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bjb568

1:13 AM

@zaq CV'd

user202362

1:28 AM

Braiam

2:27 AM

@zaq I think that the message should read "Mostly non-ASCII characters in title"

user315433

@Braiam It is implemented using \p{script=Latin}, after all.

Jamal

!!/report stackoverflow.com/questions/31663265/…

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Jamal

Oops, wrong room.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Can there be 'dead states' in a context-free grammar? by user347447 on cs.stackexchange.com

user315433

3:17 AM

Why this, Google? google.com/search?q=spinner

user315433

But no harm done... I'm far more likely to enter something like random number 5 to 23 which is certainly faster...

user315433

FR for Google: random floating point numbers, from uniform distribution, normal, and a few others.

user315433

FR2: do everything Wolfram Alpha does, directly from the search bar.

user315433

"random number 0 to 1" returns either 0 or 1...

Braiam

@zaq barrel roll?

user315433

3:33 AM

Why only up to 20... can't play roulette with this.

user202362

why play roulette when you can climb k2?

user202362

if you die while climbing k2, some people might remember you as a hero & if you die while playing roulette, most people will remember you as an idiot

user202362

so climb k2 ...

user202362

3:50 AM

Also, I have this slight suspicion that some SO staffer get pleasure out of hearing tormented moaning of ~~1337 trolls~~ nice friendly kittehs after introducing weird ... err ... features to the pages us kittehs use most. No, kittehs do not suffer from stockholm syndrome

qwer

wut

user202362

so chats on phone ... still don't load

user202362

all my whinings here are ignored

qwer

Is it Safari on iOS?

user202362

yes

user202362

3:54 AM

I tried cleaning cache and reload

Braiam

do you use the webviewer or pure safari?

user202362

Jan 18 at 4:56, by Telkitty

user202362

permanently stuck on this screen

user202362

for like a month

qwer

Please go to Settings -> Safari -> Developer and enable the debug console, then reload the chat room page. Does the consonle (at the top) give you any errors? — balpha ♦ Jan 26 '12 at 10:14

user315433

3:59 AM

Does a digital photo frame qualify as an embedded system?

user315433

(It should be clear I have no idea what an embedded system is.)

user315433

And I typed "data frame" because too much pandas recently.

Braiam

Works for me

user202362

why is ads blocker stops the loading of chats?

user202362

I turned ad blocker off now it's working fine

Braiam

4:02 AM

so... problems with your adblocker

qwer

uh, blocking JS?

user202362

other sites are all loading fine

user202362

actually I mainly use the phone to browse chats and news

user202362

sometimes I search for stuff, but none got this problem

Braiam

well, your adblocker could do something funny with websockets

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4:07 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: platinumcleanserinfo.com/vividermix-cream/ by Kxszsloi on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

user202362

thanks for helping me solving this problem

qwer

not sure I did anything, but you're welcome :)

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4:46 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, repeated URL at end of long post: complement designed specially for guys? by zenetashelly on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Best Product For Skin Care by Carewfwol on superuser.com

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5:38 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: Sometimes, the locks hair by Urwarano on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

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5:48 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: healthflyup.com/alpha-monster-advanced/ by chuta saia on apple.stackexchange.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body: Raw Power XL Therefore it offers the first-rate herbal cure? by NoelleTesta on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

user202362

6:45 AM

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, pattern-matching website in body, pattern-matching website in title, repeated URL at end of long post: platinumcleanserinfo.com/vividermix-cream/ by StephenMcHaugh on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: Alpha monster advanced increase muscle by chuta saia on graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

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8:59 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Alpha Monster Advanced Creatine might be a good solution for you by AmandaHerman on drupal.stackexchange.com

samayo

9:48 AM

Hello earthlings

I have a question

Stijn

Shoot

samayo

I would like to ask on meta about this, but not sure if it has been already answered. (in other words, I'm afraid of downvotes :))

There are some questions that get asked under the tag "bulletproof"

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samayo

stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bulletproof%20php?mode=all

And sometimes, those are answered in the chat, but the question remains unanswered, since it was resolved in the chat.

So, what should be done in this case? I can't delete it, since I did not ask it.

And I don't want it to stay open like that, it seems like the question has no answers

Stijn

@samayo Do you mean comments or a chat room?

qwer

9:56 AM

Based on this question, chat room...

samayo

@Stijn In the chatroom

@qwer also on this one stackoverflow.com/questions/33277167/…

Stijn

You can post an answer then, based on what you discussed in the chat.

rene

You can always write an answer summarizing what the outcome was in the chatroom and mark the answer as Community Wiki. Make sure to give credit to those who deserve it.

