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Rob
12:00 AM
🎆🎉
 
Happy new UTC year!
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12:37 AM
I'm smelling more like fire and smoke than alcohol. This was a good start! :D Night! :)
 
12:51 AM
@SmokeDetector there's a...bot for that? Wow, I'm late to that party. :-)
 
yep, but it's borked a bit over there
we Charcoalers love to celebrate WB ;)
 
Happy new year -- have some fireworks from hours ago:
Aw, no star? :-)
 
Miiiiiiiith! we've got a star-aholic here!
:P
 
@EKons not -aholic, but I saw the others so figured some pretty fireworks might rate. :-)
 
um... "Aw, no star?" does make you look like an "-aholic", tbf :P (I know you're trying to imitate the others, but there's another room for a greater probability to get a star anyway...)
 
1:08 AM
Eh, whatever. If it came across as begging rather than lighter banter, then I communicated poorly. Sorry.
 
meh, it's not like I actually considered you were craving for that star
not to mention you already have the hat
 
1:25 AM
@MonicaCellio you do realise that's more likely to be starred right? ;p
 
1:37 AM
@balpha Happy New Year 2019! @MonicaCellio
 
@JourneymanGeek fair enough. :-)
@Pandya and to you as well!
Heading out soon. Some years back, friends of ours sprung a wedding on us at their party right after midnight -- so headed to a 10th-anniversary new-year party. :-)
(Here in PA you can get a "Quaker license" even if you're not Quaker, meaning you just need to witnesses and the paperwork, no officiant if you don't want one.)
 
 
1 hour later…
3:31 AM
New Morning...
I was confused with the star wall... did I star while I was sleeping..?
 
Sleep Stacking. Sounds like a serious condition.
 
4:13 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body (97): Suggest some methods to get rid off my stained teeth by Vickie W Smith on medicalsciences.SE
 
4:32 AM
I ain't gon' to state no color but her front teeth crowned with... Coffee stains?
The Rosedale Dentist Blues
 
4:44 AM
I'm confused... getting rid of the teeth or the stains?
 
Not of, off. She wants to get rid off her stained teeth
 
4:57 AM
HAHAHA
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (61): Only limited user can access contract by Terragreen Coin on ethereum.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching website in body, potentially bad ns for domain in body (392): Ketozin Regardless, he should by ditalepiko on ham.SE
 
5:22 AM
That explains why suddenly there were 100+ new posts on network-wide meta...
 
@andmyself Top network asker from MSE asked an off-topic question XD
 
5:41 AM
All Shog9's have cometh
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (batch report: post 1 out of 3) (94): how can download large files in chunks by ajk on superuser.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (batch report: post 2 out of 3) (94): How to download a file is multiple parts? by ajk on superuser.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (batch report: post 3 out of 3) (94): How can I download a large Google Takeout file in parts on Windows 10? by ajk on superuser.com
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer (94): download bigger than 4 gb file on android 4.0.4 by ajk on android.SE
 
 
1 hour later…
6:58 AM
Happy new year y'all!
There's a good reason there isn't a pingall option.
I would have definitely not used it a lot
 
Never.
 
@Catija Happy new year! Happy new year to Ben too
What are your new year resolutions, or is that just a hip thing?
 
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ :D He's slept the whole year away so far.
 
Mine is "keep rollin'"
 
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I'd like to learn how to manage my time better. :D
 
7:10 AM
Well as someone who's tracked every minute of my time for the past month or so, I've found there's really one secret tip, which isn't really secret
All the time optimizations, all the fuss, if useful, just builds around that concept
Do the most important task you have in bulks, and do everything else in the time between those tasks
Which itself means never multitask unless it's like your #5 task
It of course means you have to persuade yourself to sit down/stand up and do it first
 
Hi! I'm thinking to make one proposal on Area51 something like "Government Procedure" or "Interacting with Government" the topic is: Q/A deals with interacting with government in day-to-day life e.g. one can ask question like "What is the procedure for issuing driving license in India" etc. How is it? or What do you think? Thanks
 
I did 290 minutes of pure studying when it filled the time between other tasks. That increased to 450 when it was the other tasks that filled the time in between my studying
What I'm trying to say is prioritizing isn't really supposed to be bureaucratic or a number in a To-Do app
 
This time, new year resolution is... completing last year's resolution... 😔
 
Then comes the optimizations. Like, I noticed, large chunks of "rest"/fooling around eat up an unnecessary amount of time
 
7:16 AM
My new year's resolution is the same as last year. 2x 2180p
 
It's less that I have trouble figuring out what I need to do and more that I get... distracted from it.
 
