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Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
00:19
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Q: Since when did SE stop uploading DMCA takedown notices to Lumen Database?

Sonic the Inclusive HedgehogThere was an answer that was removed from Stack Overflow due to a DMCA takedown notice. According to the comments there, the complaint was not published to Lumen Database (formerly called Chilling Effects), despite the fact that since 2013, SE has uploaded such notices. Also, it appears that ther...

support legal copyright copyright-infringement
@rene ^^
Shog9
Shog9
"when the lumen database stopped accepting them"
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
@Shog9 They did?
Shog9
Shog9
I'll let someone else tell that story, but apparently yes.
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
@Shog9 Can you leave a "short answer" comment, then?
Shog9
Shog9
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog sorry, no
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
00:27
So who will answer?
Shog9
Shog9
I just wrote something like 700 words for you here, and that's gonna be about it for me today
Gonna go move a big pile of dirt
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Is this the case?
Jun 21 at 1:55, by Catija
WARNING!!! WARNING!!! Shog approaching daily word limit... Aooooogah Aooogah! Shut down in 200 words.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog badgering people for answers is not cool :(
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
It's his job
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
You did mention you wanted to be told when your behaviour is annoying right? This is annoying?
Lemme rephrase
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
00:34
Did he say he was annoyed?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
I'm annoyed. I'm saying its annoying.
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
This might annoy you, but our conversation is our conversation.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Anyway, the CM team takes care of the the whole network. 'Its his job' kinda dosen't cover getting pinged by specific users a lot over stuff that's not urgent.
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Are you annoyed by someone else's conversation, or would you have been were the conversation with you?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
I mean, as a mod, it probably would take a suicide threat or an ongoing troll issue for me to ping a CM
@JohnDvorak well, I'm not a CM ;p
and if I were I'd totally at some point point him, a little more politely than I am now, at the proper channels
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
00:36
If only I were an employee, then I could go look in the code as much as I wanted, without needing to ask another employee.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog brush up on those coding and social skills and apply the next time a opening comes up ;)
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Or I could just follow Tim Post's advice and email the team for every unresolved request
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
which is ok. It'll get thrown into the queue and handled when appropriate
cause that's literally what I do.
(also, yay for the new, apparently unified support email. I don't need to go "hey guys, which one was it again?")
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
That's why automatic email filtering / forwarding exists
Catija
Catija
All of this would have been avoided with a little patience.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
00:47
@Catija :( That's kind of the big picture thing.
@JohnDvorak bit of a story there XD. But I don't really use that much
I think maybe 2-3x times a year
and more often than not with big issues I'd like the powers that be to know about.
But I can never remember, and use the contact form most of the time.
 
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Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
02:18
huff... morning
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
02:36
hi
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
03:31
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: How to restore Trash items to original location? by anna on superuser.com
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
In five days, the current version of the SE Android app will be one year old.
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
03:46
@JourneymanGeek It looks like comments containing bare links to idownvotedbecau.se are now 1-flag deletable
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
\o/
Good to see someone agreed
Catija
Catija
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Have you tested with a couple?
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
@Catija I tested with a very recently posted one
Which had one upvote
Shog9
Shog9
04:06
Well, I made some good progress. Dug up two drain lines for rain gutters, found a leak in one and a hole followed by about 12ft of tree roots in the other. Mapped contour lines for the side hill and dug trenches for new drain lines - these'll be perforated to allow water to seep into the soil.
Catija
Catija
Sort of like French drains?
Shog9
Shog9
Yeah, but in reverse
The old drain line just dumped water onto the hillside. Over time it washed a lot of soil away, and then got clogged by dirt and roots. When the drought hit, the shrubs started dying; nothing to hold onto water, no fresh supply.
Catija
Catija
Ah, so more of a reservoir that will gradually release water that's been stored.
Shog9
Shog9
I'm gonna try & set this up to both capture runoff (swales) and inject rainwater from the roof. Reduce erosion and get rid of a lot of dead wood laying around.
...then plant new shrubs
(this is also where the wood chipper comes into play)
Catija
Catija
Oh, nice. Do you have a lot of paving that has runoff or is the ground so hard (rock?) that you have to capture it?
... that makes more sense now. People don't generally need wood chippers.
Shog9
Shog9
04:13
I'm on a steep hillside, and it's mostly packed sand or very poor soil
Below that, shale clay
Not... Great
Catija
Catija
Sounds like ... a recipe for landslides if you're not careful.
