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nope :)

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The closure announcement: web.archive.org/web/20130207015537/http://blog.doctype.com/…

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I think I heard about it back in the days, and more recently, from old comments on Webmasters;

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HTML/CSS questions are better suited on Doctype — John Conde ♦ Feb 5 '11 at 14:53

user202362

I am amazed at the little amount of sleep some people get ...

12:35 AM

I didn't sleep at all last night

@Telkitty did one of your colleagues fall asleep at work or something

user315433

Except maybe at the calculus lecture.

How could I fall asleep with all that romance drama going on

user202362

calculus lectures are usually not at night

user202362

when I was in uni, they were almost always the first thing or second thing in the morning

user315433

Yes, but still an excellent sleep opportunity.

hichris123

12:38 AM

If you ever need some cat pictures... Smokey is now posting a cat picture on each backoff in Charcoal HQ (thanks to @Undo):

3

in Charcoal HQ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 15 mins ago, by SmokeDetector

user315433

With mere two lines of code (not counting the precautionary exception): github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/commit/638681d

in The DMZ on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 3 hours ago, by Gilles

And by the way, I don't mind, but you ought to know that initiating a discussion about someone's flags in public chat is not really appropriate for a mod.

Ugh, I missed some drama

1:32 AM

Morning

1:50 AM

Morning

2:06 AM

Morning

user202362

so much bacon ...

uh wat

user202362

looks like there is huge amount of bacon next to your head :p

meat hats

Q: suggestion: A dark web front-end for a site

2:16 AM

0

Idea: if we have a website about the Deep Web, so it's a shame if we won't have a dot-onion and dot-i2p addresses for it! In My Humble Opinion. What do you think about it?

wikihow.com/Paint-a-Bike — Count Iblis 3 hours ago

user202362

hat is warmer with meat inside

One of my cats like to climb on my head

user202362

cat hat!

user202362

2:31 AM

3

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fashionable cat with chicken hat

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in answer: How to download playlist from videolectures.net on Windows? by henryjackylucky on webapps.stackexchange.com …

Is the question in that one a spamseed?

> But the only debut is it only allows to download 5 videos for free

debut?

user315433

I don't know about question, but the answer is certainly spam. The text is mostly the same as in previous such posts: metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/…

user315433

2:39 AM

The "it also helps... " sentence, with a list of sites, is common for these.

I use this method to download {{siteName}} videos: {{link}}

It also helps to download {{relatedSiteNames.join(', ')}} videos.

The only debut is that it can download {{freeLimit}} videos before paying. but that's only {{cost}}

bjb568

2:57 AM

@Telkitty cc @sun!

3:16 AM

@Quill debit

ah

still nutterstuff

user315433

> check out the cool new design for the World Building Stack Exchange worldbuilding.stackexchange.com by @kjbeavers -- Joel Spolsky at 7:04 PM - 17 May 2016

user315433

It's not often that Joel gives a shout-out to a site's design

@Telkitty she's waiting for eggs

meaning the tortoise not the hen

user315433

3:19 AM

But it's actually Worldbuilding, not World Building. Inconsistency!

user315433

Area 51 shall not rest until every cryptocurrency has a site. Next one: Monero. It already has more followers than Dash

3:59 AM

found lurking in the bottom of my oldest file cabinet, under a pile of old phone bills and the manual for a Hitachi drill: a Pentium CPU.

I don't remember ever actually owning a Pentium CPU

user202362

maybe you should drink less >_<

user202362

AMD4LIFE

Is this your form of rebellion against the state?

or you could ~~bend over and take the vendor's preference~~ own a mac

user202362

4:01 AM

just settle for a tablet, dammit

user202362

it's not like herding users consume much CPU power

one does not own a mac. One becomes, when unwary, p0wned by them.

user202362

I pwn PC/Mac & a linux server (VPS)

Still, I wonder whose chip this was

user202362

got pwned* by //maybe

4:04 AM

@Shog9 maybe an april fools present

user202362

I wonder whether it's really a Pentium CPU ...

user202362

I mean ... it could be anything

user202362

it could be a spy transmitter

user202362

a web cam

user202362

a tiny bomb

4:06 AM

80502, 150MHz

user202362

or a chocolate bar

Try chew it, if it tastes like blood and plastic that means it's really good quality

ceramic and sharp little pins

anyway, this chip must be pushing 20 years old. That's older than my file cabinet.

