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user315433
12:00 AM
Correction: it's about 150+ rep users, not 3K users.
user315433
Let's compare those between, say, Mechanics, Law and Philosophy.
user315433
Users with 150+ rep, by site... Mechanics: 1065, Philosophy: 864, Law: 300.
Name shortcuts get me every time
user315433
That's "Mechanics" for me, because the URL and shorter.
user315433
Some part of those 1065 may be somewhat artificial, gaining rep because of a voting campaign after the aforementioned meta post...
user315433
12:10 AM
Law election is headed for double-digit turnout too, 72 voters so far and the election ends in 19 hours.
user315433
Will likely be the second-lowest turnout (Network Engineering Election #1 had 63 voters)
user315433
12:49 AM
We made it to McCall. The water is about as warm as it can be. https://t.co/GWwhIF0E49
user315433
You can imagine how much Jon wants to be pinged about site graduations right now.
They take holidays on shifts :p
If I were in boiling water, I guess I'd welcome a distraction
user315433
It can go over 100 C under high pressure... hm.
user315433
> In water, the critical point occurs at around 647 K (374 °C; 705 °F) and 22.064 MPa (3200 PSIA or 218 atm).
user315433
12:52 AM
374 C and 218 atm aren't comfortable conditions.
comfortable? that's putting it mildly
I'm on a university network..... did the ip get blocked or something?
user315433
I sometimes feel like answering emails with that.
user315433
1:07 AM
> A day in which I wrote no code. #management #sadtrombone -- Kevin Montrose at 5:52 PM - 1 Aug 2016
also blocked on SO, but not SE, SF, SU or AU domains
user315433
The engineering team needs a Coding Enablement Manager.
user315433
@Quill Could be stacknews?
Huh?
user315433
Your project scraping metas. Just a guess.
1:08 AM
s/scraping/using the api like a normal user/
also it's run off a server, not my local machine
user315433
Okay, then it's probably someone at your university...
user315433
Can you get another IP from that network?
Yeah, I tried on my phone. Same result
user315433
Maybe use contact us form on another site, mentioning your IP and the UTC time of attempt...
user315433
If someone feels like digging the logs to find what happened.
1:12 AM
I don't know why a Varnish error would be occuring, given that SE doesn't run on Varnish
Unless HAProxy has identity issues?
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs Fortunately, McCall Idaho is at about 5K feet, so water should be boiling at a comfortable 94-95C
@Quill Maybe something on the Fastly side?
Maybe, I doubt they'd have such a horribly formatted error message
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs Stack Exchange contact us redirects to Stack Overflow, but MSE's will do
user315433
So much for my summer reading plans. ☹️ https://t.co/eSkPgA3m8i
user315433
What happened to his Kindle? Can't tell from the picture.
1:24 AM
LCD failure, either drop or minor water damage
user315433
I sat on mine recently, and expected something of the kind, but nothing happened...
user315433
Yay for being underweight, I guess.
user315433
A solution to Jon's problem: disregard Kindle, read meta.
user202362
benches usually have skeleton but no meat, chairs sometimes have both but really depends
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs s/meta/stacknews/
it's always better when you're reading something that has news in the title
adds to the prestige
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Q: Error 429 Too many requests on stackoverflow.com

Amani KilumangaI'm on a network that apparently makes too many requests to stackoverflow.com (I thought I was the only one) I get iterations of the following whenever I try to access the domain: Error 429 Too many requests Too many requests Guru Mediation: Details: cache-itm7422-ITM 1470099672 3300317948 ...

