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Dammit. There has been a piece of cat litter rolling around in my keyboard for like a week that I've been too lazy to clean out. Every day a different key doesn't work.

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Today's key-du-jour is 'End', which I realize I use surprisingly often.

Shadow Wizard

@JasonC well, my right mouse key at home doesn't work since my kid switched Windows to Tablet Mode.

Jason C

It looks like it's about to migrate over to page-down, which will be a tragedy.

Lol

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Got it.

rene

@ShadowWizard that is easy to resolve: Settings > Mouse > Button. Now right-click on Enable.

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Jason C

4:32 PM

Entry Of The Gladiators - Julius Fucik

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I should've posted that as an answer on Joel's post.

I always find it incredibly impressive how clear and easy to navigate the JLS is.

Every time I have to dive into the C++ spec it's a nightmare, usually 80% of the time is spent just trying to find the latest copy.

Stijn

@JasonC isn't the C++ spec behind a paywall?

Jason C

Hats off to the Oracle people that remembered that humans read documents. They even cross link all the section references, it's great.

@Stijn The working drafts are free.

They're generally really close to the final spec (which you have to pay for).

But the complication is there's a lot of versions of them, so yeah, easier if you want to pay, but if not you have to hunt for the latest version. They sort of gradually evolve over time so you run into confusion occasionally when two people are referring to different drafts.

Szabolcs

5:01 PM

Since yesterday, I see many images that don't load, and 500 errors from i.stack.imgur.com. Is it a known problem or is it just me?

never mind

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A: Intermittent Failed to upload image; imgur is rejecting the request

It appears that S3 has fallen over in AWS for the US-EAST1. Ironically I can't include a screenshot of the dashboard in this post, but I promise I have one. You can see the AWS status dashboard here: https://status.aws.amazon.com/ Imgur uploads should return successfully once that issue has set...

SmokeDetector

5:30 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in link text in answer, blacklisted user: Should I cover up my tattoo when visiting the Middle East? by Jenny in Dubai on travel.SE

Jason C

5:59 PM

@Szabolcs Not just you.

user315433

Is the placeholder shown in Title field of Ask Question page mod-editable?

user315433

Perhaps this is not really important, since the page will be redesigned in 6-8 units of time. And hopefully the redesign will allow for more site customizations...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Why didn't anyone in the school notice that Natsume is actually a female? by Nenechi on anime.SE

SmokeDetector

7:01 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with a link in answer: Rules for Orange and Purple Caps in IPL by Ajay Singh on sports.SE

Jason C

7:12 PM

Weird. I stumbled on this in the JLS:

> Underscores are allowed as separators between digits that denote the integer.

Making int x = 1____2_3___________45____6; totally valid. I wonder why they did that.

Jason C

7:24 PM

Ah, readability, in case you want to use it for thousand's separators. I might start doing that. Kinda handy.

Shog9

7:44 PM

@zaq it's editable, but not mod-editable; by default, it's based on the site's topic string, so changing that is usually preferable to changing the prompt directly (though both can be done).

user315433

9:11 PM

"based" in some sense... In case of Web Apps, the topic string is "Web Applications is a question and answer site for power users of web applications" but the prompt is "What's your web applications question?" without any usage vs development distinction...

user315433

9:24 PM

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A: Proposal: make the "interesting" tab the default on Math.SE homepage

We've been doing some thinking and we realized since the site now gets about 630 questions a day, the active tab might not be very helpful. As of today, we've given you the interesting tab as the default on the site. Your interesting tab is similar to what was announced for Stack Overflow with...

user315433

\o/ \o/

user315433

I'll celebrate by answering something...

bluefeet

only took 6-8 years :)

user315433

10:12 PM

Which is a lot easier to do on Math than on SO... on SO I tend to run out of downvotes before I find one question worth answering. (This just in: division in Python is broken and doesn't work. OMG!)

rene

Did you indent the division correctly?

user315433

No, just an example of a question I came across

rene

Ah, OK

user315433

10:33 PM

Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.

user315433

Root problem is, there are too many of them to take to a grocery store...

Shog9

What was that '70s song? "I'd like to teach the world to use floating point"?

Jason C

11:10 PM

@NormalHuman I am having a hard time reading that comic. All I see is garbled black lines.

Wait... wait... I see a lot of T's, possibly some words... "because", "thing", "fraction", a lot of 0's. Something about a train.

rene

You definitely need to go out @JasonC ...

Jason C

Yeah. Time to take a walk. Maybe coffee, too.

rene

yes, please. And cooperate a bit in SOCVR if you like.

user315433

Or ask on Health about your strange vision impairment.

rene

How is its health?

user315433

11:22 PM

Speaking of SOCVR (or rather of review in general), I am increasingly of the opinion that if someone with 50-2999 rep thinks a question should be closed... they are welcome to keep thinking that.

user315433

Closeflags -> /dev/null

Nick Alexeev

Folks, could you look into this one, please? In the meantime, I've got a gut a feeling that there is an equivalent on meta.SE .

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Q: Shotgun users that post mulitple low quality answers

Lets suppose I'm a new user (below 1500 Rep) and all I want to do is gain reputation so I use the shotgun approach and answer as many questions as I can. While I'm doing that I'm generating low quality one sentence answers that get flagged and deleted on a daily basis. I see a few people telling...

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user315433

Bans based on heuristics is one thing, but I believe that mass-production of low quality content is also a basis for manual suspension.

rene

@NormalHuman yeah, that is the base problem. And I don't mind people not handling the queue, but they are not using their votes at all

user315433

@NickAlexeev Fastest Gun in the West Problem seems relevant.

user315433

11:30 PM

But in general, I don't know what the actual problem of that meta user is. Do they wake up at night in horror, thinking of someone potentially earning undeserved imaginary points?

user315433

Q: What if a user did such and such bad things?
A: That would be bad. (And a more detailed answer can wait until this actually happens)

rene

I think up to 1000 rep you're still eligible for post bans so if enough users down vote a ban should kick in