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12:11 AM
Does anybody have a good resource on writing a CV? Thanks
 
user315433
 
5:33 AM
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Q: When a moving human is detected

Segye CreativeI am looking for detector which does not detect moving cars, but detects the motions of moving humans only. When a moving human is detected, it should control the relay. For this case, which sensor and hardwares must be in use?

Mysterious title
 
 
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7:17 AM
@ShadowWizard what? Duty calls? :P (cc @Don'tPanic) — Braiam 6 hours ago
Duty? @Braiam ? ^
@M.A.R. lol, not really... moving humans are the future of humanity! :D
@Moosebot is being trolled in Den
 
!!/alive
 
!!/dead
 
!!/zombie
 
@Ferrybig He's dead.
It's dead.
She's dead.
Whatever, stupid English pronouns
 
@M.A.R. and how it goes in your language?
 
7:32 AM
@ShadowWizard In Persian we can just stick to آن which is an equivalent for ''that''.
It's gender-neutral, and doesn't differentiate between inanimate and living objects
 
@M.A.R. wow, so... useful. :)
 
@ShadowWizard BURN
 
!!/alive
 
we have done that train already, you're late
 
7:48 AM
!!/coffee
 
@ShadowWizard brews coffee for @ShadowWizard
 
so it can brew coffee even when dead. Nice.
 
lol
Maybe it just got a mind of his own and doesn't like spam anymore
!!/icecream
 
!!/blame
 
@ShadowWizard It's rene's fault.
 
7:52 AM
!!/alive?
 
There we have it again
 
@ShadowWizard ... did I miss something?
 
@SmokeDetector yes, you did
 
8:04 AM
Smokey rebels against us, except the Wizard!
 
Shizard
 
8:16 AM
Lizard
 
blizzard
 
8:52 AM
Greetings, fellow Tavern goers!
 
\o
 
@ShadowWizard I've always known you're a lizard
 
user202362
\O/
 
9:15 AM
misspelt
 
@rene British English ;)
 
I thought so :)
 
9:33 AM
@Stijn A link to a meta post
 
Possible duplicate of Time to take a standgnat 19 mins ago
 
@M.A.R. the Sahara desert is jealous of how dry some of the Tavern jokes are
@rene gnat can be so passive aggressive :D
 
Yeah, I don't always agree with him but there are moments he makes me laugh
 
He's like the mom that yells at you because she'd worried about you
Something above jaded
Like an uber-zaq
 
10:12 AM
@rene sounds like me... ;-)
 
EEEEEWwww
 
@M.A.R. not anti-zaq?
 
@ShadowWizard Why anti-zaq?
 
perhaps zaqism
 
10:31 AM
@ShadowWizard only userscript I created was the "Anti - Nicael" one.
a single line:
> GM_addStyle(".content { overflow: hidden; }");
 
Community is trolling ... bumping WinterBash questions ....
 
Time to take a stand against Commu...no ... no ... just have a coffee.
 
Yes, Communication
 
10:48 AM
@M.A.R. zaq is against the idea (or so it seems) and gnat is against Joel and SE staff personally, or so it seems.
@Derpy nice... Still working?
 
@ShadowWizard well, I use it on the chat sites. That way, zalgo messages cannot overflow.
 
Guyses, would a feature-request about making the star board scrollable be good?
CC @Sha
I need to gather ideas, then I might post one.
 
I wouldn't oppose the idea
 
I mean it's always 3 or 4 messages visible.
It could do better
 
What screen resolution are you using?
I see 10 messages currently on 1680x1050
 
11:01 AM
1366×768
 
ah ok
 
@M.A.R. why not immediately ask to have the board filtered to only show my stars? Then you don't need to scroll at all.
 
Especially useful in rooms with dozens of users
 
in that case I'd support your feature request
 
@Bart That would be too scary
@Stijn Hugs Stijn
BTW, how's your name pronounced?
Like Stain?
 
11:04 AM
Don't really think there is an equivalent of the 'ij' sound in English, but you're close.
 
lel
 
@Bart The ''j'' is pronounced like /j/?
I mean like <y> in ''yard''?
 
No. In fact, in dutch ij is considered a single letter
 
And how is it . . . Oh thanks
Who else played that 12 times?
 
