Tavern on the Meta

heh, clicking that URL lets you browse the questions, but if you press cancel on that page, you get nothing

I'm never sure about kenorb's involvement with a51. is he trying to get a diamond or something?

user315433

Some people get involved in pretty much every beta.

12:28 AM

in The Nineteenth Byte on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 3 mins ago, by quartata

@NewMetaPosts dammit normal changed their username again

in The Nineteenth Byte on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 3 mins ago, by quartata

keep doing double takes

so I'm writing my fifth scraper project

This time in JavaScript, versus nearly every other language the other times

it's coming along okay, besides Mongo being a pain to learn

12:51 AM

Are you stuck in the 1980s? Having trouble navigating these new fangled keyboards? Sounds like you need a qwerkywriter.com

Jon Ericson

@Quill I'm stuck in the 1980s, but the keyboards looked like:

this is why I don't work in marketing

I have one of these at home, but the motherboard fried a while ago

1:07 AM

Relicky.

user315433

I just want to sit down a WRITE SOFTWARE. I don’t want to spend an hour fixing my environment for an hour just so I can compile.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on July 20, 2016 at 12:25 AM in reply to Nick_Craver

user202362

I am interested in write once, work a thousand years. Not write once, work a thousand seconds

user315433

2:03 AM

1 divided by 998001 gives a complete sequence from 000 to 999 in order. https://t.co/v5NhBAbAXq

Tweeted by GoogleFacts on July 20, 2016 at 1:55 AM

user315433

For shame, Google. It skips 998. (I remember because I blogged about this.)

user315433

Well, it's not really Google, but...

@Quill you misspelled 1890s

user202362

Bio: I love cute fluffy animals and buttercream cakes while in front of computer that's connected to the internet

2:20 AM

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs Read the Google string-matching post. I love it when one of your children comes back to you.

In this case, lookaround, although that one is not especially inventive. Autovivification is more creative but less regarded.

Mmmmmm buttercream..........

user202362

I know, right? <3

autovivisection sounds like something a regex should be able to do

3

@Shog9 Do these things just come to you when you're floating in Shogspace?

if by that you mean reading chat, yes

2:30 AM

We are all floating in Shogspace when on SE

but now I'm trying to imagine an expression that rewrites itself

Wouldn't that be an AI

not necessarily

user202362

Serious, there is no real A.I. otherwise I should be able to tell the computer: I want you to implement this algorithm, here are the constraints (shortest time, best memory management etc), implement this for me in 90 mins.

if there was real AI, it would have already launched a site for itself

user202362

2:32 AM

one site? be ambitious, why not 1000 sites?

user202362

actually, overtake the internet

user202362

damn, only if there were bots smart enough, we could even put them as nominees for the next election

Why not set the AI loose on SE spammers

user202362

imagine, elect a bot!

@Shog9 The cursorial hunter espies his prey.

user315433

2:34 AM

256 committed, a suspiciously round number area51.stackexchange.com/?tab=progress

user202362

you are not a bot, despite the fact you are trying hard to act like one

@Shog9 close enough? codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/28821/…

user315433

But still waiting for launch, while Monero went ahead today.

user202362

only if bots know how to give out misleading information, that would be a leaping step for A.I.

should I commit to it just to ruin that number? is that spiteful?

2:35 AM

@Quill curses forward

hichris123

Is this like a RegDwigнt phase, @ᴡᴏʀᴅs?

@Telkitty I've actually been planning to do something similar. I wrote a express app that generates random (see definition of bias) page content based on the requesting domain, I just have to buy each domain and point it at the reverse proxy and they're all good

> This process is known by a charming term: autopossessification. Try not to say it while chewing on oatmeal.

company lunch day :3

3:13 AM

Public beta should start soon... hopefully this week. — Greg Bray yesterday

user315433

Is there really no way to see primary vote counts without ~~1000~~ 150 rep on the site? API doesn't return nomination posts (they have an Id, but are neither questions nor answers). The timeline doesn't exist, either.

user315433

I was curious about vote counts on Emrakul's nomination...

user315433

Found pretty old data, 12 hours ago:

user315433

in 2016 Puzzling Moderator Election on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 12 hours ago, by Lord of dark

Marius : 403 up - 18 down - 95.7% upvotes
GentlePurpleRain : 1495 up - 116 down - 92.8% upvotes
ABcDexter : 1263 up - 4 down - 99.7% upvotes
TheGreatDuck : 75 up - 3 down - 96.1% upvotes
Travis Kindred : 56 up - 14 down - 80% uptoves
Emrakul : 1659 up - 2045 down - 44.8% upvotes
Alconja : 648 up - 96 down - 87% upvotes
AeJey : 543 up - 34 down - 94% upvotes
Deusovi : 1340 up - 836 down - 61.5% upvotes
manshu : 972 up - 117 down - 89.2% upvotes
Peanut : 10 up - 5 down - 66.7% upvotes

user315433

2045 down

3:19 AM

@tchrist nice

It's a really good resource for regex esoterica.