user202362

I should have a 10 year old working debian box sitting in the garage somewhere ...

user202362

I tried to rewrite the kernel, then gave up coz got busy ...

user202362

4:12 AM

not that I was ever a good kernel developer

I still have a working 128k Macintosh lying around somewhere

Daily News | Traffic Stops For Mama Bear And Cubs

4:35 AM

user202362

5:18 AM

►

5:37 AM

tractor..?

tractors

nice

5:50 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Do I pay a zero % loan before another to clear both loans faster? by Grant on money.stackexchange.com …

6:06 AM

sd k

6:33 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Choose Acne Skin Care Products Wisely by alishjeuvan on security.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: The Shocking Truth About Male Skin Care by James Justic on drupal.stackexchange.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: This can be a topical cream that by srynt jufina on superuser.com …

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, link at end of body: http://getmenshealth.com/trimplex-elite-fr/ by Upellift Jil on arduino.stackexchange.com …

6:49 AM

@bjb568 Cute!

7:11 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Chinese character in title, mostly non-Latin title: 扣1-5-0-0-8-8-5-7-3办北美.荜[叶].[証].文-.凭 iOS iPhone by chrisstina on apple.stackexchange.com …

7:32 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Precisely when to Expect Results? by weqawrwq on arduino.stackexchange.com …

8:18 AM

I think someone got the domains wrong :p

Maybe devs and employees can choose any skin they like on their chatroom?

I think it only requires to load a different css.

given that they can imitate feeds, anything's possible :p

also that excel talk is great

@TylerH and others: Please feel free to flag the comment for removal if it is unrelated to the post. That is the recommended way to deal with "not-related" comments. Instead of piling comments saying "this is not related" - put it in a flag. — Sunshine 3 mins ago

8:36 AM

@Sunshine the problem is that I don't want the comment to be removed because you have a point: we are an evil room at times. I don't want that to be hidden but I feel the comment could have used a bit more context to put things in perspective. It is good that we remember we aren't always a responsible bunch of people.

and left a comment on the post as well, paraphrasing what I said here

Derpy

@rene As I said to @ShadowWizard some days ago, if you are bored with the current chat room skin, you should totally try this version instead...

@rene I had posted the comment because I felt it was related. I didn't post "my interpretation/opinions" because I think that always complicates discussions. As far as the SOCVR room and burnination is concerned, as an individual, I respect the efforts you individually put in as a user @rene to clean the site. As for the vigilante mob that SOCVR has become, I am not sure if it does more good or more harm.

SOCVR posts a canned comment promoting the room in every single burnination request on MSO. JavaScript guys don't promote their room for every JS question, Python guys don't promote their room for every python question. For any other tag on SO proper/meta, can you show me a room which posts a canned comment for every post in a tag?

We don't promote on main AFAIK, and the recruiting done by some should have stopped but I need moderators to enforce that.

@Sunshine As I said in the question instead of the status-review tag we decided to post a comment. If you feel that part sucks, please say so, either in an answer or in a comment.

We decided to use that comment to prevent over enthusiastic re-tagging based on the post from Martin Smith. It only needs some negative feedback to adapt that comment so the room isn't mentioned.

@rene I intend to raise a flag for mods to cleanup these canned comments, doesn't make sense IMO to post on MSO, as none of the folks their can moderate comments. I will be speaking to the incorrect audience. Mods can cleanup or decline my flag, I will leave it upto them.

i was hoping that my advertising would made some more people at least aware that moderation is a thing and I don't want to hide we exist. If I need to balance that more I'm OK with that

So far I haven't had much of a normal / regular discussion about how the room is perceived except during incidents when I only get a bucket of poo delivered, totally deserved but still.

So, anyway, if people would just speak up a bit I can at least try to make it fit in. I'm now a bit steering in the darkness/fog relying on feedback from occasional visitors and/or mods.

8:55 AM

Some things make me uncomfortable, and I prefer to put them in a flag instead of a public scrutiny on MSO. As for the rest, you as an individual are doing a great job. I have no intention to post on MSO to shut down your room. I do, however think the long pile on comments on Undo's post could have been avoided by folks who are self-assigned vigilante moderators, they should have used the proper tool for the job, and I have left them a note to do so.

you are getting feedback now, on your MSO post. :)

OK, fair enough.