Apparently I get a lot of chat pings. :P
 
That's most of us
hah, yeah
 
See? Priorities
 
7:22 AM
I have a bunch of SE "homework" stuff people asked about
though that's pending cause I'm clueless to how to best approach it
 
Do bulks of that what you need to do thing, and do everything else in the time between
@JourneymanGeek With legs
Kick the hell out of that screen
 
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I need a kinder gentler term for "Help Vampire"
 
@JourneymanGeek I should get Shog to re-run the chat pings numbers.
 
And someone asked me about how SU approaches community building and well my mysteriously well behaved chatroom
And I don't know!
 
Must be luck... can't possibly be the people in charge. ;)
 
7:26 AM
;p
Actually one ciritical thing is - I try not to be "in charge"
 
Choose any combinations from help vampire?
guidance extortioner...
 
@JourneymanGeek "Help Vampire Please"
Please makes everything politer
Help seeker?
 
🆘🧛‍♂️
 
@JourneymanGeek New to the subject. :D
Curious?
Both?
 
Well - I guess the big issue is, well there's folks who purely ask... questions of occationally dubious quality
and feel a little entitled to get an answer
 
7:35 AM
"You have to help me" is often as much about desperation as it is about entitlement... particularly when it comes to work-related content, many people are worried that something's broken and they won't be able to fix it.
 
@Catija and its a bit cultural
folks who are in above their head are probably likely to be more agressive about questions
and they're in above their head cause well...
they somehow are in an environment where the peter principle is in play
 
... sometimes. And sometimes they're frantic and just forget.
 
frantic is fine
 
I remember one time, in French class, I was working on a dialogue with a friend and we were struck stupid trying to remember what the word for "the" was.
 
@Catija A movie I'd watch — "The Desperate Entitled"
 
7:38 AM
but dosen't explain the folks who just dump code/error messages
I mean, there's a few decent ones. I had one person who had an older manual for his software and nothing worked...
but but...
learning to read error messages and at least making partial sense of them is an essential skill for someone in IT
 
Well... if you're working with a coworker and trying to debug something... that's kinda what you do, no? "Look at my code, why doesn't it work?!?"
"I got this error message, fix my computer".
 
No?
Maybe it's cause I often work solo but ..m
 
When Andy and I have worked on stuff and he's showing me how to program stuff and it's broken... I just shove the computer at him and tell him to figure out why it doesn't work. :P
 
@JourneymanGeek Also because you're a batdog
 
bad dog?!
woof
 
Rob
7:51 AM
@Catija - Simply tell them to do whatever they did before you came along. What exactly is it they are saying, that they waited their entire life for you to come. At work I explain that if they don't think that they are getting what they are entitled to that they should let the owner know, the last thing that they would want is to let me hear about it.
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body (196): Facebook messenger 196.0.0.29.99 keeps crashing by Saad Tariq on superuser.com
 
8:18 AM
Goal for 2019: Get my flag stats to 30,000 helpful...
 
OO_OO
 
Basically, that means I have to raise 10,300 helpful flags this year.
I think.
It's been a while since I've checked the stats.
So, January 1, 2019: 19,840.
 