Stijn

Note that this should be an exception, it's not normal to have to discuss so many questions in chat.

qwer

Seems a sub-issue of answering in comments

356

Q: Question with no answers, but issue solved in the comments

I often see posts in which no Answer has been offered as such, but the user's problem was solved using advice which appears in the comment section of the post. This is mildly upsetting, because there's nothing at the scrolling-list level to indicate the post has a successful resolution. So it...

samayo

10:02 AM

Yeah, I guess it makes sense to answer it and marking it as Community Wiki.

Thanks all

qwer

No prob~

rene

@qwer added the chat case to the question

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: How to print in Black and White for Canon Printers by Ferris Delaney on askubuntu.com

Derpy

12:06 PM

..... some leaks from the bestbuy/amazon product pages claims that the Switch release of Skyrim has "pc mod support". Will be fun if that turns out to be true.

PS4 - no mod. Switch - mod support. Ps4 has 500gb hd... switch 32gb.

Stijn

I think that's mostly a limitation of the PS4

not the game itself

I vaguely recall another game having similar trouble, wanting to make mods possible but not being able to

Derpy

@Stijn I assume that the real problem was that the mods could very well be adult-rated. Sony didn't want to risk problem with parents. Very weird would be that Nintendo would support mods for the same exact reasons.

Stijn

Nintento has an incentive to do so, Sony doesn't since the PS4 is so immensely popular

user315433

I am trying to sponsor a tag, but neither "talk to an expert" nor "buy now" links do anything. Repro? stackoverflowbusiness.com/advertise/solutions/tag-sponsorship

Stijn

the "talk to an expert" button works for me, simply links to stackoverflowbusiness.com/advertise/contact-us1

oh, only the top one works

user315433

12:18 PM

Someone may be wondering why the sales of sponsored tags are down....

Stijn

bottom ones link to # but they don't have JS event handlers either

wanna post on Meta?

if not, I don't mind doing it

user315433

Please do, you know more about JS handlers.

user315433

Unrelated: is it acceptable to sponsor your competitor's tag by adding poop emoji to it?

Stijn

Only one way to find out :)

Derpy

@Stijn still seems strange. Both Skyrim and Oblivion can be modded to the point that a machine fully capable of running the vanilla version can have great difficulties in running the modded one. Just think of stuff like "Unique Landscape" for oblivion.... a 2gb+ world overhaul with hd textures....

Stijn

12:27 PM

credit to Zaq for noticing — Stijn 3 mins ago

user315433

Cool. Commence the debate over whether this should be on Meta.SO or on Meta.SE

user315433

Actually, sponsored tags appear to be SO-only feature, there is no mention that you could buy them on other sites.