user315433
1:34 AM
And is mobile-friendly, unlike "filtered" page
user315433
Heads up: there will be a momentary Stack Exchange outage Wednesday night a little after 9pm EST for SQL. I’ll post to Stack Status tonight.
user315433
Time matches
> Stack Exchange
It's only applying to Stack Overflow so far
user315433
Separate SQL servers, upgraded one at a time.
it's strange that it's network specific
user315433
1:36 AM
One for SO, one for everyone else.
no like wifi network specific, not domain or server specific
user315433
Yes, a mystery
A wild StrongBad has appeared!
to make matters even worse my copy of Triffids is covered in water
user315433
user315433
Math peaked in May 2013 (?) and quite sharply.
user315433
1:47 AM
I think average score is better than sum here...
to be clear, I'm not sure that's a good measure of... Anything. It was just the measure that the asker there happened to be using, for reasons which are his own.
user315433
No, the average isn't so good, being dominated by early beta months
user315433
June 2016 was the first month with negative average question score on SO.
Code Review has pretty weird trends by that query
As opposed to...?
1:54 AM
Math, I guess?
@Quill no, I mean those trends match up pretty well with Posts, Votes, most other forms of activity
(ignore the stuff before the site's launch date - I was lazy)
user315433
On Math, the total score has been in decline for years, as activity grows.
In relation to SQL, I just got out of an oracle sql lab where they taught us how to select * queries
I think my life is complete
user202362
only if maths are as new as computer science, growth on SE related sites can lasts much longer ...
I don't think that's how that works
user315433
2:03 AM
select * from Life where Name = 'Quill'
There's probably some obscure web comic where they access life with sql
user315433
drop table Life
user202362
move on with out lives
user202362
s/ut/ur/
user202362
2:14 AM
data mining works on intuition
user202362
not the other way around
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs But Wednesday.
2:34 AM
Time leap, as usual.
user202362
Data analysis could be built on a pile of sand - can you really shrink a 3 dimensional world that changes along time into 1 dimension data? If so, what's the purpose of other dimensions?
3:40 AM
quiet today
too quiet...
user202362
...wait, no, exactly the right amount of quiet.
user202362
stand up, look bigger ... way to win ...
4:14 AM
@Quill I (and others) were left in the dark as to him saying he'd post a Stack Status. twitter.com/stackstatus I checked that for over an hour and even as I typed this; nothing was posted. — Fred -ii- 2 hours ago
4:32 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: What is Muscle building Supplement? by TerrenceCrofoot on superuser.com
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4:56 AM
3 hours ago, by hichris123
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs But Wednesday.
sd 5k
5:11 AM
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sd k
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: Honest dollar for solid information by Pete Smith on drupal.stackexchange.com
5:33 AM
sd k
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[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: boosthightestosterones.com/nootromins/ by richldersn on security.stackexchange.com
sd 2k
5:49 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Vous pouvez faire votre propre salve en ajoutant by lusajames15 on superuser.com
nah, the last one just kinda sucks
6:12 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body: Why do we celebrate our birthdays? by Maya Doherty on patents.stackexchange.com
 
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7:12 AM
initially written without links, which were then edited in
!!alive
the bot is dead and I'm busy. So...
ok, it's just slow
I mean, five minutes kind of slow
it's !!/alive, not !!alive
!!/alive
@ProgramFOX plz send teh coffee
pours coffee into SmokeDetector, then detects smoke coming out of it.
7:30 AM
@JanDvorak yeah, it posts in CHQ first and if it still exists after 5 minutes, it posts here
because it was effective this room filled up with spam reports instead of occasional chatter
Is there any other purpose for this room?
OMG, It's a wild @JanDvorak
yes, proof ^
Now that you are finally here please delete vote this @Bart
7:35 AM
Done
thx
Now Jan is back, all I need is for Gnomeslice to give me daily listenings again and I'm good.
7:56 AM
@Bart Today's listening ... vette track ...
/ignore rene
^ those guys need more exposure
\o/
/me runs in circles around the office
:D
8:31 AM
> Do you want java.com to run Java?
9:21 AM
@Bart why not squares?
@JanDvorak of course, discussing important things with SE authoritie. ;-)
!!/blame
@ShadowWizard It's Jan Dvorak's fault.
9:37 AM
@Quill Start getting worried when someone will name his/her daughter Fluttershy.
<_<"
That's even worse than Deuteronomy
You just have to chose one from the nerd list of children names: Zelda, Roll, Aerith, Etna, Fluttershy...
Aerith and Bob
Or rather, go for Bob first in case the other child is a girl.
@ShadowWizard watch the video ;)
10:13 AM
@JanDvorak Why should one do that? The kid should obviously be called Bowser.
Or Ganondorf
10:26 AM
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10:42 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer (batch report: post 2 out of 4): How can I find the value of $\\ln( |x|)$ without using the calculator? by florin on math.stackexchange.com
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: What algorithm is used by computers to calculate logarithms? by florin on math.stackexchange.com
11:00 AM
@SmokeDetector oh... so much MathJax, so much to render..
user315433
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs That was a stupid remark... of course, the short-lived questions get mostly downvotes, but then they stop acquiring them, being deleted or forgotten. Those that remain relevant will accumulate upvotes over time.
user315433
If it was the net sum of all votes cast during a month... hm.
user202362
this reminds me of a movie about a murderer with multi-personalities, each and every personality interacts with the other personalities
@Derpy Oh boy. You are one of today's lucky 10000. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AerithAndBob
11:29 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of answer: wordpress installed but not opening the page by user72597 on askubuntu.com (@kos)
@Derpy The boy/girl combo would, of course, be Alice and Bob
[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: Why use Photoshop for Web Design by user72597 on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com
12:01 PM
Why didn't I earn http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/5851/creditor ?