Shog9
Shog9
@Catija I need one maybe one day every two years. This was just cheaper than renting one :-/
Catija
Catija
You just have to store it, now... hope you have a big shed.
Shog9
Shog9
Building a shed is another project I need to get to one of these years
Catija
Catija
Maybe you could rent it out on one of those "rent your stuff" sites... I think one is called loanables?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
04:16
assuming you live somewhere dense enough? ;p
Shog9
Shog9
But heck... Even if I give it away or let it rust in the yard, still cheaper than renting
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Shog9 ... or put it to other uses? ;p
Catija
Catija
And you have something to fiddle with... assuming you enjoy that sort of thing.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
(or rent it out, if its worth the effort)
Catija
Catija
People chipping?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
04:17
@Catija I totally did not say that ;)
Catija
Catija
I rented a pop-up tent once.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
hah. My experience of camping was military...
tent's too short, so you could either sleep with your head or feet sticking out...
Catija
Catija
Oh, no... a 10x10 shade tent... like for a picnic.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Oh!
thoooose
Catija
Catija
user image
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
04:19
oh ok
;p
I think I've seen those somewhere
pretty cheap, something like a 100 quid?
Catija
Catija
They're pretty much ubiquitous here... We own one now. Use it in the back yard for over Bennett's inflatable pool.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
granted, it would just take up space...
(unless our roof leaked? ;p)
Ya, they're a thing in india, though usually rented for events.
Catija
Catija
They're pretty compact... about 10 inches square and 4 feet long... and the case is on wheels.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
We live in an apartment ;p
Catija
Catija
I don't remember how much ours was... $80 maybe?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
04:21
(also... lots of accumilated stuff)
sounds about right with exchange rates
Catija
Catija
Yeah, we have a house with a garage... though if we do this renovation, we'll lose about 1/3 of the space before we double it.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
ya.
When we fixed this place up the last time, we did half then half ;p
buuuut...
We had a lot less stuff then
Catija
Catija
We may have to get a storage unit to house it all.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
hah. We had one when dad's company closed down ._.
Guess who got to shred documents?
Catija
Catija
Oooh, fun!
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
04:24
errr
at first
We really should have just gone with fire in a hell money burner
so...
Catija
Catija
The industrial ones are more fun... throw everything in the hopper and push start.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
we cheaped out and bought a fairly regular shredder...
has a 5 minute cycle before it overheats
and can only take something like 5 pages
Catija
Catija
Ouch. That sounds time consuming.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
and needs to cool down if it overheats
Catija
Catija
They have companies here where you can take stuff and they'll shred it for you... assuming you trust them. I'm not sure if you can watch or not.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
04:25
so... its shred shred shed... wander off shred shred... oh snap....
naw, dad didn't want to spend the money XD
If I knew what I knew now?
Catija
Catija
Well, you had to buy the shredder, right?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
yup
I didn't realise there would be that much paper or work
I'd have bought the handcrank one
If nothing else, I'd have popeye's forearms XD
Catija
Catija
At least have gotten a workout? Some buff arms? :P
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
exactly
Catija
Catija
Oh, that's odd: meta.stackexchange.com/q/311710/284336
... he VTC? so it was attributed to him and community?
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
04:27
halp, my office internet is slow as snail D:
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
yup
@SomewhatMemorableName I emphatise ;p
though I managed to go from slow, pricy and shitty to slow, cheap and shitty ;p
lunch!
Catija
Catija
Huh, I've not noticed that before.
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
almost lunch!
Catija
Catija
Cheap is better than pricey.
I'm going to bed.
Bon Appetit!
@JourneymanGeek needs to practice his French, so if anyone knows any...
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
lynch!
'y' is beside 'u'...
Anyway...
User eXperience's election is now on voting phase. Go use your vote now!
User eXperience's election is now on voting phase. Go use your vote now!
^ this indicated how FUBAR my office internet just now... :(
(using personal mobile data instead -_-)
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
04:53
Rofl
@Catija I actually have a set of french learning cds
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
05:04
totally going to start if things go anywhere at all ;)
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
05:17
@Catija I know a bit
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
05:31
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog its ok ;p
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
@JourneymanGeek I have some French learning vinyl records from the 1960s
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
erm...
mostly useless in this situation lol
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
As well as an extremely sexist life skills book from 1955
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
hmm
COmpletely useless in this situation
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
05:59
one-more-close-vote-needed meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72128/…
Travis J
Travis J
06:31
@Catija Well, I said a 100 vote post versus 10 votes, so by extension lets examine 40 votes versus 4 100 vote posts. Can you image what this would look like after one week? 28 100 upvoted posts. Now that is content contribution! 280 votes on posts reviewed from somewhere, sprinkled about... yeah, voting is important but that isn't going to create high quality content all by itself. I strongly disagree with your observation, and still believe there was a misunderstanding in implementation.
