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Andrew T.

13:01

Trivia: it's actually possible to browse and read discuss.area51 on SE app (at least on Android), but the user cannot interact (comment/vote) since it's impossible to join & create account in the app.

Jodka Lemon

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/214166 when do I get the bounty? thought I get it today and now there is a grace period.

I don't understand the grace period system.

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@JodkaLemon hmm maybe they forgot to award it

Andy

@JodkaLemon You get it when it's assigned or you get half the bounty in 23 hours, which ever comes first

The grace period is to allow the bounty poster the chance to evaluate answers (especially if they were to show up at the last minute)

Jodka Lemon

@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy I htought I get all, when the original poster set's my answer as "best answer".

@it_is_a_literature would you grace me the bounty at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/214166?

Andy

> If the bounty was started by the question owner, and the question owner accepts an answer posted during the bounty period, and the bounty expires without an explicit award then we assume the bounty owner liked the answer they accepted and award it the full bounty amount at the time of bounty expiration.

stackoverflow.com/help/bounty

Jodka Lemon

13:08

@Andy so get all in 23 hours?

+"I"

Andy

@JodkaLemon Unless it is explicitly assigned to someone else first, yes

Jodka Lemon

ah, thanks.

user259867

@JodkaLemon Aside: since it_is_a_literature isn't here in chat, pinging them won't work.

Jodka Lemon

But I was pinged yesterday. That worked.

@1999 Is it possible to send a message?

Shadow Wizard

@JodkaLemon personal message? nope

!!/coffee

SmokeDetector

13:11

@ShadowWizard brews coffee for @ShadowWizard

Jodka Lemon

so only moderators can ping someone not in the chat?

Shadow Wizard

@JodkaLemon they can use super ping but it's not private, anyone can see it

user259867

@JodkaLemon No, there is no private messaging. Chat ping works for users who are in the room, or were there recently (within 2 days). Comments under their post also notify them. Also, you can ping in comments under posts where they commented.

Andy

@JodkaLemon You would have been able to ping them, if they'd been in this room recently.

Jodka Lemon

OK, thanks for your help guys.

Shadow Wizard

13:12

!!/tea

Jodka Lemon

..or girls.

Shadow Wizard

@JodkaLemon guy here

PeterJ

!!/beer

^^ Smokey is defective

Jodka Lemon

would be interesting what the gender distribution is on stackexchange

SPArchaeologist

@JodkaLemon You can start the pool by asking Gracenote

SmokeDetector

13:15

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Andy

@JodkaLemon We can give you some insight into Stack Overflow's distribution: stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#profile-gender

Jodka Lemon

@Andy oh, that are not many woman.

Andrew T.

@AndrewT. umm, I think I can't do this on next version, since the bug is fixed on v1.0.69.... :(

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Linear Gradient Brush Fade WPF by sdf on stackoverflow.com

Andrew T.

sd tpu-

sd gone-

SmokeDetector

13:34

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: nkanregjrrnejrgjeknrgejnrjgerjekrnggrergergeij? by Ender_Coder on stackoverflow.com

Andrew T.

@AndrewT. nvm, there's other way to browse it inside the app

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Pandya

how to get no. of accepted answers of a user for specific site?

durron597

@Pandya You have 1 accepted answer on meta stack exchange

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector spam, with broken english (possibly translating word-by-word). facepalm

Pandya

13:43

@durron597 how to find out?

durron597

@Pandya Well I looked here

Andrew T.

@Pandya open the user profile, go to "Profile", filter the post by "Answer", see the green background on the score

durron's method is easier though (Activity - Answer)

Pandya

no @AndrewT. I already know that but suppose if user profile answer tab has no.of page and no.of answers then it is not easy. @durron597

I am talking about total no. of accepted answers. like-no. of answers, questions, helpful flags etc

Andrew T.

I think only SEDE can do that easily

Pandya

what do you mean by SEDE? @AndrewT.

@AndrewT. do you mean Stackexchange Devloper/Employee?

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Andrew T.