I added a cite here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11052125/convert-comma-separated-values-to-listlong/26598871#26598871
Maybe that awarding process runs at an interval?
12:14 PM
@JanDvorak I know, but why should one waste an opportunity and give out a normal name? I say they all need to be weird, that shall be the first step on the road of extravagance freedom.
Next one begin able to go to work dressed as the standard Tales of Something character.
(or any one from Samurai Warriors / Dynasty Legends)
Charles IV?
... and don't you dare to drop the number
@JanDvorak I am not a bat, not even a bat pony, so I don't see why I should name someone like he was son of this guy...
Not that Charles IV, the real one
Charles IV (Czech: Karel IV., German: Karl IV., Latin: Carolus IV; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378), born Wenceslaus, was the second King of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first King of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor. He was the eldest son and heir of King John of Bohemia, who died at the Battle of Crécy on 26 August 1346. Charles inherited the County of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of Bohemia from his father. On 2 September 1347, Charles was crowned King of Bohemia. On 11 July 1346, prince-elector selected him King of the Romans (rex Romanorum) in opposition to Emperor Louis...
@Derpy who the hell is even this thing?
@hichris Not only did Chrome 54 break DevDoodle, it also broke NYT layout.
How did this get past QA?
ooooohhhhh, nice, an actual female-voice version?
A bit lacking on the determination side, but still pretty good.
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user202362
12:53 PM
Is there a way to see what documentation topics I have provided a dismiss vote on?
Or even which ones I've commented on?
@Derpy Wow, that was quite good.
I can hear a few audio editing errors tho.
@bjb568 the original is probably the best one, but it has that little problem.
Male voice.
Meh, it's ok, but the voice sounds a bit strained on the high end.
I like the parts with a countermelody, it'd be good if it was like that the whole way thru. Even better if it was a full chamber group thing like TTTTBaBaBB or something.
Not saying either is bad. It is just that I am still searching for a female version (since you know... not like Undyne is male) with a voice that sounds still "epic" like the original.
1:08 PM
NGAHHH
1:46 PM
@Andy if it isn't here you can't ...
@bjb568 Four tenors, four basses, and two altos counts as a full chamber group? :)
@rene That's what I thought too. I asked about it just in case I'm missing it.
2:04 PM
@tchrist It's like element names. Lowercase letters are part of the former thing. token: [A-Z][a-z]*
Don't you mean TTLL?
2 higher tenors, 2 lower tenor, 2 baritones, 2 bases
L=Lead=Second Tenor
whatever
such complicate
many terminology
Well, if you like homovocal tenors, fine. But color is nice.
2:06 PM
Mi likey the colores
Forgive them their accent.
I think what's more unforgivable is how the onomatopoeia aren't written the same number of times as sung.
2:23 PM
We will be upgrading SQL Server 2016 to CU1 tomorrow night at 9PM EST for Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange clusters http://stackstatus.net/post/148349544819/brief-outage-for-sql-2016-cu1-august-3-2016
Uh ho.
Surely that's wrong.
I bet they are upgrading it at 8pm EST not at 9pm as they have written.
Because I bet they booked it for 9pm EDT, which is 8pm EST.
Tsk.
Tsk tsk.
2:44 PM
@tchrist if so, it's only fitting that SNAFU posts it
sd f
 
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4:03 PM
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4:14 PM
24
Q: The Un-shipping of Teams

bluefeetFor almost the past year, we've had Teams in private beta and while we believe in its potential value, after a lot of consideration we've decided to un-ship the idea for the time being. Teams will shut down in about a week, meaning you will no longer be able to access, join, or create ne...