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
I tend to agree with her too. It took me a much longer time to badge-run the Sportsmanship badge than it did to make a single post (that got votes from others over time).
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
@JourneymanGeek nowadays, people goes to Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, etc... or anything mobile..
I think it's good enough... for basic learning
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
06:45
Has there ever been a time where a local mod has wheel-warred with an SE employee?
6 hours ago, by Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
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Q: Since when did SE stop uploading DMCA takedown notices to Lumen Database?

Sonic the Inclusive HedgehogThere was an answer that was removed from Stack Overflow due to a DMCA takedown notice. According to the comments there, the complaint was not published to Lumen Database (formerly called Chilling Effects), despite the fact that since 2013, SE has uploaded such notices. Also, it appears that ther...

support legal copyright copyright-infringement
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@SomewhatMemorableName lol. There's a bit of background to why french. If things work out... It will be useful
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86604/… (@rene)
cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311715/ram-dectection-error
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
@JourneymanGeek oooh, business-level French, or conversational French?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Conversational
I think I can get myself back to toddler level french quickly
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
07:03
Welp, I'm weak at languages that has... specialized pronunciation: Chinese, French...
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Actually that's the clever thing with the CDs I have. They build french off English
rene
rene
@JourneymanGeek that would be better then I have ever reached and I did had French class for two years in high school
I wasn't good at it, at all
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@rene I can understand non native french speakers in movies. Can't understand native speakers
It's been a while tho
rene
rene
My French teacher actually advised me to drop it
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Ow
rene
rene
07:11
@JourneymanGeek He was supportive and helping me out making the right choices. I visited him regularly despite him not being involved in my future education. He was inspirational in that sense.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Ah
Lol. I am only picking it up again if certain events happen :p
rene
rene
Like the French re-capturing Singapore?
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Erm. Not in any sense of those words
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Here in California you have to take two years of a foreign language to qualify for entrance into state universities.
rene
rene
To fulfill my back then burning desire to become a journalist it was mandatory to have graduated with two foreign languages. With French gone I had English and German left
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
07:19
Journalist Geek!
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
@rene Is your school Dutch-medium or English-medium?
rene
rene
Dutch (and I'm no longer in school, I'm reciting from decaying memory)
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Also, which of the six different levels here (1-5 and N) are you?
@rene I know that.
rene
rene
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog level 1 I think?
Maybe 2 if I make an effort
but meh
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
And nl-N?
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
07:23
@rene is that a Dutch joke...
rene
rene
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I'm a native Dutch speaker
@SomewhatMemorableName do you ever catch me making jokes? I'm not like @Bart ...
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
You seem more like en-3 to me
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
@rene it's hard to imagine a flower catching jokes though..
rene
rene
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog I would rather under estimate my abilities and for the people interacting with me it feels better if they don't assume I make sense, on any level ...
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@SomewhatMemorableName ah no :p
Not that either. Besides french was never a regional language
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
07:30
@rene So this applies to you?
Nov 8 '13 at 20:46, by Bart
@gparyani top tip: 95% of what I say is nonsense. The other 5% is suspicious.
It's been a year since Infinite left
rene
rene
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog pretty much
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311717/separate-in-r
user310756
07:45
@Bart this comment made my day
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
08:00
@YvetteColomb Did you see the picture of the moose and its calves I posted earlier?
user310756
08:10
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog oh sorry, I've been chasing my tail and missing most of the pings...
user310756
user image
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
@YvetteColomb Why not upload your animal pictures to Commons?
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/…
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Why would she do that? It's one thing to share here with "virtual friends", it's something else to throw it out to the whole world to see...
Not that it's sensitive, but still... can't see a good reason.
user310756
hm I will think about it
user310756
I must go bbl
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
Sonic the Inclusive Hedgehog
08:19
I did it to work around the 2 MB limitation
user310756
thanks
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
Normal imgur can also exceed 2 MB (20 MB to be exact)
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Yup and well.... Lots of people use chat on limited connections
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SomewhatMemorableName yeah but SE is using their API which is limited
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
So the 2mb limit is ok other than us needing to resize first
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
08:30
I just resize to make it smaller in case it's too big.
