
@Sha @Shog @No. @Jan @Yes @bjb @Mooseman etc thoughts on this?:
14 mins ago, by rlemon
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A3277047+FREE-FROM-CMS here is a complete list. Please advise action (if any)
@meagar ty
I see one deleted :P
15:29
np
@meagar Should we continue flagging or are you taking care of the other posts?
I'm cleaning them up
ok
@nicael flagged for spam
:P
@meagar with extreme prejudice?
15:31
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Acupuncture strengthens muscles by Carissa Butt on meta.stackexchange.com
@SmokeDetector tpu
@ProgramFOX Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
"Carissa Butt"
@nicael ~helpfulFlags+=7;
Everything nuked.
15:32
The world is nuked.
@SouravGhosh voted to delete. What you've got there is a good example of a useless duplicate.
16:11
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to find my password for iCloud by Conor on apple.stackexchange.com
Hello people of the Tavern
can anybody explain to my why we have a cyrillic room on SO that throws spam / offensive flags across the network?
no idea
@Vogel612'sShadow Hello! Long time no see.
Hiya @LynnCrumbling
Hiya @Vogel613!
16:21
I had to cut back strongly on chats and general participation since I started my new job...
and I was slightly disgruntled about some incident around here, so...
user259867
@Vogel612'sShadow It's a room for ru.SO. Moderatorship is lax over there (only two mods, plus a CM), and many users are new to SE network. So things happen. It's unfortunate the flags propagate.
@SmokeDetector tpu
@SmokeDetector gone
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Prevent new chat users from flagging by teresko on meta.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected, offensive title detected: Internet error 651 fuck you by Ali Adil on programmers.stackexchange.com
@SmokeDetector gone
The words RHarvey used, however...
what is the swearing policy in this room anyway?
@IanKemp I don't think we have one
user259867
@SmokeDetector suspicious, worth watching
@IanKemp just the global "be nice"
@bjb568 does that apply when talking about php though?
I need to configure my router to block my access to lifehacks; I don't know why I continue to torture myself by reading it.
user259867
16:52
@IanKemp Swearing is okay in moderation, but talking about php is strictly forbidden.
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@Yes i can see i'm going to get along with y'all just fine :)
It's the exact opposite of what SE is supposed to be. Just poor solutions to problems that are otherwise easy to solve correctly. But correct solutions are not allowed because they are not "hacks". It's so backwards.
user259867
@JasonC At some point, the idea was that questions had to be sufficiently researched prior to posting so that conventional solutions were examined and found lacking.
Well that idea is looooong gone.
user259867
Of course, the idea of researching prior to posting questions is far fetched.
user259867
16:55
@SmokeDetector Edited, so I guess it's in okay shape now.
in Unix and Linux on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 14 mins ago, by derobert
I hate it when the unicorns chew through the Ethernet cables.
@JanDvorak smokey picked that one up ~25min ago, hence my question about swearing
Where do I ask a question like "I know what this thing is, but what is it called?" English.SE?
I'd say, fuck sticking to literal rules, follow the spirit.
17:03
@JanDvorak oh noes you said a swear, Tim will be so sad
@JanDvorak what's with that comma?
@IanKemp Will he? Why?
@JanDvorak going by the comments on that question, he doesn't approve of swearing
meta.stackexchange.com/a/256459/230261 I really want to comment "Fuckin' A, this answer is the shit!" but I don't have the balls for it.
hides under a table and waits for Haney
@JasonC go ahead. I approve.
and will upvote the comment
17:13
Haha. But, more seriously, I don't want to get sucked into that conversation.
I have very ranty strong feelings about over-sensitivity to language. It would be an effort to hold back, and counter-productive.
Roger that. The conversation seems to be mostly over anyways.
> in case of doubt, keep an open mind and a closed mouth
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@nicael not sure what you mean. If you see spam post, flag as spam. Can't really be more simple than that. :)
I got a wireless charging pad for my cell phone. It's the coolest thing ever.
The manual has some awesome engrish warnings in it.
"Warning: Do not squeeze or collisions."
"To take care of the children, ensure that they won't play the wireless charger as a toy, to avoid unnecessary accidents." Yup, necessary accidents only, please.