@M.A.R. not bad, though you might get few downvotes
 
11:09 AM
@ShadowWizard I don't care about the downvotes if the upvotes be high
 
IJ (lowercase ij; Dutch pronunciation: [ɛi]) is a digraph of the letters i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or even a letter in itself – although in most fonts that have a separate character for ij the two composing parts are not connected, but are separate glyphs, sometimes slightly kerned. An ij in written Dutch usually represents the diphthong [ɛi]. In standard Dutch, and most Dutch dialects, there are two possible spellings for the diphthong [ɛi]: ij and ei. This causes confusion for schoolchildren, who need to learn which words to write with ei...
 
OK, that's just weird
 
@M.A.R. isn't it S-Jin
@M.A.R. wild guess... such feature request will get +10/-3
 
@ShadowWizard At least I wasn't as far off as you are
 
11:10 AM
@ShadowWizard That's good enough for me
 
Back when I learned to type (on a mechanical typewriter) it had an ij key :)
and no y
 
@M.A.R. that's pretty close indeed, it's how I always explain it to non-Dutch speakers
Lots of people fail at typing it correctly though, often I'm called Stijin
 
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Q: Make starred comments box in chat scrollable

RichardTheKiwi Just above the red hand-drawn line, it should be obvious there are crests of some text lettering peeking through. Can we just have the box in a scrollable DIV?

Now I wanna punch someone.
 
@M.A.R. heh, nice find :D
 
@Stijn a colleague wanted to tell me once that she had an excellent rijsttafel in Amsterdam ... it took me a while to get what reejusttititafell was supposed to mean.
 
11:13 AM
:D
@M.A.R. bounty time? :)
 
@Stijn So you failed to type it correctly yourself?
Or the correct version is Stijn?
 
correct version is Stijn
I don't know why so many make the same mistake and add another i to it
I guess they're not used to the ij combination
 
Now I wonder what an interconnected ij looks like
@Stijn N after J is weird.
 
Looks like Igreg with a pair or eyes
But it looks nice
I like it
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Q: Double hat when usercard appears for the first time

alexolutWhen mouse hover over a user with a worn hat and available usercard (Established User) then: for the first time after page load you can see a double hat: for the next time hat appears only in the usercard: Same effect could be observed on the review page.

This was in the CV queue
Should I VTC or not?
It is no-repro but does that mean we should close all Winterbash's unsolved bugs?
 
11:22 AM
@M.A.R. no, it might come back next winterbash, they're most likely using the same code.
So let them have a chance to fix it before. :)
However, bugs about specific hats can indeed be closed.
 
@Rene did you just downvote the guy after he asked why he got downvotes? Hehe
 
so Cruel
@m.A.R. who's Rene?
 
@ShadowWizard @rene's father
 
@M.A.R. oh, is he a flower too?
 
@ShadowWizard No, he's a bee
 
11:54 AM
Never heard of them before, but this is awesome
 
Bingo! I knew I already saw that somewhere!
 
12:43 PM
@Derpy .̊̓.̓ͪ͑̾̄.̆͒͆̃̈̂ͬ̽ ͐̈̅s͋̃ͩ̇ͥ̿n̊̓̿u̍ͩͤ̒̈́f̀̆̿ͤͭ̀f̾ͮ͗ ̐̌ͫ̄ͬ̾ö́̃̋ͪͯ͂̑̒ū̉̾̂̾͋ͩtͣ͊ ̇͊ẗ́̆̈͊ͨ͂h̾e͛̑ͤ̑̂ ̿̏l͊̓ͨͬ͒͑̄ăͭͩ͐̽̃ͭ̽s̎͊̓ͩ̅t̏̇͊̔ ̐̄̽̈ͦ́́ͨ̾c͐̀̇̓̐͐ͤ̚rͪ̂͑̓i̓͑̂ẽ̅ͤͦͤͥͣs̿ ͛͑͒͒ͯ̿ő̊͊ͦnͪ̔ ͨͥ̾̒̄t̔̍͂͆́̀͛ͧh̓̓ͫ͌͐e͆͑ͧ̑̑̑ͮ̂ ̌̿ͯd̿̽̾̀yͩ̾ͨ̇ḯ̈ͥ͆͛ͤ̓̃̇nͭͤ̈́g̿͛ ̐ͮ͆͌̈́s̐͛ͮͮ̅̇̓̏pͨ͊͋͊́̊ͪh̆ͬ̽̽̇ͯe͑ͮͤr̐̔ĕ̏̋ͮ.ͪ̿͂̚.ͥͭ̏̏̎́͗̊̈́.͛͆ͨͤ͌ͩ̔
 
@Magisch overflow: hidden; , remember?
 