13:47

Stack Exchange Data Explorer

Unicorns Are Very Very Yummy

@Pandya very funny

durron597

@Pandya data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/335389/…

Pandya

have found one method

13

Q: Number of accepted answers

Is there a way to find the number of accepted answers you have, other than manually counting each one?

oh! found another am I right?

Andrew T.

yep, that works too

durron597

Yeah but my link prevents you from having to count...

Shadow Wizard

13:59

@Pandya if that was honest innocent lack of knowledge then it's just hillarious :D

Pandya

@durron597 helpful :D

durron597

@Pandya Of course that only applies to Stack Overflow, you'd have to target the particular site you want

Pandya

@durron597 yes, I've tried ; really helpful

Praxis Ashelin

ehehe thinkgeek.com/product/6806

Andrew T.

flagged as spam :P

Praxis Ashelin

14:14

D':

PeterJ

Looks too old-school as well, shouldn't it be no place like ::1 ?

durron597

@PraxisAshelin That is so expensive

I would totally buy that for like... $20

Pandya

Is this posted correctly?

durron597

@Pandya Ha! Maybe I should have posted it and gotten the rep

In all seriousness, though, you should probably mention that SEDE's data only gets updated every Sunday.

Andrew T.

I think I'd flag/vote that as dupe instead of answering it

SmokeDetector

14:24

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: How to create a useful bird companion? by Gohaken on rpg.stackexchange.com

Praxis Ashelin

@durron597 it is ye

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector ignore- whatever the offensive word is, it's RPG

SPArchaeologist

@PraxisAshelin while it is a classic nerd joke, at now I am just trying to find a convenient way to buy some 4de plush from the Europe zone

Pandya

@AndrewT. also?

Andrew T.

@Pandya thanks, seems dupe to me

durron597

14:29

@AndrewT. Is there a way to see what the offensive word was?

Andrew T.

!!/help

SmokeDetector

@AndrewT. 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.

user259867

No, there isn't at present. (It was shit-talking)

Andrew T.

I thought Big Pussy, but seems too general :S

durron597

I suggested an edit to trash talking. shrug There was a typo in that sentence anyway.

SmokeDetector

14:40

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: How much is too much to ask as a key employee in an acquisition scenario? by outsidetheparty on startups.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore- "asshole" at the end of a long post, not in an offensive way

Shadow Wizard

@Pandya no need to delete just because someone disagree with what you suggest. I'm just one person who happened to explain his downvote. For all we know, many others might agree with you. Your call, but I think it's better to have it stick around longer.

user259867

YCS is working to regain the form: Why SO is so disgusting? by Your Common Sense on meta.stackoverflow.com

Shadow Wizard

@1999 wasn't he suspended for year or so?

@1999 but that word is offensive even when just standing alone.. for many people, at least

user259867

Yes, it shows in that his writing isn't on the usual level.

Shadow Wizard

14:43

@1999 well, don't think anyone really thought he will change

SPArchaeologist

still, there is some truth in the first point.

Andrew T.

> Don't bother to answer.

SPArchaeologist

If the question is simple enough to provide some easy reps scraps.... many seem to "forget" close as duplicate....

Andrew T.

Just YCS being the usual YCS?

@Sha he reopened the mentioned question, not the meta post itself

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Shadow Wizard

14:53

@AndrewT. oops, just couldn't believe nobody closed it yet

umm... wrong

meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/299377/revisions

He did reopen the MSO question just like I thought

Andrew T.

Okay, I stand corrected.

(I was fooled since there's no revision link)

Shadow Wizard

@AndrewT. yeah, need to manually change the URL to see

hichris123

> However, let's say we have a silver / gold badge, and the gold version is named 'deduplicator (participated in marking 500 duplicate questions)', I could unlock some privileges for the people who earned it, maybe access to Thor's hammer? It's something I've been thinking about lately, and I'm open to thoughts.

Ooh, that'd be nice.

durron597

15:09

@hichris123 s/deduplicator/ @Deduplicator

I wish I could have a badge named after me

hichris123

I wish that I could have a greater weight in closing questions. I've almost given up recently... too much time spent on something that just keeps happening.

