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12:56 AM

morning

1:33 AM

Any SE mods around? Flagged this guy's post on Wordpress (All his SO posts were deleted). and received this (helpful) flag reply:

> Please contact the SE/SO staff directly for such issues or open a meta post. Or just ping us in chat. I can't grant your flag about a user name on an answer. Thanks tough!

That user seriously needs his avatar and username cleaned up.

user315433

1:49 AM

Odd. As if it's about "granting a flag". :/

Awesome Poodles

2:03 AM

Grrr. Moderator A tells you to "open a meta post". Moderator B says, "...just 'contact' us about this stuff, rather than pointing it out publicly on Meta." Douchebag C downvotes. It's getting easier to see why people ragequit. ;)

user315433

Mod A wasn't exactly on top of the game there.

Awesome Poodles

I prefer to think that they're out to get me. :P

Shog9

@AwesomePoodles meta post is normally fine, but in this case it's just drawing attention to something that won't otherwise get seen (hopefully). "Contact us" ensures there'll be a ticket when the weekend's over without potentially sparking more problems in the interim.

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Kind of a special situation, really

Awesome Poodles

2:18 AM

@Shog9 Thanks, Shog. By "Contact" do you mean the contact form? (I always thought that was for Big stuff.)

Shog9

@AwesomePoodles it's for whatever you want. Pretty much anything you can't flag and don't want to post on meta.

Awesome Poodles

Thanks!

Shog9

Got up this morning ready to cut a couple pieces of OSB to make a platform for plants.

Circular saw was shot

Found someone selling a used one on craigslist

went and picked it up; solid saw, but filthy; he'd been using it to cut aluminum siding

(and, apparently, glue)

spent the afternoon disassembling, cleaning, greasing, and reassembling

works well enough, but the brushes are pretty worn

local stores don't carry replacement brushes (why? They sell the damn saws, but not brushes. Do they expect folks to just buy a new saw when the brushes wear out?)

found replacements on Amazon; should be here monday

that'll give me tomorrow to sweep up all this yak hair

meanwhile, seeds are sprouting...

Awesome Poodles

^^^ Free association? Or odd poetry or (gasp) trolling? :)

BTW, I hope that was a quality-brand saw.

Shog9

a tweet that's too long for twitter

@AwesomePoodles dewalt 364

decent enough

user315433

2:26 AM

More evidence that a blog is called for.

Shog9

no sense buying a used saw unless it's likely to be usable after maintenance

Awesome Poodles

And unlikely to ground-fault you into a 60 hertz shuffle...

Shog9

(now just need JasonC here to tell me it's crap and I've wasted my time)

@AwesomePoodles yes, also good

Awesome Poodles

@Shog9 I dunno. I mean that one doesn't even have a laser guide!!!

Shog9

I know. I have to draw the line on with chalk and pretend.

Awesome Poodles

2:31 AM

Red chalk makes it better...

Shog9

Right, of which I have plenty. And fortunately, it's loud enough no one will hear me making "pew! pew! pew!" noises.

Awesome Poodles

Speaking of sawing; off to catch some Z's...

Shog9

Speaking of chalk, don't buy this:

it says oatmeal and yogurt, but from the taste I'm guessing chalk and salt.

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hichris123

2:50 AM

@Marshmallow shog9.com

bjb568

3:46 AM

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user202362

5:15 AM

user202362

I am not gay, am I banned from joining?

jtbandes

5:35 AM

They might appreciate you not trying to join.

user202362

I don't want to join, but I want to be accepted >_<

jtbandes

/me accepts @Telkitty

user202362

<3 ... Here. Have a smooch from the chicken

user202362

😹

jtbandes

😱

user202362

5:45 AM

Don't make the chicken sad :(

Quill

6:01 AM

wat

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6:50 AM

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user202362

I feel the chicken in my avatar pic is not being fancied here, worry has me

user202362

7:41 AM

This is a ~~cute little~~ chicken who wants to be ~~loved~~ kissed

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8:14 AM

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Quill

sd k

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10:31 AM

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Shadow Wizard

sd k

@SmokeDetector k

user202362

10:57 AM

I hope the spammers don't have an automated system to send out spams - because their automated creations vs SE's manual clean ups is just silly :p

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tchrist

1:39 PM

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3:01 PM

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J. Constantine

3:34 PM

@shog9 Hello! I got a question. I went to China for uni this week and I noticed the website's a bit wonky here if not using a VPN. Mostly jQuery issues. I checked the source, and it seems you're using Google's CDN. Fair enough, but all of Google's stuff is blocked here. I found this question related to it (meta.stackexchange.com/questions/133786/…) but that got dismissed with a bit of "why should we do it", it seems.

