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user202362

01:20

Or you can do multiple majors

user202362

one can never learn too much, it's just competing with your other goals time wise

bjb568

01:32

I'm thinking about doing 8, 6-7 if I get admitted to MIT, so dual major Physics and Computer Science & Molecular Biology.

But what do I know, I'm just a HS student. I'll figure it out in a few years.

user202362

sounds fun, you can always change majors once in uni

bjb568

Yup.

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Derpy

@rene Fair, and that would already be enough to call their documentation a fail IMHO. But I wasn't really thinking about poorly written stuff that is at least available in some way... I was talking about the stuff that is completely missing and no one seems to know.

Also know as Pandora's Docs

Derpy

07:45

Resist..

resist...

it is too lame, you have to resist...

can't resist.

@bjb568 Veterinary?

Should be easier to cure cats when you are a cat too.

user202362

that's like saying a criminal makes a better criminologist

Derpy

08:01

@Telkitty yep

user202362

user202362

08:51

Devil's milk could be the killer ingredient in war on superbugs

user202362

fight for milk against those little fellows?

user202362

Why do I feel so ashamed?

Magisch

09:27

Hey @JNat, did anyone ever find out what caused that sudden rep loss in the recalc?

JNat

@Magisch Adam didn't have time to do it last week. I'll ping him again ;)

Magisch

@JNat If its stopping him from doing more important stuff please don't.

JNat

I'll let him know. Thanks for the concern ;)

Derpy

09:53

@Telkitty little fellows? Isn't the Tasmanian devil's second name "Gollum", because most of the time attempting to touch a Tasmanian devil magically turns you into Frodo "Nine Fingers"....?

Magisch

I've already cast 39 NAA flags today on stack overflow

user202362

@Derpy would you let a lion touch you? if not, why do you expect a wild beast would let you touch it?

user202362

10:11

Derpy

Thank you, BMC. Sometimes when daydreaming I wonder if I have some super-hero powers. Thanks to your portal, I at least know I am not the Hulk.

........... wait a second........

Silly me, only now I notice the news....

oh, happy day.... let's join in a song for this marry event...

Pink fluffy @Telkitty dancing on rainbows

Another loyal subject has joined our cause.

come, @angussidney, join us in our quest. Let's mark this the day only ponies and cats will walk on the green lands of the Meta Tavern.

@bjb568 we shalt remove the hop fields Shog and the others use to brew their beer and replace them with wheat and catnip!

bjb568

10:36

:3

angussidney

10:51

<-- unicorns FTW

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b_jonas

If any of you Meta people can give a hint about the tech part of meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/q/10261/4918 "Can we direct people from the [story-identification] tag excerpt to story-id hints?" on Sci Fi Meta SE, I'd appreciate it.

Derpy

11:08

@b_jonas meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62208/…

b_jonas

@Derpy Right. And then the question is, instead of a link to one of the two hint pages, what short description should I put in the tag excerpt that would direct people to those hint pages?

Magisch

Hey derpy

You should get a derpy helloween costume

carry bloody mail bag

Derpy

@b_jonas Can't really think of much more than posting the unformatted link. Or is that stripped out too?

@Magisch Pass

Magisch

@Derpy zombie derpy would be a hella neat costume

"Braaaaaiinnssss... I mean Maiiiiiiiiil"

Derpy

in Shadow's Den, Apr 1 '15 at 9:01, by SPArchaeologist

Moments of fear in the life of a FiM fan.

in Shadow's Den, Apr 1 '15 at 9:02, by SPArchaeologist

When a friend decide he wants to try to create a cosplay group for a convention and starts to look at you as the missing CMC.

Magisch

11:16

FiM?

b_jonas

This one was HNQ right now => writers.stackexchange.com/q/24949 "How can I Avoid Being Frightened by the Horror Story I am Writing?" on Writers SE

Magisch

I don't like conventions

Derpy

11:33

Sep 27 at 12:45, by Magisch

A friend of mine is completly infatuated with MLP and also found herself a boyfriend who is, too. Their apartment is filled with a psychologically dangerous amount of MLP merchandise. I already know through the grapevine that she will probably gift me a fluttershy pillow for birthday >_>

and yet you never heard the acronym "FiM"?