SouravGhosh

Hey Folks
Please see this [question](http://stackoverflow.com/q/31433817/2173917)
Mr. Marek told me that my answer is not easily understandable
I tried to add some details
does it look ok now?
Can anybody suggest some improvement on that, if required?
link to [my answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/31433874/2173917)

rene

@SouravGhosh for me it looks OK and is understandable and I'm not a C/C++ dev

SouravGhosh

@rene Then you're the best person to review. :-)

@rene Thank you sir. :-)

rene

np

user202362

15:30

also wtf +4 votes for homework question

user202362

kids doing homework must love you guys

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Lynn Crumbling

@SmokeDetector edited

SmokeDetector

15:46

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: An English equivalent of Arabic idiom ‘Show us the breadth of your shoulders’ by user129346 on english.stackexchange.com

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xkcdBot

Today's xkcd comic (Pluto):

After decades of increasingly confused arguing, Pluto is reclassified as a "dwarf Pluto."

hichris123

16:21

More like yesterday's.

Dronehinge

@hichris123 Pluto should have a week not a day

I'm pro-Pluto

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[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: MySql Innodb corruption recovery by nicowaldner on dba.stackexchange.com

hichris123

@SmokeDetector tpu-

bjb568

Pluto is awesome!

Dronehinge

i hope to own some land near Pluto's chocolate frosting someday

Andy

16:29

@Dronehinge Seems close to Debate Hole. I don't know if I'd want to be that close to that neighborhood

Dronehinge

@Andy yea, not the best, but still better than the bullet holes neighborhood

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-gratis

Andy

@Dronehinge Eh, that's on the north side. You should be safe from that neighborhood crowd. Debate Hole has more of the snobby rich folk that look down on you for holding an opinion and talk about you behind your back if your opinion is wrong (protip: It is wrong because it's not their opinion)

bjb568

I just figured out one reason I don't like jazz. Unprepared 7ths.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Disable keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird by FUCKYOU on unix.stackexchange.com

user259867

16:36

Law is no longer lawless: Please welcome your new moderators! by Pops on meta.law.stackexchange.com

hichris123

Pops is appointing too many new pro tems recently.

user259867

Cartaino is on vacation.

user259867

Still haven't figured out where exactly. Where do people from Florida vacation?

user259867

@hichris123 Taking the 1->4 train?

hichris123

@1999 Mm, a bit. But the other part is I'm doing other things in my life... so closing questions and such stuff is taking the backburner.

Dronehinge

16:42

@1999 answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100404214036AAxBBct

rene

Jon Skeet didn't help anyone

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Dronehinge

@hichris123 to save time you could focus on easier close reasons like just using SEDE to close ones that already have a close vote for tool/rec , since they pretty easy to tell right away if that's what it's asking for, whereas like no-repro and other reasons can take a lot longer.. could do 50 tool/recs in 15 mins pretty easily

hichris123

@Dronehinge I already do that. But only for questions with 4 close votes.... otherwise they typically age away.

Dronehinge

@hichris123 i guess, but I think many old questions have been getting closed lately , i don't have any good data on it, but it seems like it imo from what i've noticed. Also, i adjusted a query you could use that only shows tool/rec questions less than 550 length, to avoid reading long questions. But yea, sometimes taking breaks are worthwhile

user259867

Someone has to go first... or second, or third, or fourth.

hichris123

16:56

@1999 They do... but then you have to hope there's 4 more voters, or 3 more voters, or 2 more voters. I don't want to waste my time attempting to close a question and my close vote just ages away.

user259867

At your age, hope shouldn't be in short supply.

user259867

inb4 bjb flames me for age-ism

user259867

I do get the point about doing other things instead of spending time on CVs.

bjb568

blarghagh

Dronehinge

hairball?

hichris123

17:00

No, not a hairboat.