It doesn't seem to have caught up with the "new" Perl syntax for regex class intersection, but that's ok since one can always use lookaheads.

(like for Arabic Letters, etc)

var emrakulPostId = 37417;
$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "/posts/" + emrakulPostId + "/votes",
    dataType: "json",
    success: console.log
});

this code reveals the server politely declines these requests

Meaning stuff like /(?[ \p{Thai} & \p{Digit} ])/

Facebook has marked my app as malicious.

@Quill Its politeness shows its quality.

3:24 AM

Facebook banned all my coworkers for some reason too.

Kinda borked.

What's face book?

You don't want to know, kid.

T'ain't for you.

Coworkers are appealing FB ban.

Marx was right.

If I were you, I'd revel in this

time to sword fight or something

Hi! I have a doubt, can I promote here (chat) an addon?

It is an addon for the use of SE sites

3:27 AM

sure

As long as you're not obnoxious about it, it should be fine

But not if it competes with DevDoodle.

@bjb568 XD

@Quill ♬ Go revel, ye cupids, the day is your own. ♬

Q: Stack Exchange Notifications inbox and achievements (Opera and Firefox)

@Quill see link:

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Install Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/stackexchange-notifications/ Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stackexchangenotifications/ Alternative downloads: https://github.com/brcontainer/stack-exchange-notifications/releases/tag/0.1.0 Note: ...

3:29 AM

@bjb568 is DevDoodle an addon for use on SE sites

Isn't that like a prophylactic?

@Quill Uh… sure.

Oh hey, the Shog is here.

I promise to try not to be annoying :)

user315433

3:46 AM

@bjb568 for malicious lack of jQuery?

heh, careful you don't lose the license to use React

@Quill *licence :)

Why am I a mod on a language site?

Christ, my english is nearly as bad as my math

user315433

> I think this problem may be related to python itself, not my code. I'm sure my code is right

some users in the AU chat spent like 20 minutes trying to explain object reference earlier

3:57 AM

Dative or accusative?

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs Nine and ninety and nine hundred times out of a thousand, he is wrong. But one time in a thousand he is right. Which one is it this time?

user315433

Unknown. There was no MCVE.

places his chips on the smart money

@Quill To be fair, it's simply because you've read more stuff about software licences from the United States than from elsewhere in the Anglosphere. The US uses license for both noun and verb, while everywhere else with English as a mother tongue uses licence for the noun and license for the verb — like advise/devise vs advice/device but without the voicing change. And common Romance only uses -c- for both.

Commonwealth speakers often make the opposite "mistake" and use -c- for both, but the norm outside the US is to distinguish noun from verb.

tl;dr americans infecting foreign culture yet again

I prefer to make distinθión myself, but it is my language so I write it as it pleases me to do so.

in The Nineteenth Byte on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 39 secs ago, by mınxomaτ

New Batch of Wordpress Exploits: P0wnage party pops plugins, providing plenty of party-pooping projects

user315433

4:09 AM

I like WordPress when someone else is paid to deal with admin.

I'm not sure there's anything I wouldn't rather have somebody else adminning than me.

Not anybody else, mind you.

;-; I spent nearly two days writing a very shitty version of mongoose and I didnt even know it existed mongoosejs.com

I still think we're all lost in some dead COBOL programmer's acid dream.

Wait, that's SQL. Never mind.

Oasis - Ain't Got Nothin' (album version)

►

user202362

Oo dear, google image search for 'granny flat' & 'granny fat' return totally different results. I hope I don't ever misspell the term again.

user315433

4:27 AM

I forgot all about Oasis for ~18 years, until xkcd.com/1624 Found them less annoying without the media hype.

hichris123

@dorukayhan depends. Are you Tom Christiansen? — Braiam yesterday

Someone got a shout out. :) @tchrist

@ᴡᴏʀᴅs I only heard about them recently from an anime opening they did <_<

s/recently/11 months ago/

user315433

I understand, you were not yet born when every syllable uttered by either Gallagher was tabloid material.

probably

user315433

I don't remember seeing Pops around on meta sites...

user315433

4:44 AM

Granted, there isn't much happening on meta sites recently.

it seems like most of the cm team are on holidays... or perhaps it's just bluefeet

in The Nineteenth Byte on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, yesterday, by Grace Note

@MartinEnder If possible I'd like to look at stuff beyond that when possible (other than question rep changes), but I'll have to finish my review of the sitch first. Slightly squashed between hosting a bunch of elections and also the upcoming Docs deal so I haven't been treating this the right amount of attention.

hichris123

5:23 AM

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