Necessary accidents are always helpful for taking care of the children.
@JasonC "taking care" of them
Yeah, like, I "accidentally" bumped little Timmy into the back of the garbage truck.
Did chat just go down for a minute or was that just me?
just you
It was just you. We took advantage of it to talk behind your back.
17:51
@ShadowWizard that time I wanted just someone else who would flag too :D
@SmokeDetector fpu
@JasonC Registered answer as false positive and whitelisted user.
213
Q: What to do about a 11000 lines C++ source file?

Martin BaSo we have this huge (is 11000 lines huge?) mainmodule.cpp source file in our project and every time I have to touch it I cringe. As this file is so central and large, it keeps accumulating more and more code and I can't think of a good way to make it actually start to shrink. The file is used ...

I feel that this should really be migrated to programmers. Wish mods could migrate after 60 days..
@JonasCz the 4th edit to that question bothers me stackoverflow.com/posts/3615789/revisions
someone flag that last smokey post as fp
18:03
@SmokeDetector fp
@ASCIIThenANSI Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
@IanKemp done
@ASCIIThenANSI ty
@IanKemp That [source-code] tag was being burninated. But an edit to just remove a tag ? He probably even got 2 rep for it..
@JonasCz sorry, i was talking about the rev by Sergey K.
the previous one
i don't math so good
18:05
I don't see anything wrong with that edit..
@JonasCz seems very minor, just adding ``
@IanKemp In addition, he added backticks to product names (not code or console commands). Look towards the bottom
@ASCIIThenANSI yes, that's what's bothering me, i couldn't put my finger on it until you mentioned it
Yes, tool names in backticks are no good. Edit back to older version without backticks perhaps ?
@JonasCz Sure. I don't see any problem.
You could also do a rollback, but then you might have to deal with the tag.
18:11
If I rollback or edit, I send it into the edits queue, and probably even get 2 rep for a minor and useless edit..
@JonasCz fair point
@JonasCz Maybe we could see if there's something else to reword or improve, so it's not a useless edit?
I don't see any other possible improvements though. IMO, this should really be migrated or possibly be closed.
back to my "I wanna better understand flag reasons so I flag correctly" meta.stackexchange.com/a/256463/167434 I find this to be in very poor taste, but is it flag worthy?
@Louis I wanted a better pic of your specs and so I went to your profile. y u no chat in js room?
18:26
@rlemon Because I'm working. The volume of noise in the tavern is within reasonable limits. The volume of noise in the js room would be (I think) well above what is okay. (Note that I'm not that often in the tavern either.) When I'm not working I'm usually busy with other responsibilities.
@Louis pop in when you are not :P we always love more people who frequent the js tag
@rlemon I'm sure the opportunity will come. These days I'm extra busy because we're trying to find a new house and sell the one we currently own, so a lot of my "free" time is busy with a) getting this house ready and b) checking out other houses.
hey! I just bought a house
busy getting prepared to move in
:D
If you want to have nightmares, read this: loomcom.com/blog/2015/02/22/…
18:33
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: How to back up my current android ID? by Paul J Richardson on android.stackexchange.com
HI 37 is here
(will listen when home)
@maveň needs one more
@maveň needs one more
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: Inequality 222222222222222222222222222222222222 by Khut Chito on math.stackexchange.com
18:58
@LynnCrumbling dude, no more weeds for the day :xD
@Louis I'm thankful that I live in Europe :-) 100 megabit for $20 / month, and it actually works..
@JonasCz Lucky you!
i pay $60 usd a month
for 4 mbit
yay south africa
> thanks to anyone out there patient enough to read and input. greetings from Mexico!
I skipped to the end hoping to see a tl;dr
:(
19:04
@rlemon tl;dr his shit don't work
TY!
aka "the tl;dr of most questions posted on a stack exchange site"
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in answer: Dynamic SQL used in Case Statement in Stored Procedure by Lenkio on stackoverflow.com
@SmokeDetector that's a tp
@SmokeDetector tpu
19:11
@LynnCrumbling Blacklisted user.