Magisch

Still doesn't answer what FiM means

No

I zone out when they're talking ponies

Wait

Derpy

It is the subtitle of the current "generation"

Magisch

Is that an acronym for the show subtitle

Derpy

exactly

Magisch

Never heard of it referred like that

my knowledge of anything that show extends so far as to know a few of the protagonist's names and some of their personality traits, thats it

Derpy

11:36

waiting until he realizes he said "so far", a sign that he is considering the idea that in the future that may change

Magisch

Maybe

Its not like that show is radioactive

b_jonas

Sep 27 at 12:45, by Magisch

This is what that show does to otherwise only slightly insane people

Derpy

@Magisch some people act like it was the case

b_jonas

Ah, maybe the show didn't hurt me that much because I wasn't only slightly insane.

Magisch

@b_jonas Breaking bad does worse things to slightly insane people

Its not interesting for me in its current format but in future who knows. I'm not very ashamed of watching silly stuff

b_jonas

11:42

I don't have enough time these days to watch and read silly stuff. I should change that, at least for reading.

Magisch

@Derpy meh, counterculture

user202362

Planet Earth II: Official Extended Trailer absolutely amazing, totally 5 star

Derpy

12:03

@Magisch well, we do live in a world where happiness and fun are considered kid-like. Would you like to lose all the respect other have for you because someone let out the horrible secret that you like funny things?

Magisch

Meh

Derpy

Nope, that can't be.

Magisch

I'm open about playing lots of minecraft and wow

Its no secret that I like to do fun things outside of work

Derpy

If you had to have a joke, you should at least be sure that it is an uncouth one, so that everyone can still see that you are grown-up and macho.

Rubisco

@Derpy You like funny things? Boo

Magisch

12:06

There is no use in that in and of itself

Wow someone looks grown up and miserable

Part of growing up is that I get to decide when and if I have to be serious.

Rubisco

That is what growing up really is, innit

Being able to take things seriously 'cause no one's there to clean your poop anymore.

Derpy

in Sugarcube Corner, Feb 15 at 13:41, by Derpy

> Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

2

this one would be C.S.Lewis

Magisch

Sure there are times where fun has no place for instance when I'm talking to a curmudgeonly old client who can detect and get upset by fun 20 miles against the wind

Then again outside of my adult(tm) obligations what I enjoy in my free time is exactly nobody but my business

Ferrybig

Smokey , you alive in here?

!!/alive

SmokeDetector

@Ferrybig Yup

Ferrybig

12:12

!!/reboot

Derpy

@Magisch @bart is one of your clients ^_^?

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Shadow Wizard

13:22

@Ferrybig why?

Ferrybig

@ShadowWizard Smokey didn't respond in the Charcoal HQ & SOCVR, reboot fixed it

Shadow Wizard

@Ferrybig huh, so weird. So the "root" is here?

user315433

> The retention rate of Hardware Recs is pretty close to 0% where the number of active users has remained in the mid-teens since it was created. So I don't want to create a Hardware Recs for support and configuration Issues. We've come full circle and the site you are looking for was created in Super User. -- Robert Cartaino

Rubisco

@zaq Undo will be is disappoint

Ferrybig

@ShadowWizard In this case, it only worked here, without knowing the root cause of the bug, we don't know

Rubisco

13:30

Pfft, of course the root cause of the bug is a being called Undo.

Shadow Wizard

@Ferrybig isn't there an error log?

Ferrybig

@ShadowWizard the error logs doesn't show any information for the crash

Shadow Wizard

Hmm... Weird.

xkcdBot

16:00

Today's xkcd comic (Spider Paleontology):

Whenever you see a video of birds doing something weird, remember: Birds are a small subset of dinosaurs, so the weirdness of birds is a small subset of the weirdness of dinosaurs.

Shog9

16:11

and good Monday to you as well.

hichris123

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hichris123

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Q: Let's Plan The Second Iteration Of The Stack Exchange Quality Project!

In case you missed the first one, check out the se-quality-project tag. The quality project isn't one that we plan to ever finish, it's perennial and kicks in every 18 months or so after we've had ample opportunity to observe the efficacy of our previous efforts, changes in how people use our sit...

user315433

Well, at least there are no new review queues proposed. But if Charcoal integration merits a bullet point, the list looks quite speculative and not so impactful... I mean, there aren't angry blog posts about spam on SO...

hichris123

At least the first two bullets look promising.

user315433

Also, new question filtering options for users... Isn't this what new nav was supposed to do?

hichris123

Maybe new nav is finally being finished?