[ SmokeDetector ] Pattern-matching website in answer: How to add a Table of Contents to a LibreOffice Calc file? by ElishaJhon on superuser.com …

@Derpy disturbing ...

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: she could seem extremely tricky? by ArleneWilson on superuser.com …

Q: Find the infinte sum of the series.

10:29 AM

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How do find the sum of the series till infinity? $$ \frac{2}{1!}+\frac{2+4}{2!}+\frac{2+4+6}{3!}+\frac{2+4+6+8}{4!}+\cdots$$ I know that it gets reduced to $$\sum\limits_{n=1}^∞ \frac{n(n+1)}{n!}$$ But I don't know how to proceed further.

sequences-and-series summation

Barely anything like an MVCE and it gets to HNQ

The guys on Math are really rep hungry

user315433

11:19 AM

It does demonstrate one of coolest things one learns in calculus 2: to find the sum of a series, it helps to make the series more complicated by inserting a variable in it. (Because then one can take derivative or integral with respect to that new variable, which changes the game.)

oh my god I can do addition, but wait, there's more.... I can insert a variable and CHANGE EVERYTHING OH MY GOD

Bart

Is this on-topic/answerable? stackoverflow.com/questions/37295352/… Kinda feels like it's better asked to the SDK providers?

11:55 AM

I think it can be answered by those who have used it. If I'm not mistaken, all the files/sources are accessible when it's imported to Unity.

1:45 PM

!!/alive?

@ShadowWizard Watching this endless list of new questions never gets boring

user202362

!!/brownie

@Telkitty Brown!

!!/hats

@ShadowWizard Winterbash is over. :(

1:54 PM

!!/‮alive

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Use SED or AWK to move rows to columns by user170974 on unix.stackexchange.com …

2:09 PM

sd k

3:24 PM

weren't you a bit quick on that dupe @ShadowWizard ?

Just means we repented of using chiclet keys and went back to mechanical switches with proper beige key-caps. — Shog9 ♦ 29 mins ago

Nostalgic feelings ...

@rene you mean here? Why? It's the same thing. Reporting a "bad" company.

Hmm, no, the dupe is about actual complaints from jobs that were offered, while the one you closed is about a company that does doubtful things.

If I was a environmentalist I would post something similar about Shell

@rene guess we'll have to disagree. Got to go now, but ice cream will be given. :)

Ok, I'll accept that ;)

xkcdBot

4:00 PM

Today's xkcd comic (Bun):

If a wild bun is sighted, a nice gesture of respect is to send a 'BUN ALERT' message to friends and family, with photographs documenting the bun's location and rank. If no photographs are possible, emoji may be substituted.

@xkcdBot BUN ALERT

Haney

paging Dr. @canon

(apparently, I'm understanding the comic wrongly...)

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer, blacklisted user: Limiting FTP privileges on Windows Server by Shannon Rhodes on security.stackexchange.com …

4:20 PM

that is the second spam post of that same user within 10 minutes or so

Haney

well anyway, thanks to your MIT console lib which we are now hosting, Stack Snippets with virtual console goes live today

@rene new-user answer throttle is 1 every 2 minutes by default.

Checking the log, it appears it just kept hitting "post" until it went through

Also from the same log, for your morning entertainment:

> my name is anonymous.
please don't be alarmed , i mean yeah i'm gunna take down Stack Over flows web page and take all your money :) ill use it for prostitutes so don't worry its all in good will :) hope you have a nice day.
Oh btw im the hacker :) please click the link

Your sincerly
David the sad guy with no friends

LOL

Well, if you ever get bored you can always turn to the logs...

Also, there's apparently a place named "Chipping Norton"

see, if the logs don't satisfy, there's always geolocation

Chipping Norton

Chipping Norton is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in the West Oxfordshire district of Oxfordshire, England, about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Banbury and 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Oxford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 6,337. == History == === Pre-1800 === The Rollright Stones, a stone circle 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Chipping Norton, is evidence of prehistoric habitation in the area. The town's name means 'market north town', with "Chipping" (from Old English cēping) meaning 'market'. Chipping Norton began as a small settlement at the f...

Maybe Jeremy Clarkson got bored? Oh wait I already spot which David it is ...

Indeed no friends