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1:47 PM
.... greasemonkey is behaving pretty oddly today.
Was trying to use some @grant but it seems to be far above my understanding. The behavior I am experiencing makes no sense.
 
"I'm guessing someone did get fired"
:)
 
haha
I'm kinda surprised how positive all the responses are
 
@Stijn what happened?
 
@Magisch oh boy, you missed the GitLab fuckup?
 
2:03 PM
Summary: someone deleted production data and none of the backup systems was working properly
 
@Stijn Oh thats brutal
Gitlab is used by many companies and they have a SLA about data loss. They can probably expect to get sued by a couple hundred people now.
 
Luckily data loss seems to have been limited to things like pull requests. And Git being Git, users should still have their full repo anyway.
 
2:28 PM
@Bart Being lazy, I'm not clicking on your previous link to see if it's mentioned there, but last I checked the lost data related to issue/bug reports, comments and 6ish hours of web hooks. The repositories were not lost at all.
Hooray laziness!
 
@Andy yup. Just saying that even if they had lost part of their Git repos, that wouldn't have been unrecoverable by the users.
 
 
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4:03 PM
@M.A.R. I already did and I'm always happy to explain down votes when people ask about that.
@Stijn they better don't. That is the most experienced employee when it comes to deleting production data ...
 
5:04 PM
@TimStone, @Shog9, etc. Do you guys have the ability to run SEDE queries that would normally time out? If so would it be possible to run data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/622776/… on SO?
Wait no not that one, that one isn't good enough.
 
@JasonC you might want to put some date ranges on that
 
Argh, I want to extract question and answer link counts too, but the patterns "/a/" and stuff aren't specific enough.
@bluefeet Oh, that's a good idea.
I just realized I've been chain smoking for the past 45 minutes because every time I reach for my coffee cup, I realize it's empty. What have I become...
 
@JasonC cigarettes without coffee? Sad.
 
It is unimaginably sad.
 
I can probably make your query run if I knew what you were doing
 
5:16 PM
I just made some tea. I think it will help.
 
but, not right now; gotta run out
 
Well, I'm trying to figure out how many comment, question, and answer links are on comments, questions, and answers, to get a data point on how many page reloads anchor-based links save as opposed to anchor-free links. But now I'm realizing I can't really do this readily in a query anyways, because I also need to know if the link is on the same page or on a different one. So I think I'm just going to grab a data dump and analyze it programmatically instead.
Also, thanks, and later.
 
@JasonC I had a somewhat similar problem here for the first revision query. In the end I ran it for periods of 6 months.
 
Yeah that makes sense.
 
user280395
Moosebot has been activated.
 
user280395
5:26 PM
@ShadowWizard :(
 
In a query execution plan, where you're using a lot of LIKEs on a presumably indexed column, is the string matching part of the "clustered index scan"?
T SQL
 
@JasonC only if the column is in that index
but you get a full scan anyway
the clustered index is only used to get records in the first place if nothing else fits
A like can most likely only use an index if it is of the form field like 'value%'
as soon as you have field like '%value%' no index is going to help you
unless you have other fields to limit the results
Posttypeid is a good one for example
There aren't an awful lot of indexes on tables in SEDE btw
And fulltext search is disabled so that isn't going to help either
 
Interesting
It's confusing
@rene E.g. the execution plan of data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/622776/… shows the % entirely in clustered index scans.
That query has a bunch of LIKE %value% and also a lot of REPLACE. Also I wonder why it uses PostsWithDeleted instead of Posts.
Its intent is to count occurrences of "/comments/" and "#comment" in questions, answers, and comments (separately).
 
@JasonC I think that is because Posts is for us a view over postwithdeleted. The Exec plan shows the actual table used.
 