Mm, maybe not. I posted this:

"Better ways of filtering out noise", hmm, sounds a bit like Allow users to optionally filter out low-quality questions and Feedback requested: New “recommended” homepage, phase 1. ;) I might suggest going back to those two discussions, they seemed to provide a decent amount of feedback. — hichris123 Sep 14 at 1:49

but never got any reply or "yes, that's what we meant" to it.

user315433

17:10

Except new nav didn't have much to judge difficulty on, especially after rep filter was killed. So... meh. Let's go back to polishing Story page, maybe bring it up to today's FB interface compared to the current 2011...

Feeds

17:58

blog.stackoverflow.com/2016/10/Can-You-Stump-Nick-Craver

hichris123

Where's that post that details that people can't edit their own question if it's deleted and they're under 10k?

@Feeds Um... ?

Aha.

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A: Couple of issues with Roomba Turbocharging

The issue with retag being different from edit is moot, as retag is gone. With edit, it is now enabled on deleted questions, unless they are self deletes, as this can open a window to abuse (self delete, edit and later undelete immediately). You can now also see revisions on your own deleted qu...

user315433

One can't edit a self-deleted question.. that's all. meta.stackexchange.com/q/213632

user315433

In other cases, only locking prevents editing.

user315433

@Feeds I approve not oneboxing this daytime talk show anymore. Not even a good representative of its genre.

hichris123

@zaq Even if they're over 10k? That's weird.

Aaron Hall

18:22

🎇

Rubisco

@AaronHall I disagree

hichris123

18:38

→ 2 messages moved to Chimney

Rubisco

@hichris123 2 Chimneys moved to messages

Aaron Hall

@Rubisco why so contrary?

Rubisco

@AaronHall Yes.

Aaron Hall

See, that's how you cooperate.

Shadow Wizard

@hichris123 it does onebox for humans:

in Shadow's Sandbox, 2 mins ago, by Shadow Wizard

Stack Overflow Podcast #91 - Can You Stump Nick Craver?

Jess Pardue on October 17, 2016

Welcome to The Stack Overflow Podcast #91, recorded Tuesday, October 11 at Stack Overflow headquarters in NYC. Today's episode is brought to you by Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles. (חג סוכות שמח) Sukkot is the Jewish holiday where you have to eat and sleep in a temporary hut that you build in your backyard. "Oooh" - David Fullerton

So only for Feeds onebox is broken.

hichris123

18:53

@ShadowWizard The post link was dead when Feeds posted it. So something weird must've happened when publishing the post.

Shadow Wizard

@hichris123 oh. Maybe the blog was undergoing a rebuild.

in Chimney, 3 hours ago, by SmokeDetector

FLEE BEFORE ME, BRIEF MORTALS

umm.... what was that?!

Rubisco

@ShadowWizard Does it make you nervous?

Shadow Wizard

!!/flee

@Rubisco very!

Rubisco

Then it works

Shadow Wizard

:(

Rubisco

18:59

You can also regard it as Undo humor.

Which isn't undoable, but you can dismiss it.

Shadow Wizard

undoing humor

rene

@ShadowWizard yeah, SOCVR had also one. Kids these days ...

see here

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19:25

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hichris123

20:07

@Rubisco Or a certain ArtOfCode. ;)

Rubisco

@hichris123 Ugh, that's even worse

Werner

21:00

Could some SE mod confirm/deny/answer the following question on TeX - LaTeX:

3

Q: Comment on deleting/deleted answers

Just a little technical matter, if I: add to an answer of mine a comment sent to another user and then I delete my answer or put the same kind of comment on a deleted answer of mine do the other user receive the alert and can he/she see my comment?

support comments

user315433

21:21

20

A: How do notifications on deleted posts work?

When an answer is deleted, only comment notifications to the OP left by the deleting moderator within that last hour will remain in the inbox. So, in your first scenario, Alice will only see the comment by Charlie♦ (assuming he deleted within an hour of posting the comment and that the comment w...

user315433

Notifications from the standard comments from review persist as well. To see the actual comment on the site, the user would have to see the post, which they won't without 10K.

user315433

Let's Consider The Usage Of Upper Case In The Sidebar...

Werner

21:53

@zaq Thanks, I'll look into this.

bjb568

@zaq There's already a meta post somewhere about title case. Answer: don't.

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user315433

23:21

Job title change for Nick Craver: Developer -> Architecture Lead

user315433

Looking forward to all the coding I’ll get done today... https://t.co/bg2pGuTRlR

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on October 17, 2016 at 11:07 AM

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