Braiam

a programming boat?

hichris123

No, that was hard deleted.

bjb568

:p

rene

@Braiam ;)

Braiam

./braiam --pedantic

durron597

17:13

Looking for feedback here (MSO):

0

Q: Synonymize [char] and [character]?

Not your typical synonym-request, as I'm genuinely conflicted about this one. character has 3,723 questions char has 6,156 questions They seem like they're the same, but maybe they're not - one is often a primitive data type, but when you start thinking about unicode / wide characters they're...

discussion support tags synonym-request

hichris123

How do you compile Braiam?

Braiam

with Haskell (in principle)

hichris123

Ugh.

user259867

7

Q: Feedback Requested: Design-Independent Graduation

Last month's announcement about our updated criteria for graduation and site closure sparked some solid examination into the intended nature of public beta and graduation. One thing these discussions showed us is that, contrary to what the Community Team had long believed, getting a custom desig...

discussion design beta-phase graduating-sites

Undo

prime generation: I'm doing it wrong

user259867

17:23

Subtract 1 from each, and you will have a chance. Mersenne Primes

Undo

aha, I was doing it exactly backwards :P

rene

+1 for effort....

Andrew T.

^2 for effort

Undo

(trying to solve projecteuler.net/problem=7 in ruby)

aaaand there it is

user259867

They'll need a new name for sites that are in between beta and design.

user259867

17:29

gamma sites?

Undo

they'll be graduated, just not colored

uncolored

rene

dull?

Undo

"bland"

user259867

But betas are also uncolored/dull/bland

Dronehinge

interns

deputies

user259867

17:30

@Dronehinge Those would be betas, easily fired

SmokeDetector

17:44

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ASP.NET MVC DATABASE CACHE by hackerdot on stackoverflow.com

hichris123

I'm not so sure about this new process of graduation. When the community team distills it like this... there's really not that much that beta sites don't have and that a "graduated" but not designed site would have.

Undo

Elections.

And a feeling of accomplishment for the folks that put in hundreds of hours

user259867

Mods that are not appointed by Pops.

hichris123

You should feel accomplished every time someone upvotes/downvotes your answer... every discussion you have... everytime you interact with your site.

bjb568

Sounds like more carrot.

Undo

17:52

@hichris123 sure, but remember people were promised graduation.

durron597

@SmokeDetector I edited this, I don't know if I ought to tell you that I did so

user259867

You can if you want. It saves others a click. Reports are not just for Smokey.

Undo

Recognition from the team that "You're doing it right, and we're really confident this site isn't going to fail" is why graduation is a big thing

hichris123

Well, actually, going back to the beta label... why, after 90 days or so, is the beta label even still there?

@SmokeDetector fp- lol

user259867

How about we don't report posts with 600+ upvotes?

hichris123

17:54

Yeah, that would probably be a good idea. :P

@Undo Then why not remove the beta label when the CMs say "hey, this is working out fairly well"?

durron597

@SmokeDetector ignore- I edited it to not be ALL CAPS

Undo

@hichris123 I suppose that'd work

durron597

I missed the link, what was it to?

hichris123

@SmokeDetector fp- nike

user259867

@durron597 What is the XY problem? by a deleted user on meta.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

17:58

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: Tomcat solution on weakdh.org has typos? by JerryM on serverfault.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector fp-

user259867

@durron597 In general, the Charcoal HQ has a mostly untouched transcript of reports.

durron597

Yeah I typed that before I saw the link to charcoal hq

hichris123

Actually, I think what I'm confused about re: graduation is this idea that you weren't a graduated site... and then suddenly, you are! Magic!

I'd be more in favor with milestone based graduation, like:

32

Q: Replace graduation with an incremental process

I mentioned this in TL before, and it got a positive response. It has been discussed internally, but I'd like to see what the commuinty in general thinks about it. Pre-ramble In the past, sites used to graduate within 90 days if they showed sufficient potential, or be closed down. It seems to h...

feature-request area51 stackexchange-2.0 beta-phase

user259867

@hichris123 The version proposed in my answer is less "magic": perks are given after the community succeeds in running a mod election (which is nontrivial amount of work). That's a milestone for sure. The fact that the election announcement itself comes out of blue for most... well, that's how it works on graduated sites too.

durron597

18:15

@1999 Haha I ended up answering a question I saw in Charcoal HQ

Undo

@1999 chat.stackexchange.com/… is the best place.

