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Beef used to be cheap here, because cattle are literally everywhere once you drive out of the city. But nowadays, China, Indonesia, even the U.S. want a piece of Australian beef, so the beef price here has skyrocketed to something like $20-$35 a kg

user259867

With 25 stars, balpha should be getting a Good Message badge.

tchrist

There's a Good Massage badge?

United States Of America

Lol

Damn

School E-learning site went down

:)

Just like before

Shog9

@chmod711telkitty $20 for what? Ribeye? Chuck?

that's pretty high for chuck

tchrist

Those aren't real dollars.

Shog9

12:47 AM

still high for chuck

United States Of America

Wai blame @bjb568?

Shog9

stop eating all that kiwi beef, bjb

3

United States Of America

...

Undo

darn delete button

Chat needs an undelete button

United States Of America

When will teachers ever learn to use .pdf instead of .doc?

tchrist

12:48 AM

Six bucks and three bits a pound.

user202362

@Shog9 shop.coles.com.au/online/nsw-metro-carlingford/…

tchrist

Chuck roast seems to be going for $5.99 somewhere or other.

user259867

.pdf is problematic when copy-pasting from.

tchrist

Should be cheaper.

United States Of America

Just referring to it

Not copying or pasting

user259867

12:51 AM

Yes, but later someone will want to copypaste... this semester I'm posting my HW solutions as read-only links to www.overleaf.com (and matlab code as gists).

United States Of America

Lol

The teachers in my school don't know a clue about GH

They store previous revisions of code on a thumbdrive

tchrist

Ground chuck averaged $4.22/pound during August (last month) per some US federal statistics something or other.

United States Of America

Erm

Can this go to cooking.SE?

tchrist

Have a nice walk.

United States Of America

I can't chat in cooking.SE chat

tchrist

12:54 AM

What happened, leave a bad taste in their mouths?

hichris123

@NormalHuman Not many questions there... and typically by the time I see them (a few hours), someone's already answered fairly well.

United States Of America

No

Suspended on arqade remember?

user259867

Ooh Seasoned Advice got a design update.

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Wow

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[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in body: Linux utility to convert a binary sequence stored in a text file into ASCII values by learnerX on superuser.com

user259867

12:55 AM

@SmokeDetector ignore-

user259867

No more bold italic everywhere.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: （大洋教育）Q/微信1901184762办理麦克马斯特大学毕业证成绩单学历认证McMaster University by tuiew13 on travel.stackexchange.com

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sd tpu-

McMaster?

user259867

Yep, well known Canadian University.

user259867

Today we're exploring higher education of Canada.

tchrist

12:58 AM

Wouldn't do them any good to use other than well known ones.

United States Of America

yey

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer: What is the proper word for "man boobs?" by Youssef Smaili on english.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- spam

user259867

Just noticed that the footer of our new website has my email in it... making me officially the web stuff guy of the department, it seems.

tchrist

You know, if we Protected ELU, new users would need to have 5 edit suggestions approved to post. How ironic is that?

user259867

1:06 AM

user259867

@tchrist Maybe this could be useful for ELU too? Show "how to ask" advice before a new user asks a question by Normal Human on meta.math.stackexchange.com

user259867

The comments there are quite focused.

bjb568

@Shog9 Kiwi… beef?

status-complete-on-DD

user259867

@bjb568 it looks like this

tchrist

@NormalHuman Aren't you afraid of being unfriendly to one of those six hundred daily askers? :)

SmokeDetector

1:12 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Some visitors cannot access my website by Keith on serverfault.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector naa

bjb568

@NormalHuman huh.

tchrist

More seriously, I honestly do not know how to improve question quality on a site. So many first-timers with no idea what it means to write an SE-quality question. I can see how the intercept page might be worth a shot; I'd be very interested to see before-and-after data if you put it to use.

user202362

I have 3 working days to renew my drivers license & app store license

tchrist

@bjb568 Don’t believe everything you read on Kiwipedia: they all taste like chicken, you know.

