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user259867
12:03 AM
@SmokeDetector gone
 
user259867
12:27 AM
Randomly, from PPCG. One year ago today: Draw random black-and-white forest. Nice images...
 
user259867
It appears PPCG is not entirely useless after all.
 
user259867
And ProgramFOX tried to close it. :p
 
> When scrolling down I thought my browser failed to render the image correctly
I swear I scrolled it two times before I noticed..
 
user259867
12:54 AM
Interesting question: Apply backspace within a string by eretmochelys on stackoverflow.com
 
user259867
Stated for Matlab, but makes as much sense in any other language.
 
user259867
Is this sort of "application" ever built-in? To me it looks like regex replacement is the only way.
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector fp-
 
1:12 AM
@NormalHuman I'm thinking of some sort of exec...
 
user259867
Yes, kind of like an "exec" method for strings...
 
Looks like all it needs is the comparatively trivial s/\X[\b]//g, but perhaps I’m underreading it.
Perhaps it would more readily read as s/\X\cH//g.
Hm, I just thought of something. "abc\b\bz" should become "az".
 
yes, that's the plan
 
Need to repeat until the s/// fails, and can’t let it match a real ^H.
while (s/(?!\cH)\X\cH//g) { "zippity doo dah" }
Supporting ^W for word kill, ^K for here to end of line kill, and ^U for zapping the whole string are all left as exercises for the reader.
/\cC/ && exit(1);
/\c\\/ && kill("ABRT", $$);
Line disciplines for strings!
s/\cZ// && kill("TSTP", $$);
 
2:11 AM
How to get rep on Stack Overflow: answer obvious duplicates that everyone understands
How not to get rep on Stack Overflow: answer more difficult questions that take 20+ minutes to write up an answer
 
What is a C+ joke?
I think they mean C++ joke...
 
user259867
We some language issues here... O 4 other users, who art ye? by Dronehinge on meta.stackexchange.com
 
@durron597 Did I miss something?
 
user259867
What on earth... is this really the placeholder text? Good grief. — Lightness Races in Orbit Jul 2 at 18:13
 
2:14 AM
@apnorton The fact that it's C+ and not C++ IS the joke
 
I fail to see how it's funny... but ok.
 
It's more silly than funny
 
user259867
@apnorton You're not the only one who fails to be amused by Jaydles' attempts at humor.
 
boo! only one pingable tim
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector fp-
 
user202362
2:19 AM
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
@NormalHuman What does the hyphen at the end of the command do?
I think it's silent mode, but I'm not sure.
 
you are right
 
ok
 
2:31 AM
Morning guys
 
Morning
Ah ha! I think I know why my Smoke Detector wasn't responding to chat commands... it seems like the user ID it thinks is its own is hardcoded: github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/blob/master/…
 
@apnorton Hm. Perhaps should be injected?
 
we need a whoiam in ChatExchange
 
there is.
It's room.me.id
err...
those are my variable names.
 
2:45 AM
> Guy A: And he just kept on mowing the sidewalk...
Submitter: It's not gonna mow itself
 
@apnorton so, the library doesn't have it?
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: Can viruses transfer from phone to computer over the network? by mel on security.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector naa
 
@Braiam Yes, the library does have it. In Smoke Detector's variables, it would be wrapm.get_me().
err... wrapm.get_me().id
 
2:57 AM
I'm busy atm... but we take PRs ;)
 
I'm looking through the code and trying to find where it makes sense to put it. I think I just found out, so I'll submit one shortly.
(I'm still getting used to the whole idea of editing someone else's code... I'm super particular about my own code layout, so I want to be very careful that I don't mess up another person's code organization.)
 
user259867
Watch out for trailing whitespace, or Flake will hate you.
 
user259867
> this is how Microsoft envisions its customers reading legal documents pic.twitter.com/4DdAIypgoB -- Noah Slater at 4:52 PM - 6 Aug 2015 via Twitter
 
You mean I'm the only one who reads license agreements like that?
:P
!!/coffee
 
@apnorton brews coffee for @apnorton
 
3:06 AM
What is socvr?
(It's some room SmokeDetector is in)
 
user259867

 SO Close Vote Reviewers

This room is for support and discussion about reviewing and co...
 