SmokeDetector

18:38

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in body: OVS: Emulate multiple VXLAN TEPs on single server by Uday on stackoverflow.com

Patrick Hofman

cv-pls typo stackoverflow.com/questions/31438319/…

user259867

@SmokeDetector del edited

Braiam

18:54

so, I can't inscribe for the next semester at my uni, because system went kaput

user259867

Try circumscribing instead?

Braiam

I will try just get my PhD, thanks

on the gripping hand:

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A: Please, is anything going to be done about the Pedantic question closers?

These rules have nothing to do with SEO (which is as inscrutable now as it was 7 years ago) or disc space (which was still pretty cheap 7 years ago). They have everything to do with people not reading. Background: in which I annoy you with graphic analogies 7 years ago, the problem was that pr...

rene

that answer is somehow better than mine, wonder why...

Braiam

Post.OwnerID = 811?

btw, TIL what balk means

user259867

> it's supposed to be peers helping each other, not a few wetnurses serving the planet

user259867

19:08

Though on the other hand, a bunch of calculus kids doing each others' homework isn't exactly what I want Mathematics to be. Also, the h-word again.

Braiam

I've found that most of stuff SE struggles with about question quality is the same people struggles in RL while trying to teach something (and I have first hand experience running into the exact same problems)

Kevin Brown

Just it's easier on SE to say "yeah, not going to bother helping you with this... it's too broad" than it is IRL

Braiam

I want to close asking sessions as too broad too T_T

and heck, they ask me the same question in 5 different ways!

SmokeDetector

19:28

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MS SQL STATEMENT by TAIYE OJO on stackoverflow.com

SmokeDetector

19:55

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GREP REGEX LARGE FILE by user2391785 on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: LINKED SERVER EXEC REMOTE STORED PROCEDURE by iperezmel78 on stackoverflow.com

Kevin Brown

Three all caps in a row, impressive

Bart

No, IMPRESSIVE

@Braiam so wait, 7 years ago people stopped reading books, then SO came along and people stopped reading, period? ... well done SO.

7

hichris123

20:11

Well, @Bart came onto SO 2 years later... I find an interesting correlation there.

durron597

> If you care about a question, taking a few minutes to make it read as though it was written by an educated adult instead of drawn on a wall in crayon can make a huge difference in its future prospects.

Amen Shog

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[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Занять и одолжить: есть ли разница? by голос за 0 голос против избра on rus.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu-spam

Kevin Brown

@SmokeDetector tpu-

Bart

@hichris123 I take pride in my work.

user259867

20:14

Funny user name too: "upvote 0 downvote 0 favor"

user259867

@KevinBrown Are you minoring in Russian, by any chance?

user259867

(You often are the first to identify spam on Russian sites)

user259867

> "If you're overwhelmed by all the information coming at you, you're doing it right." -- me talking to new coworkers -- Ana Noemi at 1:13 PM - 15 Jul 2015 via Twitter

hichris123

Heh, Happy Eyeballs is an RFC name.

bjb568

20:38

I got invited to a calc pizza party but can't go because I'm at camp having a pizza party here :(

It was sent by the calc granny, in case you're wondering.

durron597

@bjb568 who doesn't want anchovies in their ice cream? srsly?

bjb568

IKR?

Bart

So you can't go to a pizza party because you have a pizza party? How sad ...

bjb568

Well, over here I have to pay for pizza.

hichris123

Meanwhile, back at the Tavern, @Bart hasn't been invited to any pizza parties. Bart, how does that feel?

Braiam

20:41

yeah, that's very sad

Undo

Repcap!

Tiny Giant

How do you furnish (provide (a house or room) with furniture and fittings) a pizza?