user202362

1:28 AM

My favourite NZ bird

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function IsUserOnMobileDevice() {
    if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPhone') != -1)
            || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPod') != -1)
            || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPad') != -1)
            || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Android') != -1)
            || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Windows Phone') != -1)
            || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('BlackBerry') != -1)
            || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('PlayBook') != -1))
            {
        return true;

Wat shit code?

if block is unneeded

Can do this

function IsUserOnMobileDevice(){
  return (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPhone') != -1)
           || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPod') != -1)
           || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPad') != -1)
           || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Android') != -1)
           || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Windows Phone') != -1)
           || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('BlackBerry') != -1)
           || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('PlayBook') != -1)
  }

Andrew T.

+1 from CodeReview.SE

JamesENL

Highfive!!!

@chmod711telkitty Those Kea's a vicious birds

user202362

1:45 AM

I like clever, voracious birds

bjb568

2:04 AM

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica This is the kind of thing my CS teacher teaches.

Or worse, with an accumulator variable.

United States Of America

lol

Fire him/her

bjb568

So it's null at first, then if (whatEver) { make it true } else { make it false }

United States Of America

Lol

bjb568

Anyway, I just do navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mobile') == -1

United States Of America

That's not my stuff

It's the school stuff

bjb568

2:06 AM

BlackBerry PlayBook

The BlackBerry PlayBook is a mini tablet computer developed by BlackBerry and made by Quanta Computer, an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) It was first released for sale on April 19, 2011, in Canada and the United States. The PlayBook is the first device to run BlackBerry Tablet OS, based on QNX Neutrino, and runs apps developed using Adobe AIR. It was later announced that the BlackBerry Tablet OS would be merged with the existing BlackBerry OS to produce a new operating system, BlackBerry 10, that would be used universally across BlackBerry's product line. A second major revision to the...

huh…

bjb568

2:26 AM

If I plot A vs B, then is A the y-axis and B the x-axis?

United States Of America

Wat

My homework is trying to make me download some webpage

It's chinese homework

With horrible things in the name

 1E_CL_E-LEARNING_ASSIGNMENT_(250915).docx

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: RANDOM NUMBER C BETWEEN INT_MAX & INT_MIN by user2285161 on stackoverflow.com

user259867

@bjb568 They don't have to be labeled x and y, but yes: "A vs B" is understood as A being vertical.

user259867

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503 Service Unavaliable

Lol

> I keep getting HTTP 503. What's up?

Lol

Can't send feedback

> Error code 32
The proxy failed to connect to the web server

bjb568

2:36 AM

@NormalHuman then my chem teacher screwed up the homework assignment

United States Of America

@bjb fire all your teachers

user259867

@bjb568 Convention does not have to be followed every time. As long as the plot is clear...

user259867

And if you labeled your axes, I could tell you exactly how MUCH better.

user259867

2:52 AM

And the prize for weirdest NAA of the day goes to...

user259867

0

A: App Won't Load After Link /data/app to 2nd SD-Card Partition

RESPONCED CODE IN ANY TRASSACTIONAL "AS" MY RESEARCH "IS" BY USING (COPYRIGHT)INTER CODING"IS"(*40$-#50cent)"AS"MODIFIED, . FILE,DOCCUMENTION,/AND ANY PERMISSION COPYRIGHT

United States Of America

lol

bjb568

@NormalHuman But the instructions is for us to draw it. And if we follow them then the conclusions don't make sense.

user259867

Can you post the problem?

bjb568

So you get slope = composition ratio = 47%

user259867

3:00 AM

Yes, here you are measuring the yield of copper, so it's natural to think of (copper) = function(chloride).

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Stalking websites

Stalker s = new Stalker("http://lms.asknlearn.com/");
s.addCallback(new StalkerCallback() {
    @Override
    public void stalked(HttpURLConnection connection) {
        try {
            System.out.println("HTTP response code for askandlearn: " + connection.getResponseCode() + ": " + connection.getResponseMessage());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
});
s.stalk();

Andrew T.

eww, Java

4

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted user: With enough rs3 gp ,What’s the top choice for Double XP Weekend? by Bob Niu on stackoverflow.com

bjb568

Now, next teacher to bash.