@apnorton A room on chat.SO
 
SO CV R
 
AH. ok.
 
I'm... good at variable names :P
 
user259867
3:07 AM
Which apparently has its own chatbot: github.com/SO-Close-Vote-Reviewers/SOCVR-Chatbot
 
user259867
> The bot aides the reviewers of the close vote room in performing their daily task of spending 40 close votes.
 
user259867
I kind of want to edit this (there are 50 daily CVs, only 40 reviews).
 
@NormalHuman Does things like track timing and audits and such. Kinda cool
 
user259867
But maybe they meant "reviews"?
 
I think so
 
user259867
3:09 AM
Besides, 40 reviews don't have to be all "close" obviously.
 
but they normally target those that are "sure close"
 
user259867
Edited to "40 close vote reviews".
 
user259867
Even so, they should be spending all 50 CVs! Slackers.
 
user259867
(I used to do it on Math, which also has 50 CVs/day. Kind of exhausting. I don't do it any more.)
 
@NormalHuman I remember that they said that they just spend the rest here
 
3:16 AM
-1
A: NSForegroundColorAttributeName doesn't work in Swift?

Luis Cordn TortulecHi i need a reputation of 15 points.

epic
 
user259867
It actually worked at some point. Let me dig this out...
 
!!/coffee
 
@apnorton brews coffee for @apnorton
 
@apnorton brews coffee for @apnorton
 
0
Q: DELETING FRIENDS RUBY ON RAILS

Ishaan SehgalMy goal is to be able to remove friends in a user's profile. Here is what I have so far: Code in my friendships_controller.rb: def destroy @user.friends.destroy end Route: get "/friendships" => 'friendships#destroy', as: 'destroy_friendship' User.rb model: class User < ActiveReco...

 
3:18 AM
Ok, hang on just one sec.
!!/whoami
 
^ someone wants to delete their friends
 
::pulls hair out:: Why can't things work the first time I try them?
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DELETING FRIENDS RUBY ON RAILS by Ishaan Sehgal on stackoverflow.com
 
!!/whoami
 
Another day, another "Stack Overflow tag badge script doesn't run"
 
3:21 AM
!!/whoami
 
@apnorton My id for this room is 300875
 
@AFamiliarFace fpu
 
Word in the banner: identitty call2unlock.com
 
@AFamiliarFace delete
 
@austinian What?
Care to expand on that @austinian?
 
3:22 AM
sec
 
I'm going to wait and hope that some spammy thing gets posted soon. I want to make sure my change allows the bot to respond to chat commands.
 
Oh, it's not an image
it's text in the banner laid under the logo of the company
 
@apnorton Run a !!/report on something
 
user259867
!!/test baba ji
 
@NormalHuman That does not look like a valid post URL.
 
3:26 AM
@NormalHuman That does not look like a valid post URL.
 
Oh, it wants a post URL
Jon Skeet posts work well :P
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Check if a given key already exists in a dictionary by Mohan Gulati on stackoverflow.com
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Check if a given key already exists in a dictionary by Mohan Gulati on stackoverflow.com
 
@AFamiliarFace fpu
@SmokeDetector fpu
 
3:26 AM
@apnorton Registered question as false positive, whitelisted user and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
AttributeError: class GlobalVars has no attribute 'smokeDetector_room_id'
2015-08-07 03:20:37.054370 UTC
  File "/home/apnorton/Documents/git/SmokeDetector/excepthook.py", line 46, in run_with_except_hook
    run_old(*args, **kw)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 763, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)

  File "/home/apnorton/Documents/git/SmokeDetector/ChatExchange/chatexchange/browser.py", line 696, in _runner
    self.on_activity(json.loads(a))

  File "/home/apnorton/Documents/git/SmokeDetector/ChatExchange/chatexchange/rooms.py", line 81, in on_activity
@apnorton ^
 
Yeah.
 
oh, you're probably watching the console. Nevermind :P
 
why do I keep typing "room_id" instead of "user_id"?
 
user259867
CS election has 3 candidates now, 2 of them viable. None of the pro-tem mods have stepped forward yet.
 
user259867
3:32 AM
I somehow expected that election to be more active, like Code Review.
 
user259867
Speaking of elections, does the bot run autonomously, or only when you're around, @Undo?
 
user259867
We missed it when the TWP election ended.
 