Can't say I'm all too surprised...
user315433
+1 to the team for making the decision, instead of maintaining the awkward status quo.
user315433
Can't expect to bat 1.000
user315433
The same sort of reasoning could be applied to some beta sites...
user315433
Speaking of beta sites, behold the 3rd coming of Artificial Intelligence
4:38 PM
@Pekka웃 We simply felt it was time to find new and better ways to test our tolerance for grief from the community. — Ana ♦ 37 mins ago
user315433
I misclicked and flagged a spam post NAA. And can't retract the flag because that feature is still only on MSE...
user315433
I think it got tested enough to be rolled out, isn't it?
@ᴡᴏʀᴅs which feature?
user315433
Being able to retract flags
4:48 PM
@bluefeet retracting flags
user315433
49
A: Cancel misclicked flags

Michael StumThis is now completed and (for now) enabled on meta.stackexchange.com and meta.stackoverflow.com. If there are no issues, it'll go live network-wide soon. Note that if you're a moderator (and thus your flags are authoritative), there's no retracting. Also, close flags get converted into close vo...

user315433
> If there are no issues, it'll go live network-wide soon.
user315433
Was written July 7
let me find when it's going network-wide
user315433
Thanks!
4:56 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in answer, blacklisted user: Is it safe to generate a password for a user during sign up in a web application? by Melissa Anderson on security.stackexchange.com
user315433
This sort of thing has become annoyingly common in Gmail:
user315433
> Why is this message in Spam? It has a from address in X but has failed X's required tests for authentication.
user315433
In most cases, false positives: the email is actually genuine.
user315433
I feel the tests were unfairly hard, and a grade appeal is in order.
5:23 PM
@redredwine should be available everywhere
New new name I guess...
user315433
\o/ Too late to test it on that spam post...
user315433
But tested elsewhere, it works.
5:39 PM
I guess we have a UB40 fan in the room ...
user315433
5:57 PM
It's technically a Neil Diamond song, but yes.
there is only one Neil Diamond song that matters
Oh... I hit the sentimental mood ... sorry ...
user315433
6:13 PM
I guess I'll edit out that link, the post isn't clear cut spam.
user315433
4
Q: Your vote matters!

EBrownFor a few months now I've been collecting specific data on the metrics of all SE sites throughout the network, and there's a disturbing fact that has arisen. This data isn't yet public on my end, but it's almost there. In light of that I wanted to bring a certain concern to the communities atten...