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu- spam

bjb568

3:04 AM

My statistics teacher said covariance measures strength of a linear relationship, which made me confused for the whole class.

But it measures direction, correlation measures strength.

Andrew T.

Correct him/her?

United States Of America

WOw

That's some spam

bjb568

@AndrewT. Well, it's too late now.

user259867

Correlation is just the covariance with normalized units.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer, blacklisted user: With enough rs3 gp ,What’s the top choice for Double XP Weekend? by Bob Niu on stackoverflow.com

Andrew T.

3:06 AM

@SmokeDetector tpu- answer to the spam question

bjb568

@NormalHuman well, I like my @norm s

United States Of America

> 1 match - 1057 steps

Lol that's some regex

This one:

regex101.com/r/jW2tI2/1

United States Of America

3:22 AM

Question:

Logging in to maths site gives me 20 rep there

Should I write a script to refresh once a day?

bjb568

This may be the most confusing way to explain the problem possible.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body: bbvcvbcbvcvcbcvb by Tylurr on stackoverflow.com

bjb568

It makes sense if you actually read the whole thing, but textbooks shouldn't expect that.

United States Of America

Lol

25 more rep to top of class

Does 3 more maths questions and writes cheating script

Done

bjb568

You don't need 4 sig figs if it's multiple choice.

United States Of America

3:27 AM

I know

I chose the advanced level

Think its +20 per question

bjb568

…

United States Of America

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[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title: 这里有中国人吗？好多英文我都看不懂？ by Hello kiwi on stackoverflow.com

United States Of America

I could just sit here all day until I get 2krep

Wait

Translation:

bjb568

kiwi!

user259867

3:30 AM

@SmokeDetector ignore- but close...

bjb568

oh whoops, flagged spam

United States Of America

> What is the meaning of this? This is my first time on this website, I feel it's very big. (Even if I don't understand it)

bjb568

and shtooped thing doesn't allow retracting flags

United States Of America

Flag to close as no related

Or vote

user259867

@bjb568 If you ignore everything except "expected" and "density function", the problem makes more sense.

United States Of America

3:32 AM

I don't think my chinese is that good

bjb568

Yeah, these word problems…

It's like 3rd grade math all over again.

United States Of America

Title:

user259867

Sorry to hear that. — Normal Human 20 secs ago

United States Of America

> Are there China people here? I don't understand a lot of English words

bjb568

If Jonny buys 49 cabbages at the grocery store and each costs $1.29, how many can he expect to drop on his way to the car?

United States Of America

3:33 AM

Lol

user259867

With 49... all of them.

United States Of America

Yey

upvote on -16 question

user259867

That the store floor will have a cabbage density function.

2

United States Of America

@NormalHuman Lol

> Excruciating pain shot through me, setting me on fire.

bjb568

@NormalHuman Then we can find the correlation between the mass of cabbage distributed over the x,y grid of the floor tiles vs the height of the cabbage from of off the ground!

This will help determine if cabbages are dark matter.

United States Of America

3:38 AM

$user image$

Lol

Too easy

user259867

Doing great at keeping a lot of crap off the homepage, not so great at feeding middling questions to helpers, @Jyrki. Still working on that last bit. Kinda different goals from this though; this is more... "What misconceptions can we fix right off the bat" than "what lost souls can we save" — Shog9 ♦ 2 mins ago

user259867

... which I suppose benefits those who use Stack Overflow homepage, should such people exist.

user259867

Still no effect on tag pages, right?

bjb568

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica 403s for non-logged-in users (i.e. we can't see the image)

United States Of America

Oh

Now?

@bjb ^^

bjb568

3:41 AM

can see it now

United States Of America

Good

bjb568

You are literally doing 1st grade math. Why?

United States Of America

Because that's what the system is giving me

shog9.com

bjb568

what even is that thing?