Bart

Tiny Giant

Bart

@TinyGiant tastes like chicken

Tiny Giant

20:44

Lol

bjb568

20:56

chicken are people too

Tiny Giant

People can be chickens too

user259867

Site deathmatch update: 26 hours into private beta, the score is 141:30 in favor of Portuguese.

user259867

(The number of questions)

bjb568

vs who?

Tiny Giant

@bjb568 the arabs

Bart

21:06

Cricket test matches seem completely exciting in comparison to that deathmatch @1999

user259867

Of course. Cricket is an awesome game.

Tiny Giant

Croquet

Bart

ODI, yes. T20, sure. But I don't have the patience for anything longer than that.

user259867

@TinyGiant That one is less awesome, imo.

Tiny Giant

Is there actually a game named cricket? I thought you guys were just mixing up the name.

user259867

21:09

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players each on a field at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. The game is played by 120 million players in many countries, making it the world's second most popular sport. Each team takes its turn to bat, attempting to score runs, while the other team fields. Each turn is known as an innings. The bowler delivers the ball to the batsman who attempts to hit the ball with his bat away from the fielders so he can run to the other end of the pitch and score a run. Each batsman continues batting until he is out. The batting...

Bart

@TinyGiant FOR SHAME

user259867

> the world's second most popular sport

bjb568

:o

Tiny Giant

theguardian.com/sport/2008/jun/10/ussport.cricket

That one ^

Bart

Jiskefet - Eén Pak - English Sports

►

Tiny Giant

21:24

@Bart I'm sorry, but they all look gay... and possibly retarded

Bart

@TinyGiant ... how mature of you

Tiny Giant

Not that there's anything wrong with being gay... or retarded.

Bart

I'm sure your best friends are ... well ...

Tiny Giant

I don't really have any best-friends... besides my wife... and I doubt that she's gay

Bart

@TinyGiant ... I'd extend that statement

Tiny Giant

21:28

Well, you never really know, do you?

Bart

My mom had me tested, so I know

Shog9

Cricket (darts)

Cricket is a darts game that uses the standard 20 number dartboard with the triple and double rings. It is known by various names in Britain, including "Mickey Mouse",Tactics "Horse and Carriage", "Coach and Horses", "The Game", "Faldo", "Beds and Bulls" and "Oscar Boscar". == Gameplay == Cricket is typically played between 2, 3 or 4 players, or teams of players, although the rules do not discount more players. The goal of cricket is to be the first player to open or close all the cricket numbers and have a higher or even point total. === Cricket Numbers === Cricket uses the numbers 15 to 20 (or...

Bart

:D

Tiny Giant

@Shog9 Interesting

Shog9

Gotta be careful; some foreigners have this notion that cricket can be played without beer, which is... just awful.

user259867

21:30

> In fraternal game play, like a friendly game of darts with mates, usually after the beer has been flowing; a player may call "Sailors Rules". Agreement to this amendment states that any player who catches a dart in mid flight from a ricocheted shot, may shoot his or her full compliment of darts and score additionally.

user259867

That article appears to be written after the beer has been flowing.

Tiny Giant

I could imagine. No game involving darts should ever be played without alcohol, especially lawn darts

2

Shog9

No one in their right mind spends much time talking about cricket when sober

user259867

The problem with drinking beer while watching cricket is that the only option is likely to be Kingfisher.

Bart

In India perhaps

user259867

21:34

Yes, I was referring to that.

Tiny Giant

Lawn Darts: Illegal - But Lethal?

►

That's the best way to play lawn darts, but more beer should be used

Bart

Darts

►

Tiny Giant

Just get rid of the darts all-together and play beer

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Tiny Giant

21:53

@Shog9 have your tests on the H&I finished yet?

Shog9

@TinyGiant I'm working on compiling the results right now...

Tiny Giant

Lol, awesome.

Shog9

Nothing that will be too surprising to anyone with 10K

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user259867

@SmokeDetector ignore-

cybermonkey

22:36

cv-pls: stackoverflow.com/questions/31442404/…

Jonny Henly

22:54

I was just reading some comments under an English Language & Usage Question and noticed that a commenter's name was formatted like a code block. The comment I'm referring to is the question's 7th comment and show all comments is required to view the comment.

