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6:15 PM

Imgur's URL size modifiers are weird

I've uploaded 3 images that managed to break resizing in 3 completely unique ways

I also learned that there's actually an official list of modifiers.

Huge Thumbnail [h], Large Thumbnail [l], Medium Thumbnail [m], Small Thumbnail [t], Big Square [b], and Small Square [s]

canon

@StevenVascellaro nsfw \o/

Steven Vascellaro

@canon ?

canon

one of the modifiers

Steven Vascellaro

How so?

Oh. You mean the non-size modifiers

canon

mhmm

bjb568

6:25 PM

I went to the cafeteria ten minutes before it opened, now I'm hiding in an abandoned corridor away from a campus tour that I felt that I was briefly leading.

Steven Vascellaro

Huh. I don't think I've ever seen a post get status-declined in under 30 minutes before

Steven Vascellaro

6:52 PM

Ok, I think I seriously broke imgur

Original image: i.stack.imgur.com/gSxC6.png

Small Thumbnail: i.stack.imgur.com/gSxC6t.png

Medium Thumbnail: i.stack.imgur.com/gSxC6m.png

rene

well done!

Steven Vascellaro

I've broken imgur in 4 unique ways and had a post tagged status-declined in under an hour. I'd call that a productive work day

Hmm. I think I should have named the new tag image-modifiers

It would have been a lot shorter and easier to say

image-size-modifiers seems a bit redundantly named in hindsight

bjb568

peeking duck?

Shog9

Q: Why is there a peeking duck in my profile pic?

In my SO profile, you may see something odd: a peeking duck. I've just recently uploaded this new profile picture of mine. I checked it after the upload and everything's fine. After a few hours, I opened my profile and there it is, the duck has somehow become afraid of the people viewing it. ...

Steven Vascellaro

What I find amazing is that, of the 4 different versions of the Stack Exchange logo I tested, each one managed to break in a unique way

@Shog9 That's beautiful. From now on I will use "peeking duck" to refer to any half-uploaded image.

user315433

7:24 PM

Half an hour until the end of Anime & Manga election

rene

@StevenVascellaro @ShadowWizard I've cleaned up comments under the answer for the pull request. Maybe you want to do the same

Steven Vascellaro

@rene Done

Also accepted @ShadowWizard's answer

Shadow Wizard

@StevenVascellaro just make sure to use the good half of the duck

rene

@Alex I need 49 rep in 30 minutes to be able to vote on the election. I maybe managed that on MSO or MSE once ...

Shadow Wizard

@StevenVascellaro hmm? checking rep

ohh, thanks!

enjoying the 15 points

Steven Vascellaro

7:32 PM

glances at @ShadowWizard's 86k rep

Shadow Wizard

@StevenVascellaro well, imgur was never good at resizing transparent images. And you gave them a huge one, so naturally it broke.

Steven Vascellaro

@ShadowWizard The funny thing is, the image I linked in chat wasn't actually transparant

I specifically removed the Alpha channel before uploading that one

Shadow Wizard

takes 6k rep out of the 86k, waving it in front of @Steven

@StevenVascellaro oh

Steven Vascellaro

blindly charges toward @Shadow, forgetting to guard his measly 2k rep

@ShadowWizard I tested with 4 different versions of the same image. Imgur broke in different ways based on transparency, image size, and color encoding

I think my favorite is this one i.stack.imgur.com/pHX1Wm.png

Imgur just gave up and didn't even bother resizing it

I have enough documentation to create 3 separate bug reports

Shadow Wizard

@StevenVascellaro good luck with that.... imgur don't have any way to report bugs afaik. :/

They became too big to care.

And reporting on SE would be off topic.

snatching @Steven's 2k rep while being charged at, adding them to the 86k

om nom nom

Steven Vascellaro

7:41 PM

I figured that after the image transparency post was declined

Shadow Wizard

Steven Vascellaro

I was expecting it to be status-deferred

Was a bit surprised to see it declined so quickly

Shadow Wizard

@StevenVascellaro fastest declined request took whole 22 seconds (!) to decline.

Q: Unable to see chat box on IE10 in Metro mode on Windows 8, whilst a file download is underway

If you're downloading a file in IE10, in metro mode; it completely covers where the chat box would show, which makes it rather difficult to use.

bug status-declined chat windows-8 internet-explorer-10

Steven Vascellaro

The question is, was the issue fixed in the non-beta version. :P

Shadow Wizard

See more here: data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackexchange/query/701491/…

user315433

7:51 PM

International Mathematical Olympiad results are out. Problem 3 was the weird one... "A hunter and an invisible rabbit play a game... [a bunch of rules] Is it always possible, no matter how the rabbit moves, and no matter what points are reported by the tracking device, for the hunter to choose her moves so that after 1e9 rounds she can ensure that the distance between her and the rabbit is at most 100?"

user315433

Top 10: Korea, China, Vietnam, USA, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, UK.

user315433

8:13 PM

Dimitri mx wins on Anime & Manga

user315433

Two voters used only their 3rd choice. Ten used only their 2nd and 3rd.

user315433

8:38 PM

It's beta Tuesday, but Augur didn't launch...

user315433

New pro tem mod on AI, DukeZhou

cazc_941

9:21 PM

Q: A dice is rolled until a $6$ occurs. What is the probability that the sum including the $6$ is even?

A game is played where a standard six sided dice is rolled until a $6$ is rolled, and the sum of all of the rolls up to and including the $6$ is taken. What is the probability that this sum is even? I know that this is a geometric distribution and the expected number of rolls is $\frac1{1/6} = 6...