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
@ShadowWizard just saying an alternative for.... Commons.... (out of all photo storage sites, why Commons?)
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SomewhatMemorableName totally agree
Not familiar with commons to be honest. (as a global image host)
Isn't it what's being used by Wikipedia?
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
Wild guess, but anything posted on Commons are licensed CC (Creative Commons)
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
08:46
@Sonic your Den got one more day before Winter arrives...
(you can keep it warm and alive by posting your animal pictures in there.... :))
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
09:22
@user9072 The official acronym for Meta Stack Exchange is mSE, by the way. — wizzwizz4 Nov 4 '17 at 17:58
Somewhere in the distant universe: "MSE: Civil War"
best suggestion ever.
rene
rene
09:46
sd del
→ 9 messages moved to Chimney
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
10:04
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body, potentially bad keyword in body: Is Rakesh Khanna Jagran Party associated best party in delhi? by user293045 on apple.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Where can I buy Leo's "2001" hoodie and cap from Ghost Stories? by Noobie on anime.SE
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
10:42
Browsing the last page of a per-site meta sorted by 'votes' is.... not really productive
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
hehe
Think in MSE it's Joel's Stand, no?
oh he did it on MSO?
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
MSO, yes.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
on MSE it's....
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Q: A New Code License: The MIT, this time with Attribution Required

samthebrand Update: January 15, 2016 Thank you for your patience and feedback. The changes proposed here have been delayed indefinitely - we'll be back later to open some more discussions. Important context for those arriving from reddit and slashdot links: The status quo is not "public doma...

discussion licensing feedback creative-commons
Poor @sam...
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
surely that.
But recently I chose a more unnoticed sites, like (yes), MathOverflow
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
:/
Mgetz
Mgetz
11:20
@SomewhatMemorableName is there an alternate universe where Jeff goes evil and forms facebook before Zuckerburg and Zuck is really captain america?
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
11:39
lol
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
11:53
No delv-pls on meta.stackexchange.com/q/311704/241919 ?
Catija
Catija
@TravisJ is that an actual relationship made somewhere or did you just pull those numbers out because they look good to you?
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SomewhatMemorableName kaboom
Catija
Catija
It's pretty much impossible to get 4,100 votes in a day on meta. Using 40 is much easier... obviously... it's really unfair to specifically choose numbers that do what you want but are arbitrary.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Didn't want to ask before, but I ask now... what does " 4 100" mean? Is it 4100 as in four thousand and one hundred? Is it 4.1? Never saw such number formatting. @Travis
(I did see 4,100 used)
Using space for this is terribly confusing, IMO.
Catija
Catija
Oh, he must mean 4 - 100 (quantity 4, score 100).
Still seems arbitrary.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
12:01
@TravisJ voting is active, getting upvotes (or downvotes) is passive. The participation tab measures activity, i.e. things you actively do. So it's correct.
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
Quantity 100, score 0
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
One can spend less than a minute writing answer (or question) that get 100 daily upvotes. They didn't really participate that much. On the other hand voting 100 times is hard and requires thought and time. (Assuming fair voting)
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhere in the middle probably a post ban
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@SomewhatMemorableName no idea what it means, to be honest. /cc @Catija you also used those words.
Not native English speaker, and not familiar with high math in English, so...
I know 4.1 which is (4 + 0.1) for example. That's what you mean, somehow?
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
Better to interpret as "four 100-score posts"?
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
12:05
ohh, Travis tried to use less words. hehe, like the acronyms people use all the time. Oh well.
@SomewhatMemorableName yes, much better. It actually let the reader know what you mean.
One can write in some code language, it's their right, but only few will understand.
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body: Can an eth miner-3710 Mh/s by rudy on bitcoin.SE
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
12:29
spaces as thousand separators is used in most of Europe. It's not our fault that 'Muricans don't recognize anything other than what they themselves use.
Travis probably meant 4x100 though
Heck, even French Canada uses spaces
Heck, even SI prefers spaces. It's a standard, guys. Learn it.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JohnDvorak never seen it before, and using many things from Europe culture, so it's weird.
resisting standards
becoming IE
expires
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
speaking of SI, don't pluralize unit abbreviations. The SI standard doesn't allow that. kms are Kilometer-seconds, not kilometers.