Tiny Giant

The perl reference resonated, as the author of this particular book could very well be a perl developer. — Bill Nov 15 '12 at 3:42

That one?

Jonny Henly

yep that one

Tiny Giant

No idea

I think it's because he is the author of the post?

Jonny Henly

oh touche, I missed that completly

Tiny Giant

Yeah, see this one

In the case of arguably <superlative>, I'd agree with you, but not not when opinion is divided roughly 50-50 between great! and terrible!. Also, given that any false statement can be made if qualified with arguably, it undermines the assertion. I wish to make an exact statement rather then avoiding the issue by appending "or maybe not" to it. — Kirk Douglass Jr. 33 mins ago

He is the author of the question and his name is displayed the same way

@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA what a name :) Panama Canal?

Jonny Henly

23:03

yep I just checked with a few my questions on SO and you are correct, nice catch

user259867

23:14

@SmokeDetector fp- gratis

user259867

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user259867

blacklist candidate dropbox18gb.com

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@TinyGiant hmmm? have you read it bakwards?

Tiny Giant

It's just as confusing backwards as forwards

Undo

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A: I drove my car about 1 km before realising that I didn't release the handbrake. Will this cause any big problems to my car?

Yes, it means your car is going to explode next time you turn it on!!!

Do you have a source for this claim? — Undo 32 secs ago

Tiny Giant

23:21

Hilarial

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@TinyGiant it is what we people like to call a "palindrome" :-D

Tiny Giant

I know what a palindrome is, but it also has to be real words.

Undo

@TinyGiant word/phrase that is the same when reversed

like "heh"

Tiny Giant

Yes, but it has to be real words

Undo

Or numbers

I think

Tiny Giant

23:31

Yes real numbers are acceptable, though I don't know where you would find fake numbers

Undo

Would imaginary ones count?

Tiny Giant

You would have to figure out how to create a not real number first

Then figure out how to type it into the chatbox

Undo

3+2i

Tiny Giant

Not a number, there's letters in there

Undo

3+(-1)^-2

Tiny Giant

23:34

Certain numbers with letters are acceptable if they are in scientific notation, but those are real

that's 3

Undo

your link says it's the Gulf of Guinea.

Tiny Giant

Not for me... google's calculator says it's 3

Undo

I... have no idea how they got that result

Tiny Giant

It is a real number if it is an equation that evaluates to a real number

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oh, stupid me forgot that ^-2 doesn't mean square root

wait yes it does

(right?)

Tiny Giant

23:38

Undo

ah right, misplaced base. Dangit

Well would 3 * sqrt(-1) count?

Tiny Giant

Whatever that means

It did take google a while to process

Undo

Imaginary unit

The term imaginary unit or unit imaginary number refers to a solution to the equation x2 = −1. As a convention, the solution is usually denoted i. Since there is no real number with this property, it extends the real numbers, and under the assumption that the familiar properties of addition and multiplication (namely closure, associativity, commutativity and distributivity) continue to hold for this extension, the complex number system is generated by including it. Imaginary numbers are an important mathematical concept, which extends the real number system ℝ to the complex number system ℂ, which...

(if ~~@bjb568~~ @calculuskitten was here he'd be all over this)

Tiny Giant

Lol, so there are imaginary numbers, but then those numbers cannot be fake?

I wonder if we could use imaginary units in css...

downvote-pls stackoverflow.com/a/31443069/4639281 question should be clarified before answering

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

@TinyGiant They are all real words (wo)man...

A man a plan a canal panama

Tiny Giant

23:48

amanaP is not a word

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

Panama.

that is a word

Tiny Giant

Yes but backwards it is not

amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A

oy the whole sentence is the palindrome

Tiny Giant

Overly confusing and possibly debatable.

Jon Ericson

@TinyGiant Gotta shuffle spaces when reading backwords.

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@SmokeDetector ignore- but closable, no MCVE

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