United States Of America

Lolwat

@bjb568 E Learning

bjb568

3:42 AM

geeeeee

(with a hard g)

United States Of America

Mmm

Andrew T.

I almost answered 3250, since I remember rounding to the nearest even number. I dunno why.

United States Of America

145 rep above everyone else

Lol

Maths page has CSS bugs

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United States Of America

sd tpu-

Gasp

970 rep

30 more to go

Annnd

1k

That's like double of second place

Andrew T.

3:58 AM

Congratulation! You are now an established user.

United States Of America

Yay!

I wonder how much more I need to get other avatars

1.1k

bjb568

48 mins ago, by bjb568

wat even is this

user259867

You have X, a random variable. You have a function g. Applying a function to a random variable gives you another random variable, namely g(X). You are asked to find its variance.

bjb568

The variance of thrice the square of the proportion or responders plus four?

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user259867

4:13 AM

As mentioned earlier, the stuff about respondents and proportions should be ignored as pure distraction.

bjb568

WELL IT'S WORKING, EVIL TEXTBOOK

user259867

The variance of g(X) is, of course, E[g(X)^2] - E[g(X)]^2

bjb568

yeah, I know that part

user259867

So you'll be integrating stuff like \int g(x)^2 f(x) dx

user259867

Which looks moderately ugly, a 5th degree polynomial.

bjb568

4:16 AM

test: $\int g(x)^2 f(x) dx$

United States Of America

I see regex

bjb568

:D mathjax bookmark is gewd

@UnitedStatesOfAmerica cleanse your soul

United States Of America

???

user259867

A regex with ^ in the middle? And $ at the beginning.

United States Of America

Looks valid

Lemme test

SmokeDetector

4:17 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Howto Reduce The Inflammation Acne Causes - Three Things You Can Do by hazelaruiz on superuser.com

United States Of America

sd tpu-

Well

Nope

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: Preventive Care Of Your Skin by paulderson on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, url-only title: http://loseweightgarcinianow.com/neuro-clarity/ by danarecinos on askubuntu.com

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bjb568

Night!

United States Of America

No longer need to do homework

Night!

SmokeDetector

4:39 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Most Effective Skincare Items For Many Skin Types by Hiendwardsy on superuser.com

United States Of America

sd 3tpu-

SmokeDetector

4:51 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Anti Aging Skin care Products by josephdixon on drupal.stackexchange.com

user259867

5:10 AM

xkcd simplewriter may be helpful when writing answers to certain questions.

user259867

I should try to write my next blog post like that.

user259867

Come to think of it, my English vocabulary isn't much larger than 1000, so passing the checker should be easy.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer, email in answer: Why is Namor part of the Illuminati? by Jeff Baker on scifi.stackexchange.com

user259867

@SmokeDetector tpu-

chx

Sigh. What do you do when a person on an SE site with way more than 10k encourages others to break the law (the answer explicitly says it breaks the relevant laws)? How do you escalate this further?

user259867

5:22 AM

Does it have to be escalated? Having a disclosure "what I suggest is illegal" is better than not having one. The readers, being so informed, can decide what they want to do.

user259867

You may decide to downvote the answer, for example.

user259867

5:33 AM

!!/report-spam webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/85367

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[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: What is the correct way of creating backlinks and anchor text? by Katie Mccracken on webmasters.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: WordPress plugin is not work properly by Dasangam Rahul on stackoverflow.com

SmokeDetector

5:48 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, url-only title: http://loseweightgarcinianow.com/neuro-clarity/ by chelsmart on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: How does Google's "No Captcha reCaptcha" work? by Lamborghini Aventador on security.stackexchange.com

JamesENL

6:15 AM

sd 4tpu-

SmokeDetector

@JamesENL I've only posted 2 messages since the latest reboot; that's not enough to execute all commands.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: These are a few quick ways to shed 15 pounds rapidly by user454481 on askubuntu.com