Martin James
Martin James
I don't like teh spaces as thousand separators - space is overloaded enough in text as it is.
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Commas are ambiguous, though, unless you also include the decimal separator.
Switzerland uses apostrophes, but they're alone in doing so.
We could switch to underscores. The entire C family of languages uses underscore.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
I would love this: 4♥300♥500
Global. Can't be mistaken.
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
12:38
pain to type
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
can be fixed with some special keyboard, for sure. ;)
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
absent from CP1252
Martin James
Martin James
Uses unicipher chars.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Also it's just ALT+num 3
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
you mean ALT+FN+L?
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
12:42
Spaces are overrated. Let's embrace Java's _
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
I like _
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JohnDvorak no, this: irongeek.com/alt-numpad-ascii-key-combos-and-chart.html
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
@ShadowWizard laptop keyboard, hint hint
Another option would be to just save up space and leave out any thousand separators. The only downside is a little more room for some unclean practices in marketing.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@JohnDvorak fsymbols.com/keyboard/windows/alt-codes/laptop
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Just as I said...
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
12:46
hehe
Mgetz
Mgetz
@JohnDvorak Doesn't appear to be in the ISO catalog, please stop your cultural imperialism
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
what
Even "imperialism" is wrong given that we are a union of republics, not an empire.
Mgetz
Mgetz
@JohnDvorak Imperialism takes many forms, all that is apparently required is suppression of some group or something... I'm bad at this whole 'revolutionary' thing
;p
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
... says a member of a country that's essentially a rebel group that detached itself from an empire, then ruined a freight ship's worth of their favorite drink just to ... burn bridges. ;-P
Mgetz
Mgetz
@JohnDvorak You'd have had enough of mercantilism too, if you literally weren't allowed to make a shovel either.
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
12:53
I'm from Europe, not UK
reference for the "shovel" part?
Mgetz
Mgetz
Iron Act
In American Colonial history, the Iron Act, short-titled the Importation, etc. Act 1750, (Statute 23 Geo. II c. 29) was one of the legislative measures introduced by the British Parliament, within its system of Trade and Navigation Acts. The Act sought to increase the importation of pig and bar iron from its American colonies and to prevent the building of iron-related production facilities within these colonies, particularly in North America where these raw materials were identified. The dual purpose of the act was to increase manufacturing capacity within Great Britain itself, and to limi...
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Interesting, thanks
Mgetz
Mgetz
But yeah in the colonies you had to use a wooden shovel... it was not widely followed because enforcement officers knew they would have an "unfortunate accident" in the woods on the way back to town
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
:D
You mean, axe-ident?
Mgetz
Mgetz
@JohnDvorak more like hatchet but that's nitpicking, they might have used bows too to make it look like a native attack... because racism was a thing then too
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
12:57
Judging the GDPR success, Europe can force that space separator as well on the rest of the world.
Anyone not using spaces to separate thousands will be banned.
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
GDPR, net neutrality... pick your poison.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
yup
Mgetz
Mgetz
@ShadowWizard If that dumb copyright law passes they may not have to worry about it
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Mgetz why? It will only wipe out the internet... books will remain... ;)
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
I don't particularly care that Americans use spaces, as long as they can read them without whining about multiculturalism :P
Mgetz
Mgetz
12:59
@JohnDvorak Better yet lets make a <number> element in HTML that auto formats it for us!
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
... or homebrew it with jQuery
We should also have an HTML element that converts feet and yards into normal units.
or rather, back
Mgetz
Mgetz
@JohnDvorak we have ISO standards for that ironically
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
feet and yards?
Mgetz
Mgetz
yeah the funny thing is all the US funny units are actually defined in terms of SI units
@JohnDvorak yeeeeep
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
nice
Mgetz
Mgetz
13:02
have to be for international trade, just like they serve 'pints' in the UK that are actually defined in ML
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Even Fahrenheit?
Mgetz
Mgetz
Fahrenheit is different because it's dependent on a material, but the conditions for the scale are in SI IIRC
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
jQuery++
Mgetz
Mgetz
tbf I find Fahrenheit more useful than Centigrade due to the finer gradations on the scale. But that could easily be handled by just adding tenths to thermostats that support it but nobody does.