8:38 AM
@Mithrandir Cross network, I assume? How you count?
 
gestures vaguely in Floern's direction
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Q: Stack Exchange Global Flag Summary

Floern This is a userscript that provides a networkwide flag summary for all Stack Exchange sites. If you are logged into the Stack Exchange network and you have this script installed, you can visit the flags tab in your Stack Exchange profile: How does it work? The script scans your network p...

 
oh nice
 
8:53 AM
@Mithrandir show off! :P
 
;) a bit... but it's naught compared to Andy or Glorf
 
lol.. Glorf sounds like a name of דרדס. :P
 
i admit to never having heard the Hebrew term for smurfs before
 
You're too young. :D
I watched it as a kid.
But think it made sort of "comeback" recently?
 
I wouldn't know, I haven't watched TV in the past 9 years
 
9:04 AM
:-/
 
there's YouTube instead for if I feel like watching something :P
free, and I get to choose what I watch
For instance, this is more interesting than most TV shows:
;P
 
so what do the stars mean?
 
:D
 
@Shree You hang out on SO, it's not comparable ;)
 
:P
 
9:12 AM
@Shree mega show off! :D
@astonearachnid what stars?
 
I think a good regex to catch toxic comments would be ^Sorry,\Wbut...
 
@Mithrandir umm.... no?
 
...on questions tagged
 
"Sorry, but I don't want that feature" isn't really toxic.
"Not needed" perhaps though.
 
Of course, I can't test it at the moment
Bleh, data.SE rate-limiting me. I don't have 2 queries running, I have 0.
 
9:18 AM
?
 
"you may only have 2 queries running at one time"
 
@Mithrandir hmm... are you logged in?
 
no, i can't seem to log in for whatever reason
 
Well, no repro here... (both error and login)
 
oh well
 
9:27 AM
(not you, @Mithrandir24601, sorry :))
I guess if you changed login provider, SEDE has trouble with it.
Anyway, if you keep getting this error when logged in (worst case just create new account?), post a bug report on MSE, didn't find any such report yet.
 
yes, that's me; I haven't been able to login since then
 
And creating new account? @TimStone is still around, though not sure if he still has any effect on SEDE?
 
*shrugs* don't really want to try
 
9:52 AM
@ShadowWizard o/
 
@Mithrandir24601 \o
 
\o/
 
_o_
 
10:47 AM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (93): Nagios: How to determine parameter order check_ssh by Radha Sai on unix.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported question (93): PLACEHOLDER - COZYROC SSIS+ ✏️ by COZYROC SSIS Plus on stackapps.com
 
11:03 AM
@ShadowWizard what do you think about such an Area51 proposal?
 
Seeing '18 on almost all questions seems... weird ._.
@Pandya I hope you have read Changes to the Area 51 Process v3.0, especially about "Area 51 is not the place to START your community search." and "If you have access to a healthy, enthusiastic community needing a Stack Exchange site, Area 51 is where you propose it."
 
@andmyself Yes, I read it long ago, thanks for reminding, let me read again...
 
11:18 AM
Otherwise, you'll be stuck on the 3rd step:
 
Rob
@Mithrandir - Those handsignals are confusing, did you mean this or that?:
 
@andmyself " it is generally assumed you have access to an audience to build it. Area 51 cannot find that community for you." Nice point.
 
11:42 AM
off-topic / not about SE /cc @sha @bar @glo How to migrate aws instance to vmware?‭ - Dhiraj Golhar‭ 2019-01-01 04:58:20Z
 
Gone
 
awesome, thanks
 
12:03 PM
@Pandya very low chance it will get enough people to pass the first stage... but not a bad idea, in general. :)
 
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly punctuation marks in title (0): ***KingsMan**** by Kingsman on dba.SE
 
12:45 PM
I just flagged a comment and it instantly vanished... wat
Is that a thing now or was this just a massive coincidence?
 
2 possibilities. Had a blacklisted word or someone was just that fast
 
@ShadowWizard yes, got it.
 
@JourneymanGeek or had accumulated enough flags
 
@forest most likely it had some "bad" word.
 
@ShadowWizard It said something like "thank you for correcting me".
 
12:58 PM
@forest oh. So why did you flag it?
auto nuke is only for rude flag type I think, but anyway that's not rude or unfriendly.
 