@Smokey, how can you talk there having 1 rep? Was that a mod who granted you write access?
user259867
Jul 23 '14 at 19:14, by Undo
hey @balpha, while you're here, would you be so kind as to give http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/users/266345/smokedetector write access here?
user259867
user259867
^ Historic moment
user259867
19:25
First ever message by Smokey in the Tavern:
user259867
Jul 23 '14 at 19:24, by SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] SmokeDetector started (@Undo)
Heck. Then I'll have to hack assocs again...
user259867
And this was his first report:
user259867
Jul 23 '14 at 21:08, by SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: E51A818 = 1N5818? on electronics.stackexchange.com
Why do I see "grant write access" if I am owner anyway? It doesn't serve any purpose for non-mods, I guess?
19:30
Free flags, if you haven't gotten it yet... stackoverflow.com/a/30245360/656243
@LynnCrumbling Thanks to SmokeDetector and people like you, I can make 11 flags a day on SO. c:
@ASCIIThenANSI Nice!
Coming up on Marshal myself.
well, and mod tools in 4832. Ha.
user259867
For completeness: Manishearth began to run his bot in the Tavern on January 31, 2014, under his own account. That was switched to ManishBot on February 16, 2014. ManishBot's last message was on July 10, 2014. SmokeDetector took over on July 23, 2014.
@nicael trapped me inside his nameless chat room chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/867
Why trapped...
19:33
I'm scurred!
@SmokeDetector ignore
@LynnCrumbling Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.
Btw, what's up with edx-cs169-1x.stackexchange.com?..
I'm trying to invite people to secret nameless chat room but i don't know if its working
19:40
noice
did you get my invite bjb?
@Roombatron5000 Yeah it worked.
someone upvoted it. sigh.
@Roombatron5000 got an invite
@SmokeDetector "Enter fucking count!"
20:04
[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Sublime Text ler arquivo less com a sintaxe do CSS by Alê Moraes on pt.stackoverflow.com
^ haven't seen yet?! :D
But "63" seems to be outdated, time to count 'em again!
Someone with better english could take a look here
http://superuser.com/a/877552/172747
and this one (trolling?)
http://superuser.com/a/914943/172747
that second one is definitely NAA.
Still trying to parse the first.
Yeah, flagging the first too. It might be salvagable... but I don't care. The answerer clearly doesn't care either.
20:12
@LynnCrumbling I was about to use abusive ... but I've my weak day anyway ...
Further apple juice experiments have been a success so far.
Cameo apples are super sweet and taste like bottled apple juice. Fuji apples are a lot milder but indescribably refreshing. I'm not sure what to try next. Maybe some kind of sour green apple?
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ENGR. SPARK VICTORY OVADJE by Spark Ovadje on ell.stackexchange.com
20:35
> I’d want to isolate her from anybody whose anti-Voldemort, especially in Azkaban
that "whose" doesn't seems right?
It's not right.
"Who is" -> "Who's"
20:49
Hey @bjb I heard something about your school today...
just me or posts with 3 digits in the community bulletin occupies two lines?
21:07
in Smoke Detector School on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 12 secs ago, by SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | GibberishClassifierBeta ] Potential gibberish answer (91.2038722225%): Formatting Sandbox on meta.stackexchange.com
heh
@nicael are you playing with a sock? meta.stackexchange.com/posts/235094/revisions
Was creating chatbot
@bum
gaining rep this way is considered legal?
Dunno
Flag if you wish...
@bummi Not in the slightest.
That's totally over the line, @nicael.
21:13
I could game assoc with rep farming script, but considered it to be more dangerous.
So ended up with this.
Yeah, "this".
You ended up with likely a suspension.
Nice day, ain't it.
@Yes!!!!
@hichris123 @Yes! Oh wait. @No.
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: EC2 Asks For Password by jogoeire on meta.stackexchange.com
off-topic
@SantaClaus Yeah?
Ha, my bot got nuked :D
noice
Additionally I am banned :)
Review ban, I mean :D
What have you been doing?
21:44
Repboosting my bot :)
To talk in the secret room
Is it that hard to just get 2 uvs?
Wut?
You only need 20 rep. Write an answer and wait 5m and you'll have it.
I don't know how to answer, seriously. Most of my answers are crap and I can't get how they get so many upvotes...
@hichris123 now its definitely @no. :D
@nicael But you can get upvotes…
21:53
As well as downvotes...

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