There is a MUCH bigger gap between 24 and 25C than 74 and 75 F
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
or K
Mgetz
Mgetz
13:05
even though they are nearly the same temp
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
Medical thermometers use celsius with one decimal place. For weather thermometers, we look where the needle points between two markings.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
At least time units are global.
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
French tried to ruin that, too
and failed, unfortunately
Mgetz
Mgetz
Decimal time
Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used specifically to refer to French Revolutionary Time, used in France for a few years beginning in 1792 during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds, as opposed to the more familiar UTC Time standard, which divides the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds. The main advantage of a decimal time system is that, since the base...
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
heh
Mgetz
Mgetz
13:07
I'm not actually convinced that decimalization is helping
Laikoni
Laikoni
Hey, are some of the user profile pics broken for anyone else?
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
@Laikoni which user pics?
Laikoni
Laikoni
I'd blame caching, but it's the same after a hard refresh
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
Horse length
A horse length, or simply length, is a unit of measurement for the length of a horse from nose to tail, approximately 8 feet (2.4 m). == Use in horse racing == The length is commonly used in Thoroughbred horse racing, where it describes the distance between horses in a race. Horses may be described as winning by several lengths, as in the notable example of Secretariat, who won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths (248 feet (76 m)). More often, winning distances are merely a fraction of a length, such as half a length. In British horse racing the distances between horses are calculated by converting...
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
@Laikoni either caching, or something blocks them
Laikoni
Laikoni
13:08
user image
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
12 microdays ~= 1 second
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Laikoni something on your side is blocking one of the image hosts, either imgur or Gravatar
rene
rene
@Laikoni works for me
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Laikoni gravatar.com is blocked on your side.
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
^
Laikoni
Laikoni
13:09
Huh, interesting
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
check your adblocks, firewalls, etc.
Personally I don't like gravatar at all, but it still works...
rene
rene
Blame the sysadmin of your corporate network ...
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Laikoni when you go to gravatar.com/avatar/… what you get exactly?
Mgetz
Mgetz
Furlong
A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, or 10 chains. Using the international definition of the inch as exactly 25.4 millimetres, one furlong is 201.168 metres. However, the United States does not uniformly use this conversion ratio. Older ratios are in use for surveying purposes in some states, leading to variations in the length of the furlong of two parts per million, or about 0.4 millimetres (​1⁄64 inch). This variation is too small to have practical consequences in most applications...
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
lol
Laikoni
Laikoni
13:11
@ShadowWizard I see the image
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Laikoni ohh, so it's their server side caching.
Press CTRL+F5 in chat and you should see images again. Maybe.
Mgetz
Mgetz
My sister once had fun with her TA and calculated an orbital velocity in Furlongs Per fortnite
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
(at least the one you now saw)
rene
rene
If you don't have CTRL key buy a proper PC first ...
Laikoni
Laikoni
@ShadowWizard I tried hard refreshing before, to no avail
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
13:12
*fortnight. Fortnite is that videogame.
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Laikoni try now
Laikoni
Laikoni
@ShadowWizard Still nope, but it appears to be a browser issue because I see all profiles in Chrome, just in Firefox the Gravatars don't load
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
FireFox.... privacy issue?
John Dvorak
John Dvorak
works for me
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
> They show up for me. Make sure you haven't blocked images from Gravatar Tools --> Options --> Content, second exceptions button.
Not sure if this statement from 2009 relevant though...
> Go into: Tools > Options > Privacy > Change Block List > and (de)select: Disconnect.me strict protection
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
13:24
This, maybe?
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Q: Firefox/Opera stops showing Gravatars linked over https

seheThis is (e.g.) my profile in Opera 12.16: Other gravatars are also affected, but not in SE Chat. When I copy the image URL, I get https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d52c235ec6dd15f30bab444103e7af2?s=42&d=identicon&r=PG Chrome retrieves the image, no problem, but Opera says: Edit In the i...

support gravatar security browsers
@Laikoni ^
Laikoni
Laikoni
@SomewhatMemorableName This actually worked. Do you know if it was activated in a recent update? I did not change anything there and everything worked properly yesterday.
Somewhat Memorable Name
Somewhat Memorable Name
@Laikoni dunno... just following the reverse of this suggestion, so it must have been blocked since April 2017...
Laikoni
Laikoni
@ShadowWizard I don't think so, they mentioned it still worked in chat
@SomewhatMemorableName That's strange
Shadow Wizard
Shadow Wizard
@Laikoni chat.SE didn't serve https avatars by default until recently.
SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
13:48
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