@ShadowWizard I pointed out that someone's answer was incorrect, so they deleted their answer and, on my answer, thanked me for correcting them.
And yeah I reported it as no longer necessary, not as rude or unfriendly.
 
@forest hmm.... @Journeyman what you think? ^
@Pandya oh, exactly. Glad to see you found that, missed that message of yours before.
 
@forest It had a "thanks" and it was too short maybe?
 
Maybe. I don't know how the algorithm works.
 
Haz "thanks" + too short. Duh
If Glor was a mod here that would also have been a possible explanation
Hello Xitcod17, this feels like a distinction without a difference, neverthless, you are right, what began as a critical problem for a small percentage of prospective clergy is reaching alarming levels. +1 for the question, -1 for the bad claim, = 0! — Carlo Alterego Jan 12 '13 at 12:57
0! = 1, so
 
1:09 PM
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ nope. !0 is 1
 
What kind of weird ass symbol is that?
 
Or do you write numbers as RTL in Hebrew as well?
 
OK, lemme rephrase: 0! is 1 in normal human languages.
God I miss him
Back to the book
 
1:12 PM
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ umm... no?
0! is a zero followed by exclamation mark.
 
Ohey @Quill t
 
In mathematics, the factorial of a positive integer n, denoted by n!, is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n. For example, 5 ! = 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 120 . {\displaystyle 5!=5\times 4\times 3\times 2\times 1=120\,.} The value of 0! is 1, according to the convention for an empty product.The factorial operation is encountered in many areas of mathematics, notably in combinatorics, algebra, and mathematical analysis...
 
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ miss who? @Norm? Think he's still active on SO... no? ;)
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ ohhhh... factorial is a lie.
:D
 
@ShadowWizard he's still kind of active in some meta sites, but it's really hard to be certain after all of his accounts are hidden and using default userNNN...
At this moment, maybe you are Normal Human...
 
1:24 PM
I'm just Sally.
heh
May 24 '18 at 9:40, by hey
and @Telkitty... and @bro @Sally @soup @NormalHuman...
 
1:47 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body, shortened url in body (40): Animation Node experiment - fcurve offset by Deenesh TheArtist on blender.SE
 
2:16 PM
Expected something more complex than just a gif, but... meh. :D
 
@ShadowWizard or drunk and hung over
 
@ShadowWizard it's complex. the filename contains the word "law"
 
@Catija why didn't you close before deleting? Was it on purpose?
The comment from @Glorfindel explains why it's off topic, but still, the close banner is more "official".
@andmyself lol, yeah, wondered about that too.... :D
 
@ShadowWizard actually I'm wondering why we close before we delete
 
2:29 PM
@JourneymanGeek official close banner
So OP know, officially, not via a comment, why it's deleted.
 
@ShadowWizard does anyone read those?
or comments?
;p
 
@JourneymanGeek maybe only 1 out of 100 but yeah... we should give them at least this, IMO. :)
 
I mean, I do it
but if someone just nukes it, I don't see a big deal wither
 
Ddon't they get a link to Why and how are some questions deleted?
(assuming if they read...)
 
@andmyself chance of reading close banner is bit higher than reading comments... plus, comments are temporary, etc.
@JourneymanGeek no big deal either, just wondering. :)
 
2:35 PM
no, not the comment, but a red text saying "see why this question is deleted" under the post or something that only the OP can see
 
@andmyself oh. face palm
lol
taking back palm from face
No, no link to anything.
 
@ShadowWizard maybe he needed a good hard delete to sober him up
 
"only the OP can see"
maybe I am wrong, just as usual...
 
@andmyself only for auto nuked questions
 
3:03 PM
@ShadowWizard incorrect
At least for answers, the owner of the post sees a "Why was this post deleted? See the help center."
 
3:32 PM
@Mithrandir nope. At least not when deleted from review. (proof). Also, nothing for questions, likely because the system assumes a question is closed first (showing a banner) and only then deleted.
Maybe different when deleted by a mod though.
 
actually, I think the notice is only when it's deleted via the "delete" button
 
@EKons so, mod or three high rep users. :)
 
also, only when the post is an answer
 

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