@NormalHuman It has to be run manually
I wasn't around for the end of that election
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer, blacklisted user: How to take screenshot of whole web page, rather than what shows on the screen by user78756 on stackoverflow.com
 
user259867
Yep, spam. Look at the other answers: stackoverflow.com/users/3663025/user78756?tab=topactivity
 
3:37 AM
I custom flagged them
 
user259867
This also conveniently points to a few questions to close...
 
@AFamiliarFace why
 
@ExplosionsPlus Sorry. I've been testing an instance of Smokey locally.
...I needed to test how it would act when it reports something, so I manually reported that.
@apnorton 55 minutes for 9 lines of code... O.o I'll be faster next time.
 
user259867
3:56 AM
> I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
 
4:12 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Seasoned Formulation Revealed, Muscle Increases by user479360 on superuser.com
 
4:38 AM
 
user259867
4:49 AM
@SmokeDetector fp-
 
5:04 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title, repeating characters in body, repeating characters in title: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA by newbie on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title, repeating characters in body, repeating characters in title: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA by newbie on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title, repeating characters in body, repeating characters in title: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA by newbie on stackoverflow.com
 
user259867
Custom flag time...
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector I don't know what to do... the post should be deleted anyway.
 
5:22 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Natural Penile Growth Exercises by Jenee numbers on magento.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Develop a lean and ripped muscle mass by user479372 on superuser.com
 
user259867
I forgot: do spammers often put their links in <strong> ?
 
user259867
Because this is something that non-spammers rarely do...
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Oracle SQL Training by rohit joshi on superuser.com
 
user259867
5:37 AM
@SmokeDetector tpu-
 
6:04 AM
I think community done gone crazy on Server Fault: just bumped serverfault.com/questions/159509/…
 
user259867
Those historical locks on SF are what's crazy... but yes, this is a bug, locked posts should not be bumped by community.
 
user259867
@austinian Heh: Why are locked questions bumped to the front page? by MDMarra on meta.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
Same question.
 
user259867
Retagged as a bug, because documentation says locked questions are not supposed to be bumped. — Normal Human 14 secs ago
 
Ah, I didn't search deeply enough
lol, that whole question didn't have community in the text, but just as a tag, which is why I didn't see it
 
6:19 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Promotes your muscle growth and recovery by Manuelwhite on meta.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
> .... 3D 22 30 22 20 74 79 70 65 3D 22 73 74 72 69 6E 67 ....
 
user259867
Excellent guru meditation material
2
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Much of the original work on a PS Addium by user50602 on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
7:29 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: How emphysema? Perfect Biotics, Stimulate Gastro-intestinal environment, Supporting Overall wellness by PerfectBiotics on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW ON COMMIT ERROR by KienNguyen on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: TFTP | PXE-E79 | DHCP by N3tC0der on stackoverflow.com
 
8:04 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: GOOGLE APP CUSTOM DOMAIN NEVER WORKING by JOE on stackoverflow.com
 
This is like the fifth time I'm trying to ask what's the logic behind . . . ? on meta and I end up answering myself.
 
8:59 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: If you can't graduate.Our team can help to you+wechat:1632278852 by sfaegag on workplace.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector tpu- SPAM
@SmokeDetector tpu- SPAM
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: how many online trainings are available? by seeta89 on stackoverflow.com
 
9:14 AM
Why on earth do very-high-rep users edit SPAM questions? Argh! stackoverflow.com/posts/31873857/revisions
 
@PatrickHofman \o
Well, I think I saw a 10k that didn't understand basic rules in SO.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Does Probiotic America Cause Any Side Effects? by David Alanis on serverfault.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body: Before and after pictures are a great way to track by lizzaking on meta.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector tpu SPAM
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Google Search Result Details by Eyrique Wong on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: Pas d’effets secondaires du tout by user479444 on superuser.com
 
9:38 AM
@SmokeDetector tpu SPAM
Dang it why isn't Smokey ever responding to me?
 