I was wondering if it could be looked at again, with this reason in mind.

Shog9

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Q: It's almost impossible to Sign Up at SE at China

It's very hard to Sign Up at SE in China, for example, I want to sign up for Mathematica.SE, no matter how many times I try, I just can't use my SE Community account to sign up(The Open ID does not work), however, once you finish signing up, there are no problems to use SE sites.

discussion

@J.Constantine The big problem is, we have no control over what gets blocked (or even a reliable target to aim for). As you can see from that discussion, our own CDN has been blocked at various times.

Serving everything from a single domain would reduce the number of potential failure points (either everything loads or nothing does), but would also hurt performance for everyone who isn't behind a capricious firewall.

And since we'd essentially be running our own purpose-built VPN in that scenario, there's potentially a greater chance that everything would get blocked.

Best-practice for using SO from a sketchy network remains: use a good VPN.

Mooseman

5:00 PM

IͶΔ

Noice.

The most on-topic image ever posted.

Also \o @Moo, long time no chat

Mooseman

There is no such thing as off-topic in the tavern ;)

o/

Life is busy :p

jtbandes

6:27 PM

*berninate?

IͶΔ

Nope, why?

"burninate" is a meta.SO thing meaning "remove a tag with extreme prejudice".

bjb568

IͶΔ does not feel the bern

IͶΔ

Well duh, I'm a chemical.

bjb568

:p

Bernie Sanders

Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and the junior United States senator from Vermont. He is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election. A member of the Democratic Party since 2015, Sanders had been the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, though his caucusing with the Democrats entitled him to committee assignments and at times gave Democrats a majority. Sanders became the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously served for two years...

IͶΔ

I don't care about the US elections either.

bjb568

6:30 PM

… well, that was jtbandes's joke.

IͶΔ

But the guy is less trumpy at least.

@bjb568 Excuse my ignorance oh thy kitten, for I am from half an Earth away.

bjb568

Diameter?

IͶΔ

I doubt posting a new question is the right way either, but I will give you a +1 for earnest effort. Welcome to the site. — Steven B. Segletes Mar 29 at 16:31

These guys are unbelievable.

@bjb568 No, I'm inside the moon.

bjb568

oh

IͶΔ

Hydroxyl

bjb568

6:37 PM

:D

bjb568

6:47 PM

o_0 thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-swift

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user315433

7:13 PM

user315433

Too meta

IͶΔ

@Marshmallow Three people asking two meta questions makes sense.

user315433

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A: How do I infuse cappuccino with real vanilla bean during brew?

I would go with cutting a small piece of vanilla bean then scrap seeds in milk add vanilla bean skin in with milk as well and steam, the steam will bring out the vanilla flavor.

user315433

This answer is the only post by SE Executive Chef.

user315433

Which isn't obvious from the account itself, but it's linked from company page.

user315433

7:26 PM

Noticed when I looked at the level of SE account ownership among different teams. The three where 100% are linked to SE accounts are Community (duh), Executive, and Ad Sales. The two where 0% are linked are Finance and Developer Insights (the latter is a team of 1 person, though).

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7:37 PM

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rene

sd k

rene

8:09 PM

@InfiniteRecursion if you're around, please check meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/320765/…

rene

8:26 PM

You might as well let it pass-by, to much drama ...

user315433

Yeah, too much attention on a slow meta day.

Doorknob

I came, I saw, I downvoted

rene

You made a user quit SO. Happy now?

hichris123

9:15 PM

I need to get to 10k if only to see these meta posts.

Speaking of... it's stat time!

@rene ^

rene

Hmm, doesn't look that bad ...

@hichris123 service i.stack.imgur.com/TU7z5.png

hichris123

+856? You're becoming like Mystical...

user315433

In SO Close Review, I review everything in three of my tags (having selected 3 most popular of my favorite tags). Would review more if it was possible to somehow switch to tags 4-6 on my list instead of retyping everything every time. Is there a workaround for this?

user315433

I suppose the current system works great if one filters by broad tags like javascript or android, but that's not for me.

rene

9:34 PM

@Marshmallow yes, you can use tagfilter=java&tagfilter=haskell on the url for close/review (from the top of my head)

then you can favorite that url

I assume you know how to do that ;)

@Marshmallow sorry, this is how it works: stackoverflow.com/review/…

I use that in then burnination answers: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/319601/578411

user315433

@rene Thanks! I see it's posted on Meta.SE but not particularly popular.

user315433