user315433
Some interesting stats there.
user315433
My very limited experience with CR is that reviews take longer to write than SO answers, and the broader impact is questionable. Add to that the scarcity of votes, and why bother?
6:33 PM
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7:21 PM
sorry for the down vote and the Dutch-style comment on the un-shipping of teams @bluefeet
You're entitled to vote as you want
@rene Dutch-style? I'd like to see how this looks like
Linky?
user315433
+35/-0? I know voting on meta is different but are we all that happy that it get removed? Have a down vote, to compensate. :( — rene 5 mins ago
Meh, you do the work ... have someone else do the work
Frankly, I was expecting something more interesting.
7:28 PM
I don't want to get suspended and I don't want to be disrespectful to people, specially not towards Bluefeet
But you could've been more creative and funnier without being disrespectful. I mean look at me.
I'm not a mood to be funnier than this
I'm this ball of sparkling fun.
@rene Oh, right. The sun's down.
also true
user315433
I'm happy that some developer time might be going back from fancy expansions to working on things that are somewhere on Shog's list of lists.
user315433
7:33 PM
I imagine some Q&A users share this feeling, hence +35 on the post.
Also that I don't think anyone really ever figured out what to use it for.
Also that I won't have to worry about the Charcoal team page anymore.
Sure, all true, I already recognized I'm alone in my view
That... you liked teams? Or your downvote + reasons thereof?
I even didn't manage to move our team to socvr.org. The other RO's object.
@hichris123 I think it had its place, yes. And didn't seen immediate reason to get rid of it.
Object to... ?
7:37 PM
I think rene is objectifying that domain
@hichris123 to move the team-list to our room website
@rene Well, the way SOCVR used it was "Hey, you joined our room! Now visit our team page (which has a link to our rules)" - which wasn't too helpful.
@hichris123 Making a site named "SOCVR".
(also, is it a Team page? a Teams page? a team page? a teams page?)
@hichris123 true, I hoped (and waited) for those pages to be a bit more useful in markup and content management ;)
7:39 PM
@hichris123 a Teams Team page, teaming with Teams team-members
Who are Teaming Up to make Teams better.
OK stahpit
@rene Yeah, I never really touched the markdown side of that. No real reason with Charcoal - we never really used it. :P
I got a headache
@hichris123 it was also used to give a bit of recognition to users that dared to stay longer with us then just a few days ...
7:41 PM
That ^ makes my day better ;)
@hichris123 I feel you feel slightly superior to SOCVR now.
You should. :P
user315433
What should be the next feature to retire? There are so many feature-requests but few unfeature-requests...
Down voting without comments, obviously.
@redredwine let's create the tag and start re-tagging? We will soon find out which ones do matter ...
7:44 PM
@redredwine Name change limits?
@redredwine "Ask Question"
@Andy maybe comments all together. That solves a lot of problems in one go.
user315433
@TIPS I like that, actually. A reason for departing SO & Math was the persistent feeling that I'm answering questions that shouldn't have been asked.
I'm a mind reader.
I should award myself some ice cream.
@rene please find a reason to disagree.
user315433
They ask because they didn't search... which means their next incarnation will not search either, so my answer is useless.
7:48 PM
@TIPS I agree to disagree
@redredwine Your answer isn't useless if their device has a copy and paste function.
user315433
Un-feature request: don't block the authors of accepted answers from deleting them.
user315433
A typical reason to delete such an answer is that it's obsolete, and should get out of the way of newer, better answers.
user315433
This is something the system should encourage.
user315433
If rage-quitting is a concern, there are checks for that already.
7:57 PM
@redredwine This I'd advocate
user315433
The First Posts queue on Android is 447 posts... because pretty much every question is a first post.
user315433
Law election just ended: feetwet and jimsug are obviously among the winners, the 3rd place requires STV analysis.
user315433
> Winners are feetwet, jimsug, and cnst.
How can I pronounce "cnst" beside starting with a cee?
user315433
I'm confused. The output of OpenSTV I see is nothing like opavote.com/results/6313932880871424/0
8:07 PM
@redredwine Did you use Meek?
user315433
I ran python2 runElection.py MeekSTV file.blt
user315433
 R|feetwet           |jimsug            |cnst              |WBT
  |------------------+------------------+------------------+------------------
  |Zizouz212         |Exhausted         |Surplus           |Threshold
==============================================================================
 1|         36.000000|         20.000000|          8.000000|          5.000000
  |          4.000000|          0.000000|         19.499998|         18.250001
  |---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oooh. Whoever ran the election on OpaVote didn't use Meek.
> Counting votes using Instant Runoff Voting.
user315433
^ @Shog9
what. Dammit.
8:09 PM
Doesn't seem to change the results, but...
it doesn't, but...
The website changes the method back to IRV after you upload ballots :-/
I enthusiastically went over to Law's chatrooms to make some boring jokes about election and stuff, and . . .
user315433
pt.SO election wasn't close at all: Winners are rray and bigown.
Is this Law's main room?
@redredwine How "close"?
Yes, the Tavern is for sure.
user315433
What happened to the nice graphics on OpaVote?
user315433
? I don't see anything different from previous elections.
Ah, finally it loaded. Apparently Google Visualization wasn't loading.
user315433
So, Law officially set the 2nd lowest voter turnout all-time, with 73.
user315433
cnst didn't even fill out the questionnaire...
user315433
8:21 PM
and had 8 first-place votes
@redredwine I guess Chem is the lowest?
user315433
Oops, forgot about Chem and Bio. It's Bio: 55, Chem: 61, Network Engr: 63, Law: 73.
user315433
I'm going to need a scraper for these.
Dammit. Those Biologists beat us to it.

“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda (.Net Developer…

Solutran

Solutran is an innovative leader in high volume payment processing serving the nation’s largest retailers,…

Posted on Stack Overflow Careers on August 2, 2016

Yoda quote in job title.....
"Artificial Intelligence has entered Private Beta"
8:36 PM
Does that site need users?
I notice the usual private beta suspects as well...
user315433
@rene Chatbots should be enough. Smokey can be their mod.
@redredwine ehh.... SO answers take time, why bother with them
Why bother with anything for that matter.... Like even this messa
user315433
That too, see below in the transcript.
4
Q: Where is the documentation for documentation pinning?

Honey Where is its documentation? If there is only one pin per page, then there would be constant pinning wars. Who takes authorship of that page? What is it's general use-case? Why does it have to go through reviewing? Is it used to pin the most commonly used example? How would that counter the high...

Better question: where is the documentation for Documentation?
Some of it is in the help center.
Some is on meta.
Some is... ?
8:47 PM
Some is in the chatroom
user315433
8:59 PM
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A: Need a gas cooker but have no gas supply

AlisonI bought big 47kg propane gas cylinder with all fitting hose . I wander if I can conect to my cooker , BECO ASPEN 50 .?

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