10:02 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, url in title: http://tryslenderagarciniacambogia.net/nitro-slim/ by shannonrcrum on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
Wow, drupal spammers are sheep.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: Fournir des résultats rapides et efficaces by betg uez on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: VBA INDEX MATCH LOOP by AL92 on stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: MINECRAFT: Will my email be my username? by Marla on gaming.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: Winnie the Pooh Quotes? by mastan babu on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Does not made it for allergic skin? by ridlyhirdia on drupal.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted user: BEST HADOOP ONLINE TRAINING by john1245 on stackoverflow.com
 
10:31 AM
@TriG maybe it needs to add skin or allergic to its keywords.
K, lemme rephrase: 97.6453% of drupal spammers are sheep.
 
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M It actually did detect it, which is why I deleted my comment.
9 mins ago, by SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Does not made it for allergic skin? by ridlyhirdia on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
Hah!
The mighty bot.
 
That curiosity when you see a message is deleted and you didn't get to see what it was.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: Unable to add new login method by Samuel Nicholson on meta.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector ignore
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: The Unexposed Secret of nitro slim by Paul J. Decker on stackoverflow.com
 
11:17 AM
^^ lol SO conveniently has a slim tag
 
11:46 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: WHERE NAME LIKE ( A SET OF NAMES ) by marcelo miorelli on dba.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted user: Can we download the java training material? by Shrikant on unix.stackexchange.com
 
12:01 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Weight Loss That Is Best Product by user126680 on unix.stackexchange.com
 
Morning @uni @uni @uni
 
Does that give me an excuse to ping @uni?
21 hours ago, by U̶n̶i̶h̶e̶d̶r̶o̶n̶
PSA: Uni will land in the chat room and land a roundhouse kick in your face if you ping them with @Uni without a decent reason.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in body: Отправка формы Ruby on Rails by Kakao Baba on ru.stackoverflow.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: Windows 10. Setting main browser issue by user479498 on superuser.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating words in answer: How to print in Python without newline or space? by Bala.K on stackoverflow.com
 
@SmokeDetector ignore
 
12:21 PM
(kicks @inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M out of the window of the tavern room)
(inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M hits a tree; walks away as if nothing has happened)
 
Ouch my butt. How come the cat doesn't get a kick too?
2
 
12:49 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer, blacklisted website in answer: Google Store Locator error while loading js assets by user50619 on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
1:09 PM
 
1:19 PM
-8
A: Using javascript to determine if two words are anagrams

Roger Stellonif (word1Length !== word2Length) { return false; } for (var i = 0; i < word1Length; i++) { } Affordable Dental Implants in Parramatta

 
@Quill you should it...
 
@Vogel612'sShadow Hmm?
 
gone
 
@PeterJ thanks...
@Quill [tag:spam] http://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/99269/37660
then it gets picked up by the rest of the bot gang
 
ah, okay
 
1:21 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MOTO PHONES BECOMING UNFRIENDLY TO USERS SLOWLY by Sushmita Ghosh on android.stackexchange.com
 
1:35 PM
@SmokeDetector "Please fix the problem", like we can...
 
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M It doesn't respond because it only listens to certain people. @NormalHuman probably can add you faster than I can, since he has unrestricted write access to the repo.
We need a !!/elevateuser id command. After my pull request from last night goes through (I'm not exactly sure how to deal with possibly conflicting commits between me and NH yet), I'll make one of those.
And, while we're at it, a !!/ismod command could be useful.
 
2:11 PM
Did it make sense for me to reject this edit? I couldn't really comprehend why the editor changed that string from "Goshop" to "GoPharmacy."
 
@jadarnel27 Indeed. This warrants a moderator flag I think.
 