Stijn

~~~I think they also have them on serverfault? Not sure.~~~ Nope

I give up...

~test~ ~~test~~ ~~~test~~~ <s>test</s>

<del>test</del> ?

qwer

~~test~~

Stijn

teach me senpai

qwer

12:32 PM

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user315433

You can see the source of every chat message, under "permalink" -> "history"

user202362

test

user202362

---t---e---s---t

user202362

* & - behaving differently

user315433

12:54 PM

!!/report photo.stackexchange.com/a/86591 photo.stackexchange.com/a/86590

user315433

1:10 PM

> But we appreciate the ability to opt out of the beacon and plan on turning it off.

user315433

from Quantcast pixel.quantserve.com/pixel request 302 redirects to Facebook and other ad networks by Greg Bray on webmasters.stackexchange.com

user315433

Has this been turned off?

user315433

Quantcast still shows demographic data for visitors, so presumably they still have a way to collect it?

rene

@Stijn at least one of them should link to experts-exchange, just for fun...

user315433

Yes, the button looked too much like the infamous "chat with an expert" from April 1 a few years ago.

user315433

1:15 PM

Maybe this is why the buttons don't work, it's a just a prank.

Magisch

so apparently there's an election in the workplace next week

I'll be interested to see who tries for it :p

Stijn

Isn't that one of the most difficult communities to moderate? (based on my limited knowledge)

user315433

Is TWP the only non-SO site to ever hold two elections in the same year? workplace.stackexchange.com/election

user315433

In 2015 they got lucky (I think) that Jane S turned up, she joined the site 4 months before the election. The field was pretty thin otherwise.

Magisch

In general, 300 some people voted in 2015

I'm actually excited according to projections my vote will have a real impact this time

:D

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1:31 PM

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user315433

There's also Salesforce election right now, where 182 voted last time.

Magisch

@zaq I'm curious who nominates this time

Stijn

2:23 PM

@zaq the sponsored tag page has been taken down

rene

2:39 PM

that is a way to get rid of bugs ...

user315433

3:42 PM

Surprising SO doesn't own stackoverflow.net ... back when MathOverflow chose their .net domain, they also registered .com and .org versions...

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer: Changing iCloud email by ninah ruid on apple.stackexchange.com

qwer

I kind of remember someone spamming SO because they has stacksomething

searching "stack exchange" on MetaSmoke might be fun and depressing

Stijn

asked 49 secs ago, put on hold 11 secs ago, deleted just now

the Meta crowd is highly efficient

I wonder how long it'll take for Cool Virus to be banned

user315433

3:58 PM

@qwer There was optimalstackfacts dot com a while back, is this what you are thinking about?

qwer

@zaq no, I believe it has something to do either with stackoverflow or stackexchange. It has been a while though

user315433

Today it turned to Stack Xtreme

qwer

With content like "Hey SO, I have this domain, do you want to buy it?" until "Please buy this domain..."

user315433

I recall this being posted on meta but I think it was nuked.

user315433

4:37 PM

> Is there a recognised online forum for young coders? (Sort of a managed Stack Exchange for youngsters?) Talking to school parents this pm. -- Tim Golden at 6:05 AM - 25 Jan 2017

user315433

Hmmm. Does devDoodle.net qualify, @bjb568?

bjb568

@zaq Sure

xkcdBot

5:00 PM

Today's xkcd comic (Sad):

xkcd.com/1790

M.A.R.

@xkcdBot Huh, why didn't that onebox?

O.O

Andy

The link throws a 404 for me.

M.A.R.

Hmm, I noticed too

qwer

5:17 PM

@xkcdBot no onebox. sad :(

Braiam

@xkcdBot no https

Extrarius

5:38 PM

In chat, any mathjax (ex $\sqrt(2)$ ) shows as plaintext to me. Is that as intended, and/or is there a way I can make it display normally?

Braiam

why it should be any different?

M.A.R.

@Extrarius Yes, that's intended. It's too heavy to load in chat, so you can load it manually.

There are different ways of doing so. I use ChatJax

user315433

With the right 90-degree rotation, any effect is a side effect.

user315433

Must have been an API glitch on xkcd side.

Extrarius

@Braiam : In Channels like mathematics, a lot of it gets thrown around and it is difficult to parse as text

M.A.R.

5:40 PM

@zaq Yeah saw it

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A: MathJax in chat (ChatJax offshoot)

Based on the same principle, this little bookmarklet loads cancel in addition to mhchem: javascript:(function(){if(window.MathJax===undefined){var%20script%20=%20document.createElement(%22script%22);script.type%20=%20%22text/javascript%22;script.src%20=%20%22http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest...

user315433

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A: Any chance of MathJax in chat?

This request was discussed by the team on April 9th, 2014. The potential rendering cost would be such that it would need to be a per-room and per-user option; this would then create a situation where users would potentially never be sure how their messages would look to other readers - in other w...

user315433

April 9, 2014: a day that will live in infamy

Extrarius

@M.A.R how do you embed a reference like that?

user315433

Just post the URL, it oneboxes if there is nothing else in the message.

user315433

Reference: Chat FAQ on formatting

Extrarius

5:43 PM

thanks

M.A.R.

@Extrarius I copied it and made a bookmark, then made that bookmark appear in the bookmarks' tab, and whenever I need it, I drag the bookmark with a mouse to the top of the tab I need MathJax in

I'm using Chromium, but I think FireFly works too

Extrarius

I'm using chrome and just found an extension specifically for mathjax in SE chats

Thanks for the assistance. Several noob moments there

M.A.R.

@Extrarius That's another option, yeah

There's also this

math.ucla.edu/~robjohn/math/mathjax.html

user315433

I suppose the comic title is actually SAD but title casing is forced.

user315433

A relevant tweet comes to mind...

user315433

5:48 PM

> without winter nihilism, spring would not be as beautiful. Not that beauty matters. Nothing matters. -- Shog9 at 8:44 PM - 23 Nov 2015

M.A.R.

@zaq Wow, there are such things as wise tweets?

I thought Twitter was only about lame jokes

user315433

I have found three so far, according to the record of my Twitter Favlikes: twitter.com/Horse_ebooks/status/228032106859749377 twitter.com/anildash/status/655535151863209984 and the one quoted above.

user315433

(The second one is because it's about me in ~30 years.)

SNAFU

7:12 PM

Heads up: we'll be doing a SQL failover for Stack Overflow tonight to bring everything up to latest. User impact should be about 1 minute.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on January 25, 2017 at 7:10 PM

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9:37 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: how dense fluid affect the buoyancy force? by steve on physics.stackexchange.com

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10:14 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Hilbert's Grand Hotel by Jojo on codegolf.stackexchange.com

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10:49 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, blacklisted user: Is this patent valid? Granted? Which countries does it cover? Are there family members? by jakobjacob on patents.stackexchange.com

user315433

11:13 PM

The Changing Landscape of Programming Technologies, new blog post by Kevin Montrose

user202362

11:40 PM

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