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user202362

12:15 AM

user315433

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing music video (Good quality, all countries)

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user315433

For some value of "good"... :/

bjb568

@zaq Well, he drew a graph of probability by velocity with the support (0, ∞), so that's not what he meant.

The reasoning was probably "bell shaped → normal thing".

user315433

Alright, but I learned something as a result. Never saw the derivation of the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution in my physics classes.

user202362

video block in your country

user202362

12:20 AM

lolz

bjb568

@zaq I saw it in my Chem class, along with much more, but that's all thanks to Wikipedia. o_0

user315433

Back in my days we didn't have Wikipedia, imagine that...

bjb568

0_0

user202362

12:56 AM

If you sneak into someone else home when the owner is not there, looking around without taking anything, then feed her cat with food you brought along, should the owner be thanking you for feeding the cat?

bjb568

1:10 AM

Nah, the act of thanking is useless.

user202362

2:01 AM

I don't think many people like other to sneak into their places without their explicit permissions

bjb568

Meh.

hichris123

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bjb568

This makes me sad.

reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/5lrdy9/…

Why don't people know about fluid democracy?

With crypto and stuffs, it mitigates all the problems people talk about.

That's the problem when people don't know about practical stuff: their philosophical discussions are built on a false premise. There's no philosophical argument for and against direct democracy, abortion, guns, self-driving trolly problem, whatever. There's very simple truth, those who are too dumb to understand it, those who aren't exposed to it because it isn't clickbait, and those who cover their ears to perpetuate their ignorance.

The majority of things aren't debatable, they are obvious if people were broken out of their bubble. Humanity is doomed by group forces, individuals in isolation tend to be reasonable. Individuality also isn't a solution, it's the cause of not only the breakdown in traditional communities, but the rise in much worse filter-bubbly ones.

user202362

Dearest hacker, while you are in my laptop, please fix this crash caused by dangling lib. Thx. 😂

bjb568

I'd support internet censorship.

(but that issue is debatable :))

user315433

2:45 AM

Nick's reflections on Teams...

user315433

> I spent a lot of time building a feature called Teams for Stack Overflow before we said “WTF are we doing?” and changed course.
we looked back & realized we didn’t know what we were building. When people asked, we didn’t have a good answer either.
We learned a lot from that mistake, in process. We re-shaped how we plan major new features after that failure.
You know what? We did something. We tried. We failed. We learned some good things & some bad things. We're better for it.
Teams wasn’t a waste. Dapper even got new features to support some database models, etc. Knowledge is a perfectly…

user202362

you can fail because you made 1 fatal mistake in your life but you can also succeed if you had 1 massive success, despite the fact that you are doing stupid things for the rest of your life.

user202362

While most of the people keep on trying without getting any where. Even though if you stop trying, you might as well kill yourself.

user202362

New research has shown feral cats cover over 99.8 per cent of Australia's land area. By comparison, 85.1 per cent of Australia has internet access.

user202362

so if you love cats ...

user315433

3:18 AM

If I annoy enough mods by flagging "accept this answer" comments under the answers that are already accepted, will this improve the chances of auto-nuking extended network-wide? Worth trying.

user315433

Grr, there is no "is_accepted" field, one has to look up comment -> answer -> question -> accepted answer. :/

bjb568

Doesn't happen in mongodb.

Why does that auto carrot exist?

user315433

I was overcomplicating it, it's simply Comments.PostId = Posts.AcceptedAnswerId

user315433

No need to deal with the answer at all.

bjb568

Meh.

user315433

3:29 AM

Never mind, the auto-nuke is already network wide. \o/

user315433

Hm, is matching lower(c.Text) like '%accept%answer%' enough or is there also a length restriction? Time for science.

user315433

A lot of "accept answer" have "thank you so much" comment above them, but that doesn't seem auto-nukable.

user315433

There doesn't seem to a length restriction, but the match might be case-sensitive.

user315433

3:44 AM

No it's not case-sensitive, but there may be something about the number of characters between "accept" and "answer"...

user315433

> Another reply of mine with no acceptance, no upvotes, and now it has been bumped by ""Community"" in the hope that someone will give a better answer. Good luck with that one.

user315433

A tale of unspeakable woe.

user315433

4:09 AM

> I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because too old without an accepted answer

user315433

By a user who answered that question. :/

user315433

And it did get closed. (Magento site)

SmokeDetector

4:39 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title: www.toptryloburn.com/no2-x-720/ by user135159 on security.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: platinumcleanserinfo.com/zyntix-reviews/ by rikrak on apple.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: Countless people already use and also by Kavinkrol on apple.stackexchange.com

SmokeDetector

5:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: In zyntix way, these zyntix by cutdom plad1 on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

user315433

Speaking of comments: Which programming languages have the happiest (and angriest) commenters?

Shog9

6:04 AM

Are SQL commenters truly angry, or do they just type happy thoughts IN ALL CAPS?

user315433

I'm angry about chat feeds sleeping for 13 hours now. A new record.

Shog9

6:24 AM

Yeah... I'm having to visit meta sites and browse recent posts manually. Like some sort of savage.

user315433

My backup is feedly, which is setup with the same feeds as the chatroom.

user315433

Feedly also confirms that the problem is not with the feeds themselves but with chat's lack of desire to consume them.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: fruits and vegetables served with each lunch by user681695 on superuser.com

SmokeDetector

7:08 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, link at end of answer: Where are the user's bitcoins actually stored? by tina on bitcoin.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: Myrrh had a significant protective by lolazoe on drupal.stackexchange.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, pattern-matching website in answer: Web development testing - view website without all my fonts installed? by seoservice on superuser.com

Magisch

7:43 AM

@Shog9 It's a habit you pick up writing SQL

You should know, you write a whole lot of SQL yourself, for a CM

:D

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer: Recover Yahoo password that's stored on my Mac by alex watson on apple.stackexchange.com

user315433

Heh, I'm the first user to earn Marshal on Arduino. Kind of shows why that site is still in beta; non-diamond users are not that big on moderation.

Magisch

7:59 AM

I got 37 helpful flags on arduino

user315433

In total, 1,454,036 posts were deleted on SO last year, versus 1,180,882 comments. I'd expect there being more worthless comments than worthless posts.

user315433

Need more paths to comment deletion... I don't know what, though. Weighted comment flags to reduce the required number from 6 in some cases? Based on what, the record of prior comment flags?

user315433

SEDE says: 13m questions, 21m answers, and 54m comments.

user315433

Nobody celebrated reaching 50,000,000 comments on SO. :)

user315433

But it's not too late, let's delete 4m of them and have a proper celebration...

Magisch

8:12 AM

@zaq That's already the case with keywords

comments containing certain keywords (I believe NLP is involved) require fewer / sometimes just 1 flag to delete

user315433

I believe a table of regexes is involved.

user315433

Which limits the applicability of this reduction to a few patterns. Not going to turn the tide of comments.

user202362

rene

8:51 AM

@zaq you only saw that recently right? ;)

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