@PatrickHofman I'd maybe agree with you if the user did it a bunch of times
But it's possible that they ended up retyping that string for some reason and guessed
 
@jadarnel27 seems fair enough
 
@jadarnel27 btw, cv-pls
i just updated the exception as "TimeoutException" and its working now. thanks for all.. — Daniel Prabhu 52 mins ago
 
2:29 PM
Thanks guys. Want to make sure I wasn't missing anything =)
@PatrickHofman I agree with Kevin, if that user was doing this a lot it would be an issue.
As it stands...I don't really know how to interpret that change.
 
2:48 PM
My happiness over getting some Stack Overflow reps yesterday is only a little tainted by the fact that most of the points for for a Web Forms answer.
 
3:01 PM
!!/lick
@SmokeDetector delete
 
Bye @Pat @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
Huh internet is weird now
 
It wasn't weird before?
 
Nope
Now I'm in rooms but I don't see myself
Did you see me?
 
yeah
 
3:04 PM
 
Ok, with a refresh it seems to work
Chat seems to be giving me problems lately
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: How to use of this product? by Cogni Maxx on meta.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector tpu- spam
 
3:20 PM
@SmokeDetector gone, MOD NUKEZ
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: Trasform Friggeri-CV to A4 by Felipe on tex.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector naa
 
user259867
3:47 PM
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M It should now.
 
@unico bye
 
@PatrickHofman Bye!
 
user259867
> Stack Overflow beers: Ruby on Rye 'n PHPeach. designed by @kjbeavers pic.twitter.com/YL1yB6T41r -- Jin Yang at 8:43 AM - 7 Aug 2015 via Twitter
 
user259867
SE is branching out into beer industry.
 
user259867
So that's why the CSS updates have been so slow recently.
5
 
3:55 PM
@NormalHuman Discreetly.
 
Today's xkcd comic (Water Phase Diagram):
 
user259867
> I'm working on initial ideas for a new type of content on Stack Overflow, centered around local and in-real-life meetups. More to come soon about that, hopefully.
 
user259867
(Said by Kasra)
 
user259867
Beer is a new type of content for sure.
 
user259867
4:02 PM
And works well for IRL meetups.
 
@NormalHuman is The Content™
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW TO FIX PROBLEM OF IPHONE 3GS AFTER UPDATING? by Riya on apple.stackexchange.com
 
user259867
Maybe it's the new plan for reducing the number of rude comments on SO. Modeled after xkcd.com/438
 
user259867
But I'd guess they would have C# beer first.
 
4:25 PM
Hello @Apn
 
@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Hi!
//whoami
!!/whoami
 
@apnorton My id for this room is 266345
 
ROOM?
It should be site
 
It is for the site, but...
 
Just found a photo of @Thi
 
4:26 PM
the dictionary that stores IDs maps room numbers to ids, which already was in existence before I made my edit.
 
@NormalHuman Bows
 
Do mods have bots to visit chat for them?
They are last seen 1 min, but when pinged they never talk
 
I'm not wondering why @Unicorns has quit eating unicorns.
 
Bye whoever it was
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M Me? Quit?
 
user259867
@UnicornsAreVeryVeryYummy Last seen = has this room open in a tab. This doesn't mean they look at that tab. Remember Meta.SE chat is used by employees for sharing their secrets in restricted chat rooms.
 
4:37 PM
Ok, tries something
Hello mods, please ping me as a reply
See who really looks
 
@NormalHuman I liked the former revision better.
 
user259867
Actually, this room doesn't even have to be open. The chat keeps users "in the room" as long as they have at least one room from that chat (SE / SO / MSE) open.
 
Sup @ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
 
user259867
 
user259867
^^ an example of the secrets being shared.
 
4:41 PM
 
@SmokeDetector I flagged as "rude" because, although I can technically edit such posts, I found it unclear as well.
 
I'm pretty sure it should've been uber butt four.
 
user259867
Which reach their logical conclusion in...
 
user259867
> uber but for saying goodbye to loved ones who won't speak to you any more -- Joel Spolsky at 7:02 AM - 7 Aug 2015 via Twitter
 
Could you clarify your question, preferably without using mildly vulgar expressions directed towards the people who could help you? — Undo 28 secs ago
 
4:47 PM
Maybe they really needed crap?
 
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