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user202362

12:51 AM

with the freezing storm going on around NY, there is little chance that SE server is going to be off line anytime soon right?

John Meyer

1:29 AM

I got bullied down to -7 ..l and am the only person answering the question meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/361390/…

John Dvorak

... bullied?

The second part of your statement is blatantly false, too

Journeyman Geek

shrug its meta

John Meyer

Well, the question was, is it possible to fingerprint posts

I found a wall of text in every response which was... a lot of time

Is this actually not strict Q&A but a forum to discuss bugs whether we should fix them?

Sensible Alexander

Ugh, morning...

This week was a horrible week with full of nightmare....

John Meyer

So 'blatantly' false?... maybe 'superficially' false.... anyway I guess worth negative rep to ask that people not be fingerprinting their posts with invisible unicode... and not enabling people to build sites with fingerprinting tools that can break search...

iDebug

1:56 AM

Help.

My bug report is unclear???

Journeyman Geek

@JohnMeyer MSO has no rep

iDebug

@JourneymanGeek /OT Yesterday's self-vandalizer got suspended on 4 other sites, lol.

Journeyman Geek

@iDebug which sites?

iDebug

SF, English, Security, Movies

Smokey stopped reporting after I told him not to vandalize anymore.

Because he went on deleting a lot

Journeyman Geek

ya

iDebug

2:06 AM

He's suspended on English for 7 days as you made him on SU, and 1 day on Server Fault, EL&U and Information Security. Haha.

Journeyman Geek

1 day is the default

hm

iDebug

Deleting is more subtle and normal users can't effectively spot it.

Journeyman Geek

lol

smokey devs are mods ;p

iDebug

Smokey mainly targets spams.

Journeyman Geek

and I got told about the problem by someone else too and I had a non mod 10ker assist

iDebug

2:09 AM

BTW, did you restore the accidentally flag-deleted post?

Journeyman Geek

could have.

I read through the answers and just undeleted anything reasonable

iDebug

Decent answers, aren't they?

Reopen request: meta.stackexchange.com/q/305374/350567

Journeyman Geek

yup

John Meyer

2:50 AM

@iDebug upvoted question but I don’t have reopen rep

iDebug

3:06 AM

@JohnMeyer Thanks.

user202362

3:53 AM

Students in Arkansas have used a 3-D printer to create a prosthetic leg for a duck found without a foot

John Dvorak

4:10 AM

Confirms that animals get better medical care than humans

iDebug

4:28 AM

@JohnDvorak Lol.

iDebug

4:56 AM

Does anyone 10k on Stack Overflow have any idea why this is deleted as spam/offensive?

Sensible Alexander

the algorithm for being a bridesmaid is not that simple...

iDebug

Seems like there's regular amusement available from deleted posts :)

user202362

Headless Raspberry Pi Setup

user202362

does it need to sound so gore?

Catija

5:18 AM

@SensibleAlexander Hard to form an algorithm if you've only done it once?

SmokeDetector

5:59 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body: ¿Cómo modificar el hook para un impuesto en woocommerce? by Joun on es.stackoverflow.com

iDebug

I'm considering moving code analysis to an answer.

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Q: Badges section gets strangely smaller and italic when user has no visible post

See the image. The "badges" section is smaller and wrongly italic and doesn't fit the screen. It has a significantly higher 100% chance of shrinking if the user has no visible posts. I can reproduce this issue on Android 5.1 and 7.1, with Google Chrome version 52, 54, 57, 60, 61, 62 (all ...

Shall I?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body: What's new in Crown Store of ESO in January 2018? by user186985 on gaming.SE

Sensible Alexander

6:28 AM

@Ixrec - Easy. When I know spoilers are possible, I just ignore NHQ — DVK-on-Ahch-To Dec 24 '15 at 15:44

I guess that's a shorthand for Not Hot Questions

Journeyman Geek

6:45 AM

@iDebug spam seed?

Sensible Alexander

@iDebug not offensive, but kind of abusive.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Goldbach's conjecture by Tou Shi on mathoverflow.net

user315433

7:37 AM

@iDebug Why shouldn't it be? The user got nuked too. One trolling post is enough.

user315433

SO moderators try to limit the amount of time wasted on a troll.

Sensible Alexander

... @CrazyIvan gone from ping... that means...