JamesENL

sd tpu-

the only way that might work is to starve yourself for two days, then run a marathon

it might kill you, but you would lose the weight

Shadow Wizard

spam meta.stackexchange.com/questions/264653/…

user259867

Hm. There is some nontrivial SO activity on that account.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Korean character in title: 카지노카페 OX７00．ＣＯＭ 카지노카페 kl7 by ducecrojis on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: High Pass Filter Inverse by T.Man on electronics.stackexchange.com

Shadow Wizard

6:20 AM

@NormalHuman maybe account hacked, I don't really care.

spammer should be stopped first, then if the team want they can investigate.

hmm, can't see any reason why this user is blocked. removing

>>rmbl electronics.stackexchange.com/users/84080/t-man

user259867

!!/report-spam serverfault.com/q/724727

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[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported question: Buying Volume Things From an Electric Wholesaler by AleciaHurley on serverfault.com

Shadow Wizard

!!/rmbl electronics.stackexchange.com/users/84080/t-man

user259867

It's rmblu

Shadow Wizard

oh thanks

!!/rmblu electronics.stackexchange.com/users/84080/t-man

SmokeDetector

6:22 AM

@ShadowWizard User removed from blacklist (84080 on electronics.stackexchange.com).

SmokeDetector

6:33 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: rich in E and B vitamins that are complex by user454488 on askubuntu.com

SmokeDetector

6:44 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: ARRAYFORMULA + FILTER by Enzo on stackoverflow.com

SPArchaeologist

I remember that some time ago someone asked for a feature to hide accounts from the network profile page (useful if someone create multiple account just for flagging). Any info about that?

CRABOLO

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250051/… ?

user259867

It will probably happen when the network profile is redesigned to align with the site profile redesign (which introduce said feature there). But when that will happen, nobody knows.

CRABOLO

i've never heard they were redisigning se.com?

user259867

11

A: Will the stackexchange.com network profile get an update that corresponds with the new profile?

Probably! But not very soon. As it happens, the project lead for this and I we were just discussing the network profile, and for this exact reason - letting people see their aggregate people reached. We'd like to see this happen, but it's lower priority than getting a bunch of other stuff done,...

JamesENL

6:51 AM

sd - tpu-

@SmokeDetector this is still alive

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: META LINK/ ISO INSTALLATION PROBLEMS by keystone on askubuntu.com

SmokeDetector

7:10 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: World's Most Popular Webmail Services by gmailhelp on webapps.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted user: Displaying all the variables declared in a sh file by lê thuý on stackoverflow.com

Andrew T.

Apparently this answer didn't get caught by smokey

0

A: Why does the Google Maps app need my phone call permission?

ខ្ញុំបាត់ទូរស័ព្ធសូមយកអោយខ្ញុំវិញផង

(NAA btw, not spam)

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7:42 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Email in answer: A Hard-Luck Farmer by Ashley Thomas on puzzling.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: PHP PDO Simple Insert Script Does Nothing, Shows No Errors by Proxy Master on stackoverflow.com

SPArchaeologist

@CRABOLO yep, should be that one.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title: Do Testosterone Supplements Work by Helenmihel on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body: SAP SUCCESS FACTORS Online Training by mail567 on stackoverflow.com

JamesENL

8:12 AM

sd 2tpu-

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[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: MY DLINK ROUTER WAN by akshay y on superuser.com

Andrew T.

> My question would be, how can I make the (Android) system to boot in at least 6-8 seconds?

I doubt it will boot later.

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[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: how Cogni Lift consult your doctor first? by frakydoasy on askubuntu.com

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Andrew T.

9:17 AM

!!/dead?

user202362

9:29 AM

!!/coffee

SmokeDetector

@chmod711telkitty brews coffee for @chmod711telkitty

user202362

!!/help

SmokeDetector

@chmod711telkitty 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.

bjb568

I'm not b\'rkedat all!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: WINDOWS SCRIPT HOST , ERROR:8000040005 by rajeswari on stackoverflow.com

user202362

9:33 AM

!!/tea

SmokeDetector

@chmod711telkitty brews a cup of earl grey tea for @chmod711telkitty

user202362

!!/brownie

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