Ohhh that makes sense.
I forgot you could do that. Weirdly, a bunch of pleasant memories of working in SQL Server Management Studio for a big database project (that I was totally not qualified to be doing) a long time ago just came flooding back. I remember enjoying it.
 
5:42 PM
@JasonC the actual reason there historical: stable links to comments didn't exist for a long time after comments were introduced. They were added (if memory serves) originally to allow inbox notifications to link to the specific comment instead of the post, and thus relied on client-side script to expand comments if necessary before scrolling the comment into view and highlighting.
 
I remember lots of fun graphical schema editing.
@Shog9 Ohhh, word. My wild guess answer was way off.
Although now I'm taking this query personally, relevant or not, heh.
 
Remember also that the fragment isn't passed to the server, so there's two things that need to happen for them to work:
1) The fragment-free URL needs to contain enough information for the server to load the correct page (for questions with multiple pages of answers)
2) The fragment itself needs to contain enough information for the script to identify the correct *post* (since looking the comment up by ID won't work if it isn't among the comments loaded by default), load the full set of comments if the linked comment isn't visible, and then find the comment (so both post ID *and* comment ID).
Yeah, it's hacky and weird, which is another reason why it took so long to have comment permalinks; in hindsight, a different URL format would've probably been a good idea, but... Kinda too late now.
(Feel free to reference any of this if you like, don't have time to write a proper answer right now)
 
Oh right. So for the permalink case, though, it just generates a redirect with an anchor and then the client-side still loads the appropriate comments as needed, though, right?
Cool, I will.
 
@JasonC right. The critical need there is to have the correct PostId, otherwise the wrong page may load. This is notable because the mod tools screw this up, making comment flags on questions with multiple pages of answers a massive headache.
 
Sweet, thanks.
 
5:48 PM
(NOT THAT THIS HAS BITTEN ME REPEATEDLY THIS WEEK OR ANYTHING)
 
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6:05 PM
@ShadowWizard xkcd Duty calls
@JasonC I remember a comment on MSO where I basically used recursion in a comment
 
@JasonC it was deleted :(
 
Lol
Also, this is kind of a fun query.
 
6:42 PM
@xkcdBot Duty calls
@xkcdBot help
hrmph
!xkcd help
!!/xkcd
:(
oh well two bots in Den can give it ;)
 
@ShadowWizard maybe a bot strike?
 
@rene nah, I think it was disabled after being abused
 
There's a rouge daemon on my computer that keeps respawning and taking 100% CPU.
 
Same way the built in define was removed (or was it translate?)
@bjb568 how rude!
 
jokes on the daemon
(but really on my battery life)
 
7:02 PM
I just added 420 characters to a post about smoke, then giggled because high school.
 
7:23 PM
har har
 
rah rah
 
8:19 PM
@ShadowWizard close this as Not related to software from SE?
 
@rene not sure. There is a limit of requests per IP imposed by SE itself, isn't it the same? (and just changed over the years?)
 
Nope ,this is their/some corporate firewall, not the ha-proxy of SE
 
oh. So yes, you're right.
 
Let's close the question but keep the answers?
 
8:34 PM
@rene can't retract the delete vote, but flag retracted.
 
OK
 
8:59 PM
Well, software lawyers have a great new term at their disposal now ... non-literal copying
 
9:11 PM
How many of those ads that popup there generate revenue for you?
@Bart maybe we are in the wrong business ...
 
@rene I wouldn't know, I block them :D
 
It was a bit scary ... and I somehow trust you won't post links that are really bad ...
 
Trust me? You fool
 
yeah ...
 
But if they are Facebook ads, that's good. Somewhere down the line they pay my salary, so I don't mind those. :D
 
9:20 PM
They were pretty well targetted at me. Ziggo.nl, so they know I'm not a customer there ;)
 
user315433
 
user315433
 
user315433
I'm pretty sure it should be "Arithmetics", though.
 
@zaq yeah, and all the comments, even one complaining about the last line of my answer ...
 
 
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user202362
11:21 PM
 
user202362
@Bart you just have to type 'this is fine' by itself on a message
 
wait wat?
omg....
 
user202362
As you can see, I know many useless facts :p
 

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