I'll be stuck with this name for 20+ days

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Email in answer: Unable to remove bitcoins from watch-only address by syed on bitcoin.SE

Sensible Alexander

> i'll gift 500$ worth btc .

how about... "I get all of the btc and leave you with $500"?

user315433

7:59 AM

0

A: Tips to avoid forgetting a bag

Use a mnemonic. Each morning when I leave the house I run my "W. K. Pig" check (wallet, keys, phone, ID, glasses)

user315433

But, how do I remember "W K Pig"?

user315433

Also, not wearing glasses. And the ID is always in the wallet, so that seems redundant.

Sensible Alexander

I only remember my critical triangle: glasses (top), mobile phone (left pocket), wallet (right pocket)

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How to make Facebook link share thumbnails larger? by M.joe on webmasters.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Shortened URL in body: Experience of anyone with Mobite Foundation Post Graduation Endowment Scholarship 2018? by user85467 on academia.SE

user315433

@SmokeDetector spam

user315433

8:10 AM

0

A: How and where can I start learning AI if I have considerable knowledge of Java & C++?

ill teach you. im making an Artificial life system and willing to teach what i do. im using c++ and python so you should pick up easy. and anyone else wishing to leanr ill teach with by giving hands on experience with helping work with what i do and showing you how it works with personal explanat...

user315433

Artificial life with C++ and Python... talk about Frankenstein monster.

user315433

It seems Ethereum is getting even more NAA posts than Bitcoin these days.

Sensible Alexander

I have a dark dream of implementing AI to a live human brain

Journeyman Geek

8:51 AM

and then finally, intellegent life!

Derpy

@JourneymanGeek can intelligent life be created by not-so-intelligent creatures?

Journeyman Geek

@Derpy assuming humans write the AI

Sensible Alexander

AlphaGo beats pro Go player 4-1, 60-0, and 3-0

Derpy

@JourneymanGeek that's my point. I would expect anything humans build to be far less "intelligent" than them... and humanity isn't exactly "bright" already.

Sensible Alexander

Well, we're waiting for the time when AI develop something... like writing an algorithm

John Dvorak

9:06 AM

That's easy. You just train a neural network to recognize programs that do X well, and then train another network to produce code that the former likes.

Sensible Alexander

or solving The Millennium Problems...

John Dvorak

Actually... recognizing programs that do X is easy. It's called unit testing.

So... evolutionary algorithm -> unit test suite -> success?

Sensible Alexander

10:03 AM

> We don't have review audits on this (Android Enthusiasts) site. -- Android.SE meta post

do some sites not have review audits?

Stijn

I can imagine small sites not having review audits (due to not having enough available posts), but the Android site isn't small, is it?

Sensible Alexander

Well, at least it has graduated, and certainly not that small

Or is audit only available on SO?

Journeyman Geek

a few sites have em

I think its the biggest

Derpy

SmokeDetector

11:02 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Desktop software to convert YouTube files to MP3 by user36242 on softwarerecs.SE

SmokeDetector

11:27 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Experience of anyone with Mobite Foundation Post Graduation Endowment Scholarship 2018? by user85467 on academia.SE

SmokeDetector

12:21 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in answer: School management software on Ubuntu by JGere on askubuntu.com

Stijn

2:00 PM

@rene can you close meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/361477/… with link from my second comment? Perhaps add the link from the first comment too, but I'm not sure if it's important in this case.

rene

@Stijn I think I have lost the first comment?

Stijn

@rene oh maybe because I retracted the close vote. It was the syntax highlighting faq.

rene

nvm, found it

Stijn

thanks for closing :)

rene

Happy to abuse my dupe hammer

Magisch

2:24 PM

I wonder why stack closed down the merch shop

Stack tshirts and hoodies would sell like hotcakes I bet

Stijn

Logistics were too complex IIRC

and too expensive

Magisch

Partner with one of these online clothes distributors?

Like shark robot or something?

Stijn

I'd dig a stack hoodie

Magisch

If you could buy them I'd replace all my tshirts with stack tshirts and get at least 2-3 hoodies and sweatpants

Because currently none of my clothing has any logos on it, it's all plain. Plain green hoodie, plain grey hoodie, plain black hoodie, 14 plain black tshirts, 4 pairs of varying shades of plain grey sweatpants

Stijn

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A: What happened to the Stack Exchange Store?

Unfortunately, it no longer exists. The short story is that it was just too much work for the amount of sales we had. The long story is, we have a lot of remote employees in different states. Our sales tax burden for selling tangible goods started to become an administration nightmare. We also ...